Americans React: Surprising Differences Between the UK and USA that AREN'T Obvious!
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We have another Special Guest for today, our friend Ryann! Ryann helped us start our Show way back in the very first days! She has filmed lots of our Patreon content and has been very supportive! It's nice to have her in front of the camera finally! This episode was a lot of fun! We still get surprised by how many differences we continue to learn between the United Kingdom & The United States! While we knew a couple of these, there were some that were definitely surprising! We hope you enjoy this episode and leave us a comment at the end. It's always fun learning about the different cultural differences between our countries. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Yeah I wish we did get coupons but sometimes we get adverts through the door to advertise a shop and you might be lucky to get a few coupons lol
You've got some great friends!
I'm pretty sure that Kalyn is from Florida not the North East Coast - might expain the differences with your area
Hi all iam in the UK when I buy my eggs from the supermarket I put mine in the fridge
1000,000 Green shield stamps for a pen😂
For all the Brits of a certain age "Green Shield Stamps" & "Tiger Tokens"
I remember Green Shield stamps. But bloody hell we haven't done those for decades!
Thank you for reminding me that I'm of a "certain age".
Buy your Christmas shopping with Green shield stamps great idea 😊
Do you have LV vouchers in USA
Kensitas cigarette tokens
There's also a Euro sign as well.
It's on the same key as the dollar sign, but you use the "Alt Gr" key (the right side Alt key) to bring it up. So, really, the "3" key has the pound £ sign (shifted 3), and then the "4" key has dollar and Euro - so it's like the "other common currency symbols" key.
(And, honestly, the real reason why "$" is on the keyboard is because "$" is one of the characters of ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange - that's part of the basic character set. It's used in programming languages a lot. Lots of software originated in America, uses "$" without thinking, and so you really need to be able to type "$" for computer stuff, even if you're never typing it for its original purpose of, you know, quoting American prices.)
By the way, due to Microsoft being American, then Windows defaults to "US English" keyboard layout and that means, over the years, I've learnt to type "American" on a British keyboard. That is, I know where the symbols are on a US keyboard to pull up the right character, even though the keys are labelled differently.
India - this makes sense because we are automatically more connected to and aware of the commonwealth countries. We also have more immigrants from those countries, which again makes us more aware of them. Like going to Hawaii is not common here, or Puerto Rico, but I hear those mentioned as vacation destinations in sitcoms etc. (There are more, but I can't remember them now.)
I don’t know anyone who uses a card reader anymore, but it is an authentication device
Loving the Freddie gear.
we have a $ sign on most and the € on many UK keyboards, the $ sign especially is used for many things as well as the US currency, its used in programming and even something as common as Excel uses it to denote an absolute reference.
Only the dollar sign in Aussie.
@@duncancallumthat makes sense since you use dollars down there
Yup, the dollar sign is used in the BASIC programming language when handling string of text. So for B$ you would say "B string"
The program below would print Hello World to the screen.
10 LET A$= "Hello World"
20 PRINT a$
So the dollar or string symbol was prominent on the keyboards of the 70's/80's home micro computers which mostly came with versions of BASIC.
I am sure there are other non-currency uses of the dollar symbol in various scenarios.
Yep, very useful for excel
@@mondrus72 The $ is used in a lot of programming languages, often to indicate variables. But the dollar is so common as a currency throughout the world that it is often used even in correspondence. The euro sign is also present but not so convenient since you need to hold down Alt to get it.
The card readers are a lot less common now. Most security is done through the banking app. I always enjoy the American reaction to the egg thing. Not refrigerating eggs is so normal to me that I am always amazed by the amazement (if that makes sense).
Using a banking app great if one has a decent phone signal at home otherwise its online only or the landline phone and the many options and options within options before one gets to actually speak to a person. That reminds me to change the batteries in my card reader. Going to a branch just as bad as a sheer wall of terminals and maybe one or two humans. At least my local one is a regional office so has staff who can make decisions.
I've never even heard of a card reader.
Yeah I never had a card reader. I had a little HSBC device that would generate a random code when I put in a code to help me login, but my phone now does that same job.
@@FlashyVic they are still in use, even now, mostly things like barclays business bank accounts....
