American? 12 things you should know about the UK
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- What makes the UK tick? After living here for a few years, these are the things that make it unique, and if you're American you'll see why.
What's different about the British way of life? How is the UK way of life unique? Here's 12 ways I think you'll find the UK does things in their own particular style.
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UK has DIRECT DEBIT & STANDING ORDERS
The difference being that with Direct Debits the other person controls how much is taken out of your bank account, which can lead to nasty surprises. Whilst with Standing Orders YOU control how much is sent out, no nasty surprises.
DD = money is taken
SO = money is sent
And I cannot believe that this is unique to the UK. It just cannot be. Isn't it how the world goes round?
Please note that "ROYAL MAIL" and "THE POST OFFICE" are two separate companies. The scandal, trials and subsequent enquires are with THE POST OFFICE and are nothing to do with ROYAL MAIL. (The only real scandal with ROYAL MAIL is how they contnually increase their prices seemingly on a whim!)
Post office = heads, Royal Mail = tails, different sides of the same coin
The key word is Sorry. If you bump into someone and it's their fault, you apologise to them for their carelessness. Totally agree about Please and Thank you. That was drilled into me more than sixty years ago. If in doubt, drink tea.
I would say the word is something like "'S'ah'R" - which can sound like "sorry" or "that's all right"! One person will say it, and another will reply with it!
Haha!
I was always brought up with my mother saying,
Please and Thank you doesn't cost you anything but means a lot to who ever revives it.
True.
Don't forget that when one is asked how you are, one's answer should ideally be "not too bad" never how one actually feels even if you are seriously ill. The question is not a request for information but an addition to the greeting. Now that's British.🙂🇬🇧
In the UK your national insurance number is also your social security number. My card I received aged 15 and it has the old social security logo printed on it and can be used as ID in certain circumstances aswell.
Today we've had warm sun, a bit of wind, some rain, snow & heavy hail. Currently it's calm & sunny. Welcome to the UK weather.
No hail here, but about the same 😅
A Standing Order is a fixed sum but a Direct Debit varies according to variations in the amount owing from month to month.
Standing order is YOU arranging to PAY a fixed amount from your account.
Direct Debit is giving a COMPANY permission to TAKE money from your account.
And we don't say 'very unique'. It is either unique or it is not.
Completely agree. Unique is an absolute. Something either is, or isn't, unique. There are no degrees of uniqueness. In the same way you can't be "slightly pregnant" or "a little bit dead".
Quite…. use of redundant words is so common by Americans and if they don’t know a word - they make one up.
@@ChrisJ144 To be fair you can't listen to Radio 4 for long before hearing "very unique"
@@ChrisJ144Like burglarized when it should be burgled.
@@mikejarvis7304 it’s interesting that you say this but also used the word “uniqueness”. How would you use this word if there are no degrees to uniqueness?
Nothing is truly unique, and in reality nothing is absolute either. There are degrees to everything, including “uniqueness”
As my mother would say 'manners cost nothing'.
On giving way as a pedestrian, I even take the long way round in the supermarket rather than ask someone to move out of the way. And I will wait to reach for something off the shelf if there's already someone there browsing. I was brought up to be polite!
You’re a true Brit! 👏
Very important to remember that all tourists and visitors have freedom to walk line abreast, take up all of the path/pavement etc. and force people coming the other way into the traffic/off the cliff edge etc. Also with dogs on string.
@@etherealbolweevil6268 😅😅😅😅
I’m knocking 70 I think you know this . As kids when mum or dad sent you to the local shop. It was always Drummed into you don’t forget to say p and Ty
In British banking a Direct Debit is NOT the same as a Standing Order. A Direct Debit is at the behest of the company you are paying, who take the money as they require, & they can alter the amount charged. A Standing Order is controlled by the account holder, who can decide how much & how often to pay. Most of the other stuff here was about correct.
A company can change the amount of a direct debit but they must inform you before doing so.
They have to tell you when they are changing the amount and you can stop it.
From Which:"Are direct debits safe?
Usually, you have to sign a direct debit form, although some companies are authorised to set up direct debits over the phone.
If that sounds a little risky, remember that the company must have obtained the bank account details from you and that you are protected by the Direct Debit Guarantee
In order to be an approved company, the beneficiaries of direct debits are subjected to careful vetting procedures and, once approved, they're required to give indemnity guarantees through their banks.
