Every time I watch an American make yet another one of these videos, they prove just how backwards the USA is. Imaging having to rely of tips from the customer instead of being paid by your employer. Imagine a society where healthcare is a privilege instead of a basic human right. Same for education. I can't imagine a worse place to live and I grew up in Africa.
Of course sheep cross the road, they have to move between fields. (by the way Australia and New Zealand have loads of sheep too). No electricity in the bathroom is a safety feature. UK's electricity supply is way more powerful than the US. Cash is NOT 'king'. Yes it's always useful to carry some for spending small amounts and for use in small shops but most people use a 'contactless' bank card.
Believe me, if you think you’ve sorted out when it’s dinner, tea or lunch, you haven’t sorted it AT ALL. The British still argue about it. Our own last experience was last week when my northern nephew and his southern wife were having that debate and drew us into it.😵💫😳
We lived in Canada for 2 years and not long after we moved there, the owner of a house was showing us around, as we were interested in renting it. So, we were walking around the back of the property, but it was taking some time, and I was aware that nobody had spoken for a while, and it seemed a bit awkward. I automatically did what any Brit would do and made a comment about the weather (Which actually seemed even more relevant than usual since it was raining at the time) I said something like, “Wow, it’s really raining a lot. It’s been raining all day.” But, to my mortification, the landlord didn’t say a word. No reaction, no reply. Nothing. I was like, “OMG what do I say now? I can’t talk about the weather again.” I was totally at a loss to think of anything else to say to this Canadian we had only just met. Somehow, “Isn’t that a great tree,” or “I just love maple syrup,” or “What big moose you have out here,” wasn’t going to sound quite right! So, we carried on in excruciating silence. I could quite easily have stretched out a conversation about the weather until we reached the back door of the house if he had just said something…. anything… in reply!
Dinner can mean lunch, tea, or supper. In the case of tea, we are talking about high tea rather than afternoon tea, though neither is ever specified. It's basically a matter of the time dinner is served.
While most shops take cash, virtually all tend to prefer card, chip and pin or contactless. We've had contactless payment for a decade now, it's just accepted. One reason is that shops' insurance often has a limit on the amount of cash that may be on the premises so once they get to that then they need to get it to the bank. The contactless payment limit was £20 or £30 prior to the pandemic (depended on the shop/business) but was in the process of being increased to £50 when the lockdowns began. It can now be up to £100 but depends on the shop - gas/petrol station will be £100 as that's not an unusual transaction but somewhere like a small "mom and pop" shop might still be £30 since their transaction values are going to be a lot less so there's no need for the larger amount.
Americans - who tend to think the whole island is London - are always surprised that there is countryside. We are primarily a countryside nation. And there is that curious phenomenon where views can be completely different between an urban population and a rural one. Not to mention accents.
Meal naming conventions differ by region. Growing up in the north east of England it was breakfast, dinner and tea. Now that I live on the south coast it is breakfast, lunch and dinner. I think that previously it was a class as opposed to regional thing, where dinner was always the main meal of the day. In the army during the 19th century soldiers had breakfast, dinner as the main meal where they had a two hour break, and a "tea meal" in the early evening which was literally bread and tea. I suspect that discharged soldiers brought this naming convention home with them. During medieval times the main meal was at midday as it was the only time when it was light enough to prepare food and cook it. Upper class people could afford to have light in their kitchens so the main meal was in the evening, hence dinner for the later meal.
@deanstuart8012 I was thinking about this the other day. I have breakfast and lunch, but at home my evening meal is generally referred to as 'tea', but if I'm eating out in the evening, I go out to dinner!
I’m old now but when I was younger we didn’t have switches next to the plug at all. When they were introduced we understood that they were a safety feature and straight away we understood it without any confusion at all. No problem.
I remember that. I can't remember when it changed. It seems like it's been forever, but I know it can't have been. Do you remember when they were dark brown instead of white?
Wasn't that a 5amp socket Penny? They were then changed to the 13amp white sockets, I can't remember how old I was then, but it was a long long time ago!!! @@pennyaccleton6227
@@Angusmum I remember when they were a brown Bakerlite plastic with no switch and 3 larger pins which were rated at 15Amps. I think they were used post WW2 until the mid sixties.
Buying bar staff a drink 'have one for yourself' is code for take a tip equivalent to the price of a measure They don't actually amass drinks, lol. We have a tipping culture but we pay servers a minimum wage and tips are a gratuity based on getting excellent service, tips are not an entitlement and poor service should not be rewarded.
How many sheep have you seen in London if they are everywhere !? In the UK an OUTLET is a discount shopping area ! We call them sockets or switches. Dinner, lunch , tea. This depends on which area of the country you live in and what social class you belong to.
We have sheep in London. When my friend gave me a lift, we drove past some, I asked him if they were real 😂. He just gave me a funny look and didnt answer.
I don't know anywhere that prefers cash, even chip shops default to cards nowadays. And if you offer a barman a drink it's not uncommon for them to take cash (it was 50p a time in my day) and throw it into a glass to grab later, but you're right that tipping directly would be weird.
You need to understand that when someone from England says, I am sorry you have had a bad day. They do not mean to personally apologise , they are simply expressing sorrow for you situation.
Yeah this is true. Sorry = sorrow, as in 'I am sad that thing happened' If I tell someone I am sorry that their partner died I am definitely not responsible for their death, just sad that it happened.
The dinner, lunch, tea thing isn't consistent between regions or classes. Dinner, usually meant the largest, and usually hot, meal of the day. In working classes of old, this would have been eaten at midday and a smaller meal served at the end of the working day. In the north this smaller meal was called tea, in the south supper. In upper classes, both northern and southern, luncheon was served early afternoon, tea (when it became fashionable) in the late afternoon and dinner was served later in the evening, around 8:00 pm. Supper, if it was served, was a small snack served, usually at larger gatherings, nearer to midnight. Today, all three are used by different classes and in different regions differently. There is perhaps only consistency in the upper classes?
Was boiling my kettle when I noticed that there was smoke coming out of the plug and socket. I just turned off the switch. I dread to think what would have happened if I had to pull the plug out from the socket !!
Right, you have an electrical appliance that you want to use… you spot a handy socket and pop the three pin plug into it and switch the appliance on but ohhhh it doesn’t start up! Is it broken? Oh…. What’s that switch thing next to the socket, what’s it for? let me press it and see what it does….Ohhh look! … that’s clever and very helpful 😃 there’s red writing on top of the switch that says ON….it’s a switch that makes things work! It’s important to not forget to press it when you plug something in 😉 - but then again, it’s big enough to be seen and right next door to the plug socket itself! So it should be obvious …..
That 'lunch, dinner, tea' thing really is variable. The north traditonally says 'I'm 'avin me tea' to talk about dinner. Or maybe supper. That's variations on a theme. As with language differentiation across the country, it doesn't have to be one thing. And you kind of grow up knowing that.
Dinner by definition, is the main meal of the day, it could be in the evening or arond midday. Lunch is never taken in the evening. Tea could be anytime from 3pm on. Back in the day, working class people often had the main meal at midday and a lighter meal in the evening which they called Tea. The habit particularly in the North of calling an evening meal Tea, has has stuck.
@@DomingoDeSantaClara to be fair there are alot of Welsh people in NZ and your relationship with Australia is like our relationship with the UK. There are so many similarities you should just call yourselves Wales 2 🏴 and get a cool dragon on your flag 😉
It’s tradition to offer bar people a drink rather than a tip. But nowadays many staff are not allowed to drink. Power outlets in bathrooms are not lower power, they are specially double insulated. I just leave the switch in the on position on all my outlets. No I think you will find most people in the south refer to dinner as the evening meal and lunch midday. Tea is a rare meal down south anyway.
Hi On meals, I'm from London, I found you would either have Lunch and Dinner, or Dinner and Tea as the 2 main meals (excluding breakfast), a later meal might be Supper, there is also 'Evening Meal' used in B&Bs. I think Tea is never seen as a formal occasion, unless it is Afternoon Tea, you would not 'go out for Tea' but might for Lunch or Dinner. I think it depends on the relative values of the meals, Dinner is a more substantial meal than either Lunch or Tea. I suggest Supper is generally the latest and normally least substantial (not common in London or at least in my experience), occasionally an additional meal, similar to Brunch. Evening Meal I think just avoids the Dinner vs Tea issue.