Debbie is absolutely correct on the card reader. It generates a secure code for you to use to access your information. These are not very common anymore most places now use 2 step verification which sends a secure code to your mobile or email instead
2FA tokens are mor3e secure than SMS to phone. In Latvia we used to have multiple 2FA options for banking. code calculators, code cards etc. Now we have only two options: special app, or digital signature. Digital signature is the one where you put your state-issued ID card into a card reader. The last one is also more universal. Allows to login into other services as well.
3-point authentication is more secure.
Something you know (account details or user's pin code and pin for the card reader).
Something you have (your bank card and card reader).
Something generated (the short term pin generated when you put your card and pin into the card reader).
My business bank account used this.
My current account doesn't need the card reader; instead it just uses bank details, pin number, and a physical device that generates the one-time key when you pin it.
I'll resist using a phone app as long as I'm able to. Phones get lost, stolen, hacked or simply break.
I'd much rather never hold _any_ bank details on my phone. You never quite know who's 'listening' to it.
The dollar sign is used in some programming and scripting languages, so it has more than just currency uses.
Also have the € symbol on my 4 key which you probably don't.
I'm Australian, and we use the same keyboard as the US. No pound or euro keys. Just dollar. Tbh, I've never had to do those currency symbols before. But there are ways to type them.
On digital keyboards on phones etc, you can just hold down the dollar sign and euro, pound, yen etc will come up
I've used a UK keyboard before and it took me a while to get used to it. The symbols not being where you're used to is more trippy than you'd think.
Yep, the dollar sign ($) is used to indicate string (a text variable) in several programming languages as opposed to an integer, a date or time field etc.
Many years ago before the Euro, when I worked for IBM, we couldn't sell computers in Spain unless the keyboard had a pesetsas key.
On my UK Mac keyboard I also have the option of the cent symbol; option + 4 = ¢.
Of course we also have the pence symbol on our keyboards too. It's the letter P in lowercase, p
I remember coupons being more of a thing as a kid but we went digital a lot sooner, same with card readers - they've largely been phased out for 5 years now. Debbie is right, you don't read your bank details on the reader it links to your account, it's from the early days of online banking. You tend to find with anything with banking or payments the UK is usually about 15-20 years ahead of the US, that's been my experience of spending a lot of time in the US over the las 20 years
One of the reasons for this is that banking regulations are set state by state in the US. This means a lot of infrastructure isn’t harmonised, and interstate settlement is very clunky. The UK and EU have a unified banking infrastructure enabled by shared regulation so payments can be processed instantly with little settlement risk to the banks.
to think the US doesn’t even have bank transfer
There are several types of bank transfers in the US - ACH, wire, apps such as Venmo and Paypal. Transfers can be between banks, between accounts, and individuals.@@Thomashorsman
Not all banks use them, most just use an app on the phone but remember that not everyone has a smartphone so theres needs to be some sort of authentication system
We do use the term "nursery" as well as "garden centre", although not very often these days
And all the nurseries I've ever been to sell only plants, nothing more.
@lolsaXx I agree the nurseries are usually plant growers and just do plants with minimal "other stuff"
@@lolsaXx .
Indeed, nurseries may not even sell plants direct to the public.
I think couponing is childish.Here the reduction is shown in store and available to everyone. We can carry Our loyalty cards on our phones. 15:29
I think a nursery grows the plants it sell, garden centres probably buy quite a lot from nurseries to supplement their own produce.
The card reader to log into online banking is basically 2-factor authentication. Using 2 methods (your online login password and the card reader and pin) simultaneously to authenticate your ID and that it's really you logging in. The idea being that even if someone nefarious finds out/hacks your online password, they still can't log in, because they don't have access to your card reader and pin. However, the video is 2 years old. Today the card readers have now largely been replaced by an app on your phone which does the same job, and instead of using a pin, you use your fingerprint.
good description 👍
Exactly this. My PIN Sentry card reader has been assigned to a drawer for a number of years now as I use my fingerprint to access the app instead. If I recall correctly, I did need to use the card reader to set the app up in the first place, though. I do occasionally get asked if I want to use it for identification purposes when I pay for something online, but I generally select the "text code to phone" option. The wonders of modern technology! 😊
And I think it was only certain banks that actually went down the card reader route. I've banked online for 20+ years with one of the major banks and it was always just an ID number and password and then letters from a memorable word to access your account online.
