As an american, every time I hear "garden" I always default to thinking about something like an actual vegetable garden or flower garden or something as opposed to just a lawn or yard.
School busses are yellow because in the 1930's a bus full of children and a teacher got lost in a severe blizzard and could not be found. Many of them died before being found and the rest had terrible hypothermia and frostbite. All school busses are yellow because it is a high visibility color. Edit: I looked it up to make sure. It's the Pleasant Hill Bus Tragedy. There is a story about it on RUclips that's part of the "Colorado Experience" series.
Yellow schoolbusses are only for kids. We have other buses that aren’t yellow for other things like public transport, sports teams, or prisons transporting convicts. They are free to ride on for school children but you have to pay for public transit.
Near as I can tell the reason for dedicated school buses is twofold. 1.) A lot of areas in the US don’t necessarily have public transit. (My city doesn’t and we’re actually quite large, it’s on the edge of a major metropolitan area.) 2.) Safety, it keeps kids from having to walk or take public transit which could be concerning particularly with younger students. (Whether, this really helps is irrelevant, perception matters more)
@@swordofgallifrey6330 Where in the US is that? I've gone to school in 7 different school districts across the US and worked in two. I have never heard of a non-free school bus.
Some districts (particularly rural districts) will allow teachers or other professionals to ride the school buses as well as students. In districts that have good general public transit, the district may provide a subsidized pass for other methods (e.g. subway) of getting to school. Additionally, different states layout school districts differently - in Florida they match the geographic counties, while other states as set where individual schools are their own school district. Funding usually is shared among all the schools in a district, so broader districts that have a lot of schools usually will have more equitable schools, compared to a state where some districts might be lucky enough to have high tax base things like a car manufacturing plant or something like that. All this funding affects what amenities can be offered to students like busing.
And... he didn't want "translate" he wanted a definition. For that, he could have just typed "definition: delineates" into google and it would have done it for him. :)
School buses are free to ride. They have a regular route and kids walk to the nearest school bus stop to hop on. Edit: MOST public school buses are free to ride. I realize there are some exceptions.
It's a Federal crime to take mail out of a mailbox if it isn't yours (or put something in if you're not a postal worker), but yeah, mail theft is still a problem.
I live in the US, in a townhouse that has a limited (but still shared) mailbox that has a key. It's technically and functionally still a private residence, though.
The majority of mailboxes here don't have locks on them. People rarely steal mail because it's considered a federal offense and you could get prison time. However people do steal packages sometimes, because if you see a package it means there's probably something expensive in it.
True. However there are exceptions like my neighborhood where everybody's mailbox is in a single unit at the top of the hill and the home owner is the only one allowed to have a key to the mailbox.
And lots of people don’t have mailboxes, most people in cities and older suburbs the mail is on porch or directly into the house, or apartments in lobby, not mail boxes outside like shown on a road. . Lots of postal workers walk a beat. What has gone way is all the many post boxes to drop off mail that used to be in neighborhoods.
I am going to add If you steal your neighbors mail. It's a real no no in just general cultural behavior and it's not being a good neighbor to your fellow American. I seriously believe we need to educate people on sociable and what being a good neighbor is and why that's important. People leaving church and religion has consequences you know. Not advocating people return there if they made the choice to leave but I am advocating a social contract that like it or not religion has and did teach people. When I say that I of course mean non-radicalized ones.
@@bethshadid2087 Legally they don't belong to the Feds, but it comes under their jurisdiction. You are 'effectively leasing' them, so to speak, but it still means it is a Federal Crime to steal mail, vandalize, tamper with them, etc.
We no longer use the “flag” on our mailbox because it is essentially saying “hey thief, there’s stuff in here for you to take”. My street gets a lot of foot traffic and there were some issues a few years ago with porch pirates and mail thieves
@Elijah Feuerstein tell that to the alphabet boys that came to our house when we reported a stolen package. They may not be the best all the time but they take it serious as hell when they can.
When he said "mesh fence", I thought he was talking about those orange temporary snow fences that keep the drifts off of the roads. Sometimes they use them at a construction sites to retain dirt.
Its not even just American flags or sports team flags. We fly other countries' flags too. I love walking around my neighborhood and seeing a bunch of Polish flags and wondering what Polish holiday is coming up. Or seeing a bunch of cars driving around with Mexican flags hanging off of every possible surface and wondering whether its a Mexican holiday or just a Canelo Alvarez fight.
I think it’s cool when the World Cup is on and a bunch of people put up flags of where they’re from. Love driving on the highway and seeing different flags
I drove through a neighborhood where a lot of Irish Americans live right after ST. Patrick’s day and you would not believe how many Irish flags I saw on people’s houses. There was at least 5 houses per side of the the street per block with an Irish flag on it.
Our mailboxes are at the road because the mail is delivered by car, jeep, etc and they drive up to it and put the mail in. Where the mail is delivered by foot, it is like yours. We have the slot in the door for it. The fire hydrants are connected to water supply underground and it runs on the edge of the road. Others get water from a firetruck where the water is pumped straight from the tank.
You can buy retired school buses. The new owner removes the name of the school, but otherwise they're a funky way to get around. I imagine the gas mileage is bad.
My neighbors converted one into a home complete with wood stove, they rent out the house the bus is parked in front of. It's pretty cool. They haven't driven it that i have seen they just start it up once a month or so.
Ya the mileage is bad, for diesels you're looking at maybe 5 -6 mpg and propanes are about 3 - 4 mpg. But they hold between 70 - 100 gallons depending on the bus type.
Yellow school buses are pretty much for students only...and a lot of mailboxes in our yards don't have locks on them...and i was very surprised you dont really have fire hydrants.
What I have heard is that over there they are mostly in the street. They are under a hatch cover flush with the road surface. It's probably because there is no room to run them where we do, what with all those brick walls.
Yeah, South Park begins a lot of episodes with Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman waiting at a bus stop, the bus driver is a crazy woman, forget her name, and The Simpsons features Lisa and Bart, and Otto, the rock 'n' roll bus driver.
Water towers, and water tanks on top of hills, are why no houses in the US need pumps. I watched another British RUclipsr who was talking about how he had no water during a power outage because the houses in his area all have water pumps to bring water to the house from the reservoir. The only houses in the US that have water pumps are ones that have their own well. Also some houses that re-use grey water, but at lot of those build a water tank in the roof.
Regarding mailboxes, it depends on the neighborhood. In my neighborhood they are by the street. In my aunt's neighborhood it was on the wall by the front door. At my grandma's house it was a slot in the wall by the door. At my brother's neighborhood it is in a bank of keyed boxes at the end of the street.
A scary story about a water tower. In elementary school I was outside playing kickball during Gym class and the tower which was next to the school yard started leaking. Water was literally falling on our heads. We ran to the other side of the yard and kept playing.
Probably wasn't leaking, it was 'sweating'. On really hot days, it isn't unusual for the cold water inside to react to the hot outer surface and form condensation, which drips off the tower.
