American Reacts to 5 Reasons Why the UK is BETTER than the US
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- The more I have experienced the UK and its culture the more amazing things I have gotten to learn. In this video I am reacting and learning about 5 specific reasons why this RUclipsr thinks the UK is better than the US. As bias as I am on this particular matter I am still excited to hear about these thoughts and analyze what may or may not be valid criticisms. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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"You pass the same darn castle every day on your way to work. It might get old" Tyler, it's a castle. It is old. :)
A pub is not a bar.
A bar is some place you go to buy a drink, often before a night out - we have those too.
A pub is a public house, a community and social hub and meeting point. From kids to the elderly, food and drink, sports and games, cosy fireplaces and sunny gardens. You can go and have lunch with your kids or get wasted with your mates, play cards with locals over a beer or start a pool competition, go for a quiet pint to read the newspaper at lunch or drinks after work with Colleagues or just stop in whilst walking your dog. It's a home away from home. They also have a lot of character and history, my city nottingham has the oldest Inn (a pub where you can get lodgings) in England which was built in 1189 and is carved into the rock at the base of the castle.
The trip “claims” to be the oldest (along with 10 or 11 others)
@@wbubbles5960 the trip IS the oldest ;)
@@davidrichardson5482 it’s the only one on the list I’ve been too so I’m happy to accept it 😉
Went to the Trip once,it was 5.30pm and it was closed,but it looked REALLY old,and I’ve been to the odd ancient boozer in my time.
Dirty Dicks by Fleet St in the city of London still my favourite,haven’t been for many years though.
Pubs also used to called Taverns & Inns very early on in the uk...in England Inns became Public houses or pubs & this term became popularised for all drinking places. Ive heard the Old Ferry Boat Inn on St. IVES is the oldest pub, having served alcohol since 560...its apparently mentioned in the Doomsday Book from 1086.
Im sure there's many really old pubs...just glad we still have them! My fav is one from the 1600's ive gone to since a child...we used to scare each other with stories of ghosts & witches lol ...we brought our kids there and no doubt it will b a great pub long after we've all gone...an we'll b the ghosts of history past 👻
As others have said. Pubs and Bars are very different, Pubs are very much social centers and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds. In the same pub at lunchtime you could have a table with two men having a business meeting, another table with a group of mums with kids having a get together, another table were a young man has brought his grandfather in for a drink, and yet another table with a single person who has come in to have a coffee and a sandwich for lunch. She didn’t emphasize enough this social and community role that pubs have. So important that in some villages where a company has decided to close the pub, the local community has got together and bought it to keep it open. Some even have a post office and a small library.
Smoking is banned in all indoor spaces so you very often see people standing outside a pub on the pavement drinking and smoking but the reason that Pubs are very popular is that they are a kind of a community centre where people congregate over a drink and some food to socialise. Particularly many people living in the vicinity of a pub regard it’s as a sort of an extension of their living room where they meet the same people very often and they get to know each other through the pub.
Yeah, bars are made for drinking in, whereas pubs are social centres that happen to serve alcohol. As a non-drinker, I cant ever see myself going to a bar, but I love going to the pub regularly.
@@Ariadne-cg4cq But you will have to say, since the smoking ban, Pubs have been closing left right and center. The extra taxes later applied didnt help either and now this huge leccy crisis. Its a wonder how some pubs are still open! Maybe if pubs charged less. be in compo with the supermarket. they'd get more custom instead of charging £4 a pint when the supermarket can charge £2. Sell cheap loses money I know but not when word spreads and suddenly you're the go to pub cos of cheaper drinks.
living in germany, i don't know pubs from experience, but they look to me like an improved (eg more social also for families etc) version of what we had, called _Kneipe_ and which were similar but more geared towards a place to meet (and drink, and eat small things) for workers after work or in the evening. We used to have at least one at every corner (literally, called _Eckkneipe)_ but now there are more normal restaurants, a few bars and sportsbars, and also shisha bars :-(
to give some american a very rough image about taking smoking away and increasing prices, just imagine a sportsbar getting rid of tv and selling drinks for double (or a multiple) of the price if you buy it in supermarkets and party at home alone. also consider that they used to be in the middle of towns in walking distance so that you didn't have to decide between driving or drinking.
@@Anson_AKB that's cool but pubs are more of a community thing.
In 2016 my late wife suddenly went blind, my boss immediately let me go to the hospital, after extensive tests the found she had a brain tumour, she spent weeks in hospital following major brain surgery, when they could not do anything more for her, she came home but she had two nurses comming every night just so that I could have some sleep, she passed away 8 weeks later. All this cost nothing.
On a side note, my employer told me to take all the time I needed to care for her on full pay and after she passed they even closed our local depot so that anyone who wanted to could attend her funeral, everyone did.
Not in the US
Our idea of being patriotic, is looking out for each other not embracing a piece of material with your hand on your heart. Most people have a strange Idea of where their heart is. I'm grateful that in a miniscule way I have helped in a tragic situation. By paying taxes. My sympathy Dave.
