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The weather? We know it's summer in the North of England because the rain gets warmer.
It's not even the rain really it's more to do with consistency, it can't make up it's mind and you don't know if you need a coat if it's cold or something water proof or it's warm and now you are going round with a coat and sweating. You can't really plan for it either, you check the weather forecast and thats only right 10% of the time. A magic8 ball can predict the weather better than the weather forecast team.
When I were a lad it were always raining up Dudley Moor, except when it were fine and even then there were a slight drizzle in the air.
Perfect reply!!
Yes! I'm from north and the muggier it gets the more its summer.
5th of November lol not 4th!
The weather complaining is really just small talk, not meant seriously
You're right, it's our fall back position rather than just saying nothing. But there's good reasons why we go there. Britain is affected by four major weather patterns.
The Gulf Stream gives us a generally temperate climate, especially considering our latitude. But occasionally our South Westerlies also bring major storms. Then there's the Jet Stream. If that dips south, we get arctic conditions. This doesn't happen often, so we're not really prepared for it. Similarly if the weather comes from the east, we get a taste of what it's like in continent Europe. Remember The Beast from the East? And occasionally we'll get weather that originates in North Africa, and then we don't have to hop on a plane to one of the Costas to get a tan.
The thing is, we're never sure which one of the buggers is going to hit us next month. :-)
@ringdigger
London is the best example in the UK of an urban heat island. Unsurprising since it's our largest and most sprawling city.
“Stiff upper lip” refers to us being Stoic in the face of adversity.
also it taps into the "blitz mentality" we had from the 2nd WW, "keep calm and carry on"
or "keep calm and carry on"
Who’s watching this in January 2020 thinking girlllll I bet you regret saying “it’s only rained twice” 😂😂😂
Chloe Morel ikr 😂😂
YASSSS!!!!!
It’s so damn cold and will be until probably May!!!!!
Chloe Morel Yep!
You know 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We talk about the "Weather" to avoid talking about sensitive or private things
Hmm, my experience, people talk about the weather, as a conversation starter, it's down to us after to broaden the conversation. I'm extremely open, so, its down to the individual, as in all things in life..
Without having the weather to talk, complain about, us Brits would not talk to each other.
bonfire night celebrates the failure of the event and not the event
Yes it does.
The unfortunate failure which we shouldn't celebrate but be in mourning about.
@jakiiboi8 Course it does....lol hence the burning of Guy Fawkes on the fire. Celebrating the failure to blow up the houses of parliament.
It ‘s the 5th of November
Actually, it's a celebration of the execution. Although Fawkes and his accomplices were drawn, hung and quartered (in that order - drawn means dragged behind a horse), Fawkes has been burned in effigy annually ever since. We take traitors seriously here.
For the accents, if it helps, remember that it was only the Victorian railways that synchronised time across the country. People just didn’t travel any distance before that if they weren’t rich. So there were a huge number of isolated communities, which developed their own dialect. Where I’m from in Yorkshire, you can practically tell which town someone is from, by their accent, within a very small distance
Same around the Rochdale, Heywood & Bury area. I used to be able to tell which town they were from & theres only about 3 miles between each one. Its not like that anymore though!
I just made a very similar post, Andy :nods: {should have read more of the comments first :O}. When I first moved out of my parents home, I relocated about eight miles away ... and I pretty much couldn't understand the older folk in the area!
The isolated communities never had a time, it was walk/ ride from X to Y, time enough to ignore.
@@michaelloach9461 and we each think we are better than the other. Bury is best
@@DwayneRichards Bury (pronounced a short Buury not Bery, of course) the best. Get away with thee! Bedale's the best. And of course this argument will go one beyond the end of time. But we are all agreed that Yorkshire (and even the bits we are embarrassed about) is far better than any where else.
A stiff upper lip means not complaining and being brave in the face of adversity..just get on with it ..the British way
Keep Calm and Carry On.....
Yep! Got a problem? Just keep it to yourself. Bit 40s probably but I don't cry on someone's shoulder at the first opportunity and tell them all my problems. Just not done.
Phil Pope Stiff up lip is the antithesis of Donald Trump’s behaviour
@@personalcheeses8073 well the don is one strange man,lost any respect when he abandoned the kurds
@@gerardmann3038 having a stiff upper lip isn't about keeping it to yourself, it's about getting on with the task without all the bs in between.
