15 Weird BRITISH Culture Facts 😅🇬🇧 | UK Life, Habits & Stereotypes
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- Weird things British people do! After a decade of living in England and Scotland, here are some UK habits foreigners don't understand. I absolutely love British culture and all of these are just lighthearted observations! What are YOUR favourite weird British stereotypes and facts? I'd love to hear all about them!
00:00 Intro
00:17 You alright?
01:22 Bathrooms
02:52 Queuing
03:12 Tutting
04:08 English tea
04:52 Sandwiches
05:46 Social class
07:12 British meals
07:54 Pet names
08:48 British politeness
10:25 British humour
11:00 UK fashion
12:21 Trashy holidays
13:44 British TV
14:54 Xs in messages
15:53 I love British culture
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The escalator thing only really applies to London. In the rest of the country you will often see people standing on both sides of the escalator, making it impossible to walk past. It's interesting how many videos I watch which seem to suggest that this is everywhere, not just London.
I’m English and I HATE it when someone says ‘alright?’ I tend to reply out of panic ‘yes thanks, you?’ when they’re heading in the other direction and then they awkwardly say ‘yes thanks’ and that’s the end of the conversation💀
Hahaha YES! I’m the exact same 😂😂😂
I saw a tiktok about when you're "walking down the street and see another person then try not to make *the face* ." I didn't realise how true it was and that I do it! I'm not sure about anyone else but I always (as much as I don't want to) feel the urge to smile or say good morning/afternoon to someone on the street. It makes me feel awkward to do it but rude not to and when they ask me I do what you do. If not then I make the face which is, you know that really forced smile but it doesn't even reach your eyes? Like you tighten your mouth? That!
@@-toby-329 THE RON WEASLEY SMILE.
@@rayna3244 YES EXACTLY!
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Having manners is such a common thing here, like i went to my corner shop and i literally just bought a pack of sweets and managed to say thank you 8 times
Great observations. The only things I was confused about that you said - were there being no outlets in bathrooms. We do have them. But purely for appliances such as shavers, toothbrush chargers etc. We don’t have carpets in bathrooms. Well if we do - it’s very old style. It’d be rare to see them.
Most have none. Tbh never found one til now.
My mum and dad still have Carpet in their bathroom 🤮
The last place I lived had a carpeted bathroom and, yes, it is a nightmare to clean. It's not a universal thing in the UK and I suspect it's a hangover from the 1970s when people became absolutely obsessed with having fitted carpet in every possible space in the home.
Australians love their coffee as much as British people love their tea. Personally I love both. Thank you for letting us understand & appreciate British culture better.
Thanks for watching Samuel! And that’s interesting about the coffee - I guess that’s why we have so many Aussie cafes here in London 😁
As a British person I feel like I need to give my side of this stuff:
"You alright?": Yeah, it's pretty much the British version of what's up, mainly just said by chavs
"Bathrooms": British people don't understand plumbing, there is no in between for boiling your hands off or freezing to death, including in the shower. Fun fact, we also have hard and soft water, if you have sensitive skin, stay out of the north cause that hard water will mess you up, yours truly, someone with sensitive skin renting a place with hard water. Tho we don't always have carpet in bathrooms, I've lived in 3 houses and not 1 has had carpeted bathrooms
"Queueing": We queue for everything, but some people don't understand them and will just queue wherever they like and it's annoying
"Tutting": British people don't get confrontational, we just put up with it and moan about it later. Tutting is pretty much "You're being an arse, stop being an arse please, I'm going to moan about this later"
"Tea": I don't like tea but it is pretty much the peak of Britain, Yorkshire tea is the best brand and it's pronounced "york-sure"
"Sandwiches": We love our cafes and cafes love their tiny sandwich platters. If you can think of it, we've probably made it into a sandwich. Steak, turkey, corned beef, eggs and bacon, fish fingers, etc
"Social class": I feel like this point could be called accents. You can pretty much pin point exactly where someone is from by their voice, I moved for uni and a lot of people pointed out how I was clearly from somewhere further south cause of my accent. I have Londoner friends, Newcastle friends, Yorkshire friends, Glasgow friends, Edinburgh friends and they all have very distinct accents
"Meals": So we have breakfast then dinner or lunch, both work tho people may get confused if you say dinner cause dinner and tea also work. If you call lunch "dinner" then you call dinner "tea" and only posh people call tea "supper" or you just tack on another meal at the end of the day and call it supper
"Pet names": Love, darling, honey, dear, sweetheart. Love it.