In the UK, we tip servants. Therefore, a tip says you consider them beneath you. Random sheep at the roadside ars a constant joy. They are cute and friendly, I've never understood why anyone would try to dry their hair in a steamy bathroom. The switches on sockets can be left on all the time. Table service here is so much better. I would leave a restaurant where the staff interrupted the meal. Apologising is just polite. We're not afraid of confrontation. If someone apologises after you walk into them, they will also expect you to apologise. Umbrellas are useless because the wind turns them inside out. A lot of people don't have bank accounts (I couldn't get one until I was 40) so a lot of people prefer to use cash. We are not complaining about the weather, just describing it. Most of us love rain and cold.
@@helenwood8482 I was 71 recently...time goes so fast I forgot it's nearly a month ago now!! I have no bank account. I had one when I first married (1986) but closed it after my (then) husband helped spend the few savings I had in it (it was just a current account and he _currently_ needed money...! 🤔😕🏴)
Totally wrong about cash 90% take cards ... chip and pin, contactless especially after covid. Apple pay totally accepted. Businesses accept card payments as many bank branches are closing and harder to deal with cash. Contrary what some people think processing cash costs money, trips to the bank is time and effort. There is now some shops refusing to take cash. I think this will be a growing trend.
I agree with you 100%, nobody or business, even the smallest prefer cash, nowadays in the Britain. The advantages for us consumers and buyers are obvious, just a tap of your card or mobile and the deal's done, but for the retailer not having to deal with cash is a great boon. I live in Margate, a seaside town, and attractions on the seafront and feeding the one armed bandits are the only place I see cash regularly being used. No, not quite correct, I carry a couple of pound coins to release the trolley at the supermarket. Every barber I know takes non-cash payments, and bus drivers and bus companies actively promote contactless payment. I can't remember the last time I used cash, and I seriously can't remember the last time I even saw a cheque.
As ex bar staff I wonder where Americans get the idea that here bar staff prefer you to buy them a drink rather than a tip what they mostly do is take the cost of the drink and put in their tip jar.
Employers legally have to conform to minimum wage policy in the UK so there is no real need to tip unless you want to because you feel, for example, you have had particularly good service.
Nice one. An informative video. In the UK if one offers to buy bar staff a drink it is often a code, a figure of speech, for 'here is a tip'. The bar staff accept the median value of, say, an alcoholic drink which they do not pour or consume because otherwise they might be flat on their backs before the end of their shift. This works best in a cash transaction which is untaxed and less likely to be harvested by the bar staff's employer. In a so-called cashless society I carry sufficient cash to 'buy the bar tender a drink' ensuring that he/she benefits personally from providing good service rather than HMRC and his/her employer.
Hey Mandy You will often find sheep freely grazing on national park areas like the various moors and dales in the UK. They sometimes have cattle grates on the smaller roads you drive over but keep the sheep in. Usually the sheep avoid cars. Deer not so much so in places they live. I've come face to face with a deer on the road at night!!
@@richt71 One bounded out in front of me a while back now I was driving a transit van and actually not going that fast (I had my parents in front with me) I had no chance to stop so unfortunately hit it the poor thing died whilst waiting for a vet to arrive the best we could do was make it comfortable, mind it did write the transit off totally so it won you could say, still even many years later feel bad about that one not for the bloody transit
The dinner/ tea thing depends where you live. I live in the north west so you are right, lunch is dinner and dinner is tea. Not many where I live would say lunch. I totally disagree about the cash thing. I haven't carried cash around since before covid and no shop anywhere has asked me for cash for as long as I can remember.
“You all right?” Is the British equivalent of a “How ya’ doing?” comment in the USA. Also - the word ‘dinner’ is a term which relates to a (cooked) meal, which can happen at almost any time of the day.
I’d love to hear your views on the other countries in the UK . Have you ever been elsewhere. I Love England and have lived in London for over 50 years but I am Scottish. Some Americans make the mistake of thinking England is the U.K. Please if you can try to get about to other places you will find it amazing. All the best. Rab
There are definitely places where sheep can roam across roads freely. There are always warning signs as you enter these areas. Dinner- there are geographical variations in the UK, but on the whole 'dinner' means the main meal of the day, regardless of when you eat it. So for most working people, 'dinner' is in the evening during the week, but might be around mid-day at the weekend ( see 'Sunday Dinner'). Schools have 'dinner' during the school day, because it is a main cooked meal for those who choose it. The lighter meal of the day is 'lunch' if eaten in the middle of the day, or 'tea' if eaten in the early evening. Literally the only thing I (in UK) have needed cash for in the last few years- since the pandemic, probably - is using taxis that are not booked through an app, and at stalls at local charity shops/ events that don't take cards.
When in pub in the UK when we say "have one for yourself" it means take the price of a drink out of the money you give them . I told the barman in the USA to do this and he took a dollar, poor guy should have taken at least two! 😂😂
Re. sheep; you're right, they are all over the place in the North of England, and the West Country (and Wales, and much of Scotland), but are far less common in the primarily arable farmland of Eastern England - Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire. But is it true that you can find a flock of sheep being moved across or along the road in sheep country? Absolutely yes! And the same applies to cattle, especially in dairy farming areas. After all, the cattle have to be brought in from pasture to be milked twice a day - and if their pasture is on the other side of the road from the farm, the farmer has no option. HTH
They're fairly common on the more hilly or marshy areas of the south east, think South Downs / North Downs / Romney Marshes / Pevensey Marshes ... As well as in/on tracts of ancient heath/wood land like Ashdown Forest and The High Weald!
The meal I eat in the day is lunch. If i make it my main meal then I have a light tea around 5/6 o’clock. If I have a light lunch then my main meal is eaten in the evening and is dinner. Hope that helps 😂😂
Dinner/Tea is so complicated that I've never worked it out. In my world it's breakfast, dinner and then tea or dinner. I never use the word lunch and never have supper. That said it has never created a problem.
It's called a socket, not an outlet. When you first used the word 'outlet', I had no idea what you meant. Also, I dunno where you've been shopping, but no one and nowhere only take cash unless they're a bit dodgy.
Oh come on, there are many things she may be wrong about but everyone knows what an electrical outlet is. On cash you're right, though I do have to add 'or one of my work colleagues'.
I'd say more places do chip and pin, instead of cash, maybe its a regional thing.... I think, having seen a few Americans share their experiences of the UK on You Tube, that a lot of people think it'll be like home, but with some Harry Potter thrown in! But it is different, both countries are a melting pot of other cultures and both take time to get used to, its all very interesting.
When I was young the polite greeting was ‘How d’you do?’, to which no-one responded with a health bulletin. The formally correct response was to repeat the phrase, again with no expectation of an answer. I know that Americans will often greet someone with ‘Hi, how are you?’ and might then walk on before the other person has a chance to reply. The current UK fashion (I think it began in London, though I’ve no evidence for this) for ‘Y’alright?’ is similar; it’s a polite greeting with no real interest in the answer.
"You alright" is regional, I think, 'cos I've never heard it (I've lived in London, Surrey, Lancashire, Cambridgeshire & Devon). I often noted that New Yorkers would say "how are you?" & not expect a response, when we (in London) do/did. "Tea, dinner supper" usage depends on class, largely. Officially supper is the evening meal, dinner is a formal evening meal (party) & tea was a light afternoon (tea+) snack - all of which the upper classes stick to. "Tea" got dragged into an evening meal when - I believe - children were fed earlier than adults at "Tea time", then as they grew up they continued to refer to the meal the same way. School lunch meals are/were referred to as "dinner", just to cause more confusion...🙃
Dinner is considered the main meal of the day, regardless of the time it is eaten. Tea is an evening meal, normaly eaten in the early eavening (which is traditionly - although not necessarily - served with a pot of tea). Generally the meal "tea" is more Northen. "Dinner" is more Southern/posher when used to mean evening meal. Lunch is lunch but you can call it Dinner. Afternoon Tea/Cream tea is what tourists eat/drink in tea rooms and not really an everyday thing anymore for most Brits. There used to be a thing called high tea and low tea and this apparently related to the level of the table, which reflected who ate what and when. Before my time so I don't really know.
