9 Years in the UK | My BIGGEST Life Changes
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2021
- Moving to the UK 9 Years ago came with a huge amount of gradual changes in my accent, fashion, and even taste!
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If you're new to my channel and videos, hi! I'm Evan Edinger, and I make weekly "comedy" videos every Sunday evening. As an American living in London I love noticing the funny differences between the cultures and one of my most popular video series is my British VS American one. I'm also known for making terrible puns so sorry in advance. Hope to see you around, and I'll see you next Sunday! :)
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Whatchall think of how smooth the video is?
the very first thing i noticed!
It’s surprisingly confusing, but I think I like it
I like the sharpness of the focus zone. I would decrese a bit the depth of field. almost looks like you're on a green screen. other than that, 5 starts mate
so smooth
I was at either 1.8 or 2.0 and I love the exact depth I’m using. Used to shoot 1.4 so this isn’t so shallow haha
I personally have never heard someone say "three 7s" when they mean 777, i usually hear "triple 7" which is way less confusing
yeah, i've never heard a person say 'three 7s' or 'two 4s' ever-
Completely agree, no idea who he’s heard that from
Yeah I would say “five, double six, triple seven, double eight, double eight”.
Normally they say 'double 7' or ' triple 7' what the hell?
I have *never* commented on a RUclips video in my life before, but I had to come here to say this! I've never heard anyone do this. (But also need to say something about barbecuing vs grilling...)
Evan complaining about people saying Philadelphia and then it cuts to him saying he calls tissues Kleenex is the highlight of this video
That bit got me 😂
Or 'Scotch' tape, which sounds weird to me, not all tape is made in Scotland? Plus it's a really old fashioned way of referring to Scottish people, no one uses it anymore except to refer to aged whiskey
To be fair, Kleenex isn't a place nor is it used to refer to a different thing, while Philadelphia is.
Same with hoover, thats just a brand name of a vacuum. Some places in America will also just call any fizzy drink coke haha
Exactly!!
So according to Evan it's vacuum cleaner, not Hoover, Cream cheese, not Philadelphia, and yet he says Kleenex and Saran wrap instead of tissue and cling film. Glass houses Evan. Glass houses.
sadly they seem to do it the most for medication (eg. tylenol, zoloft)
@@thinkublu People say Calpol, Nurofen and Gaviscon instead of generics in the UK. It's not as common for prescription drugs but that's probably because they can't advertise them here.
@@kaspianepps7946 Yeah, that was kind of my point, both countries do that a lot, but we don't do it for things that are prescription drugs as often, for exactly that reason - plus, even commercial drugs we do it less often for, people will use the brand names for those less often than would be done for other drugs in the US- we also just don't have the fear of 'generic brand' drugs here which they have over there
Hoover is both one of our former presidents (the one blamed for the Great Depression) and a famous dam. Philadelphia is our sixth-largest city. It's also right next to New Jersey, where Evan is from.
If I heard "Hoover," I'd mostly just have no idea what you were talking about, but if I heard "Philadelphia," I'd think you were talking about the city, not some type of food.
@@CityInTheTrees I understand. But when someone says they like Cheddar I don't assume they're talking about the town in Somerset where I went rock climbing.
If someone said they need a new Hoover I'm pretty sure you wouldn't think they're hoping for a paranoid commie hating President to blacklist writers. If a person says they want Philadelphia on a bagel I'm sure you wouldn't think they're speaking metaphorically.
People dress up to go shopping.......Maybe in London. Meanwhile in my local supermarket, there's Sharron doing her shopping in her Pyjamas again.
Don't forget the curlers and slippers
I normally say 5, double 6, triple 7, double 8, double 8. - I'm from UK. - Thought I had to make that clear. haha
Yh never heard it the way he pronounced it
I only came to the comments for this, you were the first comment and saying exactly what I did. No British person every said “four 8s” it’s double 8 double 8
@@OliviaHarrison731 I'm glad I wasn't the only one. Haha
Same here
SAME!! Double, triple. It’s obvs.
I think most people say triple 7 instead of three 7’s or double 6 instead of two 6’s in the UK. I’ve literally never heard anyone say that.
Came here to say this. In 29 years I've never heard someone say "Three 7s." over "Triple 7."
Yeah I can only assume that's what he is thinking of because I've never heard anybody read a number like that. Ever.
I take a lot of phone calls and never had anyone say two 6s etc, except once when an old man was reading a number to me and said 'ok, 1, 2, 3, 4....5 0s' and I was just like...ok crossing out everything i've just written thanks.
