Many visitors to the U.K. mention the two taps but the solution is SO easy; just insert the plug and then mix the hot and cold water to the desired temperature; same outcome as a mixer tap !!
Am British and if you think about it for a second, what you said is nasty. Like really, really nasty. And stupid. Let's just be honest. The two tap system is outdated and stupid as hell and every country in the world moved on but us.
It makes sense especially in terms of wasting water but the sink should be clean all the time then 😊 By the way, the sink can be filled using a mixed tap too.🧐
Thank you, I really enjoyed your observations/culture shocks, the point about the elderly was a surprise for me as I hadn’t noticed it, but now that you mention it I have to agree. Also I havent heard any other travel vloggers mention the open window view thing, again I have to agree, I remember living in a ground floor flat in brighton with no curtains, we ended up getting to know regular passers-by after waving at them when they peered in, I swear that some used to watch our tv. Keep up the good work.
@@tifrap Young people seem to have forgotten that the main reason for curtains is insolation - to keep the warm air in, and the cold air out. Much of a building's heat is lost via the glass window panes. To keep your privacy while letting light in, it used to be common to hang "net" curtains, as well as normal ones.
The " sorry" situation is because generally British people try to avoid confrontation. So if people bump into each other and immediately say " sorry" it defuses a possible confrontation of argument of who is to blame....and life can move on. It is also an acknowledgement that we are all human and can do/ speak wrongly sometimes. So both people say " sorry" and accepts the " error" whether it was their fault or not. I think it helps in a more harmonious daily life on a crowded island 😅
That was really interesting. I am English from the north east near to Newcastle but I love London and try to go there a couple of times a year. I actually studied Russian at university and have quite a few Russian friends although very few of them are still in Russia. I met up with two of them a few weeks ago and we spent four days in London. They loved it and commented on how open and pleasant people were. One of them lost her mobile phone in the Victoria and Albert Museum. I phoned her number and somebody from reception answered it. Someone had found it and handed it in. When we asked about where to go to pick it up the employee just asked which room we were in and he brought it up to us. They were very impressed. We northerners talk about how unfriendly Londoners are but that is not my experience at all. If you are nice to them they are nice back. We are all in our sixties now and on a couple of occasions on the tube we were offered seats by younger people. By the way, you CAN get mixer taps. Both in the kitchen and the bathroom all our taps are mixer taps. I can't stand the double tap thing.
Hi and welcome to my channel! Such a nice story showing the kindness and tolerance of British people again. Glad to hear that your friend hasn't lost his/her phone. Oh yeah, mixer taps, I guess, are getting more popular nowadays.
@@brigidsingleton1596 Pfaff English Britain, Slang: Alternative spelling of faff pfaff [faf] VERB pfaff (verb) pfaffs (third person present) pfaffed (past tense) pfaffed (past participle) pfaffing (present participle) spend time in ineffectual activity. “we can’t pfaff around all day re-arranging the contents of our panniers” NOUN pfaff (noun) a great deal of ineffectual activity. “there was the usual pfaff of going through every pannier on the bicycle in order to find that one particular item” Origin late 18th century (originally dialect in the sense ‘blows in puffs’, describing the wind): imitative. The current sense may have been influenced by dialect pfaffle ‘stammer, stutter’, later ‘flap in the wind’, which came to mean ‘fuss, dither’ at about the same time as pfaff (late 19th century)
Very surprised about open windows. Here in the North we only open windows in summer and always close curtains when it's dark, except at the moment when we're showing off our Christmas lights and trees. The reason we say sorry even if another person bumps into us is to remind them that they ought to say sorry to us.
Yeah, I notice it almost every day. I’ve also been to Edinburgh and saw a lot of open windows there. Christmas lights and house decorations are wonderful here ☺️🎄
@@am.valeriia I take it you meant (by "open windows") windows with the curtains / window dressings _drawn back_ ... (allowing views of the room) rather than the windows _themselves_ being open, per se?
I live in a 3 storey UK Victorian terrace. The kitchen, family bathroom and 3 en-suites have mixer taps but I’ve kept the bath in the attic bathroom with two taps (but not the sink) as I love the retro Victorian bath and the style fits.
You mention in another comment you will be visiting other cities in the UK, so this will not be Londoncentric vlog. OK, I'm game, so subbed. Love to see your channel grow.
