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What is that little pooch called?
America Culture: FREEDOM. As long as you work hard you can do anything!
UK culture: Can you go and shout that somewhere else, I'm trying to forget my life by getting drunk as hell at a pub.
@@saadaleem7260 His name is Riley :)
@@WanderingRavens thank you.
Cadburys went downhill after getting taken over by Kraft (an American company)
They did, especially as they shipped production of many products to Poland to save costs and also altered recipes. However they recently announced their intentions to bring almost all Cadbury manufacturing back to the UK so fingers crossed. Kraft also closed the Terry's chocolate factory in York, and again moved production to Poland which led to the great Terry's Chocolate Orange shortage of January 2021 due to Brexit delays.
@@kevinh96 Didn't know they owned Terry's as well but I did wonder why I didn't see any of their products in shops for a while.
Used to be Kraft, now called Mondelez International, they announced a couple of weeks ago that production of Cadburys is to be home produced at Bournville again with a ÂŁ15 million investment to increase capacity.
@@RushfanUK Just FYI, Kraft Foods and Mondelez are the same company. Mondelez division Just handles more of the international market products, where as Kraft does more of the domestic stuff. But it's all the same otherwise.
And Oreos in everything!
One thing uk better at is workers rights (annual leave, paid maternity and paternity leave, working time, work life balance, unfair dismissal, minimum wages, pensions)
I think they come under Employment Rights but yes we do this all better.
Give it time...
That's a European thing in general
@@cappaculla I was told Poland has far more bank holidays, 15 I think, whereas the UK only has 8. But it's the better pay = better standard of living is why so many Poles have moved to the UK in the last 17 years.
@@derekc6445 very true I've many Polish friends throughout my time working and living in the UK and Ireland.. France, now that's annual leave capital of Europe my colleagues in our French office always seemed to be on vacation.
That woman biting into a cubed chocolate bar. This should be an arrestable offence. The cubes are there to be broken off and eaten individually. What is wrong with people? đ€Ł
Well said
The professional accent we adopt is usually called our 'phone voice'
As a person who has worked in call centres for years, I wholeheartedly agree. It's essential, more so for me because I am a Geordie. Without a professional accent, no one would understand me. ;)
I'm sorry Teresa, somehow a Northerner must have gotten ahold of a computer and mashed the keys necessary to leave a CZcams comment, allow me to translate:
"Me up from above the wall, fierce strong no no jobs means me got to work the phone but nobody want me to phone them so I pretend to be the Queen. On phone nobody know you have bone through nose.
@@John-rw9bv Yeah John is a funny bloke, as funny as cancer I believe. He should be on a stage, there's one leaving in ten minutes. Now the Southern shandy drinker thinks he's funny because he's got a smartphone paid for by working at McDonalds. "Would you like fries with that, Sir?"
@@Zooumberg Hahah, jokes on you i'm unemployed ;-)
...wait
@@John-rw9bv It sucks to be unemployed. I'm now self employed after telling them to shove the job at the merchant bank where I used to work. Now I fix coffee machines for Nespresso. But I get to choose my own hours and it keeps me ticking over. If you have a computer and can use a phone, I can point you in the direction to get a job self-employed which working for a minimum of 15 hours really goes a long way to top up your benefits.
Not just Irish butter. Butter made all over the UK is amazing.
Irish Butter is not British.
@@Buscolin who said it was?
In the video
@@Buscolin oh I see, sorry. Iâm sure they realise that (theyâre pretty clued up), but I think they only mention it because itâs available in the U.K. Although Iâm not sure why they single Irish butter out tbh đ€·ââïž, as Iâd say itâs much of a muchness anywhere in the British Isles, being produced via traditional methods, and with no additives other than salt - but obviously with unsalted options available for consumers who want it.
@@Buscolin NI is a major producer of butter in the UK though that would technically be Northern Irish butter not Irish butter.
I am English and I was told by an executive of a German food company that the best dairy products in the world come from the UK.
I think they said Irish butter was the best but butter is butter is there a typical English brand that you think is better than the Irish by name Irish butter. they also mention Roquefort cheese but that again isn't English. I guess they just think everything sold in England is made there. Yes Germans have terrible cheese but good everything else.
@@nealthedeal1 As I said before all UK butter and dairy products are excellent - considered to be the very best, partly due to the lush green grass the animals feed on - High rainfall in the British Isles. There is not one particular one I would recommend, they are all excellent.
@@valeriedavidson2785 I would say Irish butter is from the emerald isle a very green land and they even put there countries name on it, that's how much they love it. I don't know of any other country that puts it's nation on butter.
@@nealthedeal1 England and Wales put their name on lots of butters. It says on the package English butter and there are Welsh butters too - lots of them. Where are you living?
â@@valeriedavidson2785 I haven't tried Welsh butter a bit hard to find, I Know some English butters but mostly supermarket brands. Of course there are others i just think like the guy says in the video Irish butter is better than American butter and he's right. Its very similar to English butter just more well known or symbolic from that point of view.
Speaking as a brit, whilst America does have lots of big museums, the UK has many more small museums. Basically every town and village around the UK will have a small museum explaining the history of the area, the traditions and things they are famous for
The UK has a slight advantage in culture. I live near a cathedral that was 600 years old when the declaration of independence was signed. Love the video đ·
Thereâs an old (possibly apocryphal) story about an American tourist visiting a Cambridge (or Oxford) College and asking how the groundsman kept the lawn so perfect. He said âAh there is a trick to it: First you mow it, and then you roll it, and then you mow it again, and then roll it again... and keep doing that for 800 years and itâll look like thisâ.
