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Dan wrong about pull cord lol....the voltage in Uk and most of europe is 240v as to USA 110 v, no swicthes or outlets in bathrooms , water and 240v will kill you, pull cord no conectivity
yeah the light is either a pull cord in the ceiling or a switch on the outside of the bathrooms
Exactly
wet hands plus electricity not a good idea lol
Also why you can have a working electric kettle in the UK but not in the US
I think the main reason we have cleaner/newer looking cars is because there are stricter rules about the safety of our vehicles. If it doesn’t pass the yearly MOT then it’s illegal to drive it until the issues are fixed.
Agreed. It's not about clean (except for emissions) - it's about being SAFE - both for the driver and other people.
A lot of of the things they said is a load of of crap!!! Don’t listen to them lads. ❤
Traffic light sequence - is green; then amber (which means stop) then red (which is also stop). Then RED AND AMBER (which STILL means stop), then green, when you can go again.
In the UK pedestrians DO have the right of way. Especially if you are turning a corner. Also, you are expected to stop if someone is waiting at a crossing.
Was about to say the same thing.
That's only a fairly recent change to the highway code though since the original video they are reacting to here was first aired... So they were correct at the time!... That law has changed since.
Migration from 3rd world has changed the safety and courtesy
Soon has I step on the zebra crossing the the cars must stop and that's been the rules for years. Failure to stop is a traffic violation and can result in a fine and/or points being put on the motorist's license
@@davidholgate123rubbish the rules have not changed since 1951
Hitting pedestrians is still frowned upon here, if you are intending to drive 😆
The metric and Imperial systems are both used in the UK.
As an English person living in England my whole life, I would take a lot of what they said with a big pinch of salt... I could correct almost half of what they said in that video ... but no one has the time for that 🤣
Came here for 8weeks and know everything. So frustrating 😫
I was thinking that. Half of what they say is utter nonsense and won't help them much. Lol
There is a law in the UK that we cannot insult the Royal Family or political figures? Really? They ought to let us Brits know about that really then, shouldn't they? because slagging off the Royals and politics is our national pastime
They obviously never watched Spitting Image or similar TV shows... They DO spout a lot of crap! 😂😂😂
I think someone was taking the piss and seeing what dumb shit the yanks would believe
Someone's been pulling their leg and they've fallen for it, hook, line and sinker !
Yeah, there are a lot of old laws (like blasphemy) that were technically illegal until very recently but this isn't one of them. British people have been mocking royalty and politicians for literally hundreds of years.
Never heard of it. We have freedom of speech but you can’t be racist or say racist things to people. That’s rightly illegal
The speeding fine thing is complete bo**ocks. Tickets are either fixed penalty or set by a court based on earnings.
They might be mixing up England and Finland.
"tea and milk, in equal parts"
I don't know any Brits, even children, who drink equal parts tea and milk.
Admittedly, I rarely drink tea, myself. I'm a coffee drinker. I add about a small spoon (what we would call a teaspoon) with of milk to my coffee, and two small spoons of sugar. And that's it.
Yeah it's a splash of milk. Them yanks got loads wrong.
Had a great aunt who made tea and coffee by heating up milk and pouring it onto the teabag or coffee granules.
I've always drank them without milk, so she didn't know how to make black tea when I asked for it!
There is no law restricting what you can and can't say about the royal family, most Brit's will respect the royals purely from choice.
No one puts 'cream' in tea! And the milk is never half a cup... These two have spouted crap or actually have misunderstood a lot of things. 😂
There's no laws against criticising the royals or politicians. Though it is a crime to deface a banknote. Football managers can get fined for criticising the referee.
I grew up in the UK and there were always dogs in pubs in the 70s/80s because the old men would tell their wives that they were taking the dog for a walk but they'd only take them as far as the pub then stay there for a few hours. The dog would get some crisps (chips) and an ashtray full of beer.
Our cars have to go through an annual check. If they fail it, they are off the road.
Totally not against the law to say bad things about the queen... Sex Pistols called her a fascist in the 70s and never got arrested:) They are talking bollocks.
I always thought Lydon was drawing parallels between the devotion to the Queen as being akin to the personality cults that exist in fascist societies rather than outright calling the Queen fascist; it being more a statement on British society being flawed in its devotion to one woman whilst so many working class kids had no future at all. The songs original title was 'No Future' and was changed by McClaren to be more provocative
@@adamcashin4021 "God save the Queen and the fascist regime" is reasonably blunt I'd say
@@KevPage-Witkicker Its Line 1 - 'God Save the Queen.' Line 2 - The Fascist Regime' (No 'And' linking them together). I think its an allegory to draw a comparison.
