American Reacts to Things Brits are REALLY Good At
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
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Every nation seems to have the things that it is known for and today I am very excited to react and learn all about the things that Brits are really good at. I am not exact sure what we are about to see here but I am ready to find out. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
When it comes to Brits playing Villains, one of the greats of that, Alan Rickman (Snape in Harry Potter and Hans Gruber in Die Hard) was asked why he does the villain role so often. He only gave a scaving look at the person and answered, "I do not play villains, I play very interesting people." That tells you why British actors do it, it's bloody fun. God I miss Alan Rickman and Christopher Lee.
You mean "scathing"!
God Christopher Lee was an utter legend.
@@marythurlow9132grammar hawk keeping watch I see. Thank you for the correction.
@@supremefankai5480 we knew what you meant
Mary Thurlow. I can't help wanting to correct peoples comments either.
One of the most irritating is people who insist on spelling 'you're' as 'your'. Maybe it's laziness. There is also 'there's' instead of 'theirs' etc.
A lot of the problem stems from the stupid autocorrect which insists on auto correcting a correct word to be incorrect. Even after you have corrected the auto correct 'mistake'
by proof reading as soon as you turn your (you're - ha ha) back it auto corrects it back again just for a laugh.
The main problem is if you're (your - ha ha) using a mobile phone it's (its -
ha ha) very difficult to proof read on the small screen and scrolling is very awkward. Some people just 'wing it'
I know I do occasionally.
Once you post your comment it's too
(To/two - ha ha) late and it's out there!
Of course, there are people who are just uneducated.
Keep up the good work!
I'm English and I love the Austin Powers films. It's great to see our culture being sent up. We British like self-deprecating humour that's for sure.
The English aren't as easily offended as others!! 😂🤣
As long as you’re aware that Mike Meyers is a child of British parents but grew up in Canada (Toronto).
@@robertpearson8798 Would that affect your genes??
@@iriscollins7583 Not at all, I just wanted to point out that Meyers isn't really American.
The expression 'bloody good at ....'
was considered swearing in the 50-80. Nowadays it's 'fucking good at ....' is not used in polite society.
There are people who don't like or purport not to like swearing.
My ex wife used to go mad whenever I swore. This only encouraged me to swear even more, which explains why she's my ex.
Mind you, she was/is a raving (bloody) snob.
I didn't know Tolkien was british?
But what do I (fucking) know?
In relation to point 1: Most actors in the UK go through theatre school and then through theatre and Shakespeare to then be in films. That is the pipeline for our talent getting into films, its through theatre, rather than through TV. They also provide the perfect opportunity to not only play the hero but to play people who are bad/mad, e.g. macbeth etc.
It's a long but worthwhile apprenticeship which gives appropriate rewards when learned well.
Also, around London theaters is a great place for 'Star Spotting'. We'd often see the likes of Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and the glorious Maggie Smith popping in and out to the shops. Just grabbing a sandwich right next to you (Helen Mirren really is *that* beautiful close up and smells divine). Judy Dench has often said in interviews what a good educational and grounding experience live theater is. Plus, if the play does good business, the hours are regular and without all the boring hanging around that happens on movie sets. It's definitely not a poor second to being in movies.
Bloody is very common. Einstein became a US citizen and was a brilliant mathmetician and scientist. He had the pictures of his three heroes on the wall of his study. All were British; Maxwell, Newton and Faraday.
Einstein wasn't just a brilliant scientist. He was a bloody brilliant one 😁
The history thing; it always amuses me when I hear an American say such and such is 200 years old as if it's ancient and I'm thinking that's only just out of living memory. Then we look to Greece and they say "hold my beer"
I love the fact that the little shop opposite me that sells ice creams was once part of Abbey buildings erected in the 1100's.
Greeks actually say "hold my ouzo!" 😊
In the UK we have buildings and houses getting on for a thousand years old !and beautiful they are too !
You should do a video reacting to horrible histories, it’s a history comedy show made for kids but so many adults love it as well. The songs are iconic and comedy is great AND it’s educational
YES - This. Fantastic series and I am 43 - Love watching it.