@@nemo2e4 I often tell that joke, but it's The Tower of London, not Cambridge.
Americans do a lot of international travel, but most of the travellers are wearing military uniforms.
And they travel without passports!
@@WanderingRavens They still have a long way to go to catch up with the UK.
LOL. Few of them travel outside their country except to kill others.
Not replying to you're comment but it's so weird to see someone with the same surname as me that's related to me đđ @PhillipEscott
Normally there are British soldiers accompanying them so wouldn't get too righteous. I am British btw but not dillusional.
When you think that the UK is half the size of one US state the talent in music, literature, films, TV, comedy, education, sciences and more is formidable.
a fair bit less than half the size, the US is 40 times bigger than the UK, in fact there are states in the US that are bigger than the UK.
@@georgebarnes8163 That's what I said. "The UK is less than half the size of ONE US state". That was only a rough estimate, I didn't measure anything.
@@Beejay950 Sorry, my bad, I misread the comment.
J K Rowling has outsold any US author and didnât even get a mention. Biased much?
really its population that counts, the UK is only 4 or 5 times smaller than the US by population, Russia for example is the biggest country in the world but only has twice the population of the UK. The UK has the worlds 5th biggest economy, an economy bigger than India's so its not quite the minnow its made out to be.
never mind the gnomes, what about the three flying ducks on the wall?
Classic!
American's really don't understand irony, putting a garden gnome in your garden isn't ironic lol .
@@Enigmatic.. I thought that too as in "âDon't go overboard with the gratitude,â he said with heavy irony"
The 3 ducks on the wall are commonly referred to as âa Murielâ (the origins of this are from the popular soap opera Coronation Street).
nobody has put three ducks on the wall since the 1970s...
Also isn't it sport over the pond to steal the neighbours front garden gnomes ?
This is from my wife, who is a great baker. When you make scones, pronounced scons, Use slightly sour milk. Do not overmix your mixture, when you use the cutter do not twist it, push it straight down and pull it straight up, (twisting the cutter stops the rise.) Finally, when you egg wash, be sure to only carefully egg wash the top of the scone, not the sides. Good luck.
Thanks for this, I will try this tomorrow đđȘ
One thing I'll say the US does badly is politicising EVERYTHING.
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General Elections. Ours basically last for 4 weeks before voting day, not two years. We tend to get the results back the next morning at the latest. The results are easier to understand. And the new government gets to work literally the next day, not two months later. Oh, and we usually have our in the spring, not the dead of winter.
Seems longer than 2yrs
Also we can have a chance to change the government before the 4 years is up.
Itâs ment to 5 years but politicians left,right & centre are currently misbehaving & have been for a while
The reason a new UK government can start the next day is that in line with many other countries, we have a civil service who carry out the wishes, or tell the government why legally their wishes cannot be enacted, where as in the US all the positions are political and have to be set up after each election.
Plus we have Lord Bucket head and the Dolphin man at our General Elections đ
Hadn't even realised that we have two accents until you pointed it out! It's very common for people to put on a posher 'telephone voice', but sometimes it works the other way around - a very middle class person might adopt a 'rougher' accent among working class people to avoid sticking out too much
I spent a few months in the USA a while ago and was blown away by the magnificent beauty of the land. We perhaps focus too much on the guns 'n' Mcdonald's image of the USA and forget how vast and beautiful the country is.
Cadburyâs has recently announced that it is to return to the UK for production after its quality was in question. That should lead to the old and much better taste and ingredients returning soon.
Oh good, I can start eating it again, yum yum
@@catherinerobilliard7662 I was just thinking Oh good I can start putting on weight again, ha ha
Really hope this is the case.
Wait. What? Pray to God it leads to old and much better taste back. Because Kraft's version is awful and bland. What was the point of changing the ingredients? I so hope you're right
I really hope so. Iâve still been eating it but quite rarely. Itâs like my mind occasionally has a craving for it but i buy some and the quality and familiar taste just isnât there. The texture isnât as smooth and the taste is mainly sugar rather than a milky chocolate. I used to eat loads of it in big helpings so easily đ
already noticed something wrong in the first 60 seconds... you guys only half filled your glasses.... tut tut lol :D
You canÂŽt be serious.
To enjoy a red wine, one must never fill the glass. No more than half way is acceptable, beyond that is not good for being able to gain the bouquet of the wine and also to see if the alcohol content matches the label by the "tear drop" runs on the glass side when the wine is swirled.
yeaaaa Im not talking as a wine expert, im just talking as your typical Brit. Fill the glass!!!
Disgraceful.....
@@royhardy407 Maybe, but when you are at home and the doors locked, then let loose!
Iâm in Australia and we have Strongbow everywhere!. Love it! Britain for culture every time.
Only homeless people drink Strongbow in the UK. It's like what Fosters is to you.
@@JoeyRhubarb Thatchers is the most popular cider in the West Country. Donât know about the rest of the UK. Aspall is also a very nice cider.
BTW Brits love Oz.
Glad that your sarcasm was approaching UK spec when you were talking about Strongbow being the finest of ciders.
