Sometimes I make you cry with heartfelt emotion, sometimes I teach you about obscure differences, and sometimes I talk about Weetabix and duvets...it's a mixed bag, this channel!
Kalyn, the telephone, television, the computer, computing science, the World Wide Web, trains, the discovery of gravity, the discovery of antibiotics, the pioneers of IVF treatment, Marines, special forces, the world’s first bill of human rights (Magna Carta), modern parliamentary democracy, the world’s common language, police forces, the 12 man jury system, America (yes, we invented that too - the majority of your founding fathers being British and that US constitution beingloosely based on that Magna Carta), DNA in crime fighting/this one just runs and runs - we Brits invented the WORLD and shaped it in our image/gave it more inventions than every other country put together !!!!!! Oh, and we gave the world Weetabix too 😂
Top tip: after eating Weetabix - wash the bowl straightaway! If you don't the remnants solidify into something that resembles concrete and believe me, it takes some hefty scrubbing to remove!
If you've made this mistake fill the bowl with cold water with a little washing up liquid in, and leave to stand for two days. Then the concrete becomes movable. Don't leave it much longer or it goes mouldy (or indeed moldy)
You forgot to mention the most important element inside Christmas crackers - the paper hat. After groaning at the joke and dismissing the cheap trinket, it's compulsory for everyone at the table to put on their paper hat and wear it for the rest of the day.
… or at least the next couple of minutes 😉, generally we discard ours after max. 5 minutes, but it’s ‘poor form’ not to make a gesture to the custom, haha bah-humbug 🤣.
I hate those hats, apart from always being the wrong size I really can't come to terms with wearing headgear indoors. I was brought up to always take off my hat when indoors to the extent that it feels decidedly uncomfortable to leave it on.
The most important part of the contents of a Christmas Cracker are the really silly jokes. It is absolutely compulsory for everyone to read out the joke in their cracker and wait for the unanimous groans.
Duvets were not our idea. When we first started to purchase them, they were marketed as *Continental Quilts* .. Though we did have *Eiderdowns* but they were placed on top of our normal sheets and blankets.
I was 11 when my dad won £100 on the premium bonds and he gave us each £20. I spent my £20 on a continental quilt - the first in our house - that I sent off for from the Observer Sunday supplement. I remember our excitement when it arrived. It must have been about 1973 😊
@@nicolab2075 Your parents read the Observer then? Oooh, posh!! My dad was still reading the Mirror - wouldn't have the Sun in the house, and I still don't to this day (though the Mirror has become somewhat the same as Sun, Daily Fail etc etc - thank god we have newspapers online now.)
Re-Brown signs. There is a reason. You are driving down the road looking for a particular Junction Town Exit You pass a brown sign and you can ignore it and keep your attention on the road. If however you are looking for something like some attraction like your example Lego Land and you know roughly the location then the Brown sign is likely to have pertinant information. That way you only need to concern yourself with Brown signs when necessary. This applies to Historic Sites, Nature Sites and the like. So brown signs are non road navigation information.
I think Kalen was suggesting that instead of brown the signs should be bright yellow or pink, not that they should look like a regular road sign. But she can speak for herself.
@@carltaylor6452 But we have some quite exacting ideas that garish stuff is just not appropriate for the Countryside. Her plan is still fixated on pleasing the motorist ,not quite British enough yet.
Brown signs are information signs that are not related to the national road system. Brown is used as it is nearly the only colour that can make the sign easy to read and easily distinguished. Think of another colour and its either already in use or would make the written information indiscernible for instant recognition.
They are also standardised (brown) throughout most of Europe. So even when on holiday on the continent you may discover interesting hitherto undiscovered tourist spots.
Fun fact for Americans who've never been to the UK, about our front doors: We all live in castles. We all have moats around our castles. Our front doors consist of a drawbridge and a portcullis. We can pour boiling oil on unwanted callers.
The other great thing about Weatabix is that it is all made in one huge factory in Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire and the wheat is grown in the surrounding fields and nowhere else. I think 5. or 6 miles is the furthest away the wheat travels. Lovely local product
The traffic light phases are: Green, Amber, Red, Red-Amber, Green. So you know if you see amber on its own then you should stop as the next light will be red, when it's turning to green, the red-amber indicates you can't go (as there is still red lit), but that green will be next.
The purpose of the red/amber was originally to give drivers a heads up that it’s time to engage 1st gear and release the handbrake (foot on the foot brake of course). Back in the day we were taught to stop with gears in neutral and the hand brake on. I’ve been in Canada for the last 57 years so I don’t know,what’s being taught now.
@@John.Mann.1941it annoys me when I'm behind someone using their foot brake with the lights glaring in my face instead of using their handbrake, and you still have to wait for them to decide to move.
@@John.Mann.1941 If you stop at lights and don't apply the handbrake and take it out of gear you will fail the driving test. At least when I took mine! (I nearly got it wrong and the examiner asked me to recite the sequence when we got back to the test centre).
@@peterbrown1012 I've seen people stopped at up-hill traffic lights holding their car on the clutch instead of using the handbrake, which can't be good for the clutch (obviously the only applies to cars with manual transmissions, which most UK cars have).
Girl gone London & Adventure & Naps are proper OGs as far as my UA-cam watching goes, a lot of channels either fall off or just become meh but after years of watching these two I still get a little buzz when they upload. Last year I got hacked and when I made a new account it was these two channels I subbed to straight away. It can't be easy to keep a channel fresh and interesting after years of uploads.
That means so much! I love Adventures & Naps as well. Thanks for watching - it's definitely not easy to keep it going, but having people like you who say they enjoy the content keeps me motivated!
Hey, I subscribe to both the channels, they are great - you may also like to try The Magic Geekdom who have travelled a lot around the UK but don't live here - yet.
Brown signs aren't only British - in fact we copied the idea from the French who'd been using them for about 20 years previously. They have since become an EU standard (including the specific shade of brown) and can be seen all over the continent. There are many theories about why they are brown rather than another colour but the original idea was for them to stand apart from the usual blue, white or red motoring signs and for them to be less visually disruptive in natural surroundings alongside trees and farms etc
We went with brown as a colour for attraction signage specifically because it is neutral and plain (boring even) so that people (tourists and so on) could not confuse them with more important road signs that may save lives. Ziplock is a brand name used across at least the entire English speaking world.
@@igotes ...brown was also cool in the 70's with vibrant greens and oranges - as I recall with the horrible wallpaper we had and even a dress my parents made me wear!! Tramautised
@@KC-gy5xw Purple orange, brown and green. The hippy paintbox. Strong colour hides bad plasterwork lava lamps artex Rizla Rising Damp the fungus and the TV series you could take your kids to watch footy for less than a princes ransom and everywhere and everything was manky and cold, so efffing cold the 70's the decade that style forgot and punk ( my cue)
I like the French traffic lights which have small repeater lights at eye level for drivers stopped at the actual light. Much easier to know when your light has changed than trying to see one on the other side of the junction. Especially some modern junctions with lights everywhere on what were large roundabouts previously.
American don't know about bunting? Have you ever looked at the average used car lot? I think it was Bill Bryson who described them as having more pennants than Agincourt. 😀
As another American living in the UK, the *only* places I remember seeing stringed triangle flags would be in commercial areas like car lots and therefore they have an air of being a bit tacky, like those giant blow-up noodles. In the UK, bunting seems a lot more…well…cute, mindful, and demure. And that’s a good thing. Man, I need to re-read some more Bryson!
