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When most Brit's speak to male's, stranger or not, it's lad, mate or bro, then women it's sweetheart, hun, darlin, love. It's just such a nice way to be friendly. When I speak to male's, it's mate and when I speak to females, it's love or darlin myself. A lot of great things come out of Britain
“Tesco please sponsor me”….I love the never-ending obsession with meal deals 😂
Especially if you go to Aldi and buy some bread rolls, fillings/spreads/red pepper hummus, Scotch eggs, crisps, soft drink (or combo) etc. and it can work out 'less expensive' than the "Tesco Meal Deal" !!! Seriousl, people have been 'brainwashed' into thinking it's such a great price, yet with a little pre-planning you can often get MORE items for less money. Having sandwiches, crisps and drinks all together is 'convenience' - YES - but I don't mind walking around the aisles gathering things! 🤔 😂 👍
@StewedFishProductions It depends, I would not get all the separate items and prepare it myself on the train for example, or while on the motorway, or really anywhere except my house or maybe a picnic
@StewedFishProductions hahaha and I don't mind making it at home and taking it in as it is cheaper, you actually get some filling in your bread, you have more choice, its not all on white bread, the drink bottle holds more, lol !!
Other meal deals are available.
What's that over there? Oh that's Morris dancing. Yes I've been a bit worried about Morris lately
I had a friend who was a Morris dancer and of course we all laughed at him ( at work) but as he explained to me they get their beer for free at the pubs they dance at and he had been in three movies, travelled all over the world and it kept him fit and you can't really argue with any of that as not being actually quite cool.
See, now, no one would laugh at a Scotsman doing Scottish dancing………..I dare you to try! Gggg
We have regularly entertained a morris team from London (Ontario). Great bunch of people.
and tbf outside north America most countries have similar types of traditional dances so its not really unique to us. And even then, its not that different to country music line dancing
The waving reminded me of when I used to visit my mum. We’d keep waving and she would wait until I got to the bottom of her road then I’d have to stop the car to have a last wave before she would go in her house .
Did the same with my mother and now do it with my daughter. It is a very British thing to do.
@dianeleitch I was about to post that I think waving until you are out of sight is something that will die out with my parent's (in their 80s) generation. My kids never do that with us, but still, my brothers and I always do it when leaving my parents' house.
SPOT ON -
Makes more sense to buy cakes once a year on your birthday than have to try to organise everyone chipping in to buy cakes every day or two!
good point
The first time the lovely elderly lady at the Tesco check out where i did my usual shopping said to me "oh hello duckie, havent seen you in a few days. Have you been ok?" I just melted and she won me over. I am from the Netherlands originally and we dont really do pet names either.
We do the same thing with birthdays. If it's your birthday, you bring some treats to work.
Germans do too.
Lord sandwich invented the sandwich when he was playing cards and needed something to eat, but hadn’t time to leave the gambling table. Hence the sandwich.
It's was his butler that invented the Sandwich!
Never going to hate on Morris dancing. It part of our heritage and is kind of cool in a weird way.. :
So well said and I totally agree! Some sources say that it's not been a part of our heritage for as long as was first thought, but I believe it's been around in some form for most of our history. And what isn't to love about getting up before dawn on May morning and going to watch a demonstration. It's fun, it's different, it has its own cast of characters, and, if you dance it yourself, there's usually a visit to a nice pub at the end of it!
While they link arms and wear cowboy boots to line dance right😉
It's a classic example of British silly eccentricity 😂😂
Just to warn you... the ones with swords aren't called Morris dancers. They get offended... and are armed 😮
❤ from Northeast England ❤
Morris dancers are considerate enough to wear bells to let you know where they are if you can't see them, enabling people to efficiently avoid them. Good feature.
Here’s a weird American thing from when I lived there. When you’re on the phone and you have to tell someone a long number or spelling a name, in Britain you say approx three numbers and pause and the person on the phone says ‘right’ or ‘yep’ to let you know they’re keeping up. In America they said NOTHING!! So you might say ‘3456..’ and pause and there’s silence! And you think ‘did they get that?’ ‘Should I go on?’ It’s VERY disconcerting!!