Sorry to hear about your wife Just Dave
@@iriscollins7583 that's very kind of you Iris. Thank you.
@@akeel_1701 thank you so much, your very kind, Akeel.
Ahhh how crazy! Really appreciate you reacting to my video ☺
I saw the thumbnail & thought, hang on, I know that girl. Allana, he's using you to boost his popularity! Shocking!! 🤣
oops, one "l" & 2 "n"'s... damnit, I always get them mixed round lol
This video from Alanna (sorry Adventures and Naps) is 2 years old and she did get her visa for the UK and she is back in the UK and still pumping out good content.
Her alcohol taste tests and cooking vids are the best...
Pubs are a social meeting point and often the focus of a town or village. You might go in during the day and just find a local group of older ladies having a quiet chat over a drink. Kids are welcome, dogs are often welcome. Then later in the day it will become more of a nighttime drinking meet up place for everyone.
Hard to explain but bars are more for drinking, pubs more for socialising. There'll be an explanatory video somewhere.
I was just about to say this. Pub and bar are NOT the same thing 😁
You can eat in a pub but also have a bar inside
Tyler, the UK's minimum of 28 days paid holidays equate to 5.6 weeks off, as a working week is considered 5 days....I work 4 days a week but get almost 8 weeks paid time off...best wishes from Scotland
this is heavily dependent on where you live and where you work, while i get 28 days off here in england, because of who i work for, it is 4 weeks off per year, because even though i work 3 days a week now, if i decide to take the 3 days a week i work off it's considered a full week meaning that i can't have more time off than i would normally like sadly, and that's down purely to how things are interpreted by my employer.
Me too.
in any case, most (or all !? i don't know of any country where it's different) european countries also have no "sick days" or require you to spend vacation days (in the usa called PTO?) in case you are sick, and employers can't fire you if you are sick for more days than some "sick days" plus unused vacation/PTO would allow. vacation is one thing that is guaranteed, and being sick is separate and different, and taken care of by employers and/or health care, even if it takes weeks or months to recover.
@@Anson_AKB where i work, there is a point where if you're off sick (not counting planned absence for surgery etc), you can actually lose your job based on the number of times you are off sick and the time spent off sick, aka you seemingly have a 'sick day' every week for example you would be taken to a disciplinary meeting and potentially sacked based on you being unable to meet you contractual obligations, that's how they get around things where i work.
@@Anson_AKB Sick Days!? If you are sick, you are off, no? How can you ration or predict how much days you will be of Sick!
On the other hand I wouldn't being of 'sick' one day per week is resonale behaiour for anyone, unless you have an ongoing condition and this is agreed with your employer.
Our health care includes dental care, hearing tests, hearing aids (free), eye tests, free specs if you have benefits." Free" prescriptions. That list goes on. It's the best thing about the UK and most people don't even know it. However it's under a lot of strain these days. It was the main reason I didn't move back to America. The vacations and paternity leave is another reason.
Dang we don’t have health care like that in Canada. The federal government is trying to implement this but the provincial govt especially in Ontario is trying to adopt a US health care system.
Everyone under the age of 16 gets free dental care. In Scotland and Wales prescriptions are free as well as free hospital parking. England are a little bit behind the other parts of the uk
@@laurabailey1054 there would be riots if they removed the NHS and gave us that shite over here
@@nic3525 It's under 18 for free dental care in the UK, under 19 if you are a student. Dental treatment can be expensive, I found it much better to get my dental work done in Türkiye, it is a fraction of the UK price, at least 70 percent cheaper. I had two dental bridges done for about £120. The dentist gave an extra discount because my wife also had some work done.
My ideal winter’s day is to take a long walk through the frost covered countryside and stop at a traditional village pub for lunch and a warm. Typically, the pub will date from around 1600 , will have a thatched roof, original oak beams, a roaring log fire and serve you real ale, pies and pickled eggs. There is no comparable experience in the USA.
I’ve had 2 heart attacks and I’ve had cancer twice. All of which needed surgery and in the case of my cancers long hospital stays and follow up chemotherapy, also annual checks and 5 yearly investigations. Cost to me £0 I bless the NHS as if I were in the USA I’d either be bankrupt or dead. The NHS has its problems but it’s the gift that keeps giving and we need to take good care of it. ❤
(Ps I’m not looking for sympathy as I’m alive and well and in remission)
Congratulations 👍 All the best for the future.
For all the slagging the nhs gets your living proof it works. Glad your well now.
Yeah we moan, but my wife and I have (literally) had our lives saved.
Aye the core principle of the NHS is Healthcare Free at the point of Need.
If you NEED it you don’t pay.
If don’t need but want you pay.
Most elective healthcare you pay for if it is purely cosmetic and there is no medical need.
hooray for the NHS, and hooray for your health!! 🍻
When you said about lack of history in America “what can we do about it?” Is exactly what we say when Americans complain about British weather…….