I agree the card reader is redundant with my account. I use the mobile phone app that uses facial recognition and expressions. When I pay someone new I need to use my face and blink my eyes to add the payee.
I’ve only I’ve had one account with that card reader thing and it was at least 15 years ago. I ditched the bank (NatWest) and switched to one that doesn’t use them for that very reason. Never seen them since and don’t know anybody else who has one.
Couponing in the UK supermarket is just something different. Deals are linked to your store loyalty card/app if you have the relevant app or card you get money off. Asda who use to be owned by Walmart do things a bit different. They almost gamify their app. Setting you goals for certain items. For example buy bread 4 times or spend x amount on bakery they then give you money in your cashpot you can turn into a voucher to spend on anything in store
We used to use coupons a lot, I don't know when it sort of faded out. Actually it was a real pain as people sorted through their pile of coupons to find which ones related to actual purchases and were still in date etc.
Travel Insurance also covers Medical bills abroad.
If a Brit traveled to the US and ended up in hospital, without travel insurance, they would be paying thousands for the care; rather than the travel insurance covering it.
Absolutely, we had to use ours a few years ago in Orlando for a medical emergency, which saved us thousands & thousands. Traveling without it is pure madness.
Conversely you hear of stories about Americans falling ill in the UK and not being charged for treatment.
It also covers getting you home again if you're too sick to fly on a commercial plane.
Ah the UK Garden center. They can range massively in size and quality. A good one will have gifts, clothes, a grocery store, a butcher, cafe, pet shop, and sell items for your home such as furniture. For some reason candles are massive in garden centers never been in one that does not have a huge Yankee candle section
centre
Hate that type of retail center they are all turning into them and they have less plants and more tat than a proper nursery full of plants and different types of soil.
Lots of them also have children's play areas - going to a garden centre is practically a day out
I have a theory about the popularity of the garden centre. Back when I was younger, and into my early 20s the laws regarding shops opening on Sunday were so strict that no shops were open - not even supermarkets. But what was allowed to open were Garden Centres. This meant that if it was a boring rainy Sunday and you were sick of looking at the walls of your home then going to the garden centre was a place to go! Originally they were just garden stuff and we do use the word nursery for garden centres as well - but a nursery usually will literally sell you plants. A garden centre was more than that.They started putting in cafe's and other things to sell us. This blurred the lines on what was allowed under the Sunday opening laws. In the 1990s there were shops that decided they were going to intentionally break the law by opening on Sunday until eventually the government relented and passed a new law that allowed shops over a certain size to open for 6 hours on a Sunday. These shops are allowed to choose their own opening times as long as it's only for 6 hours, but it is strictly tills on at opening time and tills off at closing time. They are legally not allowed to serve you outside of their 6 hours. If the shop is small enough then they are allowed to open for longer. This arrangement can be frustrating at times for consumers but it must be working well for the larger stores because this has been the law now for 25 years+ and none of them have tried to change it. these days, each Garden centre is different but there are clothes shops, greetings card shop, toiletires ,knick nacks, fancy food brands, crafts, pet supplies, tropical fish centres, sports clothing, furniture,childrens play areas, books. The one near me has a minitaure train ride that you can go on. Oh and yeah... there are a few plants as well. All under one roof. Welcome to the world of mis-named stores... The Garden Centre.
Pubs used to open from noon till 2 on Sundays, and then from 7pm until 10:30. Unbelievable!
That is a very good point, i agree thinking back, im 50 so i remember restrictive sunday shopping. I think agriculture/farm supply places like mole valley, tincknells etc went a similar route, toys, cafes etc for similar reason....
Great video! Just a reference to Holiday Insurance because you will be visiting the UK at some point. Another poster said that treatment is free in the UK...it is at A&E but if you are admitted and have to stay in a hospital they can charge for treatment of non-UK citizens.
We do have a club card system in the UK that gives you money off or coupons for your most bought items. Ryann your first reaction to stuff is fantastic hope to see your face on the channel again .. love you all from snowy Scotland :) xx
In the UK we also use the term 'nursery' as well as 'garden centre'.