Whilst Lydon's lyrics were blunt and provocative they were seldom meant to be literal. Lydon is not condemning Pauline for having an abortion with the lyric 'She was a no-one who killed her baby' in Bodies , he is vocalizing the prejudice and judgement Pauline experienced and internalized, in order to refute this. Lydon has also refuted the literal reading of 'Anarchy for the UK' as being more of a statement about wanting to be a disruptor and change the way society views things, rather than literally wanting to live in Anarchy and being the Anti-Christ. "Anarchy is a terrible idea". "I never was (an Anarchist)"
Back to GStQ. Its possible that Lydon literally meant that the Jim Callaghan Labour Government of 1977 were actual fascists; but for me I think it was simply a statement about how insane it was to revere someone who in Lydon's words was 'Just a piece of cardboard they drag around on trolleys' and spend so much time and money on celebrating effectively an arbitrary length of time achieved in a meaningless position rather that deal with the fact that the entire country was f**ked and many had no future.
@@adamcashin4021 Jesus christ mate I was being flippant to start with I can't be arsed to read all that. There's no law about slagging off the royals, end of.
@@KevPage-Witkicker Oh most def no law against slagging off the royals.
I do love the Sex Pistols and hate to see their lyrics misunderstood.
The thing I've realised through watching many videos of Americans eating with cutlery, and the resulting comments section, is that 'proper table manners' is possibly the one subject that will unite brits across the class divide. We are trained to never show up our Mums in public & we will judge you for it, despite our best efforts 😂
It's also a plot point in an old SOE war movie, the American spy gives himself away in a French cafe with his 'incorrect' use of cutlery.
Even touching your phone while driving in the UK is illegal
Should someone let that couple in on the secret about having freedom to criticise the royals,😂 their friends/workmmates were taking the mickey out of them.
They have so so many things wrong!! Just one example, there is a simple reason why they didn’t see people using their phones in their hands while driving because it is a criminal offence and that includes texting. Plus how on earth did they get the impression that fines are based on how famous a person is. Duh.
It’s illegal there too. You’re on your high horse but look like a knob
I think a particular judge made a point of punishing a particular celebrity with a higher fine (I seem to remember such a story a while back) and they generalized it (maybe someone told them it was true).
Good on Daniel's Grandma 👍 teaching etiquette xx
traffic lights are this way because we drive manual gear box & use the amber light to get in gear ready to go on green.
we have 600 year old wooden houses, we just didnt burn everything when we got pissed up.
BTW it is illegal to use the phone when driving!
I don’t think she drank much tea in the UK
I can walk into a redtsurant and EVEN before hearing them spesk, can (usually) spot Americans straight away. They cannot use cutlery properly... Its like watching children eat. They hardly use a knife and pointlessly switch the fork from hand to hand. In the UK, Europe and Australasia we get taught how to sit at mealtimes, using the knife and fork correctly. I have travelled to many parts of the US over 40 + years and am constantly fascinated watching (most) Americans using 'silverwear'. Also, bathrooms or shower rooms have the switches outside or the pull cords are inside to avoid wet hands contacting electricity (because our power, 220-240V, is double that used in the US), so an kill ! 🤔😎
The video should be retitled ‘101 opportunities for British people to shout what a load of bollox at two people on a video’ Spencer, forget everything you just heard and have a great (not amazing) time
Or perhaps, bollocks... !? 😂
@@stewedfishproductions9554 I wasn't sure if the CZcams police would let me type it correctly 😀
Yes, in the uk a garden is just your outdoor space and has nothing to do with what you do or do not grow in it. Whoever told them fines vary by level of celebrity , or that you can’t say bad thing about royals/politicians was either stupid or being mean and making fun of their gullibility, or yanking their chain as people who think they’re funny might call it 😅
We have the freedom of expression. You can say what you want until that affects someone else's life or is inciting hate. You can say fuck the monarchy and there are groups who are trying to abolish the monarchy and in a democracy that is perfectly fine.
You’re well out of date. Police spend more time on perceived slights and exploitation of so called hate crimes that aren’t real crimes than anything now
Indeed. Even the high court ruled against the conservatives when they brought a complaint about being called tory scum.
You can say whatever you want about politicians and the royal family. Also, you do not put cream in tea, milk yes, cream no.
We have what is called an M.O.T. which is a test to make sure your car is road worthy and not belching out smoke.