The Direct Debit Guarantee applies to all banks and building societies taking part in the direct debit scheme. It states that your bank should refund disputed payments without question, pending further investigation. It says that:
-if there is a change in the amount to be paid on the payment date, the person receiving the payment (the originator) must notify you in advance
-if the originator or the bank/building society makes an error, then you are guaranteed a full and immediate refund of the amount paid
you can cancel a direct debit at any time by contacting your bank or building society. Written confirmation may be required. You should also notify the organisation.
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When asked “can I get” my answer is usually “I don’t know, can you get it” the correct way is “ can I have”
May I have.......
May i have
Always may I have ...
Useful points, as usual. Thank you. The bit about first and second class post reminded me of the story that in the Second World War some German spies were caught because they tried to buy Second Class train tickets - British trains only had First Class and Third Class carriages. That sounds odd but the story is that one railway tycoon declared that "no Englishman should have to travel second class." The Midland Railway abolished Second Class, and improved its Third Class provision as a way of competing for passengers.
How fascinating! Thank you 🙏
Car Registration Plates are not totally fixed to a single vehicle, it is possible to transfer them from one vehicle to another but its a PIA and unless you have a vanity plate no-one bothers
Glad to have you living in the UK. Enjoy
The Queen's funeral queue was so orderly because it was well designed by experts in crowd science.
The best bit was that the queue had another queue to get into it.
@@andyonions7864 Even more British!
Hi,
Re standing orders vs direct debits in UK we do use both,
a standing order is for a fixed amount, £10 per month or similar, a direct debit is for a variable amount maybe an electric bill where you don't know how much it will be until the end of month/quarter... direct debits can be set to be a given amount but with small variations allowed.
Most suppliers would rather a direct debit, standing orders are quite rare these days.
In effect for a standing order your bank sends money to the supplier at regular intervals.
for a direct debit, the supplier is authorised to request an amount at given times, they may not ask early, they are limited to an approximate amount, an it is their responsibility to ask., your bank will then respond with a transfer to their account.
A standing order is set up by the account holder and can be made out to anyone as payee.
Direct Debit can be fixed or variable, but can only be paid out by the payees request, and you have option to cancel at anytime, usually both Bank and payee need notification of cancellation.
A Standing Order is what you can set up yourself, so 'you' are in charge of what and how much you want to pay each month. ~A Direct Debit is set up by a company and they can control of how much you pay each month
@@anitawhite2669 pretty much what I said
@stephenlee5929 - You have more control over Standing Orders.
@@cathyrussell7157 true, but you have greater protection with dds.
If payment fails, or is not requested it is the recipient who is responsible not the payer as with standing orders
on the subject of giving way, flashing your headlights to allow another driver to come through or out of a T junction but woe betide the recipient of this benevolent act if he or she fails to give a little wave or flash of hazards in thanks. i live for that wave.
Indeed
The General Post Office, GPO, used to do mail, post offices, and most telephone systems. But some time ago British Telecomms and Royal Mail were turned into separate companies and sold off. They decided it wasn't possible to get rid of the Post Office so it's now a separate organisation entirely owned by the government (and in trouble).
It is not owned by the government, it is a quango to milk money off to the elite
Always a joy to watch your content Tessa! Stay Classy Lassie!
National Insurance number is assigned at birth. It's shown on the Child Benefit payments
Over 16.
You have a Child Reference Number before 16...your national Insurance Number is sent to you usually a few months before your 16, but you don't have an NI number at birth...
Quite a lot that you weren't quite correct on but not to bad, you're doing reasonably well. Also a queue, please and thank you's, giving way etc are showing respect not just niceties.
@robertobrien5709 - She wasn't totally correct about some things, but pretty right about most things.
Your 'sort code’ is not unique to you. It is the i.d. of your bank branch.❤
Just a reminder - when in a shop and you see something on a shelf you would like and there is a person serving, the most polite way to ask for it is to say “may I have one of those…… *item*….please?” and not the curt demand “can you/will you get me the …*item* “ or “pass me the …. *item*” without so much as a please or thank you….
Having worked in 22 years, the temptation to reply “yes, I CAN/WILL get you what you want but also saying please would be good…” was always there but - the shop’s staff code towards “customer conduct and behaviour” meant keeping it 🤐🤐!
So, saying “may I” not “can you/will you” and then a little please and thank you after, will always give good customer service 👍🏻😊
I've heard a lot of Americans asking the server 'Can I get'. Are they literally going to jump over the counter and get the item themselves !!!!! I have now heard my grandson saying this and he is British. He has obviously been watching too much American television programmes.
