They all do.. I saw a bunch of people who have not long moved to the UK mocking their neighbours and people they worked with as being fake because of how polite we are saying its fake and we all secretly talk behind peoples back etc. There is a lot of hatred and people making up stories just to make us look bad for no reason. One man was mocking a woman he worked with in the NHS just because she always asked him when she came into work "how are you" "how was your day" and if he wanted a cup of tea .. he posted a skit about her and so many people from other countries and himself included were mocking her and people who dared be.. polite ? its actually so strange the paranoia and lack of awareness people like this have that they dont take a second to think maybe they are the problem and should learn how to be polite and use manners.
Absolutely NO milk in Earl Grey. I've seen people doing that. I don't know why, but it gets me angry. It's like adding soda to a good single malt. I need to calm down! lol
@wesleywhibley I live in the Southern part of the US and I've discovered a shop that imports food from the UK. I discovered the best tea I've ever had in my life! It's amaaaazingly good! They are all decaf fruit flavored teas from Taylor's of Harrogate. I love them to pieces ,but I've been putting a little bit of milk/ cream in them. I just had 2 cups of strawberry vanilla with milk. So, maybe I should quit the cow,and in the future drink them straight up and unaltered Might be better.??
I've never been yelled at by a bus driver. But if there is a sign saying no eating, and you start eating, and then the driver sternly tells you to stop, you have only yourself to blame.
I've not been shouted at but I've been left at a stop in the pouring rain by a driver who cheerily waved me goodbye as shut the doors on me and pulled away. Also seen drivers leave disabled people behind and so on.
On the whole Bus/Coach drivers are fine. City bus drivers have a rough time and put up with a lot of crap, I've come across a few in London/Manchester that were unnecessarily rude. Like any public facing job I guess, gooduns and baddys. Rural bus drivers are awesome from my experience.
@Me-gy7ky Ok, those things would irritate me too. If you're in London as well, maybe it's more likely to happen there, as I've not witnessed it here in Leeds.
We are not necessarily silent on the buses, rather we are respectful towards other passengers, and we try not to invade their space. We may talk, but we don't raise our voices so we can be heard by the people sitting at the back. If we play music, most of us will be considerate and use headphones or earbuds so we are not inflicting our music on everyone else, that kind of thing.
Exactly! Who wants to hear a loud, one sided conversation, or hear parts of a movie, or someone’s else’s music choices?? 🤪 It’s called having a bit of consideration for the people around you.☺️
Maybe where you live but in Scotland we have conversations with people (including strangers and the driver) all the time on public transport and our local bus is where we get our news / gossip / and have a laugh.
I am a Brit in Britain and, whilst we don't love queuing, we think it is the most polite thing to do.. I have friends who live in Spain, who now think queuing is strange. They admitted that the elderly, very young and disabled are just pushed out of the way, for example at a bus stop. Britains have a reputation for being, generally, some of the most polite Europeans.
Same goes for giving up a seat for someone on public transport. On one occasion I did that on a bus in Serbia and an old lady stared at me in disbelief.
Most, but not all. There are still pubs that I would call 'drinkers' pubs where a bag of pork scratchings (or crips) is about the most you will get in the way of food. Personally I would not go to one of those as I go to pubs for a meal.
I also think that she is differentiating between the group 'type'... Yes, lots of pubs serve food (and others don't), but you have TWO distinct reasons to visit a pub, the FIRST being to go out with friends and family for a "specific arrangement", like meeting for a Sunday Roast, to celebrate a birthday or meet up with people you haven't seen for a long time! The SECOND type of pub use is the office group who decide to go out after work to 'drink' ! Or the locals who have eaten before or the lads going to the pub to watch the match... They are NOT there to eat, but drink copious amounts of alcohol (drunk, eating a kebab or fish & chips after the pub on the way home...). I think she's had a few of the LATTER occasions !??? 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
A cup of tea solves all of life's problems. You upset, somebody makes you a cup of tea. You have a broken leg.... somebody makes a cup of tea. Tea fixes everything.
73 yr old, been taking busses all my life - never seen a driver being rude/aggressive to a passenger! Also, there are a total of 7 pubs within a 2 mile radius of my home in Birmingham. All of them serve food, whether you want a light snack or a 3 course meal. This girl seems to be making classic mistake of foreigners visiting/living in London that London is representative of the whole of the UK!
@@carolewynn9407 ... I used to use Stagecoach in London, the drivers were always nice to me. Always said good morning or afternoon and would even have a chat some times if they weren't too busy. I usually find if you treat someone politely then they do likewise. Of course you are always going to get one or two ignorant ones but then on the other foot there are plenty of rude and even abusive passengers.
So what she’s from another part of Europe, foreigner is an offensive word used in this context. Depends where you are I think, a lot of pubs near me don’t do food and make excuses if you ask for a cup of tea.
I think what she means by we don't eat food while we're out drinking isn't that we don't have the capacity to do so but more that if we're out on piss why would we fill the space in our stomach with food when you can squeeze an extra pint or 2 in there instead? Like if I'm going out for the sole reason to go drinking then that's what I'm gonna spend my money on not maybe up to 20 quid on food, that's like 4+ pints of beer money I just wasted on something that's not beer. That's why if you see a large group of lads they might have 4 or 5 bags of crisps ripped completely open in the middle of the table for everyone to nibble on
It an unwritten rule that you say "thank you" the driver as you leave the bus. I have always done this, except for a few times I said " thank you dad". My father was a bus driver for over 25 years!
Yeah, no. Half of that was exaggerated, ill-conceived, or London-centric, and the rest is just good manners. I use the bus regularly and can't remember the last time I saw a driver fight with a passenger, like decades ago; and people do talk on the bus once you get away from that there London. Honestly, she didn't endear herself to me, not that she's under any obligation to do so, but not someone I'd want to spend any time with if that's her genuine view of the country.
Totally agree she reminds me of those people online who move to the UK and show all of the stereo types on their page and channels just to get reactions etc .. As many of us keep saying we arent all the same and London does not represent all of us each city and town is different and does things their own way even having their own way of speaking lol
@PedroConejo1939 True, here in Wales the most of the local bus divers have been doing it for years and know the locals by name, will drop elderly people off close to their homes so they dont have to walk too far etc. Extremely rare to meet one thats not lovely, and also its mandatory to give them a "cheers drive" as you're getting off the bus to thank them! and yeh, people chat on the bus all the time.
Hi Steve and Lindsey, I'm an English Bus Driver........So....... here are the main reasons a Bus Driver over hear can get upset (in my opinion). 1. A bus full of excited, boisterous school children going home who are noisy and who constantly press the bus stop bell knowing, it'll upset the Driver as if he tells them off about it they'll still do it but more. Which distracts the Drivers attention away from the road which is obviously dangerous. 2. The Driver is driving the trip after the school trip and is still upset and then he encounters a passanger who doesn't have enough money for their ticket. The person knows they don't have enough before they boarded but does the 'Pocket Shuffle' (searching every pocket they have) for that elusive money and then tries to pity the driver to let them on for free. 3. The person asks the Driver a question to which the Driver answers (the person doesn't listen) and then asks the Driver the same question again. Thats just a few of the main ones, there's loads more. Paul
I live in West Yorkshire - everybody talks to each other on the bus in my area. We greet the driver when we get on. We thank the driver when we get off. Generally, the bus drivers are quite friendly. And YES, we queue to get on the bus - even when there isn't a visible queue. Today, coming home from work, there was a cluster of about a dozen people, but there WAS an informal queue. As you arrive, you look at who is there. Then another person will arrive and you KNOW that you are going to get on before that person and after those you clocked as you joined the cluster. It looks like a clump of people, but everybody knows their place. Also, the escalator rule only applies in London. The rule for escalators near me (where they are generally not very busy) is just don't be a d*ck.
Agreed - bus drivers have to deal with an unwarranted amount of rudeness and abuse. Most of them are perfectly nice to you if you're perfectly nice to them. Thanks for being one of the nice ones ❤
By the time I was old enough to wash myself, I also understood how to use the hot and cold taps and not scald myself. The basin plug is there for a reason, not just a decoration. You can clearly see it loitering unused in the video at 22.57. If you are concerned about laundry and food in the kitchen, then you are using either the washing machine or the cooker or both in some weird way. Just don't put the clothes in the oven and don't put food in the washing machine. Otherwise they are well separated.
Of course some of these items are ridiculous I.e. we don't usually cook and launder at the same time. We only have 2 hands and a washing machine is an enclosed space for dirty clothes so wouldn't interfere with cooking etc. As for puddings some of those items were desserts
In the uK, "Pudding" is a collective term for something sweet you have after dinner. There are also certain foods with the name "pudding" in them such as black pudding, summer pudding etc..
🇬🇧 here. Never been yelled at by bus driver. Vast majority of washing machines are in the kitchen: our houses are comparatively small, we are a small island. Pubs are closing down at a phenomenal rate. Serving food is often key to their survival. If you want to rile a Brit, jump the queue, it won’t be pretty. 😂
Its true that pubs serve food and some people have a pint or 2 whilst eating. When she says we don't eat while drinking she means when we are DRINKING! Just 1 or 2 pints is not drinking. We will get steaming drunk and go for a chinese or an indian or for a kebab afterwards on the way home, but we dont generally have a meal while getting drunk.
The polite apologies is for strangers. It common courtesy/manners and very evident when dealing with a stranger. Brits are more direct and raw the better they know you., and a friend will receive heavy banter rather than polite apologies.
Bigger UK houses do often have the washing machine in a laundry room, though we usually call it the utility room and often keep the vacuum cleaner and mop and other cleaning stuff in there. But the simplest reason for washing machines in the kitchen in smaller houses is that there’s always a water supply there. Quite often UK houses have all the rooms that need water on one side or one face of the building. Our last house there had the kitchen and downstairs toilet at the front of the house either side of the front door and the family bathroom above - minimal plumbing that way. Yes, the developers were stingy, but it was a perfectly adequate house.
