American Reacts to Top 10 Things You Should Never Do In The UK! REACTION
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King Boomer's Reaction to the Top 10 Things You Should Never do if you travel to the United Kingdom which should be common sense! ENJOY!
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As a Scot, whenever an American slips and says "England", I retort with "You Mexicans are all the same".
By "whenever" you mean "if".
@@tganet7123 I fail to see the difference.
Doesn't quite work.
@@paulandhisguitars I understand what you mean, but it's more for shock value and hitting home the point of cultural difference despite geographical proximity.
@@MrNikolidas I know, but it would have worked better with a bizarre wierd country with other countries within it, each with their own legislative parliaments, but still partially ruled from a larger government with the power to overrule and disband the smaller governments should they want to. To be honest, I can only think of 1 (or 4) bizarre countries like that.
On the subject of asking if you know or have met The Queen? Her ex bodyguard tells a very amusing story about one time when she was staying at The Balmoral Estate in Scotland. He was accompanying The Queen on a walk in a nearby park. Some American tourists, not recognising who she was, got talking to her. When they asked if she lived nearby, The Queen pointed off in the distance and said that she had a little cottage over there. 😂 So the next question was, well if you're local have you ever met The Queen? Without missing a beat she replied, pointing to her bodyguard, no but he has. 😂 So then they wanted a photo with him and gave The Queen their camera. They also had a photo with Elizabeth, still not knowing who she was. As they went their separate ways Elizabeth said I'd love to be a fly on the wall when they show their friends the photo. 😂 She had awonderful sense of humour.
As I recall it, that happened in front of Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh.
@@mpmlopes As a fine lady once said. "Recollections may vary"
I heard about the queen doing that. True story if anyone doubts it
that is brilliant!
@@philipc2025 to be fair the Balmoral one makes more sense because it's a bit doubtful that the Queen would be going for a stroll through the streets of Edinburgh. On the other hand, Balmoral is a lot less likely to have obnoxious tourists who wouldn't even recognise the Queen, I mean if an American comes to visit Balmoral it's likely because they know and care enough about the whole thing thay they would know who the Queen was. But also, now that I think about it, the Queen did have the habit of wearing a headscarf when she went for a drive or a walk in Balmoral, so maybe that tricked them into thinking she was just some random old woman.
Some people see good manners as a sign of weakness, I see them as a sign of strength
King Boomer is a lot more British than he would care to admit!
Almost as honorary a Brit as Amanda Rae I’d say 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Yep, Boomer is a Brit in disguise but woke America will not allow him to admit the fact lol.
@@simontravers2715 Who?
Another American CZcamsr who’s lived in 🇬🇧 for over 10 years, to the extent where she understood everything mentioned in The Two Ronnies Crossed Lines Sketch (Sainsbury’s, Hovis, Cox’s Pippins, OXO etc.)
Yh the main thing that pisses me off is the queens guard one
For my American friends: NEVER...Repeat...NEVER EVER...Drive in LONDON.
A problem easily solved by not going to London.
ahh yes but, if you don't go to London, then you will miss out on riding the famous Balck Cabs and being educated by the Cockney driver, freely giving you his wit, wisdom and highly articulate and well-thought-out views on Immigration and Brexit...I mean, who would want to miss that?!@@Shoomer1988
This is true, and for so many reasons.
Unless in a 1968 Mini with manual transmission. That's a whole lot of fun.
@@etherealbolweevil6268 More fun in Turin
I was in west Virginia some years ago when a waitress came up and said I just love ya ol accent and then went on to ask if I knew Prince Charles to which I replied with a straight face yes he lives next door to and what's more he is always popping in to borrow sugar and the like , to my utter surprise she bought in to that story which was just intended as dry humour, still brings a smile to my face .
Believe it or not they are very gullible in the US 😂
There's a clip of a man getting offended by two women speaking another language on a train. He said "This is England! You should speak English!" At that moment another person said to him "Actually, this is Wales. And they were speaking Welsh"
Didn't happen...noone speaks Welsh...not even the Welsh
Brilliant ! Just shows the ignorance of so many English which by the way I am one ! Once is=n Cardiff I went into a shop to buy cigarettes and the lady spoke to me in Welsh.I apologised and told her I am English, - she laughed and the rest of the people in there also laughed and basically it taught me that we are 4 nations, but we are also 4 DIFFERENT nations. Attack one , then you attack all because we are British !
