American Reacts to Things that are Weirdly Popular in Britain
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I have a feeling that one of the best ways to compare the US to the UK is going to be taking a look at these 10 things that are weirdly popular in Britain. Once I was this video I knew that I wanted to react and learn about random popular stuff in the United Kingdom from an American's perspective. I think the best part about this is that its not just popular things, its things those outside of the UK might find downright strange. If you enjoy my reaction feel free to leave a like, comment, or subscribe for more videos like this!
Watching you struggle over the use of the word cheeky was honestly hilarious.
same i laughed out loud. too funny
"Having a cheeky Nando's" means to spontaneously and unexpectedly decide to go for a Nando's meal. Cheeky means a bit rude and naughty in a playful manner, so if a bunch of guys have gone out for some drinks, one might go "hey, who fancies a cheeky Nando's?" to top off the evening. I mean you could say it for anything really "fancy a cheeky McDonald's", "let's go for a cheeky KFC", or "wanna pop outside for a cheeky smoke" when you know you shouldn't be and you're trying to quit. Often met with an "ah, go on then." You know you shouldn't, it's not healthy, but you enjoy it too much. It's just that cheeky Nando's has become the default meme
Hehehe. Nice
Surely a cheeky pint is worth a mention 🍺
@@darrenc5404 A cheeky couple...
I am British and I had never heard this expression, maybe it's an age thing.
@@afreeman63 it's definitely a recent one, last 10 years maybe.
Pancake Day isn’t about breakfast. It’s about having pancakes for your tea.
How pedantic...........l shall indulge Shrove Tuesday or not! This is a democracy..........sometimes..........
@@williamwilkes9873 yes that or they are savory pancakes
@@madyottoyotto3055 Savoury......on Shrove Tuesday..........sacred for lemon/sugar..........surely!!
@@williamwilkes9873 of course
I’m glad you said tea and not dinner.
The alcohol thing always amused me as the differences in attitudes are so vast. I work for an American company in London and whenever colleagues from the US would come over they would be amazed and shocked to see the amount of people standing in the streets drinking in London pubs as that's completely illegal in most states (they really couldn't get over it). Then that's usually followed by me explaining that a lot of people will just go to the park on a sunny day an drink there with their friends and that's completely normal across all people, which blows their mind even more. Then I usually make some quip about freedom...
That ai f applicable in Scotland
It’s illegal to drink in a public place and you WILL get rozzered
@@pauls3204 it is generally covered with by-laws in most of the UK or with offences related to behaviour under the influence of alcohol. It can be complicated that the land on the threshold of a licenced premises will have a definition as to whether consumption is allowed.
Pubs used to close in the day time due to licencing laws until the late 1980s so it's only a recent thing
@@milestone090 No they weren't. Pubs opened 11am until 3pm. ( some counties differed, ie Oxford was 10.30 to 2.30. And Gwynedd was a dry county on a Sunday) but pubs did open during the day. Restaurants who had a license could serve alcohol throughout the day as longer as the guest ate a meal. Watch Alexei Sayle's '24hrs drinking' from the mid 80's. There were lots of ways around the drinking laws.
It's really normal in Denmark for teenagers and 20s + to sit in parks drinking alcohol purchased in stores as prices are SO expensive in bars & restaurants.
Pancake day is called Shrove Tuesday which occurs before Ash Wednesday the start of Lent. It was originally when certain foods were cleared from your cupboards and certain things abstained from for the 40 days of Lent.
Honestly the cheeky Nando’s confusion has me cracking up 😂😂😂
Eurovison needs to be a video of its own. It is way more than a TV talent show and is huge in Europe and Australia. It may even be the biggest live TV broadcast in the world.
Yeeeees I am here for an American reacts to Eurovision video
It's a bag of shit is what it is.
Sincerely - An Englishman.
Cheeky Nando's is just an expression - like a cheeky cigarette, or a cheeky lager - meaning that it's not planned, but spontaneous :)
Those pancakes aren’t British.
We make them thin covered with sugar and lemon juice
Yess. So yum, my dad used to make them
They are British, in that they are traditional Scottish pancakes and Scotland is part of Britain.
100 grams flour
2 eggs
300 milk
I'm English, never known anybody put anything other than sugar and lemon juice on pancakes. They're made from a basic univeral batter used almost everywhere on earth. Nobody can claim ownership. It's like saying "We invented milk."
@@adstewart5427 ‘Those pancakes aren't British’ isn’t the same saying all ‘thin pancakes are British’
You say about how roundabouts confuse Americans - I grew up in Swindon, where there's a roundabout called the Magic Roundabout. It's 5 roundabouts rolled into one, and even people who're experienced with roundabouts sometimes just accelerate and pray.
Yea me too.. lookit up maye lol
Omg the swindon roundabouts are a leap of faith 😂
Did you know the magic roundabout guy passed recently.......RIP........
That roundabout angers my parents whenever we go to the Swindon outlet
I don't drive, but I've done practise lessons. Even having just done some practise lessons, I came across a triple roundabout within a few lessons, shit wasn't fair, but I managed☠️
It was those small white roundabouts that are made of just white paint on the road, too. With them being so small, it made them harder to go about properly. I mean, driving through them is easy. However, if I had a test on them, it could prove to be a pain.