"treble seven" is much easer to say than "seven... seven... seven..."
I say triple or double or forty seven
This man has clearly never been to a good cheese counter - in England, cheese is usually in a separate shop if you want more than the 20 different variations of cheddar, and fresh cheese shops tend to be more common in the countryside
Yes! My local cheese monger knows me by name now 😅
Even the non-cheese counter dairy section of my local supermarket offers more than just Cheddar (though it has that as well in all its forms), including pre-sliced Monterey Jack. Someone isn't trying very hard...
a moment of silence for every country person who doesn't like their specifically local cheese (I'm lucky - double gloucester is great)
My local cheese shop is certainly uncontaminated by cheese.
I'm a Frenchman living in New Jersey. Don't let any American ever pretend they have a better choice of cheese.
Oh and, British cheddar is infinitely superior to American cheddar.
Doc martens fit really well when you actually buy the right size, they won’t give you blisters in this case either. For wearing them in, you just have to wear thick socks a few times - just like most leather shoes. The look of them has SO much history in British culture (especially london culture) and is generally a look lots of people really love. Docs are also longlasting, so really good for slow fashion. Some people even say They get better with age!
Not only that, they go with everything
Solovair are still long lasting, Docs have been shit since they stopped making them.
In all my 31 years as a Brit I've never, not once, heard someone read out a phone number like that. If I did I'd have to assume they'd taken a blow to the head because it's madness.
To be fair we may occasionally say something like "double 7"
@@jamest5014 Yeah that's normal, using double and triple when there's more than one of the same number in a row. Never heard anyone say it the way Evan has.
"Come dine with me" the reason you watch it is for the narrator, he takes the piss out of the contestants - think you need to absorb the British humour more.
This was the thing I found the most offensive honestly. Dave Lamb is our unofficial king.
Takes a bit of time to 'absorb' it. hehe.... I had to watch 2 times only fools and horses to understand it!
@@raindrop3280 I agree.
@@lorenaortega7504 faulty towers and python should be next
@@olavsantiago Fawlty Towers ✌🏻✅... not too keen on Monty Python 🙃
The northern accent thing is actually a really interesting discussion to be had. It's definitely changing for the better, but up until relatively recently the only British accents heard on TV were those standard, BBC, southern ones that were meant to sound 'proper'. It was rare to hear a northern accent (or Scottish, Welsh or Irish accent) on TV because that accent was associated with being uneducated or working-class, in other words it wasn't considered proper. Even now when a British person is on an American TV show they will generally have an RP or at least a southern accent so I think that's the only British accent a lot of Americans have been exposed to.
Excuse me? Double Gloucester? Red Leicester? Brie? Hell even Dairylea? You're just not trying hard enough Evan! You're stuck in a cheddar loop!
Mother's day in the UK is actually "Mothering Sunday" and comes from the Middle Ages when on the 4th Sunday of Lent people who moved from home to work were allowed back to visit their "Mother church" and family. Mother's day in the US only started in the 1900s when it became a public holiday after someone had a private memorial for their Mother.
Wow, that is pretty cool and a deeper meaning than mother's day in the US
In the Catholic Church known as Laetare (Rejoice) Sunday. Pink (officially Rose) vestments are worn
Well he is American not very bright are they
@@henrykgaszka84 quick question, which shows that an individual is brighter; thanking an individual for teaching you something new or making a broad generalization about a given population?
I knew the first half but not the second half of that. It is surprising that it took the US that long to make it into thing in the 1900s.
Hello everybody, and welcome back to a man who complains so much, he became British.
Sooo sorry yet honestly I don't think he's complaining probably he's Also trying to create humor or share opinion. Nonetheless in some instances you're right
Lol yes, i understood. Dw!
@@JC11118 sooo sorry what's the meaning of dw
@@jewelchilaka4089 don't worry.
@@JC11118 oh okay ❤️❤️
14:55 You pronounce it like '5, double 6, triple 7, double 8, double 8,' and if you don't you're an absolute goose
quadruple 8
Just to let you know, the UK's voltage is two times higher than in the US. That could be why we don't have plugs in our bathrooms, the risk of electric shock.
Also if everyone dries their hair in the bathroom its not surprising that they need almost a bathroom each to get ready in the morning.
All of Europe has 230 voltage, we still have plugs in the bathroom in Sweden. The sockets just need to have special grounding protection.
@@Tobberoth yeees! Same for germany
Bollocks, you just need a circuit breaker either in the hot point or on the house's main board.
