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The thing about many people from the US is that they haven't been taught that everyone has an accent, so they go "oh you have an ACCENT!" instead of "oh, you've got a different accent"
The UK is more than just London. Going up to the north is like a totally different way of life.
And the south is not just london go further out and its a different way of life .
@claregale9011 I totally agree, I went to school in the West country and always loved going to traditional events like cheese rolling, etc. I am originally northern, but now live in the Eastern counties, hence my north reference.
The Lady who'd been to Northampton--as well as London-had at least experienced uk outside latter🎩
The UK is not one country!😄
London is by far the best thing in the UK and everybody know it's grim up north 😁😁😁😁😁.
“Some people would rather just sit on their phone, in a room alone…”
Me: watching Joel on my phone. In a room. Alone. 😶
The UK was a great place to grow up in the 70s & 80s. My favourite time as a lad was the 80', the music & the lifestyle. Miss those days. Hopefully, things will get better for everyone.
You've got to be kidding about that .....the uk was the sick man of Europe in the 70's plus how many strikes and all that 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Benson...1 it was on a personal level. I was young & did not care about that stuff.
Wake up. Things only get worse in the UK.
@bar10ml44 I am awake, thanks. I am saying when I was younger. Get with it!
@@Benson...1
We spent most of our time oudoors and out of site of our parents, much safer times I can tell you.
I’m a Brit and I’m not offended by any of this, all seemed like nice people expressing their honest opinions!!
BRITISH PEOPLE ARE MUSLIMS BLACKS INDIANS EASTERN EUROPEANS TURKISH ETC THE ENGLISH ARE VANISHING FROM FOOTBALL TV STREETS & SOON POLITICS SADIQ KHAN WHITE BRITISH DON;'T REPRESENT LONDONERS YOU WILL NEVER HEAR A SCOT OR WELSH SAY THEY ARE BRITISH
im offended i cant be offended. but in private, hiding it because it would be rude to show it.
@@davidhines7592
'There is no offence where none is taken'. (Sarek).
That's what's so sad. I've lived a great life. Born in 1955. Experienced so many magical moments. We got through the Cuban missile problem and the cold war and now it's just greed and chaos. You are as good as gold. Good kid man. Old geezer born in Edmonton London. Be good to yourself and make sure you love. 👍❤
1955 too. I'll forgive you for being a Southerner.
@@jonathanwetherell3609 We've all got our own cross to bear! Although, 1984 here, so I guess that's mine?
@@CD-Gaming In Room 101?
@ Not quite, but I do have a late older brother!
Geezers ah that old addage, but true they are extremely well known for spitting HOT AIR constantly and boringly
The ‘tea, biscuits, Harry Styles’ group reminded me of Cousin Avi (Snatch) describing London to his men…
“You know? Fish, chips, cup o’ tea… Bad food, worse weather, Mary fu**in’ Poppins…. LONDON!”
Every person who can speak in the whole world has an accent!
Americans don't according to everyone of them!
I used to live with a guy with the thickest Brooklyn accent you've ever heard yelling at someone from Ohio that he doesn't have an accent. It was hilarious how brain dead he was.
To be honest: if I watch a video with someone from Liverpool I need to click on CC.
I was reading the comments a couple of days ago under a vid, where quite a few people from the US were saying that they didn't have accents and wished that they did like people from other countries...I wonder what possible reason there would be that every single other country in the world has accents but somehow one country doesn't...Of course others were informing them that of course they DO have accents.
Yes - you can always detect an American accent. It is so obvious.
Joel, you can always make a video yourself with you interviewing Americans on your campus, sports event on what they think about the UK now. Dominic
Born in 62 in Mile End , east London - growing up in Bow, and Essex in the 70s and 80s - superb . would hate to be a teenager now
Nice! I lived in Mile End in the summer of 2009. Born in ’85.
Why? Let me guess…because you have an incorrect belief that crime didn’t exist back then just because it was white on white crime and not reported as much as it is nowadays.
I grew up in the '80s and '90s on a council estate. We didn't have much as a family, but there was a real sense of community and looking out for each other. All that is gone now. The U.K was a much better place to live in back then.
i think every generation thinks that though.
