It's super weird how many names there are for bread. A courgette is a courgette, until you go to the US and then it becomes zucchini, that makes sense.
It is a prosecutable offense in many US states as well, though it is not a federal law. Unfortunately, even in some areas where it is illegal it is not very well enforced.
It's illegal in a lot of areas in the US also, and insurance companies wont accept 100% liability in an accident even if you're not at fault if you were on the phone. Most newer cars here have Bluetooth that are synced to your phone.
37 "In the USA you don't mix alcohol and family events" - In the UK, this couldn't be further from the truth. Nothing like a deep family talk with a cousin you haven't seen in a year whilst you're both absolutely plastered.
i don’t know what they are talking about but in the US we do that all the time and most religious people drink except for orthodox christians and muslims
"There's a law against criticising or making fun of the royal family". Utter bollocks! They've been a great source of comedy and satire material for years.
Also, because in the bathroom there must not be anything electronical in a bathroom that can be touched so there are no power points or light switches in a bathroom.
@@greyjackal Shaver sockets are allowed because they have a safe electrical transformer inside them feeding the supply. You cannot get a shock from the live connection unless you touch the transformer neutral as well. They are known as safety isolation transformers
UK bathrooms have cord pulls rather than switches to reduce the risk of an electric shock which could happen if you use a switch with wet hands. Remember we use 240volts which is more efficient but under certain circumstances more dangerous.
Not all do both houses my family lived in, in north west england have light switches on the wall outside the bathroom and so do alot of friends and relatives house I've only seen a bathroom with a cord once
@@julieworsley5048 That's what some people have done to circumvent the law. It's legal to have wall switches outside of the bathroom, but it has to be a cord in the bathroom.
As for the less attentive service that’s how we prefer it, most Europeans seem to find the American approach of constantly checking and interrupting in restaurants very annoying - same in shops.
@@WanderingRavens The american/canadian service expects a tip when giving a good service. In the UK it is not expected but some restaurants automatically apply a service charge to the bill.
@@EinkOLED The reason tipping is becoming less frequent now is that the waiter doesn't actually get the tip any more. My son has worked in two classy hotels and had to pool all the tips. They were occasionally shared out equally (which is not fair if you have worked harder than others) Much more often though, the money was kept by the bosses to buy new aprons etc. It is a shame because they are poorly paid, and often get ripped off by not even getting their tips
@TravisWeb_Enterainment this depends what you mean by flag down, but a good server in the UK is stood ready for you just to glance in their general direction or at most to give a little wave, if they work in a full table service restaurant - hardly an effort and much more convenient than telling someone constantly that you don't need them. Even at a cheaper place you'll find server's will check in when you get about 25-50% through your meal to address food quality and refills and a small wave and 'service please /excuse me' will get you anything else you need.
@@EinkOLED The good thing is, you can legitimately refuse to pay a service charge. I always ask, who gets the service charge. If it is the staff, fine I leave it. If it is the owner, I ask them to remove it. Then tip the serving staff in cash.
Tipping is NOT mandatory in the UK because we have a national minimum wage which means ALL service staff get a fair wage. A tip is to show you had a great service.
Yes that's the first thing you got wrong.Its never fork and knife,that's like saying something's wrong or right.when it's quite clearly right or wrong. x cheers (ha ha)
Thank you, hear many Americans says we have no free speech, but that's bullshit we say what we want. Think there was that guy who posted something about Grenfell tower and he got arrested, but he deserved it
It is not illegal to disparage the royals or politicians but everybody respects the Queen. After all the oath of loyalty is not to the flag or the constitution but to your sovereign majesty Queen Elizabeth her heirs and successors according to law. Afew years ago when they built a big suspension bridge over the Thames estuary the mayors of the towns of Thurrock [on the north bank] and Dartford [on the south bank] both went on TV to argue that this bridge should be named after their town. When it was announced that it was to be called 'the Queen Elizabeth bridger' there was silence from both of them because to object to anything being named after our sovreign would be considered unpatriotic
Duncan Macpherson not everyone respects the Queen, I, and many others do not. I have never understood the privilege of some to the detriment of the most .
@@duncanmacpherson2013 No they don't, the queen can fuck off, fuck off some more, keep fucking off and when she's worn out, take a break, have a cup of tea and a hobnob, so she has the energy to fuck off some more
It always makes me laugh when American's think only the US have freedom of speech. The only way you'd face consequences for something you said, is if it's a threat to someone's life etc... And even then I'm not sure anything would happen :/ . People insult the royals without consequence all the time. Guess the US never experienced spitting image.
We don’t put vinegar on fries. We put vinegar on chips. Chips and fries are both fried potatoes but they are not the same thing. Chips are thick and you would find them in a Fish & Chip Shop (aka ‘Chippie’). Fries are long and thin and you’d get those at McDonalds. Vinegar goes on chips, not fries.
@@graff.life.82 In OUR vastly superior nation "WE..." have several words that ALL refer to the same think....restroom. bath room, toilet, mens/womens room, crapper, shitter room .......!!!! "WE..." are SMART enough to understnd they ALL mean the same thing !!!! DUUUUUUUUHHHHHHH !!!!!!!
Pasties are like these little skin colored opaque latex “stickers”,that are used mainly By dancers in strip clubs(where required), to cover ones nipples when the dancer is not licensed to dance full nude.
@@xtraspecial4677 Mainly Vegetable (Potato, Swede & Onion) with 1/3 minced beef. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty It was the traditional food of Cornish Tin miners. So it is a working man's food.
The perfect pot of English Tea; Use a Yorkshire Tea bag place in the mug and add just enough milk to cover the tea bag Pour over boiling water until 5mm from the rim Pick up the fin of the tea bag floating and dunk 2/4 times Leave the tea bag in As you drink the tea gets stronger & stronger which is the perfect builders tea
32. In England people aren't on their phones while driving. Well, yes because it's illegal and the police will pull you over to tell you off if they see you.
@@DoggoWillink The punishments may be higher in the UK. Here as a fixed penalty (a ticket) its £200 and 6 points on your licence, 12 points and your license gets suspended but if you are within 2 years of passing your test they will suspend you licence anyway. If taken to court fines can go up to £1000 and the court can also take your license away even for a first offence.
Someone was on their phone whilst driving when the cars had stopped and they all went except that one with the phone so I went to cross and they then started driving mid way me walking past their car. Now I limp to school.
@@DoggoWillink plenty of pople talk on their phones whilst driving in the UK. And walk along the street with their heads engrossed in their phone. Ridiculous really
Indeed the wiring regulations for bathrooms basically prevent any possibility of human contacting electricity, light fittings must be enclosed, switches either waterproof or on the ceilng with a pull-cord, shaver sockets have to be transformer-isolated. The reform of British (not English!) mains electricity is a great story in itself, happening in the aftermath of WWII as I understand it, with much safety improvement and rationalization.
@@MarkTillotson but the British regs do say That your allowed to have a socket in the bathroom as long as it's further than 3 mtrs from the bath or shower.
Maybe that’s the reason for this, but I can tell you I’ve never heard of someone getting electrocuted from flipping a switch with wet hands. I’m sure it’s happened, but it’s not a serious risk.
@@kevinhayden4605some of the regs here are stupid, even the niceic (British electric regulations) will bring in a new regs book approx every 8-10 yrs, screw us out of roughly £600 to do an updated exam of changes in the book and then spend the time in-between making amendments to the regs that they've just changed. I'm sure they just do it to make money or they get bored easily.
@@TheWhale45 when an electric circuit is broken, the high rate of change of magnetic flux induces a high voltage across the switch contacts. This can produce an arc which can flow through a wet finger. Probably not fatal but a bit of a shock you don’t really want. Volts jolt but mills kills.
Eggs in the isle: in America you chemically wash your eggs thus removing the natural protective coating on the eggs that prevent bacterial infection. We keep the natural protective coating and thus eggs remain in their natural state and do not require refrigeration.
T W actually the eggshell color is merely relative to the breed of chicken. Nevertheless I’d love for American egg industry to stop chemically washing the eggs-I gotta look into that!
T W You can easily buy brown eggs in the USA. In fact, at my local supermarket there is a wide selection of eggs including eggs from free-range chickens and vegetarian fed chicken. A lot of the brown egg varieties can be quite expensive. But they do come from different breeds.
So true. 100 years is a blink in UK history. USA is a new country to us. It's very easy to travel to any part of the UK on trains or public transport being so small. Cars are not necessary like in USA, just a luxury/convenience.
And Australia. I was amazed when I first went there, when people warned me urgently about jaywalking across a long, straight, narrow single-carriageway road with no cars in sight for miles. I thought Australians would be more cool and laid back.
@@guidedthrone5653 You are very sure that we do not, but in fact we do. I can't be bothered to drill into the exact legal section, but from wikipedia: "In Northern Ireland, jaywalking can be charged at police discretion and usually only in the case of an accident when clearly witnessed. Otherwise, Northern Ireland is essentially the same as elsewhere in the UK". The PSNI could not charge you unless it was an offence. A simple google search shows up several other references to NI jaywalking.
I wonder where they are from in the US because I live in Eastern US and every family event has alcohol. Even sometimes a bartender. I couldn't get through the event without it 😂
Before chip and pin there would've been another tool used to carbon copy your credit/debit card and you would have to sign the vendours half of the reciept and that would mean checking signatures. I haven't seen that method used since the early 90s but as far as I know it still can be used but it's not common anymore.
@@connorbarry1289 I have known people that put a ridiculously large amount of milk in their tea so much so that it might as well have been sugary hot milk.
I must take you to task over the coffee question; American coffee is normally drip or filter coffee whereas in the UK coffee is espresso type which is stronger. As for tea you must remember that tea is the Englishman's universal panacea: As well as being a normal social drink it is used to make everything OK in the event of, say, a nuclear war breaking out or to cure things like the loss of a limb etc. after an accident!
The tea bit is also wrong, most people put a little milk in tea, just enough to change the opacity, sugar is optional but as people get older they tend to go sugar free.
You're so right about the coffee issue. Whilst Americans think that they're, the best, I'm afraid the Italians get 1st prize. And for a strong but brilliant flavour, Sicilians are the best! Thanks for the laugh which I did (quite loudly). Not good to do before dawn when everyone else is still in bed 😂,....
@@CartePostale. Italians make, IMHO, the worst coffee. The problem with espresso coffee is that it makes coffee bitter and it loses any delicacy of flavour. I avoid coffee that isn't made in a cafetière and especially those awful pods.
There is a test for cars called the MOT that ensures that 'beat up cars' are not allowed on the road. The test starts at 3 years old and is very strict.
And if you're car does not pass it's MOT it cannot be allowed on the road. Of course people still try, but eventually they are caught and the vehicle is immediately confiscated by the police and crushed! Same if you have no insurance.
That's not the best description of an MOT. An MOT is a test for cars to determine if they're safe of not. Not to determine if they're too old to be on the road. How do you think people still drive classic cars? It's a safety related test, not age related
@G B hands free isn't same as using phone. That is why hands free systems were invented, so that drivers wouldnt have to hold the phone and wouldnt have to watch the screen
Nudity tends to be a consequence of loving alcohol. Criticising the Royal Family is not a crime, in fact it is positively encouraged, especially on some TV panel game shows. Bathroom pull cord light switches are there to protect you from electric shocks, water and electricity don't play well together. You missed how we say sorry for everything, even if its not our fault. Sorry for pointing this out. Great video guys!
