Yes, and we have a habit of never directly saying what we mean, it drives Dutch people around the twist who don't know British people as they are very forthright and blunt in their speech, they are far from humourless, just more blunt. They like the sarcasm.
My gramma used to deride anyone who made her a cup of tea that wasn't strong enough to render the tea spoon a light brown colour. "For God sake, boy! Put the bag in the boiling water. Don't just show it to the mug from the other end of the kitchen". Or, after visiting someone, "That woman, I swear she's still using the same tea bag as when I last took tea with her, five years ago." 😅
My gran, on the exact other end of the scale, used to drink her tea by scaring the water with the tea bag. My dad used to say we needed to call an ambulance to get out of the cup
On the Devon/Dorset border(A35) the County signs are 25 m/yds apart Around 1980 it snowed. The snow was 600mm/2ft deep, each Counties snow plough went up to their sign and stopped and went back leaving a 25 yd impassable, by car, patch of snow.
The only problem with that is that metres and yards are not the same length. A yard is 3 feet. A metre is 3' 4", so 2 metres is 6' 8", and 3 metres is 10 feet, meaning that three metres is 3 and 1/3 yards. 24 metres is therefore 26 yards and two feet. 25 metres then, is 27 yards, two feet and four inches.
I once had an antediluvian jar of treacle which when opened, the treacle made a rude gesture, pulled the lid back down and rolled the jar back in the corner of the cupboard.
Seems like sliding (though not because of leaves?) was a factor in the recent fatal train crash in Wales. So it's a serious thing, not a feeble excuse.
Watched it last night, nearly as good as Shaun of the Dead. As for geese, b@st@rds one and all. I once saw my nearly 50 y/o mother clear a five-bar gate in a single vault with my brothers' Gander chasing her, honking and squawking fit to raise the dead. All my brother said was "his missis is down on eggs and he thinks you're after them, stay out of the field. I'll take swans any day rather than geese.
I seriously need crumpets with lashings of butter. NOW! I'm also a crisp hobbyist. Love me some crisps! 😍(PS Happy bonfire/fireworks night everyone in England!)
Leaves on the rail lines makes the rails slippery. Slippery rails make it hard for trains to accelerate and brake effectively. Delays because of this are a safety precaution.
The Mighty Boosh!! Full of dark whimsy, oh, also Red Dwarf and Bottom, and all of the task master series... Blackadder.. sooo much Stand up too Grab a bottle of something fruity, gather a friend or two, some cosy clothes, a throw/blanket or too, lights low... Maybe a cake... and have a bloody good giggle, it's cheap but refreshingly good for you! Have fun!
I think the Tesco thing is where they bought up old market halls initially in villages/towns, so already had the clock towers. But some have been purpose built as supermarkets since and they get easier planning permission for a more 'in keeping with the area' building than if were to propose a boring block building. So I've heard...
Nah, my local one they built like that, I suspect that all the stores built around the same time were built in a similar way - late 80’s or early 90’s I think?
@RealMrStoofus yeah the newer ones from 90s I think we're due to that planning permission ease. But just something I heard once. One near me also has tower and from late 80s, used to be field and built intended for Tesco. And apparently keeping a more classical town hall look helped with approval
Poor Linda! Ex Railway guy here. Unfortunately "Leaves on the line" is a railway shortcut phrase, you see when wet leaves fall on the railway lines, and trains roll over them, under the pressure, the leaves get converted into a really excellent lubricant, so the trains lose traction, making it hard to go, and hard to STOP which is very dangerous. Keep Reacting!
I live almost next to a single-track railway, which passes through a wood. At this time of year there's a "leaf clearing" train that goes past every other day at about 01:30. Sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner!
@@-elle-o.o yeah from whats been investigated it seems to show that the train slid for a little over 1000 feet on wet leaves at 15mph before impacting the train coming in the other direction
What makes British humour top tier? Simple…the weather…hundreds of years of grey skies, unpredictable weather, long muggy winters and short summers…if we hadn’t learned to laugh, the depression would have wiped us out eons ago!
Other people have already pointed out here that leaves on the line can be dangerous for train operation because they reduce the effectiveness of braking - which can lead (and has lead) to accidents. There is also a longer term, costly, condequence. If a train slides on the slippery leaf mush when it brakes, the wheels can be ground flatter at the sliding contact point. It's not a good idea for a train to have wheels that are not properly round - it causes rough riding, wear on the bogies, and wear on the track. So the train operators eventually have to replace the worn sets of wheels with new (round!) ones at great expense. If enough trains are affected this way in a short time then there may not be enough new wheel sets available, so trains waiting for repair have to be temporarily taken out of service. The resulting shortage of rolling stock means a worse service for travellers!