Cool! Thanks and welcome! Since I live in London, there will be enough London-style content but other cities will be here for sure! Ready to explore the entire UK
@@am.valeriia Hi Valeriia, my missus is from the Baltic states, grew up in the former Soviet Union so fluent in Russian. We live in Devon, she loves it here, we live between the moors( Exmoor and Dartmoor) she works in Exeter, I work near Newton Abbot. Cities to visit Wells, Exeter, York and Truro. Towns worth a look at are Canterbury, Sherbourne, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Tavistock, Totnes and Falmouth. Dartmoor and Exmoor have some good secluded sites, as do the north and south coasts. Wales, the Welsh borders and the Cotswolds are pretty, people are much friendlier outside the M25
I'm new here, subscribed. Taps is simple.. put the plug in and turn on both taps until you get the temperature you want 😊 Usually in England, we don't look into each other's house, flat, etc. Great video, thanks for enjoying our country 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧 Merry Christmas 🎅
@@leec6707 Haha yup. I live in a ground floor flat, i have a small kitchen window, small living area (dining room and lounge area) windows, and a small bathroom window. But my bedroom window is quite big, so the blinds in there are always closed when i'm in there. But it's not really because i'm scared of people looking in walking by... it's because my wall outside is only 6foot and my neighbours would be able to see in if they looked out of their windows
great vedeo, very well explained, very good english also, and you were accurate on all of your topics, keep up the good work, wont be long till your at 1k subs, i promise
It's years since I last used separate hot and cold taps. With the introduction of combi boilers loft tanks for hot water supply have mostly become a thing of the past.
I was born in England but am now living in Australia, Australians, though they will never admit it, are much like the British, similar sense of sarcastic humour, pub culture, sport, etc. I am an Australian citizen, have been for 40 years, but to most Aussies I'm still a "bloody pom". l very much enjoyed your vid even if you made me feel a little homesick, the UK will always be home to me although I'll never live there again but visit every couple of years. Good luck and God Bless Valeriia.
Thank you very much for your kind words! Immigration can be tough, but I think it's worth it. Good luck, and visit the UK as soon as you can. Merry Christmas!
Initially the only running water, straight from the mains, was cold, and most people are right handed, so the tap was on the right. When hot running water became available, from the hot water tank, the hot tap was on the left. Hot is red and used for the hot tap and cold is blue/green and used for the cold tap. (On ships and aircraft, port = left = red light and right = starboard = green light!).
We hate queues. We queue because it is expected of us to ensure we function with manners in our sardine can. Queueing is expected because it is polite, but please don’t think we love them. We hate them.
@@kevinwhite981 i didn’t say I don’t like the idea of a queue. I said we don’t like queueing in itself. So are you telling me you join a queue for no reason, simply because you love queueing? Of course you don’t. You do it because it is the most orderly & polite way to achieve the outcome. It is not intrinsically joyful in itself. There’s a 50 minute wait to answer your call. Kevin “oh wonderful. I love this” KMT.
bollox. When I have been out in the Middle East and the locals are doing their 'Chinese fire drill' shit. I form a queue. Of one. To try and educate the dumb foreigners.
Good vlog, welcome to the UK. I have noticed that people from Eastern Europe seem a lot more reserved than most Brits (or maybe just me!). It does seem to change over a few years though!
Another reason for separating the hot and cold water taps was to reduce the chance of scalding people should the water supply get cut off. In the past the cold water supply used to come direct from the mains and there was no cold water tank in most peoples's homes. Should there be an interruption to the water supply there was a chance that a mixer tap, especially used in a bath, could end up being a hot water tap only and hurt people. I believe that cold water tanks have been required for new properties for a number of decades but older properties may still not have one.
Brits do not do that silly switch from tap to tap. They mix it in the bowlto their own ideal for whatever they want to do instead of running gallons to waste.
The "curtains wide open" thing is relatively new. Britain used to be renowned for having lace curtains over the lower half of every domestic window, behind which the owner could spy on what was going on outside/next door. That had to end when double glazing was installed in most homes in the last quarter of the 20th century, since no provision was made for half-curtains. Wooden frames would accept screws or nails: but not plastic or metal.
