American Reacts to WEIRD British Culture Facts (Part 2)
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2023
- As an American there are so many things about British culture that I have no clue about. Today I am very excited to continue learning about this list of weird British culture facts. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I loved the irony of you puzzled by gogglebox, as it is practically what you are doing, its a reaction show, people watching things like tv shows or movies and generally reacting to it in a more laid-back manner but especially the same idea as a UA-cam reaction channel
That's what I was thinking but I thought I'd check to see if someone else had got in before me.
Ah, but (more than) half the fun of Gogglebox is the people themselves - Giles and Mary, Jenny and Lee, the Leeds Sisters. I watch it in anticipation of the day we see Mary, on her own, holding a claw hammer, and just a bloodstained Laura Ashley chair where Giles should be....
@@Adeodatus100I thought that was going to happen when he brought a toad in from their garden on a food tray - telling Mary to admire it (she really really didn’t want to 😲🤣🤣) and the toad then jumped off the food tray onto Giles’ chair ….. 🤣🤣🤣 now, if Mary had had a claw hammer to hand - well, The Goggleboxers watching a “real life and true crime incident” would be very interesting! 🤫🤣🤣
Came here to say the same thing!
Yes. " Gogglebox" is funny because of the people in it and ther reactions to what they're watching. I'm genuinely fond of them. I especially love Jenny and her friend, the Siddiquis and the sisters. But Mary finally losing her patience with Giles would be great!
She hasn't touched on the number of pet names and regional favourites. Love, dear, flower, petal, chuts, chicken, duck, lover, darling, sweetheart, sunshine...the list goes on and on
And the long list of Welsh ones! Cariad being a north/south Common one. Love your reactions a refreshing take from across the pond love & light 💜🏴🌻
And on! 🤪
And just "pet". My best friend and I call each other "kitten".
@@ivylasangrienta6093 I knew I'd missed one! And then there are the mostly male ones like mate, pal, marra, bro etc etc!
@@ivylasangrienta6093 ... 🤣 ... That's the one I always use for my daughters, Kitten, and the other phrase I use is Kid.
some people dress for the weather they want, not the weather we get.
Definitely 😂
Round my way some dress for the body they want and not what they have
Screw that I just have a tons of the same clothes
@@sarahfields288That made me laugh. Often when out I think "If I had a bum like that I wouldn't wear those leggings" 😊
@@sarahfields288 that too, is accurate 🤣
I've always loved the ironic and usually contradictory nature of our humour. Insulting your closest friends and being super-polite to complete strangers. Calling the straightest guy you know Princess, and the tallest one Shorty. We truly are a land of contradictions, with a way all of our own. It's no wonder no one has a clue how to take us 😂
@_TylerRumple 👍
Yeah that's a fake account
I worked all over Europe on telecoms contracts and among our number were 7 Americans.
They frequently worried why we were insulting each other but then our laughing loudly at being savagely insulted.
This of course spurred us on to even greater depths of insultingness.
We were of course,all mates but picked up on their concern immediately and played it to death.
It’s the British way,pisstaking,and we’re very very good at it.
Ha I don't think you could ever accurately translate the usage of the British English language , as frequently it is not just what we say but how we say it and many would not understand if we were being genuine or sarcastic. I used to take the Pi#s out of teachers at school all the time and had classmates regularly in stitches. The teachers never understood what was going on as my conversations with them seemed quite normal as they never knew that our class group had our own way of using phrases etc. This lack of understanding just made it funnier, well for us at least. I am not quite so nasty these days, honest!
My son is constantly saying sorry when he's out and about even if he's not in anyone's way ! Someone might get in his way but he's the one who will say sorry ...
'oh my gosh. And look at them on these small dresses. A freezing snowy night'
Looks like Newcastle 😁
Yes, Geordies are born hardy. Anyone wearing a coat in the Toon are immediately recognised as southerners or foreign
Again, I feel it necessary to point out that part of British character stems from simply long inhabitation of the same place by the same people: many of these quirks are literally older than recorded memory in origin. Also many weirdnesses are simply oddities in language use, which again, stems from the length of time English has been used.
