20 Things The USA Does BETTER Than The UK
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- 20 things the USA does better than the UK! From healthcare to snacks, sports to movies, this is our list of things America does WAY better than Britain!
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Quite a lot of perks to starting a business in the UK - some very generous loans, grants and tax breaks, particularly for technological companies - There didn't used to be much of a culture for starting one though - but I think that is changing, with many people in work developing side-hustles, ^oo^
I wonder how a town like Kenai in Alaska with a population of around 30,000(?) has such a bewildering array of choices in one store compared to a supermarket in a large British city. I can't help but feel Brits are taken for a ride when it comes to choice. The concentration of people and larger UK population compared to rural Alaska would suggest we should have a much better selection to choose from, but we don't.
@@cheesedoff-with4410 Not sure it's that great a choice - Walmart has about 20 different brands of kitchen foil - but there's no actual meaningful difference between them - which applies to a lot of stuff - and the consequently bigger stores are a pain to navigate - genuine choice would be great, but it's not necessarily what you get in America - 20 different cans of kidney beans, are still essentially just kidney beans, ^oo^
I think you may find that the vast ' choice' found in US stores is due to the fact that there are just many different brands of the same thing.
Go into any supermarket in the UK and you'll find 30+ (at least) different varieties of cheese, from bog standard cheddar, lots of different English regional cheeses to lots of European ones.
The USA doesn't have this variety - just lots of brands of half a dozen different kinds.
Same with fresh meats, pickles, crisp flavours, preserves...
I'll give you the sweet, sugary cereal aisle.
Tarantino and Scorsese.... Try Guy Ritchie films, Danny Boyle films and Shaun Meadows for British film makers.. then come back to us.
5:52 "We don't have big earthquakes in Britain, because we don't _deserve_ them" - Al Murray
But we don’t want them. Surely nobody does.
@@juliebrooke6099 Read it again.
You have small country because you don’t deserve a large country so you tried to take other countries.
A lot of these are basically saying "The USA is 40 times the size of the UK"
Yes 😂
I noticed that. I remember hearing an apocryphal revolving around two ships, a US Navy and a Royal Navy vessel, meeting in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The American captain is reported to have said "welcome from the largest navy in the world" (the US Navy is possibly not now the largest in the word).
The British captain apparently responded "greetings from the best navy in the world". The take away from this is clearly size isn't everything.
Not saying forty times the size of the uk...what i am saying is i live in the Midlands, pretty much the middle, my nearest beach is at max a 2 hour drive from here, following the speed limits along the way, the furthest is maybe 5/6 hours how long would it take for an American from Kansas to reach either the Pacific or Atlantic by car following the speed limits along the way?
@@andrewmoore7416 The midlands isn't even the middle of England, never mind the UK.
@@crimsonwizard2560 did i say in the middle? Or did i say pretty much in the middle...ok Pink Fairy whats the middle of England/ UK
Only 7 mins in but full on belly laughing at the thought of Eastenders as reality tv 😂
Oh no! Is it not? 😂 😂
It's a soap opera haha
@@WanderingRavens eastenders is completely scripted
Wish "Eastenders" were a reality show ... it's supposedly only a few miles away from where I am and the pubs are open there!!
@@levelUpJosh_ so is most "reality TV" they just try and convince people it isn't
"We do English better"... then a few minutes later, says "off of". The subtle British irony is infiltrating you slowly, but surely.
Off of sounds so wrong. What's wrong with "Get off the sofa"? etc
@@corriehingston6744 Indeed, it's a tautology.
@@corriehingston6744 there is a difference in language and grammar. y’all pronounce stuff so weirdly, and have many weird phrases as well
@@alexlumbard9154 None of us can talk. America as Arkansas but it's pronounced "Arkan-saw". If there are any Americans in real life who thinks we Brits have weird spellings and pronunciation, I'll just show them this word and be like "Well then?"
@@corriehingston6744 Arkansas is a Native name for the place, right? So it's not English.
American roads were designed so heavily with automobiles in mind that a lot of American roads are nearly impassable for pedestrians
You're not wrong.
And boring
@@izziebon Mega boring.
@@michellee7465 Try the crosswalks.
izzie USA roads are boring? loooooool y'all be driving on narrow ass roads that you can't even enjoy your cars speed on I mean come on
The Dark Knight? Written and directed by an English man with a Welsh Batman and Australian Joker, that Dark Knight?
Don’t forget Michael Cain and Gary Oldman in there too
@@louiswood9988 hahaha I know right
@@louiswood9988 also not to forget Batman Begins with two Irishmen playing the villains and Rises with an Englishman playing the villain. I’ve always considered these films British films made for an American company.
Nolan is Half American and Half British so that’s kind of a point for both sides
@@pelicanchampion8629ye but hes still English and Christian Bale is full Welsh and still maintains his UK citizenship . He does have homes in England as well as in North America
Well we don't mine you winning the earthquakes challenge, your welcome to them 👍❤
😂😂
As The pub landlord says, we don't deserve them lol
Earthquake are kind of fun if they are the mild ones.
@@jainee4507 Up to about 6.1 is pretty tame - and fun!
We win at hurricanes, wildfires, and tornados, too! And fire tornados!
