How To Not Get Murdered In A Quaint English Village
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- Visiting England soon? If you've seen Midsomer Murders, the Leauge of Gentlemen, Hot Fuzz, or read anything by Agatha Christie, then you know that Blighty is CRAWLING with murderous vicars, gardeners, shop-keepers, and birdwatchers. Here are 13 steps you can follow to STAY ALIVE when you visit England.
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You do know the most dangerous place on the planet is Cabot Cove, and not Midsomer?
Fete is pronounced like fate, just saying.
The fair is pronounced “Fayt” 😅
Or FATE 😱 apt for this production lol
@@Carlz1965 As in Cake or...
Back in 2019 I was murdered in a small town near the Lake District. It was really inconvenient.
Horrible! What a way to ruin a perfectly good day.
@@WanderingRavens Yup, not to mention it ruined a nice shirt and a really good pair of shoes.
That's not so funny when you remember the recent Cumbria shootings where that taxi driver went nuts and wiped out a load of people in small towns by the Lake District. 🙁
Did you have to queue?
My wife and I attended a Murder Mystery Weekend of this sort in October some years back, in the northern Catskills, NY, and enjoyed it immensely.
We all were given parts to play in the mystery game and my assigned role was that of a manager of an electronics company, who had suffered a nervous breakdown over an unexpected slack business turn and subsequently his sharp acumen, character and deportment had metamorphosed into that of a severely reduced mental capability, and in a word, he was never quite the same man again, ever afterward!
Incidentally, though no tangible criminal activity could be laid to his charge, there were not a few, (mainly his in-laws), who advocated his permanent incarceration in a private and securely guarded asylum, for the criminally insane, bearing in mind, the responsibility for the public weal.
These stentorian clamors however were quite abruptly stilled and vetoed by a greater number of influential, wiser and cooler heads whose ultimate decisions prevailed over those frenzied, easily frightened and irrational community troublemakers and rabble rousers.
Well, as I'd never participated in such a challenging and exciting venture as the "Stage" before and so, not knowing how to act, nor exactly what on earth was expected of me in this apparently sinister stage role, I decided to behave as I would have under everyday normal circumstances. Unnoticed by me at the time however, there were sudden, unmistakable and inexplicable, (to me), raised eyebrows and sudden shudders among the female members, resulting in dropped or spilt drinks, and unaccounted for hasty retreats for the door, during the idle conversation of which I was engrossed among the other players at large.
Little did I realize though, that my perhaps a bit unorthodox and "off the beaten track" actions and dialogue were being observed and carefully noted by the official cast members, who were discussing their findings and opinions among themselves in hushed tones.
Finally, the play had arrived at its natural end; the mystery was solved and the real murderer apprehended, which turned out not to be me.
Well, that was the end of the mystery, but it was not the end of the story, as far as the official cast was concerned!
They then presented me with a golden statuette award, mounted on a small marble pedestal, for Prize Of Best Actor Award!
Yeah, Admiral Nelson's body was preserved in Pusser's rum (navy rum), and it's still nicknamed 'Nelson's Blood' to this day.
That's the one!! Thank you!
It’s damn good stuff.
And remember, sailors drank the rum using macaroni and Nelson had rotted from the waist up.
Royal Navy had a rum ration.
@@WanderingRavens calling Admiral Lord Nelson a ship captain is one sure way you can annoy the British.
Fete is pronounced fate.
Thank you!
@@WanderingRavens Hence “A fete worse than death” is a joke.
Whenever a body is discovered it's always a man walking his dog, there must be a way of keeping this man and his dog from going out?
@@peterbrown1012 Adds a whole new meaning to "One Man and his Dog"
Technically it's written with the accent like "fête".
I grew up by a moor (a wetland, which is what the word originally meant), which gave forth dense fogs and weird people. We were shot at several times, chased by pigs and bearded men, smoked out and beaten by the local caravan dweller. We even played daily on the railway line and in the abandoned canal. Somehow we survived.
Oh wow! So the rumours about moors are true?!
The worst village for murders must be Midsomer Norton (just south of Bath) for many years they had at least 1 murder per week and often several per episode!
The story you were trying to recall was the origin of the phrase "tapping the Admiral", and refers to a tale that Admiral Nelson's body was preserved in rum after the battle of Trafalgar to get it home for burial.
Nelson was indeed preserved like this, but in brandy. The expression "tapping the admiral" arose, meaning to take a small drink of spirits on the sly, but it isn't recorded in the Royal Navy till the 1890s (Trafalgar was in 1805).