"Politeness": Pretty much everything you said, hit the nail on the head
"Humour": Politeness doesn't work in humour, your British friends will make fun of you and call you various thing. Also, British people love dark humour.
"Fashion": If it's a night out, people do not care. You're going to look your best even if you freeze to death. Also, around 16 to 20 degrees C is excellent weather for us.
"Holidays": This is what chavs mainly do
"British TV": I used to hate British TV but these days I love it. Some of the best ones are The Apprentice, 4 in A Bed, Come Dine With Me and if you want a peek into British "high school" life then look at the Educating series
"Xs in messages": Any adult will end messages with xx. Basically, it's just kisses. I've mentioned it to people who do it and sometimes they just say "I do it subconciously"
Love this ❤ i'm English but I recently moved back to the uk from Vietnam after 8 years abroad and observing British culture after being away is fascinating. People watching is my favorite thing to do!
Taps are different in bathrooms due to history. Something about the water tanks/boilers storing bacteria which can make people sick if they drank it by mistake, so to stop this issue they separated the pipes from hot and cold and it's been this way since but it's no longer needed this way, I think due to it always being this way it's become the default
This is TOO GOOD!!! absolutely loved this.
Aww thanks so much Meredith, that means a lot 😁💕
Very informative video. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Visiting London in June with my 3 teenagers who always love to try new food! I'll be waiting for your video about that! Thank youuu!
This seems to be a very charming place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future when all this is over. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!
In some British bathrooms, they don't use switch to turn on/off the light, but a rope to pull up and down 😄
MY GRANDMA HAS ONE OF THOSE OIHUGREORGHUG EVERYTIME I VISIT IM SO FASCINATED BY IT
i have that in one of my bathrooms
Again this is a safety reason , if you get out of a shower / bath even used a sink the chances are you'll have wet hands and by touching a switch you can be electrocuted and with the UK having a voltage of 240v the chances of dieing before a fuse blows is pretty high so a rope switchs is used inside the bathroom , but on the good side new homes ( and older homes upto date ) have trip switching plus they have earth leakage trips and these are set to trip in milliseconds so are very safe BUT never use an extension in bathrooms as they will probably have a 13a fuse in them and you can run a 3Kw fire with them before they blow also if any sockets that are in a bathroom they should only be fitted by an approved electrian by law , so if you ever travel around the world and something is different ask why it is , the odds are because it's something to do with safety and your methods are not as good . I am supprised you didn't mention the 3 pin 13a plugs.
The organisation called the eu tried to make the UK change all their electrical housing installations to the same as the eu BUT all the other 26 countries said no because the UK has the safest system in the world !!!!!!
@@ameanderson8345 , you have hit the nail on the head as you say your grama has one , this might be because the older you get the more you feel the cold due to poor blood circulation , she may of thought she will take it up but has completely forgotten , what you could do is to mention it to her and if she says she would like it removed ask her children would they do it for her , it's surprising how many children think their parents don't need help when in fact they do .
@@lawrenceglaister4364 all those regulations are old fashioned and derived from a era before ELCB , nowaday RCD were wide spread installed. And even older wiring with rubber sheath were not realy trusty, if they become brittle and broken after decades of service it would be not a good idea to touch them with wet hands.
But time has changed and nowadays all electrical switchgear and wiring is much more reliable and waterproof.
Now are sockets and lightswitches are allowed in showers an bathrooms in most EU countries. They must have only a detemines distances to water taps , flushers or bath tabs.
Lightings in shower cabins must run with an extra low volt safety circut via insulation transformer.
With the phrase 'you alright?' you usually respond with something like 'yeah you?' it's also pronounced more like 'youright' or depending on where your from 'youreet'
I always gravitate to St. Pauls several times during a trip over. I admire how it survived the Blitz; it's such a piece of history. Yes, many other buildings are too, but I don't know as much of their stories. Thanks for discussing the 'dinner', 'supper', 'tea', because I never have clarified that distinction either!
