American Reacts to WEIRD Facts About the UK
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As an American there are many things I do not know about the UK. Today I am very interested in learning about 10 weird and random facts about the UK. I have absolutely no idea what to expect, but that is half the fun. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
It's worse than you realise Tyler. Beer a glass - Pints, Beer in a can - Litres. Milk in a glass bottle - pints, Milk in a plastic bottle - Litres.
When I was a train guard/conductor in Scotland, an American thought she could buy a ticket with $.
I told her, we don't accept monopoly money.
Tyler you must know that the Imperial system started in Britain. The clue is in the name. Imperial means something relating to an empire, in this case the British Empire.
So it shouldn’t surprise you too much that we use both the Imperial and metric. We use both and it’s not hard to learn both. It’s much easier than learning a 2nd language.
What is surprising is that America still exclusively uses the British imperial system. Despite it not being as accurate as metric. If you go to a university in the US and study science. The first thing they have to do is teach American students the metric system.
I thought most Imperial units predate the British empire
@@melissareohorn7436 Yes and no. Imperial units replaced English units in the 1800’s and the name came from the British Empire.
English units was the system for centuries and were influenced by the Romans and Anglo-Saxons.
Imperial units and English units were similar but not the same. But you can certainly say Imperial was based on English units.
It's weird how Americans struggle to use the decimal based metric system but have no problem with using a decimal currency.
America doesn't use the imperial system, otherwise their pints would be 20 fluid ounces and not 16.6.
He takes nothing in. Ignorant or rude.
17:40 The "drinking over the age of 5" thing is normally a small glass of wine at Christmas, New Year, or similar, and I'd say around 10 years old.
America, here is a lesson on using a two faucet basin.
1. Put a plug in the basin.
2. Run both faucets, mixing the water to a satisfactory temperature.
3. Wash with the water in the basin.
4. Remove plug.
It isn't rocket science.
😊 It is for Tyler Rumple, though?!!
He can't even recall having already learned these facts several times before, apparently!!😅😂😊😮🇺🇸🥺🏴🖖
And soap, hopefully.
66crowie That’s like saying UK, here is a lesson in using public toilets
1. Open the stall and close the door
2. Cover all the gaps using toilet paper
3. Do your business
4. Remove all the toilet paper
It’s not rocket science
@@ewan8947in the UK there are no gaps in the toilet stalls!
@@stephaniehamilton6217That’s right, and in the US they don’t have two taps!
Taps: There is a plug in the sink, use it, and fill the sink with water using the taps appropriately to get the water the temperature you want. It saves water. Two taps are incredibly common although mixer taps are becoming more common. The main reason is because of how hot water used to be stored in a hot water tank rather than being warmed as needed and water could be standing for a long period of time waiting to be heated so the water wasn't considered suitable for drinking whereas the cold tap wasn't standing so could be drank. With heating systems now heating on demand the need for separate taps is becoming less.
Yes, and it's not "boiling hot" as the narrator exentuated from the hot tap.
Not just that it would sit in the hot tank, but in areas with low water pressure there'd be a cold feeder tank in the loft/attic to ensure that the water heater never ran dry. This tank was often a galvanised tank that quite often didn't have a cover of any kind. It wouldn't be uncommon for spiders, insects, mice, rats and the occasional pigeon to have drowned in the feeder tank. Having a mixer tap would allow this often contaminated water to mix with the cold supply making it unsafe to drink.
Hence the idea of rinsing cuts and burns under the cold tap. The water was safer.
Yes. I've had a mixer tap in the kitchen for fifteen years or so. I've only ever used it as either hot or cold not both. I set my hot water temperature to hand hot. Using the mixer seem as though it would waste water.
its weird you say 2 taps is commong because in all my life in the uk ive never seen 2 taps in anyones home, just like old hotels and buildings.
Well in Britain a 5 year old can drink but in America a 5 year old can own a gun!!!😂😂😂😂
Sandwich is a place, not a person, the Earl is Said to have been the first person to do this, which is why they are called sandwiches
Im from U.K. and know the drink law. On New Year’s Eve my grandmother always gave us a tiny bit of port & lemon or advocate and lemonade I was about six. None of us four kids grew up to drink alcohol excessively. Only at dinners or a pint in the evening social occasions.
My family similar to yours, special occasions and going out. None of the 4 of us drink except on special occasions. I very rarely drink having gone 5 years without through choice. But I am thinking of having a wee drink the next get together. My cupboard is full of all sorts of alcohol might have gone off did have to get rid of a full bottle of Baileys as it had sat there over 6 years.....
At Christmas as a kid i would have a small wine with dinner. At BBQs or similar i would always be offered a small beer or more often shandy. Nothing excessive and it meant drink wasn't some crazy illicit substance growing up.
@@blondebrandy Baileys is one of the few alcoholic drinks that can go off (although I suspect that beer and cider may also do the same - but I've never kept either for long enough to find out).
@@robheyes6470 It can't go off. (if I am around, I mean) 😁😁
My parents had a similar approach to drink, and I haven't drunk since 2 Christmases ago. This one will be 3, or maybe I will have a pint. Who knows.
I live in France where they still use the inch/pouce, the lb/pound/1/2 kilo and the pint/punt/1/2 litre.
Tyler, your memory is worse than mine! You have reacted to these topics multiple times.