The expression almost certainly originates in the Nelson story, but the tale of drunken sailors stealing the spirits is as near to false as anything you can think of. It's really a sort of tasteless joke. Nelson is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Happy 2021 to the both of you Wandering Ravens
Happy New Year!! :D
Brilliant, loved this so much. Happy New year.
I've been slaughtered a few times but that might have been the excess alcohol. Most village murders were done by an old grey haired lady called Miss Marple. She is always there when there is a murder, not just a coincidence
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Yes, to stay alive steer clear of a deceptively doddering old lady in lisle stockings, drinking tea from porcelain teacups and knitting whilst peering over half-moon glasses. If you spot this biddy, run away as fast as you can cos murder follows her around like an overdue bill. Someone is going to die! Xx
@@WanderingRavens There are villages called Lower Slaughter and Upper Slaughter, I think in Gloucestershire.
Shocking blasphemy! It's definitely the Midsomer villages you have to avoid.
@@jillhobson6128 Yes, they are in Gloucestershire, near where I live.
As a foreign visitor you are more likely to be the misleading suspect, unless you are really a long lost heir intent on murdering your wealthy elderly relative and immediate family. But if you're there BECAUSE you've just inherited you are dead at the end of Chapter 3!
True on all counts 😂😂
@@WanderingRavens Oh and if a Belgian detective appears, then run - RUN!
@@alanbeaumont4848 Ah the little grey cells.
Thoroughly enjoyable. Lots and lots of chuckles. And so true, too.
Have a happy, safe, healthy, wealthy and wise New Year.
I'm looking forward to more top-notch content.
"The village fet" I just expelled my cuppa out my nose!!! Classic
😆This video is hilarious and probably spot on!!! Happy New Year Wandering Ravens ❤️
“Fet” - you two are adorable
Lol Mericans
They are pronouncing it correctly...it's a French word with a circumflex over the first e
I've always pronounced it like fate.
But they’re right. “ Fate” is a mispronunciation.
@@davemorrison3705 you’ve always pronounced it wrongly then.
I'm getting 'hot fuzz' vibes from this! I love that film! :)
It was on tv the other day lol
@@lukebrennan6045 it's almost always on TV lol
I love it too! :D
I was just thinking the same
Happy New Year to you two. I really enjoy all of your posts.
Happy new year! xx
This is an amazing collection of "things to avoid" and your presentation was very professional and very funny. You really do get British humour. Well done!
Great Vlog guys, Happy New Year to you both..
Happy new year!! x
Love it, haaaa much laughter here! you truly have grasped the British humor culture
great to see you here have a great new year and dont leave it too long before you are welcomed back in the UK
Happy new year!
A plus for coming up with unique content regarding the UK!
Happy New year, hope 2021 works out better for you two
Happy new year! Thank you!! xx
Having just found you're channel, I'm hooked :) Now I'm just searching your back catalogue to see if you've come across a yam yam yet...
Welcome! And no we haven't! What's a yam yam??
@@WanderingRavens czcams.com/video/NqIcbLkY2iY/video.html :)
Yam Yam is a accent / dialect from the "black country" which is a region to the west of Birmingham (but not Birmingham itself) Really similar to the Birmingham accent if you're not from these parts, but if you are they are very distinct.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Country
Love the League of Gentlemen reference. Come visit Colchester sometime.
I love that you still have your tree up!
Eh? It's the law the 12th night. (6th Jan).
Love your imitation of the rail enthusiast. You're good.
Those knives in the kitchens have been dulled by previous murders.
That explains it! 🤣🤣
Or blunted
I think it's more that the sharp ones have all been used by murderers and dumped in lakes, which is also why there are so few left.
Why use knives, when you can crush people with giant cheeses, drown them in vats of cider, feed them toxic mushrooms or catapult bottles of vintage wine at them while pinned to a croquet lawn. 😜
Happy New Year 😁
Hope you had a great one
Happy New Year, Josh!!
Thankyou, it's been OK, started back work today, so I wanted to kill people 😂😂😂
I love you guys 😅 so funny. Love from Manchester 🇬🇧
You guys gotta watch midsomer murders, love that program, and love you guys you da best 😁
Hi both, not sure if anyone mentioned but in England it’s pronounced as ‘fate’ as in rhymes with ‘crate, grate, hate’. Love your videos!