It is worse than that, there is a chemical in the leaves that with the friction and crushing pressure of the train reacts with the iron in the steel rail/wheels that creates a teflon like non-stick surface. Worse than ice for train braking.
Before they replace the wheels, they can be turned, on a wheel lathe. This doesn't require dismantling - the train is run over the lathe, turning one axle set at a time and cutting them circular again (but smaller).
@@wessexdruid7598 Indeed. But I don't think the maintainers of the class 313 trains I used regularly in the 1980s and 1990s when leaf fall started to become a real problem on the Great Northern loop for the first time, had that luxury. I remember the train operators saying that there were cancellations because of a shortage of rolling stock - trains with messed up wheels that couldn't be fixed because they didn't have enough spares and had to wait for more to be manufactured.
@@johnevans2044 I used to work in the same building as the wheel lathe at the St Phillip's Marsh depot in Bristol, in the early 2000s. It was then primarily used for GWR's HST sets (class 43s) - but didn't get a lot of work.
@ I have only ever seen them sold seasonally. I might have just completely missed them throughout the rest of the year. I’m going to be on the look out now though
That 'tea' is EXACTLY how my sister likes it, in fact on more than once occassion I haven't put any tea in it (just hot water and milk) and she couldn't tell the difference.
The leaves on the line thing is a necessary risk not worth taking, because trains crush them and the residue left over affects a train's ability to brake and stop.
Man's feeding a swan - nay, teasing a swan - and it's in the mix because that IS so typically British 😅 ... and you think we're gunnu be scared of your geese‽ Pah! You silly gooose 😜🤭
I was on a train that got delayed, we stopped in the middle of no-where for about 20 minutes. Then the driver came over the intercom and apologised to everyone and said he had been told he had to stop the train "because bees had been seen in the area".
That happened to me only once, for about 45 mins and that was in the middle of nowhere too. Never did find out why but on the plus side, I did the same journey the following week but the ticket office was closed as it was late. I got on, planning to pay the attendant but they never showed, so I got off without paying. Karma.
Ex-Postie here, the vans tend to be pretty warm (no functional A/C, the cold still blows moderately warm). That means that, when its hot you want shorts. When it rains, you want shorts because legs dry quickly. When its cold, you want shorts because the van will still be roasting and the walking keeps you warm. Also you want a sort of medium off-grey cargo shorts because the seats are absolutely filthy (I seriously don't know how they get so bad), and you need pockets for the red cards, pens, and if keys if you're doing post-box collections.
Just FYI, leaves on the line is actually a pretty dangerous condition. If trains run over the leave they are pummled into the track into what is basically a paste. This makes the tracks more more slick and reduces traction meaning is harder for trains to break.
I phone my mum the other day and I happened to have a cold so I told her this. She replied “yeah, there’s one going around at the moment”. I had to remind her that I left the UK 7 years ago. Whatever is going around there is not going around here.
A recent train crash in Wales seems to have been caused by them. North America also has the problem, just not so noticeable because they don't' have so many trains.
To be fair, that's a reasonable approximation of UK police. The police: "Excuse me Mr Criminal, would you mind awfully not criminalling for a bit?" Criminal: "Right you are then chief, sorry for any inconvenience."
I used to wear trousers all the time when I worked for the Post Office as a collection driver. I collected letters and parcels from Post Offices, businesses, parcel letter boxes, letter boxes of all types, an airport and a shopping mall.
There are some iconic british comedies like Father Ted, Black Books, Red Dwarf, the IT crowd, the Inbetweeners, Goodness gracious me, Vicar of Dibley, that definately deserve a watch. Just don't ask about "Heil Honey, I'm home", fortunately that only got a single episode.
No seriously, "H- Honey I'm Home" was absolutely fantastic. It was written by a team largely made up of people who were actually Jewish. It was a fantastic take on how Americans would watch any garbage so long as it was a sitcom. It parodied the style of 50s and 60s sitcoms like "I Love Lucy" by casting Hitler as an everyman living in New York and everything about it was perfectly satirical. I watched the only episode that was aired and I laughed so hard even during the opening credits - the theme song was so funny. It was cancelled because people objected to it even though it was written by the very people that were supposed to be the offended demographics. It was really an excellent premise and had great comedy. It was Pythonesque and sadly people did not get it. Supposedly other episodes were recorded but never aired and are lost. Would be great to watch it now.
