My British sister, niece and younger daughter, all three now resident in the USA, would wholeheartedly agree with you. But they still love the place, of course. 😉
I know it’s old, but when there’s no bath in the bathroom, it’s not a bathroom! Regarding oreos. Coming from England, I’ve never had or have ever had the desire to eat an Oreo. We have much nicer biscuits!
5:16 A MILLION % I visited Kentucky (my first mistake) and was an NKU uni. In the library and the cafe which was in same building it had the toilets. I visited them once. What was the point of having a stall at all. Not a fan of using urinals so use the stalls instead but being 6ft 5" it was totally pointless having a cubicle. I stood up and half my body was past the top of the cubicle walls. If you stood at the urinal you could see in the stall. I just did not understand it at all. Thankfully, in the female dorms, they had a UK style cubicle in the common room so I used that instead. Thank god for that or I'd have struggled to cope.
It's so funny to me to hear that we Brits do Oreos better, since I'm pretty sure they weren't even available in British shops in my youth. I think of them as a very American thing.
And I'd never heard of Mountain Dew in the UK until about 5 years ago... Something tells me our law probably makes it a lot different to the US drink too
Some more important changes: * Abolish the electoral college. * Properly tax the rich, and then... * Publicly fully fund healthcare, education and prisons. None of these things should be for profit. * Legislate a living minimum wage, and abolish tipping.
The primary change - run the country for the benefit of the people who live in it, not to maximise profit for big business. Stop lobbying. That would lead to all of the above, along with proper regulation of the food industries...
All good except I don't think you should abolish tipping - just don't have an entire economy depend on it because the gratuity should be on top of businesses giving workers financial security.
I thought the same too, drystone walls are very common in the UK and they last a long time, look cool in winter and spring and summer, help small creatures find a home, and just look beautiful and UK has tons of them❤
Americans often complain about having to pay to use the toilet in Europe but I'd rather pay and have a clean and private toilet than those free, but rather wild bathrooms in the US. The things I've seen in the US (and Canada)...
The shower, even in my new apartment, I had to figure out the taps, every hotel/motel has a different way to turn them on and they're constantly changing.
Chain link fences are ubiquitous in Sports Centres ( Centers ! ) in GB.- for Hockey, Basketball, Netball, Multi-Use-Games-Areas ( aka MUGA's ). They are tough, and 'give' a bit/ flexible & low maintenance. For decades, now.
Have you noticed that the UK has a predominance of single pack biscuits/cookies rather than multi packs. That is convenient because it means that you can buy two or three different packs to add variety at home.
Big packs = more PROFIT, less handling in the supply chain. The COSTCO method. It takes the same effort to ring at checkout for a $1 as a $10 item. The charge card company has a Per (card swipe) fee as well as the % of sale, (small purchases can actually lose money because of the law preventing minimums, that is still on the books)
@@clivewilliams3661 In the UK sugar, fats and salt are looked down on and they try to get you to buy healthier alternatives. Biscuits or cookies are seen as sins as they contain sugars, fats and slats in certain quantities.
@@steveurbach3093 Not exactly yes on some stuff but the bigger the pack the more space it takes up and the more shelving one has to have. Scanning a 3 pack is the same as scanning a 1 pack agreed but you need 3 times the space.
Glad you mentioned the chain link fences. I've noticed this in the lawn mowing/garden tidying channels I watch. It just looks so industrial, like something you'd see at a building site in the UK or maybe around office buildings or, like you mentioned, prisons. And the gardens also look so barren, just grass and trees not flowers or bushes or plants or veggies.
I guess the reason for the ready meals not being so good in the US is that you don't have Marks & Spencer. They were the first supermarket chain to get into them in a big way, and as one of the premium options alongside Waitrose, they set the standard that others follow to some extent. Tesco tried to set up Fresh & Easy in the US which looked more like a Marks & Spencer than a Tesco Express in the UK, but it didn't really take off and they ended up abandoning it.
The huge gaps at the bottom and on the sides of US public bathroom doors made me laugh. I remember on my only visit to the US with my Dad & Step Mum and another couple they were friends with, we were at a shopping mall when my Step Mum urgently needed to pee but couldn't as spooked by the lack of privacy in the bathroom. My Dad had to drive at high speed back to the house we were staying on so should could go.
Wish US had local and interstate public transport options like buses and trains. Was in Nashville in 2014 for 10 days and had to hire a car to get around - drove to Memphis on a day trip! Visit Andrew Jackson homestead etc
I remember walking into some public toilets in California where there were no doors on the cubicles at all. Was met with the sight of a distressed older man sitting down, with a younger one standing in front of him trying to hide him as much as possible. I just had to leave.
Yes !! They’re turning up in the UK now, we met one back last September new hotel in the Torbay area!!! I’m glad you brought it up. It seams it’s the new look of the thing before your customers use!!!
As someone who has an addictive body/ personality or is just greedy, I cannot buy a packet of biscuits. I will eat the lot. I’m also type 2 diabetic….. A 3 sleeve packet of Oreos would be fatal.
You have to try the M&S and Tesco meal deals, they are fresh meals with a bottle of wine (Tesco one) so good! You need to use your club card but omg, such nice food, you couldn’t buy the ingredients and make it yourself for that price
Hiya. Many decades ago, I mean before your time, when I would visit family and friends (no longer living), I would fly American Airlines in the US Domestically because back then they offered what amounted to a 'Rover Ticket' (can't remember the actual name), purchased prior to leaving the UK, valid for a certain number of internal flights at a low fixed price. I don't know if such a thing still exists but thanks for resurrecting a nice memory for me. Stay safe. All the best to you.