Definitely watch 'Hot Fuzz' with Simon Peg in it. As basically most things you've described is in 'Hot Fuzz'. It was filmed in Wells, Somerset. I lived there for a couple of years
I love hot fuzz!! Thanks for letting us know where it was filmed :D
@@WanderingRavens When you come back to the UK, definitely worth a visit to Wells, you will see the wishing well. Also quite a bit was filmed around the Bishops Palace, which is behind the Market square. Just near Wells Cathedral. It's the smallest city in the UK, (more of a small town). Lots to see in the area. Cheddar Gorge is not very far away. The origin of Cheddar Cheese
@@WanderingRavens The director of 'Hot Fuzz' went to Blue School in Wells, hence the reason he went back there to film it. Lots of the extras used in the film were kids from the school
@@WanderingRavens also look for St Mary's church as some of the early scenes in the film were filmed at that church
I'm sure that I once seen a glassfibre statue of King Kong in Wells at a car dealers. I remember that King Kong used to be near to the Birmingham Bull Ring about 20 years before I saw it in Wells.
Hi there. It’s my first time commenting so pls be gentle with me. I really think you would enjoy the crime show Midsomer murders it’s set in really lovely English villages where most of the villagers get murdered. Really enjoy your videos. Much love.xx
Hi Pauline!! Thank you for taking the time to comment! And thank you for the suggestion - we haven't watched any Midsomer Murders yet, but want to! Happy New Year :) xx
Happy new year to you both too x
@@WanderingRavens Some of the earlier episodes of Midsomer Murders are excellent.
It has now got a reputation as one of the daftest programmes on TV!
Still worth watching though.
Yes! Literally everything they mentioned was on Midsomer Murders, including the bell ringers.
@@WanderingRavens Or...see if you can find some episodes of Jonathan Creek, that was so good.
Another good reason to avoid Wells: it's where Hot Fuzz was filmed.
It's also a city, not a village.
I came across you guys completely by random and the first few cut away shots I see are of Wimborne near where I live!
Someone I know drowned in a vat of whiskey, took him 3 days to die as he kept getting out to go to the toilet.
If you have seen "Hot Fuzz" also avoid miniature villages.
Stole my thunder with that one!
Subscribed and love your content, what a wonderful couple.......Eric always reminds me of surfer dude, Grace seems like she is actually British at times, with a little innuendo and fun skits , love the marmite parody with blooper left in, long may you enjoy the UK, come visit us in Scotland please, keep the videos coming
Thank you so much, George! We always enjoy reading your comments :D And we'll get up to Scotland as soon as we can!!
@@WanderingRavens Ty so much for personal reply..........be safe folks and look forward to seeing you at Edinburgh Castle
@@gloryguyful Happy New Year! x
@@WanderingRavens ty guys you have a better 2021, wont be hard i know, just be kind to each other and enjoy life....
I live in a quaint English village and use the village shop regularly, I know the vicar quite well and attend church regularly, I probably count as a railway enthusiast as I drive steam trains, I regularly get murdered, sometimes three or four times a week in the summer, when we have more Fete's. Happy new year both of you!
What a shame! Getting murdered is such an inconvenience!
Is it called Dibley?
I've too much to say so I'll keep it concise - you two are hilarious 😂👍
This reminds me of a conversation I heard in a London pub about 20 years back. Three young men were sitting at the next table and one that came from up north said that if anyone from London went to Manchester they would be killed instantly. One of the others, a Londoner by accent said that it was true because he had been there. My mind reeled, so was he really a ghost? They were obviously well into their cups.
Extra fun fact about Rear Admiral Lord Nelson was that the phrase 'bottoms up' before drinking a shot is also believed to date back to the travel of his corpse in the brandy barrel on HMS Victory back to auld blighty!
That miniature village reminds me of legendary village in a village of Bourton-on-the-Water
Idk when your be back in england but i think it would be cool to see a vlog of your grocery shop experience, comparing the prices ect. also i seen some of your castle videos, id reccomend Corfe Castle and Lulworth Castle - both not to far from each and they are on the Jurassic Coast ! enjoy your videos !!
Id also suggest Salisbury and its cathedral (home to the magna carta and the town is very Tudor and then Winchester and its cathedral ( the once capital city of england)
Good idea!! And thank you for the recommendations!
@@WanderingRavens Not far from the pretty town of Salisbury is Porton Down. Which is the top secret base for biological and chemical warfare research and probably the most dangerous place in England!
Lord Admiral Nelson sailed from my hometown Portsmouth, if you get a chance it's worth a visit we have a lot of royal navy and Tudor stuff down here including the ship he sailed from (HMS Victory) and we have a Roman Castle in Portchester Castle.