I’m a fellow Canadian and quite a bit older than you. I’ve had a lifetime of watching British comedies, everything from On The Buses and Reginald Perrin to Are You Being Served and Blackadder to be pretty familiar with the British sense of humour.
Yes, I have actually seen a postie in trousers! He used to deliver our parcels in work wearing shorts, so all us girls as a joke, whistle at him and sing something like You Can Leave Your Hat On. Then one day he came in wearing trousers. This was back in the days where you could actually get away with jokes like that. He was a grumpy git, though.
I just read a comment on the recent US election result. It was from a guy in Barnsley. It read, "I have seen a man beat a woman as badly as that since the Paris Olympics." - thank you for the giggle random man in Barnsley.
Posties don't wear long trousers because when they get wet in the rain the wet cloth is very cold and rubs against their legs, making them sore. Skin dries quicker.
The 'What did I miss?' Ad was a quit smoking campaign, he popped outside for a smoke and that happened while he was out. Completely outrageous, but so daft it's hilarious 😅
Alanna i just couldn't stop laughing 😂🤣 at the man with the mask on his "nob" oh dear that was seriously funny! Thank you for this video i needed a good laugh.positivity peace and love ♥️
Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures and Alton Towers are The Big Three, do them all one summer. Give each one a weekend too and stay in their hotels. Great fun.
There are loads of canada geese near where I live and they are very docile. It's probably because when they are gosling chicks people feed them so they learn right from the start that humans are friendly. They don't like dogs though.
There was a great UK Meme compilation out that I watched a good while ago - with 2 US reactors reacting to it, Alanna - sadly though, all I can tell you about it best now, is that in it, one of them had a lad bungee jumping from a helicopter with a biscuit in his hand - trying to dip it in a cuppa far below . . . he did it, but I can't say if it was managed in only 1 lucky take or many?
Some Postmen are creative, some less than deserving of the title. My own personal favourite, this actually happened to me, was the day the postie hid a parcel in the wheelie bin for safety on the same day that the bins were collected.
A friend of mine always made tea that mainly tasted of washing-up liquid. I used to try to saunter into the kitchen to rinse the mug out before she poured the tea into it.
I used to be in a choir and one of our tenors was a postman. Winter or summer he always turned up to rehearsals in shorts. I think the formal suit he wore for concerts included the only pair of actual long trousers he owned.
The leaves on the line are a genuine issue and, having worked at a train station, it's no joke. Leaves, or snow can't stop a train. If thwt are on the line, trains run them over and mush them. Snow to slush, leaves to slurry. They act as lubricant. The train slams on the brakes, and the wheels stop but the train tracks are lubed up and so the train keeps going ... or the mulch gets between the brakes and the wheels and the wheels don't stop. Generally speaking, a driver doesn't apply the breaks unless they need to. Delayed departures and schedule disruptions are fined. If a train spends longer than two minutes more than it should on a platform, fine. Is more than two minutes late, fine. The drivers are not hitting the breaks for fun. So slippy wheels because of leaves and snow... they're a big deal. I'd rather be delayed than derailed or hit by a runaway train.
I was a postman for 27 years and I never wore the shorts that I was issued. I left the job back in 2012 and as I write this I am sat at my breakfast table wearing my last pair of uniform trousers and across my room I can see at least three uniform shirts as yet never out of the packaging . Every time that we applied for some item of uniform we would receive at least four shirts and three pairs of trousers.
Swans are the hardest birds, if you don't include Glaswegian women.
This comment doesn't have nearly enough likes. Absolutely class. 😂
'It's just the one swan actually' 😁
😂😂 😂
You'll definitely hear the Glaswegian bird coming, the Swan not so much. It's mute.....
.... I'll get my coat.
@@theonlyLoneWolf_ Dam right!! Where are the likes.. made me chuckle 🤭 I tell ya 😅
Yes, we’re a very dark humoured sarcastic bunch of bastards.
"bastards"
Yep - around 40% of us by now, I'd imagine!😀
And this is why we are the most misunderstood people in the world.
@@marvinc9994 lol
Yes, and we have a habit of never directly saying what we mean, it drives Dutch people around the twist who don't know British people as they are very forthright and blunt in their speech, they are far from humourless, just more blunt. They like the sarcasm.