We do escalator queuing in San Francisco usually you will see it during rush hour. You know when someone is a tourist, or they don’t ride bart (metro service) on a regular basis.
cant believe i shouted yorkshire out loud when u were thinking of the 4 teas
Nicely explained. Thank you
So glad you enjoyed the video! ☺️
Newer houses and renovations have plugs in the bathroom, but they tend to be shaver sockets similar (but NOT identical) to the continental "Europlug". It's mostly down to safety. The way the wiring is done in British homes is different to most of the world because of massive copper shortages after the war, so we made the "ring main". We put a lot of the safety aspects into the plug itself, like a fuse, or how it's shielded from the live pins when current flows by using the gates and slightly longer top pin to open them. Long story, look up Tom Scott on British plugs for a better explanation!
The carpet in bathrooms thing is gross. It's very rare these days to see it, it was kind of a trend at some point though and was practical for the whole not exactly a warm country (less and less a problem these days thanks to climate change). Most are tiled or use lino or something now, that can be easily wiped clean.
The escalator thing is almost exclusive to the Tube, though a lot of Londoners do it everywhere else too out of habit. It's less common elsewhere in the UK.
The whole dinner vs lunch vs tea thing is mostly a north vs south thing. In the north we say dinner for lunch, and tea for evening meal. It makes sense to us because afternoon tea is generally the time you'd have your evening meal these days, thus... tea! So those southern folk are WRONG!
Our "politeness" is more of a mechanism to avoid confrontation or awkward situations. We like to be at one with ourselves when out and about and it can be distressing when a stranger tries to converse, despite how well meaning they are. I'm sure you've seen this on public transport. Nobody speaks. Even people who are together will mostly sit there in silence or on their phone or read a book or something. We also use "sorry" to replace things like "you asshole" when someone walks into you for example and doesn't apologise. Just change the way you say it lol. Also "you're welcome" in a super sarcastic tone is a good one when someone doesn't acknowledge you doing something like say holding the door for them, or letting them go at a junction when driving.
I absolutely detest "reality TV" in this country. It's pure, utter trash who's only purpose is to make those watching it feel superior because they're not as fucked up... or they are but don't like to admit it.
There have been shaver sockets in bathrooms for a long time. I have seen them in 1970's houses. It is not new. It is working class to call dinner "tea". It tends to be said more in the North although I have heard people say it here in the South. Southerners are not wrong. It is actually correct to say lunch at mid day and evening meal Dinner. You do not hear middle class people saying Tea for a hot meal.
@@valeriedavidson2785 Yes, my house was built in 1966 and has its original bathroom, which has a shaver socket. I removed the carpet though!
I love your explanation on the "politeness"!
On public transport I feel really uncomfortable whenever someone tries to talk to me because when I'm outside I try to keep to my own thoughts. It's like I just want to be alone to think through things, and I just find conversing with people hard.
I have a friend who I talk to at the bus stop and I listen to music on my way to school but the other day she came running up to me and started talking to me when all I wanted was to be on my own and listen to songs before school. She's wonderful and she means well but it's hard. When I'm with a family member or friend on the bus or in the car we're almost always in silence, we just prefer it!
For the "thanks" and "your welcome" thing. Everyone understands when it's sarcastic or not when you're talking to another English person, but I have a friend who is in another country and I've facetimed her before and she said something about being British and I replied with "wow, thanks!" in what I think to be sarcastic and she thought I was genuine.
Honestly, I say Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner but that's just the way I was brought up since even though I live in the North, my parents were raised down South. I've also noticed things like when you're in a different area, people use different words for things. Like bread cob, roll, bun etc. It's really interesting to me!
Sorry I just get excited when I see someone with the same views as me!
I'm an American who is British at heart. I like my proper cuppa as well as coffee. Of course, I have English breakfast tea with milk, but I also like herbal tea. I drink more tea than coffee . I chose to use British English in my every day speech and have changed my language settings on my keyboard so that I can have the proper spellings as well. I annoy people who live in the United States because I refer to long pants as trousers and pants as underpants. I also refer to a public restroom as a toilet or the loo. Boy does that one seem to upset some people. I apologize way too often for some people. It is compulsive with me. It drives some people absolutely bonkers, but I have been doing it for so many years that it's a part of me.
