American Reacts to 11 Things I Didn't Expect When Moving To The UK!
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Why, why, why, do lots of Americans say 'on accident'? It makes no sense. An event can be 'on purpose' or 'by accident' but not 'on accident'. I know, too picky, but it really grates. I await the ire of the public in the comments.
I totally agree, I also find that I get irritated by the word normalcy which seems to be preferred in North American rather than normality or normally which are more common in the UK.
As a Brit I used to get confused too, since you do hear both. A handy way I remember is to replace 'accident' with 'mistake', then think which would make sense. By mistake or on mistake. Now it's obvious.
On accident…was me as a kid trying to lie I didn’t hit my bro on purpose . I was trying to say by accident but I guess I dropped myself in it by saying ON accident 🤣🤣🤣
Not from me. The one that grates on me the most is using adjectives instead of adverbs! Also saying “off of” and sem-eye instead of semi.
They never took a proper understanding of the language with them when they went over there. They were mainly uneducated and poor people, looking for a better life. Hence all the misspellings, particularly of the non phonetic and many French words in English: colour, centre, programme, etc. And all the replacements of s with z. It came about due to ignorance and lack of any basic education. Then, of course, when all the Europeans and other nationalities later emigrated there, they did not know any better, since English was not their native language, so all the ignorant mistakes in the language became embedded there. That's why so-called American English is completely full of very basic errors.
Americans often say that the first pilgrims left Europe because they weren't free. In reality the first pilgrims left, because the people they disliked were too free.
This is one of the reasons why some pockets of the U.S. are still extremely religious. The most extreme religious people left Europe for the new world.
Exactly. And they were waved off by the locals saying under their breath, while smiling: "Yes, do fuck off now and have a safe voyage. Wankers."
Pretty sure that view of what eventually evolved into the septics hasn't really changed all that much. Deep down, like. The feeling seems to be mutual.
Very well said. We kicked out the last of Cromwell's puritans, they were brutal and god-less.
@@philiprowney They were empirically not godless, but they were god-awful 👍🏻 Nobody liked them - sour, brutal, stick-up-their-asses religious nuts 🤷🏻♀️ Welcome to the New World! :D
By the time they left they were not 'persecuted' - they left because the Church at the time was not extreme or strict enough for them...they essentially left in order to be able to persecute. When they say 'free to practice their religion' etc what they actually meant was THEIR religion ONLY....hence all the issues between Puritans, Quakers and other sects in the early days.
@@vallejomach6721 Yeah, the American version of their History paints their own formation out very differently from how extremely well documented events of the time actually played out. The only real 'persecution' and 'intolerance' of that period were actually perpetrated by *them* towards anyone and everyone unlike them-and feeling superior as a result.
This was genuinely the backbone US Culture was founded on... and the one that has seemingly been impossible for them to entirely shake off, due to the pervasiveness of it in *all* aspects of the foundation of societal norms.
Crikey... even down to the propensity for 'Cults'... just different factions of sects masquerading behind either established or invented religious zealotry and causing rifts with others because of 'superiority'.... seemingly all legally protected to continue indoctrinating ever more generations of people into indenture and servitude (and often solely for financial gain of the organisers)
Those "bushes" are called hedgerows. Very important in agriculture from years past and vitally important for a lot of UK wildlife.
Birdlife
buffers
@@helenab7390 and bees and butterflies
@@akelly4207
Not forgetting hedgehogs
And they often contain a stone wall!!
Drinking a cold drink from a mug is a crime against humanity
lol
@@JJLAReactsno no it's true, you perp.
Unless it’s a tea or coffee you forgot about, then it’s punishment lol
love my cold tea in my mug
think about about ice is its bad for you....just ask them on the titanic
Whenever it goes above 23/73 degrees in the U.K., it’s customary that all men’s shirts immediately disappear, to take advantage of the sun incase it never appears again.
@@Dan-B 20 in Scotland.
@RockinDave1 16 I would say
very true !
Not ALL men. I wouldn't subject society to my body!
More fool them! Have they never heard of melanoma?
I like our narrow curvy roads. Makes driving more interesting, and keeps our penchant for enriching our language in tip top condition.
They are also a form of Darwinian selection. I only stopped riding fast motorbikes when I reached retirement age as my reflexes started slowing down.
@@John_Lyle Same...
Narrow winding country roads, great for bikers, no chance of falling asleep whilst riding yer bike.
I LOVE our narrow curvy roads ... I ride a motorcycle :-) Near me is a road called Twenty Bends Lane. Bliss.
@@miamonan9627
That's great! 😅
In the state of Connecticut the majority of our roads, even the paved roads are original native trails. So, they are very curvy and hilly. The roads off the main highway are still quite narrow as they were widened for horses and carriages . And many homes and barns are right on the edge of some roads.
And right on the immediate shoulder are very large trees, over 40 feet or more and big around. Also, our stone walls, that are everywhere, are easily quite tall and wide . As I've seen some of yours , that are far more enormous.