Actually, the UK film industry does make movies of that scale. Apart from 13 weeks of filming in Chicago. Practically all of The Dark Knight was filmed and made in the UK. All of its props, special effects and CGI visual effects were done by UK production companies. Many of the Marvel films including many of the Avengers film series were co-produced by both USA and UK studios. And also had large aspects of them made entirely in the UK by UK studios and companies.
The truth is the USA & UK movie industries are so heavily interlinked. That both heavily rely on each other for their mutual success. Hollywood wouldn't be as successful as it is without the UK. And equally the UK film industry would not be as successful as it is without Hollywood.
Some big successful films financed by Hollywood but made entirely by the UK are: The entire Harry Potter franchise, The entire James Bond franchise, 1917, Downton Abby Film, Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Aeronauts, Kingsman film series, and so many more. Some films which were almost entirely made by the UK are: Every Stars Wars film, many Disney films, such as Maleficent and Beauty and The Beast, and many many other big films.
The UK film and television industry is massive and second only to Hollywood. With Elstree and Borehamwood in England having the largest amount of film studios in the world outside of Los Angeles.
Further, a massive proportion of Hollywood financed films and TV are largely made up of British actors, directors, stunt people and behind the scenes staff. Including many famous and highly successful British directors, Such as Tony Scott, Ridley Scot, Paul Greengrass, Steve McQueen, Danny Boyle, Sam Mendes, Christopher Nolan, Guy Richie and many more.
Good points, ^oo^
I was just going to make this point but you made it much better than I would have. 👍🇬🇧🏴🤠
The set for the hotel in The Shining was built at Elstree studios in the UK
Would also add Edgar Wright to your list of directors and to say that Hitchcock only became famous after his move to Hollywood forgets that both 'The 39 Steps' and 'The Lady Vanishes' were acclaimed internationally before he made the move (the original 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' was well received, too). Although I think that cinema production in India may have something to say about all of this...
I'm sure Bollywood is many times bigger than the UK film industry. In fact, is it not bigger than Hollywood?
on sports in the UK . You may not have noticed we tend to call teams cubs, most local sports grounds are also social clubs meaning they have a bar
Good observation!
British chemists do sell milk. Milk of magnesia.
Every pub in the UK is a sports bar, if there’s no game on just ask, odds are they’ll put on the match you want to watch
And every non-sporty customer will then sit there glaring at you for the rest of the evening.
A Sports Bar is a peculiar institution - generally a restaurant (like HOOTERS) with hot women serving drinks and TV screens all over the place. Generally playing 3 or more different games depending on the screen. Where you sit, you can actually watch all of them at once if you like, so it's good to bring your friends no matter what game they want to see. Have some beers, and get typical American snacks like Buffalo Wings and Mozzarella Sticks. Hooters has at least a dozen big screens at a smaller location.
Yeah and pretty much every pub has nights for big football events
I avoid those nights myself but yeah pubs usually have sports on in the background or big nights for matches
When "The Big One" opened 27 years ago it was the tallest and fastest in the world. "The Ultimate" is longer than any rollercoaster in the US. "The Smiler" has the most inversions (14) in the world and another two have more inversions(10) than anything in the States(8).
Not sure that snow and earthquakes could be described as 'better'.
If that was a typical example of US washing up, I'm not surprised the detergent has to be rinsed off, the suds were so thick.
I looked at pink cider this morning, glad now I didn't buy any, thanks for that.
Soo... the average Brit goes food shopping twice a week, once for a "main shop" with a larger grocery store (Supermarket) and then once for a "top up" shop which is usually more local, this might include going to a butcher, a corner shop, or a convenience store.. Great video!
Also the range I find of product that I find at US Gas Stations are pretty much the the same limited type of range I find at a British corner shop. I LOVE getting American snacks from a gas station and seeing what limited editions of Cheetos or Combos are about when I visit!
My family goes shopping once a week, sometimes not even that, and doesn't split up the different shops we need to go to for different days, we just go to all the shops we need in the same day
Re customer service, we go by the mantra "if its not on display we don't have it "
But our snacks in the Uk don’t have tons of artificial colours & flavourings. ❤️😍😘🇬🇧
Yeah but they don't bother anyone here and the US snacks are still just better. 😉
@@waycoolscootaloo tried them when I was in the States. They're really not.
@@waycoolscootaloo Every American snack I have tried tasted really artificial and plastic.
@@waycoolscootaloo I think you will find it does bother some of you in the US but you haven’t really got much choice.
@@sarahfoster6765 There deemed safe and UK foods are still loaded with much of the same ingredients as found in the US. UK law doesn't make manufacturers post the scientific names or sub ingredients like in the US.
So you think the UK variant is better when it's really not.
I love how I can't stop staring at the union Jack in the background
RULE BRITANIA BRITANIA RULES THE WAVES 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
they don't have a Union Jack in the background. they have a Union Flag. a Jack is what its flown off on a ship.
Good flag comment. Also It's Britania RULE the waves. Not rules. It's a call to arms, not a statement.
@@jeanlongsden1696 The Admiralty and the government don't care
@@TheGarryq Mmmm, yes they do. If, in the Royal Navy, on a ship and you call it the Union Flag, you will be classed as very naughty. And dumped off the ship in the middle of nowhere. Like the USA or some other rebel colony. The flag is the Union Flag on land and only a Union Jack at sea.
Never heard of ‘Tie rells’ crisps. Tyrells yes
We have a dishwasher, but any washing up to be done by hand in the kitchen sink we definitely rinse before drying.
I used to have a dishwasher. But she left me for the milkman for some odd reason...