I don't understand why Americans get annoyed when people speak English differently than they do.
Very informative sharing 😻😻😻😻
I was born and raised in the UK (and still live here) and I agree with every one of your points 🤣🤣
Hahah glad to hear it! 😂❤️
those r some really interesting facts .. it was really fun watching the video 🙂
Thank you Rivu, glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
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15 facts in 15 minutes. Well done!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video ☺️
I'm going to London for a 6 months.
It'll be my first time.
So got learn about this country a little.
And probably your videos are the best for me. Because this is a pleasure to observe your beautiful face. And it's good that you don't have a British accent.
Thank you :)
So glad you’ve been enjoying these videos Ihor!! Thanks a lot ☺️
Alright?
Why has the world not come to grips with the concept of sinks? You put the little plug thing in the hole, add hot and cold water to your preferred temperature and, voila, you can now wash up and save water too, instead of just running it down the plughole!
Britain also uses twice the voltage than most of the rest of the world and it's a killer. Run am extension cord to your bathroom and use your hairdryer etc with wet hands in a steamy atmosphere. I guarantee, if something goes wrong you probably wont even know about it. 😂
the EU run the same voltage of 230V. i would say the 220-240V at most used mains voltage in the world.
An extension cord is a legal and common item. It could only misused , eg, an indoor extension cord ist not suitable for outdoor use , especially if its wet and rainy. A proper extension cord can be use for a fan heater on a cold winterday in the bathroom if its suitable to handle 13 Amps, means a flex size of least 1.5 mm² cross section area. I do not mean the cheap Aldi/Tesco super bargain discount £2 extension leads with minimal copper and maximal plastic, where a telephone cord got larger conductivity
Higher voltage means lower current at the same power. Voltage hurts, current burn.
As a londoner, this was hilarious. Good job!
Haha so glad you enjoyed the video! 😁
@Girl vs Globe Tea is Britain's coffee they drink for breakfast right?
Don't know if anyone mentioned while you were in Scotland. But we're turning it into a bit of an annual event on that first sunny day. Taps aff or tops off in English. Becoming a bit of a thing. Like skinny dipping on New Year.
You have an electrician put a shaver socket in this is the only socket allowed in the bathroom due to the high electric current in Britain. The best way to solve the two tap problem is you just fill the sink with hot and cold water and mix it. New houses in Britain do have mixer taps though my house which was built seven years ago has a two mixer taps, a set of separate hot and cold taps and a single tap with hot and cold handles they run independently. It is normal to have a carpet in the bathroom, I have lino in my bathroom and downstairs toilet, if it doesn’t have a bath in it it’s not a bathroom. From working in a supermarket I remember Tetley been no.1, PG Tips, Twinnings small box teas then either Twinnings English breakfast tea or Yorkshire tea or Typhoo tea. We leave school in Britain not graduate that’s for college and university.
It isn't current, it's voltage. And the mains voltage in Britain isn't high, it's correct! Many countries have a mains voltage of around 220-240V.
We did have that iconic BBC Saturday night show, known as Pets Win Prizes.
There are no plug sockets in bathrooms so we don't electrocute ourselves 😁 in my bathroom there is a socket just around the corner from the door on the landing so that's where I charge my toothbrush, plug in my speaker if I'm charging it and want to listen to music whilst I'm in the shower etc
The carpets in bathrooms thing isn't ideal but I think it's becoming less and less common. I don't think I know any houses with carpet in their bathroom... My old house did (90s/2000s) but it was a house built in the Victorian era. But it's probably moreso old houses, a remnant from when we didn't have central heating and British winters are really cold so you want to do everything you can to make rooms in your house warmer. When we had our carpet in the bathroom we just put a bath mat beside the bath so only the bath mat ever got wet when someone got out of the bath. So it wasn't really a problem :)
No I think the American equivalent of "you alright" is How are you? because that's what I kept hearing and I kept answering "I'm fine" but there is no answer expected and I think you're supposed to answer with how are you BUT I was systematically taken off guard each time when I heard this expression.
I just say, I'm good, you? Or I'm fine, you?
well no, in america if you say how are you you would respond with like good or bad or something in britain the response to “you alright” is just “you alright”
This month here in Northern Cyprus British residents are having a tea and sandwiches afternoon.