As you know best, they stand there for centuries in your country, here it's usually since the 1400s and younger.
And we have poison ivy in the trees and stone walls everywhere. A car accident on a road that is one small car and a half wide or less, leaves the option of hitting an enormous tree, an immovable 6ft tall, 10 ft. Wide stone wall or falling into a thick coverage of poison ivy. Not many options to survive .
As you know well, those are dark roads at night .
The biggest danger though is the moose at night. They look like black holes. They are very common further north in 4 states in the east here. Deadly.
The thing I object to, as a Brit, with the ice in the US, is that at least half of your chosen beverage is actually frozen water. I paid for a damned Pepsi, I want a glass of Pepsi, not a glass of frozen water. Chill the can and serve that cold.
Having said that, lots of American places have free refills once you've bought the drink, which absolutely blew my mind when I was over there :D
@@laserpanda94 Most do, but it's still annoying.
@@KBJ58yes I still want to taste the drink not use it like a cordial and fill up with water Ew.
Talking about the weather.
I've lived in countries where it is hot every day, and I really missed rain, wind and fog.
I guess variety is the spice of life.
The front door lock she's referring to is a deadlock night latch.
The best known brand in the UK is Yale (there are other makes), but if you said 'Yale lock' most people would know what you're talking about.
In addition to that lock, it's not uncommon to have an additional 5 leaf mortice lock ( known as a Chubb lock) which more often than not is required for insurance purposes if the property has an original older style wooden front door.
Rear doors can also have a Chubb lock or Mortise rack bolts .
God I just realised, I sound boring as F***! 😂
A 'deadlock' is not the same as a Yale lock. A deadlock needs a key to lock and unlock both from inside and out, and usually has a classic 'keyhole' opening both sides.
Ah the good ol' yale lock.
The reason the window at the bottom of our stairs used to be left open, so when my mum forgot the keys after we'd been out, 4-7 year old me would be asked to climb through, drop down, and open from the inside.
Also the reason we got a different door when I was 8 after I got wedged in the window for a very panicky half an hour, and had to be saved by firemen 🤣🤣
@@emcr1You were stuck in the window!? Bless your heart honey!
@Elaine-p3g yeah 🤣 it was only a small window anyway, and only the top 1/3 of it opened outwards (maybe like 12 x 18 inches of space. Idk im awful with measurements lol. Though edited cos I just found a tape measure for better guessing 🤣)
We lived on a hill, and it was that side of the house that faced the lower side, so I had to be lifted up about 7 feet to the windowsill.
Used to put my left leg through first, then kinda just fold myself so my head went through at the same time as my right knee.
Got wedged between my neck and shoulder.
Had a full on audience come and see what the screaming was all about 😆 didn't help that my mum and her friend were almost crying with laughter (I don't blame them)
If they'd have just stated getting my younger brother to do it when he hit the age I was when I was first asked, they wouldn't have had an issue 😆
@@emcr1 Oh mercy, mercy,mercy honey! That's an ordeal and a half. Thank God you got out of that tiny space unscathed ! ! If you can make it through that you can make it through anything in your lifetime. How old were you at the time?
A hot tea in hot weather is ironically cooling.
When you ingest hot liquids, it raises your core temperature and so your body goes into cool-down mode; if you drink a cold drink, your body tries to generate more heat. This is why companies try to sell the idea of drinking cold drinks on a warm day ... to make you hotter and so want another drink.
@@KyrelelAnd leave it to Americans to fall for it. They're not the sharpest tools in the box.
yes your ice in tea should have a jail sentence 😂
In Indonesia they sell bottled sweet iced tea eveywhere called, imaginatively, "teh botol". It's gross to me but I think Americans would like it.
😂😂. I agree. It's bad enough to go to jail.
We do sometimes have ice in our tea. But only when the weather is really cold, not on purpose.
@@neuralwarp 😂
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When I try not to swear my grandchildren pick up on it immediately. They say ‘it’s okay you can swear Nanny’ 😂
Many U.K. roads were purpose build for feet or a horse and cart, this is due to the age of the country, unlike many of the U.S. road which were built for motor vehicles.
This is only really an issue in the countryside though. Towns and cities have perfectly fine roads without the squishyness. And a lot of country roads do too...
@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.
Right, because the indigenous natives were already driving motor vehicles in the early 1500's. 😂
Oh my goodness, you have not had a genuine look around the US have you . Our you're completely joking. 😂
@@TheDidymusBrush Yes, that's true, I've lived in many parts of the U.K. quite a few country places, Herefordshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Wales, etc.
@@anitapeludat256 Thanks for your reply. I wasn't alive in the 1500s I'm afraid so, I didn't realise that indigenous natives built roads in America at that time. I'm from the U.K. I've visited America a number of times since the '70s about 20 times in all, and noticed that the majority of the roads which I've seen are much broader than the U.K ones, quite a few of the ones over here were Roman roads etc.
