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He's deluding himself if he truly thinks he has an English accent. Any Brit would instantly recognise that he's from North America.
@@gio-oz8gf Yes yes but in my experience he has a better class of accent than most USA people.
In the UK we call a brand new, freshly laid tarmac road a bloody miracle.
It smells nice though, fresh tarmac.
@@brigidsingleton1596 No, it doesn't. I've thrown up simply from walking past a tarmac lorry.
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Well that's just something we shall have to agree to disagree on.
I find the smell of _bitumen_ - which is heated until liquid and can flow more easily, and then added to tarmac to meld it to prepared road surfaces, to be absolutely gross, and could indeed make anyone sick, but the smell of _just the granular tarmac alone_ is a lovely smell... Imo.
@@brigidsingleton1596 Apologies, when I saw "fresh" I immediately went to "hot".
@@zoeadams2635
Ah... Weird, but...ah okay!! 🤭🏴😊🖖
It’s illegal to use your phone driving in the UK
We call the grassy bit between the road and the pavement/sidewalk the Verge.
And don't forget it's the KERB in the UK, while being the CURB in the US... 😂😂😂
You'd use the foot brake for an emergency stop. You use the handbrake if the car's engine is still running but the car is stationary for a minute or 2 or longer. And as Evan said, you also use the handbrake as a parking brake.
It's a secondary measure when you leave it in reverse while pointing up a hill - gives you valuable thousands of seconds to contemplate exactly how much you fekked up.
And you probably would not use it in an emergency!
@@s.rmurray8161 If your other brakes failed, you would - but it's less effective and you lose out on all the clever stuff like ABS.
Not any more what with car companies putting crappy electric handbrakes in their cars that will only let you use it if the car isn't moving. So rather than having redundancy we now have a critical operation that has no back up. Main brakes fail tough luck the only way to stop now is friction and the tiny amount of engine braking so you won't brake in an emergency
@@cazadonelectronic handbrakes can still be used in the unlikely event of a brake failure. You just hold it instead of pulling once.
Number plate is just common slang. The correct name in the UK is "Registration plate".
And it is not just for cars, motorbike also have to have number/registration plates.
As for prettiness…….what is the purpose of this plate……oh yes to make it as easy as possible for the number/registration to be seen and remembered .
How easy do you think it would be to see the letters amongst the vegetables?
In the UK traffic lights are red amber and green. The picture that he used was a bright unmistakable yellow, but in the UK, that middle colour is more of an orangery colour that actually resembles amber. There is no such thing as an emergency brake, if you need to stop as quickly as you possibly can, the quickest was is to use the foot brake. I use the hand brake every time I stop at traffic lights or in a traffic jam so it's hardly an emergency brake.
I suppose if the emergency in question is the failure of the normal brakes you would use the handbrake but it is an ambiguous term.
We wouldn't call a flyover an underpass. It's strictly a one meaning word, to go over another road. An underpass is a pedestrian foot tunnel under the road from one side to the other.
I would say that an underpass is a road that goes beneath another road, or generally beneath something else. For example, Croydon had an underpass, which is a stretch of dual carriageway that goes beneath a busy traffic area of the town centre. The pedestrian version is a subway.
No. An underpass is a road that goes beneath another feature. A Pedestrian passage beneath is a subway.
I love that he thinks he's not obviously American. Everyone knows.
IMO calling a 'hand brake' an 'emergency brake' is both stupid and dangerous. If you pull it up in an emergency you are as likely to end up out of control in a flat spin as anything else. It is for holding your car in position while the car is parked - that is its sole function. The confusion on this seems to be down to Americans depending mostly on the 'parking gear' that is built into automatic cars, manual cars don't have that feature.
100% AGREE with you... Here in the UK we get taught to apply the handbrake when the car is in park. In the US they don't !!! 😮
Well....Career means to rush recklessly and out of control, while careen means to tilt, tip, or heel over. So you could career off the road and then careen over a cliff
Americans apparently use it, for skidding from side to side, where we'd say career, in English. But yes, a carenage was a place where ships could be left to tip over when the tide was out, to clean and repair hulls.