Haha, thanks for the great comments, Neil, you had both of us laughing! Glad to hear that criticizing the Royals isn't suppressed - we were worried about you guys for a hot minute there!
Tea is 1) a beverage, 2) a light afternoon meal often involving cake and conserves, or 3) especially in Northern, working class homes, it is the evening meal, light or substantial (in those homes, the mid-day meal would likely be referred to as dinner rather than lunch).
Yep. In a bathroom, you are more likely to have wet hands. Wet hands and wall switches can be a dangerous combination. Also, when electricity was first introduced to houses, string switches were what was used. Since England was the earliest country to have widespread use of electricity, when they transitioned over to wall switches, they just kept the string switches in bathrooms for the safety reason.
Just to add an additional bit of information. Mains electrics in the U.K. is 240 volts, so any accidental shock, especially in a potentially wet/damp/moist bathroom environment could well prove to be fatal.
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches There is no BAN on a light switch or socket in a UK bathroom at the moment. It just has to be a certain distance from the bath or sink (I cant remember the exact amount but something like 1 meter or so, so you cannot physically touch in when in the bath). Most UK bathrooms are small, so its just easier for the builder/electrician to always put in a pull cord, or have the switch outside.
@@jca111 It's 2 metres and 110V can kill you just as easily as 240V, it's the amperage that matters, you are not permitted under the regulations to have a light switch in the bathroom, pull cord or switch outside only, all electrical work in a bathroom has to carried out by a qualified and certified electrician as well, you can not do DIY on bathroom electricals.
In UK we believe that people should not have to rely on the generosity of customers tips to top up their wage. Service industry staff get a living wage.
I was going to mention when they make an advert for a shampoo or shower gel that's going to be sold all over Europe they have to make one version for the whole of Continental Europe where the young lady's nipples can be seen and one version for Britain where they can't.
So many mistakes! The hand-rolled cigarettes thing isn't true. Yes, some people roll their own, but it's definitely not the majority. The ice thing isn't true, either. I hate ice and I'm always having to fish out ice that I specifically didn't ask for. Different milks are a relatively new thing, more and more places are adding more choices. It's "the tube," not "choobe." Restaurants stay open late and many pubs serve food all day. It's a letterbox, not a mail slit. Not all houses have separate taps. We used to have to have separate taps, because of the way our water worked, but most houses have modern plumbing, so we can have a single, or mixer tap. Pissed = drunk, pissed off = annoyed. We don't say entrée, normally, we'd say starter, main (for main course) and dessert, pudding or afters. NB. Vocabulary is vastly different throughout England. Area and upbringing will make a huge difference.
Never smoked myself, but in my experience the majority of smokers of my acquaintance are rolling their own. I work in construction and all the Brits do. The Europeans less so.
This is just what they noticed not actual fact lol, n most ppl ik roll their ciggies unless it’s some kind of special occasion to have more expensive pre rolls idk
and most people will definitley make comments about ppl smoking with a baby in one hand but probs wont say owt to there face. and not all bathrooms have the string thing to turn the light on
The only time I have received tips was when I helped people with their bags when I worked in hotels on reception. We were so grateful but totally not expecting it.
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj depends which part of the country you are in, I'm a chef in Liverpool and I usually get anything between £5-£25 a shift depending on which shift it is. We tip everyone here, bar staff, barbers, taxi-drivers, pizza delivery etc
@@FightingCoward I myself generally tip everyone from my hairdresser to my uber driver but I know I don't have to, rather obliged to. I myself work in offices/ call centres etc, which can pay minimum wage, but we will never see a tip in those types of jobs.
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj I've worked in a call centre, most boring job I've ever had. Where do you live? I reckon people tip worse down south than up here.
@@FightingCoward The Midlands, so I go either way, depending what the weather's like 😂. I have lived in both London and Scotland, so even more confusing whether I'm more North than South.
I visited the US and in a restaurant I went looking for the loo. A member of staff there asked me if I was looking for the “rest room” I answered that I felt completely rested but I needed to have a pee.
There are no rules about celebrities being fined more than "normal" people, this is nonsense. However, some driving fines are matched to income so as to have the same impact on someone irrespective of his or her wealth.
Yea, you aren't fned according to how well known you are. Your income is much more likely to be involved in the size of the fine. Most fines though - especially driving fines are at a set level. It's illegal to use your phone/text while driving. You can still use a hands-free phone but that's all. The police have some vehicles which are the size of a truck tractor so they can see into cars and other lorries to see if drivers are using their phones while driving. There aren't that many police vehicles like this, but they exist.
I was taught about how to use cutlery as part of basic table manners and etiquette. It's weird if I see someone holding cutlery 'wrong' I pre judge them. Well I used to but now I'm older I try not to. I still teach my children basic table manners though from how to hold them through to where to place cutlery to signify you've finished.
These ordered word groupings are quite common, though not universal - knives and forks, boys and girls, black and white, bacon and eggs, thunder and lightning, etc.
I agree. I think we're still far more formal at the table than Americans though there is a generational difference. However, if my parents were still alive they would be horrified if they saw me eating my dinner on a tray on my lap. They always sat at the table which was correctly laid.
Dear God this is so true! I kept hearing 'the south is so far and they don't care about us.. there are no jobs up here'... and it's like 50 miles to the next big city... there are lots of jobs. Here in Canada, it's 1000 miles to the next big city and the country is over 3000 miles cross. In the US, there are more cities, so they're closer together, but it's still 3000 miles across. The UK is 950 miles from the tip of Scotland to the south end of England and no one travels anywhere. The UK fits into ONE of our provinces.
@@TheoWerewolf When i watch British videos and they talk about the travel distances, as an American, I laugh. I drive 25 miles -one way - to work every day. Here to drive from Toledo, Ohio to Cincinnati, Ohio is a four hour drive at 60 miles an hour....that is just one state...we have 50 of them. The state of Michigan is the same size as all of the UK together. As i watched the videos, I kept wondering, why does it take so long for them to get from one end of the country to the other. Then i saw the roads...and understood. The UK has few "interstate roadways" and most secondary roads are narrow country lanes. Pretty but not very efficient.
Ok, who else in the UK got more triggered by him saying "Fork and Knives" than anything else ? ;) Its Knives and Forks you monster!! #greatvid Erm there is no law against saying things bad about politicians or Royals, lol. Some of these are not really correct OR they are just based on the region and areas you visited, but mostly spot om. Im only half way through this video, love it though , you guys gotta come back and visit Wales and North England!. I think the main difference is that UK people know more of the difference between us and the USA, than you guys know about, if that makes sense? ...
They don't use knives hardly at all in the USA - the fork only. During WW2, American agents being prepared for OSS espionage work in occupied Europe were trained to use both a knife and fork together to prevent them from betraying themselves in restuarants etc. I remember seeing that in a James Cagney film !!!
@@maconescotland8996 LOL! Oh Lordy....I don't know if the movie is the only thing that makes you think that, but LOL! Good laugh. How do you think we cut our food? :P
Tee Lee Don’t Americans tend to cut food up at the start, then dump the knife and proceed with fork only ? Whereas Europeans etc. cut piece by piece and use both utensils in unison.
@@maconescotland8996 Ah, that's a better clarification for me to understand what you were talking about. Yeah we don't need the knife to hold our food on our fork.
New Zealand also has the same voltage as the UK but we still use wall switches. PowerPoints are special fittings for electric razors etc. I've never heard of anyone being electrocuted
If there is a law against mocking the royal family then almost everyone I know should be in jail (me included) it may be one of our historical laws that is no longer enforced but it certainly wouldn’t get you in trouble and is still classed as free speech under our Human rights laws.
A lot of the language differences you point out are different and would or wouldn't be used depending on where in England you are, calling somebody "love" would be used in some regions where as other places would say "duck" or "pet" There are so many colloquial differences and accents in the UK, you can travel 10miles down the road and they will have a different accent
I grew up in Yorkshire, and my dad called everyone "love" - no matter their age, gender or station in life. He's been gone almost a decade now, but my friends from other areas still recall this habit with fondness...and some amusement. On the other hand, my ex-bf's grandmother was from Northumberland, and her version of this was to call everyone "flora". It took me a little while to figure out that she didn't think my name was Flora. My grandfather was Irish (specifically, he was from Co. Wicklow) and he thought it was HILARIOUS that many Yorkshire folk call each other "duck". Until the day he passed on, he would tease my poor, long-suffering gran about this, calling her "my little duck", which she hated with a passion. I remain surprised that she never threw a plate, knife or maybe the sofa at him. My gran was a strong woman.
I have a van dedicated to removing people who can’t make proper tea, the UK citizenship test should be you must make a cup of tea and the queen must drink it, and if she doesn’t think it’s the best tea in the world you are banned for 10 years
The Queen should not be allowed to judge decent tea - her tea is awful. When I visited Buckingham Palace for an event, the tea was weak af. Apparently that’s how she likes it. 🤢
The reason for school uniform is mainly to do with kids can’t get bullied for not having the latest clothes/trainers. If everyone wears the same you can’t bully someone on the clothes because you’re wearing the same. That’s part of the reason anyhow.
Yeah that's what the high school I went to told me when I went from a Primary School with no uniform to a Secondary School with one. And I can vouch from the later years at primary school that it was definitely coming in that you wore the cool designer brands or you got laughed at.
I agree that this is definitely the reason today, but in the past it was to help families with the cost of clothing their kids, as the local shops could order the uniform in bulk and get a cost saving which they could (not always) pass on to the parents. This is not the case anymore as back in the day, the vast majority of families (mine included) were really very poor. Another reason is to give the kids a sense of belonging to an institution, because we all want to be in an institution. 😂
i can garuntee that most houses that are 1800s are not that great. it's interesting but usually they are cheap terreced houses that are a pain to live in.
When I was a baby I legit would steal my mums beer, she only let me have a sip but I wouldnt let go of it and I legit cried when she took it away. I gulped it as much as I could 😂😂. Is that just me
This couple have come up with an entirely new kind of informative RUclips format. First, pick a topic on a country you once visited, yet barely know. Preferably a topic already covered well by other RUclipsrs. Second - do absolutely no research or fact checking. Admittedly this is a pretty short step. Third, shoot video where annoying guy speaks to the viewers like he's presenting Playschool whilst girl bats eyelids and nods sagely. He's an entirely different kind of Cant to Brian. Fourth, and this is the biggy - ask the audience to correct the utter b*llox we just told you. Rinse and repeat.
‘Celebrities are held to a higher standard’ which is why they are punished harder? As far as I am aware the case is that their income is taken into account if being fined and so a Premier League footballer would be fined a vast amount more than a plumber for an identical offence, for example. I fear that these people are very inadequately informed!
