@@johnchristmas7522 All that shit is a way to simulate classic fast food fries. McDonald's built their name not on their burgers, but their fries, which they cooked in beef tallow. In the '60s, a wealthy heart-attack survivor named Phil Sokoloff started a huge media campaign to ban animal fats despite having no science to back his position. The old fries were more flavourful and healthier, but the process has been banned for decades, so all that other stuff is used instead.
I have heard Americans say that public health service paid for by taxes is communism,. Yet a fire service paid for by taxes apparently is not , both are a benefit to the public.
Unfortunately, the NHS and almost all British public services are now used as vehicles for woke indoctrination. I know I was in one of them for 30 years.
JJ ... We Brits tend not to call them a French fries sandwich... We call them a "Chip butty"...and very nice they are too.😊 Either with a fair sprinkling of salt 'n' vinegar, or tomato ketchup...or whichever condiment "takes your fancy"!!
Same, pretty much, replaced the roof two years ago, it did have the original tiles from before 1870. Only replaced them because a bunch of tiles finally fell off after we were hit by 90mph+ winds.
Virtually all the things listed for the UK. List for Australia too, the US is so far behind the rest of the civilised world it's on par with 3rd world countries many 3rd world countries beat the US as far as affordable healthcare & worker rights. The work / life balance is geared to the people, in the US corporate greed rules. My house in the UK was built in 1820, I bought it in 1994 with the original slate roof we just had a few loose ones where the timbers had split, easy fix good for another 100 years
Chip with pizza. This is low grade ( even low class ) food. Young or poor people with lots of kids eat this. Roofs. We have mostly slates of tiles, but you build with what you have
My cottage is over 200 years old. I purchased it 10 years ago. The previous owner had a new roof, replaing the orginal one, in 2006. I don't think I'll need to worry about it in my lifetime.
Yeah we are the same here in Ireland. Solid tile roofs, not those tar sheet rubbish ones the US has. My parents home is almost 80yrs old and has never had any work done on its roof, outside of cleaning off the moss and replacing 3 tiles after a storm just last year ( neighbours bin literally lifted off the ground and landed on it ). I know people in the US who have had to replace their roof "tiles" twice since moving in and they think it is normal. Then again they also use so much wood instead of stone in the buildings that they have replace sections of the outside of their house every 20yrs. Its mental!
It is the same, here in Germany. Our house is from the 70s and the roof is still fine. The plastic lining under the insulation has become porous and needs to be replaced, but otherwise it is still in great condition.
My house was built in 1870, one of the newer ones in the village! The roof was replaced in 1983 just before we bought it, and the roof before it was made with stone tiles. There had been a grant to have your roof replaced and a few houses had their stone tiles replaced with concrete one. Luckily the previous owners chose a concrete tile that looks like stone. The joke is that the stone tiles would be reclaimed for houses in the villages that are more "picturesque" than mine. In other words, they did not need to be replaced really.
A Briton's first thought when confronted with a chip butty is not "seems like too much starch!" No, on this side of the pond it would more likely be "how quickly can I put myself on the outside of that?"
As long as the bread is buttered,and i mean butter, preferably normandy french then even in my best dress i would munch happily with butter dripping off my chin . Bliss.
@@priscillaroberts7945 cold butter, sliced some thin slices some not onto the thick cut crusty bread a days ration of salt drowned in tomato sauce............. sod it now i am hungry
I have just left hospital in Oxford having had a fractured eye socket repaired. I stayed overnight, was treated by 2 different consultants. After my discharge a motorbike messenger arrived at my home with a bag full of medication for my recovery. Total cost: £35 taxi fare to hospital; £0 for treatment 🇬🇧
@@Burglar-King National insurance guarantees 100% entitlement to any and all medical assistance needed, however expensive that might be, no one goes bankrupt over medical bills in the UK.
@@Burglar-King Even when accounting for National Insurance, it's vastly cheaper than America. Up to a certain threshold, the rate is 0%. Then, above that threshold, NI rates vary from 2% to 8%. So, for example, if you're earning, say, £2,000 a month then your NI will be about £50 to £100 a month and that's it. That pays for everything. In fact, "National Insurance" covers more than the NHS, it's really a payment for the whole Welfare State. So your National Insurance also goes towards unemployment benefits, housing benefits, child benefits and things like that as well. So, you know, how much are you paying for "social security", babe? Other countries have these payments too, but the UK system rolls them all into one - a single state-run insurance scheme. More over, in the UK, we have "Pay as you Earn" (PAYE) if you're employed, rather than self-employed. Basically, what this means is that your employer registers their employees with the tax authorities, the NI and taxes are calculated and then it's deducted from your pay automatically. So, for the majority of people, there is no actual act of payment. You can think of it as that the money was never yours - and you can see as your employer paying you this much and also paying the tax man another amount on your behalf. Indeed, I've always thought that they should introduce a law where, when advertising jobs, the annual salary should be specified minus taxes. Take away that remaining thought that the money was "yours". It never was. It never will be. No, you're being paid a wage and the employer is also paying an "employee tax" to the government on your behalf that covers your state-provided welfare. Also, of course, the NHS is not-for-profit. It's paying cost price. Like, $2000 for an ambulance in America. What are they putting in the fuel tank? Liquid unobtainium? Is the ambulance made out of gold? There's no way it costs that much. It's a massive mark up for pure profit, to feed all the parasites and vultures. Knowing that they've got a captive audience and an effective monopoly. Americans are being scammed. It really is as simple as that. The UK is an extreme, sure - but nowhere else on planet Earth charges as much as America.
@@klaxoncow Barely any NI Contributions go towards NHS funding. Most of NI is used for NAtional Pensions, with a little on 3 benefits (1 of which is almost unused due to being replaced). The NHS is mainly funded from Income Tax.
@@Burglar-King The are several videos on YT comparing the true cost of healthcare. On average, they agree that the UK pays 60% less for healthcare through taxation. In US that 60% would be profit for the providers.
I was in hospital for over a month in January 2023. Apparently I was near death when I was admitted. They kept me on Oxygen throughout my stay, fed me great food 3 times a day, and not once did they ask me for anything. All the staff were great.
Our house is 100 years old, and we recently lost a few tiles in a storm, but we just had the few tiles replaced. We have no expectation that we will have to replace the whole roof any time soon.
No, chips are not "French Fries". French fries are from the French "pomme frites". The skinny fries that you get with a burger. The industry standard for "Chip Shop Chips" is 15mm square.
Oh we have a "fuse box" in the UK too. Although most have been replaced with breaker switches that trip nowadays. The fuse in the plug prevents you from electrocution from the applience if something goes wrong. The fusebox/ breaker box protects you on a much bigger scale.
@DanPyjamas can be temperamental buggers though. i used to live on site at a workplace (before covid) and we had a communal living room. Was always fun playing dj on the fusebox at 3am while drunk people are running around flipping switches to see what kept turning all the lights off when nothing had been touched 🙄😆
The fuse is nothing to do with preventing electrocution lmao. It's to stop a faulty device from tripping the circuit or blowing the fuses in the breaker.... The point of failure is at the device level instead.
True. In the states though they rarely butter their bread for any kind of sandwich. Some use mayo. Plus US bread is, frankly, awful. And ridiculously expensive for anything approaching decent. You can pay an hour's worth of labour (at minimum wage) for anything close to good bread. No point in dollar vs pound amounts because the economies don't work that way.
I only have butter / marg on hot sandwiches, chip butty, bacon sandwich, toast etc as I don't like the taste / texture on a dry sandwich so I use mayo or salad cream 😊
I'm from the UK, and I think if we had hurricanes here, we wouldn't use big heavy tiles for our roofs, the idea of being whipped in the face by a heavy clay tile moving at 90mph sounds like it would ruin my day.
It definitely ruin your face a lot of people look like they already been hit in the face by a 90mph roof tile round here. Damm theres some right sights in my town
That potentially explains why they're using shingles in Florida, Louisiana, etc. but why are they using shingles in places that don't frequently get hurricanes like Michigan?
At the start, I think she may be overreacting to the usual internet trolls. I've watched a few of her videos and never got the impression that she hated the UK, in fact, more the opposite.
There are quite a few negative comments to some of her videos though so she has a point. I'm British and agree that she's never given the impression of even disliking, never mind hating the UK.
It tends to be new people who have never seen their videos before. Chris Broad gets it when he dares to criticise Japan even though he's lived there 10 years so he must like it!
I used to work for a pretty large Corporation in the U.K from 1980-1990. I worked on a full-time (35 hours plus 1 hour lunch) salaried position on what they called…Flexi-time. Flexi-time meant that I could come into work anytime between 8am-10am and leave work anytime after 4pm, so long as I made the hours up on later days or weeks. I could even take longer lunch times if I wanted to…again so long as I made up the hours on later days or weeks. Since I was in a management position, I sometimes had to work longer than 7 hours a day which meant that the company owed me either overtime pay (which they paid only in exceptional circumstances) or the extra hours that I worked as paid time off. I also started with 5 weeks vacation. But inevitably…I ended up with more time off due to the extra hours that I had worked. So, one time, I literally had 2 months off. So, I travelled all over the USA for 2 months!! 😂 Then I went to the US to work and I nearly fell off my chair at the interview when they said I would only get 2 weeks vacation time off! 😂😂😂
UK resident here. I've done a flexitime job before and loved it. We had a similar policy that you could accrue days off by working more hours. However, I was young at the time, so I mostly spent my accrued hours by having a short Friday; start at 10, have a 2 hour lunch,12 till 2, at the pub playing pool, and then finish at 4 and back in the pub! 😂
I worked flex time, salaried in America. The first year I got 4 weeks paid leave, plus 2 (or 4?) weeks paid sick live. Any unused paid leave could be carried to the following year. So if I had a week or 2 unused leave from the first year, I'd get 5 or 6 weeks paid leave, plus sick leave the second year. The maximum I could carry from a previous year was 4 weeks, I think, for a maximum of 8 weeks paid leave, plus paid sick leave. It might have even been a maximum of 12 weeks paid leave, but my work would have gotten behind if I had taken that much. Flex time was usually made up in the same day, though I guess it could be during the week too. I arrive early and leave early, or arrive late and leave late, or I could take a longer than one hour lunch and work late.
