American Reacts to Things in the UK that Confuse Americans
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It does not surprise me to learn that there are many differences between nations and cultures around the world, and the United States and United Kingdom are no exception. That being said I am very excited to react and learn about things in the UK that confuse foreigners, from an American's point of view. Believe me when I say I am ready and willing to be completely confused by these interesting facts! If you enjoy my reaction feel free to leave a like, comment, or subscribe for more videos like this!
You’re close with the eggs. The US washing of eggs is to stop diseases that the UK instead prevents with better practices in the farming sector. The benefit of not washing the eggs is that the shells naturally helps keep them fresh and you don’t need to keep eggs in the refrigerated section of the shops, which is why you see eggs in the baking section next to the flour
The strange thing is when you buy a fridge it comes with an egg rack
@@lorainehayes thats why at a certin point you have to refrigerade them. And many put the eggs after buying directly in the fridge
Probably also slightly to do with what the US washes them with, it wont just be water, likely some bleaching chemicals as they do with other food items.
@@kimbimberley definitely has bleaching chemicals because chickens eggs shouldn’t usually be white, they’re a tan at most x
@@simoneingleson4280 Not sure about chemicals they may use, but thought I'd share an interesting tidbit. When I was younger, one of the first times I collected an egg, I washed it soon after it was laid. The originally brown egg was washed white, the brown pigment actually stained my hands! When a bird lays an egg, the egg is coated in a protective layer which dries quickly, but you can wash it off if you get the egg before it dries. I don't actually know what the film is called but it was fun washing it off, luckily I learned that it's best not to do so.
There were a middle aged American couple visiting Wales and they were arguing over the pronunciation of where they were. Eventually they went to a restaurant where they asked the waitress exactly where they were. So very slowly the waitress said " Burger King".
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“Do the English love their tea?”
Yes. Yes we do ☕️🥰
"Do"
Love a Cup of tea
:D One of the most confusing things in coming and living here in the UK 10 years ago for me was everybody asking me if I would like some tea. Everywhere, during job interviews O_O and I always was "No, thanks". I wander if they where upset of my refuses :D I just was not used to drink tea at every hour.
@@valeriaornano9883 nah honestly that wouldn’t have made them upset haha. I just know as a tea drinker I drink up to 3-4 a day. Depending if I’m at college or not. But definitely in the mornings haha. But I’m sure they were fine with it :)
Am English and absolutely hate tea coffee hot and iced coffee is super nice
The Queen is the one who issues the passports so it would be kind of weird for her to issue a passport in her own name she basically is a passport.
Same applies to driver's license (she doesn't need one for the same reason as the passport)
Same with anything that says in his/her majesty's name as they're going to start being updated soon
The monarch could just write it on a napkin and it would be equally valid as any other passport.
Yep, if the Queen ever needed to identify herself for any official reason, she could just pull out a £20 banknote, since they all have her picture on them. Not an actual photograph, but the depiction is accurate enough (and was updated fairly regularly) that she could have used one as her official ID.
@@lloydevans2900 she could just use any note or coin
That 'when the police arrest me for driving on the right' thing is rather a sore point, atm. A CIA officer called Anne Sacoolas pulled out of the US Signals Intelligence base at RAF Croughton and drove around the first bend from the gate on the wrong side of the road, killing a 17 y.o. motorcyclist coming the other way. She then claimed diplomatic immunity as the wife of a CIA officer, omitting to mention that as an officer herself, she was subject to an agreement that would have let her stand trial. She was whisked out of the UK by Trump's State Department on a military flight - and the US has steadfastly since refused her extradition.
US diplomats rack up millions of pounds of unpaid traffic fines in the UK, every year.
I was going to mention this - that poor family has been denied justice. If the boot was on the other foot the US would insist on extradition and we would grant it. It’s not an equal relationship.
The Americans were full of righteous indignation that Andrew wasn't going over to give evidence, conveniently forgetting about Sacoolas incident.
@@monacophotographyevents2384 very true. I can recall there being articles and suggestions bandied about saying if the US handed over Saccoolas then the U.K. would hand over Andrew. The irony of this is that Mrs Saccoolas accepted killing that young man albeit accidentally but god forbid any American is held criminally responsible by another country. Apparently the extradition agreement signed by the US and the U.K. has a number of one way clauses in it. More pandering to the US Govt.
@@cazyaz523It's sheer hypocrisy, I often think that the American believe that their laws should be observed by every other country.
Trump..,. here it means farting ...,.....figures......
Our love of tea isn't an exaggeration. Tea is a staple, never turn down a cup of tea if you're in the UK.
Or your likely to be punched in the face
I believe making a cup of tea is on the british citizenship test 😉
@@helenchelmicka3028 it was an actual international incident once
@helen chelmicka nope it ent only English drink tea , scottish don't
Only English not scottish 😂
Don’t forget, HM Queen Elizabeth doesn’t not only need a passport, but also doesn’t have to have a driving licence nor does her car have to have insurance or a number plate. Although to be clear, she can actually drive and trained to drive, she’s also a trained mechanic after training during the war.
The reason for this being all of them are issued in her name and authority, so it's not that other countries just have to accept that she's a special case, because if they did that they have to bar all UK citizens, and Australians new Zealanders and Canadians
She's not a trained mechanic. I see you fell for the propaganda. Nor was she a member of the royal auxiliaries during the war. She 'joined' as a propaganda operation in 1945. She joined as an officer and turned up when she felt like it and never had to do what the others did, i.e. 5 days a week 9-5.
@@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim actually she was trained, you stupid idiot. And she didn’t just show up when she liked either. I’ve seen the records and it’s not all propaganda. People like you make my blood boil.
@@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim "She joined as an officer" . . . as did virtually all commissioned officers in both the regular and auxiliary/territorial services. A tiny minority were promoted from the ranks (as, indeed, is still the case). She completed the normal training and served in the lowly rank of Second Subaltern--the lowest possible commissioned rank--so hardly promoted ahead of her contemporaries.