Fines applicable no longer go on the basis of an absolute scale; instead, they are defined at various levels, which correspond with a proportton of the offender's income. A high income offender will be fined more than a low income offender for the same offence. Thus it may appear that a celebrity is fined more than a nonentity for the same offence. It is nothing to do with status, just relative income!
the reason we have light stings instead of switches in the bathroom is because the electricity voltage in england is a lot higher therefore it is dangerous to have switches in a bathroom incase your hands are wet.
"because the electricity voltage in england is a lot higher " - Nope ; that's not true. Most of the world runs on 220-240V, and it is perhaps only the UK that has cords. It's just historical - it has nothing to do with safety-standards.
Germany has 230V like the rest of europe and there are sockets and switches in the bathroom. But it's common that the main light switch is outside with a light on it that you can see when the bathroom is in use. And the sockets and switches have to be a safety distance away to have no chance of touching electricity and water together and even for that case it is law that you have to have an automatic fast circuit braker with a very low reaction current dedicated to the bathroom / toilet additional to the circuit braker you need for your house/flat with a little higher reaction current. For example 1 or 3mA in the bathroom and 10 or 30mA in your house or flat. It depends on how old your installation is and you don't want you circuit braker react when you use your hairdryer. And don't forget the electrical water heaters that are in use. They use a way higher current than a normal socket.
F Seemann We don’t have bathroom light switches outside the door here because it would just be too tempting to turn the lights off on someone from the outside. Way to tempting and comical for English people not to do .
@@andywilliams2237 It is actually not always illegal to use your phone while driving. You can pick it up and use it as long as it does not communicate with anyone and you are not following a map, for example taking a picture or video is currently fine. You can of course use a hands-free phone for communications.
@@clioaspinade9275 You cannot have it in your hands while on the road (parked up is fine but waiting at lights is not). You can use a holder to use it as a map, however it cannot distract you from the road (having movies playing on your phone is treated the same as having it in your hads). Having it in your hand for any reason is a distraction and removes your hands from the controls of the car making you instantly less able to react to any potential hazzard.
@@officialacescottie Wrong I'm afraid. Lookup Ramsey Barreto, he was found guilty of using his phone to film a crash, but successfully appealed because he wasn't using his phone to communicate. It is a known issue with the law. As I said, as long as you are not communicating or following a map you can hold and use a smartphone and drive to your hearts content, until the law is changed. His lawyer said "For years we've been arguing that the legislation has become nonsensical, unless police can prove beyond reasonable doubt that what someone was doing was actually communicating, it wasn't an offence to be using a smartphone". Many people have taken a fixed penalty to avoid court who have done nothing illegal.
Lady Trek2space well we’re I’m from we don’t and it looks like other people who have replied don’t so that must just be from where ur from in the uk :)
I've always been amused by the term "socialised healthcare". The NHS is funded in exactly the same way as the US military. Do they have "socialised defence (defense))?
@@89Keith There's a difference. Mercenaries are for hire, ultimately to the highest bidder they are prepared to work for. A private army can be recruited by an individual and only be available to the state. Many army regiments were provided in this way. They were often named after their benefactor and may retain that name still.
Alfie being british is pure bliss..... well most of the time, I started wolfing down a beer when I was a baby and when my mum would take it off me I would cry 😂
26:40 Cafe's generally shut around 5pm Small shops shut around 6-8pm Larger shops (supermarkets), if not 24/7, shut around 8-10pm Pubs and restaurants will stop serving food about 9-10pm in most cases Though takeaways (take out) typically open from early afternoon and will stay open until anywhere up to 2-5am Some popular takeaways like McDonald's and KFC will close doors about 10-11pm but will usually operate their drive-through hours later or, in some cases, 24/7 Though all of this varies on days of the week too Larger shops (over a certain square footage) are required by law to not be open for longer than 6 hours on a Sunday (look up Sunday trading laws for more), so they will typically close at 4-5pm Pubs and restaurants often close earlier on Sunday and, in some cases, don't open Monday, due to it being their least profitable time (with people typically having to go to work the next day and not wanting to dine out on a Monday evening) Though all of these hours and operations (with exception of Sunday trading laws) vary hugely across the UK, a café in a small village in Cornwall is likely to have far shorter opening hours than a café in central London for example hope that helps :) x
A few corrections: ) Equal parts of tea and milk?!? Noooo Its more like 90-95% tea and the rest is milk 2) "Cheers as a greeting" ?!? That's not a thing 3) Shopping cart = Shopping trolley
British bank & credit cards are contactless up to £30 and use chip & pin over that. Signing receipts seems odd to us now, it's a decade since most of us had to do it.
Yeah I didn’t sign anything. I saw that everything was contactless. I just don’t have one of those cards so I had to insert it. I wish America would get with the times. It’s so much more convenient.
We haven’t had to sign when using a credit or debit card in the UK for years now. We use chip and pin or contactless. I’m guessing you had to sign because yours were foreign cards.
Ian Prince very true. I’m English, and when we took a Dollar MasterCard to America, we had issues at certain petrol stations, Walgreens and various cash machines.
I love how Americans in general are like “ENGLAND IS LIKE HARRY POTTER” when Harry Potter is literally based on English things like uniform, letterboxes, school houses, etc.
@@pmiles363 I don't understand the point that you are trying to make... You're saying that we Americans assume that England is like Harry Potter, yet Harry Potter is based on England? No shit. Lol. That's why they assume that... What about it?
Italiano Dio no I’m saying it’s funny because they think that the Harry Potter ideas were completely original and part of the magical world but they’re actually normal English things
It's illegal to use your phone whilst driving, because it distract attention away from the road. Plus, as we're mostly "stick shift", and you need both hands to drive.
@@discomikeyboy2012 Not classics, but still have to declare that it doesn’t need the mot.. Such a waste of time, to tell them it doesn’t need it when it tells you online that it apparently ran out in 2017.... 🤦🏻♀️
We, in UK, also do not own our cars, we "look after" them hence the registration document (log book), which allows us to be the "Registered Keeper" never the owner, not many have even noticed!
My brother had a butchers shop, that also made sandwiches, and the rule was: Eggs for sale to the public? No need to refrigerate, them. Keep them on the shelf. Using the very same eggs for food preparation, (e.g. Fried egg sandwich), then keep them in the fridge. Even though, as I say. they were the exact same eggs.
I'm from the UK and I always refrigerate my eggs, it slows down the breaking down of the proteins which is what gives you wispy eggs when you're trying to do poached eggs freehand
There is naturally a protective barrier on eggs when they are laid. In the UK, our eggs are not washed at production so the protection remains in place. In the US eggs are routinely washed thus destroying the protection and making the shells porous to bacteria and so need refrigeration. In the UK, one is supposed to wash the eggs before cracking them to remove any external contamination... however, no one bothers 😁
@@rosemaryhannah3467 you should have watched an episode of pimp my ride (USA) some of the cars on there were ready to fall apart. I was shocked at the state of some of them.
@@missdragonfire Depends on the actual state. Some states have much stricter roadworthy standards than others. I've lived in America for 12 years but am back home in Leeds. New York, Massachusetts, California come to mind as being very strict about old bangers. They have the equivalent of our MOT tests. They call them DMV. Cars must pass inspection by the authorities or else they are prohibited from roadworthiness. Other states are rather lax. I know that in Kentucky one doesn't need an official test. Many bangers there which should've been sent to the scrap heap straight away.
I’ve lived in England my whole life...I’ve never heard anyone give me their height in centimetres...apart from other Europeans like German etc. It’s feet and inches or I just don’t have a clue Also where I lived we will call each other love, Shug, duck, pet, Petal ....people you’ve never met it’s just nice (:
In the US the protective layer is scrubbed off the eggs so they have to be refrigerated to not go bad, in the UK the protective layer is left on so eggs can be left out.
Which is why British eggs have a "best by" date and not a "sell by" date. "Best by" indicates "its quality is going to decrease from this point" and "sell by" indicates "its not recommended that you eat this". Being British ,these dates can be VERY conservative and the food may last much longer.
Yes. I store mine in the fridge regardless and use the smell test once they're about three weeks after the 'best by' date (which is printed on each egg, a practice which has been the standard for about 40 years now). I only end up throwing out about two a year on average, which are usually something like six weeks older than the date stamp. And I also know I could simply wrap them in clingfilm (saran wrap) upon purchase if I wanted them to last for six months.
You are the first American RUclipsrs that I've seen who have fully understood the British distinction between Biscuits and Cookies. As you correctly pointed out, cookies are a specific type of Biscuit (the type that you showed a picture of). Therefore all cookies are biscuits, but not all biscuits are cookies. We also make a similar distinction between (French) Fries and Chips. Chips is the overall term for that particular kind of potato product, but Fries are a specific type of chip (the long thin straight-cut ones that you get in places like McDonalds). Therefore, all fries are chips, but not all chips are fries.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, Zyndr! Yes! We got it right! Honestly, hearing a Brit say that we got this distinction right is the biggest compliment someone has ever left us 😄 And we didn't know that you still use fries for skinny chips! Thanks for updating us.
Nope - "fries" or "french fries" is just modern Britain aping the yanks - who saw chips in WW1 Belgium for the first time and so called them "French Fries" (of course!... ) because most Belgians speak French. The fact that chips existed in many other european cultures before WW1 seems to have passed them by....
I'm British and have lived in London all my life, so here's my opinion on some of the things you've said: Tube is pronounced "tyoob". Usually, it only refers to the subway system in London (the Underground). You didn't see anyone using their phone while driving here in the UK because it is illegal - it's a distraction and increases the risk of car accidents/crashes. As for tipping, it depends on the type of restaurant. I'm from London, and here in most proper restaurants (e.g. not pubs) tipping is often included in the bill at around 12% (you can opt out of course). I've heard this is a lot lower than in the US where it is sometimes up to 25%. Fries vs chips vs crips: here in the UK, people do use the word "fries", but it refers exclusively to the skinny/thin French fries as opposed to fat/chunky chips. "chips" in general can refer to both kinds of chips, but is never used to refer to crisps. As far as I know, it is not illegal to criticise the royal family. Different people have different opinions about the monarchy, so I would only really discuss the matter with close friends and family. Tea - this can be a contentious issue. Most people drink tea with milk, I personally prefer it without milk (of course, no one drinks green tea with milk - that's just not done). I'm not quite sure what you mean about tea being weaker here in England - "weak" and "strong" can mean a variety of things: how long did you brew for? what was the ratio of tea leaves to water? what type of tea did you drink (one could argue that Darjeeling black tea is stronger than a variety of jasmine green tea)? Depending on where you're from, toilet paper has many names. These include: toilet paper, loo roll, bog (another not so pleasant term for a toilet/lavatory/bathroom) roll, among others. "beater cars"?? (I hope I'm spelling that correctly) I've never heard that term before, and honestly I'm not quite sure what you're on about - people in the UK do have old cars as well as new cars. Actually, rather a few people are really into "classic cars" - very old cars from the 70s or earlier. I don't know if you have that sort of thing in the US. Some drinks do come with ice, others don't - it depends on the drink. In London pubs, soft drinks and juices (e.g. Coke, Sprite, apple juice etc.) usually come with ice, but of course beer doesn't. As you've said, the far majority of school children are required to wear uniforms, but most kids don't think it's cool and don't like them. The majority of cafes here do have oat milk - other types of milk (e.g. almond milk) are less common. Not every bathroom sink has separate taps for hot and cold - that's quite an old-fashioned thing and modern bathrooms don't have them. In England, the courses/meals are starter, main course and dessert.
