7 Harmless British Words Americans Might Find Rude.. (American Reacts)
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It's weird how freedom of speech doesn't literally mean freedom of speech when it comes to profanity
Unbelievable, its ok for everyone to own guns but saying a mild swear word is bad.
Ridiculous. They also sensor sex and nudity more readily than violent movies. Where I live in the med, women go topless and it's absolutely normal. Also we swear a lot some pejorative words are used even in the news!
That's the American mentality...bizarre! 😐
Yes, unbelievably coy about the use of invective, not only that, but also words considered to be triggering. One gets the impression of a maiden aunt lifting her hands in horror, while carrying a machine gun! Brace up America! 🇬🇧
Those English Puritans who set sail for the New World in the sixteenth century have a lot to answer for.
Does Britain even have a word for "ammosexual"?
People swear more now in the UK than they ever did when I was a child. Many people still find it offensive and, technically one can still be arrested for saying some profanities in public. Not everyone swears here nor does everyone approve of it. I never heard my mother swear, not even once.
Americans -
🤚🏻 Profanity
👉🏻 Guns in schools
So Americans don't like swearing or profanity as they call it. Where's your so called freedom in this regard? Yes, you're right - it doesn't exist in the states. Us Brits swear without impunity on television, in every day conversations and under our breath when stuff goes wrong. Grow a pair USA and use speech to gain proper freedom!
Not to nitpick, mate, but it’s “with impunity”. Otherwise you’re fucking spot on.
@@FullersDuck I thought that the without bit meant that we could do it without any major problems or issue - I was wrong, fair enough. Thanks for the correct information.
The Irish also have a great tradition of swearing and some cases might even put us to shame, with 90% of native New York City residents saying they are Irish (show me an Irish passport, oh you cant !! . Because you are an American 🤣🤣) Im surprised to not hear them swearing like troopers.
no, thanks, sweetpea!
No one is going to prison for swearing. Hyperbole about freedom is a bit silly in this case. And the Brits are sometimes even more arrogant than the Americans.
If you think these are bad, you should hear what we call cigarettes
Or meatballs
😂
😂
@@fatbelly27 Or the British phrase for "I borrowed a cigarette"!
Do you mean fags?
We really fucking love swearing.
I fucking agree!! I love the Aussie's swearing too... The 'C' word being a particular favourite of some?!😊😅😂❤🏴❤️🇦🇺❤️🇬🇧❤️🙂🖖
I was a Briton in America in 8th grade. I used the word "rubber" when asking for an eraser and had no idea why anyone would find that amusing. I never stopped using the word because... well because I was only in the States 18 months and never learned to speak the local dialect, y'all.
2:59 A USAian complaining that a Brit has too much Freedom?
Oh, the irony!
So in the colonies you can't say "tit" in front of a child but you can feed them sugared bread all year round. I get it.
You cant say tit but you can let a baby suckle.
There's no such thing as bad language, only bad use of language.
❤perfect❤
There’s a great scene in an episode of Frasier where Daphne, the English housekeeper, makes breakfast. Frasier is surprised when his father comes to the breakfast table with a woman he has spent the night with. Frasier’s embarrassment is heightened when he enquires, “Banger Dad?”, while offering him a sausage.
The late Clive James (actually Australian, though he lived most of his life in the UK), wrote in his Unreliable Memoirs about the confusion he caused when he approached a hotel concierge with the question, “Where can I buy a packet of fags?”.
I find the avoidance of cuss words in the USA amusing given the whole freedom of speech thing
It’s odd that with cussing, people seem to realise that exercising their right to free speech has consequences because it comes with responsibilities, but when it comes to pushing hatred in other ways, people want the freedom without consequences and whine about “being cancelled” when people criticise them for their choices.
free not to use them - not that hard to figure you, sweets
Americans say ' she fell on her fanny ' meaning she fell on her backside . In England ' fanny ' refers to a different part of a ladies anatomy.
American Commentators have been known to say Wimbleton at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships!