We live in a modern 2 bedroom flat, medium sized. We have a utility cupboard for washing machine , drier and water softener , with the rest,of the cleaning stuff stored in there, hoover and bottles etc. Also luckily another big storage cupboard. Coats spare bedding , ironing board etc etc. I think new house flats and developers are recognising the need for separate rooms especially when the flat or house isn’t the biggest. It relatively well designed to be honest and south facing , with large well insulated windows so heating only needs to be on after a stretch of dull cold days, sunny and cold we are really toasty with no heed for heating on. It’s been in minus figures on C all weeks only had to have heating on for a couple of days when it was dull, the rest of the time it’s been sunny and the flat lovely and warm. 21c with no heating on.
Personally I thought it was a set of reasonably astute observations presented in an amusing manner. I’ll leave that with you - I’m off to make a cup of tea.
More like she is expecting all British people to be Londoners. London is an aberration, the majority of British people have nothing in common with them whatsoever.
We live on a small island and are susceptible to the vagaries of the Atlantic Ocean and the Jet stream, our weather can change by the minute, so we talk about the weather.
Explanation for UK taps. Remember the understanding of water-borne diseases came from Brits, from Cholera in 1854 to Legionnaries in 1977. Also we were the pioneers of public health initiatives. So very early on, standing water was deemed to be unsafe for drinking. Every property was then built with two plumbing systems, one that pours water to a tank to heat up. And one that taps into the constantly flowing underground pipes. So if you only use the cold tap for drinking/food prep you will not be encountering anything nasty that may be festering in a tank of still water. The invention of wall mounted boilers made this unnecessary for homes, and many are switching over. But they're not suitable for large buildings that still require tanks on the roof. These will be the kinds of building you will encounter as a visitor; hotels, museums, shopping malls etc. You should do a video on Dr John Snow, it's an amazing story and pert of the reason we all live longer today.
But to get good cold water pressure upstairs there is a tank in the loft. We were told as kids never drink from the cold taps upstairs only use the taps downstairs coming directly off the main. (I really love cold UK mains water in the winter, it will freeze all your body parts and wake you the hell up).
It isn't really the hot water tank that causes the problem, but the vented tank in the loft which was used to provide pressure for the hot water tank. Modern unvented hot water systems run at mains pressure, and they are absolutely fine to use a hot water tank with mixer taps.
@@rootchiller Using a tank for cold water is only in old houses, in modern houses or ones that have been upgraded to combi boilers all cold taps are usually run directly off mains water supply that is under pressure. The minimum pressure from mains is 1bar (usually higher) and 1 bar is enough pressure to send water up 10 metres(33ft) so unless your house is higher than 15+ metres on the 2nd floor it should have zero problem getting good pressure in the upstairs taps. Though while it's rarer these days i'd always check if you have a tank, because if you do have a tank it's probably nasty!
So the big thing for pub food is that pubs have food and bars do not. If you were to pop into a spoons you could absolutely get food and a pint from 10am. But a bar doesn’t serve food. They’re two different types of drinking culture around them aswell.
We call laundry rooms utility but my washing machine is in the kitchen it doesn’t mean you keep your dirty clothes in the kitchen. Most modern houses have mixer taps.
True the that bus may be in service for up to eighteen hours and if you spill food other passengers with have to suffer your mess untill the driver can find time to clean it. Probably during his lunch or tea break because he usually won't have time before then or risk running behind schedule. Or he's left scrambling to clean a stinky mess at the end of his shift before handing the vehicle over to another driver. It's just plain disrespectful to him and every other passenger to risk it.
Regarding why we stand on the right and walk on the left on escalators I would not be surprised to see the reason is because most people are right handed so naturally will use this hand to hold on to the handrail for their safety.
I've just retired but when I started out we'd all head to the pub on a Friday lunchtime and have some beers. That has pretty much died out though in the last 15 to 20 years.
In my council office job about 15 years ago, we would go out every Friday lunchtime and come back in for the last couple of hours of the day obviously tipsy! One co-worker used to travel to France a lot so would bring back cheese and wine, so sometimes we’d shut our office door and have a French afternoon drinking wine in the office🤣 I know teachers who used to go to the pub on a Friday lunchtime too🤣 Hedonistic days🥂
Queue jumping is my pet hate! When I used to work in central London 20-25 years ago, there were a number of Tube strikes, so loads of people had to get the bus instead. I remember the queue snaking around Liverpool Street Station, but everyone was quite happy to stand and wait. Well, perhaps not happy, just resigned to the fact that that’s what they had to do. The odd person that tried to push in got loudly tutted at. On the tap issue, we’ve just redone our bathroom and now have one mixer tap. I actually find the two separate ones easier to wash my hands with. You just use the hot tap, as it never got that hot in the time it takes to wash your hands. It was a perfect hand washing temperature! But with a mixer tap, I have to fiddle around getting it in the right place.
Yes had this madam jump the queue in Aldi (in Oz), If I had noticed she had only a couple of items I would definitely say, please go in front but this creature just jumped in as I normally do when I see that they have hardly anything.
I’ve never experienced rude bus drivers in all my 66 years. In fact on one occasion when my son was little I was on the bus loaded with shopping and the baby. The driver literally stopped the bus outside my house and carried my shopping into my kitchen for me. Personally I think London is another planet. I don’t use buses often now but I’ve never heard anyone criticise bus drivers
I'm a similar age, @catherinehaywood7092, and I've never met a rude bus driver either. I lived in London for 10 years and I never came across one there.
@@CeleWolfnever seen that myself. I've lived in East Anglia and the North East and the bus drivers and other passengers are always happy to accommodate disabled passengers.
We talk about the weather so much because we get so much of it! Also, it's an 'ice-breaker' (no pun intended) to start a conversation with a stranger for example.
Have a read of "Watching the English" by Kate Fox. Lots of analysis of weather-talk! There are three main reasons why there's so much of it: a) Because of the British climate, the weather is always changing. It's different day by day, often hour by hour. There's always something going on to talk about. b) It's a universal topic. You know what it's like now, you know what it was like yesterday, and you're as qualified as everyone else to make a comment about it. c) By and large, everybody agrees about good and bad weather. Warm is better than cold, sunny is better than rainy. It's a nice easy topic of discussion that won't trigger any arguments. Even if you personally have an unusual preference (maybe you like cold), you're not going to fight anybody over it -- you're more likely to laugh and say, "Well, I like it cold, but..." and happily concede that other people disagree.
Oh Dear!!! the old "water tap issue! FFS! Most homes have had mixer taps for donkey's years. It's mainly the older properties that haven't been upgraded! PS.... there is a reason "WHY" they had/have two taps (all been explained multiple times).
surely we've all apologised to an inanimate object for bumping into it I've lived in and around London for 25 years getting the bus all the time (much more relaxing than the tube). I've never seen a bus driver behave in any way as she described. I can only imagine there's some miscommunication going on. (and in my first job in London in 1998 we did go to the pub on Friday at lunch from 1 til 3 then have to go back for our core hour (we were on flexitime) in the afternoon of 3 til 4 then back to the pub. That hour of work was clearly not very productive. I'll not name the organisation, but it would be considered a highly professional and respectable place to work. I don't think things are done the same way anymore)
Yes . I have stood on the "toe " of a card display and instantly apologized to "it " instantly!!! . Even when it clearly got in my way deliberately . And I am SORRY, but it's just not true that we overuse, sorry .
The West Germans do not que at a bus stop,my wife had the baby in her hands,it was mayhem and we ended up last on the bus and no seats available,most of us in UK would que and be polite and let any woman sit first on a bus or anyone who is disabled.
YES! I'm British with German mum. When we visited our relatives we queued at the stop and I was absolutely horrified when the whole queue just rushed onto the buses two doors. I was appalled and then it was explained to me they do it to keep everything running on time. And I must say, unlike Britain things aren't cancelled and run bang on time ❤
Waiting for the bus is advanced level queueing. No line is formed, the technique is to stare daggers at the next person to arrive so they know their place is after you.
@@reluctantheist5224 sugar yes definitely because when you have tea without milk, there's even a greater need for sugar. But try brown sugar - better flavour and more healthy.
@@JohnResalb Actually, they are nutritionally similar, so there are no health benefits to using brown sugar over white. But yes, brown sugar is more flavoursome due to the addition of molasses. And of course, neither sugar is actually good for us, especially if you are predisposed towards diabetes or weight gain.
As a Brit I must say Lindsey’s demeanour is VERY British 😮😂😂😂 and I mean that as a complement - she’s civilised and so are you Steve to think of it ….😂🎉🎉🎉
When we say things like “sorry, can I just squeeze past” we aren’t actually sorry, it’s just an acknowledgment that we’re asking someone to do something.
Surely the Brit "you all right?" or "how's it going?" isn't dissimilar to the French "(Comment) ça va?" or the German "Wie geht's?" or Spanish "¿Como estas?" to none of which is a detailed answer expected.
The difference between those examples and us Brits is we REALLY don't want an answer 😂 it's just saying a passing "hi", standard answer should "fine, you alright ?" .... then keep walking... do not stop !! This greeting is usually for casual acquaintances and people you recognize but aren't close friends. Welcome to Britain 🇬🇧 😂😂😂
If I have to stand aside on the path to let other people pass, if they don't say " thank you " that gets me as it's polite to say thank you for letting them pass
I apologise to myself when I'm talking out loud. "Ok I'm going to get that from the living room, sorry kitchen". I also have to try very hard not to say thank you to the self service machines in supermarkets 😂
The reason why houses used to have 2 taps is because the hot water used to come from a tank in the loft and it meant that you wouldn't want that water coming out of a tap that you drink from. These days, houses aren't built with that tank and more and more people are getting rid of these tanks and so it's safe to have a mixer tap. It would usually take a while for the hot water to come through so the trick was to wash your hands before the water got too hot.
A lot of British culture can be summed up by a phrase I was asked a lot as a child: "How would you like it?" It's a cultural understanding of how your actions affect those around you - most people would like others to be kind, courteous and polite, so they should extent that to others. It's about respect. You dont know what other people are going through, what's gone in their day or lives - so a bit of respect and understanding helps keep things moving smoothly.
That was a coach driver not a bus driver... Where I live we know all our local bus drivers by name. They're (mostly) a happy bunch and if a passenger starts being rude or misbehaving other passengers will support the driver....