I doubt chain link is cheaper. Especially as the US has & uses much more timber than the UK. It might be a durability issue with hurricanes 'n termites etc.
Ready meals in any country I relate them to people who cannot cook and need instructions like heat for 4 minutes then remove foil stir and heat for a further 3 minutes and let stand for 1 minute.
Ready meals are a brilliant idea and some hre in the UK are really quite decent, if you check the ingredients, add extra veggies, a bit of seasoning, fresh herbs, black pepper etc. A few years ago I had an injury which meant I couldn't walk more than a few steps across my living room, and could only stand for a very short time. I live alone and my recovery was estimated at a few months. I am, although I say it myself, quite a good cook and enjoy it. However, being so immobile restricted what I could do for a few months. Online supermarket ordering of ready meals - both chilled and frozen - to the rescue! I think I tried them from every supermarket brand over the 12 - 16 weeks it took to be mobile again, even from the supermarkets that don't do online orders as neighbours offered to pick stuff up for me from Booths, Aldi and Lidl. Some of them were definitely suspect but others were utterly, albeit unexpectedly, delicious. All labels were thoroughly checked for dross ingredients, and although I'm long-since fully mobile, I still buy my favourites and have a ready meal at least a couple of times a week, although sadly a couple of them are no longer produced so I have to do without.
In New Zealand it's cheaper to fly from Auckland to Sydney Australia then to fly from Auckland to Christchurch. Like the US there's less competition for domestic flights.
Given how much less land there is in the UK, plots on which property is built is generally smaller, so if you are looking to 'mark out' a property Stateside, it likely costs about the same to cover a larger area using chain-link as 'a nice fence' is in the UK.
I certainly agree about chain link fences. I recall when I lived in the Hollywood Hills, a neighbour asking me if I didn't think it was beautiful up there. Well, beautiful wasn't a description I'd apply to Hollywood in any sense, but I just had to point out to him so many dwellings were fenced in with chain link. Like they were miniature corrective institutions. He, of course, dismissed my observation, as if suggesting I should just 'not see' them. Bizarre. But then, looking through a number of glamorous film star pictures from the fifties and early sixties, there were shots of people like Jane Wyman, I remember, standing on some green lawn somewhere next to a chain link fence, and so I suppose if you've been brought up to think such installations are a delight, then that's what you're going to regard them as. All of which said, here in the UK things are very much going the same 'cheapest option' route, with tacky wooden fences that fall apart within a decade, and in rural France, where I am most of the time, chain link with added green plastic strips woven through them. Bloody awful.
Very much in agreement with 'plumbing roulette' - will I be scalded? will I be blasted with ice? will there be a trickle turning into a tsunami with tiniest of motion. The only certainty is that touching the controls will cause you to get doused, and the bathroom to get doused and everything else to be doused. One control for temperature, one for flow, clearly labelled, its enough.
Mine in a UK new build is great. I found a setting I liked and now all I do is twist something at it's at the perfect temperature. Looks a lot like the UK example in the video. I don't understand how it can be any other way really. It was a little trickier at my 1994 built parents' house though. Like mine it's in a bath but we'd mix the hot and cold taps and then push a valve type thing in the middle to make it come out of the shower head.
Every American criticises American bathroom stalls and yet nothing changes. There is a balance between personnel privacy and security however there is no privacy with American stalls.
I think British Shower control standardisation is comparatively new, as in the last few decades. It varies, but often Brtish toilet stall doors do no go all the way to the ground.
I have a PhD and I still have trouble with showers. Isn’t it amazing how many different designs there are in the world? Not sure that’s it’s really much easier in the UK, though.
Well that ran the gamut from cheap divorces to Oreo packaging - with a sideways look at toilet stalls on the way. No-one can accuse you of being obvious ;-)
I'm British and stayed in many US hotels , yes showers can be interesting but if you are not sure just use trial and error. Push/Pull all the knobs until you figure it out.
Multi sleeve biscuits means that once open you have to eat them or the biscuits not eaten straight away will go soft. That’s how you can tell a biscuit from a cake the biscuit goes soft and the cake goes hard, try it!!
No, you don't have to eat them all and no, they won't go soft if you just put the spare ones in a tin or, even better, in one of those special tins you can put silica gel into a thing in the lid so they're even less likely to go soft.
The gaps in the toilet cubicles presumably have some reason behind them...? Safety if someone passes out or is doing something 'not recommended' or even 'not legal'? Otherwise it seems quirky and weird. Any suggestions?
When you started with the airline costs, I thought you were going to say it can be cheaper to fly to Mexico / Canada then to your destination, than a direct flight. Wonder if it is?
Actually just back in the UK after visiting our American grandaughter who loves " Blonde Oreos" Tastes just like custard cream..... well almost, but miles better than standard Oreos.
I agree about the bathroom stall thing (especially in a men’s room where the urinals are directly across from the stalls - urinal spacing is a whole other issue), but I believe they are required to have a gap under the door in case someone gets locked in there, dies in there etc. so you can get under the door into the stall or vice versa. I don’t think it has to be as high as it is in some stalls though, and the vertical gap between panels can be ridiculous too. No privacy. As for the divorce thing, I don’t remember ever seeing a billboard or sign advertising a price for a divorce, but there are plenty of lawyer signs (mostly for accident lawyers) out there. This is in the northeast US.
Yes, I can feel you about that shower 🚿 thing.. I never been in America or elsewhere out of Europe though. I grew up in Soviet Union and then it was post soviet Latvia. And living now for 12 years in England I still think those shower things are confusingly different.