9:20 We say ‘rubber’ to refer to an eraser in India too. Only until much later did I stumble on the American meaning.
I think the origin is from the Indian Rubber Tree so the word is a shortening of ' Indian Rubber.
Such different attitudes, although most people in UK know to moderate their language at work, or when with children or those likely to be offended. I do find it ridiculous that Americans can't refer to a female dog as a bitch.
Most US imported tv is stuffed with four letter words so what's the issue here?
I know you are a fan of Stephen Fry so you might like his response to an American tweet who said she liked him but didn't like the swearing. He replied with "That's a c**ting shame as I f**king love to swear" (without the censoring).
Thing is words can't kill you, but bullets can.
Im Scottish so a large percentage of my speech is swearing
I'm Scottish so a large percentage of my speech isn't swearing
@@andrewmackay8856 Lucky I wasn't speaking for you
@@tracymuckle8512 yes you %&$%&%$ were.
I once heard an American casually swearing and every time he swore he really emphasised the word and it always made me giggle.
I love the fact we use cussing as a language,rather than take offence! It can be so useful…
That guy's deadpan delivery is spot on. Now I wanna watch more of his stuff just to see (hear) him talking like that. Incidentally we, in Australia use the word "rubber" to refer to an eraser as well. It caused all sorts of giggling in high school when we learned that was the word for a condom in the U.S.
@mikeythehat6693 I grew up in Halifax, England. We referred to condoms as rubber johnies. I wouldn't have known what a condom was. Regards.
I’m English I’ve never heard my mum swear and I never swear in front of her. I heard my granny say shit once 😂. It’s disrespectful in my family to swear in front of elders. When they aren’t there I swear alot 😢. I need to try and stop swearing as much but you do get a dopamine hit from swearing apparently but I think you’d have to only use it when absolutely necessary for full dopamine release 😅. I would rather saw off my own head with a rusty knife than say Y’all don’t worry Joel ❤😂
I watched a programme on TV about swearing and it had no effect on habitual swearers (They spoke to / wired up Willy Rushton).
Same here. I never heard my mother ever say a swear word, nor did I ever hear her f_rt.
@@mariansheilamansilla6431 hahah this made me chuckle as I’ve never even heard my dad f*rt 🤓
To be honest, Lost In The Pond's videos are not always "really high quality" because he is out of touch mostly, hasn't been in the UK for about 15 years.
You are 100% correct. It annoys me sometimes how out of touch he is.
American are like toddlers when it goes to cussing.
As retiree from the UK with time on my hands, I watch far more UA-cam than I should and the thing that amazes me the amount of times the Americans use the words "Bro", "Dude" and "Bitch" and the amount of profanities used towards the Police.
Senior Aussie here - I’ve noticed exactly the same thing myself. (Not happy Jan)
work that one out, no it’s not rude at all lol
@@bernadettelanders7306 Oh.....and I wish that I had a pound for every time I hear the word "like!"
@@MrGettysburg44
Ah yes you’re a Pom. I ‘ like’ Poms lol. Well I could have been one if my great grandfather and his parents didn’t come to Aus as FREE settlers lol. No convicts only one who came over here who became a politician here lol.
As an American, I hate those empty words. If addressed to me, I tell them where to go. They are basically insults by someone who is trying to diminish you and assert their imagined superiority
As I expected, I knew and use both the Brit and Yank expressions being an English Canuck - really fun. For example, a rubber and poppycock but never y'all. You can keep that one Joel. Agreed, his American accent is really good, and really adds to his monologue. Swearing and profanity are two different things. Swearing usually involves abusing religious words, while profanity is abusing words describing bodily functions. Criminal charges of "cause disturbance by swearing" and "cause disturbance by using profanity" are examples. Have a great week!!
When people become parents do they all forget that children use profanity extensively? Children swore all the time among themselves when I was at school.
Americans have words & phrases that are shocking or unknown here in the UK.
Badass in Britain sounds like a negative word, but seems positive in the US.
The F---k word is not used in polite conversation, & the C---t word is totally a no go.