When she was talking about food in pubs, she meant when people go out 'drinking'. You can go to a pub for a meal, and you will probably have a drink while you are eating it, but if you are going out 'drinking', you just eat snacks like crisps and peanuts.
Some of these are just her personal view of things and not strictly the way things are here. I have never seen bus drivers having aggression with a passenger ever. It is normal for washing machines to be in kitchens unless it is a fairly new property with a built in dirty utility. Your dirty clothes don’t go near your food. Your clothes go in the machine and your food stays in food preparation areas. The taps are for safety, a child or elderly person could easily burn themselves, with separate taps they know they are getting both hot and cold water. Everything here isn’t just random, it is all thought out.
The posters with KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON were sent out to post offices at the beginning of the second world war. They were to be put up if the Germans invaded. The RAF put a stop to that, and they were never used. My parents generation did that anyway. Copies were found recently and go reprinted every where.
@@reggawardle4874they definitely didn't last week, if you were to believe the forecast we would all have been flying out to Florida to escape the high winds - I believe I was in about the calmest forecast area - only 3600 mph winds, Nottingham was aver 5000 and with overnight temperatures of over 400°C, thankfully the BBC got it wrong.
She showed some pictures of extreme queues lol. But yes we do respect the queue. Even if there's only 2 people waiting to use the cash machine, we'll still form a queue.
"Y'alright" is a friendly greeting that we really have no interest in knowing the answer to 😅 - Hi, y'alright? -I'm good thanks, you? -Good, thanks. That's how it should go, regardless of how you feel. Pubs do sell food. More and more pubs are beginning to sell pub grub. Those on the piss tend not to eat, though. It's usually family get-togethers.
Brit here. Yep, I've been to the pub for lunch with the boss and co-workers on Friday lunchtimes and we've had a few pints each. In several different jobs, not just one. My friend has a bunch of meetings every Friday afternoon. The company stocks the meeting room with beer, cider & wine.
Separate taps are also important for safety as cold water comes directly from the mains and is safe for drinking, whereas the hot tap is heated and is not suitable for drinking
With modern plumping systems hot water is potable / drinkable. Most houses I have lived in and have known for the last 30 years have had mixer taps, rather than separate taps
Used to be with open storage tanks, but they are sealed now and modern plumbing systems make no difference between quality as the water is from the same source but that old belief persists.
Yorkshire Pudding ?? Steak and Kidney Pudding ? I get what you mean though. It is generally used as a synonym for dessert. Although don't tell 'em we also call it 'afters'. Their head might explode 😛😉
Yep, it's a vocab thing. Like the US biscuit and the UK biscuit. So 'pudding' in the US is a particular kind of dessert.. But 'pudding' in the UK has become another word for dessert as another comment or has said. I'd be curious as to what American's call the heavy Christmas fruit, maybe with brandy sponge/cake-like dessert. In the UK we call that Christmas pudding 😂
"I come fom a place where queues look something like this." I suggest she looks up the definition of the word, because that was NOT a queue. It was is a free-for-all, aka "I don't care about anyone else. My need is the most important and must be met now.". Attrocious behaviour. And if I'm trying to exit a tram / bus / train and you're stood in the middle of the space I need to step off expecting to push your way on immediately, expect ME to just stand still, blocking you too, until you move. If necessary, I'll do so till the doors close again. I might have to get off at the next stop, but hopefully you'll be very late for whatever was so important you couldn't spare less than a second or two to be polite and considerate.
I think it's maybe 50/50 whether a pub serves food, much fewer serve food in the evening. There are eating pubs and drinking pubs typically. If people are going out drinking, then it's likely the pub you're at will be fully set up to serve alcohol, they won't have waiters and waitresses going around serving dinners. Oh, and those photos of people queueing out of the door of supermarkets are from Covid times - when only a few people were allowed in the shop at a time for social distancing reasons.
Most families go to pubs for a meal, but men often meet up with their mates for a few drinks and a game of pool after work. Groups of men will very rarely eat together in a pub, it would look a bit weird. Guys will usually stop off at a kebab shop or an Indian on their way home, rather than eating in the pub.
When alighting a bus locally it is customary for passengers to say a polite ‘ thank you’ for the most part the driver doesn’t respond , but the occasional one will. Curtesy &kindness costs nothing
In my experience, larger houses tend to have washing machines in a separate room - my childhood home, my grandparents house and some of my friends houses growing up had washing machines in a laundry room or back porch. But smaller houses and flats have washing machines in kitchens.
Flavoured tea does not have milk in it. That would be so weird. I live in the South West and our bus drivers are not rude because we are polite to them. Not sure what the angry bus driver was doing, but that is not the norm for me. As for scalding myself, never done that. We have a plug and we use it.
I'm a westcountry lad and I got a bus from plymouth to Ivybridge he was the most patient bus driver in the world the young school lads upstairs were ringing the bell every minute 😂. It was driving me mad but on he went 😮
@@janettesinclair6279 Totally. Even before buses took card on them and buses preferred that you gave them the right money or not huge notes, they would politely ask for that. But rude, they weren't,
There’s a good practical reason as to why we had/have separate taps/faucets, our cold water is exceptionally pure so ideal for drinking. In the USA not so. If two taps I would just put a plug in the basin. Sorted!
Whilst you're right about the cold water the reason the water from the hot tap was separated was because of our old water heater tanks basically made the water contaminated and thus nit drinkable we have mixed faucets now because we don't really use the old boiler tanks anymore for heating water
Pubs often have one area meant only for drinking and some of them have a screen that separates both sectors. On occasion, you can find pubs with a drinking room downstairs and another room upstairs meant for meals.
Whilst living for some years in the US, it grated to hear customers say things such as, "I'll have a mocha", or "Gimme three of those", with no please or thank you. I was taught, an eon ago, that tea was made of tealeaves, herbal/ fruit hot drinks were tisane. The mythology around the issue of alcohol in the US gets me. My kids grew up having watered wine or a beer shandy at weekend dinners. Whilst in the US, we had to hide in a darkened room with the curtains drawn in order to do so. 😅
It also grates me when I'm watching a tv show or movie and there is no please and thank you, I end up huffing the words at the screen it's very annoying😂😂
My son regularly travels to Huston for work - he says that if anyone orders a glass of wine with their meal at a business lunch, the rest of the table look shocked and talk about them behind their backs as if they are an alcoholic. Also, he was invited to an evening barbecue at someone's house , so took a bottle of wine with him (ordinary polite behaviour here) But they didn't have any alcohol to drink all night because they had children in the house !
@@gillianrimmer7733 God forbid they have a glass of wine while the children are in the house. They may forget where they left their gun. I must add I am engaged to an American Vietnam veteran. He owns guns but stores them responsibly and there are no children in his house. The one time we did have a young teenager in the house. The guns were checked to make sure all were empty and then stored away again. He also does not own any AR-15 style weapons. He also doesn't drink alcohol, ever.
@@elemar5 Hunting what? Why the need for a semi-automatic weapon if you plan to eat the kill? Unless you are an extremely bad shot, of course. If that is the case maybe sit this one out.
The separate taps. You’re correct modern homes usually have a single mixer tap but I’m of the generation that grew up with the old way. We didn’t move hands between the two we filled the sink! That’s what sink plugs are for! Water mixed in sink! Actually we should still be using them they make more sense when trying to conserve water! Often with mixer taps you have to run cold water off to get to the hot, or hot water off to get to the cold, depending on what you last used. A lot of water is wasted with mixers.
Frankly, London to any Englishman/woman who doesn't live there doesn't feel like it's part of England. Let alone part of Britain.!! In fact, you can't even be openly Christian or Jewish with getting targeted by certain people, and as for the MET Police service.!!! Well if you are openly Christian or Jewish then they'll arrest you for it.!!! So no London isn't England or British anymore. In fact, if you add Stan to the end of London, then you'll be closer to the truth ..!!!
Very very rare you get a rude bus driver. They may pull out on you in traffic, but they have a schedule to keep. You'll have a pleasant journey, take a bus , you'll have no problems
Proper pubs don't have food, TVs, background music. Just places for drinking, socialising and putting the world in order. Feed in pubs, and family friendly, is a relatively new thing. The last 40 years. 🤣🤣
I'm British and don't recognise most of these. Edit. The rude bus driver entry. I used to work for National Express, which is a British version of Greyhound, and this story made the national news. That's how rare it is. The driver was fired and the French guest was compensated. The whole thing was shameful. Any hint of rudeness, assault, or bigotry from an employee and you might was well empty your locker NatEx takes guest safety very seriously.
It depends on the situation though. If I hold the door open for someone and they don’t say thanks,I say it instead,very loudly in a passive aggressive way.😂
@sallyannwheeler6327 oh I can get very passive aggressive. The "no, after you" that comes out of my mouth when someone pushes in or "you're welcome" shouted after someone that I held a door open for and received no thanks 😂😂
One thing I will explain about the hot and cold taps, when you are washing your hands from the hot tap, the hot water isn't instantly hot, takes a good 20-30 seconds to reach boiling, so it doesn't burn straight away.
Manners and politeness are (generally) valued here, as other reactors have also noted. Apart from in football chants, which are always worth a look at where there are literally no rules and no topics are off limits
Aye we do. Buses, bus stops, folk in the queue with us. We love a good chinwag. Especially about the weather.😂 It reminded me of this comedy sketch. It's how I was when I first moved to London. (Back up in Yorkshire now, thank the lord 😂). ua-cam.com/video/PT0ay9u1gg4/v-deo.htmlsi=RBgY6YjBQoydlpdu
The word 'pudding' covers just about everything under the sun, though it can vary a bit regionally with some in the South preferring to call lightweight sweet stuff 'dessert'. The other word we use - particularly at school - is 'afters'.
I remember when I used a double decker for the first time that had stairs on the back and the cab separated from the passenger area. As I went to get off, I panicked for a moment "oh no, how do I say bye to the driver?!" . It was the weirdest thing, we always say thanks and they always cheerfully respond with bye . If theres a whole line of people alighting youll here this wonderful parade of thanks and bye , each as enthusiastic and heartwarming as the next. Its community building and without it life feels cold and alienating.
