Can remember we used to spend our pocket money on the Panini stickers for Euro 1984 in Lavells, Smiths & the newsagent round the corner on the way to school & we would take the duplicates into school & do swaps for the ones we needed.
if you don't stop at stop sign in the uk you have to stop too. The penalty code TS30 - Failing to comply with stop sign, will gain three penalty points on a drivers licence which will remain in place for four years. Running a stop sign will usually see drivers faced with a £100 fixed penalty fine, though in more extreme cases, fines can amount from between £100 to £1000.
Hi Amanda, I started my working life as an Apprentice Fitter/Machinist, so I only new Imperial measurements. When they went over to the metric system it took me awhile to get to grips with reading a metric micrometer. Later on I became an Electro/Machancial Engineer servicing various types of machinery, as long as the parts fitted it didn't bother me if they were metric or imperial. I retired the end of December 2023 aged 70😂
The downstairs loo is known as the AF in our house. AF meaning Alternative Facility As in "I shall use the alternative facility" My late best friend came up with it one Christmas
I live in a beach town with a very popular wharf and boardwalk/amusement park. Roundabouts aren't very common in the U.S., but the city decided a bunch of years ago to install one near the beach to help with the flow of traffic. Now, people are used to it but that first summer it was absolute chaos! Tens of thousands of Americans had to deal with a roundabout for the first time in their lives!
You have my utmost sympathy. As an ex-driver for a living in the UK roundabouts were my #1 hated thing when driving. I'm absolutely certain I'm in the minority of UK drivers in hating roundabouts. But that doesn't mean I'm about to change my mind. I've stopped driving completely now anyway. So.. problem solved. lol
The only thing weird is Mo-Jo. When they make a sweeping statement 'that no one else in the world understands this', most of the English speaking world with connections to the UK say we do.
Amanda in UK we have "ground floor" ( below that "basement" or "cellar") and then above ground floor "1st floor". -Yes we have "Pancake flippin' 🥞 races" -Football cards have sold for a lot of money in UK 🇬🇧
@@LADYRAEUK pancake races tend to be in school fetes or community fetes. They are sparse these days, so you will have to do some research in your area.
I went to the timber merchant and asked for some board. 6 foot by 4 foot. He said it's all metric now it's 2400 x 1200mm. Okay. Then he asked me what thickness I wanted. Half inch or three quarters?
Me too. I watch My 600lb Life & unless I google it into stone I don’t have a clue on what they weigh. Because in the programme they constantly lose weight I have to google it several times. 😀
Shrove Tuesday was the last opportunity to use up eggs and fats before embarking on the Lenten fast and pancakes are the perfect way of using up these ingredients. Which is why the pancakes are different really. We used to get a half day off school for pancake day. As for the metric system! Well we learned both ar school, these days I think everyone just learns metric, I wonder if the real reason for keeping the mile was she sheer cost of changing the signs. Some still use pounds ounces, perch, Rod, chains and furlongs. Horse racing and the length of a cricket pitch come to mind.
Now we tend to go for roundabouts plus traffic lights ( belts and braces) they are better because sometimes you can be waiting forever at traffic island!
Hi Amanda! Totally agree on roundabouts, much more efficient than junctions with traffic lights - bit like your 'Stop' signs, the lights force you to stop, even though the roads may be empty! I used to live in Milton Keynes, known as the 'city of roundabouts'..! for the pancake races, legend says that it all started when a woman heard the shriving bell calling people to church on Shrove Tuesday while she was making pancakes - and she ran to the church still in her apron with her frying pan! We don’t know whether this story is true, but we think that the first races happened in about 1445..the most famous race is held in the Buckinghamshire market town of Olney every year, competing with the town of Liberal, Kansas since 1950, who hold an identical race - whoever gets the fastest time wins the 'International Pancake Race!..!