You would not use such words in front of your Grandma. Rubber is used in Britain for a condom, but in the term rubber Johnny, which is what I heard them called when I was a child in the 1960's. Swear words & profanities were only used in work situations in those days, & mostly only by men. It was extremely rude to swear in front of a woman, or anyone you respected. It used to be said 'if you can't speak without swearing, then say nothing'.
In recent times profanities have become much more a part of regular language.
The first time I heard anyone sewar in public was when I first rode a bus in London in 1969.
I was shocked, but soon found out it was common there, while at home in Yorkshire it wasn't.
No. Rubber is an eraser.
We don’t ask to stroke the dog much anymore they just stroke your dog I know this cause it always happens to me, once a guy walked up to me fussed my dog stood back up and walk in like hello I am here the dog isn’t walking it self. 🤣
Almost impossible these days to say anything without offending someone, would be my comment as an old man shaking his walking stick at modernity. I have never understood the taboos around what is termed profanity and see such taboos as being defined by the middle class to keep the proletariat in order. I did appreciate the 'politically correct' movement of the 80's , however because I think it is good for all of us to consider the vocabulary we use and its impacts. I have banned only two words from my vocabulary and that is the 'N' word and the word 'cripple'. I did consider not using 'moron' but then discovered the American right and realised that that would be hopeless. Sorry, rambling in my dotage. Great video as usual, Joel. Don't know how you keep up such a high standard.
Those are 2 good choices to rule out - I also try to not use “dumb” (I became aware of that while learning sign language - oh and swearing in sign language can be very effective!)
I am also careful of phrases like “Chinese whispers” because while its origin isn’t racist in the U.K., it was racist in America - and hence because it could be interpreted differently to the U.K. meaning, I try to avoid it.
Yes Mary white house and her clean up tv. Stopped my childhood that eoman and her entourage.
@dereknewbury163 Yes USA folk are most certainly prudes when it comes to swearing and women sunbathing topless. I find this strange in the sense of the big picture, that the country is number one for the production of adult films.
@@stevepage5813 For me, any country that would consider Trump as the best of them and a viable candidate for President, not once but three times in a row, must inevitably contain a significant number of people with zero judgement
In the past, there has even been protests of the words "niggardly" and "niggle" which have nothing to do with "N-word".
We don't say y'all unless in mockery 🇬🇧
You don't do profanity and you lived with Ben!! What restraint you have! lol
We swear so much in the UK and in Australia. We use the c word as if it's nothing. I don't get why people get offended by "rude" words.
Yes they really are only words. Guns hurt people, knives hurt people but I don't know anyone who ended up in A&E after an assault by cussing. And as so many others have pointed out, what happened to American freedeom of speech in this situation?
We are all different I guess. Born & bred Aussie here, I detest the F word, which is said by some Americans doing music reactions reasonably often. The word I hate the most is the C word. My son swears, not in front of me. I never told him not to - but one day he said, “mum you can do this, just say it, the F word””. We ended up in fits of laughter, took me ages to say it. I did, he cheered, i laughed. I’ve never said it since 😂.
@@bernadettelanders7306 of course difference is what makes the world a wonderful place. It's just funny how in America topless sunbathing is considered bad, but guns are fine. Swearing is considered bad, but violent films are fine. It's just strange. I live in the Med and even on the TV pejorative language is used because people don't care.
I try not to swear in front of my kids but with my parents we swear where appropriate because sometimes it's just the right word to say.
I find it weird that people get offended by words. Getting offended is a choice IMO.
@@lehoff I have no idea why I dislike it so much. Maybe none of my siblings or friends are prolific swearers - don’t know. Guess I notice it far more on UA-cam than I’ve ever heard it - so my next challenge in in life, I’m serious. Is less UA-cam. Everyone can swear as much as they like as I won’t be reading it 😊
@@bernadettelanders7306 UA-cam is good and bad. Lots of interesting items but a lot of poor information and inane stuff. I tend to look at it when commuting or when I'm waiting for something!