"Garden" doesn't generally refer the a place to grow veg or food in this context - more often it's just lawn, usually with flowers and shrubs. If you were describing a place where you grow veg, it would be a "vegetable garden" or allotment.
the pull cord is so you aren't directly touching the switch with wet hands
Lights in bathrooms is safety. Remember we have double the voltage, and water and leccy don't mix. The chords are non conductive so it can't travel to you if there's a fault. They're an older thing, usually your switch is just outside the room.
*cords ...unless you're referencing musical chords...
Ok, these people are not getting a representative experience on the UK. Take all of this with a pinch of salt and do it your way Spencer 🥰🥰🤘🤘
They got the pedestrian thing completely wrong. Something you'll need to bear in mind if you're driving here. Jaywalking is not even a term in Britain, people cross the roads, etc, usually when it's safe to do so, and drivers need to keep an eye out for pedestrians, cyclists, and farm animals if you're driving in the country.
@Jaywalking' as a concept was invented in the USA - 'jay' is an old US term for idiot - by the US car manufacturers, to sell more cars.
Nothing to do with "celebrity". What they mean is the fines are 'means appropriate', tailored to the perpetrator's income and therefore an actual punishment which doesn't give favour to the better off to whom a speeding fine wouldn't otherwise matter.
Lots of shops are open late. Except maybe in small villages. But even the small village I live in, has two shops open until 10 pm. Town centres will usually have a 24 hour supermarket / grocery store. There's plenty of 24hr garages (gas stations) too, where you can get essentials from.
Celebrities get higher fines???? Whatever…. Who told them that!?
Also do not fuck the pedestrians, metaphorically, you will end up being arrested
Should they literally do it?
I’m only half an hour in but so much of their experience is not what my experience of actually being British is. We don’t call fries chips, fries are fries and nobody puts vinegar on fries. Chips, fries, crisps, three different things.. I think they were mixing in more middle class circles than working class.
Electrics are way safer here, pull switch in restrooms / bathrooms (as originals were all metal and wet hands and electricity don't mix). Now a lot have the switch outside the door.
The plugs have an Earth and an override switch in most cases!
Traffic lights.
Red - obv
Red & amber - prepare. You must not go
Green - go.
Amber - stop if safe. You may only continue if stopping would cause an accident or cause others to brake excessively.
Basically if its not green you stop or stay stopped
It is a criminal offense to even pick up your phone in stationary traffice in the UK
It’s illegal there too
it's an offence to misspell offence
@@eddisstreet
I actually came to make the same comment... LOL 😂😂😂
And traffic 😂😂
As for smoking - in UK, smoking is banned inside any premises, including pubs, hence the only place smoking is allowed is in the open air.
The main thing is, don’t worry at all about these minor differences. None of them will make any difference to your stay here. Just enjoy the experience.
They’re speaking so much nonsense. Celebrities get bigger fines? Never heard of that
State of repair ? Google M.O.T. Every car must be annually tested for roadworthyness.
Roadworthiness
I'm from not-so-bad-Britain and when I complement my friends and families meals I say it's, "mostly edible" as my understated way of saying it's excellent.
In regards to dogs in pubs and cafes. Not everyone knows everyone's dogs. My village pub has a river running right by it. In the Spring and Summer people on long boat holidays park their boat up and come into the pub for a drink and a nice meal. They all bring their dogs in. So we get a lot of strangers with dogs coming in. It's all good though, everyone gets along. The pub itself has 3 dogs wandering around.
And we don't have paper money anymore, it's polymer money now. You can't tear it. We have pill cord switches in bathrooms as light switches and wet hands don't mix. So a pull cord is safe.
Americans say faucet…but ask for tap water.
They always put the month first, but say “fourth of July”… 🤪
"There's no ch in those words"
No, but there's a u.
In Europe you are Not alowed to use your phone(with hands)while driving
Restaurants in Uk mostly stay open to at least 11 pm
I always specify 'no ice, thanks' whenever ordering a soft drink in a pub and before your glass gets automatically plunged into the ice bucket as a Coke, lemonade or any other soft drink will normally come with a whole glass of ice and a pipette of drink as standard. And most soft drinks will normally be refrigerated and cold enough anyway without needing ice taking up space.
As most people are saying in the comments, they got a lot wrong in this video....in fact, most of it. I suspect they were comment baiting (by saying ALL Brits do or have things) or didn't realise people were joking when they told them stuff they accepted as fact. As you correctly assumed, these are yuppies who probably hung out with other yuppies. If they were with bell ringers they are almost certainly heavily religious (hence their anti-abortion dig) and they got a very narrow experience. Brits would much rather hang out with you guys than those tools, and you will find American culture isn't alien to Brits as most of the best TV, film and music is considered American. You might be mildly surprised by some things but you will find that you will be just fine with hardly any adjustments. These videos try to make you think other cultures are aliens. These are just entitled yuppies who saw very little of the true England and saw one case of something and assumed it was like that everywhere. Just remember, AC isn't standard in UK, if it's hot you will probably just have to open a window.