Canada uses both Metric and Imperial, too. Round abouts don't have to stop (great for motorcycles) and take no power. Was that a scene from the IT Crowd? Great series. Your pancakes sound so good, Amanda. Canada has garage sales-selling your stuff your kids have outgrown-and presesnts you got that you never liked. (Bye the way, Summer's running out and you havent shown, discreetly of course, your family's tattoos yet.) Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Dandelion and Burdock. That's what I thought of, and now I want some. Elderflower cordial too, which I also don't have and now want. I'm probably just thirsty because I'm hungover though :)
I love 4 way stops here. Back home, at crossroads with no lights, one road usually had the right of way and if traffic was really busy, you could sit there for ages waiting to get out. With 4 way stop, its first come first served, so nobody has to wait very long to take whatever turn they need.
I go back to pre metric days , and find it easier to visualise lengths and weights in imperial .but for actual precise measurements metric is easier on the eye . I don't mind spiders and sometimes give regular shed residents names . You are thinking as a Brit with the ground floor loo . As always it's nice to hear your thoughts Amanda .
First OFF, the advert BEFORE your vidya was a candid interview with 3 of the Lionesses, they came across so natural and sincere. May I wish the Lionesses the BEST OF LUCK in the World Cup Final on Sunday ❤❤🎉🎉😊
we have an annual Pancake Race here in Jersey. it is usually between different hotels. Car Boot Sales are a newish thing. they basically are a more expensive version of a Jumble Sale.
American pancakes are just bigger versions of Scottish pancakes and Scottish pancakes are what we, in my family, always had on Shrove Tuesday growing up…I am Scottish though. I will also say that Scottish pancakes when fried are a REALLY great item on a fried breakfast…along with potato scones.
Pancake flipping races are absolutely a thing. Our pancakes are based on French Crepes I think, totally different animal to American ones (Amanda knows this of course) I like them both. An English pancake can be stuffed with whatever like a wrap: Nutella and cream, lemon and sugar, or savoury: Bacon and cheese for example.
refering to foods as cheeky started in the late 90s when the drink "cheeky vimto " hit the pub scene it was refered to as cheeky because it was alchoholic rather than the normal fruit drink
car boot sales are modern decades before we had church , football club , school jumble sales aranged in church halls etc where you could rent a table for the day / evening to sell unwanted clothes or items
I agree Amanda, those featured are not weird at all. That said, you see things from a Brit viewpoint now so, it may be weird to other people but maybe not to you! My idea of weird British things - queuing, a fascination with the weather, rooting for the underdog as a neutral, popular tv soaps showing normal people, (compare Corrie to Dallas), chip butties, beans on toast, pints and complaining if your beer glass is not full (we wouldn’t complain abroad), saying sorry for something that isn’t your fault, and wallpapering our ceilings (sometimes). I could go on, but I won’t. Love watching your comments, keep them coming please.
I use 3 systems now. I use metric and imperial mixed as in the video, but now a lot of online recipes are American so I’ve started using cups as well.😮😮😮
I disagree about the pancakes, I found the American ones to be a bit too thick an therefore a bit doughy, the British ones are larger and flatter but then we put sugar and lemon and anything else you want such as maple syrup and then roll them up so that they are like a roll, they are absolutely lovely.
Ditto. I've always found US style pancakes a bit too thick, heavy and not as accomodating of as many types of toppings (sugar, lemon, golden syrup, Nutella, fruit etc) as British pancakes/crêpes.
@jaysmith2858 not only that you can make a good savoury starter with them by putting cooked bacon strips and chopped spring onions in them then roll them up, cut them in half and pour melted cheese over them and put them in the oven to colour the cheese. Pancakes don`t have to be sweet.
I was a Little League coach at RAF Alconbury for eight years we packed groceries at the base supermarket, washed cars to raise funds for the World Little League competition. Now here in the UK you can see various groups packing groceries at our supermarkets.
Never had a Nandos, don't drink, never collected football stickers, hate Eurovision, and haven't celebrated pancake day for years. Maybe i'm no longer British.