My favourite use of "Darling" has got to be in Blackadder Goes Forth with the character called Captain Darling and Stephen Fry's character General Melchett 😂
Just because things are different doesn’t mean they are weird.
As we invented the sandwich we are allowed to put whatever we want on them.
you mean "In them" !!
@@susansmiles2242 ...and who is'we'?
@DAVIDSHEILS-fs1og the British. The British invented the sandwich. Literally "the earl of sandwich"
With this reasoning, you can also put cat food on your sandwich - but everyone else will still think it's weird.
“Thankyou, my lover”
Said by the lady serving me in M+S. Bristol branch, of course.
Now that would take me aback, if there is such a word!
@deniseroneyoh yes there is! And it’s nothing to do with any other kind of lover 😉
Here you go my lover, alright duck, to complete strangers.
Yeah, even as I think of someone saying it I’m hearing it in a West Country accent. I’m from Merseyside so ‘luv’ is my go to.
@deniseroneyYES but ONLY in the West Country
My partner is German and when we were over in the UK to see my family (i think we were at a random lorry stop Greggs) and he was called "darling" by an old woman behind the counter, he immediately fell in love.
They don't really do that in Germany, aside from places like Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) where things are a lot more chill.
Awww that actually brings a tear to my eye, really!
I gotta stop saying it but I can't help it. It's very common in the Westcountry
The use of terms of endearment to strangers comes from a sense that everyone is a kind of extended family.
The slap of the knee is often accompanied by a slight leaning forward, as if to gesture "I'm about to stand up"
"i'll have to introduce the slapper!" had me laughing out loud.
I can't wait to watch that video =)
You’ve got to wave until you can no longer see each other 😂😂
Exactly
Exactly
Or you can toot the horn before you disappear
True. I find it annoying yet I still do it 🙂
@johnbaines4908 me too 😀😃
Along with the slapper, announcing the word "Right!" or "Right then" can be used to signal the end of anything. It bridges that slightly awkward moment and propels things forwards. 😂
Yeah, if I've been taking a tea break at home and it's time to get on with more chores etc, I say "right! Time to..." And get up and get on with it 😂
For ending a phone call, I always say “Well, I won’t take up any more of your time” or “Look, I’d better let you go now…” as if it’s me that’s at fault for dragging on the conversation. This is understood by everyone as the signal that I need to terminate the call, and can you please let me.
First loves
"No, you hang up first" !
Oh perfect, and one day someone might just say, no its OK I have got time to chat a bit longer, lol !!
@matt01506 Absolutely, have done that several times, even ringing them back to say, just one last Goodbye, lol
Ha! You haven’t spoken to my sister-in-law. I’ve said similar to her and still ended up ending the call an hour later only because someone else, like a baby crying, forced her to finally go😂
I get my husband to ring the doorbell
Nice to see Americans and Canadians cooperating 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇲
They (the Americans) have a plan to get a lot closer. 😮
It's good to see the colonies getting along 🥲
Resurrecting the US's War Plan Red from between WW1 and WW2, and possibly resulting in as big a debacle as the war of 1812-1814, when the British torched Washington. The US would also lose the strategic defence North Warning System in the Canadian north, opening up the US to a nuclear first strike by Russia. Is this Vova's reason for activating agent Krasnov?
It's sad really, us "the little guys" get on with each other just fine. It's only when things get political that people start drawing lines in the sand.
@jabbra1837 we should be all as one like one big family ☺️
All these names, pet, duckie, darling, sweetheart etc. should be accepted for what they are meant to convey. They are terms of indearment, friendliness, acceptance and respect. It's so British we don't even think about it. Long may it last.
Do you know PET is short for Petal
❤ from Northeast England ❤
Some others
Cock / Chick midlands
My Lover / My Handsome Cornwall
Maid / Bay - Devon
@ I love hinny, also from the lovely NE
Now, Jules. I am suspecting that you've never seen The Two Ronnies and their Morris dancing routine.