I use secure, but easily and cleanly renewable, glue-on hooks for tbe nets in my kitchen, on a PVC doubleglazed unit. I still use nets there because the kitchen window is within easy view of passers-by, but I don't want to reduce the natural light in the kitchen. Shallow 'cafe curtains' offer just the right amount of privacy when I'm slobbing around in my pjs, while not significantly cutting the light.
often the old taps and literally old, so we keep things till they break. and these taps last so long that its rarely needed t get a new one... many things like that in britian are like that
Dated a lovely woman from Serbia ,her two biggest culture shocks were 1) queuing 2) drinking tea. Tea in Serbia is something you only drink when you are ill. So being constantly offered tea made her think she was looking unwell.
awesome video ^^ Hope you enjoy living here!! Where i am we do keep our windows open often as a way of cooling our homes (as most people dont have AC and the house designed to keep heat in) Though we also usually close our curtains The taps thing is annoying even as someone who lives here 😭 The politeness thing is quite nice, I think the general rule is not to be a jerk like skipping queues or barging past etcc The cost varies alot!!! London is one of the most expensive places in the world to the point London has its own minimum wage because the normal minimum wage isn't enough there. The other cities here are also expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as london, and then the towns are what I personally feel more accustomed too in terms of price. I never really notice(d) that old people are more active here, but that is an interesting thing to hear! We do have alot of saying lol... tons of ones that are unique to different areas too!! Great video again! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Thank you so much for your feedback about my video! These mentioned points are not all that I mentioned here but I really enjoy being here. It’s the first country that I was impressed so much that wanted to move here once I first visited it as a tourist. I hope to visit other UK cities next year and share my experience in new videos on this channel ☺️
@@am.valeriia Bristol has lovely views of its famous Clifton Suspension bridge, my advice is to walk across it as it has lovely views FROM the bridge as well.
Most British people don't live in London. And one reason is that it's so expensive, as you mentioned. If you can, get out of London into the "real" UK - you'll be surprised, it's like another country!
Sometimes there isn't a plug. Sometimes the sink has a built in plugging action, and if so, what you need are the instructions. However the plug may be missing and then what you need is a plug. Keep Reacting! Bye!
I've Bought a Few Houses in my Time and the 1st job was a new Kitchen and Bathroom with Mixer Taps. I honestly don't know why they put separate hot and Cold Taps in new build. All Houses have Combi boilers now .
You obviously, have not bought a new build house this century, new houses do have combination water supply, however there are certain water supplies, ie to schools in Scotland, where stored hot water systems, must be heated and stored, above what is found in normal domestic supply. This was done to reduce bacterial growth, in tepid waters! To Americans, Legionaries disease and other North American water borne diseases, where not prevalent,in the U K even in the 19 th century, Legionaries disease, was# first discovered in the USA in the latter part of the 20 th Century, due to bad water management, in particular hotel shower cubicle drainage! The pathogen, that causes this disease, has now spread worldwide, thanks to bad hygiene, within the USA,
The only USA water that is considered, as healthy as U K water for being potable, is that what was supplied to NYC, To Americans. You can look up the meaning of potable !
"All Houses have Combi boilers now" No they don't. Mine doesnt. I dont have a Gas pipeline so I'm electric only so a storage tank is my only option so my hot and cold water taps still have to be separate to avoid contamination. (I live in a rented accommodation so dont tell me to get an electric combi boiler cos my Landlord is a cheapskate)
@CrazyInWeston my God is your post delivered by horse and Cart sir .have you not heard about the new Technology Carrier Pidgeon by Jove it's a must old boy .
Imagine living your whole life without the joy of stepping into boiling hot water because you got the ratio wrong on the taps seriously how do people outside the UK cook their feet?😁
@@am.valeriia Well, quite often if say 2 people bump itno each other in the street or in a pub causing someone to spill a drink, as long as both people are reasonably intelligent & not drunk, they'll both want to defuse the situation (even the person not at fault) & the "sorry" reaction comes out almost instinctively before someone realises "hey, it's the other person's fault". At other times, when you're sure it *is* the other person's fault, the word "sorry" is spoken in a strange way, like "sor" followed with a slight gap, followed by "ry" & you're being sarcastic about the other person's carelessness. Especially if the person at fault didn't say sorry. You're kind of reminding them of what they should have said. Probably weird to outsiders
Foreigner to the UK must all move into cheep rented accommodation with landlords who are too mean to do them up. I know of no one who has two taps. Everyone has mixer taps However I have stayed in places in Holland Germany and Italy where they had separate hot and cold taps.
@shaunfarrell3834 I know of noone who doen5 have mixer taps. They may have had them 20 years ago, but who still has a kitchen and bathroom from the 1970s
@old.not.too.grumpy. So you know personally every 30 million homes housing 68 million ppl in the UK do you? Just cos you dont know any doesnt mean none exist! I dont have mixer taps or combi boilers, I dont even have gas.