@@lungandfoot Yes, my comment was a bit tongue in cheek. The bunting here is generally hand-made with a lot of thought behind it. My wife is forever making the stuff for some wedding or anniversary, including stitching letters on each triangle to form a message. I suppose the nearest US equivalent would be quilting.
The brown signs for tourist attractions are all around Europe: France (where I live), Italy, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, you name it... And brown is not to interfer with mre "vital" road sign I guess (speed limit, new intersection...)
When they were first introduced to the UK different parts of the country trialed different coloured variations and then surveys were done to find out which coloured sign motorists noticed the most. The brown sign was the winner. (also some other colours were already taken for other types of sign)
We come to you for the 'weird stuff no-one else has thought of' - so looking forward to this! I've seen several American reactors totally confused by the concept of a 'duvet'. When they see one they assume it's like the comforters they are used to, and get grossed out when they learn we don't generally use a top sheet. They somehow miss the whole 'duvet cover' aspect - which is why we don't need a top sheet.
Yes, we do use the term Zip-Lock in the UK, but most people will not realise it is a brand. It is used as a generic name for the objrct, much in the same way that hoover and biro have lbecome common parlance, and mostly lost their brand specificity.
Talking of sturdy doors, the house I was born in had a front door designed to keep the Scots out; you don't get much sturdier than that. (Yes, it's still there.)
Theres an American guy in London that picked a multi bag af crisps up, taking the piss out of our bag's of crisps being larger than the typical ones in Americs, unfortunately he wasn't quite bright enough to realise that it wasnt a singular pack but a multi pack !
Sorry, you know she only knows just native speaker of English (or the American derivatives). Any other than those languages get disregarded, no French for her, not Spanish or German... What she forgot: those Brown signs have their origin in German, not the UK. Though in Germany they are usually signs motorway signs: Which Ausfahrt to take to visit some town, Permanent Exhibition and the like.
Brown is fine for attraction signs, they may also indicate scenic routes and picnic areas. There are also the bright yellow signs. These can direct you to new housing developments, but more useful are the yellow temporary AA signs that direct you to special events.
Marmite. I was once entering the USA at Charlotte NC, and the TSA man noticed I was British. " You're not trying to smuggle in any Marmite, are you ? " he asked. " Why," I responded, looking round shiftily "...do you want some ? ". It was a nice bit of fun, but seriously, you do neeed Marmite more widely.
Wow you actually got a TSA officer who wasn't a complete jobsworthy a-hole?! Everyone I ever encountered when passing through at US immigration control was horrible and condescending, treating you like trash.
Interesting to see the things you like that we take for granted. You might have noticed that different road signs are standardised colours; blue is used for motorways, green for 'A' roads, white for more local destinations, yellow for diversions and red for danger (e.g. ROAD CLOSED). So brown signs for tourist attractions stand out as something different.
Such a wonderful random list, I had no idea where we were going! Your channel is a recent discovery and it’s cheering me up - as a Brit who has lived abroad and is not always enthusiastic about this country, your perspective is really refreshing for my cynical soul!
Believe it or not there's a whole science behind road sign design, fonts, sizes, colours, where to put stuff on the signs etc etc. Brown was chosen for tourist signs iirc because it denotes optional information and therefore can afford to blend into the background more than a green sign for a roads, white signs for local roads, or bright blue for motorways. Yellow is reserved for diversions and AA "traffic information" (like "expect delays during these dates on this road for Glastonbury").
Funny thing about the Duvets is that My wife and bought exactly that. You pin the corners with the buttons and instantly have a higher tog. We have never taken advantage of this as the thin one seems to work fine for us. It's still a really good idea though.
I loved this, you have brought my youth back. Scooters, bunting and Christmas crackers (by the way, I still have a little box for mending spectacles that I had out of a cracker and it has been very handy). Weetabix, spread with butter and jam or even toasted with cheese, I wasn't a milk fan as you may see. Never realised that some things aren't around the world but the brown signs are very handy. Legoland isn't age specific, it just is less embarrassing to have children with you. Thank you for your insights, I regularly watch you but I realised today that I hadn't subscribed. Oversight fixed xx
I’ve still got my cracker set of mini screwdrivers from 50-odd years ago. Couldn’t tighten the screws on my specs or get the back off the remote control to change the batteries without them. 😊
@@bygjohnuk Indeed we do, at Hack Green. It was a lot more fun before the brown signs were put up when around Nantwich, there were yellow signs pointing to it, as they didn't look like tourist attraction signs and just a normal sign pointing to a Secret Nuclear Bunker caused a lot of puzzlement to non-locals.
Yes ziplok is a thing and weetabix with hot milk was a favourite breakfast in our house when I was a kid. It was half soft biscuit bordering on porridge but still just about maintaining the weetabix shape. It's making me hungry just remembering it now.
Think most Weetabix is produced in one factory and the wheat is grown within a short distance of the factory. Regarding tourist brown signs, the symbol on the sign shows what type the attraction is, for example castle, garden, racecourse, church. Brighter colours already in use for road signs.
6:24 we have what you described as a comforter in the UK and we call them Eiderdowns because they are filled with down from and eider duck. They are considered old fashioned because you need sheets as they don’t have washable covers.
They are also incredibly heavy - a duvet is really light, but an Eidedown practically stops you moving because it's so heavy! (And if you've never heard an Eider duck's call, you're missing something - it sounds like Frankie Howerd expressing surprise 🙂
@@HDRWabout fifteen years ago I bought a duck filled duvet from M&S and it was heavier slightly with a lovely cotton cover but even with my lovely covers the little feathers kept poking through and stabbing me in the night. Worse buy ever and an expensive mistake. 😂
On attraction signage by the road, I did come across 1 in the US, In Tenessee, 'Vintage Car Museum. NEXT FIELD' and there it was in the next field, lots of classic cars....... on bricks............
If you want an extra tough door you can get what’s called a London bar. It’s heavy strip of metal that’s anchored into the ground over and around the key way and into the ceiling. It makes your door basically kick proof.
Ive tried chocollate spread, marmalade, peanut butter and jam as well. (not all at the same time). Strawberry jam and cream works ok. Not every thing is successful and probably smooth peanut butter is better than crunchy.
@@MsKaz1000 I don't know what sort of people you've fallen in with, but you need to join a group and stop all that chocolaty nonsense right now. That way madness lies.
Really looking forward to Kaylin's new channel. An ingenious idea - and the lady's a _natural_ journalist and communicator. Insatiable curiosity is one of the signs of what I choose to call the Higher Intelligence - and the UK is a treasure trove of quirks, oddities, and eccentricities for the inquisitive!
Re Weetabix. Personally, I prefer the similar looking, but more expensive, Nutribrex which is made from Sorghum and tastes way better. Its also Gluten Free for those who have sensitive stomachs. For the purists, it will still weld itself to the bowl if you don't rinse it afterwards just like Weetabix. I have just come back from three weeks in America and appreciate some of your comments. The one thing that I wish the USA would get a grip on is cheese. They simply do not understand cheese at all, with most local supermarkets having very little choice apart from pre-packed plastic cheese squares.
When you can walk along the coastal cliffs, into coves and along the sands, with your children and your children's children and their dog; pop into a pub and have a delicious meal and a couple of pints... God is in His Heaven and all is well with the world. That was my experience today - joy! There are very few places in the world which are as... accepting... accommodating... civilised. 😉
Yes, we have ziploc bags. My wife's pet hate about the multipack crisps is that it often seems to be the only way to get Smoky Bacon flavour (her favourite) but they usually come bundled up with a load of others she doesn't like.