@@tonyhaynes9080 "Them"
Gunpowder deliveries directed towards Parliament, and you posted this on the fifth of November. Perfection.
My gramma used to deride anyone who made her a cup of tea that wasn't strong enough to render the tea spoon a light brown colour. "For God sake, boy! Put the bag in the boiling water. Don't just show it to the mug from the other end of the kitchen". Or, after visiting someone, "That woman, I swear she's still using the same tea bag as when I last took tea with her, five years ago." 😅
😂 incredible!
Mate your Nan was a legend
My gran, on the exact other end of the scale, used to drink her tea by scaring the water with the tea bag. My dad used to say we needed to call an ambulance to get out of the cup
My mother was very dismissive of people who didn't properly fill the cup with tea: a "vicars' collar cup" is how she described it.
That awful man in the vest is Ronnie Pickering and he is a disgrace to my home town, from Hull in East Yorkshire.
Posties wear shorts because they dry quicker than trousers when it rains! 😂
One told me it's because long trousers stick to your legs when wet and make walking uncomfortable, but same kinda answer basically
Also, wet trousers will eventually soak into your socks and hey presto! Wet feet too.
On the Devon/Dorset border(A35) the County signs are 25 m/yds apart Around 1980 it snowed. The snow was 600mm/2ft deep, each Counties snow plough went up to their sign and stopped and went back leaving a 25 yd impassable, by car, patch of snow.
Thats incredible, love it.
And they have the cheek to tax us. (spitting with justifiable rage)
The only problem with that is that metres and yards are not the same length. A yard is 3 feet. A metre is 3' 4", so 2 metres is 6' 8", and 3 metres is 10 feet, meaning that three metres is 3 and 1/3 yards. 24 metres is therefore 26 yards and two feet. 25 metres then, is 27 yards, two feet and four inches.
@@Crispvs1 Depends which side of the road you measure it, it's on a bend.
I once had an antediluvian jar of treacle which when opened, the treacle made a rude gesture, pulled the lid back down and rolled the jar back in the corner of the cupboard.
Tesco do build places like that.
Yup, they are always some architect's take on a planning requirement to be "sympathetic to local building traditions."
They are all over the place, all purpose built.
I think it was mostly a late 80s/early 90s thing,
The clever tw@ who put that gunpowder delivery sign next to parliament is a genius.
Had me in stitches for a solid 2 minutes 😂
That cup of tea is whats referred to as 'Gnats piss'😂
YEP, that's what my auntie used to call it.
"Mince Pies - The ideal accompaniment for Christmas afternoon tea (best before 04 DEC)"
Ah but which 4th December?
Dec 4 2012
That cuppa needed bloody crutches it was so bloody weak😂😂😂
You can't tell me that wasn't bloody Horlicks!
This is water from a puddle in a pothole the council hasn't filled yet - might be the most English sentence you've ever uttered X
I'm an American living in the US, and today is our presidential election. This is just the type of escapism I needed today!
Fingers crossed for you! 🙏🏻
Thank you for the good vibes! 🙏
Plenty of British humor on RUclips ,
Just look at naps posting of them and others
Presidential election is a joke, but not a funny one.
I hope for the USA that Trump doesn’t get voted in to office.
Creature Comforts is available for free on RUclips nowadays too. Very uniquely British.
Tbf with the leaves on the line thing, usually it’s wet leaves because it’s Britain and a train can derail because it will skid.
They don't _derail_ - they slide on braking, grinding the wheels, so that they become flat on one side.
Seems like sliding (though not because of leaves?) was a factor in the recent fatal train crash in Wales. So it's a serious thing, not a feeble excuse.
Yeah train on wet leaves is like walking on ice. Makes it equally hard to stop as it is to get going, so sometimes the best option is to stand
@@wessexdruid7598 im not saying they do all the time but derailments can and have happened.
Highly recommend watching "Hot Fuzz" best cop comedy ever. And yes we have Canada Geese here but beware the swans too.
The pringle baiter was playing with fire !
Watched it last night, nearly as good as Shaun of the Dead.
As for geese, b@st@rds one and all. I once saw my nearly 50 y/o mother clear a five-bar gate in a single vault with my brothers' Gander chasing her, honking and squawking fit to raise the dead. All my brother said was "his missis is down on eggs and he thinks you're after them, stay out of the field.
I'll take swans any day rather than geese.