Watching Tyler's videos is like having deja vu on groundhog day.
Personally I think Tyler is an entertainer and just making his videos fun to watch. On the other hand he could be just a forgetful git! :)
Agreed, he must be pretending not to have heard these things in the 100s of videos he has posted. He is always like wot!?!pudding isn’t just chocolate pudding?!? He should react to reading the pudding entry on Wikipedia at this point.
I often think it's because he is assuming that mostly Americans are watching his videos and so he needs to act accordingly.@@mrrajsingh
Where do think the Imperial system originated? Having said that, traditional Imperial measurements in the UK often differ from America’s version of Imperial. For example a US gallon is only 4/5 of a British gallon, so whilst petrol/gas is still genuinely a lot cheaper in the US than UK, it’s not quite such a huge difference as it might first appear.
The USA chose to make their pint 4 fluid ounces smaller than the Imperial one. This is obviously a bad thing.
Fluid ounces confuse me because we use them to measure shrimps and nails.
A US pint is about 450cc, a UK pint is about 550cc.
"A litre of water's a pint and three quarters."
It's funny how Americans use the 'imperial' system which gets its name from the British 'Empire' 😁
What one expect about if some US people think english was invented in US 😅😅
The story goes that the Earl of Sandwich wanted a convenient food he could eat while playing cards without getting his hands sticky or greasy - putting one thin slice of bread and butter on top of another was his solution. I don't think the chip butty or the meat ball sub roll would have worked tbh.
P.s. in the UK it's usually pronounced "sanwidge", or "samwidge". Not "-witch". Because it's a place name so normal rules don't apply 😅
The main thing about laws in England is that they are usually very pragmatic and primarily determined by practical needs. On drinking laws, the important distinction is that it is illegal to BUY alcohol if you are under 18 , or rather, it is illegal to SELL alcohol to under 18s - the legal burden is on the seller (pub, store, market stall, etc, not the buyer). Legally a child can drink alcohol if it is offered by an adult (though child protection laws apply if you give a child "too much", and how much is "too much" is determined by circumstances and the "reasonableness" measure).
On the faucets/taps, the historical context is that the way hot running water used to be generated in homes meant that it was not technically safe to drink (it sat around in a hot tank amd was prone to contamination), and so if you mixed it in the tap with cold water, the cold water would therefore be presumed to be contaminated. Modern domestic heating systems (installed in the last 30 years or so) work on different principles and so hot tapwater is as drinkable as the cold one. However, older homes which may have had the heating system upgraded may not have had all the pipes replaced so are still not considered "safe" (though that's just a technicality) and a lot of homeowners simply haven't replaced the sinks and/or taps , some people actually like having separate taps. In my home (built 1920s, heating originally installed 1950s, overhauled 1990s and 2010s) there is a mixture of twin taps and mixer taps.
Just to confirm... we call 'sandwiches' BUTTIES because _(UNLIKE America)_ it's essential and usual to spread REAL BUTTER on each bread slice. Not MAYO like many Americans do, but butter OR an alternative _(veg based)_ spread. This ensures the bread doesn't get 'soggy' and is perfect for taking on PICNICS - When the meal may not be eaten for several hours! Also, in the UK and Europe, REAL BUTTER contains a higher percentage of butterfat than is required in the US, so tastes much nicer and imparts better 'flavour' to the sandwich. Finally, store bought bread in the US can contain over 500% more sugar than a standard sliced loaf of bread in the UK or Ireland.
Well lots of Brits do use mayonnaise on their bread. However Yes lots of Brits do use butter.
@@EmilyCheetham
Very true... And Mayo is OK when used properly! If you are making a sandwich to eat immediately, no issue to use it in place of butter on the actual bread slices. But if making a sandwich for 'future use' _(such as a picnic or to be put on a shop shelf to be sold within a few days),_ it won't work because the sandwich bread gets too moist!. Butter is a BETTER barrier on the BREAD to prevent 'leakage' from additions to creating a sandwich such as tomatoes, cucumber slices, relish, mayo, mustards and/or pickles etc. To CREATE a good and perfect sandwich, you must PLAN the order of ingredients. Unfortunately not everyone CAN make a good sandwich. For instance, my own brother can 'throw' ingredients together and offer up a sandwich to eat immediately as a 'snack', but it will neither 'look good' NOR hold itself together for longer than an hour or two in a fridge! Just saying! Like NOT everyone can do a good painting job or is natural at it... It ALSO requires a natural instinct. 😋
@@stewedfishproductions7959 well yes and no. It depends where you put the mayonnaise. I have a dairy allergy so I cannot eat butter. I wouldn’t put mayonnaise directly on the bread if I was making it for a picnic/packed lunch. I’d put the meat and then the mayonnaise and then lettuce 🥬 or something else before the other slice of bread. Also some shop bought sandwiches (atleast in uk) do something similar as I buy them occasionally.