So Eurovision is a singing competition set up by Switzerland in 1956 as a way to unite European countries after WW2, and has been going every year since (only cancelled once, in 2020, due to covid). And no, it's not at all like America's Got Talent or The X Factor or American Idol. It's not about becoming famous, it often features people who are already famous in their own countries or throughout Europe. And it's about way more than just singing. It's about the whole performance, so costumes, dancing, stage special effects. It's not even necessarily about winning, a lot of countries send joke gimmick acts by famous comedians because the winner of the contest one year has to host it the next year, and that's more expensive than a lot of countries can afford. There's no competitive nature to it, it's just about being fun and often very campy and over the top. There are two semi finals, and then the final lasts about 4 or 5 hours, with around 26 countries performing, and the winner is decided 50% by a jury vote, and 50% by public phone-in. I would LOVE some Eurovision reactions tbh.
It's officially a song contest, not a singing contest, though in reality the two go together. Every country's entry is an original song, written specifically for the contest. It's a mixture of established and new acts. Katrina and the waves were already well known, but I don't think this year's entry from the UK was. Swedish band, ABBA wrote and performed Waterloo for Eurovision, and this was important in breaking into the UK and getting known outside their home country generally. Also, Eurovision is no longer limited to Europe. Australia (yes, that's Australia in the southern hemisphere, not a typo of Austria) now takes part!
It used to be good years ago when Russia was one big country but as it’s all split up now they just vote for each other and it’s now become very political so if one country has done something that nobody likes they don’t get votes ie Ukraine 🇺🇦 won it this year 🤷♀️ and it wasn’t because they had a good song 🤷♀️🤷♀️
@@martineyles And Canada's joining in 2023, I believe.
He actually sounds suprised Euro vision is in Europe
Iv lived long enough ( 55 years) to now know it’s pretty much been hijacked by politics . If Europe doesn’t like your politics your last. If they agree , your first or there abouts. Switch off your tv. Stop ✋ being MK ULTRA MIND CONTROLLED !!!
Those aren't the kind of pancakes you would get on Shrove Tuesday, the pancake looks more like a crepe and is often smothered in lemon juice and sugar.
Yeah the WatchMojo lot proving again they don't understand the UK. "Smothered in butter" hardly anyone would have butter with a British pancake, as you say lemon juice and confectioners sugar or caster sugar.
I've always called those things they showed Drop Scones.
Very nice, but not pancakes. (And yes, lemon and caster sugar is the only way to eat them!)
They are not pancakes and who puts butter on them???
The pancakes shown in the video look like Scotch pancakes to me, which are the type of pancakes we have in Scotland…which is part of the U.K.
They are often eaten cold with lots of butter and maybe even jam on them. Not everything in the U.K. is England centric, remember there are three other countries that also come under the heading of U.K.
@@lynnejamieson2063 my family is Scottish we certainly didn't eat that kind of pancake on Shrove Tuesday. Lenten bannocks don't look like that either.
Travelling in England I loved roundabouts. If you missed the road you wanted, you just go around again and try again. That gives you the chance to read all the signs or read the map.
There’s a men’s club in the UK called, “Men in sheds”, for older men, maybe widowers, who want company. They get involved in sharing and learning new skills, particularly practical hobbies like woodworking. Sometimes they get involved in making furniture and others installations for the local community.
Yes and they are awesome. They came and fixed my neighbours wooden gate after her mother died. Great guys
Having (or 'going for') a cheeky _something_ means spontaneously indulging in something that's really nice but often unhealthy (e.g. fast food, alcohol, a smoke, or even just a chocolate biscuit [cookie], etc.) while acknowledging the naughtiness with a wink (or a figurative wink implied by the manner of speech). It can apply to a solo activity, but, if done in a group, it is socially very positive and adds to the bond between friends. In recent times, it has randomly become a real-life meme when applied to visiting Nando's.
Eurovision is massive worldwide and has been for generations. It is where ABBA got famous, and also how Irish dance became an international phenomenon. Now even Australia and some Middle Eastern countries take part.
It's an opportunity to laugh at the ridiculous costumes and song titles.
I thought calling a toilet, lavatory, WC, bog etc... a "bathroom" was daft enough but to call such "half bathroom" takes it beyond the limits of absurdity.
Whatever word is used for toilet, it becomes distasteful and we look for the next euphemism. Even lavatory and toilet were euphemisms in the first place. Let's just call a bog a bog!
I must admit I don't understand the " half bathroom " , a bathroom includes a bath/shower, a toilet on its own is a WC, lavatory, toilet, throne room, bog etc. I have actually heard a few americans call it the " potty room " which when first hearing that, I was confused, I thought they were after a padded cell for someone that had gone potty lol
Yep, a bathroom contains a bath. If it doesn't contain a bath, it isn't a bathroom. If you called something a half bathroom, I'd expect it to contain a bath but not a toilet or sink. I actually have been to some houses where the bath is in a room next door to the toilet and sink, so that someone soaking in the bath doesn't stop others using the toilet.
@@Bazroshan Drives me crazy...it aint a Bathroom, it's a toilet..or if you like you can call it the loo, the gents, the ladies, the bog, the Kharsi etc, etc.
@@martineyles is that two half bathrooms? Actually that was how it was in many older houses, indeed the toilet was often in a separate "outhouse" or "boghouse" with a bathroom in the main building.
A cheeky Nando’s is a way of being like “I’m going to have a naughty meal I know I shouldn’t be having, but don’t question it because I need it”. Lol.