Did this have propaganda value? Of course. Was this the primary reason? I think not. By all accounts the King strongly opposed the move but the then Princess Elizabeth is said to have insisted she be allowed to play her part even though, as heir presumptive, she was never going to be allowed into too much danger. Having said that, ATS members were generally not supposed to be in combat situations anyway--hence the name Auxiliary Territorial Service--but were intended to serve in support roles thus freeing up more men for combat. In time, the women did gradually move into more active roles, for example serving on Anti-Aircraft batteries and searchlight teams. Despite the support functions they were filling over 700 died in service.
Ultimately, she went beyond what was needed or expected, after all, the Royal Family had been urged to evacuate the Queen and Princesses to safety in Canada at the outbreak of war. Whatever the extent of her army service, she was trained as a driver mechanic and did serve as a junior officer in the ATS. She continued to drive herself until shortly before her death.
Incidentally; "5 days a week 9-5" could only be written by someone who had never served in the armed forces!
actually the queen DID had a passport and DID had a driving licence. She doesnt need it but she had one. The idea that she didnt had a passport and driving licence is a very widespread common myth that has already been debunked .... by the queen herself.
I love the idea of people being sentenced to sit in the Chamber of Umbrellas and think about what they've done. Just brilliant!
The idea that an upside down stamp is an act of treason is a rather silly urban myth.
That's what will happen to Trump as a punishment, if you know, you know.
I heard that sticking on a stamp upside down was an insult to the queen ,but treasonous ?? 🙄😯
We don't wash eggs in the UK because it removes a natural anti-bacterial coating. That means we don't have to put eggs in the fridge, they can last a couple of weeks or so without being refrigerated.
Only the USA needs to wash eggs - because of the poor conditions they keep their hens in. Similarly, chicken carcases in the US are washed in chlorine solution, for the same reason - another practice illegal in the rest of the world. We just require our hens to be kept in good living conditions.
Also we have much higher animal welfare standards in the UK & EU (though the current government wants to water them down since Brexit).
These standards include vacination and testing to reduce salmonella. In the US isalmonella (and E.coli) are far more common because everything there is about money and profit so they don't do these things.
Fun fact: 14% of US meat is contaminated by faeces. yes, they're literally eating shit. Extra turd with your burger Sir? Enjoy!
It's because we vaccine our chickens so our eggs are healthy you vaccinate less so you need to bleach your eggs.... our eggs even come with feathers stuck on them lol
Cos we don't need to........
Weirdly, my family always keeps eggs in the fridge, but it's more habit. Idk how it started, since it kinda just takes up the limited fridge space
Of course there are vowels in Welsh, they just aren’t the same as in English, because it’s a different language.
Also, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was originally called Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll. The longer name was basically a Victorian ploy to attract more tourists via the new railway station.
When I visited back in the early 70's I was about 8 years old and that's all it had, a railway station. These days it has a visitors centre, a big carpark and all the tourist trappings. Just like Clovelly in Devon. When I went there in 84 you could just walk down the hight street/only street down to the harbour then choose to jump a ride in a Land Rover back to the top. When I took my wife there in the late 90's you had to go through the visitors centre and pay to walk down the near vertical (slight exageration) road, then pay again to come back up in a Land Rover. money money money! 🚙£££ 🚙
Is this the one that sounds like par"fwelly?
@@baylessnow .
From what I remember of walking down to Clovelly in the early 50s, the only Land Rover was the one that used the track down to the hotel. Not for the use of visitors.
@@thealchemist7871 I think you are referring to Pwllhelli
@@clairec1267 yes lolz
An egg has a natural seal on it that keeps bacteria out. Washing eggs makes them vulnerable to bacteria and they then need to be refrigerated (which destroys the flavour and can also draw bacteria and odours into the shell) . Unwashed eggs can safely be stored at room temperature and are much safer.
The US egg-washing procedure is unavoidable because the hens are kept in foul cages (no pun intended)
This guy’s so funny. Just listening to him is entertaining on its own.
Yes, it is. Educated and with a nice sense of humour.
One thing I think you'll enjoy is reacting to Horrible Histories. It's a cultural phenomenon here and it's also very educational about British history. You should be able to understand it, as well.
Yes he should and watch the Henry 8th song and King Charles 2nd sing song, so funny 😆 party anybody 😜
Its not educational at all, it's indoctrinational, they said black people were in Britain during the Roman period and that tea come from India, when it comes from China
Don’t watch it. It’s workery at its worst.
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Hey, I come from Bangladesh, which used to be part of India, so I can tell you that while it is slightly debated where tea comes from, they said that tea comes from India, bc that's where they first exported it from, and tea was made in the Indo-China subcontinent, where exactly was debated.
While now the majority consensus is China, we cannot discredit HH's credibility. Especially considering that Greg Jenner only counted 8 mistakes out of 4,000 from the show run. The show always does its best to correct itself if a mistake was made, such as reassigning lines in songs.
I do agree that Horrible Histories has bias within it, that's undeniable. Especially as a person of colour. But I'd suggest that he watch it so that he could at least learn from it, considering his primitive knowledge on British history.
While i agree about the quality of Horrible Histories those shows are probably difficult to clear copyright for reviews
The historical reason we Brits drive on the left is that, way back in the day, when people traveled about on horseback and brandished swords, they would pass that oncoming, dodgy looking stranger on the left hand side of the road so that, if it kicked off, their sword arm (usually the right arm) would be towards the stranger. Now tell me the logical reason why you drive on the right? 😃
Well there's no definitive answer
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 There is. In the late 1700s, traffic in the United States was RHT (Right Hand Traffic) based on teamsters' use of large freight wagons pulled by several pairs of horses. The wagons had no driver's seat, so the (typically right-handed) postilion held his whip in his right hand and thus sat on the left rear horse. Seated on the left, the driver preferred that other wagons pass him on the left so that he would have a clear view of other vehicles. The first keep-right law for driving in the United States was passed in 1792 and applied to the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike; Massachusetts formalized RHT in 1821. The National Road was LHT until 1850, "long after the rest of the country had settled on the keep-right convention". Henry Ford had a big impact - he chose the left hand side for the driving position in a car, to ensure passengers got out on the curb side. His first vehicles were actually RHD, using chassis built in the UK.
basically, in defiance of the British
So that they can hold a cigarette with their right hand and easily flick ash into the ashtray in the centre console.