I think metric v imperial depends on how old you are. I was brought up on the imperial system but then had to change when metric was introduced, but I still use the imperial system, whereas my kids use the metric system. U.S. gallons an UK gallons are different measurements altogether. I'm from Scotland and my mothers pancakes were, what some people call DROP SCONES. The thin ones are just crepe ! ( see what I did there ?)🤭 Who eats pancakes with bacon....apart from the USA !?
I'm English and I've never to Nandos... Its usually a curry or a McDonald's or a KFC... I've never even considered a Nandos... probably not real food lol
To convert C to F, multiple by 1.8 & add 32 (20 * 1.8 + 32 = 68), a rough & ready way is to double the degrees Celsius & add 30 (20 * 2 + 30 = 70, just 2 degrees out), you'll be close enough.
Spiders in sheds (Redback & Huntsman). Roundabouts, same with piss up's for sport, festivals, are all big things in Australia too, not just a British thing. I come from the era of the swap from imperial to metric and use both although officially Aussies use metric, alot if ex-pats still talk in imperial. Eurovision in Australia for the past few years.
Hi Amanda. Some goods things on there. Being of a certain age, I still try to use imperial measurements.😀Car fuel usage is always measured in MPG ( miles per gallon). Roundabouts are OK I live near a magic roundabout. 😀I haven't had a traditional UK pancake in years but my mum used to make lovely pancakes, with lots of sugar🥰
Regarding spiders in sheds, I am sure those little beggars know every trick in the book and can also detect that they scare me. If I have to change shoes when outside, I will stuff rags in the ones I remove to keep them out because they will see me taking them off and creep right in as soon as my back is turned. As for crispy bacon and pancakes, I would never have imagined those two coming together in a single sentence, let alone on the same plate!
@@LADYRAEUK I will try it - and will let you know what I think. As for the metric system thing, I was taught in Imperial and stubbornly refuse to accept metric - I hate it! I am a carpenter/joiner of over 40 years and now buy mainly US tools because I know how they work (measure). When I buy British/European metric tools, I stamp the equivalent Imperial measurement on them. Metric is rubbish! And yes, pancake flipping race is a real thing - or at least it was when I was a kid.
My other half first drove in the USA, when visiting her sister, when she was learning to drive here in the UK, all she complained about was roundabouts. When I sat with her, I used to find as many roundabouts as possible to get her used to them 🪨
for me, its the generalised quick greeting of "hey, how you doing?" followed by "I am not too bad! How are you?" "I'm good thanks!" and walking away - yet 99% of of that not is true! 😂but we've just wasted 20seconds of life - but I still can't avoid doing it, its the worst, polite, small talk there is 😆
At secondary school we were taught millimetres and centimetres,but I do a bit of DIY and use inches and feet when I measure,public drunkeness 40yrs ago I did it regularly, I drank myself silly, then walk like you are walking up a steep hill, then suddenly you are walking downhill then you fall over,getting a round in is something that would confuse over seas visitors
I would like to add the great British Cup of tea everyone drinks it And I would love to see you running down the road Tossing your pancakes in a race ❤❤
Dear Amanda Rae it’s all about Rarity and condition of the baseball card they have placed in plastic protectors like mint condition cards and also scarcity of certain baseball card.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I always thought the ground floor loo was there specifically for visitors, as you really don't want people you don't know that well going upstairs in your house.
I was in a gym in Warsaw, where an American lady was working out. Confused by the weights being in kilograms she asked the gym instructor, 'How many pounds is that?'. 'Madam,' he replied, 'they are not for sale.'
Great video. I don't mind roundabouts but not keen on turning tonight (twice as much traffic to judge. I also collect old childhood toys and love pancakes.
roundabouts are not just an English thing, I know in Holland and France they have them, I assume most European countries do. Austra;ia has them as well
Hi Amanda, I was born in the early 1970's. We were taught both metric and imperial measurements. Some things I find easier to picture in one system; the height of a person in feet and inches, weight in stones, distance in miles etc. Other things like temperature I can relate to better in celsius, or measuring something smaller in centimetres/millimetres. Going back to the hot and cold taps. I like having them separate in case owt goes wrong with one, you can still use t'other.😁
Who doesn't love a Nando's you ask? Well... Anyone who has eaten KFC I would hazard a guess. Nando's is to me, about half as good as KFC. For twice the price. Fair do's to the company for pulling off a genius marketing scam for sure.