What you call the meals is a major class indicator! So is the name you use for the room of your house with the sofa/TV in it.
What do people call it other than living room?-very confused British person
@@phillipadavis922 parlour-archaic working class, front room- northern working class, lounge- southern middle class, sitting room- general, classless, drawing room- upper class. Probably some more that I don't know. Then there's the whole question of whether to call the long seat in that room a sofa, settee or couch.
Oops! Seems I was wrong, I just checked, apparently "sitting room" is considered upper class.
@@adrianpetyt9167 Lounge is definitely working class because most homes in Britain are not large enough to have a lounge. It is pretentious. What we sit on is a sofa not a settee which is definitely lower class.
well said!
The reasons there are no plug sockets in the bathroom is because we have health and safety here, lol! I personally prefer tiles in my bathroom but carpets in bathrooms must have bath mats and pedestal mats around toilet and sink to protect the carpet. I live about five to six miles from the town of Sandwich and to get to Sandwich I go past Ham and Worth, LOL!!!! 😁👍👍👍👊✌️. PS, Have you heard the ryhme to banter northerners it go's, Northern born and bred, strong in arm but thick in head, lol! It's a term of endearment but caution is always helpful in some cases, lol! I'm really enjoying your channel, 😁👍👍👍👊✌️.
Sorry is derived from sorrow and means sad, saying “I’m sorry about the weather” is like saying “it’s a shame the weather’s so bad”
alright, mate....very funny video ('m british).....and yes, boy do we love to tut....great to hear all this from your perspective....
Just an FYI, A-Levels are exams that you do in Upper Sixth Form i.e. last year of college
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I'm going to deal with these points one at a time:
1/ Allright: It is a greeting similar to hello but friendlier;
2/ Bathrooms: carpets - very few have them (thank goodness), they are a abomination.; taps - this is to do with history. Home originally only had cold water. These were served via lead pipes and so people had to run the taps to clear the old water from the pipes to drink. Hot water systems were then installed with the water stored in tanks in the roof (cold) and normally an airing cupboard upstairs for hot water. The hot water was from an open tank and therefore bits from the underneath of the roof could drop in and so people couldn't drink this. This meant there was one tap for hot water (undrinkable) and one for cold (drinkable). Houses are changing for example I have one system for both hot and cold with same water, drinking water from both hot and cold and have single taps and mixers. I have to be honest, it sounds very dramatic to say water so cold you can't use it.
3/ Queueing: it's starting to die away, especially where there are larger numbers of non-British living as this seems to be a cultural thing. Queues are fairer, first come first served etc rather than a free-for-all which doesn't make sense to me;
4/ Tutting: be very careful here. There is a range depending on the level of annoyance. Simple tutting is annoyed but I'll put up with it. Tutting and shaking the head means you're really annoying me now and had better watch it. Tutting, shaking the head and breathing out slowly using your mouth means carry on there'll be fireworks. After this there is only one recourse for action and that's mumbling to yourself or being passive aggressive to someone near you.
5/ Tea: not a fan myself but there is almost as much coffee as tea.
6/ Sandwiches: Mmmmmmmm. Cheese and ham with English mustard. nom nom
7/ Social Class: I know my place. There is a very good sketch from the 50's or 60's with John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. If you're interested in this subject then watch and you'll understand.
8/ Meals: Even confused with people indigenous to the islands so don't worry.
9/ Pet names: EVERYONE has pet names, some are dying out such as darling which you rightly say can be patronising.
10/ Sorry: Sorry I have nothing to say, sorry. Daft even if it's their fault when they bump into you, you apologise... Sorry, I know it's difficult to understand...
11/ Politeness: Again this is starting to diminish but is still there. If you don't mind. Sorry.
12/ Sense of humour: Everywhere and about everything. Even things that you may think is taboo.
13/ UK fashion: certain areas such as Newcastle are well known for this. People are basically saying one of two things, either A/ I'm going to look good and I don't care if I get sunburnt/ frozen/ wet etc or B/ I'm hard and don't need protection from the weather.