@CrazyInWeston typical over the top internet response. I didn't say everyone has mixer taps. Just they are not the norm as so many tend to suggest on their posts. In the 1980s I lived in house that was built in the 1740. Like yours has no gas, we still had mixer taps
Every capital city is different to the country it’s in Paris is very different to France New York (or D.C.) is different to the US Glad I could explain
If any one out side britain watching this video no one is safe murders rape children are being attacked and being butchered it’s all so really expensive
Slightly exaggerated. There are some awful crimes but they are usually committed by people known to the victims. We are a safe country but one should be sensible in every part of the world.
Low crime rate? The opposite sadly. According to the Met Police crime is up year on year. When i grew up in London, it had its issues. Now it's extremely dangerous and i don't miss the place. As for burglaries you mentioned, only 10% of those reported get visited by the police. Out of those only 5% get solved. It's a horrific statistic. But as a Londoner, I'm happy you're there and can find joy in the place 😊
As for the crime level, watch my latest video ruclips.net/video/jq3wksRtYD0/видео.html It happened a couple of days after I published this one 😁 Anyway, I do find joy and pleasure in this place. Thank you for watching and commenting!
@am.valeriia so sorry to hear what happened (i watched the video) 😢 I'm ashamed when people with such good intentions like yourself come to London with an open heart and this happens((
@@wellardme Anyway, it’s good to know that there are such kind people like you and many others who welcome me here and treat me much better than the robber who stole my phone. Thank you!
@am.valeriia very sweet of you 😊 When bad things happen, we often take it out on the country new to us. It shows your strong character to not let this setback dampen your spirits and positive attitude towards the UK. I moved to Moscow a long time ago and have had the odd issue. I blame the particular individuals and keep reminding myself of all the wonderful things that make my experience positive.
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Many visitors to the U.K. mention the two taps but the solution is SO easy; just insert the plug and then mix the hot and cold water to the desired temperature; same outcome as a mixer tap !!
Am British and if you think about it for a second, what you said is nasty. Like really, really nasty. And stupid. Let's just be honest. The two tap system is outdated and stupid as hell and every country in the world moved on but us.
Philip, i agree. The two taps are safer. But some people like the peraon above were born with a smooth brain.
Not nasty at all, just a different way Not everything is outdated just there is another option,but it does not make it " nasty" or wrong.
@ This is just one of many, many videos where people don’t seem to know what a sink plug is 🙄🙄🙄🙄
@@philipmason9537 Indeed
While you are in London, you might as well visit England too, which starts about an hour outside London by train! ;-)
In British culture, we don't look into each other's houses. We don't need closed curtains because nobody is looking.
And in so many streets there are just houses after houses upon houses wall to wall with houses... Wouldn't that mean there's almost nowhere to look? 🤣
true but also some people love a show off, especially the nosey neighbours down the street who always compete over decorations and stuff haha.
Try looking where you are going and avoid bumping into others and having to say sorry.
this is it
No. Because you look where you are going, unless you are weird.
The method used to be that you would put the plug in the sink, mix the water in the sink, wash with the water in the sink then pull the plug out.
Yep, and it saves water. Running the taps is wasteful.
But how to wash with dirty water? It gets dirty once I was my face😢
It makes sense especially in terms of wasting water but the sink should be clean all the time then 😊 By the way, the sink can be filled using a mixed tap too.🧐
Thank you, I really enjoyed your observations/culture shocks, the point about the elderly was a surprise for me as I hadn’t noticed it, but now that you mention it I have to agree. Also I havent heard any other travel vloggers mention the open window view thing, again I have to agree, I remember living in a ground floor flat in brighton with no curtains, we ended up getting to know regular passers-by after waving at them when they peered in, I swear that some used to watch our tv.
Keep up the good work.
@@tifrap Young people seem to have forgotten that the main reason for curtains is insolation - to keep the warm air in, and the cold air out. Much of a building's heat is lost via the glass window panes. To keep your privacy while letting light in, it used to be common to hang "net" curtains, as well as normal ones.