If America, and Americans, still exist in any meaningful way in, say, 1000 years hence, You'd likely not recognise Your people. yourself. Time is a magic all its own.
(and yes, i know my comments all focus on this aspect, but it is that important and informs all aspects of our culture: same applies all over Europe.)
America is a child by world nation standards
Aussie here. We tend to have inherited many British customs. Came along with our original British settlers and immigrants. Some people here are rude but on the whole we have the same level of politeness as the British. Please and thank you go a long way and dont try to cut the queue. Ever. We tend to say sorry about everything. Even if you havent done anything. Same sense of humour. We both get each others in jokes immediately. And our friend circles get insulted mercilessly. A good friends dad said to me once, when I was staying there .... help yourself to whatevers in the fridge. Make tea toast or sandwiches whenever you want. But the minute we start serving you and being polite, pack your bags. Some of us (not me) have been known to take trashy holidays to Bali and maybe Fiji. Not sure the locals are that happy about it. We also get a lot of British TV. Some good. Some very questionable. Xs are pretty common here too. xxx 😁
Good to hear 👍😊
This is so true, the Aussies and the Brits get each other's humour.
Sorry, can I just say how much the Aussies remind me of Britain when I was a kid (50 years ago). I'm not decrying it I think its nice, we've lost a lot of the humour and attitude that is still retained in Australia.
Hope I didn't offend, 😅
I love the British/Aussie connection. Don't think I've ran into a bad Aussie yet, you guys fit in with us perfectly. From a pom to a Kangaroo shagger keep it up!
we take the piss out of each other but we both know its an affectionate humour not meant to be inulting
Gogglebox (which is slang for ‘TV’) is people reacting to TV shows. It’s exactly the same as us watching you react to UA-cam videos.
I call it YouBoob, inspired by the old term for TV, boob tube, aka idiot box.
A lot of times it's cheaper for working class (US lower middle class) people to holiday abroad, than in our own country. It's a weird thing.
But this ends up ruining our reputation in the rest of Europe, with drunk, rude hooligans vomiting all over Spanish streets, or burnt pink 20 years olds getting into fights with each other in Ibiza.
I think there maybe a misunderstand of 'sorry'.
When said in English, by a Brit., its is not always (or often) an apology.
For instance, 'I'm sorry you were offended' is not an apology, just a statement of regret at your inappropriate or unanticipated reaction.
I have a theory about politeness in a culture - that the closer the proximity to others in a society, the more importance politeness is, as a way to avoid conflict. The two most famously polite nationalities are the British and the Japanese - both densely populated islands. So both have incredibly complex and pervasive rules of politeness. Small town US likely shares the same thing because of how people lived in such close proximity to each other's lives, essentially separate from other towns etc in "old West" times.
That's my theory anyway, I'd be interested in other's opinions.
Interesting. How would you explain the propensity for politeness to diminish as urban population density increases? People are for more polite to strangers in rural areas - on the whole - than they would be in a big city.
Thats a pretty good observation.
Fascinating. As I Brit, now living in Spain and also lived in Thailand, I apologise constantly, and the reaction i get is hilarious. They have no idea why I am apologising and look at me like I'm 'weak' or pathetic in some way. I won't change who I am, I love it, but it is funny the nuances of cultural engagement
@@carltaylor6452 Urban population density increases stresses, which might lead to folk not giving a toss about those they interact with. In addition, such populations have a high level of 'churn', with people constantly changing, moving in, moving out, etc. So you can have people who live 'next door' essentially living as strangers.
@@PortilloMoment good answer.
‘Pet Names’ sit on a bit of a curve in the UK, in the sense that they get progressively ‘nicer’ whilst you’re getting in to a relationship with someone, then they peak, and after you’ve been married for a short while, they dramatically plummet, until you’re affectionately referring to each other as ‘My Little Sweaty Sewer-Beast’ or something equally cute.