@@pamcanning8592 Yes, It's finding them that's the problem. We have a Waitrose and Tesco, who both obviously stock Walkers, Maybe they're so popular they just disappear almost instantly.
I have the type of duvet you're talking about but there are 8 clips on mine so they don't get tangled up when you're tossing and turning in bed! Because it comes apart, they are much easier to wash and put in the tumble dryer. Heavier winter duvets do not fit in my washer but my combined duvet easily comes apart for washing. I love it. Oh, and we used to put margarine on our Weetabix growing up in the 50's & 60's. Yum.
On the subject of the signposts to attractions - I agree they're very useful, but I'm glad they're brown. They're often located beside roads in rural areas and brighter colours wouldn't complement the natural palette, which is predominantly greens and browns.
I have one of those 'clip' duvets. I use the thin one from late April to late September, and the other one the rest of the year. My house doesn't really get that cold so I've never used them clipped together. It just seemed a cost effective way to get two duvets!
I don’t know if you’ve encountered it, but kids often used to have their weetabix (in the winter) with hot milk, which is kind of like a lazy porridge. I know there are adults who will still have this as a comfort food. Coincidentally the company that makes Weetabix, also makes a cereal called Ready Brek, which is mostly very fine ground oats. It’s a popular cereal for very young kids, since it is very smooth and easy to eat, I know adults who also have this as a comfort food. It seems to be women rather than men who turn to it, possibly because it is healthier than chocolate and other childhood treats. And unless the culture has changed a lot since I left, the third item of the 'holy trinity' of comfort foods is jelly. But raw. You’ve probably noticed that jello which is a powder in the states, is jelly in the uk and as is a very condensed block of jelly. A lot of people find it very comforting as something to gnaw on, very tasty and also -they will tell you - excellent for your nails
The history of the Brown Tourist Road signs. These symbols were first used as an experiment in Kent, and they were found useful for directing tourists to attractions and facilities by owners and motorists alike. So after their success in Kent the Department for Transport then rolled them out across Britain.
🎉Tourist attraction road signs. The letters RV in white on a green background indicate a recreational vehicle route in the US. They have a totally different meaning in the UK as some lost American motor-home visitors discovered when they ended up in in the middle of a landfill site.
7:31 not only the front door but the whole house. One of the shocks I felt visiting Canada was how flimsy construction was. In the UK every house has cavity walls. Two layers of brick separated by an insulated air gap sometimes filled with insulation.
Only in houses built from the start of the 20th century (approximately). Most 19th century terraces have solid walls (two layers of brick but no cavity), for example. Stone buildings also don’t generally have cavities.
@@bygjohnuk good point. Some of the oldest are actually just lime plaster on wood but they are rare. I can’t imagine kicking my way into a uk property.
I'm not sure where you lived in the US where you've never seen Christmas crackers or bunting. In a medium sized town in Indiana, we have Christmas crackers at all the larger retailers, and bunting is an absolute staple in older, nicer towns everywhere in the midwest, strung along porch rails of old Victorians, and overhead on streets, they are just everywhere.
One I would add that is very specific to London is the tap in/tap out system of payment on the London Underground. I've been travelling through Berlin, Barcelona and Paris recently and their fare systems are needlessly complicated in comparison. Some have advantages that London could benefit from, but the automatic application of price capping instead of having to try to work out before you travel what combination of tickets is most cost effective is excellent.
Thank you for the frequency and inspired topics of your Channel: it is so pleasurable to turn on my computer and see your remarks on our peculiarities. you also read our responses and bother to reply. So many You Tubers piggy back on the creators of original material, and compound their laziness by not seemingly read our reactions. The colour of the tourist information signs seem apt, a respect for the countryside by not using glaring colours make sense.
I'm in Canada, and was able to find a 2-part duvet a couple of years ago. I live in an older house with poor insulation, and It's SO nice to be able to adjust the duvet with the seasons.
For those looking for weetabix in the us, ive found them in grocery stores that have an international food section which includes british stuff or sometimes in the health food area. My preference is add a little honey pour boiling water on top submerging them. Add a little milk and stir togethor.
I suspect that the brown colour is deliberate as it is nothing like the colours of signs that impact road safety or the signs that indicate directions to actual settlements. Brown is not going to distract drivers who are intent on checking 'more important' road signs.
Traffic light sequences have been changed and for a period the red to green was tried experimentally. It was determined that the red amber green sequence worked better. Certainly it helps if you want to have a race with the person next to you on the line 🙂
On the road signs, you might want to think about doing a short video on how the UK ones were developed, which US viewers might find interesting. The woman who did a lot of the work died fairly recently and there was a documentary about it. Most of the choices re colours etc are to do with legibility, they even designed a new font for the system, after extensive testing. Which is why many have been adopted internationally.
I think gaudy bright signs would spoil the look of the countryside so a brown or green is seen but not intrusive. You know we like to understate stuff.
Re: 7:17 sturdy front doors. There's a UTube video of a house on fire that had been struck by lightening. Fire was spreading in the roof to the adjoining house where the owner wasn't home. The fire brigade attempted to break in through the front door using a sledge hammer. They gave up in the end and somehow gained entry around the rear of the house out of sight (probably by breaking a glass patio door). The front door withstood the worst possible attack and was probably steel. Many modern front doors are reinforced plastic and don't withstand anything like this treatment.
Our front & rear doors are "Armourguard" doors. When the Lotto first started I got 5 numbers and bought the two doors with the winnings. (The first number came out wrong - by ONE digit ! Unfortunately half the nation also got 5 numbers that night too so I got just under £2K)
Such incidents aren’t rare. In the US it is simply more practical in weight and materials to use foamcore or similar doors. They are also impervious to rain humidity and temperature. For most of the northern states and Canada, for several months a year, the air on the outside of the door might be at -40°C while the inside is in air that is +22°C. In the summer, the outside of that door can be in +40°C and the inside still at +22°. When one side of a door can vary in temperature by 80°C and the inside remain the same, wood nor metal are not good choices. They warp and shrink and expand and pass heat from one side to the other easily. A foam core, with separate panels door the front and back joined by the seams are simply able to take the weather
There's only really a few colours that work with white text. Blue - motorways. Green - normal signs on major routes. Brown - tourist signs. Black - trucker's signage. All the others are black on white for local or Ministry of Defence sites (red outline). Rainbows would be a bit much. Alanna [adventuresandnaps] coined the phrase "mother bag" for the bigger bag of smaller bags of crisps and that should be the phrase because it's cool. This system does keep them fresher because the bags contain nitrogen instead of air. As soon as you open them, they start to get soft because oxygen has got in.
The traffic light thing is not exclusive to the UK; we have it in Germany, too. The sequence is green --> yellow --> red to stop, and red --> red&yellow --> green to go. The latter is very helpful, giving you a few seconds' warning to get in gear again. Same for the scooters; I was born in 1956, and had a tiny scooter from an early age. Back then, the kiddie ones had a wooden kickboard and narrow, solid wheels before you got a bigger one made of metal, like a bicycle frame, with proper, air-filled rubber wheels. It was an alternative to a training bike. Even my son (b. 1987) had a solid, nearly-adult-sized scooter. It was a great tool to train his balance; he quickly graduated from training wheels to a regular bike later.