The " sorry" situation is because generally British people try to avoid confrontation. So if people bump into each other and immediately say " sorry" it defuses a possible confrontation of argument of who is to blame....and life can move on. It is also an acknowledgement that we are all human and can do/ speak wrongly sometimes. So both people say " sorry" and accepts the " error" whether it was their fault or not. I think it helps in a more harmonious daily life on a crowded island 😅
It really does. A very wise point of view, I like it
That was really interesting. I am English from the north east near to Newcastle but I love London and try to go there a couple of times a year. I actually studied Russian at university and have quite a few Russian friends although very few of them are still in Russia. I met up with two of them a few weeks ago and we spent four days in London. They loved it and commented on how open and pleasant people were. One of them lost her mobile phone in the Victoria and Albert Museum. I phoned her number and somebody from reception answered it. Someone had found it and handed it in. When we asked about where to go to pick it up the employee just asked which room we were in and he brought it up to us. They were very impressed. We northerners talk about how unfriendly Londoners are but that is not my experience at all. If you are nice to them they are nice back. We are all in our sixties now and on a couple of occasions on the tube we were offered seats by younger people.
By the way, you CAN get mixer taps. Both in the kitchen and the bathroom all our taps are mixer taps. I can't stand the double tap thing.
Hi and welcome to my channel! Such a nice story showing the kindness and tolerance of British people again. Glad to hear that your friend hasn't lost his/her phone.
Oh yeah, mixer taps, I guess, are getting more popular nowadays.
Aaaaargh!! The taps conundrum. PUT THE PLUG IN. Easy. Mix the waters, Bob's your auntie's live in lover. Saves on water too....
Cool output love xx
And you don't have to phaff about trying to get the right temp/flow and you won't bash your head if you wash your face. Win, win.
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* faff about. ( _not_ "phaff"!!)
@@brigidsingleton1596 Pfaff
English
Britain, Slang: Alternative spelling of faff
pfaff [faf]
VERB pfaff (verb) pfaffs (third person present) pfaffed (past tense) pfaffed (past participle) pfaffing (present participle) spend time in ineffectual activity. “we can’t pfaff around all day re-arranging the contents of our panniers”
NOUN pfaff (noun) a great deal of ineffectual activity. “there was the usual pfaff of going through every pannier on the bicycle in order to find that one particular item”
Origin late 18th century (originally dialect in the sense ‘blows in puffs’, describing the wind): imitative. The current sense may have been influenced by dialect pfaffle ‘stammer, stutter’, later ‘flap in the wind’, which came to mean ‘fuss, dither’ at about the same time as pfaff (late 19th century)
Very surprised about open windows. Here in the North we only open windows in summer and always close curtains when it's dark, except at the moment when we're showing off our Christmas lights and trees. The reason we say sorry even if another person bumps into us is to remind them that they ought to say sorry to us.
Yeah, I notice it almost every day. I’ve also been to Edinburgh and saw a lot of open windows there.
Christmas lights and house decorations are wonderful here ☺️🎄
i once walked into an oppen van door and said sorry
@@am.valeriia
I take it you meant (by "open windows") windows with the curtains / window dressings _drawn back_ ... (allowing views of the room) rather than the windows _themselves_ being open, per se?
@@williamwhitty7243
I have dropped my mobile phone before, and apologised to it ...daft I know, but (apparently) 'very British' ?!
@@brigidsingleton1596 For sure, thanks for noticing!
I live in a 3 storey UK Victorian terrace. The kitchen, family bathroom and 3 en-suites have mixer taps but I’ve kept the bath in the attic bathroom with two taps (but not the sink) as I love the retro Victorian bath and the style fits.
You mention in another comment you will be visiting other cities in the UK, so this will not be Londoncentric vlog. OK, I'm game, so subbed. Love to see your channel grow.
Cool! Thanks and welcome! Since I live in London, there will be enough London-style content but other cities will be here for sure! Ready to explore the entire UK
@@am.valeriia Hi Valeriia, my missus is from the Baltic states, grew up in the former Soviet Union so fluent in Russian. We live in Devon, she loves it here, we live between the moors( Exmoor and Dartmoor) she works in Exeter, I work near Newton Abbot. Cities to visit Wells, Exeter, York and Truro. Towns worth a look at are Canterbury, Sherbourne, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Tavistock, Totnes and Falmouth. Dartmoor and Exmoor have some good secluded sites, as do the north and south coasts. Wales, the Welsh borders and the Cotswolds are pretty, people are much friendlier outside the M25
Lovely video, thank you
Glad you liked it, thanks!
Really, the two taps thing? 21st century people incapable of working 2 taps?
