AMERICANS React to 10 Things In British Culture IMPOSSIBLE to Explain to Americans!
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your dad is practically British, Tea and a bun at Tea time, give him a hearty handshake from all of us brits
British means English for my US cousins.
The reason we haven’t gone fully to the metric system is because it was invented by the French and we can’t totally except anything by the French
Agreed lol
Yep.
Cold temperature in c. And hot temperatures in F . cold minus 5c hot 90f
@@michaelduplock9537 Ive done this all my life since my grandmother taught me temperature in fahrenheit as a kid during a heat wave. A year later, we were taught temperatures at school. Obviously in celcius which got me all confused. I'm only 35! I always liked that UK weights & measures is messy & i'm able to understand both.
Except the language..
The village of Sh*tterton had to change the village sign, from a regular road sign to a large rock with the name on it as the road signs kept on getting stolen.
You need to come to the UK and try proper beans on toast (not with the sweet bread you have in the u.s), an english fry up, and fish & chips 👌
Would be cool to see some videos of you guys trying some british foods again. Happy new year 🎉
And a Scottish fry up.
@@crimsonwizard2560 lorne and a piece of plain.
@@crimsonwizard2560 indeed I'm English but love a tattie scone and an oatcakes 👍
It would be like having beans on brioche. Actually, I wanna try that 😂😂
corn bread is sweet / but i think they do have wheat bread,as well . last time i looked they have molasses in there beans and corn syrup in there ketchup they obviously have a sweeter tooth than us,
I think that the "Marmite" that people put in a cup and drink, is actually "Bovril", a beefy drink, and completely different. The jar is similar, though. At least it used to be.
No, you can use Marmite in a hot drink. Bovril is a product in its own right, similar taste but nowhere near as salty/strong.
@@YesiPleb I think they should try both. I suspect they'll be okay with the Bovril, but won't much like the Marmite. But we'll see.
@@gregofthedump Totally agree. I love Bovril, such a warming drink in the cold especially winter.
Mum used to give us Marmite dissolved in hot water when we were so ill we couldn’t keep anything else down. Usually with a dry (i.e. not buttered) matzoh or similar to crumble into it.
Yes to Bovril not Marmite
I think the reason our oldest private schools are called public schools is because state education didn't exist back then (edit: back when they were founded), and most education was given via individual tuition; primarily to the children of nobility. Public schools were places where the children of anybody with enough money could go to receive an education.
I think you are right, and I think it is the more modern ones that just refer to themselves as private.
Although you hear teenagers talk and most will just say, when asked what school they attend, just go 'oh I go private' so most of the time now it's only officially referred to as public school.
Just to be totally random, good thing public toilets don't have the same meaning!
Yes, back in the day, the aristocracy were so arrogant and ignorant (still are) that they thought they were the public!
@@lozzylols Yeah no one refers to them as public schools in every day parlance.
@@Gerishnakov Yes they do
The oldest is Kings School, Canterbury originally founded in 597ADby Augustine of Canterbury
Ok it’s official. JT you’ve been adopted by the Brits for a while now but Anna you have also been brought into the fold. Congratulations my American/British friends 👏👏👍
I'm British and whilst the tap thing is pretty common...newer builds tend to have mixer taps. My place was built around 2019 and every tap is a mixer tap.
I live in Leicestershire. Our house is 9 yrs old we don't have a single mixer tap at all
I dream of mixer taps in my flat 😭
@@sharonlock6452 that sucks! Maybe its a cost thing? Cheaper for the development companies to stick with the old methods?
We refurbished our kitchen and bathroom about 30 years ago. The kitchen and bath both have mixer taps but the washbasin in the bathroom has separate hot and cold. However we have a cunning little device called a plug which you can use to block the outflow and blend the hot and cold to the required temperature. It saves all that fiddling around with the taps to get the water just right!
My house was built 2015 . Mixer tap in the kitchen only
Baked beans are part of a full English breakfast, they do contain sugar but are seen as savoury really
Nonsense ..baked beans are not part of a full english.
@@theurg4504a full English is whatever you choose to include.
@@theurg4504 it is
@Thefox0922
Baked beans are an American invention...they wernt meant for the masses and definitely not a full English.
They where first sold in fortnum and Mason in piccadilly and only meant for posh people.