BRITISH PEOPLE ARE MUSLIMS BLACKS INDIANS EASTERN EUROPEANS TURKISH ETC THE ENGLISH ARE VANISHING FROM FOOTBALL TV STREETS & SOON POLITICS SADIQ KHAN WHITE BRITISH DON;'T REPRESENT LONDONERS YOU WILL NEVER HEAR A SCOT OR WELSH SAY THEY ARE BRITISH
It still exists in pockets of London and is thriving in market towns all over outside London.
Ronnie Barker has a series called Open All Hours. It's amazing.
Every day at precisely 3pm we Brits drink a cup of tea. It's written in law, if anybody knocks on a neighbours door at 3pm, we have to serve them a cup of tea. If you fail to provide a cup of tea to a neighbour, you could face imprisonment or, at the worst, beheading.
3pm everything stops, get a brew on. 🍵
@@fd5927 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@fd5927 you are a disgrace to the uk if you only offer “a” cup of tea! “Fancy a cuppa” means i will make you tea and keep making you tea until you leave!
@philbarrance Yorkshire tea is an abomination. Don’t get me started on "English breakfast tea" , weak as ***, Brook Bond (old school), or PG Tips for me. 😅
@ i dont like yorkshire tea i drink scottish blend it suits the clean water up here! As a kid tea had a skin on with the shitty london water
"Oh, would some Power the gift give us To see ourselves as others see us! It would from many a blunder free us, " From a poem by Rabbie Burns, "To a Louse" Thanks for holding up these brief moments on RUclips, JPS. Sorry about the hay fever!
Porridge is ace!!! I still periodically watch it, just brilliant!
Brilliant show
It’s not Christmas unless you watch an episode of porridge
Love the videos Joel, keep doing what you're doing. All the best from Melbourne.
BTW, General Election called in Australia start of May. 5 weeks of campaigning, couldn't handle the US process. X
I appreciate your perspective.
😊😊I'm so glad you like Porridge.They did a series when Fletch is out of prison.Its great.
80s and 90s was more friendly, pub and clubs was everywhere, sadly most are now gone
Hazy day's, lazy ways. 💙✌️
They were less friendly for us LGBTQ+ people. We were attacked more and had less rights. Not to mention the HIV and AIDS pandemic that decimated gay and bi men.
What's this? No sun???
We havnt had any rain for WELL OVER ONE MONTH.!!
And it's me who does the gardening, so I'm the first to know.
Always reminds me of the old joke! How, in the Bible it says "it rained for 40 days and 40 nights"!
The English: "And yet Thames Water put a hosepipe ban on!"
The Irish: "That's jus Summer!"
The Welsh: "Best Summer we ever had!"
The Scottish: "You wussies! Can't handle a spot of rain?"
"Always been our friends",1776 springs to mind!🇬🇧🤣
You mst get a laugh at their comments since you have had a number of trips to the UK. Please keep your work going. Your channel is my favourite on RUclips.
Personally I don't think Joel or any other American is going to be made as welcome as in the past, TRUMP has shit on the UK
@@billyandthedogs he hasn't just shit on the UK. He has done it to most of the world. I don't feel I could penalise someone of Joel's calibre for the actions of their national idiot.
@davidberriman5903fair point
The bad food was from the rationing that we had during the wars. I don't think the American servicemen could relate as they even had foods and luxury goods being shipped in from USA. Chocolate and silk stockings being two that my mum told me about. They also had money to spare. Now we have almost every cuisine in the world as well as our traditional and regional foods. Come and join us sometime x
100% more friendly back then mate, best time in my life
Love how Joel is making use of the shirts he was sent! British and Americans have always had an interest in one and other
As someone born and raised in the UK for 60 years and now living in Spain, i can count on one hand how many times i have visited London. but i do not have enough fingers or toes to count the times i have been to Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Midlands, Yorkshire, the list of place 100% nicer than London is endless. Someone tell that lady a cheeseburger is only that price in London loll
I live nearer to London than i do Scotland, but I've been to Scotland and Wales far more times than iv been to London
I've never had the slightest urge to visit London, I live by the lickey hills and doubt there's anywhere half as nice there.