He has to see the Two Ronnie's Aldershot Brass Ensemble and the Plumstead Ladies Male Voice Choir.
Classics!
Oh yes, wasn't it marvellous 💜
The 'banter' and 'the knee slap' - and yes, I take cakes & snacks for my birthday too.
Saying goodbye at a station is the best. The British way is to run alongside the departing train so you can wave and blow kisses for the maximum possible time. think J K Rowling has the characters in Harry Potter doing it.🤣
30 degrees in Britain would be fainting weather.
yup that's taps aff weather , wether you should doesn't matter
Yeah. The mainstream media encourages us all to panic and stay indoors with the curtains shut.
That’ll be Celsius?
These videos are so funny. We just accept these things as 'normal' until we see ourselves through other's eyes. 😂
Two things I miss about working from home: 1) the banter 2) baking a cake to take in on my birthday. Neither works over Zoom.
We aren’t weird, we are normal. It’s everyone else who is weird, after all we were here long before almost all of them were where ever they came from lol.
Colin was produced by a supermarket called Marks & Spencer (M&S) for kids birthdays then Lidl decided to copy it and M&S took them to court but now quite a few supermarkets have their own version of it. The reason we like Colin is that the chocolate is lovely.
JPS! Alana was my first north american youtuber that I subscribed to and you were my second! just wanted you to know that I love both of yours content!
What is up with social media commentators describing things as weird? They are not weird. They are just DIFFERENT from what these commentators are used to.
Who knew, a foreign country with its own customs and culture distinctly different from Canada and the USA, one of the problems particularly with Americans travelling abroad is their inability to realise they are actually in a foreign country, Joel is an acceptation to this as he did a lot of research and immerses himself in the experience when travelling.
@@RushfanUK My comment also refers to people describing American customs as weird.
I don’t mind the word weird here. I’m British, proudly so, and the video is funny. Every country has things that seem weird to foreigners, I wouldn’t get so hung up on the word,
Drama queen 😂
We thing Americans are weird 😂
We actually say ‘we need to do our goodbyes’ like it’s an event. At a big family gathering everyone there has to say goodbye to everyone else who’s there and woe-betide (yeah we say that) anyone who misses someone else out. Teenagers are dragged out of bedrooms, babies are pulled out of cots, pets are assembled. Then we all stand on the doorstep and wave our visitors off into the distance, and then go back inside feeling bereft and lonely. I’d love to know where it came from culturally. I lived in Africa for a while and their big thing was hellos, and they don’t do goodbyes at all. It was very troubling for this poor Brit 😂😂
Joel. You said recently you are going to be reacting to Gavin & Stacey. It is s perfect example of how Brits interact. Plus it added a phrase to everyday conversation. Instead of using. "What up" "how's it going" people would use "what's occurring" That often gets a snigger, as everybody knows where they heard that first.
Three cheers for Y Barri.
That good bye and waving is so common here, when my grown up children and/or their children visit me I’m saying good bye and I’m waving and blowing kisses while they are doing the same out of the car window until out of sight … if it’s winter or it’s dark and I haven’t gone outside with them I’m at the window and we’re doing the same. This can happen several times a week 😅
Not weird buying cake or a pint in the pub for your Birthday - it proves you are not lying or scamming people.
She forgot to mention that many British men wear shorts whatever the weather. Four foot of snow and you will still see a bloke wearing shorts.
Don't get me started on the shorts😞🇬🇧
Particularly postmen.
My postman wears shorts all year round. I'm sure he doesn't own any trousers.
What’s hilarious is that, in the middle of winter when they do that, they will have a heavy coat on, gloves and woolly hat on as well! Apparently, it’s only the top half that feels the cold.
This is year round attire from most men living in Shap. If you don't know where that is look it up, but I can assure you it's not warm.