@MeTube3
No it's not..its specific items
Number 11. Most people would not have realised that the United Kingdom flag shown twice in this video was flying upside down. The correct way is with the broad white diagonal at the top of the pole. Upside down would be flown as a subtle way of telling other ships that a ship was in distress, e.g. pirates had taken it over ..
plus the flag still contains St Patricks cross which should have been removed in 1922 when Ireland left the union, it does not represent any country in the UK anymore.
the best thing about our baked beans is there is no molasses and our ketchup does not contain corn syrup in them they are more tomatoey , than sweet , on a cold day there's nothing better than baked beans with fried or poached egg on top so filling and satisfying . you really have to try it .its the best , but you most have butter on the toast not marg , all the flavours work together .
JT Congratulations 🎉 she is an absolute gem - I am a Yorkshire man from England and the Southern American just seem like us - amazing to see you both, hope it grows well 😊
Yeah, more layed back aren't they.
@@lilme7052 absolutely
Hi Anna & JT, it’s great to see you both together on a video. Our baked beans are not as sweet, and in a tomato sauce. Lovely on toast with cheese.
Hey JO, (guitar intro ) it's a waste of cheese. ( ok if it's that processed rubber stuff, like. )
@@blackbob3358 don’t agree with your opinion.
Wonderful to see you doing the video together. Can't wait to see more videos with Anna in. You're such a good match for each other. And no, the beans are not the same in the UK. Even after going to/through the US at least 15 times by now, I STILL find myself surprised by the difference in taste between your food and ours.
First thing I noticed was that the Union Jack was being flown upside down!!!
I've heard Americans say they had a trip to the UK for two weeks, and spent all their time in London, so they basically had a trip to England 😆
Even worse, they had a trip in London.
Yeh they def didnt have a trip to England 😂
Yeah that's the equivalent of going to New York and saying you visited the States.
No, they had a trip to London. London is in no way representative of the rest of England.
Welcome to britain Anna, happy to have you part of our family and culture. if your around long enough, maybe 300 years or so, you might get it lol, great start both of you
I’m English and was devastated when, having been diagnosed with cœliac disease couldn’t eat Marmite; luckily Sainsbury’s do a gluten free version 😁
Is it nice? Because I really miss marmite, being celiac my self
Vicky witton. I don’t like marmite myself, but I’ve heard the Sainsbury’s gluten free Marmite is quite nice.
Hi Anna, no our baked beans are not as sweet as US version, ours contain far less sugar, colourings, seasoning or artificial flavours. Some brands here are sweeter than others, but in general way less sugar than US. And PS our bread also contains less sugar.
I think our everything contains less sugar! 😂
Even our sugar!!
@@lizbignell7813 😂😂😂
Beans on Toast is so YUMMY, it's great comfort food and quick to make. It's even better with some grated cheese on the top and a fried egg, oh and a splodge of brown sauce too.. *sighs* heavenly..
:D
Pretty much all new builds will have mixer taps. The separate taps will mostly be found in homes from the 90s back
Also had to have a 2nd watch through just to watch Maggie😂😂
We eat baked beans as a veg like with chips and sausages so when in Holland my mum said we like baked beans for dinner, all I got was a plateful of baked beans!
Hey guys, loved your vid, just for a heads up, the easiest way to do the temperature conversion is if your going from centigrade to farenight, you double and add 30 . And in the other way you take 30 off and half it, it’s not exact but gives you a close comparison 🤪😜🏴🇬🇧
Anna, your completely right. American baked bean are very different from our British/Commonwealth beans they are a not less sweet (we even do reduced sugar versions), more 'tomatoey'
As a Brit this video brought me so much joy, such nice people, thank you thank you thank you x
Great first reaction you two are great together. Anna is gonna get much more confused before the journey is over 🤣🤣🤣
you guys are ace, so nice to see an American dude with some knowledge of a country outside of his own.
A lot of USA foods have corn syrup in them so even if you have the same brand of beans from either side of the pond they are likely to taste v.different. On the tea front the UK often drink blended teas which I haven't found to be a thing in the USA and often have ended up travelling with tea-bags.
While looking at American recipes to make at home in the UK I discovered that corn syrup is not available for sale in UK stores because of its extremely high sugar content and that it is highly addictive!