How would that be sarcasm? đ
I would rather have a dark fruits than a wife
@@lukesanders8912 do we have a tgf fan here
The secret of Marmite is to scrape it on, rather than spread it like jam or peanut butter. On toast, it should be spread so thinly that it just discolours the toast. Try it as sparingly as possible - it's lovely. ;)
Have you tried the chilli marmite yet? It's so good.
Your right I think people unfamiliar with it treat it as a spread when really it's a seasoning. Of course when you've grown up with it and got to my age you can eat it by the spoonful. Honestly I'd happily sit and eat spoon after spoonful if it wasn't so high in sodium.
I got my [American-born] daughters hooked on Marmite by adding it to gravy and scrambled eggs [not on the same plate, obvs]
@@gollygaloshes I saw that today, but despite being a lifelong fan who shovels Marmite XO on, I was nervous about that, due it sounding completely mental. Thinking back that seems a little out of character. I must buy some next time!
The secret of Marmite is Never Buy It! Mind you people seem to like it?
day drinking is perfectly acceptable when you live on a island that always rains. that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it đ
...and when it's not raining... do the rain dance!
Cheers .....
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My cider story
I went to work at a company in the 70's in Somerset where as you probably know quite a lot of cider is produced. A chap I was working with told me he had also moved down a few months earlier and he had inquired about buying some farmhouse cider - ie bring your own bottle and fill it up from the barrel - and someone said "I know a place -we will go one lunchtime". When they got to the farm the owner said he had several sorts on offer - try some samples. Needless to say they got back to work about 2 hours later half drunk ( If you don't know cider can be pretty strong stuff). At that time the company was pretty relaxed and not much was said. It would be totally different today!
Regards from Redruth
Arnold
Sconz! Art Museum? Ahhh, that would be a 'Gallery'.
Smart these yanks ain't they !!!
Tbh, when I think of American culture, I think guns, hamburgers and Karens đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
SO. MANY. KARENS.
as american i dont even think we have culture . American traditions could be culture???? Lol
Idk. The U.K. has its fair share of Karens. Katie Hopkins herself is the queen of Karens
@@sgl0d10n Eh I have seen some crazy woman yelling at some girl that was in uk. But Americans are just sensitive and not good at all. Some women in America have problems (like health problems, or being high) and some women are mad when people defend themselves or doing a small thing that doesnt need to be turned into a big deal. I do not know what is wrong with them.
@@sgl0d10n Katie Hopkins is a heroine for those who value free speech.
You want proper cider and cheese, come to Somerset! The birthplace of Cheddar cheese (in the village of Cheddar) and the land of local brews and Scrumpy/Rough Cider.
Hereford forever.
Scrumpy from a Somerset farm making their own with some vintage cheddar and fresh crusty bread.
As a rule. You should never drink strongbow. Thatchers gold is the king of ciders... or zider if you're from the west country.
@@benblacklaws6873 Thatchers Katy or vintage are far better than gold.
Either way. They are far superior to the likes of haze or cloudy lemon, even if they are from same family.
I'm English but have also lived in different states in the USA. Both countries have things that they do well, but I would say that there are two things that are better in Britain. Number 1 is the education system and number 2 is having city centres where you can go shopping and also to restaurants, pubs and bars. In most US cities people shop in malls, and whilst we do have malls here, they are often also located near or in the town centre. The British education system is much more varied and is at a much higher level than in the US (I've taught in both countries).
Great video. I'm English and lived in NYC for a year, so I love both our great nations. However, I think the reason we Brits do so many things well is that we are so darned competitive. We will turn anything into a competition. So when we see a good thing, we copy and adapt it. Whether it's fish & chips, curries, languages, galleries, museums, writing, art, sports or music, we feel compelled to compete, join in, or just have a go. So there's a constant flow of new ideas flying around the nation. (Helped by the UK being four very different nations, with four perspectives on everything.)
However, it should be noted that, unlike in the US where (generally) winning is the goal, in the UK it's the participation (and manner of participation) that is important.
Oi! I was born in Northampton. Let me tell you my shell suit is as crisp as the day I bought it, in 1985. Goes beautifully with my lime green Crocs.
The second accent is known as your telephone voice
âOh hello yes Iâm here .to ....eh shut it am own the fuckin phone
There is a 'conversation' in the UK that goes 'Ireland, Scotland, Wales have their own culture but England doesn't.' This is of course complete nonsense. What has actually happened is that England exported much of its culture to the rest of Britain and Ireland and then to large chunks of the rest of the world. It happened over a long period of time to the point that most people stopped recognising it as of 'English' origin. This covers so many areas of what we consider today as just mainstream, common stuff that everyone does in the western world, it's hard to know where to begin, but some standout candidates: The English language, business suits and business conventions (shirt and tie - I have never understood why this has lasted so long đ€Ł), shops (England was known as 'a nation of shopkeepers,') organised sports - Almost every world sport played today originated in England and many of the other games are offshoots of an English game, the only significant example, where this is not true is basketball. The way that I usually put it, when discussing, is "English culture is hiding everywhere in plain sight."
Correct. England has the most cultural influence than any other country in the world.
The British natural history museum, in my opinion wins as a single destination to visit but the Smithsonian is an incredible group of museums they can take days if not weeks to fully visit.
As someone who lived in Northampton for 20 years I would just like to say that never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
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Poor you, I grew up in Northampton. Very different place to the 80s and 90s, and also in a county with a bankrupt council. Left there 16 years ago!