Been to London twice. It was two times too many.
@seldom_bucket I spent all my childhood in the 50's and 60's at the Lickey hills. . winter and summer. Great times.
Ha classic white, middle-aged Brit living in Spain. Couldn’t pay me enough to visit Spain, been ruined by expats.
I can't get my head around how Americans can't hear their own accents despite them being the most distinct accents in the world! The amount of Americans I've heard say they don't have an accent is crazy!
Hearing your own accent is tough though.
@@pendorranHow? When you’re surrounded by accents, you are very aware of your own. There’s a generic American accent in the same way there’s a generic English pr accent.
@@judegrindvoll8467 Most people are surrounded by accents barely distinguishable from their own. Unless they live around diverse ethnic communities and such. Most people don't.
@@pendorran Nah I think that’s crap, I can distinguish different accents from people living 10 miles away from me. This is definitely an American thing. Most people in Britain can distinguish their accents and can even exaggerate them.
@@judegrindvoll8467 When I worked at Amazon, some of the non-native English speakers struggled a tad with my West Yorkshire accent! I literally asked at one point, "my accent's not that thick, is it?"!
Americans seem to think that UK is England. What about the 3 other nations.
Its worse than that. Americans think the UK is London.
They think its London
3?,
@@grahambourgoing5952 yes, 3. england, scotland, northern ireland, and wales are what make up the entirety of the UK. great britain is the big island separate from ireland, so in terms of the UK, yes, there are 3 other nations.
Most Americans have never met an English person yet many have opinions on them. They've not even set foot outside their country but know everything. How condescending that bloke was. He's not woken up himself!
I really don't care what Americans think of us. They're so ignorant some of these people on this video. We share your frustration ten fold.
Great video jps
Some things have definitely changed in the UK since the 70s but I don't feel that our core values have changed much. We still believe in fair play and fighting for the underdog. You can't judge the rest of the country if you've only seen London, that's a complete separate entity. You find any small town or village and you'll get a completely different mentality.
I think the only real change is we've been increasingly silenced, we spoke our minds more back then, it still doesn't stop us, but it's less acceptable behaviour
Our values will be Islamic in 20 years if we don't fight back
London has changed a lot, because many, many people who live in London now are not even from the UK, let alone London.
@debbiemorgan859 it's because all the cities are foreign
@leonrussell9607 oh dear, voted for Reform did you? Try getting to know your neighbours, you never know, you might like them regardless of the colour of their skin!
I think London is a good start to a trip to the UK. It's fine, it's okay to go there and explore. What bugs me is when people assume that London reflects the whole of the UK and judges the rest of the country by that. They'll say something as 'fact' because it happened in London and yet its not true for the rest. It's like if we judged the whole of the US by only visiting New York or Florida. It's not fair to do that.
The UK has always been friendly. 😮😮😮❤❤
We don't have any sun???? I got sunburnt yesterday in Kent and we get drought every summer!
Haha, since you were born, chaos, well done JPS, thats something to put on your CV, - to be honest, it has been chaos since I was born. thanks for the fun, Bless you.
Got to love this video. Joel is basically becoming more british by the day.
I can tell you back in the seventies you could leave your doors open and still be safe, and we certainly didn't have the levels of crime we do now, but so many things have changed since then.
That's because nobody had anything worth nicking and tv's were so heavy you needed two people to lift one! Look at the amount of expensive tech that you can fit in a coat pocket or duffle bag these days!
In the 1990's, an ex-partner's parents (living in Aberkenfig) once told me they'd leave the back door open when they went to Bingo on a Saturday afternoon, so the butcher's boy could go into the house and leave them their Sunday joint (no, not a spliff Joel) - on the kitchen table! I'm a Cardiff lad, so was horrified.
@@B-A-L So we need to make things heavy and big again.
@
I'm working on that with my belly
When I think of America I think of you saying Bro all the time.