Love your show, made me chuckle. All the best 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Great first video on your new channel guys! Looks like you've proved to us JT that you're now a truly honoury Briton, your explanations for the different topics were right up to scratch, all that learning you've done over the last few years has clearly sunk in. Top marks, you'd have no problem in one of our best public-private-independent-charity schools! 😂
Mixer taps have REALLY caught on! You'll only find separate taps in older buildings and even then they might have been swapped for mixers
Say it like this: CLAN - (f - sounds like V) IRE - (rhymes with fire) - POOL-ch - GWIN - GICH - GO-GER ICH-ER OO-IN - DRO - BULL-ch - CLANTIE - SILLIE O - GO - GO - GO-ch. The -ch sounds as it does in Bach, the classical music composer. Not all English-speaking people are able to pronounce -ch, which is also present in LOCH (Scottish) and LOUGH (Irish), both meaning lake.
the next video has to be a Peter Kay reaction,
1. He’s absolutely AWESOME
2. The misheard song lyrics is just genius
3. He is probably the only person i’ve ever seen use a shovel a guitar 🎸 plus at on of his gigs he even played a double shovel as a guitar 🎸, the man’s a LIVING LEGEND
But have you ever seen anyone punch a baboon when pretending to use a saw like Eddie Izzard? :D
prick in real life though
Great to see you both start a channel together, looking forward to watching more of your content. Happy New Year ✌
JT, I am a 49 year old English guy. I watch all of your videos with my wife and 12 year old daughter. Dude, put a ring on her finger!!!! You are the cutest couple. Peace!
For the record, the longest town name is here on the Isle of Anglesey and is generally just refered to as Llanfair pg to the locals.
Hi Anna and JT! awesome new vid.
The baked beans we have in the UK are in tomato sauce, the same sauce you get on spaghetti o's etc.
American baked beans and UK baked beans don't taste the same. Beans on toast sounds weird and disgusting, but it actually is a decent snack especially with cheese and Worcestershire sauce. Americans can keep their avocado on toast or peanuts 🤣
You leaving Maggie out of the title? She's looking the other way the whole time, she way jealous lol. Bringing Anna on is a stroke of genius, she is so lovely and honest. Nice one mucka!
Public Schools are a very specific type of historic private school. The term dates back about 300 years, long before state schools existed. It refers to being open (at cost, of course) to anyone, or any boy at least, regardless of his father's profession.
Well Done Anna, you were amazing, you & JT are such a lovely couple, i'm looking forward to more videos from you both. Baked beans are savoury, beans in tomato sauce. 🐾💖XXHUGSXX💖💕
I have read that "Baked Beans" in a can in America is completely different to "Baked Beans" in a can in the UK. In the UK it is basically based on tomato sauce (or smth like that) whereas I have heard in the US it is based on some sort of brown sauce. You can get the British version of baked beans in America from "British" food stores in America. Heinz is a brand good name to get.
Baked beans in the US are very sweet the sauce is almost a sugar syrup
@@KristopherBel sick
i saw a US streamer try it and hate it. A year later he tried it in the UK and liked it and he mentioned something about tomato and the bread/toast being different
@Reaper oh I just watched another UA-cam that happened to cover this topic and they had tried both they said baked beans in the uk were tomato-y ketchup like but not sweet, and that baked beans in the us were in brown sugar.
@@KristopherBel yeah here in the UK they are more a tomato based sauce and not sweet. I myself havent eaten baked beans for about 5 years or been to America but understand them to be different from everything ive seen/heard
That was a great video, I'm looking forward to more . Love to you both ♥♥♥
Great reaction !! Can't wait to see more videos from you both ... Happy new year 🎉
Great reaction from Anna for a first time. On the subject on Heinz beanz (with a zed) these are very different from those you get over there . I love Heinz Beanz chilled from the fridge - while they are STILL in the can!! De-lish!!!
And Anna, you have one hell of a laugh - I love it1
Heinz is all right, but Branston is better; the sauce is thicker.
For me, personally, beans on toast is the ultimate comfort food. Nothing beats beans on toast with a hot cup of tea after a long day of being out and about in the cold, rain and wind.
Even more so if you put a slive of a good sharp cheddar on the toast before adding the beans.
@@iangordon5354 Yes! I always add cheddar to my baked beans! It takes them to another level!👍
@@iangordon5354 And a splash of Worcester (essential for those tasteless, low salt/sugar "healthy" beans.)
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha well done JT, for sneaking in a 'Robbie Williams' in the middle, that made me chuckle.
Well done Anna for having a go at it.. Bravo young lady.