14/ Trashy holidays: not necessarily abroad but all involve beaches. It's a case of "I'm away from home and I'm going to get drunk, s### and generally act completely differently than when I'm at home". They then go home having trashed wherever they were with great memories! There are also weekends away to places like Amsterdam, Prague, Warsaw and others where there is lots of reasonably priced beer.
15/ British TV: Gogglebox is kind of the same thing you get on CZcams where you see people reacting to music or film etc. You've centred on reality TV, it's a bit hit and miss for me, I prefer a good comedy or drama.
16/ XX: Sorry this is a long response but wanted to provided a little context. xx
you are so right, if it goes over 10 degrees i am in shorts and a tshirt
I also do not normally say the phrase "You alright?" because I think it is more formal to say the phrases "Hello" or "Hi" 👍
I've never seen carpet in the bathroom.
Since anywhere I've seen has laminate/lino or tile and a bathmat plus we don't put carpet in the bathroom apparently.
Just to add further: 1.) houses usually have no air conditioning (it’s freaking hot during summer you could be sweating in your bed at night); 2.) in every bathroom/water closet/toilet & bath (whatever it’s called), the drain is only in the shower room/area. If for some reasons you flooded the toilet floor, you gonna end scooping the water or you could have a flooded apartment/house. 3.) never found a bidet to wash your butthole after you pooped. They love using toilet papers (which for me is less hygienic). 4.) lots of people with tattoos and piercings. 5.) they drink a lot (beers and other liquors). You can always find a group of folks having a drinking session every now and then in every corner.
Thank you
Hi there - I am wondering if it might be possible to add your video to a lesson/page on the intranet for our online uni in the UK? Is it protected by copyright, or do you give me permission to do this? It is for international students who study in the UK. Many thanks for your consideration.
The escalators is how we do it in NYC too. I moved to the midwest and was confused that they all just stand there.
Hello! Not sure I’d call it ‘weird’ though. They could say the same about us😬 Been in the UK for 20 years, I understand the tap, it’s to fill in the sink. English breakfast tea is like coffee where I come from 🇧🇷🙂 Me, with an English husband, English boyfriendS and a fiancé greatly added to my education 😉...you would benefit too 🤭 X
I’m going in may to the u.k looking forward to it. Thanks for the tips. I don’t like the bathroom one. I’m a guy I’m worried about not being able to shave or clip my nails. I also use the bathroom number 2 quite frequently.
I plan on moving to Wales, any advice?
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I’m from the North and was raised to say breakfast, lunch & dinner, supper was something we had about an hour before going to bed 😊
You are correct.
It's breakfast dinner and supper where I live
I am myself British and I would like to explain my own theory of why we don't have sockets in our bathrooms! Well I think that there are no sockets in bathrooms because of a sort of danger. When water touches a sort of electricity it creates a electric shock! And if the electric shock is big enough it can cause possible death! So this is for the safety of our citizens! Stay safe! 👍
Yes. Death rate due to electrocusion in the bathroom is sooo alarming in other countries ;)
@@siggilinde5623 their wattage is higher. They have to use special socket. IIRC. Im not sure but i think thats why.
@@marcopolo2028
That is simple not true.
And I took my time and did a bit of research. Result: Different type of socket, yes. But the technical data Ampere and Voltage is the same.
Anyways their is also a protective circuit. Still no reason to let children play with a socket but an average grown up should be able to survive the great adventure of shaving or hair drying inside the bathroom...
Geez.. I even showered while the laundry dryer was on right next to me...I am probably dead. Who you gonna call? ;)
Subjects, not citizens. We are not a republic.
Fantastic ❤️💚💜🤍
Thanks Keval! ☺️
I'm not from London, but I was in London a few days ago, and a young woman working in a tube station called me "darling". I'm male, she was female, and I was considerably older than her. So darling can be used by anyone, to anyone. It sounds friendly, (usually).
Yorkshire tea is the best amongth you mentioned ! But ,you forgot EARL GREY TEA !!! My all time fave since I was a teen ,12 ! I am Japanese. 💜🥁🐉🎤💞
I really like Earl grey tea as well ☺️ ☕️ Sending hugs to Japan!