@@EmilyCheetham
Exactly right... Mayo IS a 'middle' addition, as you say, between lettuce slices for example. To create a 'long shelf life' sandwich takes skill. I'm sorry to hear about your allergy, it must be hard at times to find a 'quick snack' to eat!? You would probably do better in the US, because it's NOT 'the norm' to put butter on a sandwich - mind you, I would not buy a sandwich from a 'gas' filling station as they don't seem to be able to (usually) produce decent looking sandwiches there at all - LOL!😎
@@stewedfishproductions7959 depends on the petrol/gas station. In uk we have some gas stations that sell big brands like Costa/Starbucks/M&S/crispy creme & advertise them. It’s not all rubbish. I get sandwiches from Co-op, M&S, Tesco sometimes. UK packet sandwiches are much better than American ones. I also tend to get seeded/brown bread sandwiches rather than white bread. Or I get a baguette occasionally. I like things like chicken & bacon sandwiches or chicken & stuffing. But at home I often make ham salad sandwiches. But I like only specific types of ham (German/brunswick ham). As for snacks & my allergy it just means I often have to check the ingredients label if I don’t know what in it. It was very hard at first but now I know many safe foods & I’m used to checking labels. It’s often desserts I struggle with. Especially when eating out. Not many places have desserts that are milk free or if they do it is often just sorbet.
(15:00) Two taps use a plug in the sink lol
Beer, and milk we sell in pints water, fizzy drink we sell in litres
Historically, you either let kids drink beer at age 5, or they drink water and die of thyphoid.
❤ I think you meant typhoid. .
The other spelling sounds like a typo?!😊 🏴🖖
I had my first sip of alcohol at 3 (almost 4) a small drop of Port at Christmas. Then it was Snowballs, Lemonade Shandy, Baby Sham, and then at my sister's wedding Martini (I was 13), then dry white wine, and finally a drink I actually liked the taste of - Guinness!
Yes I have occasionally got drunk, but as I'd always been allowed to drink and there was no mystic so it was never the reason I drank - in 56 years I've probably only been properly drunk 6/7 times!
I was born in 1944, the war was still going, I was premature, and so, according to my Mum I had a half bottle of brandy by the teaspoon which kept me alive as a heart stimulant!
If you didnt have a low drinking age at home you would be able to prosecute things like red wine being used in cooking. Just because its legal above 5 doesnt mean you cant be prosecuted for mistreatment of a child if you got them drunk to classify as damaging to their health, its not a licence to do what you want.
The Romans ate sandwiches. They weren't called that until the Earl of Sandwich, yes it is a place, asked for his meat snack to be served in bread while he was playing cards, think poker tournament, so he didn't get the cards greasy.
Although you should realise that a _(proper English)_ 'SANDWICH' requires certain criteria to be fulfilled to be called a sandwich... Sadly, American's have NEVER understood what a real sandwich is _(explaining why many have quite a dislike, or more likely never 'understood' what makes a sandwich, especially from a 'truck stop' senario)._ Ignorance is BLISS, so the saying goes; and American's don't appreciate a 'PICNIC STABLE' sandwich and how to make a GOOD one! 😎
I appreciate that it may come as a shock but there are NO faucets in the UK and spigots are small pegs or plugs, especially for insertion into the vent of a cask.
I first came across spigots during my nurse training when we used them as taps or stoppers on urinary catheters.
Just put in the plug and mix the water in the sink to the desired temp, wash hands, pull out plug. Simple. But most are mixer taps now
Lift up leg, wash smelly feet in the sink before going to bed after being shouted at by the wife. Perfect!
So just do a few unnecessary things before washing your hands? 😆 There’s the complacency that ensures we continue installing 2 taps for no reason
i have 2 taps in the bathroom and a mixer in the kitchen, i also eat marmite toast and tea for breakfast every day
I never watched Geordie shore - far too intellectual for me. 😂😂
We don't say "You alright?" We say "Alright?" The American "What's up?" is the same thing for goodness sake.
Some of this stuff is a load of outdated twaddle.
Or even shorter pronunciation
And don't forget the ever popular "Wotcher"
In practice British children are not drinking alcohol although I do recall sometimes getting very weak brandy when ill. France was the country for actual underage drinking, with wine served as part of school meals for many years.
Taps are attached to a sink so you can put some water in the sink from both taps, it ain't rocket science. The Earl of Sandwich is a title not a name. Most sandwiches were just stuff on a single slice of bread not inside two slices.
It was the Earl who thought of folding the bread to enclose the filling
Put the plug in the sink and run enough water from each tap to get the temperature you want, Simple. Why can't people work that out for themselves?
Youre dealing with Americans here mate, thats far too complicated for them!
That’s so silly. So we have to fill up the sink every time and have a little hand bath hahah. Just have a mixer tap, Simpler!
@@ewan8947 The use of a plug and only filling the sink with as much water needed to dip your hands in, saves water. You're not letting water run away the whole time you're mushing your palms together and then rinsing. Simple as fvck.
@@hellsbells8689 I mean showers are famously more water efficient than baths so I’d be surprised if there’s any difference, if not the inverse. Completely insignificant compared to washing machines etc anyway. That’s a silly argument, especially in a country where it never stops raining haha
They can't even work knives and forks. They can only use one hand at a time.
With “garage”, I think us Brits would say that the American way - “garaaahj”, like it’s a posh French delicacy - is the fancypants version, compared to the bluntness of “garrij”!
They do that whenever they think a word is French. Like fillet and valet.
I call it a car hole lol
When I was growing up, we only used the Imperial measurement system. Later on the metric system was introduced. I couldn't get used to it, so converted everything to the imperial measures, especially feet and inches, now I know both, I can convert centimetres etc in to inches and feet, mainly because I can't visualise sizes in centimeters, but can in inches. I still weigh things out in pounds and ounces too.