I don't think they sold Oreo in UK when I was living there (2011), I've certainly never tried them. I did buy a big pack of Jaffa cakes a week or 2 ago but the 4 lots were individually packed in clear plastic. I limit myself to one biscuit a day but they keep OK in an old ice cream tub.
What about plug sockets? I think the USA plug sockets are terrible and have seen many USA videos agreeing with this. It might be a bit impractical as we use an earth pin which goes in first and the wiring in the house needs to accommodate this. It’s safer as it prevents electrocution but American houses would have to be totally rewired.
Try only buying M&S ready meals, yes, slightly more expensive, but the confidence you get from having a near perfectly prepared product that tastes good, and never puts you in hospital, makes the extra cost worth it.
Definitely agree about the hideous chain fences. In films they always have dobermans or alsatians flinging themselves against them barking their heads off
IMHO, one really unattractive feature in the US is the amount of electric/phone cable strung along poles in the streets. In the UK, almost all of it is buried underground.
Ha yes! Thank you. I always struggle with American shower taps. In 2012 I had three mornings of cold showers at an American friend’s place, because I was so embarrassed to admit, I had no idea how to work their shower.
Some of our new fangled showers have adopted the American approach. I tried to use a friends shower and thought I had it sussed. I turned on the hand held shower and stepped aside to let it warm up, but got showered by freezing cold water from the ceiling one instead. Bloody annoying.
The problem in the U.S. is the glut of lawyers and the consumer pays the price. Do people think that multi-million dollar awards for a hot cup of coffee that you spill are justified.
@@Trebor74 "News just in from Texas.... Marty Smith is suing Seven Eleven for selling him a bag of "Ice cubes" that actually contained Ice, the ice melted and stained his passenger seat... the lawsuit is expected to last one month, with an estimated payout of $50,000". Definitely need to fix the ridiculous suing culture over there... for a supposedly "Christian" nation they don't seem to understand that accidents happen and people make mistakes, and insist that every single thing should result in the loss of someone's job and a huge financial reward. Work that one out...
The woman who got a settlement from McDonald's some years ago, was elderly, and her carer has requested the drink be served colder than usual as the lady couldn't grip a hot cup. She got third degree burns and these contributed to her death. Hence the case.
@@shaunfarrell3834 there's hot and there's unlimited hot drinks but make them so hot that noone can drink them till they've left the premises. They were warned drinks were too hot.
If you watch much youtube, you might have seen ready meals from factor sponsoring many American channels. And while I haven't eaten them(being from the UK) I think they are the closest to the basic fresh ready meals you get in most UK supermarkets, so I think slowly there is a change to the types of ready meals available now
I worked away from home and came back every 3 months, on one return trip I was in a hotel room at 11:30pm and couldn't figure out the shower and there was nobody at the hotel from desk. I simply gave up and went to bed.
Two comments on things you said in this video. I totally agree with what you said about public bathroom stalls. To give an example of it being even worse. In the late sixties and into the seventies, when drug culture was starting to be very prevalent, many universities, high schools, and even some public venues took the doors completely off. I suppose it was to discourage young (and perhaps older) people from using bathrooms to do drugs. Single sleeve Oreos: I am not sure if Oreos did this but other cookie manufacturers ( Chips Ahoy definitely) packaged their cookies in sleeves but inside a larger package. So when you opened the package there were two sleeves of cookies. The sleeves were made of that wax paper style of material. This was again in the late fifties and into the sixties. I can not remember when they stopped doing this.
90's was mental, where I lived people either went to massive raves in the woods or followed the live music scenes, you should explore British sub-cultures.
About public toilets, I have never understood the rationale behind such large door spaces other than perhaps acting as a deterrent to doing illegal things inside the stall. Having said that, I once went to a public toilet inside a department store in Manila and was shocked to see that the stall walls and door barely reached chest height. I could see the top of some guy's head as he was sitting on the toilet. I just shook my head and about-turned.
In England I know the cubicles (stalls) are a lot better, yet I still remember being small enough in primary school, to fit myself under the gaps and lock them all before escaping. Yeah I was a filthy little git as a kid
The reason flights cost more in the US is because there are far less airlines in the US, than there are in Europe. Because Europe has so many airlines, there is massive competition between them for customers, which drives prices down. The US has far fewer airlines, so far less market competition, which keeps prices high.
American domestic flight prices are hig because the airlines have a virtual monopoly, there being a very poor rail system! The weird thing about American toilet stall doors - and sometimes walls, is that the public ones almost put you on display, whereas in a hotel room they are full height, even if the toilet is in a different room from the shower!
liked this video kalyn.divorce billboards are a shocker.you have definitely not got your rose coloured glasses on when you go back to the us now.more of the same please some time.thankou.
The chain link fence you showed isn’t cheap. These kind of fences are expensive. But they live a long live, so it’s more likely not replacing them. But they can easily made beautiful by some climbers and shrubs. I think the problem is more that Americans don’t like gardening. And have no pride in having an exceptional beautiful garden. They prefer to have the boring grass field, nobody is allowed on. 😃
Bathroom stalls. On one of the many vids complaining about these, a manufacturer came on to answer the question of why. The answer is simple, he said, it's the cheapest option, simple as that.
Chainlink fences were actually very common in the UK for much of the 20th century. Pretty well all council housing (social housing) would have chain link fences, and many housing estates too. I grew up in such a house, although gradually panel fencing supplanted them. The first house I bought had its original chain link fencing too. From the 1970s onwards it tended all to get replaced with wooden fencing, and now it's seemingly almost universal that every back garden in a housing estate is surrounded by the identical 2 metre x 2 metre fencing panels (or close boarding if you want to go up market a bit). They are OK, but it's a sort of monoculture. However, still much better than those chainlink fences which are just plain ugly and cheap.