I'm new here, subscribed.
Taps is simple.. put the plug in and turn on both taps until you get the temperature you want 😊
Usually in England, we don't look into each other's house, flat, etc.
Great video, thanks for enjoying our country 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
Merry Christmas 🎅
Thanks for watching my video and feedback. Mery Christmas to you!
@am.valeriia No problem and thank you 😊
Can you imagine the awkwardness if you locked eyes with someone inside as you were walking by!
@@leec6707 Haha yup. I live in a ground floor flat, i have a small kitchen window, small living area (dining room and lounge area) windows, and a small bathroom window. But my bedroom window is quite big, so the blinds in there are always closed when i'm in there. But it's not really because i'm scared of people looking in walking by... it's because my wall outside is only 6foot and my neighbours would be able to see in if they looked out of their windows
great vedeo, very well explained, very good english also, and you were accurate on all of your topics, keep up the good work, wont be long till your at 1k subs, i promise
Thank you very much for your feedback! Appreciate it 😊
It's years since I last used separate hot and cold taps. With the introduction of combi boilers loft tanks for hot water supply have mostly become a thing of the past.
I was born in England but am now living in Australia, Australians, though they will never admit it, are much like the British, similar sense of sarcastic humour, pub culture, sport, etc. I am an Australian citizen, have been for 40 years, but to most Aussies I'm still a "bloody pom". l very much enjoyed your vid even if you made me feel a little homesick, the UK will always be home to me although I'll never live there again but visit every couple of years. Good luck and God Bless Valeriia.
Thank you very much for your kind words! Immigration can be tough, but I think it's worth it. Good luck, and visit the UK as soon as you can. Merry Christmas!
Initially the only running water, straight from the mains, was cold, and most people are right handed, so the tap was on the right. When hot running water became available, from the hot water tank, the hot tap was on the left. Hot is red and used for the hot tap and cold is blue/green and used for the cold tap. (On ships and aircraft, port = left = red light and right = starboard = green light!).
Haven't heard of it. Interesting!
London is very different from the rest of the UK not least it is much more expensive. The north is much less expensive.
What part of north do you prefer? Any recommendations to visit?
@@am.valeriia York, Edinburgh, Lake District. But go Wales too like Snowdonia, Brecon Beacons or even Cornwall in the south west.
I’ve been to Edinburgh and Devon before, I’ll definitely visit the ones from your list. Thanks for recommendations!
@@ronkelley5348 you have not visited Scotland, ? The most expensive country esp the further north you go
@@am.valeriia north west,prefrably liverpool
We hate queues. We queue because it is expected of us to ensure we function with manners in our sardine can.
Queueing is expected because it is polite, but please don’t think we love them. We hate them.
You're speaking for everyone! I love the idea of queuing. It's orderly. 😊
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@@kevinwhite981 i didn’t say I don’t like the idea of a queue. I said we don’t like queueing in itself.
So are you telling me you join a queue for no reason, simply because you love queueing? Of course you don’t. You do it because it is the most orderly & polite way to achieve the outcome. It is not intrinsically joyful in itself.
There’s a 50 minute wait to answer your call.
Kevin “oh wonderful. I love this”
KMT.
@andrewhargreaves504 it's Christmas people are busy. Happy Christmas 🎄
bollox. When I have been out in the Middle East and the locals are doing their 'Chinese fire drill' shit. I form a queue. Of one. To try and educate the dumb foreigners.
Good vlog, welcome to the UK. I have noticed that people from Eastern Europe seem a lot more reserved than most Brits (or maybe just me!). It does seem to change over a few years though!
Thank you! Yeah, maybe that’s why for me, people here and in some other countries seem to be more friendly🙂
Another reason for separating the hot and cold water taps was to reduce the chance of scalding people should the water supply get cut off. In the past the cold water supply used to come direct from the mains and there was no cold water tank in most peoples's homes. Should there be an interruption to the water supply there was a chance that a mixer tap, especially used in a bath, could end up being a hot water tap only and hurt people. I believe that cold water tanks have been required for new properties for a number of decades but older properties may still not have one.
Sadly, the plug is often missing. In Russia you could get one for your room from the hotel concierge.
They are standing outside the pub in the freezing cold and rain talking only because smoking is banned inside.
Brits do not do that silly switch from tap to tap. They mix it in the bowlto their own ideal for whatever they want to do instead of running gallons to waste.
