Another correction Amanda, One hundred fifty years ago in December 1868, the first traffic light in the world was installed in London outside the British Parliament of Westminster. Using railway signals as a reference, rail engineer John Peake Knight designed the first traffic light used to control traffic.
@@barrymitchell6444 The video should say that the first traffic lights were invented in the UK & powered by gas & that electric ones were invented over 40 years later in the US.
Hi Amanda. The most important college game here in the UK is the Oxford v Cambridge boat race on the River Thames between Putney Bridge and Chiswick Bridge and a distance of just over 4 miles. Consists of a Men’s Race and a Women’s Race. Very popular with many lining the banks, usually drinking, and on the bridges. A televised race with BBC having the rights to broadcast the event. The 2023 event was held in March, timing often depends on tides, this course is on the tidal Thames.
@@philipmccarthy6175Dont talk rot.. it IS popular because it’s been televised for YEARS.. the viewing figures prove it don’t let your petty jealousy make you look stupid.. ( well anymore than you naturally are ..🙄) 🇬🇧
I was in Boston one time and notices a lot of flags flying from every house in a suburban street. I asked a local what the special occasion was. He looked at me like I was sub-normal. Closer inspection revealed that the flags were decidedly worn and faded. Apparently they hung there all the time. I don't think I have ever even owned any sort of Australian flag.
Oh my! A couple of days ago I was thinking to myself what the combination of Amercian and British accents would sound like. And then I stumble upon your videos. My curiosity is fulfilled and I've subbed. Cheers!
Have to say, I live in the states and was born here, but find a lot of things done here to be quite culty. I mean to start your day essentially giving up your life to your country. Then there are flags everywhere. Finally people talk of the country as if every other country is a third world mess and you are only free here. When depending on perspective, other countries offer more freedoms and protections.
Wish we were allowed to be as patriotic in England. I'd love to see the English flag everywhere. Most people don't even know our flag, as it's so rarely seen. (Red cross, white background)
But, yes... the USA is insular, and Americans seem to have it instilled into them that their country is the best and most important one on the planet. Just another country to me.
For kids to have some common ritual starting the day is not a problem. The words used however are not suitable IMHO for children. "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." This is pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth, it doesn't make sense. Especially when the Republic itself is also pledged to. One Nation under God? That was inserted in the 50s as part of the Red paranoia. If the last sentence means anything, that shouldn't ever have been there. How can an atheist enjoy "Liberty and Justice for all", when the whole country is pledging allegiance to something you reject?
Even Americans don't seem to realise that their casual use of 'the flag', usually results in them violating the constitution of the USA. The constitution states that using 'the flag' , in a disrespectful way, ie incorporating it in the design of sporting apparel, would be considered offensive. Despite this almost ALL schools, colleges etc., INSULT their flag by using it in this way. If even I , a humble Brit, who doesn't have this level of responsibility can understand this, WHY do Americans, who set such store by respect for ' the flag' . NOT understand it?
I've heard the garbage disposal thing mentioned before but, although I cannot speak for the rest of Europe you can have them here in the UK. I've owned two houses both of which had them. My current house has one though I fitted that myself. Available from Screw Fix etc. As for school busses, although we generally don't have a dedicated style of bus, we do, depending on where you live have school busses. Where I grew up they had and still have a couple of double deckers painted bright yellow that are only used to transport kids to school. And currently where I live now they have three single deckers that they use exclusively to transport the kids though they're painted purple.
Black Fridays actually called that because the months before most business books go in the red. Black Friday came along as the beginning days before Christmas that put businesses back in the black.
I would add that at 8:00 for Black Friday I noticed them sometimes on some online stores like Steam but never had any extra problems (except huge discounts). But we never have anything like that in proper stores.....
The Black Friday one doesn't surprise me. The thing to remember is that the Thursday before Black Friday is one of our national holiday and we get Friday off as well, so most of the country is off from work on that day which makes it easier for us to go to the sales.
Small correction: Black Friday is so called because sellers make lots of money, going into the "black" rather than the "red". So, it's not so much about black and blue. Thanks for another great one.
No it's not. It was originally called "black" because it was one of the busiest days for the emergency services. It's been "rebranded" though to give it a more positive spin.
Our kitchen is 21 years old and we have a garbage disposal unit (It is called an Inksinkerator!!). In that time it has gone wrong twice. The first time it "broke" I phoned up and was asked if I had pressed the reset switch. I hadn't as I didn't know it had one so I pressed it and it worked again. The second time it seemed to jam up. I phoned up again and they said "Oh yes I can see you had a problem x years ago so is it something different this time?" I was told to turn it off at the mains, take the spanner that came with it and wriggle it backwards and forwards a few times. Fortunately I remembered where I had put the spanner and again it was working. The only time they actually came out was when we had them fit a magnetic switch in the unit. We have not used it properly for over two years now as the council started to collect food rubbish once a week with the dustbin collection. I do give it a spin every now and again as we cannot put wet food waste in the food bins.
Three things: 1) An annoying thing about the medication ads is that half the time they don't say what it's supposed to treat, so you have to google it and find out, no, you aren't a menopausal woman so you don't need that medication. 2) If spray cheese isn't 51% cheese it is sometimes labeled as "processed cheese food" which sounds like something that cheese eats. 3) The free refills are generally only for things like coffee or soda. If you're drinking alcohol, you're paying for every one.