Actually they can build things better so they last longer and not knock down their old buildings
You can't blame the Americans for a lack of history. They've got loads - it's just that it all started over here. And we've got loads. Not all good.
@@samuelpinder1215 Every time I go back to the US things have changed, drastically - and not always for the better. There is a mindset that says 'it's old - get rid of it' as if replacing something is inherently good. It's not - it's wasteful.
@@wessexdruid7598 yeah I see teams with stadiums from the 1980s in america build new ones, mansfield town are still playing in one from the 1800s
I think one of the biggest stumbling block for U.S. health care is as soon as someone calls it social health care, American's run for the hills.
So right, most Americans think 'socialism' = 'communism' (they are really not Worldly wise - SMH). But hey! They voted in Trump... so what can you do?
i'm wondering why they still have the SSN ... it is a social security number !?
does that mean that every american is registered with socialists=communists ? of course not !
And parts of Canada are trying to adopt a US style of health care.
@@laurabailey1054- Hopefully the American influence towards 'privatisation' won't get accepted as the 'norm', otherwise Canada will rue the day !!!
@@stewedfishproductions7959 they also voted Biden in and he is the hilarious bumbling gift that keeps on giving.
just came back from the Uk...went to different pubs...loved them..they have a history to them..
As a manager in the UK one of my Key Performance Indicators is making sure my employees take all their days off, I get marked down if people don't take their full entitlement.
That explains why two years in a row I was pushed to take 20 days of holidays over the last 3 months of the years allowance
Was great having Thursday's off for three months twice a year
And we still moan it's not enough lol
The company that I work for gives us the option to sell are holidays back to them I usually hold a few back the extra money always helps around Christmas
Ha ha! And I would be that employee who only ever books one day off a year and you have to force me to take the rest.
(I always book my birthday off it’s the only day of the year I refuse to work)
The bars I went to in the US were all dark, no natural light and just didn't have the same warm and friendly atmosphere as we have here. Plus the drinks range isn't as good with very average beers
How ironic I'm watching this on my paid holiday time from work that is mandatory by law
Maybe she should talk to Natives and learn that history. We don't see American history because we ruined it.
Our pubs usually do food and have a more homely feel than a bar. No smoking is miles nicer to be in.
FYI when you see the word "Ye" as in "Ye olde castle" or whatever it's actually pronounced "The". The "Y" in "ye" is actually an old English letter called "thorn" which had a "th" sound but looked like a "y" (sort of). It has since been removed from the English language. Pity.
Some thing that is almost always missed is that 'pub' is an abbreviation of 'Public House' . a House that traditionally run by a husband and wife who live in the Public House and customers are their guests. One of the family is the 'publican' who holds a licence to sell alcohol for consumption on his premises. The licence that has to be renewed every year and will only be approved if the pub has been run in a civil manner. He may also hold a licence to sell alcohol for consumption away from his premises = 'the Offy' .
yes...it's true...Pubs...have cosey rooms, open fires, low beams .friends and delious food...need them in the cold weather...
Too expensive to use them now though
I had cancer in 2016 the NHS looked after me so well and I am 67 still alive. Love your videos
Just an example for here in the UK - I've been working at my minimum wage job for less than a week. And I already have access to over a weeks worth out of my 28 days of paid vacation to schedule 😁, and paid parental leave if I need it.
Pubs are either freehold (privately owned) or owned by a specific brewery. A traditional pub will have a separate public bar and saloon bar. The bar being the counter they serve you from. They also tend to have outside drinking areas or “beer gardens” the outside of many pubs are also beautifully decorated with hanging baskets of flowering plants.
Allana has now been back in the UK for a couple of years, since making this video. I like her Ontario humour and the degree of objectivity her Canuk perspective offers on the transatlantic differences. When in the UK, I can take my kids and grandkids to the pub, we may eat together, those aged 16 or over may drink wine or beer while eating. They are family oriented. BTW, At least once a week I have to stop on the way to work while a herd of elephant cross the road, or see a troop of baboon harrassing kids on their way to school. Just like my youngest who attends a school in England which begun in 909 and has his dorm in a house which is 550 yrs old, these things really never get old. When living in the US, my commute down VA highway 75, however, grew old very quickly. 🙄🤭
The school in England, is The Kings School?
@@tonycrayford3893 You mean Kings Collage London? That is just one of many very good schools.
I grew up in the UK but have lived in Canada for over 40 years and the extra tax thing still bugs me!
How have the normally ambulance chasing yanks not sued any company for false advertising yet
28 days paid leave is the least annual entitledment. I get 31 days p.a in my job, plus bank holidays. Last year we were given an extra 'Golden Day' of leave for extra work pressures during CoV*d. This year we also had 3 extra Bank Holidays - 2 for the Queen's Jubilee in the Summer and one for the Queen's funeral.