The bank card reader was used as a way to sign into your account. You put your card in and used your PIN number which gave you a unique code that you added when signing into your account online. They’ve mostly been phased out now as Barclays has an app where you can do most of your banking
In 1996, my parents travelled from the UK to New England on holiday. My father had a heart attack, aged 60, and ended up in Boston, having a six-way heart bypass. Luckily, he had taken American Express travel insurance. The cost of his hospital stay, the operation, putting up my mother in a hotel for an extra 10 days, upgrading his return flight to 1st class and a travelling nurse with him, came to over $ 155,000. My parents paid an insurance excess of £250 GBP, and everything over that was covered. If they hadn't taken out the cover, it may well have bankrupted them .... not surprisingly I never travel abroad without it !!
In the UK we do have places that sell plants referred to as nursery’s. The difference between a nursery and a garden centre is that a nursery’s tend to just grow and sell plants while a garden centre will sell plants but also sell many other items such as clothing, gardening tools, garden furniture and many other items.
There is no difference between brown or white eggs .
Another thing if you put certain products in the fridge, they will lose their flavour. Eggs being one of them. Tomatoes also are the same. Here’s an experiment for you. Get some vine ripe tomatoes, put one in the fridge and one at room temperature then taste them you will noticed a vast difference in flavour. I only ever put tomatoes in the fridge once they start to go over then they’re only used for cooking. Give it a try
I can 100% agree with this, Mike. I find the same thing with most veg. They seem to lose flavour in the fridge.
Eggs also absorb strong flavours from anything else in the fridge.
For baking eggs should only ever be used at room temperature.
Actually you CAN get coupons in uk. Some stores have magazines with coupons in the back (e.g. farm foods, or for pet stores pets at home) . Also some foods sometimes have a coupon on the back of the packaging. Also sometimes you can print off coupons. However in uk it isn’t big and the deals often aren’t very big.
Was about to say something similar myself, I mean isn't Tesco voucher or other grocery stores still a thing when you rack up so many points on your store card after each month. Also you'll find people that are on welfare getting vouchers off the local council to support people for low income households.
It used to be bigger.
Dobbies Garden Centres, sell crockery, electrical kitchen stuff, baking stuff, clothes books, they have a food section, freshly baked breads, stuff for your pets,birds, garden implements. At Christmas a whole array of Christmas decs. They have a restaurant, and now they are dog friendly, Yuffie loves going to Dobbies and they have a dog friendly section in their cafe. The place is usually stood at the weekends. If you go to the Clyde Valley it’s nursery after nursery, pick your own fruit etc and it has lots of garden centres too. Yes I’m at the age where I can get up on a day off and think, ‘ il go to Dobbies today, have a look and get a coffee, nice bit of lunch’
It does decent coffee too! I like their flat white. 😀
The card reader is just an added security device for logging on to your account.
Apparently the colour of the egg doesn't make a difference to taste. It's based on the type of hen. White feathers - white eggs, dark feathers brown eggs. Nutritionally they are the same. The processing of the eggs does not turn them white either. How they taste could well depend on how the hen is fed or kept though.
Also the age of the eggs. I used to know a guy who kept hens to produce his own free range eggs. He told me a one day old egg from a battery hen will taste better than a week old free range egg.
I had a card reader years ago, I log in now to my account with a thumbprint reader on my phone
I have a Card Reader and it is used as a extra security layer for online banking.
This lovely lady not only still lives in the UK, she now has dual UK/US citizenship! She's married to a Brit and has lived here for over 10 years. BTW I'm a subscriber to her channel and have been for some time. Great video! 😍😍😍
Morning ladies - great stuff as ever! Just wanted to cover a few things that came up in this one: For starters, eggs aren't usually by the bread (a few places might do that), but seeing as bread (in the bigger stores with their own bakery, especially) is right at the back corner away from the entrance so that fresh baking smell can be strategically wafted through the store by the HVAC - more often they're literally in the first 'regular' aisle next to the chilled dairy/milk products.
As far as the card reader goes, not all banks do them and the reader is pretty much always just left at home, I don't know anyone who carries one about, but I guess there's always room in a handbag! It does create one-time authentication for access to your account, though of course there are other methods available - it also can be used to authenticate large purchases or setup new payments that would otherwise potentially block your card; there are a number of other uses depending on the bank in question - also with a few exceptions, pretty much all card readers can work for any bank's card so long as it's part of the same overall system (all VISA debit cards, for instance).