The term Imperial derives from emperor or empire - in this case, the British Empire.
Although, erroneously, Americans use a FORM of Imperial Measurements, but NOT British Imperial sizes! At one point, the 'British Empire' supplied THREE different 'Imperial Rates' across the 'Empire' - So the America's, Canada, Australia / New Zealand AND the other Commonwealth Countries used DIFFERENT 'Imperial Measurements'. This meant that sizes varied, but taxes didn't. A PINT of X bought in one country, would be stamped Imperial PINT, sent by ship to another country and sold as labelled (an Imperial PINT); thus they would be purchasing X amount of PINTS, they were getting LESS, but paying import tax on a greater amount than received! This was just one way the British Empire became SO wealthy!
A chip roll is amazing with a buttered roll, salt and vinegar on the chips and roll, and a pickled onion all wrapped up together. Doesn't matter if its a crispy or soft roll, but it's best with chip shop chips..
With the chips hot enough to melt the butter! 🤤 Dammit I'm hungry now!
As I understand it, Marmite is made from brewer's yeast and did not catch on in the US because of prohibition. It is savory and very good on hot buttered toast, spread very thinly, not slathered on like peanut butter. And incidentally, Sandwich is a coastal town from which the first English naval battle was fought, back in the 1200's.
In the House Of Commons in the UK Parliament there are two red lines that define the central aisle. Traditionally it is two swords lengths apart to prevent MPs duelling during debates. During a debate a member may not speak when stood between the the red lines during a debate, while this is not strictly enforced (re. pictures of Ian Blackford standing across the line during a debate), it is intended to prevent MPs entering the chamber to speak in a debate before they have taken a seat. Another quirk is that in the members cloakroom there is a ribbon attached to each coat peg to allow the MP to hang up their sword.
Geordie is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England.
The nickname comes from the coal industry. Newer head-lamps came into use nationally but around Tyneside they kept using their older Geordie lamps. The nickname eventually became used for everyone from that area.
Thank you for the explanation! I always wondered what exactly Geordie meant and where it came from. Good to know!@@G0Lg0Th4N
The mistake people make with Marmite is amount. You only put a centimetres worth on a slice of toast. Hardly any in fact. It is loved or hated though I think alot is because of the amount people put on. It is ill advised to eat Marmite on a spoon!!! Like the USA do with many Jard food substances. As for 2 taps, the vast majority of households have 2 Taps if you want to wash yourself use the plug and fill the sink or bath to your preferred temperature. Simple really. It is called a chip Butty not buddy! Chip butty
A chip butty is a sandwich filled with chips[5] (hot thick-cut deep fried potatoes), optionally eaten with condiments such as brown sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise, or malt vinegar. The bread may be slices from a loaf or a bread roll, and is usually buttered.
Marmite on toast, too thick and nauseating, just right and heavenly
American bread contains way more sugar than the UK stuff. Rather than tell them (Americans) to use French-fries as the clip did, they should have said Steak-fries. They then would know you need a thick chip and not a crispy but empty casing.
The sink plug usage seems to be unheard of. It saves water rather than allowing it to run away as you rub your hands together to wash and then rinse.
Not really my parents gave me my first glass of wine as a nine year old at dinner. Continued the tradition with my kids and they understand how to handle alcohol when at the pub or club.
I remember being given small amounts of wine at about 9 or 10 as well. At first, I tended to only like the taste for the first sip or two, but a year or two later I liked the whole glass.
When I went to a youth hostel in Germany with the school when I was 14, a wine tasting session was one of the trips we went on.
Yeah my parents allowed me wine or beer with Christmas dinners, family parties, or holidays. In moderation and under supervision. Always handled myself in pubs, and always got home. That’s even with heavy drinking when I was younger.
My cousin on the other hand whose mother was catholic. Absolutely banned alcohol for her until she was 18. Didn’t even do it on the sly with her mates.
Anyway at 18 working part time in an office while at college. She was invited to her bosses house for a works do. Where she started drinking red wine. She threw up on the bathroom floor, she threw up all over the toilet and sink, and up the walls.
Her boss rang an ambulance and the hospital decided she had to have her stomach pumped. For the large amount of red wine she had drank.
She admitted she had no clue how to pace herself. She wasn’t sipping it as you should do with wine. She was drinking it like pop.
Same, my parents let me have the odd wine or beer at around age 9. I first got properly drunk at 12. It was amazing 😆
On 'special occasions' (at home); i.e. Christmas time, New Year or a Birthday Party - my parents would allow myself, my brother and sisters an 'odd' alcoholic drink as a treat... Also, when 'sick' with a cold, mum would often give us a 'Hot Toddy' before going to bed etc.
rally? you poor neglected person, i was drinking regularly from the age of 7
@@cyberash3000
Are you drunk? Or did you mean to actually write 'really'? 😎
neither mate, i saw that it had the squiggly line and i thought, im talking to yanks so spelling doesnt matter. just like i wouldnt correct a spelling mistake if i was writing a letter to my dog. yeah? do you understand what im saying, no probably you dont understand. @@stewedfishproductions7959
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a man ponder whether there is a difference between pronunciation and an accent 🤣
Pity he didn't try it with the word aluminium, or as they say it aluminum
The French and probably most of Europe have a far more liberal attitude to alcohol.