There is a reason why you call it soccer in the U.S. it's a shortened version of the full name of the game which is Association Football.
Brexit vote was June 2016.
UK is in Europe, we left the EU. We didn't leave Europe.
We were Free before Brexit and still free now 2025.
Football, not Soccer.
Depression???????.
UK is,more than London, lots of cities and villages. More than England, don't forget Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Accents are a Fact.
That was interesting listening! I don't mind them calling it soccer, and they're quite right that it is a big part of our identity! London is the most obvious place to visit, and if you're only in the UK for a week then London would be the place to go (by the way, we're not poverty-stricken, where the heck did she that idea?!). However, the UK has _so_ much more to see. York, for example, is another historic city; Bath, where's there's still original Roman baths; Torquay (known as the English Riviera); and numerous wildlife centres, forests and national parks, to name but a few.
Let's not forget the other countries which are part of the UK: Scotland, with their very green hills and dales you can imagine the country back in the Robert the Bruce days, their soldiers with their musket, fife and drums! Oh, and take a trip down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh - I was lucky that I was there on a day when there were bagpipes being played every 20 yards or so! Beautiful country - as are Wales and Northern Ireland! (Actually, truth be told, I've only been to the Republic of Ireland, but I reckon N. Ireland wouldn't be much different - do correct me if I'm wrong!). Both Wales and N. Ireland are steeped in history, and there's many historic sites to visit - some of which you can even book a room in!
I have to leave it there as I've gotta get back to work! Just know this, if you come to visit any part of the UK, you will be very welcome! ♥☺
Joel one thing you’ll realise as you navigate life is that the world, (and life) is constantly in a state of chaos. Wars, including trade wars, pandemics and natural disasters, and no one is immune to this. If you claim otherwise, you’ve just been lucky or you are looking back with rose tinted glasses. The saddest statement was the guy who mentioned what special allies Uk and USA are, or now, were. Gone in the blink of an eye. And repairing that can take hundreds of years, because trust is broken. It’s not to say we can’t still be friends as individuals, but as that solid rock of support we always thought US was, it’s destroyed.
Yo, He's one of us! slowly becoming a Brit 😄 cheers mate
@itsJPS is the only "reactor" that's been here to visit, ore than once, the lad has a genuine interest it's not just about Views for him, Saw him in Manchester last year,
A brit?, piss off, cup of tea thanks luv
JPS: Kate Beckinsale is the daughter of Richard Beckinsale, a British actor known for Porridge. She's famous for starring in the Underworld movie series
Yes,people in general were a lot friendlier and more polite in the 70s and 80s. Now you can smile at people and they just look worried and don't smile back.
The weather has also changed. By easter we were out of our coats until next october. My birthday party was out in the back garden, we would be playing in cardigans. That was in october. Now its grotty all year except for a 4 day heatwave.
Totally agree!
Soccer is an English word. It comes from 'Association Football'.
It was France and UK, not only the UK.
Indeed, it's an Oxford toff's term:
Soccer -> (As)soccer -> Assoc. -> Association FOOTBALL
Rugger -> Rugby FOOTBALL
We use the term soccer over here in the UK too. It’s not just an American term. There was a tv programme called Soccer AM. There have been football magazines etc with Soccer in the title. Saying soccer is not wrong or an Americanism, we just use the official name Football way more. Americans only use soccer to distinguish it from their football, which is, of course, played with the hands.😅
"What Americans think about British people"
Or to put it another way
"What Americans think about their ancestors"
😉🤣
UK was awesome in the seventies and eighties ,no pressure on what clothes you liked ,things cheaper,freedom to play and most of all people not being offended by everything
We used to call it soccer to diferentiate Association football from Union and League rugby football.
Oh our JPS, you certainly have the British humour. hugs, Ed x
The name 'soccer', came about because some clubs players used to play in their stocking feet (when the game football first started) there were no football boots...
"Exit UK..." - when we all jump in the sea and swim away from the land, you mean 🤭
Scotland has been trying to
Yeah but we will be repatriated unlike the ones doing it the other way around
@@FinlayMacintyre-ti9li
No it hasn't, a minority of Scots have been trying.