Ever tried lady grey, it’s great. Similar but with citrus
@@miketriggs2156 Oh yes !! I used to drink it for years ! Despite I wasn't too crazy about it ,to me it's too weak !! Lol. I love love strong tea as Irish breakfast & earl grey ,Ceylon,Darjeeling , Assum tea ,Chai tea ,matcha green tea so on ,I love love ooh long & jasmine tea as well ! I am a heavy tea drinker !! I used to drink 11 cups to 13 cups / day for decades !! LOLLOLLOL Not good !! I have to be very careful for my kidneys !!! ( black tea can cause kidney stones & I am prone to ) I can fit right in Turkey for this habit !! Lol.I found that.Lady grey was very good for very sweet & creamy sweets ,though ! Not sure if you & others will agree with me ! ?
Thank you for your suggestion & reply ! Stay safe ! 👍💜💜💜💜🥁🐉🎤🎵🎶💕💞
Yorkshire Tea is not great. Twinings is better. But yes, Earl Grey is the nectar of the gods.
@@helenwood8482 Really !!!? Lol. Man ! Sorry ,but this one ,I've gotta disagree ~!! Lol.I've tried so many tea brands in my life as I've always been a huge tea drinker ( used to drink 11 cups a day ,sometimes 13 cups !!Cray cray ! Lol I know that's bad !! It can cause kidney stones ! Now I drink about 6 cups a day ,much better ,yet not good ! 2 to 3 is the best ! Lol. I drink British black tea , any Japanese tea as well as green tea & matcha tea 🍵 ,Chinese tea Indian 's like Chai tea...) I like Twinings ,we Japanese drink Twinings teas & probably we are more familiar with Twinings. I used to drink Typhoo , I've tried P G tips , Tily ,Taylor & Harrogate's & their Yorkshire tea ,Mariage Frere's ( Marco Polo ,I LOVE LOVE !! ) , Fauchon ,so many others ,but I love Taylor& Harrogate's Yorkshire tea !!! Earl grey has always been my # 1 tea since I was like 11 !!! Or 12 ! Because of Agatha Christie ...I discovered earl grey !! Lol. Back then , nobody around us was drinking earl grey in Japan !! Twinings 's earl grey has a strange taste ,I took awhile to get to used to it ! But ,it tasted much much better as an iced tea & I was shocked that it tested a lot better & really great tasting as an iced tea in Japan !!! ,not here in U.S. ! I got used to it ,though ! Lol. The water in Japan tastes much much better because it's soft water vs here it's hard water !! Over there ,tea tastes better ,too as you've got soft water as well !! I love earl grey & Irish breakfast the very best & Marco Polo the 2nd best !!! Lol. Yorkshire the 3rd ,neck & neck with English breakfast tea !!! London breakfast is lovely !! Lady grey is too weak for me ,but tastes good with very sweet sweets ,I think ! I had Scottish breakfast & prince of Wales breakfast tea before & they were shockingly bad !! LOLLOLLOL I'll give 'em another try ,though ! It's been more than 2 decades since !! Lol .I really hate to disagree with you as you're such a sweet lady & I love your channel !! Lol. May I ask why you don't like Yorkshire tea !!? 💜🥁🐉🎤🫖🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🇨🇮☕🍵🍰🥧🎵🎶💕💞
Sorry can also be used if you didn’t quite hear what somebody said and want them to clarify
More can be found in Watching the English by Kate Fox.
What happened to Ty-Phoo tea? They used to be huge!
Tetley's make tea bags make tea.
Nice
In the last twenty five years I have NEVER seen a carpet in a bathroom! It used to be a thing, but is long ago forgotten.
We do not have carpets in bathrooms.
@girlvaglobe You are just awesome
Thereare no plug sockets in our bathrooms because we use a much higher voltage than the US (240 volts instead of 110) and so in this country an electric shock is more likely to kill especially if you have wet hands
The "you alright?" really screwed me up 😂😂
Cool content, but ma'am you are a ray of sunshine! ❤
Gogglebox is amazing!
You mix the hot and cold water in the sink.
Go Yorkshire Tea! ☕
I like your program
what does tutting mean? Can anyone plz explain that to me? thx
Thanks for the mention of 8/10 cats. Not a brit but British Panel shows are my lifeblood. Rip Sean.
Aww I like it too!
It is a jumper.