The human brain is more adapted to drive from the right side of a vehicle, of course a centre postion is optiomal, It's why most of the best racing drivers to ever live are British
The UK has invented most things of importance. Tim Berners-Lee didn’t even patent it as he was trying to advance science and communication.
Tim Berners-Lee did not invent the Internet. He developed the protocols which are used on the World Wide Web.
Australia punches above its weight with inventions, the UK hasn’t invented “most” things of importance!
@@shoresaresandy Like what? The boomerang?
@@B-A-L Jeepers that’s a tad rude! Do you use Google maps? Ever heard of an ultrasound, electric drill, refrigerator, black box flight recorder, polymer bank notes, garage roller door, note pad, latex gloves, spray on skin, 2 stroke lawn mower, the 8 hour working day, premix cement trucks, inflatable airplane slides, combine harvester, pacemaker, differential gears, the Ute, Kiwi shoe polish, prepaid postage, xerox photo copier, the application of penicillin, WI-FI, Aspro, the bionic ear, the humidicrib, selfies, micro surgery instruments? That’s just to name a few!
@@shoresaresandy I'm sure BAL GB was being sarcastic, but the UK has invented 60% of the world's inventions and not just in the last 50-100 years. Selfies though, that's really scraping the barrel.
The reason the Welsh language gets [wrongfully] accused of being consonant-heavy is because people don't realise that Welsh has 7 vowels: a e i o u w & y.
bring back the Ƿ and Ȝ, welsh needs it.
But reading it like that, it makes perfect sense. I already have a hard time seeing y as anything but a slightly fancy i
I heard that the lack of vowels in Welsh was due to when they decided to name towns, the Cornish took more than their fair share of vowels (such as Looe etc) and by the time they got to Wales there just weren't any left ? 😆
You are incorrect sir. The left side is the right side. The right side is the wrong side. If the French and Dutch hadn't been helping you out during the war of independance (supplying you with LHD horses!) you'd still be driving on the left, which is right, as opposed to the right, which is wrong!
Scow~sir no Z involved.
It's alledged it's because of Napleon why Europe drive on the right side as he was left handed and if he needed to use his sword being on the left side would be useless. Not sure how true it is
@@balthazarasquith Parts of Europe and Scandinavia switched from the left to the right only relatively recently. One of the drivers for that is the number of US-manufactured cars. Blame Henry Ford (who originally built Model Ts in RHD on chassis imported from the Austin Motor Company, from Birmingham (England).
@@wessexdruid7598 oh okay thats cool
Tyler is just doing this to make money. You are aware that money is everything in the USA.
Absolutely, what the World doesn't understand is that driving on the left is the correct way, it's the rest of the World (with a couple of exceptions) that are wrong. I live in Monaco and have been telling this to the French, the Monegasque and the non Brit expats here, but they will not agree even though I'm correct. :0)
It's not just streets they remember, clubs, restaurants, Government buildings, railway stations, you name it, they know it!
they also have to be able to recite a route verbally to an examiner who will expect them to take the quickest/shortest route. For instance the examiner would say "take me from Annabel's night club in Mayfair to the Savoy Hotel" to pass you would have to correctly name each street and turning making sure not to go the wrong way down one way streets.
"You alright?" Is a relaxed version of the greeting "How do you do?" or "How are you?" Basically a quick polite check whether they are well. You pretty much always answer positively, even if you're not alright and everything in your life is going to Hell 🤣
As a German that's a loaded question. Xd
Having lived in the UK for the majority of my years I quickly caught on to 'alright?' - 'alright' just being a basic greeting ritual like saying hello.
But back where I'm from you generally don't ask that unless you're prepared to hear the full story of that person's aggravations both at home and at work. Same if somebody asks YOU, you think they're genuinely interested in the state of your life and they just gave you an opportunity to off-load. It's just how it goes and is the source of many culturally-based misunderstandings. British person : wtf I was just saying hi mate, I don't need all this. German person : why the hell were you asking then. 😝
Between the 11thC to 14thC French was not the dominant language in England. Anglo-Norman old French was the language of the Norman nobility and some admin, other admin and church used Latin. The people were still speaking AngloSaxon English with a verity of heavy regional accents and dialects, except in Cornwall where they were speaking Cornish.
@@iangt1171 Absolutely.
England was never ruled by the French crown but France was ruled by the English crown for a period of some years beginning in 1422.
You could argue that England (or parts of it) was under French rule from 1216-17 under the invading Dauphin Louis (later Louis VIII of France) whom barons proclaimed king of England.
@@MrBulky992 Parts of France not all.
@@philipmccarthy6175 Henry VI of England was proclaimed king of France in 1422, on the death of his grandfather Charles VI who, under the Treaty of Troyes of 1420, had named the heirs of Henry V as his successors.
France was fully under English control apart from a few small enclaves until Joan of Arc's emergence in 1429. That's not a long period, I'll admit.
It took until around 1450 for the English to be expelled from all of France except Calais which was held for another century.
I'm in the UK. Yes, we drink a lot of tea. I have about 9 cups a day. I have a cup of coffee about once in 3 months. Regarding eggs, you might find this YT vid of interest - 'Why US Produced Eggs Are Banned Across Europe (& vice versa)'
Too many chemicals...,.....
Laced with whisky.....?