I was at secondary school from 1975 until 1982 in England. As typical lads, we played football in the winter and cricket in the summer during our school breaktimes and lunchtimes.
My social group befriended an American lad in our year group, his father was in the USAF but owing to family problems, this lad ended up in an English school.
(normally US service personnel spent their time pretty much solely on one of the numerous US Air Bases in the UK at that time).
One day this friend brought a baseball bat and ball into school and taught us all how to play baseball. The bat had 'Adirondack' (as I recall) printed on it.
That summer, we just played baseball! The following summer too, as I remember.
He was from Maine, I believe and I think he still lives in the UK, but I've lost touch. Happy days though!
Good luck trying to take a baseball bat into a British school these days! The 'elf and safety' police would be all over that one!
Nice one JPS! Love and peace.
I am only a 2 hour drive from London and if i am there more than a few hours I can't wait to get back home to the countryside
Morning Joel,, sod staying in I'm off to the pub in a hour fancy a pint😊
When I grew up in England lots of people called it soccer. It was used to differentiate between association football and rugby football.
I'm Scottish and no-one calls it soccer here (or at least in my area), but an English friend who moved here when he was 11 said it had always been soccer they called it, though he soon learnt not to call it that here.
I'm English 🏴 and a UK 🇬🇧 passport holder and I was born in London. Tbf I have had some great days out in London when growing up there. I moved away to the midlands in 2012 and then into Northern England 🏴 in 2017. I visited London in 2018 but that was my last visit, and have no plans currently to visit again. I don't actually miss it barring the few places that bring back some memories of my childhood. I absolutely love visiting Yorkshire especially the Dales and walking around the villages, and my first time on the North Yorkshire railway was great going through the moors. I'm also very fond of Whitby. I've been to Scotland 🏴 once and visited Edinburgh which was very nice although a city and I'm not really keen on cities so much anymore, and been to Wales 🏴 once and visited Betws-y-coed which I also really liked and went on the miniature railway 😂. I learned how to say thank you in Welsh 🏴 when getting my latte (diolch) 😂. I used to visit the Isle of Wight quite a bit as a kid and I miss it so will plan a visit there again soon.
Enjoyed your video 😃.
You must do Port Merrion (check out where the Prisoner series on Tv was made) and also do The Snowdon Mountain Railway plus South Wales coast including St Davids Cathedral/Tenby areas, all the beach bays around there are stunning! Enjoy!
The UK was better as far as friendliness goes in the past. People now can still be friendly but technology has isolated us more, I think this is a world wide problem take away the computer and phone and you find people will open up and talk. I make a point when I go out to talk to people and you find people will respond well. I have to say though the north of England is a friendly place.
Soccer was actually the named coined in the UK for football in the late 1800's it was a shortened version of association football which was formalized by the FA in 1872
The country was more friendly in the 80s and seemed we all sang from the same hymn book
Iterally
The 70's/80's were brilliant year's/decade's to grow up in. I do miss the club's, but I have my wonderful memories, kind of, hazy day's 💙✌️
🤣 If you can find more of those types of vids that would be great. I was born in 71 and times were good as a kid.
Very rarely see an American tourist in West Somerset or North Devon - in fact, I can't remember meeting one in the past 20 years.
And yet it is THE most stunning place to visit! (Biased 😁🇬🇧✌️)
You were a little harsh today Jps ! tranquil my friend ..
There is nothing wrong with the word 'soccer'. Perfectly ordinary English word, but it's not used much these days. We just say 'football' now in the UK and say 'American football' for the US game. 'Soccer' is a bit old-fashioned as an expression. It went with 'rugger' for rugby, which is hardly used at all nowadays. I think they originated as school slang.
Not the worst answers. Many europeans have only been to NYC and base the whole country on that. London and NYC are global cities that even the locals might see as foreign in a way.
I wonder how many people now call it soccer. It is not football it is Association Football. There are many different games that can legitimately call their game football. Where I live in Australia you can play Association Football. Australian Rules Football, American Grid iron, Gaelic Football and both types of Rugby - Union and League so that is six different footballs.