Not forgetting HMS Warrior 👍, a dockyard steeped in history. Love walking along the front into Old Portsmouth and Gunwharf.
Midsomer Murders is filmed in the villages and towns around the Chiltern Hills (mostly on the borders of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire). The main town of the series, Causton, can be either Thame or Wallingford.
We mainly use the word basement to refer to below-ground floors in shops and workplaces. In houses, we'd call it a cellar.
I live near a village in Wiltshire called Slaughterford , nuff said
Move!! 😂
Plenty of murders in Biddestone whilst Agatha Raisin was being filmed 😉
I think there was a battle in slaughterford at one point, hence the name, also the area was used as a one of the sets for a programme about king Arthur
@@aellister5678 Interesting! I’ve lived in the area all my life and never knew this 🙈
Horatio Nelson was preserved in brandy. I believe he was well preserved on his return to England. Which took more than 40 days, I believe.
Love your vids on your adventures in the U.K. You have me in hysterical laughter as you try to pronounce English words, for example in this video you pronounce Fete as it is written when it is actually pronounced as fate. The village fete should sound the village fate.
Hahaha, love ur pronunciation of ‘Fete’.. (fate not fet) Hope u guys had a great Xmas and New Year...
I took the 20 minute walk up the slope from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire to the village of Heptonstall. Turned left at the T-junction and onto the cobbled street where at least two windows creaked shut as my soles clacked on said cobbles, yet I saw no one. Afeared by now, I ducked into the pub on the left which was thankfully open but got accosted in there a bloke who came over and said "I haven't seen you in here before". Realising that I could be chopped into bits and no one would ever come looking or find me in those parts, we chatted briefly and he was a decent fella but I couldn't wait to out out of there and was so relieved to set foot back on the tarmac of Hebden Bridge's sprawling metropolis. I have never returned to Heptonstall (possible quaint English murder village).
I live in an attic of a 4 storey house. Getting up and down those stairs with shopping is a nightmare.
You guys are still the cutest couple on U tube. Can I adopt you?😝🤩. Happy New Years!!🎆🥳
If you ever go to Northumberland you should take a trip to Elsdon Village and have a walk to Winters Gibbet. Would be a good follow up to this video on village murders.
Thank you for the tip!
I am wondering if you should do a review of the British film Hot Fuzz. This episodemismmaking me think of that film so much
Lol I mentioned this b4 u mentioned the film
My main tip is if you either see one of the following checking into your hotel or where you are, that being Jessica Fletcher, Miss Marple, Poirot, Barnaby where you are staying, do not hesitate, turn around and make a run for it. Don't question it, you must leave while you can still breathe.
You're usually safe once either John or Tom Barnaby is there ... the time to be careful is when Joyce or Cully turns up.
This!! Why hasn't anyone arrested any of these people on suspicion of being serial killers?!! 🤣🤣
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳
Happy New Year!!
@@WanderingRavens let’s hope 2021 is better than 2020 was xx
'English Murder village' lol. Happy New Year guys! And you pronounced fete perfectly......if this was France (we've bastardised the word a bit since the French conquered us.) Great vid, good fun!
Whenever a body is discovered it's always a man walking his dog, there must be a way of keeping this man and his dog from going out?
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@Harry Betteridge Not to be confused with dogging : )
The ships captain in a vat you mentioned was in fact Admiral Horatio Nelson who was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar aboard the flagship HMS Victory on 21st October 1805. He was placed in a vat of rum which today is Pussers Rum the official British Navy Rum which is very popular in the USA also. The Royal Navy call it Nelson's blood and a toast is given to the immortal memory of Admiral Nelson on Trafalgar Day each year on October 21st by the Royal Navy at a formal mess dinner.
That's the one! thank you!
Village Fet? Shurely shome mishtake I have always pronounced it to rhyme with Fate. British sea captain? It was Admiral Nelson. Hot Fuzz was filmed in Wells Somerset not to far from Glastonbury, or Bath, which you already have done.
I'm Canadian and pronounce the word fete the British way - fet, not fate. I think in French, there is an accent mark above the first e iirc an upside down v
How you pronounce Fete is a good start to getting lead piped in the library.
🤣🤣 "these kitchens need to be modernised for murder"
Yup can just see THAT appearing on every estate agents website!
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Also avoid the "old family"! If you hear the phrase "we came over with the Conquerer" the chances are they are hereditary murders!