The "curtains wide open" thing is relatively new. Britain used to be renowned for having lace curtains over the lower half of every domestic window, behind which the owner could spy on what was going on outside/next door. That had to end when double glazing was installed in most homes in the last quarter of the 20th century, since no provision was made for half-curtains. Wooden frames would accept screws or nails: but not plastic or metal.
Interest, thanks for telling 😉
Oh yeah.. just remind me of my childhood... had to mention net curtains 😭😭😂😂
I had no problem screwing net curtain holders into the plastic window frames when I got my house double-glazed.
I use secure, but easily and cleanly renewable, glue-on hooks for tbe nets in my kitchen, on a PVC doubleglazed unit.
I still use nets there because the kitchen window is within easy view of passers-by, but I don't want to reduce the natural light in the kitchen. Shallow 'cafe curtains' offer just the right amount of privacy when I'm slobbing around in my pjs, while not significantly cutting the light.
often the old taps and literally old, so we keep things till they break. and these taps last so long that its rarely needed t get a new one... many things like that in britian are like that
Dated a lovely woman from Serbia ,her two biggest culture shocks were 1) queuing 2) drinking tea. Tea in Serbia is something you only drink when you are ill. So being constantly offered tea made her think she was looking unwell.
Funny :) I love tea
@am.valeriia you have been assimilated.
It's what with me since my childhood :)
We mix the water in the sink. Mixer taps are terrible.
Your English is Perfect your Accent is Wonderful it Caresses my English ear .
Appreciate! English has been a long journey for me ☺️
awesome video ^^
Hope you enjoy living here!!
Where i am we do keep our windows open often as a way of cooling our homes (as most people dont have AC and the house designed to keep heat in)
Though we also usually close our curtains
The taps thing is annoying even as someone who lives here 😭
The politeness thing is quite nice, I think the general rule is not to be a jerk like skipping queues or barging past etcc
The cost varies alot!!!
London is one of the most expensive places in the world to the point London has its own minimum wage because the normal minimum wage isn't enough there. The other cities here are also expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as london, and then the towns are what I personally feel more accustomed too in terms of price.
I never really notice(d) that old people are more active here, but that is an interesting thing to hear!
We do have alot of saying lol... tons of ones that are unique to different areas too!!
Great video again! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Thank you so much for your feedback about my video!
These mentioned points are not all that I mentioned here but I really enjoy being here. It’s the first country that I was impressed so much that wanted to move here once I first visited it as a tourist.
I hope to visit other UK cities next year and share my experience in new videos on this channel ☺️
@@am.valeriia Awesome!!!!
My favourite city in the uk is the one nearest to me Bristol if you want some destinations!!
Sure, which city is it? Do you like Bristol too?
@@am.valeriia Bristol has lovely views of its famous Clifton Suspension bridge, my advice is to walk across it as it has lovely views FROM the bridge as well.
@@am.valeriia Bristol is the city nearest to me ^^
The port is also a good place to go as it is very pretty and alot to see!
Enjoy your stay in U.K. Valeriia you are always welcome.
Appreciate!
Often the people outside pubs are smokers!
ive never heard that being said regarding open curtains etc!
Most British people don't live in London. And one reason is that it's so expensive, as you mentioned. If you can, get out of London into the "real" UK - you'll be surprised, it's like another country!
I will look around, at least for short trips for now, thanks!
Sometimes there isn't a plug. Sometimes the sink has a built in plugging action, and if so, what you need are the instructions. However the plug may be missing and then what you need is a plug. Keep Reacting! Bye!
I've Bought a Few Houses in my Time and the 1st job was a new Kitchen and Bathroom with Mixer Taps. I honestly don't know why they put separate hot and Cold Taps in new build. All Houses have Combi boilers now .
However, in new buildings, they put mixed taps quite often.
You obviously, have not bought a new build house this century, new houses do have combination water supply, however there are certain water supplies, ie to schools in Scotland, where stored hot water systems, must be heated and stored, above what is found in normal domestic supply. This was done to reduce bacterial growth, in tepid waters!
To Americans, Legionaries disease and other North American water borne diseases, where not prevalent,in the U K even in the 19 th century,
Legionaries disease, was# first discovered in the USA in the latter part of the 20 th Century, due to bad water management, in particular hotel
shower cubicle drainage!
The pathogen, that causes this disease, has now spread worldwide, thanks to bad hygiene, within the USA,
The only USA water that is considered, as healthy as U K water for being potable, is that what was supplied to NYC,
To Americans. You can look up the meaning of potable !