On holiday insurance, it's pretty much thought of as mandatory for any foreign trip, but many people take it even for holidays within the UK - especially if the holiday's a tad pricey! For instance, I certainly took out insurance the last time I went on a Broads cruising holiday, if only to recoup the cost of the boat hire if anything went awry.
Where are you that eggs are normally anywhere near the chilled section? Most of the shops I've seen I think the eggs are near either bread or home baking sections.
I'd say at this point, personal card readers have been replaced by phone apps secured with the phone's fingerprint reader, backed up by PIN now.
Garden centre or nursery? Both these terms are used in the UK. Garden centres (UK spelling) are generally as described in the video and may sell a range of related, and sometimes non-related, products. Nurseries are more likely to be plant focussed and where the plants are actually grown as well as being sold to the public and possibly also sold to garden centres and stores like the Lowes and Home Depot equivalents. Plant nurseries may also sell other items, such as garden pots and ornaments, and they sometimes develop more of a similarity to what might be called a garden centre. I'm a keen gardener and prefer to buy from nursery growers to get better quality plants at cheaper prices.
The £ sign is an L and stands for the Latin word librum.
Thanks! Didn't know that
Eggs in NZ are in ordinary aisles too. However, they are not always near the bread section. We don't use coupons either.
That was cool! 😂 Your faces when they said that about the card reader was awesome! 😅 Thank you and I remember the actual paper food stamps we had back in the 80's! And, government cheese, TFE did a story about that and it's hilarious, recommend it! 😂
The UK abandoned using coupons a long time ago, as they were too slow and inefficient. They were replaced with a store digital reward card system. People scan their digital reward card (same size as a credit card) or via the app on their phone each time they shop and use the checkout in the store. Each time you shop, loyalty points are added to the card, and the card also automatically applies loyalty discounts to the prices of certain items you regularly buy. You can also cash in some or all of the loyalty points accumulated on the card at any time to reduce the total cost of your shopping that day.
For example. I spend £60-70 putting gas in my car roughly every 6 weeks. I wait until the point total on my card reaches equal to £60-70 and then cash those points on one of those 6 weekly gas purchases. So I end up getting that particular £60-70 gas purchase for free. Other people accumulate as many loyalty points as they can over the whole year and then cash all of them in on their big December Christmas shop so that they get all or a huge chunk of their Christmas shop for free.
'Gas'?
@@jaxcoss5790Natasha, Debbie and Ryann are Americans, and a good chunk of their audience are also Americans. So I used the American terminology. Most Americans wouldn't immediately understand what the UK terminology "petrol" is/means.
I don't understand the system in the USA which encourages the shopper towards a certain brand (but not the store?). The UK 'loyalty card' system encourages the shopper to only use one supermarket company. They also send through the mail coupons as further encouragement as: 'Spend £80 in one visit and get £8 off your bill.' I often receive this sort of offer which is a money off coupon per week for four weeks.
Many stores have loyalty cards in the US.
There are both store and manufacturer coupons.
A rewards card isn't the same
I do not have a card reader but do all banking online!. My keyboard is obviously set as UK and can type (Pound) £ (Dollar) $ (Euro) € (Yen) ¥, I think that's the only ones.
I have had a card reader for my bank account for over 10 years. It is for safety but we don't have to use it. We also have the option to be sent a code to our mobile phone which I prefer as it's less cumbersome.
I'm Australian. Never seen one of those "calculator" things here either. It's all sms.
Yes it's useful if you can't receive texts for whatever reason, like lack of signal where I am!
I've been to Carmel, IN which is the US capital of roundabouts, they were only little ones though...
I'd love to see a video on the plant centres. I'm not a huge plant person by my partner is so I get to hang out in the occasional one. Most large ones in Australia have a cafe and a couple of Water Dragons (big lizards) out on insect patrol. Ryann was awesome, hope the stunt bruises heal quickly.
The coupon thing, not true. Here in UK we're HUGE on apps and digi codes & deals. Various supermarkets and various types of discount & cashback schemes.
the uk vs usa ones are always great so cant wait!!! and another guest!!
Roundabouts are good but not in all circumstances. The ‘Burnt Tree Island’ was removed because it was causing such traffic congestion. They’ve now replaced it with traffic lights. They work very well on minor roads. They don’t work so well on major roads with a high traffic volume and we are a very overpopulated nation.