I don't agree that cash is king. Even small corner shops take cards or contactless payments these days and very few people use cash even for buying a newspaper or a pint of milk. It's the same for public transport and taxis. Even visitor attractions like cathedrals have cashless donation points. Very few people carry more than small change these days.
You alright depends on the emphasis. You stressed it in such a way that it was an enquiry to see if you are ok. Most times it will be a simple alright, without the you.
I don't know many people who use cash nowadays. I certainly don't. Cash only businesses are relatively rare, maybe different in your part of the country. Those that are cash only are probably cooking the books ! 😂
Neither my (nearly 31 yo) daughter / carer nor I have bank accounts so no credit or debit cards. Just cash to buy anything, though my daughter pays for our phone credit via vouchers and ditto to get stuff from Amazon. We pay catalogue bills monthly at the post office with cash. That's it for us. If I need anything paid by cheque or credit, I pay my son and he gets stuff with his cards in my behalf. We've lived like this for decades so we're used to it and it doesn't bother me. My daughter is in charge of my pension plus organises my hospital appointments, and books the hospital transport in advance, shops, pays bills, cooks / prepares our meals and we live like this. Cannot imagine not being able to use cash!!😮😊
@@panchomcsporran2083 Wherever your city is, your buskers won't receive donations from me - even if I was able to travel there, which I'm probably not.
Lunch and dinner? Brit's usually have ONE main meal a day. If they have it at 1pm (Brit lunch/dinner time.) It's dinner. If they have a small amount (sandwich etc.), it's lunch, and dinner is in the evening. Tea time? If you have a main meal at 1pm, then you have tea later in the day.
Don't agree about meal titles. It's breakfast, lunch around midday, afternoon tea maybe in the afternoon and dinner in the evening. My lunch break is in the middle of my working day. People, might use the term dinner to describe their main meal of he day, even if it's around the middle of the day or what might be lunch time for others.
I have to keep some cash for the local Chinese takeaway who also deliver. They have trouble with mobile card readers due to poor signals in some areas so it's cash for home delivery.
I have never ever known bar staff to be insulted by being tipped they're so glad to reeive them, mostly they are paid minimum wage so rely on tips to top up their wage.
I disagree regarding tips. Most establishments have a pooled tipping policy and a few fo individual tips. A few have a policy thst all tips go to the establishment, who then distribute (or not!) directly to staff on a weekly/ monthly basis. I wouldn't buy drinks as this is discouraged eholdt on the job.
I'm not convinced about cash being King, some places it is, most places it is welcomed, but increasingly it is tolerated, sometimes not even that. Even street vendors and buskers (musicians/jugglers...) take card payments. I would suggest 95% of Pubs, Cafes and Coffee shops take card payments as do most shops. Some market stalls/ Farmer Markets may not but they are rare. I think it becomes an issue if the profit margin is low, so charity shops/thrift shops or other low value transactions. Almost all public transport take card, NOTE: London Buses and Trams DO NOT take cash. Not all cards are equal, generally VISA is OK, Diners and AMEX less good, Mastercard used to be good but I think I maybe out of date there. Cards need to be 'tappable'/'chip & pin'.
I was thinking the same thing. I never have cash and don’t use it from one month to the next. I was offered cash for a job I did recently and mentioned to the customer that I wouldn’t know what to do with it because I use my card or phone. I pointed out that I’d only stick it in a drawer until I had enough to do something meaningful with it which isn’t a bad thing but it hardly screams ‘cash is king’. I found the US more like that to be honest, and when covid foisted cards on them they are so behind the times even the UK seems like a beacon of enlightenment.
Cash transactions have been the largest they have ever been in a long while with £1.2 billion worth of cash transactions done in July this year. Though yes many use cards, due to the rising cost many who can't afford to blithely tap their cards use cash to help budget, plus those that need cash for the barber.
Some of the depends where you are: I’ve never had ‘tea’ where I’ve needed to use knife and fork. The only time ‘tea’ included a meal is afternoon tea or a cream tea. Also I’ve not carried cash for years.
You only have to turn on a switch once. After that, just leave it on. The midday dinner thing is Northern. Here in London, Lunch is about 1pm. You might take tea at 4pm - that will be real tea, maybe with a sandwich or biscuits. Dinner is about 8pm.
Dinner/lunch terminology is a class thing. The working class in traditional manual jobs would have their dinner in the middle of the day, very necessary for energy. The middle class in white collar jobs would have their dinner in the evening and lunch in the middle of the day. There's also a North/ South divide on it. In the South people are more likely to call the midday meal 'lunch' and in the Midlands and North, they are more likely to call it dinner. Usage also often depends on what they were brought up to call it and lunch is a lighter meal than dinner, usually.
All bar staff are paid at least the minimum wage and it isn't usual in the UK to tip them. And yes, you do sometimes have to look out for sheep on country roads.
I don't think cash is king at all. I rarely use cash nowadays. I've had the same couple of notes in my wallet for several months. Even buskers have contactless units now.
Nah, most people are trying to keep cash flowing, most of us are aware of the consequences of digital currency, it will lead to our enslavement. Don't do as your told? Well you are now cut off from your money. Have a different opinion from the mainstream narrative, cut off. Speaking up about your people being wiped out? Cut off znd arrested. Disagree with the fascist government? Cut off and arrested. Some of these things have already happened here.
@@Lee-kf9tq No they are not. Few people consider it a political thing, but I concede it could be. Not sure where you get fascist government, but you do you. The thing is, cash is not as highly used as suggested, in my opinion. Card payments are mostly welcomed and often preferred.
@@tonys1636 no supper is an informal evening meal. That's the difference between 'pop round for supper Friday night' to a formal dinner party. I also think it might be regional. Supper as an evening meal might be a southern thing, while supper being cheese and crackers at about 9.30 might be a northern thing
There are even more sheep in Wales. Yes, they do escape and get out on the roads. Nothing to stop you just switching on all the sockets and plugging and unplugging as usual. Easier to use a switch. Generally, Brits are waterproof. Their clothes may not be. Most places take cash and cards. It's unusual to be only one way. Best carry a little cash and a card. Many Brits do ask about the game last night. That's be football and it'd be between supporters of the same team mostly.
It's not the switch, it's the device that's plugged in that still consumes power when on standby. Related to that, there's a sweet scene in the film 'The Holiday' where Cameron Diaz plugged in the kettle, but didn't flip the switch :-)
You are right but not quite right. Dinner I think is lunch in the north and a late meal say 8pm in the south, Tea can be 4pm High tea with cakes or a full meal at 6pm when you get home from work. Its very varied and local, nice try but you, and I, will always be wrong with someone. Britain is very like this in all things, very regional. If you are in London, even more complicated because of its cosmopolitan nature. Did you know the French have an MPs who cover French nationals in UK (GB). Complex!, Correct Just ask and watch us argue about what is right.
Are you alright is not too different from How do you do or Howdy. When they say it they are not expecting a long explanation of how you are doing. Similarly "Ça va" or how is it going is not really expecting a long explanation of how it is going.
It’s dangerous to have electrical outlets in a bathroom especially as our electric current is TWICE what it is in the USA. And just leave your electric sockets turned on, we only turn ours off when going away on holiday. I haven’t used cash in ages, everywhere is contactless! Who uses cash now!?
In NZ we have about the same power wattage as in the UK. However we do have power points in the bathroom, but special points only to be used for shavers and electric toothbrushes. As our safety standards are pretty stringent they are not a danger to the user., I've never heard of any problems with them.
@@lynettemahoney1710 She's talking about England though, she may not have enough experience of the rest of the UK to say it happens elsewhere. Assuming the rest of the UK is like England would be insulting. The "dinner = lunch" thing doesn't happen here in Wales for instance.