If you don't fancy driving on the correct side of the road, don't visit the American Virgin Islands. There, they drive on the left - just as they do in the British Virgin Islands - along with 75 other sensible countries and territories in the world.
It's the right side for the UK. The wrong side for the USA. You're in good company, Napoleon, did the same thing.
I fucking love the Americans
@@dansmallman6686 Well stop it immediately before they notice.
@@richardj9016 Too late, I noticed!🤭 Hehehe
Over a third of the global population drive on the left
The Welsh have the dragon as their national animal so I think the horned horse is quite tame compared to the fire breathing beast.
5:00 fun fact:
My grandfather, Geoffrey Mann, is an architect and he actually designed the London eye! He is 83 now and is still working in London to this day.
The London underground or tube was designed when steam trains were the only trains. So steam trains were travelling under the streets of London. Of course it was Britain that invented the train & railways too. 🇬🇧
Yeah and in some places in older parts of the tube there are still open parts because of the old way of digging and the necessity to release steam that have been covered up with fake buildings
@@cristalmewtwo4160 Yes ive seen those before & even false house fronts put up to disguise the openings. The amazing Victorians 🇬🇧👍
@@Paul-hl8yg plus because the fake houses were put in rich parts of London where they didn't like an unsightly hole right next to their pristine white houses couldn't do much about the noise tho because those guys are as Loud as an angry scot
Scotland
"The Tube" is actually just the deep tunnels, which are lined with steel plates to form narrow cylindrical ducts. The entire system is correctly called "The Underground". Tube lines were the first to be electrified, while the full-size cut-and-cover lines had steam locomotives well into the 20th century.
The Queen doesn't need a passport because a passport is basically a letter of introduction from your head of state saying he/she travels with their permission. It would be like carrying a note saying, "I'm fine with me taking this trip."
When your face is on money Mam don't need no passport
@@JD-eo7dr actually she did had a passport.
Scouser (pronounced s-cow-s) actually started out as a slur for poor Irish dock workers, as the stew (Which derived its named from the Norwegian word for sailors broth) was popular amongst them. however as that portion of the population grew, and became more a part of the cities culture (like 70% of the cities current population descend from Irish immagrants around that time) Scouser just became a word for anyone from Liverpool, that we use amongst ourselves aswell.
Oh thats interesting, I didnt know that. I kind of assumed Scouser’s were similar to Bogans in Australia. So Irish moved to Liverpool as it was a big ship building hub I guess. I’ll be pulling the “stew” one out of my hat during one of my “Did you know” moments haha
@@ApparentlyIamcorrect not really.. bogan are like all over Australia, scousers are a very specific region, and don't describe a type of person, more a group of people.. like melbournites
Yea basically, most liverpudlians descend from Irish. It is a pretty fun fact.
@@ms.antithesis gotcha. Thanks!
Cool story ... except it doesn't pass examination. Lobscouse/Scouse was popular in Liverpool and surrounding areas of the city by the mid to late 18th century. It wasn't imported by Irish workers and doesn't refer to them. Did you actually read this from a proper history book, or did you just assume and made this "fact" up for yourself?
"Do English love their tea?"
Me: *looks at cup of tea in hand*
The Internet was only possible because of invention of computers. Babbage invented the computer, we might be a small country but we punch above our weight.
like IBM punch cards that were the basis to 80 colum text?
or rather like programmable looms
Tyler, the USA invented the internet, which was text only, Tim invented WWW to enable the transmission of Pictures, movies and music as we know it today, check it out.
The British also invented the computer - despite the US long claiming to have done so in the 1950s.
the internet is the physical connection of computers and the WWW is the means of accessing data by means of servers via numerous interconnections.
And he didn't patent it. Gratis, Free to the world.🇬🇧
Scotsman invented tvs 📺
WWW wasn't just about pictures. WWW was a place to publish documents, with or without pictures. The key feature was that any page in the WWW can link to any other page, even if they're published by completely separate people.
I think the first version of the WWW had text and pictures but not together - you'd read a page of text, and you could click a link to a picture and the picture would show up separately - then you could go back to the text. Pictures (and then videos etc) embedded inside pages of text came slightly later.
You can't help being confused, You're American 😊
The egg thing applies to all of Europe. Eggs have a natural protective layer and can be stored without refrigeration. But when the Americans wash off that protection, they need to be cooled.
In Australia it’s the same, we don’t have to put our eggs in the fridge either. Stocked just on our supermarket shelves too!
It’s not just explaining to the police when you’re driving on the wrong side in a country that drives on the left side of the road. If you lose focus, you’d cause an accident and might cause the death of other local road users. Like how one American “diplomat” killed a young man and she the American was quietly flown out of the UK because the American officials feared unfair judgement.
No.........they feared fair justice.,,.......agree with you though..........manslaughter at least...,...
@@williamwilkes9873 yeah perhaps it was as you opined. The American officials’ action spoke volumes of what they think of the rest of the world, that foreign laws do not apply to them while they are on foreign lands. But US laws apply to the rest of the world, like Assange.
@@nocturnalowl5867 thanks for being neat......,..not trying to be weird........simply honest........
If anyone messes they should be dealt with legally..........gimme a diplomats immunity........& you'll wish you hadn't........
I just want to add if a brit ever asks you "You alright" do not, under any circumstance, tell us if there is an actual problem. This is a huge break to social norms. You have a cuppa tea, sit down on the sofa and then and only then do you say "So...you know earlier" and we'll reply "what's wrong, should I make another cuppa".
Except if the enquirer is a close friend who genuinely wants to know. Otherwise "can't complain. You?"
