Actually if you spell it without a "u" I think it means you're Roman. In our defence (spelled with a "c" because... fuck it, why not?) we nicked the spelling of colour from the French so it's their fault.
Whereas the Americans nicked the spelling from the Dutch. British English has a stronger French influence while American English has a stronger Dutch influence. Holland owned loads the original American colonies and was very big over there initially.
I think half the thing with the French is second hand snobbery, because way back on rich people could go abroad for holidays, and they would brag about going to France and all the "culture" and fine wine etc. So Frenchness became a byword for hoyty-toyty.
They need to learn this stuff because if they visit England and don’t learn to insult people properly, they’re gonna have a hard time fitting in and being accepted. 😂
I'm reminded of an Al Murray bit. "Income tax was invented for one reason. To pay for a war against the French. And seeing as we're still paying, how about another war with the French?".
@@SarthorS oh we brits are well up for that the EUSSR needs a good spanking and we now have the challenger 3 so good luck with the "we slap u at 10 paces" shit lol
Kieth, sorry but WAY more than 1000 years - During the failed Roman invasion in BC55 the Romans recorded that the Gauls were at war with the Britons, which means that we have been at war for over two millennia and long before either country was created, everyone talks about WW1 and WW2 but England and France had a Hundred Years War (116 Years long) and it is barely mentioned because it is just another conflict that we had.
For those of you unaware, the black doll was known as a Golliwog and was based on a character from a children's book. Let's just say it hasn't aged very well in modern society.
Seeing as there is a Birmingham Alabama which is almost the same pronunciation I was confused by the poor attempt. But maybe he was laughing too much and I do not want to colour his attitude with my prejudices. Sorry dudes could not resist the impulse. It is colour damit!!!.
If nfl fans were British you’d be hearing songs about ray rice etc to the tune of night fever by the Beegee’s... “wife-beater, wife-beaterrrr...he knows how to do it”
he's a a wife beater, wife beater, *insert name here* beats his wife. Everyone! *insert name* is a wiiiiife beater, a wife beater, *insert name here* beats his wiiiiiiiife
During the failed Roman invasion in BC55 the Romans recorded that the Gauls were at war with the Britons, which means that we have been at war for over two millennia and long before either country was created, everyone talks about WW1 and WW2 but England and France had a Hundred Years War (116 Years long) and it is barely mentioned because it is just another conflict that we had. Imagine a war lasting more then a quarter of the entire existence of America being just a footnote between enemy nations.
I read a history book on the entire history of Britain. The 100 year war was literally just a footnote. It said something along the lines of "including the 100 year war that actually lasted 116 years. A very long time, either way". Or something to that effect.
@@bethanybrookes8479 - Thank you but unfortunately like most European countries the history of Britain is long, very long. This means that your "Entire history of Britain" book is more like an index of British history and if you want to know any actual details then you have to do further research on your own.
@@carlchapman4053 i just found it funny and was reminded if the footnote. I know full well that you have to do more research, and it was a comedy based retelling as well.
@@Phil_A_O_Fish we do indeed my phallic friend! As someone once stated Britain and America are two nations divided only by a common language! Great to see some of our cousins across the pond learning our humour!
@@davidgriffith8292, you should be really careful, shouldn't you? The reason that I say this is because according to Micah you spelled the word 'humour' wrong as well, didn't you?
@@Phil_A_O_Fish better be nice Micah else he’ll spit his dummy out and threw his teddies out of his pram. American subtitles ‘spit out his pacifier and hurl his comforters out of his crib’ @SathorS - it’s taken many years of practise!
terribly sorry chaps but you pronounce twat like hat and usually with a little venom behind it, speaking of venom on an episode of Qi Steven Fry asked name a venomous snake and 3 of the 4 panellists immediately said Piers Morgan
That was good fun! You defended the UK well, Sir, and explained a few things too that showed how much you know about us Brits and our strange ways so I think we can forgo the Citizenship Test and just pop your knighthood in the post.
Well, with all the kerfuffle over the golliwog in the time capsule, I don't know if you realised the next item in there was also problematic: a record by Gary Glitter, probably (according to the voiceover) from a child's collection. If that doesn't raise alarm bells, I'll just mention Operation Yewtree and leave it at that.
@@lizthompson9653 puffin crossings have sensors on so the Green man stays on longer if people are still crossing... Puffin is short for P edestrian U ser F riendly IN telligent Pelican or Pelicon is PE destrian LI ght CON trolled A Toucan Crossing is a crossing where people can walk and bikes can be cycled across therefore its can be used by 2 types of users so "two can cross" A pegasus crossing is for people and horses
4:01 The angle and the long landscape aspect ratio suggest that this is in a London Underground train. (Or possibly some other metro train.) Don't American metro subways also have ads for places in the country?
@@rosiefay7283 If you thought I meant this wasn't in London I actually meant I wasn't from London (NE England). If you DIDN'T think I meant that then plz ignore this message :)
That was St Michael's Mount. I grew up living opposite there, my bedroom overlooked it. The caption is so true. Fwiw, I now live in France. Traitor? No. I just consider myself a lone sleeper cell waiting for the next 100 Years War 😉
Just sat down with a cup of tea after work, and watching you chaps having a right laugh at us has made my day. Oh and I will also die on this hill...COLOUR ! :)
When it comes to the "our" words, flavour, colour etc, back in the day, American printing companies used to charge per character when printing so to save money, companies would just remove some of the letters that they decided they could do without. Great video guys!
hi, this is a rumour that I also saw in that tumblr post and believed myself, until I learnt that it’s not true! It’s actually because Noah Webster wanted to differentiate American English from British English after the American Revolution :)
You'd probably recognise Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' if you heard it. In recent years it's been used in Andrex & Chanel no. 5 commercials, played by a cellist in Jessica Jones season 3, and features heavily in the soundtrack to the game Sayonara Wild Hearts.
