I love how America is so proud of leaving the British Empire it celebrates it every 4th July, but is as equally proud of still using that empire’s system of measurement. It’s literally called the imperial system 😂
They don't actually use the Imperial system, they use the American Customary system which, while based on the Imperial system, there are some important differences.
@@TerenceDixon-l6b that’s probably because when Britain took imperial to America, there was little to no record keeping or official stands of measurement set. Some was bound to be lost in the early days
Leftenant is so pronounced as the Old French spelling for lieu was spelled luef. Almost 40% of English is actually derived from French. A road that has no exit for instance is referred to as a “cul-de-sac.” We say courgette while in the US you use the Italian name Zucchini.
True that mate. I was in a supermarket in the US and an American heard me talking and ask where my accent was from. England I replied, oh, he said, I thought you were one of those dick heads. Long story short, he took a nap in aisle 7 and I'm not allowed in the store anymore.
Tyler.....the clue is in the name 'Imperial'..... we use pints, gallons, quarts, miles, yards, feet, inches, pounds and ounces .... a stone is 14 pounds (weight), although officially a 'metric' country we 'mix and match'. Miles per hour, miles to the gallon for cars. I'm old so personally never 'use' metric except for buying a litre bottle of Coke lol...... ;-) ......Americans please remember we INVENTED the Imperial system lol
It's amusing that Americans say 'F**k You' and we say 'F**ck Off'. Add a question mark to the American version and it becomes a 'chat up' line - albeit a crass one. It's straight to the point I suppose. Ours means what it says 😎
@@gibson617ajg American's ask where the bathroom is, even if they are in a bar or a restaurant. Why would you want to take a bath when you are in a bar? They can be so coy .....
Strange thing, America adopted a decimal monetary system long before the UK. Here, until we adopted the decimal system we had the British Pound Sterling. There were 20 shillings in a pound and 12 pence in a shilling, so 240 pence in a pound. We also had half crown coins and two shilling (alt two bob) coins (aka florins). Half crowns were the equivalent of two shillings and six pence. There were eight half crowns to the pound and ten florins to the pound. Confused? Of course you are. Why wouldn't you be. Pudding = dessert but it can also mean a savoury dish like meat in in a suet pastry case. There again there's pease pudding aka mushy peas. There is absolutely no logic to any of it. Wanking is sometimes referred to as jerking the gerkin, bashing the bishop, or in line with our illogical use of pudding, "pulling your pud". Then there's the American term of jerking off which leads to the American term of "jerk off" or just "jerk" which are your equivalents of the UK term wanker. So now you know why wanker is offensive in the UK. When indulging in banter you might call a friend a wanker but otherwise it is considered to be offensive. Complicated, aren't we?
As for food, the UK lost a lot of its food history due to WWII rationing. However, "British" food is ubiquitous in the US, you don't even realise it and even many British people don't. A new name or a slightly new form might be American, but its roots are British. Apple Pie, Pot Pies, Macaroni Cheese, Cheddar Cheese for that matter too, Doughnuts, Christmas Roast Dinner and much of Thanksgiving Dinner, Potato Chips, Candy Bars (chocolate bars), most all of your craft beer scene is British beers, half the roots of Fried Chicken or Buffalo Wings, the ubiquitous "sandwich", albeit in its actual form of sliced bread like the "grilled cheese" or a BLT. Just to name a few more obvious examples. The US goes as far as calling soft scrambled eggs "French Style" everywhere because it sounds better than "English Style". French style is like a sauce and you pour it onto toast. EDIT: Also, Beans on Toast is actually American...
You won't read this Tyler..but for any Americans who want to know...A British pudding is a dish, savory or sweet, that's cooked by being boiled or steamed in something: a dish, a piece of cloth, or even animal intestine..ok you got me on Yorkshire puds..
The Yorkshire pudding is a lard fried think pancake like a french crepe . It is made with drippings off a beef roast. However being a thin pancake it can be enjoyed with sweet or savoury fillings like the French and in fact the Americans do. In America it is called a Dutch Baby or a Popover. its not very flat because of the way its baked. You can have it with cherries and cream or gravy and sliced roast meat. My partner (british) always had it sweet as thatnbwas what her grandmother did, Myself and my kids have it with gravy and any roast meat. Lard or any neutral oil will not flavour the pancake batter and no sugar is added (flour, eggs milk, salt) Examples of sweet puddings Christmas pudding, treacle pudding, apple suet pudding Examples of savoury puddings Black pudding,, white pudding, hogs pudding, haggis (|Chieftan of the pudding race - according to Robert Burns) Suet pudding is anothe example of a steamed dish omitted from above. Suet is kidney fat from a cow/heifer. It is mixed with flour , water and salt and makes a kind of pastry which is placed in a pudding bowl and then steamed. The "pastry" never bakes or gets crisp but the heat should still make it lighter Savoury examples - Steak & Kidney pudding Sweet examples - apple, brown sugar and raisins - likely to be served with custard
I don’t believe that anyone, including Tyler , is as thick as he makes out, not even the “Average American “. He never reads the comments so don’t bother making any sensible comments. I watch him because I’m bored
Very much agree. I know I weight 14 stones. No idea what that is in kilos. Obviously, I know there are 14lbs in a stone (and 16oz in a Ib), but we think in terms of stones and pound for our own weight.
When milk recording went metric in 1976 I had to convert all the yields back to pounds of milk ( a cows yield was easier to measure by weighing than taking a volume when milk recording started about 1910. I didn't like the sysytem at first because the old benchmark yield of a thousand gallons ( 10,000 lbs) disappeared ( became 4 ,546 kg ! ) Nowadays lactations are far higher and 10,000 kg is quite common .
you’ve literally had most of these explained to you before in these comments many, many times. You’ve also come across the answer of some of these questions many times before in your previous videos.
It's almost as if he's pretending to learn these things for the first time, despite the fact that he has several videos covering these issues. Almost....
And yet, we still watch his childlike mind making these videos. Like a newborn giraffe stumbling, he's made so many of these and appears to have forgotten every single time. If you throw enough shít at a blanket, some must stick. Surely??
Traditionally, in the UK the term 'pudding' stems primarily from the method of cooking. It refers to something which is encased in either a cloth or bowl, or edible bag (like animal intestines) and then boiled or steamed. This covers both items like Christmas pudding, a variety of sponge or suet based desserts, and also savoury dishes like black pudding and haggis. Yorkshire pudding doesn't fit this definition - because it is baked in the oven in animal fat rather than being steamed - however there are certain similrities between the finished product and some steamed puddings. Over time the word 'pudding' has come to be used to refer to any sweet dessert dish served after the main savoury course of a meal. Most people use it in this way, rather than the more traditional definition.
@@neuralwarp My definitions are traditional. A pudding was something steamed or boiled in a pudding bag or bowl. Dessert may first have been used for fruit based sweets dishes, but these days the terms are interchangeable.