@@royhardy407 I am from Manchester England when I was a kid we used to go all over the U.K for holidays or bank holiday day trips one year we went to stop in a Hotel in Wales my uncle was the manager there he too was from Manchester and whenever we went in the local shops they used to speak in Welsh this happened several times when we was with my uncle , when he was there he would say something to them in Welsh (working there for a while he Picked up a bit of the lingo ) and then they would start speaking in English when we asked what he said he told us he said not to be so ignorant and speak English ! Many years later I met a Welsh girl I told her this she said they speak English and when they see an English person come in they start talking in Welsh ! So now if you look back at your comment and look at it from there perspective they was laughing at you apologizing for being English !
@@cyberhermit1222 874,000 Welsh speakers disagree with this statement.
😂 reminds me of that episode of bottom aye you arrogant English wankers
I met an American who was really surprised, that they built Edinburgh castle, " right next to a railway station" 🏴 happy healthy peace ✌️
I bet a lot of Americans mistake Edinburgh Castle for a school just because they hear a gun go off every lunchtime.
@@paulwalton1222 😂😂😂😂🏴✌️
@@JamesDickson-vs5of I'll be at waverly train station in a few days.
I was walking along Hadrian’s Wall once, about 15 years ago and there was a bus trip of American tourists there taking pictures and commenting on how low the wall was and things like that. So I said to them “Aye, it’s a canny wall, but it’ll be better when it’s finished”.
They left the place thinking England was going to reconstruct the wall to stop smugglers coming over the border from Scotland.
I also used to work in a supermarket and an American holidaymaker walked in and asked me where the jelly was. I took him to the desert isle before realising he meant to ask for jam. When he asked me why we call it jam here, I told him that we also used to call it jelly, but the British production method of making jam involved ‘jamming’ as much jelly in the jar as possible before it’s sealed, so to avoid confusion, we changed its name from jelly to jam.
Honestly, American tourists will believe ANYTHING you tell them, there’s no creature more naïve than Americans outside of the US😂
You could play a UK driving simulator game on your PC before you go. Will get you used to signs, junctions, roundabouts... You could make a video doing it or Livestream it 🚘
that is a brilliant idea!!
Yeah ....If any existed
@@TonySpikeCity Driving and Euro Truck Simulator 2
Just get Forza Horizon 4
5:14 Same here in Germany, "Walk left, stand right".
The only time we walk on the right and yourselves on the left, is when forced to walk on the road... so you can see traffic coming and step aside, otherwise they coming from behind and squish you 😢😮
We are much like our German cousins, very organised!
I used to be in contact with people in America occasionally and was often asked ( how are things in England ? ) this after I had already stated that I came from Scotland .The best way to counter this is to say ( great how are things in Mexico ? ) although sometimes this causes even more confusion with those who don't get British sarcasm .
A number of years ago I was travelling through Heathrow and there was an industrial dispute that caused many flights to be cancelled this resulted in everyone having to rebook their flights there were literally hundreds of people queuing round the terminal. I was getting close to the front having stood in line for over four hours when an American tried to push in to the front of the queue he said he was very important and needed to rebook his flight immediately there was almost a riot, with everyone shouting at him, he then tried pushing in further back in the queue, eventually the British Airways staff escorted him to the back of the queue supported by the police, there must have been 5 or 6 hundred people when he got to the back there was a cheer went up, several times he tried it again and every time he was sent to the back of an ever increasing line.
Was he one of those big, overweight ones with a loud shirt? They usually are.
The best story I heard about our late Queen was told by her and she quite enjoyed it. She was on a walk around her estate in Balmoral with her protection officer when American tourists came across them. They asked them had they met the queen and she replied no but he has pointing to her armed guard. They then took a photo of the guard and also one of her majesty without realising who it was. You can imagine their faces when they got back home to go through their photos retelling how they met the Queen's guard and some random old lady...
Many European and other countries do not have queues. It can result in a bit of a scrum, particularly for public transport.
My Stats lecturer introduced the following terms for different types of queue: "FIFO meaning First In First Out, like a UK cafeteria, FILO meaning First In Last Out like a US elevator, and QIRO meaning Queue In Random Order like a foreign bus queue." His words, not mine.
An American friend, to my Scottish EX: 'Yeah I've heard of Scotland, is it in Ireland'? Another American friend (well their husband) attempted an 'English' accent the first time I met him
oh no....
@@cmcculloch1 well it made me laugh, I'm amazed my ex didn't chin them :D
Typical American tourist: "You must visit Scotland. It's in England, near Paris."