@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.
Indigenous peoples had walking trails. Used for eons. The same trails eventually widened as new explorers arrived.
They widened for horses. Eventually, carts and wagons, as they were built. Over many years, white folks had stage coaches, more people. Many of these were eventually widened for autos and trucks, wider highways.
Smaller roads, even today, might be a car and a half wide in more rural areas. And in cities. Many of our smaller roads are more hazardous, no lights and not 2 car widths wide .
Tribal populations were massive. White folks used the same trails , thereby widening them with usage, just by walking. More people using trails automatically widened roads with usage.
The natives didn't build roads. More people, more usage initiated the change .
Instead of building lots of new roads, white folks continued to use the same original routes.
At this point in time , many are paved, but they're still the original routes. You had Romans, we had thousands of years of indigenous populations.
I love our weather. It's the reason why our country is so beautiful. 👌👍
Heckling in Parliament is very entertaining to watch and livens things up.
The local news sources from the US are 'blocked' by those news outlets themselves - not by the UK. The UK doesn't care if you want to read news articles from other countries.
The type of door lock she is talking about isn't in fact a 'deadlock'. That's something else, that you have to conciously lock. What she is talking about is what we call a 'Yale lock' or 'Yale type lock'. I'm thankful that I don't have have one at my current house - but they are very common.
Ah, I remember that old Roland Rat joke.
"What key do you sing in?"
"Yale, I think."
Yale is just the cylinder - she's talking about a dual spindle door handle, commonly used for front doors in the UK.
Yeah a lot of US sites can't conform to GDPR so just block Europeans from visiting altogether
Meks no difference if you keep your keys on your person all the time. But that maybe too logical for some.
@@chriswright7857 And they'll lie about it too.There's a popular lyrics website that if accessed from Europe claims the site is down for maintenance, but it's mysteriously working again if you switch your VPN to USA
Hooper's law : the age of a hedge can be roughly estimated by counting the number of woody species in a thirty-yard section and multiplying by 110 years
Guys, start sharpening those pitchforks, he put bloody ice in his bloody tea!!!
Sacrilege!
Oh yeah, the C bomb is often used between close friends. It has MANY uses.
In regards to our locks. They also have this wonderful thing called a switch. If you unlock the door, & flip this switch on the lock, it stays unlocked. They ALL have this switch built into them
It's called the latch
@@rayaqueen9657 I figured it safest to explain how the latch works, rather than just say latch. I hope you can understand my thinking to some degree
@@andrewmoss3681 lol that's good to know. I've noticed this come up in comments before though and literally no-one used the proper word. It seemed like noone knew what it was called. So I'm a one person campaign to remind everyone. It's a latch. We leave the door 'on the latch'. (Though I think that's a bastardisation of actual latches which are the metal thing you lift on a gate.. I think).
@@rayaqueen9657 agreed & I do acknowledge that without saying that the device is called the latch, I do sound kind of dumb. So GREATLY appreciate someone else stepping in to add more information
Tea with ice? Arrrrggh
I like iced tea......
Greetings from the U.K.
Instead of swearing, when under great duress, my grandma used to mutter "muddy bucket of pitch"! 😅
That kinda sounds worse somehow.
As a delivery driver for an unnamed company whos name rhymes with fresco, speaking about the weather is 90% of my job. Its chilly today, its chilly today, its chilly today over and over and over again.
You are a blessing to those people, who may not have spoken to anyone for days, especially if they're elderly or disabled.
You could try sarcasm for a change, and say it's so warm, you might wear shorts.
It is always my opener ( or theirs ) with my "Fresco" delivery driver. It is always a relief if it has been raining and I can say "ooh, I hope you didn't get too wet today!". But I have a few regular drivers who like to discuss out cats..........
In England, a cloudy sky is a sign that you should expect rain any time between the next ten minutes and the next ten hours.
And a weather forecast on TV means that you take no notice, but keep a check on your area by looking out of your window regularly.
I only keep ice for the benefit of the gin… definitely not for the tea!
The most common (by a large margin) type of deadlock has a small button that allows it to be locked in the open position, so if you want to go outside without your key, you just open the lock and push the button to lock it open. There're roads like that all over the U.K.As a truck driver who has had to deliver to some really out-of-the-way places, where the hedges push the mirror arms back on both sides, I don't consider a road too narrow unless the cab won't physically fit between the hedges.
Tree pollen is a large source of hay fever. British towns and cities have a lot of green spaces including trees.
It could be 100 degrees Celsius and, if somehow I was still alive, I still wouldn't want iced tea. I'd either have a nice cup of freshly boiled Yorkshire tea or if for a change I fancied a cold drink it would be a bottle of Henry Westons Vintage Cider - no ice!
She seems quite educated so surely she must know most of the roads were not 'built' for cars or bikes. That they existed well before that.
She's simply saying what surprised her when she first moved here- she's not saying she doesn't understand it.