In times of adversity, there is no point in drowning in your own emotions because it doesn't fix anything, there's a time and place.
If you believe it's about bottling up feelings and keeping to yourself you have a horrid perspective of what British culture really is, either someone's taught you that or you've learned it from some twisted media articles put out by the UK hating regressives, trying to portray us all as cold hearted.
No-one actually cares much about the weather- it’s simply a non-personal / non-offensive conversation opener, as we find say, an American “Hello!” A bit direct. It allows pleasantries to be exchanged with strangers as well as familiars. It allows a moan. The British bond with a good grumble.
Not really sure wia spot on observation
One way I've heard it explained as a national topic of conversation is because the weather in the UK is so variable and changable. There's a quote by John Steinbeck that sums it up nicely - "I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.". Many other places have climate - relatively stable trends of heat, or rain, or cold, or whatever over long periods. Like the Australian rain described in the video. We have _weather_, 3 seasons in one day, and it's precisely because it's so variable that its a benign but reliable topic of conversation. That well known quote "If you don't like the weather wait a minute, it'll change" applies well to the UK, I think.
It's actually so variable because the UK, more often than not, is almost directly under the Gulf Stream, where you've got warm air to the south and cold air to the north, and the Gulf Stream is constantly wiggling up and down. So we have this constantly shifting balance of cold and warm air above us resulting in the highly changable weather we have.
Okay, the two taps! It's not a case of having to keep moving your hands from one stream of water to the other to wash them. It works like this.... The taps hang over a thing called a basin. At the bottom of the basin is the plug hole. Put the plug in the plug hole and then turn on the taps. Notice how the water doesn't disappear... it stays in the basin, and you can make it as warm or as cold as you want. You now have a whole basin of water in which you can wash your hands. Notice also how you aren't wasting water and money by having all your water going straight down the aforementioned plughole while you use just a teeny a tiny amount of the running water to wash your hands. Cost effective, ecologically sound and you don't have to rush. Try it, it works a treat.
it's just too darn complicated, perhaps there's evening classes on how to use two taps at once.
And here we have another great British Tradition; the educational sarcasm. Great stuff. That little thing that helps put the GREAT in Great Britain.
Ha ha...Still technically achievable with the 1 tap...Plus, old pipes can literally poison you sooo...
My understanding was that it was to do with the hot water tank you’d have in your loft, being the perfect temperature to breed germs, and probably being lead, and the hot tap not necessarily being safe to drink out of. I was always taught if you want hot water to drink, get it from the cold tap and put it in the kettle. The separate taps prevent cross contamination.
Everything nowadays is heated on demand from the main supply, so not really an issue any more
And do you scrub the sink out first? I just have it so the hot tap is set at just the right temperature. Sorted!
We don’t have weird habits, it’s the rest of the world that weird😉😉
Unless you are from Yorkshire, in which case it is the rest of Britain AND the rest of the World.
yes of course, we are perfect in every way ! ( and modest too ! )
"Remember, remember the 5th of November. Gunpowder, treason, and plot."
Pity he isn't about now but this time doesn't get found out.
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli'ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd (or by God's mercy*)
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holla boys, Holla boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
And what should we do with him? Burn him!
A traitor to the Crown by his action,
No Parli'ment mercy from any faction,
His just end should'st be grim,
What should we do? Burn him!
Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring,
Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope
A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A fagot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!
Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason, why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot!
A stick or a stake for King James' sake
Will you please to give us a fagot
If you can't give us one, we'll take two;
The better for us and the worse for you!
Guy, guy, guy
Poke him in the eye,
Put him on the bonfire,
And there let him die
Remember, remember the fifth of November
It's Gunpowder Plot, we never forgot
Put your hand in your pocket and pull out your purse
A ha'penny or a penny will do you no harm
Who's that knocking at the window?
Who's that knocking at the door?
It's little Mary Ann with a candle in her hand
And she's going down the cellar for some coal
We come a Cob-coaling for Bonfire time,
Your coal and your money we hope to enjoy.
Fal-a-dee, fal-a-die, fal-a-diddly-i-do-day.
For down in yon' cellar there's an owd umberella
And up on yon' cornish there's an owd pepperpot.