Front doors? Micro PVC (UPVC) Hollow main sections. Multipoint locking at the edge, Flexes when assaulted, so it absorbs the blows. Even Police raids struggle with them. Circular saw / grinder favourite options. Weighted rams just bounce off.
I've definitely gotten on board with the bunting! I first bought a cute, colorful strand of triangular fabric flags for my son's birthday. It was easy to store and use again, so I've gotten Halloween, Christmas, 4th of July, Mardi Gras, the UK flag (for the Queens Jubilee) and cute burlap flags with apples on them for our annual cider press day.
I am a Brit that USED to sail. Occasionally I would be in Annapolis MD, at Xmas time. There, they have a boat parade with lights and bunting. Granted the bunting used is usually their signal flags, A-Z, 1-9 +0. I am sure Annapolis is not unique in the US for this decoration, but it is festive.
Navies historically have used bunting at celebratory events as you say. Often they make bunting from separate alphabetic signal flags so that the bunting says a message to those that know how to read the individual flags. I was at a sailing event as a teenager (I think it was the Queens Jubilee in 1977) and someone committed the cardinal sin of making a spelling mistake in the chain of flags 🙂 They were still being reminded of it a couple of years later.
Brown Tourist destination signs. colours have to not take away from the actual lettering which needs to be read quickly. In the 70s it was discovered that signs could be read quicker and understood if they were in both capital and small letters. even graphic designs for roads were chosen to be easy to be understood. Doors try watching police trying to baton down a UPvc door.
Weetabix is actually an Australian not British- invented in Sydney by Bennison Osborne in the 1920's originally called Weet-Biscs in Australia, it expanded to South Africa and then Osborne set up a factory in Northamptonshire. Interestingly in the UK Weetabix is now owned by Americans. In Australia the product is called Weet-Bix and is owned separately by the Australian company Sanitarium.
It’s interesting that it’s practically the same product and the change seems to be down to the financial backer of the original selling it out twice and the original inventors wanting to secure their own ongoing venture at the time. So the name change because they couldn’t use the original but gather they also changed the recipe, so it’s the same but different 😊
1:22 The 200+ year old popular British children's game of conkers might be fun for you to investigate and on your journey you will probably discover the world conker championships. The current men's champion is an 82 year old and if that wasn't surprising enough, the current women's champion is an American.
Australia has Weet-Bix which are a pale of Weetabix, the manufacture is so scared of people finding out how much better Weetabix are, they have blocked their importation. We have multipack crisp packets, Christmas Crakers, small scooters for kids, and bunting, I also don't remember the front doors being any more robust then the ones in Australia.
@@Nathwaan I have tried them both, and Weet-Bixis far inferior, my Australian wife agrees after trying Wetabix,. Both Weet-Bix and Weetabix were both invented by Bennison Osborne, his second attempt being a huge improvement on the first. Sanitarium also managed to ban the import of British Marmate, again much better than their version. (being a dual natation house we stock both UK Marmite and Aus Vegemite, preference on those comes down to which you had as a child)
Sometimes I make you cry with heartfelt emotion, sometimes I teach you about obscure differences, and sometimes I talk about Weetabix and duvets...it's a mixed bag, this channel!
And that's the best thing about you and the channel.
Yes mate we have ziplock bags too‼️😆😆😆♥️
I’m here for it lol 😊
Kalyn, the telephone, television, the computer, computing science, the World Wide Web, trains, the discovery of gravity, the discovery of antibiotics, the pioneers of IVF treatment, Marines, special forces, the world’s first bill of human rights (Magna Carta), modern parliamentary democracy, the world’s common language, police forces, the 12 man jury system, America (yes, we invented that too - the majority of your founding fathers being British and that US constitution beingloosely based on that Magna Carta), DNA in crime fighting/this one just runs and runs - we Brits invented the WORLD and shaped it in our image/gave it more inventions than every other country put together !!!!!!
Oh, and we gave the world Weetabix too 😂
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Top tip: after eating Weetabix - wash the bowl straightaway! If you don't the remnants solidify into something that resembles concrete and believe me, it takes some hefty scrubbing to remove!
They used to call it Weetabix the builder. Wasn't for nothing.
Definitely could be the solution to our pothole problem!
Or just fill the bowl with water and leave for a while.
So does porridge. Add milk to the oats and microwave, eat and soak the dish in water. Even then it needs a scrub.
If you've made this mistake fill the bowl with cold water with a little washing up liquid in, and leave to stand for two days. Then the concrete becomes movable.
Don't leave it much longer or it goes mouldy (or indeed moldy)
You forgot to mention the most important element inside Christmas crackers - the paper hat. After groaning at the joke and dismissing the cheap trinket, it's compulsory for everyone at the table to put on their paper hat and wear it for the rest of the day.
… or at least the next couple of minutes 😉, generally we discard ours after max. 5 minutes, but it’s ‘poor form’ not to make a gesture to the custom, haha bah-humbug 🤣.
I hate those hats, apart from always being the wrong size I really can't come to terms with wearing headgear indoors. I was brought up to always take off my hat when indoors to the extent that it feels decidedly uncomfortable to leave it on.
very true...and then yell at other family members who aren't wearing it!
The most important part of the contents of a Christmas Cracker are the really silly jokes. It is absolutely compulsory for everyone to read out the joke in their cracker and wait for the unanimous groans.
@@richardpiper4828If it was actually a decent joke we'd feel ripped off.
Duvets were not our idea. When we first started to purchase them, they were marketed as *Continental Quilts* ..
Though we did have *Eiderdowns* but they were placed on top of our normal sheets and blankets.
I remember my parents first getting continental quilts in the early 80s.
I was 11 when my dad won £100 on the premium bonds and he gave us each £20.
I spent my £20 on a continental quilt - the first in our house - that I sent off for from the Observer Sunday supplement.
I remember our excitement when it arrived.
It must have been about 1973 😊
@@nicolab2075 Your parents read the Observer then? Oooh, posh!! My dad was still reading the Mirror - wouldn't have the Sun in the house, and I still don't to this day (though the Mirror has become somewhat the same as Sun, Daily Fail etc etc - thank god we have newspapers online now.)
@@KC-gy5xw Yeah, remember the Sunday supplements? They still exist I suppose, I haven't bought a newspaper for years now 😁
I always thought duvets originated in Scandinavia but were made popular here in the 70s by Habitat
The doors are more sturdy in the UK because the inside is made of Weetabix
😂😂
That made me laugh out loud!
Brilliant lollllll
hahaha!
and nearly as edible (not really)
Re-Brown signs. There is a reason.
You are driving down the road looking for a particular Junction Town Exit You pass a brown sign and you can ignore it and keep your attention on the road.
If however you are looking for something like some attraction like your example Lego Land and you know roughly the location then the Brown sign is likely to have pertinant information.
That way you only need to concern yourself with Brown signs when necessary. This applies to Historic Sites, Nature Sites and the like.
So brown signs are non road navigation information.
I think Kalen was suggesting that instead of brown the signs should be bright yellow or pink, not that they should look like a regular road sign. But she can speak for herself.
@@carltaylor6452 But we have some quite exacting ideas that garish stuff is just not appropriate for the Countryside.
Her plan is still fixated on pleasing the motorist ,not quite British enough
yet.
Brown signs are information signs that are not related to the national road system. Brown is used as it is nearly the only colour that can make the sign easy to read and easily distinguished. Think of another colour and its either already in use or would make the written information indiscernible for instant recognition.