Brit living in Australia here. Most of these might only exist in the US but there are a couple of exceptions. Sink mounted garbage disposals were around in the UK for a while in the 80s and 90s but never really caught on. I remember ordering a new kitchen and it being an option but the sales person not even bothering to push it because hardly anyone bought one. And the other exception is lawyer ads. You’d see them now and then in Britain, and I remember John Culshaw doing a Gladiator/Claims Direct sketch on Dead Ringers, but down here in Australia lawyer ads are pretty common. Might not be as common as in the US but I can name at least five solicitors firms in Australia/Melbourne just from their TV ads being on all the bloody time. I’ve also seen them in the lifts in a hospital when visiting my wife, which I felt takes ambulance chasing to a new level.
Those red plastic cups (also in blue or gold) have been available here for a long time. Tesco often sells them as do many smaller stores. I have been buying them for several years. The clear less durable cups have been available for many years.
Take two Ritz biscuits, but a few thin slices of cheddar cheese between them and eat it, delicious. When you can have 100% good quality real cheese, why would you want spray cheese????
I remember my uncle having a garbage disposal in Manchester back in the 1960s. Seen a few in Britain but have to admit not recently. I remember the complaint that it had eaten the teaspoon on a fairly regular basis
What baffles me about America is. These HOA's for a country that values freedom it baffles me why anyone would want an organisation telling them what they can or cannot do with their own home
What baffles me about euros is they think everything is 100%. HOA's are generally a gated community. Most people do not live like that. As for you, you need to talk to the government to remodel, make improvements or whatever. WE DO NOT.
@@joeysausage3437 82% of new homes in 2021 were hoa, 67% in 2022....so over half of new houses and more and more are getting added in older neighborhoods too.
Lawyer ads for most legal stuff, yeah, but there are plenty of lawyer ads in the UK for "where there is blame there is a claim" type ads for lawyers. With the sports, colleges here are very different to the USA. Most colleges dont even have sports teams. And free refills are quite common with certain chains in the UK with soft drinks. Harvester & Nandos are well known for it.
I bought some spray cheese when first in the US, kids loved it on nachos, expensive to buy in the UK, so now always bring some back with me, when we go
My son has a waste disposal unit in his kitchen. They are not unknown in the U.K. we also have solo cups. I’ve seen them for sale in Wilco and they are red.
Amanda, Strangely enough the yellow school busses are actually owned by a UK company (National Express), so whilst sort of an American Icon, they are a British owned American Icon
We usually do not have school buses in the UK. Our public transport is very good, compared with the USA, so most school children will use it - if their parents don’t take them by car.
When you mentioned the Yellow school buses, i remember that in the USA they have the Greyhound buses i think mostly used for long distance trave, is that still the case Amanda ?
Hi sweetheart ❤ that was a fun video and I've never come across spray cheese here in the UK. Also the notion of having white teeth making you seem smart is silly since there are lot of bell ends with white teeth.
We don’t need canned cheese , we produce some of the best artisan cheese in the world .. as good as if not better than France ..as to the teeth obsession the yanks have, yes they’re white but are they there own and if so are they strong and healthy ..!!! I doubt it..🙄🇬🇧
According to an article authored by Ben Zimmer, “The Origins of Black Friday” Nov 25, 2011, “that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season, beginning on the day after Thanksgiving.” So now you know “the rest of the story” (sorry Paul Harvey)
Amanda I believe that it used to be illegal in the UK to fly the flag without permission - don't know why (or even if it's true!!) but it would go some way to explaining why we don't fly them as often as the US
It's not actually illegal to fly the flag without permission in the UK, though it is illegal to fly a flag that is tattered and torn. However, if you are flying a flag, you can be asked to take it down by the local council, but there has to be a good reason.
You do not require to fly the flag of any nation on your property, but you you do need advertisement consent to fly any flag other than a national flag. I have noticed that many houses in Denmark fly a national flag.
When I was a girl, my dad was head of the area Co-Op, and there was a Co-Op flag, which was in fact exactly like today’s Pride rainbow blag. There was a flagpole outside their department store, and my dad had to ask permission from the council to fly the special flag. They turned him down, saying it was political. There is Co-Op party and it’s actually the third biggest in Parliament. Many Labour MPs are in fact ‘Labour Co-op’ as the party affiliated to Labour long ago, but still exists. Ed Balls was an MP for it. So they were a bit mean, but strictly speaking they were right.
That’s not really why Black Friday is called that. I have no idea why they said that in the video. It’s called that as that’s when the retailers make up enough sales to be “in the black” for the year, meaning they’re profitable beyond that day because they sell so much.
Amanda do you go to the annual NFL games in the UK/London? This year The Jacksonville Jaguars will kick off the 2023 NFL International Games on Sunday, October 1, as they play the Atlanta Falcons at Wembley Stadium, in what will be their landmark 10th regular season home game in London. The London focus then shifts to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as the Buffalo Bills take on the Jacksonville Jaguars* on Sunday, October 8. This game for Jacksonville means they will play two regular season games outside of the US - a first for the NFL. The following Sunday, 15 October, the Tennessee Titans will play the Baltimore Ravens, also at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the only purpose-built NFL stadium outside of the US, to wrap the 2023 NFL London Games.
I had dental braces fitted when I was in my late 30s. Every 2 weeks they were checked & adjusted. X-Rays, Clean & Polish. Check-ups. The Full Monty. After 4 years the braces were removed. All this was Completely free. Thank goodness for the NHS. I didn't even need to claim on my employers Private Medical Insurance, which carried an excess of £1K. I wonder, what would this all cost across the pond?
In the UK the medication comes with warning leaflets and if you're picking up your prescription, there's usually a warning label added as well. The nearest we get to your spray cheese is Primula Cheese which comes in a tube like toothpaste. The only college sport that is shown on television in the UK is The University Boat Race, between Oxford and Cambridge. I support Cambridge because that was where my late father went, besides they are ahead in times they have won. No need for a garbage disposal in UK sinks, because most local councils recycle food. The UK already has a sales tradition pre Christmas, post Christmas, January, Easter/Spring, Summer and Autumn, designed to get rid of unwanted and or left over stock, plus most shops have constant bargain bins and reduced shelves. If you do see a Union Flag on a building then it's usually a government building. One thing I've just thought of most UK front yards or gardens have walls or fences either side and occasionally at the front, never totally open.