Victoria Woods “Lets do it” - peak British comedy xx
Otherwise known as The Ballad Of Barry And Freda. That song still cracks me up and always will, especially the Woman's Weekly line.
@ ah yes, the proper name 🤣, she was so funny - is it on the trolley - sadly missed.
@@louburnett6782 I think the term 'comedy genius' is overused but in her case it very much applies.
Left us far too soon; loved her - R.I.P. Victoria 💜
I seriously need crumpets with lashings of butter. NOW! I'm also a crisp hobbyist. Love me some crisps! 😍(PS Happy bonfire/fireworks night everyone in England!)
Why just England 😢
Quintessential British humour eh. I think you're about ready for the one, the only, "Carrot In A Box".
I saw this live when the episode aired ☺️ great bit of TV history!
@AdventuresAndNaps the follow up is even better because he won AGAIN
Leaves on the rail lines makes the rails slippery. Slippery rails make it hard for trains to accelerate and brake effectively. Delays because of this are a safety precaution.
The Mighty Boosh!! Full of dark whimsy, oh, also Red Dwarf and Bottom, and all of the task master series... Blackadder.. sooo much Stand up too
Grab a bottle of something fruity, gather a friend or two, some cosy clothes, a throw/blanket or too, lights low... Maybe a cake... and have a bloody good giggle, it's cheap but refreshingly good for you!
Have fun!
I think the Tesco thing is where they bought up old market halls initially in villages/towns, so already had the clock towers.
But some have been purpose built as supermarkets since and they get easier planning permission for a more 'in keeping with the area' building than if were to propose a boring block building.
So I've heard...
Nah, my local one they built like that, I suspect that all the stores built around the same time were built in a similar way - late 80’s or early 90’s I think?
@RealMrStoofus yeah the newer ones from 90s I think we're due to that planning permission ease. But just something I heard once. One near me also has tower and from late 80s, used to be field and built intended for Tesco. And apparently keeping a more classical town hall look helped with approval
@@RealMrStoofus My local one was built like the one on the right in the meme and I've seen several in the same style on my travels.
Poor Linda! Ex Railway guy here. Unfortunately "Leaves on the line" is a railway shortcut phrase, you see when wet leaves fall on the railway lines, and trains roll over them, under the pressure, the leaves get converted into a really excellent lubricant, so the trains lose traction, making it hard to go, and hard to STOP which is very dangerous. Keep Reacting!
it's why those two trains crashed into each other in wales a few weeks ago isn't it?
@@-elle-o.o NO COMMENT!
I think that is a subject for the inevitable enquiry (no humour intended or attempted)
Very nasty things train crashes!
I live almost next to a single-track railway, which passes through a wood. At this time of year there's a "leaf clearing" train that goes past every other day at about 01:30. Sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner!
The enquiry has already determined that the mechanism that should have applied sand to the rails to give traction were blocked .@@davidberesford7009
@@-elle-o.o yeah from whats been investigated it seems to show that the train slid for a little over 1000 feet on wet leaves at 15mph before impacting the train coming in the other direction
Poor Linda, that is bullying, funny, but bullying.
Insult to injury to bulls, let alone when also @bused and worst of all?
Get a life
What makes British humour top tier?
Simple…the weather…hundreds of years of grey skies, unpredictable weather, long muggy winters and short summers…if we hadn’t learned to laugh, the depression would have wiped us out eons ago!
Alanna, British humour should be the only thing on the UK Citizen test, if you get it you're in. You would easily pass with flying colours 😄😄😄
"if your Aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle. But she doesn't, so she's not" 😂😂😂
Other people have already pointed out here that leaves on the line can be dangerous for train operation because they reduce the effectiveness of braking - which can lead (and has lead) to accidents. There is also a longer term, costly, condequence. If a train slides on the slippery leaf mush when it brakes, the wheels can be ground flatter at the sliding contact point. It's not a good idea for a train to have wheels that are not properly round - it causes rough riding, wear on the bogies, and wear on the track. So the train operators eventually have to replace the worn sets of wheels with new (round!) ones at great expense. If enough trains are affected this way in a short time then there may not be enough new wheel sets available, so trains waiting for repair have to be temporarily taken out of service. The resulting shortage of rolling stock means a worse service for travellers!
It is worse than that, there is a chemical in the leaves that with the friction and crushing pressure of the train reacts with the iron in the steel rail/wheels that creates a teflon like non-stick surface. Worse than ice for train braking.