The term "pudding" has multiple meanings. The word can refer to a savoury pudding, such as a steak and kidney pudding or a Yorkshire pudding, which would be part of the main course, and it is also used as a generic term for the dessert course of a meal, where the pudding can be anything from Christmas pudding to rice pudding, or could ice cream, trifle, or any other sweet dessert.
Yeah that explanation is the way I understand it. Only thing I would add is to include things like Black pudding (blood pudding), and white pudding (no blood, oatmeal and suet with seasoning filling) as another type of savoury puddings. Haggis would therefore also be this kind of pudding. These are puddings because they are invaded a skin that was predominantly from Animals such as a stomach or an intestine, but is now often times synthetic. Interestingly what Americans tend to forget when they get grossed out by this is that they also may eat another version of this kind of thing on a regularish basis. Sausages are simply smaller versions of this same principle but because they became such a big thing they got given a specific name. But they're basically just a smaller version. Also just realised that in
"Pudding" is an extremely complicated word with a long history. It originally meant a sausage, such as black pudding. Then it came to refer to any kind of food boiled or steamed in a casing, such as steak pudding, and then later to food boiled or steamed in a cloth wrapping, such as all the various suet puddings (including Christmas pudding). From there it expanded further to include dishes of boiled grain or flour, such as rice pudding or Indian pudding (made with maize). By this time most "puddings" were sweet, and they were the most common types of sweet dishes, so "pudding" eventually came to refer to any kind of sweet dish. The American meaning of "pudding" seems to come from the definition of "boiled grain/flour", as American pudding is based on boiling cornflour or other thickening agent in milk. For some reason the meaning of the word eventually narrowed down to this specific definition, while in Britain the word kept all of its other meanings. separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2008/08/pudding.html
I used to work in the account dept of a big media firm and our office was just across the road from a pub called the Dudley Arms In Paddington, London. The whole office used to go to the pub on a friday lunch time and we'd return half cut. Nothing much got done for the rest of the afternoon. :-)
I literally just wrote same thing. Friday afternoon pub break was standard in office culture. I'm not sure if it still happens as i don't work in that sector any longer
@@cmcculloch1 I lived and worked in South Africa. On Fridays I would take my 'girls' (the ladies in the office) out for lunch and drinks, and my boss would say it was fine as long as we didn't try to do any actual work on our return to the office. LOL
😂 so true.. i had a weekend job working as a waitress in a hotel. I dropped a handful of plates hosting for a wedding and all the guests cheered.. i was 15 and mortified 😅
@paulbriggs5238 I'm sure we all experienced having half a rich tea at the bottom of a cuppa many times as a kid when we were practising our technique 😄
A bus driver will only interve with passengers if your putting the bus at risk. Or cause the driver to be distracted because he has to keep an eye on the behaviour rather than the road.
"ca va" (ie "how's it going") in France can be politely responded to with another "ca va" (or "oui, ca va", or "ca va, ca va" or "ca va bien merci" etc etc). On the London underground all the escalators have really clear signs re: stand on the right which leaves the left side of escalators for people who want to walk/run (and might be a in a hurry to catch their train!). PS many of these things will be weird to somebody who doesn't come from a courteous culture as you have already noted... PPS most UK bus drivers are NOT rude PPPS the separate taps scenario is a hygiene thing - our cold taps provide Drinking Water (not the case in most of the world, including many parts of the US where people only drink bottled water), whereas the hot water has been sitting in a hot water tank and is not necessarily safe to drink - so you don't want to potentially contaminate your cold Drinking Water with the potentially unsafe to drink hot water. PPPPS a screaming passenger, AND they were French, maybe getting the sack was a bit harsh...
We put the washing machine in the kitchen if there’s nowhere else for it to go, but often even in smaller homes they’re in a cupboard. Larger houses will usually have a separate room which we call a utility room rather than a laundry room. It will usually have the washing machine, dryer, a sink and some storage.
Not sure if being polite is 'weird' Its better than being bloody rude (EDIT, I politely stopped watching this one after 5 mins as it was getting on my t!ts, sorry, many thanks)
What Im getting is this woman thinks politeness and manners are weird... think it says more about other cultures rather than the british.
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They all do.. I saw a bunch of people who have not long moved to the UK mocking their neighbours and people they worked with as being fake because of how polite we are saying its fake and we all secretly talk behind peoples back etc. There is a lot of hatred and people making up stories just to make us look bad for no reason. One man was mocking a woman he worked with in the NHS just because she always asked him when she came into work "how are you" "how was your day" and if he wanted a cup of tea .. he posted a skit about her and so many people from other countries and himself included were mocking her and people who dared be.. polite ? its actually so strange the paranoia and lack of awareness people like this have that they dont take a second to think maybe they are the problem and should learn how to be polite and use manners.
well said mate
@@GeekyC.Exactly my point too- she seems aggressive and rude to me
@@GeekyC. Totally agree, I get so fed up with people not saying please & thank you. It's just rude or ignorant in my opinion.
Being polite costs nothing and no milk in herbal tea or a fruit flavoured teas.
Absolutely NO milk in Earl Grey. I've seen people doing that. I don't know why, but it gets me angry. It's like adding soda to a good single malt. I need to calm down! lol
@@stephenkelly1887oh dear. I add milk to Earl Grey. 😳
@@cherylhoggins1925 Lol. You're forgiven!
@wesleywhibley I live in the Southern part of the US and I've discovered a shop that imports food from the UK. I discovered the best tea I've ever had in my life! It's amaaaazingly good! They are all decaf fruit flavored teas from Taylor's of Harrogate. I love them to pieces ,but I've been putting a little bit of milk/ cream in them. I just had 2 cups of strawberry vanilla with milk. So, maybe I should quit the cow,and in the future drink them straight up and unaltered Might be better.??
@@stephenkelly1887 Thank you. 🙏
I've never been yelled at by a bus driver. But if there is a sign saying no eating, and you start eating, and then the driver sternly tells you to stop, you have only yourself to blame.
I've not been shouted at but I've been left at a stop in the pouring rain by a driver who cheerily waved me goodbye as shut the doors on me and pulled away. Also seen drivers leave disabled people behind and so on.
On the whole Bus/Coach drivers are fine. City bus drivers have a rough time and put up with a lot of crap, I've come across a few in London/Manchester that were unnecessarily rude. Like any public facing job I guess, gooduns and baddys. Rural bus drivers are awesome from my experience.
@Me-gy7ky Ok, those things would irritate me too. If you're in London as well, maybe it's more likely to happen there, as I've not witnessed it here in Leeds.
ENGLISH race & culture is finished ISLAM INDIA & BLACKS RULE
I've been yelled at by a few in my teens, but I think I can now as an adult say I deserved it
England is the only country in the world where if you stomp on someone's toes, they apologise to you!! 😂
Never had a rude bus driver, but it’s tradition to say thank you to the driver as you get off.
I even do it in Oz, always thank the driver.
Yep...
You Always thank the driver.
We are not necessarily silent on the buses, rather we are respectful towards other passengers, and we try not to invade their space. We may talk, but we don't raise our voices so we can be heard by the people sitting at the back. If we play music, most of us will be considerate and use headphones or earbuds so we are not inflicting our music on everyone else, that kind of thing.
I always found the morning bus quieter than the evening bus home!
Well that just sounds like commonsense politeness. :)
Exactly! Who wants to hear a loud, one sided conversation, or hear parts of a movie, or someone’s else’s music choices?? 🤪
It’s called having a bit of consideration for the people around you.☺️
I speak with people on the bus all the time- we don't shout - she is talking about London on iously here up North more friendly
Maybe where you live but in Scotland we have conversations with people (including strangers and the driver) all the time on public transport and our local bus is where we get our news / gossip / and have a laugh.
I am a Brit in Britain and, whilst we don't love queuing, we think it is the most polite thing to do.. I have friends who live in Spain, who now think queuing is strange. They admitted that the elderly, very young and disabled are just pushed out of the way, for example at a bus stop. Britains have a reputation for being, generally, some of the most polite Europeans.
Same goes for giving up a seat for someone on public transport. On one occasion I did that on a bus in Serbia and an old lady stared at me in disbelief.
@@geoffpoole483that's sad!
It's called proper! 👍🇬🇧
Exactly this woman looks like she'd tip up a wheelchair to get on first😅
I dunno. Me and a few friends regularly plan queue nights. We get together and just stand in a line somewhere, it's brilliant.
Most British pubs serve food. We sometimes call it 'pub grub'.
Most, but not all. There are still pubs that I would call 'drinkers' pubs where a bag of pork scratchings (or crips) is about the most you will get in the way of food. Personally I would not go to one of those as I go to pubs for a meal.
I also think that she is differentiating between the group 'type'... Yes, lots of pubs serve food (and others don't), but you have TWO distinct reasons to visit a pub, the FIRST being to go out with friends and family for a "specific arrangement", like meeting for a Sunday Roast, to celebrate a birthday or meet up with people you haven't seen for a long time! The SECOND type of pub use is the office group who decide to go out after work to 'drink' ! Or the locals who have eaten before or the lads going to the pub to watch the match... They are NOT there to eat, but drink copious amounts of alcohol (drunk, eating a kebab or fish & chips after the pub on the way home...). I think she's had a few of the LATTER occasions !??? 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
I thought pub grub was something you get on a Friday night.
@@StewedFishProductions I think we all have! It used to be common for me to wake up in the morning with a half eaten kebab in my pocket!
Why on earth would you fill up on food when there is beer available
A cup of tea solves all of life's problems. You upset, somebody makes you a cup of tea. You have a broken leg.... somebody makes a cup of tea. Tea fixes everything.
Taps/faucet, we don’t swap our hands from one tap to another, we put the plug in the hole and fill the sink up with water, and we even use soap!😂😂😂
A "Mixer Flo" [adjustable mix of hot/cold water] are, I assume, set up into bathrooms and kitchens, these days...
73 yr old, been taking busses all my life - never seen a driver being rude/aggressive to a passenger! Also, there are a total of 7 pubs within a 2 mile radius of my home in Birmingham. All of them serve food, whether you want a light snack or a 3 course meal. This girl seems to be making classic mistake of foreigners visiting/living in London that London is representative of the whole of the UK!