Morning lovely ladies x 3 lol , this should be fun , Hi to Ryann , be interesting to see if any new ones crop up , maybe the Tipping culture in both Countries , ie Restaurants , fast food deliveries etc , historically we shy away from it , although we are catching up, whereas it appears to be almost compulsory in the USA , if im not mistaken , thanks again for your efforts xxx
My mother, my brother and his famly plus in laws to Dubie my mother got broncitis and my brothers daughter got Chiken Pox. It was New Year and we were not aloud to fly. Thankfuly insurance coverd the extra week in the 5* hotel.
One good reason for us, in the UK, to have the dollar sign is that it is used in some software products for reasons other than referring to currencies. In Microsoft Excel, for example, it is used extensively as a part of a cell address. It fixes that part of the cell reference. So if, in a formula you refer to cell "A1" and copy that formula down it will adjust it on each new row to A2, A3, A4 etc. If you refer to that cell as A$1 it would not adjust so it would remain as A$1 all the way down. I am sorry, probably very badly explained!
Also, there are quite a few countries that use the dollar as their currency including quite a few Commonwealth members. The Spanish dollar was the first use of the dollar, and even England was using dollars as currency in the early 1800s.
On the topic of UK keyboards, which obviously has the pound £ symbol, but, in addition to the Dollar sign, $, we also have the Euro € and Japanese Yen ¥ symbols, all as standard.
Which cheekily suggests, the UK appreciates there is a world outside our shores 😬😂
Ryan is sweet and a darling, she needs to jump in more often
Re; dollar & Pound Sterling.... Maybe we;re more broad minded and thoughtful?
Ryann is a delight. Bring her out more often.
I haven’t seen anyone use a card reader, it’s definitely not a thing here. I do all my banking online on my phone or iPad. Don’t have to answer any security questions. I log on via facial recognition or finger print. Easy Peasy! I’m a 75 year old Brit.
The dollar sign is needed not just for monetary items, but also for a lot of software (anywhere you might want to enter a 'string' in a spreadsheet, for instance).
Mind you - the UK/US differences in keyboard are nothing to trying to type Thai on either layout when the keys don't show those characters at all, and pretty much EVERY symbol is in a different place.
I'm amazed no one ever mentions the difference in light switches or plug socket switches. On and Off are the opposite in the US to the UK - very confusing
card reader is same as Debbies key fob, but its more secure as you have to have the card too. It synchronized with the bank and wont work without your specific card.
Here in Scotland,Regarding cashless payments, even the smallest village store in the remotest part of the country you can pay by cashless, just holding your card to the reader at the counter.
Debbie if you are going to say "how's your trip" you need to follow it up with "see you next fall"
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The USA uses so many chemicals that are banned in the UK and Europe. Nature nearly always has a solution that is better than what we use! Hence not washing eggs to remove the protective layer.
The dollar sign is important in Excel and other programs, not just currency.
Gonna need a UK keyboard!! ⌨️
The US dollar is the "global currency," so it's going to be on basically every keyboard.
I'm a Brit living in the UK and needed to replace my broken keyboard. I went online and bought one, but didn't realise until I started using it that I had accidently bought a USA one. So frustrating, but I remembered where the @ key was on my old keyboard along with the £ key, so I didn't bother sending it back to the online store. As for 'Eggs'. We now seem to have lots of white shell eggs being sold in our supermarkets. Maybe it's just me, but they don't seem right, so I stick to the brown shelled ones. Loving your videos.
Yeah what is with that? I used to have to keep checking the box until I found brown ones, but my local Tesco started to just have the white ones...kind of got used to it now.
I still put them in the fridge when I get home though, always have done...
Hi ladies , don't forget most of us get paid leave and can be up to 29 days or more . I've travelled to lots of countries including the u.s 3 times . 😊
I think others have noted but:
The card readers just generated a code for online banking. Some banks had them, some banks had a keyfob you just typed your card pin in to get a code. They were very short lived and have be superceded by banking apps where you can pretty much do all your banking on your phone.
Gardening is very important to a lot of british people. We like to lookafter our gardens and they require a good amount of maintenance due to our climate and types of plants.
We do have nurseries and as she notes plants and garden stuff are sold at places like B&Q.