@@NoDollarCrolla When I was doing IT work in an office, those early Friday departures were my lifeline: Everyone else would clear out of the building, and I - having spent all my core hours that week sitting with head in hands wishing everyone would stop yacking and let me concentrate - could finally relax and start getting some work done! =:o1
I miss flexi time. I used to cram in my hours Monday - Thursday and used to alternate between Fridays off and half day Fridays, and I still had my 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Recently I had 10 days off work on leave, I was ill for 6 of the days. My manager insisted that I took my holiday days back and classed them as sick instead
My manager did the same for me when I had food poisoning on holiday. She also told me off because she thought I came back to work too early! Great person, really looked after her people. 👍
French Fries are scrawny things from McDonalds etc. Chips are what you lot call .home fries' I think. Everyone in UK eats chip butties. There are variations on the construction, but the basics are the same. My personal preference is Two thick slices of white bread, thickly buttered with real butter. Chips. Malt vinegar (brown vinegar) Salt. Mug of very strong tea. Other favourite fillings for 'butties' in the UK are: bacon with brown sauce (our bacon is different to yours - yours is repulsive.) sausages (english breakfast sausages I think you call them). fried eggs with a runny yolk (called an egg banjo) Cheese & onion Cheese & pickle (our sandwich pickle is difficult to explain. Google Branston pickle) Ham & pickle Marmite (very much a love it or hate it substance) Fish fingers (fish sticks I think you call them) We also butter the bread on our butties (sandwiches) whereas you don't. It's one of the reasons that although we have subways, they are not particularly popular - because they don't butter the subs and they put weird things in like meatballs. Also your gravy is terrible. Horrible grey stuff with bits in. Ours is rich & thick and dark brown. I once ordered a chip butty in a diner in Great Falls, Montana. The waitress thought I was joking, then realised I wasn't and asked how it was made. The cook came out to watch because he didn't think I was going to eat it. The only thing they didn't have was malt vinegar.
Everyone eats chip buttys do they? I haven’t eaten one since I was a kid and I didn’t much care for them then. The American gravy your talking of is “Country Gravy” or “Sausage Gravy” and it’s really just a bechemal with sausage and it really is quite good. They do have brown gravy but it isn’t talked about as much. Saying Subway isn’t popular is absolutely mental, they have 2,500 shops in the UK and are by far the biggest sandwich shop chain. To put that into perspective, McDonalds has 1270 restaurants.
@@pmc8451 Tesco sell more sandwiches in their meal deals than subway sell. Subway franchises in UK are notorious for failing. And if you haven't eaten a chip butty since your childhood, shame on you. I don't know a single person that doesn't eat chip butties, including even doctors, nurses and even a KC.
@@SatansSimgma I served a full career in the British Army. We worked a lot with US military and US journalists. We also went to the US frequently. All of them adored chip butties and adored a full English fried breakfast, especially our sausages and bacon.
Of course they would. Most homes in Scandinavia (including my house in Norway) are stick frame, and most (including mine) have roofing tiles. Even with a metre or more of snow on top, that weight is handled just fine.
There are many areas in the UK that do have large (2’ x 2’ square ) terracotta tiles, not only on houses but also on barns. North Hampshire/Berkshire in particular.
As a British guy who works in America very frequently the polar opposite attitudes to buses is something I found really stark. Buses in America seem to be seen by most as transport for people who can't afford a car, they're seen as rough places to be, risky, scary, dangerous even. In the UK a bus is a perfectly viable option for everyone, generally clean, reliable, good value, and everyone uses them, not just the poor. If you take a bus here it's not noteworthy, it doesn't cross your mind that you shouldn't. I took a bus in Atlanta and my colleagues thought I was nuts, "why didn't you take an Uber, are you CRAZY? You'll get yourself killed!" was the reaction. I didn't expect that buses would be considered almost a no-go area for many Americans. They weren't much more confident about the metro (Marta). That blows my mind, to have public transport and to be so fearful of it, something's very wrong with that.
I just watched a dr phil episode where a guy refused to get a jib cos he'd lost his licence and was embarrassed to take public transport. Wtf! I'm 64 and never had a licence! I'm not embarrassed to take the bus!
I’ve been to the USA several times. The only incident where I was frightened was in Kansas City, waiting for a bus. There were several people in the depot, outside I saw people shooting up drugs. The bus was not very clean. You had to be at the depot an hour before departure. The journey I took was only about an hour. On my return I took a taxi despite having a return ticket, it was only about $10 more expensive, took me to my hotel whereas I’d have to take taxi from the depot to the hotel.
@@toni6053 Interesting. I rarely use public transport. Nowadays the word assault can mean some one being accused just for brushing against another. Way back, 1960s when mini skirts were the rage, I was on a crowded underground train when someone put their hand under my skirt and grabbed my bum. I grabbed the hand and yelled out, "Who owns this hand? He’s got it under my skirt!" The man was bright red in the face and departed at the next stop.
When it comes to public transport one thing that usually gets missed is that when you reach 65 you can apply for what is called a Bus Pass. This allows you free travel on buses between 9:30 am and 11:00 pm Monday to Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. In some areas your bus pass will also get you a discount on rail travel. In some cities the first bus after 9:30 is jokingly called the Pensioners Special because many on it will be pensioners.
It actually varies. If you live in England you can get the Bus Pass once you reach state pension age which is currently 66 However, if you live in Wales, Northern Ireland or Scotland, you can get the Bus Pass once you turn 60 Also the time restrictions only apply to England, in the rest of the UK you can take a bus any time you want. What you cannot do however, is use the bus pass in one of the other countries in the UK. So a Welsh bus pass is only valid in Wales and so on.
@@irene-bn6fy 100 days in office trying to clean up the 14 years of incompetence and corruption of the last administration. Just how would you feel if when you were tasked with fixing a problem somebody else created that you were given less than 2% of the time that your predecessor had been given to create the mess? Something tells me that you would be screaming to all who would listen as to how unfairly you were been treated.
As a Brit that lived in the US for 10 years, I totally agree with her on the NHS, the Biggest fault with the US health Care is the Insurance Companies they soak their customers for every dime they can get out of them starting with Co-pay, I was lucky that when I lived in the US it was while working for a UK company which paid for my health insurance which covered EVERYTHING including repatriation a flight with a nurse for the princely sum of $500 a year through a UK insurance provider. On the construction of houses I agree we tend to build ONCE with Bricks/Blocks and mortar, and Roofing Tiles or Slates, not the flimsy stick/sheathing with Asphalt/Bitumen Shingle builds of the majority of US homes. And as for the Work Life balance my terms and conditions shocked my American co-workers, 28 days vacation a year this can be added to if you work national holidays, sick pay from day one (you do not have to find a replacement to cover for you, after all that is what Management is for) etc. The UK (Type G) plug has only one fault if you leave it lying on the floor it has a better than average chance of landing prongs up, and if you tread on one during the night going to the kitchen or what ever, THEY ARE DAMN PAINFUL.
Hello JJ, I'm a bit more depressed than usual about my beloved, old shambolic country and your vids cheer me up about it and cheer me up generally. You are charming, gifted and funny. Keep going and thank you.
It's quite simple really. The UK and many other countries have been around a long long time. Over the centuries we made a great many mistakes and bad decisions, but we worked together, we learned from them and we improved. Then came the wonderful US of A. It had no history of its own, but it was too arrogant to accept the knowledge and experience offered by others. So off it went, making all the same mistakes, all over again, ignoring and changing the tried and tested, claiming they new best. Occasionally they would come across something that did work. Often as not it was the way Europe and been doing it for years. But America would ignore history and claim it was their discovery. They're still doing the same thing to this very day.
@@wessexdruid7598 That's 2 out of 44 so moot point. Even though a couple of country names changed, there were still people living there for many centuries.
The "public transport" point is better for a reason not mentioned for obvious reasons, I have a bus pass specifically because I am disabled and not able to drive (other bus passes are available) I get this pass for free and I can travel by service bus anywhere in England (Scotland and Wales have their own bus passes). I can also buy a subsidised Rail Card for £20 per year and get 30% off rail fairs for two people, this works throughout Britain, I'm not sure about Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Your observation put me in mind of 2 things my Dad told me at an early age, and reinforced throughout his (unfortunately cut short) life - I'm English born, raised, resident and relatively well traveled. His work took him overseas, from direly underdeveloped nations, to the most advanced, for 3-6 months or even more, out of every year. The first was: the inside of factory in Outer Mongolia, is the same as the inside of a factory in Brazil or the US. He was working in Eastern Bloc Nations decades before the Berlin Wall came down. He reinforced this with, if you met a regular working guy, trying to house and feed his family as well as he can, of any nation, you'd probably enjoy a beer with them. At the time he cited Germans as the example, who Brits automatically disliked 2 generations after WWII (& still do now to some degree if they're honest - not all, but some). The second thing thing he reminded us to remember is that, for most people (especially in countries where the law has secular components and religion is State proscribed), Religion is an accident of birth. i.e. in Countries or families where faith is important, of course parents will raise their offspring in the Faith they follow. In fact, we are extremely lucky to be free to study, research, and embrace - or ignore altogether - whatever faith appeals to us or speaks to our individual Core Values the most. We are indeed ALL HUMANS, and most of our daily struggles and motivations are the same. Nice YT, thank you. 😊
Third pin in a plug is for the Earth connection; there’s a switch on the socket; the in-plug fuse should be at a lower rating than the appliance - if it blows, you haven’t got a dead appliance. So there are 3 safety features built into the plug alone!!
I just love the clouds in the UK. Summer clouds especially they almost look drawn on the sky, but any season really they’re friendly, stricking, dramatic; guess it’s one upside to all that rain. That and such a green lush country.