Distance in the UK is measured in miles, not Kilometres, & not time, cos you cannot be sure how long it will take to travel anywhere. People in the UK just use what they are used to.
For people's weight we use pounds & stones, not pounds alone, but we also recognise metric measures. There is no need to worry about converting from one to the other, as we use whichever we like. American English is not totally phonetic either. Marmite spices up gravy to increase the flavour. Geordie is a name for people from Newcastle upon Tyne.
The many UK accents come from the deferent origins of the people over the centuries, allowing for distinct speech patterns in different areas. 'Alright?' is just like 'How's it going?' .
I just saw two taps in an old American movie, so it's only a temporal thing. There is a sink to mix the water, & the water is not instantly hot or ice cold in any case. 16 year olds can only drink with an adult, & when having a meal. However there is no real age limit to drinking at home, though most adults would not give a child alcohol. Maybe a little wine etc with a meal.
In Continental Europe, say France & Italy this is quite normal. Sandwich is a place, the Earl took his title from. It has to have butter on the bread to become a Butty, i e butter. Most sandwiches in the UK start with buttered bread.
😊 my butties have Flora as I have always hated butter right from childhood (the only "butter" I liked was 'crunchy peanut butter'!!) I tend not to eat much bread these days though, unless as a cheese toasty!!)
Being so old (70) has *"played havoc"* with my digestion!!
*"Let loose the dogs of war"* so to speak!?!😊🏴☕❤🖖
My grandmother gave a New Years party every year for anyone who wanted to turn up in the whole village, she could easily have 50+ guests in her 3 bedroom council house! The only trouble was that we had no car and the 3 mile walk home at 1am when herding 3 drunk kids was a nightmare for my parents…. Bless.
Drinking at home at 5 and under 18 is rare but usually a shandy is serviced, so a mix of beer/lager and fizzy lemonade etc
Or wine and lemonade.
I was drinking wine every Sunday lunch from a very young age. It made it less taboo for the teenage me. I never had more than three drinks when I was an adult "out on the piss".
😊🍷 I was raised on 'Guinness' (in small glasses - from a young age - Five yrs) due to being "sickly" from babyhood (born _prem_ & caught Polio at _8_weeks) & never became a 'regular drinker' - though not averse to certain types of alcoholic beverages occasionally!! ❤Definitely a good thing in my mind - if not taken to excess, of course.
(Re 'chip butty' etc, I say 'sanwich' btw, but use Flora as I hate butter - except in 'bread & butter pudding').❤🏴🖖
We have a mixer tap in our kitchen, but have two taps in our 'bathroom' - just put the plug in the plughole & save water.😊
The tap thing is very common, even in newer builds. There are mixer taps but less common I’d say. Makes no sense anymore! Just a stupid thing we continue for no reason haha …maybe bit like the massive gaps in your restroom stalls
AS bathrooms are often small, a sink with a tap on each side rather than one at the back means you can have a smaller sink which takes less space.
@@charlesunderwood6334 Sorry I don’t understand your logic there. You can have a sink as small as you like with a mixer tap
First thing I've done every time I've moved house, one of the first things I've done is remove the single taps/sink & install a mixer.
It's hilarious how mixed our system is in the UK with pints for milk and beer, but litres for other drinks (e.g. 2 litre fizzy drink bottles), miles for distance but litres for petrol used to drive those miles. Age also comes into it, I'm in my 50s and don't know anything about Fahrenheit temperatures and notice it's mostly older people than me who use it. But I do still use stones and pounds for my weight rather than kilograms. Not confusing at all 🤣🤣
Absolutely - not confusing at all. It just goes to prove how versatile we are and how agile our brains are.
South Africa also uses the two tap system
The emperial system was invented from the British “Empire”, not surprisingly.
We started converting to the metric about 50 years ago so it’s kind of phasing across the generations.
For instance, growing up in the 70s it was pretty much all imperial and since the 80s I’ve mostly been metric
A gentleman's accomplishments are still measured in inches ..
When I was a child I was allowed a glass of wine in an Esso glass with our Sunday roast. Still a lovely memory feeling all grown up..even though I wasn't.
Its not confusing Tyler, when I go to buy milk i buy pints, but it so happens the labelling also gives the amount in litres for those people who think in metric, everyone is happy.
I remember my grandparents going to a pub, and as a curious seven year old asking for sips of beer. As I got older you might have shandy, a mix of beer and lemonade.
The italians also introduce children to drinking watered down wine at dinner, its perfectly normal.
We used to have a little drink like shandy or Babycham when I was 10 at Christmas but never drink loads.
Taps: before the advent of the combi boiler the hot water was fed from a copper tank and heated by either an electric immersion heater or a back boiler from the real fire. The cold water came straight from the main system so a tap for each was required. Whilst running both taps you can put the plug in the sink and wash your hands that way without being scalded or frozen
Everyone talks about Marmite, why does no one introduce Bovril to the USA. Mainstay of cold football matches and great on buttered toast.
Kids drinking alcohol is common. Parents or a cheeky uncle letting a 10 year have a sip of beer at Christmas happens all the time
Re the taps: The hot water tap does not instantly deliver boiling hot water, it starts off cold and slowly builds up to hot. It is normally very possible to wash your hands under the hot tap before the water gets too hot to bear.