Yup, tea drinking is still very much a thing in the UK. I have at least 6 mugs of tea every day and often more 🤷🏼♀️
In the early 1960’s my mum noted the number of umbrellas lost on the London Underground and invented an umbrella handle that returned it to you when lost. It had a hollow perspex handle with a screw top, inside the handle was a stamped addressed name label with instructions that the label should be tied round the handle and put in the mail, so in effect it would come back to you when you lost it. She had worked in the post office just after World War II and said that occasionally someone would post a dead goose with an addressed label round its neck, so she knew it wouldn’t be a problem for an umbrella. No umbrella manufacturer would take up the patent, because if you loose your umbrella on the tube you usually just buy a new one.
You have a clever Mum. Good idea
the knowledge isn't just the streets (and remembering which way the one way goes), you need to know how to get from A to B in the quickest way and also where the tube stations, parks, shopping centres and landmarks like the palace, natural history museum etc
Welfare/hygiene standards with chickens is lower in the US so they need to wash them however that puts them at more risk, hence needing to refrigerate. In the UK there was an outbreak of salmonella in the 1980s so they massively tightened up on standards. Eggs in UK supermarkets are found on the shelf, not refrigerated
Eggs are not refrigerated just UK but in Europe too
@@sjbict - Except Sweden (they wash their eggs too! So must be refrigerated).
Tea? Yes. They do. Tea's pretty big even here in Canada. My mom (whose dad was from Manchester) drank tea constantly. "Tea" in Britain can also refer to a mid-afternoon meal.
That 100th birthday greeting from the Queen covers not just the UK but the rest of the Commonwealth. A lady at the church I attend received one of those greetings.
The English translation of Llanfair PG .. was actually incomplete. It should have had "near a red cave" at the end.
Tim Berners-Lee did not invent the Internet, he invented the World Wide Web
Perhaps another video on why they are not the same thing? :)
"The Knowledge" not only requires you to learn every street, but you will be tested on the shortest route to get from one to another, obeying any/all "one way" streets .. and provide alternate routes if a certain street is closed.
Saint Tysilio of the red cave.
I know........zzzzzzzzz
lmfaooo i always say “you alright” as a greeting, mostly people say ‘yeah you?’ it’s like a 2 in 1 ‘hello how are you’ 😉
Actually Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web so that you could use the Internet. Somebody else had invented the Internet and did not know what to do with it.
Correct about Tim Berners Lee and www. Not so the internet which existed and was used regularly since the 60s. The Arpernet, a military system for communications for a start gave birth to the internet which was used by mostly academic and scientific institutions, one of which was CERN where the aforementioned Sir Tim resided.
The British Library has so many books partly because of what is called the 'legal deposit' law - every publisher (in the UK) has to send a copy of a new book (newspaper, magazine or CD or anything else that is published) to the British Library. I'm not sure about overseas publishers - obviously British law does not apply to them - but I think many publishers do send copies of new publications to the BL. According to the BL website, they've been doing this since 1662 - hence why they have so many books.
It's the Elizabeth Tower btw.
Y'alright? is just a way of saying 'are you well?'
I like coffee - tea not so much. Don't Americans in the south drink mint tea?
Most of Europe doesn't wash eggs - they're not refrigerated in shops either (there's a reason, you should look it up).
You do not automatically receive a birthday card from the queen on your 100th birthday. If a relative or friend has not informed the palace, you will NOT get one.
I am originally from London, I remember when I was a kid we went on a school visit to the foundery in the east end of London where the Big Ben Bell and also the Liberty Bell in the US, and many others were cast, the foundery has closed now, but it was interesting in the process of Bell making and it's history..seeing this video it...er ..just rang a Bell..lol
Why do Americans have such a problem with the phrase "You alright?", yet are completely ok with "How ya doin?"? It is nearly the same question but they make such a big deal out of it!
Mate I'm totally with you on this. The confusion makes no sense at all
Or even that old cowboy movie favourite ‘howdy’.
Or "what's up" as a greeting.
I don't understand why Americans use 'What's going on?' as a greeting. What's wrong with Hi or Hello?
The statement in a british passport basically boils down to "hey you, the British Queen is asking you to let this person into your country". So the Queen doesn't need a passport, because she's actually there in person. She just says "will you let me into your country?", and people usually say "yeah".
She actually did had a passport. kindly stop spreading silly myths that has already been debunked over and over.... even by the queen herself.
The "You alright" in the UK makes about as much sense as "How are you" in the US. Neither question requires an answer. Also, the cars are black, not the drivers, lol.
Another ones Americans use is "what's happening?" and "what's going on?"
The tower big Ben is in is called the Elizabeth tower
Big Ben is actually the name of the great bell, the first of which was cast at the Whitechapel foundry, it was cracked before even being mounted! So a second bell was commissioned, using the broken parts of the original which were smelted down and recast.
Lost property on the railways is kept for a certain amount of time, and then sold at auction if not claimed. Lots of false teeth have been lost and even a prosthetic leg. 🇬🇧🇺🇸💜
World wide web and internet are not quite the same. The internet was invented in the USA, used for emails and the like before the WWW was invented. The WWW was the global address system that enabled webpages to be created.
And WiFi was invented in Australia.
I used to be an IT guy and read a lot about the history of computers and the Internet. I seem to remember that the Americans invented the Intranet/Internet not for themselves but for the Russians to steal it from them. A Russian nuclear missile site had lost all communication (a common thing due to their bad systems) and had a computer display one incoming nuclear missile. Against all stated orders, the guy in charge refused to release his nuclear missiles at the Americans, which his orders stated he should have done, He stopped World War 3 by ignoring his own country's orders. The Americans went to their universities and asked the students to come up with the protocols for the new network. The students thought they would be learning about it, and not actually building it. That is where the RFCs came from (Request for Comments), and are still modified and used today.
Never stated before, but the one incoming missile was a blip (not real) on his instruments. He also logically thought that there would be many missiles if real and not just one. He refused to fire, saved the world and got retired for his trouble of saving the world! You can Google and watch documentaries on it. Also, the Americans then let the Intranet technology leak unofficially to the Russians, so that loss of communication wouldn't happen again.