Road trips in the UK. The best road is Snake Pass or the A 57. It is beautiful and it is always the first road to close in wintery weather. There is a pub that is perpared for ' lock-ins' as it is easily cut off from the world due to snow. Then any road through the Yorkshire countryside, Scotland, Wales and most rural areas. I found rout 66 boring, but there must be better places to travel in the US. A fresh loaf that you slice yourself, lathered in butter then piled high with chip shop chips is to die for. Quite literally with all of that fat and carbs. But worth it. I could go on, but I would bore your legs off. So I will go. Sadly, I love your comments x
Replace our roof? My house was built 300+ years ago, two foot thick Derbyshire stone walls, heavy slate roof probably Welsh slate, it’s a tough beast! Warm in winter ‘cause the walls retain heat and cool in summer ‘cause the stone keeps the heat out. I’ve no plans to change anything major about the structure of my house, yeah I may lose a slate if the weather is really bad but that’s a rare event. I’ve been snowed in a couple of times and it’s a cosy place to weather the snowstorm 😀❄️
As a Londoner, I didn’t think twice about taking the bus to work when I was living in LA in the 1980s. My coworkers were horrified! 😮 I also used to love taking the bus from Hollywood High School (Hawthorn and Sunset) along Sunset Boulevard to the Pacific Ocean 🏄♂️ So different to our own dear British seaside ☔️
I remember when the Concessionary Bus Travel Act of 2007 came into force for the over 60s, two women travelled diagonally from Cornwall in the far southwest of England to John O’ Groats in the far northeast of Scotland on local buses. Not all in one day though! 🚌
Another thing to consider is that most UK households these days use oven-baked chips rather than peeling, chopping and frying potatoes at home. It's a much healthier way of cooking them, and has all but eliminated a big issue from the 70s and 80s - chip pan fires. We used to have a specific cooking pot full of oil with a wire basket when cooking chips, and it was very common for somebody to make a mistake (drunk dad on Friday night!) and cause the whole thing to catch fire, which at times could spread to the rest of the house - especially if you tried to use water to put it out.
In 2002 I stayed with a family in Ashford, Kent and they served me fish and oven cooked chips. 30 years ago, in the 1990's, I met an older British couple they were telling me that there was then a (white?) powder sprinkled on chips, before deep frying them and the powder kept the chips from absorbing as much fat as they would without the powder. I have no idea what sort of powder they were talking about. later I learned it might have been some sort of sugar, but I'm not so sure. Do you know what powder keeps chips from becoming too greasy when fried?
Nah, I'm still a chip-pan girl myself, though maybe my being a product of the 70's might have something to do with that! Unlike the death-trap versions of my childhood though, my own deep fat fryer is electric - those stove-top things are indeed just *asking* for trouble, as anyone who's seen the old chip-pan fire informationals can attest to!
@@ziggythedrummer i've had as many chip pan fires as fish and chip suppers. My way of putting out the flames was to put a basket full of frozen chips in it. Took nerve the first time but it quelled the flames instantly. The fat and the chips were unusable obv. Not for the faint hearted.
Regarding the roofing materials used here in the UK, you need to remember that our homes are made from bricks and not lumber. And the roofing materials eg Slate and the clay tiles are attached to the roof with nails and very rarely loosen. However when a slate or tile comes loose and comes off it’s normally a warning sign that it needs checking! On average a British roof tends to last 80-120 years (depending on build quality of the home built). The British chip nowadays are air cooled or done in the oven, which means they are a lot more healthier than the fries in the USA, especially because they are fried twice, so they run the chance of absorbing the fat.
The switch is in the socket, not the plug. My house was built in 1874. The roof needed fixing in the 1970s, so yes, 100 year roofs. UK roofing materials are clay tiles, concrete tiles or slate laid over roofing felt which is like your singles but about 3 feet wide on a role.
Our lovely red telephone boxes have mostly disappeared because of vandals and drunks using them as urinals. The boxes are being used in villages as places to leave books for others, flower displays, all sorts of things! We’re left with plastic three sided things where the phone lead has been cut, again by vandals.☹️
@@JJLAReactslots are used to house the Village Book & puzzle swap or a Defibrillator. Our village Book, Puzzle and DVD swap outgrew it and moved into the bus shelter , which it’s taken over 😂
@@JJLAReacts Some peeps buy them from the Hidden Phone box Graveyard (in Surrey), & utilize them as showers ... although I'd prefer a bit more space, myself, lol.
I live in a 300+ year old exfarm house. My roof structure is oak the main beam being an oak tree with the limbs cut off! We have a stone slab roof over 80% of the house and slate over the rest which was where lean to outbuildings were raised to two stories over 150-200 years ago. They have not been replaced, touched up periodically at the most.
Couple of points here, as a northern englishman Slate tiles are designed to deal with heavy rain which happens a lot at this part The 3rd plug pin is actually known as the Earth, which is another safety feature.
@@crazylizard1889 I live in the North, I'm 70 and have never had a driving license. I have a bus stop opposite my house with an average of 10 minutes between busses, which I don't have to pay for because I have a senior citizen's bus pass. What part of the North are you on about?
My childhood home was a council house built in 1950. (now usually known as social housing) Its never had to have any repairs to the roof. Also my grandparents house was built by the council in the early 1930s. Its still got the original roof.
Our plugs not only have the Earth pin and the fuse in the plug, but we do have the fuse board as well. This puts another layer of protection to stop us from being zapped by the 240v mains supply of the incoming electricity. It protects from a sudden surge and will shut your entire house down. If there's a faulty product within the home, it will pop the fuse in both the item and the fuse board. Making it easier to identify the dodgy product
I love that too! I think old buildings mentally connect us to the past and give us a more accurate perspective of how small we all are, in a good way. You’re in a great spot!
@@JJLAReacts There is a Saxon church near me that dates from ~700AD. But then of course there are Avebury, Stonehenge, Bronze & Iron Age hill forts & barrows, through to Georgian Bath & Devizes. The sense of history - and that we are just part of a cycle of life - is palpable.
@@JJLAReacts My town has a Norman Cathedral, Roman ruins (amphitheatre, baths and palace), the remains of a medieval motte and bailey, which still has archaeological digs, and lots of buildings from other periods (Georgian, Victorian etc), alongside more modern architecture. Lots of small, quaint older churches too.
I took it for granted that behind my house where I grew up was a Norman Castle with a Saxon Church and a Roman Lighthouse. At the time they seemed unloved and it was free to enter the grounds and pocket money price to enter the Castle. Now they have slapped a huge charge on and it is full of visitors.
Just a quick note about that top pin in the UK plug. That pin connects the appliance to a pole buried in the ground outside the house. Electrical systems are earthed in the UK to provide a safe path for electricity to flow into the ground in the event of a fault or overload (such as a lighting strike). This reduces the risk of fire, electrocution, and damage to equipment.
I have a 'chip pan'. I 'thrice fry' in beef dripping. Even my vegetarian cousin allows herself 'a pass' to experience the crispy exterior and fluffy interior of my golden chips, cooked to perfection. My mother was a formidable cook and even if I do say so myself, I am not too shabby either. Obviously, self-praise is no recommendation, but I have never eaten better chips than those which I make. I have experienced their equal - Blairgowrie chippy in Scotland and The Red Hut, South Shields, in England - but never a 'better' chip. It is an art!
Many Victorian houses about in my area, many with original slates 130+ years old. some have had the old wood trusses replaced but used the original slates.
Rooftops - We use thick concrete tiles for many rooftops. These vary but are usually around 2cm thick. Some roofs use thinner slate (btw, slate is a specific material made from a rock called slate), which can easily last a hundred years or more.
My house is one of probably 100s of 1000s of semi-detatched houses across the UK, especially England, in the 1920s to 1940s (mine is about 1935). It still has the original clay tile roof with some repairs over the years. Slates last even longer.
Right, if she lives in England, then she should know never to confuse fries and chips. Worse than that, she considers fries and chips to be the same thing. Shocking! That picture of a chip "butty" that she put up was not a chip butty. Granted, it was bread with chips in between the slices. But, there was no butter involved, so it was a chip doughy. It's only a butty when butter is used on the bread.
I owe my life to the NHS. I have had severe respiratory problems my whole life and have been resusicated more times than I can count, and I am not bankrupt or permanently in debt.
When you have your roof tiled in the uk (with slates etc) the roofers will usually make sure you have a stack of spare tiles, because over the years they do come loose or get cracked (we do have severe weather events in the UK - more and more nowadays, ty climate change) - you get a roofer to come replace them (or do it yourself) bish bash bosh, a roof that will last 50-100. our avg humidity is over 70 in the UK though, so mould, damp and rot are big issues
We say 'sick' meaning both throwing-up and feeling ill - ie. "I phoned in sick to work this morning" does NOT mean you just projectile-vomited on your boss via your telephone!
It's interesting though that "sick" is only used in a very specific work context "Dave's called in sick today"or a throwing up context "I've been sick". I don't know anyone in the UK that would say "I feel sick" and mean they've got a cold. It would definitely mean they feel nauseous
I appreciate the seasons with accompanying different colours/foliage, The National Trust, The Royal Horticultural Society, proper, real, safe food and the freedom to walk/roam pretty much everywhere within reason! I also enjoy the inexpensive air travel to so many interesting places in Europe.
Everytime I watch you in a video I think, i'd like to have a chat and a coffee with you. You're cool. In the UK you get grief if you don't take your holidays.
I am swedish and here we have some pizzas with fries on in. It is usually a pizza with kebab meat, fries, cheese and tomato as topping, and some sauce on top. Sometimes with lettuce on top of all that 😀 Taste great 👍
They tried to turn the UK into "Go Getters" in the 80's with all the Yuppies but they were met with howls of laughter and very impolite names. It didn't catch on except in London, which should be avoided if possible
@joannasimmonds3706 it is more fun to keep it spicy 🤣 But yeah i feel that. I had 4 hours this morning where I needed to try and focus on random things, but i couldn't get into the flow fully because 'issues'. Think I had a different personality everytime someone came up to me to ask me a question. There were even a few different nationalities unintentionally thrown in there too for the times I got bored of saying yes or no like a normal person 🤣
I have been off sick with since March. In that time I have had two pre booked holidays and have been given my leave back. I also still have leave to take that I haven't yet used.
the red bit on the plug is a fuse so if the appliance goes wrong the fuse blows and turns it off even if the socket is still switched on hows that for safe lol
There are good reasons not to use slate/tile roofs if you are likely to get damage from flying trees and things or the tiles themselves are likely to travel through the air like canon shells in a hurricane. For one thing if damaged they're cheaper and easier to replace. What I would point out though, is bitumen shingles are a bit old hat and there are better things that can be used instead with all of those same benefits that would both perform better and last longer - I suspect it's mostly down to that "this is how we've always done it though" thing.