If she said: 'London', or 'Southampton' or 'Dover', sorry no idea where she is living, but I'm guessing it is in England, if her observation was different to that of someone in Wales, Scotland or NI, would that be surprising to you. If I, an English Man were doing this, I would stick to those areas I have first hand experience of. I'm sure much of what she has said could apply to the rest of GB and even UK, maybe even Europe, but I doubt it is useful to conjecture. She is giving her opinion on her experience, which she says is in England.
As to sheep. In Scotland the blackface in the highlands love sunning themselves on the roads. They will NOT move for a car unless you get out and show yourself. Honking the horn will not work.
And there aren't sheep everywhere, for the first 30 years of my life I moved around England every few years and very rarely lived anywhere near sheep. Went years without seeing any.
In Wales too. It pays to be cautious after dark on country roads, as the tarmac retains the heat and makes a comfy place for sheep to bed down. Haring round an unlit bend to be confronted by numerous pairs of eyes in the headlights can put years on you!
When I first moved to the Isle of Lewis, I crept passed the sheep, eeevveer so slowly...terrified the bloody things would rush out in front of me!. Within a week , I was flashing past them at normal speed....naturally, the sheep didn't bat an eye!
Lunch only exists in the south. Breakfast, dinner, tea in the north. Breakfast, lunch, dinner or evening meal and high tea and biscuits down south. Down south you might also get Brunch between breakfast and lunch and afternoon tea before dinner or evening meal.
Things have changed over time. I was brought up in the south (Sussex) and it was breakfast, dinner and tea. It was much later I started calling the midday meal a lunch.
@@bobpockney Dinner ladies are school meals at 12:00 noon. Historically it was breakfast, dinner, tea. It's just the south wanting to be upper class adopted the elites approach. The had resources, time and the ability to finance multiple meals throughout the day. So they started a little often rather than a lot in as few meals as possible. If you go in a restaurant in the south they'll serve you a smear of condement and a couple of small edible whatever. In the north that would be something to walk out from... _the term “brunch” was first used in print in 1895 by British writer Guy Beringer. Beringer wrote an article entitled “Brunch: A Plea” for Hunter’s Weekly, proposing the idea of a combined breakfast-lunch meal as a relief for those whose Sundays were spent recovering from the night before_ In the USA around 1930s brunch became a late breakfast. I personally suspect given the Italian and Mediterranean influences in the USA late breakfast was adopted and coined a familiar phrase.
One point about paying cash, every card transaction costs the business money in fees so they appreciate getting cash for small purchases. I would certainly not try to pay by card for a round of drinks or a bag of fish & chips.
I was in a Welsh town last month and a lot of the shops ask for cash instead of card, if possible. The town is trying to promote the use of cash , so the merchants don't have to pay commission on each card transaction. I have been in other shops throughout the country who also prefer cash fir that very same reason.
Don't be so *bloody STUPID.* Go into ANY supermarket, and what do you find on every manned checkout? A *CASH TILL!* Furthermore, most self-service checkouts (as in my local Morrisons) also take both notes and coins, and issue change when required.
As a Brit I’ve never understood why outlets are switched, anyway, and in the earlier days of 13 amp outlets they were not. Somebody thought they could add value by adding an unnecessary function, presumably. You CAN get unstitched outlets and I have fitted them for appliances you definitely don’t want ever switched off, like freezers. The same goes for dum British separate hot and cold taps. WHY?
Separate hot and cold taps are to prevent hot water from your non-sterile hot water tank entering the sterile cold water system leading to the mains and to other people's supply.
Switched outlets - how would you otherwise isolate the power supply from a particular outlet? It's quicker to flick a switch off than to prise your child's finger from the live terminal.
@@dpbusby ... because a lot of Brits like having separate hot and cold taps. Then we know exactly what we're getting. Suppose the previous person to use the 'mixer' tap has left it on a hot setting......then you burn yourself when you want to wash your hands - unless you look beforehand. Not good. It's no problem having separate taps. Don't know why it bothers you so much. Likewise if you have an issue with there being no plug sockets in the bathroom, then you could always go and live in America??? There's a reason why we don't have plug sockets in UK bathrooms - the voltage here is twice as high as it is in America. Plus bathrooms in the UK are much smaller.....all that condensation from showers....with a small bathroom window - not safe to have plug sockets in such an environment. Here it's approx 240 volts, whereas in America it's only 120 volts or sometimes even 110 volts. Btw, that's too low to use an electric kettle. It's why Americans don't use them. If they want to boil water, they use a stove or microwave - yes really.
@dpbusby it has nothing to do with adding value/cost to it and all about safety, if the outlet it off it won't do anything, also it off it costs nothing. It wasn't about charging more, it was only safety. Charging more is an American way of thinking
I can never understand Americans issue with switches on electrical sockets. If it's a problem for you, just leave them switched on !!
Every time I watch an American make yet another one of these videos, they prove just how backwards the USA is. Imaging having to rely of tips from the customer instead of being paid by your employer. Imagine a society where healthcare is a privilege instead of a basic human right. Same for education. I can't imagine a worse place to live and I grew up in Africa.
Agreed with everything yiu say and I was raised in Australia.
In Wales sheep wander all over the roads and into villages too! It's normal, just remember to keep your garden gate closed!
Of course sheep cross the road, they have to move between fields. (by the way Australia and New Zealand have loads of sheep too).
No electricity in the bathroom is a safety feature. UK's electricity supply is way more powerful than the US.
Cash is NOT 'king'. Yes it's always useful to carry some for spending small amounts and for use in small shops but most people use a 'contactless' bank card.
Believe me, if you think you’ve sorted out when it’s dinner, tea or lunch, you haven’t sorted it AT ALL. The British still argue about it. Our own last experience was last week when my northern nephew and his southern wife were having that debate and drew us into it.😵💫😳
Language barrier... yep, it's 'socket' not 'outlet'. An outlet here is a small shop 😉
Small shop?
The cashless system in the UK is light years ahead of the US.
I just own. We’re so antiquated
We lived in Canada for 2 years and not long after we moved there, the owner of a house was showing us around, as we were interested in renting it. So, we were walking around the back of the property, but it was taking some time, and I was aware that nobody had spoken for a while, and it seemed a bit awkward. I automatically did what any Brit would do and made a comment about the weather (Which actually seemed even more relevant than usual since it was raining at the time) I said something like,
“Wow, it’s really raining a lot. It’s been raining all day.”
But, to my mortification, the landlord didn’t say a word. No reaction, no reply. Nothing. I was like, “OMG what do I say now? I can’t talk about the weather again.” I was totally at a loss to think of anything else to say to this Canadian we had only just met. Somehow, “Isn’t that a great tree,” or “I just love maple syrup,” or “What big moose you have out here,” wasn’t going to sound quite right!
So, we carried on in excruciating silence. I could quite easily have stretched out a conversation about the weather until we reached the back door of the house if he had just said something…. anything… in reply!
Dinner can mean lunch, tea, or supper. In the case of tea, we are talking about high tea rather than afternoon tea, though neither is ever specified. It's basically a matter of the time dinner is served.
While most shops take cash, virtually all tend to prefer card, chip and pin or contactless. We've had contactless payment for a decade now, it's just accepted. One reason is that shops' insurance often has a limit on the amount of cash that may be on the premises so once they get to that then they need to get it to the bank.
The contactless payment limit was £20 or £30 prior to the pandemic (depended on the shop/business) but was in the process of being increased to £50 when the lockdowns began. It can now be up to £100 but depends on the shop - gas/petrol station will be £100 as that's not an unusual transaction but somewhere like a small "mom and pop" shop might still be £30 since their transaction values are going to be a lot less so there's no need for the larger amount.
My hairdresser, nail salon and chippy are all cash only.
Americans - who tend to think the whole island is London - are always surprised that there is countryside. We are primarily a countryside nation. And there is that curious phenomenon where views can be completely different between an urban population and a rural one. Not to mention accents.
Meal naming conventions differ by region. Growing up in the north east of England it was breakfast, dinner and tea. Now that I live on the south coast it is breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I think that previously it was a class as opposed to regional thing, where dinner was always the main meal of the day. In the army during the 19th century soldiers had breakfast, dinner as the main meal where they had a two hour break, and a "tea meal" in the early evening which was literally bread and tea. I suspect that discharged soldiers brought this naming convention home with them.