So figured I should explain both the Mail Boxes and Fire Hydrants. Mail Boxes The mail box locations really depends on where you live and when the building/neighborhood was built. In urban areas, mail boxes are usually attached to the wall near your front door unless you have a slot on the door itself. For apartment complexes, you will typically have a mail room with multiple boxes for each apartment. If the apartment buildings are large enough, they will also have an outgoing mail slot as well. For rural areas, you will find that mail boxes would be located near the street rather than attached to the building. This is so the mailman does not have to leave their vehicle to drop the mail. This is also why all postal vehicles that deliver mail to the location have right side driving compared to every other vehicle in the US that has left side driving. Lastly, new developments have opted for a community box system where a single box is located somewhere within a community that will have boxes for each address. This is done so that the mailman can go to a single place to deliver mail rather than go house to house. All boxes that have more than one address typically are locked where the mailman would have a master key and each household has a key to their specific mailbox. One last thing... stealing mail from someone else's mailbox is a federal crime and the United States Postal Service has their own police force to investigate. They do not joke around. Fire Hydrants The key difference that I have seen between the US Fire Hydrant and the UK Fire Hydrant other than appearance are how water is delivered to the truck. Thanks to Lost in the Pond, I actually had to look up the UK Fire Hydrants and this is what I found. In the UK, their Fire Hydrants are located underground. The H sign is to inform the firefighters that the hydrant is located near there. In order for the firefighters to use it, they will need an attachment to bring the hydrant above ground level. I believe the numbers on the H sign is to notify the firefighter what adapter size to use and what PSI the water is at. However, in the US, I believe all the Fire Hydrants are the same size so that any city/town firefighters can come in and use it. The PSI is different between towns/cities though. Some municipalities use paint color to inform the firefighters what PSI it is while others use some kind of marking. Correction on the UK Fire Hydrants: The top number indicated the diameter of the pipe that will be needed for the adapter. The bottom number indicated the distance from the marker the hydrant is located.
@@TheRiehlThing42 Thanks for correcting the water flow. However, regarding the paint, I do not think there is a standard in the US. For example, in the city I am in, I have seen Yellow hydrants and Red/Black hydrants. Go a few towns over and all the hydrants are Yellow.
Double-decker buses are usually run by tour companies in large American cities. I was in a double-decker in London. I sat upfront on the upper deck. It's a really odd perspective.
Double decker buses are very rare in the states. They’re basically for tourists. I know they have them in L.A. and also where I live, in Austin, TX. But they’re not a regular means of public transport anywhere.
Side thought - my cousin from San Diego came to the rural Midwest USA for a funeral and was surprised to see 1) clothes lines 2) slanted wooden cellar doors on the outside of houses. He'd only seen them in old movies previously.
Anyone can walk by and steal your mail. But a LOT of suburban neighborhoods have someone or several someone's with cameras, and stealing mail is a pretty serious felony.
Those billboards are actually illegal in the state of Maine :-) I never realized how grateful I was for that law until I went down to North Carolina for a visit.
I have a friend that is from Germany and the first time that she saw a yellow school bus she was obsessed and she made it the background on her phone. I thought it was so weird but apparently the school buses there are blue
@@kimwhitehead9096 you , won't see thatched roof on the East Coast of the US either, my stepdad is a fireman, he said they are highly illegal due to be a fire Hazard as you commented already
Water towers are for increasing water pressure with gravity, since water does have to flow up hills to get to certain places. I think they have a somewhat small pump that keeps it full. It holds so much water that the pump has time to refill it, since people aren't constantly running the water in their houses. Allot of school buses are rented from people who run independent buss businesses. One of my brothers' girlfriends ran an independent bus business. She kept them clean & maintained & had drivers working for her. What he referred to a mesh fences are usually called chain link fences everywhere I've lived here.
I grew up in Chicago, I can tell you in urban areas the mail box is on the door. There is even mail slots in the door. In rural areas mail box are at the road because the house tend set away from the road and have driveway to get to the house.
I'm in central Illinois, we have a double decker bus from England. A couple of guys bought it restored it, and turned it into a food truck. The go to random spots across the city and serve English foods. They have a walk up window for to go orders. But if you would like to sit and dine, you climb up to the upper deck where they have tables. I have had their English Fish n' Chips. The best I have had. It's very popular. And they call themselves, 2 Blokes in a Bus.
@@TheCaligurl12 Interesting. My town is mostly flat, but on top of a 150-foot (nearly 50-meter) hill is the town's water tank. The hill's elevation acts as a tower.
We have one sits on a mountain. The area is actually called "The Mountain" and it's where a lot of the wealthier people lived before lakeside and riverside property became so popular, and many moved there. I've driven up the mountain many times and could see the huge tower from a few yards away.
There are situations such as field trips in which parents and faculty may come along on the bus but other than that the only adult you'll find there is the driver
11:30 our fire hydrants are also on the ground under metal plates. I did the phoenix course for the jobcentre which is a 6 day fire fighting training program and the hydrants are only used to get extra water if the fire engine runs out of water on board
That's not much water. Your typical fire engine holds between 500-750gal on board, which gets used up pretty quickly when fighting a structural fire. The only time I ever saw an engine use its on board supply was fighting a wildfire where there was no quick hook up to a water hydrant.
I thought an "engine" was used to connect to a water supply, not carry one, and that the trucks w/ water on board were called "water tenders." ETA: I looked it up. ~Fire engines usually have a pump, a water tank, and hundreds to thousands of feet of powerful hoses. The water tank contains hundreds of gallons of water and serves as the firefighters’ H2O source until they can connect to a fire hydrant (or other external water source). Fire engines also carry nozzles and other tools that are needed for the hoses. ~Water Tenders are mobile water carriers. Each Tender carries approximately 3,000 gallons of water. Water Tenders are not used to supply water to fire hoses, but merely to provide a source of water for brush rigs and engines at grass fires. It is like a mobile fire hydrant. ~A fire truck, on the other hand, are auxiliary vehicles that carry tools such as ground and aerial ladders. Some of these ladders extend upward from the truck, using the vehicle as a base. Some fire engines may also carry ladders, but you’ll find the majority of firefighters’ ladders on their trucks.
I’ve got one for you ..... way back in 1998 my friend came to spend the night at my house. (We live about 15 min away from each other in a car ride. I was about a block from the mall and she was basically in the woods.) she hears kid music ( do your ears hang low) she goes what is that noise ? I ask “ the music” ? She says yes, I say it’s an ice cream truck ! She got up running out of my house jumped on my bike and rode off. 5 min she comes back with a huge cone and says “ I thought those things were only in movies I had to go see it !! And try it so I can tell my sisters ice cream trucks aren’t just in movies! Lmao 😂
Fire hydrants are also generally marked a few feet out in the street by a blue reflector on the road to make it easier for the fire trucks to find them at night.
Fire hydrants are a pipeline BRANCH (above ground) coming off the buried public water pipeline (water main) that runs under the street. It is there to provide a connection point above ground for the fire department to connect to, and draw public water from, during a fire emergency. The knobs on it are hose connections. The elevated giant tanks are public water storage facilities that will release water into the public water main when pressure drops (as in the case of a fire emergency by the way). If the fire department is withdrawing a lot of water from fire hydrants to fight fires, the water tank adds more water to the water main to maintain the pressure (which is needed so people can actually get water from their faucets).
The reason the Yard/Lawn is not the garden is because the lawn is a separate consistent plant that covers the property. It's also called a yard due to measurements and real estate history. We garden for food (Colonial days) and for flowers because of beauty and to help our Lawns look good. It also helps in the over all price a house or property gets when you sell it on.
The only place I have ever seen a double-decker bus was in Victoria, B.C (Canada). Some people do have locks on their boxes, but not most front yard boxes don't. Many people do like to make their boxes out of brick, so they are less likely to fall victim to mailbox baseball. They also look nice. Newer housing complexes will have a community box where every home has their own little locked compartment.
I grew up in Victoria. We definitely have double decker city buses, because they are great as commuter buses, from the western communities or the buses that go to UVic, but I thought they spread to Vancouver as well, some of them. Vancouver has those accordion buses though and they have the SkyTrain, which eliminates the need for a commuter bus, I guess.
There are plenty of double-decker busses all around the US. They just aren't common. I drove by one parked last week and I doubt most people know that we have them here.
@@jenniferh3479 Are they city buses or tour buses? We used to have old double deckers that were bought from England that were used as tour buses, but of course they opened on the opposite side of the vehicle than buses should here.
@@jenniferh3479 Hmm, you are right. The Wikipedia article for double decker bus show all the cities around the world that have them and a number of US cities absolutely do.