When it comes to weights and measures we in the UK are somewhat ambidextrous. We use a bit of both metric and imperial depending on the circumstances. We are not outright one or the other.
Tyler, This is correct our pints are larger than your pints as is our gallon. A stone is a measurement of weight equal to 14 lbs. This is before you start talking about chains, poles, perches furlongs etc.
Lieutenant: You have to understand that Norman French was the language of the government and military in England hundreds of years before the US founding Fathers. Apparently in Norman French (rather than contemporary French) lieu is pronounced luef. Indeed we DON'T say Left-tenant, but Lef-tenent Some even say Luef-tenent. It's subtle, but you can hear it.
Fish and chips is amazing. Especially if it's really greasy and eaten out of paper with a wooden fork on a chilly seafront :). Bangers are sausages - so bangers and mash is sausages with mashed potato (usually with gravy, sometimes also with onions. Yum!).
@@ponygirl i know, but its all European food my dear. Well maybe not so much chicken even though a lot of places did chicken i feel the KFC way was very American. It could be cajun or from Haiti maybe idk... but the rest is clearly European stuff. Italy and Germany i would say.
@@ebbhead20 I'm very worried about you, try looking into the utter rubbish stuff that will harm or kill you that's banned in Europe. ZZ top utter confusion.
He remains conveniently baffled by the definition of pudding even though this is his like 100th episode about it. US Pudding is just Jello corporation imitation chocolate custard. It is the same thing as UK Birds custard. The meaning of Pudding is not changed in the US as we all speak English and the meaning has not changed in the rest of the English speaking world. This is a specific example of a brand defining their category as you are exclusively thinking of Jello Pudding and the Hunts knockoff. It is like if the Brits started insisting we call "the Vacuum of Space" as "the HOOVER of Space!" "The Speed of light in a Hoover!" Then they started complaining that outer space was confusing because there were no hoover brand vacuum cleaners to be seen.
Not a British pint, it is a real pint, it is America that's out of line. Also, you do NOT use the Imperial system, in the US it is called the American Customary system which has some very important differences.
Yorkshire is pronounced York-sher, Berkshire - Bark-sher. Shire is "Sher". St John is pronounced Sin-Jun, Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumley, Mainwaring pronounced mannering.
he’s been told a thousand times - literally. he’s just ignorant, dim and gormless. He doesn’t read the comments - I think it would overwhelm him - after all, he’s had to read a few lines of text for this video so reading the comments will be too much!
Pudding is what we say in the home. And dessert when we go out for dinner. There are Yorkshire puddings, suet puddings , peas pudding...generally though, pudding is any desert .
The term 'duck' was once an honorific word used in the same way as 'Sir'. It has the same roots as the title 'Duke'. In the NE of England it's common to hear 'Pet'. Go further north into Scotland and it's 'Hen'. 😁
Originally a pudding was boiled in cloth or basin. It could be sweet or savoury. Thus treacle pudding is suet pastry in a basin over treacle and steak and kidney is a dish lined with suet pastry and filled with meat. It’s the cooking method. Haggis is boiled.
Tyler has the memory of a goldfish; he's repeatedly confused by the same things he's reacted to multiple times before LOL. - he's repeatedly reacted to videos giving the correct pronunciation of 'pasty' and 'Yorkshire', but still gets it wrong.
I'm beginning to think it's all an act, just for entertainment. Because he's running out of things to talk about on You Tube/Patreon, but he wants the money still rolling in, so he pretends like it's the first time he's done this subject.
Pudding in the UK can be more accurately described as anything sweet or suet. Suet pudding is usually savoury, like a Yorkshire pudding (basically water and flour-more like a pastry) or a pork pie pastry.
Puddings made for dessert can be boiled and steamed puddings, baked puddings, bread puddings, batter puddings, milk puddings or even jellies. however, Yorkshire pudding gets the second part of its name because centuries ago in England, puddings were a sausage-like meal that was not water-based and was solid.
don't forget steak and kidney pudding you have to place it in a pan pour water in just below the foils rim boil it until a knife can make it all the way though and touch the bottom
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 A lot of word are pronounced or spelt wrong in America. Colour, Centre, Gaol, Labour ect. OH God every time an Amercian uses the Zeebra, I think of a bra made for the worlds biggest boobs.
Rather than adopting Imperial, America mangled the definition of the English wine gallon when creating US Customary Units (a dislike of pi, perhaps?), and then divided that by 8 to get the size of the US pint, and then divided that by 16 to get the size of a US fluid ounce. A US fluid ounce of water weighs about 4% more than an avoirdupois ounce, and about 4% more than an Imperial ounce. America knew the use of said gallon had already been outlawed throughout the Empire, including Canada, before they "invented" it. Side-note: Ounce and fluid ounce are derived from the Latin unit uncia (one twelfth), as is the inch. There were 12 ounces to the pound from Roman through to Saxon times. Everyone in the world uses Britain's 750 ml (75 cl) metric+Imperial wine bottle, though, so when Americans buy a half case of wine (a half dozen wine bottles) they are buying approximately 1 Imperial gallon of wine.
We use the word pudding interchangeably So it can mean something like a bowl of ice cream or a Yorkshire pudding Which is a savory food used in stews, sundays dinners and other things like that I genuinely don't understand how you don't understand this concept
A British pint is larger than an American pint, as is a British Gallon larger than an American. We also use miles for road distances, & happily mix & match the Imperial with the Metric systems. We also use both the 12 & 24 hour clock times, & have both Roman numerals as well as Arabic numbers on clock dials, with few problems. A Stone is an intermediate weight for weighing things like people which is easier to work with than multiple pounds. For instance, the average weight of a man is about 12 stones, we do not render this in pounds which would be 168 pounds. There are 14 pounds to a stone. The word pudding originally meant in old English any mixed food that is cooked, so covers a wide range food items. Wanker is very rude, as it means a person who self pleasures themselves because they cannot find a sexual partner. Luitenant is pronounced in Britain as it comes out of French & German.
I feel like this is the 2nd or 3rd video I've seen from Tyler where he expresses surprise about the word 'pudding'. Many of the other words here have been reacted to by him in previous videos as well. I think he needs new content in a hurry. One that I may or may not have seen before from him is "Pint", so here goes: The Imperial pint contains 20 British fluid oz each, whereas the American pint contains 16 US fluid oz. The Imperial pint is approximately 19.45% larger than the US pint, because there is also a slight difference between the British fluid ounce and the US fluid ounce which is just a wee bit larger.
The reason why people from the commonwealth say "lef-tenant" can be attributed to the U being misread as a V during the middle ages, which in turn developed into and F sound.