They are also standardised (brown) throughout most of Europe. So even when on holiday on the continent you may discover interesting hitherto undiscovered tourist spots.
@@carltaylor6452 I think "shit brown" is the ideal colour.
Fun fact for Americans who've never been to the UK, about our front doors:
We all live in castles.
We all have moats around our castles.
Our front doors consist of a drawbridge and a portcullis.
We can pour boiling oil on unwanted callers.
Yes, we've got our road signs well sorted out.
I just release the hounds.
@@phillipnash2843 Not by yourself, surely?😲
Get the houndmaster to do it.
@@Jill-mh2wn Where’s Jeeves?
The moats around our houses are mostly due to flooding
The other great thing about Weatabix is that it is all made in one huge factory in Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire and the wheat is grown in the surrounding fields and nowhere else. I think 5. or 6 miles is the furthest away the wheat travels. Lovely local product
I really want to visit and do a video!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficialI’d bet Greg Wallace already has!
The wheat is from farms 50 miles around - I'm pretty sure most of the wheat around where I live (Stamford, Lincs) goes to the Weetabix factory.
The traffic light phases are: Green, Amber, Red, Red-Amber, Green. So you know if you see amber on its own then you should stop as the next light will be red, when it's turning to green, the red-amber indicates you can't go (as there is still red lit), but that green will be next.
The purpose of the red/amber was originally to give drivers a heads up that it’s time to engage 1st gear and release the handbrake (foot on the foot brake of course). Back in the day we were taught to stop with gears in neutral and the hand brake on. I’ve been in Canada for the last 57 years so I don’t know,what’s being taught now.
@@John.Mann.1941it annoys me when I'm behind someone using their foot brake with the lights glaring in my face instead of using their handbrake, and you still have to wait for them to decide to move.
@@John.Mann.1941 If you stop at lights and don't apply the handbrake and take it out of gear you will fail the driving test. At least when I took mine! (I nearly got it wrong and the examiner asked me to recite the sequence when we got back to the test centre).
@@peterbrown1012 I've seen people stopped at up-hill traffic lights holding their car on the clutch instead of using the handbrake, which can't be good for the clutch (obviously the only applies to cars with manual transmissions, which most UK cars have).
Girl gone London & Adventure & Naps are proper OGs as far as my UA-cam watching goes, a lot of channels either fall off or just become meh but after years of watching these two I still get a little buzz when they upload. Last year I got hacked and when I made a new account it was these two channels I subbed to straight away. It can't be easy to keep a channel fresh and interesting after years of uploads.
That means so much! I love Adventures & Naps as well. Thanks for watching - it's definitely not easy to keep it going, but having people like you who say they enjoy the content keeps me motivated!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial No thank you for keeping us all entertained.
I love both of these reactions channels!
Simple Scottish Living is another channel I started following recently. It follows a couple who recently moved from the US to Scotland.
Hey, I subscribe to both the channels, they are great - you may also like to try The Magic Geekdom who have travelled a lot around the UK but don't live here - yet.
Brown signs aren't only British - in fact we copied the idea from the French who'd been using them for about 20 years previously. They have since become an EU standard (including the specific shade of brown) and can be seen all over the continent. There are many theories about why they are brown rather than another colour but the original idea was for them to stand apart from the usual blue, white or red motoring signs and for them to be less visually disruptive in natural surroundings alongside trees and farms etc
When she says 'the rest of the world', she means 'The USA'. 😉
Brown 'tourist signs' are one of the MANY 'WORLD standardized' road markings.
They are seen in the US, but she would need to go outside.
We went with brown as a colour for attraction signage specifically because it is neutral and plain (boring even) so that people (tourists and so on) could not confuse them with more important road signs that may save lives. Ziplock is a brand name used across at least the entire English speaking world.
I assumed it was because they chose the colour in the 1960s when brown was cool 😆
@@igotes ...brown was also cool in the 70's with vibrant greens and oranges - as I recall with the horrible wallpaper we had and even a dress my parents made me wear!! Tramautised
@@KC-gy5xw Purple orange, brown and green. The hippy paintbox. Strong colour hides bad plasterwork
lava lamps
artex
Rizla
Rising Damp the fungus and the TV series
you could take your kids to watch footy for less than a princes ransom
and everywhere and everything was manky
and cold, so efffing cold
the 70's the decade that style forgot
and punk ( my cue)
When I drove manual cars, red & amber together was the sign to select 1st gear ready to move.
Also if you have stop/ start it's the prompt to restart the engine
I like the French traffic lights which have small repeater lights at eye level for drivers stopped at the actual light. Much easier to know when your light has changed than trying to see one on the other side of the junction. Especially some modern junctions with lights everywhere on what were large roundabouts previously.
American don't know about bunting? Have you ever looked at the average used car lot? I think it was Bill Bryson who described them as having more pennants than Agincourt. 😀
As another American living in the UK, the *only* places I remember seeing stringed triangle flags would be in commercial areas like car lots and therefore they have an air of being a bit tacky, like those giant blow-up noodles. In the UK, bunting seems a lot more…well…cute, mindful, and demure. And that’s a good thing.
Man, I need to re-read some more Bryson!
@@lungandfoot Yes, my comment was a bit tongue in cheek. The bunting here is generally hand-made with a lot of thought behind it. My wife is forever making the stuff for some wedding or anniversary, including stitching letters on each triangle to form a message.
I suppose the nearest US equivalent would be quilting.
@@alfresco8442Wow! I didn’t know bunting was often handmade.
Zip lock is the name of the mechanism to seal a bag - interlocking groove and ridge that form a seal when pressed together.
There is a brand called "Ziploc" which I think has become genericised. I've seen that type of seal described as a grip seal.
The brown signs for tourist attractions are all around Europe: France (where I live), Italy, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, you name it... And brown is not to interfer with mre "vital" road sign I guess (speed limit, new intersection...)
When they were first introduced to the UK different parts of the country trialed different coloured variations and then surveys were done to find out which coloured sign motorists noticed the most. The brown sign was the winner. (also some other colours were already taken for other types of sign)
We come to you for the 'weird stuff no-one else has thought of' - so looking forward to this!
I've seen several American reactors totally confused by the concept of a 'duvet'. When they see one they assume it's like the comforters they are used to, and get grossed out when they learn we don't generally use a top sheet. They somehow miss the whole 'duvet cover' aspect - which is why we don't need a top sheet.
Yes, we do use the term Zip-Lock in the UK, but most people will not realise it is a brand. It is used as a generic name for the objrct, much in the same way that hoover and biro have lbecome common parlance, and mostly lost their brand specificity.
ah, interesting, thank you!
@@richardwilliams7692 Like google/googling/googled has become a noun, a verb and an adjective.
Talking of sturdy doors, the house I was born in had a front door designed to keep the Scots out; you don't get much sturdier than that. (Yes, it's still there.)
But does it actually keep Scots out (speaking as one)?
@@alanj9391 Yep, its a coin operated turnstyle and only takes quids! 😋
Had to be said but love you guys, my mum lives up there for last 30 years!
Theres an American guy in London that picked a multi bag af crisps up, taking the piss out of our bag's of crisps being larger than the typical ones in Americs, unfortunately he wasn't quite bright enough to realise that it wasnt a singular pack but a multi pack !
Seems that American could not read English, as it says how many packs are in the bigger pack in big bold letters.
A much more accurate title would have been: '9 normal things most of the world has but the USA does not'
Indeed, a tenth thing Americans need is the realization there is a world outside the two countries they have been in.