Garden centres are a bit hard to explain. They tend to be independent stores aimed at the middle class / middle age. They are sort of a department store for outdoor life and gardens. They will sell all your normal gardening stuff, plants, garden furniture and ornaments etc. But also other vaguely associated things like: outdoor clothing, maybe camping gear, things for crafts (drawing, sewing etc), they may have sections for little gifts / trinkets and indoor ornaments, often fish for ponds, and sometimes other animals. They often have big seasonal sections e.g. for christmas. They will always have a cafe / restaurant and commonly big displays based on what they sell which are nice to walk around and get ideas for your own home including garden setups, flowerbeds showing mixes of plants, and ornamental ponds. They are very popular with older people as it is a gentle afternoon out, you can get lunch, see nice displays and maybe buy some things to add to your garden, and older folk here typically love their gardens.
Garden centres are usually all on the one level so they are good for elderly and or disabled people. They are also a shelter from the rain..
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If you're travelling by plane in the US , do your cases never go missing ? We have travel insurance for that, not just for theft or medical issues 😮
Yes in the UK we have all these symbols on our keyboards:
£ = Pound
$ = Dollar
€ = Euro
¢ = Cent
¥ = Yen
Obviously when it comes to € and $ a lot of countries use these as their currencies so it makes sense.
I've a relatively new UK keyboard (Asus) and it doesn't have a key for either Cent or Yen. Some laptops are designed with business use in mind rather than home use so incorporate these extra features.
@@nevillemason6791 I have a MacBook pro and this is how I get them:
¥ = alt + Y
¢ = alt + 4
Loved this episode you ladies are so warm and great to have Ryan too 10/10 for content and as always a big thankyou for your love of my country🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸xxx
Thanks so much!!
Eggs in uk are NOT always in the bread isle. They are in some but in other uk grocery stores they are near the milk (on the opposite side). Just ask a staff member.
I love hearing about these little differences. Great video as always guys, Ryann is a great addition too
We agree! Thanks
We have the other magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, UK
I’m from the UK and I put eggs in the fridge. We have a garden centre that also has an ice rink at xmas and has an amazing xmas shop
S&H Pink Stamps, those too I remember, competition for Green Shield Stamps (then again, I also remember Ration Cards and meat coupons).
Garden Centres are like supermarkets, in many the plants are the least important part. Many are part of a chain.
Nurseries (plant, not children’s) are the specialist shops. Most are single person or family owned and specialise in certain types of plants, sometimes restricted to just one family, for example, until recently there was a specialist Cyclamen nursery a few miles from me.
Very interesting video,and good to have Rihanna also giving her intake.thamkyou.
Re travel insurance it’s probably becaused you are used to getting screwed with medical costs whereas most other countries have some form of socialised health care. Getting £50 travel insurance to cover your medical bills in America is worth it.
Card reader is only really needed if you are making payments to new payees. It stops someone getting into mobile banking and sending money to themselves. Not all banks have it but a few years ago pretty much all of them did
Hi ladies! Mike from Sweden here.
Swedish keyboards also have both the $ and £ keys. As well as keys for three letters that English doesn't have: Å, Ä and Ö. These are NOT a:s and o:s with umlauts, but their own letters, making the Swedish alphabet longer than the English with 29 letters instead of 26.
Sweden also have the eggs in room temp. This is standard in Europe. As for the colour of eggs, if eggs are brown it doesn't mean that they are directly from the farms and the white are not. It means that they were layed by brown chickens and white eggs are layed by white chickens.
Sweden doesn't have the couponing culture either.
Thailand is alo a favourite holiday destination for Swedes. It doesn't have to do with a person's social and/or financial situation. It is warm there. Sweden and the UK are generally cold countries.
Sweden also uses the calculator lookind device for online banking, but it is on the decline because nowadays most Swedes usa an app called Bank-ID which is directly connected to your bank account. We also use it for approving payments when shopping online as well as to identify ouselves on websites, eliminating the need to create log-in names and passwords for each site. This means that you don't need the card reader or card at all, you just use your phone.
In Sweden we drive on the right side and we also have loads of roundabouts because like in the UK, we don't have the grid system that the US has.
We have both nurseries and garden centers here. Gardening is a more of a hobby here, like in the US. In the UK it is a lifestyle.
Hi girls I lived in England all my life in my 70s now never seen a card reader like that honestly never seen the point of them anyway
The lack of travel is also due in part to your shameful employment conditions.