Do not be on the phone when you are stopped at lights etc or you may find yourself in trouble from the law
Ball ringing is for church bells, it's FANTASTIC
*bell 😆😉❤
@@andreab449
Yeah, ball ringing is a completely different thing.
@@jerribee1 🙈😂
Just remember to let go of the cord or you will get pulled up with the bell. Lol
Campanologists learn the ropes and make happy campers.... 😊
spencer, no one has tea with cream in it here,, "cream tea" is a meal served at tea time.
We also have £5 pound Coins, but whilst they're absolutely legal tender, they're quite rare and they're owned mostly by collectors
Tube is the most common reference for the…tube, although a lot of people call it the underground only 45% of the tube in London is underground
Isnt metro french?
Many churches no longer ring bells. Partially because you need a team of skilled bell ringers to do it, partially because maintaining the bells is expensive. So, they either play a recording or more likely don't have any bells. You need a club for the churches with multiple bells for the bell ringers to learn and practice the different "peals" of bells to keep up the tradition and bang out the tunes.
Number 102….
Our hospitals provide tea and cookies.
To all patients in hospital, who are well enough to eat and drink.
Just thought I’d throw that random fact out there 😂
Most visitors too if they are there when the 'tea lady' comes around/
And after a general anaesthetic they won't discharge you until you finish your tea and biscuits.... They gave me Biscoff and hob nobs last time 😋
Im not sure where they got the idea that we give our heights in centimetres, the vast majority of the time heights are given in feet and inches.
As for traffic lights, yellow on its own means it's about to turn red. Just before green, red and yellow appear together, so there's no risk of confusing the two.
In our meals we have the starter then the main course. Entrée is just a fancy French word for starter. Im not sure how the US ended up with it backwards.
Just use cards for payment, best idea as may places in London now do not take cash
Or your phone - or your watch.
Isn't there a six Pence?
There used to be but that and many other coins (shilling, threepenny etc) disappeared when we ditched empirical for metric in the 70's. There was a time when there were 240p in a pound rather than 100.
We tend to mix our use of empirical and metric. So we still commonly use ft and inches to describe our height but forms require centemeters. It's even common to use Celsius to describe cold weather and Fahrenheit to describe hot weather. So -1C in winter and 96F in summer.
In big cities, getting food anytime is not an issue. Out in the sticks, probably motorway service stations are your only option.
In regards to freedom of speech. I found the US has less freedom of speech. I worked at a car dealership when I lived in the US. A guy I worked with got fired for calling a Japanese car a "Jap car". It was deemed offensive in the US. You've seen British TV and the things they say. Jimmy Carr is always joking about how the royal family whacked princess Diana and other wild stuff like that. People go to royal events and shout all sorts.
The string light in the bathroom is for safety purposes. It is wired into ceiling so it is unlikely any water would reach it and that safety reason is also why we don't have sockets for electrical appliances in the bathroom
I think neither of you should be driving. No, you cannot go on amber.
wait stone houses last longer than wood? I am shooketh
In the UK, any vehicle over 3 years old then MUST have an annual MOT (Ministry of Transport) check. It ensures that the vehicle meets road safety and environmental standards. If it fails the testing, you have to correct the issues otherwise the vehicle cannot be driven on the road.
Voltage is why we have pull cords inside bathrooms or a switch outside the bathroom.
Our 220 voltage is lethal. So by law, you can not have any standard electrical outlets or switches in a bathroom. Water and 220V don't cohabitate very well.
If your ceiling mounted pull cord is in contact with water from your bathroom? Then drowning is probably your primary concern, not the lighting.
My house is 117 years old BTW, it is not considered new.....not built from stone and is falling apart 🤣
My flat (rented) is two years older than me... I shall be 71 this early August 2024. Not new, not ancient but, If _I'm_ old, my flat's old too ?!!
Traffic Lights not quite Lads. What you called yellow we say Amber. But the sequence is Red . Red/Amber Green . Amber. Red. So if Amber is on alone they are changing to Red, if Red and Amber are on together it is changing to Green
9 - Bathrooms have pull cords for the lights because your hands are likely wet and the string won't conduct electricity. Sealed switches solve this problem but the pull cord is cheaper and just as effective. It's also easier to find in the dark, no need to drag your hand over a wall trying to find a switch.