@@svartmetall48 Have yo agree moved out and went to Leeds, so glad I left, was so much different in. The 70s 80s and 90s
@@roundtheloopandback I went to Auckland NZ, then to Stockholm, Sweden and now am in Glasgow for now before moving on again! Funny where life takes you!
You've obviously never been to grimsby (clue is in the name),sunderland,ALL of liverpool and burnley.
All different types of hell.
I went to blackburn once.
It was closed for repairs.
The key to dark humour is that you generally want to make yourself or someone with power the butt of the joke. It's not as simple as just saying shocking or insulting things which is what a lot of American comics try to do when they attempt it.
Don't forget the sunny disposition. Always look on the bright side of absolute horror
Jimmy Carr is an excellent exsample on how to do it right.
Or when targeting somebody that might be perceived as "vulnerable" (and therefore the subject being crass) make yourself ALSO the butt of the joke.
So long as you're not making yourself "better" than whoever you're insulting it's all good imo.
Another comic who does this well is Al Murray. He plays a very stereotypical British nationalist character, but heaped with irony so that whatever offensive thing he says, he himself is the ultimate butt of the joke. We can both enjoy the direct meaning (hating the french, for instance. A great British pastime) while appreciating the ridiculousness OF that enjoyment (that fact that the French are our allies, we have an enormous amount of shared history & hating people for their nationality is dumb)
An American comic that does this really well is Bill Burr.
@@DmGray Bill Burr is bloody great, one of my favourite US comedians.
For dark UK humour, try and get hold of 'Human Remains' (Rob Brydon & Julia Davis)
I think you will find much better chocolate if you actually visited high end food shops. We have great premium chocolate but its mostly only in select stores so you need to know these places. harrods for example even has a chocolate hall now
Spoonful of marmite? I mean, I love the stuff but it's a concentrate. It's designed to be used as a spread ... with butter ... or as an additive to a meal.
Pubs? It's part of our centuries-old culture. While I appreciate the attempt to replicate it abroad, it's still a replicant. If we take an American 'thing', we just don't quite get it right. So we don't expect foreigners to 'get' UK culture right. Which is what makes each nation unique.
Irony? Well, on the whole I'd suggest saying something is used/shown as "ironic" is an excuse for being naff. A term that is hard to define yet easy to appreciate.
Yes, no wonder he doesn't like it if he takes Marmite by the spoonful! For me the best way is thinly spread on wholemeal toast with some tahini.
You guys mean telephone voice (posh proper) and our 'normal' voice!! Lol
Good to know đ€Łđ€Ł
Yea that's pretty accurate, telephone and interviews/other formal occasions vs every day life
...I have three accents depending on who I'm talking to. Formal, informal and my actual accent. It's weird. And they change without me even thinking about it.
...come to think of it, I think I actually have 5 accents. Formal, informal, South East (when talking to my parents), my normal accent (effectively RP), and yokel (because I'm from Hampshire. This is only when I'm tired or drunk though)
For me itâs âtelephone/interview/reading things aloudâ voice. For some reason if Iâm reading a passage of text out loud (which I did often when I worked in schools) my diction becomes really proper lol
Whatâs the difference between the USA and yogurt?
If you leave yogurt alone for 300 years, it develops a culture.
Ouch!!!!! đđ
America the only country to go from barbarism, to decadence then back to barbarism with no intervening time of civilisation.
LOL
Mean Ian
@@who798 not mean..just banter.
i drank strongbow cider for 40 years never thought i would be converted to any other cider then someone told me to try magners Irish cider after the first glass i was hooked best cider i have ever had it's got such a great taste it's the best đ
Ah, finally a shout out to my ironic garden gnome đ He's called "Legend", and he's also an "arsehole"
"Ironic" garden decor? Do you think he meant "iconic"? Or do you think he just meant "humorous". That Brits put Garden gnomes out because it is funny, not because you like garden gnomes. Is that what he meant? Kinda confused here.
I mean British chocolate is just better but the US has ruined Cadbury's - why they changed it at all baffles me.
It was the same when Nestlé acquired Rowntree's and Fry's, oh and they changed their own name from Nestles to that of the Swiss parent company.
"budget* milk chocolate these days has to be Galaxy - I just can't eat Cadbury now.
@@tonys1636 Frys is part of Cadbury not Nestle
@@sameebah Galaxy is made by Mars, which is a US company.
@@rich7447 - but to a UK recipe.
There must be a hell of a lot of folk in the US that have NEVER seen the sea.
yes haha
Americans don't know what a 'sea' is. Salt water is always called an Ocean unless it's in a glass!
I would bet that most Americans have visited either the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf of Mexico at some point. To be honest, I prefer the Great Lakes to the ocean. That salt water is pretty hard when you hit it at speed.
baylessnow , I suppose it's because their coasts are either the Atlantic or the Pacific oceans.
I have spoken to many Americans and the majority said them have NEVER seen the sea
Day drinking started in the UK when the only clean water was one of three types of Beer. 1. Kids, 2. Adults, 3. Getting Drunk. No. 2. we now refer to IPA. Of course Indian Pale Ale, per se, only came about due to India with quinine added for the troops. Officers medicine was Gin and Tonic. The French started the tradition of drinking all day, mind you the Spanish can start a morning with black coffee, bread and a Brandy! Wine was produced in Britain by the Romans but lost after they left. Mead, honey based, needs a lot of getting used to. Drinking Beer INCREASED life expectancy. That is NOT an advert for Beer!