I'm surprised corn dogs weren't included in this video, I've never seen those in the UK, but just like spray cheese, they don't really appeal to me personally!🧀🧀🧀
Wow Amanda. When you were talking about eating spray cheese with Ritz crackers.. 😋 Sounds delicious!! I really got the munchies now 😊 .. Lol 4th of July.. Amanda's neighbours were curtain twitching "Oh it must be her birthday.."😅
My mum's house had a waste disposal unit. But we are encouraged to recycle food waste. Also shoving everything into the sewer system is discouraged by the water authorities.
There’s was 2 items I remember buying in Los Angeles in 2003 We’re adidas track pants with press buttons all the way up the leg and plastic bag of froot loops Cereal by post company I think 🤔.❤️❤️😘
When I lived in Poland I saw Black Friday take hold. It even became Black Weekend or Black Week. Commercially successful American traditions tend to be exportable. Massive adult Halloween parties now take place in the UK, often in fancy dress. Trick or treating has become popular among children. It's a long way from the 'Penny for the Jack O' Lantern' tradition. I was forbidden to do that because my parents regarded it as begging.
From QI.. Reginald D. Hunter: (Impassioned and hilarious rant about Marmite) Stphen Fry: ...(perfectly timed pause)....."And this from the country that gave us spray-on cheese"..
I wish us here in Britain where a bit more patriotic and flag waving like USA. We're unfortunately brought up to be ashamed of our country. Which is strange because we invented pretty much everything and every sport. We ended slavery and even policed the seas to try and stop others from doing the evil trade. But that fact is for some reason not widely known. For a small island off mainland Europe we punch way above our weight. Are we perfect? No. But we're still Great. As Al Murray says "the clues in the title." 😂 great vid as always.
I was excited when Amazon here in AU was going to have it's first Black Friday sale, I had been saving up for a camera and heard so many stories of people getting massive deals, the few cameras I was looking at where a measly $100-200 off, no where near the $500-1000 off I'd heard from US people, that's why black fridsay or cyber Monday doesn't work anywhere else, no shops are willing to offer such huge deals, so it's not really worth the hassle of going to a store and waiting or getting online at 7am to be first in.
Yeah, the big tech corps usually reserve a set amount of discount per store and every penny sold above that number costs the store money. That's why the stock is very limited and many brands don't even bother having a black friday campaign, it's simply not worth the money.
I have noticed American sports always have the national anthem before the game no matter what level it is at. Other countries only have their National Anthem for International games and spectators actually sing their Anthem but Americans seem to just stand with their hand over their hearts and hardly ever join in. Cheers from Scotland.
to me the biggest issue with garbage/food dispoals is the fact so much food is thrown in then. There seems to be no 'its on my plate so I will finish it' or, 'I will save it for later or use it as leftovers for something else'. IF you really need to throw some food out then get a proper mulch/manure pile going to create some fertilizer for your garden. I believe a lot of the whole throwing food away ethos comes from seeing it done in films and TV series. I cannot remember the last time I saw on TV something based in the Us where they actually finished the food on their plates.
Well done for still celebrating July 4th even tho you now live in the UK. I’d do the same if I lived in the US & wanted to celebrate Firework Night etc.
black friday ,, the day where everyone goes mad to buy items for the price they were before the store raised the prices the week before and before they reduce prices the week after
Amanda,The flag waving thing is ingrained in British ( until recent years) that flag over saturation is what the extremists do, as in USSR or 1930s Germany. So it is a no, no in Britain. As for your cheese spray you can get them in UK, but if you want a fix why not get Tic Tac cracker biscuits with cheese already inside them? - try them you might like them as the soft cheese is already in the cracker. ( they are in a cheese yellow wrapper with black writing Tic Tacs!)
Waste Disposal Units banned in the UK? Someone forgot to tell every plumbing retailer I can find online, they all sell them. As for the sewage plant, what they receive is organic matter, something they are already quite adept at dealing with. It all ends up as compost either way. Oh, and drugs are advertised very widely; anything that doesn't need a prescription, pretty much. However, there are restrictions as to the time of day.
😃We've garberators and university sports too, and our Thanksgiving is in October, Amanda.We don't get the lawyer and medication ads (by law), but we're starting to get the Black Friday ads, which make no sense. The flag thing was always something that was noticed, and felt actually weird, whe we drove or rode (motorcycle trips) to the US. And our school buses are the same colour-probably because both countries are so big, they needed recognition. Good video. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada
I’m a New Zealander, and our main industry is turning grass into sheep and cattle and cattle by-products. Nevertheless, we haven’t got around to putting cheese into spray cans; so the first time I went to America (back in the 1970s) I went on a month-long bi-coastal spray cheese bender. Then I went to Britain, and had to go cold turkey on spray cheese. I’m honestly surprised New Zealand doesn’t make spray cheese by now, though. We do have some medical advertisements - mainly for shingles vaccine, anti-asthma spray and some gastric reflux remedies. But no ads from actual doctors. I actually like seeing the stars ‘n’ stripes flying from US post offices and government buildings - the colours are cheerful and so is the design, and being reminded that you’re in a realm of great material abundance is uplifting. I’m not so keen on seeing the flag in the suburbs, though. The comforts of US suburbia pretty much don’t need any further advertisement. I encountered a pack of single-shot sized party cups made of red and white plastic in my local supermarket this afternoon, so we have those here. Mixed feelings about it, though: don’t we have enough un-biodegradable plastic waste already?
