Lawerence for all he’s grown up in the UK totally gets it wrong mostly, I don’t know how he grew up but he does talk a lot of nonsense sometimes, or he just says random stuff for the views. Not smiling at strangers, just smiling would be odd saying hello and smiling is common in lots of areas.
I was born and live in the UK and I've been buying bags of ice from local supermarkets for at least the last 30 years. Another thing, people everywhere here do smile at strangers and often say, "Hi", when eye contact is made with them. This has been true for as long as I can remember and I am 76 years old. Lawrence must have been living under a rock when he lived in the UK.
I'm not in the UK, I'm from Austria my hometown doesn't have the biggest stadium, but it still enough for about 15k people. it doesn't even have a parking lot attached to it. The ticket for a game doubles as ticket for public transport 2h before and 2h after the game for the whole city. And like you said, there are dozens of pubs and bars around the stadium. If you wanna celebrate after or before the game, that's where it's goin down.
we just take over towns and villages since the stadiums are always near public transport/ are walkable. Everyone taking over the streets and walking to the stadium together is tradtion, or filling out all the pubs and oc drinking in the streets because thats legal. A tailgate would be utterly pointless for us and less convenient also we wanna get pissed so who wants drive. Search up videos of fans from the Euros going on right now and you'll understand.
We absolutely have bags of ice in the UK. I bought two of them this week... We absolutely do smile at strangers and, often as not, comment on the weather as we do so - and that's nothing new, it's been going on for decades...
Our car parks operate on the assumption that you’d rather eat elsewhere, and as most allotted parking spaces are often not big enough to park your car if it’s a big one, setting up a BBQ would not only be next to impossible, it might even start an incident.
I've seen quite a few of this guy's videos and he gets an awful lot wrong about the UK and I don't mean due to our regional differences. Think he must have lived in the UK during the dark ages.
He's speaking almost entirely about London, with regards to smiling. All other British people, including those from Manchester where I'm from, will always smile and say something to passers by. You must remember London is a global, city state that just happens to occupy a space in south east England.
Londoners do smile! You are clearly referring to central London, not local villages and towns in London. Also, Laurence grew up in the North. (I think Leeds way, then moved to Manchester)
@@AM-dz2sh Fair enough. Yes, I know Greater London is really as series of villages. Actually, I've lived in Tunbridge Wells and Chichester and the non smiling is even worse.
Water from our cold taps is, well, cold! Also many of us have Brita water filters which are kept in the fridge as is most 'Bottol'd wor-ta!' Also strangers are always smiling a me as I walk to work in south London. I worked in California for a year and didn't notice much difference in friendliness!
The smiling at strangers is a regional thing rather than a 'British' thing... I grew up in an area where smiling & getting strangers as you pass them is the norm.
because theres no communial areas near stadiums for fans to congregate like most of europe, theres no public transport to stadiums and it certainly isnt walkable. Theyve restricted their freedom of movement so much they have to drive their cars to places and setup makeshift 'towns' instead of just building the stadiums with appropraite transport and walkability beside, in or near towns to begin with. Thats america in a nutshell.
Tailgating wouldn't really work in most of Europe, since it's alcohol and driving and our laws are typically a bit stricter when it comes to that, plus that we have public transport. Hot water is considered healthy in China, the Beers at restaurants are either room temp or frozen... In Sweden we drink cold water straight from the tap, ice is not needed, you may get ice at restaurants mainly since that (or a slice of Lime/Lemon) makes it legit for them to charge you for the water.
People don't queue for black Friday here there's pictures of stores opening early for the rush and 0 customers waiting. The first one ever they did now people don't make any fuss about it.
Say 'I love you' to close relatives when we aren't drunk and there hasn't been a traumatic event such as a death in the family. (I assume that the dialogue in US movies and TV shows is broadly representative of how Americans speak.)
Date formats. Besides the US and Canada, presumably so as not to confuse Americans only Belize does it that way round, no one else. At least English speaking and European.
I walk past people on the street in Belfast, if someone smiles at me I smile back. They say how you doing. I say good, how are you. Its a brief encounter. Its humanist contact. You can walk with your head down if you want, but invariably you will walk into a lamppost.