Career in that context is also the basis of a corny dad joke in which a driver takes a number of calls from his boss offering him promotion, before crashing due to the distraction... "Police said he must've careered off the road". You're welcome.
I think the word career in that context largely fell out of use some time in the 1930s but if he thinks we are still driving model T Fords that would be appropriate!
@@wessexdruid7598 I've an idea - I have read it somewhere - that the word originates from careening the hulls of ships meaning to clean the barnacles off the hull of a ship and goes back centuries. Often done using fire (very carefully given they were wooden hulls) to burn off the barnacles and other rubbish on the hulls.
@@musicandbooklover-p2o The OP was correct - look it up.
We don't have school buses. Kids just get on normal buses.
@AndPigsCanFly-ku6ku in my city, there are a few routes that are technically public but the routes are purely designed to pick up kids along the route to be dropped off at or near a few certain schools and the route is not used by the public mainly because some if the kids are absolute spanners.
The point of a Numberplate is to be as easily readable as possible.
Exactly. Americans often talk about which state has the prettiest plates, but forget the entire point is to be able to quickly identify a car.
Their format is easily readable by camera systems for law enforcement purposes but also for car parking charges, Mersey Tunnels, etc. I used the Channel Tunnel train a few years ago and the entire process was automatic by reading my number plate. The only human I came across in the journey was a man helping to park cars correctly on the train.
And originally was either all or mainly numbers. I'm old enough to remember when it was 2 letters and 4 numbers. And the letters identified the county you were from.
Something I noticed many years ago when driving abroad is that the UK has the largest print of just about any other numberplate in the world. It's certainly the easiest to read...and has no fanciful complications to confuse the issue!
The whole point of a Lollipop 'person' is to create a temporary crossing where there isn't one, so they aren't a crossing guard. Evan also ignored the fact that crossings aren't all the same. As well as Zebra crossings there are Pelican, Puffin, Toucan & Pegasus ones!
There is no 'levver' on the car Evan, it's a lever.
Pronounced leaver.
I had a car with levver seats
There are 50 ways to love your lever
AMBER is well named as it is not Yellow ! It's an Orange colour.
Like the old (and seen less often these days) 'Belisha Beacon Crossings'.
They have amber globe lights atop the zebra poles at zebra crossings.🦓
Normally Yellow is considered a warning in UK, where as Amber is not.
Note the Indicators/Blinkers are also Amber, not Yellow.
Yellow is used with Black.
Signal lights on the Railways are Yellow, not Amber, interestingly, or not.
Well no, it's not orange, it's amber. An orange that colour wouldn't be fit to eat imho.
@@brigidsingleton1596 Belisha Beacons put me in mind of Norman Wisdom films for some reason, but the last time I recall seeing one was when I lived in Sheffield. If you're not familiar with them, use Google maps to find Clarkehouse Road and near the junction with Westbourne Road use Street View to see them at the ends of the zebra crossings for both roads.
@@leohickey4953
I think Americans are too used (?!) to seeing / eating 'dayglo' foods, perhaps?!
you should NEVER NEVER be checking your phone when you are driving
Schoolchildren normally travel by public transport - unless mum drives them to school.
... or walk them if local. My granddaughter's kids Academy ('upgrade' from old school) have closed off the small part originally used for parents to drop off their kids, and the (main, busy) road it's on has No PARKING, NO Drop-OFF markings (& no zebra crossing) the full stretch of it, so they rely on a lollipop lady to cross kids from the bus stop that's around the corner on the opposite side of the road. Many driving parents instead drop them off or park and accompany them, at a nearby private housing estate, about a ten-minute walk away. As you can imagine, that causes some issues, too, lol.
Connor: "What do we say? Roundabout ..... Circle Jer...."
No Connor, that's something COMPLETELY different, lol
I came here JUST to see if I was the only one who guessed what he was about to say... 😂
You don't get lollipop people at Zebra Crossings. The cars automatically stop when you stand on the edge, (well, they're supposed to. Whether they do or not is another matter). Lollipop people just get their name from the sign that they carry, because it's shaped like a lollipop.