Pepperpot! Pepperpot! Morning 'till night.
If you give us nowt, we'll steal nowt and bid you good night.
Up a ladder, down a wall, a cob o'coal would save us all.
If you don't have a penny a ha'penny will do.
If you don't have a ha'penny, then God bless you.
We knock at your knocker and ring at your bell
To see what you'll give us for singing so well.
Here comes three jolly rovers, all in one row.
We're coming a cob-coiling for t' Bon Fire Plot.
Bon Fire Plot from morning till night !
If you'll give us owt, we'll steal nowt, but bid you goodnight.
Fol-a-dee, fol-a-die, fol-a-diddle-die-do-dum !
The next house we come to is a sailor you see.
He sails over the ocean and over the sea,
Sailing from England to France and to Spain,
And now he's returning to England again.
The next house we come to is an old tinker's shop,
And up in one rook there's an old pepper-box-
An old pepper-box from morning till night-
If you'll give us owt, we'll steal nowt, but bid you good-night.
"so, are you celebrating the fact he tried to blow up parliament, or the fact that he failed?"
"yes"
"....okay but which one?"
"shhhh... just enjoy the pretty lights"
In those days Catholics were the equivalent of ISIS in their politics so we we celebrating the plot being foiled and that's why we burn a conspirator called guy on a bonfire
😂😂😂😂. I asked same thing!!!!
“Stiff upper lip” It’s about being strong in the face of adversity, we don’t bottle things up
Spot on. I remember a while ago when someone was comparing American and British soldiers during wartime. The American soldier is more about being a hero, while for the British soldier its just a job; so when the American suffers with something he will be emotional or moan about it, compared to the Brit soldier suffering he won't think much about it he'll just "soldier on" - get the job done whatever it takes.
At least that's how the generations used to be, I'm not so sure for the millennial generation these days where being easily offended about anything and everything is promoted as a good thing.
We (The british) are stoic.
@@TomGB-81 millenial soldiers definitely don't fit the stereotype. Most of my village wound up joining the grenadier guards and they very much have boomer attitudes.
I love listening to your observations, keep them coming.
I don't think most of us Brits mind the weather. We just like to joke about it self-deprecatingly cos that's our style of humour. It's like an inside joke for the whole of the UK to take the piss out of our weather even though it's not that bad.
I'm a simple man. Someone mentioned Red Dwarf. I like and subscribe.
Step up to red alert
But sir are you sure it does mean changing the bulb 👍😁
Same
They're all dead.
I made myself a red alert sign for the workshop, sadly I can't get a decent blue bulb so I'm always stuck on the panic setting.
@@helenbanks7599 wat even Peterson, Peterson's dead ?
It is on the 5 th of November. We are celebrating that he got caught and killed. And more often people make like wood figure of him and burn them on the fire
Gaberial Mead Wood figure? Guy Fawkes effigies are old clothing and rags
Old clothes stuffed with paper, not wood.
"I never see Northern Ireland making a fuss."
Stick O'Jelly.
The northern Irish have a tendency to kill each other regarding territory! Ever heard of the IRA?l And the Scots are insisting on independence.
Accents simply arise from isolation. Before the start of the industrial revolution most people would not have travelled outside the community into which they were born. Since the majority had no means of transport other than walking and no 'time off' from their daily labours they were, by and large, limited to the distance they could cover in a single day's return trip---probably a range no more than 10-15 miles across rough ground--just enough to reach the next village or market town to sell any excess produce.
America has a different accent from Britain (if we could settle on a single representative accent for Britain) for a few reasons. Firstly, settlers did not come to North America only from Britain but from many different countries so the country was not 100% anglophone in the first place and this continued as they welcomed immigrants from around the world. Secondly, the British settlers arrived with a whole range of different accents but were then pushed together in new settlements and pretty much averaged out the differences over a couple of generations. Thirdly, the American population was, for all practical purposes, cut off from the British mainstream by distance so in many cases continued usages that are now archaic in British English. In fact many of the terms that seem characteristically American, such as using 'fall' instead of 'autumn' were actually in common use in British English at the point that the settlers left but changed later in Britain while our American cousins continued the older usage. Another case in point is the use of 'gotten' --common in #american English but now totally lost in mainstream British English (other than in one or two specific phrases such as 'ill gotten gains').