AndyKing1963 as a Scot living in Finland I can't count how many times I've been asked the same
@@AndyKing1963 woulda been justified haha
Top tip - As a londoner i can also add - "use an oyster card or debit/credit when traveling around london on the tube" don't use your phone as it pisses people off waiting for you to unlock and faff around finding your digital card. Be ready with your card, tap and get through the gates quickly
The escalator rule only applies in London. It catches out many first time visiting northerners.
Don't worry about driving on the left. Just make sure it's an automatic. Stick change is far worse with the wrong hand.
Love it when you give a shout for Wales 🏴...best wishes from Wales 🏴
Well us Brits manage to Drive quite easily in Europe after 30 mins travelling through the Channel Tunnel.... As for the Accent thing ive had several interactions with Americans all over the world and have had many attempts of mimicking my accent!! I took no offence at all, just laughed 😂
I remember an old Jasper Carrot sketch , Me and my wife where talking to an American couple in Birmingham and they said they have just been to Leicester and had met a lovely couple "you must know them" or something like that
The escalator thing is only a thing in the London underground, everywhere else in the UK its not a big deal
Regarding point 1, as a Welshman I've been to Disney World in Orlando and had to correct a cast member for thinking Wales was in England. I've also been in a taxi in Detroit where the taxi driver refused to be corrected and turned it into an argument, his brother lives in Birmingham so of course he knows and me...the person from Wales...was wrong
With regard to the "fast lane" on an escalator, do bear in mind that the left hand lane on the road is the SLOW lane and that the right hand lane is the passing lane.
Fun fact: I've met Princess Anne three times in my life, the last two times she remembered meeting me, i can say with absolute truth that i do know a member of the royal family
I've met her once but she didn't remember me
She's a patron of a charity I work for. She is always lovely, and makes it about the people we support now, rightly, rather than us.
Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III, Princess Anne, Will & Kate, Winston Churchill etc...
Have been within 1.5 miles of my house multiple times, yet I haven't met any of them.
Fictional versions of Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III, Winston Churchill, King George VI, Queen Victoria etc, in multiple films and TV shows...
Have also been within 1.5 miles of my house multiple times, yet I haven't met any of them either.
The same goes for all the actors who played them, the countless other actors, and crew members, at least 10 of which are Oscar winners.
The latest Oscar winners to have walked around the buildings and streets near my house include Marisa Tomei, Cillian Murphy, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Adrien Brody, Steve Abbott, and most likely Susan Sarandon albeit it remains to be seen if she filmed any of her scenes here or not.
Some other Oscar winners to have filmed in my city include Eddie Redmayne, Colin Firth, Kate Winslet, Julia Roberts, Emma Thompson, Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and Simon Beaufoy.
We still haven't got over Dick van Dyke's excruciating attempt at a Cockney (London) accent in Mary Poppins - and that was in 1964.
“How are you?” to someone you’re not close to is generally a pointless question as the answer is always “fine”, “ok” or “not bad”….even when the opposite is true. No matter how angry/worried you are about a situation in your life you never vent about it at someone passing you in the corridor at work asking “how are you?”.
I have only seen the escalator rule in London. Elsewhere in the UK people are less rushed.
As a Scotsman who has driven many times outside the UK, predominantly in the US, and has had to adapt to driving on the "other" side of the road, do not let it put you off. Jusr hiire an automatic car with SatNav and you should be fine. The more you drive, the easier it becomes. A trusted front seat passenger helps. The only nervous moments will be at junctions when you turn right, or at roundabouts. When I drive in the states, it is the same in reverse. When I started visiting the US in 1990 I adopted a junction strategy of "if in doubt, follow the car in front of you". I was in California and I was glad that I researched three way and four way junctiions which used a FIFO honour system.
Number 8 : "British or Scottish accent"??? There is no British accent 🤣
The "people" who made the video have never been anywhere near the UK - it's AI generated script is obvious. I hope KB takes no notice of it!
Yes, or Scottish accents come under the umbrella term of British accents, alongside Welsh accents and English accents, depending how you look at it. But it's not British OR Scottish.
Yes there is! We all say "Cor blimey, Mary Poppins!" 🤣🤣🤣
@@crowbar9566 You've forgot Northern Irish...
No doubt because you're one of those people who thinks British things come from Britain...
And most likely think that UK cities need a cathedral.
@@danielgardecki1046northern Ireland isn’t British 🤣 3 countries are British and that’s England, Scotland and wales. NI is part of the uk.
I've never met the Queen but I used to Guard her and her Family ex Guardsman 💂♂️
Thank you for your service
Actually went to a garden party there once my Regiments 350th anniversary
@@KSmeaton1 Oh for fsake
@@sg-yq8pm ?