Do you use Stagecoach ? Rude is normal for their drivers.
@@carolewynn9407 ... I used to use Stagecoach in London, the drivers were always nice to me. Always said good morning or afternoon and would even have a chat some times if they weren't too busy. I usually find if you treat someone politely then they do likewise. Of course you are always going to get one or two ignorant ones but then on the other foot there are plenty of rude and even abusive passengers.
So what she’s from another part of Europe, foreigner is an offensive word used in this context. Depends where you are I think, a lot of pubs near me don’t do food and make excuses if you ask for a cup of tea.
I think what she means by we don't eat food while we're out drinking isn't that we don't have the capacity to do so but more that if we're out on piss why would we fill the space in our stomach with food when you can squeeze an extra pint or 2 in there instead?
Like if I'm going out for the sole reason to go drinking then that's what I'm gonna spend my money on not maybe up to 20 quid on food, that's like 4+ pints of beer money I just wasted on something that's not beer.
That's why if you see a large group of lads they might have 4 or 5 bags of crisps ripped completely open in the middle of the table for everyone to nibble on
I think she means we don't eat whilst on the lash, not that the pubs don't serve food. Eating is cheating after all.
It an unwritten rule that you say "thank you" the driver as you leave the bus. I have always done this, except for a few times I said " thank you dad". My father was a bus driver for over 25 years!
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It's a "Cheers Drive!" here in Wales, but yeh same thing i guess.
@@Rosso87I came to comment that! 😁
Definitely something done in Yorkshire.
@@Rosso87 that's what I say, mind you I'm from Wales too lol
Yeah, no. Half of that was exaggerated, ill-conceived, or London-centric, and the rest is just good manners. I use the bus regularly and can't remember the last time I saw a driver fight with a passenger, like decades ago; and people do talk on the bus once you get away from that there London. Honestly, she didn't endear herself to me, not that she's under any obligation to do so, but not someone I'd want to spend any time with if that's her genuine view of the country.
Shes talking shit.
Still shag her tho
Totally agree she reminds me of those people online who move to the UK and show all of the stereo types on their page and channels just to get reactions etc .. As many of us keep saying we arent all the same and London does not represent all of us each city and town is different and does things their own way even having their own way of speaking lol
Yeah, the shires are nice, London is a lawless free for all.
Could definitely see how this would mostly apply to the London area!
@PedroConejo1939 True, here in Wales the most of the local bus divers have been doing it for years and know the locals by name, will drop elderly people off close to their homes so they dont have to walk too far etc. Extremely rare to meet one thats not lovely, and also its mandatory to give them a "cheers drive" as you're getting off the bus to thank them! and yeh, people chat on the bus all the time.
Hi Steve and Lindsey,
I'm an English Bus Driver........So....... here are the main reasons a Bus Driver over hear can get upset (in my opinion). 1. A bus full of excited, boisterous school children going home who are noisy and who constantly press the bus stop bell knowing, it'll upset the Driver as if he tells them off about it they'll still do it but more. Which distracts the Drivers attention away from the road which is obviously dangerous.
2. The Driver is driving the trip after the school trip and is still upset and then he encounters a passanger who doesn't have enough money for their ticket. The person knows they don't have enough before they boarded but does the 'Pocket Shuffle' (searching every pocket they have) for that elusive money and then tries to pity the driver to let them on for free.
3. The person asks the Driver a question to which the Driver answers (the person doesn't listen) and then asks the Driver the same question again.
Thats just a few of the main ones, there's loads more.
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I live in West Yorkshire - everybody talks to each other on the bus in my area. We greet the driver when we get on. We thank the driver when we get off. Generally, the bus drivers are quite friendly. And YES, we queue to get on the bus - even when there isn't a visible queue. Today, coming home from work, there was a cluster of about a dozen people, but there WAS an informal queue. As you arrive, you look at who is there. Then another person will arrive and you KNOW that you are going to get on before that person and after those you clocked as you joined the cluster. It looks like a clump of people, but everybody knows their place.
Also, the escalator rule only applies in London. The rule for escalators near me (where they are generally not very busy) is just don't be a d*ck.
I'm in South yorkshire and yes, we all have chats with each other on public transport
As a Bus driver of 28 years I have only ever shouted at drunk people that are causing trouble. Most bus drivers are nice and good at their job.
Agreed, and they tolerate a lot of BS! I always get upset when people don't thank bus drivers.
Agreed - bus drivers have to deal with an unwarranted amount of rudeness and abuse. Most of them are perfectly nice to you if you're perfectly nice to them. Thanks for being one of the nice ones ❤
Some are lovely but I have had a few that are rude and one that I really should have reported
Even in Fortnight you have to thank the bus driver 😂
She must have been to a central London pub where not all serve food. The majority of English pubs serve food.
London isint England anymore I swerve it
@@chucky2316Nonsense - however we’re happy ignorant people avoid it - best city in the world
Sounds like the only time she's been in a pub is with a hard-drinking gang of work colleagues.
I don't think she meant that there was no food available. I think she meant that people sometimes just drink, without having food as well.
By the time I was old enough to wash myself, I also understood how to use the hot and cold taps and not scald myself. The basin plug is there for a reason, not just a decoration. You can clearly see it loitering unused in the video at 22.57.
If you are concerned about laundry and food in the kitchen, then you are using either the washing machine or the cooker or both in some weird way.
Just don't put the clothes in the oven and don't put food in the washing machine. Otherwise they are well separated.
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...and the clothes you're wearing to cook in are dirtier than those coming out of the washing machine..
27,47, I would call this a dessert. Pudding is used as a general name for a sweet dish to finish the meal so it can be of any consistancy.
Of course some of these items are ridiculous I.e. we don't usually cook and launder at the same time. We only have 2 hands and a washing machine is an enclosed space for dirty clothes so wouldn't interfere with cooking etc. As for puddings some of those items were desserts
Yes this.
Also sometimes find it fun to try and wash my hands under the hot tap before it turns scolding and forces me to retreat to the cold tap.
In the uK, "Pudding" is a collective term for something sweet you have after dinner. There are also certain foods with the name "pudding" in them such as black pudding, summer pudding etc..
🇬🇧 here. Never been yelled at by bus driver. Vast majority of washing machines are in the kitchen: our houses are comparatively small, we are a small island. Pubs are closing down at a phenomenal rate. Serving food is often key to their survival. If you want to rile a Brit, jump the queue, it won’t be pretty. 😂
Its true that pubs serve food and some people have a pint or 2 whilst eating. When she says we don't eat while drinking she means when we are DRINKING! Just 1 or 2 pints is not drinking. We will get steaming drunk and go for a chinese or an indian or for a kebab afterwards on the way home, but we dont generally have a meal while getting drunk.
Hell no, you can’t eat while you’re drinking drinking, you won’t have enough room!
Eating is cheating
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Eatin’ is cheatin’!
No solids 😊
The polite apologies is for strangers. It common courtesy/manners and very evident when dealing with a stranger. Brits are more direct and raw the better they know you., and a friend will receive heavy banter rather than polite apologies.
That makes sense! Lindsay and I are this way as well--overtly polite to strangers, but the better you know us the more direct/loose we are. :)
On the subject of two taps. PUT THE PLUG IN 😂
The two tap thing ? Boring! We live on an island in the North Atlantic! What do you expect the weather to be? Wall to wall sunshine?
Don’t think they have plugs anywhere else. (Ha ha)
Or use a bowl!
naa we just use the hot water, if its too hot for your soft delicate hands, use the cold. lol
@@drtydawg73 Hot water taps in the UK are rarely scalding hot anyway. I used to just use the hot tap when washing myself, it's no beg deal.
Bigger UK houses do often have the washing machine in a laundry room, though we usually call it the utility room and often keep the vacuum cleaner and mop and other cleaning stuff in there. But the simplest reason for washing machines in the kitchen in smaller houses is that there’s always a water supply there. Quite often UK houses have all the rooms that need water on one side or one face of the building. Our last house there had the kitchen and downstairs toilet at the front of the house either side of the front door and the family bathroom above - minimal plumbing that way. Yes, the developers were stingy, but it was a perfectly adequate house.
We live in a modern 2 bedroom flat, medium sized. We have a utility cupboard for washing machine , drier and water softener , with the rest,of the cleaning stuff stored in there, hoover and bottles etc. Also luckily another big storage cupboard. Coats spare bedding , ironing board etc etc. I think new house flats and developers are recognising the need for separate rooms especially when the flat or house isn’t the biggest.
It relatively well designed to be honest and south facing , with large well insulated windows so heating only needs to be on after a stretch of dull cold days, sunny and cold we are really toasty with no heed for heating on. It’s been in minus figures on C all weeks only had to have heating on for a couple of days when it was dull, the rest of the time it’s been sunny and the flat lovely and warm. 21c with no heating on.
I race against time when quickly washing hands. I have about 10 seconds before the hot water becomes too hot. It's always a risky game 😂
That girl has absolutely NO IDEA about British culture, she’s just stereotyping the British people.
Personally I thought it was a set of reasonably astute observations presented in an amusing manner. I’ll leave that with you - I’m off to make a cup of tea.
@@emq667 I thought that she was just extracting the urine out of the goodwill of the British people.
Yes CORRECT! well spotted! have a cookie! THAT just so happens to be the title. AMAZING! You're really good
More like she is expecting all British people to be Londoners. London is an aberration, the majority of British people have nothing in common with them whatsoever.
Agreed,talk about chatting shit!
We live on a small island and are susceptible to the vagaries of the Atlantic Ocean and the Jet stream, our weather can change by the minute, so we talk about the weather.
Explanation for UK taps. Remember the understanding of water-borne diseases came from Brits, from Cholera in 1854 to Legionnaries in 1977. Also we were the pioneers of public health initiatives. So very early on, standing water was deemed to be unsafe for drinking. Every property was then built with two plumbing systems, one that pours water to a tank to heat up. And one that taps into the constantly flowing underground pipes. So if you only use the cold tap for drinking/food prep you will not be encountering anything nasty that may be festering in a tank of still water. The invention of wall mounted boilers made this unnecessary for homes, and many are switching over. But they're not suitable for large buildings that still require tanks on the roof. These will be the kinds of building you will encounter as a visitor; hotels, museums, shopping malls etc. You should do a video on Dr John Snow, it's an amazing story and pert of the reason we all live longer today.