@@Davey-Boyd 😂 I do the washing up that gets done in the sink
For the films - every MCU movie is part filmed at Pinewood Studios, just outside of Slough, in the UK, as is also the majority of other 'Hollywood' movies. We also have the James Bond and Harry Potter franchises. Every Star Wars film to date has also been filmed, at least partially, in the UK, when in need of a film studio. On top of that, the majority of CGI and VFX work done on Disney movies, MCU movies and Star Wars movies (before being bought by Disney), has been done by UK based companies. It is cheaper, tax wise, to film American movies in the UK.
That's what I was thinking I don't think he realises that many Hollywood productions come over to film in England
Not to mention the number of British actors playing roles in US films!
Batman was filmed up at Leavesden studios near Watford,the reason American film companies were setting up in London,is due to skill shortages and union issues and production costs.
It's hard to set your town around the car when it was mentioned in the magna carta.
I think you mean Domesday Book.
@@helenwood8482 That too.
"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?"
I love how Eric mentions Tyrell's crisps at every opportunity!
You know I love them!!
It's almost like a paid advertisement!
But pronounces it wrongly!
Lol EastEnders may seem like reality TV but nope it's a soap. I think you might have been thinking of The Only Way is Essex. Pah not my cuppa tea 😔, either of em☺️
Of course the term "soap" for a TV series comes from US TV who make a 34 minute programme last an hour for the frequent advertisement breaks.
@@geraldmcmullon2465 no it doesn’t? It comes from radio soap operas originally being sponsored by washing powder/soap manufacturers. The term also has influences driven from kitchen sink drama.
@@geraldmcmullon2465 the term soap opera is an Americanism which originated around 1930-1935.
The only thing I'm taking away is don't let the truth get in the way of entertainment 😉👍🤣
😂😂
Booze is sold in all types of stores in britain though, I think that means it wins lol
Being English I enjoyed beer sold at gas stations as I cycled around northern NY state. Cheaper than Coke.
You can buy only beer and wine in American supermarkets. It's ridiculous. You have to go to an alcohol store to get brandy, whisky, and other booze.
@@ShainThomas That entirely depends on the state you are in. Some states you can't buy any alcoholic beverages in supermarkets, in others you can buy any kind.
@@jimzecca3961 You correctly observe it depends on the state. I should have referenced that in my comment. I currently live in Texas.
@@ShainThomas that’s stupid
The concept of the "sports bar" was unknown in the UK up to about 15 years ago. Even watching football on a TV in the pub is a pretty recent thing and not at all traditionally British. The pub was always a place to go before or after watching sport live, at the stadium.
You must be relatively young as we've had TVs in pubs for sports for 25-30 years, that I'm aware of.
@@Thurgosh_OG I'm 59. There were maybe a few pubs with standard TVs back in the 80s, but certainly no big screens, and definitely no culture of going to a pub with your mates specifically to watch a match on the TV. There wasn't even THAT much televised football anyway, and certainly not live broadcasts, before Sky bought the rights in the mid 90s.
UK does the special effects for most of the USA made movies. We have the best individual movie franchises James Bond, Harry Potter and outclass the USA in special effects, providing Hollywood with these skills for your most successful movies, also our British villains are supremely more psychotic 😅🤣😂, but yes, you do produce some incredibly entertaining films in some of the most stunningly beautiful places
We also provide most of the session musicians for Hollywood films as UK musicians tend to be better trained for sight reading compared to the Americans who tend towards needing more rehearsal (no shade to the US here as they often end up sounding better because of the extra time, it just means the Brits are cheaper). I'm sure there are lots of other aspects of the film industry we've infiltrated too.
Let's not forget that the Star Wars franchise was filmed here in the UK.
Of course we provide the best villans, because the Americans don't trust anyone with a different accent hence why us Brits are ALWAYS the bad guy in yank made films
I'm very protective with Harry Potter and James Bond
@@Matthew-Wood85 Weren't the majority of special effects for the original Star Wars done at ILM in California?
U.K. People be so pressed 😂😂😂😂 this is hilarious
OMG, when you said healthcare, I was so close to shouting 'WTF', thank god you were joking hahaha
You could argue that the US has the best healthcare it's just not affordable to most US citizens.
Auntie Farr True! For folks that can afford it, it is the best
@@WanderingRavens That's why British people 3 years longer than Americans?
@@saadaleem7260 No. Most folks who tend to not visit the doctor are statistically immigrants and people of color. So they bring down the national average. But most other nationalities in the US live just as long as Brits do and even longer actually.
@@waycoolscootaloo ha ha Brits and American are like a mayfly's to japanese and Italians
"Maybe you have Mexican food in the UK, but not like real Mexican food" True, but then again WE AREN'T NEXT DOOR TO MEXICO!!!!!
🤣🤣
I think the Wandering Ravens felt vulnerability with this choice, quickly scampering off to the next item...
Yeah, why should they even be expected to have really authentic Mexican food??
There are loads of Mexican restaurants in the Uk
How is that an excuse? Yall still have shitty food
I work in a pharmacy, which as far as I can tell is getting called that more now, in England and I very rarely have to send people away without their medication. Sometimes very unusual things we dont have in, but those are things only a few people would ever need and are generally required by 1 person or less per year per pharmacy
Remember in the US you have to pay to see a doctor so people self medicate more.