With Pet Names, it depends on the tone of voice whether it’s condescending or affectionate.
Brilliant. I say "bye" at least 6 times at the end of a call! Some good points made that I was unaware of as a Brit until she pointed them out, I'm going to pay more attention to people slapping their knees from now on.
Careful how/when you use the word "slapper". 😂
I was laughing when he said that. 😂
@katepoole6891 🤣🤣 Never "implement the 'Slapper' unless it's her choice".
It’s an insult
I'm Dutch, but for some strange reason I also treat people like that. Very formal and polite to people I can't stand and sometimes totally rude to my mates. My mother called it monkey love, literally translated. There's a strong, but diluted bloodline that runs back across the Channel, but that goes back centuries. Sill blood is thicker than water. My British mates call me the unclogged Dutchman and every time I meet a Brit I have to convince them I'm as Dutch as they come. 🤣
Being called odd by an American! I massive oxymoron 😂
@@davidknell8831 😀😃🙂🙃😊
Americans and Canadians forget how old Britain is and how far back our history stretches
Exactly!
I'm British - never had a Tesco meal deal.... UNTIL.... last week. I thought about you all afternoon! Tesco - sponsor this man!
What have you been doing with your life to never have a meal deal?!
Some of us don't have a Tesco anywhere near us.
@@scottneil1187 damn and they are quite far spread across the UK.. glad to have you on board! I get a ploughman's sandwich and a sausage roll side with crisps because I end up using the sausage roll as my next day lunch
@Colin-ml7fq oooh! Good shout!!!
@theshiftybloke4672 I know!!!! I honestly couldn't believe it... ! Amazing value...
As a Brit, I was a bit frightened to watch this, but it was lighthearted fun and amazingly accurate.
Alanna loves it in the UK. 😂
I once called my mate just to give him abit of verbal then hung up. The accuracy is real
Worked with a bloke for years who at least twice a week had two bread rolls, 2 sachets of vinegar, 2 sachets of salad cream and 2 packets of prawn cocktail crisps for dinner...he split the bread to make a sandwich, sprinkled vinegar first on each half, then squirted salad cream on each half...then filled each roll with a full packet of crisps. Years. That was weird.
😊😊sounds gorgeous.Dip chips in mayo..or put chips in any soup😊😊😊
Yum.
Sounds nice.😋
I am British and I have solved the cake buying problem. I always book holiday on my birthday .
How lovely is that 🎂
That buying your own cake thing starts in school. Never worked in an office so didn’t realise it spills over. But kids always bring in a treat for the whole class on their birthdays. I buy a few packets of cupcakes to feed 30 kids on my kids birthdays. But some people must spend a fortune. My daughter came home the other week with a party bag full of fidget type toys. Imagine getting all that for 30 kids.
Sun's out shirts off - usually builders on a building site are the first to do it.
and builders bums out too
Not allowed now
@ how can they stop it?
Our plumber recently has his out.
My son in law is a scaffolder and he does it still.
All of those things are normal. They might be different from other countries, but that doesn't make them abnormal.
Crisp (chips) sandwich is the besssst
She's got us pretty well sussed, we do like a long goodbye, I think it's usual to be polite to someone you don't know or aren't sure of, it doesn't really mean you hate them.
Some of those things are relatively new. The caterpillar cake, the prolonged goodbyes, the bringing treats to school or work on your birthday weren’t a thing when I was at school or working with other people. Even when my kids were at school. My kids are aged between 33 and 45.
Yeah, the caterpillar cake seems to be a very new meme thing.
Long goodbyes have always been a thing in my world, but Colin is 'fairly' recent.
In the north east it’s hinny the local pronunciation of honey term applied to women sometimes used together with the word canny. Great video lad 🇬🇧👍🏻🇺🇸
British sandwiches are NOT "weird". We INVENTED sandwiches, hence why they are called "sandwiches", after a British aristocrat.
We are the IP holders on sandwiches, the World Standard, it's you foreigners who don't do them right!