I love hearing your comments on all things British. It's nice to hear your enjoyment and amazement of some of the topics. ❤
I’m Dual National U.K./ USA so I’ve explained things to people in both countries!! I am enjoying your videos!!!
So am I! I live in Florida now. Hi Samantha.
@@eddihaskell I lived in New Jersey, NYC and Pennsylvania!! Then after my kids I came back to the U.K. !!
@@samanthahadwin I moved to the UK for work (Richmond) in the 90's from California and liked it so much I became a citizen. But now I relocated to Florida. I still consider myself British American.
I hope that you travel to the UK & make a series of vids from there, documenting your experience; it'll be so much fun!
Fun fact on historical buildings, ie castles.
Wales has over 400 castles and ruins that you can visit, it is the most castle dense country in the world, and you're rarely more than about 20 miles from one.
And less than 10 miles from a delicious Welsh cake and perhaps some rarebit, ^oo^
Interesting fact, thank you.
Whenever Americans consider historical buildings in the UK, they invariably think of 'castles' immediately. That's a very tunnel visioned view - we have thousands of buildings in the UK from museums, through government buildings to stately homes that are themselves older than the USA itself. There are even lots of everyday houses, shops etc. which were built even before the continent of North America was discovered.
Most Welsh castles were built by the English as the bloody ungrateful buggers would not stop rebelling xD
@@jakhulley7171 I know - awful weren't we wanting to be left alone? :) ^oo^
YOU TWO ARE TWINS!? I was saying to my mum (she loves watching both of your videos with me) - you both look alike and it wouldn't surprise me if you were related, and it turns out you're twins and I am surprised 😂
Great reaction as always Tyler!! Always wake up and hope you have a new video :D
My wife is Brazilian and when she first came over we went to North Wales to see the castle's, it took her a while to get over the shock and had fish and chips in Conway 😊
You mean Conwy
Castles are spread all over the UK, every county has them.
Rounders is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a rounded end wooden, plastic, or metal bat. The players score by running around the four bases on the field. Rounders is the original baseball game. Played in UK since Tudor times,
Austin Powers Mike Myers is a dual Canadian British national, with parents from "the beatles" country.
The other thing is that British actors don’t have to be “ beautiful people “ but just talented “.
This is bloody brilliant, and yes we do 🤣
Bloody hell…you got there before me. I was about to say the same bloody thing! 😂
Modesty, people who boast are not popular and open themselves up for ridicule. Baseball is rounders in UK.
And rounders is played by girls 😂
rounders was our 'summer sport' at primary school. and I hated it.
I live in a town in England called Birkenhead (across theRiver Mersey from Liverpool) here we have a public park (Birkenhead Park) which was completed in 1847.. In 1850 Frederick Law Olmsted visited on his tour of Great Britain.. when he saw the park at the time he decided he would incorporate most of it in his design of New Yorks Central Park.. to this day Birkenhead Park is the Oldest public Park in the world.. just a thought
Check out the 1980's offerings "Yes Minister" and the follow up "Yes Prime Minister" Script writing at its best.
Outwardly very modest whilst inwardly secretly thinking were the best at everything, full stop, but no one will admit it
Yep we’re great at saying Bloody great ,bloody brilliant, bloody good , bloody hell ,just a few of bloods we use 🥰
Bloody awful, bloody nightmare
You could try watching the t.v. show The Inbetweeners, series 1 to 3. It's going to shock you, but you'll die laughing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧
I think one of the reasons we make bloody tea here in the UK. Is we use a kettle to boil the water. Not a microwave.
Our humour is unmatched 😉😂😂😂
Because, in the main, it's clever and intelligent. But if it's not slapstick the yanks don't understand it.
When it comes to music, the British take the top spot hands down. 3 of the top 5 best selling artists of all time are British (The Beatles, Elton John, Queen), as well as 5 of the top 10 (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd). And let’s not forget all of the bands/artists involved in the British Invasion in the 60s which shaped subsequent American music!
100% agree from an Englishman, the U.S and the U.K Number One For Music... and the U.S are Amazing at getting the absolute best out of what ever they get there hands on... for eg.... extreme sports.... baseball (which was only rounders when invented here... Big Up to our brothers and Sisters over the pond ❤
Authors had me screaming at the screen, SHAKESPEARE!!!