Stuff like art, property, baseball cards are a good way for very rich people to buy assets under the name of a company and reduce their tax burden in the short term ;)
I'm at work. My wife is at home 25 miles away. I get a phone call and she's going mad because there is a spider in the house. So i leave work and do a fifty mile trip just to get rid of the spider while my wife is behind me shouting "don't kill it..don't kill it!" Love that woman though❤
@@LADYRAEUK My wife does not particularly like the non-venomous huntersman spiders only for one reason, because her brother would pick them up and roll them up in his hands and throw them at her when she was growing up. While visiting her parents one afternoon about fifteen plus years ago he did it right in front of me so quickly I didn’t have time to react and my wife was on the receiving end, and boy did she lay into him immediately after she deflected it, he was in his late thirties and still acting like a teenager. There are the most commonly filmed spider in Australia as everyone knows what there are and I don’t dislike them other than there are extremely fast moving so much that people think they jump. Example I notice one on my wrist of a flannelette shirt that I had on, and I had to look twice as four of the legs on one side of his body were not there, by the time my brain computated this and considered he wouldn’t move that fast he was at my neck, needless to say the shirts was ripped off and on the ground. The largest spider I’ve come close to in the wood pile next to my shed is a SE Queensland tarantula it’s abdomen is the size the hunters man legspan an two to three times the size of the James Bond size tarantula in the London Zoo I visited a year later, where I instructed the exhibitor of some thirty years how to treat spider bites as he didn’t know basic Australian scouting first aid. P.S I was treated at London Zoo for a phobia a few years before so was happy to return the courtesy. You will not guess what they got me to pet? NSW in Oz
Roundabouts. Here in the USA I've seen one in Chattanooga TN and laughed my head off ( Perhaps unfairly ) at how bad American drivers are at getting in the right lane to take their exits.
Never used cheeky with Nandos. But even back in my day we called something cheeky. Cheeky pint usually. Never had lemon and sugar on a pancake either. I have heard of that but my family eat them with gravy or stew. Always savoury never sweet.
Pancake races are a British custom that take place in many towns on Shrove Tuesday, Olney in Buckinghamshire is the most famous one, as for bacon on pancakes, sounds disgusting!, you are more likely to have a spider land on you in the garden than in the shed.
We are taking our first trip to England soon. Thanks for the fun educational series. I start the day with a laugh. Bye, bye now,see you, thanks, bye now, bye-bye.
Beans on toast are SOOO yummy, and a great nostalgic comfort food.
Can remember we used to spend our pocket money on the Panini stickers for Euro 1984 in Lavells, Smiths & the newsagent round the corner on the way to school & we would take the duplicates into school & do swaps for the ones we needed.
Amanda, THANK YOU for saying "ground floor", if only American department stores understood this where the lifts are concerned. 😊
I think the American way makes more sense. All the floors are numbered and "ground" isn't a number.
Shout out to the great British shed that over the years has saved more marriages than all the professional's put together.
lol!
if you don't stop at stop sign in the uk you have to stop too. The penalty code TS30 - Failing to comply with stop sign, will gain three penalty points on a drivers licence which will remain in place for four years. Running a stop sign will usually see drivers faced with a £100 fixed penalty fine, though in more extreme cases, fines can amount from between £100 to £1000.
In 1966 a petrol company, not gasoline Amanda, gave away "free" collectors coins with the English World Cup Team on them.
Pancake race, Egg + Spoon race, sack race, 3 legged race, cheese rolling, shin kicking you could do a whole video!