Also, regarding "chip" sandwiches, not only are there sandwiches with what WE call "chips" but also with what Americans call "chips", the "crisp sandwich", try one, it's good.
Your sandwiches are great! I love the variety you've got going on.
Crisp sandwiches are even better with salad cream on them
@monty2005 With a good strong cheddar too.
Crisps with piccalilli, yum
Sausage and marmalade sandwiches!
Here’s a British thing that I didn’t realise was a British thing until I married an American and that is temperature based sun glasses use!!
My American husband put his sunglasses on whenever it was sunny, even in winter. For us British people, in the main, sunglasses are TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT. If it’s cold and sunny, hardly any sunglasses, HOT and suddenly EVERYONE is wearing them!!
The banter and to bring your own cake is exactly the same in Denmark but we don't get any gifts unless it's a round/Milestone birthday.
Ask any Native American whether the US has national, historical, or traditional dancing that is hundreds of years old.
OOOOO Nice one !!
I believe the Morris Dancers in the UK must ALSO do a form of 'Rain Dance'...? Because it always seems to work... LOL 😊
@ 🤣
@ Nah no good as Ireland have heavier rainfall but no morris dancing !
@ Riverdance. Riverdance dunnit.
Thank you, sweetie! Lovely video. As a Brit I loved this. We may not be perfect but we certainly have a great sense of humour. Instead of weird call us ECCENTRIC. 😂
Other pet names: chook (chick) or petal. Both of these tend to be used around the Birmingham / West Midlands areas.
😊😊flower is another one
Bab is another one in that area.
We seem to be fond of poultry: go to Glasgow and you'll be called hen.
"All right girl." It all comes from love. ❤
The Earl of Sandwich enters the chat
Mapperton Live.
In both Australia, and in the UK, it was always the person who supplied the treats for the office. My last office in London had 90 staff; it was an expensive day for which I saved every month. I also did Australia Day with treats from Australia but I did share this with the fellow Australian so not so expensive.
My mother (Australian with an English mother) called everyone "love". It was embarrassing at times when she came to school.
If you think the English have long goodbyes; try the Irish - it's eternal. I struggle to get out of my uncle's house in under an hour.
I worked in an office and the cakes were always bought or made by the person whose birthday it is.
Great! One of my favourite RUclips vloggers making a video watching a video of another of my favourite RUclips vloggers.
This’s was lovely to watch and have my day start with a smile 😀
Alana is great at seeing how we really are. Love her to bits. Would like to say that we had Aldi's new Santa caterpillar cake for this past Christmas. Loved it.
Where i live in N /E Derbyshire, most people say duck. It's actually a bastardation of Duke from i believe the 1800s.
The birthday thing is only a work thing. It isn't really universal, and it's not really expected. It at least avoids the trauma of the person whose birthday is ignored or forgotten by their colleagues.
And it was an American thing first
I think bringing buns and cake yourself prob started with people bringing the extra stuff that didnt get eaten at home on there birthday
I can totally relate to all of these! I especially like the last one though, the long goodbyes 🤣. I was born in England, and moved to PA in the USA in 1970 with my parents and four younger brothers. My parents are now gone, but my brothers and I still have our long and drawn out goodbyes whenever we meet up or are on the phone. Even my niece and nephews are carrying on the tradition!😂 My husband refers to these exchanges as the Lisney goodbyes (Lisney being my maiden name).
My mum used to call everyone Love. My friends loved this ❤
Here in Yorkshire men will also call other men "luv". It was quite shocking at first, but now after 50 years its quite ok. "Me duck" is another affectation used here in Yorkshire, but the greeting well used here is "Nah then, thee!" Only in Yorkshire though. That and "Ehyupp!"
I think eyupp managed to sneak across to Lancashire, as I recall growing up.
That surprised me when I was first on a Sheffield bus in the early sixties, when the conductor said 'ta luv' to every passenger that gave him their fair.
Ay up meh duck is an East Midlands saying. Derby Leicester and Nottingham
@@phwbooth FARE !