Sorry, you know she only knows just native speaker of English (or the American derivatives). Any other than those languages get disregarded, no French for her, not Spanish or German... What she forgot: those Brown signs have their origin in German, not the UK. Though in Germany they are usually signs motorway signs: Which Ausfahrt to take to visit some town, Permanent Exhibition and the like.
Or 'Nine normal things the U.S. needs'
@@Paul_C It's not a language thing, it's just a matter of not confusing the USA with the world.
Well that’s nonsense. There are a number of things that are really quite specific to the UK. Colonial arrogance being one of the most obvious.
Brown is fine for attraction signs, they may also indicate scenic routes and picnic areas. There are also the bright yellow signs. These can direct you to new housing developments, but more useful are the yellow temporary AA signs that direct you to special events.
AA is Automobile Association not alcofrolics anonymous
Marmite. I was once entering the USA at Charlotte NC, and the TSA man noticed I was British. " You're not trying to smuggle in any Marmite, are you ? " he asked. " Why," I responded, looking round shiftily "...do you want some ? ". It was a nice bit of fun, but seriously, you do neeed Marmite more widely.
The US needs marmalade, thick cut, preferably Chivers Olde English! I was once told I was cross to eat orange peel in my orange jelly!!
@@andrrwprice7281 .
My son lives in Germany, he was just telling me that a friend visiting him from the UK was bringing him some marmalade.
Wow you actually got a TSA officer who wasn't a complete jobsworthy a-hole?! Everyone I ever encountered when passing through at US immigration control was horrible and condescending, treating you like trash.
Brits also buy “balance bikes” (small bicycles without the chain or pedals) for 3 year-olds to learn cycling 😊 🚴 🚲
Interesting to see the things you like that we take for granted. You might have noticed that different road signs are standardised colours; blue is used for motorways, green for 'A' roads, white for more local destinations, yellow for diversions and red for danger (e.g. ROAD CLOSED). So brown signs for tourist attractions stand out as something different.
Also, the colours are international, the same (almost) wherever you go.
Such a wonderful random list, I had no idea where we were going! Your channel is a recent discovery and it’s cheering me up - as a Brit who has lived abroad and is not always enthusiastic about this country, your perspective is really refreshing for my cynical soul!
Believe it or not there's a whole science behind road sign design, fonts, sizes, colours, where to put stuff on the signs etc etc. Brown was chosen for tourist signs iirc because it denotes optional information and therefore can afford to blend into the background more than a green sign for a roads, white signs for local roads, or bright blue for motorways. Yellow is reserved for diversions and AA "traffic information" (like "expect delays during these dates on this road for Glastonbury").
AA as in Automobile Association. Not to be confused with Alcoholics' Annonymous.
Funny thing about the Duvets is that My wife and bought exactly that. You pin the corners with the buttons and instantly have a higher tog. We have never taken advantage of this as the thin one seems to work fine for us. It's still a really good idea though.
I loved this, you have brought my youth back. Scooters, bunting and Christmas crackers (by the way, I still have a little box for mending spectacles that I had out of a cracker and it has been very handy). Weetabix, spread with butter and jam or even toasted with cheese, I wasn't a milk fan as you may see. Never realised that some things aren't around the world but the brown signs are very handy. Legoland isn't age specific, it just is less embarrassing to have children with you. Thank you for your insights, I regularly watch you but I realised today that I hadn't subscribed. Oversight fixed xx
I’ve still got my cracker set of mini screwdrivers from 50-odd years ago. Couldn’t tighten the screws on my specs or get the back off the remote control to change the batteries without them. 😊
A few years ago I got a set of measuring spoons in a Christmas cracker, I use them all the time 😊
One of my favorite Brown Signs is in Kent and directs you to a Secret Nuclear Bunker :-)
We have one in Cheshire, too, and I’m sure I’ve seen a sign for one somewhere else. Always raises a giggle!
There are quite a few dotted around the countryside
There are several of these. The one in Essex (Kelveden) is well worth a visit.
@@bygjohnuk Indeed we do, at Hack Green. It was a lot more fun before the brown signs were put up when around Nantwich, there were yellow signs pointing to it, as they didn't look like tourist attraction signs and just a normal sign pointing to a Secret Nuclear Bunker caused a lot of puzzlement to non-locals.
Is that the one with the "Spider Farm" brown sign underneath it ?
Nuclear & Spiders.
What could possibly go wrong ?
Probably my favourite channel on UA-cam right now. You are smashing it .
Yes ziplok is a thing and weetabix with hot milk was a favourite breakfast in our house when I was a kid. It was half soft biscuit bordering on porridge but still just about maintaining the weetabix shape. It's making me hungry just remembering it now.
Try Weetabix and warm milk, and a little sprinkle of brown sugar. Delicious!
Bingo ! Regular white sugar is lovely too
Think most Weetabix is produced in one factory and the wheat is grown within a short distance of the factory.
Regarding tourist brown signs, the symbol on the sign shows what type the attraction is, for example castle, garden, racecourse, church. Brighter colours already in use for road signs.
6:24 we have what you described as a comforter in the UK and we call them Eiderdowns because they are filled with down from and eider duck. They are considered old fashioned because you need sheets as they don’t have washable covers.
They also slid off at every opportunity!
They are also incredibly heavy - a duvet is really light, but an Eidedown practically stops you moving because it's so heavy! (And if you've never heard an Eider duck's call, you're missing something - it sounds like Frankie Howerd expressing surprise 🙂
@@HDRWabout fifteen years ago I bought a duck filled duvet from M&S and it was heavier slightly with a lovely cotton cover but even with my lovely covers the little feathers kept poking through and stabbing me in the night. Worse buy ever and an expensive mistake. 😂
UK traffic light sequence: red, red and amber, green, amber, red.
Try Shredded Wheat breakfast cereal; one ingredient, wheat.
Alternatively just eat a bale of hay!
My favourite brown sign near my parent's place is 'Crocodiles of the World'. I've not been yet, but every time I see it, joy is sparked 😂❤
Near Witney in Oxfordshire
Multi-pack crisps are good for portion control & product freshness!
The US portions are just too big, especially for sodas 😊
On attraction signage by the road, I did come across 1 in the US, In Tenessee, 'Vintage Car Museum. NEXT FIELD' and there it was in the next field, lots of classic cars....... on bricks............
I love watching your videos Kalyn and I'm subscribed to your second channel too! ❤
If you want an extra tough door you can get what’s called a London bar. It’s heavy strip of metal that’s anchored into the ground over and around the key way and into the ceiling. It makes your door basically kick proof.
Weetabix and butter... sighs with happiness :))
Ive tried chocollate spread, marmalade, peanut butter and jam as well. (not all at the same time). Strawberry jam and cream works ok. Not every thing is successful and probably smooth peanut butter is better than crunchy.
Three words for you... 'Banana flavoured Weetabix'. It's the future.
There is a chocolate flavour as well
@@MsKaz1000 I don't know what sort of people you've fallen in with, but you need to join a group and stop all that chocolaty nonsense right now. That way madness lies.
Really looking forward to Kaylin's new channel. An ingenious idea - and the lady's a _natural_ journalist and communicator. Insatiable curiosity is one of the signs of what I choose to call the Higher Intelligence - and the UK is a treasure trove of quirks, oddities, and eccentricities for the inquisitive!