When I was a child over 50 years ago, there was a lollipop lady at a zebra crossing on the way to school. Mind you, it was an A-road, so fairly busy.
Lolly-pop person is often at a point on the road that does not have a Zebra Crossing.
@robcrossgrove7927 You do often get them at zebra crossings. The type of crossing is irrelevant, they're there to help kids cross the road. So not only to stop the traffic (which should be stopping at a zebra crossing anyway), but also to let the kids know when it's safe to cross the road.
Lots of people refer to a cup of tea as "A brew". It's not specifically in the north.
A brew is also a beer
In Nottingham, we'd 'mash' a pot of tea.
The term is definitely on the way out now though due to the almost universal use of electric kettles and single tea bags.
@@chrisbodum3621 👏 I (in Yorks) grew up with mashing tea too (never heard ‘brew’ until much later).
@@rodlaughton2318brew is used in Lancashire not Yorkshire. Sworn enemies lol. War of the Roses.
Cumbrians here and it’s a cuppa
What he didn't mention is that the sequencing of our traffic lights is different from in the US. We get an extra step where both the red and amber lights are lit, which basically means "the light's about to go green, get ready to pull away if it's safe to do so". I believe in the US, they just go straight from red to green, giving you no notice!
Also that we don't call it yellow because it is orange.
Southern African sequence: Green, Yellow, Red, Green. Unless you drive a taxi (not the same as American or British taxis) then it's go whenever you want especially in rush hour traffic.
@@readMEinkbooks The UK sequence is green, amber, red, red & amber, green.
They do that in Ireland and New Zealand as well,
Lollypop lady or man, holding a giant lollypop, whats difficult about that.
I'm so confused... Evan is from New Jersey apparently. Maybe New Jersey is different. My car has a hand brake, an indicator and hazard lights. There is a flyover where I live. We have traffic lights. I call it an amber light. We have roundabouts. Rotaries are the old-style circles. Our crosswalks now look like the UK zebra crossings. I think I shall start using that now! Maybe it's a northern thing. Maybe he's been away from North America for a while?
I had a few moments of tearlul laughing, hearing Connor say "I've got a fanny!"
The grass strip between the pavement and road is the nature strip in Australia.
UK cars are 85% 'stick' therefore 3 pedals. To move the car (especially on a hill) left foot clutch right foot gas, so unless you have 3 legs you will need a 'hand brake'. Hence why it's used all the time.
@Monkee1969 It’s not gas, it’s accelerator
Evan lives in London and doesn’t drive in the UK so we can excuse him getting this stuff a bit wrong
@@MandyWatt-tw2sn i couldn't spell accelerator ;)
@@monkee1969 Wobbled a bit there but a nice recovery on the dismount.
@@MandyWatt-tw2sn May be too litearal translation? In German ist is not called a 'Beschleuniger' but indeed a 'Gaspedal' - a 'gas pedal'.
We don’t have buses for schools. We mostly use public transport .
I did growing up in NZ as well, and - apart from some private schools with pupils from a wide area or sometimes schools in rural areas where public transport is sporadic at best - they use normal buses here in Ireland as well. You soon learn to avoid the buses when school is out (such as the 16.00 No. 33A) because they are full of secondary/primary school kids.
As a verb, 'career' is from the 1640s, but it ultimately comes from jousting and refers to a horse running fast. 'Careen' is from the 1550s and meant to turn a ship on its side, exposing the hull. Both words are from French.
It's not an emergency if the car is manual,it's just a brake .in an automatic you have the foot brake ,the brake on the gearbox (park)and then the emergency brake . Britain has automatics it's just that manual is more common ,also if you pass your driving test in a manual you can drive a automatic,but if you pass in a automatic you still have to sit a test in a manual.
That was interesting....especially so because I love to hear your musings on all the subjects 😊 The fact that it was almost always a Lollipop LADY when I was at school makes the phrase even cuter than Evan saying Lollipop Person 🍭
it was always a lollipop lady or lollipop man never person.
its called an Amber light because its amber coloured not yellow...