I'd guess that similar things happened in Australia; isolation from the mother tongue, a particular mix of accents among the earliest settlers and the blending within communities as diverse accents rubbed together to come to a common mean.
What is rapidly dieing out is Dialects. All those rich local words not used elsewhere in the country.
@@jonathanwetherell3609 Yes. My best friend is from Brislington in Yorkshire and his grandfather is one of the few people still alive who spoke the local dialect.
Fascinating...have you by any chance studied historical linguistics?
Btw I'm from Australia...
@Blackporsche roadster Why are accents seen as a sign of being stupid and/or backward?
I don't believe this to be the case at all...
About the weather thing, it depends where you live. For instance I live in Liverpool and it has rained on a 106 days since May
I'm Australian and we have two taps not one. Quite common in Australia.
I think that your experience with the Welsh being particularly loud and proud about their nationality is because Wales is so often forgotten as a country. Foreigners often think that UK, Britain and even England are the same thing by different names. Many will have heard of Scotland because of historical characters like Robert the Bruce, and more modern stories like Harry Potter and Highlander. Ireland is also known (although often Ireland and Northern Ireland are confused) again because of history, and also because of GoT. In all of this, Wales is often forgotten about and the Welsh want to draw our attention to their own identity.
The same is often true about New Zealanders who are very proud of their nationality, particularly when people consider them to just be Australians.
Because there's nothing much for tourists to go there for (landmarks or Historically) that's known globally!.
@@raydology9584 what there lots to see in wales
@@raydology9584 If that is known globally then it is WRONG. Which is precisely why the Welsh have to 'toot their own horn'.
Have you ever been to Wales? It is a beautiful country and full of history (and I say that as an English person).
@@noifurze6397 there is lots to see everywhere!... But if there is nothing Unique man made or Naturally (Eiffel Tower, Great Wall of China, Pyramids, Grand Canyon, Great Battles...) then people are not likely to plan their holiday getting there to be apart of it, and take snaps or any other proof (stories) back home to show their loved ones!...that's just Tradition and
@@jackieparish979 unfortunately if it ain't Annually or connected to something major big then it is unlikely to catch the attention, for generations to come!.
Accents change every 25 miles in the UK.
Less, folk 8 miles down the road in Burnley talk totally different to me.
Try 5 😂
25 miles? Its way way less than that,I live 10 miles from Wigan and I can't understand one word they say.
Mark Atchison have you heard of a thing called averages?
@@Jabber-ig3iw yeah,and I reckon the average is way less than 25 miles,as does everybody else who replied to you as far as I can tell,but it's all just opinions.
The weather part made me laugh so much. We can get snow in April... it’s all fun and games until January the first hits and you’re done with winter already.
On the accents, (when I say accent i include dialect) it's usually based on the outside influences in a different region, or the original languages that the local dialect has developed from. Whether you need to make yourself understood to more people not from the local area also plays into it (if there's more interaction with people without the local accent you need to be clearer in your everyday speech).
So where I'm from in the North East of England, there's a lot of viking influence, because of the invasions, but not that much since, because it's fairly remote and not that populated. Likewise in the Highlands of Scotland, but the influence is from Gaelic rather than Scandinavian. Whereas accents in places with more interaction tend to be clearer (though not always - they can be used as a way to shut people out because you don't want others to understand you - like Cockney).
Accents in the country tend to be slower than city accents, probably matching the general pace of life.
Australian and american accents follow the same rules, generally, but in some cases, the accents there are closer to the original settlers than modern British accents from the place the settlers came from.
I am originally from the UK. Wait until December and January then you can say something about the weather. It has been a record high lately in the UK but my father moved from the UK after the plumbing inside the house froze up and he could not put his keys in the car door as it had frozen up. Those dark winters are very depressing.
A part of the accent thing is from the various tribes that controlled different areas but that is only a small part. That does affect slang words a lot. Accents are slowly merging across the world with the internet and comms. Lister was from Liverpool. It was law for a few hundred years to burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes.
Bonfire night is on the 5th November (which happens to be today), it's sometimes referred to as Guy Fawkes night but most call it Bonfire Night. It's to celebrate the failed attempt to blow up Parliament. Guy Fawkes (whose full name was Guido Fawkes), hid a load of barrels of gunpowder underneath the Parliament building and was caught before he could set it off. So once a year communities get together to burn an effigy of him on bonfires, set off fireworks and eat and drink as a community.