@@anitawhite2669Absolutely! You’re spot on there. ‘Can I get’ drives me mad! It’s SO rude. My mother (rightly) dinned into me and my brother as we were growing up ‘please may I have’ and boy, did we receive a sharp rebuke if we even said ‘can I have.’ Good manners are not an optional thing; they are essential for the smooth running of society.
@@anitawhite2669 Or too many🙂
@@albertsmyth9616 It used to be that "can I" meant "am I physically able to", whereas "may I" meant "am I allowed to" (or "please help me to"). To the extent that some people, if you said "can I", would reply "I don't know: can you?"
acclimatised is what we usually use. You used both acclimated and acclimatised.
Standing orders, as the name suggest, are for fixed monthly payments. Most UK payments are via direct debits as the amount varies by month.
When the Tour de France came here, we had thousands of visitors by train & the majority tried to get back on the train soon after the stage finished. Our railway station has an entrance on each side of the tracks, so queues formed at both and went in the same direction, the larger crossing a road bridge over the track until the ends of both queues met. The ultimate British dilemma, being simultaneously in two queues going in opposite directions. 😂
That would have been a sight!
Make sure you go to the right paypoint at the car park as some are shared
We pay most of our bills by Direct Debit. -- We have a National Insurance number for our tax.
You have a UTR for tax. You’re probably not aware of it.
No the NI number is to cover work related ID for Work and Social Benefits, I.e Tax deductions, National Insurance deductions, Graduated Pension deductions then when needed Sick Pay, Unemployment Benefit, State Pension. But most of all so that your communications with Inland Revenue, Department for Work and Pensions, and Your Local Council for and if Needed Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit. Just your ID so all those Government departments can collaborate any and all payments to or from yourself. All these government departments have to collaborate the information else you'd never get your state pension. And there's probably a lot more I've forgotten about.
Happy you are comfortable in the UK , you have certainly posted enough videos !
Life is changing here , so enjoy our idiosyncrasies whilst we still have them !
Thank you, I will
You said "Tea" is one of the mainstays of British life - and yes it is hugely popular and has been for a very long time - BUT - in the last year or two Coffee has become the UK's most popular drink for the first time ever. So things may be changing.
I have read that coffee is taking over here, but for me it will always be tea first!
@@HipOverFifty I'm the other way round, I never really got on with tea for some reason - though no idea why. Always preferred a cold drink as a kid and Coffee as an adult. To each their own.
@@alanmusicman3385 I've got a couple of friends who don't drink black tea and one who barely dunks the bag... so you're not alone!
• I'm not sure why you see much difference between your "social security" number and our "national insurance" one; it serves much the same purpose, and you _do_ need to know it, to enter regular employment for example.
True but in the USA it's used constantly, e.g. to get a 'phone installed. I very rarely use my Nat. Insurance number.
@@digidol52 OK, good point. I just happen to remember my NI number, so maybe think it's used more often than it actually is.
There are vanity plates in the UK. They’re called cherished numbers. You can retain this on selling the car and reassign later.
Sorry me again, you actually used the wit acclimatised thanks for that . But you did say acclimated earlier ❤
And you can retain the number plate if you apply to DVLA.
Though there's a restriction on age of the vehicle: I forget which way round it is, but I think you can't put a plate on a car older … - part of the reason for adding date to them was to prevent people claiming a car was newer than it was.
PS. Fish and chips is good tasting food.
National Insurance Number. Is the Social Security number. You need to use it if you are contacting the Department of Work and Pensions.
Hi,
re Postal charges.
US first class at $0.68 is for delivery in 6-8 working days UK first class is delivery next working day for £1.35 I think a closer equivalent would be our 2nd class which has delivery in 2-3 working days at £0.85.
And they're trying to phase that out as well, then only delivering once every 2-3 days, stopping Saturday deliveries, gone are the days of an efficient twice daily postal service, they are only now concerned with bosses that can teach their replacement bosses how to be corrupt.
@@user-qj7et4wv3q True and the days of 5 daily deliveries are also a thing of the past (Victorian era).
I don't think teaching replacements to be corrupt will be required.
Like most privatised UK services, it performs less well than it used to at an inflated price.
But
My point still stands that the service offered the US First Class mail more closely resembles the UK 2nd class and is close in price.
@@stephenlee5929 ah but does it match up when the extra distance to travel is taken into account of the size of population?