My auntie was a lollipop lady, and the local school accused her of stealing from her job. She denied it, but when the police searched her house all the signs were there. ;)
It's called Amber........wait for it..........because it is Amber and not yellow.
Pavement in the U.K specifically only refers to the side walk. All the other surfaces have different names and would NEVER be called Pavement
Unless you design the bloody things, then it's carriageway, footway and cycleway. Also if you need to get legal like arresting someone for being on the wrong "way".
I’m guessing it’s called pavement here as it was paved first in towns and cities before the road which remained more of a dirt track for horses etc.
In old English, from the middle ages onwards, a pavement as we call it was in fact called a 'sidewalk' This was adopted by settlers in the States in the early 17th century and still remains there today. The 'grand jury' was also an ancient English legal term, now no longer used in England but retained in the UK.
I think you mean 'footpath'. 😁😆
@felonmarmer it's quite literally not. A carriage way is exactly that. A surface where carriages and now cars move upon. Nothing to do with the pedestrianisation of the footpath known as a pavement.
I've heard other reactors call a roundabout a Traffic Island. In the East Midlands where I live now, they're referred to as Islands. Even in traffic announcements on the radio. In the UK, a roundabout is also a thing you'll find on many children's playgrounds.
Also Americans will call it a traffic circle
Interesting, in Ireland you get roundabouts (both on the street and in playgrounds) while traffic islands are often a couple of smallish lumps on the white line where people can stand to cross the other side of the road when the road is too busy to cross all the way in one go. They will often have bollards on them, sometimes they will be used to split a controlled pedestrian crossing in half with lights on both sides. Think they were called that in New Zealand as well thinking back, roundabouts were definitely the big things (you didn't get the dinky little ones in NZ in the 80s, don't know about now though) cars went around at a busy intersection to avoid having to put lights in. The one near where I lived then had a couple of traffic islands in the middle of each of the roads going off it which were used for pedestrians using the pedestrian/zebra/pelican crossings to cross the ''side'' roads safely.
@@musicandbooklover-p2o In Dundee, roundabouts are referred to as circles. This amuses people from other parts of Scotland
You can tell the man on the newsreel is British, because he said please.
i worked for British Rail thru the 80's as a shunter & we never called the guard's van by that name we called it the brake van because that what it was used for...braking, the guard could apply extra braking if needed
Jayne Mansfield was a blonde bombshell, as they called hot blondes in that era. She was also the mother of the star of Law & Order: SVU, Mariska Hargitay. Jayne died in a car crash in 1967 when Mariska was three. The voice over was definitely British.
She was also the celebrity who switched on the Blackpool Illuminations one year.
careen: to sway from side to side : lurch: to move forward very quickly, especially in a way that is dangerous or uncontrolled synonym hurtle.
and: turn (a ship) on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repair.
(of a ship) tilt; lean over...or
"a heavy flood tide caused my vessel to careen dizzily"
totally agree with the tree roots breaking the pavement, its character!
It looks quaint but it's hell for people in wheelchairs.
For caboose we'd probably be more likely to say "brake van" than "guard's van" although it might be regional. You don't really see them on the mainline these days though because trains are usually fully braked and don't need a separate brake van at the end. You do see them on heritage railways though.
Jane Mansfield unfortunately of course, was killed in a motorway accident in U.S.
-Handbrake is more appropriate- it is not an emergency brake - its a parking brake.
-In UK asphalt was named Tar MacAdam which was a very common asphalt layer in UK in 1950s1960s
-"Lollypop" was named so because it was school crossings and the warden would carry the lollypop shaped sign to stop traffic.
-We have Zebra,Pelican crossings again to make them cute to children to use.
-Red,amber,green traffic light 🚥
-Indicator is also called blinker.
-Hazard lights name is used but "EMERGENCY LIGHTS" is also used which you use if you have broken down to inform other traffic.
There are also Pegasus crossings for horseriders.
The road is tarmac. Pavement is slabs.
Pavement is any man made hard sealed ground surface, doesn't matter what material it's made of. So footpaths, roads, carparks, basketball/netball courts, etc. are all pavement surfaces.
Not a fringe, but verge. Pavement made of paving stones, laid by a paviour.