Scone issue is down to the recipe, a British scone is more akin to your biscuit recipe. The American scone recipe involves more liquid and this may even be cream which is why they are heavier and donât rise as well.
Ah, you mean our "telephone voice" :)
Hyacinth bucket poped to mind.
@@dave_h_8742 it's Bouquet... đ
I love how you are sponsored by Rosetta Stone but when talking about museums you showed the actual Rosetta Stone. Smooth.
One of the things that makes Britain a better places for museums than the US is the fact that many uses are free whereas I cannot recall one free museum in the US, and I am someone with an American husband and have visited many cities in the US. I agree that the US has many splendid museums but again the huge size of the US, it is far easier to visit more museums in the UK in a short distance than in the US.
As for the Louvre, which I think is the largest museum in the world, whilst it has a wonderful exhibits, it is tedious because of the length of the queues to get in and because one has to pay to enter it, people tend to rush it heading only for the highlights. One of the joys of London's museums is that because so many are free one doesn't have to rush. Two hours for me is about my time limit for soaking up culture, but two hours is not enough to see everything in many of the museums, but in the UK that's not a problem, one can just come and go as one pleases.
If you like cider, when the weather improves try Perry, (cider is apples, perry is pears) really refreshing!
UK does portion control better. I've been to the states twice, and am currently watching Ina Garten cookery program and I'll never get over the amount of food served up as acceptable for one person. So much food waste.
All through the country our museums are packed with amazing and valuable artefacts, "gifted to us" from all around the world.
The USA can't compete...
We'll have a game of marbles with you any day...
Elgin, I presume
You fell for that one. Elgin marbles came from Greece. Actually in Britain we do have many amazing museums. Beamish open air museum in Durham is wonderful. The history of our country, shows how we lived.
@@joannakennedy6005 I love Beamish, walking through the different era areas is like stepping out of a time machine. (the fish and chips are fab too)
@@helenbanks7599 Yes and it's on my doorsteps. We have hidden gems in the North East, like Hadrian's Wall, Durham Cathedral, York with the Viking Museum, York Minster. Americans blab on, but they have no history like we have here!
There:s also the really quirky museums such as the pencil museum in Keswick, several lawnmower museums and so on. We even have a museum of Americana at Limpley Stoke, Bristol!
The reason why we have fewer outages is our distribution system. 400kV Supergrid from generator, to regional 275kV grid, to local 130kV grid which is then further stepped down to the 240V domestic supply. All these distribution grids have multiple layers of redundancy, so if one goes down the others take the strain. We also have fast tripping as opposed to the US slow tripping which means that electricity is redirected quicker (we don't have arching cables lying in the street).
You do realise that you guys have become so English! Even your accents are so different from the first few videos you created.
You said that in the US there are alot of "massive art museums". This is a little unfair on artists that produce small to medium size works.
We tried to build some of those, but Zoolander wouldnât have it.
@@WanderingRavens 'What is this, a museum for ants?' -Eric.
But if they were small we wouldn't be able to get in
That took me a minute, before I then awarded you today's internet!đ€
Healthcare. Jus' sayin' ;P
And allowing grown adults to drink legally
Yeah, the drinking here in the us makes no sense haha
@@WanderingRavens The UK's legal drinking age of 18 is still pretty strict compared to continental Europe; I know in Germany for example you can buy beer and wine at 16, but you have to be 18 to buy spirits
@@kingnotail3838 you can drink at 16 in the U.K. as long as you have a meal with it and someone over 18 is paying for it & stays with you
@@NicholasJH96 you can drink at 6 or something, in your own home,lol
@@Jamie_D nah, itâs 5 in the UK in your own home. The idea is itâs up to your parents to decide how you are introduced to alcohol. 16 in pubs, with a meal, 18, all bets are off...
In the UK, electrical wires are run above-ground in rural areas, but it's arranged in a "grid", which is much the same concept as a grid system in a city: if Second Street is closed, you can just use Third Street. When power-cuts do occur, they used to usually be caused by industrial action, & fewer power-cuts is potentially something we can thank Thatcher for.
ÂŁ1.79: have you been getting your sausage rolls from Fortnum & Mason? They're 90p at Greggs.
Beowulf is our national epic but it's actually set in Sweden.
The Louvre is better for fine arts, the British Museum is better for arch
The funny thing about foreign languages in the UK is that it is actually compulsory to take a second language class in high school over here, the issue is with no real need to ever use it there are just generations of people who could speak a little french but not anymore.
Most Europeans I've met could speak at least two languages well. Usually four or more.
Very true, and I find it slightly embarrassing that we Brits are generally rather poor at languages, but being taught French in school as a boy growing up in a small village high in the Pennines made it seem inappropriate and irrelevant - meeting someone from the next *village* was rare enough, let alone someone from another country !
In Britain, it would be a better use of resources if they taught kids to understand a Geordie or a Brummie accent. đ
@@donrobertson4940 Europeans yes, the British no. Very few of us really are able to speak a second language..itâs just not that necessary, basically we spent quite a lot of time and effort invading half the planet and forcing them to speak our language so we donât really need to bother now
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The trick with names that I remember was "Imagine your child being introduced as a 55 year old High Court Judge" - if it sounds mad........
I do that sort of thing! My alternative is "I now call upon the Leader of the Opposition to address the House of Commons" or the "coronation in Westminster Abbey" scenario . . . "And now we see the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Reverend Sunflower Ice-Lolly Jones place the crown on the head of the new King George the Seventh". (For best effect, try it in the slow, BBC-running-commentary-at-serious-royal-event voice!)