Re the drinking age: Many parents give their youngsters a sip of their dad's beer or mom's wine,( yes I say 'mom' , it's not an Americanism ; I'm a Brummie and we have always said mom and not mum), or the weakest of lemonade shandies
Or put the plug in the sink properly, you caveman! 😂
@@neuralwarp I'm a quick worker, all done and dusted before the hot comes through. No time for plugs.
We say “you alright “also in Australia it’s one of the many ways of saying hello a normal occurrence and everyone knows the meaning an react also with a greeting 👏🤣🤷♀️
On the 2 taps thing:
You know there's a bowl under the taps with a plug hole, try putting the plug and and stop washing your hands under a running tap, it's really bad for the environment. We've known this a long time in Europe.
The thing about the two taps is that one source comes from the boiler room in the basement, hence directly from the river, the cold one comes from the deposit on the roof, the potable one... there are mixing taps in newer buildings, yes, but that's how it worked in Argentina also.
Even if you go 4 miles away it can be a totally different accent.
This seems to be particularly true in the Newcastle area where accents can differ between successive metro stops.
Weirdest example of weights and measures that I have encountered is buying carpet: it is sold in 4 metre widths and you buy it lengths measured in feet.
In the UK, distances are displayed on road signs in miles and yards, not kilometres and metres. Speed signs on roads are exclusively in miles-per-hour and cars made for the UK markwt will have mph marked on the speedo on the dashboard (as well as kmph).
Height restrictions are shown on road signs in both feet and inches as well as in metres.
The distance between the stumps on a cricket pitch is one chain (22 yards).
Most imperial and avoirdupois units are no longer used. These include rods, perches and poles (5.5 yards), chains (22 yards), furlongs (220 yards, 10 chains, 1/8 of a mile), quarters (28 lbs, 2 stones), cwts (hundredweights, 112 lbs, 4 quarters, 8 stones), (avoirdupois) ton (2240 lbs, 20 cwt), bushels and many more.
Anything requiring arithmetic calculation is always done in metric measurements, despite the fact that we now all have electronic calculators to avoid the mechanical arithmetic we had to do on paper when I was young before metric measures were common.
Weirdest thing about this video is the narrator’s spelling and pronunciation of the surname “Montagu”. It’s pronounced MON-ta-gyew.
I think I was 5 the first time I had a tiny bit of wine topped up with lemonade on Christmas Day. It wasn’t a big deal
I commonly just use the word 'alright' to greet someone and many others do in my town
What is completely incomprehensible though is that a Pint in the US is 16 fluid ounces, but in Europe, the Imperial Pint is 20 fluid ounces.
europe doesn't really use pint apart from uk and ireland
I saw a video you might want to try - "Why Do The British Look Down on Americans", by a thoughtful American named Nathaniel Drew. It touches on some aspects you haven't seen before.
Apparently an ancestor of mine played an important role in inventing marmite. It is such a wonderful spread, and great to cook with as well.
The hot and cold taps thing is really common, but you're right that modern developments tend to have a single one. I live in a terraced house that is over 100 years old and what we have is a mixture, because obviously, over time, the people who lived here changed some things and didn't change others. In the kitchen, there's a single tap. In the bathroom, we still have one hot and one cold tap. When I was a kid in the 80s, all the rooms in the house I grew up in in Scotland had two taps. Generally, if you wanted to wash, you'd put the plug in the sink and make a pool of water that was a mixture of hot and cold, so you'd end up with warm. But now, if there's hot and cold taps and I want to wash my hands, I just run the cold tap and freeze myself because it's better than burning. This is very much a UK quirk and Europe laughs at us for it. 😅
the trick with marmite. dont spread it on the bread to thickly.
The American system is not exclusively imperial, your money is based on the metric system.
Legal age for drinking in the UK is 18, but many start well before that.
I did find it very wierd in the US seeing 20 year olds with beards not allowed to drink in a bar. They’re allowed to enlist, hold a rifle, kill and die for their country but frowned upon when holding a beer!
The legal age for the consumption of alcohol in Britain is from_five_years_ of age _in_the_home_.
Alcohol may be consumed from the age of sixteen years (16) _if_ with a _meal_ ,and _with_ adult family members, in a pub/restaurant setting.
Alcohol _cannot_ be _purchased_ legally here (UK) by _anyone_until the age of eighteen years (18).❤️🏴🇬🇧🍷🍻🥂😊🖖
Yup I had my first at 16 in my mates 16th birthday party just after we all finished school
16 year old with my dad in a pub
the legal age is FIVE mate, the legal age to drinnk in a public place is 18.
drinking in general is 5 years old, but itt can only be in a private residence, to drink i na place open to the public its 18, or 16 with a meal but not spirrits (only beer cider or wine with a meal) how do people not know the legal age to drink at home is 5? people should know this. i have a prsonal licence and had a buildign licence for alcohol and even i knew that
Generally, older people who left school before the country adopted the metric system in the '60s tend to use Imperial common units. Most others use the metric system.
I could never imagine anyone saying "fancy coming to the pub for a LITRE after work?" - it has to be a PINT! Also, I fill up my car in litres, yet calculate the distance between two places in MILES. I even sometimes go into a butchers and ask for a POUND of meat - and funny thing is, no-one has ever queried it or even 'batted an eyelid'? I still measure things in feet and yards OR in centimetres and metres _(dependent upon my mood !)._ So I just switch easily from one to the other. 🤔😅 😂 🤣
EDIT: I forgot to mention... A UK PINT is BIGGER than a US PINT and sometimes American's just can't keep up at the pub... LOL!