Okay, so, I'm a brit, but I've never met anyone that leaves soap on a dish, but I do so envy your national parks so so much.
In terms of sports you have American football, we have something called rugby which is the same but we are not scared to tackle people without all that padding on 😅😂
I always call American football "wimps' rugby".
@@helenwood8482 american football is werid
The crazy thing is, if the US put the same effort into international team sports, especially rugby, that they put into 'world series' sports, they'd probably be world champions.
Is American football that thing where they run around for a bit then stop for commercials and repeat for what feels like days
@@helenwood8482 I think of it as the effeminate version of rugby, or Rugby for Nancy boys!
I think it would be unbelievably hilarious to watch you react to Funniest Football Chants in England with lyrics.
oh man I had a perfectly timed YT advert for me. Grace: "Another thing that the US does better is ". Yep, sums up the US media to me 😄
haha oh no!!
Regarding washing the dishes, I have never looked back since we acquired a dishwasher many years ago. However, before that, when we washed the dishes, we did put dishes into the draining rack without rinsing the soap off first BUT then we boiled the kettle and poured the contents all over the dishes on the rack. This got rid of all the soap bubbles and ensured everything was clean.
Sure, not everyone does this but that's how I was taught by my parents in the 1960s and I still do the same method now (but only if I'm not using my dishwasher).
What a fantastic picture on the TV 🇬🇧
At least your hairs not on fire
I was actually looking through trying to see if anyone else noticed this, great observation :)
One thing you missed. The US is better than the UK at landing men on the moon.
Oh yeah!! 😂
And collaborating with Nazi scientists to get it done.
A British invented the battery cells that powered Apollo Rocket, his name was Francis T Bacon, and more than 11 British men worked on Apollo mission, and one of them trained Neil Armstrong
@@ademolatemitayo539 400,000 people worked on the Apollo program. You're crowing about the fact that a handful of them were British? SMH
2:27 is Conwy in Wales I live about 30 seconds away from the castle it’s gorgeous
I would add house size. Our plots and room sizes are riciculously small. Obviously dependent on where you live, but like for like your houses are much bigger.
Very Riciculous !
@@richardj9016 Quite.
Did you know that the actual definition of a desert makes the US the largest desert in the world?
No, that would be Antarctica.
@@caulkins69 I think they were talking culturally. :-)
The thing is with rollercoasters is that the us has more room for theme parks so will probably have bigger rollercoasters however there’s a theme park in the uk called Alton towers and it has a lot of worlds first coasters (like the smiler with 14 inversions) and the park also has height restrictions on it (the rides can’t go over the tree line) so I find the uk does well with theme parks for the space and restrictions we have
I lost a close friend who went on a roller coaster and then had an aortic aneurysm rupture. Be aware this can happen.
@@Lily-Bravo I’m very sorry about that. I hope that you and your friend’s loved ones are doing ok ❤️
@@TnasEV Thanks for your concern. That is so kind. I felt I had to mention that this could happen. Women are not checked on the whole for this problem, and I don't think it is generally known that it could happen.
@@Lily-Bravo thankyou for mentioning it. I think it’s important and people should know about this. Again I am sorry about your friend
To quote G.K.Chesterton with regards to British roads: ‘Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road’.
on grocery stores, is it better to have 25 choices of average butter or 3 choices of quality butter?
Don't worry, 5 of our 25 options are pure British butter ;D
@@WanderingRavens pity they didn't import crumpets an scones at the same time :)
Have you never been to Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, or Morrison’s? There’s loads of choice in the bigger stores
Love your videos! Cults: I used to have a little old couple of JWs (wait, I’d better type that in full) Jehovah’s Witnesses call every month or so for years. They quickly twigged I wasn’t nibbling at the bait so they just used to call for the chit-chat. The old man used to work in Portsmouth Dockyard in WW2 so had had many a story to tell. I also have had the Mormons here many times (Dad was a Mormon, but not the 10 wives sort) so I guess I have a tracker surgically implanted and that’s how they find me! ;) One time I was dragging sections of new shed through the house to the garden and they said ‘Gee, that looks fun, can we help?’ I said ‘Don’t I need those Amish guys for this sort of job?’ but they were happy to take off their jackets and pitch in! Another time they arrived as I was installing a new light switch, which involved making a hole to set the switch box in and cutting a channel for the cable. I was just about to plaster the whole lot to make it all nice again and, just like before, ‘Wow! Can I try that? So, it was off with the jackets and ‘Hand me that trowel’. They still have that ‘put your shoulder to the wheel’ pioneering spirit! They should come back, I have shit-loads of chores for them! Finally, Happy birthday, Grace! I trust you enjoyed that waffle! :P
Thank you for the Mormon stories! xD And for the birthday wishes :D xx
You get the most amusing comment on a video today award 😆🏆🥇🎉
As Al Murray says, we don't have earthquakes 'cos we don't deserve them
And he would be wrong Britain does have earthquakes just most aren’t that noticeable.But some are on occasion moving objects off of shelves and people able to feel the quake.
I agree driving through cities in the UK can be a nightmare especially London, however I do find US road signage really poor. Driving in Florida was stressful for me. Traffic lights on fast highway junctions I think are a really bad idea, what's wrong with roundabouts? Far safer surely!
I can't understand the American way of numbering junctions on the freeway (motorway?)