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Taking a trip from much of the UK to the south of Spain is roughly the same distance as flying from New York or Washington DC to Miami. It's a few hours flight, and often WAY cheaper in Europe than an equivalent flight in the US.
Gogglebox is pretty much the same as UA-cam reaction videos, to be honest... It's often hillarious, though. I'd definitely recommend it for a reaction video. Very meta!
It's cheaper to fly to Spain (return/round-ticket) from England than take a train to London or Edinburgh...
You'll spend more getting to the airport than it will be to actually fly there and back...
@@daveofyorkshire301 Yeah - all the destinations she mentioned are big club scenes, so it's a cheap flight, and a great party scene, in a place with reliable hot weather - this kind of stuff started becoming normal for young Brits to do in the 90s when the dance music scene first took off.
My mum walked into a lamppost once, banged her head and said sorry 😅😅
I accidentally dropped a card I’d just bought and said sorry to the lady picking it up. She asked why I was apologising, I had no idea 😂
As an Englishman in his sixties, I can confirm fake tans and very tight shorts are en vogue here, at least amongst the men!
What is inappropriate for people to wear in certain weather in other countries isn't as inappropriate here in the UK because as a Brit people here grow up from birth being conditioned towards the cold, wet and damp that we get so often. In the end, we don't really feel it much because it's like we've become immune.
Not for me I've lived in the UK all my life and hate the cold weather. I sit most of the time in winter in coats and jumpers in front of the heater. I could never go out without a coat in bad weather.
Almost nobody calls it high school in the uk! :)
Secondary school: Usually ages 11-18 and Years 7-13. Equivalent to US Grades 6-12. In some places, the last two years go to a separate school called a ‘sixth form college’.
21 degrees celsius IS warm in Britain!
The reason young girls underdress on a winter night out is so they dont have to carry a coat which may get lost. Sadly, for many, the habit is to get so drunk they can barely stand, let alone look after possessions!
Gogglebox is epic. They choose a range of insightful and amusing watchers.
Lol. There was a recent court case in the UK because a woman took her boss to court for sexual assault because he used xs at the end of a message. She took it as kisses. He didn't mean it in any such way lol. Quite hilarious as a culture clash. I believe she was American. 😂😂😂
She was plain bonkers whatever she was. The xx wasn’t even at the end. He was using it as a place filler, as in ‘at this point you say to xx...’ where xx means ‘whoever’. She saw everything as a sexual threat. She lost the case and had to pat all the tribunal costs. I would love to have been her lawyer!
I've just read an article on that 😂 weren't his initials something like AGB and she thought that meant A Giant Member? 😂
Don’t lots of young Americans go to Cancun in Mexico
In the North East I used to get a lot of "Bonnie Lad" nicknames when I was younger from even older men. Bonnie is equivalent to pretty, but it doesn't have a sexual connotation when used as "bonnie lad/lass".
Lol this is kinda funny, watching Tyler trying to get his head around people watching others watch things... that's exactly what we're doing right now, watching him watch something and react. That's exactly what Gogglebox is
The clod weather and wearing summer cloths is mostly a Northan thing. We grow up in a colder climate, so we're just used to it. On a night out in winter everyone's dressed like it summer. When my wife first visited my parents for xmas( my wife's from down South) , a neighbour brought her new born grand child over to show my Mam ( It had been snowing, so it was clod), the baby was wareing a vest thing , with no arm or legs covered, my wifes face was priceless. I said , that's why we don't feel the cold 🤷♂️
With nightclubs, the lack of coat is because cloakroom prices are extortionate and it's better to spend the money on a drink than hanging your coat
I'm a British cyclist so I have to apologise a hundred times a day when people walk across the cycle lane not looking! 😂
I’m still shocked from the last video that Americans don’t tut, I genuinely thought everyone does that! It’s such an awesome passive aggressive tool lol
The interesting comment made me laugh. My friend's husband is German and he always asks me if I say something is interesting - "do you mean interesting or interesting in a British way?"