Pavement what it's made of is just called concrete, as a pavement is made from concrete slabs or paving stones. The lollipop lady/man is called that cause the stick with the word stop on that they're holding looks like a lollipop. All parts of the UK called a cup of tea a brew or a cuppa, not just the north of England.
You can learn to drive in an automatic and take your test in one, but then you won't be allowed to drive a manual/stick shift. But if you learn how to drive a manual, you can drive either type.
In a British driving test, if you don't properly engage your hand brake at a stop, that's one error point.
No it’s not. You just need to stop. Foot brake is fine.
That was the case in 1982 when I took my test but apparently the rules have changed. It seemed sensible to me to make it a routine action to always put on the handbrake when not moving as you would be less likely to forget to apply it and have your parked car roll away.
For years, I assumed a stop light was just a lit up sign saying STOP! A traffic light has stop, go and get ready.
If I heard that I would assume they meant the brake lights on a vehicle in front. Traffic lights does make perfect sense.
@@helenwood8482 I would also assume in the USA that a stop light is a "Go" light 50% of the time.
@@JamesMCross-w7j Bearing in mind that the USA also has the stupid rule of allowing traffic to turn right on red, why do they even bother to call it a STOP light?
There called brake lights
@@Phiyedoughtraffic lights are sighted at junctions to control traffic flow.
I've driven automatic cars - can't say I like it, I feel it reduces driving to piloting a Dodgem Car at the Fun Fair. & I imagine that some people's attention wanders somewhat when you've got one pedal for go & one pedal for stop.
One of the reasons I chose an automatic was I would get such anxiety with hill starts in a manual. 😬
And they are not fuel efficient they take longer to act than a manual driver controlled gearbox.
@@nolaj114it's takes a bit of practice but manual gives you more control and better fuel efficiency
Evandingerdangler and Lorryinthepond both appear to going through a disneyfication process, to the point that I don't know if they are actually remembering real stuff from their past anymore.
Evan isn't a scientist, or he'd know the three primary colours of light are red, blue - and green. If you mix red and green - you'll get yellow.. Your screen is made up of red, blue & green pixels.
In standard English, to "careen" is to tilt a ship on its side so you can clean its bottom of marine growth.
Amber is more orange than yellow. I think the people designing the first traffic lights were aiming for accuracy rather than fanciness.( Is that a word?)
You should watch some carry on films. 😈 Ooooh Maaytron!!
There are multiple types of crossings, a Zebra crossing is actually V specific iin the lights/signs/markings tho all "crosswalks" with white stripes on "asphalt" (Tarmac) are commonly called Zebra crossings cos of the B&W stripes. Nearly all our paved roads are finished with Tarmac, though there are a few concrete ones.
Hi connor , lollipop ladies / gents are essential part of the school experience .many kids gift them with christmas presents and cards for safely getting them across the busy road . 😊 🍭
Marilyn Munroe:they just told you it was Jayne Mansfield 🎩
The British word ‘Carreered’, which Evin is mentioning in this video, ‘the car Carreered of the road, the word means (especially for a vehicle)
To move fast and in a way that is out of control.
The word used in a sentence.
The car carreered down the slope, and collided with a car.
The black and white video, well, the voiceover anyway, is definitely British. Evan is talking about the Chiswick, (the W is silent), flyover. Chiswick is a borough of West London.
You only use your handbrake when you are not moving, using it while moving will not stop and emergency, but cause one. Evan will never get a standup gig.
"Like a fanny? Like a nice fanny? Not YOUR fanny. . . " Cheers. Whats wrong with my fanny?
Nothing if you are a woman, as it is a euphemism for Vulva.
the guard's van can also be referred to as a brake van
And we refer to it as an amber light because it is in fact amber coloured. Its not yellow, its more orange or amber coloured (and yes I said colour and not color)
Check your phone while driving ? Its illegal.
'Driving' an automatic car consists of basically only steering and braking. Steering mostly. You don't learn how to drive. You learn how to steer. The difference between steering an automatic and driving a manual car is similar to using a box mix to make muffins, and making them from scratch. One is opening a box, the other is baking.
