@@TheRokeryteell, the promise of torrential rain and violent thunderstorms never happened here! ‘Looks out of window’ - still sunny but a bit of fluffy cloud up there but they don’t look like rain clouds…..
There is a term in Linguistics which covers this. It’s called Phatic Communication. If when you meet in the street you can talk about the weather or about someone’s dog, one day you might be able to ask them ‘what do you think about that new bypass?’
Yeah, it's a nice safe subject to talk about with folks you don't know well or don't know at all. It allows you to remain polite and tactful when you don't know a person's stance on subjects, or health.
I love our food Apple pie came from Britain and you can't beat a good roast. A full English breakfast is a must when you are on holiday with no hash browns which are American but with black pudding and fried bread nothing better
Saturday breakfast treat is two fried eggs with still soft yolks plus two rashers of bacon in between two slices of white bread spread with salted butter. Fabulous! Quicker than cooking a full English, but every bit as decadent and delicious. (And don’t forget a mug of tea on the side to wash it down.) 🤤 I pass on adding a dollop of brown sauce or ketchup because I can’t stand even a hint of vinegar, but I think most people would include it.
In Ireland, literally had a conversation with an old man about the weather one hour ago. It's driving him insane how it keeps changing. We really do get 4 seasons in 1 day and it drives us crazy.
I woke up this morning for work, it was sunny, not a cloud in the sky, within half an hour it was absolutely pissing it down (me and the gaffer had to break to get changed we were that wet) then 20 minutes later there wasnt a single cloud in the sky. British weather is the epitome of bipolar disorder 🤷 Love and peace from Wales 🏴
The context of the weather when it comes to British food is important. For example, a big roast beef joint, roast potatoes and hot veg in the midst of 30 degree summer heat is going to make you sad. However, that same exact meal on an afternoon after you've been for a cold, wet, January walk in the woods is hard to beat imo. I love pizza but would take a big roast in the winter every single time.
I think we talk about the weather a lot here because it's so unpredictable. I've seen spring days where its beautifully sunny warm weather and then minutes later it's snowing
But that's not interesting and it doesn't happen very often. British weather is to be expected in Britain, funnily enough. I get annoyed with fellow Brits who talk about the weather. It's so fucking unimaginative.
The whole bad teeth thing is because until recently cosmetic dentistry wasn't common in British culture so even our celebrities would have stained teeth disdaining the fake bleached Hollywood smile in favour of a natural healthy oral hygiene. Considering Britain has strict laws about the sugar content of our food and all children receive free dental treatment it's unsurprising our general population has very healthy teeth.
Also, because of NHS rules. Necessary dental work is covered and dentists are paid a fixed fee for it. Cosmetic dental work is not covered. So cosmetic work is where dentists can make real money and charge a lot.
4:57 yes we do that but most of the time, the weather forecast is wrong. It could say it's going to be sunny with no clouds and a thunderstorm will come out of nowhere
It's the same around the rest of the country too. Everyone on RUclips talks about 'THE' Yorkshire accent, but there are different accents in different parts of Yorkshire, and even that isn't limited to one accent for West Yorkshire, one for North Yorkshire, etc. South Yorkshire has distinctly different accents in Sheffield/Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley (and even these vary in more rural areas.) I live in Hull, which is surrounded on three sides by the East Riding of Yorkshire (The Humber estuary on the 4th side,) and though accents are close to the accent in Hull in areas close to Hull, the accents in outlying areas of East Yorkshire are totally different. (and I sometimes struggle to understand some of them myself.)
"crackin' the flags" means it hot enough to crack the stones in the path. And the weather thing is also a safe way to intiate conversation, its a safe subject to comment on and can either end there or progress onto other subjects depending on how the other part feels.
Back 100 yeras or so ago, the great majrity of public paving was laid with flags (flag stones - presumably due to shape), very often cut from York stone - now a very expensive building material.
Typical English conversation openers: Hot enough for you? Nice weather for ducks, eh? Did you hear the thunder last night? I can't believe how warm it is. It was chilly first thing this morning, wasn't it? FYI, these are all ACTUAL conversations I have had with friends and colleagues in the last five days!
"Hot enough for you?" is the only one I've heard personally and I work a retail so interact with people all the time 🤣 "The Weather can't make its mind up", "its a bit chilly today isnt it" and "Wheres the sun gone?" are usually what I hear.
A lot of US stereotypes about the UK come from GI's in the second world war, so are based on a small group of predominantly English people from the countryside (warm beer, bad teeth, drink tea, love cricket etc). They may well have been accurate during a war, when there was rationing, but most haven't been remotely accurate for decades... apart from the tea
Talking about the weather is also an ice breaker small talk when talking to strangers, its also some thing we can all relate too . Yes we do all drink a lot of tea ( fact ). Regarding food if you live in a hot country you would eat fruit and salad and tomatoe sauce based dinners. We have a cold wet climate so heavy stodgy veg/ potato/pie/ stew type food is right for us, its part what grows in our climate and how to cook it to keep us warm. hot weather = light food , cold weather = hot heavy food. As a multi cultural country you can now buy any food from around the world in any city.
Sorry Anna but that about humidity 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it blew my mind the most funniest thing ever. You made me cry and I had to hold the trouser snake before i wet myself 😂 ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I remember there was 4 seasons in 1 day when I was younger. UK weather can be really good or really bad its pot luck what you get depending on where you live
Hey guys love the vids. The humidity thing not sure about that lol. We get rain in the U.K and sunny next day no humidity though. So not sure on that farmer's theory lol. But keep up the good work with these vids I love it.
You 2 have to be the most cutest couple on RUclips,you both are awsome,my mom was diagnosed with dementia a few years ago,shes at the point where she dont realy remember me and my brother,and the rest of the family,but,she always remembers how she likes her cup of tea,heart breaking,but funny at the same time
The further north you get the more unpredictable the weather can be. In Scotland you can have warm sun, hail stones, lashing rain and rainbows all within a few hours.
I don't drink tea. But I'm about to make my wife her fourth cup of the day. She probably had a few at work, too. The British food thing is a bit of a mixed bag - so many of our dishes are stews and pies and variations in between because of cold weather / winter / rain. There's a whole chunk of cooking from the victorian era that doesn't even exist anymore because people don't use the ingredients/herbs/stuff that was used in those recipes. We're in this weird limbo at the moment where we've permitted boxed food to make us lazy and it's a great shame.
At some schools when you get to year 10 (15ish years old) you can take Latin as a GCSE - exams you take at the end of year 11 that kinda sets you up to go onto college and do a levels before university
I drink 3-4 cups of tea (black) per day. I like my tea strong, so I leave the bag in. Leaving your tea to brew for 3+ minutes before consuming it, allows all of the antioxidants to seep out of the leaves, so you're actually benefitting from a brew. My teeth are all natural, nice and straight, but, they're not bleached or whitened like those people in TV smile land or those that pay 1000's and 1000's to have neon bright Turkey teeth. I live in Lancashire, not too far from Manchester and closer to the coast. It's true, northwest England does see quite a lot of precipitation, but the so does Seattle, also on a northwest coast. Talking about the weather is normal. When I come back home to Iowa, all we do there is talk about the weather too. The dialect in Lancashire is very broad, and yup, 'crackin't flags' is definitely in my vocabulary.