1:18 Nah, the British fans would just launch straight into the song. And I wonder if it really would be to the tune of Debussy's Clair de Lune. Au clair de la lune, perhaps?
The accent 6 miles from me is totally different to mine. I am in Wakefield (Yorkshire), the one I mean is Barnsley (also Yorkshire). 12 miles north in Leeds it is different again.
Unfortunately all police ARE like this. In fact these would be seen as normal. There is only one measure for "good" police and that is how many people they can arrest. They are constantly looking for reasons they can arrest anyone they come across. That's why they always ask for ID plus lots of other questions.
Using a bit of an Americanism there yourself, Spelled is prevelant in the US but spelt is more common in the UK, either can be used, like knelt, delt, felt not kneeled, dealed and feeled.
The time capsule clip is from a TV show over here in Scotland called Scot Squad. It's a mock documentary series based around a semi-fictional unified Scottish police force. The guy opening the time capsule is Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson in yet another PR event gone slightly wrong.
I love the comments about our accents because it's so true, I literally work in the next town over from my hometown, like a ten minute drive away, and the accents and slang are genuinely so different to the point that I have no idea what half my colleagues are saying 😂🇬🇧
@@handlesarefeckinstupid I have 4, one dark green for none-recyclable stuff, one blue one for paper and cardboard, one light green with a blue lid for recyclable plastics and glass and one brown for food and garden waste.
We just have the whole bin as a different colour. I cant remeber which two colours are everywhere (I never spent a significant amount of time looking at bins in places where I dont live), but one of the bins is a different colour depending on where you are.
I have to say, as a Brit, I find most American accents easier to follow than most British accents. Anything north of Sheffield and it's just another language quite frankly.
Don't forget that big ol hole of 'what did you just say?' that we call the Black country accent (FYI for those that don't know; not a race thing, an industial era thing cos all the coal dust and soot).
I love this video it made me laugh so much. Sometimes it is good to see yourself through someone else's eyes lol. I laughed at the bigfoot just being - just an odd bloke............. my wife and i were walking by Hadrians wall last autumn and a man dressed in a pair of underpants, a roman soldiers helmet and a sword walked towards us and i had a conversation with him without mentioning how he was dressed and afterwards my wife said "God i love England, that wouldn't have happened anywhere else in the world" lolololol
And 20 minutes is about correct, although you can go 5 miles away from me and the accent noticeably changes. Like we say we’re very territorial over here and that goes from country to city/town to street even... You’ll still hear shouts to kids of “go play round your own area” to this day
Just had to watch this again as I laughed so much the first time. Might be able to allow you "color" if you can sort out "aluminium", "jewellery" and "theatre".
Hey Allan its been a dull friday here in the UK untill i found this! Love your channel and you have got to do more of this ,my sides are hurting🤣. The great British sport of taking the piss out of ouselves! Loved your reaction to the said "doll"😲. It used to be on the label of Robertsons jams years ago. Oh how things have changed!!
The fact that the guy then proceeded to pull out a record by Gary Glitter! 😂😂 Word of warning- don’t react to Gary Glitter. You’ll find out why if you Google him!
This was brilliant, had a right laugh watching the two of you! The accent thing, you get different accents between towns and villages - getting less obvious with people moving across the country for jobs but it is crazy. If you work in a big company, you can have 20-30 accents in a single office easy.
I remember there was a small paper version behind the label of jams (can't remember which make - it's been some 50 years ago). There were different versions to collect.
@@itsmeagain1745 It was Robertsons Jam mascot and was removed in 1980. You could collect tokens with the jam labels to get Golly brooches and badges since 1928.
Heyyyy, I live in Kent! (Mind you, that picture looks like Sittingbourne High Street, so they've got a bit of a point... 😜) And yeah, as someone who originally came from Devon, I can confirm, a full-blooded Devon accent is practically unintelligible to non-natives.
Yeah, basically everything in West Kent is bad, hence why men from West Kent are Kentish and men from East Kent are Men of Kent. Although this isn’t always true, you know you’ve got Thanet in the East and apart from Broadstairs, Thanet is pretty bad, and you’ve got Tunbridge Wells in the West which is pretty posh sooo…
Fantastic reaction guys, I laugh more at you laughing than the actual video! The black golliwog doll was the logo of the Robertson's marmalade and jam over here, and Gary Glitter was a successful glam rock star over here who it turned out like young girls 😕
3:23 “probably languages too”, it’s pretty multiethnic in the the uk, my neighbours two and three doors down are Bengali and Chinese respectively and most places are like this 8:26 you are correct sir!
I live in Gravesend Kent which has been dubbed "the armpit of Kent". Kent has some amazing places but unfortunately there's council estates (I live next to 3 rough areas)
Ohh! Dartfordian here. I like shopping in Gravesend. I said that a few years ago to a resident and they said You must be mad! I guess it's different shops to buy nonsense in, your Poundland seems to be better 😜
I live in the town in the picture. The meme is totally fair, the most notable thing about the place is that on warm days the local sewage works (and creek next to it, which is contaminated with a couple of hundred years of industrial waste) cover the entire town in a... 'unique' smell. Even people from Chatham look down on people who live here, which is pretty dire all things considered.
The reason Americans spell some word with less letters is because the newspapers over there used to charge ads by the letter. The shortened spellings just became accepted
I'm from England and I have a close American friend who lives out in Texas. Lived there all his life. And, he once told me that he is so jealous because you call your cars GPS, a GPS. But here in the UK it's called SatNav. He was so annoyed that it wasn't called SatNav over there. He said it sounds so cool, like a James Bond gadget. hahaha.