& Agatha Christie!
Baseball is mentioned in one of Jane Austen's novels.
Austin powers, he's we do I own the special edition collection and Mike myers is actually british/canadian perfect mix of to beautiful places
Omg I had a feeling you and Ryan were related in some way 😂……mind blown!
I watched a reaction video earlier this year where an american guy reacted to bands that Americans thought were American... It was amazing seeing his little heart crushed XD
Comedy: you should try Monty Python, Red Dwarf, Open All Hours and others.
The Goon Show is a real classic - zany, crazy, wackh humour!
Bath is a place worth a visit it had its roman baths and beautiful style homes like London
OMG I didn’t even know I was watching two different people, I knew the background changed but just thought you used different rooms & I didn’t notice the names just went by your faces. As us Brits would say I am flabbergasted 😱. ❤️🇬🇧
FUN FACTS.
The theatre in Drury lane. Is the oldest theatre in the UK. And opened in may 1663. and still in else today. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍
Yup, Baseball is another of our sports, we've been playing it since the 14th century. It was imported into the America's via Canada in the late 1700s, after gaining popularity it migrated down into the rest of America and you get to where it is today.
Yes, it was called Rounders, and Cricket is kinda link Baseball.
It's based on the schoolgirl sport of rounders, played in the UK since the ball was invented, very basic throw a ball hit it with a stick and run around a square.
Baseball was called Rounders in the UK
Played it in 1960's,loved it,was so disappointed to find it replaced in later schools for boring Netball
@@linnettsamuel5026 Rounders was my favourite too .
I'd say self-deprecating rather than modest 🤔
The villain thing is definitely real. It is an attitude thing .. the British love a truly villainous character, whereas in the US actors are scared it will tarnish their image.
Yes, we like Mike Myers/Austin Powers .. it is that self-deprecation again. Most of the best British humour pokes fun at ourselves.
I've been bloody confused for months. Am I watching the right hand or left hand one? These guys seem sooooo bloody similar.
The UK also gave you - the US - your National Anthem. Please see YT vid 'US Anthem Stolen from British Drinking Song | What History Forgot'
Thanks for the tip. Very interesting !
Don't forget inventing things:
World Wide Web, Turning Iron into Steel, the Mackintosh Waterproof Coat, the Telegraph, Chocolate Bars, the Fire Extinguisher, all the innovations used on Aircraft Carriers, the Highway Cat's Eye, Cash Machine, Hydraulic Press, the Guillotine, Lawnmower, Light Bulb (Swan got there before Edison), Electric Motor, Portland Cement, Wind-up Clockwork Radio, Tarmac, Bicycle Wheel, the Airplane (ok, it was a glider), the Factory, Arc Lamp, the Matchstick, Linoleum, Vaccines, Animal Cloning, the Tank, Spinning Jenny, Power Loom, Steam Engine, Spinning Frame, Tooth Brush, Water Frame, Steam Locomotive, Soda Water, Tin Can, Champagne, Reflecting Telescope, Agricultural Seed Drill, Torpedo, Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft, Hovercraft, Jet Engine, Pneumatic Tyre,
To name but a few things
You mention innovations on aircraft carriers but failed to mention AIRCRAFT CARRIERS themselves!
All true but the US did invent TCP/IP and the foundations of the internet. Without that there is no WWW.
@@GBURGE55 wouldn’t that be a bit of a given? Great work at spotting it as it’s quite the list (no, not being sarcastic, just surprised as not everyone takes note!). ATB.
@@GBURGE55 We pretty much invented the aircraft carrier by inventing everything that made it work.
OMG I have watched Ryans videos on his own and have said a few times 'God these two could be brothers' Yes I am not going mad, you are. will defo check them out as love you both. Congrates on recently becoming an Uncle. Yes us Brits are rather good at stuff. The US has some music festivals but Glastenbury is legend. Everyone whos anyone wants tp play there. If you checked a list of the top 10 biggest selling bands i reckon Brits would have a bout 7 places with ABBA and a couple of US bands making up the rest.
Plus the world's biggest live gig in 85, Live Aid.
200,000 inside Wembley and over 55 million watched live in the television around the whole planet apart from China for obvious reasons.