The tax system is far better here in the UK. It's called P.A.Y.E. ('Pay As You Earn'). Your HR dept coordinates with Inland Revenue (our version of IRS), and your tax is worked out for you. If you get paid weekly, your tax is deducted weekly, and if you get paid monthly, your tax automatically gets deducted monthly. At the end of the tax year (usually 5th April), if you have paid too much tax, you get a refund. The only thing you ever have to be careful with, is to make sure you have the correct tax code (which determines how much you can earn before you start paying tax, and if it's too high, you get a nice refund at the end of the year). I've worked for many companies over the course of my life, and I've never had to work out my own tax. It's only really the self-employed who have to do that
I'm a Canadian that has lived in Scotland for 26 years. Our house has slate tiles - so far, we've never had to replace the whole roof (thank goodness), but during heavy winds or bad weather the roof tiles tend to crack and fall off the roof. This then sometimes causes leaks. I'd say that most roofing jobs here are just patch jobs.
You literally pay like $700 on average monthly so that if you have a medical issue you will have a cap, like you only have to pay 10k of your million dollar medical bill@@simonrobbins8357
Probably controversial but, I dont think anybody not born here, and having paid into the system for at least a couple of years should be able to use our NHS.
There's a reason that births are low at the moment, cost of living and housing costs are a big factor, the younger generations struggling to get into houses means thry are putting off raising a family way later, in the US you don't have a lifeline / safety net if you become ill or unemployed which ultimately helps contribute to the large homelessness problem.
I don’t know where the 100 year roof came from. The roof should last for the life of the building with good maintenance. Our house was built in 1776 and we have only just replaced the roof using the original slates.
When employers realise that potential employees are getting more demanding about time off, etc, i think they realise they have to go with it if they want to be able to attract the best people.
Mate, re chips with everything - in Wales we have a thing called "half and half" where you get a curry and have half a portion of rice and half a portion of chips with it and it's f****** class. Highly recommend 👌 Cymru am byth 🏴
70's school meals was bad so most of us went to local chippy fish (savoury) cake and chips 6p, curry rice and chips 7p, gravy chips peas and onion, 8p me an mate used to buy a small loaf 9p split it in half dig out white stuff fill it with gravy chips peas and onion,
Dude! Proper chips are like… each chip is 3-6 times the volume of a French/American fry. French/American fries go cold before the second hits your lips. The heat in the potato lingers longer in UK chips. Also… surface area to volume ratio. There’s a lot more fatty surface area in a French/American small-fry per ounce/gram than a proper chip.
It's a question of scale - once you visit the USA and/or Canada, you notice the vast area compared to here (UK) The numbers: The US has 5 times the population of the UK, but here's the shocking part; the USA 40 times the area - yes it is 40 times as big! In terms of density this means the UK has 720 people per square mile, but the US has a minuscule 98 people per square mile...
I love the nhs. I went into labour 6 weeks early. I gave birth, stayed in hospital a few days, my baby stayed there for a week. While I visited my baby I was fed 2 meals a day for free so I could stay all day. I was lent a breast pump till I got my own, I was so well supported. I will always be a big supporter of protecting our health service
I have to admit that I hate the term ‘quite quitting’ and people acting like it’s something new. It is just ‘work to rule’ which has been a Trade Union staple for decades. There is a pizza available in some take-aways that’s called a London Pizza, which actually has chips (fries) as one of the toppings. We don’t just have fuses in the plugs we have fuse boxes too, which are fuses for each circuit. So everything that uses electricity has at least two fail safes.
@@klaxoncow no, that was just a genuine error. I hate it because it makes it sound as though people are doing less than they were employed to do, when in actual fact they are just no longer doing more than they are contracted to. They are just upholding their end of the bargain and no longer allowing anyone further up the chain to take advantage of them. Which isn’t withdrawing from their job, as the term ‘quiet quitting’ may infer.
They are in 'Consumer Units' these days, which have trip switches for each circuit in the house. My unit has bout 14 trip switches and two semi-master switches (turns off power to half the house, so electrical work can be done but the kettle can still be boiled for Tea.) and one master power off switch.
@@Thurgosh_OG in essence, it’s the same thing as the old fuse boxes…just that bit more safe. You’d still say “have you checked the fuse box?” if something had tripped. Even my (retired for over a decade) electrician Dad, still calls it a fuse box.
plus the earth opening the live netural sockets then the switch to send the power to the plug and the wire hanging DOWN so you can not dislodge the plug by standing on the flex
US and the UK. One country took the "Three Little Pigs" to heart. Guess which country constructs wooden, flimsy houses with thick, tar paper for roofs.
When I stayed in LA and SLC for 6 weeks in 1968, the fresh food in supermarkets was really cheap - watermelon that was too heavy for me to carry, 30 cents. Loads of locally grown fruit and veg. Also, real estate much cheaper than UK - mainly because there is a shortage of land in UK - in cities, the land is extortionate!!
Just recently had my roof done here in the UK, it had been up fifty years. The roofer carefully stored the tiles, replaced the batons and beams. And then relaid the old tiles. His exact words were " you'll save money and new tiles are shit these days. They don't make tiles like yours anymore"
Re plugs - yes, you got all the good stuff on the plugs! Earth connection as standard; fused plug so you don't always trip your house electrics; made to survive an actual apocalypse; and solid connections. Quick edit as well: houses in the UK are often made to be much more durable than US houses. My parents owned a cottage in Cornwall that was: (a) built sometime in the late 1600s (yes, over 400 years old); (b) made of chunks of granite almost the size of mountains themselves - 2ft x 2ft x 4ft slabs in places; and (c) roofed with slates that were really thick, due to the Cornish fondness for high winds and storms... Mind you, even this cottage was considered a "new build" by some folk cos the church was built in the 13th century...
French Fries - Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt.
Chips - Potatoes, Oil, Salt.
Sad... just sad!
Whats all that shit?
Nothing better than a potato chip. Just fkn potato
@@johnchristmas7522 All that shit is a way to simulate classic fast food fries. McDonald's built their name not on their burgers, but their fries, which they cooked in beef tallow. In the '60s, a wealthy heart-attack survivor named Phil Sokoloff started a huge media campaign to ban animal fats despite having no science to back his position. The old fries were more flavourful and healthier, but the process has been banned for decades, so all that other stuff is used instead.
@@johnchristmas7522the ingredients list for US McDonald's fries
I have heard Americans say that public health service paid for by taxes is communism,.
Yet a fire service paid for by taxes apparently is not , both are a benefit to the public.
Correct a public health service helps benefit the public and helps benefit the economy too,
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I think they are confused with the word social.
As in that socialism equals communism.
@@stuartauld3193 yea that makes total sense..
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Unfortunately, the NHS and almost all British public services are now used as vehicles for woke indoctrination. I know I was in one of them for 30 years.
Our home in the UK had the roof replaced recently, however it was the original roof from 150 years ago.
Our roof was replaced just this morning. Not sure when it was last done, but it's the first time in 20 years at least
JJ ... We Brits tend not to call them a French fries sandwich... We call them a "Chip butty"...and very nice they are too.😊 Either with a fair sprinkling of salt 'n' vinegar, or tomato ketchup...or whichever condiment "takes your fancy"!!
Same, pretty much, replaced the roof two years ago, it did have the original tiles from before 1870. Only replaced them because a bunch of tiles finally fell off after we were hit by 90mph+ winds.
My roof was last replaced in 1920. It might need doing in a few years but it's perfectly fine right now.
Our roof in Derbyshire was 120 years old when we replaced it in January!
The chip butty is the greatest british invention ever just with real butter and salt and vinegar
Virtually all the things listed for the UK. List for Australia too, the US is so far behind the rest of the civilised world it's on par with 3rd world countries many 3rd world countries beat the US as far as affordable healthcare & worker rights. The work / life balance is geared to the people, in the US corporate greed rules.
My house in the UK was built in 1820, I bought it in 1994 with the original slate roof we just had a few loose ones where the timbers had split, easy fix good for another 100 years
The NHS is wonderful. They saved my life, then saved my left foot. In the US, I would definitely have lost the leg.
It WAS wonderful, now it is just another institution run along woke political lines
@@oldrenegade6363 ... and probably be homeless due to the cost!
Would have cost you an arm and a leg 😅
In Britain we read "The Three Little Pigs", and we really took it to heart.
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Chip with pizza. This is low grade ( even low class ) food. Young or poor people with lots of kids eat this.
Roofs. We have mostly slates of tiles, but you build with what you have
My cottage is over 200 years old. I purchased it 10 years ago. The previous owner had a new roof, replaing the orginal one, in 2006. I don't think I'll need to worry about it in my lifetime.
Yeah we are the same here in Ireland. Solid tile roofs, not those tar sheet rubbish ones the US has.
My parents home is almost 80yrs old and has never had any work done on its roof, outside of cleaning off the moss and replacing 3 tiles after a storm just last year ( neighbours bin literally lifted off the ground and landed on it ). I know people in the US who have had to replace their roof "tiles" twice since moving in and they think it is normal. Then again they also use so much wood instead of stone in the buildings that they have replace sections of the outside of their house every 20yrs. Its mental!
It is the same, here in Germany. Our house is from the 70s and the roof is still fine. The plastic lining under the insulation has become porous and needs to be replaced, but otherwise it is still in great condition.
My house was built in 1870, one of the newer ones in the village! The roof was replaced in 1983 just before we bought it, and the roof before it was made with stone tiles. There had been a grant to have your roof replaced and a few houses had their stone tiles replaced with concrete one. Luckily the previous owners chose a concrete tile that looks like stone. The joke is that the stone tiles would be reclaimed for houses in the villages that are more "picturesque" than mine. In other words, they did not need to be replaced really.
A Briton's first thought when confronted with a chip butty is not "seems like too much starch!" No, on this side of the pond it would more likely be "how quickly can I put myself on the outside of that?"
lol I love that phrase! 😂
As long as the bread is buttered,and i mean butter, preferably normandy french then even in my best dress i would munch happily with butter dripping off my chin . Bliss.
@@priscillaroberts7945 cold butter, sliced some thin slices some not onto the thick cut crusty bread a days ration of salt drowned in tomato sauce............. sod it now i am hungry
my first would be red or brown sauce
YOU ARE ALL MAKING ME HUNGRY AHHHHH
I have just left hospital in Oxford having had a fractured eye socket repaired. I stayed overnight, was treated by 2 different consultants. After my discharge a motorbike messenger arrived at my home with a bag full of medication for my recovery. Total cost: £35 taxi fare to hospital; £0 for treatment 🇬🇧
What about your national insurance babe. Get well soon x
@@Burglar-King National insurance guarantees 100% entitlement to any and all medical assistance needed, however expensive that might be, no one goes bankrupt over medical bills in the UK.