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USA: Drive for 400 miles, nothing changes, still in the same area.
UK: Drive 200 miles, accent changes 3 times and bread rolls have a new name.
Bread rolls is a specific local term and is in no way universal. We call them batches.
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj I visited a place that called them stoties
It's super weird how many names there are for bread. A courgette is a courgette, until you go to the US and then it becomes zucchini, that makes sense.
@Xanthipuss ofsparta You mean baps? 😂
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj Chester or the Wirral, then.
Using a mobile phone whilst driving is a prosecutable offence in England, so I'm not surprised you saw no one doing it.
It is a prosecutable offense in many US states as well, though it is not a federal law. Unfortunately, even in some areas where it is illegal it is not very well enforced.
It's illegal in a lot of areas in the US also, and insurance companies wont accept 100% liability in an accident even if you're not at fault if you were on the phone. Most newer cars here have Bluetooth that are synced to your phone.
Like when I heard that I thought what the fuck like everybody fuckin does it mate 😂
Australia is very strict on using a mobile phone whilst driving or in a running car
It’s £200 and 6 points for the UK. If your caught 👀
37 "In the USA you don't mix alcohol and family events" - In the UK, this couldn't be further from the truth. Nothing like a deep family talk with a cousin you haven't seen in a year whilst you're both absolutely plastered.
And I bet “absolutely plastered” would have them guessing as well!
i don’t know what they are talking about but in the US we do that all the time and most religious people drink except for orthodox christians and muslims
Who in America don’t mix alcohol and family events. I live to see drunk Uncles fight
yeah Americans do that too. Not sure what they are talking about.
@@obama7325 My Orthodox friends drink as much as we Catholics!
"There's a law against criticising or making fun of the royal family". Utter bollocks! They've been a great source of comedy and satire material for years.
Exactly lese majesty hasn't been around for god knows how many centuries.
Another case of vloggers talking out of their arse in order to get likes and shares on badly researched content
For generations!
Somebody is pulling your leg.
The majority of UK people don't like it though!
pulling a string to switch a light on when your hand is wet is safer than touching a switch 😁😁
Also, because in the bathroom there must not be anything electronical in a bathroom that can be touched so there are no power points or light switches in a bathroom.
@@johnsimmons5951 Not true. Shaver sockets are allowed.
We don't even have strings in Scotland for the most part, we either have switches on the outside or light sensors
@@greyjackal Shaver sockets are allowed because they have a safe electrical transformer inside them feeding the supply. You cannot get a shock from the live connection unless you touch the transformer neutral as well. They are known as safety isolation transformers
Graham Butler you are correct, I forgot about shaver sockets.
UK bathrooms have cord pulls rather than switches to reduce the risk of an electric shock which could happen if you use a switch with wet hands. Remember we use 240volts which is more efficient but under certain circumstances more dangerous.
hey, cool!
Not all do both houses my family lived in, in north west england have light switches on the wall outside the bathroom and so do alot of friends and relatives house I've only seen a bathroom with a cord once
You might find it simpler and easier to use a pull-cord for the lights about your washing up sink.
@@julieworsley5048
I’m in the south and it’s nearly all strings here.
@@julieworsley5048 That's what some people have done to circumvent the law. It's legal to have wall switches outside of the bathroom, but it has to be a cord in the bathroom.
As for the less attentive service that’s how we prefer it, most Europeans seem to find the American approach of constantly checking and interrupting in restaurants very annoying - same in shops.
We find the constant checking up quite annoying as well! We much more enjoyed the British style of service.
@@WanderingRavens The american/canadian service expects a tip when giving a good service. In the UK it is not expected but some restaurants automatically apply a service charge to the bill.
@@EinkOLED The reason tipping is becoming less frequent now is that the waiter doesn't actually get the tip any more. My son has worked in two classy hotels and had to pool all the tips. They were occasionally shared out equally (which is not fair if you have worked harder than others) Much more often though, the money was kept by the bosses to buy new aprons etc. It is a shame because they are poorly paid, and often get ripped off by not even getting their tips
@TravisWeb_Enterainment this depends what you mean by flag down, but a good server in the UK is stood ready for you just to glance in their general direction or at most to give a little wave, if they work in a full table service restaurant - hardly an effort and much more convenient than telling someone constantly that you don't need them. Even at a cheaper place you'll find server's will check in when you get about 25-50% through your meal to address food quality and refills and a small wave and 'service please /excuse me' will get you anything else you need.
@@EinkOLED The good thing is, you can legitimately refuse to pay a service charge. I always ask, who gets the service charge. If it is the staff, fine I leave it. If it is the owner, I ask them to remove it. Then tip the serving staff in cash.
Tipping is NOT mandatory in the UK because we have a national minimum wage which means ALL service staff get a fair wage. A tip is to show you had a great service.
A “fork and knife” it’s clearly a “knife and fork”
samething only different . :-))
Yep 👍🏻😂
As an American, I was also surprised by the reversal of knife and fork.
Jami Hensley it’s a joke...
Yes that's the first thing you got wrong.Its never fork and knife,that's like saying something's wrong or right.when it's quite clearly right or wrong. x cheers (ha ha)
If it was illegal to say bad things about the Royals or politicians I would be doing a life sentence.
Me too.
HIGNFY would have no jokes.
@@Hexagonic It doens't have that many now as it is
yeah this is bollocks
Same
It is not illegal to disparage the royals or politicians, are you sure you were in England?
Thank you, hear many Americans says we have no free speech, but that's bullshit we say what we want.
Think there was that guy who posted something about Grenfell tower and he got arrested, but he deserved it
It is not illegal to disparage the royals or politicians but everybody respects the Queen. After all the oath of loyalty is not to the flag or the constitution but to your sovereign majesty Queen Elizabeth her heirs and successors according to law. Afew years ago when they built a big suspension bridge over the Thames estuary the mayors of the towns of Thurrock [on the north bank] and Dartford [on the south bank] both went on TV to argue that this bridge should be named after their town. When it was announced that it was to be called 'the Queen Elizabeth bridger' there was silence from both of them because to object to anything being named after our sovreign would be considered unpatriotic
Duncan Macpherson not everyone respects the Queen, I, and many others do not. I have never understood the privilege of some to the detriment of the most .
@@duncanmacpherson2013 No they don't, the queen can fuck off, fuck off some more, keep fucking off and when she's worn out, take a break, have a cup of tea and a hobnob, so she has the energy to fuck off some more
It always makes me laugh when American's think only the US have freedom of speech. The only way you'd face consequences for something you said, is if it's a threat to someone's life etc... And even then I'm not sure anything would happen :/ .
People insult the royals without consequence all the time. Guess the US never experienced spitting image.
We don’t put vinegar on fries. We put vinegar on chips. Chips and fries are both fried potatoes but they are not the same thing. Chips are thick and you would find them in a Fish & Chip Shop (aka ‘Chippie’). Fries are long and thin and you’d get those at McDonalds. Vinegar goes on chips, not fries.
Funny that in America I have seen Limeys put vinegar on fries !!!!! DUUUUUH!!!!!!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 do you ask for the bathroom when you need the toilet also?
@@graff.life.82 In OUR vastly superior nation "WE..." have several words that ALL refer to the same think....restroom. bath room, toilet, mens/womens room, crapper, shitter room .......!!!! "WE..." are SMART enough to understnd they ALL mean the same thing !!!! DUUUUUUUUHHHHHHH !!!!!!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 we are also smart enough to kno what it all means. But we dont call toilets bathrooms when there is no bath inside lol
@@wilburfinnigan2142 your superior nation as you call it seems to have many things that are not as good as we have in the u.k lol
When they said Brits were quiet 😂 I was like ‘mate, you havin a laugh’
It's not that they're quiet, the Americans are just loud
mickey disco trust me, we’re louder 😂😂🤣
We’re quiet if you go on the underground
Some of us are.
I know this is off topic but one other best thing is dark humor, any English person can support me on that 💀 if you can’t your not a real Brit 😂
There is never ever equal amounts of water and milk in tea, always much more water than milk.
I agree, can’t stand a milky tea.
Pasties are like these little skin colored opaque latex “stickers”,that are used mainly By dancers in strip clubs(where required), to cover ones nipples when the dancer is not licensed to dance full nude.
I do have one work colleague who has very milky tea and gets derided for having 'Babies milk tea'.
Jazmin vaughn in the U.K. pasties are pastry with meat fillings
@@xtraspecial4677 Mainly Vegetable (Potato, Swede & Onion) with 1/3 minced beef. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty
It was the traditional food of Cornish Tin miners. So it is a working man's food.
Who ever is making there tea equal parts milk and water are monsters, you need to looking the same colour as a digestive biscuit
Honesty Day exactly, that’s what I used to tell my very ex mother in law who would make grey coloured tea 🤮
Джина disgusting 🤮
Ily
Correct about the colour (sic), but I think an American might know what we call a digestive biscuit as a Graham Cracker ?
The perfect pot of English Tea;
Use a Yorkshire Tea bag place in the mug and add just enough milk to cover the tea bag
Pour over boiling water until 5mm from the rim
Pick up the fin of the tea bag floating and dunk 2/4 times
Leave the tea bag in
As you drink the tea gets stronger & stronger which is the perfect builders tea
The American way of using cutlery is seen as a child using cutlery for the first time.
My grand parents weee very strict, they said it was in case I was invited to have dinner with the queen.
Americans call cutlery "silverware" no matter the material it's made from. So you can have plastic silverware.
It is a form of good etiquette.
It is a form of good etiquette.
Which seems to be an Alien concept for Americans.
Anyone who makes a tea that's 50% milk deserves to be shunned by all society.
Just a splash. And who drinks earl grey? No real real brit does.
You obviously haven't drank American made tea... I became an instant coffee covert. I almost wept when PG Tips appeared n the supermarkets :D
@@anthonypaskin8253 Me Nana does shrug*
@@benoleannainkang2998 and I bet its loose leaf tea from a tea caddy in a tea pot. While rest of drink good old PG, Tetley or Yorkdhire Tea.
The absolute best tea I've ever had was in Qatar made of camels milk, cardamom, saffron, & cinnamon
32. In England people aren't on their phones while driving.
Well, yes because it's illegal and the police will pull you over to tell you off if they see you.
Well, it’s illegal in the US too, but people still do it.
@@DoggoWillink The punishments may be higher in the UK. Here as a fixed penalty (a ticket) its £200 and 6 points on your licence, 12 points and your license gets suspended but if you are within 2 years of passing your test they will suspend you licence anyway.
If taken to court fines can go up to £1000 and the court can also take your license away even for a first offence.
Someone was on their phone whilst driving when the cars had stopped and they all went except that one with the phone so I went to cross and they then started driving mid way me walking past their car. Now I limp to school.
sadly far too many twats do it around here.