License plate...also gets called a registration plate.
Careered off road....cimes from the french word carriere which means road.
Was then used to describe someones journey through work.
“Amber is fossilised tree resin that was created 2 to 50 million years ago. As it is tree born, Amber is classed as an organic gem, this classification includes any gemstone made or derived from living organisms.”
....... It's also a colour
@@rocketn8 and a girl’s name. It’s a colour because it’s the traffic light colour. 😃🇬🇧🇦🇺
We call them blinkers for slang .
I always find it difficult when Americans just say zebra crossing matches crosswalk when it's a type of crosswalk. It might be the most common in some case but there's also others
@Connor The greenery along the sides of a path or road is called a Verge. [sounds like dirge or merge]
In Ireland we say footpath for sidewalk, the pavement is the material the footpath is made of.
i really like mr Mcjibbin but cant stand that bellend Evan , he talks bollocks
I concur 🖖🏽
Living in London he has obviously spent his time With people who hate this country and it has rubbed off on him. With his attitude I sometimes can't see why he stays here.
@@vladd6787I like him.
Can’t stand that bloke on video, talks shite..
They both have their uses....
On the lights its called red cus its red green cus its green. It not yellow cus its amber. Amber is not yellow. Its between orange and yellow. AMBER. Google it
In the UK we have terms at school and university or college.
The grass strip alongside a road is the verge. We call blacktop tarmac, it is tarmacadam, from the Scottish inventor of the stuff.
Sidewalk principally refers to town streets, the bit in front of the buildings you walk on alongside the road. In the UK this is the pavement or footpath. Pavement should really be paved with stone slabs, called 'pavers'. It is not generally applicable to the footways along country or suburban roads. These are just paths. In the UK the 'street' applies to the whole set up, houses road & pavement, not the actual traffic way itself.
This is the road. When one steps off the kerb into the traffic way, you have stepped into the road, or roadway, not the street. You are in or on the street already on the path or in a house. Roads are not paved very often, rarely being stoned, but are coated in ashphalt, called Tarmac.
Modern trains don't have guards vans or cabooses any more. The caboose was actually a brake van, so that is what it was called in the UK.
The guards van may not always be a brake van. Lollipop for kids to learn how & where to cross safely. Their stop sign looks like a large lollipop. Zebra because it's black & white stripes. There are other types of crossing besides Zebras. Pelican crossing have Pedestrian controlled lights, hence the name. You need manual for British roads & traffic. You have to be able to DRIVE not just steer a car. Maybe Evan would understand if he actually could drive. A traffic light is not just for stopping. Amber is not the same as yellow. Hazard lights only when all 4 are on together.
They are also called blinkers by some people in the UK.
A roundabout is also a carousel in the UK, & a kids playground ride.
When you step off the pavement on to the tarmac, you have stepped on to the carriageway. I would use "road" the same way you've defined "street", and roadway not at all.
The green at the side of the road is the verge.
The thing the lollypop person is holding is the shape of a lollypop, hence the name. Obviously
its lollypop lady, that what it been for decades / many generations till the woke left took over and now man be what ever they like or the other way around. uk gone nuts and lot world has too. depends on where you go to school it lollipop lady or man
You don’t have a lollipop lady man at a zebra crossings. Lollipop people are used mostly to cross school kids over the road.
do not take everything he says as true. he tends to make a few mistakes in all his videos,
And change his opinions over time so even he doesn't agree with some of his older videos.
Manual cars are better. You have more control, better fuel efficiency and you don't look like you never figured out how cars work.
Caboose The origins One popular version dates the word back to a derivation of the Dutch word "kombuis," which referred to a ship's galley. History and Federal numbering scheme From 1910 onwards, vehicle registration plates for each state started at number 1 and were manufactured in enamel thus it was called the number plate. A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English), footpath in Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, or footway is a path along the side of a road. Etymology. Inherited from Old French pavement, from the verb paver + -ment, based on Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”). LOLLIPOP LADY | English meaning a woman who helps children to cross the road near a school by standing in the middle of the road and holding up a stick with a round sign that looks like a giant lollypop. I have had it with this guy not you McJibbin the other guy. Peace out.