When changing to metric, you don't change the names of things. A pint is still a pint and we all know NEVER to mess arount with the beer. A UK pint is 568ml, that would have moved to 500ml and pissed people off, but the US pint is only 473ml. Cans of drink, UK 375ml - US 350ml 1 gallon, UK 4,546ml - 1 gallon, US 3,785ml. ........ thats why your fuel looks cheaper. priced at $ 1 per litre, US is 4 3.78 per gallon- UK is $ 4.54 per gallon. ever asked why a big drum is 53 US gallons - 44 UK gallons, becausr its 200L
In the Uk , the generic term “Pudding” refers to a post main course food and is normally sweet. However there are specific foods that are described as pudding , Yorkshire pudding is a classic example , but there are also “ meat puddings as well .
Yes, I did tell you before, that there's a region in England when a stranger will politely call you ducky. I had it from the passing police - instead of "good afternoon Sir (in London) you hear "all right ducky?" (in the region).
13:22 how to tell the poster doesn't know anything about what we eat lol. Firstly there is a curry house on every high street. Secondly fish and chips was invented by Portuguese Jewish immigrants so...
No, we call them Zee Zee Top in the UK as well. We have Chinese, Indian, Thai, Jamaican and many other international restaurants and takeaways, as well as our national dishes - what has America given us, pop tarts and grits - lovely? American Lootenant sounds like someone who lives in a toilet (loo is a slang term for toilet here). We pronounce it '"leftenant" due to medieval spellings and pronunciation - we have history.
Tyler, where it comes to the Imperial measurement system the United States copied the United Kingdom's homework - except the handwriting was so bad that they ended up getting the measurements wrong!
At school we learned. 'A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter' rhyming water and quarter. That is 20 fluid ounces. What did they teach you in America? Lieutenant. Lieu is French for place (pronounced in French as lee-ur). Tenant is a holder. So a Lieutenant is a place holder for a captain acting on behalf of the captain. A French soldier would address a lieutenant as 'mon lee-ur-ten-on' with a nasal 'n' and dropping the 't'). The English pronunciation comes from old French. Here's one for you to think about. A Steak and Kidney Pie is made with short pastry but a Steak and Kidney Pudding is made with suet pastry and I would serve both with chips and peas.
The surname 'St John' is pronounced 'Sinjun'. It's a bit like 'Featherstonehaugh' and 'Cholmondeley' (pronounced 'Fanshaw' and 'Chumley' respectvely). Wonderful!
The US doesn't use Imperial. That's a common mistake. You use US Customary System. Both are derived from the older British Units (I think the Winchester Standards) and both were formalissed right around the same time. Imperial has more legacy baggage (that is rarely used) with things like "furlongs" (1/8 mile) or "leagues" for 3 miles, or smaller with a "barleycorn" (1/3 inch). USCS simplified a lot of things and took alternative values for other things (based on English inconsistencies), so our Imperial gallon is bigger than the US gallon. Americans calling their system Imperial is a secret British cultural win.
Lol a pint is an imperial measurement. We use both imperial and metric, we still use miles as the speed limit and distance. Most other countries use kilometres. I think using both is the better side of the argument as some measurements make sense due to the item in question
Usually, if it is called a pudding, whether it’s savoury or sweet, then at some stage of its production it has been cooked…. ie a rice pudding, a jam roly poly pudding, a bread and butter pudding, Eve’s pudding, Yorkshire pudding etc. A pudding can be served as a dessert, BUT a dessert is not always a pudding.
You've been told in the comments before that British Imperial pints are larger, you just haven't read them! Therefore on average, our beer is cheaper and we get more for the money. My German wife says the American and German definitions of 'Pudding' are basically the same, a milky, flavoured 'splodge'. You can tell with many American words, especially the nouns, that they are just Anglicised from the German.
American things that confuse a British person..(me) Being able to buy a gun in a supermarket 😱🤬 Knowing that children in schools learn instructions on how to protect themselves and how to hide under their desks just incase there’s a “school shooter” on the premises 😱 Not able to work out 24 hour times 🤔 Some people being “scared” and showing genuine fear when sampling digestive biscuits; haggis; spotted dick; custard; blackcurrant juice because the “names” put them off! 😩 Very strange….
Let me tell you that most Brits dont want to do metric. I still think in old measurements. The ‘Klik’ does not wash with me. I still measure in inches and yards. Interestingly when we buy window coverings, half of the measure is on ‘kicks’ and half is in inches!!! Welcome to english dilemmas!
Stone is a unit of weight for when you weight yourself on scales and 1 stone is 14 pounds and 1 pound is 12 onches. The UK isn't an Island, the UK is made up of mainly three countries England, Scotland and Wales and Northen Ireland is just a piece of land the English didn't want to let go and return to the rest of Ireland. Brexit is the UK leaving the joint union of 28 counties now 27 countries to take control of our boaders and law making and setting our own standards on goods and services, but looks like the Government messed that up and after the election it's about to become worse ( I voted to remain in the EU and my reasoning in at least we are at the table when making the rules and not stand on the sidelines waiting to be told what we have to follow to keep trading with the EU). Bangers and mash is sauages and mash and if you want to spice it up a little baked beans
American puddings are a dessert but, not really puddings. Puddings are stodgy, suet puddings such as sticky toffee, golden syrup, chocolate and Spotted Dick, not to forget Christmas Pudding, all eaten with hot custard, cream or, ice cream. Then savory puddings like steak and kidney, Yorkshire puddings. Yorkshires are eaten with roast dinners and gravy. A stone is 14 pound in weight. We use both metric and the old imperial measurements, the Government tried back in the 70s to make us only use metric, we refused!
I'll admit the lefttenant one is annoying even for me as a Brit, back in the day they obviously didn't know how to speak and no one corrected them, the left tenant would be the person renting the flat to my left 😅
It was originally a French word, not English, hence the pronunciation. Not because no-one knew how to speak! The word comes from the French words lieu, meaning "place," and tenant meaning "holding." A lieutenant is someone who holds the place of authority for the person who really has it, in other words something like a deputy. The "lieu" in French is sometimes pronounced as "lef" depending on subsequent words.