Love you guys. I live near Liverpool and get really excited by thunder and lightning. However, we're lucky if we get more than three loud rumbles before the storm moves on. Not sure I'd like the storms you have though xx
I've been drinking tea from age 2, I'm now nearly 50 and still drink loads of cups a day, approximately 10 to 12 cups. And being from the north of England near Manchester, we do talk about the weather because it's always raining haha ! Yes we say it's cracking the flags and it's boiling! 🌞 All true. Good video 👍
im from manchester and yes i check the weather app every hour at work it changes so often .. i work outside and it really is unpredictable and yes every time it rains we go for a brew hahaha
Thanks for the info about humidity I didn't know that but it makes sense especially when you live somewhere where it rains alot love your channel by the way especially when the dogs are there 😊❤️
I drink tea all day everyday 😂😂 Probably about 8-9 for me 😂 and Yorkshire tea bag and a bit of milk in it, unreal 😂 no sugar for me though otherwise my teeth would probably fall out 🙈
Beverage choices here in my flat consist of water, tea or Alcohol (many options for the latter 2). Think i drink up to 12 cups a day so def making up for some who dont. Anna is right on her point with tea affecting your teeth, i dont bother getting me teeth whitened as i drink so much tea they just end up stained again super quick, not got any other issues with them tho (so far).
When I was a girl we went on holiday to Scotland. The lady who ran a local guest house said ‘if you can see that island, it’s going to rain; if you can’t see it, it’s raining’.
Gees its a greeting we use at times like hello nice day today (as in weather) its an opener to a conversation! All UK Children are entitled to FREE dental care as are those that are unemployed or long term sick! Although tbf some areas are struggling with a lack of NHS dentists just now
"3 cups of tea each" - we drink more than that in my house lmao. I think we have at least 6 or 7 cups in a day. Not all households are like it, but mine loves tea (I'm drinking it now lmao 😅)
Was nice to see one of these infographic video's that seems to have done a bit of research and actually had facts, not just perpetuating the stereotypes.
@@MrEsphoenix food for example. Chicken Tikka and fish and chips not even mentioned. As a side note I recently had a discussion with an American who tried to tell me that pizzas are an American invention.
@@orwellboy1958 I mean, the video never even attempted to give a list of all British food, just said traditional British food and gave a couple of examples, so how is that a falsehood? And what has some random American and pizza got to do with anything?
Omg hahaha the humidity what you said! I’m 38 in a few weeks and just found this out by watching this reaction! No wonder the UK is so humid in the summer 😮! Now I know why the rain in the ground
7 or 8 mugs of tea a day is my usual intake. Personally I don't care what the weather is doing, you can't change it but I still will chat about it to friends most days.
It's testament to our optimism about the weather that despite having only two months of dry weather a year, we in the UK buy more convertible cars than anywhere else in Europe.
I think every home in the uk has teabags. It’s an essential 😆 We also offer guests a cup of tea (or coffee) as part of our standard greetings, it’s like British custom to immediately put the kettle on. Because of this, tradesman working on/in peoples homes drink loads of it, all in a days work 🤣 and when Covid had us all in lockdown, the teabag packaging changed so we could gift a box to friends/relatives as a token that we were thinking of them and would meet them again one day soon for a cup of tea & a chat. It was really wholesome 🥹
I struggled with the idea that Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey are the best examples of British cooking when they are both professionally chefs with themes etc. That's like saying every meal eaten in the US is something Paula Dean would make.
Michelin star chefs in the UK include Alain Roux, Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsay, Simon Rogan, Mitsuhiro Araki, Alain Ducasse, Sat Bains, Tom Kerridge, Michael Wignall, Raymond Blanc, Michael O'Hare, Taylor Bonnyman, John Williams and Tommy Banks and 3 or 4 others. SO those 2 were not the best examples but more US Americans have probably heard of Gordon Ramsay.
@Thurgosh_OG I guess it might be more about 'better known' than "greatest chefs". Personally I want to eat at Atul Kochar's restaurant in London if I ever got the chance and the money!
It's the humidity that is a killer in England 🇬🇧 as it rains a lot. We concentrate on oral hygiene where as America concentrate on aesthetics of teeth. Love watching you both. ❤
As a dentist health of teeth is judged by how many teeth are filled, decayed or missing, shade of whiteness rarely is an indication of health, and unless teeth are so misaligned that it impedes function or cleaning, slight overlaps are not an indication of oral health. A big row of paper white veneered or crowned teeth is not healthy. Many USA whitening treatments are illegal in UK and EU as they are not safe enough to get medical licence.
as far as the weather goes sometimes it,s predictable but a lot of the time it isn,t . i,ve experienced days where in the morning it was cold ,windy and snowing by lunchtime the sun was out and i was working outside in a t-shirt
Keep going with the vids I ĺove them and you're very polite. Like some other people commenting I'll go to a coffee shop and feel embarrassed about asking if they serve tea when it isn't advertised on the board. I was born in the 80ies and remember being given hot tea in a beaker when I was a tiny toddler, don't know what my mum was thinking but I bet it wasn't uncommon, but I've never given it to any of my kids so maybe it won't be as popular in 20 years!
The stereotype about our bad teeth comes from the 1940's when American GI's came over to assist us in WWII and we did have bad teeth back then but times have changed.
The stats will be out there but the vast, vast majority of tea drunk in the UK is blended black tea (called red teas in China) - what goes into all the common teas sold in supermarkets - PG Tips, Yorkshire and all of the rest. It costs a lot more, but not much per cup/mug, but single variety black teas are totally different - try Assam, or Keemun for breakfast - rich and robust flavours; try 2nd flush Darjeeling in the afternoon - light and complicated with fruity flavours. Or try gunpowder? Or Nepal? Or try green, yellow, white or oolong varietal teas for something totally different. (No milk with these and brew them very quick - 30-60 seconds, and cool - 90C, and reinffuse the leaves 3-4-5 times, which makes them very cheap per cup.) Never wash a dog, unless it is a rescue in a hell of a state, or has bugs or a skin complaint - take them for a swim. Soap washes all the natural waxes and oils from their coat, which they really need.
I’ve never washed, or seen washed, any of my family dogs for that reason. But for breakfast, I need Nescafé or a nice fresh ground bean coffee. I haven’t drink tea for over 30 years.
if you want to see a documentary about how even the worst criminals are but so typically British watch bubble and squeak murder. love your channel i always smile when watching. oh and JT just watched your reaction to 10 most effective British adverts they hit hard i was surprised the speed limit advert didn't come up much love and keep doing what you are doing
Our food is fine, we have over 50 restaurants with Michelin Stars. The village pub I worked in had been awarded 'Best Sunday Lunch' twice in The Observer Food Monthly magazine.
Hi JT and Anna, another great video! Anna, a good rule of thumb when you go outside in Scotland is 'take a jacket anyway,' or to put it more traditionally 'ne'er cast a cloot til May is oot' - in other words don't start taking off layers until June. Of course it depends what you're doing - if you're working outside or off for a long walk you want to be prepared, but youngsters go out clubbing in midwinter with dresses not much bigger than postage stamps, often well insulated by alchohol I'm guessing😜.'There are a few Scottish accents, not just one.I was going to say they are probably thinking of the Glaswegian accent, but even Glasgow has more than one. Talking about the weather is just small talk - it generally gives us an easy subject which can either be an ice breaker or a quick friendly chat. 'Crackin' the flags' - that's a new one but I like it🤣. Now see if you can figure out 'what freezing the balls of a brass monkey' means🤣(it's not what you think..). The Brits Abroad thing is really embarrassing , and I think a lot of it is about a bad combination of strong sun and cheap alcohol. I'm not having a go at people getting drunk and enjoying their holidays it's some of the behaviour that comes with it, like they forget folk live in these places. Then just as bad you get wealthier Brits buying holidays homes and they never mix with the locals or go to their shops or anything, it's just all about the sun.