Although I was in the US at the time, I was talking to my friend outside a bar. A drunk woman kept mimicking me by saying ‘Oh!, Oh!’ In the most poshest Queens English accent. I wouldn’t mind that much but I’m from Essex, so if anything I’m going to sound more like I’m speaking cockney than elegant Shakespearean English 😂
100% agree with all your superb comments. Thank you, thank you :-)
Funny that the guy is talking about the escalator rule is calling it "unwritten rule" while in the video you can see the blue signs saying "Stand on the right". Also the announcers in the tube are constantly saying "Please stand on the right and walk on the left, on the escalators".
Not everyone is as clued up as you Boomer, we get lots of tourists in Wales saying they're in England, I even remember one guy saying he was in Wales in England, but it doesn't bother us, we couldn't care less, if we did we'd walk around screaming at people all day! 🤣 In 54 years I've not once been asked if I know a member of the royal family, that just doesn't happen. I live near Snowdon the highest mountain in England and Wales and it's known as being one of the busiest mountains in the world which means to stand on the summit you might have to queue for like half an hour or more, it really catches people out and occasionally you get someone trying to jump the queue and WW3 kicks off, it's hilarious!!! 🤣 To be fair in Wales we actually prefer people to actually have a go at saying stuff, or asking what stuff means and how to say it correctly, we're cool with that, what annoys us is when you get the people who complain about the language, all our sightposts are in Welsh then English, which angers some people as they find it confusing, to which we tend to reply, well feck you, deal with it.
They're in Wales. Would they be complaining about road signs in German, if they were in Berlin?
The same happens here in Scotland. If they want road signs in English, England's across the next one down.
@@OneTrueScotsman The only good thing about the controversial 20mph speed limit now in Wales is that it's stopped people complaining about the road signs as much, now the speed limit seems to be the height of most tourists anger! 🤣
@@coregazer We don't offend that easily to be honest, we like being the small nation people know nothing about, it's kind off our thang, so if we want to enjoy being out of the limelight we can't really complain about people not knowing much about us either, we can't have it both ways, Ireland and Scotland enjoy being the Celts everyone raves about, the Welsh are just a bit more chill about everything.
I love North Wales and I really try to learn how to pronounce the names correctly when I'm there, I've learnt the Welsh Alphabet and when I'm in Wales I try and sound out all the Welsh names, but I'm pretty terrible. A few years ago I was staying in Dyffryn Ardudwy, I managed to learn to pronounce Dyffryn correctly but even with the help of a local I just couldn't learn how to say Ardudwy even remotely right. My mind gets lost in the unexpected syllables and it feels like Welsh is spoken much faster than English (Almost certainly just a perception, because I don't understand it).
I did encounter an American tourist on the phone stating they were in Wales, England to the caller they were speaking to. I didn't say anything, just laughed internally.
Yes, they really do mistake Scotland and Wales for England. My Welsh grandmother hated that.
Left hand side or right hand side of the road there's one easy thing to remember on roads because of the same swap of driving side. Look out your drivers side window if you see the grass verge you are on the wrong side of the road, you should be seeing the other lane and always be sitting in almost the middle of the road. Single lane country road doesn't matter and multiple lane roads generally have barriers between the directions.
I was in Scotland a few years back for a work trip / get together. On the bus to our destination, an American women piped up and said: "Back in the day, did every one own a castle?". Most of the other Americans looked embarrassed. And yeah, the "how are you" is pretty much universal around the English speaking world - just means "hello".
If you're visiting London don't drive...it's really not worth it. It makes me laugh though hearing an American give advice on what annoys us!! Yes, every American will try to copy our accents!!
York is his number 1 city he wants to visit and its easy to drive but TFL charges yeah screw them
@@cmcculloch1 TFL is ok, that’s public transport and not expensive… we’re you thinking the ULEZ charges? To even enter London in a car is the same price as a days travel on public transport!! Plus you’ll never go above 10mph lol.
@@cmcculloch1 I knew he loved York, I’d also recommend Chester as a city… just as beautiful, great countryside.. I live in London and I wouldn’t recommend visiting!!
I agree on London especially in peak time, it is heaving. It’s better just taking train.
If you're visiting London don't ask "where are all the English people?"
You should definitely react to this country, it’s a great show!
A lot of Americans think that ENGLAND is the entire UK ! You hear them actually say " I'm going to England" and mean the whole of the UK !
NEVER call it a " BRITISH " accent ! There are hundreds of them ! Each country of the UK has it's own regional accents and dialects !
But also a lot of times yanks say they are going to England, they are right.