The yellow buses are for students. But the buses can actually be rented, with a driver. We also have mailboxes that hang on the house, some apartment buildings have grouping of mailboxes that look like post boxes that lock, and some older houses have letter slots.
Things I saw in the UK: Glass front doors with patterned glass Big red alarm thing on the side of the homes Tall bricked up backyard fences The round red post boxes Tiny, narrow driveways
We have such a different definition of the word garden. Here any private outdoor space attached to your home is called your yard. Calling something a garden implies that you’re cultivating and growing specific plants and flowers. So your garden would be an area in your front or back yard. When I hear the english refer to their “garden” I automatically picture an immaculately maintained flower garden with english ivy maybe, and lavender - with a proper English person sitting and having tea while butterflies flit about. “Shall we have our tea in the gah-den? Mmm yes delightful idea”
Riding the school bus is also sometimes referred to as "riding the cheese". Growing up in the country, I rode the bus to school up until senior year, when I finally got my driver's license and a car. It was usually a 45 minute ride on the bus route, so I had plenty of time to cause trouble, read books, and sleep. (in that order as I grew older)
Another thing is in the northeast, specifically New England it seems, there are stone walls and fences everywhere. Mostly Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine I think. They were property lines in the 1600s-1900s. Mostly on farms or in the woods in the middle of the rural areas.
barns were coated with a mixture of linseed oil from the flax plant which is orange mixed with milk and lime and ferous oxide rust for its ability to kill moss and fungus. when paint became available they continued with red paint for tradition. in kentucy barns are painted black with creosote to make the inside hot to dry tobacco.
i live in the US and i have 2 british friends that live in different places in the UK. something that was weird to them that we do here is that I own the entire fence line of my home in my backyard. They told me over there that there is one side of the fence that you and your neighbor share. not over here there is a small section of "no mans land" in between my neighbor's and my fence.
It was so odd hearing a German foreign exchange student say he had no idea what the German flag looked like until he was 12 years old and he saw it in a book.
Several of my friends in the UK have expressed an aversions to any type of flag because they see nationalism as a form of elitism and divisiveness. Some feel it's similar to showing pride in being born wealthy or white, so they find it somewhat distasteful, as well as a tool of the elite, to keep the gap widening between the haves and have nots.
As a Brit who has only been to London once I have no desire to return, the rest of the country is much more beautiful and cultural, London is just a Mecca city like any other, you may as well go New York or any big international city and you'd probably get the same experience
In my current house, we have a community mailbox for a portion of the neighborhood which is opened by a key. The mailperson has a master key that opens the whole panel to access all the boxes. When I was growing up, we had a mailbox attached to the wall, next to the front door. Many of our neighbors had mailboxes along the curb. The thing about the mailboxes along the curb was that they have these little flags, also known as a carrier signal flag, that you put up to tell the mailperson that you have outgoing mail. I kind of wish I could somehow do that with the community boxes because I can't tell you how many times we just have to drive to the post office to drop off mail because the mailperson doesn't notice it...
My son was a tower climber repairing or beginning construction of cell phone towers. Some were on top of watertowers. He climbed them by accessing the inside of one of those tube legs. Im am soooo happy he changed jobs.
Yellow school buses are typically used for getting some kids to and from school. Depending on the city/county they could be free (and covered by city funds). Also, the “cheese bus” as we so lovingly refer to them, are often used during the the day for class/school trips (the schools will reserve them for the day).
I remember when the “lockdown” first happened I was like “Wait you mean I get to continue with what I’ve been doing except I don’t have to feel bad about doing it? NICE I HATE PEOPLE”
The American flags are flown outside government buildings or on government property such as the post office, schools, banks, courthouses, state/count/city office buildings, trains, firetrucks. People wear them on t-shirts, hats, car decals. I hang a flag on the front of my house on national holidays like the 4th of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day.
Answering questions: Canada also has yellow school buses. There are double decker buses in the US,, but they are usually tourist buses in cities, not regular public transit buses. Mailboxes that are outside of private houses don't generally have locks. Many people fly the American flag at their homes on certain holidays, but most people don't just have a flag outside their homes all the time. You will see the American flag on public buildings. It's done more often than in other countries like the UK, but it's easy to overstate it. It's not like you're walking down the street and there are American flags all over the place.
For the most part our mail boxes do not have a lock on them. My mailbox for example is not actually on my property it’s directly at the end of my drive but across the street facing my house.
1. Mailboxes are different places depending on where you live. I’ve lived in houses where it’s down by the street and I’ve lived in houses where it’s up by the door. 2. We have double Dekker buses here as well 3. In our city the water tower store’s water used for emergency shortages
I live in a rural part of the US. When I was in school, my home was a 25 minute drive from school. My parents had to go to work before 7, and I had to wait for the bus to come by. If there weren’t buses, many kids could not get to school. They are yellow in order for people to take notice of them. No one wants to accidentally hit a bus full of kids.
School busses are a must in rural areas, there is no public transportation, our kids school district was 15 miles from furthest house south to furthest house north. Its included in tour school taxes. Our mailbox is at the end of the driveway we live on a rural route, our mailman drives his personal vehicle to deliver. My son is in the closest small city his mail goes in his front door through a mail slot. We fly an American flag and thin red line fire flag in our front yard (not called the garden but Yard) areas that don't have fire hydrants are served by tanker relays and portable ponds in the event of a fire. We love fences of all sorts. Tall wooden fences are probably most popular.
Mail theft is pretty rare in the US (aside from the recent surge in package theft). The US post office has it's own law enforcement, and mail theft is a federal crime. You can get 5 years in prison & a 250 thousand dollar fine.
You do sometimes see yellow shoolbusses in private service in the US because in most states they can be resold once they’re old and ratty enough that the schools don’t want them anymore. When resold, they generally are required to have any markings that SAY “school” and the special automatic stop sign device removed, but aren’t required to be completely repainted-and if an individual or company is cheap enough that they’re looking to buy a bus that was discarded by notoriously tight-budgeted public schools, there’s like a 50/50 chance they won’t bother repainting it beyond the legally required minimum. If they do repaint it fully tho (or buy a new bus that just happens to be a common school bus model) they’ll usually go for something other than yellow so there’s no confusion that it’s in some non-school-related service.
Chain link fences (mesh) are considered an eyesore in some communities. Also, there are different heights available. I have a 7 foot one in the back yard to keep my dogs in and bears out. (I live in Alaska and bears aren't that motivated to wreck a well-built fence.)
Double decker busses in the US are usually used for tours around big cities with sky scrapers like New York. They are not really used for anything else.
There are double decker buses in America but not many they are usually used as tour buses. Also it’s against the law to mess with someone else’s mailbox because every mailbox is considered federal property so even if you bought your mailbox at a store it’s not legally yours but the government’s and you can get arrested and thrown in prison if you’re caught messing or vandalizing a mailbox that’s not on your property. And so far the only mailboxes I’ve seen with a lock are apartment mailboxes, public mailboxes and P.O. mailboxes at the post office.
Fire Hydrants exist everywhere in the US. However, they are prominently featured in films around New York City and most closely associated with New York. This is because summertime in New York is hot and kids used to open the valves of hydrants to play and cool off in the water. It's always been illegal to do that, but the cops seldom enforced it and more often let the kids play.
Some school districts will lease buses to groups for day trips when school isn't in session. The lease amouint includes funding for the driver. It often presents a cheaper alternative to leasing a motor coach.