Hey guys, Just want to say how much I love your videos and you too are always soo happy. It’s great to see. I am from the UK, I hope you visit one day. Would be an awesome video. Keep up the great work!
Non tea drinking Brit here 🙂 I do occasionally enjoy one but 3 or 4 a year at best. Stopped buying them as they would always go out of date. Coffee all the way.
ONLY 3 cups a day !? I drink at least 5 MUGS every day ! In the UK, if you don't like the weather...wait 10 minutes....it'll change !! There are multiple SCOTTISH accents as well ! They used to teach LATIN in UK schools but now it's probably only taught in PUBLIC/PRIVATE schools.
Manchester ain't got nothing on us up here in Scotland. Also, the weather here in Scotland isn't unpredictable. It's very predictable. We only get one option: RAIN or more rain.
It's all about the definition of "bad" teeth. If this means requires fillings, decay etc., then no, the Brits do not have "bad" teeth. If however it refers to crooked or off white teeth, then the ascetic nature means we have a perception of having "bad" teeth as American kids wear retainers and so on as part of normal transition to adulthood. The Brits are starting to care about the look of teeth, but unfortunately they travel abroad for the look, which is now commonly referred to as having "Turkey" teeth.
The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) provides free dental healthcare to those on low income, if you’re pregnant then it’s completely free. For me, I work full time and pay taxes it’s £12 ($20) each time I visit the dentist. That’s why our teeth are in good Nick! 😂
Very, very, very far from that simple. If only it wasn't. Dentists have been in dispute with the government/NHS for several (and more) years - the NHS payment rates are unrealistic, so dentists can make a lot more money treating only private patients. Most dentists do mantain an NHS patient list as well though - a sense of duty rather than economics or anything else, but those lists are tight and many, many people cannot find or get on a dentists' NHS list, and it is getting worse. If you have not seen a dentist, anywhere, for 6-12 months, you will be dropped from any NHS patient list that you may be on and have to pay private rates for any remedial work to take you to a level of dental health and repair that the dentist regards as likely to be covered by the NHS at something like a sensible rate for subsequent work. The one, single mess in UK NHS - when the NHS was set up, dentistry was not absorbed in the same way as was medical doctoring and the like. That makes no sense at all, but we are where we are.
@@birdmanfree1651 true enough, but all of the background politics doesn’t detract away from the treatment that 16.5 million people in England alone received in the 24 months leading up to June 2023 who used an NHS dentist (digital.nhs.uk) though it’s worth pointing out that all treatments were cancelled during 2020, and many dentists have adopted a 12 month appointment instead of 6 month to cover the backlog. While it is getting increasingly harder in recent years to get on an NHS Dental register, the service has been offered on the NHS since it’s inception in 1948 with 25% of Dentists enrolling for the service upon its July rollout and 89% by November of the same year. The sharp increase in numbers was because of the sheer amount of patients coming through the door getting dentures fixed resulting in increased income paid to dentists from the U.K. Government. It’s only been in the last 20 years that the NHS budget has been restricted so much that dentists now tend to have 1 day a week for NHS appointments with private services for the remaining 4. However private treatment has always been made available in the U.K.
I drink tea when I've run out of coffee and I don't follow cricket , I could never understand the terms being used . I don't mind the rain as long as it's not a constant downpour for 2 or 3 days and I actually hate summer , I'd rather be cold . Us Scots all sound different as well someone from Glasgow would sound different to someone from Aberdeen , apart from accents there are regional dialects as well .
Cracking the flags, flags are paving stones on the pavement (sidewalk) the heat making them crack. We also frequently have hosepipe bans after a short hot spell!
The problem with the weather in the UK, is its unpredictability. Only yesterday, the online weather forecast for my area predicted cloudy with sunny intervals, with heavy showers at 3pm. I was due to go on a shopping trip in the afternoon, that involved me walking for a long time, so I dressed for the walm sunny weather that we were due for most of the day, but wore a waterproof jacket on top, in order to cope with the later rainfall. Guess what? It didn't bloody rain at all, so I spent the entire day, walking and sweating into my jacket, so that when I arrived home, my 'waterproof' was much wetter inside the sleeves than it could possibly have been on the outside, if it had actually rained as forecast!
Urgh Scotland is hours away from Newcastle XD completely different accents! one of the reasons binge drinking (well I believe) is in the UK, Beer was a currency thousands of years ago and people were paid with beer for their jobs, this practice existed outside of the UK as well. Another reason (which I think imo contributed to our drinking culture today) beer/alcohol was more cleaner then the water. This started in medieval times, London didnt have a sewage system unill the 1800's.
To confirm the weather issue: I woke up to fog this morning. A couple of hours later it was blue sky and scorching sunshine. In the time it took me to make a cup of tea (green, to avoid stereotypes) the blue sky was replaced with torrential rain. That stopped after 40 minutes and became heavy winds. Now - only 5 hours from when i first woke - its overcast and still, but with crazy humidity after the rain. So yeah... We talk about the unpredictable weather an awful lot. Its also why you'll often see commuters dressed in clothing for all eventualities
I never mention the weather. Some bits will rain other bits won't. Some bits will be cloudy other bits won't. Some bits will be warn others won't. What else do you need to know.
regarding language and accents, many of the countries in the UK including the British Isles such as the Channel islands, Like my home Jersey, and then there is Guernsey, Alderney and Herm, we all have our own dialects, accents and language, like the Welsh, Irish and Scots, we speak our own language which is jèrriais, the accent so I have been told what we sound like, is like South African/New Zealand cross lol
I can't drink tea - it generally comes up a lot quicker than it went down. haven't drunk tea for 30+ years. (and I'm only allowed 1 or 2 mugs of coffee a day). and as for weather - yes. hooked on watching to see where it might be raining in case I'm going that way. however, Manchester doesn't get the amount of rain others assume it does - it's a myth. while we've had a few storms here recently, it's not as bad as it could be. I know the roads that flood easily, and a friends son usually takes a deckchair and dons the correct beachwear attire for when a local road floods - to highlight it should have better drainage than it currently has. there are a number of UK based stormchasers - which is good when we actually do get storms and yes, I absolutely love storms but can't venture far to chase any. and yes, we're not really built to handle too much hot weather. we just can't handle it - and neither can our transport infrastructure. railway tracks buckle, roads melt in the heat. and everyone uses the summer of '76 to measure how hot it is and for when hosepipe bans come in. we get moorland fires and grassland fires - mostly due to idiots.