But to get good cold water pressure upstairs there is a tank in the loft. We were told as kids never drink from the cold taps upstairs only use the taps downstairs coming directly off the main. (I really love cold UK mains water in the winter, it will freeze all your body parts and wake you the hell up).
@@rootchillerI have never heard of any building in the UK using unvented tanks for cold water.
It isn't really the hot water tank that causes the problem, but the vented tank in the loft which was used to provide pressure for the hot water tank. Modern unvented hot water systems run at mains pressure, and they are absolutely fine to use a hot water tank with mixer taps.
@@rootchiller Using a tank for cold water is only in old houses, in modern houses or ones that have been upgraded to combi boilers all cold taps are usually run directly off mains water supply that is under pressure. The minimum pressure from mains is 1bar (usually higher) and 1 bar is enough pressure to send water up 10 metres(33ft) so unless your house is higher than 15+ metres on the 2nd floor it should have zero problem getting good pressure in the upstairs taps. Though while it's rarer these days i'd always check if you have a tank, because if you do have a tank it's probably nasty!
@@Rosso87 You are right, but there's many a home that still have the old system.
So the big thing for pub food is that pubs have food and bars do not. If you were to pop into a spoons you could absolutely get food and a pint from 10am. But a bar doesn’t serve food. They’re two different types of drinking culture around them aswell.
We call laundry rooms utility but my washing machine is in the kitchen it doesn’t mean you keep your dirty clothes in the kitchen. Most modern houses have mixer taps.
99% of bus drivers are friendly. The bus driver had every right to shout at her for eating on the bus. It is not allowed.
Especially if they're the ones having to clean it, I imagine taxi drivers would also have to.
Bus drivers in bristol are friendly and will help you.
True the that bus may be in service for up to eighteen hours and if you spill food other passengers with have to suffer your mess untill the driver can find time to clean it. Probably during his lunch or tea break because he usually won't have time before then or risk running behind schedule. Or he's left scrambling to clean a stinky mess at the end of his shift before handing the vehicle over to another driver. It's just plain disrespectful to him and every other passenger to risk it.
@@johnchamber5962Except Dave
He could have told her without shouting...
Regarding why we stand on the right and walk on the left on escalators I would not be surprised to see the reason is because most people are right handed so naturally will use this hand to hold on to the handrail for their safety.
The 'liquid lunch' it's called - drinking during the workday.
Work is 10 hours of misery, why WOULDN'T you go to work pissed ?
@@jubeaumont6305 Crikey, I only work 30 hours a week!
I've just retired but when I started out we'd all head to the pub on a Friday lunchtime and have some beers. That has pretty much died out though in the last 15 to 20 years.
In my council office job about 15 years ago, we would go out every Friday lunchtime and come back in for the last couple of hours of the day obviously tipsy! One co-worker used to travel to France a lot so would bring back cheese and wine, so sometimes we’d shut our office door and have a French afternoon drinking wine in the office🤣 I know teachers who used to go to the pub on a Friday lunchtime too🤣
Hedonistic days🥂
Tea is a mild sedative so it’s has a calming effect especially in a crisis.
Queue jumping is my pet hate! When I used to work in central London 20-25 years ago, there were a number of Tube strikes, so loads of people had to get the bus instead. I remember the queue snaking around Liverpool Street Station, but everyone was quite happy to stand and wait. Well, perhaps not happy, just resigned to the fact that that’s what they had to do. The odd person that tried to push in got loudly tutted at.
On the tap issue, we’ve just redone our bathroom and now have one mixer tap. I actually find the two separate ones easier to wash my hands with. You just use the hot tap, as it never got that hot in the time it takes to wash your hands. It was a perfect hand washing temperature! But with a mixer tap, I have to fiddle around getting it in the right place.
Yes had this madam jump the queue in Aldi (in Oz), If I had noticed she had only a couple of items I would definitely say, please go in front but this creature just jumped in as I normally do when I see that they have hardly anything.
Large houses have laundry rooms or utility rooms. Small houses have washing machines in the kitchen or out in the garage
I’ve never experienced rude bus drivers in all my 66 years. In fact on one occasion when my son was little I was on the bus loaded with shopping and the baby. The driver literally stopped the bus outside my house and carried my shopping into my kitchen for me. Personally I think London is another planet. I don’t use buses often now but I’ve never heard anyone criticise bus drivers
I'm a similar age, @catherinehaywood7092, and I've never met a rude bus driver either. I lived in London for 10 years and I never came across one there.
London has nothing to do with how the rest of Britain behaves.
That's amazing! It makes much more sense that some of the things on this list would mostly apply to London.
Disabled people are treated badly on buses far too often
@@CeleWolfnever seen that myself. I've lived in East Anglia and the North East and the bus drivers and other passengers are always happy to accommodate disabled passengers.
We talk about the weather so much because we get so much of it! Also, it's an 'ice-breaker' (no pun intended) to start a conversation with a stranger for example.
Have a read of "Watching the English" by Kate Fox. Lots of analysis of weather-talk! There are three main reasons why there's so much of it:
a) Because of the British climate, the weather is always changing. It's different day by day, often hour by hour. There's always something going on to talk about.
b) It's a universal topic. You know what it's like now, you know what it was like yesterday, and you're as qualified as everyone else to make a comment about it.
c) By and large, everybody agrees about good and bad weather. Warm is better than cold, sunny is better than rainy. It's a nice easy topic of discussion that won't trigger any arguments. Even if you personally have an unusual preference (maybe you like cold), you're not going to fight anybody over it -- you're more likely to laugh and say, "Well, I like it cold, but..." and happily concede that other people disagree.
When faced with two taps we usually put the plug in the sink and let the water mix on its own. No problemo!
Oh Dear!!! the old "water tap issue! FFS! Most homes have had mixer taps for donkey's years. It's mainly the older properties that haven't been upgraded! PS.... there is a reason "WHY" they had/have two taps (all been explained multiple times).
surely we've all apologised to an inanimate object for bumping into it
I've lived in and around London for 25 years getting the bus all the time (much more relaxing than the tube). I've never seen a bus driver behave in any way as she described. I can only imagine there's some miscommunication going on.
(and in my first job in London in 1998 we did go to the pub on Friday at lunch from 1 til 3 then have to go back for our core hour (we were on flexitime) in the afternoon of 3 til 4 then back to the pub. That hour of work was clearly not very productive. I'll not name the organisation, but it would be considered a highly professional and respectable place to work. I don't think things are done the same way anymore)
More than likely 😬😅
And animals 🤭
Yes . I have stood on the "toe " of a card
display and instantly apologized to "it " instantly!!! .
Even when it clearly got in my way deliberately .
And I am SORRY, but it's just not true that we overuse, sorry .
More apologies than I can remember
Probably hundreds of times 😂
The West Germans do not que at a bus stop,my wife had the baby in her hands,it was mayhem and we ended up last on the bus and no seats available,most of us in UK would que and be polite and let any woman sit first on a bus or anyone who is disabled.
Agree.
YES! I'm British with German mum. When we visited our relatives we queued at the stop and I was absolutely horrified when the whole queue just rushed onto the buses two doors. I was appalled and then it was explained to me they do it to keep everything running on time. And I must say, unlike Britain things aren't cancelled and run bang on time ❤
West Germany is that near East Germany!
Waiting for the bus is advanced level queueing. No line is formed, the technique is to stare daggers at the next person to arrive so they know their place is after you.
@@ethelminiguilty ✋😂
You don't put milk in flavoured teas, like strawberry (as the girl mentioned).
🤫I do.. And sugar,
@@reluctantheist5224 sugar yes definitely because when you have tea without milk, there's even a greater need for sugar.
But try brown sugar - better flavour and more healthy.
@@JohnResalb I promise I'm not a fifth columnist.. But I use oatmilk.
@@JohnResalb Actually, they are nutritionally similar, so there are no health benefits to using brown sugar over white. But yes, brown sugar is more flavoursome due to the addition of molasses. And of course, neither sugar is actually good for us, especially if you are predisposed towards diabetes or weight gain.
@@reluctantheist5224oatmeal in flavoured tea isn't really tea at that point it's just treason
As a Brit I must say Lindsey’s demeanour is VERY British 😮😂😂😂 and I mean that as a complement - she’s civilised and so are you Steve to think of it ….😂🎉🎉🎉
Yes Lynsey would be easy to get along with. She would be fine in Britain.
I agree ❤
When we say things like “sorry, can I just squeeze past” we aren’t actually sorry, it’s just an acknowledgment that we’re asking someone to do something.
Surely the Brit "you all right?" or "how's it going?" isn't dissimilar to the French "(Comment) ça va?" or the German "Wie geht's?" or Spanish "¿Como estas?" to none of which is a detailed answer expected.
The difference between those examples and us Brits is we REALLY don't want an answer 😂 it's just saying a passing "hi", standard answer should "fine, you alright ?" .... then keep walking... do not stop !! This greeting is usually for casual acquaintances and people you recognize but aren't close friends.
Welcome to Britain 🇬🇧 😂😂😂
If I have to stand aside on the path to let other people pass, if they don't say " thank you " that gets me as it's polite to say thank you for letting them pass
I usually reply with "You're welcome" when that happens. Manners cost nothing.
Just say "youre welcome" in a very loud voice whilst staring at the back of their head.
Yes I always say "you're welcome" at least loud enough to make sure they heard 😊
Me too. I despise ignorance.
Massive pet peeve !! my husband always shouts over his shoulder "nice one love/mate your welcome" lol
I'm so polite I say thank you to Alexa every time she answers any questions I ask her - I've tried not to but it's just a natural response.
Me too. I wish she would be as polite and say "youre welcome" .