In our family, we have the back door test. Go to the back door shout the name at the top of your voice. If you feel silly, DON'T DO IT!
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars That one works for pet names too đ€Ł
@@lilmisanthrope Absolutely. That's what stopped me from calling my kitten 'Fang'.
Regarding travel remember Brits generally have more paid holidays so we just have more time to travel. We certainly travel more internationally but Americans have a huge varied country to explore without ever needing a passport.
Are you saying that us americans do not need passports? I am not sure what point you're trying to make in this comment but Americans need passports to travel no matter what. If you lose your passport you basically screwed up your whole life
@@lia.isjusbetter You need a passport to travel between states? Thats like us needing one to take a trip to Scotland crazy
@@Jamie_D If you are traveling local (in states) than you do not have to use a passport, but going to countries you do!
Having a large diverse country isn't an excuse as Canadians and Australians travel far more than Americans.
Americans don't travel because they are insular, leanr very little about the rest of the world and get laughable holiday entitlement.
@@Jamie_D Jamir, Americans don't need passports to travel between states, don't be ridiculous.
You've missed out on one important one, which is the music culture. The UK produces such a diverse and wonderful range of music that was both locally produced and influenced by rich history of migrations.
For zoider head to Zummerzet and other parts of the south west, where you will find a few hundred alternatives to Strongbow.
Cider,otherwise known as "the mad apple"or"electric lemonade".British understatement at it's finest.
My normal voice "Awight, mate?"
My telephone voice "Each, helleau. Hau are you, all chep?"
Also, I'm with Eric on the Marmite thing. Marmite should be made a criminal offence.
Totally agree, marmite is disgusting
Marmite - hate it. Twiglets (also yeast extract flavour) - love them. I don't know why
Marmite is the best thing to put on wholemeal toast.
MarmiteâŠâŠnectar of the gods đ
Marmite the best thing you can put on toast.
Here in Oz we say scone (/skÉn/) with a short "o". We're famous for pumpkin scones (thanks to Flo Bjelke-Petersen) and date scones. IMO the best way to get a nice light scone is rub the butter and flour really well, don't knead the dough too much and use a recipe which includes baking powder. Then, of course, your very best jam and cream to top them. MMM
Making scones . Use "Real butter " , do not use lard for any part of cooking . Use British self raising flour . Grease the pan with butter before putting in the mix . Cook with a gas oven . If not able to put a little water in a small dish in the oven to add steam , when nearly done .
"It's not like you guys have more" regarding cheese. Well that's where you're wrong. England is the cheese capital of the world with over 700 different cheeses. And if you're talking about the UK it's over 750. Nobody even comes close, not even France. America actually has very few cheeses as most of them are stolen from other countries ie Cheddar is English. Brie is French etc. America just copies other cheeses from around the world. But for totally different cheeses England is top in the world with over 700 different cheeses.
Also England invented Cheddar Cheese, the world's most popular cheese. It was invented in a village in the county of Somerset called Cheddar in 1170. Which makes it 851 years old. It is actually aged in the caves in Cheddar George and still is today.
England makes the best cheese in the world due to the animals feeding naturally on our lush grass caused by the climate and the amount of rain we get here in England. We've always been great cheesemakers.
So Ravens you are wrong England has way more different cheeses than you have in America.
Hear, hear! I particularly love a good, mature Cheddar - just gorgeous! And even the supermarkets do a decent version, making it super-affordable too - which is a good thing, considering how much of the stuff I shove down my gullet...!
@@Tricia_K lol...!!!
Have you seen the colour of American 'cheddar' - looks more like red Leicester
@@Kay-uy4xn Bought some of that cheese here in Australia from Cosco , pretty shitty
I'm not British or American but I share your passion for the UK and I like your videos. I strongly agree with your cider point, they are amazing. I used to go to the UK every year during May or June and a pint of cider would be a highlight of every stay :) I also love the humour and irony combined with extreme politeness. But pubs and public travel ... well we can do it better in my country (Czech Republic) I would say. :) Have a nice day!
Perfect English, Kewicka X
I would say UK museums - you should check out the thousands of small ones everywhere like the Horniman Museum in south east London. You'd be amazed how turning off of Oxford Street you com across random museums on the side streets. The rest of the country is just the same.
You two are very wholesome indeed. Good content to distract me from my depression. If you're ever up Liverpool, you're owed a pint on me!
Never heard anybody compliment the British transport system
It is apparently so bad in the US that it makes the UK's look amazing in comparison.
I've watched a few people from other countries say its really good apparently japan is great also.
Just shows that what all of us British complain about is actually from an outside perspective actually good
We call it public transport, not transportation
British transport is very good, we take it for granted
Strongbow is what you get older teenagers to purchase for you when you are drinking in the local park/beer garden. You should explore lots more local ciders when you are back in the UK
Stronbow is irish from clonmel
really its english how things change
Strongbow is not a great cider. I grew up 3 miles from a cider factory. Used to be Inches cider, but Bulmer bought it and closed the factory down to get rid of competition. Someone who used to work for Sam Inch bought the factory and started it up again using traditional recipes. They are now the Winkleigh Cider Company, and call it Sam's Cider. It is very nice. They also make wonderful Scrumpy.
I thought that was white lightning....