No! We _do_ have garbage disposals in the UK. I have one! They’re not as common as in the US, but many people here do have them. Oh and of course we have a different name for them, we call them waste disposal units.
Garbage disposable is not just in the USA. I have one, but it's stopped working. It seemed a good idea at the time, but can't recall ever using it as I don't generate much waste.
Biggest "college" sport event in the UK..... the Oxford v Cambridge boat race? (Discuss). In Scotland we've had Black Friday for many, many years - this was the Friday before Christmas when it was the busiest time for Christmas nights out for offices etc and it would just be chaos.
I remember a few years ago,a series was made called lethal ŵeapon based on the films,the riggs character used to eat spray cheese from the can in that series,in pizza hut and harvester if you order a soft drink you can have a refillable,your given an empty glass and can fill it from the drinks dispenser as many times as you like,you have lovely teeth amanda,lovely eyes too,hope you have a fantastic week!
@AMANDA RAE thank you, im good now,went to the hospital because I had problems with kidney stones before and got scanned 5 weeks ago 2 were left out the 4 I was x rayed and scanned on Friday,they were gone😊🙂
Think it was you Amanda, wandering round the front garden drinking a bottle of bourbon in a brown paper bag yelling "Down With The British" that may have caused your neighbours some concern last july 4th, 😂 of course im joking, marvelous reaction as always Amanda, thank you ☺
You must have been here 11 years now, surely :) As for the garbage disposal, I stayed with my brother in law for a while in the Costa Del Sol in Spain. His kitchen sink had a garbage disposal. I'm sure it was part of the fixture and fittings with the apartment complex. So I doubt it's US only.
Other things I found only in USA (10 years ago) Separate laundry rooms, drive-thru coffee shops (some in the UK now), Drive-thru banks, drive-thru pharmacies, ok pretty much drive-thru everything LOL
December 10, 1868: the official birth date of the world's first traffic light. It was installed at Parliament Square in London. The system was composed of two mobile signs attached to pivoting arms that were manipulated by a lever. The post was topped with a gas-lit semaphore to ensure visibility.
Flags..? Mmmmm.. I think the information that no other country flies flags as a matter of course, is a little London-centric in regards to the UK. London being pretty much the only place in the UK that doesn't have a majority of British born people living or working there. I live in a rural village. And there's plenty of Union or indeed St. George flags hanging from houses around here.
Another correction Amanda, One hundred fifty years ago in December 1868, the first traffic light in the world was installed in London outside the British Parliament of Westminster. Using railway signals as a reference, rail engineer John Peake Knight designed the first traffic light used to control traffic.
A torch don't count
They were gas-powered. The first electric traffic lights were in the US in the 1910s.
@@davidz3879 Does it really matter how they were powered? A traffic light is a traffic light. I believe cat's eyes were first used in the UK too.
@@barrymitchell6444 The video should say that the first traffic lights were invented in the UK & powered by gas & that electric ones were invented over 40 years later in the US.
@@davidz3879 I agree that would have been more informative and helpful. But traffic lights were still used in the UK first!!!
I can. I was in the Rugby League club at Uni. We regularly pulled huge crowds of 6 or even 7.
Hi Amanda. The most important college game here in the UK is the Oxford v Cambridge boat race on the River Thames between Putney Bridge and Chiswick Bridge and a distance of just over 4 miles. Consists of a Men’s Race and a Women’s Race. Very popular with many lining the banks, usually drinking, and on the bridges. A televised race with BBC having the rights to broadcast the event. The 2023 event was held in March, timing often depends on tides, this course is on the tidal Thames.
i've heard about it but i've never seen it
I watch it on TV most years. Cambridge won both this year.
It's only important to those 2 universities , to the rest of us it's a matter of supreme indifference.
@@philipmccarthy6175Dont talk rot.. it IS popular because it’s been televised for YEARS.. the viewing figures prove it don’t let your petty jealousy make you look stupid.. ( well anymore than you naturally are ..🙄) 🇬🇧
I was in Boston one time and notices a lot of flags flying from every house in a suburban street.
I asked a local what the special occasion was.
He looked at me like I was sub-normal.
Closer inspection revealed that the flags were decidedly worn and faded. Apparently they hung there all the time.
I don't think I have ever even owned any sort of Australian flag.
Oh my!
A couple of days ago I was thinking to myself what the combination of Amercian and British accents would sound like.
And then I stumble upon your videos.
My curiosity is fulfilled and I've subbed.
Cheers!
Oh my god.. the stuff of nightmares surely.. they’ve butchered the English language enough.. 🙄🇬🇧
The closest the UK gets to college sports is the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. (On national tv.)
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I always support Cambridge because my late father went there.
I have never heard of solo cups or ever noticed them in American films or TV shows, you learn something new every day!
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Have to say, I live in the states and was born here, but find a lot of things done here to be quite culty. I mean to start your day essentially giving up your life to your country. Then there are flags everywhere. Finally people talk of the country as if every other country is a third world mess and you are only free here. When depending on perspective, other countries offer more freedoms and protections.
Wish we were allowed to be as patriotic in England. I'd love to see the English flag everywhere. Most people don't even know our flag, as it's so rarely seen. (Red cross, white background)
But, yes... the USA is insular, and Americans seem to have it instilled into them that their country is the best and most important one on the planet. Just another country to me.
For kids to have some common ritual starting the day is not a problem. The words used however are not suitable IMHO for children.
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
This is pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth, it doesn't make sense. Especially when the Republic itself is also pledged to.
One Nation under God? That was inserted in the 50s as part of the Red paranoia. If the last sentence means anything, that shouldn't ever have been there.