@@satsumamoon yes, she should, I always listen for it, but no 😄
I apologise to myself when I'm talking out loud. "Ok I'm going to get that from the living room, sorry kitchen". I also have to try very hard not to say thank you to the self service machines in supermarkets 😂
I'm the opposite. I can't repeat some of the things I've said to that cnt. She just doesn't listen 😂
Me:" Alexa set timer for 3 and a half hours"
Alexa: Good afternoon...
Me: Sorry, yes, good afternoon.
The reason why houses used to have 2 taps is because the hot water used to come from a tank in the loft and it meant that you wouldn't want that water coming out of a tap that you drink from. These days, houses aren't built with that tank and more and more people are getting rid of these tanks and so it's safe to have a mixer tap. It would usually take a while for the hot water to come through so the trick was to wash your hands before the water got too hot.
Yes, there was always a chance of a dead bird in your hot water tank, and you wouldn't know coz it was in the loft
A lot of British culture can be summed up by a phrase I was asked a lot as a child: "How would you like it?"
It's a cultural understanding of how your actions affect those around you - most people would like others to be kind, courteous and polite, so they should extent that to others.
It's about respect. You dont know what other people are going through, what's gone in their day or lives - so a bit of respect and understanding helps keep things moving smoothly.
That was a coach driver not a bus driver... Where I live we know all our local bus drivers by name. They're (mostly) a happy bunch and if a passenger starts being rude or misbehaving other passengers will support the driver....
...and don't forget to thank the Bus Driver, "Thanks, Colin!" (We listen to people who get off the bus before us to find out his/her name.)
Its called manners,
Manners cost nothing! 🙏
Quitw oposite,manners are matter of culture@@iangt1171
Agree
ENGLISH race & culture is finished ISLAM INDIA & BLACKS RULE
It's a shame people have stopped teaching their kids that 😔
When she was talking about food in pubs, she meant when people go out 'drinking'. You can go to a pub for a meal, and you will probably have a drink while you are eating it, but if you are going out 'drinking', you just eat snacks like crisps and peanuts.
And finish off the night with a kebab or an Indian. THAT is when we eat 😂
Some of these are just her personal view of things and not strictly the way things are here. I have never seen bus drivers having aggression with a passenger ever. It is normal for washing machines to be in kitchens unless it is a fairly new property with a built in dirty utility. Your dirty clothes don’t go near your food. Your clothes go in the machine and your food stays in food preparation areas. The taps are for safety, a child or elderly person could easily burn themselves, with separate taps they know they are getting both hot and cold water. Everything here isn’t just random, it is all thought out.
You NEVER EVER put milk in herbal tea 🤢🤮
OMG. No!
I never put milk in any tea.
Point 13
There's a reason the phrase "Keep Calm and Carry On" resonated so well with the English
RUN
AROUND
SCREAM
AND
PANIC
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The posters with KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON were sent out to post offices at the beginning of the second world war. They were to be put up if the Germans invaded. The RAF put a stop to that, and they were never used. My parents generation did that anyway. Copies were found recently and go reprinted every where.
Only in Britain could you see a weather forecast like one I recently heard : "Dry and sunny with prolonged and heavy showers"
It's called edging your bets..they ain't got a scooby
@@reggawardle4874 that's 'hedging' as in hedge funds. Basically putting a boundary around to limit your risk.
Well it's well known that in the UK, you can get all four seasons in 24hrs.
@@andyjdhurley cheers..lost my h's somewhere in the ushes,,or is it bushes..😂
@@reggawardle4874they definitely didn't last week, if you were to believe the forecast we would all have been flying out to Florida to escape the high winds - I believe I was in about the calmest forecast area - only 3600 mph winds, Nottingham was aver 5000 and with overnight temperatures of over 400°C, thankfully the BBC got it wrong.
She showed some pictures of extreme queues lol. But yes we do respect the queue. Even if there's only 2 people waiting to use the cash machine, we'll still form a queue.
They don't in London they are animals
A day doesn’t pass when we don’t talk about the weather with multiple people 😀
"Y'alright" is a friendly greeting that we really have no interest in knowing the answer to 😅
- Hi, y'alright?
-I'm good thanks, you?
-Good, thanks.
That's how it should go, regardless of how you feel.
Pubs do sell food. More and more pubs are beginning to sell pub grub. Those on the piss tend not to eat, though.
It's usually family get-togethers.
Brit here. Yep, I've been to the pub for lunch with the boss and co-workers on Friday lunchtimes and we've had a few pints each. In several different jobs, not just one.
My friend has a bunch of meetings every Friday afternoon. The company stocks the meeting room with beer, cider & wine.
Separate taps are also important for safety as cold water comes directly from the mains and is safe for drinking, whereas the hot tap is heated and is not suitable for drinking
With modern plumping systems hot water is potable / drinkable. Most houses I have lived in and have known for the last 30 years have had mixer taps, rather than separate taps
Used to be with open storage tanks, but they are sealed now and modern plumbing systems make no difference between quality as the water is from the same source but that old belief persists.
Mixer taps are so wasteful,either waiting for the water to run to hot or cold.
Depends if you have a combi boiler or hot water tank
Pudding for me is anything sweet after a meal. Basically dessert. Love from 🇬🇧
In the UK, pudding is a generic term for what you eat after the main course, it can be anything from ice cream to a sticky toffee pudding.
Yorkshire Pudding ?? Steak and Kidney Pudding ?
I get what you mean though. It is generally used as a synonym for dessert.
Although don't tell 'em we also call it 'afters'. Their head might explode 😛😉
@@theanonymice5382 or having after 8’s as afters, they can’t handle that 🤣
@@Anti-squeak 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Especially when it's only half past 7 😛
Yep, it's a vocab thing. Like the US biscuit and the UK biscuit. So 'pudding' in the US is a particular kind of dessert.. But 'pudding' in the UK has become another word for dessert as another comment or has said.
I'd be curious as to what American's call the heavy Christmas fruit, maybe with brandy sponge/cake-like dessert. In the UK we call that Christmas pudding 😂
"I come fom a place where queues look something like this." I suggest she looks up the definition of the word, because that was NOT a queue. It was is a free-for-all, aka "I don't care about anyone else. My need is the most important and must be met now.". Attrocious behaviour. And if I'm trying to exit a tram / bus / train and you're stood in the middle of the space I need to step off expecting to push your way on immediately, expect ME to just stand still, blocking you too, until you move. If necessary, I'll do so till the doors close again. I might have to get off at the next stop, but hopefully you'll be very late for whatever was so important you couldn't spare less than a second or two to be polite and considerate.
Small kitchen - washing machine in kitchen. Big houses tend to have a separate utility room with washers and dryers in.
I passed someone in the street this morning and literally talked about the weather, man said lovely day, I said, bit frosty this morning lol
Love it! :)
LOL xx
I think it's maybe 50/50 whether a pub serves food, much fewer serve food in the evening. There are eating pubs and drinking pubs typically. If people are going out drinking, then it's likely the pub you're at will be fully set up to serve alcohol, they won't have waiters and waitresses going around serving dinners.
Oh, and those photos of people queueing out of the door of supermarkets are from Covid times - when only a few people were allowed in the shop at a time for social distancing reasons.
Most families go to pubs for a meal, but men often meet up with their mates for a few drinks and a game of pool after work.
Groups of men will very rarely eat together in a pub, it would look a bit weird.
Guys will usually stop off at a kebab shop or an Indian on their way home, rather than eating in the pub.
Not most men some men
When alighting a bus locally it is customary for passengers to say a polite ‘ thank you’ for the most part the driver doesn’t respond , but the occasional one will. Curtesy &kindness costs nothing
In my experience, larger houses tend to have washing machines in a separate room - my childhood home, my grandparents house and some of my friends houses growing up had washing machines in a laundry room or back porch. But smaller houses and flats have washing machines in kitchens.
Flavoured tea does not have milk in it. That would be so weird. I live in the South West and our bus drivers are not rude because we are polite to them. Not sure what the angry bus driver was doing, but that is not the norm for me. As for scalding myself, never done that. We have a plug and we use it.
I'm a westcountry lad and I got a bus from plymouth to Ivybridge he was the most patient bus driver in the world the young school lads upstairs were ringing the bell every minute 😂. It was driving me mad but on he went 😮
Maybe the French lady got on the wrong bus by mistake and refused to get off when this was pointed out, so she had to be “encouraged” off!
@@janettesinclair6279 Totally. Even before buses took card on them and buses preferred that you gave them the right money or not huge notes, they would politely ask for that. But rude, they weren't,
There’s a good practical reason as to why we had/have separate taps/faucets, our cold water is exceptionally pure so ideal for drinking. In the USA not so. If two taps I would just put a plug in the basin. Sorted!
Thanks for the explanation! :) That makes sense
Whilst you're right about the cold water the reason the water from the hot tap was separated was because of our old water heater tanks basically made the water contaminated and thus nit drinkable we have mixed faucets now because we don't really use the old boiler tanks anymore for heating water
Our bus drivers are very polite but if you disrespect them you will be told
we don't eat while we're out drinking so we don't have to spend so much money to get ratfaced 😂
Pubs often have one area meant only for drinking and some of them have a screen that separates both sectors. On occasion, you can find pubs with a drinking room downstairs and another room upstairs meant for meals.
Whilst living for some years in the US, it grated to hear customers say things such as, "I'll have a mocha", or "Gimme three of those", with no please or thank you. I was taught, an eon ago, that tea was made of tealeaves, herbal/ fruit hot drinks were tisane. The mythology around the issue of alcohol in the US gets me. My kids grew up having watered wine or a beer shandy at weekend dinners. Whilst in the US, we had to hide in a darkened room with the curtains drawn in order to do so. 😅
It also grates me when I'm watching a tv show or movie and there is no please and thank you, I end up huffing the words at the screen it's very annoying😂😂
My son regularly travels to Huston for work - he says that if anyone orders a glass of wine with their meal at a business lunch, the rest of the table look shocked and talk about them behind their backs as if they are an alcoholic.
Also, he was invited to an evening barbecue at someone's house , so took a bottle of wine with him (ordinary polite behaviour here) But they didn't have any alcohol to drink all night because they had children in the house !
@@gillianrimmer7733 God forbid they have a glass of wine while the children are in the house. They may forget where they left their gun.