We are very restricted for space in the houses in the UK so a garden shed is an extention of your homes so we turn them into assorted rooms 😀
Depends on how much you pay !
One of the funniest ones is we sell our petrol (gasoline) in litres but we measure fuel economy in miles per gallon.
My memory from many years ago is that garages switched in the 70's/early 80s because the old rotary counters on the pumps were wearing out as the increasing cost per gallon sent them spinning round like a roulette wheel - seriously!!!
Never thought about that before lol yeah that’s weird
for small distances i use feet and inches but large i use meter sand klicks
AND it still is a PINT of beer
US customery units are not the same as Imperial Measures. For example, a US gallon is 3.7 litres and an Imperial gallon is about 4.5 litres.
@@bumblebee5508 AFAIK, it's because the British increased the size of the wine barrel (or maybe hogshead) and the US stuck with the existing one. Then gallons and pints are the same divisions of barrel.
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@@bumblebee5508 Both are one eighth of their respective gallons.
@@bumblebee5508 😄
We both have 8 pints making a gallon - however, a US gallon is only 6 UK pints.
Roundabouts are designed to keep the flow of traffic at a junction so there are less cars stopping like at a traffic light
And actually common in the USA. Just certain states.
@@rusticpartyeditz that's not what you call "common". There's around 8k in the whole US. Uk has around 30k and France has almost 70k ( counting simple roundabout "markings" as one in all cases since they've got the same effect). The numbers have definitely be one the rise in some US states lately for sure, so they'll eventually get there. It's still too soon to call them common in any state though.
Depending on our age, we are quite good at using both measurement systems and converting between the two because we leant both 😁
True. I always get a good laugh also by giving people a simple sum in old money and watching how wrong they get it and how it blows their minds!
Yep cant beat going to B and Q for 2 metres of 2x4 timber 🤣
Thank you, I'm an old person, (78) so for most of my early life until I was about 27, everything was "the imperial system" making maths a lot more difficult, however, when we became 'closer' to 😎 mainland Europe the Government decided that we needed to go Metric. They even introduced laws, making it illegal for green grocers to sell apples or spuds in pounds. There was a silent protest against this, by this time I was a teacher, so I could have got the sack if I refused to teach it, but no way did they have the right to force me to buy or even talk about a litre of milk or a kilo of potatoes, on pain of death for sticking to the old terms. So, stubbornness is to blame for 50 years on us still mixing everything. Oh, and by the way the first time I went to the USA I had to buy a set of American cups, because if I wanted to cook a magazine recipe, I needed them. No metric system then!
Pints for Milk Beer and Cider were retained and still are legal official units. Because of the cost for pubs to replace all the beer glasses. And for the dairies to replace all the milk bottling machines and bottles.
Im 60 and its the same here in Canada .People give their height in feet and weight by pounds. We can do weather both ways, we will say miles when talking klicks. Personally thing I hate on metric is theres nothing ard foot or feet,,,, we still all like to say x amount of feet
I still measure in feet and inches, I hand it over to the builders merchants and let them work it out LOL
Same here...mostly! I still want 'miles' and MPH (fortunately we never converted road signs and speed limits in KM or KPH - I wouldn't have a clue how far or how fast!!).
Pint of beer or milk is still perfect..... I wouldn't want to be trying to ask for 550-ish millilitres of beer in a pub - I'd sound a right Pratt!!
The only 'metric' that I do like is temperature; celsius just makes perfect sense to me:- if it's freezing it's 0 (zero) or below, which it is at the time I'm typing this!! 😆
Cheeky nandos is a term used to refer to going to nandos instead of going home or having a healthy meal, or going to somewhere that your other half would approve of
Our pints and gallons are 25% bigger than America's. The UK pint is 20 fluid ounces, not 16.
I think the last measurement over here you want to mess with is the size of a pint 😂
Americans use the BRITISH system of measurement which is imperial. The British use the imperial system along with the French system of metric.
You do need to give the Romans much of the credit for what became the Imperial system, ^oo^
The American system is slightly different to the British system
Thank god metric didn't fully take hold in UK.
@@Dan.Dawson Well metric is the only system used in the UK in design and engineering - simply because it just works so much better and mistakes are far less common (with out all the bonkers 8ths of inches, but 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to yard and 1760 yards in a mile) - but when the real work is done, the final measurement can be in Imperial, because (a) it doesn't matter at that point and (b) The one advantage Imperial has is that its quantities like a pint, gallon, inch, foot etc are based on very useable and relatable quantities - so over all I'm pretty happy with our mixed up system, as long as no one's forcing anyone to do important calculations with the oddities of the Imperial system, ^oo^
American Imperial system is different to the British system. Quantities are different.
I've had clothes from charity shops that I would never afford to buy new. Plus the pleasure of a bargain !!
Imperial system in UK is different to yours, we still use it as well as metric, pints of beer and milk, are larger than yours. We use miles on roads.
We also use feet for height and lbs. For the weight of people
And stone for weight
This was a great video dude, laughed a lot at the beginning with your realisation about the imperial system (which means "of an empire" by the way 😂) and about your "training in the art of the roundabout" making you immune to their otherwise terrifying confusing ways! The urban dictionary definition of cheeky nando's was also just perfect comedic timing. But I also learned a lot myself at the end too - I had no idea pancake day and mardi gras shared a common origin and love that our American cousins inherited our love of antique objects!