We have sockets in the Czech Republic as well
As a British person, I have never heard anyone read a number like that. Most people would probably say "five double six triple seven double eight double eight".
This - who the hell is Evan talking to?
I'd still have to take so long to parse that, since it's not how we say them in the U.S.
go the extra mile and say "quadruple eight"
@@francesatty7022 Go even further and say 8 x 1111.
Still sounds like a nightmare.
I am 7 seconds in and just want to defend it now. I don't even know what I'm defending.
it's the WORST
@@evan hi
I'm here politely disagreeing with you. I don't know what it is either 😂
@@evan 10 seconds in - I'm betting it's the immigration system & I'm violently agreeing
@@evan we will usually say double treble and quadruple
London doesn't make a big deal out of 5th November??? I live in the Midlands and there's quite a few firework displays and one place near where I live puts up pretty much a whole fairground on the 5th - complete with rides, games, a HUGE bonfire and fireworks over the lake - it's one of my favourite things around where I live
I’ve never heard anyone say “two 6s, three 7s” we usually say “double 6, triple 7”
Says it’s weird to call cream cheese Philadelphia
Next slide calls tissues kleenex
BBC voice: "other tissues are available" seriously though philedephia has a different taste to other cream cheeses. You couldn't substitute it for mascapone!!!
not sure he understands brand association, would have thought he would though
@@theseventhnight Evan left out Band Aid=Elastoplast.
You’re all missing the point.
The cream cheese issue being that the named brand equivalent is also a major US city and it is the city he relates the name to. This isn’t a brand name vs generic version argument, it is specific to Philadelphia...
@@lucie4185 dairylea is far more likely than Philadelphia... When i were a lad, my dad preferred Primula, so, other cream cheeses are available too. :)
How DARE you insult the come dine with me narrator!! He's practically a national treasure by this point 😂
Absolutely!!!
You can slag off anything, just don't bring Dave Lamb onto it!!
Preach 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
My 12 year old wants Dave lamb's job.
IT’S ESSENTIAL TO THE PROGRAMME
I have literally never once read a phone number to someone like that or heard someone read a phone number to me like that. When you started that section I thought you were going to complain about Brits saying 'double six' or 'triple seven', that completely threw me off guard. Maybe it's just a southern or London thing?
Nope, definitely not a London thing. Lived in London for all of my fifty years - never heard anyone say a telephone number like that!
I think most UK people will say "double six" rather than "two sizes"
Also--- do you think the changes you've observed are more London-centric? I've had uni friends from Wales and the North mention similar points
Who on earth have you been speaking to that gives numbers like that?! 😂
@@nat3007 Nor me 😂 that part really confused me
Dixie, love her but she can be a bit strange. I kid of course
@@nat3007 fr, I live in Liverpool and we have all sorts of variants and options for cheese. What stores has he been going to?! 💀
I'm from England and have never heard of someone saying a number like that. I commonly hear people using double, triple, quadruple but never 2 3s etc. That idea is ridiculous 🤣
I’ve agree but I’ve never heard or said quadruple: it would be “double eight double eight”
@@billyboybillyboybillyboy for me its either or with that one
@@SageRue interesting
5 double 6 treble 7 double eight double eight.
80% of the comments about how wrong Evan is about the numbers. 15% about Kleenex 5 % Mothering Sunday
Anybody else go “fornication?!!” When he said “for an occasion”? 😂
I've never heard someone say 'two 6s'. I've always said double 6 or triple 6
That's what I was thinking that... I would have said that number as 5- double 6- triple 7- double 8 - double 8
exactly what i was thinking.
On the topic of reading phone numbers aloud, I once used "zero", ""oh" and "nought" for the same number.
Whenever I tell someone my phone number I always say zero for one of them and oh for the other. It sounds more right to me idky tho
I really thought that was where he was going to go with that one
When I learned the numbers in English, our teacher told us that it's usually "zero", except for in phone numbers where you say "oh". I already thought that's crazy but now you're telling me there's also "nought"??! 😂
Yeah, I'm guilty of this one haha.
I used to use 'oh' and 'double' when reciting phone or bank numbers - after being on the receiving end of people giving their details, I now always use zero, and each digit stated individually - confusion eliminated.
I always assumed there’s less choice in the UK simply because there’s less people. There are less people in the UK than in the US so if we had the same volume of choices of food as in America there would be an astronomical amount of food waste (which is already a big issue). E.g. it makes sense that 100 people have 10 choices, and 1,000 people have 100 choices and so on!