Re Weetabix. Personally, I prefer the similar looking, but more expensive, Nutribrex which is made from Sorghum and tastes way better. Its also Gluten Free for those who have sensitive stomachs. For the purists, it will still weld itself to the bowl if you don't rinse it afterwards just like Weetabix.
I have just come back from three weeks in America and appreciate some of your comments. The one thing that I wish the USA would get a grip on is cheese. They simply do not understand cheese at all, with most local supermarkets having very little choice apart from pre-packed plastic cheese squares.
When you can walk along the coastal cliffs, into coves and along the sands, with your children and your children's children and their dog; pop into a pub and have a delicious meal and a couple of pints... God is in His Heaven and all is well with the world. That was my experience today - joy!
There are very few places in the world which are as... accepting... accommodating... civilised. 😉
5:22 yeah multipack crisps are popular but sometimes I have more than one anyways 😄
I have lived in the UK since I was born over 44 years ago and I have never heard of the clip duvets! This is quite intriguing.
Traffic lights in the Uk are not quite that simple - amber alone means they are going red. Red and amber together means that they are going green.
Yes, but it shares that feature with the USA.
Yes, we have ziploc bags. My wife's pet hate about the multipack crisps is that it often seems to be the only way to get Smoky Bacon flavour (her favourite) but they usually come bundled up with a load of others she doesn't like.
oh yes I hate that too! I find it with hula hoops - I like the plain ones, don't want the rest and sometimes all I can find is the multi-flavor packs!
Walkers do a 6 pack of Smoky Bacon. I have one in my cupboard at the moment from Sainsbury's.
@@pamcanning8592 Yes, It's finding them that's the problem. We have a Waitrose and Tesco, who both obviously stock Walkers, Maybe they're so popular they just disappear almost instantly.
I have the type of duvet you're talking about but there are 8 clips on mine so they don't get tangled up when you're tossing and turning in bed! Because it comes apart, they are much easier to wash and put in the tumble dryer. Heavier winter duvets do not fit in my washer but my combined duvet easily comes apart for washing. I love it. Oh, and we used to put margarine on our Weetabix growing up in the 50's & 60's. Yum.
Heard of Ziplock, but that is a tradename that came to us form the US. We call them snappy bags :)
On the subject of the signposts to attractions - I agree they're very useful, but I'm glad they're brown. They're often located beside roads in rural areas and brighter colours wouldn't complement the natural palette, which is predominantly greens and browns.
I have one of those 'clip' duvets. I use the thin one from late April to late September, and the other one the rest of the year. My house doesn't really get that cold so I've never used them clipped together. It just seemed a cost effective way to get two duvets!
I don’t know if you’ve encountered it, but kids often used to have their weetabix (in the winter) with hot milk, which is kind of like a lazy porridge. I know there are adults who will still have this as a comfort food. Coincidentally the company that makes Weetabix, also makes a cereal called Ready Brek, which is mostly very fine ground oats. It’s a popular cereal for very young kids, since it is very smooth and easy to eat, I know adults who also have this as a comfort food. It seems to be women rather than men who turn to it, possibly because it is healthier than chocolate and other childhood treats. And unless the culture has changed a lot since I left, the third item of the 'holy trinity' of comfort foods is jelly. But raw. You’ve probably noticed that jello which is a powder in the states, is jelly in the uk and as is a very condensed block of jelly. A lot of people find it very comforting as something to gnaw on, very tasty and also -they will tell you - excellent for your nails
In the US the equivalent of British brown signs are those that say 'historic', which means anything over ten years old 😂
The history of the Brown Tourist Road signs.
These symbols were first used as an experiment in Kent, and they were found useful for directing tourists to attractions and facilities by owners and motorists alike. So after their success in Kent the Department for Transport then rolled them out across Britain.
Rolled out across Europe too
Bizarrely, I was fascinated by your list - as you said, it was a bit random but really interesting choices. Thank you, I enjoyed this.
Once again, so enjoyed, 😂😊
thanks so much. :)
The brown tourist signs are something I think we stole from the French, that's where I first saw them but I wouldn't bet a fiver on it.
In Essex there is a brown direction sign that says Secret Nuclear Bunker.
There's one in Cheshire as well, called Hack Green. Very interesting day out. And another in the Kingdom of Fife.
🎉Tourist attraction road signs. The letters RV in white on a green background indicate a recreational vehicle route in the US. They have a totally different meaning in the UK as some lost American motor-home visitors discovered when they ended up in in the middle of a landfill site.
7:31 not only the front door but the whole house. One of the shocks I felt visiting Canada was how flimsy construction was. In the UK every house has cavity walls. Two layers of brick separated by an insulated air gap sometimes filled with insulation.
Only in houses built from the start of the 20th century (approximately). Most 19th century terraces have solid walls (two layers of brick but no cavity), for example. Stone buildings also don’t generally have cavities.
@@bygjohnuk good point. Some of the oldest are actually just lime plaster on wood but they are rare. I can’t imagine kicking my way into a uk property.
Yeah moved to Canada and now live in a glorified shed
Weetbix ....As a kid, I used to put butter on my Weetbix ( not with milk😂) also with Jam or peabutter .
Mmmmm lovely 😍
Try it .
I'm not sure where you lived in the US where you've never seen Christmas crackers or bunting. In a medium sized town in Indiana, we have Christmas crackers at all the larger retailers, and bunting is an absolute staple in older, nicer towns everywhere in the midwest, strung along porch rails of old Victorians, and overhead on streets, they are just everywhere.
We have Zip-Loc bags. Also often call any resealable bag a generic 'zip lock.'
The ones I have are non-branded from different supermarkets, and are labelled "zip-seal".
I love your observations
One I would add that is very specific to London is the tap in/tap out system of payment on the London Underground. I've been travelling through Berlin, Barcelona and Paris recently and their fare systems are needlessly complicated in comparison. Some have advantages that London could benefit from, but the automatic application of price capping instead of having to try to work out before you travel what combination of tickets is most cost effective is excellent.
The Manchester Metrolink trams have tap in/tap out systems; you tap your travel card/pass on the reader.
I used to work in a snack factory, packing the multipack snacks
it wasnt fun
Thank you for the frequency and inspired topics of your Channel: it is so pleasurable to turn on my computer and see your remarks on our peculiarities. you also read our responses and bother to reply.
So many You Tubers piggy back on the creators of original material, and compound their laziness by not seemingly read our reactions.
The colour of the tourist information signs seem apt, a respect for the countryside by not using glaring colours make sense.
Aw that's nice, thanks so much! I try to read as many comments as possible and appreciate people taking the time to watch. :)
I'm in Canada, and was able to find a 2-part duvet a couple of years ago. I live in an older house with poor insulation, and It's SO nice to be able to adjust the duvet with the seasons.
Nice list 😊 things you take for granted ❤️
For those looking for weetabix in the us, ive found them in grocery stores that have an international food section which includes british stuff or sometimes in the health food area. My preference is add a little honey pour boiling water on top submerging them. Add a little milk and stir togethor.
Look into mudlarking on the banks of the Thames. Occasional treasures and very old coins found.
I think you need a license to do this.
I suspect that the brown colour is deliberate as it is nothing like the colours of signs that impact road safety or the signs that indicate directions to actual settlements. Brown is not going to distract drivers who are intent on checking 'more important' road signs.
Yes i know ziploc - i dont knownif we have the brand, but we certainly have the word
I live in a warmer clime. Summer can be just the duvet. Winter lining gets packed.