Here ya go, phonetically:
Most people outside of Wales cannot say the 'll' sound properly so they tend to go with. Clan. If you put your tongue at the top of your teeth (behind them) and kind of hiss out the sides, that is the 'Double L' sound. And the Welsh like to roll their 'R's too.
Phonetic: Clan-vire, polch, gwyn,-gill, go, gero queern, drob, ooll, clan-tee-silly-oh, go, go, goch.
REAL: Llan-fair-pwll- gwyn-gyll- go- gery-wyrn- drob-wll- llan-ty-silio- go-go-goch
So all smooshed together it reads as follows..
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerywyrndrobwilllantysiliogogogoch
I hope this helps, oh by the way, I'm English but have lived in Wales nearly 38 years now, so I know some, but am not fluent in Welsh.
BEST WISHES FROM WALES .. :D
Unfortunately it was Robin Williams. I thought that was incredible knowledge for a minute.
An excellent start to the new channel.
Look forward to more in the days ahead.
Great job y’all. Keep ‘em coming.💕
Really great first reaction, well done 🤩 Definitely watch Peaky Blinders, it was a brilliant series & sad it ended, it might take a while to get used to the accents though 🤣
Baked beans are different in the uk, having been to the states and seeing and eating baked beans there was a nightmare i didn’t know id ever have. Stop it 😂
YAY hello both you lovely peeps.. I'm looking forward to this, I haven't even watched it yet and I'm smiling..
Happy New Year, best wishes to you Anna & JT, from Wales.
When people lived and died in small villages they didn't mix with other villages unless they had a horse. Thus they developed their own accents. The hot water came from a separate water supply, sometimes in an open tank collecting god knows what. New boilers combine hot and cold, and mixer tapes are most common in new houses or modernised ones.
If you decide to try Marmite again, I suggest mixing about 2 parts softened Butter with 1 part Marmite, then spread that onto your hot toast, and then top with sliced Tomato to cut through the saltiness and add some extra moisture.
It's also great to add a bit of Marmite when making a Beef Stew, chili, Cottage Pie etc, as it provides some seasoning and also adds Umami.
Our Baked Beans are not the same as US ones, they are in a simple Tomato Sauce and mostly savory, with just a touch of sweetness. I recommend adding a knob of Butter and some salt and pepper while heating the beans (preferably in a pan on the hob, rather than in the microwave) or even adding some grated cheese while heating (though try it without cheese initially).
You had me until the slice of tomato! 😩
@@Darchangel01 I don't see much wrong with it. I've had cheese and marmite with tomato on toast before and it was OK! I was pretty stoned at the time and forgot I put the marmite on. I think I was just trying to make a tiny cheapo pizza...I forget now, was a whiile ago :D
Cut half inch slices of fresh bread, lightly toast both sides, lightly butter one side and add just enough preheated HEINZ baked beans so as they dont fall off the bread. Add grated cheese until you cant see the beans, add a little black pepper and then pop back under the grill until the cheese melts and starts to brown. Serve with black coffee. React to that JT.
What a great 1st video for the new channel, JT I am impressed by how much knowledge of the UK you managed to retain, perfect explanation young man 😁
Regarding marmite, it's great you guys have tried it! It really is an acquired taste but the mistake made by many foreign folk is to slather it on thick like peanut butter, LOL! It is strong in taste so you need just a tiny amount on top a decent amount of butter/marg. Putting it in a mug of water- that sounds grim tho.
I personally LOVE marmite, but (British) baked beans for me are horrid 😖.
With the tap thing, your joke is actually true! We usually just go back and forth quickly so we don't burn our hands
Yeah this happens far too often - like we don't have the 10 seconds it takes to put the plug in & get some water in the basin. OF course, if you live in a place with a slightly more antiquated water system, getting the hot water from the tank to the tap can take a while, meaning you have all the cold water you need from the 'hot' pipe before it gets warm!
Is it? I grew up filling the sink with water to the right temperature.
British here lived in the us our beans taste alot different ours aren't particularly sweet whereas yours seem to have molasses and are extremely sweet I was not a fan English baked beans are in a tomato sauce and really no where near as sweet
Congrats on New Channel! May it reach 100k in record time!
Watching Anna's facial expressions during the "private/public" school segment had me in stitches.
The unpronounceable Welsh name was made up to promote tourism to the area. It's only about 150 years old, which is very young in Britain.
True. The original name of the village is (if I remember right) just the first five syllable - so Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. (I can pronounce it, but only because I was taught how to say it almost fifty years ago by a classmate whose parents came from Wales.)