@@carolineskipper6976 yes I understand that, however she never elaborated on her knowledge or understanding since. Just something that stuck out from the video that is all.
I subscribe to her channel and she is well smart, as we uneducated South Londoners say. I think you are being a rather boring smartarse. I wonder how you would grade my language skills?
Because it is litereally a list of things that took her by surprise, not an analysis of differences.
Its honestly not that deep.
If you don’t like the weather in the UK, wait half a hour!!
So far today we've had bright, sunny and cold; wet and cold; grey and warm; wet and warm; sunny and warm; wet and warm; grey and warm; damp and cooler; grey and cool; wet and colder. The day isn't over yet.
@@wessexdruid7598 my son rang me when he wanted me to collect him from town today. I was in brilliant sunshine he was a mile and a half away and it was torrential rain! 😂
there is no bad weather, just poor choice of clothing.
A tip I learned from a local when I was in Indonesia where it is very hot and humid - drink water at room temperature. It helps you acclimatise quicker. Also in countries where you can't safely drink the tap water, don't have ice in your drink!
I was very aware of `no ice` when I visited Indonesia some time back .
In a small cabin-type eaterie ,I was given a cold drink with ice .
When I told my son that I wouldn`t drink it ,he asked " Is it because of the fly swimming about in it?"
I said it was because I hadn`t ordered it .
He picked it up and drank it straight down ,nothing happened ,stomach like tough old leather .
If I had drunk it ,dysentery for days 🤣
Lager should be room temperature, not chilled. Also, not drink cold drinks in hot weather, let them warm up a bit first or you could actually cause your body to generate more heat ... the exact opposite of what you are trying to achieve.
We can be a sweary bunch over here. My parents never swore that much in front of us when I was a kid, but we used to hear my Dad swear when he was trying to put flat pack furniture together 😂
A range of swear words to take your pick from should be included on the instructions- they're as essential as the allen key.
In the 70s we used to go to a pub that the Landlord was really only bothered about his Beer (that's why it was always busy) one day some out of town visitors came up to the bar ordered Whiskeys and asked if there was any ice, Landlord replied "Only time you get ice around here is when it snows mate! 🤣🤣
I bet a lot of folks around there had webbed feet
@@conormurphy4328 It was the 70s and the Landlords sense of humour 🫤
The first time I saw armed police in the UK was just after the 7/7 bombings. There were loads of them carrying huge automatic weapons and they were surrounding a little old lady. When I walked closer I could hear they were giving her directions to John Lewis. She'd seen them obviously on some sort of anti terror op or something, and gone right over to ask them for directions to a shop.
No UK Police Officer carries an automatic weapon, they are all Semi-automatic
Because our basic instinct is to trust our police to help, whatever the situation. I hope it always stays that way.
If you actually understand what's happening in PMQs and other debates, its really not that bad.
Erm, the roads were built centuries before the car was invented. And we cope fine with them, even in our manual cars.
I believe those who swear regularly have a larger vocabulary than those who don't. Not just because swear words are extra words but because generally they are either proceeded by or followed by additional words. That's according to 'Stephen Fry'.
And the swearing can be so inventive, using almost any word e.g.,What the hell's wrong with you, you f-ing plantpot/spoon/muppet/bellend? Virtually any word could be substituted in there.
@@lilbullet158 Fuck ME!
Is that true?
As someone who does swear quite a bit I would have to agree with you! 😂
Well if Stephen Fry said it, then it's gospel.
Trouble is when the words following and preceding the swear words are also swear words.
The comments on the narrow roads keep on getting mentioned. It is always worth checking the history here. Most of these would be called country lanes with hedgerows on each side demarcating property boundaries. These are often centuries old.A look from above i.e using a map can be quite fascinating, informative surprising and rewarding!🐵🙊🙉🙈
I always think American reactors should do a few random Google Earth/Streetview explorations, to get a feel for what the UK is actually like.
Map? What is a Map??
@@davedixon2068 Something that tells stories. And history.
@@wessexdruid7598 The question was rhetorical, there a considerable number of people today who haven't seen a paper map and are unlikely to know how to use it effectively.
@@davedixon2068 You don't think satnavs have maps? But as I said, they tell stories. It's a shame to miss out on that.
Britain's don't talk about the weather, we complain about it. 16:14 i am confused about this why do some people, including Americans say "On accident" instead of "By accident". it just sounds strange to me. 😸🐈👍
Of all the American commentators who talk about British Culture, JJLA is the most informed, intelligent, sharp and erudite. And funny.
Totally agree 😊
The second you put those ice cubes in your tea you was put on a watch list 😅 the audacity 😂
RE swearing. We also have different swear words that aren't considered swearing in each other's countries.
Like "god damn" isn't a bad word in the UK. And "bastard" isn't considered a swear word in the US. Same goes for "bloody" too. Our "bloody" is like your "damn".
"Where's the bloody taxi?" "Where's the damn taxi". Small children will get into trouble in both countries for saying that.