Traffic light sequences have been changed and for a period the red to green was tried experimentally. It was determined that the red amber green sequence worked better. Certainly it helps if you want to have a race with the person next to you on the line 🙂
On the road signs, you might want to think about doing a short video on how the UK ones were developed, which US viewers might find interesting. The woman who did a lot of the work died fairly recently and there was a documentary about it. Most of the choices re colours etc are to do with legibility, they even designed a new font for the system, after extensive testing. Which is why many have been adopted internationally.
fantastic idea, thanks for sharing!
I think gaudy bright signs would spoil the look of the countryside so a brown or green is seen but not intrusive. You know we like to understate stuff.
Fun fact, Weetabix spelled backwards becomes Xibateew. Actually blew my mind when it was pointed out to me. Great vid. Thank you.
Re: 7:17 sturdy front doors. There's a UTube video of a house on fire that had been struck by lightening. Fire was spreading in the roof to the adjoining house where the owner wasn't home. The fire brigade attempted to break in through the front door using a sledge hammer. They gave up in the end and somehow gained entry around the rear of the house out of sight (probably by breaking a glass patio door). The front door withstood the worst possible attack and was probably steel. Many modern front doors are reinforced plastic and don't withstand anything like this treatment.
Our front & rear doors are "Armourguard" doors.
When the Lotto first started I got 5 numbers and bought the two doors with the winnings.
(The first number came out wrong - by ONE digit ! Unfortunately half the nation also got 5 numbers that night too so I got just under £2K)
Such incidents aren’t rare. In the US it is simply more practical in weight and materials to use foamcore or similar doors. They are also impervious to rain humidity and temperature. For most of the northern states and Canada, for several months a year, the air on the outside of the door might be at -40°C while the inside is in air that is +22°C. In the summer, the outside of that door can be in +40°C and the inside still at +22°. When one side of a door can vary in temperature by 80°C and the inside remain the same, wood nor metal are not good choices. They warp and shrink and expand and pass heat from one side to the other easily. A foam core, with separate panels door the front and back joined by the seams are simply able to take the weather
There's only really a few colours that work with white text. Blue - motorways. Green - normal signs on major routes. Brown - tourist signs. Black - trucker's signage. All the others are black on white for local or Ministry of Defence sites (red outline). Rainbows would be a bit much.
Alanna [adventuresandnaps] coined the phrase "mother bag" for the bigger bag of smaller bags of crisps and that should be the phrase because it's cool. This system does keep them fresher because the bags contain nitrogen instead of air. As soon as you open them, they start to get soft because oxygen has got in.
The traffic light thing is not exclusive to the UK; we have it in Germany, too. The sequence is green --> yellow --> red to stop, and red --> red&yellow --> green to go. The latter is very helpful, giving you a few seconds' warning to get in gear again.
Same for the scooters; I was born in 1956, and had a tiny scooter from an early age. Back then, the kiddie ones had a wooden kickboard and narrow, solid wheels before you got a bigger one made of metal, like a bicycle frame, with proper, air-filled rubber wheels. It was an alternative to a training bike. Even my son (b. 1987) had a solid, nearly-adult-sized scooter. It was a great tool to train his balance; he quickly graduated from training wheels to a regular bike later.
Great video.
We have Weetabix in Canada. Shredded wheat was the one we used to cut in half and slather butter on it.
I used to love Weetabux with butter on, perhaps with a bit of cheese on top. Never thought of buttering Shredded Wheat........
The Red+Amber before green is to allow you time to set 1st gear, as most cars are manual.
Yes the uk does indeed have a 'zip lock' bag..can be used for everything from food storage in the freezer/fridge/pantry to packed lunch etc.
Front doors? Micro PVC (UPVC) Hollow main sections. Multipoint locking at the edge, Flexes when assaulted, so it absorbs the blows. Even Police raids struggle with them. Circular saw / grinder favourite options. Weighted rams just bounce off.
I've definitely gotten on board with the bunting! I first bought a cute, colorful strand of triangular fabric flags for my son's birthday. It was easy to store and use again, so I've gotten Halloween, Christmas, 4th of July, Mardi Gras, the UK flag (for the Queens Jubilee) and cute burlap flags with apples on them for our annual cider press day.
Thanks, that was interesting. As a Brit living in Canada, I have seen some of those things here. I also love my Weetabix with hot milk..
Thank you, another brilliant and facinating video! I'd love your take on british paper sizes !
I hope you do not mean foolscap. quarto etc - abandoned years ago
I enjoy crumbling Weetabix into small pieces, then adding milk to create a consistency similar to porridge, but even better..
I am a Brit that USED to sail. Occasionally I would be in Annapolis MD, at Xmas time. There, they have a boat parade with lights and bunting. Granted the bunting used is usually their signal flags, A-Z, 1-9 +0. I am sure Annapolis is not unique in the US for this decoration, but it is festive.
Navies historically have used bunting at celebratory events as you say. Often they make bunting from separate alphabetic signal flags so that the bunting says a message to those that know how to read the individual flags. I was at a sailing event as a teenager (I think it was the Queens Jubilee in 1977) and someone committed the cardinal sin of making a spelling mistake in the chain of flags 🙂 They were still being reminded of it a couple of years later.
Brown Tourist destination signs. colours have to not take away from the actual lettering which needs to be read quickly. In the 70s it was discovered that signs could be read quicker and understood if they were in both capital and small letters. even graphic designs for roads were chosen to be easy to be understood. Doors try watching police trying to baton down a UPvc door.
Weetabix is actually an Australian not British- invented in Sydney by Bennison Osborne in the 1920's originally called Weet-Biscs in Australia, it expanded to South Africa and then Osborne set up a factory in Northamptonshire. Interestingly in the UK Weetabix is now owned by Americans. In Australia the product is called Weet-Bix and is owned separately by the Australian company Sanitarium.
It’s interesting that it’s practically the same product and the change seems to be down to the financial backer of the original selling it out twice and the original inventors wanting to secure their own ongoing venture at the time. So the name change because they couldn’t use the original but gather they also changed the recipe, so it’s the same but different 😊
Red, white and blue bunting was widely used in patriotic situations in the US, but long ago.
1:22 The 200+ year old popular British children's game of conkers might be fun for you to investigate and on your journey you will probably discover the world conker championships.
The current men's champion is an 82 year old and if that wasn't surprising enough, the current women's champion is an American.
Round here conkers are frowned upon as being too dangerous - health and safety? Where will it end?
@johnwebster4123 😂 we've lost the plot john
Australia has Weet-Bix which are a pale of Weetabix, the manufacture is so scared of people finding out how much better Weetabix are, they have blocked their importation. We have multipack crisp packets, Christmas Crakers, small scooters for kids, and bunting, I also don't remember the front doors being any more robust then the ones in Australia.
I think the Aussies would quite happily stick with Weet-Bix - especially as it pre-dates Weetabix!
@@Nathwaan I have tried them both, and Weet-Bixis far inferior, my Australian wife agrees after trying Wetabix,. Both Weet-Bix and Weetabix were both invented by Bennison Osborne, his second attempt being a huge improvement on the first. Sanitarium also managed to ban the import of British Marmate, again much better than their version. (being a dual natation house we stock both UK Marmite and Aus Vegemite, preference on those comes down to which you had as a child)
@@JoFreddieRevDr I'm the opposite, I prefer Weet-bix!
@@JoFreddieRevDr Marmite and Vegemite for me depend on what I fancy at the time :)