@@Burglar-King Even when accounting for National Insurance, it's vastly cheaper than America.
Up to a certain threshold, the rate is 0%. Then, above that threshold, NI rates vary from 2% to 8%.
So, for example, if you're earning, say, £2,000 a month then your NI will be about £50 to £100 a month and that's it. That pays for everything.
In fact, "National Insurance" covers more than the NHS, it's really a payment for the whole Welfare State. So your National Insurance also goes towards unemployment benefits, housing benefits, child benefits and things like that as well.
So, you know, how much are you paying for "social security", babe? Other countries have these payments too, but the UK system rolls them all into one - a single state-run insurance scheme.
More over, in the UK, we have "Pay as you Earn" (PAYE) if you're employed, rather than self-employed. Basically, what this means is that your employer registers their employees with the tax authorities, the NI and taxes are calculated and then it's deducted from your pay automatically.
So, for the majority of people, there is no actual act of payment. You can think of it as that the money was never yours - and you can see as your employer paying you this much and also paying the tax man another amount on your behalf.
Indeed, I've always thought that they should introduce a law where, when advertising jobs, the annual salary should be specified minus taxes. Take away that remaining thought that the money was "yours". It never was. It never will be.
No, you're being paid a wage and the employer is also paying an "employee tax" to the government on your behalf that covers your state-provided welfare.
Also, of course, the NHS is not-for-profit. It's paying cost price.
Like, $2000 for an ambulance in America. What are they putting in the fuel tank? Liquid unobtainium? Is the ambulance made out of gold?
There's no way it costs that much. It's a massive mark up for pure profit, to feed all the parasites and vultures. Knowing that they've got a captive audience and an effective monopoly.
Americans are being scammed. It really is as simple as that. The UK is an extreme, sure - but nowhere else on planet Earth charges as much as America.
@@klaxoncow Barely any NI Contributions go towards NHS funding. Most of NI is used for NAtional Pensions, with a little on 3 benefits (1 of which is almost unused due to being replaced). The NHS is mainly funded from Income Tax.
@@Burglar-King The are several videos on YT comparing the true cost of healthcare. On average, they agree that the UK pays 60% less for healthcare through taxation. In US that 60% would be profit for the providers.
I was in hospital for over a month in January 2023. Apparently I was near death when I was admitted. They kept me on Oxygen throughout my stay, fed me great food 3 times a day, and not once did they ask me for anything. All the staff were great.
I was in for 27 days in 2021. It is my best "holiday" so far ❤ 😂
Our house is 100 years old, and we recently lost a few tiles in a storm, but we just had the few tiles replaced. We have no expectation that we will have to replace the whole roof any time soon.
We had to replace our roof a couple of years ago, the roofers had almost finished when we had a fire and the house was completely gutted.
No, chips are not "French Fries". French fries are from the French "pomme frites". The skinny fries that you get with a burger. The industry standard for "Chip Shop Chips" is 15mm square.
Just to help clarify that measurement for our American friends... that's about 19/32 of an inch, or 1/13th of a banana
Yep you are right they call them Home fries... our normal Chips.
We got chips, and we got fries. Fries are thin, and tasty when done right.
Chips are chunky bastards and we absolutely love them
French fries are Belgian.
...and called a Home Fry in the USA if you are old enough to know more than 5,000 words.
Oh we have a "fuse box" in the UK too. Although most have been replaced with breaker switches that trip nowadays.
The fuse in the plug prevents you from electrocution from the applience if something goes wrong. The fusebox/ breaker box protects you on a much bigger scale.
@DanPyjamas can be temperamental buggers though.
i used to live on site at a workplace (before covid) and we had a communal living room.
Was always fun playing dj on the fusebox at 3am while drunk people are running around flipping switches to see what kept turning all the lights off when nothing had been touched 🙄😆
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The fuse is nothing to do with preventing electrocution lmao. It's to stop a faulty device from tripping the circuit or blowing the fuses in the breaker....
The point of failure is at the device level instead.
@@DeadlyDan ok thanks
you can even get replacement breakers, that fit into the old fusebox
My favourite thing about the UK is living in Wales 🏴
those 'shingles' are how we roof our sheds....
Felt roofing
They are popular in Arizona
Remember the key part of a chip butty is the butter!
A chip sandwich without butter would be a disaster.
That goes for all sandwiches.
True. In the states though they rarely butter their bread for any kind of sandwich. Some use mayo.
Plus US bread is, frankly, awful. And ridiculously expensive for anything approaching decent. You can pay an hour's worth of labour (at minimum wage) for anything close to good bread. No point in dollar vs pound amounts because the economies don't work that way.
@@neilmackay5655 Cheap US butter is a strange white thing and I understand not spreading it on sandwiches.
I only have butter / marg on hot sandwiches, chip butty, bacon sandwich, toast etc as I don't like the taste / texture on a dry sandwich so I use mayo or salad cream 😊
I'm from the UK, and I think if we had hurricanes here, we wouldn't use big heavy tiles for our roofs, the idea of being whipped in the face by a heavy clay tile moving at 90mph sounds like it would ruin my day.
It definitely ruin your face a lot of people look like they already been hit in the face by a 90mph roof tile round here. Damm theres some right sights in my town
A thin bitumin shingle flying at 100mph could easily decapitate you so I'd prefer the heavy roof tiles.
Remember 1987 & heavy roof tiles buried vertically into lawns.
We have had ex hurricanes though as my school was damaged by one.
That potentially explains why they're using shingles in Florida, Louisiana, etc. but why are they using shingles in places that don't frequently get hurricanes like Michigan?
the third pin on the plug, while it does help secure the plug is not it's primary purpose. It's an earth to help prevent accidental electrocution
At the start, I think she may be overreacting to the usual internet trolls. I've watched a few of her videos and never got the impression that she hated the UK, in fact, more the opposite.
There are quite a few negative comments to some of her videos though so she has a point. I'm British and agree that she's never given the impression of even disliking, never mind hating the UK.
After almost ten years she still doesn’t get British humour I suspect, silly cow.
@@Thurgosh_OG She may also delete some of the most negative comments.
It tends to be new people who have never seen their videos before. Chris Broad gets it when he dares to criticise Japan even though he's lived there 10 years so he must like it!
I used to work for a pretty large Corporation in the U.K from 1980-1990.
I worked on a full-time (35 hours plus 1 hour lunch) salaried position on what they called…Flexi-time. Flexi-time meant that I could come into work anytime between 8am-10am and leave work anytime after 4pm, so long as I made the hours up on later days or weeks. I could even take longer lunch times if I wanted to…again so long as I made up the hours on later days or weeks.
Since I was in a management position, I sometimes had to work longer than 7 hours a day which meant that the company owed me either overtime pay (which they paid only in exceptional circumstances) or the extra hours that I worked as paid time off.
I also started with 5 weeks vacation. But inevitably…I ended up with more time off due to the extra hours that I had worked. So, one time, I literally had 2 months off. So, I travelled all over the USA for 2 months!! 😂
Then I went to the US to work and I nearly fell off my chair at the interview when they said I would only get 2 weeks vacation time off! 😂😂😂
UK resident here. I've done a flexitime job before and loved it. We had a similar policy that you could accrue days off by working more hours. However, I was young at the time, so I mostly spent my accrued hours by having a short Friday; start at 10, have a 2 hour lunch,12 till 2, at the pub playing pool, and then finish at 4 and back in the pub! 😂
I worked flex time, salaried in America. The first year I got 4 weeks paid leave, plus 2 (or 4?) weeks paid sick live. Any unused paid leave could be carried to the following year. So if I had a week or 2 unused leave from the first year, I'd get 5 or 6 weeks paid leave, plus sick leave the second year. The maximum I could carry from a previous year was 4 weeks, I think, for a maximum of 8 weeks paid leave, plus paid sick leave. It might have even been a maximum of 12 weeks paid leave, but my work would have gotten behind if I had taken that much. Flex time was usually made up in the same day, though I guess it could be during the week too. I arrive early and leave early, or arrive late and leave late, or I could take a longer than one hour lunch and work late.
@@NoDollarCrolla When I was doing IT work in an office, those early Friday departures were my lifeline: Everyone else would clear out of the building, and I - having spent all my core hours that week sitting with head in hands wishing everyone would stop yacking and let me concentrate - could finally relax and start getting some work done! =:o1
I miss flexi time. I used to cram in my hours Monday - Thursday and used to alternate between Fridays off and half day Fridays, and I still had my 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Recently I had 10 days off work on leave, I was ill for 6 of the days. My manager insisted that I took my holiday days back and classed them as sick instead
My manager did the same for me when I had food poisoning on holiday. She also told me off because she thought I came back to work too early! Great person, really looked after her people. 👍
if you're sick, you're sick. Even if you're on leave. Why should you lose your leisure time?
French Fries are scrawny things from McDonalds etc. Chips are what you lot call .home fries' I think.
Everyone in UK eats chip butties. There are variations on the construction, but the basics are the same.
My personal preference is
Two thick slices of white bread, thickly buttered with real butter.
Chips.
Malt vinegar (brown vinegar)
Salt.
Mug of very strong tea.
Other favourite fillings for 'butties' in the UK are:
bacon with brown sauce (our bacon is different to yours - yours is repulsive.)
sausages (english breakfast sausages I think you call them).
fried eggs with a runny yolk (called an egg banjo)
Cheese & onion
Cheese & pickle (our sandwich pickle is difficult to explain. Google Branston pickle)
Ham & pickle
Marmite (very much a love it or hate it substance)
Fish fingers (fish sticks I think you call them)
We also butter the bread on our butties (sandwiches) whereas you don't. It's one of the reasons that although we have subways, they are not particularly popular - because they don't butter the subs and they put weird things in like meatballs.
Also your gravy is terrible. Horrible grey stuff with bits in. Ours is rich & thick and dark brown.
I once ordered a chip butty in a diner in Great Falls, Montana. The waitress thought I was joking, then realised I wasn't and asked how it was made. The cook came out to watch because he didn't think I was going to eat it. The only thing they didn't have was malt vinegar.