When I was young growing up in London in the 1970s we called it football or soccer, nowadays it’s not the case, so I for one will let you off 🤣🤣🤣
it's so funny to me, when americans talk about a british accent
Why? Weren't these people using an American accent?
@@reluctantheist5224 I think *a* British accent is the issue.
@ who collonized america ?
@@emma-janeadamson4099 They were talking with an American accent weren't they. They British talk with a British accent.
@@Splattercat82 The Dutch, the Spanish, French, English, Scottish Welsh..
US is a young country with growing pains...and a rebellious teen in power...God bless you 😮❤
Yes, in the 70s and 80s it was very friendly here and had a community spirit, probably from the aftermath of WW2.
She was talking about 'food banks' ...
Yeah it annoys me when people say the UK is London, I haven't been to London in 25 years lol. I'm 200+ miles away up north. When I come to the US I just go exploring! I wouldn't just go the main cities!
Agree, it is just like if we Europeans would answer NewYork what the USA is....fun fact by, New Yorks name origins from York in England... And York comes from old Viking word Jorvik for the town/setlemnt in Northumbria. Jorvik was under Scandinavian rule 866 - 901 by Ragnar Lodbroks son Ivar Benlös (Boneless) and later on by Halvdan Ragnarsson (brother of Ivar).
@@kaivirkkala3213 I did know that it's origin was from our York but I didn't know the Viking word! and I have been watching Vikings on Netflix so I know some of the names aha! I love learning stuff :)
@@NeOWaR2024 another fun fact, Ragnar Lodbroks youngest son Sigurd Ormöga (Snake in the eye) 10-time greatgrandson was William the Conquerer. And his Crest is still in use by current English monachy but with one more lion added.
@@kaivirkkala3213 That is soooo cool, you must be a historian!
@@NeOWaR2024 Thanks, kind of. I traced back my own history and ancestory, and stumbled over some very interesting stuff!😮 ....😊!
Don't be so touchy. I love you. Good as gold. 👍💪❤🙏
Whenever I have spoken to Americans. They always mention tea and crumpets. 😂 Some use those words as if they think they are an insult. But it's not. I like tea and crumpets. Crumpets with butter and jam. 😋
No little girl - YOU HAVE THE ACCENT!
In her defence, she did say "they have a lot of accents" which is perfectly correct.
Look who's becoming a proper little Brit?
I think the UK is going through a difficult time at the moment. I’m lucky enough to have lived in Australia for a few years, spent a fair bit of time in New York Aswell as Colorado , travelled a fair bit, but there is no where in the world I would want to live other than the UK. ❤️🇬🇧
To be fair Joel, I like the "Yanks" saying Soccer as opposed to Football. At least it tells us what you talking about. Football could (and usually does) mean American Football and Soccer does actually relate to European football.
Hearing a young American saying "You can't go wrong with Ronnie Barker" is second only to hearing a young American professing to love "Bacon butties". Always pleasing to watch JPS, It makes me feel that there are at least SOME young people left who have the wit to ignore so much of what is being made to happen in the world nowadays. Remember ORDINARY decent Brits have always had love for ORDINARY decent Americans. It's just the political class that spend their entire time trying to divide, set one against the other and conquer ALL of us, and currently use state education and the internet (or more accurately "soshal meeeedya") to mess young people up. Always fight to keep happy. P.S Don't apologise for mentioning "BREXIT".... the only pity is that we have NEVER had it. Still having globalist EUSSR puppets in our formerly sovereign houses of parliament !!!
She was right about accents - plural! I'm from Leeds and I have a West Yorkshire accent, if you watch wrestling, in AEW you find Pac from Newcastle and his Geordie accent, plus WWE's own Ghost Adventurer Aaron Goodwin lookalike Rampage Brown - also from Leeds - and the youngest ever Divas Champion, Norwich's own Saraya to name literally three! If you travel about 40 minutes South, go out far enough, you'll need subtitles and a Yorkshire-to-English dictionary for how thick the South Yorkshire accent can get!