It is that weird attitude the rUK has to become suddenly upset whenever England is used instead of UK.
Yet should a yank say they are going to Scotland or Wales then those same people feel no need to correct them and say they mean the UK.
Nonsense, no one has an issue with a tourist saying they are going to England, if it is England what a daft comment
What escalator rule, in many area of a the UK we stand we the fuck we want and if someone wants to barge passed, they can expect an accidental tripping up. (Nottingham/Nottinghamshire)
I agree with this - I've only seen 'stand on the right' on the London Underground, where some escalators are very long, so can take a while to get to the end.
Absolutely. It's a London thing...not a British thing.
That’s obviously because Londoners have such a high volume of people moving through the tube that they had to come up with a defined system.
@@serenityjoe86 Also, as we all know...London is no longer British. It belongs to Islam, a very Asian/African thing. They can keep it. I detest London.
1: in most cases, you will simply be corrected, usually with some sarcasm.
2: we just think that person is dumb
3: it's not a hard set rule that you stand on the right, loads of brits will stand either side and totally block it
4: now this will piss people off, i have seen fist fights break out because people have tried jumping the queue.
5: You absolutely should drive, if you have a US license of course :) It doesnt take much to get used to driving on the "other" side. We do it all the time when we go on vacation some where else in europe, they all drive on the right.
6: seems to be fairly common in a lot of places, you just don't go around asking "How much do you earn/have" in a regular conversation. There are exceptions to that rule such as if you was asking about a job and wanted to know how much it should pay, you can ask someone in a similar role about that, but generally no, you dont talk to people about their finances unless first invited to.
7: is a simple one, we are just being polite by greeting you. In most cases you wont even get a hello you will simply get an "Alright?" and the appropriate response to that is "Alright!" But if you are going to greet each other a little better than that, then its often like "Hey Brian, hows things?" and an appropriate answer would be "Hey Tim, Not too bad thanks/ Surviving as always/ Living the dream" you will often give some none commitle answer either negative or positive.
8: YES THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME MANY TIMES. You either sound like you are doing a bad crackhead harry potter or a bad austin powers impression. In fairness if we do american accents its either New JOISEY (where they have Moiders) Texas cowboy or deep DEEP alabama.. which also sound fake as hell to you guys..
9: Really, it's only those opinionated political youtube dwellers and the wealthy, that seem to care about brexit. Most regular folk don't really give a crap either way, it didn't effect us. You get some old boy who's been working at the same factory for 20 years, or some 20 year old girl who works at the local big supermarket on the check out's. If brexit hadn't been mentioned so much on the news they wouldn't have even noticed it had happened, because it didn't impact their lives in any really meaningful way. Their job/wages didn't change, they still have access to everything they had before (utilities, emergency services, etc) they can still buy the same things they bought before and they can stil go on vacation in europe just as they could before..really nothing changed for most common folk. Obviosly pick your timing and settings, but if yo uare sat in a pub with some english friends by all means as what they think abut brexit, or how it effected them, they won't get mad at you, in most cases they will probably answer with "Don't really give a shit!"
10: What most visitors forget, or don't consider with royal guards is they are not just a london tourist gimmick, they are active military personnel doing a job. What you are doing when you tease, mock, get in the way of, try and get a selfie with, or in any way interfere with the guard, is the equivalent of a Brit going to the the tomb of the unknown soldier and fucking around with the guard who paces back and forth, that's basically what you are doing to the guards, that's the level of dissrespect you are showing.
People only stand on the right of the escalator in London, everywhere else you can stand where you want.
Not so sure about that - I commute through a major (non-London) railway station and believe me, standing on the left of the escalator will make you very unpopular!
The point about UK, England, Scotland etc… is probably one of the most well documented mistakes that Americans would make. For example the Queen would have been referred to as ‘The Queen of England’ when there haven’t been any monarchs of just England since Elizabeth I died in 1603.
16:35 Maybe some tourists forget or don't even know that the King's/Queen's Guard ist't just show but that they're actual soldiers from the Royal Army.
It's not called the "royal army" just because theres a Royal Navy and a Royal Air Force. It's the British Army.
@@crowbar9566 My bad, thanks for clarification. Just wanted to point out that they're real.
@@krccmsitp2884to be fair, some regiments and corps in the British Army are prefixed with Royal. Ie Royal Corps of Signals, Royal Logistics Corps, Royal Regiment of Artillery, and some don’t ie The Parachute Regiment
British Army. I've heard two seemingly conflicting explanations for why the British Army is "British" rather than "Royal" 1) because it is descended from the "New Model Army" which fought against the Crown during the English Civil War, and 2) units of the British Army have to earn the appellation "Royal", on the field of battle, and not all the corps and regiments in the British Army have done so. I'm not sure which of the above is correct, or more correct, or whether they both have something to do with it.