Agree. I can’t believe damn and hell are considered bad words 🤣 like come on! Did the Quakers make that rule up?!
I know a wide and varied amount of swear words just don't tend to use them. Other thank 'Dam and blast' and oh hell, which aren't really swear words. Mother's favourite was 'Oh bladderdash' which is a form of pebble dash used as rendering on some 1960's houses over the brickwork. oh yes and when she was really frustrated it would be 'oh bloody hell, not again' especially when she'd managed to over fill the tea pot.
The Americans appear to use F*** very freely, not really acceptable in the UK
Also why do Americans think bitch is a swear word? It means nothing more than a female canine.
Or 'bloody hell and buckets of blood' when something goes wrong.
The doors that lock behind you (often 'Yale' locks) are becoming rarer. Most houses now have the high security six-point locking doors which do not lock behind you. Any house that is being let must have these doors (front and back).
Oh, and we also have 'near swear words'. 'Sugar' is very common. 'Naff off' (from a sitcom set in a prison) and 'Plonker' (from a sitcom set in a run down area of London) are also used.
Many people say you do not need a VPN you just need to switch to private browsing in your browser.
She said "on accident" (16:13) is that an Americanism? In British English the opposite of "on purpose" is "by accident".
Yes it is. I think it sounds weird and incorrect 😂
That's not just British English, it's also the right way to say it in American English but many Yanks don't use it correctly.
We do swear. A lot. We do swear with great creativity and humour though. It's also true that some words carry different weight and meaning twixt me and thee.
It’s the tree pollen
A night latch, or yale lock, is the kind that would lock itself as the latch can be pushed in just by the weight of the door swinging and is spring loaded, these used to be really wide spread but as more and more people switch to UPVC based doors those use eurocylinder deadlocks instead, which you have to manually engage the lock.
A lot of our politics have traditional periods where you can chat shit to the opposing side because while in Parliament you aren't allowed to insult someone or even call someone a liar. You even have to refer to opposing MPs as "The Honourable Gentleman/Lady".
16:39 - goog 'Yale lock' or 'slam lock' they don't 'lock automatically, they slam lock. The opposite of a 'dead' lock which you cannot use when locked.
If the silly girl had to turn a small nob to slide a bolt back that will be longer at the front than the back and lets the door shut behind, the doors bolt will self-latch on close.
AKA 'Yale' locks as apposed to 'dead bolt mortise' locks.
SIC: _"Yale P-77-ENB-PB-60 - Traditional Nightlatch"_ search 'big river' shop.
The swearing is the one thing that universally shocks my American friends when they first arrive in the U.K.
We swear a lot (to paraphrase FNM).
Let's hope their sensitive ears never go to Australia !
She's brilliant. Especially about the locks. I locked myself out of my house when I was a kid numerous times, usually because I got home from school minus a key hours before anyone else. I used to sit on the step waiting for someone with a key to arrive, unhappily - at first. Then I figured out ways to break into my own house! I could list them, but you wouldn't believe me. One of them involved a catflap and a cricket bat 🤣
True!
The heckling in government expresses how, in the UK, politicians are not regarded with reverence. Which I think is a good thing, even though I don't always agree with the hecklers.
I grew up in the countryside with rapeseed fields right behind my house, so hay fever was never a problem growing up. I moved from the UK to Spain for 15 years. On returning to the UK, I suffered badly with hay fever and still do, 20 years later.
The 'roads' between fields were originally for feet not for any of the very large trasportation options we have now.
Makes sense!
My daughter's first word was the see you next Tuesday word. She still uses it for her children 😅
I'm very offended drinking iced tea??????????? Even if it is 35c we still have a hot tea, cools you down 🤣
Why are US news sites blocked in the UK? Probably because of the European Data Protection law which means that all sites must handle cookies in a special way.
Most US news sites are freely accessible in the UK
Those are hedgerow's and often 100 plus years old and have to be tended cut and layered where you cut a piece about half way through and peg it down being careful not to break it off then it send new upward growth. You can also use wooden stakes or inter twine the partly cut branches between other branches that you choose to leave behind to keep growing upwards.
Some of those roads have been there since before cars. They’re wide enough for two horses to pass each other!
"Gosh darn it oh shoot." Delightful! These are called "minced oaths" which I think is also rather good!
My dad used to say ‘For crying out loud!” when I was a kid, but I now think a lot of that was “fu-… crying out loud!” when he caught himself starting to swear.
British police have a concept called "policing by consent". Look it up (there's actually a GOV.UK page that exactly explains how the principle is written in law).
The basic idea is that they are public servants, who're there to maintain the peace. And that the police need to generally garner the public's consent to be policed. That the public consents to being policed willingly, as the police are there to maintain peace and order, by which we all benefit.
Of course, they absolutely do have the power to arrest people. They have the right to use force, where required.