Joel really said: “SOMEONE TAKE AWAY THIS MAN’S PHONE!”
What the f🦆?! I missed that (whilst reading the comments instead of listening to Joel, sorry) !!
@@brigidsingleton1596 It’s not a quote, just a meme format. ‘Really said’ is something I inferred.
@@PokhrajRoy.
Sorry. As I said... I wasn't listening. I was just reading through the comments. Sorry if I misunderstood. 😐
@@brigidsingleton1596 No, it’s ok
Don't worry about a trip to London. Come to Prague! Our wildly spread colloquial phrase "oh, really" sounds like "fuck yoooo?", spelled "fakt, jo?". Needless to say, talking to my Czechoslovakian friends in the US I am often asked to keep my voice down.... Fakt jo????
This Brit never does T flapping.
I would never say Y’all either.
Yes , Jps Cooks - bangers and mash is well over due.
We had baked beans on toast
A lot of American action movies contain one profanity that I've not heard in Britain, and it's particularly distasteful, it rhymes with trucker and is proceeded with mother. NASTY.
He couldn’t mention the number one word, as the video would be removed. It’s what we call a cigarette or meatballs.
My parents swear a lot haha. If I or my siblings ever tried when we were kids to copy, we'd get a right bollocking 😆 My dad still goes all shocked when I swear, and we're Brits 😂😆 Kids these days don't give a toss though.
As a Brit I have never used profanity around my family, I wouldn't dream of it. And no I am not posh, I am very working class.
@richardcarter5082 Me also. I call this common decency. I was brought up posh, but worked as a machine tool engineer in the family factory. I swore sometimes along with my workmates, but never in any other environment. Regards from Halifax UK.
There's a fabulous German comedian called Henning Wehn who does a routine about the British swearing. He states that nobody swears in Germany, because everything works. Simply brilliant.
Joel, you must check out anything by Henning Wehn
What else would “stroke the dog” mean?
To toss the dog off, I do believe.
To give the dog a five knuckle shuffle.
Tommy tank😂
Dog W⚓
Petting in UK refers to making out. Thats why we refer to stroking pets, it would be odd to pet them...
‘Stroking’ has honestly been ruined as a word unless it’s in reference to painting or something.
Obvs Joel has never watched the USA produced tv programmes Succession or Homeland….. the usage of profane expletives in those two “dramas” is incredible! Not just the “effing and jeffing” but that Anglo Saxon word beginning with the letter c! Sometimes when watching, it was hard to determine the dialogue of the plotlines in between all the rude words!
The superstitious fear of words is hilarious - there is no such thing as bad language.
No just colourful.
Banger - also refers to an amazingly epic song/track/mix/piece of music. Eg 'that was an absolute banger!!'
had abolutely no idea about the 'stroking' thing - so wild that that's a dirty word in america!
What does it mean?
@@mariansheilamansilla6431seriously 😊
@mariansheilamansilla6431
No idea either, but they are always going on about "key strokes".
Jarvis Cocker's looking good for his age 👍🏻
Petting is sexual in the UK, so never ask to pet a British dog.
Also, being British, we don't rea;;y do sex either!
So where does this leave "petting zoo"?
@@ewanmee9877 🙂
@@ewanmee9877
With sheep tick bites, usually!! 😢
LMFAO. Wow you really do offend very easily. I work for the British Military and work alongside many american service men and have found them to be similar, almost going out of there way not to swear.
*their way...
There (over there) They're (they are)
Their (belonging to / pertaining to them)
I choose not to swear unless im really angry..
In uk it depends on your background.
Enjoyed the video.
😊
I think in Britain we just see swearing as just more words, its still a bit of a shock if you hear kids swearing but in general its just more ways to express yourself. I mean im in Glasgow right now and c*nt can be said affectionately here but also with absolute hatred.
Strangely, (I can't explain why) I find seeing swear words / profanities
_in books_ far more shocking than if I hear them anywhere, in the street or on TV / YT etc!! I wish I could explain it, but perhaps it's just the rare circumstances where I see those words printed in book form which makes it shocking... _Not_ 'upsetting' though, but it just 'throws me' momentarily!!