The computer was also invented in the UK. English and Scottish history is also US history. French was never the predominant language of England. The Normans spoke Norman French, so it was the language of the Norman nobility. The English people were in the vast majority and continued to speak their own language. 'The knowledge' test takes two to three years to pass.
It depends on how you define computer. The first electronic digital general purpose stored program computer to run a program was the Manchester Baby (1948) and the first practical computer in the modern sense of the word was EDSAC in Cambridge (1949), both in the UK.
We speak a complicated mix of languages old English, German, French, Latin are the basics, then there’s the Viking element.
@@peterjackson4763 As well as those, check out Charles Babbage, Lady Ada Lovelace (daughter of Lord Byron), Bill Tutte, Tommy Flowers, Alan Turing.
@@jemmajames6719 Approximately 400 words in common use in English that come from Old Norse.
@@ballroomdiva6856 Nearly all are words we use everyday, I’m from a Viking area in the UK so a lot of place names are old Norse and many still in use in the many Yorkshire dialects.
A UK passport is issued in the Name of The Queen and text includes... 'Requests and Requires In the Name of Her Majesty..." . So how would she issue herself a passport?!?!
She actually DID had a passport. Kindly stop peddling silly myths that has already been debunked over and over ..... even by the queen herself
1. The structure housing Big Ben (the bell) is called the Elizabeth Tower. " 2. You keep saying that the Queen is a figurehead. This is inaccurate. Check out "What Powers Does the Queen of England Actually Have?" by 'Today I Found Out'.
French has never been the predominant language in England. During the rule of the House of Plantagenet (before Henry V at least), the native language of the higher ranks of nobility, government and the courts was a version of Old Norman French but the vast proportion of the population continued to speak Old English.
I grew up on Anglesey about 17 miles away from the place with the long name. I learnt how to say it at age, but most locals just call it Llanfair PG. Fun fact: It was actually done as a publicity stunt to attract tourists in 1869.
Been through on train to Holyhead, platform was full of Japanese tourists, no idea where they had been staying on holiday. Llanduno maybe?
You might take a look at Welsh, which is one of our native languages. It is nothing like English, being a Celtic language, not a Germanic one. 'W' and 'y' are vowels, which might make Welsh place-names easier to pronounce! The sentence starts with the verb, and much of the grammar hinges on changing the front of the word, not the back. So the 'churchyard of Mary' is 'Llanfair'; I think 'Mary' is 'Mair', but it gets changed to 'fair'. (Pronounced 'vyer'.) This makes looking up Welsh words in dictionaries difficult!
The very short flight between two islands in Orkney may be a lot to do with the weather, which can be fearsome up there, preventing boats from sailing.
Welsh place names easier to pronounce? You are joking right? When was a place name that contains 32 letters and not one of them an A, E, I, O or U, easier to pronounce than somewhere like Bristol, or Nottingham, or Farnborough?
Fun Fact: Actually if you look up the Scottish and English national anthems and more than the first couple of verses you hear being sung, it a lot of basically hatred between the two countries. Love From Scotland xxxx And salutations never gets used in the UK ever xxxx
@@mick6721 FYI actually the British/English national anthem verse 6 is about killing the Scots sooo get your facts straight [**Verse 6:] there's a difference from the Scottish national anthem coming from 1871 so the British/English anthem came first in 1825. Love From Scotland xxxx 🏴
Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush.
God save the King
@@mick6721 @mick6721 maybe if you actually knew the history between Scotland and England from way before the 1300's up until today you'd know why but I take it your English. Love From Scotland xxxx 🏴
I’m from Manchester & we are known as Mancunian’s 🤩🇬🇧
10:35 in welsh writing, acts as a vowel letter for the "oo" vowel (both short like "book" and long like "boot"), the letter is used for a different one not really found in all varieties of english but might be close to the reduced vowel in words like rosEs or also orAnge limIt minUte polYp -- welsh as well as any sane orthography just uses _one_ letter for _one_ sound so this one is just instead of any letter like above (and sometimes , yeah yeah silly exceptions exist everywhere)
The Queen is not only head of state of the UK but 14 other countries.. plus she is leader of the commonwealth 56 independent countries that have chosen to join the Queen in a treaty for peace and prosperity...
Any published author who has an ISBN number for their book has to submit a printed copy of their book to the British Library in Euston for ever. Its a rule. You can find mine there too!
We do not just drink tea every day, we drink it seveal times a day. I have lived half my life in southern Africa, many people here also drink tea frequently.
I read that the first ever traffic sign was on the old London Bridge. It was so congested that they made carriages & carts drive on the left keeping their sword hand on the side of passing traffic.
I really enjoyed your video and comments plus learning more about the world around us.
The "black penny" postage stamp (or according to the statue of it's creator the "postage penny") is remarkable for basically simplifying the postage system before it's adoption and also being the first self adhesive stamp. Also apparently he lived in my town, which now makes far more sense as to why we have a Wetherspoons called "The Black Penny".
Apparently the posties could show up about 12 times a day with letters. They'd charge you for delivery. Since the penny black it made things so much easier.
It was called The Penny Black,
The 1800's ferris wheel wasn't bigger than the London Eye, only an earlier gaint wheel.
Adding: I think Westray to Papa Westray is basically a two-minute airborne school bus. There's no school on Westray so the kids (of whom there are about five) fly to an actual school. I presume they bring supplies on the inbound flights, so there's that. Doing it in a boat could be extremely dangerous, so while it does seem completely bonkers, there is a method in the madness. It must be fun for the kids, though!
My cousin was a limo driver in London years ago and he had to know the Knowledge. I would imagine it's easier if you grew up knowing London.
The UK doesn't do anything that doesn't have a logical reason. 2 minute flight is totally logical and a lot faster than any boat because it takes off from a beach and lands on a beach. Many inventions started off in the UK but because it was seen as part of their job were never given credit or any pay out. Good example is passwords on a PC. Someone else then comes along steals the idea then patents it so they get the undeserved credit. Washed eggs to me make no sense at all if you look after the Chickens. Washing takes off the natural outer protective layer and the eggs then last less time. Black Cabs are the vehicle.