And yes apologising to inanimate objects is a real thing. Saying you are sorry when bumping in to something / someone is so ingrained and automatic that you apologise even before you check who or what it is you have bumped into.
For the lack of clothing when going to nightclubs in freezing weather - I was told this started when the clubs started to charge for using cloakrooms and people didn't want to pay extra, so they started turning up without coats.
lol
interesting
Nah, it's so you can show off your disco kit and don't hide it under a coat
@@scottythedawg Do you mean interesting or interesting in a British way? lol
Altosanon, the reasons for wearing very little in the winter, ( mainly the young ones ) can be for 2 reasons,
1/ because it’s the latest fashion and wear regardless of how cold or warm the weather is.
2/ a very simple reason......for attention, especially from guys.
Even in the summer, you can see the younger ones wearing clothes fit for winter, EG boots, thick long coats, even though it could be 25c at the least, WHY because it’s the latest fashion.
British sandwiches and Aussie sandwiches are made with sliced bread, otherwise we call them bread rolls with fillings of choice.
It's regional - no such thing as a bread roll in Newcastle - it's a bread bun
please can I have a bread roll with a filling of your choice snort
@@sherlockrobin597 Well, in Sydney, buns tend to be sweet, such as finger buns, cream buns,hot cross buns, etc.
@@Jeni10 in Newcastle (U.K.) we like to be difficult - buns can also be sweet as you’ve described
@@sherlockrobin597 ... Bread bun if its for hot dogs or a burger, bread roll if its for cheese, ham, with salad, pickle and the likes, where I'm from in England at least.
On the pet names, the further north the more there are, " high ducks", "aww ma hen", Somerset & Devon "hello my lover" all this & many more at the check-out after buying a loaf of bread.
I'm one of those that apologises over 20 times a day, but 99% of the time it's just in passing, I even have a habit to use it as a greeting alot of the time if I need to ask a question to someone out in public or something. But ik others do that too.
British weather has fairly high moisture all year round hot or cold. This means that the temperature travels into the body easier and we Brits are used to it. We get tolerant of it. I had a Swedish friend who lives in the North of Sweden and found the North of the UK very cold because of the moisture.
I used to work with a Hungarian girl and she would be bundled up in hat, gloves, padded coat during Autumn when we were just in fleece jackets. When we asked her how she was so cold when Hungarian winters are far more extreme she said the damp in the air here makes her feel chilled to the bone. She’s totally right.
Naked attraction would never fly in America. They don't blur/Sensor *anything*. I love Gogglebox!
‘Sorry’ is a social lubricant here. It shows you don’t mean to be rude. It’s also a reflex, like she says in the video, you bump into someone/something and say it automatically.
It can be a prompt to get someone to apologise for their behaviour if they haven’t noticed buts not meant to be passive aggressive because if they then don’t apologise you usually end up confused and offended because that then leaves you with the assumption they believed you were in the wrong. The idea of a lot of ‘Sorries’ is that you’re both not in the wrong. It was an accident with no fault. So if they don’t apologise back that that assumes blame.
It’s a very flexible word.
Duck, petal, flower, chicken. ( all "pet" names as well)
If I don't hear what someone said I will ask " sorry ?"
Holiday in the UK means going away from home. We don't call Christmas, Easter etc holidays.
IBIZA = IBITHA. One of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. About a 4 hour flight from the UK.
GOGGLEBOX is a name for the TV set.
We don't use an O for a hug !! We just use the X for a kiss.
You really need to get into reacting to some of our great panel shows like Would I lie to you and 8 out of 10 Cats do Countdown. Think they would give you a great introduction to British humour.