Great video.
A perfect Bommy (Bonfire) night is a sparkler or two and a good firework display in the park with a toffee apple.
As for the Welsh. I live in the north west of England, close to the border of Wales, and it seems it's because they're legally part of England, and they have to fight a lot harder to have their own laws etc.
Bonfire night is 5th November - though people will start having fireworks for a week or so before. There are lots of public displays usually in parks etc. which are usually either on the 5th or on the nearest weekend - they vary in size a lot. Look up bonfire night displays near you. Some of the really big ones you'll need a ticket in advance for - Alexandra Palace has a good one.
The most famous fireworks event (probably in the world) is in Lewes, East Sussex on the 5th, which involves the whole town, several fireworks displays and parades and tens of thousands of people go to watch.
Hi Yvette, you should of been here 2 winters ago when the beast from the east hit us. That was fun !
This summer was one of the best summers we have had in a long time by far!
The relatively new thing of just one mixer tap is a ROTTEN design to me. I bend down in the morning/whenever to wash my face/(hair when I had some) and ding my head grr, also you can't really see how much hot or cold is mixing! The weather is actually much better than most of the planet but is highly unpredictable. I find after over 6 decades of experience it best to wear a North Face/Rab/Berghaus mountain climbing jacket with up to 3 layers underneath 10 months of the year unless I've escaped to Croatia, Spain, S. Italy or Canary Isles :)
Little is known about the earliest celebrations. In settlements such as Carlisle, Norwich, and Nottingham, corporations (town governments) provided music and artillery salutes. Canterbury celebrated 5 November 1607 with 106 pounds (48 kg) of gunpowder and 14 pounds (6.4 kg) of match, and three years later food and drink was provided for local dignitaries, as well as music, explosions, and a parade by the local militia. Even less is known of how the occasion was first commemorated by the general public, although records indicate that in the Protestant stronghold of Dorchester a sermon was read, the church bells rung, and bonfires and fireworks lit. I'm scouse and I say what I think! Got me in a lot of trouble over the years ha ha also I love that we have proper seasons over here 😁
I bet you have loved the weather during February 2020 wind and rain at the weekends. 🤣😅🤣
10 months of good weather in the UK? Hahahahahahahaha, just you wait :)
Until 2017ish the weather started to get better. I used to walk to primary every morning and put my shoes on the radiator when I got in ( whole class did ).
Up here in the north we've had endless weekends ruined by rain this year, we've hardly had a stretch of three days without rain. Last summer was awesome though, from May through to the end of August.
Hot & cold taps - if I want cold water (eg to make a drink) I don't want to have to run a mixer tap for a minute to cool it down after it has been used to get hot water.
The weather here is so changeable, in a small area the weather can be surprising, in spring, summer or autumn. In winter we get surprised when it acts like winter with snow and stuff in a generally non-wintery winter. So lots to talk about even if it is only small talk.
If you live in the south and the east of England (London too) it’s much drier, warmer and sunnier. The further North and West you go it’s gets gloomier, stormier, darker, wetter, windier, colder. So Winters in the North are much worse and winter months in some places see rain almost everyday. I’ve lived it and it’s terrible ahah.
Ethan 4444 I lived in the north for seven years and really did not see a deference
The weather can vary from year to year so no year can be called typical.
They do fireworks in brokwell park near Brixton / Herne hill area and Crystal Palace Park. Just look for any large parks
You do know we do have mixture taps, and separate hot and cold taps can be changed.
Last summer was VERY dry and hot so people may be comparing to that. We rarely get a few days together without rain though. Also weather and public transport are the main things people enjoy complaining about.
Cold water came from a mains supply and was fit for drinking. Hot water would be serviced by a local storage cistern often situated in the loft so would just sit there gathering bugs. This is why we have hot and cold taps as many houses still have this system!
So many foreigners bring up the separate tap thing but you make it hard when it isn’t. You just put the plug in and fill the basin to the required temperature. EASY!
Im from Liverpool and its strange as we are classed as Merseyside and Southport is also Merseyside and only about a 30 minute drive from Liverpool City but the accent is so different as they have a Lancashire accent. Its almost like crossing a line.