The other problem with U.S. highways is that they do strange things like make you turn right to go left, and they have traffic lights suspended high above the road on cables, which are easy to miss until you get used to them. I don't think they have cat's eyes in the roads either to help driving at night.
@@Xenon0000000000001 They have a different type of reflective road marker called Bott's dots.
I came across one roundabout in Alaska, but the other user treated it like a four way junction where people take turns to go.
@@cheesedoff-with4410 There should be signs saying "yield" which means you give way to traffic coming from the left
Our supermarkets have changed loads since i was a kid (in the 80s) when I don’t remember them even selling clothes. I went to a Walmart in Canada and they sold everything from tyres to toys and tomatoes! Soooo much variety and ours look like corner shops in comparison
Choose the right day in Lidl and you can buy an aqualung, an inflatable canoe and a welding kit. That was a wild weekend.
I remember the first one opening in our little Northern Ireland seaside town in 1968 - Such a weird experience, and many people said it would never last . . .
@@sameebah I went to ibiza in 2012 and Lidl had just opened a store. Everyone was super excited lol!
Just a note: In American, we don't include attached houses as "houses". They are under the category of "apartment". I don't say this to be disparaging. It's just when someone lists common features in an American house, it does not consist of common features in an attached house (duplex, townhouse, rowhouse. tri-plex, & quad-plex)
Our attached houses do not include: front porches, laundry rooms, attached garages, gardens (yards) and they do not average 2,300 square feet. I think the features & size would be closer to your terrace houses...not so different.
Some things that might be different:
1. Laundry. The two machines would most likely be inside a closet. And that closet is likely apart of the....kitchen.
2. Car parking. Although very few would have attached garages, the doors would likely open out onto a parking lot. Or maybe there parking out back for the car. In the snow-prone parts, a car port is likely provided for the car. (Car Port - a cover for the car, but no sides.) The more luxurious townhouses might have actual garages, but on a row across from the home. But some rarely will have attached garage.
3. Entry--The front door would open directly into the Living Room.
4. Garden--Since they are in the apartment category, they typically don't have any sort of yard (garden). There might be an enclosed patio in the back, but no greenery. There might be a supper small plot near the front door to plant things. People decorate with potted plants & hanging plants.
Also, when someone says they live in a "Condo" they probably mean they own a townhouse (terrace house), at least in the suburbs. In the city, it might mean an apartment with someone above & below & beside. But not in the suburbs.
Restaurants? We have excellent food in the UK, but varieties, granted I'll give you that 🙂
Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Indian, Italian, French, English, Turkish, Greek & Jamaican and that's just Liverpool.
@@dave_h_8742 Agreed the U.K now has a far greater variety of World foods. e.g. NYC comes nowhere near London in that respect. Very different 20/30 years ago but that's of course in the past - lol
@@dave_h_8742 Me as an American. Yep! Have all that you listed and a lot more. Like Cajun food, Vietnamese, Polish, German etc...😉
Apparently the new Netflix series The Irregulars, is set in Liverpool pretending to be "That London Town" the cast blew lots of money in the restaurants and bars 😀
@@waycoolscootaloo We have all of those in the UK as well as Thai, Bangladeshi, Korean, Japanese and more. I think the issue is that the hosts were basing this on what they like to eat, which still appears to be more American flavoured.
The things the US does better are mostly superficial things while the things the UK does better actually improves people's quality of life.
Nailed it!
My thoughts entirely.
Mexican food of course, entrepreneurship possibly, snacks I have no reference points apart from dry roasted peanuts and I prefer salted.
National Parks, they absolutely hammer us, the US is huge.
Good on Eric and Grace for having a go at redressing last weeks video where they more or less slated the land of their birth.
Also, they had a few sideway swipes at the US in this vid.
That takes a lot of honesty.
Like jailing ppl for free speech? What does the uk do getter give me your biggest 3-5
@@Armed-Forever Freedom of speech means you can say what you like about the people in charge and their policies without fear.
It doesn't mean you have the right to spread hatred and promote violence against some sections of ones society.
As for freedom, you do realise that the US is responsible for over 25% of the worlds prison population. Land of the free?
Less chance of being imprisoned, that's number one.
2. Affordable health care for all.
Breaking Bad would have run for about five minutes over here. "Mr. White, I'm very sorry to say, you do have cancer but fingers crossed we can treat it."
3. Higher life expectancy.
4. Lower infant mortality rate.
5. Lower maternal deaths during and two weeks after giving birth.
6. Less murders committed by the police (land of the free?).
7. No need for our children to be searched before entering school (land of the free?).
8. Far better public transport.
P.S. I could go on, not indoctrinating our children to pledge allegiance to a flag (land of the free?) etc.
P.P.S. The idea that some people are suggesting arming teachers is complete madness to us, then again, we don't have an N.R.A pumping loads of cash into the political system.
Was ten enough?
@@gastrickbunsen1957 Yes Ten misinformed comments are enough. I long ago took my kingdom and moved to the USA.
I'll fight you on snacks.
cornish pasties, sausage rolls, steak bakes, pork pies, scotch eggs, we have better chocolate, better crisps, hobnobs, jaffa cakes,crumpets, jelly babies, Tunnocks teacakes and caramel wafers, Cadburys mini rolls, bakewell tarts, cheezy wotsits, monster munch,scampi fries, Ambrosia creamed rice and we also have ritz crackers if you want a snack that tastes like sawdust ;)
What you have to remember with grocery stores (mainly chain brands) is that ours tend to have what the locals buy most. Rather than stocking 20 versions of butter, they see what doesn't sell well and they stop stocking it in that specific store.