"Mardi Gras" is literally French for "Fat Tuesday". It surprises me that most Americans don't seem to know the source of the name is French. It comes from the French Cajuns (a mispronunciation of of the "Acadiennes" of Louisiana. (Think New Orleans' French Quarter!) It derives from the practice of using up luxury food items such as fat, sugar and flour before the religious observation of Lent in the French Catholic tradition, a 40-day period of fasting/restricted diet (from the biblical story of Jesus spending 40 days and 40 nights fasting in the desert before his crucifiction on Good Friday and resurrection from the dead on Easter Sunday). Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras/Pancake Day is the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent in the Christian calendar.
Some people say that they would get confused as to which way to go around the roundabouts. The traffic sign leading onto a roundabout shows a gap in the road on the right hand side, this tells you that you travel to the left. In Europe. the signs show the gap on the opposite side.
Hi Tyler, yes roundabouts are great here in uk, only when drivers know who has the right of way🤩 . Eurovision is an annual singing comp, when someone is representing our country. Cheeky means in a playful way, ty for the videos love watching them 👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧
Every person has equal "Right of Way" on a Public Highway. Drivers of motor vehicles have to be qualified and insured with vehicles conforming to standards. Vehicles might have " priority " or have to "Give Way" at junctions.
We have them in Canada, too
lbs and oz, inches, feet, yards and miles are identical to US measurements. However our pints are 20 fluid oz as opposed to the 16 used in the USA - so pints are 4 fl oz bigger and our gallons are 10 US pints (though 8 UK pints). We also use Stones, which are 14lbs when using weights, but don't use cups. Hope that clarifies everything
dont forget spuds came in sacks of half a hunderweight
I really appreciate your honesty. I’m a Canadian and grew up with the imperial system. It switched to the metric system in my late teens. I’m good with litres, centigrade, centimetres, metres, Celsius, but always panic at the butcher’s with grams. It’s a learning process. 🙃
A normal portion of meat (without the bone) per person is 125-150 gram. So that's an easy way to ask for whatever you want at the butchers. Just ad.
1000 gram is 1 kilogram.
I'm British, and when Butchers here were forced to move to metric many customers refused to use it.
I remember my Mother sending me to the butchers and asking me to get 5 pound of meat - what my Mother actually asked for was £5 WORTH of meat! So I ended up spending my Mothers last £20 on LOTS of meat oops.
I'm 73 and still can't adapt. I can ballpark temperatures. If I need food I just say give me a hunk of beef or whatever.
@@susieq9801 I'm 51 and always use proper, imperial, measurements.
British speed limits are in mph, speedometers are in mph, road signs that mention distance (turn left in 100 yards) are in yards. Beer is bought in pints, burgers are quarter pounders. We say our height in feet and inches and our weight in stones and pounds (14 pounds in a stone). Most other things are in grams and kg. In your car your fuel is sold in litres but speed limits are mph. Your air conditioning will read degrees celcius but your speedometer mph. It's a mixture!
Pancake day isn't a breakfast thing. Usually it's done when the kids come out of school in the afternoon and mothers stand by a frying pan and cook a mound of them.
Brits never understand measuring things in "cups", also the US gallon is not the same as an Imperial gallon. Nandos are a bit thin on the ground outside London, more Brits go for a kebab after a night out drinking. As there are kebab takeaways everywhere. In recent years there has been a trend for building substantial garden offices. Crowds of rowdy young drunken people leaving night clubs at night is a big thing in UK towns. Often in search of the nearest kebab shop. Football sticker albums originated in Italy. Before that we mostly collected cards from bubble gum, cigarette packs and tea packets.
To be fair to our American cousins, baking is all about proportions or ratio, so cups make perfect sense. I have acquired a set of American cups for baking because so many recipes on the internet are from the US. However back when I learned to cook in a British school, I learned proportions (weight) for baking such as pastry was half fat to flour and half butter to lard, a basic cake is equal proportions of eggs, sugar, flour and fat and so on.
I wouldn’t say Nandos are thin on the ground outside of London. You’ll find multiple branches in and around most major cities and towns. I can think of 6-7 within about 5 miles of where I live in Newcastle and probably about 5-6 more that would still be within a 30 minute drive. I think the term ‘Cheeky Nandos’ is very southern though. Nobody would say that up here. Personally I think Nandos is alright, but I’d agree a Kebab or a curry would be more popular
US gallons, pints and inches are all smaller than British Imperial.
I still have my mum’s recipes which use cups ( Uk )
@@tomlynch8114 we have one in my town, never bothered to go there though.
Miles, yards inches, all part of the British measuring system, like chains and rods. Where do you think it came from.
Rather like the legal syatem, common law, no taxation without representation, freedom of speech etc. All bought to the new world by those British colonists
Bless you Tyler for wanting to educate yourself. Respect !
One of the things to accept is that most of Americas laws, measurements,
etc etc developed from, or totallly copied, the British. I know it seems a long time ago, but you still benefit from the standards, measurements etc. taken to the US by the British settlers ! WE used the Imperial measurements until we joined the European Union, ( most of the rest of Europe, banding together to make one
"country" politically , under one set of rules and laws etc. There is one over reaching political "dictatorship" ( individual countries have their own Parliaments but are expected to adopt the overarching rules and laws of the European Commission . The Commission HQ is in Brussels, and is largely "ruled"
by unelected representatives. Of all of the member countries only 5 paid
in every year, the rest got it handed out to them ! Needless to say, the
UK was one of the five net givers! It was supposed to help backward and
poorer nations to bring themselves up to date, new roads etc.