There absolutely are armed police - when weapons are involved, ordinary police officers will call in the "armed response unit". These are like SWAT teams - they have military-grade guns and military-level training in the use of those weapons. And the purpose of the "armed response unit" is to neutralise threats.
The idea - which absolutely works in the UK - is that criminals do not bring guns to the party. Because the instant you do that - a weapon is reported - the police will immediately call in "armed response" and then you're basically taking on a trained military unit. Whose primary mission is to neutralise the threat of that weapon you're carrying.
It's a purposeful strategy. Part of this "policing by consent" principle. The police, by the way, are regularly polled as to whether to carry guns or not. And they DO NOT WANT to do that, as they know that the instant they become regularly armed, the criminals will follow suit and, like in America, every situation will escalate to a potential "life or death" situation.
The gap is deliberately maintained, so that it is NOT ordinary to have guns in the UK. But if you bring a gun to the party, then "armed response" will be called and your odds of survival just dropped like a rock.
So if you're just committing a traffic offence or burgling a house, you absolutely don't carry a gun. Because, if you don't, then you'll be politely arrested. But if you do, then "armed response" will show up with military-grade assault rifles and station snipers... and your odds of getting out of this alive just dropped off the edge of a cliff.
Our criminals get it. They aren't suicidal enough to carry a gun.
(By the way, I say guns, but "armed response" is really for any serious weapon - like swords or knifes - as well. There was a guy who carried a wooden table leg in a plastic bag - but it was suspected of being a shotgun or something. He reached into the bag - possibly just thinking he'd demonstrate that it was just a table leg, not a gun - and armed response shot him dead.
A thankfully rare tragedy. But it kind of illustrates how it works in the UK. The police choose to be regularly unarmed to de-escalate and NOT make guns an ordinary or normal thing. But if you break that deal, then the ordinary cops will stand down and call "armed response" and they are not only armed to the teeth, but they have proper military training in their use.
It's purposefully an "either... or" situation. Choose wisely and do not carry a weapon, then you might be arrested but you are guaranteed to survive. Bring a weapon and there's a good chance you just effectively committed suicide.
The gap - the chasm - is deliberately there. That's the deal. That's the strategy. Leave your weapons at home and the ordinary police will remain unarmed. And, you know, it generally works. And "policing by consent" is a similar idea - if you go along with the police, then they will be polite. They will try to de-escalate the situation - as they're trained to do - and will curry your cooperation to restore peace and order. But if you break that deal - are unwilling to be policed - then they very rapidly turn into the same monsters that US cops are.
Look up "policing by consent" - it's a deliberate named policing principle held in the UK. And it means ordinary police officers are unarmed and they will initially attempt to politely curry your cooperation, by consent. But if you breach that social contract, the police stop being nice and polite.
And it's deliberately that way, because they're basically implicitly saying "we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Your choice. Choose wisely". And if you choose to consent, they're actually trained to be nice and polite by default. If you hold up your hands and say "mea culpa", they'll calmly arrest you. But resisting arrest is a criminal offence - as is obstructing an officer in the course of an investigation - and the rules of the game then change.)
Fuck me that could have been 2 paragraphs
We never get the chance to acclimatize. So it can be really annoying. One week of heavy rain followed by 30+ degree heat for instance
i think in the US many towns were built around roads. Whereas, many roads here are newer than the towns. Some cities were settled thousands of years ago. Then again, some roads were created by the Romans. But those roads were obviously narrower, and designed for horse travel.
@OneTrueScotsman I love that to pieces about the UK!! You guys are so blessed to live there! All around you are just tons and tons of great and tiny things that are just miraculously preserved pieces of history! So many, many , many blessings in every day.
The type of lock she's referring to is actually a dual spindle door handle (that'll be the thing you need to Google to turn it up). Another commenter mentioned the Yale lock, that's just the cylinder itself and can apply to a single or a dual spindle, and a dual spindle can have all kinds of cylinders.
The thing about the dual spindle is that it has, as the name suggests, two separate spindles which can be used to move the latch and locking mechanisms on the door. The spindle for the interior handle can open the latch (thus opening the door), or if the handle is lifted, can engage the multi-point locking mechanisms. The spindle on the exterior handle can only engage or disengage the multi-point lock. A key used on either the interior or exterior of the cylinder can always be used to open the latch - so this is how you would open the door from the outside.
I live in Cornwall, the lanes are often driven by clueless tourists in the summer
I’m from Cornwall too, and my parents were conversely absolutely terrified to drive in cities such as Plymouth, Birmingham etc it was a huge deal. Additionally driving on the motorway was treated with a special kind of fear and when I ended up going to a university that required driving through the M5/M6 interchange the horror was palpable. I’m pretty sure we annoyed a lot of people, plus I now frequently drive in London where I was amazed to realise that the drivers were really polite, letting people in when in the wrong lanes, allowing people out of side roads as a matter of course etc, so I like to cut the people freaking out in country lanes a little bit of slack, driving right behind them, hassling them about their speed and being critical of their slow reversing skills now seems pretty rough. However I do think that they should perhaps not drive on them whilst people are trying to go to work.