@@keefbrown when I was at University we used to mix white lightning and the drink Castaway. It was nice, we would call it Blastaway. But I missed proper Scrumpy as you couldn't get it in Hull at the time. I am originally from Devon.
Had a Saturday job at a âposhâ baker/tea rooms near Kew Gardens. One of my jobs was to make the 300 - 400 scones ( pron. skons). The secret is to use naturally soured milk (refrigerated but gone-off) and a good shortening agent.
Hi a Welsh chef here the dairy products in the UK is going to taste better because of the milk. In the US the milk travel greater distortion from cow to produce plant so it treated with some chemical that in it self it small and tastes like vomit this existed it life and presents the milk from cuddling in transport. In the UK there is not so much space so the milk is not in transport as long, although some milk is imported from the Netherlands, Ireland and France
Oooh, I like how you worked in the Rosetta Stone from the British museum!
Thanks!!
@@WanderingRavens I wasn't sure if that was intentional or just really good coincidence :)
The one thing which is a major omission is the NHS. Health care - free at the point of use - is one of the UK's few postwar triumphs. We are very proud of it.
Except itâs over run with administrators
@@AJ-hi9fd You would really not like the American one then. Administration costs are x10 the British cost
@@AJ-hi9fd Even if true (and I wonder just how true such reports are, given that they usually come from somebody with a political agenda), the system is still far less dysfunctional than America's. I talk with American friends and they're forever going on about whether it's worth going to a doctor over health problem X or not, and this is a thought that would never even occur to me.
For an example I sliced my hand open on a broken plate doing the washing up once. I had to go to the emergency department, get the wound X-rayed (in case of embedded debris from the original injury), sterilised, stitched up and dressed. Total cost to me: 5 quid for the taxi to get to the hospital. My friend in America tell me they'd expect to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for the same thing there.
@@PassiveSmoking That's a pretty high deductible - 'thousands'...ours is hardly anything. If you can't afford insurance and are essentially destitute, there is Medicaid run by the states - which is free healthcare. If you have zero insurance, you can always negotiate with the hospital and pay over time....but stories that people in Europe like to parrot about everyone mortgaging their home to set a broken arm are beyond preposterous.
@@EricW800 I can only go off what my friends in America tell me, and they tell a very different story. I did do a google for "America medical debt" and the results seem to back them up. I'm just glad that whatever the situation over there is, it's not one I have to worry about (except to the extent where my friends suffer because of it).
I can't believe you never mentioned the NHS!!
Beating the US in healthcare is like beating the disabled kid in a wheelchair, in a 200 meter sprint, it's nothing to boast about. The U.S. has major issues with healthcare which are overly political, just not worth having that political B.S. come up. Maybe in the future they can get something better in place... Obama did try but it wasn't enough.
In the UK, naming your child a word that means something is associated with the underclass & among most sectors of society is something of a taboo. Naming customs also vary by social class: names derived from Ancient Greek or Latin are popular among the middle classes, while non-standard spellings are associated with the lower levels of the social ladder.
"non-standard spellings are associated with the lower levels of the social ladder" Utter nonsense.
@@jameshughes5722 : I don't claim to speak for everyone, nor to know more than anyone, but rather I am just willing to be frank on a matter most Brits are quite secretive about.
We do have vast networks of overhead powerlines. The National Grid. It had redundancy built-in so an outage causes minimum disruption.
But local power delivery is almost always underground, so it's far less vulnerable to falling trees and traffic accidents.
Oh! Good to know!
@@WanderingRavens It is quite a shock when you visit an English (or Welsh/Scottish) village/small town and realise that the power is being supplied at roof level along the street. For me that surprise shows how rare it is. On the other hand many/most(?) houses have their Phone (and internet) service supplied by overhead lines. That is not what it seems. The lines do not run in the air, along the side of the streets from an exchange building to each house . The phone/internet lines run underground from the exchange, but pop up every 10 houses or so, where there is a wooden pole which supplies phone/internet to the nearby houses - up to 20 / pole.
In my road (and town), the main telecommunications provider - BT, has now installed fibre internet along those underground routes and up to the top of the same poles. So I can now order up to a 1Gb Internet fibre Internet service, but it will come via my nearby pole. As it happens my town also has fibre internet from another provider which is distributed entirely underground. The company that paid for digging every pavement up to achieve that, went bankrupt - hence BT's use of cheaper poles and exposed fibre links!
If you live in a rural area chances are all your power is via overhead cabling. However in the event of a failure, for whatever reason, the supply grid is usually very good at isolating as small an area as possible while remedial work is carried out. Power gets rerouted. Point of interest if your power is out your telephone land line is often still working as it is a separate system. So when your mobile can't be charged you can still make calls from that old fashioned thing that's wired in.
We call them power cuts, not outages
It's the butter that makes the scones better, which ironically was your first preference on the whole list...
Itâs the measurements. Cups bad. Cups very bad. Pounds/ounces or grams/kilos good.
I have a question for you Grace , do any states recycle down to house level like we do ?
We have been recycling household waste for years. We have different coloured bin; for glass, tin cans, plastic and cardboard. They are collected weekly from every home. Any other waste, which isnât much, is taken weekly.