I must add I am engaged to an American Vietnam veteran. He owns guns but stores them responsibly and there are no children in his house. The one time we did have a young teenager in the house. The guns were checked to make sure all were empty and then stored away again. He also does not own any AR-15 style weapons. He also doesn't drink alcohol, ever.
@@hellsbells8689 An AR-15 is an ordinary hunting rifle. Nothing special.
@@elemar5 Hunting what? Why the need for a semi-automatic weapon if you plan to eat the kill? Unless you are an extremely bad shot, of course. If that is the case maybe sit this one out.
The separate taps. You’re correct modern homes usually have a single mixer tap but I’m of the generation that grew up with the old way. We didn’t move hands between the two we filled the sink! That’s what sink plugs are for! Water mixed in sink! Actually we should still be using them they make more sense when trying to conserve water! Often with mixer taps you have to run cold water off to get to the hot, or hot water off to get to the cold, depending on what you last used. A lot of water is wasted with mixers.
So true!! Hate mixer taps with a passion!!
Not every bus driver in London is British, London is full of people from other countries (like her). London is NOT typically British.
From the UK 2021 census - "London is 40% immigrant, 60% ethnic minorities", definitely not typically British, but wonderfully diverse....
Frankly, London to any Englishman/woman who doesn't live there doesn't feel like it's part of England. Let alone part of Britain.!!
In fact, you can't even be openly Christian or Jewish with getting targeted by certain people, and as for the MET Police service.!!! Well if you are openly Christian or Jewish then they'll arrest you for it.!!!
So no London isn't England or British anymore. In fact, if you add Stan to the end of London, then you'll be closer to the truth ..!!!
@@alanmon2690if you say so
@@alanmon2690if that's what you call it
London is obviously extremely British
Very very rare you get a rude bus driver.
They may pull out on you in traffic, but they have a schedule to keep.
You'll have a pleasant journey, take a bus , you'll have no problems
Proper pubs don't have food, TVs, background music. Just places for drinking, socialising and putting the world in order. Feed in pubs, and family friendly, is a relatively new thing. The last 40 years. 🤣🤣
I'm British and don't recognise most of these.
Edit. The rude bus driver entry. I used to work for National Express, which is a British version of Greyhound, and this story made the national news. That's how rare it is. The driver was fired and the French guest was compensated.
The whole thing was shameful. Any hint of rudeness, assault, or bigotry from an employee and you might was well empty your locker NatEx takes guest safety very seriously.
I'm British and do recognise most of this.. Though I would say 15 degrees is tops off weather.
We're very sorry for the constant apologies.
It depends on the situation though. If I hold the door open for someone and they don’t say thanks,I say it instead,very loudly in a passive aggressive way.😂
@@sallyannwheeler6327 I say 'you're welcome' usually followed with some muttering of certain words under my breath!
@@WoNkY_DoGDepending on the day I’ve had,me too. Only not so much muttering it!😂
😂😂😂
@sallyannwheeler6327 oh I can get very passive aggressive. The "no, after you" that comes out of my mouth when someone pushes in or "you're welcome" shouted after someone that I held a door open for and received no thanks 😂😂
The big lines outside the supermarkets were probably when covid was on the go
Okay, that makes more sense. We were wondering 😅
Or Boxing Day sale or another sale day probably
@@Britishshadow ... Yeah in London the only time you see queues like that at the shops is the after Christmas sales Boxing day and New Year.
@@reactingtomyroots25 years ago long bus queues were very common but not any more as so many people have cars .
Most pubs now have food
One thing I will explain about the hot and cold taps, when you are washing your hands from the hot tap, the hot water isn't instantly hot, takes a good 20-30 seconds to reach boiling, so it doesn't burn straight away.
Exactly this
You put the plug in and mix the hot and cold till you get the right temperature you want
Manners and politeness are (generally) valued here, as other reactors have also noted. Apart from in football chants, which are always worth a look at where there are literally no rules and no topics are off limits
She has 9bviously never been on a bus in a town outside London.
Not talking on the bus is not the case in Yorkshire, we talk to everyone 😂
Aye we do. Buses, bus stops, folk in the queue with us. We love a good chinwag. Especially about the weather.😂
It reminded me of this comedy sketch. It's how I was when I first moved to London. (Back up in Yorkshire now, thank the lord 😂).
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Yes we do 😂
The word 'pudding' covers just about everything under the sun, though it can vary a bit regionally with some in the South preferring to call lightweight sweet stuff 'dessert'. The other word we use - particularly at school - is 'afters'.
I remember when I used a double decker for the first time that had stairs on the back and the cab separated from the passenger area. As I went to get off, I panicked for a moment "oh no, how do I say bye to the driver?!" . It was the weirdest thing, we always say thanks and they always cheerfully respond with bye . If theres a whole line of people alighting youll here this wonderful parade of thanks and bye , each as enthusiastic and heartwarming as the next.
Its community building and without it life feels cold and alienating.
The term "pudding" has multiple meanings. The word can refer to a savoury pudding, such as a steak and kidney pudding or a Yorkshire pudding, which would be part of the main course, and it is also used as a generic term for the dessert course of a meal, where the pudding can be anything from Christmas pudding to rice pudding, or could ice cream, trifle, or any other sweet dessert.
Really?I haven't noticed this but then I don't live in a big city.
Yeah that explanation is the way I understand it. Only thing I would add is to include things like Black pudding (blood pudding), and white pudding (no blood, oatmeal and suet with seasoning filling) as another type of savoury puddings. Haggis would therefore also be this kind of pudding. These are puddings because they are invaded a skin that was predominantly from Animals such as a stomach or an intestine, but is now often times synthetic. Interestingly what Americans tend to forget when they get grossed out by this is that they also may eat another version of this kind of thing on a regularish basis. Sausages are simply smaller versions of this same principle but because they became such a big thing they got given a specific name. But they're basically just a smaller version.
Also just realised that in
Can also mean a person isn't very bright. What an absolute pudding.
"Pudding" is an extremely complicated word with a long history. It originally meant a sausage, such as black pudding. Then it came to refer to any kind of food boiled or steamed in a casing, such as steak pudding, and then later to food boiled or steamed in a cloth wrapping, such as all the various suet puddings (including Christmas pudding). From there it expanded further to include dishes of boiled grain or flour, such as rice pudding or Indian pudding (made with maize). By this time most "puddings" were sweet, and they were the most common types of sweet dishes, so "pudding" eventually came to refer to any kind of sweet dish.
The American meaning of "pudding" seems to come from the definition of "boiled grain/flour", as American pudding is based on boiling cornflour or other thickening agent in milk. For some reason the meaning of the word eventually narrowed down to this specific definition, while in Britain the word kept all of its other meanings.
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Puddings are usually hot, desserts are usually served cold.
Bus drivers are always polite. National Express is a coach company not a bus company.
I used to work in the account dept of a big media firm and our office was just across the road from a pub called the Dudley Arms In Paddington, London. The whole office used to go to the pub on a friday lunch time and we'd return half cut. Nothing much got done for the rest of the afternoon. :-)
I literally just wrote same thing. Friday afternoon pub break was standard in office culture. I'm not sure if it still happens as i don't work in that sector any longer
makes you proud to be British haha
@@cmcculloch1 I lived and worked in South Africa. On Fridays I would take my 'girls' (the ladies in the office) out for lunch and drinks, and my boss would say it was fine as long as we didn't try to do any actual work on our return to the office. LOL
Bus drivers are great where I am from, in fact everyone says "thanks....thanks drives...etc etc" everytime we get off
We like tea, saying sorry, excuse me and cheering at people who drop china
😂
😂 so true.. i had a weekend job working as a waitress in a hotel. I dropped a handful of plates hosting for a wedding and all the guests cheered.. i was 15 and mortified 😅
"waaaaaaay" haha
Yes, it cheering at dropped china is a positive thing, it’s not Nasty and is meant to diffuse a situation that might others be embarrassing
Rich tea biscuits have very little integrity as far as dunking goes, you need to be a professional dunker to even attempt it
I always double up with rich tea for extra reinforcement.
As Peter Kay said you can’t trust a rich tea whereas a hobnob is the marine of the dunking world.
Pro dunker here..by rule of thumb..digestives.....2.5 to 3 seconds...
Rich tea 1.5 to 2 seconds
Somerset witches....😂😂
They are like the most mundane boring biscuit ... until you become a Master Dunker and unlock their true potential! 😋😅
@paulbriggs5238 I'm sure we all experienced having half a rich tea at the bottom of a cuppa many times as a kid when we were practising our technique 😄
A bus driver will only interve with passengers if your putting the bus at risk. Or cause the driver to be distracted because he has to keep an eye on the behaviour rather than the road.
Bus drivers are openly rude where I live and confrontational, just a minority though.
"ca va" (ie "how's it going") in France can be politely responded to with another "ca va" (or "oui, ca va", or "ca va, ca va" or "ca va bien merci" etc etc).
On the London underground all the escalators have really clear signs re: stand on the right which leaves the left side of escalators for people who want to walk/run (and might be a in a hurry to catch their train!).
PS many of these things will be weird to somebody who doesn't come from a courteous culture as you have already noted...
PPS most UK bus drivers are NOT rude
PPPS the separate taps scenario is a hygiene thing - our cold taps provide Drinking Water (not the case in most of the world, including many parts of the US where people only drink bottled water), whereas the hot water has been sitting in a hot water tank and is not necessarily safe to drink - so you don't want to potentially contaminate your cold Drinking Water with the potentially unsafe to drink hot water.
PPPPS a screaming passenger, AND they were French, maybe getting the sack was a bit harsh...
We put the washing machine in the kitchen if there’s nowhere else for it to go, but often even in smaller homes they’re in a cupboard. Larger houses will usually have a separate room which we call a utility room rather than a laundry room. It will usually have the washing machine, dryer, a sink and some storage.
Not sure if being polite is 'weird' Its better than being bloody rude (EDIT, I politely stopped watching this one after 5 mins as it was getting on my t!ts, sorry, many thanks)
Me too mate- she could do with a good slap if you ask me😁
❤🧡💛💚💙💜 😉