Can I stress that is working days 28 days leave is NOT 4 weeks, but is over 5 weeks.
@@postie48 Why would anyone not know that 28 days pa leave from a job doesn't include days we are not mandated to work?
@@cazzyuk8939 Not everybody works 5 day weeks, or have a maximum number of hours in their woking day/week.
@@cazzyuk8939 because he is american !?
Price tags, yes! We don't care how much the shop gets and how much the government gets, we want to know what things are going to cost us. We don't want to have to calculate extras for tax just tell us what we are paying!
A lot of British prices end 99 or 95 as well.
Coming from North England, my main complaint living here is the weather. We get a couple of hot weeks in summer, then lots of rain & cold weather. If the weather was warmer for longer I probably wouldn’t travel abroad for vacations as much, as plenty beautiful places yet to see here. 👍💕🏴
As someone (Shakespeare?) said: "And now is the time of our second Winter, which is called Summer."
Move to Devon. Winters are at least an overcoat warmer, snow is rare and usually only sticks around for a day or two at most, and you're already in one of the best places in the UK to holiday. I'm a Lancashire lad myself. Been down here for over 32 years. Just be careful of your surroundings deceiving you into thinking you're on a permanent holiday - its a real danger.
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Alanna is awesome. I'm subbed to her channel. She's been in the UK almost 7 years now. :)
I would add the whole question of minimum wage (and the reliance in the service industry on tips!). Why does an international company (e.g. MacDonald's) fail to pay their workers in USA a living wage.
Agreed , their food prices should be cheap as the customer is paying the staff wages .
Prescriptions in UK differ. In England (where I was born) you have to pay but in Wales (where I live now) and Scotland, they are free
Because London pays it.
And free in Northern Ireland too...
The UK does the $11.99 instead of $12.00 tactic too, the difference is is when price tag says £11.99, the price you pay is £11.99.
It is easier for us to do this because our tax is pretty standard, and based on what the item is, not on the location of the shop like in the US
It's not just a marketing thing like most people assume.
It's to force opening of tills to give change. If something is a straight £10 or £1 it's easy for the cashier to not put it through the till and pocket the money. Making it 1p under forces a till transaction.
I wish Canada did that. We pay 13% tax on top of the price.
I have hear this specious argument about it being difficult to introduce tax-inclusive pricing in the USA, because taxes in each locality are different. It is nonsense: a shop is only ever in one place. The tax rate may change, but, on any day, the tax is the same in any shop, throughout the country. There is absolutely no reason why each shop should not deal exclusively in tax-inclusive prices.
@@lesterbottomley7641 I suppose an unscrupulous cashier could keep a pocket full of pennies.
@@TimpBizkit few transactions are a single item though. The .99p thing is to force a non-round number as the total meaning exact change payment less likely, not to make a purchase end in .99
She has a separate post discussing the British pub. It is not a bar. It's where you can take your family for a relaxed lunch. Favourite for Sunday lunches, mother's or fathers day. They are less stuffy than restaurants and often have an area for children. My favourites have beautiful beer gardens which often have play areas. You can sit outside in the summer, in lovely gardens. Or inside next to a roaring log fire in the winter. Many are hundreds of years old. Some host pub quizzes, karaoke events, live music. Kids are usually not allowed in at night where the atmosphere morphs to a more adult scene. You can get posh gastro pubs to rough and ready pubs with pool darts etc. The pub is a British institution, a little less booze oriented the the Irish pub that is also lots of fun
A pub I used to go to when I lived in England, The Crooked Billet, was built in 1642.
If you're going to the average American hospital the care is actually sub par, given how much it costs compared to others as well
Just compare the US baby mortality rate to most European countries... too!
A successful US friend got knocked off his motorbike a number of months ago and bus his back and pelvis. Spent 2 months in hospital. Nrow doing a go fund me for his excess of $1.4m! Who has that sort of money. Looks like he'll lose everything unfortunately!
I hope he'll be ok. That's really sad.
There are certain treatments that are not available on the NHS ( and then you're stuck with nothing or going private and paying) but all in all, it is/ was? a decent system. Unfortunately, it is currently severely understaffed and underfunded :(
Same with Canada. In Ontario they have made a lot of cuts to health care
The management and accounts swallow all the money.
28 days is more than a month buddy. Depending on the month 20 days is usually enough for a full month almost since you only work 5 days a week. Therefore 20 days off means 28 days away from work. so 28 days off would be almost a month and two weeks :)
I follow alana's channel as well. She's just so gosh darned wholesome. (Until she does one of her getting pissed on British beer, cider or methylated spirits videos).
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The holiday allotment in the UK actually works out at five weeks and three days. As the working week is five days this equates to 25 days with the other three days taking you to 28 days.
I think that you'll find that many Pubs started out as Travel stations, where you stayed the night , for bed and board. Or sometimes just to change Horses.