@@DoggoWillink plenty of pople talk on their phones whilst driving in the UK. And walk along the street with their heads engrossed in their phone. Ridiculous really
Strings in bathrooms are for safety reasons. Wet fingers near 240 volts don’t go well
Indeed the wiring regulations for bathrooms basically prevent any possibility of human contacting electricity, light fittings must be enclosed, switches either waterproof or on the ceilng with a pull-cord, shaver sockets have to be transformer-isolated. The reform of British (not English!) mains electricity is a great story in itself, happening in the aftermath of WWII as I understand it, with much safety improvement and rationalization.
@@MarkTillotson but the British regs do say That your allowed to have a socket in the bathroom as long as it's further than 3 mtrs from the bath or shower.
Maybe that’s the reason for this, but I can tell you I’ve never heard of someone getting electrocuted from flipping a switch with wet hands. I’m sure it’s happened, but it’s not a serious risk.
@@kevinhayden4605some of the regs here are stupid, even the niceic (British electric regulations) will bring in a new regs book approx every 8-10 yrs, screw us out of roughly £600 to do an updated exam of changes in the book and then spend the time in-between making amendments to the regs that they've just changed. I'm sure they just do it to make money or they get bored easily.
@@TheWhale45 when an electric circuit is broken, the high rate of change of magnetic flux induces a high voltage across the switch contacts. This can produce an arc which can flow through a wet finger. Probably not fatal but a bit of a shock you don’t really want. Volts jolt but mills kills.
How was dinner?
USA: "Fabulous, awesome!"
UK: "Surprisingly adequate".
Yea it was okay thanks.
If it was awesome then it needed to be awesome
Eggs in the isle: in America you chemically wash your eggs thus removing the natural protective coating on the eggs that prevent bacterial infection. We keep the natural protective coating and thus eggs remain in their natural state and do not require refrigeration.
Interesting! That explains why in America we noticed all the eggs were so white, instead of brown.
T W actually the eggshell color is merely relative to the breed of chicken. Nevertheless I’d love for American egg industry to stop chemically washing the eggs-I gotta look into that!
Well I just learned something new 👍🏼
T W You can easily buy brown eggs in the USA. In fact, at my local supermarket there is a wide selection of eggs including eggs from free-range chickens and vegetarian fed chicken. A lot of the brown egg varieties can be quite expensive. But they do come from different breeds.
They may wash eggs but refrigeration is so they will last longer and not rot
Before I went abroad the first time, my mother told me: "In America 100 years is a long time, and in Europe, 100 miles is a long distance."
So true. 100 years is a blink in UK history. USA is a new country to us. It's very easy to travel to any part of the UK on trains or public transport being so small. Cars are not necessary like in USA, just a luxury/convenience.
@@paullangton-rogers2390 Try living in the Scottish Borďers!!!!!
Ha! That’s so true
100 miles isn't a long way? And I'm Scottish.
In the USA 100 miles is a commute!
43. we have a show called “the windsor’s” that literally takes the piss out of the royal family. you’re not the only ones with free speech
We can slag the royals off but we don't have freedom of speech when it concerns certain religitards.
@@dlaidles what do you mean? The only law I know of that restricts free speech is how your not allowed to use threats or harass people
@@te1327 so you've never heard of hate speech?
@@dlaidles that is hate speech, harassment and threats etc
@@te1327 no it's not. Look up hate speech. It has nothing to do with harassment or threats.
Calling somebody "love", is an indication that they are in an amenable mood, and prepared to converse.
At my age it’s natural to call a young person love or dear, but in other countries, l don’t because I’m worried it will be taken as inappropriate.
Also can have regional differences, like Duck or Ducks, or La, or Hen...
Alcohol and nudity...
You’d be surprised how often those two coincide on a Friday night 😂
Or at a football match.
and not necessarily in that order ;)
The Turtle Moves Quite right 😂
😂😂😂
Are you pissed or pissed?
No such thing as Jaywalking in the UK. It's a very American law.
In Northern Ireland we have a jaywalking law though. No-one pays the slightest attention to it.
@@markcoster9789 I did not know that! I've got many friends from NI and they've never once mentioned it. Are there fines?
And Australia. I was amazed when I first went there, when people warned me urgently about jaywalking across a long, straight, narrow single-carriageway road with no cars in sight for miles. I thought Australians would be more cool and laid back.
@@markcoster9789 no we don't
@@guidedthrone5653 You are very sure that we do not, but in fact we do. I can't be bothered to drill into the exact legal section, but from wikipedia: "In Northern Ireland, jaywalking can be charged at police discretion and usually only in the case of an accident when clearly witnessed. Otherwise, Northern Ireland is essentially the same as elsewhere in the UK". The PSNI could not charge you unless it was an offence. A simple google search shows up several other references to NI jaywalking.
Nobody greets someone with “cheers”. It is another way of saying thank you.
Lady Trek2space agreed!
Lady Trek2space init lad
Or "cherrio", which is goodbye.
How do you get through family events without alcohol? That's what I really want to know 😂.
I wonder where they are from in the US because I live in Eastern US and every family event has alcohol. Even sometimes a bartender. I couldn't get through the event without it 😂
Was thinking exactly the same thing lol.
I drink with my family every gathering… I’m in the us
In our family, we serve alchohol for adults at family events. When little ones are around, moderation is the expectation.
He's wrong about alcohol in the States. I lived for many years there and alcohol is common at functions, even when children are present.
Most of the time we need to drink alcohol just to make it through the family events lol
True brother...lol
Didn't drink before I got married.
Yeah I don’t know where they got that from because every single family event I’ve had in America has had alcohol
I’ve never seen a cashier compare signatures - in fact I don’t recall ever signing a receipt
Before chip and pin there would've been another tool used to carbon copy your credit/debit card and you would have to sign the vendours half of the reciept and that would mean checking signatures. I haven't seen that method used since the early 90s but as far as I know it still can be used but it's not common anymore.
The people likely had no chip n pin as Americans so the signature method was scrutinised extensively.
This does not happen it’s just at unlicensed alcohol sales
It depends on the card. I have had it happen about 5 times in 4 years, it's only happened with American cards for me so maybe that's why.
This could be because of using foreign cards which do need to be signed for when using chip n pin
Equal parts water and milk?
NAH FAM. Only a drop of milk. A builders tea. Strong. I wanna see that spoon stand up.
@@connorbarry1289 I have known people that put a ridiculously large amount of milk in their tea so much so that it might as well have been sugary hot milk.
“It’s like a tea latte” 🤬🤬🤬
Fucking howling 😂😂
@@connorbarry1289 yeah 😂
I agree, only put a bit of milk in my man.. So that the tea is strong 💪 and goes well with a nice biscuit.
I must take you to task over the coffee question; American coffee is normally drip or filter coffee whereas in the UK coffee is espresso type which is stronger. As for tea you must remember that tea is the Englishman's universal panacea: As well as being a normal social drink it is used to make everything OK in the event of, say, a nuclear war breaking out or to cure things like the loss of a limb etc. after an accident!
I like art.
The tea bit is also wrong, most people put a little milk in tea, just enough to change the opacity, sugar is optional but as people get older they tend to go sugar free.
You're so right about the coffee issue. Whilst Americans think that they're, the best, I'm afraid the Italians get 1st prize. And for a strong but brilliant flavour, Sicilians are the best! Thanks for the laugh which I did (quite loudly). Not good to do before dawn when everyone else is still in bed 😂,....
Filter paper absorbs all the oils in coffee - yet they're where all the complex flavours come from.
@@CartePostale. Italians make, IMHO, the worst coffee. The problem with espresso coffee is that it makes coffee bitter and it loses any delicacy of flavour. I avoid coffee that isn't made in a cafetière and especially those awful pods.
There is a test for cars called the MOT that ensures that 'beat up cars' are not allowed on the road. The test starts at 3 years old and is very strict.
Also the scrappage scheme years ago got rid of a lot of them.
sounds like Japan ! :)
And if you're car does not pass it's MOT it cannot be allowed on the road.
Of course people still try, but eventually they are caught and the vehicle is immediately confiscated by the police and crushed!
Same if you have no insurance.
Older cars are much nicer than most new cars to me. New cars are needlessly hi-tech
That's not the best description of an MOT. An MOT is a test for cars to determine if they're safe of not. Not to determine if they're too old to be on the road. How do you think people still drive classic cars? It's a safety related test, not age related
its against the law to use your phone whilst driving
yeah.. and i think this law is everywhere in European Union
@G B hands free isn't same as using phone. That is why hands free systems were invented, so that drivers wouldnt have to hold the phone and wouldnt have to watch the screen
It's also against the law in the United States - that just doesn't stop people from doing so anyway
It’s a major ticket in my US city. The first offense is $600
A big fine and 6 points on your license.
12 points = you loose license for a year.
Nudity tends to be a consequence of loving alcohol. Criticising the Royal Family is not a crime, in fact it is positively encouraged, especially on some TV panel game shows. Bathroom pull cord light switches are there to protect you from electric shocks, water and electricity don't play well together. You missed how we say sorry for everything, even if its not our fault. Sorry for pointing this out. Great video guys!
Haha, thanks for the great comments, Neil, you had both of us laughing! Glad to hear that criticizing the Royals isn't suppressed - we were worried about you guys for a hot minute there!
You seem like a really nice couple.
@@WanderingRavens lol whoever told you that must been taking the mickey out of you guys (which means teasing in case you didn't know) XD
Tea is 1) a beverage, 2) a light afternoon meal often involving cake and conserves, or 3) especially in Northern, working class homes, it is the evening meal, light or substantial (in those homes, the mid-day meal would likely be referred to as dinner rather than lunch).
Cheers is not a greeting. It means "thanks" and is used as a toast before a drink.
It is used as a greeting, as in “Cheers, old mate, haven't seen you for a bit””.
@@allenwilliams1306 You must be the only person who does that
It is absolutely NOT illegal to criticise the queen or political figures!
@lcyw20 I'm British. I don't admire them and lots of people I know don't either
@lcyw20 but I guess if you're not British it could be frowned upon
It's what Treason is. It's just not a law that is policed anymore
Yeah. The monarchy is archaic nonsense. A lot of us are embarrassed that we still prop them up.
You people are so rude, with that type of attitude people shouldn’t respect you.
The cord in the bathroom is for safety, that is also why there are no standard power outlets, just shaver points, in uk bathrooms.
Yep. In a bathroom, you are more likely to have wet hands. Wet hands and wall switches can be a dangerous combination. Also, when electricity was first introduced to houses, string switches were what was used. Since England was the earliest country to have widespread use of electricity, when they transitioned over to wall switches, they just kept the string switches in bathrooms for the safety reason.
This is brilliant! We didn't consider that it was for safety.
Just to add an additional bit of information. Mains electrics in the U.K. is 240 volts, so any accidental shock, especially in a potentially wet/damp/moist bathroom environment could well prove to be fatal.
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches There is no BAN on a light switch or socket in a UK bathroom at the moment. It just has to be a certain distance from the bath or sink (I cant remember the exact amount but something like 1 meter or so, so you cannot physically touch in when in the bath).