@@user-qj7et4wv3q No, I was responding to the point made in the video, that UK mail charges were higher than Americans might expect. And she compared UK 1 day service with US 6-8 day service on price.
I was merely pointing out that the UK 3-4 day service was a closer match on service and price.
I don't know if US supplies a single state service (which I figure might be close to an equivalent to the UK mail, and if so what price that might be.
@@user-qj7et4wv3q Good point, bigger population = more posties so it should get there sooner.
We call it a direct debit too. I don't think I've ever had a standing order.
We say pavement not sidewalk
We say garden not yard, and handbag not purse.
We have nations insurance numbers, which are assigned at birth. You are your national insurance number and you do have to have one, if you don't life can be very difficult if you need to claim benefits of any kind.
We also pay fir things by Pay Pal, Bank Transfer, Debit card, Phone linked to bank acct & finally cash!
@lindakirk698 - There's a growing pressure to get rid of cash. A cashless society would be a dangerous thing.
Hiya. I found it interesting that you used "acclimate" and "acclimatise" (US/UK) in two different parts of the video. Do you often find yourself interchanging colloquialisms? Stay safe. All the best to you.
Could be because I am both British and American!
Correction you are given a number at the registration of your birth it's called a 'Medical Indentification Number'
True, most people don't know that and only realise it when they need to visit a doctor or get a letter from the NHS. Whilst my parent's probably knew I didn't know my number until my work required me to get inoculated for overseas travel. Then I wasn't aware of the change to the new system until later years. In between times my National Insurance Number was sufficient.
You do have to have a National Insursnce number to live,vwork and pay raxes or claim benefits here. You were lucky. Between 1987 and 2022, I wasn't registered with a doctor and when zi went into hospitsl in 2022, my old nzhS number could nit be foubd, so I was issued a new one.
Giving way is competitive: who ever goes first has lost!
Just a few comments from me. 00:47 "You have to have a title" is incorrect. Most online or paper forms now have some kind of "prefer not to say" option. Also, to then go on to talk about Lords and Ladies, is nonsense I'm afraid. 2:55 "Something called a Standing Order, kind of like what we would call a Direct Debit". Two different things. A Standing order YOU set up, to pay someone a specific amount every (for eg) month. A Direct Debit THEY set up, to take a (usually the same, but actually variable) amount from your account every (for eg) month. 4:00 "Be prepared to pay to park everywhere". Not true. Most large supermarkets, shopping areas, etc will give you something like 90 minutes or 2 hours free parking. There are plenty of areas by the roadside where you can park up for free for a limited period, eg. an hour. I'm glad you like living in the UK 😊👍
It always amazes me how these strangers to our ways do these vids and get everything so wrong, are we really that complex.
On the whole, we don't park _up_ , we just park. (What does the "up" mean - would "park down" mean anything?) Similarly, we just meet people, rather than meeting _up with_ them. (On the other hand, we write _to_ people, whereas US just write them. "My mother" - there, I just wrote my mother. [Or typed it of course!])
@@G6JPG "On the whole"? So what do "we" do in the other, less usual cases?
@@garlichr I meant I have heard British people say "park up", it's just not as common as just "park". American English inserts the little words like "up" a lot more than British English. Neither is wrong, they're just different.
Post code is at the bottom of the address
Very unique. Oh dear.
i was born in Scotland 1939 now us citizen i do have abritish passport also. would i be on the NH S registry? if i dedcided to live in UK how would I apply ....just doe indo...thinking of stayunf for a year possivly buy a cottage😊
I didn't know that I had a NH number until I was almost 50, I always thought that my NI number was used for every thing.
I've always known my National Health Number, as I had a card with it on from childhood. It was a four letter, two number code. I discovered two years ago, at the age of 67, that the NHS had at some point introduced another ten-digit code which nobody had ever told me about. Don't you just love bureaucracy?
@@davidjones332 Ditto
Don't forget there's other countries in great Britain apart from England. Americans I believe don't like being called Canadian and vice versa, and Britons other countries don't like being called English.
Yes, but Canada is not part of the United States
More like Americans don't like being called North Americans.
We don't say acclimated, we say acclimatised. (with an s, not a z).
The UK has both direct debits and standing orders. The difference is that the STO is a push FROM your account to the beneficiary, a DDR is a pull from your account by the originator. Usually things like utility bill, mortgage payments etc will be a DDR.
Your National Insurance number is in effect your social security number. You get one when you are 16 if you are a UK resident.
Standing Orders and Direct Debits are not the same thing.