I actually think that the huge diversity of people inthe UK courtesy of the great
British Commonwealth ) 53 huge nations, is enormous in comparison to the
suburban USA! Our food, and our food choices are enormous, and not, like
the USA limited to rubbish food , you know, the kind that makes the USA
have the fattest population on Earth! I truly believe that the average American
has NO idea of real, proper food !
The level of choice will depend on population size, the market you're aiming for, cereals aimed for kids will be a smaller market compared to cereals aimed for all, however conversely cereals that were initially aimed for kids can still be bought by adults as they may continue to eat them for nostalgia reasons if they've had a traumatic adulthood and they want something that brings them good vibes etc which may skew the marketing expectations
Docs are a British cultural icon (even though they were originally German) and have been since the sixties, that's why they're still so popular. You can have sockets in the bathroom but they have to be at least three metres from the bath and/or shower and British homes are small so have small bathrooms so most homes don't have them. Also, if you only have one bathroom in a family home you don't want someone occupying it just to dry their hair. If you really must dry your hair in the bathroom cordless hairdryers are a thing now.
As for the number thing I've never heard anyone ever say numbers that way, normally people would say double or triple followed by the digit.
Who’s gonna tell Evan that docs are really popular in the US too...
that's what i was going to say!!!!
@Chill Toad they've made a big comeback in the past 4/5 years
Shhhh!
They're still tacky!
Still ugly!
“Doc Martens don’t even look that gre-“ YES THEY DO
No, no they dont.
THANK YOU
I felt so offended when he said this as I have two pairs of Doc Martens and they are my favourite shoes. I love them so much.
DOC MARTENS ARE GREAT, EVAN
i actively searched for this comment YES THEY DO
Ive lived in the UK my whole life and I've never heard a phone number spoken like that. they usually say double 6 or triple 7. And it's knife & fork not the other way around!
I'm British and you're right I would call the part of an oven that has a top heated metal part a grill. However the bottom heated picture you showed I would call a barbecue not a grill. This came up in Duolingo actually (I'm learning German too!) as it was translating "Ich möchte nächste Woche grillen" to "I want to grill next week" and all the British people in the comments were saying how that made no sense in British English!
Mother’s Day is different because it should be known as Mothering Sunday because that’s when you went back to the church where you were baptised (your mother church) and it’s the 4th Sunday in lent.
I misread that as Smothering Sunday and was very confused.
@@Rebecca-eg1bm my mum would complain whenever she saw Mother’s Day instead of Mothering Sunday 🙄
Oh man, I had completely forgotten it was called mothering sunday. that was definitely a thing when i was a kid, but i haven't thought of it as that in years. I didn't know the bit about the church, though.
My mum is very particular about calling it Mothering Sunday. Didn't know about it being 4th Sunday in Lent or going back to your mother church though. Surely traditionally, most people didn't really move, so their "mother church" would be the same one they went to as an adult. And if the "mother" in this context refers to the church, should it equally celebrate men and single women?
@@rripley86 People would often marry people from the next village.
So, um... I've only just realised that Americans have gardens? Or, at least, I've always thought of a yard as a paved area, so when reading books where the kids are playing out in their back yard, I have never imagined grass XD
Yeah to me a yard is like... A school yard? Somewhere that's concrete and no grass
That's funny because I'm American and my understanding of "garden" has always been a large area full of soil and flowers and such. So whenever I'd hear people say "playing in the garden" I always imagine people frolicking through flowers.
@Winter snow Owen No, I totally have a lawn in my garden - it was having lawns in yards that confused me!
Yard in British English means " a piece of enclosed ground, usually either paved or laid with concrete", so whenever I read American novels which mentioned the back yard or whatnot, I forgot it meant garden in American and just imagined a British yard XD
I've known for years AE yard = BE garden, but it suddenly clicked after watching this video that I never put that knowledge into practice when reading!
I've lived in the UK for 30 years and I think Americans forget who created the English language. You don't have to grow vegetables or flowers in a garden, you can grow trees, grass and bushes/shrubs. So I agree with the British yard definition, hence school yard, boat yard, building yard, timber yard..etc.
@@TheBeeswax Language changes and evolves, it's okay for a yard to mean something different in America to here :)
The pay check timing depends where you work in the UK, each place I’ve worked at has done it differently, I have been paid weekly, bi-monthly and monthly at different jobs at different companies
How DARE YOU! The ‘Come dine with me’ narrator makes the show!
You should watch ‘Homes under the hammer’ because they link the music to what is being said and it’s everything!