I used to work for BA when Loganair operated the Highlands and Islands flights. I can't remember which of the islands it was, but I remember calling the ticket office number for one of them and they answered with a Post Office greeting. The lady was lovely and explained that most of the islanders had 2 or 3 jobs and so I asked why the arrival and departure times changed throughout the year. That was how I found out that some of the flights landed on the beach. 😁
But the other thing to remember is that it's not *just* a 2 minute flight, it's one leg of a multi-leg flight that visits a bunch of islands.
@@EthanKristopherHartley That's interesting. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I was on about the 13th episode ever of a quiz show called 15 to 1, I was asked the 'doesnt put its name on its stamp' question, got the answer right too.
American here, and I have visited London. The ferris wheel is really neat. It move pretty slow and at the top, you can see so much of the city. If you ever get the chance to go to London, do not skip out on the London Eye. 😅
The passport thing makes sense. In the front of our passports it says 'requires in the Name of Her Majesty... to allow the bearer to pass freely'. So it's technically under her name that we can travel and under her name that countries let us in.
Will be The King's face and wording on UK passports now the Queen has passed away. I've never had one as I refused to go on a plane or a ship. Prefer to holiday in ny own country the UK,
Regarding the Welsh long place name. The name does have vowels. The Welsh language has a separate alphabet to the English language. Y is a vowel. Ll is one letter. Ch is one letter. There are other examples.
Yes Dd is pronounced th
Restrictions on Sunday in the whole of the UK were much severe even 50 years ago. For instance, swings in parks were chained up and locked to prevent children enjoying themselves.
Gee whiz, anything for an absolutely do-nothing Sabbath! Sheesh.
Not 50 years ago, in fact I don't remember it ever happening.
@@grahvis This from a Guardian article about Belfast in the 1960s :- When the latest Troubles started in Northern Ireland I was a student at Queen's University. In those days that was no more unusual for a student from London than going to Edinburgh or Cardiff. When I arrived in the mid-sixties Belfast seemed a grimy old-fashioned mill-town, overtly and repressively Protestant, with playground swings chained up on Sundays lest children be tempted to defile the Sabbath by going out and having fun.
@@davidcronan4072 .
Ah Belfast, that explains it, I was thinking more of southern England. I don't know if it has changed but that was the time you could no go fishing on a Sunday in Scotland. The more repressive Sunday laws where I was, died out in the 50s. That was when the dreaded Lord's Day Observance Society lost their influence on life.
@@grahvis Chaining up the swings also occurred on some of the Scottish islands. I can also remember even in the 1970s that pubs were not opening on Sundays in some Welsh counties. The local population got around this law by being members of licensed "social clubs" which could serve alcoholic drinks on Sundays.
Things that confuse Americans: the English language, maths, the American presidential election
Yes, we love tea! I have 2 cupboards full of teabags! There's nothing better than a cup of tea in the morning.
It was actually the Penny Black stamp, guess how much it cost? and what colour it was
I know sir, hand up sir: It cost 20 pence & it was green, sir... Did I get it right ? LOL
@@stewedfishproductions7959 oh so close it was 30 pence and blue lol
I actually have two penny blacks (not top quality) in my UK stamp album. I used to collect stamps until I was 22. It is put somewhere safe.
Eggs are not washed because our food standards are much higher and our chickens aren't riddled with salmonella. Because you wash your eggs the outer protective layer is removed and you have to keep your eggs refrigerated. Ours are not and are safe at room temprature
Ahahaha as a citizen of the UK, scotland to be precise, your comments at the start of the video about the wrong side of the road, combined with the face of pure disbelief really made me laugh out loud🤣
Washing eggs removes the protective coating that keeps air out of the egg which causes it to go off.
We in the UK do drive on the right side of the road. The left.
One can't beat a cup o tea. And no the weather is rather pleasent well here on the east coast it is 🇬🇧🏴
5:30 - the narrator never said the old wheel was bigger, he just said that the London Eye wasn't the first giant wheel...
Tea is not just a drink in England.
We offer tea or now a hot beverage to our guests this even includes workers like electricians. It is actually seen as rude to not offer a hot drink to guests, it suggests you want them to leave faster.
hot drinks are also offered to you at a lot of businesses including hair dressers, hospitals, garages.
Hot dinks are also offered to people who have just experienced a shock or accident like people rescued or who have just lost family or property etc, this is because hot drinks are supposed to help with shock.
Tea is one of the things that is common to the rich and the poor in England.
You have to watch out with some of these so-called facts videos, especially when put together by non-UK folk.
From simple things like the first stamp being the Penny Black, NOT the Black Penny.
To more serious things like, since the Cinemas (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, it is not illegal to go to the cinema in N Ireland.
Farming practices are not as stringent in the US as in the UK, so diseases are more endemic in livestock, (and food poisoning cases too) including salmonella in chickens, so US eggs have to be washed, which incidentally removes the natural barrier of the egg so they have to be kept refrigerated in the US too. In the UK, chickens are inoculated against salmonella so they don't need washing and therefore don't need to be kept refrigerated.
The beginings of the internet, the node to node communication of packets of data, evolving out of the Cold War, and on which the World Wide Web is based began in the US in the 1960s - see e.g. ARPAnet. This early internet was mostly an academic network, a means of communication, used by scientists and researchers. It was Tim Berners-Lee who came up with the idea of the internet becoming a web of information in itself that anyone could access. So in a way he came up what we think of as the internet today.
Unicorns weren't viewed as childish or silly in a lot of mythologies in ye olden days. Same goes for faeries, sprites, etc.