@@tonytye8963 Recall one of the agents on NCIS being cool about their latest cell, (cellphones - which brits call Moblies, unless you are in Liverpool where its Moby. !
@@highpath4776 In Europe, especially the Germanic regions, they call it their "Handy". Stephen Fry does a great impression of a German looking for his his phone... I live in the north west uk about 30 miles east of Liverpool. We just call it a Phone. all those other words for it were when they were new. I'm pretty sure everyone just calls it their phone. Unless it's a wanker who calls it their iPhone... lol
@@Cobalt-Jester iPhone, normally for those that are not apple products. Deffo Liverpool Mobi I heard it on one of those reality TV shows and thought it cute. The phone dust down of the pockets is much the same as looking for your keys.
This was really funny, id absolutely watch a sequel. BTW in defence of the guy dying on the colour without a "u" hill, "u"s were first introduced as standard when writing the dictionary as the people at the time thought it just made the words look smarter. There were no standard spellings before that so even though extra "u"s became standardised there, neither side are incorrect. Though I am British and do still prefer colour, I think mostly because color looks like it should be pronounced like colon lol. Also lollipop men and ladies are named that because they dress in bright yellow and hold a sign telling drivers to slow down for the children, its a circular sign on a pole so it looks like a lollipop lol. I agree that in mixing together all the languages during American colonisation that the English there seemed to get a lot less fun for the sake of being more easily understood. Words like sidewalk are a lot easier to guess the meaning of for the early French, German, Spanish or Dutch immigrants, compared to pavement.
@@highpath4776 i can't tell if you're joking about that pronunciation or my comment but to clarify, it was the u being used after the letter o that old dictionary authors thought looked fancy, the letter u itself obviously existed before that! Lol
You two make an excellent double act!! I look forward to more collaborations. SO glad transatlantic humour (yes, that's supposed to have a 'u' in it too Michah!) makes you both crease up. For an island of disparate entities and accents, we do retain a savage sense of fun and mockery :-D PS It was only when you bowed your head to do a face-palm I realised you have exactly the same headphones as I do.
8:22 you used to use "colour" as well until newspapers realized it would be easier and cheaper to remove letters as long as you could still read the word. Many of your words were shortened/simplified due to them wanting to spend less money on ink. It was never color.
Damn ! This was HILARIOUS !! I don't think I've laughed that hard since at least before the pandemic. A few observations from a thoroughly amused Brit. First of all. Micah. Colour is spelled with a "u" ! The next time you want to question it, ask yourself this: Can I say simplified without making a pig's ear of it ? Second. Our confusion at distance not being measured in cups of tea per colonised nation is genuine enough but I imagine it's about the same as Americans' confusion at it not being measured in freedoms per bald eagle. Thanks for this !
Its not just zebra crossings, there are Pelican, Tucan, Puffin and I just looked there's a Pegasus. Mostly its just more friendly teaching kids the green cross code. I learnt that when I was in the tufty club.
8:22 Americans think that only because Noah Webster had this weird idea that English words should look more like Latin ones. Curious that he thought colour should be color but didn't think curious should be curios.
100% correct. You can DEFINITELY hear an accent change when driving 20 mins in the UK. In fact, even shorter lengths in some parts. The Kent joke is weird, parts of Kent are some of the best places in the south east, Kent is called the Garden of England, ffs. Kent has it's sh*holes, obviously, like every county. Weird meme, for sure.
@@neilgayleard3842 Absolutely, and some of the seaside towns. But Kent is a big place. Chislehurst is nothing like Chatham, Sevenoaks is nothing like Margate. Like every county really, good parts, average parts, terrible parts.
We have a local version where its Stoke instead of Kent. I have heard stoke (as in stoke proper, not the nicer areas on the outskirts) referred to as "the shittiest of shitholes" by locals.
Totally Made Up Productions presents 'Arkansas: the naming of a state...' On a hill in the Ozarks, one man stands before a small crowd, gesturing NNW-ish. Moving cinematic music swells as he speaks: "That there is *Their* Kansas, but this one is better 'cos it's *Our* Kansas. And we've got diamonds, so they can keep their hairy cows and dust!" [Narrator: This transcript was taken from the diary of Roger Benton-Fayette, an early settler from Tennessee, who was an inspirational yet overconfident man, sadly killed whilst kite-flying in a category 5 tornado shortly after making this entry. Several settlements were named after him in recognition of his work adapting right-handed teaspoons to suit those who, like him, were blessed with ginger hair and a lisp. Both state names were 'simplified' over time...]
I live in Kent, and I just got back from a holiday in Cornwall (It was absolutely stunning, and has incredible views) . Let me be the first to say that both had what felt like quite different geography. Where i live, there is a lot of soft chalk, and in Cornwall there seems to be a lot of rock. Which contributes to different and unique landscapes for each county. I've never been up north but I bet it's also unique from the south and far west of GB
Just started this video. The reaction to the "doll" coming out of the time capsule is the absolute correct response. You'd think that would be something from a long, long time ago, right? Wrong. I live in the UK, but I'm from Ireland. Soon after moving here in 2017 I came across a woman with a small version of that doll ON HER KEYCHAIN. I could not believe it. I see her every now and then (I work in retail) and she still has it on there! Like, what the actual-...?
A zebra crossing is an unsignalised pedestrian crosswalk. A pedestrian crosswalk with signals is a Pelican crossing. And there ar variants like 'toucan' - a signalised bicycle crossing and 'pegasus' a signalised horse crossing. Also there are lollipop men as well as lollipop ladies.
I'm pretty sure that first clip was 'Chief Commissioner Miekelson' from the tv show 'Scot Squad', it's a Scottish parody of those shows that follow local police 😂
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I think EVERYONE should spam COLOUR on Micah's video lol
React to Mickey Flanagan "Delhi Belly"
You will not be disappointed.