Tyler, aren't we all watching you watch youtube? Pretty much the same as Gogglebox :)
The whole Sorry thing. I end up apologising for someone stepping on my foot, if they bump into me etc. We both end up saying sorry to each other lol. HIlarious when you think about it lol
The British Sense of Humour is again a product of language and long habit. That teasing among intimates is known as Banter
She never mentioned our ability to moan. We are excellent at it, we aren't called "whinging poms" for no reason. It goes well with our sarcasm.
Oh dear, us Brits! Someone accidentally steps on your foot - YOU say "sorry", then they say "sorry".
I was in a crowded London tube train one day, standing right by the doors. I had gout in my foot, but was hobbling into work. The train stops, doors open, guy squeezes in & drops his bag, right on my foot! I see flashing lights of pain..., literally tears start running down my face. Guy is mortified by what he has done, & says sorry about 100times, but I'm also apologising to him!!
Get that same person in a car and you do something wrong in your car.... He'll turn into an obsessed monster
The whole politeness/apologising thing has grown out of our history, I think. For most of recorded history from Roman times, through the medieval, and into the modern era, people from Britain have had a reputation for being incredibly aggressive and violent. We had to develop a culture of politeness or we would have all killed each other a long time ago!
Yes, a smack in the mouth often offends.
I am 36 and I was brought up to be polite and apologise and know my p&q's and I have teached my kid's that to and they are very respectful but it is true people are disrespectful now a day's and it just p**s's me off
Yes, have you ever read Asterix in Britain? Very true to life 😀
'Taught', sorry!
Your comparison of "trashy holidays" to spring break was pretty much perfect. I did a couple of these holidays when I was a teenager and, yeah, you almost don't feel like you're in Spain (aside from much better weather) because you're just surrounded by other Brits lol.
Oh, also in regards to "fashion", I assure you it's not just the girls. Many times when I was younger did I venture out to a club in just a shirt and jeans when it was literally freezing weather. The worst part? The night bus only got me so close to my house so I had a 30 minute walk home afterwards. I can remember being so cold that it hurt lol.
Often if people say sorry to me (for instance they brush against me in the Tesco aisles reaching for some milk) often I’ll just say sorry back as a way of politeness or acknowledgement, because me apologising is quicker and sometimes less patronising than if I had said “that’s ok” “it’s alright”.
In my eyes it seems more fair, as if I’m subconsciously saying to them, “my bad, I shouldn’t have been in your way to begin with”
But I’m not sure how common this is.
That one teaching dogs to fly a plane, I'm from the UK and never heard of that show.😮
there is NO censored bits in Naked attraction it blurs out NOTHING you see EVERYTHING
Sorry is used as a social lubricant in conversation to ease disappointment, and ameliorate inconvenience
Interestingly, pet names are often different depending on where you're from... the ones I know are in Scotland: 'Hen', Ireland: 'chick' or 'girl', Newcastle and Sunderland: 'chicken', Yorkshire: 'chook', Liverpool and London: 'love' or 'Sweetheart' and in East London where I come from they say 'my lovely' (pronounced me luverly) 'my darlin'' 'hunnybun' or 'hun'.
The little dresses in winter are usually fashion-conscious teens going to night clubs that are notoriously hot inside... it's a daft teen thing, the rest of us wear coats and more approproate clothing. The holidays that these teens go on are usually cheap all inclusive deals for a week, usually in Spain - the areas are usually really tacky, full of noisy bars selling cheap booze, where they go clubbing, drink way too much, behave outrageously, have casual sex and vomit a lot, so a bit like the American 'Spring break' 😂
The 'X's thing isn't just for texts, it's any messages that you send to people, including emails, birthday/Christmas cards, and it's not neccessarily romantic unless you actually send it to your romantic partner. You can send it to friends, loved ones, aunties, uncles, children... think of it as a friendly kiss on the cheek that your granny would give you 😊 Examples would be something like a post-it note on the fridge from your mother that said something like ''Gone shopping, back in 2 hours, don't forget to feed the cat, love Mum/Mom XXX'' or an email '' Hi Uncle Dan, just wanted to thank you for the birthday present, it was lovely, hope you're all well, love you lots, Lisa XXX '' or your best friend ''Hi hun, fancy a pub lunch and a catch up on Friday?'' XX...the only time you wouldn't do it would be at work or in a professional (although I have done that in an e-mail to a boss by accident, SOOO embarassing 😂
17:19 that’s on you bro. Australia manages to travel and they’re completely isolated
If someone came along way to visit and the weather is bad then we do say sorry about the weather even we can't control it😂
We always called the TV the Gogglebox
Other pet names here are things like hinny (where I'm from up Newcastle area) and duck (more of a Yorkshire thing). I've also heard poppet used.