@@stevebagnall1553 Good shout, although the US got involved it was totally British in its conception and organisation.
The 'British modesty' thing is worse in Scotland, to the point there had to be established classes in our senior years at school in order to teach us and help us to write our CVs for Uni and work, because we all collectively struggled (and I mean some were close to tears) to write anything positive about ourselves
I've been subscribed to both of you for a while and as of yesterday, subscribed to your joint channel 🙂 I don't know why I was so surprised, I always thought you looked similar lol
what is the joint channel called please?
@@loulinden823 it's called Ryan and Tyler but nothing has been added in about a month now.
I heard a funny story about Alan Rickman in die hard basically the scene were he is killed off and falls from the building, in an interview Alan said the drop was about 3 floors obviously on a wire, and the director said ok Alan now you look a little nervous but what I’ll do is count 321 then we drop you ok, Alan nods and says ok, as the director headed back he said to the guy operating the wire Alan is attached to the director said drop him literally on the number 3.
Basically the director wanted to get the shock in his eyes as he falls.
"Bloody" was a serious curse word back when I was at school in England up to my 13th birthday. By today, nobody regards it even as a mild way of swearing. My London-based son, now 29, never uses the word (at least in my hearing on Skype), but other expletives which I'd never even heard of 60 yrs ago are seemingly part of his everyday speech - and he's a barrister! In general, Brits swear far more than Americans, but are amateurs compared to Aussies and Kiwis. 🤭🙄
“British swear more than Americans…” ummmmm….have you ever seen the USA tv programmes The Wire, Homeland, The Sopranos??!! 😱😱the actors’ script dialogues only seem to consist of two words, both expletives - one of them is seemingly always calling one’s female parent into question!! 😲😲
🎉You didn’t get “that language” in Downton Abbey! 😉🤔😬
That's very true, lived in Australia for six years through work, I would go there to live tomorrow but would miss my kids and grandkids too much.
You can also use that word literally,for example to describe a war.
Having worked in all above countries, I'd say Britain and Australia leave the rest in their wake.
Who wins out of Oz and Britain is dependent on which parts of those countries.
When I go to my local bar, or watch my loacal football team, every other word is a swear word, usually the word c***! I've found Americans to be very tame and reserved compared to the rest
Incorrect - Aussies are all reject Brits anyway so there is no competition.
It would blow your mind to learn how football began and how it has turned into the modern day game which is far far from its origins and would be great to see you react to that
This list missed of Shakespeare, considering it's learned in most countries of this world and you can go to any country and watch a Shakespeare play live on stage.
Out of both brothers my favourite is, between me and the bedpost. Apparently there used to be a sitcom called friends, whatever that was, much preferred Frazier, having at least two British born main characters.
Yes we do use the word 'bloody' . It has the double down effect. We use it positively or negatively. Like "that was rubbish" or double down , "that was bloody rubbish". "That was great" or double down, "that was bloody great". It's an emphasis on depth of feeling towards something. Only in formal situations it's regarded as a swear word, so don't be saying it in court or a school etc.... Love your vids.
Brita are really good at. 1. Queuing. Lining up properly. Even if they do not know why there is not a line, Brits will get on it. 2. Making Roasts and Potatoes. Especially on Sunday. For some reason Brits really know how to do this. 3. Imitating American Accents. They can imitate Americans much better than Americans can imitate British accents. 4. British guys and girls are sexy as hell to Americans. It does not work the other way around. It can, but not as much. 5. Drinking. Except for the state of Texas, your average Brit can drink your average American under the table. Trust me on this. Americans cannot outdrink Brits.
Are you telling me you have never heard of Glastonbury?(pronounced: Glas-ton-bree). Our tv comedy is usually very funny, from stand up to sitcoms. We like a good laugh. We are taught to be modest and put others first. Our parents and grandparents give us good examples generally, but not always! Being an extrovert is not something we enjoy. Our music scene has always been outstanding. As for british actors being good villains, it is the diction and timing that theatrework gives a great actor. Listen to the crispness of their voices. Nobody makes a decent cup of tea like we do. Tea can mend hearts and fortify brave actions, it calms and it soothes the soul. But we really enjoy a good queue! Fairness and patience, as clearly demonstrated by the queue to pay respects to our late Majesty the Queen.