I grew up in Slovakia where it's the opposite. People stopped using them years ago. Wooden fences are the cheapest thing you can get but they are a fire hazard, especially in spring when everything is dry after a long freezing winter. It rains a lot in the UK so I guess that's not an issue lol
Regarding frozen food have you tried Iceland [the supermarket] "Harry Ramsden's" frozen fish and chips? Although not as good as the famous takeaway/restaurant version but a great cheaper alternative IMO.👍
I bet you've never seen any billboards in the UK advertising any type of lawyer or legal service, not only divorce. Billboards of any kind are limited to urban areas, and don't exist adjacent to major roads or motorways outside built-up areas. Prescription drugs may not be so advertised either.
@GirlGoneLondonofficial A question for you as a tennis fan Kalyn. What don't you see at Wimbledon that you see at every other televised sporting event?
USA toilet doors are 99% built by prison labour and so are standardised so dont usually fit!!😮😮😮 Its also a weird paradox...Yanks are puritanical about toilets! Calling them bathrooms and rest rooms etc BUT then you can actually see everything when you go in!!😅😅😅😅
Can I get your thought on the proposed Anglosphere or CANZAUK, the so called second British Empire, some proponents of the idea consider America a logical part of the alliance, other think it impossible and that America would never willingly rejoin the old enemy of Britain. Most point to the relatively fair and impartial judicial system and concern for the well-being of its citizens as reasons that it would benefit the world, other say that American self interest has caused them to squander their window of influence without accomplishing anything meaningful, what do you think?
DID YOU Know that US Schools are designed by the same Companies that build Prisons in the US? Look at the main walk way (no windows) just lockers on both sides and doors to class rooms (i.e., Cells) its not a pleasing look or a comfortable one. The reason is so that students can go from one class to the other faster, not sitting around. However look at the modern European school. There are some here in the UK that have lounge areas in the main walk ways and most European schools have a glass wall around the main area, allowing sun light in, which we all know is very good for you. Why keep the dark dingy halls like in US Schools. It cant be healthy at all. Not old schools in the UK or the EU but looking at a modern or a older school in the US they look the same.
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Listen, I love a bargain but I'd rather you make it easier to pay for medical bills than divorces, if that's not too much to ask?
Hear hear 👏
My British sister, niece and younger daughter, all three now resident in the USA, would wholeheartedly agree with you. But they still love the place, of course. 😉
As Roger Moore (007) said "Divorces are expensive....But worth it!!"😅😅😅
I have had a lot of medical care, for free. My divorce cost five figures, GirlGone is right!
GGL From the comments I think you should do a deep dive on Oreos in UK!!
I know it’s old, but when there’s no bath in the bathroom, it’s not a bathroom! Regarding oreos. Coming from England, I’ve never had or have ever had the desire to eat an Oreo. We have much nicer biscuits!
That toilet door rant was from the heart!
5:16 A MILLION % I visited Kentucky (my first mistake) and was an NKU uni. In the library and the cafe which was in same building it had the toilets. I visited them once. What was the point of having a stall at all. Not a fan of using urinals so use the stalls instead but being 6ft 5" it was totally pointless having a cubicle. I stood up and half my body was past the top of the cubicle walls. If you stood at the urinal you could see in the stall. I just did not understand it at all. Thankfully, in the female dorms, they had a UK style cubicle in the common room so I used that instead. Thank god for that or I'd have struggled to cope.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention having different colour and size banknotes rather than them all being the same size and green!
@@bryansmith1920I'm a Brit and have read all the Jack Reacher books, but don't understand your comment. Could you explain please?
It makes it much easier to know the value of the note, especially for the visually impaired.
It's so funny to me to hear that we Brits do Oreos better, since I'm pretty sure they weren't even available in British shops in my youth. I think of them as a very American thing.
And I'd never heard of Mountain Dew in the UK until about 5 years ago...
Something tells me our law probably makes it a lot different to the US drink too
Some more important changes:
* Abolish the electoral college.
* Properly tax the rich, and then...
* Publicly fully fund healthcare, education and prisons. None of these things should be for profit.
* Legislate a living minimum wage, and abolish tipping.
The primary change - run the country for the benefit of the people who live in it, not to maximise profit for big business. Stop lobbying.
That would lead to all of the above, along with proper regulation of the food industries...
Yes, but the American taxpayer exists to fund the MIC, Big Pharma, Wall Street Banks and Israel.
All good except I don't think you should abolish tipping - just don't have an entire economy depend on it because the gratuity should be on top of businesses giving workers financial security.
@@PurushaDesa I agree. A tip should be a bonus to the recipient, not part of their remuneration.
I don't know why, but as soon as talk turned to chain link fences I had visions of the loveliness of drystone walls
I thought the same too, drystone walls are very common in the UK and they last a long time, look cool in winter and spring and summer, help small creatures find a home, and just look beautiful and UK has tons of them❤
I think that Americans have chain-link fencing because it doesn't blow away in tornadoes like wooden panels might, and drystone walls never will!
Americans often complain about having to pay to use the toilet in Europe but I'd rather pay and have a clean and private toilet than those free, but rather wild bathrooms in the US. The things I've seen in the US (and Canada)...
The shower, even in my new apartment, I had to figure out the taps, every hotel/motel has a different way to turn them on and they're constantly changing.
Chain link fences are ubiquitous in Sports Centres ( Centers ! ) in GB.- for Hockey, Basketball, Netball, Multi-Use-Games-Areas ( aka MUGA's ). They are tough, and 'give' a bit/ flexible & low maintenance. For decades, now.