@@Marc1a2 Yes, thinking about it Derbyshire was the first place I heard it, though the guy lived in Derby not sure he was born there.
I live in the Midlands where women regularly call men "bab". On the "Golden roof" in Innsbruck, it shows this exact dance labeled "Moorish Tanzen" so presumably it came from Spain.
I don't understand the comment.
Was going to do weird Americans vlog but evidently a 16hour video is too long! lol
If you're a guy and a British guy calls you 'sweetheart', that's an alarm bell.
Nah
A very loud alarm bell
Wow! I was literally in Portsmouth a couple of hours ago and I watched the Isle of Wight ferry coming in and out while I ate lunch. Can't believe you then mentioned that!
I’m just loving this lassie she is just spot on! The knee slapping thing is supposed to look like you really want to stay but “knee slap - dash it we have to go” for some reason. Works well. The sun out top off - try the highlands - shorts and T-shirts (if we’re lucky) once we pass freezing! The other thing is highlanders call sandwiches pieces. Goodness knows why but we have a piece and jam etc, our school break we always had a ‘play piece’ which was literally a piece and jam to go with our milk.
I was raised in Glasgow and we all called a sandwich a piece
Weird? I'm not taking that from an American.
Sandwiches were invented here, by the Earl of Sandwich, we are masters of it, we have had many years of practice
No he didn't, he may have popularised them among the upper classes, but even this is uncertain.
I heard or read somewhere the Chinese had something similar a long time before the British made it a thing
@@Benson...1yes, like a forerunner of the burger. It's pulled pork or beef with cabbage and spices in a bun. Dates all the way back to the Tang dynasty and is called a rou jia mo. Still a popular street food today.
@@robt2778 John Montagu the 4th Earl of Sandwich is credited with the making of sandwiches. According to my history teacher and google
We slap our knees coz it’s more polite than clicking your fingers and shouting attention! 🤣
Joel, it's so good that you're linking in to Alanna's great channel. Her Canadian wit and layed-back style fits so well with your own easy-going reactions. Next time you visit the UK you two should try to do an episode together, perhaps with Alanna introducing you to a real Kent village pub, to sample good cider. Alanna knows her cider. 😅
We also have bacon, egg, sausage and beans. All Day Breakfast sandwiches. They’re glorious. Especially with a little brown sauce. I don’t even like brown sauce on my all day breakfast, but on a refrigerated breakfast sandwich, it adds a little sweetness that just somehow works
please note nottingham people will say 'hey up me duck-' when greeting friends
I'm from Nottingham and it's not said much now. Also we don't say duck do we? It's more du...the ck bit fades away.
@waynemay7327 u r not nottingham as we do say it also u pompous sod we say Tara me duck instead of goodbye
@waynemay7327 u probably from the posh side
@@waynemay7327 no, i and people i know say duck - maybe your from the posh bit of nottm?
no working class area and we say hey up me duck or hey up duck - you dont just meet and first thing say is duck u being a bit daft
We do knee slap in my Central European country, too... Like part of body language when you really want to stand up and finish the thing. We also do birthday treats at work, often one bakes them themselves, men even ask their wifes or girlfriends to bake them. Some kind of showing off best household recepies and baking skills...
I work in a school and we always take treats in to the office on our birthday. It's sweet or savoury or both. It starts off as kids at school when we would take cakes and sweets in for our class or a big birthday cake to share out.I
Tesco Meal Deals. It's every UK Supermarket who do their own meal deals so there's even more variety.
Morris Dance is not 'weird', it's actually awesome.
I agree. Lots of years ago I stood in for a (something) horn dance. Couldn't find the name on Google, but I think it took half an hour or so to learn the steps then did it with the rest of the dancers. Hard to describe how 'powerful' these very old dances are. I've never danced with a group since, but I'll always remember that day.
Now you can't tell me "darlin" isn't an American thing, I've heard the song "Footloose"!!
There's nothing weird about these. They're part of our everyday language.