I’ve never heard anyone use that thing about the numbers on the phone, from where I’m from we all say like double 6 or triple 6
look in the comments! THEY EXIST
@@evan I’m from Gloucester, we speak normal here😂
@@evan It's just a London thing XD
Nowhere else does so
@@evan I'm looking, and can't see anyone that's had the same experience as you
@@HCR7S We definitely don't speak normal mate. Only have to go watch a game at kingsholm to hear that.
Dave Lamb (the narrator) is what MAKES Come Dine With Me worth watching.
i love how much you care about the quality
its so refreshing to see 4k stuff on yt
I love how detailed this was thanks for the fun filled and informative video Evan, you just got a new subscriber 🎉🎉🎉.
I have lived in the UK most of my life and I have never heard anyone say "two 6" or "three 7". I usually only hear, "double 6", "triple 7", and if there is four of the same number I usually hear "double 8 and double 8 again". Idk who you have been talking to on the phone lol
“Weetabix is trash”
You sir have insulted my honour
Edit: Evan you have said a lot of controversial things, don’t be afraid to see me at 3 am challenging you to a game of footie
And Shreddies....
I am watching this while eating Weetabix
Weetabix... Sounds like some cheap ripoff of weetbix.
As a born and bred British person, I have NEVER known anyone list a phone number in that way. You must be talking to some weird people.
Love your videos. Thanks for sharing!
Honestly really upsets me that you don’t like narrators. When we watch reality TV we do not do so with the intention of liking and caring about the contestants. We watch so that we can laugh at the contestants (AT not with). The narrator is primarily there to take the piss out of then so that the viewer can laugh even more. A key example is the guy who narrates Love Island.
Not a reality TV show but Graham Norton on Eurovision will always be the prime example of this
That a rather large example of the difference between US and UK comedy, the UK laughs at people and the US laughs with people. For example, that cultural difference is why some might have a less opinion of those from the UK or their opinions
@@kaiceecrane3884 I mean there's also many, many cultural differences why some might have a low opinion of Americans and their opinions too and it's not based off something as silly and trivial as what comedy is popular there.
@@natb9919 I agree there is more than just that as yo why there is a cultural divide, but comedy was a good example of it. The way the British look down upon and mock is a rather large divide
@@kaiceecrane3884 If you understood Brtish comedy you would realise that a large part of our humour is the ability to laugh at ourselves and those we can directly relate too. So we use others in our humour frequently as a proxy for ourselves. You can't readily translate humour between differant cultures. To us a lot of American humour seems purile.
Evan- "British people wear more formal clothes and have better fashion sense."
Me- *is british and wears leggings and a hoodie all the time* "are you sure about that?"
yoo leggings and hoodie, no matter where you're from they are ever great and comfy :D
I know,not where I live.
Yeah, I feel like this is maybe a London thing. I don't feel anyone's very formal where I am in the North
I mean I've never been to England but I assume it's a London thing
yeah i was confused about that. I’m from England & most people dress casually where I live if they are just going shopping or something
The quality of your video is even better than some of your recent videos. Thank you for investing so much effort into it, it’s noticeable and appreciated!
“We kinda like to preserve the original way things are pronounced.”
*side eye at Illinois and Versailles* ;)
And Notre Dame in Indiana
@@una_10bananas I hope you guys know the original notre dame is in france
@@francesatty7022 I'm not an American haha I know the Notre Dame is in France (I think everyone knows that anyway) I was just adding to the places named after places in Europe but pronounced differently/wrong
@@una_10bananas wait... you don't pronounce them like the original french?
@@francesatty7022 no they pronounce the ones in America with like English phonetics
The human brain becomes flustered when given more than seven choices. Science! So I’m glad we don’t have three aisles for cereal. What a waste of space too. Our country couldn’t cope if each supermarket had to accommodate excessive choice. 😂
YES!!! I am especially bad at this I would spend hours shopping if the UK had such big supermarkets.
Nah...you get used to it.
Lived in the States for 30 years and never saw 3 aisles for cereals. That was a big exaggeration. Food variety is about the same. Lots of awful looking TV frozen dinners though.
The entire time I was watching this video I know Evan said he wasn’t generalising London and was talking about the whole UK but he was generalising London from stale popcorn to the phone number thing, as a British person I can’t relate lol but loved to hear the opinions all the same! :)
He admits that the north is a closed book to him. Eyup, yoth, yah reet? Dunna be so mardy. Yow from off?