Also in the Uk some companies offer long term employees who have worked at the company usually for at least 5 years an additional 5 paid days of holiday. In addition to that, we don't have to use holiday days in replacement of sick days as those are paid, although after 3 consecutive sick days we do need a doctors note.
by law its 7 days before you need a line (any employter who says otherwise can be challenged as they are essentially breaking the law if they demand a line after 3 days) but yeah most companies will give you an extra day for each year worked
www.gov.uk/taking-sick-leave#:~:text=Fit%20notes%20and%20proof%20of,as%20weekends%20and%20bank%20holidays.
I really enjoy your channel however, you really really need to stop interrupting so often.....it ruins the entire experience. Build your thoughts and make comments after a while...any times you interrupt before even giving time to understand.....just listen for a while....when you pause every 5 seconds it becomes more about you, them if it becomes more about you.....game over
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Pubs in the UK are like local social hubs. People go to meet up with neighbours or for after work drinks with co workers. Gathering round a open fire in a pub having a Sunday Lunch is the best.
So are a lot of American bars. Ever which Cheers.
Very right we do enjoys our pints in our local pubs coz any day of the week you will meet like 80% who knows each other and have good laugh ...very relaxing and good food too especially the full English Breakfast.
My doctor once prescribed a couple of evenings in a pub week, I told him that I didn't drink, he assured me that I'd soon found one that I like.😊 I did Babycham. Join the ladies darts team he advised. I did. Really enjoyed it. It really helped me.
@@iriscollins7583 😂😂😂Good Doctor we need and misd It some times.
@@iriscollins7583 We love to hear thanks God Its a Friday!!!!
My Mum currently has cancer and I cannot thank the NHS more, they have been amazing and it's all at no cost
I worked out an estimate (literally is an estimate using a medical price guide) out of curiosity to compare how much it would cost over in the US for what treatment she's had so far
$28,521... She has to have more procedures done as well so that number will tip well over 30K pretty much in total.. that's fucking shocking
❤our NHS
I wish every US citizen was as open and honest, as realistic and accepting as you are in recognizing these glaring issues, not only accepting these hard-to-swallow truths but also being ready to face them head on. The US certainly would be a better place.
Hey it's Alanna ! ..... I've watched all her vids for 5 or 6 years, she's great and back in the UK now. Her channel is Adventures and Naps
Lol yeah. I live right next to a 1000 year old Cathedral in Durham City that i dont really pay attention to but people come from all over the world to visit. It is beautiful but its like everything. You get used to it..
Healthcare - what can I say? I work in the NHS. It's the dog's bollocks!
Pub is short for public house.
If you know the comedy series "Cheers", then that bar is almost like a UK pub (Public House). There are the regulars who are in there most nights as well as casual visitors. It has a cosy friendly atmosphere. Pubs in small villages are quite often the centre of the community.
A pub is basically a cross between your living room and a community centre that has a bar in it. All ages, backgrounds and social groups meet there for conversation, quizzes, a game of pool or darts, some have children's' play areas or gardens with tables, you can get snacks and, in many, a cooked meal. You can take your grandma and your four year old nephew to a pub and both will have a good time.
A lot of pubs used to have live singers on a Saturday night, but that seems to have declined a lot in the last 10 years.
Pubs tend to have a more traditional look and feel than what we would call bars. They often have old decor and are in older buildings and have names like 'the white swan' or 'the black bull'. Bars don't have names like this and definitely have a more modern look & feel. Both are primarily places to drink.
The difference between the US and the rest of the world (not just the UK) is that you live to work... Whereas we work to live.
I think you don't put tax on the price tags in the US because each state has it's own specific tax rate if I'm correct.
I just had 19 months of treatment for breast cancer,currently cancer free,but will be on medication and closely monitored for life.Yes I paid into the NHS from 16 to 50,but all my treatment has been free.Scary to even imagine it not being xx
I couldn't be happier that I pay taxes for those in need. My lovely mother had great care when she was diagnosed with cancer. Can you imagine dealing with a frightening diagnosis and then worrying about the cost o for treatment?
@@leec6707 it doesn't bear thinking about x
@@joannetyndall3625 If you've paid into the system your whole life - and you have done, then, your treatment wasn't free. It just wasn't yanked out of your bank account in one big, horrible chunk. But you have paid for it step by step over the years.
@robert Jones Do u reckon I need that explaining?Lifes too short for pedantics.
@@leec6707Agree. I’m happy that my taxes contribute to a healthy, happy country 😊
Many years ago now, I worked for a company who let you carry over unused vacation (holiday) days into the next year, many don't & have a "use or lose" policy. I got told after a few years that I really need to start using them because the amount of days I had accrued was getting out of hand lol. Later that year I had 3 months of 3 day weeks & took a month off over Christmas. Now that's what I call good vacation allowance.