Please, please, please do a reaction to this! It’s one of the craziest monologues I’ve seen by Jimmy Carr
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Great channel for Micah …. I think we’ve brightened the COLOUR lighting on his videos now!!
Subscribed, he seems like a good guy.
If you spell colour without a "u" in England we don't think you're "American" we think you're " illiterate".
Same here in Australia
one six month boat ride and they forget how to spell
What do you call a clever American. A Canadian
Actually if you spell it without a "u" I think it means you're Roman.
In our defence (spelled with a "c" because... fuck it, why not?) we nicked the spelling of colour from the French so it's their fault.
Whereas the Americans nicked the spelling from the Dutch. British English has a stronger French influence while American English has a stronger Dutch influence. Holland owned loads the original American colonies and was very big over there initially.
As I always say no matter how bad things are, no matter how low you are things could always be worse.
You could be French.
Trouble is wouldn't a lot of us be a least part French down our ancestry line?, given that the Normans invaded us in 1066.
I think half the thing with the French is second hand snobbery, because way back on rich people could go abroad for holidays, and they would brag about going to France and all the "culture" and fine wine etc. So Frenchness became a byword for hoyty-toyty.
@@s1ddo The Norman's weren't French.
@@abebrown1563 They culturally assimilated enough.
@@s1ddo Not according to Mason who explained that the Normans was a bastardisation of the term Norsemen . In other words Vikings!
I saw his pronunciation of 'twat' coming, and I still shuddered
no-one said twat in this video though... twot yes, but I have no idea what that is???
Yeah, I read it and had to brace myself for the pronunciation. Why do they say it like that? They don't pronounce 'cat' as 'cot' . . . .
They need to learn this stuff because if they visit England and don’t learn to insult people properly, they’re gonna have a hard time fitting in and being accepted. 😂
Some words RUclips censors are a bit more sensitive about I figured.
@@LuckyDucky917 I think it's because how we pronounce Watt so they think it's similar, maybe?
We've spent a 1000 years practising at winding up the French, no-wonder we're good at it!
is it only 1000 years dam i need to reset my clock its time for another slap dunk lool
@@aryundotd2019 Well, we did let the Vikings have the first go at it, but they got bought off!
I'm reminded of an Al Murray bit. "Income tax was invented for one reason. To pay for a war against the French. And seeing as we're still paying, how about another war with the French?".
@@SarthorS oh we brits are well up for that the EUSSR needs a good spanking and we now have the challenger 3 so good luck with the "we slap u at 10 paces" shit lol
Kieth, sorry but WAY more than 1000 years - During the failed Roman invasion in BC55 the Romans recorded that the Gauls were at war with the Britons, which means that we have been at war for over two millennia and long before either country was created, everyone talks about WW1 and WW2 but England and France had a Hundred Years War (116 Years long) and it is barely mentioned because it is just another conflict that we had.
For those of you unaware, the black doll was known as a Golliwog and was based on a character from a children's book. Let's just say it hasn't aged very well in modern society.
Yeah but then the Gary Glitter single followed pmsl!
I was half expecting a 'Jim'll Fix It ' badge to come out next!
Even the Robinsons Golly was forced to be removed from their product labels
@@bimbam2620 Oh, it was a comedy skit? I actually thought it was a genuine clip lol
@@Calimosh One actually does
7:13 "Brimin"
Me: "What the hell did you just call Birmingham!? 😂😂"
I've been scrolling for this comment 🤣
Seeing as there is a Birmingham Alabama which is almost the same pronunciation I was confused by the poor attempt. But maybe he was laughing too much and I do not want to colour his attitude with my prejudices.
Sorry dudes could not resist the impulse. It is colour damit!!!.
It could've been worse could have said as its known locally "shithole"
I flinched when he said that
@@blitzwing1 lol poor you.
The stumbling over the word 'simplified' is just...*chef's kiss*
lmao got tongue tied lol but yeah perfect timing
Yanks just don't get irony,
If nfl fans were British you’d be hearing songs about ray rice etc to the tune of night fever by the Beegee’s... “wife-beater, wife-beaterrrr...he knows how to do it”
he's a a wife beater, wife beater, *insert name here* beats his wife. Everyone! *insert name* is a wiiiiife beater, a wife beater, *insert name here* beats his wiiiiiiiife
yeh cos wife beating is a fun joke to guys
@@butterflymoon6368 That's why we love to humiliate wife-beaters.... because we think violence is fun -_-
During the failed Roman invasion in BC55 the Romans recorded that the Gauls were at war with the Britons, which means that we have been at war for over two millennia and long before either country was created, everyone talks about WW1 and WW2 but England and France had a Hundred Years War (116 Years long) and it is barely mentioned because it is just another conflict that we had. Imagine a war lasting more then a quarter of the entire existence of America being just a footnote between enemy nations.
I read a history book on the entire history of Britain. The 100 year war was literally just a footnote. It said something along the lines of "including the 100 year war that actually lasted 116 years. A very long time, either way". Or something to that effect.
@@bethanybrookes8479 - Thank you but unfortunately like most European countries the history of Britain is long, very long. This means that your "Entire history of Britain" book is more like an index of British history and if you want to know any actual details then you have to do further research on your own.
@@carlchapman4053 i just found it funny and was reminded if the footnote. I know full well that you have to do more research, and it was a comedy based retelling as well.
7:14 That's the best pronunciation of Birmingham I've ever heard
lmao thanks!
F yeah 😂
@@MICAHSMIX no problem geeze
🤣🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧
I'm sure we gifted them one way down in Alabam...
Love this! Us Brits can seriously take the piss out of each other!
This is how you can make fun of us and end up with us liking you more.
@David Griffith, and we also do an even better job of taking the piss out of Americans who can't spell the word 'colour' properly, don't we?