There are two villages in the Cotswolds Uk that you might want to avoid, Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter. 😂 Actually the name comes from the old English word 'Slohtre which means muddy. They are very pretty villages. The North Yorkshire Moors are not scary at all. There are many beautiful villages there which you would both love. To name a few of the most beautiful there is Hutton le Hole, Thornton le Dale, Kirbymoorside, Hovingham, Levisham, Rosedale Abbey, and the small towns of Helmsley and Pickering amongst the many gorgeous places to visit. I guarantee you will love it there. I enjoy your videos so much. I am a true lover of England and the UK in general and it makes me happy to see you enjoying it too. Happy New Year to you lovely people, with love from Lincolnshire (which also has some beautiful places to visit). XXX
Yorkshire Moors, oh yes they are (for Americans). It's where they get turned into werewolves.
@@paulqueripel3493 really ? The nearest thing to scare you is the seaside town of Whitby on the North East of the moors. Whitby inspired part of Bram Stoker’s Dracula after the author holidayed there. There is a Dracula Experience in the town , the steps which Dracula is said to have run up and of course Whitby Abbey. All very atmospheric and in the dusk very evocative of the tale. It is also a beautiful place with old cobbled streets, a harbour and a beach. I’ve spent a few holidays there. 😊 More info here. shoreline-cottages.com/whitby-life-blog/bram-stoker-whitby/
@@AniWatX I was referring to An American Werewolf in London. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Werewolf_in_London.
Fete is a Middle French word that was thought to have been introduced during the Norman rule of Britain. William the conqueror who won the battle of Hastings started bringing in French words and fete is French for party. The previous Saxon word prior to this is fest and lead to new words today like feast and festival. But the French wanted Fete and I guess we stuck with it. Even in Spain they are called fiestas which is also linked to the French word fete.
True, but it you are from English speaking countries and have some British blood in your veins it's your duty to say it the English way. To piss off the French. With a longbow Sault of course.
@@neilgayleard3842 yes indeed
Interesting subject for a video !! And you appreciated that the quaint English village murderous perils are just cliches. Be careful though - as has been said in the Comments - a local village "fete" is really pronounced exactly like the word "fate".
I think you may mean "cellar" not basement....
Oh! Here in the USA, cellar and basement are synonyms. Do you not say "basement" in the UK?
@@WanderingRavens A cellar is where you will get murdered. It's dark, windowless, used only for storage, and typically reached by a steep stair or ladder. A basement is just a regular floor of the building that is partially below street level eg basement flat (apartment). I once fell down the ladder of my 16th century cellar and realised that if I had broken my leg down there no-one would know until the smell of decay seeped out into the street...
@@WanderingRavens Some people do. They can be used interchangeably but the word cellar (I don't know if this is the same as all British people) makes me thinks particularly of a wine cellar which you find often in larger older houses, specifically Manor houses. In general, cellars or basements are considerably less common in England than in the US so the two words don't come up very often in day to day talk.
@@WanderingRavens In the UK a cellar is a place you store stuff like wine and dismembered bodies of American tourists who can not pronounce fete, a basement is a whole below ground level of a building.
@@WanderingRavens No. We say cellar rather than basement.
A cellar was used to store coal
This reminds me of the film keeping mum with Maggie Smith and Rowan Atkinson. I recommend
Thanks for the recommendation!!
@@WanderingRavens I 2nd and 3rd that recommendation Maggie Smith's role in this is better then her role in the lady in the van which was good.
One house I lived in had two entrances on different streets ( it was a back to back house that had a door put between them) If I saw someone in the one street I didn't want to see I would walk through the house and out the door on the other street.
My brother has an actual burial in his stone barn. Its part of the wall now. From when bodysnatchers were active. Strange folk on the isle of wight.
1:22 - looks like a lovely cup of tea.
'Nothing good happens on the moors' especially since An American Werewolf in London. I wonder if you guys have ever walked into a strange pub and all the locals stop their conversations to look at you ? It's happened to me a few times. Anyways, great fun video, wishing you and your families a wonderful new year.
My friends and I were thrown out of a pub in Whitby. I think it was just because we weren't their usual clientele of elderly locals. Bunch of arseholes if you ask me.
@@PiousMoltar I once got thrown out of a nightclub, then two minutes later got thrown back in. Bouncer mistakenly thought I had been leaning over the bar trying to pull my own beer. When his error was pointed out he came outside to find me, I had a go at him and he said 'Just get back in and stf...' and dragged me back in.