@@Simon-jj2pu I always thought the name of the Paras was odd because the regiment is named after a bit of kit.
Line cutting . I remember watching 4 rather agressive Americans pushing to the front of the cue of people trying to get discount theatre tickets at the Leicester square ticket office.. The guy in the office refused to serve them and sent them to the back of the queue. We all cheered.
"Queue! nor "Cue". Unless you're playing Snooker, Billiards or Pool. 😉
@@andypandy9013 I see the spelling police are out in force. You must be creaming yourself over that one.. lol.
I was in The Tron pub in Edinburgh with a German mate and he starts telling the barman about how he loves it here in England.
If anything, the behaviour of a lot of tourists at Horseguards (from all around the world it has to be said) has got even worse in the past couple of years. Some of their behaviour is just appalling.
I've flown in from UK to USA, and got the hire car and went straight into rush hour traffic. The car is set up for american roads, its very easy to get driving. Hire an automatic and browse the highway code on the flight over.
Queue jumping was one of my biggest pet peeves living in Thailand for 8 years - Thais don't like to lose face, so calling them out on it becomes embarrassing for them, which I used to my advantage
I can't wait for the king and queen boomer to come over to the UK ❤ places to definitely to check out... Obviously London, Manchester, Liverpool, Bangor north Wales is beautiful, for a multicultural diverse culture Leicester is great, for food (London rd) Indian cuisine, the golden mile, bradgate park, foxton locks, sport, and the space centre. Nottingham Sherwood forest, the lake district is great, and check out the canals too. Hope to see the both of you over here soon, can't wait to watch any videos that you do. 👍😁🙏🏻🥳 muppets 😂
Driving on the other side of the road - you'll be fine. When I did a fly-drive holiday to the US, I drove a couple of thousand miles in 3 weeks and the only time I had an issue with being on the wrong side was 2 weeks after I came back to the UK and momentarily had to think about which side I should be! If you're a safe driver normally, you'll be alert enough to keep concentration when driving on the left and you won't be driving thousands of miles in the UK so you won't get mentally fatigued. You'll be fine Brian.
And if they don't have Scottish heritage, they think Scotland is part of London
Loving the content 😊
Driving on the Left is easy i wouldn't worry about it, i have had to make the switch to driving on the right, as long as you aren't speeding like a maniac you will be absolutely fine, you get the hang of it in as little as 10 mins .. trust yourself
Yes. My ex at university tried doing everyone's accent. In the words of Frankie Boyle he was an annoying c***
hey you choose to be with him haha - live and learn... we all do the hard way😉😅
I once witnessed an American and a Scottish colleague introduce themselves to each other. The Scottish colleague said where he was from after the American asked about his accent, to which the American replied ‘oh, is that the Scotland in England?’ My Scottish colleague had a face like thunder and you could feel the temperature in the room plummet! 😂
Britain and England used to be interchangeable, but nowadays it's not acceptable to the other nations of the UK.
It was never interchangeable, just the English were ignorant
As an expat living in the US, I have people think Wales is a part of England, I have had many people mimic or attempt to mimic my accent. I have had a number of people ask whether I know so and so who lives in London or some other town. A lot of these hit home.
I think I've commented on one of your videos about this before, but dont stress about driving on the left. Just remember that most cars are still manual, so if you only drive automatic, make sure you specifically ask for an automatic.
I've only noticed the escalotor thing in London. What those people do with the few seconds they've saved I'll never know. Maybe they want to appear more important than everyone else
Perhaps they'll catch a train and not have to wait ten minutes for the next one.
@@jimdaw65 a whole 10 minutes?
@@RaceDayReplay Depending on the line, yes. Sometimes 20, because someone stands right in the effing way..
I have visited Los Angeles many time ( my aunty lives there). I have been asked countless times whether I have met the Queen. I have also been asked if I have had tea with the Queen. I have replied “yes” with a poker face. So many have believed it until I tell them I’m being sarcastic.
In Britain people sometimes reply to the affirmative with a poker face and monotonous tone(sarcasm)when they feel a question is ridiculous. I forget in USA it’s not the same.
When I lived in NY in the early 2000's, I did get asked if I knew the Queen and a guy also told me he had been to England twice, once to London and once to Europe. I also got asked if I knew Brian Smith, as this person had met him before in America and wondered if I knew him!!!