Most UK bathrooms are small, so its just easier for the builder/electrician to always put in a pull cord, or have the switch outside.
@@jca111 It's 2 metres and 110V can kill you just as easily as 240V, it's the amperage that matters, you are not permitted under the regulations to have a light switch in the bathroom, pull cord or switch outside only, all electrical work in a bathroom has to carried out by a qualified and certified electrician as well, you can not do DIY on bathroom electricals.
In UK we believe that people should not have to rely on the generosity of customers tips to top up their wage. Service industry staff get a living wage.
"Attitude to alcohol and nudity is less puritanical than the US"
Lol you've never been to Europe then,
I was going to mention when they make an advert for a shampoo or shower gel that's going to be sold all over Europe they have to make one version for the whole of Continental Europe where the young lady's nipples can be seen and one version for Britain where they can't.
John Small Yeah British are seen as prudes in comparison! lolol
Yup tits everywhere😍😍😍
Razar Raz we are the world champions of innuendo 😂👍
So many mistakes! The hand-rolled cigarettes thing isn't true. Yes, some people roll their own, but it's definitely not the majority.
The ice thing isn't true, either. I hate ice and I'm always having to fish out ice that I specifically didn't ask for.
Different milks are a relatively new thing, more and more places are adding more choices.
It's "the tube," not "choobe."
Restaurants stay open late and many pubs serve food all day.
It's a letterbox, not a mail slit.
Not all houses have separate taps. We used to have to have separate taps, because of the way our water worked, but most houses have modern plumbing, so we can have a single, or mixer tap.
Pissed = drunk, pissed off = annoyed.
We don't say entrée, normally, we'd say starter, main (for main course) and dessert, pudding or afters.
NB. Vocabulary is vastly different throughout England. Area and upbringing will make a huge difference.
Never smoked myself, but in my experience the majority of smokers of my acquaintance are rolling their own. I work in construction and all the Brits do. The Europeans less so.
This is just what they noticed not actual fact lol, n most ppl ik roll their ciggies unless it’s some kind of special occasion to have more expensive pre rolls idk
The tube/choobe was just for pronunciation nobody was saying or thinking it was spelled like that
@@adamr922 *spelt
and most people will definitley make comments about ppl smoking with a baby in one hand but probs wont say owt to there face. and not all bathrooms have the string thing to turn the light on
Leaving a tip in UK is considered really polite and u would do it because the person ur tipping has been really helpful or nice
The only time I have received tips was when I helped people with their bags when I worked in hotels on reception. We were so grateful but totally not expecting it.
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj depends which part of the country you are in, I'm a chef in Liverpool and I usually get anything between £5-£25 a shift depending on which shift it is. We tip everyone here, bar staff, barbers, taxi-drivers, pizza delivery etc
@@FightingCoward I myself generally tip everyone from my hairdresser to my uber driver but I know I don't have to, rather obliged to. I myself work in offices/ call centres etc, which can pay minimum wage, but we will never see a tip in those types of jobs.
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj I've worked in a call centre, most boring job I've ever had. Where do you live? I reckon people tip worse down south than up here.
@@FightingCoward The Midlands, so I go either way, depending what the weather's like 😂. I have lived in both London and Scotland, so even more confusing whether I'm more North than South.
I visited the US and in a restaurant I went looking for the loo. A member of staff there asked me if I was looking for the “rest room” I answered that I felt completely rested but I needed to have a pee.
Rita Roork but above all avoid the Word toilet right :)
Rita Roork I know, and for us that’s just weird.
Awkward. e.e
That was stupid
Doesn't anyone use 'lavatory' anymore?
A room with a bath is called a bathroom. It's pretty simple stuff.
And the one with a toilet is called the Shithouse!
England is the only place that you can buy a cold sausage roll and a warm can of pop in the same shop.
or you stop at a motorway services :)
@@nickwebb7868 yeah... gotta love the motorway services... many teddy bears
Or vice versa!
so true 🤣🤣🤣
There are no rules about celebrities being fined more than "normal" people, this is nonsense. However, some driving fines are matched to income so as to have the same impact on someone irrespective of his or her wealth.
I believe it happens in one of the Finalnd, to increase equality of impact.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-31709454
Yea, you aren't fned according to how well known you are. Your income is much more likely to be involved in the size of the fine. Most fines though - especially driving fines are at a set level. It's illegal to use your phone/text while driving. You can still use a hands-free phone but that's all. The police have some vehicles which are the size of a truck tractor so they can see into cars and other lorries to see if drivers are using their phones while driving. There aren't that many police vehicles like this, but they exist.
If the fine goes to court, they will take into account your income
True. Kate Winslet still has to pay for parking ! Lol.
I was taught about how to use cutlery as part of basic table manners and etiquette. It's weird if I see someone holding cutlery 'wrong' I pre judge them. Well I used to but now I'm older I try not to. I still teach my children basic table manners though from how to hold them through to where to place cutlery to signify you've finished.
i would say knives and forks, not forks and knives. I dont think I'm alone with this point either
i would say "I don't think i'm alone either, with this point" and I don't think I'm alone either.. with this point.
These ordered word groupings are quite common, though not universal - knives and forks, boys and girls, black and white, bacon and eggs, thunder and lightning, etc.
Same
@@UKDavid999 fork n hell 😁
I agree. I think we're still far more formal at the table than Americans though there is a generational difference. However, if my parents were still alive they would be horrified if they saw me eating my dinner on a tray on my lap. They always sat at the table which was correctly laid.
Americans think " 100 years old is ... Old " ..... Where as we Brits think " 100 miles away is far away " :-)
Very True.
Dear God this is so true! I kept hearing 'the south is so far and they don't care about us.. there are no jobs up here'... and it's like 50 miles to the next big city... there are lots of jobs. Here in Canada, it's 1000 miles to the next big city and the country is over 3000 miles cross. In the US, there are more cities, so they're closer together, but it's still 3000 miles across.
The UK is 950 miles from the tip of Scotland to the south end of England and no one travels anywhere. The UK fits into ONE of our provinces.
MrMadjones true!
@@TheoWerewolf When i watch British videos and they talk about the travel distances, as an American, I laugh. I drive 25 miles -one way - to work every day. Here to drive from Toledo, Ohio to Cincinnati, Ohio is a four hour drive at 60 miles an hour....that is just one state...we have 50 of them. The state of Michigan is the same size as all of the UK together. As i watched the videos, I kept wondering, why does it take so long for them to get from one end of the country to the other. Then i saw the roads...and understood. The UK has few "interstate roadways" and most secondary roads are narrow country lanes. Pretty but not very efficient.
Especially when you are walking.
Ok, who else in the UK got more triggered by him saying "Fork and Knives" than anything else ? ;) Its Knives and Forks you monster!! #greatvid Erm there is no law against saying things bad about politicians or Royals, lol. Some of these are not really correct OR they are just based on the region and areas you visited, but mostly spot om. Im only half way through this video, love it though , you guys gotta come back and visit Wales and North England!. I think the main difference is that UK people know more of the difference between us and the USA, than you guys know about, if that makes sense? ...
Haha, sorry about that. I guess the proper cutlery sequence got flipped around on its way across the Atlantic.
They don't use knives hardly at all in the USA - the fork only.
During WW2, American agents being prepared for OSS espionage work in occupied Europe were trained to use both a knife and fork together to prevent them from betraying themselves in restuarants etc. I remember seeing that in a James Cagney film !!!
@@maconescotland8996 LOL! Oh Lordy....I don't know if the movie is the only thing that makes you think that, but LOL! Good laugh. How do you think we cut our food? :P
Tee Lee Don’t Americans tend to cut food up at the start, then dump the knife and proceed with fork only ? Whereas Europeans etc. cut piece by piece and use both utensils in unison.
@@maconescotland8996 Ah, that's a better clarification for me to understand what you were talking about. Yeah we don't need the knife to hold our food on our fork.
(@3:11) No switches where your hands are wet: you can die from the voltage (220/240) - and a wet switch is D E A T H waiting for you - very patiently.
New Zealand also has the same voltage as the UK but we still use wall switches. PowerPoints are special fittings for electric razors etc.
I've never heard of anyone being electrocuted
43 . Who ever told you that was having a joke at your expense , you can mock the royal family or any politician and not end up in jail 👍
I'm pretty sure it is treason. There is a law against it I think, but it's one of them laws which never comes into fruition
If there is a law against mocking the royal family then almost everyone I know should be in jail (me included) it may be one of our historical laws that is no longer enforced but it certainly wouldn’t get you in trouble and is still classed as free speech under our Human rights laws.
@@leonbrooks2107 pretty much what I said
@@Xemmag85X thats for betraying the queen or country. Like selling secrets to a foreign power
I heard a comedian saying "The Queen's pussy is like a broken cat flap"
We don’t drive and text because it is illegal !!!
Lol. That just makes Americans want to do it even more. We’re all just a bunch of bratty teenagers over here.
Yes, because ya'll aren't idiots like us.
I am not bothered about this law, I just do not want to crash.
Wish that were true. I see more people text now than before. Especially the police... Mainly cause I've found out they are exempt
And pretty bloody stupid to boot
It's not a family event without Aunty Becky being pissed drunk.
It was always my relative who was in the Merchant Navy who drank loads never drunk though.
A lot of the language differences you point out are different and would or wouldn't be used depending on where in England you are, calling somebody "love" would be used in some regions where as other places would say "duck" or "pet" There are so many colloquial differences and accents in the UK, you can travel 10miles down the road and they will have a different accent
I grew up in Yorkshire, and my dad called everyone "love" - no matter their age, gender or station in life. He's been gone almost a decade now, but my friends from other areas still recall this habit with fondness...and some amusement.
On the other hand, my ex-bf's grandmother was from Northumberland, and her version of this was to call everyone "flora". It took me a little while to figure out that she didn't think my name was Flora.
My grandfather was Irish (specifically, he was from Co. Wicklow) and he thought it was HILARIOUS that many Yorkshire folk call each other "duck". Until the day he passed on, he would tease my poor, long-suffering gran about this, calling her "my little duck", which she hated with a passion. I remain surprised that she never threw a plate, knife or maybe the sofa at him. My gran was a strong woman.
Depending on where you live at in America it's the same thing. People talk differently according to where they live.
I travel more than 10 miles to go to the store. England is miniscule.
If someone ever makes me a cup of tea that’s 50/50 milk and tea I will personally deport them 😂
I have a van dedicated to removing people who can’t make proper tea, the UK citizenship test should be you must make a cup of tea and the queen must drink it, and if she doesn’t think it’s the best tea in the world you are banned for 10 years
It should be 90% tea, 10% milk
People who put milk in with the tea bag first should be thrown into the North Sea with a treubche
Asians: **hides the milk tea**
The Queen should not be allowed to judge decent tea - her tea is awful. When I visited Buckingham Palace for an event, the tea was weak af. Apparently that’s how she likes it. 🤢
The reason for school uniform is mainly to do with kids can’t get bullied for not having the latest clothes/trainers. If everyone wears the same you can’t bully someone on the clothes because you’re wearing the same. That’s part of the reason anyhow.