Don't forget 'Professor' among titles.
Or Sir. Or in Brian May's case both Sir and Doctor
And reverend or any other ecclesiastical titles.
I was horrified in the USA how nobody says please or thank you when getting a drink at the bar
Afraid it's mostly true, manners aren't taught early!
National insurance is your social security number
Don't forget.. if you like to gossip it is a perfect place to live.
True about the Queues ,we even join them when we don't know what it's for.
Funny people do that. Some small crowds can grow, attracting more nosey people ending in accidents and disorder. Crowds are single cell organisms almost.
@@fredeagle3912 I think you mean crowds are multi-celled entity's with the mindset of a single cell, then yes 100% agree.
@@fredeagle3912 but they do act in unison though
A standing order is not the same as a direct debit.
I said it’s like a direct debit so that Americans could understand the process. I understand it’s different But they both come directly out of your checking account!
@@HipOverFiftyWe don’t have checking accounts either. We (increasingly rarely) write cheques from our current accounts.
They both have very different processes, they are not the same thing.
It is not Marquess, It is pronounced Markee (like the French pronumciation)
A marquis (pronounced mar-KEY) is the French translation and equivalent for the British title of marquess (pronounced MAR-kwess). The standard British pronunciation of a French Marquis is also MAR-kwess.
Google it
Car number plates? Some people like myself have private plates that stay with the owner and not the car.
A car when first registered is allocated a registration, which can be changed to a personlised plate. Take that plate off and it reverts to allocated registration.
@@Brian3989yep…that is correct but….she never said that? What she never said was private numbers are available & you are narked cos you can’t get one pmsl
Direct debit is different from standing order.
One gives the payer the control but the other gives the bank control.
DDs are the. norm these days.
Royal mail at it's inception 500 years ago was exclusive to the king and court of the time, it's taken that long to develop to todays disaster.
The Victorians pretty much wrote the book on capitalism - so much so they inspired Karl Marx. Even they understood it had be a not-for-profit, state monopoly.
@@ethelmini yeah but they forgot to account for the possibility of corrupt heads of the monopoly
Several comments on direct debits & standing orders.
Perhaps the most important difference is you can instruct your bank to "pay back" a direct debit if you're not happy with a payment. If you don't cancel a standing order before it's paid out you're on your own in trying to get your money back from the recipient. Both payments could be refused by your bank, if you don't have enough money in the account, or both could cause you to go overdrawn if you have an agreed overdraught. Not everyone realises they do if they've never gone overdrawn before & didn't read the terms & conditions properly.
Also sort codes aren't unique to you, they're the banking equivalent of the post code. They tell the paying bank which bank holds the account to transfer the funds to. Be extra careful to get the account number correct and always fill in the account name. There's a bit more chance an error will be stopped if the name & number don't match. Some people transfer a small amount to confirm with the recipient the details are correct if the amount they want to transfer is too large to risk.
There are no degrees of uniqueness like pregnancy.
Your National Health Number changes! Ive had 3
I'm 67 my NHS number has never changed
How about 13) A lot of Brits have a touch of eccentricity, of which they are quite proud, with a dark sense of humour thrown in for good measure...This includes the Ladies as well, I should add.
As an American accented person, I have to be careful what I say but yes, I appreciate the eccentricity and uniqueness …not the very uniqueness just the uniqueness of British culture 😃
@@HipOverFifty Well glad you're here. All the best.
I’m not alone..there are a few of us left
also we dont have to carry ID, so if stopped by police , just tellthemour name date fo birth and they check it on the radio, then let us go,
Wouldn’t know, but yeah, that sounds about right!
Mar key
We are much chattier than you say we are, chatting to strangers even is quite acceptable
Oh definitely some will be quite happy to chat away but they’re the minority I feel.
I think it’s very variable regionally with the South tending to be less so than the North. And some individual cities are a whole different world - eg my wife (from Surrey) found a shopping trip to Glasgow from my home town (Ayr) a revelation. I don’t think she’d ever been addressed by so many strangers in a single day in her life, including two women who saw her looking at tops is a shop and decided it would be a good idea to have a discussion with her about which ones would suit her best!
I wouldn’t saying queuing is a British thing, I would say it just isn’t a US thing.
Thank you for this excellent snippet. Car Parking in the UK is a right royal pain. Few places offer a universal ticket, or a transferable ticket. (You can't give your ticket to someone else as you exit, or use your ticket in a different car park). A one week break on the coast seemed like a bargain at £160 for a cottage to ourselves. It was a grand holiday away. Parking costs added an extra £500 to the basic price.