They missed out the old classic "You're British?! OMG I have a friend who comes from London, his name's John. Maybe you know him?"
That happened to someone I know once and they actually did know 'John' he lived in the next street to them. But the list was what not to do in the UK, American tourists tend to ask if we know 'John' when they meet a Brit in another country, they wouldn't do it when over here as it wouldn't be a surprise to meet someone British in Britain (outside London anyway)
ferryDon't worry about driving in the UK, every time I visit the continent, as soon as I land in France from the Ferry I am driving on the WRONG side of the road in a right hand drive vehicle, and I find it very easy.
Regarding the England bit:
When I was in New York a charity worker picked up my accent and asked if I was from London, to which I replied "no, but I am English" and he asked "London is England right?" And he went on to say he thought England, London, UK and Britain were different names for the same country
Talking about Point 1: - yes it does happen, i was once talking with an American tourist, i told them I'm from Scotland they asked "where is that?" i replied "the north of the UK?" thinking ok they're idiots. they responded "ohhh don't you mean the north of England?" - they were lucky i was in a good mood that day.
The equivalent would be like calling Americans from the southern states Mexicans and those from the northern states Canadians.
Do people really make that mistake? You bet they do. Some Americans think England is the whole UK, others think they can drive over the whole of the country in one week and visit every attraction. I spoke to one US girl who thought that 'England' was 'the same thing as France, right?'. But as a British person myself, one thing I don't understand is why we chose the right-hand side of the escalator as the 'slow lane'. This is in direct contradiction to the way we use our roads, which is LEFT lane slow, RIGHT lane for passing.
Agree with the escalator thing.
Right handed briefcase brolly &c.
Driving on the oposite side is strange at first but within a few minutes you get used to it. One thjng i found that helps is playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 and following the rules of the rosd.
🇬🇧 Just wanted to tell you that you and Queen Boomer 🌹 are
Brilliant!
I love watching you, & you with her Majesty Queenie, while you review & guffaw & chortle your way through our comedy moments & absolute disasters that are comedy gold in their
Imcompetancies.
There is something relaxing & theraputic about watching you genuinely bursting with mirth at our funny, peculiar & down right bonkers situations that we find gut bustingly hilarious.
There are very few non Brits & UK-ers who actually get our humour
Its sarcastic, rude, unbalanced &
Wierd and we exert this humour mostly on people we love most dearly, this is honestly true.
I normally find male humour with fart jokes & mimicking the trumpet blasts from the anus
Really cringeworthy ..
But when King Boomer erupts with helpless laughing, it actually makes me laugh too.
I miss Queen B when you review the clips because together your combined laughter & genuine
Surprised reactions really make me laugh harder.
You're both super people & the best reviwers on utube.
I'll bet you have some rip roaring
Moments that crease you both up
But can't show some of the really excellent clips because they are too rude or too near the knuckle to show on utube.
Don't worry we know them too & fall about with silent wheezing when our voice boxes fail us..
Keep on with your vids
Your presentation & format is Spot On..
Its perfect as it is.
Well heres to more
Fun filled frolicks from farty MacFart face film flicker fragments ... 💨💨
Peace & Harmony & Good Cheer
🇬🇧👧
PS there used to be a clip ( been withdrawn since) on Tik Toc with a well spoken British mum asking her little toddler daughter, about 3 yrs old, asking her to say the word Blackcurrant as in her favourite juice
The little one beems into the camera & says
Black C*unt
Then she keeps saying it & the camera shakes with mum hushing her & trying to stop her.
It may sound dreadful but you had to see it to see the funny side, the wee girl hadnt a clue what the words meant or sounded like but she beamed that whatever she said it made Mummy weak with laughter..
Yeah 😶😶 funny though 💞
My advice for driving in the UK is to wait until you are out of London (assuming your flight comes into London). Use public transport (train/bus) to get somewhere quieter then pick up a car. Get used to driving on quiter roads before attempting a city. I have been driving in the UK for 40 odd years and still avoid cities if I can! xxx
Lou Sanders just casually in the stock footage
Dani Filth said in an interview once that sometimes Americans would ask him if he knew the Queen, and he said "Yeah, she's my mum"
The correct greeting when watching up with people in Scotland is
1”Arite pal what you been up to?“
2 Answer “fuck all mate,you? “
1 Reply “same mate fuck all”
That ecalator thing is mainly only in London, driving when I go to the US is not a problem for me. #9 This is Wallgate in my home town
You're in tune Bro. 🙂
"ya fuckin quack!" 😅😅
Love you king, big love from Manchester
My dad grew up driving on the right hand side of the road and he always told me: 'no matter which side of the car you're sitting in, just make sure you are in the middle of the road'.