As for your wires above ground, it was like that for us, but in the 90s there was a massive uphaul of our wiring whilst cable was being placed, (we had like 5 channels till then) while they did that they used it as an opportunity to move our electrics underground with having it done separately and killing traffic speed for twice as long
When you come back to England I have a suggestion to join "English Heritage" or "National trust". You can pay monthly and get free (or reduced) entry to a lot of stately homes and castles throughout England. Just an idea I thought of after watching an older video of yours where you decided not to go in a venue as it was quite expensive.
Looking forward to the next part. Itâs great hearing how brilliant we are but itâs also healthy to hear what we suck at.
Be well guys, much love đđ»đŹđ§đșđž
I never realised that the two accent thing was a thing its just something we do without thinking but yes as we have local lingos we still need a way to communicate with the rest of the country... i just never thought about it before haha
Used to notice it a lot many years ago when I played in a "college circuit" band, playing at universities and colleges all over the country.
Anywhere we went, people would modify their accent to make themselves more easily understood, *EXCEPT* London, where they seemed to think it was everyone else's fault for not understanding their strangulated English and unfathomable slang.
Grace is sounding more British in every video, welcome to the dark side lol. She's kind of a beautiful Korean, American and British hybrid at the moment. Just don't start saying "innit mate"
Secret to scones is as little mixing and messing with it as possible, even if it's still crumbly when forming the scone , in fact it's probably better đ
As a Brit living in the USA I think itâs a tie where museums are concerned
Are some of them free in the US like here? x
@@Jeannelawes Yes. The Smithsonians in DC are all free as are a lot of other major museums in other cities.
@@Simon-ho9db Good to hear.
@@Jeannelawes We spent a fortune in New York on museums that the equivalent of in London are free, or a donation, but maybe big cities are different.
The British Museum is older than the US; you can go there every day for months on end (British museums are generally free) and still not see it all.
For me culture is drama, theatre, literature, music, art galleries, museums etc. Partaking in these activities goes towards making us more cultured as in refined. So artistic culture is different from national culture or identity, which is what you were describing.
In the UK we grow "Winter Wheat" (plant in the autumn, and grow in the winter) We also have different varieties of Wheat. that can grow in our damp climate. which give a very soft flower that is ideal for making cakes, biscuits and scones. In the US you grow good quality Durum Wheat which is ideal for bread and pasta but not scones.
Love the subtle Eddie Izzard reference...
Yes!!! Was wondering if someone would pick up on that đ€Łđ€Ł
I was coming here to say exactly this đ€Ł my friend lives in france and every time I visit her I have to run through this and get it out of my system before we can talk like real people... otherwise I find myself walking around muttering "le sange ett sur le branche" under my breath
I came here to say this too!
P.S. Le singe conduit l'autobus!
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I find the U.K. is more upfront about the cost of something, the US as too many hidden extras and Iâm not just talking about taxing and tipping
Absolutely. The nonsense in New York of not paying the displayed price got on my nerves. We have a flat value added tax that is rolled into the sticker price.
You might enjoy cloudy cider. More difficult to get hold of, but more tasty than the more industrial types of cider. You're probably more likely to find it in pubs or larger supermarkets.
Health care, NHS is fab. Yeah it has its probs but overall it works
In the last 10 years a lot of babies have been given 'old' names. Jack, Maisy, Alfie, Harry, Ivy for example. Even one named Frank.
My nephew is called Winston, and when my brother first told my mum, she didn't believe him and rang my sis in law to be like
'hes pulling my leg isn't he, your not naming you kid Winston?'
and she was like '.... Yes we are' đ
My mate's called phil :/
All of my dogs have been called Frank, my son is Archie, now proudly 24 yrs old and still alive despite our best efforts.
His name is the only thing his mother and I ever agreed on.
I know two baby adas and an ava, which are quite old names
Names naturally come and go in waves, with rare names becoming more and more popular, then becoming commonplace and less popular, and then they become "old person" names and completely unpopular, before being picked up again. The peaks are normally about 90 years apart. Check out www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/articles/babynamessince1904howhasyoursperformed/2016-09-02
There are some rare notable exceptions, like James and Thomas for boys, or Elizabeth for girls, which are fairly popular across time.
The British Identity is lmore defined and central, the American Identity is still fragmented and tied up into location. Very much more so in fact that the UK. Because of this, America has many 'cultures' depending on where you're from - each with it's own music, food, traditions.
We use pylons in the UK to move electricity from where it's produced to the grids, they're above ground and over 100 feet high and are located in safe areas to make the likelihood of them being damaged by anything as minimal as possible. I have lived in Blackpool all my life and maybe experienced 3 power outages, that's in 39 years, and the last one would have been about 20 years ago
I lived in Northampton for a few years. Not looking back! Entertaining video.
i have a question: what is it with americns and the red plastic cups!?!?!
I saw red plastic cups in poundland a few days ago! The invasion has begun.
Costco is introducing them to the UK. I hate to see it. They are far too large đ.
We will end up playing beer pong eventuallyđ©
@@dontwatchtv5797 NEVER!!!!!!
@@baylessnow what? Tf you talking about 'never' you weirdo
I have to agree with him it's scone lol, you nailed the accent thingy.
Eric says that he appreciates you đ
@@WanderingRavens It's scone, like stone.
@@WanderingRavens And I say he's wrong lol...
@@lassievision it's scone, like gone đ
Iâm Team Eric too!
Try lightly toasted bread with lots of butter and only a very thin smearing of marmite,I don't know how thick you apply it but it is not like jam or marmalade.Its also a nice hot drink on a cold day outside ( use the hot cup to warm your hands and sip the ' beef tea')