A lot of us say bloody all the time, ie; "look at the bloody weather."
," I wish I hadn't eaten all that bloody ice cream"
" the bloody dogs are barking at nothing again" ( I adore my dogs by the way)
It's just a way of emphasising something.!
yes you can have a small pub that is famous for people singing there as we all have to start somewhere its not very often you go straight to a stadium
Most towns and cities in the UK have theatres that host national shows or local dramatics or pantomimes at christmas.
Lol yes! We say bloody hell a lot!
British inventions: I'd like to include Swann for the light bulb, but that would open up a can of worms.
The aircraft carrier (though the Japanese built the first one as a purpose-built design, we had ships enough to convert our first ones from other ships).
Improvements for the aircraft carrier; the steam catapult, the arresting wire, the angled deck, the mirror landing sight.
Moving pictures (the sequence of frames on a strip of film kind) but not doing anything with it. Can't recall the poor man's name. Ironically, there is a British movie about him and what happened.
I'm being precise here: inventing and running (not building or flying) the jet engine first, but not putting it into an aircraft until after the Germans. Look up Frank Whittle.
Again being carefully precise: the first un-powered man-carrying, guided flying machine (Sir George Cayley's glider, with his coachman being the first pilot of such a device).
de Broglie discovering important parts of quantum theory in parallel with Neils Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and his other students, sending / giving them an alternate proof as a scientist should and so confirming and extending the field. Look up 'de Broglie waves'.
Wait, Ryan's your twin brother?? I often watch his channels!
P.S. I almost didn't recognise you without headphones on! 😁
In American films the villains usually have an English accent. Fair enough I suppose Silence of the Lambs is a good example
Even though Sir Anthony Hopkins is Welsh.
@@barriehull7076 to be fair he did sound more English than Welsh in that film. Perhaps Welsh wasn't threatening enough for American's.
@barrie hull No one said he wasn't. He certainly didn't give Lecter a Welsh accent - would have undermined the character if he spoke like Gladys from 'Hi-de-Hi'.
@@rnw2739 He would have certainly undermined the character if he sounded like a 1950's Welsh female housewife camply calling Hi-de-hi. Not sure that would be too threatening!
Girls played rounders which the US changed into male oriented Baseball.
We also have theatre/shows in the parks and other outside venues.
Love your reactions x
Oh wow.....that you are brothers...twins even 🙃🙂 When I first started watching Ryan a few weeks after watching you, I was really 'thrown' - but many, many videos later 🤯 I had sort of forgotten my earlier confusion....so am properly flabbergasted now!
Im Scottish (from Glasgow) and Mike myers is one of the only people that can do a decent Glasgow accent :) (his dad was originally from Glasgow so he grew up listening to it)
the austin powers movies are great. thats the thing with british people we love a bit of self deprecating humour and making fun of ourselves.
regarding villains the best movie villain ever was voiced by an American..(darth vader) but funnily enough practically every other officer of the imperial forces was a brit including emperor palpetine or peter cushing as the deathstar commander "you may fire when ready"
there are just so many brilliant villains played by brits but my fave is jeremy irons as scar in the lion king, Scar will be terrorising kids for many decades to come :). he pulled it off so well which really shows his acting chops because he's a genuinely lovely man.
Ian McKellen’s Richard III is one of my favourite underrated, somewhat forgotten movies ever.
Also Brits Steven berkoff and Malcolm McDowell always play villains also Sean bean(golden eye patriot games the hitcher )
Michael Caine (on deadly grounds Mona Lisa) ray Winstone(various movies) Tom hardy (bane , the krays). Boris Karloff ( the raven. The black cat, Fu Manchu, the mummy, Frankenstein's monster,)
Laurence Olivier (the marathon man) Timothy Dalton ( the rocketeer, flash Gordon, hot Fuzz)
All British
Yes we say Bloody Good a lot. If I am really enthusiastic about something I say, It's Bloody Buggery Good.