During medieval times the main meal was at midday as it was the only time when it was light enough to prepare food and cook it.
Upper class people could afford to have light in their kitchens so the main meal was in the evening, hence dinner for the later meal.
@deanstuart8012 I was thinking about this the other day. I have breakfast and lunch, but at home my evening meal is generally referred to as 'tea', but if I'm eating out in the evening, I go out to dinner!
Calling England the UK or Britain, constantly, must be a culture shock 😂
Americans are easily confused
I’m old now but when I was younger we didn’t have switches next to the plug at all. When they were introduced we understood that they were a safety feature and straight away we understood it without any confusion at all. No problem.
I remember that. I can't remember when it changed. It seems like it's been forever, but I know it can't have been. Do you remember when they were dark brown instead of white?
Wasn't that a 5amp socket Penny? They were then changed to the 13amp white sockets, I can't remember how old I was then, but it was a long long time ago!!! @@pennyaccleton6227
@@pennyaccleton6227 Yes, absolutely👵🏻🤣😘
@@Angusmum I remember when they were a brown Bakerlite plastic with no switch and 3 larger pins which were rated at 15Amps. I think they were used post WW2 until the mid sixties.
Buying bar staff a drink 'have one for yourself' is code for take a tip equivalent to the price of a measure
They don't actually amass drinks, lol.
We have a tipping culture but we pay servers a minimum wage and tips are a gratuity based on getting excellent service, tips are not an entitlement and poor service should not be rewarded.
My mother was British my father American. I tell people I'm bilingual, I speak English and American! 😁😁😁
AAVE or Multicultural London English ? 😊
Mancunian 😁
@@mancyank564 Which country in Britain?
@101steel4, England, I live in Staffordshire, but originally from Manchester.
How many sheep have you seen in London if they are everywhere !?
In the UK an OUTLET is a discount shopping area ! We call them sockets or switches.
Dinner, lunch , tea. This depends on which area of the country you live in and what social class you belong to.
We have sheep in London. When my friend gave me a lift, we drove past some, I asked him if they were real 😂. He just gave me a funny look and didnt answer.
I don't know anywhere that prefers cash, even chip shops default to cards nowadays. And if you offer a barman a drink it's not uncommon for them to take cash (it was 50p a time in my day) and throw it into a glass to grab later, but you're right that tipping directly would be weird.
You need to understand that when someone from England says, I am sorry you have had a bad day. They do not mean to personally apologise , they are simply expressing sorrow for you situation.
Yeah this is true. Sorry = sorrow, as in 'I am sad that thing happened' If I tell someone I am sorry that their partner died I am definitely not responsible for their death, just sad that it happened.
@@Spiklething Was that the case for the defence?🤔🤔
The dinner, lunch, tea thing isn't consistent between regions or classes. Dinner, usually meant the largest, and usually hot, meal of the day. In working classes of old, this would have been eaten at midday and a smaller meal served at the end of the working day. In the north this smaller meal was called tea, in the south supper. In upper classes, both northern and southern, luncheon was served early afternoon, tea (when it became fashionable) in the late afternoon and dinner was served later in the evening, around 8:00 pm. Supper, if it was served, was a small snack served, usually at larger gatherings, nearer to midnight. Today, all three are used by different classes and in different regions differently. There is perhaps only consistency in the upper classes?
It’s a north / south thing quite different - up north they have their tea - down south we have our dinner
@@freddiemac1438 Yep, and our dinner is your lunch. But we do use lunch sometimes, mainly I've heard it being used as packed lunch when i were a kid.
Was boiling my kettle when I noticed that there was smoke coming out of the plug and socket. I just turned off the switch. I dread to think what would have happened if I had to pull the plug out from the socket !!
Right, you have an electrical appliance that you want to use… you spot a handy socket and pop the three pin plug into it and switch the appliance on but ohhhh it doesn’t start up! Is it broken? Oh…. What’s that switch thing next to the socket, what’s it for? let me press it and see what it does….Ohhh look! … that’s clever and very helpful 😃 there’s red writing on top of the switch that says ON….it’s a switch that makes things work! It’s important to not forget to press it when you plug something in 😉 - but then again, it’s big enough to be seen and right next door to the plug socket itself! So it should be obvious …..
Also, switches are generally up for on & down for off in the USA but down for on & up for off in the UK.
That 'lunch, dinner, tea' thing really is variable. The north traditonally says 'I'm 'avin me tea' to talk about dinner. Or maybe supper. That's variations on a theme. As with language differentiation across the country, it doesn't have to be one thing. And you kind of grow up knowing that.
Dinner by definition, is the main meal of the day, it could be in the evening or arond midday. Lunch is never taken in the evening. Tea could be anytime from 3pm on. Back in the day, working class people often had the main meal at midday and a lighter meal in the evening which they called Tea. The habit particularly in the North of calling an evening meal Tea, has has stuck.
Welsh human population, 3 million.
Welsh Sheep population, 12 million.
How many hybrids?
@@Rachel_M_ as a New Zealander, I just gotta say...hold my beer!
@@DomingoDeSantaClara to be fair there are alot of Welsh people in NZ and your relationship with Australia is like our relationship with the UK.
There are so many similarities you should just call yourselves Wales 2 🏴 and get a cool dragon on your flag 😉
@@paulmidsussex3409 i can neither confirm nor deny if there is secret breeding programme to create an army of human-sheep hybrids.
It’s tradition to offer bar people a drink rather than a tip. But nowadays many staff are not allowed to drink. Power outlets in bathrooms are not lower power, they are specially double insulated. I just leave the switch in the on position on all my outlets.
No I think you will find most people in the south refer to dinner as the evening meal and lunch midday. Tea is a rare meal down south anyway.
Hi
On meals, I'm from London,
I found you would either have Lunch and Dinner, or Dinner and Tea as the 2 main meals (excluding breakfast), a later meal might be Supper, there is also 'Evening Meal' used in B&Bs.
I think Tea is never seen as a formal occasion, unless it is Afternoon Tea, you would not 'go out for Tea' but might for Lunch or Dinner.
I think it depends on the relative values of the meals, Dinner is a more substantial meal than either Lunch or Tea.
I suggest Supper is generally the latest and normally least substantial (not common in London or at least in my experience), occasionally an additional meal, similar to Brunch.
Evening Meal I think just avoids the Dinner vs Tea issue.
In the UK, we tip servants. Therefore, a tip says you consider them beneath you.
Random sheep at the roadside ars a constant joy. They are cute and friendly,
I've never understood why anyone would try to dry their hair in a steamy bathroom. The switches on sockets can be left on all the time.
Table service here is so much better. I would leave a restaurant where the staff interrupted the meal.
Apologising is just polite. We're not afraid of confrontation. If someone apologises after you walk into them, they will also expect you to apologise.
Umbrellas are useless because the wind turns them inside out.
A lot of people don't have bank accounts (I couldn't get one until I was 40) so a lot of people prefer to use cash.
We are not complaining about the weather, just describing it. Most of us love rain and cold.
@@helenwood8482
I was 71 recently...time goes so fast I forgot it's nearly a month ago now!! I have no bank account. I had one when I first married (1986) but closed it after my (then) husband helped spend the few savings I had in it (it was just a current account and he _currently_ needed money...! 🤔😕🏴)
Totally wrong about cash 90% take cards ... chip and pin, contactless especially after covid. Apple pay totally accepted. Businesses accept card payments as many bank branches are closing and harder to deal with cash. Contrary what some people think processing cash costs money, trips to the bank is time and effort. There is now some shops refusing to take cash. I think this will be a growing trend.
I agree with you 100%, nobody or business, even the smallest prefer cash, nowadays in the Britain. The advantages for us consumers and buyers are obvious, just a tap of your card or mobile and the deal's done, but for the retailer not having to deal with cash is a great boon. I live in Margate, a seaside town, and attractions on the seafront and feeding the one armed bandits are the only place I see cash regularly being used. No, not quite correct, I carry a couple of pound coins to release the trolley at the supermarket.