Before they replace the wheels, they can be turned, on a wheel lathe. This doesn't require dismantling - the train is run over the lathe, turning one axle set at a time and cutting them circular again (but smaller).
@@wessexdruid7598 Indeed. But I don't think the maintainers of the class 313 trains I used regularly in the 1980s and 1990s when leaf fall started to become a real problem on the Great Northern loop for the first time, had that luxury. I remember the train operators saying that there were cancellations because of a shortage of rolling stock - trains with messed up wheels that couldn't be fixed because they didn't have enough spares and had to wait for more to be manufactured.
@@johnevans2044 I used to work in the same building as the wheel lathe at the St Phillip's Marsh depot in Bristol, in the early 2000s. It was then primarily used for GWR's HST sets (class 43s) - but didn't get a lot of work.
Boris was a modern Benny Hill i think. Compare the postures and gait
There is something very Fred Scuttle about him.
And the running round after women with a lecherous look on his face.
Postmen in shorts is so true. You will see them in the winter snow wearing shorts and a fleece jacket. 😂
Thorpe Park: Only in Britain do we name an entertainment venue after a 70's politician who's famous for buggering someone and shooting their dog.
I can't believe it didn't have 'you can't park there sir'
That cup of tea was shocking.
The person who made that should be deported for such behavior.
its a Mute Swan Alanna - that particular scene being from Hot Fuzz 🙂
I figured someone would've mentioned it before me :)
Yeah, it's a mute swan, so no chance of getting a confession out of it !
@fredMplanenut 🤣😂👌👍👉👃🦢
The Berries and Cream man is from a 2007 Starburst Ad ...
TikTok at the cutting edge as always ..
I stopped buying them because I was annoyed at the name change from Opal fruits
@@NoNo-uwotm8’Opal fruits, made to make your mouth water’ I’m with you on the name change and they changed the taste as well, I’m certain of it.
Cadburys mini eggs will be delivered to supermarkets on Christmas Eve. More than likely on shop floor before new year
Huh?. Mini eggs are available all year round. Had some the other day.
@ I have only ever seen them sold seasonally. I might have just completely missed them throughout the rest of the year. I’m going to be on the look out now though
That 'tea' is EXACTLY how my sister likes it, in fact on more than once occassion I haven't put any tea in it (just hot water and milk) and she couldn't tell the difference.
😂
The leaves on the line thing is a necessary risk not worth taking, because trains crush them and the residue left over affects a train's ability to brake and stop.
Yeah, its looking like that was partly why the crashin wales happened a few weeks ago killing 1 person
Yup, it basically a Teflon coating on the rails which isn't exactly ideal for stopping a fast moving vehicle
It's not cold until you see your postie in trousers. 😂
That's what's commonly known as a cup of dish water from the kitchen sink.....
Man's feeding a swan - nay, teasing a swan - and it's in the mix because that IS so typically British 😅 ... and you think we're gunnu be scared of your geese‽ Pah! You silly gooose 😜🤭
Those squirrels must be some tough thugs to literally hijack at train...😅🇬🇧
I net it way immigrant grey's, not the more peaceful native red
U almost said a goose can break your arm didn't you? 😂
You're reactions totally cracked me up! This was so wholesome, i loved it!
I was on a train that got delayed, we stopped in the middle of no-where for about 20 minutes. Then the driver came over the intercom and apologised to everyone and said he had been told he had to stop the train "because bees had been seen in the area".
That happened to me only once, for about 45 mins and that was in the middle of nowhere too. Never did find out why but on the plus side, I did the same journey the following week but the ticket office was closed as it was late. I got on, planning to pay the attendant but they never showed, so I got off without paying. Karma.
@@Elwaves2925The ticket staff had probably been carried off by a swarm of bees
I've experienced self-deffacating humour - I shat myself and my mate couldn't stop laughing at me.
Tomorrow, tomorra, tomorrow, tomorra- you're always a day away!
Tomorrow and tomorra and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day...
@@martinclegg8536 Love it - nice one
😂 was thinking the exact same as you "What was that we just saw?" I felt that lethal level of cringe
That cup of tea looks like someone's waved a teabag in it's general direction and then said "This is what you're supposed to taste like"!
Lots of (all?) out of town centre Tesco's were built with weird almost church style towers in the 80s and 90s. It was surreal.