'Swearing is a free, readily available, calorie-neutral, drug-free means of self-help' according to a scientist whose experiments have shown that swearing boosts physical performance. We do have minced oaths: I recently came up with 'What the spoon?!' because it is more polite than 'What the fork?!'
Hells bells , bugger, it , and buckets of blood, We never swear !
About locking the door situation although yes once you open the door you can shut it without looking it as it does it for you.
If people take the trash out (bins) the front door as you open it if it shuts by itself the door is not set right to the frame so it needs adjusting as then it would not shut by its own weight .
so the door needs correcting so that by its momenteum it will not shut on you ,needs levelling and then rescrewed
I'm absolutely going to keep quoting "Gimme that money!" the same way you said it! haha
When i first saw the title, I thought you had moved to the UK. 😂
Re: Nord VPN. I would not trust any security system based in or operating out of the USA, due to the habit of US law enforcement insisting on having "backdoor access" to everything. I prefer to use services based in the EU that abide by EU privacy laws. Even the ones based in the British Virgin Islands are suspect since Brexit.
Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
PS, Less ice = more drink, more ice _ less drink.
I agree. I really regret being talked into McAfee security when I bought a new laptop at Currys six months ago. I always used ESET and can't wait to get back to them. Apart from the backdoor thing McAfee subscribe to the D. Trump school of truth telling when constantly trying to squeeze more money out of you.
The weather thing is deeper than that. If someone says 'It'll probably piss down in a minute' it can just as easily be a metaphor for 'I am stressed and depressed'.
The Lock issue GGL outlined is with a 'latch lock' not a 'dead lock', in UK they are often referred to as 'Yale Locks' (a brand/maker but most brits would understand this term, I think) .
Latch locks are common in both UK & US, the bolt is shaped to allow the door to close without any user input.
In many US houses a handle on the out side of the door allows the bolt to be withdrawn, this is also true on inside doors in the UK, and in many areas on front doors in the UK.
In London and many busy towns and cities these same locks exist but they need a key rather than the handle.
A dead lock has a bolt which is thrown or withdrawn using a key, simply closing the door does not engage the lock.
Many handled latch locks have a key that can engage a dead lock.
Most US & UK hotel doors have similar mechanism to the London style lock, (often operated/opened by card rather than key).
She stayed here! Despite the language, weather....Yadda Yadda Yadda as you Americans say
She means Yale locks.
I don’t mind a couple or three ice cubes in a drink, but object to paying for a glass of something which is mostly frozen water. The glass is filled with ice, then you get a splash of what you’ve paid for. A winner for the vendor!
Our roads are not narrow.
drive as fast as you stop in what you can see... these are wise words!
Congrats on 30k x
When Maxx opened in the UK, there was already a chain called TJ Hughes.. They changed the initials to avoid confusion between brands. (I suppose it's reasonable to say that a TJ Hughes customer could think a TJ Maxx is just Hughes' new, bigger shop, so this would avoid Hughes accusing Maxx of poaching trade).
One thing that I have to mention about the UK is, when you go into a normal pub, ice is not normally put in your drink unless you ask for it. However, if you go to one of these late night places, unless you specifically ask for a drink not to have ice in, it will be included. Now this will not be rammed full in a cocktail sense, but will have 4 to 5 small cubes of ice. Even then, there is the nuance were some pubs will assume ice and some will not
Love this girl, ideal combination of down to earth/normal + insightful and illuminating. America’s loss is our gain!
The problem with police, is the type of person who's drawn to the role. Many of them tend to have been bully types when they were in school. Of course that's not always the case, and some are great people. And we need police. Try running a society without law enforcement. I'm certainly happy we have them. But I do think we need to have a rethink about recruitment. Make sure we weed out the "bully" types. This will not only benefit society, but benefit good cops, so they're less associated with the bad eggs.
Never had a bad interaction with police in the UK, despite a few motoring infractions, I suspect that there is more trouble for some because of their own "attitude". Not to say police are all angels but then neither are the people they are dealing with day in day out, including you tubers who go out to cause problems just to get views.
@@davedixon2068 I definitely think it's worse in the states, but a few reports looking into British policing have found institutional problems within the service.
Police unions are hugely powerful in the states. Pretty much the only union with power there.
I remember hearing about a woman in the UK being arrested by British police. They strip searched her. This later turned out to have been completey uneccessary .
And the cops were caught on camera laughing with each other over how the woman hadn't shaved her legs or genitals, and she was apparently hairy. It was male and female officers.
I remember being shocked at how unprofessional they were.
She reported them for their conduct, she didn't even know st the time they'd been laughing at her body hair. Initially the investigators kept saying they had done nothing wrong to her. But eventually they found fhe tapes of the police mocking her , behind her back.
Us Scots are the best swearers in the world. No one swears better than us.