Every barber I know takes non-cash payments, and bus drivers and bus companies actively promote contactless payment. I can't remember the last time I used cash, and I seriously can't remember the last time I even saw a cheque.
The chip and pin system was invented in the UK - so we've had something of a head-start.
As ex bar staff I wonder where Americans get the idea that here bar staff prefer you to buy them a drink rather than a tip what they mostly do is take the cost of the drink and put in their tip jar.
Employers legally have to conform to minimum wage policy in the UK so there is no real need to tip unless you want to because you feel, for example, you have had particularly good service.
I've hardly used cash since pre-covid
Nice one. An informative video. In the UK if one offers to buy bar staff a drink it is often a code, a figure of speech, for 'here is a tip'. The bar staff accept the median value of, say, an alcoholic drink which they do not pour or consume because otherwise they might be flat on their backs before the end of their shift. This works best in a cash transaction which is untaxed and less likely to be harvested by the bar staff's employer. In a so-called cashless society I carry sufficient cash to 'buy the bar tender a drink' ensuring that he/she benefits personally from providing good service rather than HMRC and his/her employer.
Alright is hello,no reply wanted.If we're nice to you wear a bullet proof vest,if we call you a mofo or a knt,you know we love you!🏴❤️
My instinct is to respond tho. Get caught out every time
Hey Mandy
You will often find sheep freely grazing on national park areas like the various moors and dales in the UK. They sometimes have cattle grates on the smaller roads you drive over but keep the sheep in. Usually the sheep avoid cars. Deer not so much so in places they live. I've come face to face with a deer on the road at night!!
@@richt71 One bounded out in front of me a while back now I was driving a transit van and actually not going that fast (I had my parents in front with me) I had no chance to stop so unfortunately hit it the poor thing died whilst waiting for a vet to arrive the best we could do was make it comfortable, mind it did write the transit off totally so it won you could say, still even many years later feel bad about that one not for the bloody transit
The dinner/ tea thing depends where you live. I live in the north west so you are right, lunch is dinner and dinner is tea. Not many where I live would say lunch.
I totally disagree about the cash thing. I haven't carried cash around since before covid and no shop anywhere has asked me for cash for as long as I can remember.
Contactless seems to be more preferred now..not sure where you're getting the Cash is King from?
“You all right?” Is the British equivalent of a “How ya’ doing?” comment in the USA. Also - the word ‘dinner’ is a term which relates to a (cooked) meal, which can happen at almost any time of the day.
I’d love to hear your views on the other countries in the UK . Have you ever been elsewhere. I Love England and have lived in London for over 50 years but I am Scottish. Some Americans make the mistake of thinking England is the U.K. Please if you can try to get about to other places you will find it amazing. All the best. Rab
There are definitely places where sheep can roam across roads freely. There are always warning signs as you enter these areas.
Dinner- there are geographical variations in the UK, but on the whole 'dinner' means the main meal of the day, regardless of when you eat it. So for most working people, 'dinner' is in the evening during the week, but might be around mid-day at the weekend ( see 'Sunday Dinner'). Schools have 'dinner' during the school day, because it is a main cooked meal for those who choose it. The lighter meal of the day is 'lunch' if eaten in the middle of the day, or 'tea' if eaten in the early evening.
Literally the only thing I (in UK) have needed cash for in the last few years- since the pandemic, probably - is using taxis that are not booked through an app, and at stalls at local charity shops/ events that don't take cards.
When in pub in the UK when we say "have one for yourself" it means take the price of a drink out of the money you give them . I told the barman in the USA to do this and he took a dollar, poor guy should have taken at least two! 😂😂
Re. sheep; you're right, they are all over the place in the North of England, and the West Country (and Wales, and much of Scotland), but are far less common in the primarily arable farmland of Eastern England - Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
But is it true that you can find a flock of sheep being moved across or along the road in sheep country? Absolutely yes! And the same applies to cattle, especially in dairy farming areas. After all, the cattle have to be brought in from pasture to be milked twice a day - and if their pasture is on the other side of the road from the farm, the farmer has no option. HTH
They're fairly common on the more hilly or marshy areas of the south east, think South Downs / North Downs / Romney Marshes / Pevensey Marshes ... As well as in/on tracts of ancient heath/wood land like Ashdown Forest and The High Weald!
The meal I eat in the day is lunch. If i make it my main meal then I have a light tea around 5/6 o’clock. If I have a light lunch then my main meal is eaten in the evening and is dinner. Hope that helps 😂😂
Some people do call their evening meal "tea", though. It varies.
Sheep do cross the road, they are not pulling your leg
Followed by chicken?
Come to the New Forest and see Ponies, Cows, Sheep , Donkeys, Pigs and Deer. Plus Grockles. (Look that one up).
Dinner/Tea is so complicated that I've never worked it out. In my world it's breakfast, dinner and then tea or dinner. I never use the word lunch and never have supper. That said it has never created a problem.
When I worked in shipbuilding, 'lunch' was a mid-morning snack break dating back to the early 1900s.
It's called a socket, not an outlet. When you first used the word 'outlet', I had no idea what you meant. Also, I dunno where you've been shopping, but no one and nowhere only take cash unless they're a bit dodgy.
Oh come on, there are many things she may be wrong about but everyone knows what an electrical outlet is.
On cash you're right, though I do have to add 'or one of my work colleagues'.
There's a chippy near me that only takes cash. Quite often it's a tax avoidance thing.
Not me nor the OED
I'd say more places do chip and pin, instead of cash, maybe its a regional thing....
I think, having seen a few Americans share their experiences of the UK on You Tube, that a lot of people think it'll be like home, but with some Harry Potter thrown in!
But it is different, both countries are a melting pot of other cultures and both take time to get used to, its all very interesting.
If they say dinner they could mean mid-day or evening meal dependant on their class or geographic location.
When I was young the polite greeting was ‘How d’you do?’, to which no-one responded with a health bulletin. The formally correct response was to repeat the phrase, again with no expectation of an answer. I know that Americans will often greet someone with ‘Hi, how are you?’ and might then walk on before the other person has a chance to reply. The current UK fashion (I think it began in London, though I’ve no evidence for this) for ‘Y’alright?’ is similar; it’s a polite greeting with no real interest in the answer.
@@phillipescott9764 we always said alright or ortite or just right in Ireland and northern Ireland for my whole life
"You alright" is regional, I think, 'cos I've never heard it (I've lived in London, Surrey, Lancashire, Cambridgeshire & Devon). I often noted that New Yorkers would say "how are you?" & not expect a response, when we (in London) do/did. "Tea, dinner supper" usage depends on class, largely. Officially supper is the evening meal, dinner is a formal evening meal (party) & tea was a light afternoon (tea+) snack - all of which the upper classes stick to. "Tea" got dragged into an evening meal when - I believe - children were fed earlier than adults at "Tea time", then as they grew up they continued to refer to the meal the same way. School lunch meals are/were referred to as "dinner", just to cause more confusion...🙃
Dinner is considered the main meal of the day, regardless of the time it is eaten. Tea is an evening meal, normaly eaten in the early eavening (which is traditionly - although not necessarily - served with a pot of tea). Generally the meal "tea" is more Northen. "Dinner" is more Southern/posher when used to mean evening meal. Lunch is lunch but you can call it Dinner. Afternoon Tea/Cream tea is what tourists eat/drink in tea rooms and not really an everyday thing anymore for most Brits. There used to be a thing called high tea and low tea and this apparently related to the level of the table, which reflected who ate what and when. Before my time so I don't really know.
I don't agree that cash is king. Even small corner shops take cards or contactless payments these days and very few people use cash even for buying a newspaper or a pint of milk. It's the same for public transport and taxis. Even visitor attractions like cathedrals have cashless donation points. Very few people carry more than small change these days.
You alright depends on the emphasis. You stressed it in such a way that it was an enquiry to see if you are ok. Most times it will be a simple alright, without the you.