Ignorance is just not knowing, and a small amount of knowledge is what I hear, that's all. The UK is so diverse and beautiful from the landscape of the country to their cities and coasts. Most Brits know their history and are impressive to say the least. They have amazing museums in London and sites that give you a sense of life so long ago. The Monarchy is fascinating! Liverpool is another cultural city with history beyond The Beatles. Love the accents just as most UK love ours. The people are well mannered and can use words to poke us without us even realizing it. LOL! Most people learn of the nationalities they are from unless are fortunate enough to travel or have a friend or spouse from another nationality who inspires us to learn about them. The Scots, Welsh and Irish are beautiful and different from each another!! ALL just opinions here of course.
I can travel an hour in any direction and the accent is completely different same way every area in the USA has its own accent in some way
Another good video from everybody’s favourite Anglophile 👍
How did you get into learning about the UK anyway, Joel? I've been watching your channel for a long time now but you'd already started doing UK reactions when I found you so didn't see why you were doing them. I'd be really interested to hear why you wanted to learn about our country! 😊
You sound bunged up. JP hope you feel better soon brother
I believe he does occassionally suffer from hayfever !
The seventies where great for everyone, two of my best friends where American one from New York the Other from Florida, but the best all why the Guy at Night school was from New York,Who introduced me to the great American Writers.
Great Britain is 95% normal & 5% is London but most visitors think London is 95% of Great Britain & everything & everyone is the same & don’t realise there’s a whole nation out there 😂
TIP for future viewing Breaking dad with Bradley walsh and his son Barny they travel around the world he puts his dad through alsorts its so funny 😂😂
Much safer and friendly in the 70s and 80s
Definitely so, I was brought up on a council estate in the 70s, we had great times as kids, we would wander off as a group,always watch out for each other, a group of tuff little buggers.👍
The 70s were my teenage years. In some ways it was a good time. But in recent years after seeing footage from that period and being reminded, I see it as being a violent period. Violence was never far away if you went out for the evening. This was not in a particularly rough area. I don't have the figures to hand but the levels of violent crime went down some years after lead-free petrol was introduced which was an expected effect as lead, especially in children, leads to less social control among other things. In other words if someone upsets you, you might fantasise about physical revenge but if your self control is impacted by lead you are more likely to carry it out. It's hard to get an objective view and everyone's experience is different.
Hi Joel. After this last week not touching this reaction with a ten foot stick! I've loved your reaction vids for years, but I think I'll wait for the next one... take care mate.
Funnily enough when my brothers were at school (UK) in the 1970s, they lways called football 'soccer'. So it's not just a US thing, and it's not wrong! 😊
My friend, just call it soccer, any bite back you get is just banter
There is a lot more to London than the immediate centre. I've only been in London for 40 years so I don't know the whole of London yet.
The reason "Soccer" is so offensive is because it derives from the name of the English Football Association (because it was the first football association in the world), so it doesn't even encompass the rest of the UK, never mind the rest of the world, that also avidly plays the game - a game that is, incidentally, almost exclusively played with the ball being kicked around by feet - i.e. "footabll" - and not carried around in the hands - i.e. armoured Rugby.
My wife lived in the US for about 10 years... her friend once asked her if it was true that you could swim to Ireland from England 😊
Agree about the girl - kids know whatever they're taught. But as some people age, they actively avoid new information.
It's only the beginning, my friend! Yes! British in the 70s were much more friendly than today. The reason: they were not so pissed off by so much foreign immigration as they are today. I remember a SouthAmerican friend who lived in Southampton between 1979 and 1980 telling me how nice were his neighbours, and I had the same good experience. British people in the 70s were as cool as it gets.
Something impossible today! You are a foreigner? Stick to your people. Don't even try to get to know me.
America wanted to call it Football too but the FA made them call it Soccer
People who fly in and have a cheeseburger are simply tourists who visit a theme park called London.
Hello Joel. I enjoyed my time in US. It is not so strange to folk from UK as we grow up watching it on TV shows. Imagine if such as Porridge were what US folk got to watch, then we might not be such strangers this side of the Atlantic. On that did you spot the name Beckinsale?