How can an atheist enjoy "Liberty and Justice for all", when the whole country is pledging allegiance to something you reject?
I don’t see much liberty and justice for women in southern states any more
You shouldn’t have to pledge yourself to anything until you are old enough to understand what it means, IMO
Even Americans don't seem to realise that their casual use of 'the flag', usually results in them violating the constitution of the USA. The constitution states that using 'the flag' , in a disrespectful way, ie incorporating it in the design of sporting apparel, would be considered offensive. Despite this almost ALL schools, colleges etc., INSULT their flag by using it in this way. If even I , a humble Brit, who doesn't have this level of responsibility can understand this, WHY do Americans, who set such store by respect for ' the flag' . NOT understand it?
I've heard the garbage disposal thing mentioned before but, although I cannot speak for the rest of Europe you can have them here in the UK. I've owned two houses both of which had them. My current house has one though I fitted that myself. Available from Screw Fix etc. As for school busses, although we generally don't have a dedicated style of bus, we do, depending on where you live have school busses. Where I grew up they had and still have a couple of double deckers painted bright yellow that are only used to transport kids to school. And currently where I live now they have three single deckers that they use exclusively to transport the kids though they're painted purple.
Black Fridays actually called that because the months before most business books go in the red. Black Friday came along as the beginning days before Christmas that put businesses back in the black.
I would add that at 8:00 for Black Friday I noticed them sometimes on some online stores like Steam but never had any extra problems (except huge discounts). But we never have anything like that in proper stores.....
The Black Friday one doesn't surprise me. The thing to remember is that the Thursday before Black Friday is one of our national holiday and we get Friday off as well, so most of the country is off from work on that day which makes it easier for us to go to the sales.
Cheese in a spray can is a crime against humanity.
loL!
As for school buses yellow is used here in Canada. It is more of a golden yellow than the color you mentioned.
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Small correction: Black Friday is so called because sellers make lots of money, going into the "black" rather than the "red". So, it's not so much about black and blue. Thanks for another great one.
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@@LADYRAEUK plus it's the only day off some of them get .
That is what I had heard in the past, that is when the shops went into profit.
No it's not. It was originally called "black" because it was one of the busiest days for the emergency services. It's been "rebranded" though to give it a more positive spin.
Our kitchen is 21 years old and we have a garbage disposal unit (It is called an Inksinkerator!!). In that time it has gone wrong twice. The first time it "broke" I phoned up and was asked if I had pressed the reset switch. I hadn't as I didn't know it had one so I pressed it and it worked again. The second time it seemed to jam up. I phoned up again and they said "Oh yes I can see you had a problem x years ago so is it something different this time?" I was told to turn it off at the mains, take the spanner that came with it and wriggle it backwards and forwards a few times. Fortunately I remembered where I had put the spanner and again it was working. The only time they actually came out was when we had them fit a magnetic switch in the unit. We have not used it properly for over two years now as the council started to collect food rubbish once a week with the dustbin collection. I do give it a spin every now and again as we cannot put wet food waste in the food bins.
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Three things:
1) An annoying thing about the medication ads is that half the time they don't say what it's supposed to treat, so you have to google it and find out, no, you aren't a menopausal woman so you don't need that medication.
2) If spray cheese isn't 51% cheese it is sometimes labeled as "processed cheese food" which sounds like something that cheese eats.
3) The free refills are generally only for things like coffee or soda. If you're drinking alcohol, you're paying for every one.
That’s a great point about the ads!
Brit living in Australia here. Most of these might only exist in the US but there are a couple of exceptions. Sink mounted garbage disposals were around in the UK for a while in the 80s and 90s but never really caught on. I remember ordering a new kitchen and it being an option but the sales person not even bothering to push it because hardly anyone bought one.
And the other exception is lawyer ads. You’d see them now and then in Britain, and I remember John Culshaw doing a Gladiator/Claims Direct sketch on Dead Ringers, but down here in Australia lawyer ads are pretty common. Might not be as common as in the US but I can name at least five solicitors firms in Australia/Melbourne just from their TV ads being on all the bloody time. I’ve also seen them in the lifts in a hospital when visiting my wife, which I felt takes ambulance chasing to a new level.
In Sweden there are sometimes ads on tv for different medications . Pain relief or for an upset stomach or something
Those red plastic cups (also in blue or gold) have been available here for a long time. Tesco often sells them as do many smaller stores. I have been buying them for several years. The clear less durable cups have been available for many years.
Take two Ritz biscuits, but a few thin slices of cheddar cheese between them and eat it, delicious. When you can have 100% good quality real cheese, why would you want spray cheese????
Nostalgia lol
I remember my uncle having a garbage disposal in Manchester back in the 1960s. Seen a few in Britain but have to admit not recently. I remember the complaint that it had eaten the teaspoon on a fairly regular basis
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We do have food disposal thingies sold here in Latvia. Both in DIY stores and online. Sure, not everyone have them, but they are available.
What baffles me about America is.
These HOA's for a country that values freedom it baffles me why anyone would want an organisation telling them what they can or cannot do with their own home
What baffles me about euros is they think everything is 100%. HOA's are generally a gated community. Most people do not live like that.
As for you, you need to talk to the government to remodel, make improvements or whatever. WE DO NOT.
@@joeysausage3437 82% of new homes in 2021 were hoa, 67% in 2022....so over half of new houses and more and more are getting added in older neighborhoods too.
As opposed to what? Parish Councils? So called Conservation Areas are slapped down wherever they feel like.
Garbage disposal also in England , but not in homes. Hospital kitchens large food outlets have hem
I went to Home bargains the other day and they had solo cups .