Nobody swears quite like us Brits, maybe the Aussies and the Irish. Americans reacting to our swearing/road rage videos crack me up. Fanny has got to be on his next list! 😂
In Canada, Poppycock is a very popular snack that comes in a sealed can. Chimo
Many of these words are Australian too
Don't swear there are kids around.... by the time I was two I was saying "Fuck".
Brits love absorbing new words that’s what makes English global 😊
Sick of the excuse "There are kids around". So what? What exactly shall that imply, right? BS
Babies suckle on them. That's what they're for.
Kids don't give a fuck about swearing. It means bugger all to them. It is always the adults that get upset by it.
@@kingy002 exactly
In Bristol we actually say 'smoothing the dog' rather than stroking.
Joel, on the whole Paridae or Tit family of birds thing, when living in the US I learned that the various species of tit found in the US are called titmice, despite them being birds. Why is this? Some are also called chickadees in the US, which I find so cute. 🤔
We here in the UK also call tits titmice - at least, I grew up knowing these birds as titmice... Great Tit, Coal Tit, Blue Tit (you see the latter on cold days...!!) And I don't know why, but I always (& have) forget the other Tit...help please?
Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Crested Tit, Long-Tailed Tit.
The Bearded Tit is apparently a different family.
@@brigidsingleton1596 long-tailed
@@ldr2696
If you're referring to the fourth tit (sorry, it's late and about to go to bed and am nit wearing my reading glasses) my daughter looked ut up and irs the Crested Tit and it looks like a Mohican (or a little Cockatoo !!)
The c word in particular is a big one as a 19 year old British girl i love this word
Lost in the Pond was the first UA-cam channel I subscribed to.
Joel, if you ever come to live in Britain or Europe (and especially as you have such a fondness for our beers and ciders), you're going to have to embrace profanity... only, if you don't, you'll be sidelined because everybody will think you're weird (mind you, you're American - so they might anyway), but I mean, they might think you consider yourself more highly than you ought - or above them at any rate, which could result in fisticuffs if you find yourself in the wrong place... So far you've mainly been looking at our town and city centres and not the boring suburbs, and let's just say if you ever feel tempted to do any of that, then do expect a good deal of intolerance of anything that the locals consider to be any different to what they think of as the norm... In fact, you might want to take a look at some of the videos produced by the You-Tube channel, "Turdtowns," which highlights some of the communities that people really live in within the UK - quite often within parts of the country that are otherwise considered to be quite posh... It'd be good to see you react to some of them, in fact. Unlike the "The ten worst places, etc. in the UK" series which are just awful, not least because the pictures they show are often in totally different places from the ones their computer-generated voices are talking about, Turdtowns is a lot more methodical and objective, using the same criteria for each place it highlights, including community resources, crime rates and average house prices.🙂
Has anyone ever left a comment saying you look exactly like Cole Palmer ?? (Chelsea player)
Hi Joel , I enjoyed watching this video (pierre)
My British mind ends up in the gutter when I hear the phrase pet the dog as you see signs in spars that say no petting allowed
Yes, America did change it. You got your language from Britain, the motherland, then you tweeked it to your own.
I’m reminded of how swear words have been slipping into television show, and of course heavily into mainstream movie films, and no one says anything against that, but to hear British tv, some of those use some pretty harsh swear words. (Check Mrs. Brown’s Boys) But really, if you walk in the streets of both countries, I would dare say swearing would be about the same. I think overall, Americans have changed a lot of British words, to either water them down, or just make them unique to the US. To me hearing any Brit speak sounds so proper, and seemingly more knowledgeable, no matter their social status. But when you listen to parts of the US, with our vastly different accents, we can sound quite different.
I’m not a big user of swear words, but I don’t get offended if one slips out of the mouth of someone speaking to me. It does get a bit much if they are swearing every other word, because nothing is really being said…just all cussing.