In U.K. fire hydrants are underground. The fire service carry standpipes (a pipe that screws into the below ground hydrant) and a turn key that operates the below ground valve
School buses are either owned or run by the local school board. They are usually paid for by our local taxes and do not require a fee to ride. They have assigned busses for specific route to each school. For example, the “bus stop” for my kids was in front of our home. Depending on which school they attended ( elementary, middle or high school etc) they rode an assigned bus. That bus had a number on it. So at 6:15 am or whatever time is assigned my child would wait in front of the house for their bus number, get picked up on a route were other schoolmates were picked up and dropped off at their school. At the end of the day that same bus waited at the school and the assigned kids would load up and be dropped of where they were picked up that morning. Usually around the same time every day. Anywhere between 2:30-4:30 depending on age and school.
the reason we have yellow school busses is that the public transportation infrastructure doesn't exist in the majority of the USA. Britain doesn't need them because of the number of bus routes.
Water towers are used to store water and maintain water pressure. They are filled at night from the cities water plant, during the day they are used to help supplement the water and pressure from the city water plant, then at night are filled back up again. Stealing mail is a federal crime so people tend to not mess with that, but they'll steal packages from door steps. Interestingly, the gentleman in the video said whatever you do, do not get your water from fire hydrants. The water from fire hydrants comes from the cities main lines that feed into your tap. The dead end lines are periodically flushed to keep clean drinking water in the system.
So, I'm actually a bus driver. At least in my town, the school system has hired a transport company, named Apple Bus. We drivers are employed by the company, not the school district. And yes, the yellow bus is only for school use, but it can be to various field trips and competitions as well as the daily morning and afternoon routes. Drivers are required to have a particular class of commercial driver's license with both passenger and school bus endorsement, and that includes passing a physical, several written exams, and a practical. Then on top of those legal requirements, the company has other training it requires on its own, and all of this ensures that the kids are safely transported wherever it is they're going while they're in our busses.
For post/mail, the box on a pole is most frequent in the suburbs & rural areas, i.e. where properties are relatively spaced out, and the most efficient way to deliver is for the postman to deliver in a vehicle, not get out and walk a route, though in historically older neighborhoods you might find some walking routes, but these tend to be less spacious also.
Double decker busses are mostly used in tourist areas where they never go particularly fast. Mostly tho, they go too fast for them to be safe, not to mention the trees.
8:27 My neighbor has this type of fence, they had a small pitbull mix that used to jump onto the top of the fence and try to grab people walking past, but it somehow never got out. I'm very happy with my 6ft privacy fence thank you very much.
@@davedammitt7691 No lmao, he bit my dad once. I love most pitbulls but not that one. I suspect it was the owner's fault, because he was sweet the first few times I met him.
The US postal service has issued a decree that newer houses have to have communal mailboxes, in the middle of the block. The ones in front of the house are not used any more. Older houses still have the box in front of their house, and even older ones have slots in the door. In the earlier parts of the 20th century, large American cities would open the fire hydrants to let the kids run through the water in the heat of the summer. This was before there were public swimming polls.
Water towers don't supply water, they help with the town's water PRESSURE, pumps usually aren't strong enough for a strong water pressure themselves, so gravity pushing all that water down adds some for the town to use. Or so I've read.
I know that in Central America, they buy old/surplus school buses in the US and then drive them south to their various countries where they are used for public transportation. School buses are relatively inexpensive when used, but they are built well and are easy to maintain which makes them ideal for these countries needs.
My hometown of Beaverton, Michigan was one of the first and most important models for our national school bus system. it's weird for being such a small town but back in the day it was HUGELY influential, there are videos on here about it!
Lav Luka, in at least 1 state, highway billboards aren't allowed--Hawai'i. Here there are double-decker buses, but they're used for carting tourists on a city tour, for the most part. We also have city buses, trams, streetcars (tracks under/hot wire over), and in major cities--subways. We have gardens over on our side of the pond, but here they're either of the flower or vegetable variety, and are in a corner of what you call a garden, which we call a yard. Another kind of yard is composed of 3 feet, which is slightly shorter than a meter. The white picket fences show here are plastic or aluminum, whereas I grew up seeing them made of wood and painted white. Some mailboxes have keys, but it's rare, in that this situation usually shows up when there is a whole line of them, which take care of apt. blocks or townhouses, thus making the mail person's job easier and faster. Things promoting a political party are usually in the form of a small billboard in a yard, rather than a flag. These can also be seen quite often on something called a bumper sticker, and is put on the family car.
The American Flag hanging on houses is a pretty new phenomenon. I mean when I was younger, people hardly ever hang a flag, maybe on holidays like the 4th of July, Memorial Day . Now it's a signal that you're a "patriot". There is no need to wave a flag to be a patriot. IMO.
School buses are either owned or contracted by local school districts and are available to free to any kids that live a certain distance or further from the school. If the child lives to close to school then they have to walk
As an american, every time I hear "garden" I always default to thinking about something like an actual vegetable garden or flower garden or something as opposed to just a lawn or yard.
Ditto. Some yards are gardens, but not all gardens are yards.
School busses are yellow because in the 1930's a bus full of children and a teacher got lost in a severe blizzard and could not be found. Many of them died before being found and the rest had terrible hypothermia and frostbite. All school busses are yellow because it is a high visibility color.
Edit: I looked it up to make sure. It's the Pleasant Hill Bus Tragedy. There is a story about it on RUclips that's part of the "Colorado Experience" series.
Wow! I always learn something in Luka’s channel, whether it’s from the video or comments. Thanks for sharing!
Yellow schoolbusses are only for kids. We have other buses that aren’t yellow for other things like public transport, sports teams, or prisons transporting convicts. They are free to ride on for school children but you have to pay for public transit.
Near as I can tell the reason for dedicated school buses is twofold.
1.) A lot of areas in the US don’t necessarily have public transit. (My city doesn’t and we’re actually quite large, it’s on the edge of a major metropolitan area.)
2.) Safety, it keeps kids from having to walk or take public transit which could be concerning particularly with younger students. (Whether, this really helps is irrelevant, perception matters more)
@@swordofgallifrey6330 I imagine that depends on the school district. Mine didn’t require a pass.
@@swordofgallifrey6330 Where in the US is that? I've gone to school in 7 different school districts across the US and worked in two. I have never heard of a non-free school bus.
Some districts (particularly rural districts) will allow teachers or other professionals to ride the school buses as well as students. In districts that have good general public transit, the district may provide a subsidized pass for other methods (e.g. subway) of getting to school.
Additionally, different states layout school districts differently - in Florida they match the geographic counties, while other states as set where individual schools are their own school district. Funding usually is shared among all the schools in a district, so broader districts that have a lot of schools usually will have more equitable schools, compared to a state where some districts might be lucky enough to have high tax base things like a car manufacturing plant or something like that. All this funding affects what amenities can be offered to students like busing.
@@jenniferh3479 There are 16,800 school districts in the US. 9 is about .057 percent of 16,800
My man actually used Google translate to translate an English word into English.
And... he didn't want "translate" he wanted a definition. For that, he could have just typed "definition: delineates" into google and it would have done it for him. :)
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Lav really makes me concerned about the state of the British education system.
No the funnier part was that he put it into Google translate as simplified Chinese to be translated into English that was killing me 😆
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School buses are free to ride. They have a regular route and kids walk to the nearest school bus stop to hop on.
Edit: MOST public school buses are free to ride. I realize there are some exceptions.
You can also ride a private bus tho, and theyre also yellow.
@@lebaldjames5033 I've never heard of kids getting free taxi rides. Where do you live?
@@bryanguillen9167 What do you mean by private bus? Where I live, the school system contracts with a company that provides buses and drivers.
@@bryanguillen9167 Yeah, that's known as the "window lickers" bus.
Well they're not free they're paid for by taxes
Mailboxes for apartments tend to have keys, but private residences generally don’t.
It's a Federal crime to take mail out of a mailbox if it isn't yours (or put something in if you're not a postal worker), but yeah, mail theft is still a problem.
I live in the US, in a townhouse that has a limited (but still shared) mailbox that has a key. It's technically and functionally still a private residence, though.
It's a felony to take mail which usually deters thieves.