Lawrence comes from a bit of a backwater in England and is still thinking of his life in nineties Grimsby? I wouldn't take too much notice in anything he says, as he hasnt lived over here for nearly twenty years either.
Is tailgating the same as having a picnic out the back of your car? We’ve done loads of those in the car parks when going horse racing. I’m pretty sure the Rugby crowd are into that as well🤷♀️
I'm part of the "Rugby crowd" and have never seen "Tailgating" at any match. Then again, most Rugby grounds that I've been to, don't have much parking for spectators, if any, other than for members? However at race courses, I have seen it at Huntingdon and Newmarket.
@@johnp8131 I thought I had seen picnics out of the back of cars at Twickenham but maybe my mistake. We’ve had ‘tailgate’ food in car parks at Newbury, Goodwood, Ascot( seen some fabulous ones there)and frozen my bits of with soup and cheese sandwiches at Fontwell and Cheltenham. 🥪🥂
@@sandraback7809 There's not much of a parking area at or around Twickenham, the majority of it, inside the fence, is for official visitors, media and the members. I've been to a few matches there where the stadium car park seemed pretty empty. The rest of the "Great unwashed" like myself have to come in on the overground or park around Hounslow or Richmond and walk?
@@johnp8131 I went to Twickenham with friends many years ago (rugby club players) and walked up from the train station. It was great fun especially the beer tent afterwards. It was England v France and it was a terrific atmosphere. No picnic for us either, just bacon butties from somebody selling them from the front garden. After a few rounds in a pub of course🤣.
Always amuses me that this "smiling at and interacting with strangers" automatically means that you're "friendlier". The fact that it could be seen as a desperate need for attention or that you're full of your own self importance could be closer to the truth. Or simply that person is an introvert and doesn't like unnecessary social interactions.
Im British and always greet people with a 'hello' or 'hiya'. I've never said 'what's up' nor have I noticed a Brit saying 'alright?' I have used and heard 'howdo'
Lynda, has anyone ever told you that you have a fine art doppelgänger? Every time I watch you it strikes me that you look very like JW Waterhouse’s favourite model. If you don’t know who I mean, Google J W Waterhouse ‘The Mermaid’ or ‘Hylas and the Nymphs’…… 🧜🏻♀️
Lawrence’s videos are entertaining and he’s a nice guy,but….. at least 2/3 of the info in any of his videos is either out of date or just plain wrong… try Girl gone London for a more accurate take on the differences between UK and US life from an Americans point of view
No one mind it is a pretty person that is smilling to you , but an overwheight scary guy with a huge beard its worrying :) Its not the exess of patriotism but exess of crazy ! In reallity english or french if confronted to a choice to die for home and country would lay theyr life more than thoses patriot i bet ! and they probably never put a flag up.
Hmm lets think.....what's something that Americans do that British don't. How about school shootings? Brits don't do that because they live in a civilised society.
Is your flag Russian or Chinese because then I can understand why you wouldn't like to fly it in Britain. If you are indeed British yourself, please return your passport immediately and exit this wonderful nation at the closest border.
Lawerence for all he’s grown up in the UK totally gets it wrong mostly, I don’t know how he grew up but he does talk a lot of nonsense sometimes, or he just says random stuff for the views. Not smiling at strangers, just smiling would be odd saying hello and smiling is common in lots of areas.
His videos seem to be for American audiences.As a Brit,he talks shite.
We don't drink room temperature water in The Netherlands, but tap water, which isn't iced, but cold enough.
I was born and live in the UK and I've been buying bags of ice from local supermarkets for at least the last 30 years.
Another thing, people everywhere here do smile at strangers and often say, "Hi", when eye contact is made with them. This has been true for as long as I can remember and I am 76 years old.
Lawrence must have been living under a rock when he lived in the UK.
Ice cold drinks are great when you’re really hot, and we do have ice cubes for those emergencies, but mostly we’re too miserably cold to need them.
Our Football stadiums are mostlyin Towns and Cities with houses, shops, pubs all around them, with no massive car parks at all.