For example: My local Tesco has quite a large alcohol and pork selection. Yet a store 10 miles away (which is also bigger than ours) has less of both, because the population there is mostly Asian/Indian, so why stock a lot of something that doesn't sell as well?
That said some stores will sell more versions of the same item than you know exist. It all depends on the type of store and location.
in the usa people readily travel a couple hours to stores all over the place so destocking something based on 'local' purchases isn't feasible when your customer base can come from the city the store is in, or a neighboring city or the city neighboring THAT city. because usa BIG, stores get customers from all over BIG areas :P
I'd definitely agree with the national parks one, you have some beautiful places and many would be on my list if i ever brave visiting the states :)
Untill Trumpton got his hands on them
@@dave_h_8742 ?
We've got Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit...we win...lol
Spot on!!
Don't forget Timmy Time.
Whenever you make it back to the UK you have to visit Cornwall and go to the Rattler factory(Heeleys cider farm), they're a cider making facility with a visitor's bit and their cider is AMAZING! They also make jams and things and have a little farm bit, but be warned, you might get rattlered if you have 1 too many!
You can tour the orchards there also. Don’t forget the many excellent cider makers in Devon, Somerset and Kent, who are more famous for cider than Cornwall.
It's very weird that I people leave soap on their dishes. I work in a cafeteria and whenever we wash things by hand he is a 3-bay sink are we rinse your dishes with the soapy water drinks with the clean water and then dip it in sanitizing liquid for a few seconds and then air-dry it before we put it away.
Me: Hears that intro and considers creating the number of list items X 1000 so we can say Britain is best at everything 😂🇬🇧
The healthcare thing almost made me spit my tea!!!
I went to buy a new pair of shoes to replace the ones I had completely wore out. I went to the shoes in the near by towns and cities. In the first shop they even told me that they were not allowed to order in the style and size I wanted. In London I had to go to over a dozen stores before I found one. A lot of trouble for just a pair of shoes but I only do this every 5 or 6 years. The old shoes were used for gardening for another few years.
Great content guys! But I wonder if you've ever been a large supermarket in the UK such as a Tesco Extra? Some of them are just as big as a standard Walmart, albeit with fewer gun sales 🤣
WalMart ain't big u kid that's like the broke store of America Costco is the place
WalMart were broke Bois go
I do miss the convenience of American grocery stores. I moved out of the US 4 years ago to East Asia, and it’s difficult finding diverse ingredients where I live now.
We've got some amazing fossils too. They're in the House of Lords! 😂
in UK grocery shop is just that small store where small selection of essentials are sold but there are LOTS of supermarkets. Like Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda, Waitrose which in the main super stores also sell non food stuff also like clothing or TVs etc
Can't argue with much today 😁 You could add breakfast menu to your list. My wife reminds me that American snacks are so better than uk snacks it's difficult to mention in the same sentence
Glad to see you enjoyed your soapy water🥃👍
Well they will feel flushed out tomorrow morning if it is soapy Cider.
I have never tried soapy water to compare to drinks
The big one you missed was music, for me jazz and blues. Personally I like Brit pop music and hip hop doesn’t work for me because I like chord changes in my music, but we gotta say the US has been leading for a long time.
Yes, but, British bands of the 60s embraced the Blues to a much greater extent that the US ones did and the Blues players enjoyed being here more than they did in the US. Something to do with them being treated as equals, I understand. I expect the same went for the Jazz players.
@@Lily-Bravo There is some truth to that. Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones come to mind. And I heard Nina Simone, Charlie Parker and Paul Robeson spent time in Europe. If I’ve got it right Paul Robeson didn’t have any choice in the matter. Paul Robeson is famous for singing “Old Man River” to the laborers working on the Sydney Opera House. A True man of the people. These are all American Icons. I don’t know why, but somehow I’ve always listened to British pop bands; The Smiths, Radiohead, Keane, except for Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Carlos Santana (Mexican, I know) .
I know you agree with me; blues and jazz are fundamentally American. Jazz is the only music which I do know something about is still led by great Americans. Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny are two recent greats. I can’t say how much we’ve been blessed by all of them, on both sides of the pond. 🥰
love the side look she gave him when she said size matters, so subtle pmsl
100% agree with customer service. I'm a Brit and our customer service is terrible overall. Always feel like you have to jump through so many hoops just to get anywhere when trying to communicate with people in the service industry
You don’t have to deal with staff breathing down your neck for the entire time you’re in the shop though.
You forgot to mention gun crime and homicide. Definitely a win for the USA.
The US does better in tech, innovation, roads, liquidity, entrepreneurship. atleast the US owns up to its flaws(healthcare, gun violence), I find a lot of Brits to be pretty pretentious and act like racism against (particularly south Asians and middle easterners) doesn’t exist. And honestly out of all the cities I’ve been to in England literally every city looks the exact same (except for London). You guys have knife crime as well, y’all just look for bad in the world.
We got Ritz too 👍🏻
I always thought Ritz were British, but I just looked it up. Turns out they were first made in Michigan.