Those younger people who go in their crazy holidays give the rest of us a bad name. They get up to all sorts and sometimes end up being arrested. It's embarrassing when people think we're all like that! I sound like a right old person lol.
‘Pet’ is also a pet name in the north east.Sunderland lass here.
@@redredlulu1 How could I be from Newcastle and forget pet? Shame on me lol
What are we doing to cause pain and suffering to people to make us say sorry 20 times a day 😂 i can't stop laughing
I initially misheard when she said about saying sorry 8 times a day - I thought she said 80, and I thought to myself "yeah, probably about right". 😆
Aussies do this as well. We say sorry for anything. It is a way to say we care about how something makes you feel eg. Sorry about that. We so use it for what a shame or excuse me etc
@@lad1981uk same haha! I definitely say sorry more than 20 times a day
I blame the Government... We have A LOT to apologise for!
we apologise for any slight inconvenience we didn't cause.
I love how surprised you were about some things especially the TV shows
The difference in culture is also quite interesting
British holidays and why we like to visit other countries. I would say the main one is the better weather, British weather can be so unpredictable most of the year. Our summer months are usually May, June, July and August, but that doesn’t mean our weather will be any better then the winter months. Our good weather can start any time from April but very rarely. This year, 2023, we’re already in June and the better weather has only just started to pick up, that’s not to say it will stay good.
The other reason I think would be that as the UK is an island, it wouldn’t take you forever to visit most parts, hence the travelling further afield. Besides that, the cost, in many respects most of the popular places to vacate in the Uk, especially during the summer school breaks, it’s usually very costly, compared to visiting a different country, like, Spain, Italy, Greece for example.
No coats in the snow, this became a thing when clubs closed their cloakrooms and there was nowhere to leave a coat.
Yes x’s very common on our texts. So much so, it’s very easy to send one in error when replying to a builder or any other workmen!🤭
I automatically put X's so much so that I have to delete them when I'm sending messages to work colleagues 😂😂 xx
Always look forward to your videos😄
The X's in a text matters, we dont really use the O, me and my wife usually put around 5 X;s at the end of text, if she only puts 2 X's im in trouble, i have done something wrong, i usualy text back 10 X's hoping she made a mistake, if 2 Xs come bacy, yep im on the couch lol
I've noticed over the past two years how some of my fellow countrymen dress mostly in shorts and (rarely vests in winter) all year round whatever the weather especially in sub zero temperatures! Weird indeed! 😏
all the places mentioned are "trashy" i.e. cater for those who just want to hang out, drink, wear very little, (cheap drinks " )
a place to "pull" etc. etc. etc. ! Those resorts cater especially for the student class !
My impression of the American mid west falls into two categories from US tv and movies is 1st . the place you would love to live as per Hallmark movies or the place you never want to live as per the Texas Chainsaw massacre.
The weather doesn't bother me I wear t-shirts and shorts in sunshine, cloudy, raining, snow
Gogglebox is basically the origin story of reaction videos!
British TV is a thousand times better than anything from the US, except their reality TV which is disgusting. The best British TV series is The Repair Shop! ❤️
the Beer Coat insulates against the cold weather
Or they are from Newcastle and which would mean that they would put on a t-shirt if there's a snow blizzard outside
We used to dress like that in the 70s. We couldn’t wear a coat if it wasn’t going to go with your outfit. We don’t actually graduate from high school. We just leave.