American pints are 500l ours are 568 8 pints is 4 litres no idea why ours is 4.5l think they just rounded it up a bit
@@jamesgornall5731Jeez, I learnt something. Spent all my life thinking a uk pint is 468ml (and I trained as a chef 😳
Fancy a drink or let's go to the pub. Nobody says fancy a pint.
@@MichaelJohnsonAzgard yes they do, where do you live?
@@alexjmurphy2145 oohhh, you got the hard bit right the easy bit wrong!
My house was built in 2916 and I am the only one who has ever lived there. The only sink with a mixer tap is the kitchen. Downstairs loo, 2 taps, family bathroom on 1st floor, 2 taps for sink and bath and finally on suite shower room has two taps on the sink. So yes, even some new homes are built with the old tap layout even though they have never had the cold tank for hot water. My house was built with a combi boiler so hot water is made on demand. Yes, it drives me a bit crazy.
Washing your hands with 2 taps is easy just put a plug in the sink put cold or hot first then using either hot or cold again to get the right temperature and don't burn yourself.
"You alright?" is confusing to everyone over 35 too
If you buy a beer in a pub it comes in a pint or half pint glass, however if you buy a bottle in the supermarket it comes in 500ml bottles or 440ml cans. A UK gallon is different to a US gallon. I worked in the construction industry and that was all in mm. We measure distances in miles and measure fuel consumption in miles per gallon, even though we buy fuel in litres. Speed is measured in miles per hour. We also use stones and pounds (14lbs /stone) when we weigh ourselves, but also use kilograms. The same applies to height measurement (I'm 6'3" or 190.5cms depending on who is taking your measurement). Marmite spread very thinly (and I mean very thinly) on hot buttered toast is rather good, actually. "Gordie" is the nickname of people from Newcastle. We have mixer taps throughout our house. Many designs of sinks and basins are now produced to accept mixer taps. In France and Spain they water down wine and can give it to children. Chip butties are delicious (can't use those skinny scrawny things you get from Micky D's, but fat buggers). I sometimes put some mushy peas on it as well, with some HP sauce. Even the fish is sometimes included. Yum😂😂😂 You guys just don't know what you're missing
With the taps thing, all you do is put the plug in the plughole fill with hot and cold water then you have warm water to wash in, it's not rocket science. Actually you can drink as young as 5 years old as long as it at home and only a small amount, as far as 16 you can legally drink at a pub with family and while having a meal. Tyler Butty is a slang term for Sandwich.
Here in Italy it's quite normal to have some watered down wine as a child, maybe during the holidays or family festive dinners, or some similarly light alcohol to taste (not to guzzle down like water, mind you). It takes the "forbidden" out of drinking alcohol, and it does not encourage binge drinking as soon as you reach the legal age to drink (18, here). For instance, I like cocktails, and I drink maybe one a month, but not even every month, just every now and then (I got drunk when I was an adolescent, at least 7-8 times, but that's about it, I never did it as a grown up). If you're familiar with a drop of booze you don't see it as the forbidden fruit...
I have a hot and cold tap in my bathroom but one single tap in my kitchen. We have both in the UK, but the single tap is becoming more popular here. 😊🇬🇧
And don't forget if you put in the plug and run both taps the water in the sink is just right.
The two taps are normally found more in older houses - new builds will get a mixer. It’s because cold water comes from the mains water and is potable - the hot water used to come from a tank in the roof and go through a boiler. Once that water is used up you have a freezing shower lol. I hate that when I go to my dad’s house as we have a combi boiler that gives you as much hot water as you want and we had 5 kids so was needed.
Don't use big words with Tyler. He thinks potable means being able to carry it around.
I had a babycham at 8 and 2 bottle s of sherry in my auntie trifle
Pints for beer and milk
Feet and inches for body height
Stones and pounds for body weight
Miles for distance
Miles per gallon for fuel consumption
Fahrenheit for temperature (weather) if it’s over 100 because it sounds so much hotter
Tablespoons and teaspoons for recipes for smaller amounts of things when it’s more convenient to use a spoon than measure in millilitres or grams
Apart from that, yes, we are totally metric 😂
Sort of. Not sure why we still use miles and MPH, but cyclists and runners tend to use km. Medical professionals use metric for body height and weight even though most people still use imperial at home. Almost everyone uses centigrade- it has been the only temperature on weather forecasts for maybe 20 years. Fish are weighed in pounds (by anglers) or kilos (by fishmongers). Small areas of land are often measured in acres even though hectares in the official measure. Some land (allotment plots) is measures in poles.
I disagree on a few of these, like milk is sold by the pint, but no one I know says they're getting 4 pints of milk, they'll say 2 litres, even if the pint measurement is more accurate.
For height and weight I think it varies, everyone over 40 seems to use the weird imperial units, anyone under 30 uses metric, the 30 somethings seem to be 50:50 on what they use or know both.
We use miles for distance on roads because the odometers and speedometers are in miles, GPS and google maps will give distances in km because that's more intuitive and understood. The end result is I mostly just trust my GPS's time estimate because I can't be bothered converting speed into km/h to do the time calculation myself. Honestly don't know why we're still using mph and miles on road signs, it's just really archaic.