(When I lived in the East Riding for a while, one local wag referred to non East Riding people as coming from the USA - other side of Airmyn (that's the mouth of the river Aire, and the boundary with the West Riding).
Out here lecturing us on how to pronounce fillet while you go around saying "crasont" for croissant and "coop" for coupe. As George Bush once said "The trouble with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur", pretty much sums up the US's perspective
I have lived here for 30 years and have never had a phonecall where people have said numbers like that.
I've never heard people say two 6's, most people I know say double 6, triple 7, and so on
Evan, you live in London! There are several glorious cheese shops there! Don’t just go to your supermarket, go out to a decent delicatessen or cheese shop and talk to the staff. They will give you something that will satisfy your needs. Try some yfenni or Tewkesbury...they have some bite to them and ask for a good melting cheese.
I enjoy your videos so much! I always learn something new with you. You're a brilliant kid.
Hey Evan! I used you watch you all the time when you were in University. Even watched you stress out about finals on YouNow multiple times. Glad the bad puns have reduced significantly 😬. Watching you talk about when you first moved brings back a lot of memories.
Even though I don't watch your content all day every day anymore it's lovely when RUclips suggests a video from a familiar face 🙃
When you said “for an occasion” it sounded like “fornication” hahaha
hahaha I did too in the edit!
It did.
Yes
Agreed.
Thought is was gonna be an intentional pun, but he missed it. Heh-heh.
on the point of cheeses there are around 1,800 different types of cheese in the world and the UK makes 700 of them, more than any other country. It's not that we don't have other kinds of cheese than cheddar you just can't find them apparently :)
Where did you get that from? Even in France we can't agree on how many types of cheese we make and I find it hard to believe the UK makes more types than any other country. I know you guys don't produce only cheddar, red Leicester and stilton but still.
Nah that’s France
@@pernelleblaise3915 those numbers sound way off to me, I would’ve said France has more cheeses, but I’m not an expert
@@jamesbown8948 A quick google says that italy and france both have the most different types of cheese at 400, google isn't infallible tho
We have many, many cheeses but wouldn't say the most, although would guess in top 5. Just go to a specialist. Regardless, my local supermarkets have at least 20-30 so Evan is exagerating here. I guess he just misses the plastic fake US 'cheese'.
I'd actually argue that US narration is a bit more over the top, but maybe that's just because I'm used to the more cynical/sarcastic takes on UK TV 🤷♀️
In the UK it's actually mothering Sunday not mother's Day and it is always on the 3rd Sunday of lent as its origins are from when people started moving away for work so mothering Sunday was created as a day for people to return to their mother (home) church. Over time it has morphed into also being a day we celebrate mums 🙂 hope this helps you understand why it is different to American mother's Day
As someone who has lived in England for my 24 years of life, I have never once heard this number system that we apparently all use. Who would ever read a number like that? I mean, I'm a Northerner so maybe it's just us and Evan has no clue that we read numbers normally because he can't understand us... but damn.
Mother's Day in the UK changes every year as it is to do with Lent and Easter. As the UK is a Christian country the holidays will be based on that. That is why the holidays are different.
Mothering Sunday, now most often referred to as Mothers Day, predates the world's celebration of mothers. It falls on the 4th Sunday in the penitential season of Lent and is an occasion for thanking God for Mother Church, Mary the mother of Jesus and our own mother. In other words, it is of greater significance and antiquity than the purely secular celebration.
Here is a man who does not understand electricity and how it can kill you when you have wet hands. Just in case you don't understand, in US you have 110volts, in UK we have 240volts. 110v will give you a sharp shock, 240v will give you your very own furnace, or whole in the ground. I also agree with everyone that says we never say 3 sixes, but triple 6. PS Why do you go to the cinema to eat? I go to watch a film.
In America we have GFCI outlets for kitchens and bathroom which kill power to the outlet should any water intrude so there no chance of electrocution
@@Jattix315 i have one for the bathroom at 230 volt 50hz and i use it fpr my shaver and when i cut my hair,
Thank quality 😙👌 so satisfying to watch
If you were growing plants or fruits/vegetables like tomatoes or cabbages, you'd call that a vegitable patch in the uk, I'd say a yard is a large flat bit of grass like a golf course and a garden is specifically a big of grass on the land that your house is on.
I've always associated gardens = unpaved, yards = paved.
Garden... grass, trees, flowers, plants
Yard.. hard flat stony area
Vegetable patch... to grow fruits and veg
I have a yard. It's an enclosed bit of concrete at the back of my terraced house. If it had grass, flowers and vegetables, it would be a garden.