@@ftumschk me too, lol, never knew that before
Just another reason to move to the uk 😄
Yeah, they're owned by Mondelez, right? Same company as makes Oreos I believe
@@WanderingRavens yeah but I'll bet they don't taste the same?🤔
You for got to add these to the list of what the USA does better:
1) School shootings
2) Mass shootings
3) Police killing innocent members of the public
4) Number of people incarcerated per capita
5) Having known poisons and carcinogens as ingredients in your food
6) Terrible employment rights eg. Maternity leave, vacations, minimum living wage etc
There's a lot more but you get my point.
But as we have seen this week, ours are trying to catch up, policeman murders woman, police beat up women protesting about lack of safety and pissed up trainee copper beats up innocent woman pedestrian and gets away with it. Thank god we don't give our lot guns, if we did we'd certainly match them per head of population.
Well all ur fellow mates say we are just much bigger county so there ur answer have good chewsday buvvvvv
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On pharmacies/chemists, UK/US ones have slightly different roles. One of the things that surprised me in the US (I've been in various non-tourist places several times) was expecting to find a generic painkiller tablet (paracetamol, ibuprofen, anything) in a supermarket to cure a temporary headache - in the US if the store doesn't have a dedicated pharmacy you are screwed, whereas in the UK first aid type stuff is much more readily available. Is is just cultural or is there a regulatory issue? Also, when I did find some generic ibuprofen in the massive Walgreens, I was shocked by how much more expensive it was, and how large a pack I had to buy. In the UK, I typically expect packs of 12 or 16 which is what most people need for a quick remedy. Walgreen's smallest pack was 100 and they cost twice what I'd expect cheap supermarket generic pills to cost. Other than chains, small pharmacies in the UK do not expect to carry food items of any kind, especially not refrigerated stock, because there will usually be a small shop nearby.
Because of the sheer volume of pharmaceutical advertising in the US, most Americans are also more reliant on pills and potions than most Brits - we don't really have a culture of pill-popping to anywhere near the same extent. I remember on my first non-tourist trip to the US, my hosts who were a similar age as me (mid 40s) were shocked and surprised that I did not (and still don't, over a decade later) feel the need to take any pills or preparations of any kind on a daily basis to stay healthy. My medicine/first aid shelf at home includes as a matter of course pain killers, medicated skin cream for grazes etc, rubbing alcohol and a packet of band aids. For most 50+ y/o Americans this is nowhere nearly acceptable.
I guarantee you that every single grocery store in the US carries basic pain relievers like aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen and naproxen sodium. Except the smallest convenience stores, most grocery stores in the US have full pharmacies where people can get their prescriptions filled anyway. I can't speak for prices and packaging for over the counter medications between the US and UK but I usually see small packs of pain meds near cash registers in addition to larger generic packages.
Yeah Americans are obsessed with everything they overdo
Congratulations, you have earthquakes 😁
From the thumbnail I thought grace actually had a U.K. flag on her top, I thought that’s bold lol
Regarding local shops.
Corner shops are for convenience, when you only need a small number of items; we have plenty of large superstores, that you have to drive to. It appears that in the USA, you have to drive to your stores, unless you live in a city centre, so they make them big for area coverage.
Also the largest Walmart in the USA is 260,000 sq feet, the largest Tesco in the UK (and Europe) is 300,000 sq feet.
When it was built; the Pepsi Max Big One was the tallest, fastest rollercoaster in the world. Colossus at Thorpe Park was the world's first coaster with ten inversions, and The Smiler at Alton Towers still has the world record for most inversions
I am from the UK but the US has more TV shows and films
Not more good ones.
Helen Wood at this point you guys are just trolling
In fairness snow used to be much more common in the UK back in the 1920's (when Peaky Blinders is set) then it is now, it also depends on where in the UK you live on the amount of snow you get. I live in the South West of England and since my mum and I moved into the house we've lived in for the last 20 years we've only had proper 'stick to the ground for days' snow 5 times, once two years in a row. In contrast Scotland an a good portion of Northern England gets snow almost every year
The snow looks quainter here in UK
Greetings peeps .... Re supermarkets , I'll concede that your supermarkets are way bigger than ours but please keep in mind that that the vast majority of everything you eat is packed to the ceiling with additives which we don't have over here, so if you take all of the additives out of food then we found we don't need such huge buildings to accommodate everything ..... Another great vid guys , keep it up
you may have more national parks in the us . but here in the uk we can enjoy ours in peace without worrying about gators,rattlesnakes,earthquakes,hurricanes,tornados, guns ........etc.
You are welcome to the us , i have been twice and i will not be going back ,the last time being robbed at gunpoint ,no,i am more than happy with safety of good ole blighty.
Yes I used to love going to the U.S. but after my last visit recently I think maybe no more. The places at least where I've been have changed so dramatically and not overall for the better. In many ways of course still a great country but going to Europe suits me much more now.
Britain has more tornadoes per square mile than any other country in the World. They just generally happen to be very small. Having said that my local area was smashed up pretty badly by one a few years ago.
That's why u carry a gun, in U.K. If osama wants to take your head off, head gone
Ur weather in UK is dog water bruh depression 101
all realty tv is shite, regardless of where u watch it :D
well said.
Down road from me a fella in Wombwell got a broken leg when his chimney fell through roof after the earthquake we had a few years back.
Over 4 million Brits have started their own limited company business and another 3.5 million sole traders. Not to mention partnerships, LLP's, PLC's etc. New business start ups are entitled to grants, zero rate loans, mentor schemes, low tax brackets, free property rates (for first 6 months) as well as multiple government support channels. With a population of 66 million I would say thats a fair amount of entrepreneurs.