I should! lol
Hi Amanda, I started my working life as an Apprentice Fitter/Machinist, so I only new Imperial measurements. When they went over to the metric system it took me awhile to get to grips with reading a metric micrometer. Later on I became an Electro/Machancial Engineer servicing various types of machinery, as long as the parts fitted it didn't bother me if they were metric or imperial. I retired the end of December 2023 aged 70😂
Impressive you retired 3 months in future already
Senior moment, should have read retired December 2022. Oops
The downstairs loo is known as the AF in our house. AF meaning Alternative Facility
As in "I shall use the alternative facility"
My late best friend came up with it one Christmas
I live in a beach town with a very popular wharf and boardwalk/amusement park. Roundabouts aren't very common in the U.S., but the city decided a bunch of years ago to install one near the beach to help with the flow of traffic. Now, people are used to it but that first summer it was absolute chaos! Tens of thousands of Americans had to deal with a roundabout for the first time in their lives!
You have my utmost sympathy.
As an ex-driver for a living in the UK roundabouts were my #1 hated thing when driving. I'm absolutely certain I'm in the minority of UK drivers in hating roundabouts. But that doesn't mean I'm about to change my mind. I've stopped driving completely now anyway. So.. problem solved. lol
If you want to experience roundabouts, have a go at driving around Cwmbran in South Wales, it's probably the roundabout capital of the world!
@@PeteLewisWoodwork Correct.
The only other place that comes close is the magic roundabout near Swindon.
I've never heard the expression "cheeky Nando's" and by the way garages are designed for storing vehicles and vehicle related items Amanda!!😊😂
The only thing weird is Mo-Jo. When they make a sweeping statement 'that no one else in the world understands this', most of the English speaking world with connections to the UK say we do.
:))
Amanda in UK we have "ground floor" ( below that "basement" or "cellar") and then above ground floor "1st floor".
-Yes we have "Pancake flippin' 🥞 races"
-Football cards have sold for a lot of money in UK 🇬🇧
I need to get involved with this! Lol
@@LADYRAEUK pancake races tend to be in school fetes or community fetes. They are sparse these days, so you will have to do some research in your area.
We love a good roundabout because it plays into our love of queuing.
Ah I didn’t think about that 👍🏻
I went to the timber merchant and asked for some board. 6 foot by 4 foot. He said it's all metric now it's 2400 x 1200mm. Okay. Then he asked me what thickness I wanted. Half inch or three quarters?
😂😂😂
A woman went to a butchers and asked for a pound of sausages, the butcher said its kilos nowadays, so the woman said give me a pound of kilos then.
laughed so much woke my husband up
When an American says in an article that they are "220 pounds" - I have to change it into stones and pounds before I can even visualise their weight.
Me too.
I watch My 600lb Life & unless I google it into stone I don’t have a clue on what they weigh.
Because in the programme they constantly lose weight I have to google it several times. 😀
I used to get Football Stickers and Stickerbooks as a kid in 80's. First one was Mexico 86 lol!
Shrove Tuesday was the last opportunity to use up eggs and fats before embarking on the Lenten fast and pancakes are the perfect way of using up these ingredients. Which is why the pancakes are different really. We used to get a half day off school for pancake day. As for the metric system! Well we learned both ar school, these days I think everyone just learns metric, I wonder if the real reason for keeping the mile was she sheer cost of changing the signs. Some still use pounds ounces, perch, Rod, chains and furlongs. Horse racing and the length of a cricket pitch come to mind.
I'm English and ive not watched the Eurovision since the 1970s
Now we tend to go for roundabouts plus traffic lights ( belts and braces) they are better because sometimes you can be waiting forever at traffic island!
Nice one Snorter, another superb video for our entertainment thank you Amanda.
Hi Amanda! Totally agree on roundabouts, much more efficient than junctions with traffic lights - bit like your 'Stop' signs, the lights force you to stop, even though the roads may be empty! I used to live in Milton Keynes, known as the 'city of roundabouts'..! for the pancake races, legend says that it all started when a woman heard the shriving bell calling people to church on Shrove Tuesday while she was making pancakes - and she ran to the church still in her apron with her frying pan! We don’t know whether this story is true, but we think that the first races happened in about 1445..the most famous race is held in the Buckinghamshire market town of Olney every year, competing with the town of Liberal, Kansas since 1950, who hold an identical race - whoever gets the fastest time wins the 'International Pancake Race!..!
i love this!
cheese rolling, the bog snorkeling championships and all the other mad championships we do!