Everyone eats chip buttys do they? I haven’t eaten one since I was a kid and I didn’t much care for them then. The American gravy your talking of is “Country Gravy” or “Sausage Gravy” and it’s really just a bechemal with sausage and it really is quite good. They do have brown gravy but it isn’t talked about as much.
Saying Subway isn’t popular is absolutely mental, they have 2,500 shops in the UK and are by far the biggest sandwich shop chain. To put that into perspective, McDonalds has 1270 restaurants.
@@pmc8451 Tesco sell more sandwiches in their meal deals than subway sell. Subway franchises in UK are notorious for failing.
And if you haven't eaten a chip butty since your childhood, shame on you. I don't know a single person that doesn't eat chip butties, including even doctors, nurses and even a KC.
If my relatives had spent 1000 years living in a cold wet island, procreating with other relatives, I could see why you like that stuff.
@@SatansSimgma I served a full career in the British Army. We worked a lot with US military and US journalists. We also went to the US frequently. All of them adored chip butties and adored a full English fried breakfast, especially our sausages and bacon.
I'm not sure that a US home could hold the weight of UK style roof tiles
They absolutely wouldn't.
Is that because US homes are made of something other than bricks?
Of course they would. Most homes in Scandinavia (including my house in Norway) are stick frame, and most (including mine) have roofing tiles. Even with a metre or more of snow on top, that weight is handled just fine.
There are many areas in the UK that do have large (2’ x 2’ square ) terracotta tiles, not only on houses but also on barns. North Hampshire/Berkshire in particular.
those shed-houses, might be warm in the winter.. but ...
As a British guy who works in America very frequently the polar opposite attitudes to buses is something I found really stark. Buses in America seem to be seen by most as transport for people who can't afford a car, they're seen as rough places to be, risky, scary, dangerous even. In the UK a bus is a perfectly viable option for everyone, generally clean, reliable, good value, and everyone uses them, not just the poor. If you take a bus here it's not noteworthy, it doesn't cross your mind that you shouldn't.
I took a bus in Atlanta and my colleagues thought I was nuts, "why didn't you take an Uber, are you CRAZY? You'll get yourself killed!" was the reaction. I didn't expect that buses would be considered almost a no-go area for many Americans. They weren't much more confident about the metro (Marta). That blows my mind, to have public transport and to be so fearful of it, something's very wrong with that.
I just watched a dr phil episode where a guy refused to get a jib cos he'd lost his licence and was embarrassed to take public transport. Wtf! I'm 64 and never had a licence! I'm not embarrassed to take the bus!
I’ve been to the USA several times. The only incident where I was frightened was in Kansas City, waiting for a bus. There were several people in the depot, outside I saw people shooting up drugs. The bus was not very clean. You had to be at the depot an hour before departure.
The journey I took was only about an hour. On my return I took a taxi despite having a return ticket, it was only about $10 more expensive, took me to my hotel whereas I’d have to take taxi from the depot to the hotel.
Try living in South Dakota.
Assaults on women have gone up by 50% on public transport in the UK so you might feel OK but many many women don't.
@@toni6053 Interesting. I rarely use public transport.
Nowadays the word assault can mean some one being accused just for brushing against another.
Way back, 1960s when mini skirts were the rage, I was on a crowded underground train when someone put their hand under my skirt and grabbed my bum.
I grabbed the hand and yelled out, "Who owns this hand? He’s got it under my skirt!" The man was bright red in the face and departed at the next stop.
When it comes to public transport one thing that usually gets missed is that when you reach 65 you can apply for what is called a Bus Pass. This allows you free travel on buses between 9:30 am and 11:00 pm Monday to Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. In some areas your bus pass will also get you a discount on rail travel. In some cities the first bus after 9:30 is jokingly called the Pensioners Special because many on it will be pensioners.
It actually varies. If you live in England you can get the Bus Pass once you reach state pension age which is currently 66
However, if you live in Wales, Northern Ireland or Scotland, you can get the Bus Pass once you turn 60
Also the time restrictions only apply to England, in the rest of the UK you can take a bus any time you want.
What you cannot do however, is use the bus pass in one of the other countries in the UK. So a Welsh bus pass is only valid in Wales and so on.
we call it the "twilly pass" OAPs would say "am i too early?)
@@philiprice7875 Or 'Twirly'.
not for much longer with this government
@@irene-bn6fy 100 days in office trying to clean up the 14 years of incompetence and corruption of the last administration. Just how would you feel if when you were tasked with fixing a problem somebody else created that you were given less than 2% of the time that your predecessor had been given to create the mess? Something tells me that you would be screaming to all who would listen as to how unfairly you were been treated.
There are two ways of doing things. The British way and the wrong way!
As a Brit that lived in the US for 10 years, I totally agree with her on the NHS, the Biggest fault with the US health Care is the Insurance Companies they soak their customers for every dime they can get out of them starting with Co-pay, I was lucky that when I lived in the US it was while working for a UK company which paid for my health insurance which covered EVERYTHING including repatriation a flight with a nurse for the princely sum of $500 a year through a UK insurance provider.
On the construction of houses I agree we tend to build ONCE with Bricks/Blocks and mortar, and Roofing Tiles or Slates, not the flimsy stick/sheathing with Asphalt/Bitumen Shingle builds of the majority of US homes.
And as for the Work Life balance my terms and conditions shocked my American co-workers, 28 days vacation a year this can be added to if you work national holidays, sick pay from day one (you do not have to find a replacement to cover for you, after all that is what Management is for) etc.
The UK (Type G) plug has only one fault if you leave it lying on the floor it has a better than average chance of landing prongs up, and if you tread on one during the night going to the kitchen or what ever, THEY ARE DAMN PAINFUL.
Our plugs are great, but you've never stood on one, and that will change your mind 😂😂😂
Slate tiles, mined in Wales, are a very popular roofing materials and last for hundreds of years.
Do butter the bread for your chip butty so the hot chips melt the butter...ohh yeahh. If loving this is wrong, I don't wanna be right...
Chip butty FTW!
Definitely agree with you on buttering a chip butty 👍
Hello JJ, I'm a bit more depressed than usual about my beloved, old shambolic country and your vids cheer me up about it and cheer me up generally. You are charming, gifted and funny. Keep going and thank you.
Oh wow, it’s my pleasure! Best wishes to you for better times and being in a beautiful place surrounded by the best people. ❤️
It's quite simple really. The UK and many other countries have been around a long long time. Over the centuries we made a great many mistakes and bad decisions, but we worked together, we learned from them and we improved. Then came the wonderful US of A. It had no history of its own, but it was too arrogant to accept the knowledge and experience offered by others. So off it went, making all the same mistakes, all over again, ignoring and changing the tried and tested, claiming they new best. Occasionally they would come across something that did work. Often as not it was the way Europe and been doing it for years. But America would ignore history and claim it was their discovery. They're still doing the same thing to this very day.
The UK has been around only 317 years. Scotland is the oldest nation in the British Isles, founded around the later half of the 9th century.
Tickety boo, absolutely spot on! Great comment. Sums up the great USA perfectly 🇬🇧
@@Mark-Haddow Germany and Italy are much younger than the USA.
@@wessexdruid7598 That's 2 out of 44 so moot point. Even though a couple of country names changed, there were still people living there for many centuries.
@@Mark-HaddowThe kingdom of England was founded in 927AD. A lot earlier than 300 years ago, isn't it?
The "public transport" point is better for a reason not mentioned for obvious reasons, I have a bus pass specifically because I am disabled and not able to drive (other bus passes are available) I get this pass for free and I can travel by service bus anywhere in England (Scotland and Wales have their own bus passes). I can also buy a subsidised Rail Card for £20 per year and get 30% off rail fairs for two people, this works throughout Britain, I'm not sure about Northern Ireland and Ireland.
That’s a wonderful system! You’re in a great spot!
@ChrisShelley-v2g
Yes, disabled here in Ireland and also get free travel 🇮🇪
Your observation put me in mind of 2 things my Dad told me at an early age, and reinforced throughout his (unfortunately cut short) life - I'm English born, raised, resident and relatively well traveled. His work took him overseas, from direly underdeveloped nations, to the most advanced, for 3-6 months or even more, out of every year. The first was: the inside of factory in Outer Mongolia, is the same as the inside of a factory in Brazil or the US. He was working in Eastern Bloc Nations decades before the Berlin Wall came down. He reinforced this with, if you met a regular working guy, trying to house and feed his family as well as he can, of any nation, you'd probably enjoy a beer with them. At the time he cited Germans as the example, who Brits automatically disliked 2 generations after WWII (& still do now to some degree if they're honest - not all, but some). The second thing thing he reminded us to remember is that, for most people (especially in countries where the law has secular components and religion is State proscribed), Religion is an accident of birth. i.e. in Countries or families where faith is important, of course parents will raise their offspring in the Faith they follow. In fact, we are extremely lucky to be free to study, research, and embrace - or ignore altogether - whatever faith appeals to us or speaks to our individual Core Values the most. We are indeed ALL HUMANS, and most of our daily struggles and motivations are the same. Nice YT, thank you. 😊
Third pin in a plug is for the Earth connection; there’s a switch on the socket; the in-plug fuse should be at a lower rating than the appliance - if it blows, you haven’t got a dead appliance. So there are 3 safety features built into the plug alone!!
I just love the clouds in the UK. Summer clouds especially they almost look drawn on the sky, but any season really they’re friendly, stricking, dramatic; guess it’s one upside to all that rain. That and such a green lush country.