I don't know many people who use cash nowadays. I certainly don't. Cash only businesses are relatively rare, maybe different in your part of the country. Those that are cash only are probably cooking the books ! 😂
I use a local café (London suburb) that is card only. No cash.
Where I am, the shops and restaurants take cash, phones/devices and cards, as they have no wish to exclude anyone 9 the usual reason ).
Neither my (nearly 31 yo) daughter / carer nor I have bank accounts so no credit or debit cards. Just cash to buy anything, though my daughter pays for our phone credit via vouchers and ditto to get stuff from Amazon. We pay catalogue bills monthly at the post office with cash. That's it for us. If I need anything paid by cheque or credit, I pay my son and he gets stuff with his cards in my behalf. We've lived like this for decades so we're used to it and it doesn't bother me. My daughter is in charge of my pension plus organises my hospital appointments, and books the hospital transport in advance, shops, pays bills, cooks / prepares our meals and we live like this. Cannot imagine not being able to use cash!!😮😊
Haven't used cash in years,even the buskers (street performers) in my city take cards.
@@panchomcsporran2083
Wherever your city is, your buskers won't receive donations from me - even if I was able to travel there, which I'm probably not.
Breakfast around 8am
Dinner around 12:30pm
Tea 5pm
Supper 9pm
That's how i've always known it where i'm from (Keswick)
Lunch and dinner? Brit's usually have ONE main meal a day. If they have it at 1pm (Brit lunch/dinner time.) It's dinner. If they have a small amount (sandwich etc.), it's lunch, and dinner is in the evening. Tea time? If you have a main meal at 1pm, then you have tea later in the day.
Yeah, it's something like that with a few extra flourishes here and there.
Don't agree about meal titles. It's breakfast, lunch around midday, afternoon tea maybe in the afternoon and dinner in the evening. My lunch break is in the middle of my working day. People, might use the term dinner to describe their main meal of he day, even if it's around the middle of the day or what might be lunch time for others.
I never carry cash to pay. The only person I used to pay cash to was my window cleaner and now even he prefers cash transfer
I have to keep some cash for the local Chinese takeaway who also deliver. They have trouble with mobile card readers due to poor signals in some areas so it's cash for home delivery.
I on the other hand, cannot live without some cash on me. I would feel naked.
Keep cash alive!
I have never ever known bar staff to be insulted by being tipped they're so glad to reeive them, mostly they are paid minimum wage so rely on tips to top up their wage.
I disagree regarding tips. Most establishments have a pooled tipping policy and a few fo individual tips. A few have a policy thst all tips go to the establishment, who then distribute (or not!) directly to staff on a weekly/ monthly basis. I wouldn't buy drinks as this is discouraged eholdt on the job.
Out let = plug
ATM = hole in the wall
@@46templarAn outlet is an electrical socket. It's NOT the same as a plug. A plug is what goes into the socket!
@@robertfoulkes1832 sorry Rob my bad
@@46templar What is meant by my bad ? Don't you mean "my mistake"
@@annfrancoole34 no my bad
Outlets= sockets not plug
England? You never visit anywhere else in Britain?
Visited-yes. Lived-no!
If you offer bar staff a drink, they will either refuse, or they will take the money as a tip.
I'm not convinced about cash being King,
some places it is,
most places it is welcomed,
but increasingly it is tolerated,
sometimes not even that.
Even street vendors and buskers (musicians/jugglers...) take card payments.
I would suggest 95% of Pubs, Cafes and Coffee shops take card payments as do most shops.
Some market stalls/ Farmer Markets may not but they are rare.
I think it becomes an issue if the profit margin is low, so charity shops/thrift shops or other low value transactions.
Almost all public transport take card, NOTE: London Buses and Trams DO NOT take cash.
Not all cards are equal, generally VISA is OK, Diners and AMEX less good, Mastercard used to be good but I think I maybe out of date there.
Cards need to be 'tappable'/'chip & pin'.
Cash certainly isn't king.
I can't remember the last time I used it.
Card/phone is king here.
I was thinking the same thing. I never have cash and don’t use it from one month to the next. I was offered cash for a job I did recently and mentioned to the customer that I wouldn’t know what to do with it because I use my card or phone. I pointed out that I’d only stick it in a drawer until I had enough to do something meaningful with it which isn’t a bad thing but it hardly screams ‘cash is king’. I found the US more like that to be honest, and when covid foisted cards on them they are so behind the times even the UK seems like a beacon of enlightenment.
Cash transactions have been the largest they have ever been in a long while with £1.2 billion worth of cash transactions done in July this year. Though yes many use cards, due to the rising cost many who can't afford to blithely tap their cards use cash to help budget, plus those that need cash for the barber.
Speak for yourself, mate; I use cash all the time.
@@101steel4 Plenty of outlets in North Yorkshire and above where cash is more commonly used than cards or mobile phones to make payment.
Some of the depends where you are: I’ve never had ‘tea’ where I’ve needed to use knife and fork. The only time ‘tea’ included a meal is afternoon tea or a cream tea. Also I’ve not carried cash for years.
You only have to turn on a switch once. After that, just leave it on. The midday dinner thing is Northern. Here in London, Lunch is about 1pm. You might take tea at 4pm - that will be real tea, maybe with a sandwich or biscuits. Dinner is about 8pm.
I am from London and I will often have lunch at 11.30. It makes it easy to fit in dinner and tea before you go to bed.
I'm very rarely carry cash unless I'm going for a haircut or a small independent takeaway.
For me the main use for cash is 'takeaway' deliveries, some can be card pay via an app, but often it is cash on delivery, COD not chips🤔😁
Dinner/lunch terminology is a class thing. The working class in traditional manual jobs would have their dinner in the middle of the day, very necessary for energy. The middle class in white collar jobs would have their dinner in the evening and lunch in the middle of the day. There's also a North/ South divide on it. In the South people are more likely to call the midday meal 'lunch' and in the Midlands and North, they are more likely to call it dinner. Usage also often depends on what they were brought up to call it and lunch is a lighter meal than dinner, usually.
I carry notes, but very rarely carry small change. Nearly all my transactions are done using a contactless debit card.
I tend to use Credit Cards, slightly better (legal) protections.
Yes I carry some notes too.
And a pound coin for supermarket trolley (shopping cart).
I'm British, never been outside of Britain and I've never once heard of anyone being insulted after being offered a tip.
All bar staff are paid at least the minimum wage and it isn't usual in the UK to tip them. And yes, you do sometimes have to look out for sheep on country roads.
I don't think cash is king at all. I rarely use cash nowadays. I've had the same couple of notes in my wallet for several months. Even buskers have contactless units now.
Nah, most people are trying to keep cash flowing, most of us are aware of the consequences of digital currency, it will lead to our enslavement. Don't do as your told? Well you are now cut off from your money. Have a different opinion from the mainstream narrative, cut off. Speaking up about your people being wiped out? Cut off znd arrested. Disagree with the fascist government? Cut off and arrested. Some of these things have already happened here.
@@Lee-kf9tq No they are not.
Few people consider it a political thing, but I concede it could be.
Not sure where you get fascist government, but you do you.
The thing is, cash is not as highly used as suggested, in my opinion.
Card payments are mostly welcomed and often preferred.
Or supper time
Supper is that late evening munch if one had an early 18:00 hrs dinner on returning from a night out before midnight.
@@tonys1636 no supper is an informal evening meal. That's the difference between 'pop round for supper Friday night' to a formal dinner party. I also think it might be regional. Supper as an evening meal might be a southern thing, while supper being cheese and crackers at about 9.30 might be a northern thing
Supper is cream crackers with cheese and a cup of cocoa taken around 9pm! 😂
@@dragonmummy1 cheese and cocoa! What kind of a heathen are you? cheese with a nip of something or cocoa with something sweet surely
Are you having a laugh! Buskers take card these days! 🙄
I live in Scotland, we have free range sheep and donkeys! xx
Don't forget the cattle and free range kids
Who says sorry more the UK or Canada?
There are even more sheep in Wales. Yes, they do escape and get out on the roads. Nothing to stop you just switching on all the sockets and plugging and unplugging as usual. Easier to use a switch. Generally, Brits are waterproof. Their clothes may not be. Most places take cash and cards. It's unusual to be only one way. Best carry a little cash and a card. Many Brits do ask about the game last night. That's be football and it'd be between supporters of the same team mostly.