I'm a Highlander and I think the Aussies are right up there with us for that.
Never heard a Scot come out with anything to rival "spawny-eyed, parrot-faced wazzock"
I've locked myself out before I closed the front door and then realised I'd left my key inside thankfully I have a key safe hidden away and it's out of sight of the road have a long driveway and front garden. So I used the one in the keysafe and then put it straight back into the keysafe.
I’ve been all over the world and only ever experienced hay-fever in the UK.
My family and I met two Miami Beach cops, in a shop and they let us take photos with them. One let my youngest boy, 8 years old at the time, hold his night stick having first jokingly asked him if he wanted to hold his gun. A male and female and they were great to interact with. Maybe our English accents helped.
I've found American cops to be very friendly .
Wonder if you guys are white 👀
I experience heyfever in France to too
When Parliament is in session it sounds like a children’s playground 🙄Pass the Haribo! 😂
It's cold enough here mostly that we don't add ice!
Generally, in the UK, we don't have ice in our drinks, not just because of the colder weather - so you don't want your drink cooled, when "room temperature" is already chilled enough as it is - but because we realise that this is the oldest trick in hospitality.
"Can I have a pint of Coke, please?"
So they pour out just a 1/4 pint of Coke... then make up the difference with 3/4 pint of ice. Then charge you for a whole pint, even though 2/3 to 3/4 of it is just frozen water.
You're not buying a Coke. Not really. You're buying a pint of frozen tap water, with a dash of Coke for flavour.
Yeah, ask for a Coke in a cinema or pub. Then you'll have ice. You'll have ice for days, because they're trying to increase their profit margins into the stratosphere.
(Also, it's scientifically proven. The molecules in whiskey are actually changed by the addition of ice. It actually reacts, and it is NOT the same drink. But, in a pub, you've got to make sure to say "straight" or "no ice" because they absolutely will give you ice there, to claw out some extra profits, by diluting it and effectively giving you less whiskey... but charging the same price. Indeed, try it - say "no ice" when you order drinks and you can see the grudging disappointment on their faces. The staff get annoyed with you, as their bosses told them "always put far too much ice in it, for maximum profits" and you're scuppering their plans. And they grudgingly have to do it. They know you know their little schemes, but you can just smile sweetly, as they've got to do it because that's your order. With no ice.)
If the pub isnt using approved measures for spirits (whether with ice or not) they can be shut down by Customs and Excise.
Back in the early 90's when I first saw the Orlando Sentinel it was the thickness of a phone book and appeared to have almost zero actual news content in some of the sections. The bits that did have national and international news were surprisingly good. Much better than I'd led to believe US newspapers carried and much better than the Florida man memes would suggest. No idea what it's like these days I was last in the area in 2014 and didn't pick up a copy even back then :)
"The roads are designed only for one car"
No, no. Britain is very, very old. Those roads were not designed for any cars at all. They are probably ancient Roman roads or historical Medieval footpaths that have just been tarmac'd over in the last century.
And, honestly, they only did that for the tractors of the local farmers - otherwise, they'd still have been left as footpaths.
No, the reason why those lanes are so ridiculously narrow and can barely fit a single car, let alone traffic in both directions, is because they're just modern tarmac over ancient Roman roads and "public rights of way" from possibly thousands of years ago, and they were never designed for any traffic whatsoever.
Quite literally, they're glorified footpaths and the only reason they were ever tarmac'd over in the first place is really for the farmers to move their tractors from field to field.
Indeed, on such roads, you will commonly not just meet cars coming the other way, but you'll meet tractors, sheep and cows being herded to another field (and you just sit there, while the animals are herded past you, which can take a long time), horse riders, etc..
You're in the English countryside. The car is NOT King anymore. I know that's a deeply alien concept to Americans.
Most doors have handles which you press upwards to engage the latches then you can lock it with a key. These doors are double glazed and most houses now have them. Impossible to lock yourself out unless your wife throws you out of the bedroom window which in turn would be difficult as these will be double glazed.
TK Maxx has their head office in Watford and apparently operate as a brand of TJ Maxx. The building is clearly marked as TJ Maxx with TK Maxx included.
TK Maxx is shite!
@@m-arky66 People love shite. They used to sell a lot of designer brands and low prices but much less nowadays. Retail is awash in shite shops.
I spoke to a cop in New York.
"Excuse me, I think I'm lost."
"Well hey ! I'm sure glad I ain't you !"
What a dickhead! I love that UK police are great go tos for directions, sometimes they might even walk you part way 🤣
I'm a resident of the UK, so narrow country lanes don't faze me, but going down one at night and suddenly finding myself in a village with no streetlighting does.
Still places like that in parts of Lincolnshire and Essex to my knowledge.
We definitely do swear more in London
Even simple things like “f**k me it’s cold this morning “ as a greeting to someone you know
i never used to swear until i went to work in a factory surrounded by men, now i swear like a trooper.