The Imperial Measurement system IS a British system. America has just adapted it in its own way. When we joined the EU back in the 1970's, we had to change to the EU's metric system - so we did (and we didn't, not really). So we still walk miles, and see land in acres. We buy a pint at the pub, fill the bucket with a gallon of water, tell you our height in feet and inches, weigh ourselves in stones (a stone is a14lbs unit) and lbs and ounces. Measure ingredients for cakes etc in lbs and ounces, measure doors in feet and inches. However to make it more exciting we also dip into metric measurements too. Like litres of milk and petrol (gas in America even though its a liquid!). I am happy to make YOU happy this morning as you question words in our language, but I have a little smile too - because you are doing so - while speaking in OUR language. Thanks for your reaction - love from the UK 'pet'! 😊
That’s not actually right. We’d started changing in the mid-60’s, I think the legislation was passed in 63 or 64, and it was supposed to be updated progressively extended. But because it was brought in under a Labour government, the next Tory government didn’t bother to make the next series of changes, then we joined the EU and it all got weird. When we’ve had a concerted effort to change, we can. I’m just old enough to remember decimalisation of coinage and the posters in the windows of all the shops. It wasn’t the chaos everyone predicted. I certainly remember the change to °C instead of °F on weather forecasts and that took a while, but now everyone is used to it. Because I’m old and have various medical problems I have fairly regular checkups, and they measure my height and, in particular my weight. That’s now all metric. I don’t know, without using conversion tools, my height in feet and inches, my weight in stones and pounds, it’s metres and kilos (less than when I was younger, far too many). I’m comfortable with using them now. We could change our road signs over to km, our speed limits to kph, calculate fuel efficiency in km/l. Not overnight, sure. But there must be a maintenance programme for road signs, roll it out with phase one being double values, km values larger and in black, miles values smaller and in a grey tone. Then phase two, just km values. Some people would scream, doubtless, but let them. You still get there.
1 stone is the equivalent to 14 pounds in weight Tyler. ZZ Top is a rock band and Brits say their name as zee zee top and not zed zed top so don't know what that person was on about. What Americans call pudding is what we call mousse. Bangers and mash is just sausage and mashed potato and brown gravy on top.
p,s. Tyler... Wanker is another word for Tosser. We do say 'zee zee' Top f chriiiiis sake!! Has Tyler _never_ heard 'Legs'? Or 'Sharp Dressed Man' ? Or 'TV Dinners' ?!😮
Actually, when I was at uni, my roomie in my 4th year bought ZZ Top's First Album, back in '71. When I saw it I did originally call it, " Zed Zed Top". 😅
As I've told you before Tyler, the US uses the Customary Measurement System not Imperial (which UK used to use) These differ in terms of volume measurement - the US pint, quart and gallon are different to Imperial, plus the US uses the Cup which was never an official Imperial measure, as far as I know.
Why he got offended was because we know that "wanker" is NOT a term of affection in the USA. It's a UK & Commonwealth countries word.. So unless you are really good friends/relations it will be taken as it's translated in the US - which is as an insult. And hell's teeth : "York Shy-er, Bedford shy-er, Lankar-shy-er"..... ever since they began both these brothers have been told time and time again, over & over, that "shire" is pronounced "shuh" just as noone from the USA calls it "New Hamp-shy-er". but instead. New Hamp "shuh". It's kinda offensive to their followers - who only want to help, that they don't bother to read the comments!
I lived in the UK (England more precisely) and, contrary to what many people think one can eat quite well in that country. Mostly in comfort food zone, off course. However,...I never met a pudding I could like. Not good.
Britain was forced to adopt the metric system when joining the EU. But if they tried to change the British traditional pint to metric it would mean war.
13:30 - NOT HATING ON FISH & CHIPS. Mocking the Brits inability to produce anything culinarily comparative to the exotic, aromatic dishes of the countries they invaded. And hating on the invasions.
St John, fantastic nearly chocked on my Irn Bru, pure spluttering.. I'm more likely to call someone a walker or tosser both terms of interment in the UK, along with tosser and many, many, many, many more.
I would say apart from money, most Brits use imperial measurements. We say miles, feet, yards, inches and so. We measure our weight in pounds and stones. Maybe young folk use metric.
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I love how America is so proud of leaving the British Empire it celebrates it every 4th July, but is as equally proud of still using that empire’s system of measurement. It’s literally called the imperial system 😂
Couldn't have put it better myself Perkypig lol.
And they still don't understand Brexit.
Good point
They don't actually use the Imperial system, they use the American Customary system which, while based on the Imperial system, there are some important differences.
@@TerenceDixon-l6b that’s probably because when Britain took imperial to America, there was little to no record keeping or official stands of measurement set. Some was bound to be lost in the early days
Leftenant is so pronounced as the Old French spelling for lieu was spelled luef. Almost 40% of English is actually derived from French. A road that has no exit for instance is referred to as a “cul-de-sac.” We say courgette while in the US you use the Italian name Zucchini.
We only banter with people we know and like. If you call a stranger a wanker, they will hit you
But if it’s your mate, it’s top bants
@@Dan-B Exactly lol
Yanks
But the Canadian said they said it to a British friend.
True that mate. I was in a supermarket in the US and an American heard me talking and ask where my accent was from. England I replied, oh, he said, I thought you were one of those dick heads. Long story short, he took a nap in aisle 7 and I'm not allowed in the store anymore.
Basically, no one wants to finish work and then pop down the pub for a "quick half a litre".
Tyler.....the clue is in the name 'Imperial'..... we use pints, gallons, quarts, miles, yards, feet, inches, pounds and ounces .... a stone is 14 pounds (weight), although officially a 'metric' country we 'mix and match'. Miles per hour, miles to the gallon for cars. I'm old so personally never 'use' metric except for buying a litre bottle of Coke lol...... ;-) ......Americans please remember we INVENTED the Imperial system lol
Tyler IS a drinking game.. every time he says 'wait, WHAT?' take a drink.🇨🇦
I can't handle that much booze in a day 😅
And if it's something he's reacted to 5 times before have 2 drinks... You're basically gonna die..😅
@@ebbhead20 Especially if you combine with his other channels as well.
@@ebbhead20 🤣
@@mw-wl2hm you said it.. Tyler is either a moron or a genius that's laughing at us all..
So glad I am British and English... I would have missed half my cultural life if I had grown up in USA
I was amused that while you Googled several words you didn't Google Wanker ......... that made me think that you really do know what it means!
It's amusing that Americans say 'F**k You' and we say 'F**ck Off'.
Add a question mark to the American version and it becomes a 'chat up' line - albeit a crass one. It's straight to the point I suppose. Ours means what it says 😎
@@gibson617ajg American's ask where the bathroom is, even if they are in a bar or a restaurant. Why would you want to take a bath when you are in a bar? They can be so coy .....
Strange thing, America adopted a decimal monetary system long before the UK. Here, until we adopted the decimal system we had the British Pound Sterling.
There were 20 shillings in a pound and 12 pence in a shilling, so 240 pence in a pound.
We also had half crown coins and two shilling (alt two bob) coins (aka florins).
Half crowns were the equivalent of two shillings and six pence. There were eight half crowns to the pound and ten florins to the pound.
Confused? Of course you are. Why wouldn't you be.
Pudding = dessert but it can also mean a savoury dish like meat in in a suet pastry case.
There again there's pease pudding aka mushy peas.
There is absolutely no logic to any of it.
Wanking is sometimes referred to as jerking the gerkin, bashing the bishop, or in line with our illogical use of pudding, "pulling your pud".
Then there's the American term of jerking off which leads to the American term of "jerk off" or just "jerk" which are your equivalents of the UK term wanker.