Yeah that's what the high school I went to told me when I went from a Primary School with no uniform to a Secondary School with one. And I can vouch from the later years at primary school that it was definitely coming in that you wore the cool designer brands or you got laughed at.
I agree that this is definitely the reason today, but in the past it was to help families with the cost of clothing their kids, as the local shops could order the uniform in bulk and get a cost saving which they could (not always) pass on to the parents. This is not the case anymore as back in the day, the vast majority of families (mine included) were really very poor.
Another reason is to give the kids a sense of belonging to an institution, because we all want to be in an institution. 😂
You got the traffic lights confused,and that can be dangerous.
Depends on the country in very conservative countries it's because they want school to be like a military camp
BS !!!! It is just another part of your caste system !!!! Dating back to prehistoric times !!!! Move forward its the 21 century !!!!!
British Housing Definitions:-
Built 1900 or later = Modern
Built 1700 to 1900 = Period
Built before 1700 = Historic.
that's eastern canadian
This is actually a good definition.
My house was built in 1850, it’s just a house. 😂
If you think a home built in 1850 is just a home, that is just sad. that is a jewel! its a treasure
i can garuntee that most houses that are 1800s are not that great. it's interesting but usually they are cheap terreced houses that are a pain to live in.
That was fun--well observed and nicely, kindly presented. Well done.
In the UK kids will have a sip of their parents drink (beer) even in public
MV Nuthead if children can get some big gulps of beer they will do that as well. I am teetotal myself
That is not true
When I was a baby I legit would steal my mums beer, she only let me have a sip but I wouldnt let go of it and I legit cried when she took it away. I gulped it as much as I could 😂😂. Is that just me
in the UK you can go to a pub with your parents and if they give permission you can legally have an alcoholic drink if you're 16-17
When I was a baby my dad gave me the froth from his beer
I don't know where you went, but about 30% of your facts were completely wrong.
These people should not represent America
Richard C they mentioned right at the beginning that they were in Central Midlands so that would be Birmingham and the cities around it.
Ice Kitty Birmingham is West Midlands.
This couple have come up with an entirely new kind of informative RUclips format.
First, pick a topic on a country you once visited, yet barely know. Preferably a topic already covered well by other RUclipsrs.
Second - do absolutely no research or fact checking. Admittedly this is a pretty short step.
Third, shoot video where annoying guy speaks to the viewers like he's presenting Playschool whilst girl bats eyelids and nods sagely. He's an entirely different kind of Cant to Brian.
Fourth, and this is the biggy - ask the audience to correct the utter b*llox we just told you.
Rinse and repeat.
They were in Warwickshire (Alcester to be precise).
In England we say pissed for both drunk and “I’m so pissed off” meaning annoyed
Pissed means drunk. Pissed off means annoyed.
Fiona Gregory That’s basically what she put lol
@@fionagregory8078 that's exactly what they said lol
No, "I'm pissed" means I'm close to falling down from the affects of alcohol. "I'm pissed off" means I am a little annoyed.
Alastair Archibald We’re on about what Fiona said not you. Fiona copied Sydny, just reworded it
‘Celebrities are held to a higher standard’ which is why they are punished harder? As far as I am aware the case is that their income is taken into account if being fined and so a Premier League footballer would be fined a vast amount more than a plumber for an identical offence, for example. I fear that these people are very inadequately informed!
Speeding fines go on how much people earn not someone's status.
Fines applicable no longer go on the basis of an absolute scale; instead, they are defined at various levels, which correspond with a proportton of the offender's income. A high income offender will be fined more than a low income offender for the same offence. Thus it may appear that a celebrity is fined more than a nonentity for the same offence. It is nothing to do with status, just relative income!
the reason we have light stings instead of switches in the bathroom is because the electricity voltage in england is a lot higher therefore it is dangerous to have switches in a bathroom incase your hands are wet.
If you're desperate to have a switch, you can have it on the outside of the bathroom. Be sure your partner doesn't like pranks though.
Am I the only Brit that has switches in their bathroom???? 😳
"because the electricity voltage in england is a lot higher " - Nope ; that's not true.
Most of the world runs on 220-240V, and it is perhaps only the UK that has cords.
It's just historical - it has nothing to do with safety-standards.
Germany has 230V like the rest of europe and there are sockets and switches in the bathroom. But it's common that the main light switch is outside with a light on it that you can see when the bathroom is in use. And the sockets and switches have to be a safety distance away to have no chance of touching electricity and water together and even for that case it is law that you have to have an automatic fast circuit braker with a very low reaction current dedicated to the bathroom / toilet additional to the circuit braker you need for your house/flat with a little higher reaction current. For example 1 or 3mA in the bathroom and 10 or 30mA in your house or flat. It depends on how old your installation is and you don't want you circuit braker react when you use your hairdryer. And don't forget the electrical water heaters that are in use. They use a way higher current than a normal socket.
F Seemann
We don’t have bathroom light switches outside the door here because it would just be too tempting to turn the lights off on someone from the outside.
Way to tempting and comical for English people not to do .
I’d say bog roll is more of a slang term, usually it’s referred to more as toilet paper where I live. :)
Ah oui. “Bog roll” trés vulgaire
"more of a slang term" - LOL - it's VERY MUCH a slang term, not something to say in normal company unless you're joking about something.
we need to help
Its toilet roll
My dad calls it shit’ouse paper
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It’s illegal to use your phone whilst driving.
The penalty for using your phone whilst driving is quite high - and you can also be prosecuted for driving without due care and attention.
@@andywilliams2237 It is actually not always illegal to use your phone while driving. You can pick it up and use it as long as it does not communicate with anyone and you are not following a map, for example taking a picture or video is currently fine. You can of course use a hands-free phone for communications.
@@clioaspinade9275 You cannot have it in your hands while on the road (parked up is fine but waiting at lights is not). You can use a holder to use it as a map, however it cannot distract you from the road (having movies playing on your phone is treated the same as having it in your hads). Having it in your hand for any reason is a distraction and removes your hands from the controls of the car making you instantly less able to react to any potential hazzard.
@@officialacescottie Wrong I'm afraid. Lookup Ramsey Barreto, he was found guilty of using his phone to film a crash, but successfully appealed because he wasn't using his phone to communicate. It is a known issue with the law. As I said, as long as you are not communicating or following a map you can hold and use a smartphone and drive to your hearts content, until the law is changed.
His lawyer said "For years we've been arguing that the legislation has become nonsensical, unless police can prove beyond reasonable doubt that what someone was doing was actually communicating, it wasn't an offence to be using a smartphone".
Many people have taken a fixed penalty to avoid court who have done nothing illegal.
You can be prosecuted for using your phone even if your not moving if the engine is switched on.
In England people still say fries. Chips are thicker than fries are skinny and Chips are bigger and thicker.
Yes I've finnaly found an Internet friend who knows the truth about life
Nye in my homeland of the southern UK we know skinny as fries and thick as chips tem American design chips do not deserve to be called chips you fool
Lady Trek2space uuuuh I’m British and I call skinny chips “fries” like most brits do 😂
Lady Trek2space well we’re I’m from we don’t and it looks like other people who have replied don’t so that must just be from where ur from in the uk :)
Lady Trek2space yeah that’s what I do
I've always been amused by the term "socialised healthcare". The NHS is funded in exactly the same way as the US military. Do they have "socialised defence (defense))?
God that would be hilarious to see a Republican politican hear their military described in those terms :p
@@89Keith
The republican part will literally lose there shit if they heard that 😂
We also have a very small private army.
Why should the army not be private?
@@neilcampbell2222 i think when you have an army owned by a regular person rather by a government they're mercenaries rather than an army
@@89Keith There's a difference. Mercenaries are for hire, ultimately to the highest bidder they are prepared to work for.
A private army can be recruited by an individual and only be available to the state.
Many army regiments were provided in this way. They were often named after their benefactor and may retain that name still.
Wet hand and electrics don't go together
The drinking age is 18 but we all know we started as kids 😏😂
Are there any 15 year olds who haven't started drinking on occation?
Eleanor T me, a 14 year old getting drunk on a vodka and coke yesterday night: 😂👀
I started being allowed pints at 10
Alfie being british is pure bliss..... well most of the time, I started wolfing down a beer when I was a baby and when my mum would take it off me I would cry 😂
@@callumsherratt5436 I first got properly pissed when I was 13
Alcohol and nudity usually lead to a good evening.
@harris9459 or alternatively huge disappointment...
But only after watershed
Just no
@@janevickers3472 Spoilsport.
Or a prison sentence😂
America is a strange country, it's ok to invade any other country, but Janet Jackson getting a scrawny tit out at Super Bowl is considered outrageous.
Hahaha yeah
Bingo! And we are happy with super violent entertainment but a single flash of tit or ass? We are collectively bizarre.
Americans are prrude in public but real pervs in private, besides they drown the world with porn.
@Sage Lenker I don't deny you the right tobe wrong.
Bullshit
26:40
Cafe's generally shut around 5pm
Small shops shut around 6-8pm
Larger shops (supermarkets), if not 24/7, shut around 8-10pm
Pubs and restaurants will stop serving food about 9-10pm in most cases
Though takeaways (take out) typically open from early afternoon and will stay open until anywhere up to 2-5am
Some popular takeaways like McDonald's and KFC will close doors about 10-11pm but will usually operate their drive-through hours later or, in some cases, 24/7
Though all of this varies on days of the week too
Larger shops (over a certain square footage) are required by law to not be open for longer than 6 hours on a Sunday (look up Sunday trading laws for more), so they will typically close at 4-5pm
Pubs and restaurants often close earlier on Sunday and, in some cases, don't open Monday, due to it being their least profitable time (with people typically having to go to work the next day and not wanting to dine out on a Monday evening)
Though all of these hours and operations (with exception of Sunday trading laws) vary hugely across the UK, a café in a small village in Cornwall is likely to have far shorter opening hours than a café in central London for example
hope that helps :) x
A few corrections:
) Equal parts of tea and milk?!? Noooo Its more like 90-95% tea and the rest is milk
2) "Cheers as a greeting" ?!? That's not a thing
3) Shopping cart = Shopping trolley
Yep. "Cheers" is goodbye, not hello.
@@Dragonblaster1 ?? No it's not.
Cheers = Thanks OR When you make a toast when drinking
shadowcrux0 well, where I live, particularly, say, on a Skype call, I and many others sign off with, “Cheers, then, guys.”
@@Dragonblaster1 Yea i get that, its not uncommon to say thanks/cheers at the end of a call. But I wouldnt say that it then means Goodbye
Cheers is thanks, what r u talking about?
In England, you can be "pissed" (drunk) & "pissed off" (angry).
And even though alright mate is a greeting here, we dont want to hear your tales of woe if your not alright.
The only reason they checked your card and name is because your card was foreign. They don’t do this with normal cards. It happened to me too!
British bank & credit cards are contactless up to £30 and use chip & pin over that. Signing receipts seems odd to us now, it's a decade since most of us had to do it.
We don’t sign anything here. Chip and PIN number or contactless.
Yeah I didn’t sign anything. I saw that everything was contactless. I just don’t have one of those cards so I had to insert it. I wish America would get with the times. It’s so much more convenient.