Have you noticed that the UK has a predominance of single pack biscuits/cookies rather than multi packs. That is convenient because it means that you can buy two or three different packs to add variety at home.
Big brother you can not have too many packets of SINS.
@@tonysheerness2427 Please explain.
Big packs = more PROFIT, less handling in the supply chain. The COSTCO method. It takes the same effort to ring at checkout for a $1 as a $10 item. The charge card company has a Per (card swipe) fee as well as the % of sale, (small purchases can actually lose money because of the law preventing minimums, that is still on the books)
@@clivewilliams3661 In the UK sugar, fats and salt are looked down on and they try to get you to buy healthier alternatives. Biscuits or cookies are seen as sins as they contain sugars, fats and slats in certain quantities.
@@steveurbach3093 Not exactly yes on some stuff but the bigger the pack the more space it takes up and the more shelving one has to have. Scanning a 3 pack is the same as scanning a 1 pack agreed but you need 3 times the space.
YES YES. 100% on the shower thing. No one else is addressing this. YES.
I still don’t understand the English shower i’ve had for 15 years.
My shower has a single dial. Cold on the left, hot on the right. Adjust it how you want
@@mikeblunt2055 And the pressure?
That type of shower fitting was common in the UK 30 or 40 years ago.
Glad you mentioned the chain link fences. I've noticed this in the lawn mowing/garden tidying channels I watch. It just looks so industrial, like something you'd see at a building site in the UK or maybe around office buildings or, like you mentioned, prisons. And the gardens also look so barren, just grass and trees not flowers or bushes or plants or veggies.
And artificial grass!
I guess the reason for the ready meals not being so good in the US is that you don't have Marks & Spencer. They were the first supermarket chain to get into them in a big way, and as one of the premium options alongside Waitrose, they set the standard that others follow to some extent.
Tesco tried to set up Fresh & Easy in the US which looked more like a Marks & Spencer than a Tesco Express in the UK, but it didn't really take off and they ended up abandoning it.
The huge gaps at the bottom and on the sides of US public bathroom doors made me laugh. I remember on my only visit to the US with my Dad & Step Mum and another couple they were friends with, we were at a shopping mall when my Step Mum urgently needed to pee but couldn't as spooked by the lack of privacy in the bathroom. My Dad had to drive at high speed back to the house we were staying on so should could go.
I'm in England, ive been divorced twice. Didn't cost me anything, didn't even have a solicitor/lawyer either time. 🎉
Same here. Didn't contest either. When it's over then move on.
Henry the eighth had no problems either 😅
Same on NZ
Wish US had local and interstate public transport options like buses and trains. Was in Nashville in 2014 for 10 days and had to hire a car to get around - drove to Memphis on a day trip! Visit Andrew Jackson homestead etc
I remember walking into some public toilets in California where there were no doors on the cubicles at all. Was met with the sight of a distressed older man sitting down, with a younger one standing in front of him trying to hide him as much as possible. I just had to leave.
I buy double packs of chocolate digestives which, within a single wrapper, includes two separately packed single sleeves of biscuits. Perfect!
........and what about comparing UK versus US biscuits/cookies? Is there anything better than a Custard Cream?
@@crossleydd42and is there anything worse than an Oreo..?
@@parshakamarsh Oreos are nice. Biscuit = good, especially with a cup of tea.
@@crossleydd42 Nothing really - except perhaps a Bourbon!
Or maybe a Jammy Dodger?
Yes !! They’re turning up in the UK now, we met one back last September new hotel in the Torbay area!!! I’m glad you brought it up. It seams it’s the new look of the thing before your customers use!!!
As someone who has an addictive body/ personality or is just greedy, I cannot buy a packet of biscuits. I will eat the lot. I’m also type 2 diabetic….. A 3 sleeve packet of Oreos would be fatal.
You have to try the M&S and Tesco meal deals, they are fresh meals with a bottle of wine (Tesco one) so good! You need to use your club card but omg, such nice food, you couldn’t buy the ingredients and make it yourself for that price
Hiya. Many decades ago, I mean before your time, when I would visit family and friends (no longer living), I would fly American Airlines in the US Domestically because back then they offered what amounted to a 'Rover Ticket' (can't remember the actual name), purchased prior to leaving the UK, valid for a certain number of internal flights at a low fixed price. I don't know if such a thing still exists but thanks for resurrecting a nice memory for me. Stay safe. All the best to you.
Public bathroom sounds like a swimming pool without the soap. 😂😂
Afternoon Kayln I love watching your videos and I enjoy them so much! Hope you have a beautiful weekend!
I doubt chain link is cheaper. Especially as the US has & uses much more timber than the UK. It might be a durability issue with hurricanes 'n termites etc.
Ready meals in any country I relate them to people who cannot cook and need instructions like heat for 4 minutes then remove foil stir and heat for a further 3 minutes and let stand for 1 minute.
Ready meals are a brilliant idea and some hre in the UK are really quite decent, if you check the ingredients, add extra veggies, a bit of seasoning, fresh herbs, black pepper etc.
A few years ago I had an injury which meant I couldn't walk more than a few steps across my living room, and could only stand for a very short time. I live alone and my recovery was estimated at a few months. I am, although I say it myself, quite a good cook and enjoy it. However, being so immobile restricted what I could do for a few months.
Online supermarket ordering of ready meals - both chilled and frozen - to the rescue! I think I tried them from every supermarket brand over the 12 - 16 weeks it took to be mobile again, even from the supermarkets that don't do online orders as neighbours offered to pick stuff up for me from Booths, Aldi and Lidl. Some of them were definitely suspect but others were utterly, albeit unexpectedly, delicious. All labels were thoroughly checked for dross ingredients, and although I'm long-since fully mobile, I still buy my favourites and have a ready meal at least a couple of times a week, although sadly a couple of them are no longer produced so I have to do without.