The being freezing outside and wearing little clothes is just cos we're used to it in the North East of England & Scotland...also we're well hard lol
Would i lie to you is an awesome show and has you laughing like crazy
Yes us Brits love our foreign holidays/travels ... Spain, Portugal, Greece, Tunisia, Malta, Italy, Turkey and Cyprus being favourites with sun lovers. 🙂... Switzerland, Austria, Norway, France and Italy for those that love the cold and to ski.
My cousin goes to Turkey every year. With the same people. To the same hotel and even the same rooms that they had previously. They go for the same 2 weeks year after year after year!
@@robcrossgrove7927 ... Yes Rob, I know a few people like that with Spain, same place, same hotel every year, not sure about the same room though.
Ayia Napa, Ibiza, etc are like Spring Break x100. You would not survive. :-)
One concept that would be very difficult for non-Brits to grasp is the 'virtual' queue. This is where, in a busy pub, people arrive at different locations at the bar at different times and wait to be served. Each person holds in mind the sequence in which they and the others arrived, which is also the order in which they should be served. So, although not in line, everyone knows what the virtual queue looks like. Going out of order is a breach of etiquette and might receive a tut. However, these rules are suspended when it's *really* busy and maybe 3-deep at the bar. In such cases, it becomes a competition lol, with even mini-alliances forming with strangers to create shoulder room.
Hi Tyler, When I was at school, back in the 1960s, it was quite common for senior schools to arrange a one week or two trip to Europe. The idea was for their pupils to become more confident in foreign languages. OK, only relatively wealthy parents could afford to do this, as this was not an requirement for state schools to fund.
Gogglebox - name for the television, from the time TV became quite a fixture in the home. For example, you might hear a ticked off parent telling a teenager, 'you spend too much time on that Gogglebox! You should put as much effort into doing X, Y, Z !!!'
on the differences in language on such a tiny country you can start a whole debate throughout the UK just on the proper name for a bread roll.
Loads of Brits go abroad. When you are young it is like a rite of passage to go with your mates. Brits have always travelled
If you came to my part of Scotland, near Stirling, if you're a lady you're called 'Hen' and men get 'Son' - and it's meant kindly, although some folk don't like it. I apologise to trees if I accidentally snap of a twig, or heck even if I trim them deliberately. I also apologise to insects, birds and animals if I scare or accidentally hurt them. Tyler's fellow American, Bill Bryson, once said of Scots that he liked them ,but his problem with Scots was that he never knew whether one was going to stab him or offer him a kidney - and both were equally likely😅The point of Gogglebox is to see their reactions to the program😀
Our trip to magaluf is basically your spring break
There is plenty of serious British TV, documentaries, and period plays. It is not all reality shows….which are anything BUT reality!
I think a lot of the time we say sorry as a way of saying "excuse me" lol it's like, sorry to bother you etc...
no joke the vast majority of british families go to spain every year or once every second year. Spain is huge for british tourism, you can get all inclusive holiday packages for familes for sometimes shockingly low prices, to places like salou, barcelona, alacante, gibraltar my family loved gran canaria . Turkey and Greece are also popular. Theres also hundreds and hundreds of british comedy shows, dating shows, reality tv, pannel shows etc that youd never find in the usa haha.
There’s a whole tv show about Brits in Benidorm on a cheap holiday. Lasted for 10 seasons, and each season was a different years summer holiday.
Your not a typical American, your way above average😅 Your reactions are great, but our stuff isn't weird it's normal!!
The bumping into the table and saying sorry to it... is very very true :D
Though aye we have many variations for using sorry
It would be brilliant to watch you watching those shows, almost like an episode of Gogglebox! I'd start with "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" yes, that really is the name of the show :)
It's common to apologise before you ask for something.
"Sorry to bother you, but did you know you're on fire?"