Leaving the electric switch on costs money so you turn things off
It's not the switch, it's the device that's plugged in that still consumes power when on standby. Related to that, there's a sweet scene in the film 'The Holiday' where Cameron Diaz plugged in the kettle, but didn't flip the switch :-)
A very obvious switch right next to the socket (not outlet0 and you took time to work it out, Really? Says more about you than UK electrics methinks,
Barmaid or barman.
I tho k bartender is the PC term ( in the US anyway)
You are right but not quite right. Dinner I think is lunch in the north and a late meal say 8pm in the south, Tea can be 4pm High tea with cakes or a full meal at 6pm when you get home from work. Its very varied and local, nice try but you, and I, will always be wrong with someone. Britain is very like this in all things, very regional. If you are in London, even more complicated because of its cosmopolitan nature. Did you know the French have an MPs who cover French nationals in UK (GB). Complex!, Correct Just ask and watch us argue about what is right.
Are you alright is not too different from How do you do or Howdy. When they say it they are not expecting a long explanation of how you are doing. Similarly "Ça va" or how is it going is not really expecting a long explanation of how it is going.
That ended a bit sharpish !
If I want to tip a barman I just say 'Take one for yourself' and hope they don't choose champagne!!
A ton of Sheep. Did you weigh them? How about many ! or Larkge Flocks. (not bunches).
It’s dangerous to have electrical outlets in a bathroom especially as our electric current is TWICE what it is in the USA. And just leave your electric sockets turned on, we only turn ours off when going away on holiday.
I haven’t used cash in ages, everywhere is contactless! Who uses cash now!?
In NZ we have about the same power wattage as in the UK. However we do have power points in the bathroom, but special points only to be used for shavers and electric toothbrushes. As our safety standards are pretty stringent they are not a danger to the user., I've never heard of any problems with them.
@@HaurakiVet ours are the same you can use shavers and toothbrushes but you can’t dry your hair for example.
@@HaurakiVetIt's not the wattage or the current that's double in the UK, it's the VOLTAGE!
I think it’s insulting when you keep saying England instead of Britain or the UK.What you talk about happens all over the U.K.
@@lynettemahoney1710 She's talking about England though, she may not have enough experience of the rest of the UK to say it happens elsewhere. Assuming the rest of the UK is like England would be insulting. The "dinner = lunch" thing doesn't happen here in Wales for instance.
If she said: 'London', or 'Southampton' or 'Dover', sorry no idea where she is living, but I'm guessing it is in England, if her observation was different to that of someone in Wales, Scotland or NI, would that be surprising to you.
If I, an English Man were doing this, I would stick to those areas I have first hand experience of.
I'm sure much of what she has said could apply to the rest of GB and even UK, maybe even Europe, but I doubt it is useful to conjecture.
She is giving her opinion on her experience, which she says is in England.
@@NataliePine what part of Wales you from?
@@lynettemahoney1710 Rhondda
@@NataliePine Newport girl here living In Australia
You want sheep, go to New Zealand!
Who's sheep come from Wales! So tells you how many sheep are there
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As to sheep. In Scotland the blackface in the highlands love sunning themselves on the roads. They will NOT move for a car unless you get out and show yourself. Honking the horn will not work.
And there aren't sheep everywhere, for the first 30 years of my life I moved around England every few years and very rarely lived anywhere near sheep. Went years without seeing any.
In Wales too. It pays to be cautious after dark on country roads, as the tarmac retains the heat and makes a comfy place for sheep to bed down. Haring round an unlit bend to be confronted by numerous pairs of eyes in the headlights can put years on you!
When I first moved to the Isle of Lewis, I crept passed the sheep, eeevveer so slowly...terrified the bloody things would rush out in front of me!. Within a week , I was flashing past them at normal speed....naturally, the sheep didn't bat an eye!
Lunch only exists in the south.
Breakfast, dinner, tea in the north.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner or evening meal and high tea and biscuits down south.
Down south you might also get Brunch between breakfast and lunch and afternoon tea before dinner or evening meal.
Things have changed over time. I was brought up in the south (Sussex) and it was breakfast, dinner and tea. It was much later I started calling the midday meal a lunch.
@@bobpockney Dinner ladies are school meals at 12:00 noon. Historically it was breakfast, dinner, tea. It's just the south wanting to be upper class adopted the elites approach. The had resources, time and the ability to finance multiple meals throughout the day. So they started a little often rather than a lot in as few meals as possible.
If you go in a restaurant in the south they'll serve you a smear of condement and a couple of small edible whatever. In the north that would be something to walk out from...
_the term “brunch” was first used in print in 1895 by British writer Guy Beringer. Beringer wrote an article entitled “Brunch: A Plea” for Hunter’s Weekly, proposing the idea of a combined breakfast-lunch meal as a relief for those whose Sundays were spent recovering from the night before_
In the USA around 1930s brunch became a late breakfast.
I personally suspect given the Italian and Mediterranean influences in the USA late breakfast was adopted and coined a familiar phrase.
One point about paying cash, every card transaction costs the business money in fees so they appreciate getting cash for small purchases. I would certainly not try to pay by card for a round of drinks or a bag of fish & chips.
Most businesses now including pubs prefer card payments. Some now don't accept cash at all
@@Phiyedough
It also costs businesses to bank cash.
In America they dont have switches on sockets because your to thick to know how to use them
@@michaelgodbold6247 “your”? I think you mean you’re. Only thick people make that mistake
In America you don’t have switches on sockets because you’re too thick to know how to use them. Now grammatically correct but still factually wrong.
@@bobroberts6155 I can sleep peacefully now!
The only people using cash now days are money launderers, gardeners, window cleaners and people denied cards.
Even the Ice-cream van in the New Forest uses contactless payment, it's just normal.
I was in a Welsh town last month and a lot of the shops ask for cash instead of card, if possible. The town is trying to promote the use of cash , so the merchants don't have to pay commission on each card transaction. I have been in other shops throughout the country who also prefer cash fir that very same reason.
Don't be so *bloody STUPID.* Go into ANY supermarket, and what do you find on every manned checkout? A *CASH TILL!* Furthermore, most self-service checkouts (as in my local Morrisons) also take both notes and coins, and issue change when required.
@jackx4311 I forgot to include ignorant working class, sorry.
As a Brit I’ve never understood why outlets are switched, anyway, and in the earlier days of 13 amp outlets they were not. Somebody thought they could add value by adding an unnecessary function, presumably. You CAN get unstitched outlets and I have fitted them for appliances you definitely don’t want ever switched off, like freezers. The same goes for dum British separate hot and cold taps. WHY?
Separate hot and cold taps are to prevent hot water from your non-sterile hot water tank entering the sterile cold water system leading to the mains and to other people's supply.
Switched outlets - how would you otherwise isolate the power supply from a particular outlet? It's quicker to flick a switch off than to prise your child's finger from the live terminal.
@@dpbusby ... because a lot of Brits like having separate hot and cold taps. Then we know exactly what we're getting. Suppose the previous person to use the 'mixer' tap has left it on a hot setting......then you burn yourself when you want to wash your hands - unless you look beforehand. Not good.
It's no problem having separate taps. Don't know why it bothers you so much.
Likewise if you have an issue with there being no plug sockets in the bathroom, then you could always go and live in America???
There's a reason why we don't have plug sockets in UK bathrooms - the voltage here is twice as high as it is in America. Plus bathrooms in the UK are much smaller.....all that condensation from showers....with a small bathroom window - not safe to have plug sockets in such an environment.
Here it's approx 240 volts, whereas in America it's only 120 volts or sometimes even 110 volts. Btw, that's too low to use an electric kettle. It's why Americans don't use them. If they want to boil water, they use a stove or microwave - yes really.
@dpbusby it has nothing to do with adding value/cost to it and all about safety, if the outlet it off it won't do anything, also it off it costs nothing. It wasn't about charging more, it was only safety. Charging more is an American way of thinking