So now you know why wanker is offensive in the UK.
When indulging in banter you might call a friend a wanker but otherwise it is considered to be offensive.
Complicated, aren't we?
British things that confuse Americans? The (real!) English language!
As for food, the UK lost a lot of its food history due to WWII rationing. However, "British" food is ubiquitous in the US, you don't even realise it and even many British people don't. A new name or a slightly new form might be American, but its roots are British.
Apple Pie, Pot Pies, Macaroni Cheese, Cheddar Cheese for that matter too, Doughnuts, Christmas Roast Dinner and much of Thanksgiving Dinner, Potato Chips, Candy Bars (chocolate bars), most all of your craft beer scene is British beers, half the roots of Fried Chicken or Buffalo Wings, the ubiquitous "sandwich", albeit in its actual form of sliced bread like the "grilled cheese" or a BLT. Just to name a few more obvious examples.
The US goes as far as calling soft scrambled eggs "French Style" everywhere because it sounds better than "English Style". French style is like a sauce and you pour it onto toast.
EDIT: Also, Beans on Toast is actually American...
Almost anything can be pudding. It has many meanings. What you call pudding is more like mousse.
You won't read this Tyler..but for any Americans who want to know...A British pudding is a dish, savory or sweet, that's cooked by being boiled or steamed in something: a dish, a piece of cloth, or even animal intestine..ok you got me on Yorkshire puds..
Actually, British puddings are never "savory". They may be savoury, however. 😅🏴
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 dai iawn butt, that'll teach me to blindly copy & paste 🤣🏴
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 a good fruit pudding gives you a hangover. black puddings are used in hockey in Canada
To be fair, we do also use "pudding" for any dessert course.
The Yorkshire pudding is a lard fried think pancake like a french crepe . It is made with drippings off a beef roast. However being a thin pancake it can be enjoyed with sweet or savoury fillings like the French and in fact the Americans do. In America it is called a Dutch Baby or a Popover. its not very flat because of the way its baked. You can have it with cherries and cream or gravy and sliced roast meat. My partner (british) always had it sweet as thatnbwas what her grandmother did, Myself and my kids have it with gravy and any roast meat.
Lard or any neutral oil will not flavour the pancake batter and no sugar is added (flour, eggs milk, salt)
Examples of sweet puddings
Christmas pudding, treacle pudding, apple suet pudding
Examples of savoury puddings
Black pudding,, white pudding, hogs pudding, haggis (|Chieftan of the pudding race - according to Robert Burns)
Suet pudding is anothe example of a steamed dish omitted from above. Suet is kidney fat from a cow/heifer. It is mixed with flour , water and salt and makes a kind of pastry which is placed in a pudding bowl and then steamed. The "pastry" never bakes or gets crisp but the heat should still make it lighter
Savoury examples - Steak & Kidney pudding
Sweet examples - apple, brown sugar and raisins - likely to be served with custard
I don’t believe that anyone, including Tyler , is as thick as he makes out, not even the “Average American “.
He never reads the comments so don’t bother making any sensible comments.
I watch him because I’m bored
I think that maybe he does read them and makes stupid comments and ends up laughing at us fighting amongst ourselves.😀😃😃😁🤣😂
If someone tells me they weigh 180 pounds or 82 kg I can't visualise that. If they say they weigh 13 stone, that means something to me.
Very much agree. I know I weight 14 stones. No idea what that is in kilos. Obviously, I know there are 14lbs in a stone (and 16oz in a Ib), but we think in terms of stones and pound for our own weight.
I understand that, I"m an old fart toooooooooo.
When milk recording went metric in 1976 I had to convert all the yields back to pounds of milk ( a cows yield was easier to measure by weighing than taking a volume when milk recording started about 1910. I didn't like the sysytem at first because the old benchmark yield of a thousand gallons ( 10,000 lbs) disappeared ( became 4 ,546 kg ! ) Nowadays lactations are far higher and 10,000 kg is quite common .
Wait..what?
you’ve literally had most of these explained to you before in these comments many, many times. You’ve also come across the answer of some of these questions many times before in your previous videos.
It's almost as if he's pretending to learn these things for the first time, despite the fact that he has several videos covering these issues. Almost....
@@googa319i actually can’t decide whether he’s ragebaiting or he’s truly as intellectually and developmentally challenged as he seems?
@@googa319 i can’t decide whether he’s ragebaiting, or he’s actually that developmentally challenged- because he really, REALLY seems it.
And yet, we still watch his childlike mind making these videos. Like a newborn giraffe stumbling, he's made so many of these and appears to have forgotten every single time. If you throw enough shít at a blanket, some must stick. Surely??
@oliverwortley3822😂😂😂
Switched off at "YorkSHYRE". Again.
Pudding in the UK has been around since the 12th century so I think we know what it means.
And yet Americans have no difficulty pronouncing New Hampshire correctly!
@@hadz8671 Worcestershire is the one that gets me.
Bangers and mash is mashed potatoes topped with saucages (bangers) and (onion) gravy. Very tasty and hearty meal.
Traditionally, in the UK the term 'pudding' stems primarily from the method of cooking. It refers to something which is encased in either a cloth or bowl, or edible bag (like animal intestines) and then boiled or steamed. This covers both items like Christmas pudding, a variety of sponge or suet based desserts, and also savoury dishes like black pudding and haggis. Yorkshire pudding doesn't fit this definition - because it is baked in the oven in animal fat rather than being steamed - however there are certain similrities between the finished product and some steamed puddings.
Over time the word 'pudding' has come to be used to refer to any sweet dessert dish served after the main savoury course of a meal. Most people use it in this way, rather than the more traditional definition.
No.
Pudding has starch.
Dessert has fruit.
@@neuralwarp Christmas pudding has fruit, though?
@@neuralwarp My definitions are traditional. A pudding was something steamed or boiled in a pudding bag or bowl. Dessert may first have been used for fruit based sweets dishes, but these days the terms are interchangeable.
When it comes to weights and measures we in the UK are somewhat ambidextrous. We use a bit of both metric and imperial depending on the circumstances. We are not outright one or the other.
Tyler, This is correct our pints are larger than your pints as is our gallon. A stone is a measurement of weight equal to 14 lbs. This is before you start talking about chains, poles, perches furlongs etc.
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He won't read it...
And barleycorns, hogsheads, karats, and guineas.
@@neuralwarp don't forget your bushells!
Lieutenant: You have to understand that Norman French was the language of the government and military in England hundreds of years before the US founding Fathers. Apparently in Norman French (rather than contemporary French) lieu is pronounced luef. Indeed we DON'T say Left-tenant, but Lef-tenent Some even say Luef-tenent. It's subtle, but you can hear it.