Road trips in the UK. The best road is Snake Pass or the A 57. It is beautiful and it is always the first road to close in wintery weather. There is a pub that is perpared for ' lock-ins' as it is easily cut off from the world due to snow. Then any road through the Yorkshire countryside, Scotland, Wales and most rural areas. I found rout 66 boring, but there must be better places to travel in the US. A fresh loaf that you slice yourself, lathered in butter then piled high with chip shop chips is to die for. Quite literally with all of that fat and carbs. But worth it. I could go on, but I would bore your legs off. So I will go. Sadly, I love your comments x
Replace our roof? My house was built 300+ years ago, two foot thick Derbyshire stone walls, heavy slate roof probably Welsh slate, it’s a tough beast! Warm in winter ‘cause the walls retain heat and cool in summer ‘cause the stone keeps the heat out. I’ve no plans to change anything major about the structure of my house, yeah I may lose a slate if the weather is really bad but that’s a rare event. I’ve been snowed in a couple of times and it’s a cosy place to weather the snowstorm 😀❄️
As a Londoner, I didn’t think twice about taking the bus to work when I was living in LA in the 1980s. My coworkers were horrified! 😮 I also used to love taking the bus from Hollywood High School (Hawthorn and Sunset) along Sunset Boulevard to the Pacific Ocean 🏄♂️ So different to our own dear British seaside ☔️
I remember when the Concessionary Bus Travel Act of 2007 came into force for the over 60s, two women travelled diagonally from Cornwall in the far southwest of England to John O’ Groats in the far northeast of Scotland on local buses. Not all in one day though! 🚌
Another thing to consider is that most UK households these days use oven-baked chips rather than peeling, chopping and frying potatoes at home. It's a much healthier way of cooking them, and has all but eliminated a big issue from the 70s and 80s - chip pan fires. We used to have a specific cooking pot full of oil with a wire basket when cooking chips, and it was very common for somebody to make a mistake (drunk dad on Friday night!) and cause the whole thing to catch fire, which at times could spread to the rest of the house - especially if you tried to use water to put it out.
In 2002 I stayed with a family in Ashford, Kent and they served me fish and oven cooked chips. 30 years ago, in the 1990's, I met an older British couple they were telling me that there was then a (white?) powder sprinkled on chips, before deep frying them and the powder kept the chips from absorbing as much fat as they would without the powder. I have no idea what sort of powder they were talking about. later I learned it might have been some sort of sugar, but I'm not so sure. Do you know what powder keeps chips from becoming too greasy when fried?
@@BrandonLeeBrown Probably Olestra - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra
Nah, I'm still a chip-pan girl myself, though maybe my being a product of the 70's might have something to do with that! Unlike the death-trap versions of my childhood though, my own deep fat fryer is electric - those stove-top things are indeed just *asking* for trouble, as anyone who's seen the old chip-pan fire informationals can attest to!
@@Tricia_K yep I remember the old PSAs very well! I had an electric deep fryer in the early 90s but switched to oven baking by the mid-to-late 90s
@@ziggythedrummer i've had as many chip pan fires as fish and chip suppers. My way of putting out the flames was to put a basket full of frozen chips in it. Took nerve the first time but it quelled the flames instantly. The fat and the chips were unusable obv. Not for the faint hearted.
Regarding the roofing materials used here in the UK, you need to remember that our homes are made from bricks and not lumber. And the roofing materials eg Slate and the clay tiles are attached to the roof with nails and very rarely loosen. However when a slate or tile comes loose and comes off it’s normally a warning sign that it needs checking! On average a British roof tends to last 80-120 years (depending on build quality of the home built). The British chip nowadays are air cooled or done in the oven, which means they are a lot more healthier than the fries in the USA, especially because they are fried twice, so they run the chance of absorbing the fat.
The switch is in the socket, not the plug.
My house was built in 1874. The roof needed fixing in the 1970s, so yes, 100 year roofs.
UK roofing materials are clay tiles, concrete tiles or slate laid over roofing felt which is like your singles but about 3 feet wide on a role.
lol enjoyed that, your face at our roof tiles being expected to last over 100 years loll. class.
Our lovely red telephone boxes have mostly disappeared because of vandals and drunks using them as urinals. The boxes are being used in villages as places to leave books for others, flower displays, all sorts of things! We’re left with plastic three sided things where the phone lead has been cut, again by vandals.☹️
I love that they’re being reused for books and flowers! Maybe if they’re beautified enough they’ll stop being peed on?
@@JJLAReactssome towns have phone boxes that contain defibrillators
@@JJLAReactslots are used to house the Village Book & puzzle swap or a Defibrillator.
Our village Book, Puzzle and DVD swap outgrew it and moved into the bus shelter , which it’s taken over 😂
@@JJLAReacts Some peeps buy them from the Hidden Phone box Graveyard (in Surrey), & utilize them as showers ... although I'd prefer a bit more space, myself, lol.
@@JJLAReacts 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I live in a 300+ year old exfarm house. My roof structure is oak the main beam being an oak tree with the limbs cut off! We have a stone slab roof over 80% of the house and slate over the rest which was where lean to outbuildings were raised to two stories over 150-200 years ago. They have not been replaced, touched up periodically at the most.
My house is about 80 to 90 years old . Old council house . And the roof is the same one it was built with. And it is still going strong
just replaced my roof as it had been patched a lot. it was 55 yrs old.
Couple of points here, as a northern englishman
Slate tiles are designed to deal with heavy rain which happens a lot at this part
The 3rd plug pin is actually known as the Earth, which is another safety feature.
I'm British, I'm 60 years old and have never had a driving licence. Always managed with buses, trains etc.
Go north. I dare you. 😂
Im from Lancashire...
I can confirm public transport is pretty grim...
But it's all we've got.. and god bless the NHS..
@@crazylizard1889 I live in the North, I'm 70 and have never had a driving license. I have a bus stop opposite my house with an average of 10 minutes between busses, which I don't have to pay for because I have a senior citizen's bus pass. What part of the North are you on about?
@@crazylizard1889A lot of us don't mind walking more than 1 minute. Hard to understand for drivers, I know.
I'm 50 and never learned to drive, so far it's been unneccessar.......damnit, I can NEVER spell that damn word!
Salaries in the UK are about half the corresponding USA salary thats why the difference in food prices
Although our Minimum wage is around £12/$15 an hour, instead of $7.25.
Americans would explode if we told them we have chips with beans 😂 sausage chips and beans is god level
They seem to approach explosion level quite happily. Seen it on the telly. 600lb life, 1,000 lb sisters. Marvellous entertainment. X
for gods sake DONT mention black pudding they will serve it with custard
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My childhood home was a council house built in 1950. (now usually known as social housing) Its never had to have any repairs to the roof. Also my grandparents house was built by the council in the early 1930s. Its still got the original roof.
Our plugs not only have the Earth pin and the fuse in the plug, but we do have the fuse board as well. This puts another layer of protection to stop us from being zapped by the 240v mains supply of the incoming electricity. It protects from a sudden surge and will shut your entire house down. If there's a faulty product within the home, it will pop the fuse in both the item and the fuse board. Making it easier to identify the dodgy product
I love the fact we preserve our old buildings . The oldest building near me is a castle 900yrs old . Bloody love it
I love that too! I think old buildings mentally connect us to the past and give us a more accurate perspective of how small we all are, in a good way. You’re in a great spot!
@@JJLAReacts There is a Saxon church near me that dates from ~700AD. But then of course there are Avebury, Stonehenge, Bronze & Iron Age hill forts & barrows, through to Georgian Bath & Devizes. The sense of history - and that we are just part of a cycle of life - is palpable.
@@JJLAReacts My town has a Norman Cathedral, Roman ruins (amphitheatre, baths and palace), the remains of a medieval motte and bailey, which still has archaeological digs, and lots of buildings from other periods (Georgian, Victorian etc), alongside more modern architecture. Lots of small, quaint older churches too.
I took it for granted that behind my house where I grew up was a Norman Castle with a Saxon Church and a Roman Lighthouse. At the time they seemed unloved and it was free to enter the grounds and pocket money price to enter the Castle.
Now they have slapped a huge charge on and it is full of visitors.
Just a quick note about that top pin in the UK plug. That pin connects the appliance to a pole buried in the ground outside the house. Electrical systems are earthed in the UK to provide a safe path for electricity to flow into the ground in the event of a fault or overload (such as a lighting strike). This reduces the risk of fire, electrocution, and damage to equipment.
if you punch a wall in the us the wall brake but if you do that in europe your hand will , fortunatley we have free healthcare lol
another fun fact in europe you can't be sick on hollyday lol
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I have a 'chip pan'. I 'thrice fry' in beef dripping.
Even my vegetarian cousin allows herself 'a pass' to experience the crispy exterior and fluffy interior of my golden chips, cooked to perfection.
My mother was a formidable cook and even if I do say so myself, I am not too shabby either. Obviously, self-praise is no recommendation, but I have never eaten better chips than those which I make.
I have experienced their equal - Blairgowrie chippy in Scotland and The Red Hut, South Shields, in England - but never a 'better' chip. It is an art!
Many Victorian houses about in my area, many with original slates 130+ years old. some have had the old wood trusses replaced but used the original slates.
Rooftops - We use thick concrete tiles for many rooftops. These vary but are usually around 2cm thick. Some roofs use thinner slate (btw, slate is a specific material made from a rock called slate), which can easily last a hundred years or more.
My house is one of probably 100s of 1000s of semi-detatched houses across the UK, especially England, in the 1920s to 1940s (mine is about 1935). It still has the original clay tile roof with some repairs over the years.
Slates last even longer.
slate is over 100. million years old the time since it was stuck on a roof is an eyeblink to it
Right, if she lives in England, then she should know never to confuse fries and chips. Worse than that, she considers fries and chips to be the same thing. Shocking!
That picture of a chip "butty" that she put up was not a chip butty. Granted, it was bread with chips in between the slices. But, there was no butter involved, so it was a chip doughy.
It's only a butty when butter is used on the bread.
I'm English and 3 of my favourite things about my home that I know are better than in the USA are bread, cheese and beer.
Every teenage birthday party in my era had pizza, chips from the fish n chip shop and VHS videos.
In England we all help eachother. America is a business. Selfish. Greedy.
r u kidding - do you see what is happening now??? its all greed and power hungry we r losing our whole way of life! we r becoming America ahhhh
I owe my life to the NHS. I have had severe respiratory problems my whole life and have been resusicated more times than I can count, and I am not bankrupt or permanently in debt.
When you have your roof tiled in the uk (with slates etc) the roofers will usually make sure you have a stack of spare tiles, because over the years they do come loose or get cracked (we do have severe weather events in the UK - more and more nowadays, ty climate change) - you get a roofer to come replace them (or do it yourself) bish bash bosh, a roof that will last 50-100.
our avg humidity is over 70 in the UK though, so mould, damp and rot are big issues
We say 'sick' meaning both throwing-up and feeling ill - ie. "I phoned in sick to work this morning" does NOT mean you just projectile-vomited on your boss via your telephone!