I’m the same, not drunk tea for over 30 years either. What is it that causes that sicky feeling? I have one big mug of coffee in the morning and then drink Coke Zero and water for the rest of the day. My sons birthday is 4 20 (4th April). Some years it’s been beautifully hot BBQ or theme park weather & others it’s snowed, so we did cinema & ice skating. There was one year that I had a pretty good suntan starting, then it snowed for a couple of days, but a week later we had fantastic sun again. British weather is crazy. But I’ve got Italian & Maltese heritage, so no pink burning bits for me & my son. Sadly my daughter, brother & nieces seem to have inherited the Scottish pale skin or possibly theWelsh coal miners ‘never seen the sun’ skin & burn like a lobster. 😂❤
@@daisysunshine1324 me and sunshine don't mix well. I'm a winter baby. as soon as I bare my arms, it looks like I rolled around in a nettle patch!! my daughters birthday is also in April - and it's either stupid hot, or stupid cold - no inbetween!! she hates it. 🤣 she also gets really bad hayfever - as do I. it's the pure joy of the not knowing which season we're supposed to be in that's fun. just the other day, I heard one weather forecaster say that the weather felt more like April! As soon as it starts to go cool, I'll be normal again. but with menopause, its going to feel like summer all year!!! I can't wait for frosty cold weather, ice, the gritters going up and down the road, leaves falling off the trees and shorter daylight hours 😀
5:25 just because someone says something e.g. weather person, whether on your phone (app), or just anyone for that matter says what its going to do , doesn't mean it's going to do exactly what they have said, that's called having a prediction, doesn't mean it going exactly happen. If someone or a mobile app says it's going to rain or be sunny doesn't mean they are right. That is why I go with what the weather does itself, instead of listening to the weather on tv or a random person making a prediction like the weather man / weather women. Bottom line, speaking for the weather in England, it's unpredictable and nothing anyone says , whatever it shows on mobile phone (app(s) or whatever the weather man or woman says doesn't mean that's what's going to happen, it's a prediction, not a fact. That's why go with what ever the weather decides to do.
I think one of the most commonly used words by British weather forecasters has to be "unsettled". Meaning it could rain or be sunny or stormy at any point in the day, so be prepared for anything 😂
I am a Brit and I refuse to talk about the weather. In the winter it's cold and wet and in the summer it might be a bit sunny. There is nothing to talk about.
Example of weather.. I'm in North Yorkshire.. yesterday I woke to sun, an hour later we had thunderstorms with heavy rain, it was 15c degrees after 20 minutes it stopped, the sun came out, blue skies, sunshine. 1 hour later it rained heavy for 10 minutes, then the sun came out for 20 minutes, then it rained for an hour with thunder and lightning. Then it stopped from 6pm onwards but was v windy..... little peaks of sun little 5 mins of rain.. windy again.. you get the picture!!!! Just to make it weirder. My parents live 25 minutes away, they mostly had wind and rain less sun... 😂
I don't normally drink tea at home, but if I'm visiting someone & they offer me a drink, I'll always take tea, because I can't trust other people's taste in coffee!! Cheap coffee tastes like crap, but cheap tea still tastes like tea!!🤣
I don't think the variety of races or tribes that lived in the British Isles 1,000 years ago, (like Celts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Germans and 'Norse Tribes' (sic),) have very much bearing on the different accents in place in the UK today. It's a lot more complicated than that.
I'm from the North East of England, Middlesbrough, not that far from the Geordies and I can confirm that we are very hard for others to understand, drink at least 6 cups of tea a day, have shit teeth and talk about the weather every single day. 🤣🤣
Tea made properly in a tea pot is far better than just a tea bag. We're royalist in this house! I always have a coat and umbrella permanently in the car! Because you never know!
What is seen in the morning for British weather can change during the day. Summer time ot can rain at night but be clear by day or start sunny then heavy rain with little warning. We are an island that gets streams from the Gulf, Southern Europe, Russia, the Arctic Circle and the Atlantic.
This morning I said to my husband ‘I thought they said it was going to rain today?’ As it was so sunny. By four pm it was raining hard. It lasted ten minutes.
Talking about the weather is like an ice breaker to start a conversation
You're not wrong..
Did you see the rain, earlier?
@@TheRokeryteell, the promise of torrential rain and violent thunderstorms never happened here! ‘Looks out of window’ - still sunny but a bit of fluffy cloud up there but they don’t look like rain clouds…..
@@weedle30 Bro ☠️☠️ You literally just became my dad for a brief moment 😂✅ 10/10
There is a term in Linguistics which covers this. It’s called Phatic Communication. If when you meet in the street you can talk about the weather or about someone’s dog, one day you might be able to ask them ‘what do you think about that new bypass?’
Yeah, it's a nice safe subject to talk about with folks you don't know well or don't know at all. It allows you to remain polite and tactful when you don't know a person's stance on subjects, or health.
A fried egg sandwich is delicious, guys dont knock it til you try it. 🍳
I love our food Apple pie came from Britain and you can't beat a good roast. A full English breakfast is a must when you are on holiday with no hash browns which are American but with black pudding and fried bread nothing better
Saturday breakfast treat is two fried eggs with still soft yolks plus two rashers of bacon in between two slices of white bread spread with salted butter. Fabulous! Quicker than cooking a full English, but every bit as decadent and delicious. (And don’t forget a mug of tea on the side to wash it down.) 🤤
I pass on adding a dollop of brown sauce or ketchup because I can’t stand even a hint of vinegar, but I think most people would include it.
@@chixma7011 absolutely, agree delicious.
@@gillianhynes7120 oh absolutely, agree all great. 👍
Called an egg banjo because when it squirts you find yourself in a flick like gesture.
In Ireland, literally had a conversation with an old man about the weather one hour ago. It's driving him insane how it keeps changing. We really do get 4 seasons in 1 day and it drives us crazy.
In scotland there are April showers where it constantly heavily rains, snows, sleets and hails for like the first week of April
I'm on the north wales coast. No point looking at the forecast, just plan for every eventuality
@@yunuscurrie3410that's the same across the UK. April showers every year here in the Midlands
Yeah the forecast is pretty much hour by hour changeable
A lot of the time, it feels like all 4 seasons in an hour in Northern Ireland! 😂
We talk about the weather because it is so variable.And it’s the rain that makes Britain such a green and pleasant land
JT's reaction when Anna explained humidity at the end is basically how everyone who sees this video reacted. Brilliant!
I woke up this morning for work, it was sunny, not a cloud in the sky, within half an hour it was absolutely pissing it down (me and the gaffer had to break to get changed we were that wet) then 20 minutes later there wasnt a single cloud in the sky. British weather is the epitome of bipolar disorder 🤷 Love and peace from Wales 🏴
It's more like multiple personality disorder.
The context of the weather when it comes to British food is important. For example, a big roast beef joint, roast potatoes and hot veg in the midst of 30 degree summer heat is going to make you sad. However, that same exact meal on an afternoon after you've been for a cold, wet, January walk in the woods is hard to beat imo. I love pizza but would take a big roast in the winter every single time.
I've just got back from the pub where I had a roast, not beef but lamb, ok it's not 30° today, but still warm, I definitely don't feel sad 😂
@@tomthumb3624 good effort. You know though that roast would be a lot more enjoyable if it was absolutely chucking it down.... Oh wait....
Talking about the weather is an ice breaker conversation starter, great video guys 🇬🇧🇬🇧
I think we talk about the weather a lot here because it's so unpredictable. I've seen spring days where its beautifully sunny warm weather and then minutes later it's snowing
Americans talk about the weather a lot too.