The Brits also eat tea. They are a weird bunch, but we Scandinavians still love them :)
Tea as well as the drink just means the evening meal. It's not the drink variety
Tea, is what northerners call dinner
Fish and chips is amazing. Especially if it's really greasy and eaten out of paper with a wooden fork on a chilly seafront :). Bangers are sausages - so bangers and mash is sausages with mashed potato (usually with gravy, sometimes also with onions. Yum!).
An American criticising British food, that's rich when they invented junk food 😂
Well the junk food is all European but I get what you're saying.
@@ebbhead20 KFC, McDonald's and Burger King all American companies.
@@ponygirl i know, but its all European food my dear. Well maybe not so much chicken even though a lot of places did chicken i feel the KFC way was very American. It could be cajun or from Haiti maybe idk... but the rest is clearly European stuff. Italy and Germany i would say.
America is not responsible for any food. Everything you eat originated elsewhere
@@ebbhead20 I'm very worried about you, try looking into the utter rubbish stuff that will harm or kill you that's banned in Europe.
ZZ top utter confusion.
He remains conveniently baffled by the definition of pudding even though this is his like 100th episode about it. US Pudding is just Jello corporation imitation chocolate custard. It is the same thing as UK Birds custard. The meaning of Pudding is not changed in the US as we all speak English and the meaning has not changed in the rest of the English speaking world. This is a specific example of a brand defining their category as you are exclusively thinking of Jello Pudding and the Hunts knockoff. It is like if the Brits started insisting we call "the Vacuum of Space" as "the HOOVER of Space!" "The Speed of light in a Hoover!" Then they started complaining that outer space was confusing because there were no hoover brand vacuum cleaners to be seen.
OMG, he’s nearly 30 and had to look up ZZ Top.
I'm in my 30's and had no idea wtf a zz top was. Sounds like some 80's childhood toy.
@@Jamie_D A 'ZZ Top' is the upper part of a pair of Pajamas.
IKR? And they're American! I am Aussie and know who they are and so do my kids.
Not a British pint, it is a real pint, it is America that's out of line. Also, you do NOT use the Imperial system, in the US it is called the American Customary system which has some very important differences.
Yorkshire Pudding: “it’s a starter, named after a dessert that we have as a main”
In the term "Imperial Measurements" which Empire do you think it refers to??
he’s not that intelligent or capable to make that connection. ‘imperial’ means nothing to him. He just thinks it’s another word with no context lmao.
I refer to a pudding as a hot sweet dish after a main course and I refer to a dessert as a cold sweet dish after a main course.
The word 'Lieutenant' is pronounced differently because in the UK it is pronounced 'leftenant', derived from luef, the Old French for lieu.
Yorkshire is pronounced York-sher, Berkshire - Bark-sher. Shire is "Sher". St John is pronounced Sin-Jun, Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumley, Mainwaring pronounced mannering.
he’s been told a thousand times - literally. he’s just ignorant, dim and gormless. He doesn’t read the comments - I think it would overwhelm him - after all, he’s had to read a few lines of text for this video so reading the comments will be too much!
Pudding is what we say in the home. And dessert when we go out for dinner.
There are Yorkshire puddings, suet puddings , peas pudding...generally though, pudding is any desert .
The term 'duck' was once an honorific word used in the same way as 'Sir'. It has the same roots as the title 'Duke'. In the NE of England it's common to hear 'Pet'. Go further north into Scotland and it's 'Hen'. 😁
Originally a pudding was boiled in cloth or basin. It could be sweet or savoury. Thus treacle pudding is suet pastry in a basin over treacle and steak and kidney is a dish lined with suet pastry and filled with meat. It’s the cooking method. Haggis is boiled.
Tyler has the memory of a goldfish; he's repeatedly confused by the same things he's reacted to multiple times before LOL. - he's repeatedly reacted to videos giving the correct pronunciation of 'pasty' and 'Yorkshire', but still gets it wrong.
I'm beginning to think it's all an act, just for entertainment. Because he's running out of things to talk about on You Tube/Patreon, but he wants the money still rolling in, so he pretends like it's the first time he's done this subject.
American pudding is an eggless cold custard to a Brit.
Sounds delightful!
Pudding in the UK can be more accurately described as anything sweet or suet. Suet pudding is usually savoury, like a Yorkshire pudding (basically water and flour-more like a pastry) or a pork pie pastry.
Puddings made for dessert can be boiled and steamed puddings, baked puddings, bread puddings, batter puddings, milk puddings or even jellies. however, Yorkshire pudding gets the second part of its name because centuries ago in England, puddings were a sausage-like meal that was not water-based and was solid.
don't forget steak and kidney pudding you have to place it in a pan pour water in just below the foils rim boil it until a knife can make it all the way though and touch the bottom
Lieutenant is said wrong in the USA.
The rank of Lieutenant and how it is said pre-dates the USA.
Just to be precise, "lieutenant" is never pronounced "wrong" in America. It is pronounced wrongly, however.🙄
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 A lot of word are pronounced or spelt wrong in America. Colour, Centre, Gaol, Labour ect. OH God every time an Amercian uses the Zeebra, I think of a bra made for the worlds biggest boobs.
Rather than adopting Imperial, America mangled the definition of the English wine gallon when creating US Customary Units (a dislike of pi, perhaps?), and then divided that by 8 to get the size of the US pint, and then divided that by 16 to get the size of a US fluid ounce. A US fluid ounce of water weighs about 4% more than an avoirdupois ounce, and about 4% more than an Imperial ounce.
America knew the use of said gallon had already been outlawed throughout the Empire, including Canada, before they "invented" it.
Side-note: Ounce and fluid ounce are derived from the Latin unit uncia (one twelfth), as is the inch. There were 12 ounces to the pound from Roman through to Saxon times.
Everyone in the world uses Britain's 750 ml (75 cl) metric+Imperial wine bottle, though, so when Americans buy a half case of wine (a half dozen wine bottles) they are buying approximately 1 Imperial gallon of wine.
Wanker isn't super offensive but it is far from polite. It honestly depends how you are using it and who you are using it with.
Most of us in the UK now refer to dessert as pudding. So anything sweet that we eat after dinner.
We use the word pudding interchangeably
So it can mean something like a bowl of ice cream or a Yorkshire pudding
Which is a savory food used in stews, sundays dinners and other things like that
I genuinely don't understand how you don't understand this concept
A British pint is larger than an American pint, as is a British Gallon larger than an American.
We also use miles for road distances, & happily mix & match the Imperial with the Metric systems. We also use both the 12 & 24 hour clock times, & have both Roman numerals as well as Arabic numbers on clock dials, with few problems. A Stone is an intermediate weight for weighing things like people which is easier to work with than multiple pounds. For instance, the average weight of a man is about 12 stones, we do not render this in pounds which would be 168 pounds. There are 14 pounds to a stone. The word pudding originally meant in old English any mixed food that is cooked, so covers a wide range food items. Wanker is very rude, as it means a person who self pleasures themselves because they cannot find a sexual partner. Luitenant is pronounced in Britain as it comes out of French & German.