In New Zealand it's cheaper to fly from Auckland to Sydney Australia then to fly from Auckland to Christchurch. Like the US there's less competition for domestic flights.
And let's not mention the cost by train from Auckland/Wellington.
Given how much less land there is in the UK, plots on which property is built is generally smaller, so if you are looking to 'mark out' a property Stateside, it likely costs about the same to cover a larger area using chain-link as 'a nice fence' is in the UK.
I think I've heard Americans refer to chain-link as "hurricane fencing". Sensible if you think about it.
I certainly agree about chain link fences. I recall when I lived in the Hollywood Hills, a neighbour asking me if I didn't think it was beautiful up there. Well, beautiful wasn't a description I'd apply to Hollywood in any sense, but I just had to point out to him so many dwellings were fenced in with chain link. Like they were miniature corrective institutions. He, of course, dismissed my observation, as if suggesting I should just 'not see' them. Bizarre. But then, looking through a number of glamorous film star pictures from the fifties and early sixties, there were shots of people like Jane Wyman, I remember, standing on some green lawn somewhere next to a chain link fence, and so I suppose if you've been brought up to think such installations are a delight, then that's what you're going to regard them as.
All of which said, here in the UK things are very much going the same 'cheapest option' route, with tacky wooden fences that fall apart within a decade, and in rural France, where I am most of the time, chain link with added green plastic strips woven through them. Bloody awful.
Very much in agreement with 'plumbing roulette' - will I be scalded? will I be blasted with ice? will there be a trickle turning into a tsunami with tiniest of motion. The only certainty is that touching the controls will cause you to get doused, and the bathroom to get doused and everything else to be doused. One control for temperature, one for flow, clearly labelled, its enough.
Mine in a UK new build is great. I found a setting I liked and now all I do is twist something at it's at the perfect temperature.
Looks a lot like the UK example in the video.
I don't understand how it can be any other way really.
It was a little trickier at my 1994 built parents' house though. Like mine it's in a bath but we'd mix the hot and cold taps and then push a valve type thing in the middle to make it come out of the shower head.
Less to fly to the UK than flying to another state has suprised me, especially as most Americans never even travelled to another country.
Every American criticises American bathroom stalls and yet nothing changes. There is a balance between personnel privacy and security however there is no privacy with American stalls.
@tonysheerness2427 I think it comes from Freebie and the Bean where the baddies was loading his gun in the stall. 😁😁
I was told that it's because you can control what's going on in the stall.
I heard it was to make them less appealing so people don’t stay in them long and make them more efficient.
@@Buzpud Who wants to stay long in a bathroom stall?
@@Buzpud The answer I got was that it was to control if more than one person was in the same stall.
I think British Shower control standardisation is comparatively new, as in the last few decades.
It varies, but often Brtish toilet stall doors do no go all the way to the ground.
Yeah there's a small gap of about 8 inches, that very small children can still slip through, but we can only really see shoes when sitting
I like how the american oreo pack has a resealable top. When i open a packet of biscuits i eat the lot
Serious question... why does Ryanair (and now Wizzair) make so much money but their model seems impossible to replicate in the US?
I have a PhD and I still have trouble with showers. Isn’t it amazing how many different designs there are in the world? Not sure that’s it’s really much easier in the UK, though.
Yes, what is it with the the chain-link fences? They look exactly like what they are: cheap and industrial.
The public ones are not referred to as "bathrooms", they are known as " the bogs"! ❤
Oreos don't taste of anything. Not a thing. They're just a bland sugar delivery system. Make them go away.
And you have to spend hours picking them out of your teeth after.
If they do have a taste it’s the taste of disappointment
Give me a custard cream over an oreo every time 😊
Oreos be like the chocolate custard creams that are the last things to go in the Family Circle tin of biscuits at Xmas.
100 % agree....Why have an oreo when you can have a hobnob or proper chocolate biscuit!!
Well that ran the gamut from cheap divorces to Oreo packaging - with a sideways look at toilet stalls on the way. No-one can accuse you of being obvious ;-)
I'm British and stayed in many US hotels , yes showers can be interesting but if you are not sure just use trial and error. Push/Pull all the knobs until you figure it out.
Yep. It's not as if you are getting charged extra for all the hot water you waste! :D
Well thanks for that genius insight.
7:19 How about taking the amount of Oreos that you want out of the packet and putting them in a zip-lock bag?
It’s the same with crisps ( chips ), why are they so large. Does any American eat a full pack. ???
To be fair, I could eat a sleeping bag size packet of Paprika Max! 🫃
Multi sleeve biscuits means that once open you have to eat them or the biscuits not eaten straight away will go soft. That’s how you can tell a biscuit from a cake the biscuit goes soft and the cake goes hard, try it!!
No, you don't have to eat them all and no, they won't go soft if you just put the spare ones in a tin or, even better, in one of those special tins you can put silica gel into a thing in the lid so they're even less likely to go soft.
Why call it a bathroom? There’s no bath in there.
The gaps in the toilet cubicles presumably have some reason behind them...? Safety if someone passes out or is doing something 'not recommended' or even 'not legal'? Otherwise it seems quirky and weird. Any suggestions?
I love our shower taps. Select temperature and turn om.
When you started with the airline costs, I thought you were going to say it can be cheaper to fly to Mexico / Canada then to your destination, than a direct flight. Wonder if it is?
Is it me or are Oreos a huge disappointment? Not a patch on a custard cream or jammy dodger. Are they supposed to be chocolate flavour?