Debbie's got it right, it's an additional level of security. My bank asks for a pass code when setting up a new payee for online banking.
You still get vouchers/coupons through the post so ignore her on that one. If you have a loyalty card with some stores then they do send vouchers/coupons in the post along with 'emailed' versions
We do have both plant nurseries and garden centres. A nursery will just sell plants but a garden centre will sell lots of stuff for the garden, not just plants. My wife used to work in one. You can buy BBQs, garden furniture, sheds, summer houses, fountains, hot-tubs, fish ponds stuff, garden tools, lawn movers, paving, compost, top soil, other plant nutrients, pest control chemicals. Many of them have shop within a shop type franchises .... like butchers, veggie stalls. I remember a clothes franchise by Cotton Traders.
I get travel insurance with my bank account.
My word she is out of date! Not seen card readers in the uk for seems like 10 years.
Go to a bank ?? What’s a bank branch? Haven’t seen one for more than a year
Also remember ladies Continental Europe is larger than the US and we get more holiday days than someone from the US so can go to far more places ❤
My laptop has a pound sign a dollar sign and a euro sign.
I don't think there's so much a cultural love of garden centres as a much bigger more widespread love of gardening in the UK and that goes back to the late 17th century at least
Because in the the US you tend to do 'yard work' and they often look tidy but utilitarian, and as we usually have more free time and have smaller yards that we refer to as gardens and there's usually much more likely to be a variety of plants and flowers and they often look more organic and less tidy. Some people will spend hours every week in their gardens. That applies to the aesthetic of everything in the US compared to the UK, roads, buildings, monuments, maintained battlefields... there's always more straight lines and crisp edges.
The problem with her channel is she has a nugget of an idea, but despite all her years in the UK, she doesn’t go beyond her bubble. Eggs-British chickens are inoculated against salmonella. Keyboards-also the enter keys are shaped differently. Card reader-not for logging in, but for extra things such as adding an account for transferring money. Though less used now.
Agreed, I find myself getting frustrated with her videos. I never like to criticise as I don't put myself out there and make my own videos and it can take guts but I get so frustrated that she announces as facts when it is just her personal experience
Im sorry, but the calculater type machine is ONLY in Barclays bank. I dont know if any other bank that does this. Also, we may not coupon but there are many shops where you can have a points card, this is similar to when we used to get co op stamps or green shield stamps
We have points cards too, they are not like coupons. Coupons give you actual money off items.
Great Queen t-shirt there !!!!
I'm 54 years young and have never seen a card reader.
A lit of this is old hat, those readers went out with the ark
we do have plant nurseries too but they usually only sell plants, maybe the odd sack of fertiliser or similar. Garden Centres are more of a destination where you also buy pots, ornaments, garden tools, gardening gloves and boots, some also have great christmas decoration departments when the time comes. Cafes are a great money spinner.
Roundabouts do not work well when the traffic flow is busy and goes largely in one direction. They just don’t and I can say that as a Brit.
Facts!
I’m a brit who has been lucky enough to to have visited MANY countries outside uk. The ones I am remember: France, Spain, Portugal, Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Lanzarote, America (Florida) , Australia, Croatia, Gibraltar, the canary isles are just the ones I can remember. Some countries Iv visited multiple times to diff areas of the country.
That's an old post. We have telephone banking now. Your bank app allows you to log into your account on you're phone. You can also pay for goods with your phone via scanning . Apple pay etc. On the egg thing , laying hens in the UK /EU are inoculated against salmonella. That why they don't need to be refrigerated. X
Most people go to Spain/France and places where they have cheap packaged holidays .We do hsve coupons for things but not as much now, we use ti have stamp books , i think some super markets still do them, you would buy a £1 .00 or £ 2.00 stamp wach time you went shopping and stick it in your book , then when it came to the end of the year you would pay for all your food with it . We have alot of low prices on our food in many supermarkets and you can get a weeks shopping for very little money, also we have store cards so every time we go shopping we just scan them and it adds up .
I seem to remember we have a $ on our standard keyboards because they are used in programming, although I don’t program myself so can’t confirm!
But we have one American computer at my workplace in a server room, and I can confirm that it’s a nightmare having the symbols in the “wrong” place 😂
There is no such word as "gotten."
I am a 50 year old Brit and I have never seen or heard of the card reader. Ever.