Ignore what they said about pedestrians. I am guessing that they mean at intersections. Because you have jay walking laws, you also have "crossings" at most intersections. We don't have Jay walking so most intersections are not controlled crossings but most people will cross at intersections. We do have pedestrian crossings, some are traffic light controlled, others are "zebra crossings".
You need to familiarise yourself with how these all work and the best way to do that is to quickly read the highway code. It's online and will teach you about crossings, road signs etc etc.
Driving here is 90% like driving in the states. You just need to grasp that 10%. Much of which you will pick up just by going with the flow.
But do not, when you are driving, ignore pedestrians nor as a pedestrian expect cars to ignore you.
Oh and do not turn right (or in our case left), on a red signal. We don't do that. Red is red no matter which direction you are going at the intersection.
A yard here in the UK is concrete or soil. A garden usually has a lawn with maybe some flowers in flowerbeds - sometimes raised for easier access by people in wheelchairs or arthritis - set unto or near the lawn, with footpaths around the flowerbeds.
We may also have a shed for storing gardening equipment, or a greenhouse for growing young plants or veg.
Some ftont gardens have been concreted over to park cars there, but back gardens may have decking, or a patio incorporated near the back of the house.
Yards are most often associated with businesses or railways, or stabling. Some older houses may just have a small paved yard at the back and flowers in pots, garden urns, or window boxes if space is limited, and are usually walled around the perimeter.
Front gardens may have low decorative walls or wooden fences, with or without gates at the access* point leading to the front door of the house, and / or leading to a side or back door to the house. (level with the pavement by the roadside*).
FYI: Although we DON'T have any jaywalking law in BRITAIN, we DO have it in the UK. In Northern Ireland (and the Republic of Ireland too), jaywalking is a 'thing' and you can get an 'on-the-spot' fine in the main city's. Many Brits don't even know the law exists and are generally given a verbal warning by the Garda on the first occasion.
We do not use cheers as a greeting,that would be crazy!😂
So much of this is wrong. Too much to type. I'll just like all the comments that point them out lol.
2:14 your instincts are correct in this case Daniel. I've seen this video before
41:50 there is no law prohibiting speech against the royal family or political figures.
In fact the High Court ruled last November that it's OK to call the Conservative party "Tory Scum" after they tried bringing a legal claim against someone.
Tories are scum, so there's no denying that fact.
Yes, we have post offices, but you can also pay for postage online, print a label and hand the parcel to the postman.
The parking fine thing is nonsense. Not true.
Those differences are not likely to be a problem and they are middle class Americans so just like U.K. middle class its in one ear and out the other.
Lights in bathrooms are pull cords so you don't use a 240 v switch with wet hands...
A story Daniel will appreciate, from Iraq - a colleague from 101AB was doing a combined op with the Brits for an agreed entry to a building via the first floor.
The problem started when only the Brits brought ladders - so the Americans had to improvise...
All vehicles in UK have to pass a safety check every year. They have to meet the same standard as the year they were made.
In the UK cars have to pass an annual MOT, to prove they are still roadworthy. This includes an emissions test. Over the years the emissions test has become progressively more strict, with road tax levels linked to emissions. Also in some cities you can't drive certain types of car if they don't pass certain emission limits.
I rarely see a mother holding a baby and smoking, they would get called out for this, but yes definitely more smokers in the UK
We have freedom of speech in the uk, we don’t have freedom to hate.
The Amber light means get ready to go if after red, if after green it’s to stop ready for the red light.
The monarch is above politics
LOL
1:21:01 packages, if no one is in, are mostly delivered either to the nearest neighbour who is in or for example Amazon, a designated area like back porch or behind bin.
Soup and biscuits? Definitely not a thing in Britain. These people are so weird.
they must have visited the sticks, as most shops are open pretty late in large cities with some 24-hour options in the biggest. However look out for Sunday opening times as most supermarkets close at 4pm
What the hell are these pair on I think I got to the coin issue and I'm just going to say. Spencer just politely ask someone. They know very little.
It's a myth about us only having separate taps, faucets (some do some don't)
240v electric = light switch on string or outside bathroom - prevents shock.
As for smoking: control the things you can control. If you do not like to walk behind a smoker walk slower or cross the street. Don't bitch because you don't like to smell the smoke. You can not control others so control yourself.
The American Cutlery juggle is Hilarious 😂.
The pull cord is a safety thing due to the 240v system. Some places like my home have a normal switch outside the bathroom.