Maybe they should up the felony for packages too.
A felony, or Federal Crime, means jail time, hefty fines, & losing your right to vote. Kind of a big deal.
By the way the small postal vehicles the neighborhood postmen use are the only vehicles that have the steering wheels on the right side.
The majority of mailboxes here don't have locks on them. People rarely steal mail because it's considered a federal offense and you could get prison time. However people do steal packages sometimes, because if you see a package it means there's probably something expensive in it.
Was just gonna say once you buy a mailbox and start receiving mail it then belongs to the federal government.
True. However there are exceptions like my neighborhood where everybody's mailbox is in a single unit at the top of the hill and the home owner is the only one allowed to have a key to the mailbox.
And lots of people don’t have mailboxes, most people in cities and older suburbs the mail is on porch or directly into the house, or apartments in lobby, not mail boxes outside like shown on a road. . Lots of postal workers walk a beat. What has gone way is all the many post boxes to drop off mail that used to be in neighborhoods.
I am going to add If you steal your neighbors mail. It's a real no no in just general
cultural behavior and it's not being a good neighbor to your fellow American. I seriously
believe we need to educate people on sociable and what being a good neighbor is and why
that's important. People leaving church and religion has consequences you know. Not advocating
people return there if they made the choice to leave but I am advocating a social contract that like it or not
religion has and did teach people. When I say that I of course mean non-radicalized ones.
@@bethshadid2087 Legally they don't belong to the Feds, but it comes under their jurisdiction. You are 'effectively leasing' them, so to speak, but it still means it is a Federal Crime to steal mail, vandalize, tamper with them, etc.
The Mesh Fence is actually called Chain Link Fence.
Another nickname is Hurricane Fence
I've always just called it a metal fence
@@JEdwardBanasikJr I'm pretty sure that's a brand, not the type of fence.
Maybe a brand name but where I live chain link is the only name used for them.
My mailbox is on the other side of the road. And no there is no key. It is a federal offense to mess with mail.
I was going to say that, it's up to 1 year in jail and I think like a $1000 fine for each peice of mail that you take.
We no longer use the “flag” on our mailbox because it is essentially saying “hey thief, there’s stuff in here for you to take”. My street gets a lot of foot traffic and there were some issues a few years ago with porch pirates and mail thieves
@Elijah Feuerstein tell that to the alphabet boys that came to our house when we reported a stolen package. They may not be the best all the time but they take it serious as hell when they can.
Mail is stolen all the time. Boxes are broken into all the time. It’s how identities are stolen.
When he said "mesh fence", I thought he was talking about those orange temporary snow fences that keep the drifts off of the roads. Sometimes they use them at a construction sites to retain dirt.
Its not even just American flags or sports team flags. We fly other countries' flags too. I love walking around my neighborhood and seeing a bunch of Polish flags and wondering what Polish holiday is coming up. Or seeing a bunch of cars driving around with Mexican flags hanging off of every possible surface and wondering whether its a Mexican holiday or just a Canelo Alvarez fight.
I think it’s cool when the World Cup is on and a bunch of people put up flags of where they’re from. Love driving on the highway and seeing different flags
What state are you from? I've never seen that here in Missouri. Or is it a city thing?
@@MiladyMidori happens in Georgia
I drove through a neighborhood where a lot of Irish Americans live right after ST. Patrick’s day and you would not believe how many Irish flags I saw on people’s houses. There was at least 5 houses per side of the the street per block with an Irish flag on it.
@@MiladyMidori a lot of people in michigan fly foreign flags for a variety of reasons...their heritage and games like C Simmons stated.
Our mailboxes are at the road because the mail is delivered by car, jeep, etc and they drive up to it and put the mail in. Where the mail is delivered by foot, it is like yours. We have the slot in the door for it. The fire hydrants are connected to water supply underground and it runs on the edge of the road. Others get water from a firetruck where the water is pumped straight from the tank.
I live in the US and I didn’t know that lol
My mail is delivered by foot but I don't have a slot on my door, my mailbox is attached to my house
Yup, in my new neighborhood there’s no mailboxes because it’s delivered by foot, but my old neighborhood did have mailboxes
The mailboxes by road for more rural areas, most cities and densely populated suburbs mail goes into house or in box on porches, delivered on foot.
I blanked on "mesh fence". Then he showed what we call a chain-link fence.
Lav Luka and lawrence are youtube sensations
Just what we need, another British Invasion.
I’d love to see a collaboration video between Lav Luka and Lawrence
I like Lawrence to visit Suburban Chicago and report on the pretty towns. And I'd like Lav to keep his fingers off his face. (Cute face!)
You can buy retired school buses. The new owner removes the name of the school, but otherwise they're a funky way to get around. I imagine the gas mileage is bad.
My neighbors converted one into a home complete with wood stove, they rent out the house the bus is parked in front of. It's pretty cool. They haven't driven it that i have seen they just start it up once a month or so.
@@cassandraluckert8115i want a skoolie
The Partridge Family (old TV series about a family that was a musical group) traveled around in what used to be a school bus.
Ya the mileage is bad, for diesels you're looking at maybe 5 -6 mpg and propanes are about 3 - 4 mpg. But they hold between 70 - 100 gallons depending on the bus type.
On the flip side to MPG they are basically indestructible tanks.
There is no keys for mailboxes at individual houses. You may need a key for apartment buildings.
Yellow school buses are pretty much for students only...and a lot of mailboxes in our yards don't have locks on them...and i was very surprised you dont really have fire hydrants.
What I have heard is that over there they are mostly in the street. They are under a hatch cover flush with the road surface.
It's probably because there is no room to run them where we do, what with all those brick walls.
Yeah, South Park begins a lot of episodes with Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman waiting at a bus stop, the bus driver is a crazy woman, forget her name, and The Simpsons features Lisa and Bart, and Otto, the rock 'n' roll bus driver.
Ms. Crabtree
Water towers, and water tanks on top of hills, are why no houses in the US need pumps. I watched another British RUclipsr who was talking about how he had no water during a power outage because the houses in his area all have water pumps to bring water to the house from the reservoir. The only houses in the US that have water pumps are ones that have their own well. Also some houses that re-use grey water, but at lot of those build a water tank in the roof.
Regarding mailboxes, it depends on the neighborhood. In my neighborhood they are by the street. In my aunt's neighborhood it was on the wall by the front door. At my grandma's house it was a slot in the wall by the door. At my brother's neighborhood it is in a bank of keyed boxes at the end of the street.
A scary story about a water tower. In elementary school I was outside playing kickball during Gym class and the tower which was next to the school yard started leaking. Water was literally falling on our heads. We ran to the other side of the yard and kept playing.
Probably wasn't leaking, it was 'sweating'. On really hot days, it isn't unusual for the cold water inside to react to the hot outer surface and form condensation, which drips off the tower.
@@jeffburnham6611 Still, I can see why they'd move somewhere else. No one wants to get pee'd on by a metal giant.
@@emperorkalan tell that to Michael Bay
So figured I should explain both the Mail Boxes and Fire Hydrants.
Mail Boxes
The mail box locations really depends on where you live and when the building/neighborhood was built. In urban areas, mail boxes are usually attached to the wall near your front door unless you have a slot on the door itself. For apartment complexes, you will typically have a mail room with multiple boxes for each apartment. If the apartment buildings are large enough, they will also have an outgoing mail slot as well. For rural areas, you will find that mail boxes would be located near the street rather than attached to the building. This is so the mailman does not have to leave their vehicle to drop the mail. This is also why all postal vehicles that deliver mail to the location have right side driving compared to every other vehicle in the US that has left side driving. Lastly, new developments have opted for a community box system where a single box is located somewhere within a community that will have boxes for each address. This is done so that the mailman can go to a single place to deliver mail rather than go house to house. All boxes that have more than one address typically are locked where the mailman would have a master key and each household has a key to their specific mailbox. One last thing... stealing mail from someone else's mailbox is a federal crime and the United States Postal Service has their own police force to investigate. They do not joke around.