"Sorry but you seem to have accidentally run over my foot with your car, do you mind reversing if it's not too much hassle"
She missed the most 'popular' destination for young men going abroad with the lads for the first time: Amsterdam. If you don't know why maybe you should watch a video which covers the seedier side of the city - as in the red-light district and the ready supply of hash brownies.
15:35 - one simple reason. Running on alcohol. Literally.
It happens commonly here in Wales too; one day I remember I was up early on new years day to go help out at the stables; I had a staff member that would swing by on-route to pick me up at a spot a 20 minute walk from my house away. This involved walking through the middle of the town centre which is quite a rough place (if you're an introvert or don't commonly drink, it's not suggested you visit since it's not a nice place to be in the aftermath), bearing in mind this was coming up 7am.... and I come across a group of scantily clad women AND men complaining they were a bit cold.
It was barely above freezing, I was well wrapped up for the day and had to sheepisly ignore these people because they'd clearly not been home yet. That's the kind of stuff you expect
Our UK winters are about 4-5 months long, dark literally 17 hours a day, and only daylight from about 8.30am until about 3.30pm. Temperature is around zero degrees or a few degrees lower or higher for around 4 months. We cannot wait for daylight, a lot of us are deeply affected by the gloom of winter here.
Ibiza is the first island on the east side of mainland Spain 🇪🇸
One of the interesting things about British politeness, because it's generally ingrained into our culture we have learned how to weaponise it. A sorry can, and is, used aggressively. The best example of this is the phrase 'I beg your pardon'. By the words taken literally, it means 'I am pleading for your forgiveness', but nobody, *nobody* ever uses it that way. When we say to someone 'I beg your pardon?' we are meaning 'What the hell did you just DARE to say to me?', and responding with anything but a mumbled 'Nothing' is grounds for start of conflict.
I can’t imagine Americans in Japan! The culture shock would be huge!
It would go down a bomb.
@@Joanna-il2ur LOL!
In North East England to wear a coat or sweater on a night out is uncool if you are female and downright effeminate if you are male. Never mind sub-zero temperatures and bitter easterly winds.
The word sorry is often used when interrupting someone, so as to ask for their assistance
I’ve visited the USA several times ..once for a few months.. The Americans I met were always been polite and respectful .. perhaps a bit more excitable than I was used too sometimes.. I just put that down to my British reserve ..😂
At least we don't have the strange custom of shooting into helpless crowds😮 Especially into school yet you cannot eat a Kinder egg.
There's no way anyone's sunbathing, let alone topless at 10C. I'm not sure what she's talking about.
Anything less than 18C is considered cool or cold.
One of the the main traits of British Humour stems from not taking yourself seriously and being happy to laugh at yourself as well as everything and everyone else too. I think that's when British Humour differs from normal comedic humour. That and the wittiness and dryness of delivery, of course.
4:45 this is actually insane in the UK! I find it hard to go anywhere without passing someone who says hello or how are you or smiling and if you go into a shop every person you go near says hello and goodbye! Like recently I went to a corner shop and there was one person standing outside, one person at the counter with one person running it, and two people shopping. Every single one of them said hello, goodbye, sorry, how are you and/or thank you as I entered and exited! The guy standing outside said thank you which I thought was a little weird since I didn’t interact with him past that. But yeah I’d say too polite! (But don’t worry there are plenty of annoying and rude people!)
Really? That's unusual. I find it overly polite in the US, everyone saying good morning, hello, how are you. Leave me alone and let me shop.
Love is another expression that is common. A shopkeeper might ask ‘What can I get you, love’. Duck was common in the North of England .. not sure if it still is.
Pet names:
In my secondary school (equivalent to 6th grade up to 10th grade/sophomores)
The dinner ladies and nurses would call us “my love” “my darling” and “poppet” with genuine smiles as if from and auntie or grandmother.
It made me feel at home 😊
In England we men always call random women love. For example if we are in a shop or bank and they say how can I help you, we might say thanks love I just want to buy whatever.