I don’t think you would have been flagged for saying any of the words mentioned on here. But I think we have gotten away from freedom of speech when we have to censor words any more. We can’t seem to say certain words, so we bleep them. It won’t be long until we will have nothing but bleeps in our language, and nothing to say.
Oh well, that’s progress! Or at least a tidbit of it anyways.😊❤❤
Laurence is brilliant. He should have a TV programmed.
The word tit is old English for small, ( nothing to do with breast), the US use it for this meaning where the word teat should be used. What do they teach in schools over there?
We love our curse words 😅. Im always effin and jeffin its part and parcel of our everyday language.
Love your avoidance of saying the 'shit' of bullshit etc - it seems so 'cute' compared to an English lad!
Also love your reactions each time when the words came up on screen :)
In Bristol you smooth the animal. EG I am smoothing the cat.
No need to wrap kids in cotton wool. If I'm angry or mad and I use swear words, I'll just explain it to them.. I was mad because.. I used word x because I was really angry, but it's a word that shouldn't be used in a normal conversation etc.
It's the same with pretending that everything's fine all the time. I've seen so many families do that. Why? It's okay to feel sad or to cry, same as it's ok to swear if something really shitty happens. Better say a healthy "f*ck" instead of being grumpy all day. Honestly, I don't get it. What's so horrible about a swear word. You can still be a nice and responsible person.
Wait a miniute..... Hold the phone! Nobody uses bad language in front of their Granma!! But , seriously, who is really offended by profanities in TV shows, movies, Celebrity Chat shows? For Pete's sake, if you are so petrified to say something in case it offends your Granma, then don't tell her. Good grief! Americans are often interviewed on our Brit chatshows, like Graham Norton, Johnathon Ross and Alan Carr..... and they always get all skittish about it being okay to say simple swear words like F*** , Sh>>, Pi**, and much stronger language. When they ask if it is allowed to say these, and are told, with great mirth, that Yes!!! We don't mind!!! We really do have permission to use adult language after the Watershed, they are confused, and usually get the giggles! Oh Lord! 🙄
in a Firefly episode they used 'quim'.. I'm not sure they knew what it meant.
I'm a 70 yo English woman and I've never heard of that word! What does 'quim' mean? (si vous plait* - in English, if YT* allows it?!)
From the 17th century, referring to a woman's genitals.
Aw ive not heard poppycock in ages 😂
Lawrence should have to pay a fine for egregious overuse of the letter "R" in speaking.
I don't know any other people that have real rude swearing words as the Americans have. I don't think I have to mention them to you. A simple example; WTF, what does that really mean ?
I'm a granny I love a good customer word
Hey JPS have you checked out "Christopher Hitchens on Hannity & Colmes about Rev. Falwell's death." I'm sure you would learn something from this exchange.
I find in different situations i may use a swear word or two im not going to lie ,but i never have or never will swear in front of my parents i dont feel the need when im around them....also one of the most used American cussing words as you say which grinds my gears when I hear it Motherf...ker.
Love the word poppycock 😂 not heard it in a while
Swearing also seems to be age related. Older people do not swear in public as much as younger.
My brother went to usa for 10 years and came back t flapping. He used to siund posh but now he sounds like a hick
English words 😉
There are no British words.
Well actually there are thousands of British words, some of them being Welsh and some Scots Gaelic, or even Cornish. English does not have a monopoly.
@@missharry5727British isn't a language, therefore has no words.
Mmm when your reacting to videos with your two friends one of them likes to cus quite freely
I blame Shakespeare,Dickens,..and a little bit of Dahl weirdness for some of our British words and phrases. But we only use Dahl if we're off our heads,you snozzwhangers! 😝
We Brits love to Swear 😂😂😂😂
swearing , just depends on your upbringing. You came across with the wrong people in the UK, not everyone swears. A bit like the Us of A
His comedy is great
React to "Cricket explained for baseball fans"
Handsome bastard!
The American friends I never stop using profanities
Hmmmm no profanities in America.... tell that to my American relatives!! 🤪🤪🤪