@@Phil_A_O_Fish we do indeed my phallic friend! As someone once stated Britain and America are two nations divided only by a common language! Great to see some of our cousins across the pond learning our humour!
@@davidgriffith8292, you should be really careful, shouldn't you? The reason that I say this is because according to Micah you spelled the word 'humour' wrong as well, didn't you?
@@Phil_A_O_Fish better be nice Micah else he’ll spit his dummy out and threw his teddies out of his pram.
American subtitles ‘spit out his pacifier and hurl his comforters out of his crib’
@SathorS - it’s taken many years of practise!
This needs a part 2, and maybe 3
Yea definitely
Yeah, please 🙏
Once a month perhaps.
Pure love for you guys. Spot on comments.
HumoUr is the best defenCe. Very hard to punch someone if they're making you piss yourself with laughter. Great reaction guys!
terribly sorry chaps but you pronounce twat like hat and usually with a little venom behind it, speaking of venom on an episode of Qi Steven Fry asked name a venomous snake and 3 of the 4 panellists
immediately said Piers Morgan
And then the klaxon went off, because the elves had anticipated that joke.
That was good fun! You defended the UK well, Sir, and explained a few things too that showed how much you know about us Brits and our strange ways so I think we can forgo the Citizenship Test and just pop your knighthood in the post.
essentially, everyone in the uk takes the piss out of everyone else, but as soon as someone else comes after a brit, everyone gets livid
COLOUR!
LABOUR!
HONOUR!
Sounds like a rally I should want to be attending😁
The term “Bedlam” comes from the mental institution situated in London in 1676.
I think it was originally the Bethlehem hospital, shortened to Bethlem, which eventually ended at Bedlam.
It was a popular day out in its time as well. Take your family to go and look at the nutters. 😂
@Eamonn and is now the Imperial War Museum.
10:30 - I'm English and that meme perfectly sums up our attitude to most things.
Well, with all the kerfuffle over the golliwog in the time capsule, I don't know if you realised the next item in there was also problematic: a record by Gary Glitter, probably (according to the voiceover) from a child's collection. If that doesn't raise alarm bells, I'll just mention Operation Yewtree and leave it at that.
And a Jim'll Fix It badge...
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I loved my golliwog as a kid.
I found my Robertson's Gollywog badge/brooch a couple of months ago. I've had it for at least 30 years.
Loved this! We actually do have zebra crossings and lollipop ladies
Dont forget we also have Pelican crossings and Puffin crossings!
@@juliehillman8743 ooh never heard of a puffin crossing. Gawd we are really goiing to confuse our cousins across the pond 😁
@@lizthompson9653 especially if they dont believe we have our amazing Lollipop Lads and Ladies 😁
@@lizthompson9653 puffin crossings have sensors on so the Green man stays on longer if people are still crossing...
Puffin is short for
P edestrian
U ser
F riendly
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Pelican or Pelicon is
PE destrian
LI ght
CON trolled
A Toucan Crossing is a crossing where people can walk and bikes can be cycled across therefore its can be used by 2 types of users so "two can cross"
A pegasus crossing is for people and horses
@@lizthompson9653 and Toucan (I forget the name of the one for horse and rider with the button up the top !
Loved the Cornwall one, holidaying there soon with luck but not from London. Richard Osman is well known in UK from TV and has a very quick wit.
4:01 The angle and the long landscape aspect ratio suggest that this is in a London Underground train. (Or possibly some other metro train.) Don't American metro subways also have ads for places in the country?
@@rosiefay7283 If you thought I meant this wasn't in London I actually meant I wasn't from London (NE England). If you DIDN'T think I meant that then plz ignore this message :)
That was St Michael's Mount. I grew up living opposite there, my bedroom overlooked it. The caption is so true.
Fwiw, I now live in France. Traitor? No. I just consider myself a lone sleeper cell waiting for the next 100 Years War 😉
Just sat down with a cup of tea after work, and watching you chaps having a right laugh at us has made my day. Oh and I will also die on this hill...COLOUR ! :)
COLOR!!!!!! LOL
@@MICAHSMIX English simplified!
@@MICAHSMIX I'll stake my honoUr on coloUr, while wearing my armoUr :P lol
@@MICAHSMIX is that because of how it's pronounced? What about Arkansas then mate? 😁
@@markarmour1898 I woUld respond, bUt the only time yoU colonists ever win a war is with Us assisting yoU ;) . loved the vid - more please!
Here in the UK, we take the piss out of someone living in the next county, so the next country is more than fair game.
We'll take the piss outta the next town over. Counties are fair game.
@@bethanybrookes8479 true
Next country?
More like next town.
Or just another district of the same town.
Next street over.
Fuck it, next door.
Another room in the house.
When it comes to the "our" words, flavour, colour etc, back in the day, American printing companies used to charge per character when printing so to save money, companies would just remove some of the letters that they decided they could do without. Great video guys!
hi, this is a rumour that I also saw in that tumblr post and believed myself, until I learnt that it’s not true! It’s actually because Noah Webster wanted to differentiate American English from British English after the American Revolution :)
had a blast with this brother!
This was a ton of fun.
Guys this was a really good video, really made me laugh, not sure about the British accent, maybe a little off coloUr?
@@CaptainBaptainMusic Nice! 👏👏👏
@@CaptainBaptainMusic Considering the different SHADES of accents... im sure i got at least one pigment right on COLOR!
@@MICAHSMIX What's up with the pigs? Are they ill, or is that a new rank? xx
Me as British person.
Laughing uncontrollably.
Video reaches 10:55
Irresistible urge to salute, raise flag, conquer one third of world's land surface.
“Hagrid innit” had me crying 😂
Sheer brilliance!!
the reaction of an american hearing ''Wheelie bin'' just made my day
You'd probably recognise Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' if you heard it.