Yup and often times bloody terrifying at that, look up the 'Tuatha dé Danann' the Pantheon of Pre-Christian Ireland ... they um .... at times made even the Greek Gods look kinda... tame
We have seven vowels in our Welsh language here in Wales ...They are a, e, i, o, u, w, and y. The letter y can be a vowel and a consonant.
Only discovered your page yesterday, watched a few vids. This is my favourite, your a funny guy. Keep up the good work! (From england)
And i dont drink tea 🥲😂 and our eggs are brown
A test on, do you now find him irritating like a lot of us?😉😉
“Are you alright?”/“y’alright?” is the same as saying “What’s up?” in the US. The same is true vice versa. “What’s up?” in the UK would be a sign of concern, like “are you alright?” in the US.
If you are having problems with the British greeting of "Alright", I have the same problem with the States greeting of "What's gong on". I would wonder what they were talking about, what do you mean, what's going on? Nothing's going on!!
Same with 'what's' up and my pet hate 'how are you'. I was dating an American girl for a while, and after about three weeks she asked me if I thought she had some sort of problem...it turned out that she thought my normal greeting of 'alright' was some sort of concern for her health. The other issue was, during her ramblings I would say 'yea' or 'yuh' every so often to show that I was listening. She had a go at me asking 'how could I keep agreeing with her before she had finished her story.
Whilst we're on the subject, I can't abide the 'have a nice day' and the incessant 'oh my God' .
"oh, what's occurring"?
@@jenniedarling3710 My local greeting is "how's it hangin?"
@@monacophotographyevents2384 Did she not understand it from context?
@@LightbulbTedbear2 Apparently not...
It’s very true about the Blackcabs, my Mom use to run a cab company and every driver knew every street in London and also knew all the fastest way to each of them as well, they also have to know all of the tourists attractions so that any tourist can have a tour of London via the blackcab. It can take up to 5 years for someone to learn everything about London before they can pass the test and then it does not mean they get a blackcab right away as there is a waiting list for them.
Yeah that's why you see so many cyclists in London on bikes with maps
Love your channel ty ❤ sending hugs from uk 🇬🇧 🇬🇧🇬🇧
So the Unicorn is the national animal of Scotland! I absolutely love this about Scotland. Scotland definitely has gloomy weather at times, probably a little bit more so than England
We also have our own language scottish Gealic ( back in the day, Irish, Welsh, scottish is what is known celtic Islands) we are home of tvs 📺
In the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games, there was a music through the ages section using social media and the World Wide Web. Sir Tim Berners Lee was actually there. JK Rowling was also there but in a different section.
I’m a Scot and my whole households drink of the day is tea. Although my husband used to prefer coffee until he started to have a lot of headaches.
The Knowledge was not just about learning the streets, but learning routes and which streets are one-way and in which direction. It takes 3 to 4 years to learn enough to pass The Knowledge. It was started in 1865 and there were no Sat-Navs then.
The US Government/Military/ invented the Internet as a communication network that would survive nuclear attack. It is a network, so if one line was cut another route would be used. It was used to communicate between many institutions including CERN. It was text only. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee invented http which enabled video. pictures and sound etc to use the network. So was born the WWW. He did not patent his invention because he wanted it to be free to use.
Arguably the Great Britain/UK thing is still wrong, as they showed the English/Scottish/Welsh islands on the map. Great Britain is simply the name of the larges Island in the British Isles.
I am going to say something that will annoy many, but the fact is that Ireland (including the Republic of Ireland) is part of the British Isles, as that is the name of the archipelago. The Isle of Mann is also located in the British Isles, but is not part of the United Kingdom, it is a self-governing British Crown Dependency.
So - England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland are Political designations for areas.
While, Great Britain, Ireland and the British Isles are geographic designations, not political ones. (This is like Europe contains the European Union, but not all countries in Europe are in the European Union.)
It's like Russian Dolls. British Isles = 5 countries, UK = 4 countries, Great Britain = 3 countries, England = 1 country.
@@speleokeir yes and no, because some countries are breaking through their shells. The Orkney Islands are part of Scotland, but not technically on Great Britain... and of course we haven't dealt with the other parts of the realm, such as the Channel Islands, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands, the Falkland Islands, and of course the Commonwealth realm. (The commonwealth countries, where the Queen is still the Head of State).
While I was against Brexit, I suppose at least removes one aspect of political confusion to the whole system, although The British and the Irish (Republic of Ireland) are allowed to live, work, vote and run for office in each others counties as if they were citizens of the other.... except that the ROI is part of the EU still, so they can live and work in more places...
@@petervenkman69 Agreed there are anomalies, I was trying to keep it simple.
One anomalie I find interesting is that in Rugby Ireland consists of players from the Island of ireland, whether the North or Republic. I believe this is due to the IRU being formed before the division of Ireland. It also means the Lions team are officially the 'British & Irish Lions'
@@petervenkman69 British IsleS. Which means there are more than one
@@iriscollins7583 That is what I said. Great Britain is the name of the largest Island in the British Isles. There are over 6000 islands in the British Isles, including Great Britain, Ireland, The Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight, the Inner out Outer Hebrides, and the Northern Isles.
My point was that while Great Britain has parts of England, Scotland and Wales on it, parts of those countries are on some of the smaller islands.
So it is possible that people can be in any one of England, Scotland or Wales and not necessarily on Great Britain.
in the video when it showed a picture of "Great Britain" without Northern Ireland, it still showed a number of islands, and so was inaccurate.
This is nit-picking, and I know it. I was just trying to demonstrate just how rediculously confusing it can be, particularly if one confuses geographic names with political names.
Great Britain is not a country or combination of countries it is not a political entity, it is the name of the Island.
Ireland is not the name of the country (anymore), it is the Geographic name of the Island that happens to contain both The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Once one understands the differences between geographic entities and political entities it actually starts to make more sense.
The reigning monarch of great Britain is immune to arrest 🤷♂️
Not washing them is the reason we can safely store them in unrefrigirated places