Previous company's I worked for gave you vacation credit on each weeks payslip. When you wanted time off you simply told them for instance..I want a week off using my holiday credits & they would deduct 5 days worth of credit (sat/sun were'nt working days anyway), but you could take more credit if you wanted. The great thing about this was you could save that sucker up & take the whole lot as a "bonus" at the end of the year & still have a good chunk of Christmas & New Year off because of te additional statutory days that you get anyway over that period.
Now I get zero vacation days which is a shame...wait, no it isn't, everyday is a holiday as I work for myself now - or should I say don't, because I do bugger all 🤣
My husband use to sell his holidays around Christmas time. It would stop us stressing about presents for the kids 😂
@@oobiedoobiedoo1290 exactly, nice boost if you can take it that way & you don't mind working your vacation days instead. I just hope it was by choice & you didn't hen peck him into not taking the days off. I know us men get under your feet but we like to sit on our asses now & again 🤣
Interesting , the smoking ban only covers inside the pub , so you can go out in the garden for a flag . It usually leads to a chat with fellow addicts and isn't too stressful . I can remember being in places before it where your eyes started watering due to the smoke . It's now generally accepted that you don't smoke indoors almost anywhere .
We do tend to take a lot of our historical stuff for granted , as we see it every day but there are a lot of places well worth looking into . The NHS and our National Insurance system were set up in the post war period . After all the sacrifices people demanded a better deal from politicians and business and no government would stand a chance at the ballot box if they proposed abolishing it . There are always problems with funding and running services and it can make a big difference in elections .
IEvery Country probably has its good and bad points and the UK certainly isn't perfect .
Giving flags out in the pub garden now? Don't you just hate 'auto-correct' 😀
Yes I do , it's one of the most annoying things about technology . Having said that it might be fortuitous as our slang for a cigarette means something different in the US. I hear .
@@DavidSmith-cx8dg 👍🇬🇧 - I also wonder if the Americans know we even eat faggots in the UK and sometimes collect bundles in the woods too??? And if you do smoke, don't have any, you can always try to bum a flag! -Just saying - LOL
NHS prescriptions: People in England who normally have to pay, but who are under 16, or still in school and under 18 get their medication free, this also applies to people over 60, women who are expecting a baby, and those with certain medical conditions such as diabetes (type 1 and type 2). Also people in hospital do.
Excellent reaction Tyler. I am so sorry for Americans, who have no work/life balance. Much of our more favourable working conditions were won by unions, and guaranteed by our membership of the EU. So, join a union and make the bosses give you what you've earned, if you don't get 4 weeks' paid holiday.
Our paid holidays have nothing to do with the EU, they were obtained by the unions.
@@johnjamesflashman6856 um, look up the retained EU laws that are due to get scrapped at the end of the year. dont be surprised if annual leave becomes a major issue for the tories soon.
Just for info Ye as in Ye Olde house is actually pronounced THE not YEE. The Letter Y in this case was originally a now non-existent English letter called Thorn which had a th sound. Over time when written it looked similar to a Y so the Y character ended up replacing it. also Olde is just pronounced as old. These 2 words are often mispronounced even by some English folks who do not know the origin.
The 28 days vacation can be in addition to national holidays.
The thing is American companies in the U.K. abide by our laws of giving the minimum wage which is £9.50 an hour plus the paid holidays. If they can do it here why not in the USA!! Because your government allows them to exploit the working class people etc.
We do love our pubs (public house).
Especially if they have open fires and serve good grub. You can take kids into a pub but not into a bar.
There are bars in America that have good food and you can take your kids.
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My folks never took us into any of those sadly. 😊
The cricket club in the town where I was born, was older than the USA. Before Henry the 8th dissolved the monasteries, it had one of the oldest abbeys in the country.
The tax on shopping added on at the till I hear about a lot - and it always just seems really stupid to me. Surely it’s obvious that it should be included in the price - shelf labels could always show the price with and without tax if needed (we have that sometimes here in the UK).
A (public house) pub in the countryside, could have just one small room armchairs an open fire, on Sundays a home made Sunday roast for the customers. Raffles prizes are a local cut of meat or home brewed wine. It's really worth a visit any one is welcome.
Oh the history, not only do we have it, but we know it and understand what it is way more than Americans. Oh and btw "ye" isn't pronounced yeeee it's pronounced "the" just like "olde" isn't pronounced oldeeee but "old". Lastly, just to rub it in, I got to use my annual leave up before 1/1/23 so I got the last week off in October, November and off for Christmas, only 3 weeks work per month for the next 3 months and on full pay. ✌️
And even better holiday pay is legally required to be paid at your p60(the average of your previous 12 months wage OR 13 weeks if you haven't been an employee for 12 months) . So if you work overtime you get paid for those hours(usually at 1.5times rate) either the following month/week, but because it increases your annual pay, the following year holiday pay increase.
Legally your annual holiday entitlement starts the same day as your employment. As is unlikely that you start on the 1st day of the year your entitlement will be pro rata for the remainder of the year. Some companies give long service days as an addition to your annual holiday entitlement(I worked same place for 30 years and get 5 extra days holiday every year).