I don't think I've heard anyone use Fahrenheit for temperature in the last 10 or so years. It used to be weather reports would mix it up, and when that stopped happening everyone stopped using Fahrenheit altogether.
Spoon sizes are volume, not weight, so the conversion there isn't 1:1, the 1teaspoon is 5ml is based on water and is always off once you start trying to use it for anything else.
Why should the government regulate when someone can drink in their own home? Under 5 is child abuse, but otherwise we prefer personal freedom over government overreach. My son (at 12 ) will sometimes have a watered down wine or glass of tonic with the drop of gin in it.
He actually likes gin? Ugh, mental.
The law about "five-year-olds can legally drink" gets trotted out a lot on these "weird facts" videos, but it's nothing like that. The age limit is so low mainly to allow religious rituals involving wine. It also means you're not breaking any laws if a kid at a party pesters an adult for a sip of drink. (Both of these being very common in the USA too, but not officially recognised in law.) Any parents who allow young children to drink regularly or in large amounts are going to be in very serious trouble.
Indeed, law or no , it would be seen as very wrong by all adults worthy of the name .
Bovril (the beef version of Marmite) is usually mixed with hot water to make a beef tea-type drink. I've never heard of anyone doing that with Marmite.
I've tried it. it doesn't work well
Hi Tyler,
The mixture of measurements stems from our proximity to Europe (just 20 miles from Dover Castle) and also our time in the EU.
We need always to be prepared to recognise both systems.
My 12yo Londoner son now pronounces "privacy" the American way and calls petrol stations "gas stations". I blame RUclips. 🤣
My first taste of marmite was terrible but after second attempt I actually love it 😂...so yes u will either love it or hate it.
I tried Marmite on my first UK travel, at 18 (from Italy). It was love at first bite!!😋😋😋😋So now every time I visit UK I bring Marmite home, because in Italy you can't find it anywhere...
I hate Marmite, my bf loves it
Yeah, in Scotland we give our school age kids malt whiskey in thier porridge for breakfast - it helps fortify them against the cold. It is most important to give them this before we go out on a haggis shoot, as weather on the hills can be particularly brutal.
The tap thing is a relic from the days when hot and cold water came from two different tanks. Unless somebody wants an old 🙄fashioned look or the house is very old then single taps are the norm.
Both measurement systems are common in Ireland. We measure large distances in Kilometres, but often use feet and inches for smaller ones. Everyone I know measures height in feet and inches, not centimetres. Weight is usually stone, or pounds, or kilograms...
Edit: The American way of saying "garage" sounds more fancy than the British way 😂 Also I say "privacy" the same way you do.
You alright? - greeting. You OK? - genuine concern.
The only things sold by pints are milk and glasses of drink in a pub. Everything else is mililitres/litres. And milk from a store also has the litre measurement on it first. The use of pints is more tradition than anything. The reason why fuel consumption is miles per gallon is because the only regular usage of imperial as a standard, now, is road traffic. Speed limits are still mph, distances on road signs are still miles. But I couldn't tell you how many gallons are in my car. I just let my car tell me how many miles more it can drive.
As for the tap thing, most baths are still sold with two tap holes but most baths will have a mixer tap that combines the two feeds together. Most basins are NOW sold with only one tap hole for a monomixer tap but most preexisting basins will have had two tap holes. So in an older property you will likely encounter a seperate hot and cold tap (and, yes, the hot can be very uncomfortably hot at maybe 60-70C depending on the water heater involved) whilst a new property or commercial premises will likely have a mixer tap.
Alcohol: my parents would let us kids have a small glass of wine from about the age of 8 or 9 with Christmas dinner or try a sip of something they were drinking if we asked (mostly to watch us go 'ughhhh'). When we were in our early teens they would let us drink with them for special occasions so we knew more about how we reacted to alcohol in a safe space. It's not always like that, but parents are likely to let their teens drink with them for special events unless they are super strict.
A couple of other different pronounciations are Baton( Battern in the U.K. and Fillet ( Fill It in the U.K.).
Americans assume any word they don't recognise is French and then try to guess its pronunciation. Hence valet becomes val-EY instead of VAL-it.
I don't know about Marmite as a hot drink but Bovril is good
My maternal Grandmother actually used to give me sips of Guiness when I was 5! Usually to calm me down if I was upset or playing up lol.
If it’s a liquid it’s in litres/milliletres, unless it’s beer or milk then it’s in pints. Fuel is sold by the litre but consumption measured in miles per gallon. Weight is in grams/kilograms, unless you’re measuring your own body weight which is in stone/pounds. Measurements are usually in centimetres/metres, unless you’re measuring your height in which case it’s in feet/inches!
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The mix of measurements is easier than you might think because of the way we tie some measurements to specific things. Younger people are pretty much exclusively metric, but those of us who grew up with the imperial mix a bit. Imperial for body measurements and driving, metric otherwise. I am around 6 foot four,but my son is however much in metres and centimetres. I understand miles per hour but translate the km when in France.
There is a Second World War story somewhere were an American bomber returning to base was refused landing permission because the code word was vitamin.
In Australia we have the chip butty which is hit potato chips but we also have the chip sandwich in which we butter two slices of bread open a packet of potato chips and put the potato chips between the two slices of bread. Delish!