I heard a linguistics expert saying Liverpool had 4 distinct accents, and then imitated all 4.
@@slightlyconfused876 My daughter in law is from (the) wirral and her Mum proper Scouse. Even I from Belfast can tell the difference.
I live in the south coast. I count everything as North....
FallenGrace yup I’m from Kent and anywhere north of London is just the north 😀
Yep!! I live in kent and everything else is the north!!!!
North starts at Watford
Me too, anything above Tunbridge Wells is up North.
Re the weather - I think you inadvertently answered your own question. Britain has the most changeable weather of anywhere in the world (not the worst weather, just the most changeable). Its something to do with being the one land spot where 4 different systems converge (I got that off a documentary years ago) and the weather is largely dictated by which of those weather systems wins. What it does mean is that you can have 4 seasons in a day and you can have very unseasonable weather any time of the year. You stand a better chance of hot weather in the Summer and cold in the Winter, but it just doesnt always work out that way, which makes planning quite difficult on occasions. And I'm quite baffled as to how you have only seen 2 days of rain - I live in South West London and experienced a fairly wet summer with intermittent scorching days and a fairly rainy October. It's chucked it down most of the last week. There are places in London that legitimately have their own micro-climate, but if its not rained where you are then I want your address because I'm moving there
The seperate taps thing is a throwback to when people used to have hot water storage tanks / cisterns. These tanks could sit for a considerable length of time with warmish water in them making them a perfect breeding ground for all kinds of nasty water borne illnesses were you to drink from the hot tank. Some establishments or properties may still be using these old systems so to this day it's inadviseable to drink from the hot tap if you aren't familiar with the boiler set up. The cold is always mains drinking water unless clearly marked otherwise.
There are parts of the UK where it could be raining or snowing but drive to the other side of the hill and its a lovely summers day.
The weather has changed, but you will find our winters are very long, dull and damp!
Re hot and cold taps. You mix the water in the basin to get the right temperature. Then you use the water in the basin.
The 'stiff upper lip' is about being stoic in the face of adversity, which is a good thing. I agree that some Brits bottle things up, but these aren't the same thing. Personally I'm extremely direct and open, but that's probably because I'm from the North.
You're right about the weather, as a Northerner living in London I find it remarkable how little it actually rains here, yet people act like it's non-stop. It really isn't. What I will say though is that it's CLOUDY a lot of the time - not raining, but not sunny either.
You're right that separate taps are idiotic, however they tend to only exist in older, unrenovated homes. It's very rare for anyone to buy them new, practically everyone buys mixers now if they're fitting a new bathroom. You do tend to see more separate taps the further you get from the larger cities though.
Regarding accents, Northerners including Mancunians tend to drop the T and replace it with a glottal stop, sort of like "war'er". In fact Northerners use glottal stops quite a lot, including to replace "the" (e.g. "I'm going tu't pub" means "I'm going to the pub"). Talking of glottal stops, I was once told by a guy working in the Middle East that Northerners learn Arabic more easily than Southerners because we're already used to glottal stops, which are common in Arabic. Not sure how true that is.
I can't really speak for either, but I find Scottish national pride is just as strong as Welsh national pride. In either case it probably comes from not wanting their national identity to be snuffed out by the domineering English. Rightly so, both nations have strong identities of their own that deserve to thrive. Cornish identity is strong too, and of course Northern Irish. Even the regions of England can be quite vocally proud.
Separate taps are great. Just ramp the hot tap up and blast your sink of all it’s gunk without messing with temperature
Very beautiful and completely bonkers. Who takes your dog out to the loo? Whatever “ floats your boat”. Love that.
I thought this summer was pretty mixed to be honest. 2018, on the other hand, was a stellar year. The summer which kept on giving.
Autumn can be really warm....mostly beginning of October. Here in the north it’s been a disappointing October it’s rained non stop which is unusual for October. I always think August is our rainy month I should know my birthdays in August. And yes I say Hiya! 😘
I've only just come across your video. An observation about accents, communities were mostly "isolated" until the introduction of trains and later the motor car, followed by radio and television. That limitation gave rise to locally used words and dialects. My family moved from south Wales to Worcester, only about 70 miles, the local butcher did not understand when she asked for meat, different words were used. I am told in the Black Country area near Birmingham the accents were so pronounced you could tell which street someone lived in. The Welsh were independently minded and most spoke only Welsh about 120 years ago.