In recent years it's been used in Andrex & Chanel no. 5 commercials, played by a cellist in Jessica Jones season 3, and features heavily in the soundtrack to the game Sayonara Wild Hearts.
I know it mainly from oceans 11 when they’re standing in front of the bellagio fountains. But meh I’m uncultured. Beautiful piece though
The Cornwall Ad was in a tube car on the london underground
1:18 Nah, the British fans would just launch straight into the song. And I wonder if it really would be to the tune of Debussy's Clair de Lune. Au clair de la lune, perhaps?
The accent 6 miles from me is totally different to mine. I am in Wakefield (Yorkshire), the one I mean is Barnsley (also Yorkshire). 12 miles north in Leeds it is different again.
Wakey lad here too!
There's 3 distinct accents in my house and there's only 3 living in it
@@gavinbissell8847 there is only me at home so that narrows down the number of accents 😂
Where I live the accents are vastly different in two towns only three miles apart.
Unfortunately all police ARE like this. In fact these would be seen as normal. There is only one measure for "good" police and that is how many people they can arrest. They are constantly looking for reasons they can arrest anyone they come across. That's why they always ask for ID plus lots of other questions.
I like to think that the person who buried that time capsule could see the future and is the Ultimate Chrono-Troller.
The moment you realise the meme of people living in Kent is actually your town’s high street!
My high street looks very similar! But then I realised it was Sittingbourne and I calmed down a bit lol.
Damn I thought it looked like shittingbourne
But then I was born a swampie lol
"colour is spelled without a u!!" me = Sheldon Cooper level rage building up
Using a bit of an Americanism there yourself, Spelled is prevelant in the US but spelt is more common in the UK, either can be used, like knelt, delt, felt not kneeled, dealed and feeled.
@@tonytye8963 I don't think the Yank understood a word of that.
The time capsule clip is from a TV show over here in Scotland called Scot Squad. It's a mock documentary series based around a semi-fictional unified Scottish police force. The guy opening the time capsule is Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson in yet another PR event gone slightly wrong.
The high dunk should have been in the 2012 olympics
Should of been a custard cream though
By the Queen 👑
I love the comments about our accents because it's so true, I literally work in the next town over from my hometown, like a ten minute drive away, and the accents and slang are genuinely so different to the point that I have no idea what half my colleagues are saying 😂🇬🇧
Mispronouncing 'simplified' makes me think we have to simplify it a bit more ;)
They are called wheelie bins here in Australia, ours come with different COLOUR lids depending on what you should put in them.
Same in the UK, sometimes the whole bin is a different colour. I have 3 so far.
@@handlesarefeckinstupid I have 4, one dark green for none-recyclable stuff, one blue one for paper and cardboard, one light green with a blue lid for recyclable plastics and glass and one brown for food and garden waste.
We just have the whole bin as a different colour. I cant remeber which two colours are everywhere (I never spent a significant amount of time looking at bins in places where I dont live), but one of the bins is a different colour depending on where you are.
@@bethanybrookes8479 Some Councils want us to have 7 bins! Yes, that's right, 7...
@@davidhoward2487 oof
“Colour is spelled without a U”
“They inVENTED the language”
“NO!”
The Pigeon Lady, Brenda Fricker, was (is? not sure) an amazing, oscar winning, Irish actress. Was in BBC's Casualty for many years.
Did not know that.
I have to say, as a Brit, I find most American accents easier to follow than most British accents.
Anything north of Sheffield and it's just another language quite frankly.
Well Scots is technically another language :)
I’m from Cornwall. People say we’re hard to understand. Venturing north over the Tamar is a linguist adventure.
American based so much on a west country accent
Haway hin, haddaway wi ye.
Don't forget that big ol hole of 'what did you just say?' that we call the Black country accent (FYI for those that don't know; not a race thing, an industial era thing cos all the coal dust and soot).
They hold a round sign on a stick, yeah, it looks like a lollipop. First time viewer, enjoyed the hell out of this. Thanks lads
“Sometimes the truth stings a little, English traditional, English SLIPPIFIED”
I never knew Americans used the term “taking the piss” thought it was just us... bonus
Great double act please do this again.
will definitely have too!
Here here
I love this video it made me laugh so much. Sometimes it is good to see yourself through someone else's eyes lol. I laughed at the bigfoot just being - just an odd bloke............. my wife and i were walking by Hadrians wall last autumn and a man dressed in a pair of underpants, a roman soldiers helmet and a sword walked towards us and i had a conversation with him without mentioning how he was dressed and afterwards my wife said "God i love England, that wouldn't have happened anywhere else in the world" lolololol
And 20 minutes is about correct, although you can go 5 miles away from me and the accent noticeably changes.
Like we say we’re very territorial over here and that goes from country to city/town to street even...
You’ll still hear shouts to kids of “go play round your own area” to this day
Haha... two of my favorite people.. Awesome video guys!! We need more!
yeah i think this is going to have to be a thing!
Just had to watch this again as I laughed so much the first time. Might be able to allow you "color" if you can sort out "aluminium", "jewellery" and "theatre".
I’m always impressed at how well you understand the broader local accents 👍
This needs to be a monthly feature 😂❤️
Hey Allan its been a dull friday here in the UK untill i found this! Love your channel and you have got to do more of this ,my sides are hurting🤣. The great British sport of taking the piss out of ouselves! Loved your reaction to the said "doll"😲. It used to be on the label of Robertsons jams years ago. Oh how things have changed!!
That "gollywog" doll was the big thing in my primary school in the 70's.
The fact that the guy then proceeded to pull out a record by Gary Glitter! 😂😂
Word of warning- don’t react to Gary Glitter. You’ll find out why if you Google him!