What's it like in the US for sick pay?
But did not like sitting nine ours on plane this time..
Smoking is prohibited in ALL public places including transport and places of work.
Guns are illegal here....we already won before the video even started 😂😂 (Before people get all 🤓)
Ik we can get gins through the police
If the drug you need cost £5 or £50,000 you pay £9 or nothing at all.
America Compared: Why Other Countries Treat Their People So Much Better
check this video out.
Quick tip. If you want to learn something from the vids you watch, try keeping off the pause button and blathering on about not understanding anything. The vid is there to explain it so that even an American can grasp it. Just saying.
On the NHS, we also have state of the art treatments etc, the quality of care received differs very little from the well covered people in the USA, but here people pay through a form of progressive income tax (the more you earn the more you pay) because the underlying principle is that people should pay according to what they can afford but receive treatment according to what they need. That said, the average cost per capita for health care in the UK is a fraction of the cost of the average cost for USA residents, and in certain areas we have significantly better outcomes (check out the maternal mortality rate between the 2 countries for one example). All treatment decisions are based on what a doctor/surgeon/whatever thinks is the most appropriate treatment/medication for you as an individual and not what an insurer is willing to pay out for. We also have private healthcare options in pretty much all areas as well, so having a national service does not remove choice.
A bus driver in Ireland told me an American ask him why did we build a 800yr castle in the middle of route so everyone has to drive around it. When they where told it was here first they ask why did we not pull it down to make the Journey faster.
I’m sure I heard something like that before, an American complaining on why they had to walk up a big hill to reach Edinburgh castle… oddly enough the castle was built before roads with cars and is positioned for strategic purposes rather than tourists!
@@Japonicastar lol yeah I read a review somewhere of Edinburgh castle by an American "its a lovely castle but it;s a shame they didn't build it closer to the train station" :)
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One of the other things she mentions in other videos is our integrated public transport system which includes buses, railways and city trams and underground systems.
America could have a long and magnificent history if it bothered to preserve the histories of the indigenous people. They were far more advanced than popular legend and is something all Americans should be taught and have pride in.
Only time I go to a pub is for Sunday dinner with my family, you can sit in our out. Many pubs have play areas for kids now.
In my hometown Swansea in Wales, I see a castle every week when I go shopping, but it doesn't boring, maybe a ruin, but it makes you imagine how it looked when it was first built. 🏴
I have been to America ,and it was confusing to me,that I had to pay more than I expected at the checkout
Hi Tyler. I enjoy your channel and appreciate your thoughtful openness towards other country's views on the USA. I am in my mid 50's and have been lucky enough to have travelled abroad more than most for leiasure (37 nations to date). I've visted the States several times, including Nevada, Utah, California and Florida and, obviously, I like the USA or else I wouldn't have returned so many times. Amongst rhe things I love is the general sense of "differentness" between your country and mine despite our shared history, language, and values, with fighting wars side by side, our mutual appreciation of eachother's musical, theatrical and cinematic output, etc, etc. The list is long. The thing that dismays me (and i speak as a patriotic Conservative voter and a Royalist) is the unfairness of your social welfare system which leaves the most needy people with almost no safety net. My two visits to California shocked me with the stark contrast between the first in 2002 and the second in 2009. San Francisco and Los Angeles had become dumps within the span of seven years. Tent villages in Venice and homeless alcoholics and drug addicts in the busisness district of SF. I have never encountered such poverty, even in Asia, and certainly never in Britain. This does your fine country a disservice and, in my opinionated view, you ought to put your considerable resources into fixing the problem before it spreads nationwide.
Should you come to the uk, you will I understand the difference between a public house ,(pub), and a bar. Some pubs are over 600 years of age, with snucks and siderooms.
Think Lord of the rings, prancing pony
Don't forget America does have a castle. It is however owned by a mouse.
i saw a programme about our health care and us health care and a politician said he doesnt like our health care as its run by the goverment but i think our health care is good its not perfect but ive never had any issues with it
Being a countryman , the drink driving limits ( while very sensible) really impacted country pubs. I live next to one that closed in late 2019 , due to this factor. It is off any bus routes , despite sitting on quite a busy country road. It was a listed building c 1760 and has a lovely setting in delightful countryside - but is currently being redeveloped into 3 houses.
That is very sad.
People in the village can go there
The US is great to visit, but the religious extremists would drive me crazy if I lived there. Over half the UK is atheist apparently. I've never met anyone who goes to church.
last time i went to church some evil sadist SOB poured water over my head thinking he was in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base but mum said i peed over his hand so got my vengeance in
@@philiprice7875 I think that's hilarious... but it won't stop me going to church.