Hello Amanda I hope you are enjoying the nice weather this weekend i too was thinking about the yellow school bus
I did thank you, hope you’ve had a good one 😊😊
@@LADYRAEUK yes i did ❤
Lawyer ads for most legal stuff, yeah, but there are plenty of lawyer ads in the UK for "where there is blame there is a claim" type ads for lawyers.
With the sports, colleges here are very different to the USA. Most colleges dont even have sports teams.
And free refills are quite common with certain chains in the UK with soft drinks. Harvester & Nandos are well known for it.
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Yellow school busses are also used in Dubai or better said UAE since all Emirates use it.
With the flags i live near a town that displays the st George's cross all the way through town
Good for them. What's the town?
@@Psmith-ek5hq North Stifford in Essex
I bought some spray cheese when first in the US, kids loved it on nachos, expensive to buy in the UK, so now always bring some back with me, when we go
My son has a waste disposal unit in his kitchen. They are not unknown in the U.K. we also have solo cups. I’ve seen them for sale in Wilco and they are red.
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Amanda, Strangely enough the yellow school busses are actually owned by a UK company (National Express), so whilst sort of an American Icon, they are a British owned American Icon
I'm from Denmark and if I am not mistaken, I think we have the oldest flag in the world and we are also very patriotic. Many houses have flag
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We usually do not have school buses in the UK.
Our public transport is very good, compared with the USA, so most school children will use it - if their parents don’t take them by car.
They provided buses at my secondary school, it was all boys & we kept starting fights on "normal" buses
Rubbish.. we’ve always had school buses.. 🙄🇬🇧
When you mentioned the Yellow school buses, i remember that in the USA they have the Greyhound buses i think mostly used for long distance trave, is that still the case Amanda ?
Yep :)
Hi sweetheart ❤ that was a fun video and I've never come across spray cheese here in the UK. Also the notion of having white teeth making you seem smart is silly since there are lot of bell ends with white teeth.
Hahah true
We don’t need canned cheese , we produce some of the best artisan cheese in the world .. as good as if not better than France ..as to the teeth obsession the yanks have, yes they’re white but are they there own and if so are they strong and healthy ..!!! I doubt it..🙄🇬🇧
We have yellow school buses in Canada, as well as Solo cups and free refills.
According to an article authored by Ben Zimmer, “The Origins of Black Friday” Nov 25, 2011, “that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season, beginning on the day after Thanksgiving.”
So now you know “the rest of the story” (sorry Paul Harvey)
thanks! :) hope you're well
@@LADYRAEUK oh yeah very well indeed
Amanda
I believe that it used to be illegal in the UK to fly the flag without permission - don't know why (or even if it's true!!) but it would go some way to explaining why we don't fly them as often as the US
Ah I've never heard that before but it would make sense :))
It's not actually illegal to fly the flag without permission in the UK, though it is illegal to fly a flag that is tattered and torn. However, if you are flying a flag, you can be asked to take it down by the local council, but there has to be a good reason.
It's never been illegal to fly a flag in the UK. It's frowned upon if it's upside down. And I think it's meant to be illuminated if flown at night.
You do not require to fly the flag of any nation on your property, but you you do need advertisement consent to fly any flag other than a national flag.
I have noticed that many houses in Denmark fly a national flag.
When I was a girl, my dad was head of the area Co-Op, and there was a Co-Op flag, which was in fact exactly like today’s Pride rainbow blag. There was a flagpole outside their department store, and my dad had to ask permission from the council to fly the special flag. They turned him down, saying it was political. There is Co-Op party and it’s actually the third biggest in Parliament. Many Labour MPs are in fact ‘Labour Co-op’ as the party affiliated to Labour long ago, but still exists. Ed Balls was an MP for it. So they were a bit mean, but strictly speaking they were right.
That’s not really why Black Friday is called that. I have no idea why they said that in the video. It’s called that as that’s when the retailers make up enough sales to be “in the black” for the year, meaning they’re profitable beyond that day because they sell so much.
Amanda do you go to the annual NFL games in the UK/London? This year The Jacksonville Jaguars will kick off the 2023 NFL International Games on Sunday, October 1, as they play the Atlanta Falcons at Wembley Stadium, in what will be their landmark 10th regular season home game in London.
The London focus then shifts to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as the Buffalo Bills take on the Jacksonville Jaguars* on Sunday, October 8. This game for Jacksonville means they will play two regular season games outside of the US - a first for the NFL.
The following Sunday, 15 October, the Tennessee Titans will play the Baltimore Ravens, also at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the only purpose-built NFL stadium outside of the US, to wrap the 2023 NFL London Games.
I had dental braces fitted when I was in my late 30s. Every 2 weeks they were checked & adjusted. X-Rays, Clean & Polish. Check-ups. The Full Monty. After 4 years the braces were removed. All this was Completely free. Thank goodness for the NHS. I didn't even need to claim on my employers Private Medical Insurance, which carried an excess of £1K. I wonder, what would this all cost across the pond?
In the UK the medication comes with warning leaflets and if you're picking up your prescription, there's usually a warning label added as well.
The nearest we get to your spray cheese is Primula Cheese which comes in a tube like toothpaste.
The only college sport that is shown on television in the UK is The University Boat Race, between Oxford and Cambridge. I support Cambridge because that was where my late father went, besides they are ahead in times they have won.
No need for a garbage disposal in UK sinks, because most local councils recycle food.
The UK already has a sales tradition pre Christmas, post Christmas, January, Easter/Spring, Summer and Autumn, designed to get rid of unwanted and or left over stock, plus most shops have constant bargain bins and reduced shelves.
If you do see a Union Flag on a building then it's usually a government building.
One thing I've just thought of most UK front yards or gardens have walls or fences either side and occasionally at the front, never totally open.