But that's not interesting and it doesn't happen very often. British weather is to be expected in Britain, funnily enough. I get annoyed with fellow Brits who talk about the weather. It's so fucking unimaginative.
Regarding the weather here in Scotland - "I just love the Scottish summer, it's my favourite day of the year" 🙂
The whole bad teeth thing is because until recently cosmetic dentistry wasn't common in British culture so even our celebrities would have stained teeth disdaining the fake bleached Hollywood smile in favour of a natural healthy oral hygiene. Considering Britain has strict laws about the sugar content of our food and all children receive free dental treatment it's unsurprising our general population has very healthy teeth.
Also, because of NHS rules. Necessary dental work is covered and dentists are paid a fixed fee for it. Cosmetic dental work is not covered. So cosmetic work is where dentists can make real money and charge a lot.
I noticed that bad teeth are more common in the older generation, so this stereotype will probably die out soon
@@yunuscurrie3410 once again, your teeth degrade when you age.
I heard the myth came from GI’s based in Britain hearing that Brits went to the dentist twice per year (on NHS) so they must have bad teeth.
@@England-Bob The NHS did not exist when the GIs were over here, so that's a myth in itself.
Yes we do drink Tea like it's going out of fashion. Even when I go into a coffee shop with the wife I still ask for a tea 😂
So does my husband 😂
I hate tea.
I love the way you think you and your wife's behaviour represents everyone in Britain.
4:57 yes we do that but most of the time, the weather forecast is wrong. It could say it's going to be sunny with no clouds and a thunderstorm will come out of nowhere
The Scottish accent isn't just one accent, there is probably about as many Scottish accents as there is English.
don't be daft
Aye, right enough.
Go into Glasgow and you hear about 10 😂
It's the same around the rest of the country too. Everyone on RUclips talks about 'THE' Yorkshire accent, but there are different accents in different parts of Yorkshire, and even that isn't limited to one accent for West Yorkshire, one for North Yorkshire, etc.
South Yorkshire has distinctly different accents in Sheffield/Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley (and even these vary in more rural areas.)
I live in Hull, which is surrounded on three sides by the East Riding of Yorkshire (The Humber estuary on the 4th side,) and though accents are close to the accent in Hull in areas close to Hull, the accents in outlying areas of East Yorkshire are totally different. (and I sometimes struggle to understand some of them myself.)
Al Murray and Scotsman having his testicles rubbed softly with a soft chamois leather accent comes to mind
"crackin' the flags" means it hot enough to crack the stones in the path. And the weather thing is also a safe way to intiate conversation, its a safe subject to comment on and can either end there or progress onto other subjects depending on how the other part feels.
Flagstone paveing stones
Back 100 yeras or so ago, the great majrity of public paving was laid with flags (flag stones - presumably due to shape), very often cut from York stone - now a very expensive building material.
Thanks I’m British & I’ve never heard of it wondered WTF that meant.
@@luvmusicutbYou must be Southern😂
@@stewartcarroll304 nope north east
Typical English conversation openers:
Hot enough for you?
Nice weather for ducks, eh?
Did you hear the thunder last night?
I can't believe how warm it is.
It was chilly first thing this morning, wasn't it?
FYI, these are all ACTUAL conversations I have had with friends and colleagues in the last five days!
I've had 3 of those in the past week
I’m sweating like a glass-blowers arse 😂
"Hot enough for you?" is the only one I've heard personally and I work a retail so interact with people all the time 🤣
"The Weather can't make its mind up", "its a bit chilly today isnt it" and "Wheres the sun gone?" are usually what I hear.
A lot of US stereotypes about the UK come from GI's in the second world war, so are based on a small group of predominantly English people from the countryside (warm beer, bad teeth, drink tea, love cricket etc).
They may well have been accurate during a war, when there was rationing, but most haven't been remotely accurate for decades... apart from the tea
Talking about the weather is also an ice breaker small talk when talking to strangers, its also some thing we can all relate too . Yes we do all drink a lot of tea ( fact ). Regarding food if you live in a hot country you would eat fruit and salad and tomatoe sauce based dinners. We have a cold wet climate so heavy stodgy veg/ potato/pie/ stew type food is right for us, its part what grows in our climate and how to cook it to keep us warm. hot weather = light food , cold weather = hot heavy food. As a multi cultural country you can now buy any food from around the world in any city.
I definitely have multiple conversations a day with family, friends and strangers about the weather but its a good conversation starter
Sorry Anna but that about humidity 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it blew my mind the most funniest thing ever. You made me cry and I had to hold the trouser snake before i wet myself 😂 ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I remember there was 4 seasons in 1 day when I was younger. UK weather can be really good or really bad its pot luck what you get depending on where you live
Hey guys love the vids. The humidity thing not sure about that lol. We get rain in the U.K and sunny next day no humidity though. So not sure on that farmer's theory lol. But keep up the good work with these vids I love it.
You 2 have to be the most cutest couple on RUclips,you both are awsome,my mom was diagnosed with dementia a few years ago,shes at the point where she dont realy remember me and my brother,and the rest of the family,but,she always remembers how she likes her cup of tea,heart breaking,but funny at the same time
The further north you get the more unpredictable the weather can be. In Scotland you can have warm sun, hail stones, lashing rain and rainbows all within a few hours.
I don't drink tea. But I'm about to make my wife her fourth cup of the day. She probably had a few at work, too. The British food thing is a bit of a mixed bag - so many of our dishes are stews and pies and variations in between because of cold weather / winter / rain. There's a whole chunk of cooking from the victorian era that doesn't even exist anymore because people don't use the ingredients/herbs/stuff that was used in those recipes. We're in this weird limbo at the moment where we've permitted boxed food to make us lazy and it's a great shame.
I loved that explanation about the humidity Anna it cracked me up😂
At some schools when you get to year 10 (15ish years old) you can take Latin as a GCSE - exams you take at the end of year 11 that kinda sets you up to go onto college and do a levels before university
Anna always cracks me up. Got to admit, I didnt know that either. Good Luck in your new job Anna. Great video as always guys.❤
I drink 3-4 cups of tea (black) per day. I like my tea strong, so I leave the bag in. Leaving your tea to brew for 3+ minutes before consuming it, allows all of the antioxidants to seep out of the leaves, so you're actually benefitting from a brew.
My teeth are all natural, nice and straight, but, they're not bleached or whitened like those people in TV smile land or those that pay 1000's and 1000's to have neon bright Turkey teeth.
I live in Lancashire, not too far from Manchester and closer to the coast. It's true, northwest England does see quite a lot of precipitation, but the so does Seattle, also on a northwest coast. Talking about the weather is normal. When I come back home to Iowa, all we do there is talk about the weather too. The dialect in Lancashire is very broad, and yup, 'crackin't flags' is definitely in my vocabulary.
never ever heard the phrase cracking the flags over here haha
Love you guys. I live near Liverpool and get really excited by thunder and lightning. However, we're lucky if we get more than three loud rumbles before the storm moves on. Not sure I'd like the storms you have though xx
I've been drinking tea from age 2, I'm now nearly 50 and still drink loads of cups a day, approximately 10 to 12 cups.
And being from the north of England near Manchester, we do talk about the weather because it's always raining haha !