Actually just back in the UK after visiting our American grandaughter who loves " Blonde Oreos"
Tastes just like custard cream..... well almost, but miles better than standard Oreos.
Oreos are weird. The maker uses buttermilk,I think, and makes it smell and taste like vomit.
I agree about the bathroom stall thing (especially in a men’s room where the urinals are directly across from the stalls - urinal spacing is a whole other issue), but I believe they are required to have a gap under the door in case someone gets locked in there, dies in there etc. so you can get under the door into the stall or vice versa. I don’t think it has to be as high as it is in some stalls though, and the vertical gap between panels can be ridiculous too. No privacy. As for the divorce thing, I don’t remember ever seeing a billboard or sign advertising a price for a divorce, but there are plenty of lawyer signs (mostly for accident lawyers) out there. This is in the northeast US.
Yes, I can feel you about that shower 🚿 thing.. I never been in America or elsewhere out of Europe though. I grew up in Soviet Union and then it was post soviet Latvia. And living now for 12 years in England I still think those shower things are confusingly different.
I don't think they sold Oreo in UK when I was living there (2011), I've certainly never tried them. I did buy a big pack of Jaffa cakes a week or 2 ago but the 4 lots were individually packed in clear plastic. I limit myself to one biscuit a day but they keep OK in an old ice cream tub.
Does anyone know WHY the US generally makes lavatory doors like that?
What about plug sockets? I think the USA plug sockets are terrible and have seen many USA videos agreeing with this. It might be a bit impractical as we use an earth pin which goes in first and the wiring in the house needs to accommodate this. It’s safer as it prevents electrocution but American houses would have to be totally rewired.
Try only buying M&S ready meals, yes, slightly more expensive, but the confidence you get from having a near perfectly prepared product that tastes good, and never puts you in hospital, makes the extra cost worth it.
Definitely agree about the hideous chain fences. In films they always have dobermans or alsatians flinging themselves against them barking their heads off
Adverts for divorces aren't unique to the US. Here in Warrington UK I regularly drive past a hoarding advertising fixed price divorces.
Champion is an absolutely amazing brand, I’ve got a few of their hoodies, they have gone up in cost too, but so has the quality.
IMHO, one really unattractive feature in the US is the amount of electric/phone cable strung along poles in the streets. In the UK, almost all of it is buried underground.
Cheaper.
Always the bottom line with Americans.
@@TheCornishCockney True!
The single sleeve of Oreos does exist here in the US!!
Ha yes! Thank you. I always struggle with American shower taps. In 2012 I had three mornings of cold showers at an American friend’s place, because I was so embarrassed to admit, I had no idea how to work their shower.
Some of our new fangled showers have adopted the American approach. I tried to use a friends shower and thought I had it sussed. I turned on the hand held shower and stepped aside to let it warm up, but got showered by freezing cold water from the ceiling one instead. Bloody annoying.
The problem in the U.S. is the glut of lawyers and the consumer pays the price. Do people think that multi-million dollar awards for a hot cup of coffee that you spill are justified.
If they were selling coffee too hot and had already been warned several times and the woman suffered third degree burns on her minge.
@@Trebor74 What is the point of having a hot drink that isn’t hot? Strangely enough the word hot just might give the game away!
@@Trebor74 "News just in from Texas.... Marty Smith is suing Seven Eleven for selling him a bag of "Ice cubes" that actually contained Ice, the ice melted and stained his passenger seat... the lawsuit is expected to last one month, with an estimated payout of $50,000".
Definitely need to fix the ridiculous suing culture over there... for a supposedly "Christian" nation they don't seem to understand that accidents happen and people make mistakes, and insist that every single thing should result in the loss of someone's job and a huge financial reward.
Work that one out...
The woman who got a settlement from McDonald's some years ago, was elderly, and her carer has requested the drink be served colder than usual as the lady couldn't grip a hot cup. She got third degree burns and these contributed to her death. Hence the case.
@@shaunfarrell3834 there's hot and there's unlimited hot drinks but make them so hot that noone can drink them till they've left the premises. They were warned drinks were too hot.
If you watch much youtube, you might have seen ready meals from factor sponsoring many American channels. And while I haven't eaten them(being from the UK) I think they are the closest to the basic fresh ready meals you get in most UK supermarkets, so I think slowly there is a change to the types of ready meals available now
I worked away from home and came back every 3 months, on one return trip I was in a hotel room at 11:30pm and couldn't figure out the shower and there was nobody at the hotel from desk. I simply gave up and went to bed.
On the shower thing, I warmly recommend reading “The design of everyday things “ by Don Norman. It’s wonderful and really makes you think!
Lawyers in the UK are not permitted to advertise
Two comments on things you said in this video.
I totally agree with what you said about public bathroom stalls. To give an example of it being even worse. In the late sixties and into the seventies, when drug culture was starting to be very prevalent, many universities, high schools, and even some public venues took the doors completely off. I suppose it was to discourage young (and perhaps older) people from using bathrooms to do drugs.
Single sleeve Oreos: I am not sure if Oreos did this but other cookie manufacturers ( Chips Ahoy definitely) packaged their cookies in sleeves but inside a larger package. So when you opened the package there were two sleeves of cookies. The sleeves were made of that wax paper style of material. This was again in the late fifties and into the sixties. I can not remember when they stopped doing this.
I've never seen an advert for the cost of divorcing in UK 🙄 how weird USA is 😳
That’s interesting regarding expensive US domestic airfares. I would've thought lots of competition would make them cheap.
Aye, them fences 😮 WHY?
I've wondered since first seeing them
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
The chain link fences is just early training for when you go to gaol. So much of the American population sees endless chain link fencing.