None of this confused me but I live in New Zealand so guess given our history that is easy for me to understand it. Some of us here even do some of these things.
I’m fully supportive of you and this channel - been subbed to JT since 23k and followed you all the way to 100k 😂. Love you all
Hooray your first video 🎉💕🎉
Regarding the imperial/metric, it’s actually worse than shown here.
I used to buy sheet metal when employed. It was usually bought in 1 x 2 metre sheets, 1/16th inch thick, or in thousandths of an inch thick. Metal tubing was a straight conversion. 6inch diameter just became 152mm diameter. No change to the size, just the unit of measurement.
you give a weird look to beans on toast for breakfast, but u lot eat all sorts of desserts for breakfast.
Was waiting for the school bit and wasn't surprised by your faces 🤣🤣🤣🤣
1. One can wash their hands in COLD WAter
2 . When turning ON the HOT water - it will take time for the
HOT water to come through - even when the pipe has lagging
over it
One only requires a tiny amount of water and soap - to wash
and COLD water is good enough for rinsing.
3. The Kitchen and Laundry will most often have a Mixer Tap
Loved this, love Anna's expressions of complete confusion.
With temperature, Fahrenheit is only used when it's hot (when the Sun newspaper is putting "Phew what a scorcher" as its main headline). When it's cold, we use Celsius (0 degrees C seems much colder than 32 degrees F).
MARMITE --
In Australia - we have a similar product VEGEMITE
Made from brewers yeast and is a byproduct of brewing BEER
Both MARMITE and VEGEMITE are very high in Iron and beneficial to health.
The thing to remember is - ONLY spread a very thin layer onto TOAST
And also, thanks. I do like your videos and this fun. Happy new year!
I don’t know who drinks English Breakfast tea.
PG Tips, Yorkshire Tea, Typhoo Tea, are the most common ones.
Don’t knock Beans on Toast.
I live in the uk and I don’t know about anyone else but I have never filled the sink up with both taps to wash my hands I just use the hot tap because it doesn’t come out immediately boiling hot, it warms up the longer u have it running
Loving the new channel Anna is hilarious 😂 😂
Love you guys!
Great video.
God bless ❤️
people werent getting sick from the hot water tap, it used to come from a water storage tank in the loft so you didnt drink it, it tasted like the first go on a garden hose. A lot of them just had a bit of board for a cover so allsorts used to drop in.
We don't fill the sink up to wash our hands but you sometimes have to choose between bitterly freezing or scolding hot water. We do actually have mixer taps but a lot of people just prefer to have separate taps.
the reason for hot and cold taps - we can drink the water from the cold tap, but the hot tap is not considered suitable for drinking, so we keep them separate
Having separate hot and cold taps can be really useful if you receive a shin injury playing football (soccer) providing the skin isn't broken. You put your shin under the cold tap until it is numb, then move it under the hot tap until it begins to feel too hot, then back under the cold until the original pain goes away and you are good to go again.
To confuse people even more when it comes to temperature some people use Fahrenheit for hot temperatures and centigrade for cold.
I LOVE this channel. I LOVE the way you laugh Anna and I love the humor of JT 🙂
You can see how much you've learned JT over the last... amount of time (I can't remember when you started but been subbed since pretty early on to your main channel)!! But this was sweet, seeing how much you have learned, and sharing with Anna, with doggo sitting looking out the window behind you lol, v cute ☮
Also you should get some proper British baked beans and some British bread, if that's possible, and actually try beans on toast, of a full English. On the channel here with Anna I mean.
There's something about beans in a morning (or any time of day tbh) with eggs, mushrooms, hash browns etc etc, it just works!
Your videos are fun to watch, keep them coming please 😻😻😻🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
With temperature, older generations (myself included) will often think about warm (summer) temperatures in Fahrenheit but cold (winter) temperatures in Celsius. The reason is partly historic for heat in summer, but Celsius makes far more sense with temperatures around freezing point; it’s easier to understand zero & minus temperatures than thinking about numbers below 32 being freezing.
Been watching you since the start JT and I think this new channel is great . Anna is very smart I like that she questions things . Best wishes to you and all your family from Manchester England
The idea of having 2 taps is when having a bath or doing dishes you put the hot water in first and then add the cold water in to make it comfortable to go into
Loved it was great to see you both
Beans on toast are the best, either on their own or with a fried egg or grated cheese. Beans are even better as part of a full English breaky but they are different to beans in America.