Brits and the French have a love hate relationship. We've been fighting for centuries. 😂
Definitely need to do that again, very entertaining stuff guys.
this made me proud to be British, good stuff!
I'm 100% English and i haven't laughed so hard in bloody ages. You guys found some seriously funny memes.
Good stuff guys. You get a like from me...
The pigeon lady is an Oscar winning Irish actress - Brenda Fricker.
This was brilliant, had a right laugh watching the two of you! The accent thing, you get different accents between towns and villages - getting less obvious with people moving across the country for jobs but it is crazy. If you work in a big company, you can have 20-30 accents in a single office easy.
Those Gollywog dolls actually sell for quite a bit these days. My Da's got one tucked away somewhere
Look down Portobello road. Unbelievable prices for other people's rubbish 😁
I remember there was a small paper version behind the label of jams (can't remember which make - it's been some 50 years ago). There were different versions to collect.
@@itsmeagain1745 It was Robertsons Jam mascot and was removed in 1980. You could collect tokens with the jam labels to get Golly brooches and badges since 1928.
EB is spot on : the accent changes noticeably every 10 miles and is completely different 2 hours into a drive
That 12 minutes went by far to fast!
IT DID! we will have to do it again
@@MICAHSMIX yes please
Turns out it's Micah's birthday and he's just uploaded a short video so go wish him a happy birthday and remind him it's spelled COLOUR 😂
lol thanks Pete!
@@MICAHSMIX haha all the best lad
Heyyyy, I live in Kent! (Mind you, that picture looks like Sittingbourne High Street, so they've got a bit of a point... 😜)
And yeah, as someone who originally came from Devon, I can confirm, a full-blooded Devon accent is practically unintelligible to non-natives.
Yeah, basically everything in West Kent is bad, hence why men from West Kent are Kentish and men from East Kent are Men of Kent.
Although this isn’t always true, you know you’ve got Thanet in the East and apart from Broadstairs, Thanet is pretty bad, and you’ve got Tunbridge Wells in the West which is pretty posh sooo…
Fantastic reaction guys, I laugh more at you laughing than the actual video! The black golliwog doll was the logo of the Robertson's marmalade and jam over here, and Gary Glitter was a successful glam rock star over here who it turned out like young girls 😕
You should definitely do more reactions together. I loved this video.
3:23 “probably languages too”, it’s pretty multiethnic in the the uk, my neighbours two and three doors down are Bengali and Chinese respectively and most places are like this
8:26 you are correct sir!
I live in Gravesend Kent which has been dubbed "the armpit of Kent". Kent has some amazing places but unfortunately there's council estates (I live next to 3 rough areas)
Ohh! Dartfordian here. I like shopping in Gravesend. I said that a few years ago to a resident and they said You must be mad!
I guess it's different shops to buy nonsense in, your Poundland seems to be better 😜
@@PrincessFidelma I wrote a reply but its disappeared 🤷🏻♂️ 🤦🏻♂️
I live in the town in the picture. The meme is totally fair, the most notable thing about the place is that on warm days the local sewage works (and creek next to it, which is contaminated with a couple of hundred years of industrial waste) cover the entire town in a... 'unique' smell. Even people from Chatham look down on people who live here, which is pretty dire all things considered.
@@mdt105 which town is in the picture? I can't figure it out and I've been to them all from Woolwich to sheppey and all the coastal towns 😆
@@mdt105 Oh good Lord!! How awful.
6:00 there's a reason for that. when we're kids we get told to wave to the lolly pop lady because their sign looks like one and it just sticks
The reason Americans spell some word with less letters is because the newspapers over there used to charge ads by the letter. The shortened spellings just became accepted
You mean like faucet means sink?
@@cyrus2728 i think it means tap
@@cooldude4643 my bad
You two are really funny, you totally understand the British sense of humour, I'm glad our weird ways entertain you as much as they do me!
I'm from England and I have a close American friend who lives out in Texas. Lived there all his life. And, he once told me that he is so jealous because you call your cars GPS, a GPS. But here in the UK it's called SatNav. He was so annoyed that it wasn't called SatNav over there. He said it sounds so cool, like a James Bond gadget. hahaha.
And the GPS is the satelitte itself not the device that utilises it in the car. SatNav uses Global Positioning Satelittes.
@@tonytye8963 Recall one of the agents on NCIS being cool about their latest cell, (cellphones - which brits call Moblies, unless you are in Liverpool where its Moby. !
@@highpath4776 In Europe, especially the Germanic regions, they call it their "Handy". Stephen Fry does a great impression of a German looking for his his phone... I live in the north west uk about 30 miles east of Liverpool. We just call it a Phone. all those other words for it were when they were new. I'm pretty sure everyone just calls it their phone. Unless it's a wanker who calls it their iPhone... lol
@@Cobalt-Jester iPhone, normally for those that are not apple products. Deffo Liverpool Mobi I heard it on one of those reality TV shows and thought it cute.
The phone dust down of the pockets is much the same as looking for your keys.
Great video, lots of laughs, as you can see nothing is off limits! That Bungee jump was great but I hope he used a digestive biscuit.
This was really funny, id absolutely watch a sequel. BTW in defence of the guy dying on the colour without a "u" hill, "u"s were first introduced as standard when writing the dictionary as the people at the time thought it just made the words look smarter. There were no standard spellings before that so even though extra "u"s became standardised there, neither side are incorrect. Though I am British and do still prefer colour, I think mostly because color looks like it should be pronounced like colon lol.
Also lollipop men and ladies are named that because they dress in bright yellow and hold a sign telling drivers to slow down for the children, its a circular sign on a pole so it looks like a lollipop lol. I agree that in mixing together all the languages during American colonisation that the English there seemed to get a lot less fun for the sake of being more easily understood. Words like sidewalk are a lot easier to guess the meaning of for the early French, German, Spanish or Dutch immigrants, compared to pavement.