Fire Hydrants
The key difference that I have seen between the US Fire Hydrant and the UK Fire Hydrant other than appearance are how water is delivered to the truck. Thanks to Lost in the Pond, I actually had to look up the UK Fire Hydrants and this is what I found. In the UK, their Fire Hydrants are located underground. The H sign is to inform the firefighters that the hydrant is located near there. In order for the firefighters to use it, they will need an attachment to bring the hydrant above ground level. I believe the numbers on the H sign is to notify the firefighter what adapter size to use and what PSI the water is at. However, in the US, I believe all the Fire Hydrants are the same size so that any city/town firefighters can come in and use it. The PSI is different between towns/cities though. Some municipalities use paint color to inform the firefighters what PSI it is while others use some kind of marking.
Correction on the UK Fire Hydrants:
The top number indicated the diameter of the pipe that will be needed for the adapter. The bottom number indicated the distance from the marker the hydrant is located.
Slight correction on fire hydrants. The paint color is water flow, not water pressure. Blue is the highest, then green, orange, and red is the lowest.
@@TheRiehlThing42 Thanks for correcting the water flow. However, regarding the paint, I do not think there is a standard in the US. For example, in the city I am in, I have seen Yellow hydrants and Red/Black hydrants. Go a few towns over and all the hydrants are Yellow.
When I was young our town painted our fire hydrants to look like people. So the color representing the water pressure obviously meant nothing to us.
Double-decker buses are usually run by tour companies in large American cities. I was in a double-decker in London. I sat upfront on the upper deck. It's a really odd perspective.
A couple of the Seattle metro area public transit agencies have double-decker busses for commuter routes, too.
@@aquiamorgan2416 That's pretty cool!
Double decker buses are very rare in the states. They’re basically for tourists. I know they have them in L.A. and also where I live, in Austin, TX. But they’re not a regular means of public transport anywhere.
Side thought - my cousin from San Diego came to the rural Midwest USA for a funeral and was surprised to see 1) clothes lines 2) slanted wooden cellar doors on the outside of houses. He'd only seen them in old movies previously.
Anyone can walk by and steal your mail. But a LOT of suburban neighborhoods have someone or several someone's with cameras, and stealing mail is a pretty serious felony.
The usps also offered a service where you can get an email with a scan of every piece of mail you should be receiving that day.
When it's really hot, especially in cities, they'll open the fire hydrants so kids can play in them. It's fun.
Those billboards are actually illegal in the state of Maine :-) I never realized how grateful I was for that law until I went down to North Carolina for a visit.
They’re also illegal here in Vermont :)
Georgia has about ten times as many as the Carolinas it's ridiculous then in Florida they are rare
If you go to public school, the yellow school bus picks you up and drops you off everyday for no charge. They are also used for field trips
I have a friend that is from Germany and the first time that she saw a yellow school bus she was obsessed and she made it the background on her phone. I thought it was so weird but apparently the school buses there are blue
That's so cool. I think, if I was in Germany and saw one, I would make their blue school bus my background too.
One thing I never saw in the US that I see in pictures of Britain is thatched roofs.
We have tin roofed shacks here.
It is illegal to have any kind of material that could catch on fire on roof in the US, like thatched roofs
No way you’d see that on the west coast. Fire hazard.
@@kimwhitehead9096 you , won't see thatched roof on the East Coast of the US either, my stepdad is a fireman, he said they are highly illegal due to be a fire Hazard as you commented already
Water towers are for increasing water pressure with gravity, since water does have to flow up hills to get to certain places.
I think they have a somewhat small pump that keeps it full. It holds so much water that the pump has time to refill it, since people aren't constantly running the water in their houses.
Allot of school buses are rented from people who run independent buss businesses. One of my brothers' girlfriends ran an independent bus business. She kept them clean & maintained & had drivers working for her.
What he referred to a mesh fences are usually called chain link fences everywhere I've lived here.
I grew up in Chicago, I can tell you in urban areas the mail box is on the door. There is even mail slots in the door. In rural areas mail box are at the road because the house tend set away from the road and have driveway to get to the house.
I'm in central Illinois, we have a double decker bus from England.
A couple of guys bought it restored it, and turned it into a food truck.
The go to random spots across the city and serve English foods.
They have a walk up window for to go orders. But if you would like to sit and dine, you climb up to the upper deck where they have tables.
I have had their English Fish n' Chips.
The best I have had.
It's very popular.
And they call themselves, 2 Blokes in a Bus.
A water tower's main purpose is to provide pressure to a town's water supply. They are found in towns that have no hills
As some one who lives on a mountain & is hilly... yes we have them too.
Edit: Spelling
@@TheCaligurl12 Interesting. My town is mostly flat, but on top of a 150-foot (nearly 50-meter) hill is the town's water tank. The hill's elevation acts as a tower.
We have one sits on a mountain. The area is actually called "The Mountain" and it's where a lot of the wealthier people lived before lakeside and riverside property became so popular, and many moved there. I've driven up the mountain many times and could see the huge tower from a few yards away.
They do have double deckers here but not many. They’re mainly used for sightseeing tours such as in NYC.
There are situations such as field trips in which parents and faculty may come along on the bus but other than that the only adult you'll find there is the driver
Here we have the driver and an assistant to help with the kids.
@@hollybrooke322 - I drove a school bus for seven years. What I wouldn’t have given for an “assistant” on the bus.🤪
@@julimccsbe-hastings8646 believe me it’s a blessing!!!
11:30 our fire hydrants are also on the ground under metal plates. I did the phoenix course for the jobcentre which is a 6 day fire fighting training program and the hydrants are only used to get extra water if the fire engine runs out of water on board
That's not much water. Your typical fire engine holds between 500-750gal on board, which gets used up pretty quickly when fighting a structural fire. The only time I ever saw an engine use its on board supply was fighting a wildfire where there was no quick hook up to a water hydrant.
I thought an "engine" was used to connect to a water supply, not carry one, and that the trucks w/ water on board were called "water tenders."
ETA: I looked it up.
~Fire engines usually have a pump, a water tank, and hundreds to thousands of feet of powerful hoses. The water tank contains hundreds of gallons of water and serves as the firefighters’ H2O source until they can connect to a fire hydrant (or other external water source). Fire engines also carry nozzles and other tools that are needed for the hoses.
~Water Tenders are mobile water carriers. Each Tender carries approximately 3,000 gallons of water. Water Tenders are not used to supply water to fire hoses, but merely to provide a source of water for brush rigs and engines at grass fires. It is like a mobile fire hydrant.
~A fire truck, on the other hand, are auxiliary vehicles that carry tools such as ground and aerial ladders. Some of these ladders extend upward from the truck, using the vehicle as a base. Some fire engines may also carry ladders, but you’ll find the majority of firefighters’ ladders on their trucks.
I’ve got one for you ..... way back in 1998 my friend came to spend the night at my house. (We live about 15 min away from each other in a car ride. I was about a block from the mall and she was basically in the woods.) she hears kid music ( do your ears hang low) she goes what is that noise ? I ask “ the music” ? She says yes, I say it’s an ice cream truck ! She got up running out of my house jumped on my bike and rode off. 5 min she comes back with a huge cone and says “ I thought those things were only in movies I had to go see it !! And try it so I can tell my sisters ice cream trucks aren’t just in movies! Lmao 😂
Fire hydrants are also generally marked a few feet out in the street by a blue reflector on the road to make it easier for the fire trucks to find them at night.
Lostinthepond is the originator of this "genre" as far as I know. He's great.