Jack was a term first applied to the lower classes and peasants and it meant something lesser. From it we get terms like "Jack of all trades" in other words not a craftsman, "Every man jack" and so on. On naval vessels a large ensign was flown at the rear, and a smaller jack flag was hoisted at the front. The jack was flown when the ship first docked and while it remained at anchor. After the Act of Union the flag used gradually became known as the Union Jack and the name has stuck to this day.
Not quite right. A "jack" in naval terms is a flagpole that any flag can be flown from. A "Union Jack" is a flagpole that flies the Union flag.
@@iank-dz6gg Thankyou for the extra information
Temperature conversion. For F to C , subtract 30 , then half it. ( 90f equals 30c. C to F , double the temp , then add 30. ( 15 C equals 60F)
Congratulations on your first reaction. Happy new year guys :D
To make things even more complicated, Celcsius used to be called Centigrade, Centigrade comes from the Latin for 100 & gradus, meaning steps, spread between the freezing & boiling points of water at sea level, but for some reason he decided that 0 degrees would be the boiling point & 100 degrees would be the freezing point. It was renamed in 1948 after Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius who invented it in 1742
My Swedish brother-in-law gets very shirty if someone says centigrade.
Great to see you both do a video. BTW beans on toast are a great favourite in my house, plus always have named beans with a full English breakfast.
It easy to translate centigrade to Fahrenheit. For 5 degrees centigrade use this formula …. double the centigrade number 5x2=10 and just add 30. So 5 degree’s centigrade is 40 degrees Fahrenheit. For Fahrenheit to Centigrade it’s just reversed. 40-30 = 10. 10 divided by 2 =5. Hope that’s not too confusing!
Close enough for temperatures you’d find in a room. I tend to remember some of the easy conversions - such as -40C = -40F, 0C = 32F, 4C is around 40F, 10C = 50F, 16C is near enough 61F, 20C = 68F, 28C is near enough 82F, 35C = 95F, 40C is around 104F, and 100C = 212F
When it comes to hot and cold taps, I've always just used the hot tap. Most of the time it starts off cooler so you just wash your hands quickly before it gets scalding hot. If it gets too hot, I switch to cold and begdrudingly use the freezing water. But I've never alternated or mixed the water.
You guys need to react to Catherine Tate! Especially her character called "Nan" and "The Offensive Translator"
Peaky Blinders is a must watch series. 6 seasons in all. Set between the two world wars & the story of a gypsy crime family based in Birmingham (central England). It has a fabulous cast, great location sets, excellent production & story line that is wrapped in some semi factual historical events. There's a rumour about a film as well.
Tea - at least 10 cups a day with milk & 1 sugar/sweetener.
Marmite - yes, but spread it thinly.
Double taps - Not in our house.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - learnt to say this from an early age & I have a train station ticket with the name on it. I'm not Welsh.
Accents - yes we have many. Some are quite difficult to understand, even for us Brits.
Metric system - yes & no. I'm old enough to remember the old Imperial system (feet, inches) & pre-decimal currency (Pounds, shillings, half crowns, threepenny bit, penny, half penny, sixpence, farthing etc). However, we still buy our beer in Pints not litres. Our car speedo's are also in MPH as are our road signs & distances. In most other respects we have adopted the metric system - where it suits us. I was in the Air Con industry where all the refrigerant pipe size diameters are still in imperial measurements (e.g.1-1/8", 1", 7/8", 3/4", 1/2", 3/8", 1/4") but, we buy it by the metre in length Ha !! We switch between C & F quite often. Even weather presenters on TV will often use Fahrenheit in addition to Centigrade when temperatures are expected to be high. 90F sounds way more than 32c.
Public schools are for the well-off who pay extortionate fees to have their kids educated. The rest of us go to State Schools which are free. Most of our politicians went to Public Schools which why they have good academic qualifications but alas, no common sense! There is a YT video about the UK school system & our Universities.
As others have said you two should do some more videos together, especially food tasting ones.
Public schools are called that because ANYONE can attend, as long as they pay. So it's available to the public. Government run schools though aren't available to everyone. They are free to attend but you have to either live in a certain area, or attend a certain church.
From what I remember the Jack referred to is the Jack staff, which is the flag pole on the stern of a ship.
Rich people used to be taught by private tutors. Schools were private businesses that were open to the "public" (as long as you could pay).