Ssooo *american here* what do yous call a garden... with flowers 🌺 in it? We call it either vegetable garden or flower garden or a herb garden. Whatever you are growing + garden. A yard can be a piece of land with grass and maybe some shrubs and a tree. A yard can also be a concrete piece of land. In general, any piece of land that is yours to your property.
@@Auronomi i’m from the east coast of the US, and here we usually call it a flowerbed! and we only use the word yard when referring to a house that has grassy land with it. personally, i live in a suburb so concrete typically isn’t even common in yards, unless it’s a porch/patio/or the foundation of the house.
Mother’s day in the UK is (technically?) a church thing, we celebrate it on the 4th sunday of lent :-)
the way you leaned back right before the end card came,, that was actually kinda cool!
(UK) I generally just wear a t-shirt and hoodie too. Maybe dressing smart is a London thing? I only ever wear trainers, don't bother with fancy shoes.
All the big supermarkets I've ever been to here have at least a full isle of cereal, including several brands of the same things to choose from.
Honestly, I had to play your saying "dawn" several times until I noticed the difference.
I have only recently heard the word "pissed" used to mean drunk, I would always use it to mean angry.
Saying phone numbers like that sounds really confusing, but I've never heard anyone do that. I would say "triple 7", but never "three 7s". I actually found your initial reading of all the digits individually really hard to follow.
I have a rule: don't eat any meal that takes more than one piece of cutlery. I have never seen anyone eat a burger with a knife and fork (although I have seen it with pizza, that's really weird).
The grill is the thing with bars that you put the food on. Where the heat comes from is irrelevant.
Celcius is easier to convert to kelvin.
And we have many types of cheese, perhaps you're just going in the wrong shops?
As for the 'nutella' pronunciation, sure you get the first syllable the same as italy, but you still pronounce the second half wrong. That said, I would never call anyone out as being wrong about something like that unless I actually didn't know what they meant. Then I would listen to their explanation.
The world fillet has existed in english for over 200 years. How many english words did americans change in that same time, and they weren't even adapting it to a different language.
There aren't enough comments defending Dave Lamb's fantastic commentary of Come Dine With Me. I'd argue its one of the best parts of the show!
Come Dine without Dave Lamb's commentary wouldn't be worth watching! Dave Lamb IS Come Dine....
HE makes the show!
And the fact that he name dropped come dine with me after a point about trash television 💀
Come dine with me is absolute gold
Don't come at our narrators, the voice of gogglebox is a national treasure. And come dine with me wouldn't be the same without the sassy voice over 🤣
Hey Even . You remind me so much of my best friend. She is so hyper, like yourself and doesn't let me get a word in edgeways it's unreal haha! Love your vids cause I'm a listener not a speaker, we totally complement each other, I slag her and tell her to breath but to no availe. Love and love you for your honesty xx
@14:07 - we also love/stock Gouda, Edam, Maasdamer along with most soft french cheeses (Brie/Camembert) - there's more variety than you realise if you know where to look!
okay but that video quality tho
I thought the grill referred to the rack you're cooking on rather than where the heat is coming from 🤔
Same!
it does...
It definitely does. That thing that covers a vent -a grill. Mesh over a radiator - a grill. Rack on a bbq for putting meat on - a grill. Metal arrangement of rectangles or squares, placed under a heating element - a grill. :-)
It does, even by the american dictionary definition.
7:25 Buffet is always buff-ay (though i often pronounce it as Buff-et myself) & Fillet swaps between the 2 depending on the situation & how smart/posh you want to present yourself as. If you're in your bog standard restaurant you would say fill-et but if you were in say a Hilton or 4-5 star restaurant you'd say Fill-ay. It can also depend on the area of Britain you grew up.
I could never. Sunday is my day for stocking up for the week and I enjoy the calmness of it.
The choice one is interesting to me. I’m a Greek gal living in the UK and I was impressed with how many choices UK supermarkets offered when I first moved here😂
I am from the uk and everyone i know would never call out numbers like that
I would say
5
Double 6
Triple 7
Double 8
Double 8
Thanksgiving is a harvest festival. We have one too, it's earlier because the US one is very late, but there's next to nothing done with it nowadays.
I think i remember sort of celebrating it in primary school - we all brought in food to give to charity.
The Come Dine With Me joke you did actually made me laugh out loud because I didn't realise how accurate that is till you said it. Another Evan vid classic. I'm Irish and it's interesting to see your perspective on the UK
I defended every single one of these points out loud. Why is it whenever I hear an American criticise British things, I get so defensive??