Yes we say it's cracking the flags and it's boiling! 🌞 All true. Good video 👍
im from manchester and yes i check the weather app every hour at work it changes so often .. i work outside and it really is unpredictable and yes every time it rains we go for a brew hahaha
I don't drink a lot of tea but my husband is a right tea pot. Sometimes 4-5 cups and up and his mugs are huge (they take a pint of tea at a time)
Thanks for the info about humidity I didn't know that but it makes sense especially when you live somewhere where it rains alot love your channel by the way especially when the dogs are there 😊❤️
I drink tea all day everyday 😂😂 Probably about 8-9 for me 😂 and Yorkshire tea bag and a bit of milk in it, unreal 😂 no sugar for me though otherwise my teeth would probably fall out 🙈
Beverage choices here in my flat consist of water, tea or Alcohol (many options for the latter 2). Think i drink up to 12 cups a day so def making up for some who dont.
Anna is right on her point with tea affecting your teeth, i dont bother getting me teeth whitened as i drink so much tea they just end up stained again super quick, not got any other issues with them tho (so far).
When I was a girl we went on holiday to Scotland. The lady who ran a local guest house said ‘if you can see that island, it’s going to rain; if you can’t see it, it’s raining’.
Gees its a greeting we use at times like hello nice day today (as in weather) its an opener to a conversation!
All UK Children are entitled to FREE dental care as are those that are unemployed or long term sick! Although tbf some areas are struggling with a lack of NHS dentists just now
More videos with Anna please JT, she is so funny. You are the perfect couple. Chris from the UK
"3 cups of tea each" - we drink more than that in my house lmao. I think we have at least 6 or 7 cups in a day.
Not all households are like it, but mine loves tea (I'm drinking it now lmao 😅)
It's the same in my house, I drink 3 or 4 cups before lunchtime. By cups I mean half pint mugs not little teacups.
I need 3 cuppas just to wake up in the morning lol .
@@apendlewitch6619 I don't even understand why those tiny cup exist. I need a proper mug of tea lol
Can’t stand tea thank you for drinking my share 😂
Was nice to see one of these infographic video's that seems to have done a bit of research and actually had facts, not just perpetuating the stereotypes.
Still a hell of a lot of falsehoods though!
Brexit = intolerant is complete and utter bollocks
@@majortom6262 Like what? As far as I could see it's all based on statistics and accurate to what i've seen in the UK.
@@MrEsphoenix food for example. Chicken Tikka and fish and chips not even mentioned. As a side note I recently had a discussion with an American who tried to tell me that pizzas are an American invention.
@@orwellboy1958 I mean, the video never even attempted to give a list of all British food, just said traditional British food and gave a couple of examples, so how is that a falsehood? And what has some random American and pizza got to do with anything?
Omg hahaha the humidity what you said! I’m 38 in a few weeks and just found this out by watching this reaction! No wonder the UK is so humid in the summer 😮! Now I know why the rain in the ground
7 or 8 mugs of tea a day is my usual intake. Personally I don't care what the weather is doing, you can't change it but I still will chat about it to friends most days.
It's testament to our optimism about the weather that despite having only two months of dry weather a year, we in the UK buy more convertible cars than anywhere else in Europe.
I think every home in the uk has teabags. It’s an essential 😆
We also offer guests a cup of tea (or coffee) as part of our standard greetings, it’s like British custom to immediately put the kettle on. Because of this, tradesman working on/in peoples homes drink loads of it, all in a days work 🤣 and when Covid had us all in lockdown, the teabag packaging changed so we could gift a box to friends/relatives as a token that we were thinking of them and would meet them again one day soon for a cup of tea & a chat. It was really wholesome 🥹
I struggled with the idea that Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey are the best examples of British cooking when they are both professionally chefs with themes etc. That's like saying every meal eaten in the US is something Paula Dean would make.
Michelin star chefs in the UK include Alain Roux, Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsay, Simon Rogan, Mitsuhiro Araki, Alain Ducasse, Sat Bains, Tom Kerridge, Michael Wignall, Raymond Blanc, Michael O'Hare, Taylor Bonnyman, John Williams and Tommy Banks and 3 or 4 others. SO those 2 were not the best examples but more US Americans have probably heard of Gordon Ramsay.
@Thurgosh_OG I guess it might be more about 'better known' than "greatest chefs". Personally I want to eat at Atul Kochar's restaurant in London if I ever got the chance and the money!
Think Gordon Ramsey will be a bit miffed to be mentioned with Jamie Oliver 😂
It's the humidity that is a killer in England 🇬🇧 as it rains a lot. We concentrate on oral hygiene where as America concentrate on aesthetics of teeth. Love watching you both. ❤
As a dentist health of teeth is judged by how many teeth are filled, decayed or missing, shade of whiteness rarely is an indication of health, and unless teeth are so misaligned that it impedes function or cleaning, slight overlaps are not an indication of oral health. A big row of paper white veneered or crowned teeth is not healthy. Many USA whitening treatments are illegal in UK and EU as they are not safe enough to get medical licence.
as far as the weather goes sometimes it,s predictable but a lot of the time it isn,t . i,ve experienced days where in the morning it was cold ,windy and snowing by lunchtime the sun was out and i was working outside in a t-shirt
Keep going with the vids I ĺove them and you're very polite. Like some other people commenting I'll go to a coffee shop and feel embarrassed about asking if they serve tea when it isn't advertised on the board. I was born in the 80ies and remember being given hot tea in a beaker when I was a tiny toddler, don't know what my mum was thinking but I bet it wasn't uncommon, but I've never given it to any of my kids so maybe it won't be as popular in 20 years!
Hi Anna & JT I'm 23 and from Glasgow and love all your videos. Sometimes when I'm feeling like crap I watch your videos and it brightens my day.
The stereotype about our bad teeth comes from the 1940's when American GI's came over to assist us in WWII and we did have bad teeth back then but times have changed.
The stats will be out there but the vast, vast majority of tea drunk in the UK is blended black tea (called red teas in China) - what goes into all the common teas sold in supermarkets - PG Tips, Yorkshire and all of the rest.
It costs a lot more, but not much per cup/mug, but single variety black teas are totally different - try Assam, or Keemun for breakfast - rich and robust flavours; try 2nd flush Darjeeling in the afternoon - light and complicated with fruity flavours. Or try gunpowder? Or Nepal?
Or try green, yellow, white or oolong varietal teas for something totally different. (No milk with these and brew them very quick - 30-60 seconds, and cool - 90C, and reinffuse the leaves 3-4-5 times, which makes them very cheap per cup.)
Never wash a dog, unless it is a rescue in a hell of a state, or has bugs or a skin complaint - take them for a swim. Soap washes all the natural waxes and oils from their coat, which they really need.
I’ve never washed, or seen washed, any of my family dogs for that reason.
But for breakfast, I need Nescafé or a nice fresh ground bean coffee. I haven’t drink tea for over 30 years.
if you want to see a documentary about how even the worst criminals are but so typically British watch bubble and squeak murder. love your channel i always smile when watching. oh and JT just watched your reaction to 10 most effective British adverts they hit hard i was surprised the speed limit advert didn't come up much love and keep doing what you are doing
I always have at least 3 cups of tea a day but there are days I drink up to 15 :)
Our food is fine, we have over 50 restaurants with Michelin Stars. The village pub I worked in had been awarded 'Best Sunday Lunch' twice in The Observer Food Monthly magazine.