Like the way u say fete keep out of woods moors graveyards and windmills and cellars defo happy new year 🎇🇬🇧🇺🇲😃
Sea Captain was Admiral Nelson. The story is that they didn't drink the spirit (it was brandy) out of respect, like they would normally do.
British sailors used to get a daily ration of "grog" - usually rum, from the West Indies. The tradition was still going as late as 1970.
Dogs are safe? Have you guys not heard of The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Exactly!! Hell hounds are an exemption! 🤣
When I met my now wife, she lived close to Grimspound mire and Dartmoor prison, by the way it's pronounced locally as "Grimpun"
See also 'Black Shuck' the demon dog. The Barghest O' Whitby.
sorry if someone already said this but, Admiral Horatio Nelson is the guy with one arm, the statue on the huge plinth in Trafalgar Square.. He died at the battle of Trafalgar which his fleet won I believe, vs the French. Hence Trafalgar Square and his statue being fitting there.
Our village shop closed shortly before lockdown, after a hundred years run by the same family. It was the major hub of village life - births, deaths, marriages, divorces, history and scandal - you could hear it all in our shop.
Our community has lost its heart, and is turning slowly into a mere conglomeration of houses.
Sic transit gloria mundi! Or, as they have it on the sundial on the church porch, MOX NOX.
Happy New Year
As a good general rule, a circumflex in French relates to an s in English. So the French word tempêt means storm, related to the English word tempest. So fête relates to feast.
This was so funny!
A Rum ration was given as part of the wages for people in the navy. I work in care one naval veteran told me that he didn't take his rum ration and was given extra pay.
Good fun. It's a shame you didn't get to visit some stone circles like Avebury. Stonehenge is too restricted to enjoy. Or some haunted houses.
Love it "Fet" Haha, just to let you guys know 'fête' is actually pronounced 'fate'. Great video still, you guys are the best.
It was Admiral Nelson who was put in a barrel of rum in 1805 post death, his crew drank it. Navy rum became known as Nelson’s blood especially when drunk with a straw.
How much longer do you guys have left in the UK and is any return to the states permanent or will you look to return to the UK for another long stay?
There used to be a pub in St Ives, Cornwall, called 'bucket of blood', so maybe friendly village pubs are not as safe as you think......
I am confused by your use of "fet" - I can only assume you mean "fete", which is pronounced the same way as "fate" - in fact a fairly common pun is the "fete worse than death"
[] Admiral Lord Nelson's body was brought home in a cask of rum, that being the sailor's traditional drink. "Tapping the admiral" is the phrase you're looking for.
Bobba Fett.
Grace pronounced it correctly - it's a French word and has a circumflex over the first e - pronouncing it "fate" is wrong
@@abbyhuntley3171 There must be an echo in here. I haven't viewed the video yet and if you look at my comment it says nothing about pronunciation.
@@abbyhuntley3171 - I'm not French! and this isn't France - I've only ever heard the English pronunciation, mis- or not.
@@colinp2238 I'm sorry, it was an accident and I thought I had deleted my reply to you but hadn't. I've done it now
Wait did you go to the Christchurch food festival? That's my hometown!
I have a well in the front garden between us and the neighbours :o but it is capped and never looked in it in 30 years haha Oh and it's always the dog walker too !!
Ooooo! Look out for that well!
I like the word ‘quaint’ and in fact I’m going to use it more in 2021. 👍
The captain was Admiral Horatio Nelson, from Norfolk died in the battle of Trafalgar during Napolionic wars. He was preserved in brand, the crew wouldn't drink the brandy as he was a hero and they and the nation were in mourning.
We live in Letchworth which is where the World’s End was set. The last pub to go up in flames is out local!
On a separate matter, there were literal murders on the Moors. Quite famously so.
We've read about those! Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, right?
@@WanderingRavens yes that’s right.
Well I guess that blog post got turned into a book! 😂 I was looking for a review after reading _Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village_ by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper yesterday and this was the first video to come up! The text is almost identical!
I live in an attic and I am a bird watcher, now I am worried that I might be a serial killer too...
Ya'll should watch Death in Paradise. 💯 British show, French Islands. You gonna love the murders. And of course perfect mix of no-one understanding British phrases....
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Good Video btw!!
You should do a reaction to the London 2021 firework display
9:09 - Reverend Green with the candlestick in the dining room...
Check out 'Folk Horror' and 'Urban Wyrd/Weird'...(The Wicker Man etc. ) On another tack, I read about someone like Alexander the Great being preserved in an amphora of honey? Someone discovered an amphora of honey and broke it open, decided to tate the honey... then noticed hair floating to the surface......