"All Houses have Combi boilers now" No they don't. Mine doesnt. I dont have a Gas pipeline so I'm electric only so a storage tank is my only option so my hot and cold water taps still have to be separate to avoid contamination. (I live in a rented accommodation so dont tell me to get an electric combi boiler cos my Landlord is a cheapskate)
@CrazyInWeston my God is your post delivered by horse and Cart sir .have you not heard about the new Technology Carrier Pidgeon by Jove it's a must old boy .
Imagine living your whole life without the joy of stepping into boiling hot water because you got the ratio wrong on the taps seriously how do people outside the UK cook their feet?😁
:)
Many people who say sorry don't actually mean it
What do they mean then?
@@am.valeriia Well, quite often if say 2 people bump itno each other in the street or in a pub causing someone to spill a drink, as long as both people are reasonably intelligent & not drunk, they'll both want to defuse the situation (even the person not at fault) & the "sorry" reaction comes out almost instinctively before someone realises "hey, it's the other person's fault".
At other times, when you're sure it *is* the other person's fault, the word "sorry" is spoken in a strange way, like "sor" followed with a slight gap, followed by "ry" & you're being sarcastic about the other person's carelessness. Especially if the person at fault didn't say sorry. You're kind of reminding them of what they should have said. Probably weird to outsiders
@@daffyduk77 I would say it sounds unusual but
reasonable. Thanks for explanation!
Foreigner to the UK must all move into cheep rented accommodation with landlords who are too mean to do them up. I know of no one who has two taps. Everyone has mixer taps
However I have stayed in places in Holland Germany and Italy where they had separate hot and cold taps.
Im English living in England with separate taps in rented accomodation.
Don’t be ridiculous.
@shaunfarrell3834 I know of noone who doen5 have mixer taps. They may have had them 20 years ago, but who still has a kitchen and bathroom from the 1970s
@old.not.too.grumpy. So you know personally every 30 million homes housing 68 million ppl in the UK do you? Just cos you dont know any doesnt mean none exist! I dont have mixer taps or combi boilers, I dont even have gas.
@CrazyInWeston typical over the top internet response. I didn't say everyone has mixer taps. Just they are not the norm as so many tend to suggest on their posts.
In the 1980s I lived in house that was built in the 1740. Like yours has no gas, we still had mixer taps
Hot water is 60c to 65c no where near boiling.... I wash my hands under the hot water tap with no problem.. ..you must have sensitive skin
Maybe 🤔
London England
We don't love queuing nobody likes it,,?
London is not the UK.
Yeah, I am going to create some more content about other UK cities next year.
Every capital city is different to the country it’s in
Paris is very different to France
New York (or D.C.) is different to the US
Glad I could explain
Strongly agree with you. That’s how it works across the globe
England is not the UK.
Why?
If any one out side britain watching this video no one is safe murders rape children are being attacked and being butchered it’s all so really expensive
Nonsense. You should get out more instead of reading the Daily Mail. Also learn to spell and use basic punctuation.
Slightly exaggerated. There are some awful crimes but they are usually committed by people known to the victims. We are a safe country but one should be sensible in every part of the world.
troll
Low crime rate? The opposite sadly. According to the Met Police crime is up year on year. When i grew up in London, it had its issues. Now it's extremely dangerous and i don't miss the place. As for burglaries you mentioned, only 10% of those reported get visited by the police. Out of those only 5% get solved. It's a horrific statistic.
But as a Londoner, I'm happy you're there and can find joy in the place 😊
As for the crime level, watch my latest video ruclips.net/video/jq3wksRtYD0/видео.html
It happened a couple of days after I published this one 😁
Anyway, I do find joy and pleasure in this place. Thank you for watching and commenting!
@am.valeriia so sorry to hear what happened (i watched the video) 😢 I'm ashamed when people with such good intentions like yourself come to London with an open heart and this happens((
@@wellardme Anyway, it’s good to know that there are such kind people like you and many others who welcome me here and treat me much better than the robber who stole my phone. Thank you!
@am.valeriia very sweet of you 😊 When bad things happen, we often take it out on the country new to us. It shows your strong character to not let this setback dampen your spirits and positive attitude towards the UK. I moved to Moscow a long time ago and have had the odd issue. I blame the particular individuals and keep reminding myself of all the wonderful things that make my experience positive.