Of course the third day of the week was Tiewsday
@@highpath4776 i can't tell if you're joking about that pronunciation or my comment but to clarify, it was the u being used after the letter o that old dictionary authors thought looked fancy, the letter u itself obviously existed before that! Lol
You two make an excellent double act!! I look forward to more collaborations. SO glad transatlantic humour (yes, that's supposed to have a 'u' in it too Michah!) makes you both crease up. For an island of disparate entities and accents, we do retain a savage sense of fun and mockery :-D PS It was only when you bowed your head to do a face-palm I realised you have exactly the same headphones as I do.
This made me grin, so British, I’m glad more Americans are beginning to understand our humour (like colour it has a ‘u’🤣)!
8:22 you used to use "colour" as well until newspapers realized it would be easier and cheaper to remove letters as long as you could still read the word. Many of your words were shortened/simplified due to them wanting to spend less money on ink.
It was never color.
Damn ! This was HILARIOUS !! I don't think I've laughed that hard since at least before the pandemic.
A few observations from a thoroughly amused Brit.
First of all. Micah. Colour is spelled with a "u" ! The next time you want to question it, ask yourself this: Can I say simplified without making a pig's ear of it ?
Second. Our confusion at distance not being measured in cups of tea per colonised nation is genuine enough but I imagine it's about the same as Americans' confusion at it not being measured in freedoms per bald eagle.
Thanks for this !
freedoms per bald eagle is a standard unit of measurement lol!
Its not just zebra crossings, there are Pelican, Tucan, Puffin and I just looked there's a Pegasus.
Mostly its just more friendly teaching kids the green cross code. I learnt that when I was in the tufty club.
Ahhh, the good old lollipop ladies of my childhood.
Would love to see some more duo work from you guys, as always, you guys make me smile as much as the videos, but "That's unfortunate" killed me xD
Ah the good ol days when the King of England would build a small army and sail to France for some loot.
8:22 Americans think that only because Noah Webster had this weird idea that English words should look more like Latin ones. Curious that he thought colour should be color but didn't think curious should be curios.
Zebra crossing, Lollie pop lady/man, coloUr..........are all the same here in Australia. :)
100% correct. You can DEFINITELY hear an accent change when driving 20 mins in the UK. In fact, even shorter lengths in some parts.
The Kent joke is weird, parts of Kent are some of the best places in the south east, Kent is called the Garden of England, ffs.
Kent has it's sh*holes, obviously, like every county. Weird meme, for sure.
Medway towns.
@@neilgayleard3842 Absolutely, and some of the seaside towns. But Kent is a big place. Chislehurst is nothing like Chatham, Sevenoaks is nothing like Margate. Like every county really, good parts, average parts, terrible parts.
I think the biggest problem is it’s proximity to the French...
We have a local version where its Stoke instead of Kent. I have heard stoke (as in stoke proper, not the nicer areas on the outskirts) referred to as "the shittiest of shitholes" by locals.
As someone who's never been to Kent, I don't know what prompted the "living in Kent" meme. If it had been Milton Keynes...
Totally Made Up Productions presents 'Arkansas: the naming of a state...'
On a hill in the Ozarks, one man stands before a small crowd, gesturing NNW-ish. Moving cinematic music swells as he speaks: "That there is *Their* Kansas, but this one is better 'cos it's *Our* Kansas. And we've got diamonds, so they can keep their hairy cows and dust!"
[Narrator: This transcript was taken from the diary of Roger Benton-Fayette, an early settler from Tennessee, who was an inspirational yet overconfident man, sadly killed whilst kite-flying in a category 5 tornado shortly after making this entry. Several settlements were named after him in recognition of his work adapting right-handed teaspoons to suit those who, like him, were blessed with ginger hair and a lisp. Both state names were 'simplified' over time...]
I live in Kent, and I just got back from a holiday in Cornwall (It was absolutely stunning, and has incredible views) . Let me be the first to say that both had what felt like quite different geography. Where i live, there is a lot of soft chalk, and in Cornwall there seems to be a lot of rock. Which contributes to different and unique landscapes for each county. I've never been up north but I bet it's also unique from the south and far west of GB
Go round Goonhilly and its like the moon, only less desolate.
the North is _very_ different from the south, as different as Wales or Scotland.
Just started this video. The reaction to the "doll" coming out of the time capsule is the absolute correct response. You'd think that would be something from a long, long time ago, right? Wrong. I live in the UK, but I'm from Ireland. Soon after moving here in 2017 I came across a woman with a small version of that doll ON HER KEYCHAIN. I could not believe it. I see her every now and then (I work in retail) and she still has it on there! Like, what the actual-...?
Noooooo, how dare he?! C O L O U R.
A zebra crossing is an unsignalised pedestrian crosswalk. A pedestrian crosswalk with signals is a Pelican crossing. And there ar variants like 'toucan' - a signalised bicycle crossing and 'pegasus' a signalised horse crossing. Also there are lollipop men as well as lollipop ladies.
Some people think Piers Morgan is a Kent. Well it sounds something like Kent.
Just ask Alex Beresford.
I’m so happy i’m English the banter here is on point
I love all the memes of my country. They just keep me laughing and their reactions make me laugh harder. You guys need to do more!! 😂😂🇬🇧🇺🇲
THAT WAS AMAZING CHAPS ! . HELLO, FROM THE UK. TOODLE PIP !!. cliffyc.
I'm pretty sure that first clip was 'Chief Commissioner Miekelson' from the tv show 'Scot Squad', it's a Scottish parody of those shows that follow local police 😂
Nice one, fellas . You made me chuckle!
Awesome. You guys definitely need to do another one.