However 6 years ago, fed up with the Commission, and our loss of freedom to make our own laws etc. the UK voted to Leave, and leave we did. So we are now
a Sovereign nation in charge of our own laws etc and holding on to our own money and using it here. The remaining EU countries have never forgiven us
for this, and the EU commission is still, after 6 years, doing all it can to
prevent us doing well regarding trade, and they have introduced the most
difficult rules and regulations for the UK trading goods in Europe.
However we are FREE ! Just thought you might like a tiny explanation,
there is so much more I am sure is available on Google. There is now talk of the UK reverting to Imperial Measurements too. Bring it on !
@@marycarver1542 .
There was never a time when we didn't make our own laws.
As for measurements, I was using the metric system back in 1958 and the UK will never go back to using imperial measurements, the idea is utterly stupid.
@@grahvis The UK uses both systems, still does.
@@anthonyferris8912 .
Yes, metric for precision, imperial when that isn't necessary, or for some reason, is more convenient. I once had an old measuring cylinder marked in fluid ounces, I had a developing tank that held 10 oz and used developer diluted 1+9.
I have worked with younger people who would look blank if I quoted a size in inches, they had no idea what I meant.
@@grahvis My local market traders still have everything in pounds. The town also has a lot of Eastern Europeans and Ukrainians, so god knows what they make of it all.
My dad built my older sister a "garden shed" which she calls her "bitch-cave" she's like turned it into a summer house for her friends to come over in the summer and chill. A lot of people do that in the uk
I was about to say that eating beans isn’t as popular as it’s made out to be, then remembered that nearly every school lunch I ate before 1993 came with beans.
I used to like melting cathedral city cheddar into beans then put Worcester sauce in. I mean, could that be any English if it tried. I’m sure I put white pepper on as well.
"I'm confused, I don't understand, I'm ignorant, I've never heard of it," ad nauseam, followed by rictus grinning and nervous idiot laughter. Must be Tyler's permanent lack of intellect.
Struggling to understand why anyone with such little knowledge of a topic would choose to post a video that demonstrates how uninformed they are. The constant stopping was also really annoying. Do the research before the review in future Tyler.
Don't worry, the Norwegians and Canadians are being subjected to this nonsense as well.
Cheeky in this context is used a bit like 'a little bit naughty', something although not terrible, you really shouldn't do but do anyway. Maybe like having that one more piece of chocolate than you said you would. The reality is that Nandos is no different from eating at somewhere like McDonald's and the idea that that you shouldn't be eating fast food (again). 'Cheeky' in this context predates its association with Nandos by decades. I remember it being used in association practically with anything in the early 2000s: a cheeky biscuit, a cheeky mars bar etc although obviously the term 'cheeky' is a lot, lot older than that.
We officially still use Miles for measuring distance in Britain. We have never totally accepted the metric system. Most people use both systems.
I've never ever heard the toilet being revered to as a bathroom.
ps. When you're actually going to the full bathroom for acts of nature, it's still the toilet, loo, bog or lav.
Especially as the loo is often NOT inside the bathroom. It is often in its own separate room.
Nando's is a South African chain, based on Portuguese / Mozambican style food. It's not too shabby.
Usage in the UK depends on age as much as anything.
I was taught £sd, gallons, miles, etc. in my first 8 years of school. I work in whatever is easiest - for instance if I am cutting timber (lumber), I tend to use imperial as most simple imperial measurements are easily divided - for instance, an eighth of 12 inches is 1.5 inches and is easily marked accurately use a rule. An eigth of 30cm is 3.75cm - not easily marked.
I have always used miles per gallon - when I fill my car - I never look what is going in, no matter the units.
The UK could never change to using km for roads, except at huge expense and inconvenience - there would be literally millions of road signs to change.
A pint of beer is a convenient amount, but near enough 500ml (it is 568ml). So, near enough in most cases, 1 litre is 2 pints.
LOTS of imperial measures are linked - a pint of water weighs 20oz, so a gllon weighs 10lb.. A cubic foot of water weighs 1000oz.
Horses (race-horses in particular) are still traditionally sold in guineas - 21 shillings - £1.05, and they race over miles and furlongs.
Anglers frequently seek to catch a "double", meaning a certain species of fish weighing 10lb or more - not quite the same as 5.536kg or more.
I habitually use close enough conversions - 4oz is 100g (it is actually 113.4g).
Many yonger people are totally clueless about the vast majority of imperial units and pre-decimal currency.
The only time I really use metric is when using spanners/ratchets etc. Everything else is more or less imperial, pint, psi(pounds per square inch) mph( miles per hour) height in ft and "inches, weight in lbs and ounces, distance in miles, yards etc.
A downstairs loo is normally called a ‘Cloakroom’, if you were buying a house the agent info might call it a downstairs cloaks.
Mardi gras & Shrove Tuesday/ pancake day have the same origin. It's the last day before Lent which used to be a 40 day fast, but now people mostly give up something like chocolate, cakes, smoking etc. Originally it was the last day to use up all of your treats or "luxuries" , so you'd use up your fat/ oil (Mardi gras) eggs etc, so one way is to make pancakes, another is to have a massive party and use up EVERYTHING
I'm 52 and grew up in the UK so am 100% fluent in imperial and metric measurements and the conversion between the two systems, people 10+ years older than me grew up a little more with the imperial system.