I'm surprised corn dogs weren't included in this video, I've never seen those in the UK, but just like spray cheese, they don't really appeal to me personally!🧀🧀🧀
ah corn dogs is a good one!
I bought some frozen corn dogs in Lidl during their American food week. I won't be buying them again. Maybe fresh is best
Same thing exists here in Australia but it’s known as a Dagwood Dog. I’ve lived here over 15 years and still haven’t tried one.
Wow Amanda. When you were talking about eating spray cheese with Ritz crackers.. 😋 Sounds delicious!! I really got the munchies now 😊 ..
Lol 4th of July.. Amanda's neighbours were curtain twitching "Oh it must be her birthday.."😅
“Sounds delicious…” !!! ?? wanting to eat chemical “ cheese” I suggest you move over there in that case we have excellent “REAL CHEESE “ 🙄🇬🇧
@@Ionabrodie69 Ooh salty
My mum's house had a waste disposal unit. But we are encouraged to recycle food waste. Also shoving everything into the sewer system is discouraged by the water authorities.
There’s was 2 items I remember buying in Los Angeles in 2003
We’re adidas track pants with press buttons all the way up the leg and plastic bag of froot loops
Cereal by post company I think 🤔.❤️❤️😘
When I lived in Poland I saw Black Friday take hold. It even became Black Weekend or Black Week. Commercially successful American traditions tend to be exportable. Massive adult Halloween parties now take place in the UK, often in fancy dress. Trick or treating has become popular among children. It's a long way from the 'Penny for the Jack O' Lantern' tradition. I was forbidden to do that because my parents regarded it as begging.
I'm from Lithuania and medical products are advertised on tv all the time. (non prescription) Most commonly quick divorce lawyers on radio are common.
From QI..
Reginald D. Hunter: (Impassioned and hilarious rant about Marmite)
Stphen Fry: ...(perfectly timed pause)....."And this from the country that gave us spray-on cheese"..
Aussie here they call them red college cups, solo cups would clash with a soda brand, I don't remember them before Cosco came here Cheers
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I wish us here in Britain where a bit more patriotic and flag waving like USA. We're unfortunately brought up to be ashamed of our country. Which is strange because we invented pretty much everything and every sport. We ended slavery and even policed the seas to try and stop others from doing the evil trade. But that fact is for some reason not widely known.
For a small island off mainland Europe we punch way above our weight.
Are we perfect? No. But we're still Great. As Al Murray says "the clues in the title." 😂
great vid as always.
Lol love it 🙌
I was excited when Amazon here in AU was going to have it's first Black Friday sale, I had been saving up for a camera and heard so many stories of people getting massive deals, the few cameras I was looking at where a measly $100-200 off, no where near the $500-1000 off I'd heard from US people, that's why black fridsay or cyber Monday doesn't work anywhere else, no shops are willing to offer such huge deals, so it's not really worth the hassle of going to a store and waiting or getting online at 7am to be first in.
Yeah, the big tech corps usually reserve a set amount of discount per store and every penny sold above that number costs the store money.
That's why the stock is very limited and many brands don't even bother having a black friday campaign, it's simply not worth the money.
😭 Noooooo, "cheese" out of a spray can should not exist, everrrrr ! ... we've had this conversation Amanda ! 😂
Hahaha I know😂😂
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Noooooo…… spay cheese when it’s only half cheese???!
Lol to his explanation of black Friday!
I have noticed American sports always have the national anthem before the game no matter what level it is at. Other countries only have their National Anthem for International games and spectators actually sing their Anthem but Americans seem to just stand with their hand over their hearts and hardly ever join in. Cheers from Scotland.
to me the biggest issue with garbage/food dispoals is the fact so much food is thrown in then. There seems to be no 'its on my plate so I will finish it' or, 'I will save it for later or use it as leftovers for something else'. IF you really need to throw some food out then get a proper mulch/manure pile going to create some fertilizer for your garden. I believe a lot of the whole throwing food away ethos comes from seeing it done in films and TV series. I cannot remember the last time I saw on TV something based in the Us where they actually finished the food on their plates.
In the UK, pork sausages only need to contain 42% pork meat to be called pork sausages (Richmond sausages contain the bare minimum).
Richmond sausages look radioactive 🤑
Well done for still celebrating July 4th even tho you now live in the UK.
I’d do the same if I lived in the US & wanted to celebrate Firework Night etc.
black friday ,, the day where everyone goes mad to buy items for the price they were before the store raised the prices the week before and before they reduce prices the week after
Cheese may be eaten a lot in the USA but the term "cheese" is a bit dubious
lol!
Amanda,The flag waving thing is ingrained in British ( until recent years) that flag over saturation is what the extremists do, as in USSR or 1930s Germany. So it is a no, no in Britain.
As for your cheese spray you can get them in UK, but if you want a fix why not get Tic Tac cracker biscuits with cheese already inside them? - try them you might like them as the soft cheese is already in the cracker. ( they are in a cheese yellow wrapper with black writing Tic Tacs!)
Don’t you mean Tucs?
@@Jim230176 Them aswell 🫣🤣
There are medical adverts on TV in Germany.
Waste Disposal Units banned in the UK? Someone forgot to tell every plumbing retailer I can find online, they all sell them. As for the sewage plant, what they receive is organic matter, something they are already quite adept at dealing with. It all ends up as compost either way.
Oh, and drugs are advertised very widely; anything that doesn't need a prescription, pretty much. However, there are restrictions as to the time of day.
😃We've garberators and university sports too, and our Thanksgiving is in October, Amanda.We don't get the lawyer and medication ads (by law), but we're starting to get the Black Friday ads, which make no sense. The flag thing was always something that was noticed, and felt actually weird, whe we drove or rode (motorcycle trips) to the US.