Ex-Postie here, the vans tend to be pretty warm (no functional A/C, the cold still blows moderately warm). That means that, when its hot you want shorts. When it rains, you want shorts because legs dry quickly. When its cold, you want shorts because the van will still be roasting and the walking keeps you warm.
Also you want a sort of medium off-grey cargo shorts because the seats are absolutely filthy (I seriously don't know how they get so bad), and you need pockets for the red cards, pens, and if keys if you're doing post-box collections.
4:40 "British humour is so hard to explain..." *proceeds to give a pretty bang-on explanation* 😆
6:30 "Apparently they can break a man's arm... Or blow up a man's house."
"It's a swan actually"
The Canada Goose was behind it.
They say a swan can break a man's arm....
No luck catching them swan's then?
@danielblyth2841 it's just the one Swan actually
We always say that the only men who wear shorts in winter are postmen and scaffolders.
Always entertaining, thank you 🙏🏾
The guy with the buckfast is the blue van man on RUclips
Tesco's built those in the late 80's early 90's, now they go for the big warehouse thing.
Watch Gordon Ramsey's series where he cooks at home with his family. It's like watching a Jeykll and Hyde movie.
Just FYI, leaves on the line is actually a pretty dangerous condition. If trains run over the leave they are pummled into the track into what is basically a paste. This makes the tracks more more slick and reduces traction meaning is harder for trains to break.
I phone my mum the other day and I happened to have a cold so I told her this. She replied “yeah, there’s one going around at the moment”. I had to remind her that I left the UK 7 years ago. Whatever is going around there is not going around here.
Thats what they said about covid until it was
next time you think of 'leaves on the line', just think how dangerous black ice is.
A recent train crash in Wales seems to have been caused by them. North America also has the problem, just not so noticeable because they don't' have so many trains.
then consider leaves are worse as when crushed into the rail, they react with the iron to make it a more permanent slick surface.
To be fair, that's a reasonable approximation of UK police.
The police: "Excuse me Mr Criminal, would you mind awfully not criminalling for a bit?"
Criminal: "Right you are then chief, sorry for any inconvenience."
Alana, that is a Swan not a Goose, the scene is from the movie Hot Fuzz, you need to watch it !
I used to wear trousers all the time when I worked for the Post Office as a collection driver. I collected letters and parcels from Post Offices, businesses, parcel letter boxes, letter boxes of all types, an airport and a shopping mall.
There are some iconic british comedies like Father Ted, Black Books, Red Dwarf, the IT crowd, the Inbetweeners, Goodness gracious me, Vicar of Dibley, that definately deserve a watch.
Just don't ask about "Heil Honey, I'm home", fortunately that only got a single episode.
No seriously, "H- Honey I'm Home" was absolutely fantastic. It was written by a team largely made up of people who were actually Jewish. It was a fantastic take on how Americans would watch any garbage so long as it was a sitcom. It parodied the style of 50s and 60s sitcoms like "I Love Lucy" by casting Hitler as an everyman living in New York and everything about it was perfectly satirical. I watched the only episode that was aired and I laughed so hard even during the opening credits - the theme song was so funny. It was cancelled because people objected to it even though it was written by the very people that were supposed to be the offended demographics. It was really an excellent premise and had great comedy. It was Pythonesque and sadly people did not get it. Supposedly other episodes were recorded but never aired and are lost. Would be great to watch it now.
I’m a fellow Canadian and quite a bit older than you. I’ve had a lifetime of watching British comedies, everything from On The Buses and Reginald Perrin to Are You Being Served and Blackadder to be pretty familiar with the British sense of humour.
Yes, I have actually seen a postie in trousers! He used to deliver our parcels in work wearing shorts, so all us girls as a joke, whistle at him and sing something like You Can Leave Your Hat On. Then one day he came in wearing trousers. This was back in the days where you could actually get away with jokes like that. He was a grumpy git, though.
I just read a comment on the recent US election result. It was from a guy in Barnsley. It read, "I have seen a man beat a woman as badly as that since the Paris Olympics." - thank you for the giggle random man in Barnsley.
Alayna , Love your channel . love the fact that our humour rings your bell . TY for the videos x
brit here! Leaves on the line are a real issue. The trains can compress them into what is essentially teflon, really makes them hard to stop
Your reaction videos always have me giggling, your cheeky laugh is awesome.
Posties don't wear long trousers because when they get wet in the rain the wet cloth is very cold and rubs against their legs, making them sore. Skin dries quicker.