Yea, I'm 60 and remember the old money but was too young to really understand it.
I do remember that the old pennies and thrupenny bits made your hands smell funny.
I'm 21 - too young to understand anything to do with the old money, like wtf is a shilling? However, I'd say most people my age are still fluent with most of the common measurements within the imperial system and can estimate a conversion off the top of our heads with some accuracy. Just growing up in this country forces you to learn both.
55 so same for me, i was taught both so no problem. I now live in the US and the only thing i struggle with is quarts.....still not to sure what a quart is.
@@Satasha_knows it's a half pint, right?
@@flaherty5090 It's quarter of a gallon so 2 pints, pints and gallons are slightly different in the UK and States though just to confuse matters!
I don't know of anyone who calls their downstairs toilet "a downstairs bathroom". Indeed, Brits are usually quite straightforward about the toilet saying they're nipping for a pee, or going to the toilet or such, the only truly popular euphemism being "spend a penny". It's usually Americans who say they need the "washroom" when they're bursting for a piss. The WatchMojo videos seem a bit ... off, in general. And, like you say, the "half-bathroom" is an American term, which makes no sense being that it doesn't have a bath in it (no bath != half a bath).
Half bath=half a bathroom. So called because it doesn’t have all of the fixtures of a full bathroom; only half. It has the toilet but not a tub with a shower head.
In some circles there is also a ¾ bath. This is when it has a toilet and a shower stall but not an actual tub. The reasoning is that since you can’t take a proper bath, it can’t be a full bathroom. However, since you can bathe (take a shower), it is more than just a half bathroom.
It's more upper middle to upper class that would call it a bathroom... It's a class specific thing
A friend of mine turned his garden shed into a massive Swiss chalet. Others turn them into bars, pubs and games rooms.
Yes, 'cheeky' is like unscheduled last minute visit to something or somewhere. Its like giving yourself a little treat/feast at the end of an evening or as a naughty detour to something or somewhere sensible that you were suppose to be going. Yum yum!
Nando's is great. "Go for a cheeky Nando's" is simply a slogan used by the company. Great spicy chicken. As far as Eurovision is concerned, each country in Europe sends a soloist or group to perform (usually performing a very cheesy pop song), but yes, bands can make a name for themselves from their performance. Probably the ultimate example is ABBA, who gained worldwide fame after representing Sweden in the 1970s.
Garage is a French word therefore theBritish pronunciation is always correctly matching the French origin. Same goes for many other English words like aubergine and patio.
17:32 Geography Now has a video explaining Eurovision, you could watch that if you want to know more about it.
I grew up in Cwmbran in South East Wales, a new town, ie one designed and built from a blank canvas, at least the town centre was, which was basically a grid system expanding from the fully pedestrianised central precinct (complete with underground multi storey parking which was pretty pioneering for the 1950’s although the whole concept was looking towards the example of the USA which was completely car centric by that time and seen as the future with private car ownership exploding post war) with a roundabout at every road intersection. Being one of the earliest new towns as you go further out then the grid mixed with some existing villages and industrial complexes so it gets a bit diluted from the original vision but there’s still roundabouts put in where newer residential areas have sprung up even to the present day. Fun fact - Cwmbran town centre had the first McDonald’s in wales and it’s still open today.
I lived in south wales for 15yrs,6 of them in Ty canol in Cwmbran,my family still live there 🏴 I miss a cwtch lol
Curiously, some foods such as honey or jam (jelly) are sold in jars which say ‘454 grams’, which is actually one imperial pound. So some of our change to metric is a bit confused.
@@simonrobbins8357 Yes, and the building industry 'went metric' in 1970, so a building brick is now 65x102.5x225mm. Well actually, it's still 2.5" x 4" x 8.5", just as it was before 'metric' came along! Oh, and an A4 paper is 297x210mm, which is really 11.75" x 8.25"...
@@simonrobbins8357 some supermarkets sell milk in pints and litres so you can buy 2 pints and next to it is a one litre carton.
but if you want to start a revolution in the UK pass a law saying PUBS WILL NOT SELL BEER BY THE PINT
Sheds are great especially if you want a bit of quiet time away from the family!! A lot of "sheds" are in reality just man caves with televisions sterios and even a bar.
You have almost certainly heard a Eurovision winning song - Abba won Eurovision with Waterloo in 1974 (but they are from Sweden)
Nando's is actually a South African fast food chain. In SA they're famous for their food, but even more famous for their cheeky political ads (many have actually been banned in the country).
You should do a reaction to SA Nando's ads, actually.
Eurovision is NOT a singing competition as some people are saying in the comments. It is a song competition. Each year composers compose a song to enter into the competition, although the presentation of the song is important in order to impress the judges and the public, it should be secondary to the actual song. It is nothing like pop idol or the other programmes that you mentioned. Most of the singers are well known already and are not depending on the competition to make them famous. Having said that, the most successful group who made it big out of Eurovision was ABBA from Sweden, an otherwise unknown group until they sang "Waterloo" . For the last few years Australia have been allowed into the competition - don't ask, so there is hope for America!!
America already has their own version of Eurovision now, called American Song Contest, it debuted earlier this year. And next year, Canada will have theirs as well. And I've also read that a Latin American version is in the works.
5.10 - So American's never use the metric system, 'EVER' What about your currency !!!!!