Fire hydrants are a pipeline BRANCH (above ground) coming off the buried public water pipeline (water main) that runs under the street. It is there to provide a connection point above ground for the fire department to connect to, and draw public water from, during a fire emergency. The knobs on it are hose connections. The elevated giant tanks are public water storage facilities that will release water into the public water main when pressure drops (as in the case of a fire emergency by the way). If the fire department is withdrawing a lot of water from fire hydrants to fight fires, the water tank adds more water to the water main to maintain the pressure (which is needed so people can actually get water from their faucets).
The reason the Yard/Lawn is not the garden is because the lawn is a separate consistent
plant that covers the property. It's also called a yard due to measurements and real estate history.
We garden for food (Colonial days) and for flowers because of beauty and to help our Lawns look
good. It also helps in the over all price a house or property gets when you sell it on.
What's even funnier is many of those billboards have adds for motorist accident lawfirms like Allen & Allen.
The only place I have ever seen a double-decker bus was in Victoria, B.C (Canada). Some people do have locks on their boxes, but not most front yard boxes don't. Many people do like to make their boxes out of brick, so they are less likely to fall victim to mailbox baseball. They also look nice. Newer housing complexes will have a community box where every home has their own little locked compartment.
I grew up in Victoria. We definitely have double decker city buses, because they are great as commuter buses, from the western communities or the buses that go to UVic, but I thought they spread to Vancouver as well, some of them. Vancouver has those accordion buses though and they have the SkyTrain, which eliminates the need for a commuter bus, I guess.
There are plenty of double-decker busses all around the US. They just aren't common. I drove by one parked last week and I doubt most people know that we have them here.
@@jenniferh3479 Are they city buses or tour buses? We used to have old double deckers that were bought from England that were used as tour buses, but of course they opened on the opposite side of the vehicle than buses should here.
@@jenniferh3479 Hmm, you are right. The Wikipedia article for double decker bus show all the cities around the world that have them and a number of US cities absolutely do.
The yellow buses are for students. But the buses can actually be rented, with a driver. We also have mailboxes that hang on the house, some apartment buildings have grouping of mailboxes that look like post boxes that lock, and some older houses have letter slots.
Things I saw in the UK:
Glass front doors with patterned glass
Big red alarm thing on the side of the homes
Tall bricked up backyard fences
The round red post boxes
Tiny, narrow driveways
We have such a different definition of the word garden. Here any private outdoor space attached to your home is called your yard. Calling something a garden implies that you’re cultivating and growing specific plants and flowers. So your garden would be an area in your front or back yard. When I hear the english refer to their “garden” I automatically picture an immaculately maintained flower garden with english ivy maybe, and lavender - with a proper English person sitting and having tea while butterflies flit about. “Shall we have our tea in the gah-den? Mmm yes delightful idea”
Riding the school bus is also sometimes referred to as "riding the cheese". Growing up in the country, I rode the bus to school up until senior year, when I finally got my driver's license and a car. It was usually a 45 minute ride on the bus route, so I had plenty of time to cause trouble, read books, and sleep. (in that order as I grew older)
Another thing is in the northeast, specifically New England it seems, there are stone walls and fences everywhere. Mostly Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine I think. They were property lines in the 1600s-1900s. Mostly on farms or in the woods in the middle of the rural areas.
barns were coated with a mixture of linseed oil from the flax plant which is orange mixed with milk and lime and ferous oxide rust for its ability to kill moss and fungus. when paint became available they continued with red paint for tradition. in kentucy barns are painted black with creosote to make the inside hot to dry tobacco.
i live in the US and i have 2 british friends that live in different places in the UK. something that was weird to them that we do here is that I own the entire fence line of my home in my backyard. They told me over there that there is one side of the fence that you and your neighbor share. not over here there is a small section of "no mans land" in between my neighbor's and my fence.
It was so odd hearing a German foreign exchange student say he had no idea what the German flag looked like until he was 12 years old and he saw it in a book.
Several of my friends in the UK have expressed an aversions to any type of flag because they see nationalism as a form of elitism and divisiveness. Some feel it's similar to showing pride in being born wealthy or white, so they find it somewhat distasteful, as well as a tool of the elite, to keep the gap widening between the haves and have nots.
I love England and I wish I could visit London but I live in Rotterdam Netherlands
As a Brit who has only been to London once I have no desire to return, the rest of the country is much more beautiful and cultural, London is just a Mecca city like any other, you may as well go New York or any big international city and you'd probably get the same experience
@@Zephyr616 Love to the Cotswolds and Cornwall!! I need a pasty!!
I've lived in Arizona and New Mexico all my life but I've never seen a double decker bus.
In my current house, we have a community mailbox for a portion of the neighborhood which is opened by a key. The mailperson has a master key that opens the whole panel to access all the boxes. When I was growing up, we had a mailbox attached to the wall, next to the front door. Many of our neighbors had mailboxes along the curb. The thing about the mailboxes along the curb was that they have these little flags, also known as a carrier signal flag, that you put up to tell the mailperson that you have outgoing mail. I kind of wish I could somehow do that with the community boxes because I can't tell you how many times we just have to drive to the post office to drop off mail because the mailperson doesn't notice it...
My son was a tower climber repairing or beginning construction of cell phone towers. Some were on top of watertowers. He climbed them by accessing the inside of one of those tube legs. Im am soooo happy he changed jobs.
Yellow school buses are typically used for getting some kids to and from school. Depending on the city/county they could be free (and covered by city funds). Also, the “cheese bus” as we so lovingly refer to them, are often used during the the day for class/school trips (the schools will reserve them for the day).
Double deckers are usually used as tour buses in major cities in the U.S.
I remember when the “lockdown” first happened I was like
“Wait you mean I get to continue with what I’ve been doing except I don’t have to feel bad about doing it?
NICE I HATE PEOPLE”
Lol
Introverts unite 🤝
The American flags are flown outside government buildings or on government property such as the post office, schools, banks, courthouses, state/count/city office buildings, trains, firetrucks.
People wear them on t-shirts, hats, car decals. I hang a flag on the front of my house on national holidays like the 4th of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day.
Answering questions: Canada also has yellow school buses. There are double decker buses in the US,, but they are usually tourist buses in cities, not regular public transit buses. Mailboxes that are outside of private houses don't generally have locks. Many people fly the American flag at their homes on certain holidays, but most people don't just have a flag outside their homes all the time. You will see the American flag on public buildings. It's done more often than in other countries like the UK, but it's easy to overstate it. It's not like you're walking down the street and there are American flags all over the place.
Fun fact: School buses have a certain yellow color the is reserved for only school buses, and no other vehicle can have that color.
For the most part our mail boxes do not have a lock on them. My mailbox for example is not actually on my property it’s directly at the end of my drive but across the street facing my house.
1. Mailboxes are different places depending on where you live. I’ve lived in houses where it’s down by the street and I’ve lived in houses where it’s up by the door.
2. We have double Dekker buses here as well
3. In our city the water tower store’s water used for emergency shortages
I was just watching your Barrow Alaska reaction video lol
I live in a rural part of the US. When I was in school, my home was a 25 minute drive from school. My parents had to go to work before 7, and I had to wait for the bus to come by. If there weren’t buses, many kids could not get to school. They are yellow in order for people to take notice of them. No one wants to accidentally hit a bus full of kids.
School busses are a must in rural areas, there is no public transportation, our kids school district was 15 miles from furthest house south to furthest house north. Its included in tour school taxes. Our mailbox is at the end of the driveway we live on a rural route, our mailman drives his personal vehicle to deliver. My son is in the closest small city his mail goes in his front door through a mail slot. We fly an American flag and thin red line fire flag in our front yard (not called the garden but Yard) areas that don't have fire hydrants are served by tanker relays and portable ponds in the event of a fire. We love fences of all sorts. Tall wooden fences are probably most popular.