City Centres usually charge for parking, even though they are desperate for visitors. Park and ride have become more common., with the City Centre closed to traffic.
Drive to work? This can be expensive. Either take out a rolling contract, or search for somewhere far from the office to leave your car, with all the risks involved.
Hospitals are free to all. Hospital Parking is not free. Even Nurses have to leave the Ward to top up their parking.
England, the central belt of Scotland and parts of Wales are very densely populated; most of the land is not pan-flat, empty prairie so parking space is pretty restricted! (Also councils are rapacious in money grabbing to add to their big, fat, index-linked pensions)
You can give your car park ticket to someone else if there's time left on it and your car registration number isn't on it. I was recently given one by someone and then passed it on to someone else after I'd used it!
@@Lily_The_Pink972 Whenever that happens it feels like Christmas.
There are private, chargeable car parks too eg ncp and paying to park on street
1- I have never seen a form in this country that has an option for `lord` or `lady` of any description. Doctor might be an option, otherwise you tick `other`
2- This country is the size of California
3- Direct debits and standing orders are the same thing here. It jut depends on which end sets them up as to what it is called
Queing is not uniquely British. This is utter c---. If there was no queuing habit there would punchups and fights everywhere and people know it. Thats the way we are. Queuing avoids this
I dont find us to be particularly polite. Often the very opposite
Saying “Sorry” when there is nothing to apologise for?
MARQUESS is pronounced MARKESS.
Every address starts with your NAME, then house number, then street/road name, then city/town and ENDS with the postcode. Look at the illustration you used in the video.
We use STANDING ORDERS and DIRECT DEBITS.
" ACLIMATED " !? Do you mean ACLIMATISED ?
Saying Please and Thank You are just basic common manners in the UK.
"MAR-kwiss". What's wrong with aclimated, did her use of the word result in you not understanding what she said?
@@boomshanka8743There is no such word in the English language. It is a "slang" word of dubious origin
As a cheapskate I only buy second class stamps these days and don’t think there is much difference.
Naughty me forgot my niece’s birthday and posted a card second class that very day and it arrived the next day. I’ll admit that I therefore gave the impression it had been posted a little while earlier given it had a second class stamp 😉
You have to give the RM credit where due … I’m getting terrible about remembering birthday cards so well done!
Depends how busy it is on certain days.When letters ran into millions every day they used to store the 2nd class for 2 days or so and concentrate on the 1st class.Nowadays if it's quite,I suspect they just shove them through the network.
When you live on a crowded island, which is too densely populated, being excessively polite is a survival tactic..
Otherwise we would be beating the *** out of each other. It doesn't oesn't always mean it's sincerely meant. It can be very nuanced and mask annoyance, exasperation or hostility. Enjoy! :)))
I know exactly what you mean!
l am english and object on principle to being required to use a title
I’m with you there!
Fools rush in, the British queue.
My preferred title is THE.
😆
Plus sorry.
Parking is a tax on the lazy & the old/mobility-impaired
Who is this lady talk for or to is this for the American people ...if it is .some of the comments are bullshit by the way thats an American saying not english
Sound quality is awful! Please fix it.
its fine
Or maybe acquire some manners and say thank you to her for supplying you with free entertainment before demanding improvement maybe that might be better than complaining?
@@JacknVictor at least they said 'please'
Uniquely British: They think their beaches are nice. They think their northern cities are "great cities" (irony maybe?). They think fish and chips is good tasting food.
We think those things because they are true.
Lived in a range of area's in UK in my 50 + years, London, Devon, Essex to name a few. Live up north now and Leeds and York are great places, also lived by the coast litreally we have great beaches. Where are you from exactly to make these observations, seems to me your talking out your arse.
I agree. We have some beautiful beaches, especially in the North. Down South some of them are rather pebbly. Without any irony, Britain has some of the most beautiful and historic cities in the world, York, Durham, Carlisle, Lancaster, Edinburgh, Inverness, Nottingham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Stratford upon Avon, Bath, Exeter, Chichester, Cheltenham, Chester, Winchester, Windsor, Caernarfon, Norwich, Cambridge, Ipswich, Ely and that's only those that I've been to personally.
We don't think fish and chips is good tasting food because we speak proper English.
A catalogue of misinformation.
'Acclimated' (sic) is that a real word? Acclimatised is the correct word. Why do Americans just make word up?