Hi Tyler, just watched this you saying “Oi lads let’s go for a cheeky Nando’s” that done me. 😂😂, loving your reviews
cheeky is basically we use a word for soemthing thats good and a quick visit because we can. so a cheeky nandos, or a cheeky pint in the pub etc
Why is anything outside America considered weird to Americans? Everywhere else in the world it's just considered different! America is so weird!
I consider things inside America to be weird 😂 Like who the fuck forces kids to stand and point at a flag with one hand on their heart and pledge allegiance to it, wtf sort of cult have they got going on over there 😂
They don't understand that other countries do things differently to them.
Most Americans do not have passports and have never been out of the US.
@@yvonneplant9434 It's a little under 50% of US citizens have passports these days :) 20 years ago that would of been a lot less but they are slowly getting them.
Don't you know anything about the world outside the USA? Or are you taught that the US is the only important country in the world so it's not worth knowing about anywhere else?
Of course America didn't implement roundabouts, they're a brilliant idea that actually work, but wasn't invented by Americans 😆 in much the same way as America originally didn't want Concorde landing at any American airport, because it was a major feat of engineering that didn't involve America 😆
Whereas almost anywhere in Europe, if even the tiniest village has 2 roads crossing, its highly likely a roundabout. But yeah, u nailed it!
But just wait, 1 of these days an American will invent this ingenious option of letting crossing roads melt into a circle for smoother, safer traffic, and it will be the invention of the millenia! Just like pizza was invented in New York 🤣🤣
@@dfuher968 oh yes wasn't it the Italian immigrants in new York that invented the pizza 😆
@@davebirch1976 or even italians in italy
@@joedwyer3297 be careful, we don't want Americans thinking someone else invented pizzas 🤣
Actually there are 5'000 traffic circles/roundabouts in the US
Yay! I found another channel to binge while waiting to go to UK in January on my student visa!
Nando's was "born" in Rosettenville (Johannesburg) in South Africa in the early 90's and then franchised here and later spread around the world.
So a South African brand.
Fun fact: In the UK (for the most part) we pronounce 'pawn' and 'porn' exactly the same way 🙂
fun facts, try say it a different way lol
@@marksavage1108 that isn't a fact (or facts, as you put it)
Oh bless u, one day u will realise that the US has never had an original idea its all taken from the UK.
The him reading "cheeky nandos" and "gosh your a ledge" had my crying 🤣🤣🤣
those sticker albums were all the rage in the 80's and early 90's. I had loads of them through the years, from Sonic The Hedgehog (and other, more obscure video games like Eternal Champions) to dinosaurs.... I've never been a football fan, so I never had those. In my school I remember one year the Eternal Champions sticker albums and swaps were more popular than the footie stickers... :)
To be fair, it doesn't take much to confuse an American.
Rude
Are you one of those Americans, you know. They meet a Brit and say "You speak very good English, Where did you learn it".
The creators of The Eurovision Song Contest, did an American Song Contest this year for the first time. It had all States and Territories compete. Was available in many European countries to watch, not the UK unfortunately. But looked absolutely great! Be interesting on Next Year's show to see if popularity has increased for the American Song Contest.
Drunkenness is a very common sight in any town in the early hours of Saturday and Sunday mornings. Lots of people fighting, vomiting and falling over in the street. Some cities even have volunteers that monitor the streets to look after these people.
😝😂🤣🥲We love to create a good impression !🏴🌹
We use miles in the UK…. Ranch is uniquely American though
Typical American, thinking they invented everything they use in their country, including the measurement system 🤣
The only thing us Brits measure in cups is our tea consumption 😆
And bra size…
@@lizbignell7813 different sort of cups 😆
@Dave Birch, different type of cup, yes, but still measures volume!
@@lizbignell7813 All bras are 2 cup size
@Millie Mallister’s, true.
Roundabout Fun: Try to visit the Magic Roundabout in Swindon, (England). The first time I did, I simply aimed for the exit that looked like it might be the right one, shut my eyes, floored the accelerator, and miraculously made it safely across -phew! -. A little exaggeration there, but it is seriously weird for non-residents on their first visit!.
The first roundabout was built in Letchworth Garden City, in Britain in 1907.
Modern roundabouts were first standardized in the UK in 1966 and were found to be a significant improvement over previous traffic circles and rotaries. Since then, modern roundabouts have become commonplace throughout the world, including Australia, the United Kingdom and France.[6]
For a few months I was driving a work car that had an American satnav, it called roundabouts "traffic circles".
@@peterjf7723 I am from the UK so may have this totally wrong. The terminology varies between roundabouts and traffic circles from state to state. Technically a roundabout always has a give-way/yield protocol for traffic joinining. I am unsure of how traffic circle work, as the UK only has roundabouts. Sometimes a traffic circle might be a roundabout but sometimes traffic on a traffic circle yield to people joining the circle. Roundabouts make more sense to me but I only know traffic circles from searching the Internet.
@@robertwhite3503Thanks, I had just assumed that traffic circle was just an American name for roundabouts.
@@robertwhite3503 Helpful clarification. Thanks.
This video is old, we absolutely smashed Eurovision this year coming second only to Ukraine. Due to Ukraine's war the UK are hosting Eurovision next year. And no Eurovision is nothing like Americas got talent. Its a competition in which all European nations enter a song and compete to win with with each country having a judging panel and a public vote.