So if you're sitting on the right (left side countries) driver sees the middle of the road. If you're sitting on the left (right side countries) driver sees the middle of the road and you'll always be in the right place.
If you're sitting on the edge of the road you're driving into oncoming traffic.
The UK is not yet separate since it will take time to amend numerous acts of parliament.
Speaking from experience, it's actually very easy to drive in the UK. I was quite nervous the first time and hit the curb a couple of times at first, but after 2 or 3 miles just becomes natural. And now I drive in the UK and mainland Europe without any issues
KB,if you drive over here 🇬🇧 make sure it's an automatic car.
Driving on the left has a dangerous side-effect... when you are on foot and you cross the road, the traffic on your side is coming at you from your _right_ not your left - - tourists in York have wound up in hospital by forgetting this.
Hey dude, re - driving. I love having vacations in USA and I drive there. You get used to it. It’s not as bad as you think. The hard bit is the steering wheel at the opposite side of the car. My peripheral vision is used to having a white line on my right hand side. In USA as the wheels on the left I can’t help veer into the next lane. My wife works as my co-pilots and always tells me when I’m veering.
Love the way you stand up for us Welsh. Mind you we can take the knocks. In fact all 4 Nations take the you know what out of each other. Good laugh.x
You'll get used to driving on the left immediately. The steering wheel being on the other side of the car to what you are used to will constantly remind you.
Ive only seen the escalator thing in London
Calling The King or previously The Queen, the King/Queen of England really grinds my gears!! there is no such person! King of the UK and Northern Ireland actually lol
I live in Belfast. American tourists always ask about the Titanic. We tell them: "It was all right when it left here."
Standing on the right of the escalator only applies in London. And it's not an unspoken rule - there are signs every few feet along the length of the escalator
People do confuse individual countries in the UK. Personal anecdote of mine.
I was in York at House of Trembling Madness pub (cool name I know) in 2012 around time of the London Olympics. This American guy is talking to the barman and says "You know what, I was in 'Edinburg' (emphasis on the burg not borough) the other day and you guys round here, you don't sound Scottish." The barman just looked at him deadpan and said "Yeah I know cause we are in York right now... In England".
I just sat there trying not to laugh and the American just said "Ohhh" rather awkwardly and carried on drinking his pint 😂
I spent a couple of years living in the USA, very shortly after Princess Di met her end. I was asked endlessly whether I knew her personally. I seriously must have been asked over 100 times. After the first few times, I just started answering randomly. Sometimes I didn't know her, sometimes I did, sometimes she'd been a close friend of mine, other times a cousin or aunt or somesuch. It always seemed to make their day when I said I did know her, so I gravitated towards that line more.
As someone who went to a country who drives on the wrong side of the road, I drive the slowest car possible so people would be more patient with me lol.
Greece. Trying standing in a queue at a bus stop. It's survival of the fittest!
Top for driving side:
Having worked in France for 10 years, and driving home often, I taught myself a chant : 'Drive on the left, Chris' (Or Drive on the right, Chris' as appropriate). It's quite easy to pick up.
Most of the rest of the are not really serious. Just be sensible.
If asked if I know the king I'd just lie. No US citizen has ever done that. Most are sensicle people
Driving is easy. The steering wheel is on the side where middle of the road is, not on the pavement side. Follow the flow of traffic as your guide. When Brits visit France, Germany, Italy, we adapt to the right very easily. Its not a problem.
Oh this is SO true. On holiday in Mexico a few years ago, a rather large pair of American gentlemen asked my friend and I if we had met HM Queen Elizabeth (RIP) My friend decided to go on an adventure with our new found American friends and told them that he had been a Butler to HMQE2 and that she was often pissed on Dubonnet and Gin, and that he had many times to escort her to Royal Celebrations on the balcony of Buckingham Palace ------- wicked ----- of course ---- funny ------- you bet .😁😁😁😄😄😃😃😀😀 Also Boomer, strap on a pair of cojones and drive in the UK, it is easy, if we can drive across Europe in our UK cars, then you can drive here !
Scots did invent a spider that could write English with its arse
Wee tip to keep ye safe if yer gonna drive in the UK or Ireland, as long as you and yer steering wheel are near the white lines separating lanes then yer good. Same logic applies if ye keep in mind that yer passenger is always nearest the pavement side of grass verge in more rural roads then yer golden.👍