And our school buses are the same colour-probably because both countries are so big, they needed recognition. Good video.
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada
I’m a New Zealander, and our main industry is turning grass into sheep and cattle and cattle by-products. Nevertheless, we haven’t got around to putting cheese into spray cans; so the first time I went to America (back in the 1970s) I went on a month-long bi-coastal spray cheese bender. Then I went to Britain, and had to go cold turkey on spray cheese. I’m honestly surprised New Zealand doesn’t make spray cheese by now, though.
We do have some medical advertisements - mainly for shingles vaccine, anti-asthma spray and some gastric reflux remedies. But no ads from actual doctors.
I actually like seeing the stars ‘n’ stripes flying from US post offices and government buildings - the colours are cheerful and so is the design, and being reminded that you’re in a realm of great material abundance is uplifting. I’m not so keen on seeing the flag in the suburbs, though. The comforts of US suburbia pretty much don’t need any further advertisement.
I encountered a pack of single-shot sized party cups made of red and white plastic in my local supermarket this afternoon, so we have those here. Mixed feelings about it, though: don’t we have enough un-biodegradable plastic waste already?
It always struck me as weird to trample each other to get cheap stuff, the day after you were so thankful for what you have.
IN AMerica our welders thing is Deep Fried everything from Butter to Candy Bars.
No! We _do_ have garbage disposals in the UK. I have one! They’re not as common as in the US, but many people here do have them. Oh and of course we have a different name for them, we call them waste disposal units.
Garbage disposable is not just in the USA. I have one, but it's stopped working. It seemed a good idea at the time, but can't recall ever using it as I don't generate much waste.
The US is the only country in which they're commonplace.
I have seen spray cheese in England it didn’t taste nice.
Biggest "college" sport event in the UK..... the Oxford v Cambridge boat race? (Discuss). In Scotland we've had Black Friday for many, many years - this was the Friday before Christmas when it was the busiest time for Christmas nights out for offices etc and it would just be chaos.
When I think of Cheese I never think of France first. I think of Cheddar, Wensleydale or Stilton….
I remember a few years ago,a series was made called lethal ŵeapon based on the films,the riggs character used to eat spray cheese from the can in that series,in pizza hut and harvester if you order a soft drink you can have a refillable,your given an empty glass and can fill it from the drinks dispenser as many times as you like,you have lovely teeth amanda,lovely eyes too,hope you have a fantastic week!
thanks mark! hope you're well
@AMANDA RAE thank you, im good now,went to the hospital because I had problems with kidney stones before and got scanned 5 weeks ago 2 were left out the 4 I was x rayed and scanned on Friday,they were gone😊🙂
Why are solo cups red? And why they called that?
I remember seeing a couple of Indian built yellow school buses a few years ago in Scotland
Think it was you Amanda, wandering round the front garden drinking a bottle of bourbon in a brown paper bag yelling "Down With The British" that may have caused your neighbours some concern last july 4th, 😂 of course im joking, marvelous reaction as always Amanda, thank you ☺
lol!! probably :)
@@LADYRAEUK The 4th of july was a loss for the British, why would we celebrate that ,in Britain?
@@stuartdean7470 ...a loss? More like a lucky escape! 🤣🤣
@@jeffgraham6387 Now, now. How else would Amanda be here?
I suppose the Oxford\Cambridge boat race is the closest thing in the UK.
televised every year
You must have been here 11 years now, surely :)
As for the garbage disposal, I stayed with my brother in law for a while in the Costa Del Sol in Spain.
His kitchen sink had a garbage disposal. I'm sure it was part of the fixture and fittings with the apartment complex.
So I doubt it's US only.
Free refills are for soft drinks, iced tea and coffee. NOT for beer, wine or hard liquor.
I always thought straight white teeth were false teeth. And, apparently, there is no dog at all in Hot Dogs.
I've heard that ! LOL
Other things I found only in USA (10 years ago) Separate laundry rooms, drive-thru coffee shops (some in the UK now), Drive-thru banks, drive-thru pharmacies, ok pretty much drive-thru everything LOL
We had a garbage disposal in Formby. My mum still has it
I think it's pretty cool they love college sports it's nice how much they get behind that
Definitely !
Some restaurants in Thailand give free refills.
You mentioned reciting the pledge of allegiance at school every day - that's another thing we, or least I, find strange.
A few people have said that 👍🏻👍🏻
College sports? mainly right but, think of the "Boat Race" and Varsity rugby too. Although the latter seems to be "dying a death" in recent years?
December 10, 1868: the official birth date of the world's first traffic light. It was installed at Parliament Square in London. The system was composed of two mobile signs attached to pivoting arms that were manipulated by a lever. The post was topped with a gas-lit semaphore to ensure visibility.
thanks for sharing :)
Hi I saw this and it said that garbage disposals are only in the USA but that not true I live in Australia and we have them 😂😂
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I used to have garbage removal in my sink in the uk
In the UK chicken pies only have to be 12% chicken...
In Thailandthey raise the Thai flag in every school at eight in the morning
Flags..? Mmmmm..
I think the information that no other country flies flags as a matter of course, is a little London-centric in regards to the UK. London being pretty much the only place in the UK that doesn't have a majority of British born people living or working there.
I live in a rural village. And there's plenty of Union or indeed St. George flags hanging from houses around here.
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Most UK people eat real cheese
Yep
Are braces a way out conscription into certain arrmi❤
Those plastic cups have been sold in supermarkets for as long as I can remember. I'm not sure where that bs came from 😂
UK is getting the refill thing now in many places.
The only spray cheese I've seen here in the UK is primula