Mail theft is pretty rare in the US (aside from the recent surge in package theft). The US post office has it's own law enforcement, and mail theft is a federal crime. You can get 5 years in prison & a 250 thousand dollar fine.
And most of that is junk mail. Imagine doing time for stealing junk mail.
You do sometimes see yellow shoolbusses in private service in the US because in most states they can be resold once they’re old and ratty enough that the schools don’t want them anymore. When resold, they generally are required to have any markings that SAY “school” and the special automatic stop sign device removed, but aren’t required to be completely repainted-and if an individual or company is cheap enough that they’re looking to buy a bus that was discarded by notoriously tight-budgeted public schools, there’s like a 50/50 chance they won’t bother repainting it beyond the legally required minimum. If they do repaint it fully tho (or buy a new bus that just happens to be a common school bus model) they’ll usually go for something other than yellow so there’s no confusion that it’s in some non-school-related service.
Chain link fences (mesh) are considered an eyesore in some communities. Also, there are different heights available. I have a 7 foot one in the back yard to keep my dogs in and bears out. (I live in Alaska and bears aren't that motivated to wreck a well-built fence.)
Double decker busses in the US are usually used for tours around big cities with sky scrapers like New York. They are not really used for anything else.
There are double decker buses in America but not many they are usually used as tour buses. Also it’s against the law to mess with someone else’s mailbox because every mailbox is considered federal property so even if you bought your mailbox at a store it’s not legally yours but the government’s and you can get arrested and thrown in prison if you’re caught messing or vandalizing a mailbox that’s not on your property. And so far the only mailboxes I’ve seen with a lock are apartment mailboxes, public mailboxes and P.O. mailboxes at the post office.
Fire Hydrants exist everywhere in the US. However, they are prominently featured in films around New York City and most closely associated with New York. This is because summertime in New York is hot and kids used to open the valves of hydrants to play and cool off in the water. It's always been illegal to do that, but the cops seldom enforced it and more often let the kids play.
Some school districts will lease buses to groups for day trips when school isn't in session. The lease amouint includes funding for the driver. It often presents a cheaper alternative to leasing a motor coach.
In U.K. fire hydrants are underground.
The fire service carry standpipes (a pipe that screws into the below ground hydrant) and a turn key that operates the below ground valve
School buses are either owned or run by the local school board. They are usually paid for by our local taxes and do not require a fee to ride. They have assigned busses for specific route to each school. For example, the “bus stop” for my kids was in front of our home. Depending on which school they attended ( elementary, middle or high school etc) they rode an assigned bus. That bus had a number on it. So at 6:15 am or whatever time is assigned my child would wait in front of the house for their bus number, get picked up on a route were other schoolmates were picked up and dropped off at their school. At the end of the day that same bus waited at the school and the assigned kids would load up and be dropped of where they were picked up that morning. Usually around the same time every day. Anywhere between 2:30-4:30 depending on age and school.
the reason we have yellow school busses is that the public transportation infrastructure doesn't exist in the majority of the USA. Britain doesn't need them because of the number of bus routes.
Great video! Lost in the pond has a good video about Pets in the UK vs US.
Double-decker busses in the USA are used as tour busses, usually in large cities, parks...
Water towers are used to store water and maintain water pressure. They are filled at night from the cities water plant, during the day they are used to help supplement the water and pressure from the city water plant, then at night are filled back up again. Stealing mail is a federal crime so people tend to not mess with that, but they'll steal packages from door steps. Interestingly, the gentleman in the video said whatever you do, do not get your water from fire hydrants. The water from fire hydrants comes from the cities main lines that feed into your tap. The dead end lines are periodically flushed to keep clean drinking water in the system.
My old band used to do shows across the US in a modified yellow school bus. It was a badass time.
So, I'm actually a bus driver. At least in my town, the school system has hired a transport company, named Apple Bus. We drivers are employed by the company, not the school district. And yes, the yellow bus is only for school use, but it can be to various field trips and competitions as well as the daily morning and afternoon routes. Drivers are required to have a particular class of commercial driver's license with both passenger and school bus endorsement, and that includes passing a physical, several written exams, and a practical. Then on top of those legal requirements, the company has other training it requires on its own, and all of this ensures that the kids are safely transported wherever it is they're going while they're in our busses.
For post/mail, the box on a pole is most frequent in the suburbs & rural areas, i.e. where properties are relatively spaced out, and the most efficient way to deliver is for the postman to deliver in a vehicle, not get out and walk a route, though in historically older neighborhoods you might find some walking routes, but these tend to be less spacious also.
Double decker busses are mostly used in tourist areas where they never go particularly fast. Mostly tho, they go too fast for them to be safe, not to mention the trees.
Fun watching a Brit enjoying British humor : ) I enjoy it, but as a small child I found it to be an acquired taste. I subscribed, he is lots of fun!
Yes we have double deckers in the USA. Usually used for tourist guides in cities
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8:27 My neighbor has this type of fence, they had a small pitbull mix that used to jump onto the top of the fence and try to grab people walking past, but it somehow never got out. I'm very happy with my 6ft privacy fence thank you very much.
More likely, the dog tried to get on the fence and play with people walking by. Good fawd.
@@davedammitt7691 No lmao, he bit my dad once. I love most pitbulls but not that one. I suspect it was the owner's fault, because he was sweet the first few times I met him.
Double Decker bus is like the most British thing i can think of and it sounds awesome
The US postal service has issued a decree that newer houses have to have communal mailboxes, in the middle of the block. The ones in front of the house are not used any more. Older houses still have the box in front of their house, and even older ones have slots in the door.
In the earlier parts of the 20th century, large American cities would open the fire hydrants to let the kids run through the water in the heat of the summer. This was before there were public swimming polls.
That one cartoon with a school bus
Lav: American Dad🤔
Us: The Magic school bus🙃
The chik-fil-a billboard signs sometimes have a statue of 2 cows painting the sign
Water towers don't supply water, they help with the town's water PRESSURE, pumps usually aren't strong enough for a strong water pressure themselves, so gravity pushing all that water down adds some for the town to use. Or so I've read.
I know that in Central America, they buy old/surplus school buses in the US and then drive them south to their various countries where they are used for public transportation.
School buses are relatively inexpensive when used, but they are built well and are easy to maintain which makes them ideal for these countries needs.
My hometown of Beaverton, Michigan was one of the first and most important models for our national school bus system. it's weird for being such a small town but back in the day it was HUGELY influential, there are videos on here about it!
Next time I'm in town..."Is this the only gas station in the whole of Troy?", I will get a funny look for sure. Love your way of speaking!
Lav Luka, in at least 1 state, highway billboards aren't allowed--Hawai'i.
Here there are double-decker buses, but they're used for carting tourists on a city tour, for the most part. We also have city buses, trams, streetcars (tracks under/hot wire over), and in major cities--subways.
We have gardens over on our side of the pond, but here they're either of the flower or vegetable variety, and are in a corner of what you call a garden, which we call a yard. Another kind of yard is composed of 3 feet, which is slightly shorter than a meter.
The white picket fences show here are plastic or aluminum, whereas I grew up seeing them made of wood and painted white.
Some mailboxes have keys, but it's rare, in that this situation usually shows up when there is a whole line of them, which take care of apt. blocks or townhouses, thus making the mail person's job easier and faster.
Things promoting a political party are usually in the form of a small billboard in a yard, rather than a flag. These can also be seen quite often on something called a bumper sticker, and is put on the family car.
The American Flag hanging on houses is a pretty new phenomenon. I mean when I was younger, people hardly ever hang a flag, maybe on holidays like the 4th of July, Memorial Day . Now it's a signal that you're a "patriot". There is no need to wave a flag to be a patriot. IMO.
School buses are either owned or contracted by local school districts and are available to free to any kids that live a certain distance or further from the school. If the child lives to close to school then they have to walk