And oddly enough some non-European countries too 😂
Yeah some of us do enjoy a drink on our lunch break 😂 at this point I'm convinced we could give the Russians a run for their money on who could drink the other under the table 😂
Sumorandom, liquid lunch lol 😆 😋🍺🍺
Czechs are the biggest guzzlers
I'm not sure we could. I visited Sweden every year, about a decade ago, for technical conference with _lots_ of evening socialising. I'm a bit of a lightweight, but the Swedes were literally drinking beer two for one. I remarked that they were big drinkers, but they responded the Danes are _real_ drinkers. A Dane in our midst, smiled, then said, no, _real_ drinkers are the Finns. Then someone said, no, Russians out-drink Finns, and Russians drink vodka not beer. They all agreed. I think I read soon after that a *lot* more Russians die from alcohol related diseases than us.
Best Wishes. ☮
Brits (Anglo-Saxons anyway) have a reputation for drinking a lot that goes back over 1000 years. It was during WW1 that pubs were stopped selling booze every day/all day.
I'm British, but lived and worked in the USA during the 2000s. Massachusetts has roundabouts (rotaries), yet people said they feared using them! Roundabouts are less efficient when traffic flow is heavy. Heavy traffic roads can 'starve' other roads of entry to a roundabout. We use traffic lights on the heavy traffic entries to some roundabouts to make them fairer. Traffic lights might only be needed in 'rush hours'. A traffic sign warns drivers of intermittent traffic lights. So we can have the best of both.
Even when there are traffic lights on roundabouts, not all entrances need them. Stopping the heavy traffic roads allows the roundabout to work 'as normal' for all the other road entrances. So they can be massively more flexible than traffic lights.
A further benefit of none-traffic-light roundabouts is low maintenance. Most roundabouts have no traffic lights to break, or need maintenance. They're robust if there is a traffic accident, whereas traffic light poles might be so damaged in an accident it needs urgent repair.
Best Wishes. ☮
A Great British pass time is a sport called the Pub Crawl where contestants go from pub to pub drinking and the winner is the one who makes it to the most pubs and can hold the most liquor
They aren’t pancakes. Our pancakes are more like crepes.
Roundabouts aren't as pedestrian friendly.
they're still more pedestrian friendly than normal crossroads.
I suppose the nearest equivalent to Eurovision America could possibly have would be ‘State’vision where each state would write a song and have a well known performer from that state compete against other states,
The winner then holds the title for a year and then that winning State hosts the contest the following year.
The only real difference with Eurovision is that some competing countries sometime sing in their own language. ( There is NO rule the songs have to be performed in English, though many do for commercial reasons).
Wc is another term used for downstairs toilets which mean 'Water closet' and the only theory i can come up with is in older houses they are normally installed a long time after the they was orginally built so we put them inside the cupboard or closet that is built in the space under the stairs they are normally pretty small.
You need to rewind mate and maybe just watch a bit longer as you’re keeping your assumptions even though the video just explained we use miles and some imperial measures
You’re right imperial sucks, Britain has kept some ‘cultural’ imperial measures but for most things and engineering it’s metric, which is far superior.
It pissed me off in my engineering classes when they made me do some stuff in imperial saying that we need to know them incase we ever work for or with an american company
Yep Tyler we still use both! Biggest example weather...we use F for high temps and C for low ie. Its 101° or its minus 1... yep we built a shed and made it a mancave!
Back in the dark ages when pubs kicked out at 2.30 pm we would go to the co-op and get a gallon of cheap cream sherry and head to the park to keep us going until pub re-opening at 6pm. Most saturdays and at kicking out time 11pm go and hang out around a burger van.
To say Eurovision is a huge event is an understatement.
It lost a lot of popularity in the last years though. I think controversies started when Conchita Wurst was elected, although not being the popular opinion.
Really?! I really don't think it's THAT big in the UK lol.
It used to be presented by Terry Wogan who always made fun of it. We would love to win it but never took it too seriously. It also became political with countries voting for their neighbours and so on.
@@Dan.Dawson MAybe not so much now, but it's huge in Europe, especially eastern Europe.
@@Brookspirit agree, definitely bigger in the EU & Russia...
Tea and beans ! I got that far and had to stop watching. Nice to know your learning is progressing so well 😆
The Imperial measurement system grew out of the Industrial Revolution. Improved manufacturing methods eventually required greater accuracy and uniformity of measurement so, for example, rifles from one manufacturer could accept ammunition from another, and so on. Previous to that measurements were much more casual and imprecise.
please find a video on uk roundabouts. the magic roundabout in hemel hempstead will blown your mind
Aaaarggggh! I wish you’d just hear out each topic in its entirety before rushing off to google it! Because it usually answers your question in the next sentence!! By all means stop the video and Google away to your hearts content before the next topic starts!! It’s so annoying!! 😂
'cups' is very childish.
Not realy childish, cups are used to measure stuff, especially for cooking recipes. Not so much in the UK anymore, but before we converted to metric, cooking ingredients were often given in cups, I think it's about 8 ounces when measuring a liquid.
yes place is called Nando's, I'm in UK and been to Nando's a lot but never used or heard of the term Cheeky Nando's. We use the word cheeky in a few ways, like lets have cheeky beer. So it may be used in that sense by some, but I never heard of it as a regualr saying with connection to Nando's specifically.
I live in a small town in Washington state, and a few years ago we got our first round about. We know have six. They are much better than stop signs. If no one is there you just go through and most people I. My town don’t know how stop signs work. I love them I hope we get more.