I made myself a Cornish pasty sandwich once. I had some bread that need to be eaten so i put a pasty in and munched my way though it. i wasn't going to waste the food.
My dad used to talk about a newsagent he called Love, Ducks and Sir because the lady behind the counter used to cycle through the three pet names when she was serving people
I'm a Brit and I have never bought a catapiller cake, I'm an adult not a kid. Don't knock a chip butty its delicious aswell as a bacon butty, not stupid when they taste good. We do have sunscreen or sun tan cream as we call it, its just that some don't use it And then complain when they get burnt lol, but many do use it in the uk. The phone call ending thing, never said more than 2 bye's anymore that's weird for me and I'm a Brit born and raised, plus not heard anyone else do it either, maybe certain Brits do it, but mot all of us do.
I love love love Morris Dancers. I even have a theory which excuses the ribboned" socks and sticks, flowered hats etc. It's a display, similar to that African tribe that jump up and down for hours? You not only have to be pretty fit for all that dancing, but practice & remember the intricate steps and patterns of the dance. That takes some commitment, love of tradition and even personal risk where sticks are involved. Ladies, be impressed!
You are not far out with African dances reference. One theory is that it was originally called Moorish Dancing.
I've seen a biker morris troupe & their "sticks" were over a metre of steel bar!
All of them were bent come the end so they weren't messing about!
Are the ones that jump up and down Masai?
Chip butties, fish finger sandwiches and mashed potato sandwich all with HP sauce yum yum.
Had mashed potato sarnie Wednesday (also nice to fry the mash a little and yes, HP is a must.) And had a crisp butty about an hour ago!
Must get round to the chip or fish finger butty soon, miss them haha.
'Aye up me duck, how you diddling?. A Nottingham friendly greeting asking how you are feeling.
Very charming and accessible delivery, thanks for it
My last job before I retired was working for a small engineering firm in the west midlands, england. Custom was on someone's birthday for the birthday person to buy 150 samosa from local Asain 'sweet centre' to be placed in the canteen at lunchtime for co-workers to help themselves. Always a great start to the day when word spread that it was someone's birthday and would be samosa at lunchtime 😁
I'd take samosas over a birthday cake any day
When I'm talking to my mate on the phone and I want to finish the conversation if he's going on a bit I just say I'm gonna get off now your boring me, I'll guarantee the phone goes dead proper quick 😂😂😂
The best chip-butty is a roll, you put hole in the role, bit by bit pull out the middle of the roll & stuff it with chips (rather than just 2 pieces of bread).
To all the people out there who claim the English don't have any real culture, I present Morris Dancing as evidence to the contrary.
Shakespeare
Alternative perspective: to all the people out there who claim the English have real culture, I present Morris dancing as evidence to the contrary.
Correct forms of address in West Yorkshire. The title "love", pronounced with a slightly lengthened U sound and generally transcribed "luv", is used as follows:
By women: to anyone of any age.
By men: to women, girls and little boys ( say, up to about 8).
It doesn't matter whether the person they are speaking to is an acquaintance or not, or whether it's a conversation in the course of trade. Examples:
"Right luv, what can I get yer today?"
"'Ey up, luv, what 'ave yer done to yerself?"
I think the buying stuff on your birthday thing is a little like - I am celebrating my birthday so this is me inviting you to share in that without expecting anything from you. I think this is more of a workplace thing separate from what you'd expect from family or close friends.
i live in the Canadian Province that is closest to the UK and most of the things mentioned in that video are normal here! We don't have chip sandwiches - but we eat fried cod tongues - we don't do Morris dancing - but we do go "Mummering"- another custom with its roots in medieval England. As a teacher, I once had a young substitute who had been observing the usual banter among the male staff in the Staff Room ask me , quite seriously, why we all hated each other!
They do morris dancing in London) Ontario.
English people are mostly friendly, reserved, and very willing to help you. Everybody has their quirks, regional dishes, festivals, tied to their specific area. Take Care and another Good Video.