Also I'd much rather go to a bar than a pub as I'm 18...pubs get a bad rep for all the fights and arguments so I cba with all that
The minimum holiday entitlement in UK includes public holidays. We get two days at Christmas ( Christmas Day and Boxing Day), 1st January (New Years Day), two days at Easter ( Good Friday and Easter Monday) then minimum of three more public "bank holidays". But you get variations around UK. Scotland get two days at start of year (generally 1st and 2nd January). There might also be difference in when England, Scotland, Waled and Northern Ireland take one of these bank holidays. Not sure if it still the same but I worked for a company with offices Scotland and there was difference dates and number of bank holidays between Scotland cities.
A price of 9.99 is not just about making you think its cheaper. It's also to ensure the cashier has to open the til, if it was $10 exactly they could pocket that.
That works in the UK, but in America even $10.00 has the added on tax and they would have to open anyway (as few Americans would have the exact amount). Just saying - LOL!
A bar and a pub are two different things entirely. A bar is a place to go to drink a pub is a place to socalise. I don't drink alcohol but am happy to meet friends in a pub but if they arrange to meet in a bar I back out. Two totally different things.
Goodness me, she likes her pubs, doesn't she? I guess in the UK, we might speak of a cocktail bar, a hotel bar, or maybe a circle bar - as in a theatre: in other words, bars are counters that sell alcohol that are usually within some other kind of premises or, that are specialist in some way. I mean, you also get heel bars - where you can have your shoes mended as you wait! Pubs on the other hand are places that have been deliberately established and designed as places that are open to anyone for the purposes of socialising over a few drinks. Many now also do meals, and some even have children's play areas! The more traditional will have locals who are regular customers, and possibly form sports and games teams among them - many pubs have dartboards for example, and will perhaps compete against other pub teams, some have skittle alleys and will similarly compete at that - or it might be cards, cribbage or other table-top games while, at the other end of the scale, some may even have football teams! The majority now have giant TV screens installed so that fans can be there with their mates and watch all the games on the sports channels - although quiet pubs are still much sought after, so by no means all of them have this. Some might offer various themed nights and/or karaoke and, some might also be live music venues - usually of the folky, singalong type of gendre...
There has been a National Smoking Ban in all indoor public places for some years now. In Scotland, is it also an offence to knowingly allow people to smoke in such a place. Smoking therefore has to take place outside, and usually in designated smoking areas that may or may not be provided with a basic, two-sided shelter. Shelters with any more than two sides are classified as indoor...! Indeed, there is talk of banning smoking in all public areas, period,
It is normal for us to expect to have at least three weeks paid holiday each year, plus all national or local public holidays - often with a degree of flexibility as to when these may be taken. (Traditionally, factories used to close down at fixed points in each year, meaning that everyone had to take the same holidays, but that is now almost unheard of.)
The NHS is free at the point of contact and is funded by National Insurance contributions that are deducted from wages at source. As this also funds a number of welfare benefits, it is normally free to claimants of these, too. All UK citizens should register with a General Practitioner, who is their main route to speciality services provided elsewhere (although these may also be accessed by hospital accident & emergency departments in the event that urgent treatment is needed). They might also register with NHS dentists and opticians - who, depending on the patients' circumstances, may offer completely free services or who may charge for things such as dentures, or other treatments up to Government-established limits. They may also opt for private dental treatment or use their NHS entitlements as part payment - most commonly for glasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, etc. All hospital in-patient services are free, including prescribed drugs and hotel services. The main disadvantage of NHS treatments are the waiting times, especially for surgery. While there are national waiting time targets that should be met, this hasn't really been achieved since the beginning of the Covid pandemic and some waiting times for non-urgent treatments are now in the region of five years... It is possible to be moved further up the queue however, if the consultants agree that there is a clinical need for it. There are also many other community-based NHS services such as physiotherapy, chiropody and psychology, some of which might even be open for self-referral. The ambulance service is free, as are mental health services including in-patient care as might be deemed necessary. While the police and courts may refer people to hospitals and even those offering high security in the case of courts (and other hospitals, in the case of patients already in their care), all of these are staffed by NHS doctors, nurses and other employees - that may or may not include some security officers. There is no longer any direct involvement of the prison service in these hospitals, though people in prison are also entitled to NHS care as and when they need it.
There's some companies in uk that give more than 28 days a year off.
I get 30 days paid holiday which doesn't include bank holidays so they are extra. Plus I work a flexi system. If I work over my schedule hours the company gives me the time back. So can either work shorter days or if made up enough hours that equals a working day, can take a day off without having to use holiday time.
28 vacation days works out at much more than a month/four weeks because a working week is 5 days - so 28 days equates to 5 weeks and 3 days. After a few years with an employer this often goes up to 6 weeks.
When I visit the town my daughter lives in the history there never gets old, older yes, but not old, lol! Established in the 1100's, castle ruins next to an old park and very cosy pubs older than the US are just some things I personally don't take for granted living in the UK.
My job was going to discipline me for not taken my paid yearly hoilday b4 it expires 😂
Now am at home , don’t know what to do with myself
We get 28 days holiday (over the whole year) plus 6 official paid bank holidays
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