I'm not in the UK, I'm from Austria
my hometown doesn't have the biggest stadium, but it still enough for about 15k people. it doesn't even have a parking lot attached to it. The ticket for a game doubles as ticket for public transport 2h before and 2h after the game for the whole city. And like you said, there are dozens of pubs and bars around the stadium. If you wanna celebrate after or before the game, that's where it's goin down.
we just take over towns and villages since the stadiums are always near public transport/ are walkable. Everyone taking over the streets and walking to the stadium together is tradtion, or filling out all the pubs and oc drinking in the streets because thats legal. A tailgate would be utterly pointless for us and less convenient also we wanna get pissed so who wants drive. Search up videos of fans from the Euros going on right now and you'll understand.
We absolutely have bags of ice in the UK. I bought two of them this week... We absolutely do smile at strangers and, often as not, comment on the weather as we do so - and that's nothing new, it's been going on for decades...
Our car parks operate on the assumption that you’d rather eat elsewhere, and as most allotted parking spaces are often not big enough to park your car if it’s a big one, setting up a BBQ would not only be next to impossible, it might even start an incident.
I smile at people when I'm in a really chirpy mood, out walking. From Scotland
room temperature water? do you not get cold tap water
I've seen quite a few of this guy's videos and he gets an awful lot wrong about the UK and I don't mean due to our regional differences. Think he must have lived in the UK during the dark ages.
He's speaking almost entirely about London, with regards to smiling. All other British people, including those from Manchester where I'm from, will always smile and say something to passers by. You must remember London is a global, city state that just happens to occupy a space in south east England.
Londoners do smile! You are clearly referring to central London, not local villages and towns in London. Also, Laurence grew up in the North. (I think Leeds way, then moved to Manchester)
@@AM-dz2sh Fair enough. Yes, I know Greater London is really as series of villages. Actually, I've lived in Tunbridge Wells and Chichester and the non smiling is even worse.
I've worked all over the UK and there are friendly and unfriendly people everywhere, including Manchester.
Water from our cold taps is, well, cold! Also many of us have Brita water filters which are kept in the fridge as is most 'Bottol'd wor-ta!' Also strangers are always smiling a me as I walk to work in south London. I worked in California for a year and didn't notice much difference in friendliness!
Oh, except in bars! American women are really forward in chatting you up in bars! In LA anyway!
The smiling at strangers is a regional thing rather than a 'British' thing... I grew up in an area where smiling & getting strangers as you pass them is the norm.
I think tailgating is almost uniquely 'Merican
because theres no communial areas near stadiums for fans to congregate like most of europe, theres no public transport to stadiums and it certainly isnt walkable. Theyve restricted their freedom of movement so much they have to drive their cars to places and setup makeshift 'towns' instead of just building the stadiums with appropraite transport and walkability beside, in or near towns to begin with. Thats america in a nutshell.
Tailgating wouldn't really work in most of Europe, since it's alcohol and driving and our laws are typically a bit stricter when it comes to that, plus that we have public transport.
Hot water is considered healthy in China, the Beers at restaurants are either room temp or frozen... In Sweden we drink cold water straight from the tap, ice is not needed, you may get ice at restaurants mainly since that (or a slice of Lime/Lemon) makes it legit for them to charge you for the water.
Wrth matching just for the smile at the end 🎉
People don't queue for black Friday here there's pictures of stores opening early for the rush and 0 customers waiting. The first one ever they did now people don't make any fuss about it.
Say 'I love you' to close relatives when we aren't drunk and there hasn't been a traumatic event such as a death in the family. (I assume that the dialogue in US movies and TV shows is broadly representative of how Americans speak.)
I always struggle to get through a lostinthepond video. His nasally sarcasm gets grating pretty quickly.
He's not being particularly sarcastic. You should visit Wales.
Date formats. Besides the US and Canada, presumably so as not to confuse Americans only Belize does it that way round, no one else. At least English speaking and European.
In Denmark you DON'T smile to a stranger and don't say "how are you doing".. You will be told how people are doing and not just a hello
I walk past people on the street in Belfast, if someone smiles at me I smile back. They say how you doing. I say good, how are you. Its a brief encounter. Its humanist contact. You can walk with your head down if you want, but invariably you will walk into a lamppost.