Natures Child i’m almost 18 (lived in england all of my life) and i’ve never had to or seen anyone sign a receipt
Merry Clark you don’t sign it . I’m talking about providing identification. If you’re a foreigner they check your name and ID
Im confused with this video, 90% wrong or miss information, also noone calls the toilet paper a bog roll, its slang
We haven’t had to sign when using a credit or debit card in the UK for years now. We use chip and pin or contactless. I’m guessing you had to sign because yours were foreign cards.
there are bank cards that can be used in different currencies.
Ian Prince very true. I’m English, and when we took a Dollar MasterCard to America, we had issues at certain petrol stations, Walgreens and various cash machines.
I had to sign in New York with my chip and pin card
Lyanne Young same here.
I'm Swedish but I never had to sign when using debit card when I was in the UK
Vinegar only goes on Fish and Chip chips, or pub chips. Fast-food fries are just salt. Generally
And bbq sauce !
Or Arromat if you are allergic to salt.
I love how Americans in general are like “ENGLAND IS LIKE HARRY POTTER”
when Harry Potter is literally based on English things like uniform, letterboxes, school houses, etc.
HP makes a good point of reference so that other Americans know what we're talking about :D
Wandering Ravens I know, and it’s not just you guys that I’m talking about, like so many foreign people I know tare like that 😂
@@pmiles363 I don't understand the point that you are trying to make... You're saying that we Americans assume that England is like Harry Potter, yet Harry Potter is based on England? No shit. Lol. That's why they assume that... What about it?
Italiano Dio no I’m saying it’s funny because they think that the Harry Potter ideas were completely original and part of the magical world but they’re actually normal English things
So you are saying that they’re right.
It's illegal to use your phone whilst driving, because it distract attention away from the road. Plus, as we're mostly "stick shift", and you need both hands to drive.
Putting high amounts of milk in your tea is sacrelige...
It’s quite delicious! Especially if it is a Boba type tea. Oo or Thai tea mmmm. 10/10 would recommend
I have 50% milk in tea and coffee, so shoot me.
Cars in England have to do a test yearly to make sure they are roadworthy, it's called a Ministry Of Transport test or MOT
Not all cars. I don't need to with mine :)
@@discomikeyboy2012 Not classics, but still have to declare that it doesn’t need the mot.. Such a waste of time, to tell them it doesn’t need it when it tells you online that it apparently ran out in 2017.... 🤦🏻♀️
Only after the car passes three years old.
We, in UK, also do not own our cars, we "look after" them hence the registration document (log book), which allows us to be the "Registered Keeper" never the owner, not many have even noticed!
@@marioniopionio you still have the legal title to the car, regardless of what the V5 says.
In Britain we use both metric and imperial systems and normally refer to our height in feet.
But why refer to weight in stones and a number(and what is that number?) And what the hell is a stone?😁🤔
Most pubs serve food from 7pm onwards!
29: eggs in the USA are washed with ammonia so they get poreus. And therefore have to be refrigerated. Not so in Europe.
My brother had a butchers shop, that also made sandwiches, and the rule was: Eggs for sale to the public? No need to refrigerate, them. Keep them on the shelf. Using the very same eggs for food preparation, (e.g. Fried egg sandwich), then keep them in the fridge. Even though, as I say. they were the exact same eggs.
Oh wow...
I'm from the UK and I always refrigerate my eggs, it slows down the breaking down of the proteins which is what gives you wispy eggs when you're trying to do poached eggs freehand
I believe the best way to store eggs is in a larda as well as cheese.
@@Banjaxious1 I never store eggs in cheese. Ghastly.
Eggs are processed differently in the UK high is why we don’t need to refrigerate them
I believe it's because they're not washed in chlorine which washes off the protective oils.
And we vaccinate our chickens.
There is naturally a protective barrier on eggs when they are laid. In the UK, our eggs are not washed at production so the protection remains in place. In the US eggs are routinely washed thus destroying the protection and making the shells porous to bacteria and so need refrigeration.
In the UK, one is supposed to wash the eggs before cracking them to remove any external contamination... however, no one bothers 😁
American food is vile! The meat is tasteless, the cheese , rubbery, and the bread chalky! As for the chocolate....!!!!
We don't actually need to refrigerate eggs here either. Its just a misconception.
You don't see that many "beater cars" or old bangers, because if they don't pass an Mot test they're not allowed on the roads
Nah because there are classics n people hide them in there garage
Does this mean some Americans drive cars that are not roadworthy? If so, it confirms my impression that America hasn't yet embraced health and safety!
i have a 24 year old volvo that i drive every day
@@rosemaryhannah3467 you should have watched an episode of pimp my ride (USA) some of the cars on there were ready to fall apart. I was shocked at the state of some of them.
@@missdragonfire Depends on the actual state. Some states have much stricter roadworthy standards than others. I've lived in America for 12 years but am back home in Leeds. New York, Massachusetts, California come to mind as being very strict about old bangers. They have the equivalent of our MOT tests. They call them DMV. Cars must pass inspection by the authorities or else they are prohibited from roadworthiness. Other states are rather lax. I know that in Kentucky one doesn't need an official test. Many bangers there which should've been sent to the scrap heap straight away.
My only problem with nudity and alcohol is that there's nowhere to put your money when you go up to the bar for another drink
I can think of somewhere!
39. Its not scaled to celebrity, its scaled to wealth.
40. We do tip when we have enjoyed the service, but even then it's only a few quid.
It because people in the uk get paid a fair wager whereas in america they get a nothing
I’ve lived in England my whole life...I’ve never heard anyone give me their height in centimetres...apart from other Europeans like German etc. It’s feet and inches or I just don’t have a clue
Also where I lived we will call each other love, Shug, duck, pet, Petal ....people you’ve never met it’s just nice (:
.... you're from 'Up North' then !!! x
Stoke?
No she’s from English 🤣
Omerta I’ve lived all over but mainly the Midlands and further north yeah
Same in the American South. We call people honey, love , sugar, sweetheart and dear. Complete stranger I might add.
british secondary school is not like hogwarts...at all...
😂😂😂😂😂
I mean... kinda🤷♂️
We have uniform, houses, learn spells and fight off evil wizards all the time.... oh no wait, that’s wrong
Annie Champion it’s hogwarts with added chavs and ruined system thanks to michael gove
Most unis look like that though
Yup, more like bogwarts
What a load of toot. Traffic most definitely doesn’t traverse pedestrian crossings . It’s illegal and you’ll be fined if you get caught .
In the US the protective layer is scrubbed off the eggs so they have to be refrigerated to not go bad, in the UK the protective layer is left on so eggs can be left out.
Which is why British eggs have a "best by" date and not a "sell by" date. "Best by" indicates "its quality is going to decrease from this point" and "sell by" indicates "its not recommended that you eat this". Being British ,these dates can be VERY conservative and the food may last much longer.
Yes. I store mine in the fridge regardless and use the smell test once they're about three weeks after the 'best by' date (which is printed on each egg, a practice which has been the standard for about 40 years now). I only end up throwing out about two a year on average, which are usually something like six weeks older than the date stamp. And I also know I could simply wrap them in clingfilm (saran wrap) upon purchase if I wanted them to last for six months.
You are the first American RUclipsrs that I've seen who have fully understood the British distinction between Biscuits and Cookies. As you correctly pointed out, cookies are a specific type of Biscuit (the type that you showed a picture of). Therefore all cookies are biscuits, but not all biscuits are cookies.
We also make a similar distinction between (French) Fries and Chips. Chips is the overall term for that particular kind of potato product, but Fries are a specific type of chip (the long thin straight-cut ones that you get in places like McDonalds). Therefore, all fries are chips, but not all chips are fries.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, Zyndr!
Yes! We got it right! Honestly, hearing a Brit say that we got this distinction right is the biggest compliment someone has ever left us 😄
And we didn't know that you still use fries for skinny chips! Thanks for updating us.
Nope - "fries" or "french fries" is just modern Britain aping the yanks - who saw chips in WW1 Belgium for the first time and so called them "French Fries" (of course!... ) because most Belgians speak French. The fact that chips existed in many other european cultures before WW1 seems to have passed them by....
Look at it this way , if they are chunky & big and preferably slightly greasy, its definitely a chip between your American fingers..
Yeah like biscuits are something made in a factory or they are symmetrical whereas cookies are uneven or of the homemade variety
@@WanderingRavens Yep at some places they may ask you if you want chips or fries i.e skinny or fat
90, we don’t say height in cm we use feet and inches, example I am “5 foot 11”
Only old folk still use feet and inches.
@@alangknowles nope, no way
doctors use cm when they take your height, you then google what that is in feet because no one says their height in cm 😂
I use feet and inches it really pisses me off when you go and get your height do they say cm
I use metric.
I know my height in feet and inches too but I have no idea of my weight in imperial.
We should go fully metric.
I'm British and have lived in London all my life, so here's my opinion on some of the things you've said:
Tube is pronounced "tyoob". Usually, it only refers to the subway system in London (the Underground).
You didn't see anyone using their phone while driving here in the UK because it is illegal - it's a distraction and increases the risk of car accidents/crashes.
As for tipping, it depends on the type of restaurant. I'm from London, and here in most proper restaurants (e.g. not pubs) tipping is often included in the bill at around 12% (you can opt out of course). I've heard this is a lot lower than in the US where it is sometimes up to 25%.
Fries vs chips vs crips: here in the UK, people do use the word "fries", but it refers exclusively to the skinny/thin French fries as opposed to fat/chunky chips. "chips" in general can refer to both kinds of chips, but is never used to refer to crisps.
As far as I know, it is not illegal to criticise the royal family. Different people have different opinions about the monarchy, so I would only really discuss the matter with close friends and family.
Tea - this can be a contentious issue. Most people drink tea with milk, I personally prefer it without milk (of course, no one drinks green tea with milk - that's just not done). I'm not quite sure what you mean about tea being weaker here in England - "weak" and "strong" can mean a variety of things: how long did you brew for? what was the ratio of tea leaves to water? what type of tea did you drink (one could argue that Darjeeling black tea is stronger than a variety of jasmine green tea)?
Depending on where you're from, toilet paper has many names. These include: toilet paper, loo roll, bog (another not so pleasant term for a toilet/lavatory/bathroom) roll, among others.
"beater cars"?? (I hope I'm spelling that correctly) I've never heard that term before, and honestly I'm not quite sure what you're on about - people in the UK do have old cars as well as new cars. Actually, rather a few people are really into "classic cars" - very old cars from the 70s or earlier. I don't know if you have that sort of thing in the US.
Some drinks do come with ice, others don't - it depends on the drink. In London pubs, soft drinks and juices (e.g. Coke, Sprite, apple juice etc.) usually come with ice, but of course beer doesn't.
As you've said, the far majority of school children are required to wear uniforms, but most kids don't think it's cool and don't like them.
The majority of cafes here do have oat milk - other types of milk (e.g. almond milk) are less common.
Not every bathroom sink has separate taps for hot and cold - that's quite an old-fashioned thing and modern bathrooms don't have them.
In England, the courses/meals are starter, main course and dessert.