Hi JT and Anna, another great video! Anna, a good rule of thumb when you go outside in Scotland is 'take a jacket anyway,' or to put it more traditionally 'ne'er cast a cloot til May is oot' - in other words don't start taking off layers until June. Of course it depends what you're doing - if you're working outside or off for a long walk you want to be prepared, but youngsters go out clubbing in midwinter with dresses not much bigger than postage stamps, often well insulated by alchohol I'm guessing😜.'There are a few Scottish accents, not just one.I was going to say they are probably thinking of the Glaswegian accent, but even Glasgow has more than one. Talking about the weather is just small talk - it generally gives us an easy subject which can either be an ice breaker or a quick friendly chat. 'Crackin' the flags' - that's a new one but I like it🤣. Now see if you can figure out 'what freezing the balls of a brass monkey' means🤣(it's not what you think..). The Brits Abroad thing is really embarrassing , and I think a lot of it is about a bad combination of strong sun and cheap alcohol. I'm not having a go at people getting drunk and enjoying their holidays it's some of the behaviour that comes with it, like they forget folk live in these places. Then just as bad you get wealthier Brits buying holidays homes and they never mix with the locals or go to their shops or anything, it's just all about the sun.
Hey guys, Just want to say how much I love your videos and you too are always soo happy. It’s great to see.
I am from the UK, I hope you visit one day. Would be an awesome video.
Keep up the great work!
I was in Amsterdam the other week and the only British couple we spoke to came up to us and started talking about the weather
Non tea drinking Brit here 🙂 I do occasionally enjoy one but 3 or 4 a year at best. Stopped buying them as they would always go out of date. Coffee all the way.
ONLY 3 cups a day !? I drink at least 5 MUGS every day !
In the UK, if you don't like the weather...wait 10 minutes....it'll change !!
There are multiple SCOTTISH accents as well !
They used to teach LATIN in UK schools but now it's probably only taught in PUBLIC/PRIVATE schools.
I drink, on average, around 10 cups of tea a day.
Some people are really letting the side down.
Manchester ain't got nothing on us up here in Scotland. Also, the weather here in Scotland isn't unpredictable. It's very predictable. We only get one option: RAIN or more rain.
Nah! It's taps aff weather here the now (Balerno, Nr Edinburgh [east coast])
I don’t drink anything other than tea I can’t get enough of it between 10 to 12 cups a day
British and don't like tea much, and I can confirm that my bestie cheerfully drinks my allocation!
You know it's hot in the UK when they have a TV presenter frying an egg on a paving flag or car bonnet.
I am English and I don't know drink tea, the smell makes me gag, not very good when my hubby drinks mugs of it
It's all about the definition of "bad" teeth. If this means requires fillings, decay etc., then no, the Brits do not have "bad" teeth. If however it refers to crooked or off white teeth, then the ascetic nature means we have a perception of having "bad" teeth as American kids wear retainers and so on as part of normal transition to adulthood. The Brits are starting to care about the look of teeth, but unfortunately they travel abroad for the look, which is now commonly referred to as having "Turkey" teeth.
The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) provides free dental healthcare to those on low income, if you’re pregnant then it’s completely free. For me, I work full time and pay taxes it’s £12 ($20) each time I visit the dentist. That’s why our teeth are in good Nick! 😂
Very, very, very far from that simple. If only it wasn't.
Dentists have been in dispute with the government/NHS for several (and more) years - the NHS payment rates are unrealistic, so dentists can make a lot more money treating only private patients. Most dentists do mantain an NHS patient list as well though - a sense of duty rather than economics or anything else, but those lists are tight and many, many people cannot find or get on a dentists' NHS list, and it is getting worse.
If you have not seen a dentist, anywhere, for 6-12 months, you will be dropped from any NHS patient list that you may be on and have to pay private rates for any remedial work to take you to a level of dental health and repair that the dentist regards as likely to be covered by the NHS at something like a sensible rate for subsequent work.
The one, single mess in UK NHS - when the NHS was set up, dentistry was not absorbed in the same way as was medical doctoring and the like. That makes no sense at all, but we are where we are.
I wish my NHS dentist only charged me £12 ! Mine is usually around £40 !
@@enemde3025 damn, you having work done too? No way is that a check up price for 1 person.
@@birdmanfree1651 true enough, but all of the background politics doesn’t detract away from the treatment that 16.5 million people in England alone received in the 24 months leading up to June 2023 who used an NHS dentist (digital.nhs.uk) though it’s worth pointing out that all treatments were cancelled during 2020, and many dentists have adopted a 12 month appointment instead of 6 month to cover the backlog.
While it is getting increasingly harder in recent years to get on an NHS Dental register, the service has been offered on the NHS since it’s inception in 1948 with 25% of Dentists enrolling for the service upon its July rollout and 89% by November of the same year. The sharp increase in numbers was because of the sheer amount of patients coming through the door getting dentures fixed resulting in increased income paid to dentists from the U.K. Government. It’s only been in the last 20 years that the NHS budget has been restricted so much that dentists now tend to have 1 day a week for NHS appointments with private services for the remaining 4. However private treatment has always been made available in the U.K.
@@JaricDesann check up and claen
I drink tea when I've run out of coffee and I don't follow cricket , I could never understand the terms being used . I don't mind the rain as long as it's not a constant downpour for 2 or 3 days and I actually hate summer , I'd rather be cold . Us Scots all sound different as well someone from Glasgow would sound different to someone from Aberdeen , apart from accents there are regional dialects as well .
Ooh I love a fried egg sandwich...especially with a runny yolk that dribbles down your chin as soon as you bite into it! 😜
Cracking the flags, flags are paving stones on the pavement (sidewalk) the heat making them crack. We also frequently have hosepipe bans after a short hot spell!
I work 9am - 2pm & have 3-5 cups of tea in that time. It’s just what you do. I rarely drink tea at home though!
The problem with the weather in the UK, is its unpredictability. Only yesterday, the online weather forecast for my area predicted cloudy with sunny intervals, with heavy showers at 3pm. I was due to go on a shopping trip in the afternoon, that involved me walking for a long time, so I dressed for the walm sunny weather that we were due for most of the day, but wore a waterproof jacket on top, in order to cope with the later rainfall.
Guess what? It didn't bloody rain at all, so I spent the entire day, walking and sweating into my jacket, so that when I arrived home, my 'waterproof' was much wetter inside the sleeves than it could possibly have been on the outside, if it had actually rained as forecast!
Oh God, I just fell asleep. Are you trying to be ironically humourous?
@@douglasfreeman3229 Not at all - and by the way, it's spelled "humorous" (and I AM trying to be non-ironically pedantic!) 🤪
I dont drink tea often tbh but i know plenty of people who drink 15+ cups a day. I drink coffee often, ive already had 4 cups of coffee today.
Urgh Scotland is hours away from Newcastle XD completely different accents! one of the reasons binge drinking (well I believe) is in the UK, Beer was a currency thousands of years ago and people were paid with beer for their jobs, this practice existed outside of the UK as well. Another reason (which I think imo contributed to our drinking culture today) beer/alcohol was more cleaner then the water. This started in medieval times, London didnt have a sewage system unill the 1800's.
To confirm the weather issue: I woke up to fog this morning. A couple of hours later it was blue sky and scorching sunshine.