Lawrence comes from a bit of a backwater in England and is still thinking of his life in nineties Grimsby? I wouldn't take too much notice in anything he says, as he hasnt lived over here for nearly twenty years either.
Is tailgating the same as having a picnic out the back of your car? We’ve done loads of those in the car parks when going horse racing. I’m pretty sure the Rugby crowd are into that as well🤷♀️
When I was a kid we often went out for a drive and found somewhere to have a picnic. Usually in a lay-by!!
I'm part of the "Rugby crowd" and have never seen "Tailgating" at any match. Then again, most Rugby grounds that I've been to, don't have much parking for spectators, if any, other than for members? However at race courses, I have seen it at Huntingdon and Newmarket.
@@johnp8131 I thought I had seen picnics out of the back of cars at Twickenham but maybe my mistake. We’ve had ‘tailgate’ food in car parks at Newbury, Goodwood, Ascot( seen some fabulous ones there)and frozen my bits of with soup and cheese sandwiches at Fontwell and Cheltenham. 🥪🥂
@@sandraback7809 There's not much of a parking area at or around Twickenham, the majority of it, inside the fence, is for official visitors, media and the members. I've been to a few matches there where the stadium car park seemed pretty empty. The rest of the "Great unwashed" like myself have to come in on the overground or park around Hounslow or Richmond and walk?
@@johnp8131 I went to Twickenham with friends many years ago (rugby club players) and walked up from the train station. It was great fun especially the beer tent afterwards. It was England v France and it was a terrific atmosphere. No picnic for us either, just bacon butties from somebody selling them from the front garden. After a few rounds in a pub of course🤣.
I go shopping and my to day life in joggers and dolly shoes/pumps
Always amuses me that this "smiling at and interacting with strangers" automatically means that you're "friendlier". The fact that it could be seen as a desperate need for attention or that you're full of your own self importance could be closer to the truth. Or simply that person is an introvert and doesn't like unnecessary social interactions.
Please react to video of The Shinjuku Station by Not Just Bikes, it is eye opening for you guys.😁😁
Im British and always greet people with a 'hello' or 'hiya'. I've never said 'what's up' nor have I noticed a Brit saying 'alright?' I have used and heard 'howdo'
Alright then me duck.
@@rubberyowen1469 🤣🤣 Wrong area, strictly 'love' where I am!!
@@Lily_The_Pink972 Good for thee then lass.
I say "'ite". But I'm from Essex
It’s always “alright’ down here in the south
Lynda, has anyone ever told you that you have a fine art doppelgänger? Every time I watch you it strikes me that you look very like JW Waterhouse’s favourite model. If you don’t know who I mean, Google J W Waterhouse ‘The Mermaid’ or ‘Hylas and the Nymphs’…… 🧜🏻♀️
Lawrence’s videos are entertaining and he’s a nice guy,but….. at least 2/3 of the info in any of his videos is either out of date or just plain wrong… try Girl gone London for a more accurate take on the differences between UK and US life from an Americans point of view
I don't smile at no one, smiling makes you look weak, Julius Caesar said that, and I've known that since I was 10
No one mind it is a pretty person that is smilling to you , but an overwheight scary guy with a huge beard its worrying :)
Its not the exess of patriotism but exess of crazy !
In reallity english or french if confronted to a choice to die for home and country would lay theyr life more than thoses patriot i bet !
and they probably never put a flag up.
Hmm lets think.....what's something that Americans do that British don't. How about school shootings? Brits don't do that because they live in a civilised society.
I heard someone died in a school shooting and the hospital billed the parent. Don't know if true. Seems American 🙂
We arent allowed to fly our flag in the UK in case we offend other nationalities living in our country. Unbelievable but true
Nonsense lots of people fly the flag.
Is your flag Russian or Chinese because then I can understand why you wouldn't like to fly it in Britain. If you are indeed British yourself, please return your passport immediately and exit this wonderful nation at the closest border.
Complete BS, is your name Lawrence by any chance?
@@grabtharshammer 🤣
Rubbish. But it's usually only flown when there's a big international sporting event.