Very surprised you aren't seeing/have plenty of single mixer taps now, as most houses have been renovated and now have them or the option to, along with new builds. If you don't have an attic/loft with as water tank, you can have a mixer tap.
From my understanding of accents the difference in them are basically variations due to the isolation of villages. Its not until really the 1960s that all the country and its villages were connected to one another.
Part of the reasons for development of English accents varying so much. Is historically the different areas were settled by different groups. E.g Yorkshire and the North East is more influenced by Vikings/Norse words. This has also influenced the accent. Im in Lancashire which was settled with a mix of Brythonic Celts (Brigantes), Angles and some Viking. Liverpool has been influenced by a lot of Irish immigration etc.
Guy Fawkes / bonfire night is the 5th November, not the 4th. We celebrate lots of crazy things here, rolling round cheeses down steep hills and nearly killing ourselves, pancake day races, the daft Morris dancing, various things to do with witchcraft, etc etc. The Welsh are proud of their language and culture and speak both languages there. The roadsigns there are in both languages. The Cornish are fiercely proud of their culture and heritage too, and talk in a certain way. You ought to see the "Obby Oss" tradition that goes on in various towns in Cornwall every year. It's like something out of the original classic movie The Wicker Man starring Christopher Lee. x x x
October to April is usually misery/endless gloom/rain. I think you're just lucky. May to July can be pretty unpredictable and if you're lucky you might get a week of sun in August
Hot and cold taps is good in the bathroom, if your brushing your teeth and want to wash your mouth you just need cold water, you don't wanna faff about adjusting the temperature just use the cold tap.
The kitchen tap is different, one tends to be better there.
5th of November, and it's to celebrate the failure of the plot, traditionally an effigy of Guy Fawkes is burnt on the bonfire. A couple of traditional treats are black treacle toffee and parkin.
The two taps are because homes had a hot water tank which is considered 'static' water, if you then have mixer taps the hot water can possibly feed back into the cold water supply. This has a slight risk of contaminating the cold water supply. If you have a condensing boiler a mixer tap is possible.
I live in Suffolk, east anglia about 1.5 hrs from London. We say hiya and are you alright or more often just alright?
We also pronounce the t in water although there are some that say war-ah, emphasis on the ah
Separate taps for hot and cold water: My guess is that in the past people heated water, poured it into a tub/basin and washed whatever was to be cleaned. Only today we are used to wash things under flowing water. So this is the old style of filling the sink which does not need the medium hot water coming out of the wall.
2019 spring, summer happened to be one of the driest in a long while, it has been known to rain almost constantly through August before now.
We used to have cold winters wit lots of snow but not anymore
Stiff upper lip means maintain your dignity in the face of adversity. A fine British trait. As opposed to falling apart in the face of adversity.
Seperate Hot and Cold is because many houses have a separate cold water tank which may not be strictly hygenic . The only mains water in many houses is in the kitchen.
Traditionally Guy Fawkes goes on top of the bonfire, so we are not celebrating him. lol
The best place to get the full 5th of November experience is Lewes in East Sussex.
The weather is so changeable because we have 4 weather systems jostling for position over the country, the arctic, Atlantic, Mediterranean and eastern weather systems. For the most part the rest of the world has only 2 weather systems, also most of the rain we get in the UK is along the west coast in Essex they get less rain fall then Israel year on year.
I’m in Cornwall, anything north of Exeter is NORTH to me 🤣. As for weather come to Cornwall it’s so different here. A friend of mine lives Essex way (but lived here for a while), says how warm and dry it is compared to here, yet I’ve just had three months of rain and it’s generally about 3 or 4 degrees temperature difference. I say this about Cornwall weather but Cornwall is such a great place, you really should visit, if you haven’t already! We get sunshine sometimes 🤣
People do have mixer taps. It’s to do with piping I think lol
The weather is definitely changing with global warming. The past two summers have been very warm and dry, particularly 2018 - we had about 5 months of complete sunshine and very hot weather. But it was only a few years ago that we had a huge amount of snow at the end of March that was so deep it lasted for ages.