From the Websters US dictionary: A cooking utensil of parallel bars on which food is exposed to heat (as from charcoal or electricity).
From Wikipedia: Grilling is a form of cooking that involves dry heat applied to the surface of food, commonly from above, below or from the side.
The grill is the wire mesh you put the food on, nothing to do with the direction of the heat. What you're talking about is specifically a barbeque.
What these miss is that the verb comes from the noun, viz: Grill n 1 (British) A device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for cooking food. Grill vb 1 Cook (food) using a grill. (Oxford Dictionaries). Note that grilling uses radiant heat, not heat passed by conduction or by direct application of flame.
@@allenwilliams1306 I deliberately used American sources to demonstrate that even as a foreigner, Evan was wrong on his narrow definition of a grill.
In South Africa Barbecues don't exist, the term is Braai, which is shortend word of braai vleis. Really good cuts of meat are put on a braai, burger patties don't count!
You Philly people and your accents omg being from the other side of the state it makes me giggle and I love it
I smiled a lot throughout this video. As I often do.
Good Luck with the citizenship thing. It will be good to have you as a member of the crew.
I’m British and I’ve never heard the 3 sevens thing before
i live in the uk and have NEVER heard a phone number pronounced like that. people will say “double 6” or “triple 6” but never “two 6s” etc.
We say “pissed” for both angry and drunk
I always thought angry was pissed off.
"There is just such a lack of consistency" - so basically Britain in a nutshell
The shameful truth!
Calling cream cheese “Philadelphia” is the same thing as calling tissues “Kleenex”.
The British population has started calling cream cheese by a popular brand that is known for making cream cheese. The American population has started calling tissues by a popular brand that is known for making tissues 🤷♀️
Also, let's talk about soda??? If you want coke say just coke!
@@biankatoth1786 yes! I’m okay with people saying soda, pop, or soda-pop. But you can’t call everything coke when there’s something called coke already!
I thought that but then he clarified it’s weird because it’s a place in the US so it’s weird to him, think of it as, say, “do you want some Manchester on your bagel” 😂
@@courtneymaria56 true, and I totally understand his point.
But also, there isn’t a type of food (that I know of) named Manchester... I totally understand thinking it’s weird to call a food by a place, but then it should be equally weird to name a company a place that will then display their company name on said food.
It’s a weird situation all around, is what I’m basically trying to say.
If we have Philadelphia cream cheese in the fridge, we ask if someone could grab the Philadelphia. Other brands we just call cream cheese. Maybe part of it is just that brand of cream cheese is so good that it’s hard to call it anything else? 🤷♀️ who knows at this point 😂
It’s not something that’s going to bother me if people call it that, but eh 🤷♀️
Philadelphia is the 6th largest city in the U.S., so that's what we'd immediately think you're talking about. If I heard that in a conversation, I would get incredibly confused. Especially if you're like Evan, because Philadelphia is right next to New Jersey, where he's from.
I relate to the transatlantic accent. I am native Spanish speaker, so I learned English in an British English Institute growing up. I even took Cambridge CPE. But I have watched American movies and tv shows all my life, so my accent is a mix of both, and my vocabulary is a mix of both. I honestly won't be able to tell from where each word is.
I am in the UK and you can get paid weekly or biweekly, it depends on the company you work for and how they like to do things. I have been paid weekly in the last 2 jobs I have done, and monthly in the first 2. It really just depends. But if you go job hunting you can search for jobs that pay more regularly that monthly if you go on Indeed or something. I hope you are well and having a lovely day!
I work in a cinema (well, I did...) and I can confirm that the popcorn tastes like it was made a long time ago because it was in fact, made a long time ago. It comes pre-popped in giant bags.
As someone who formally worked in a cinema, can extra confirm. Also the markup on that crap is astronomical
I have never, ever, seen a woman shopping in her pyjamas!I
Is this a joke ?
Broiling!? Never heard of broiling. It's grilling. That outdoor one? It's a BBQ
Broiling occurs in an oven
Broillng in the UK anyway, is in the oven when both the oven and grill is on at the same time
13:44 I agree with this I don't often use a knife either. Either use my hands or a folk. If I do end up using a knife I will use it to put pressure on the item & pull it apart using the fork. I will not do a sawing motion at all. This is mainly due to me hating the sound the knife makes when it scrapes the plate.
Come dine with me is a whole narrator level of its own Evan 😂