Baseball was invented here around 300 years ago, we still play it today but we call it "Rounders" and obviously it's not our usual past time sport, it's only really played in schools and after that we kind of stop playing it. I forget their names (I'm sure Google will help) but a few Americans caught onto it whilst over here and took it back to the states.
We can not forget the likes of Elvis presley, Frank sinatra, Bing Crosby etc not British but amazing. Hey I have twin to.
A shame that Elvis never played the UK, only a fleeting few hours spent in transit on an airbase between the US and Germany.
@@tonys1636 I know ,sad
I’d love to see you react to all the different British accents- I’m from Yorkshire
Bit actors tend to underplay their villain roles which builds up anticipation in the viewers' minds!
We love our good old British cuppa that much, we designed the Tank around a stove so we could have a brew in the middle of a battle 🤣
As a Brit, I love hearing you say bloody- ( your accent is just divine!) and why is it so sexy when you raise an eyebrow?😂
suggest you watch One Food in the Grave. Best situation comedy. Also Allo Allo
We don't have Simon and Garfunkel though. Loving the channel looking forward to seeing the ones with your brother
Not to mention the English language, penicillin, the World Wide Web, jet engines……the list is endless and all done before tea time 🤣🤣🤣
I might get my citizenship revoked for this but I actually liked the US office more than the original- don't get me wrong I think the UK office is great too, and an important series for tv history and influence, but the US office is a comfort show for me
No it won't be revoked but I think you may be spending a long time in Coventry.
not watched a full episode of both.
The office is bloody awful, hated it. US Office; Brilliance personified!
You should react to the British comedy television that made it big in America
Baseball i think comes from what we call "Rounders" hit the ball and then getting to each base beofre the ball. going the full way around is called a rounder.
yes we bloody well do!
Only fools and horses gotta be the best
Yeah, only fools and horses is horrendously funny.
Two episodes spring to mind immediately, the one where they were going to a party for a mate dressed as batman and Robin which turned into a 'wake' because the guy had died. Nobody told them and they turned up dressed as B & R.
The other one was the faulty blowup dolls which kept on inflating by themselves.
I nearly died laughing!
The blow up dolls is the best ever I couldn't stop laughing at that episode
Pronounced Cam(e)bridge. O2 Arena South London on the River. Football was medieval 🙂We have also won a lot of wars after many invasions in history.
What!!! 😮 twin brother !! I honestly never new till now. I have had a feeling when watching (whichever brother) something is a tad slightly different. Who know 🙈😁
We do have ice in drinks! I have no idea where she was referring to that that doesn't offer ice in drinks. We don't get more ice than drink like it seems is popular in America, but we definitely have a few cubes and maybe a wedge of lemon. It's usually offered, though, not just added to everyone's drink.
Bloody right!
Bloody well we do.
British actors have been chosen for their talent first before what they look like and therefore more believable.
Yes
British - modest. Canada - modest. Get the connection? But that's only one part of it. Modesty carries a bunch of traits with it.
He’s saying ‘bleeding’ or ‘bleedin’ Sodding or Sod off is another common one. 😂
The best UK movie villains, Are the British actors who paly Americans so well. Most Americans don't even know their British.
We either use bloody, as in"bloody great" or the alternative "bloody" is...."that's fkn great" 😳
Secret Garden Party is the Best music festival in the U.K. !!!
They didn't mention a single British scientist. Ricky Gervais got screen time but Darwin didn't.
I knew it!!! When I first saw Ryan, I kept thinking to myself he looked so much like you, I even thought he was you at one point lol, but I noticed he was wearing a wedding ring and you didn't, so I was going to say to you ,that you have a doppelganger on RUclips lol now we know he's your twin!
I am not sure, but I do know. Canada had a part in the invention of basketball. Peach baskets were used as hoops, but it became tiresome to retrieve the ball. They had to use a ladder! It was at this point that a Canadian said Cut the bottom of the basket out!!
Yes I enjoyed this video, I gave it a like, as I do with all your vids. You are bluddy luvly.
Great Video mate keep up the good work.
The best USA comedy ever has got to be Married with Children
Yes we bloody do say bloody alot 😂
I don’t know where the term Bloody comes from but when we use it… it’s everything you would use Fu****g for….such as f’ing idiot , Bloody idiot 😂😂