Get ready for loads of kids knocking on your door for Trick and Treat for Halloween and a Penny For The Guy for Bonfire Night lol. But there are normally a lot of Bonfires for Bonfire Night which will normally be either weekend before or after or both of 5th November. There is normally a bonfire and fireworks, some do toffee apples and other things as well. But there used to be other things like Apple Bobbing which is a barrel filled with apples and you try to bite the apples out of the barrel. Not sure if they do that anywhere anymore.
We have a joint tap, and the water is either freezing or scalding, sometimes I wish it was separate taps.
Because of where the uk is situated ( if interested why search the uk roundabout) it varies greatly year to year. Some winters can be completely frozen for about 3 months and freezing but some years (like this one) it’s hardly cold at all. And talking about seasons in a day I’ve experienced hail, rain sunshine and wind all separately in one day 😂
Hiya. Re Bonfire Night, check your local papers for the nearest celebrations to you and whether they're before or after the 5th because that's midweek and most "Do's! are on a weekend. All the best to you.
Taps.... you can choose to have one mixer tap or two separate taps... you can just fit your own to how you like it
Regional accents developed through isolation, essentially. People didn't move about much and the way words are spoken and phrases formed slowly evolved. Even those people who did travel never really covered more than seven miles a day, so there was very little mixing - even nowadays you can see that there is actually a different physical 'look' to people from certain areas.
children and adults also hold sparklers which they can twirl around traditional sweets are normally apples and to drink we normally have hot chocolate as a cold night
"traditional sweets are normally apples"...........Toffee apples.
seperate taps were originally regulations to prevent cross contamination between the 2 streams and its just carried on to this day but of course we can have mixer taps now if we wish but its mostily in business premises or hotels etc (its all on Google my dear !!!!!! )
The west starts, at least around Bristol when you are asked how are you my lover or when they ask you where are you to meaning where are you, especially confusing with taxi services.
I think you've been lucky so far with the weather- this likely will not last. There's likely to be a lot of rain and cold from November all the way through to April. The UK tends to get cold water thrown all over it by the jet stream that has travelled across the Atlantic picking up water the whole way. We don't get particularly hard winters, compared to (say) Canada (even though we are a long way North of them), but they're not warm, the tend to be humid, dark, cold and wet. Still, every year is different.
Generally the winter will be cold, and there will probably very cold spells, but often the winter isn’t too bad, and sometimes can be surprisingly warm (I remember about 3 years ago, it was like May, about 2 weeks before Christmas. There were people doing their Christmas shopping wearing shorts and t-shirts). I’ve also known plenty summer days to feel like November.
Plenty UK places have mixer taps.
If I’m being generous, the North begins when you hit Cheshire or Yorkshire. In reality, it’s north of the Tees.
Bonfire Night - 5th November. It’s not celebrating terrorism, it’s the thwarting of the 1605 plot to blow up Parliament and James I
Your fellow Aussie, Shane Warne, recently described the British weather as "9 months of bad weather and 3 months of winter".
I think the ‘R’ in water is from the West Country English accent, and a lot of the American accent is similar to Irish, because of the numbers of Irish who moved there.
5th November is Bonfire Night, we build a huge fire and set off fireworks. We also eat toffee apples. They're great.
I know UK weather isn't the best, but at least we don't get disasters like thunderstorms, hurricanes etc. New houses have mixed taps but old ones are obviously separate unless people bother to change them. I like the variety of accents as well. I live in the north west and the accent here is so different from South and my cousins in London
I live in South Wales UK and has far has the rain it has been raining on and off for 5 weeks
You do get single tap systems in the uk but we Brits prefer to be able fill a basin with water, l know that this seem a bit of a chore when you only want to wash your hands quickly, but the original reason is that both fees for hot and cold water come from different systems.
A lot of the Northern words / slang has a Scandinavian influence. My wife is Swedish and she was shocked when she first encounterd it. For instance Hej (pronounced hey) = Hi (Swedish), Hey-up = Hi (northern english) . Nej (pronounced, Nay) = No, (Swedish), Nay (Northern slang) = No. There are lots of others too, mostly in Northern slang though. Vikings had something to do with that, as while Swedish and Norwegian are different, they are also very similar.
Wait until its snows, Which is not often, the whole of England comes to a stop, Almost no winter tyres