The 'What did I miss?' Ad was a quit smoking campaign, he popped outside for a smoke and that happened while he was out. Completely outrageous, but so daft it's hilarious 😅
Alanna i just couldn't stop laughing 😂🤣 at the man with the mask on his "nob" oh dear that was seriously funny! Thank you for this video i needed a good laugh.positivity peace and love ♥️
That was from Gogglebox a TV series, of people watching people on the TV, those two are my favourites on there, Jen and Lee.
@@vallee3140 it was so funny it was the expression on Jen's face when he said it.priceless🤣
@@charisse234 I love those two
As said earlier, it's US election Day. This kind of humor 😂was needed. Thanks Alanna!
Cheers Brian, thank you so much!!
Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures and Alton Towers are The Big Three, do them all one summer.
Give each one a weekend too and stay in their hotels. Great fun.
There are loads of canada geese near where I live and they are very docile. It's probably because when they are gosling chicks people feed them so they learn right from the start that humans are friendly. They don't like dogs though.
Aren`t you happy that you are not called Linda....🤣Thanks again for making me laugh out loud... all gems....even the cringe ones......
Thank you! ☺️
My bro in-law puts a single drip of milk in his tea! I’ve told him “you can’t taste the difference” but he swears he can!
Buttter, Butter, Buttter, butter, butter. My god if think he's got it!! Now "The rain in Spain, falls mainly on the plain..."
There was a great UK Meme compilation out that I watched a good while ago - with 2 US reactors reacting to it, Alanna - sadly though, all I can tell you about it best now, is that in it, one of them had a lad bungee jumping from a helicopter with a biscuit in his hand - trying to dip it in a cuppa far below . . . he did it, but I can't say if it was managed in only 1 lucky take or many?
Jimmy Carr makes horribly offensive jokes: Ok these are kind of funny
Jimmy Carr puts his feet up on the subway: Cancelled
😂 yes exactly!!
Subway?
That swan could break a mans arm!!!!!! Arrrh! 😆
Some Postmen are creative, some less than deserving of the title. My own personal favourite, this actually happened to me, was the day the postie hid a parcel in the wheelie bin for safety on the same day that the bins were collected.
Well I’m British and Berries and cream was just weird 🙄. Pot hole and gun powder? Hilarious 😂
ironbru SPOTTED!!!
our postal operatives wear trousers. full length. reason: it's not winter yet!
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That brew looked like they forget the teabag entirely!
My Grandad was a postman . In the summer he wore shorts but he still wore his long johns .Mens fashion wasn't such a big deal in those days .
A friend of mine always made tea that mainly tasted of washing-up liquid. I used to try to saunter into the kitchen to rinse the mug out before she poured the tea into it.
I used to be in a choir and one of our tenors was a postman. Winter or summer he always turned up to rehearsals in shorts. I think the formal suit he wore for concerts included the only pair of actual long trousers he owned.
Thank you, Alana for making it funny❤
They always used to build supermarkets with weird roofs. I miss those days. Now they're all cuboids.
7:30 No wonder those squirrels got aggressive. Just trying to get to work and they cancelled the train.
Berries and cream. Think of an activity below the waistline and watch the clip again. Takes on a whole new meaning.
The leaves on the line are a genuine issue and, having worked at a train station, it's no joke. Leaves, or snow can't stop a train. If thwt are on the line, trains run them over and mush them. Snow to slush, leaves to slurry.
They act as lubricant. The train slams on the brakes, and the wheels stop but the train tracks are lubed up and so the train keeps going
... or the mulch gets between the brakes and the wheels and the wheels don't stop.
Generally speaking, a driver doesn't apply the breaks unless they need to. Delayed departures and schedule disruptions are fined. If a train spends longer than two minutes more than it should on a platform, fine. Is more than two minutes late, fine.
The drivers are not hitting the breaks for fun. So slippy wheels because of leaves and snow... they're a big deal.
I'd rather be delayed than derailed or hit by a runaway train.
Love how British you've become
Examples
Tea, crumpets
This one knows 😂 ❤
That milky cup of unprocessed tea, looks like there's a Tea Bag in the Cup and flavour is yet to be blended
I was a postman for 27 years and I never wore the shorts that I was issued. I left the job back in 2012 and as I write this I am sat at my breakfast table wearing my last pair of uniform trousers and across my room I can see at least three uniform shirts as yet never out of the packaging . Every time that we applied for some item of uniform we would receive at least four shirts and three pairs of trousers.