I have never seen my ma' and dad drink tea but we do have tea bag
Room full of liquid and steam, you answered your own question about the lack of electrical sockets in most bathrooms
...as are the bathrooms all over the world, but sockets provided
Yes. I lost count of how many times I have died in the bathroom ;)
Live in the UK most of my life. Never seen a carpet in a bathroom.
First question on at least one online How British Are You? quiz is "Are you sorry?"
I have a mixer tap in my kitchen and it's useless. I have to boil a kettle to get properly hot water. The two taps are used to mix the perfect temperature in the sink. It seems Americans have not yet worked out how sinks work, which explains why so much of their country is desert.
Let's be honest here, if you can't work a sink, there's no way we should trust you with electricity in a bathroom. Also, electric toothbrush? Here's me, switching to a bamboo one to save the planet and you need an electric one? I have no idea what "clippers" require electricity for a man either. What the Hell is he clipping? Hooves? Carpets are fine unless you pee on the floor. Please tell me you don't pee on the floor too! The carpets in bathrooms are special ones, which are easy to clean. Just vacuum them regularly.
The escalator thing is only true in London.
We drink herbal tea too.
Most Brits hate fake tans. It's a chav thing, not a British thing. The holidays are also a chav thing. I know some young people who travelled all around Europe, enjoying the culture.
You really need to watch better TV. There's Upstart Crow, Not Going Out, Would I Lie To You and QI. You seem to have only watched the rubbish.
Haven’t seen a carpet in a bathroom since the 80’s 😅
Tea bags. Tetley's make tea bags make tea.
i'm also yankee (male) but i lived in manchester with an english gf fer 2 1/2 years (could never afford london even then). in my experience american females seem to fit in over there alot more easily than american males. as i remember it the vast majority of american expats living in england (not sure about the rest of the u.k.) are women.
i think it mostly comes down to machismo. i first of all lived in a not terrible but not great area that was 3 doors down from a local pub and i often (not always but enough to be noticeable) found that in interactions with english males yer accent alone can often be perceived as some sort of challenge (i don't drink, btw, so we're not talking about machismo in pubs). to that end i often found the english talked over me and interrupted me when i was trying to have conversations with them and at least 4 spearate times somebody wanted to fight me simply because of my nationality.
i don't think american females face these same challenges hence why they seem to fit in better. and btw, as far as bad tourists i think the british in spain make americans in mexico look like sweethearts.
Thankyou I love to go UK because of Rowan Atkinson so is there a Mr Bean Statue thankyou for answer me comments ?
On “sorry” you missed one of the most important reasons why we say it. We usually say it when we have misheard something/not heard what someone has said. For example: I’m sorry?/Im sorry, can you repeat that? Etc… duh!
Very true! ☺️
I never go abroad. I like my Devon home.
I agree with most your points. But, if someone drinks Tetley or PG over Yorkshire, they're a wrong'un.
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The word tea is not just a cup of tea. In my household we say that tea is our dinner and our dinner is lunch. So my point is the word tea means two things.
Tomato town. That is definitely a working class thing - to refer to lunch as dinner and dinner as tea. Middle class people have, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Some nice older ladies will call you “flower” or “petal “ which is adorable too.
Carpet issue in bathroom I agree but personally I'd feel happier with not mixing electricity with my sink or bath water
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Have you never used a plug in the sink
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Only Some people and only if you want to look good in the right occasion
2:00 for safety purposes 😏
I've just opened uTube to find ur video, I have 2 classes tomorrow morning and should be memorising instead of being here😭😭
Hahaha I’m sorry 😇💕 And yeah, I know it’s about safety - but if most other countries can have them why not the U.K.? 🙈
@@girlvsglobe it's the UK, they like do things differently 🤷♀️
@@girlvsglobealso sorry🤣
@@girlvsglobe Our domestic electrical arrangements are the safest in the world with shuttered sockets, shielded pins and fused plugs. The rest of the world can please itself. The US is particularly dangerous with unfused plugs so a faulty appliance can draw far more than its safe current but still less than the panel RCD. Not good. Not good at all.
150 millions cups of tea a day is a bit much, I can barely drink 50 million
We don't graduate from high school only from university
My friend group is known for being from everywhere but all but one of us is born in England and we still all act like Brits
No plug sockets in bathrooms is because it's a safety hazard.
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