A pudding is a dish made with starch. A dessert is a dish made with fruit. There is overlap. Rhubarb is a fruit.
We do say Zed in the alphabet but say Zee zee top for the group 😊
One little thing is if "Shire" is added to the end of a word like "Yorkshire Pudding" pronounce the shire as Sha. Sounds weird otherwise.
"Pudding" in the UK (and NZ) is a dessert dish. YUM!
I feel like this is the 2nd or 3rd video I've seen from Tyler where he expresses surprise about the word 'pudding'. Many of the other words here have been reacted to by him in previous videos as well. I think he needs new content in a hurry. One that I may or may not have seen before from him is "Pint", so here goes: The Imperial pint contains 20 British fluid oz each, whereas the American pint contains 16 US fluid oz. The Imperial pint is approximately 19.45% larger than the US pint, because there is also a slight difference between the British fluid ounce and the US fluid ounce which is just a wee bit larger.
With reference to the invading place with spices. We bought some of them back with us and pretty much very town has a curry house.
The reason why people from the commonwealth say "lef-tenant" can be attributed to the U being misread as a V during the middle ages, which in turn developed into and F sound.
You always get confused, is it because your American or is it just you .
When changing to metric, you don't change the names of things. A pint is still a pint and we all know NEVER to mess arount with the beer.
A UK pint is 568ml, that would have moved to 500ml and pissed people off, but the US pint is only 473ml.
Cans of drink, UK 375ml - US 350ml
1 gallon, UK 4,546ml - 1 gallon, US 3,785ml. ........ thats why your fuel looks cheaper. priced at $ 1 per litre, US is 4 3.78 per gallon- UK is $ 4.54 per gallon.
ever asked why a big drum is 53 US gallons - 44 UK gallons, becausr its 200L
In the Uk , the generic term “Pudding” refers to a post main course food and is normally sweet. However there are specific foods that are described as pudding , Yorkshire pudding is a classic example , but there are also “ meat puddings as well .
The thing that chocked me the most in this video is that Tyler has never heard of ZZ Top.
Yes, I did tell you before, that there's a region in England when a stranger will politely call you ducky.
I had it from the passing police - instead of "good afternoon Sir (in London) you hear "all right ducky?" (in the region).
I don't know about British culture the fact you've never heard of ZZ Top makes me think you need to catch up on American culture.
What about steak and kidney pudding, Black Pudding, Yorkshire Pudding, Christmas Pudding, Rice Pudding and the list goes on!
13:22 how to tell the poster doesn't know anything about what we eat lol. Firstly there is a curry house on every high street. Secondly fish and chips was invented by Portuguese Jewish immigrants so...
No, we call them Zee Zee Top in the UK as well. We have Chinese, Indian, Thai, Jamaican and many other international restaurants and takeaways, as well as our national dishes - what has America given us, pop tarts and grits - lovely? American Lootenant sounds like someone who lives in a toilet (loo is a slang term for toilet here). We pronounce it '"leftenant" due to medieval spellings and pronunciation - we have history.
Tyler, where it comes to the Imperial measurement system the United States copied the United Kingdom's homework - except the handwriting was so bad that they ended up getting the measurements wrong!
At school we learned. 'A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter' rhyming water and quarter. That is 20 fluid ounces. What did they teach you in America?
Lieutenant. Lieu is French for place (pronounced in French as lee-ur). Tenant is a holder. So a Lieutenant is a place holder for a captain acting on behalf of the captain. A French soldier would address a lieutenant as 'mon lee-ur-ten-on' with a nasal 'n' and dropping the 't'). The English pronunciation comes from old French.
Here's one for you to think about. A Steak and Kidney Pie is made with short pastry but a Steak and Kidney Pudding is made with suet pastry and I would serve both with chips and peas.
The surname 'St John' is pronounced 'Sinjun'. It's a bit like 'Featherstonehaugh' and 'Cholmondeley' (pronounced 'Fanshaw' and 'Chumley' respectvely). Wonderful!
The US doesn't use Imperial. That's a common mistake. You use US Customary System. Both are derived from the older British Units (I think the Winchester Standards) and both were formalissed right around the same time.
Imperial has more legacy baggage (that is rarely used) with things like "furlongs" (1/8 mile) or "leagues" for 3 miles, or smaller with a "barleycorn" (1/3 inch). USCS simplified a lot of things and took alternative values for other things (based on English inconsistencies), so our Imperial gallon is bigger than the US gallon.
Americans calling their system Imperial is a secret British cultural win.
Bangers and mash is sausages and mashed potato usually served with an onion gravy.
(16.04) Tyler "am I missing something". Maybe a couple of brain cells.,
Lol a pint is an imperial measurement. We use both imperial and metric, we still use miles as the speed limit and distance. Most other countries use kilometres. I think using both is the better side of the argument as some measurements make sense due to the item in question
I havnt been called petal for a long time, but I have had it from older folk in the past.
I'll have to check Google to see if it's a regional thing.
A stone is am english imperial weight measuring 14 pounds. Also Bangers and mash is a colloquium for Sausage and mash .
Usually, if it is called a pudding, whether it’s savoury or sweet, then at some stage of its production it has been cooked…. ie a rice pudding, a jam roly poly pudding, a bread and butter pudding, Eve’s pudding, Yorkshire pudding etc. A pudding can be served as a dessert, BUT a dessert is not always a pudding.
In nottingham uk the well known saying is hey up ma duck .but the way its said is heyupmaduck its all said together
"Semi-solid goo that you eat out of a cup", is more commonly known as mousse.
You've been told in the comments before that British Imperial pints are larger, you just haven't read them! Therefore on average, our beer is cheaper and we get more for the money.
My German wife says the American and German definitions of 'Pudding' are basically the same, a milky, flavoured 'splodge'. You can tell with many American words, especially the nouns, that they are just Anglicised from the German.
American things that confuse a British person..(me)
Being able to buy a gun in a supermarket 😱🤬
Knowing that children in schools learn instructions on how to protect themselves and how to
hide under their desks just incase there’s a “school shooter” on the premises 😱
Not able to work out 24 hour times 🤔
Some people being “scared” and showing genuine fear when sampling digestive biscuits; haggis; spotted dick; custard; blackcurrant juice because the “names” put them off! 😩
Very strange….
There's Yorkshire pudding ,,Christmas pudding ,,steak and kidney pudding , sweet pudding
Love, Duck or Petal are terms of endearment used when speaking to women by men. Like also using Honey or Sweetpea.
Yorkshire pudding is a batter made from flour, eggs and milk. It is similar to a savoury Dutch baby.
Uk uses a mixture of Imperial and metric, depends on what is being measured.