Doors that extend right down to the ground on each individual 'trap' in public conveniences? Wow! Now that's a novel concept!
90's was mental, where I lived people either went to massive raves in the woods or followed the live music scenes, you should explore British sub-cultures.
About public toilets, I have never understood the rationale behind such large door spaces other than perhaps acting as a deterrent to doing illegal things inside the stall. Having said that, I once went to a public toilet inside a department store in Manila and was shocked to see that the stall walls and door barely reached chest height. I could see the top of some guy's head as he was sitting on the toilet. I just shook my head and about-turned.
What’s a ready meal?
US drug companies spend $1 billion/month on advertising. Think this topic has been covered, but it's worth keeping afloat.
In England I know the cubicles (stalls) are a lot better, yet I still remember being small enough in primary school, to fit myself under the gaps and lock them all before escaping.
Yeah I was a filthy little git as a kid
The reason flights cost more in the US is because there are far less airlines in the US, than there are in Europe. Because Europe has so many airlines, there is massive competition between them for customers, which drives prices down. The US has far fewer airlines, so far less market competition, which keeps prices high.
American domestic flight prices are hig because the airlines have a virtual monopoly, there being a very poor rail system! The weird thing about American toilet stall doors - and sometimes walls, is that the public ones almost put you on display, whereas in a hotel room they are full height, even if the toilet is in a different room from the shower!
Thanks for an original video x
Still talking about public toilets and calling them bathrooms?
Or restrooms.
@@paulsara9694Exactly, I don't go to a public TOILET to rest or take a bath. I go to pee, shock!
Toilet is wrong too, as is lavatory. The correct term is W.C. Water Closet. 😁
@@Poliss95 Toilets have Cisterns. Water in a closet will flood the floor when opening the door.
liked this video kalyn.divorce billboards are a shocker.you have definitely not got your rose coloured glasses on when you go back to the us now.more of the same please some time.thankou.
It’s a toilet , not a bathroom. I see no baths.
The chain link fence you showed isn’t cheap. These kind of fences are expensive. But they live a long live, so it’s more likely not replacing them.
But they can easily made beautiful by some climbers and shrubs.
I think the problem is more that Americans don’t like gardening. And have no pride in having an exceptional beautiful garden. They prefer to have the boring grass field, nobody is allowed on. 😃
I agree with the chain fences when I was in Georgia it looked like I was in German concentration camp sorry.
All i want to say is, you're absolutely gorgeous, my darling!! 😊
Bathroom stalls. On one of the many vids complaining about these, a manufacturer came on to answer the question of why. The answer is simple, he said, it's the cheapest option, simple as that.
Chainlink fences were actually very common in the UK for much of the 20th century. Pretty well all council housing (social housing) would have chain link fences, and many housing estates too. I grew up in such a house, although gradually panel fencing supplanted them. The first house I bought had its original chain link fencing too.
From the 1970s onwards it tended all to get replaced with wooden fencing, and now it's seemingly almost universal that every back garden in a housing estate is surrounded by the identical 2 metre x 2 metre fencing panels (or close boarding if you want to go up market a bit). They are OK, but it's a sort of monoculture.
However, still much better than those chainlink fences which are just plain ugly and cheap.
I grew up in Slovakia where it's the opposite. People stopped using them years ago. Wooden fences are the cheapest thing you can get but they are a fire hazard, especially in spring when everything is dry after a long freezing winter. It rains a lot in the UK so I guess that's not an issue lol
One of the things that the US should do, is to put less thought into how shower taps work and more into why mass shooting events is the norm !
Regarding frozen food have you tried Iceland [the supermarket] "Harry Ramsden's" frozen fish and chips? Although not as good as the famous takeaway/restaurant version but a great cheaper alternative IMO.👍
I bet you've never seen any billboards in the UK advertising any type of lawyer or legal service, not only divorce. Billboards of any kind are limited to urban areas, and don't exist adjacent to major roads or motorways outside built-up areas. Prescription drugs may not be so advertised either.
@GirlGoneLondonofficial A question for you as a tennis fan Kalyn. What don't you see at Wimbledon that you see at every other televised sporting event?
I was married to an American ( she has sadly passed away) and I never had a problem operating the shower in the US.
What about the first time, though? Obviously, one gets familiar with things, with the effluxion of time.
USA toilet doors are 99% built by prison labour and so are standardised so dont usually fit!!😮😮😮 Its also a weird paradox...Yanks are puritanical about toilets! Calling them bathrooms and rest rooms etc BUT then you can actually see everything when you go in!!😅😅😅😅
Can I get your thought on the proposed Anglosphere or CANZAUK, the so called second British Empire, some proponents of the idea consider America a logical part of the alliance, other think it impossible and that America would never willingly rejoin the old enemy of Britain. Most point to the relatively fair and impartial judicial system and concern for the well-being of its citizens as reasons that it would benefit the world, other say that American self interest has caused them to squander their window of influence without accomplishing anything meaningful, what do you think?
DID YOU Know that US Schools are designed by the same Companies that build Prisons in the US? Look at the main walk way (no windows) just lockers on both sides and doors to class rooms (i.e., Cells) its not a pleasing look or a comfortable one. The reason is so that students can go from one class to the other faster, not sitting around. However look at the modern European school. There are some here in the UK that have lounge areas in the main walk ways and most European schools have a glass wall around the main area, allowing sun light in, which we all know is very good for you. Why keep the dark dingy halls like in US Schools. It cant be healthy at all. Not old schools in the UK or the EU but looking at a modern or a older school in the US they look the same.
American lawyers have great promotion and marketing strategies. I wouldn't get rid of cheap divorces, but how about getting rid of speedy divorces.