It's interesting though that "sick" is only used in a very specific work context "Dave's called in sick today"or a throwing up context "I've been sick". I don't know anyone in the UK that would say "I feel sick" and mean they've got a cold. It would definitely mean they feel nauseous
Much as you'd like to.
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I appreciate the seasons with accompanying different colours/foliage, The National Trust, The Royal Horticultural Society, proper, real, safe food and the freedom to walk/roam pretty much everywhere within reason! I also enjoy the inexpensive air travel to so many interesting places in Europe.
My house is 200 years old. We lived here 25 years we’ve never had a concern with our roof.
The houses in our street were built around 120 years ago and in the last couple of years lots of the roofing has been replaced.
@@vladd6787 but t’s still a Long time.
Everytime I watch you in a video I think, i'd like to have a chat and a coffee with you. You're cool. In the UK you get grief if you don't take your holidays.
A chip butty is out of this world. Greetings from New Zealand.
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I am swedish and here we have some pizzas with fries on in. It is usually a pizza with kebab meat, fries, cheese and tomato as topping, and some sauce on top. Sometimes with lettuce on top of all that 😀 Taste great 👍
In Scotland we call that the contents of a 'Munchie box." Onion and chicken pakora is a typical extra.
Sounds good.
16 personalities in the world? Someone has never been in a UK pub on a Saturday night...One love from Scotland. 💙😃🍻
lol 😂
Glenda sat in the corner with 18 of them just for herself would agree
@@emcr1I'm sure I have more than 16 personalities in a day sometimes
They tried to turn the UK into "Go Getters" in the 80's with all the Yuppies but they were met with howls of laughter and very impolite names. It didn't catch on except in London, which should be avoided if possible
@joannasimmonds3706 it is more fun to keep it spicy 🤣
But yeah i feel that.
I had 4 hours this morning where I needed to try and focus on random things, but i couldn't get into the flow fully because 'issues'.
Think I had a different personality everytime someone came up to me to ask me a question.
There were even a few different nationalities unintentionally thrown in there too for the times I got bored of saying yes or no like a normal person 🤣
I live in Cornwall (lucky me), where I live often has 60kts of breeze in the winter. My tiles are over two hundred years old. Nuff said.
Yes lucky you! 😊
I have been off sick with since March. In that time I have had two pre booked holidays and have been given my leave back. I also still have leave to take that I haven't yet used.
I can honestly say the last time I saw anyone eat pizza and chips was in our school canteen back in the 1980s!
Try chips with a good lasagne
@@petergordon4525 Lasagne isn’t pizza…
@@ffotograffydd never said it was, it was a suggestion to try with chips!
@@petergordon4525 Yeah mate, that was sarcasm. Why would I want to eat chips and pasta in the same meal?! Way to many carbs.
@@ffotograffydd that's why I said to try it, you're missing out imo, has to be fries tho'
the red bit on the plug is a fuse
so if the appliance goes wrong the fuse blows and turns it off even if the socket is still switched on
hows that for safe lol
I'm 64. I lived in a rural village until I was 37. Now I live in a city. I have never needed to learn to drive.
Same.
There are good reasons not to use slate/tile roofs if you are likely to get damage from flying trees and things or the tiles themselves are likely to travel through the air like canon shells in a hurricane. For one thing if damaged they're cheaper and easier to replace. What I would point out though, is bitumen shingles are a bit old hat and there are better things that can be used instead with all of those same benefits that would both perform better and last longer - I suspect it's mostly down to that "this is how we've always done it though" thing.
The tax system is far better here in the UK. It's called P.A.Y.E. ('Pay As You Earn'). Your HR dept coordinates with Inland Revenue (our version of IRS), and your tax is worked out for you. If you get paid weekly, your tax is deducted weekly, and if you get paid monthly, your tax automatically gets deducted monthly. At the end of the tax year (usually 5th April), if you have paid too much tax, you get a refund. The only thing you ever have to be careful with, is to make sure you have the correct tax code (which determines how much you can earn before you start paying tax, and if it's too high, you get a nice refund at the end of the year). I've worked for many companies over the course of my life, and I've never had to work out my own tax. It's only really the self-employed who have to do that
5th April.
I'm a Canadian that has lived in Scotland for 26 years. Our house has slate tiles - so far, we've never had to replace the whole roof (thank goodness), but during heavy winds or bad weather the roof tiles tend to crack and fall off the roof. This then sometimes causes leaks. I'd say that most roofing jobs here are just patch jobs.
The fact that even with insurance giving birth is still over $3000 is even more ridiculous
You literally pay like $700 on average monthly so that if you have a medical issue you will have a cap, like you only have to pay 10k of your million dollar medical bill@@simonrobbins8357
Probably controversial but, I dont think anybody not born here, and having paid into the system for at least a couple of years should be able to use our NHS.
And have to pay extra to hold your newborn child. Ghastly!
How much does the average birth cost rNHS
There's a reason that births are low at the moment, cost of living and housing costs are a big factor, the younger generations struggling to get into houses means thry are putting off raising a family way later, in the US you don't have a lifeline / safety net if you become ill or unemployed which ultimately helps contribute to the large homelessness problem.
I don’t know where the 100 year roof came from. The roof should last for the life of the building with good maintenance. Our house was built in 1776 and we have only just replaced the roof using the original slates.
Ps the sound effects you use for the swearing cracks me up everytime!
I can't walk past a duck pond without thinking of you swearing!
My house is 45 years old and still has the original roof. I've only had to replace a couple of tiles due to wind damage.
Only? My house was built around 1920, no leeks, no replacements
My house is only about 70 years old and needed a repair after a tile linked to the chimney, was broken during a storm.
When employers realise that potential employees are getting more demanding about time off, etc, i think they realise they have to go with it if they want to be able to attract the best people.
Mate, re chips with everything - in Wales we have a thing called "half and half" where you get a curry and have half a portion of rice and half a portion of chips with it and it's f****** class. Highly recommend 👌
Cymru am byth 🏴
I am Aussie and have a UK friend who introduced me to chips wlth curry instead of rice. 😋
70's school meals was bad so most of us went to local chippy fish (savoury) cake and chips 6p, curry rice and chips 7p, gravy chips peas and onion, 8p me an mate used to buy a small loaf 9p split it in half dig out white stuff fill it with gravy chips peas and onion,
Park and Ride is pretty good too, large car park outside the city, with buses to ferry you into the centre, great idea!
Dude!
Proper chips are like… each chip is 3-6 times the volume of a French/American fry.
French/American fries go cold before the second hits your lips.
The heat in the potato lingers longer in UK chips.
Also… surface area to volume ratio. There’s a lot more fatty surface area in a French/American small-fry per ounce/gram than a proper chip.
chips - proper chips - are fluffy inside. Fries emphasise the fat in the fat/potato ration
It's a question of scale - once you visit the USA and/or Canada, you notice the vast area compared to here (UK)
The numbers: The US has 5 times the population of the UK, but here's the shocking part; the USA 40 times the area - yes it is 40 times as big!
In terms of density this means the UK has 720 people per square mile, but the US has a minuscule 98 people per square mile...
Seven? I can think of seventy..
I love the nhs. I went into labour 6 weeks early. I gave birth, stayed in hospital a few days, my baby stayed there for a week. While I visited my baby I was fed 2 meals a day for free so I could stay all day. I was lent a breast pump till I got my own, I was so well supported. I will always be a big supporter of protecting our health service
I have to admit that I hate the term ‘quite quitting’ and people acting like it’s something new. It is just ‘work to rule’ which has been a Trade Union staple for decades.
There is a pizza available in some take-aways that’s called a London Pizza, which actually has chips (fries) as one of the toppings.
We don’t just have fuses in the plugs we have fuse boxes too, which are fuses for each circuit. So everything that uses electricity has at least two fail safes.
Do you hate the term "quiet quitting" because you don't know how to spell "quiet"?
@@klaxoncow no, that was just a genuine error. I hate it because it makes it sound as though people are doing less than they were employed to do, when in actual fact they are just no longer doing more than they are contracted to. They are just upholding their end of the bargain and no longer allowing anyone further up the chain to take advantage of them. Which isn’t withdrawing from their job, as the term ‘quiet quitting’ may infer.
They are in 'Consumer Units' these days, which have trip switches for each circuit in the house. My unit has bout 14 trip switches and two semi-master switches (turns off power to half the house, so electrical work can be done but the kettle can still be boiled for Tea.) and one master power off switch.
@@Thurgosh_OG in essence, it’s the same thing as the old fuse boxes…just that bit more safe. You’d still say “have you checked the fuse box?” if something had tripped. Even my (retired for over a decade) electrician Dad, still calls it a fuse box.
plus the earth opening the live netural sockets then the switch to send the power to the plug and the wire hanging DOWN so you can not dislodge the plug by standing on the flex
US and the UK. One country took the "Three Little Pigs" to heart. Guess which country constructs wooden, flimsy houses with thick, tar paper for roofs.
I’m from the UK and 65 years old, and I’ve never lived in a house that has needed the roof replacing
When I stayed in LA and SLC for 6 weeks in 1968, the fresh food in supermarkets was really cheap - watermelon that was too heavy for me to carry, 30 cents. Loads of locally grown fruit and veg. Also, real estate much cheaper than UK - mainly because there is a shortage of land in UK - in cities, the land is extortionate!!
I'm a Brit living in the UK and I'd like to know where I can buy a loaf of bread for 50p!
Reduced section at end of day, but can get one for 75p
Farmfoods
a decent loaf is probably 3 times this price
Tesco branded loafs go for that much
Aldi, Lidl
Just recently had my roof done here in the UK, it had been up fifty years.
The roofer carefully stored the tiles, replaced the batons and beams. And then relaid the old tiles.
His exact words were " you'll save money and new tiles are shit these days. They don't make tiles like yours anymore"
Re plugs - yes, you got all the good stuff on the plugs! Earth connection as standard; fused plug so you don't always trip your house electrics; made to survive an actual apocalypse; and solid connections. Quick edit as well: houses in the UK are often made to be much more durable than US houses. My parents owned a cottage in Cornwall that was: (a) built sometime in the late 1600s (yes, over 400 years old); (b) made of chunks of granite almost the size of mountains themselves - 2ft x 2ft x 4ft slabs in places; and (c) roofed with slates that were really thick, due to the Cornish fondness for high winds and storms... Mind you, even this cottage was considered a "new build" by some folk cos the church was built in the 13th century...