I'm not sure we can give you the roads one. Starting from scratch and without having to follow mediaeval property boundaries, you have managed to produce a road system that is spectacularly more dangerous than ours according to the statistics. Or is that due to the 14 year-olds driving, the lack of MoT tests or just the laughable excuse for a driving test in most states?
I love our rolling roads. Milton Keynes is blooming awful with its grid system.
I guess your water is not metred then? Must use a load of water washing the dishes. :)
No more than using a washing up bowl actually :D
America does do healthcare better than the UK tho😂😂😂 yes we have to pay for our healthcare, but in doing so we actually get treatment... in the UK you sometimes have to wait MONTHS before getting seen by a doctor. In America, we make an appointment and within 3 days we are at the doctors office, and in more rural/suburban areas the wait can be even less. Not to mention that health insurance is VERY prevalent in America. Medicaid, Medicare, workplace insurance policies, private insurance policies, the (terrible) Affordable Care Act, etc. and on top of all of this, the majority of the world's medical breakthroughs come from America. As recently as 2010 roughly 70% of all medical innovation and breakthroughs were accomplished by American companies. I'll take American healthcare any and everyday over the NHS.
Most UK theme parks are subject to build height restrictions, else our rollercoasters would probably go just as big, in fact one rollercoaster in particular definitely would go that big, Stealth at Thorpe Park, it's the same type of rollercoaster by intamin as kingda ka and top thrill dragster but just not as tall because of said build height restrictions.
Happy Birthday Grace 🎉🎉🎂🎂🎂🎈🎈🎈
Thank you!!
A lot of American movies are made in the UK.
True. Pinewood Studios was, often still is, the studio of choice.
Never known anyone that doesn't rinse dishes after washing them. Most people in the UK have a dishwasher.
UK supermarkets have dozens of options for butter, for instance. Rollercoasters? Is that the best you can do, a Eric?
But you’re welcome to your earthquakes. But the Richter scale is no longer used.
Yes the moment Magnitude scale is so much more snappier 🤣🤣👍
Richter Scale is definitely old-hat!
Since when was the riechter scale not used? They always refer to the scale of the earthquake
@@ShainThomas everyone still calls it the Richter scale.
@@handsoffmycactus2958 It is no longer reported as the Richter scale. People may refer to it, but they’re wrong.
Wasting water while washing up isn't a positive, you already waste too much water with your toilets :(
Our way of washing wastes less water than people that use a washing up bowl :D Will have to make a patreon video to demonstrate ;)
@@WanderingRavens I wasn't referring to thw way it's washed, as that's like the bath vs shower debate for using water, it depends on the length of time you're using the shower head/tap for. I just meant that there is no great benefit to the extra rinse, so even if it's only say 1 litre per day on rinsing off the suds, that's 1 litre X millions of people, "wasted"
There once was a blind man who decided to visit Texas. When he arrived on the plane, he felt the seats and said, "Wow, these seats are big!"
The person next to him answered, "Everything is big in Texas."
When he finally arrived in Texas, he decided to visit a restaurant. Upon arriving, he ordered a drink and got a mug placed between his hands.
He exclaimed, "Wow these mugs are big!"
The bartender replied, "Everything is big in Texas."
After a couple of drinks, the blind man asked the bartender where the bathroom was located.
The bartender replied, "Second door to the right."
The blind man headed for the bathroom, but accidentally tripped over and skipped the second door. Instead, he entered the third door, which lead to the swimming pool and fell into the pool by accident.
Scared to death, the blind man started shouting, "Don't flush, don't flush!"
There are several variations of this joke.
Who the first k doesn’t rinse things after washing? It’s always best practice to encourage. I’ve seen when certain people wash up who don’t use dishwashers and it’s absolutely disgusting 🤢 always rinse your anging stuff better still keep changing the water and use plenty of ANTIBACTERIAL washing up liquid.
My parents have a dishwasher machine, so when I first moved away from home I never washed the soap of the dishes. Then one day I was cooking pasta and it was really bubbling and frothing in the saucepan. I felt so ill when I tried to eat it!
I realise this is more a comment on my own stupidity rather than UK v USA, but you guys are so right about not washing the soap off. Several people I know still do that, and I find it baffling.
Sooooooo true about not washing off the soap, I was shocked when I moved to UK
Snow and Cults, yeah I’ll give ya but customer service? Your customer service is responsible for the birth of the Karen, nuff said!
I expected this video to be much shorter. 😃🇬🇧
And y’all think Americans are patriotic. While the Brits obviously are more progressive, I’d say america does rule in tech, innovation, and finance
Setting up a company in the UK gets progressively harder. A sole trader has simple and easy to manage accounts. A partnership is not too complex. Going to a limited company and you have the same rules as the the largest companies and costs increase just to comply with the rules. Getting loans, lines of credit is much harder. In the 80s 400 small businesses were closing a day after the government had got so many incentives to start up a business but not infrastructure in place to make sure they were set up correctly to make an income.
Our chemists and medications are cheaper than US Pharmacies as we get most needed medication via prescription from our Doctors.
In the US over counter medications you have far more variety but that’s due competing pharmaceutical companies.
I think we win in the Chemist category.... but I am quite biased.
Grace, please, buy him some new shirts
I'll try xD
Why can’t he get his own ? He isn’t a child