In the time it took me to make a cup of tea (green, to avoid stereotypes) the blue sky was replaced with torrential rain. That stopped after 40 minutes and became heavy winds.
Now - only 5 hours from when i first woke - its overcast and still, but with crazy humidity after the rain.
So yeah... We talk about the unpredictable weather an awful lot. Its also why you'll often see commuters dressed in clothing for all eventualities
I never mention the weather. Some bits will rain other bits won't. Some bits will be cloudy other bits won't. Some bits will be warn others won't. What else do you need to know.
on average 10 mugs of tea a day for me :)
Yes, we do talk about the weather. That is very true.
I drink 3 cups of tea in the first hour I'm awake in the morning. It's has to be Yorkshire tea, you gotta have a proper brew 🫖
You're so sweet Anna and really funny😂😂❤
regarding language and accents, many of the countries in the UK including the British Isles such as the Channel islands, Like my home Jersey, and then there is Guernsey, Alderney and Herm, we all have our own dialects, accents and language, like the Welsh, Irish and Scots, we speak our own language which is jèrriais, the accent so I have been told what we sound like, is like South African/New Zealand cross lol
I can't drink tea - it generally comes up a lot quicker than it went down. haven't drunk tea for 30+ years.
(and I'm only allowed 1 or 2 mugs of coffee a day). and as for weather - yes. hooked on watching to see where it might be raining in case I'm going that way. however, Manchester doesn't get the amount of rain others assume it does - it's a myth. while we've had a few storms here recently, it's not as bad as it could be. I know the roads that flood easily, and a friends son usually takes a deckchair and dons the correct beachwear attire for when a local road floods - to highlight it should have better drainage than it currently has.
there are a number of UK based stormchasers - which is good when we actually do get storms and yes, I absolutely love storms but can't venture far to chase any.
and yes, we're not really built to handle too much hot weather. we just can't handle it - and neither can our transport infrastructure.
railway tracks buckle, roads melt in the heat. and everyone uses the summer of '76 to measure how hot it is and for when hosepipe bans come in. we get moorland fires and grassland fires - mostly due to idiots.
I’m the same, not drunk tea for over 30 years either. What is it that causes that sicky feeling? I have one big mug of coffee in the morning and then drink Coke Zero and water for the rest of the day.
My sons birthday is 4 20 (4th April). Some years it’s been beautifully hot BBQ or theme park weather & others it’s snowed, so we did cinema & ice skating. There was one year that I had a pretty good suntan starting, then it snowed for a couple of days, but a week later we had fantastic sun again. British weather is crazy. But I’ve got Italian & Maltese heritage, so no pink burning bits for me & my son. Sadly my daughter, brother & nieces seem to have inherited the Scottish pale skin or possibly theWelsh coal miners ‘never seen the sun’ skin & burn like a lobster. 😂❤
@@daisysunshine1324 me and sunshine don't mix well. I'm a winter baby. as soon as I bare my arms, it looks like I rolled around in a nettle patch!!
my daughters birthday is also in April - and it's either stupid hot, or stupid cold - no inbetween!! she hates it. 🤣 she also gets really bad hayfever - as do I.
it's the pure joy of the not knowing which season we're supposed to be in that's fun.
just the other day, I heard one weather forecaster say that the weather felt more like April!
As soon as it starts to go cool, I'll be normal again. but with menopause, its going to feel like summer all year!!!
I can't wait for frosty cold weather, ice, the gritters going up and down the road, leaves falling off the trees and shorter daylight hours 😀
5:25 just because someone says something e.g. weather person, whether on your phone (app), or just anyone for that matter says what its going to do , doesn't mean it's going to do exactly what they have said, that's called having a prediction, doesn't mean it going exactly happen. If someone or a mobile app says it's going to rain or be sunny doesn't mean they are right. That is why I go with what the weather does itself, instead of listening to the weather on tv or a random person making a prediction like the weather man / weather women.
Bottom line, speaking for the weather in England, it's unpredictable and nothing anyone says , whatever it shows on mobile phone (app(s) or whatever the weather man or woman says doesn't mean that's what's going to happen, it's a prediction, not a fact. That's why go with what ever the weather decides to do.
Do yer know there is now 2 different flavoured Irn-Bru. I drink 20 cups of tea a day, im addicted tae it. 😂
I think one of the most commonly used words by British weather forecasters has to be "unsettled". Meaning it could rain or be sunny or stormy at any point in the day, so be prepared for anything 😂
Or sometimes they use "changeable" just to mix things up a bit
Another way of saying they go no f*cking idea 😆 too unpredictable
Or take your brolly in case!
@@easternangle9175 i live in North Wales. We take full waterproofs because it WILL rain at some point 😂
I am a Brit and I refuse to talk about the weather. In the winter it's cold and wet and in the summer it might be a bit sunny. There is nothing to talk about.
Yes! Same here.
Example of weather.. I'm in North Yorkshire.. yesterday I woke to sun, an hour later we had thunderstorms with heavy rain, it was 15c degrees after 20 minutes it stopped, the sun came out, blue skies, sunshine. 1 hour later it rained heavy for 10 minutes, then the sun came out for 20 minutes, then it rained for an hour with thunder and lightning. Then it stopped from 6pm onwards but was v windy..... little peaks of sun little 5 mins of rain.. windy again.. you get the picture!!!! Just to make it weirder. My parents live 25 minutes away, they mostly had wind and rain less sun... 😂
Ummmm, as a Brit, my daily tea drinking is 5 to 8 (but low may be 3 and the high is... I've never counted but would guess 10 - 12)
to be honest when it comes to tea i probably have a minimum of 7 sometimes 9 mugs a day .most of the people i work with have at least 3/4
I don't normally drink tea at home, but if I'm visiting someone & they offer me a drink, I'll always take tea, because I can't trust other people's taste in coffee!!
Cheap coffee tastes like crap, but cheap tea still tastes like tea!!🤣
I don't think the variety of races or tribes that lived in the British Isles 1,000 years ago, (like Celts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Germans and 'Norse Tribes' (sic),) have very much bearing on the different accents in place in the UK today. It's a lot more complicated than that.
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I'm from the North East of England, Middlesbrough, not that far from the Geordies and I can confirm that we are very hard for others to understand, drink at least 6 cups of tea a day, have shit teeth and talk about the weather every single day. 🤣🤣
This is our typical UK weather in just one month 🇬🇧 =🌞🌧️☔⛈️🌩️⛅🌦️🥵🥶😎😂😂😂 Sad but very true 😏😏😏
Thats a typical day in England 🏴
Tea made properly in a tea pot is far better than just a tea bag.
We're royalist in this house!
I always have a coat and umbrella permanently in the car! Because you never know!
I drink between 10 and 15 cups of tea a day, plus a flask for work. Thought that was normal until I saw them statistics 😂
im a geordie and at times i dont understand what people say to me and i speak the same way!! 😂😂
What is seen in the morning for British weather can change during the day. Summer time ot can rain at night but be clear by day or start sunny then heavy rain with little warning.
We are an island that gets streams from the Gulf, Southern Europe, Russia, the Arctic Circle and the Atlantic.
This morning I said to my husband ‘I thought they said it was going to rain today?’ As it was so sunny. By four pm it was raining hard. It lasted ten minutes.