I think I would probably say swerved not careered. Also he refers to 'public transit.' In the UK, the word transit is not used in this context. We would say 'public transport.' School buses are rare in the UK. Most children travel to school using regular public transport, unless their parents take them by car or they walk. I think that the parking brake that you referred to is specific to automatic cars.
Yes, I did go to school on a school bus but I think that was because there was a shortage of schools in one area so they were having to bus kids to a village 3 miles away. They just used a local coach firm so the buses were not purpose made.
5:20 In Australia we have number plates unique to each state as well. In the 90s each state had their own slogan, I don't look at number plates that closely anymore to know if it's still a thing. The ones I remember: Queensland = Sunshine State, Victoria = The Garden State, ACT (Aust. Capital Territory) = The nation's capital.
I've never heard anyone in the UK call the handbrake an emergency brake ????
He did not say it is, that's what it is called in the US, it is also called that in Oz and NZ.
In NZ, part of the Driving test used to involve an emergency stop, assuming your foot brake had failed, not sure if they still do this.
@@stephenlee5929 It was called a handbrake when I lived there.
Pro tip: don't talk when somebody else is talking... even if that is a video. Just pause it.
I've been on lots of pavements but I've never had my ass felt.
Try that in Rome...!! Especially on the buses!! (At least, it was that way in 1966*! - an escorted school* trip to Rome)
😅
Amber light is a yellow-orange color with a longer wavelength that makes it easier for the human eye to see in low light. So it is a technical description because the Brits love science
@Connor It is a Pathé News style of British Middle Class RP accent, typical of UK before mid 1970's
As in 'Path-ay' ... (For clarity).
@@brigidsingleton1596 Indeed so! Yup ...its not often English uses Gallic/Irish or French accented letters to signify a syllable sound inflection, unofficial alphabetical additions/left-overs.
Paving in English is a surface made of flat stones laid in a pattern. It's not rocket surgery!
Careen- definition - to turn (a ship) on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repair.
We do have Automatic cars in the U.K.
My wife drives an Automatic Car, which has a parking brake which has a Hand Brake just like a Manual Car.
I love how in South Africa traffic lights are called “Robots” and Roundabouts are called “Circles”.
The handbrake is applied immediately after parking and before releasing the foot brake, every single time.
In australia we don't use indicator or turn signal, we use the even more bizare term flicker light because we are all five year olds at heart.
It's a parking brake, whether it's hand or foot operated it's a parking brake. It is NOT an emergency brake! They don't exist! Foot operated parking brakes are predominantly American and rarely seen on non American cars.
Jayne Mansfield was the mother of American actress Mariska Hargitay.
We cant relate to school busses, we just have busses. When you drive a manual car very very little of the time driving is changing gear, it takes 2 seconds and youre in the right gear, you dont need to go up and down all the time and you can skip gears, manual is also much less jerky when slowing down, its a much smoother experience to just coast in or out of gear in a manual car compared to an automatic trying to engine break for you, trying to change up gear and down gear etc also you have much finer control of speeding up and its definitely less jerky. In the uk where theres a lot of bends, turns, corners, hills mountains etc the road is barely ever straight its just much much smoother to manually control the gear, even modern bmw's ive drove their automatic system still isnt good enough.
No, not Marilyn Monroe...JANE MANSFIELD!! 😆
Jayne Mansfield had bigger ... assets.
@@jerry2357 And Caboose, I think.
We also have automatic cars in the uk.
This is what happens when an American wants to 'Ameri-splain' Countries culture/language differences: gets parts wrong (this isn't just Americans, btw) and/or shows an unhealthy wedge of mockery. I'm getting to the point of disliking Evan's videos re: the UK. PS: Mr McJibbin, the accent you did was spot on. 😎
Yes, your British accent was great! Totally nailed 'daughter'.
But using ''semester'' instead of ''term'' would
Lollipop Lady/person is informal/unofficial, they are officially "school crossing patrol officer"
The German word for the indicator is Blinker. That's because the light goes on and of like the blink of the eyelid.