Let me tell you that most Brits dont want to do metric. I still think in old measurements. The ‘Klik’ does not wash with me. I still measure in inches and yards. Interestingly when we buy window coverings, half of the measure is on ‘kicks’ and half is in inches!!! Welcome to english dilemmas!
Stone is a unit of weight for when you weight yourself on scales and 1 stone is 14 pounds and 1 pound is 12 onches. The UK isn't an Island, the UK is made up of mainly three countries England, Scotland and Wales and Northen Ireland is just a piece of land the English didn't want to let go and return to the rest of Ireland. Brexit is the UK leaving the joint union of 28 counties now 27 countries to take control of our boaders and law making and setting our own standards on goods and services, but looks like the Government messed that up and after the election it's about to become worse ( I voted to remain in the EU and my reasoning in at least we are at the table when making the rules and not stand on the sidelines waiting to be told what we have to follow to keep trading with the EU). Bangers and mash is sauages and mash and if you want to spice it up a little baked beans
American puddings are a dessert but, not really puddings. Puddings are stodgy, suet puddings such as sticky toffee, golden syrup, chocolate and Spotted Dick, not to forget Christmas Pudding, all eaten with hot custard, cream or, ice cream. Then savory puddings like steak and kidney, Yorkshire puddings. Yorkshires are eaten with roast dinners and gravy. A stone is 14 pound in weight. We use both metric and the old imperial measurements, the Government tried back in the 70s to make us only use metric, we refused!
I'll admit the lefttenant one is annoying even for me as a Brit, back in the day they obviously didn't know how to speak and no one corrected them, the left tenant would be the person renting the flat to my left 😅
It was originally a French word, not English, hence the pronunciation. Not because no-one knew how to speak! The word comes from the French words lieu, meaning "place," and tenant meaning "holding." A lieutenant is someone who holds the place of authority for the person who really has it, in other words something like a deputy. The "lieu" in French is sometimes pronounced as "lef" depending on subsequent words.
Beef Wellington is my favourite ❤
The Imperial Measurement system IS a British system. America has just adapted it in its own way. When we joined the EU back in the 1970's, we had to change to the EU's metric system - so we did (and we didn't, not really). So we still walk miles, and see land in acres. We buy a pint at the pub, fill the bucket with a gallon of water, tell you our height in feet and inches, weigh ourselves in stones (a stone is a14lbs unit) and lbs and ounces. Measure ingredients for cakes etc in lbs and ounces, measure doors in feet and inches. However to make it more exciting we also dip into metric measurements too. Like litres of milk and petrol (gas in America even though its a liquid!). I am happy to make YOU happy this morning as you question words in our language, but I have a little smile too - because you are doing so - while speaking in OUR language. Thanks for your reaction - love from the UK 'pet'! 😊
That’s not actually right. We’d started changing in the mid-60’s, I think the legislation was passed in 63 or 64, and it was supposed to be updated progressively extended. But because it was brought in under a Labour government, the next Tory government didn’t bother to make the next series of changes, then we joined the EU and it all got weird.
When we’ve had a concerted effort to change, we can. I’m just old enough to remember decimalisation of coinage and the posters in the windows of all the shops. It wasn’t the chaos everyone predicted. I certainly remember the change to °C instead of °F on weather forecasts and that took a while, but now everyone is used to it.
Because I’m old and have various medical problems I have fairly regular checkups, and they measure my height and, in particular my weight. That’s now all metric. I don’t know, without using conversion tools, my height in feet and inches, my weight in stones and pounds, it’s metres and kilos (less than when I was younger, far too many). I’m comfortable with using them now.
We could change our road signs over to km, our speed limits to kph, calculate fuel efficiency in km/l. Not overnight, sure. But there must be a maintenance programme for road signs, roll it out with phase one being double values, km values larger and in black, miles values smaller and in a grey tone. Then phase two, just km values. Some people would scream, doubtless, but let them. You still get there.
1 stone is the equivalent to 14 pounds in weight Tyler. ZZ Top is a rock band and Brits say their name as zee zee top and not zed zed top so don't know what that person was on about. What Americans call pudding is what we call mousse. Bangers and mash is just sausage and mashed potato and brown gravy on top.
p,s. Tyler...
Wanker is another word for Tosser.
We do say 'zee zee' Top f chriiiiis sake!! Has Tyler _never_ heard 'Legs'? Or
'Sharp Dressed Man' ? Or 'TV Dinners' ?!😮
Actually, when I was at uni, my roomie in my 4th year bought ZZ Top's First Album, back in '71. When I saw it I did originally call it, " Zed Zed Top". 😅
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Oh dear... 🤔😏🏴❤️🇬🇧🖖
As I've told you before Tyler, the US uses the Customary Measurement System not Imperial (which UK used to use) These differ in terms of volume measurement - the US pint, quart and gallon are different to Imperial, plus the US uses the Cup which was never an official Imperial measure, as far as I know.
7:40 - YORKSHIRE pronounced 'YORK-SHUR'. This 'shur' sound is the same for any county name ending with 'shire'.
Why he got offended was because we know that "wanker" is NOT a term of affection in the USA. It's a UK & Commonwealth countries word.. So unless you are really good friends/relations it will be taken as it's translated in the US - which is as an insult.
And hell's teeth : "York Shy-er, Bedford shy-er, Lankar-shy-er"..... ever since they began both these brothers have been told time and time again, over & over, that "shire" is pronounced "shuh" just as noone from the USA calls it "New Hamp-shy-er". but instead. New Hamp "shuh".
It's kinda offensive to their followers - who only want to help, that they don't bother to read the comments!
I wish to goodness that Americans, Tyler in particular, would just accept that things are different in Britain and stop mithering about it.
Will never happen - Americans can't wrap their head around why anyone would choose to do things differently than the greatest country on earth.
I lived in the UK (England more precisely) and, contrary to what many people think one can eat quite well in that country. Mostly in comfort food zone, off course. However,...I never met a pudding I could like. Not good.
10:39 yeah, it can be kind of offensive, more so than a lot of Americans realise. Not sure I'd ever actually use it about someone I actually liked.
Have you seen Diane Morgan's American interview on the Seth Meyer's show?
Britain was forced to adopt the metric system when joining the EU. But if they tried to change the British traditional pint to metric it would mean war.
There IS NO DEFINITION of pudding in the UK. It relates to the things that are so defined.
13:30 - NOT HATING ON FISH & CHIPS. Mocking the Brits inability to produce anything culinarily comparative to the exotic, aromatic dishes of the countries they invaded. And hating on the invasions.
No, Tyler? Don't want some random guy come to you and say, "how's it going, love?" 😂
St John, fantastic nearly chocked on my Irn Bru, pure spluttering..
I'm more likely to call someone a walker or tosser both terms of interment in the UK, along with tosser and many, many, many, many more.
I would say apart from money, most Brits use imperial measurements. We say miles, feet, yards, inches and so. We measure our weight in pounds and stones. Maybe young folk use metric.