Ah yes! I didn’t even think about that! Lol
@@LADYRAEUK the gurning one is the strangest lol
Paddy McGuinness made Nando's popular on Take Me Out dating show
Canada uses both Metric and Imperial, too. Round abouts don't have to stop (great for motorcycles) and take no power. Was that a scene from the IT Crowd? Great series. Your pancakes sound so good, Amanda. Canada has garage sales-selling your stuff your kids have outgrown-and presesnts you got that you never liked.
(Bye the way, Summer's running out and you havent shown, discreetly of course, your family's tattoos yet.)
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Don't know how Nandos has become British, it's actually a South African multinational
Dandelion and Burdock. That's what I thought of, and now I want some. Elderflower cordial too, which I also don't have and now want. I'm probably just thirsty because I'm hungover though :)
I love 4 way stops here. Back home, at crossroads with no lights, one road usually had the right of way and if traffic was really busy, you could sit there for ages waiting to get out.
With 4 way stop, its first come first served, so nobody has to wait very long to take whatever turn they need.
I go back to pre metric days , and find it easier to visualise lengths and weights in imperial .but for actual precise measurements metric is easier on the eye . I don't mind spiders and sometimes give regular shed residents names . You are thinking as a Brit with the ground floor loo . As always it's nice to hear your thoughts Amanda .
thanks David, I hope you're well :)
First OFF, the advert BEFORE your vidya was a candid interview with 3 of the Lionesses, they came across so natural and sincere. May I wish the Lionesses the BEST OF LUCK in the World Cup Final on Sunday ❤❤🎉🎉😊
They also looked 'unnatural' with too much makeup and fake blonde hair, so there's that.
Roundabouts can be great fun when it's dead and no one else is about👍👍
we have an annual Pancake Race here in Jersey. it is usually between different hotels.
Car Boot Sales are a newish thing. they basically are a more expensive version of a Jumble Sale.
I can't believe I missed it when I lived there! lol
@@LADYRAEUK they tend to show a clip of the event every year on the Channel News.
American pancakes are just bigger versions of Scottish pancakes and Scottish pancakes are what we, in my family, always had on Shrove Tuesday growing up…I am Scottish though. I will also say that Scottish pancakes when fried are a REALLY great item on a fried breakfast…along with potato scones.
Thanks for sharing!
Pancake flipping races are absolutely a thing. Our pancakes are based on French Crepes I think, totally different animal to American ones (Amanda knows this of course)
I like them both. An English pancake can be stuffed with whatever like a wrap: Nutella and cream, lemon and sugar, or savoury: Bacon and cheese for example.
When I collected football stickers as a kid it was Bobby Charlton.. George Best.. Bobby Moore.. Geoff Hurst etc... giving my age away now
refering to foods as cheeky started in the late 90s when the drink "cheeky vimto " hit the pub scene it was refered to as cheeky because it was alchoholic rather than the normal fruit drink
ah thank you, I didn't know that!
Thanks for another entertaining video Amanda.
Stay looking beautiful as always 😊
Thank you!! 😊
car boot sales are modern decades before we had church , football club , school jumble sales aranged in church halls etc where you could rent a table for the day / evening to sell unwanted clothes or items
I do hope you're alright Michael, I wish you a speedy recovery :)
i know you're gonna snort ,, but i'm not michael @@LADYRAEUK
When I was a child, we would get second hand clothes or other items due to need. My parents couldn't afford to buy the latest items.
I agree Amanda, those featured are not weird at all. That said, you see things from a Brit viewpoint now so, it may be weird to other people but maybe not to you! My idea of weird British things - queuing, a fascination with the weather, rooting for the underdog as a neutral, popular tv soaps showing normal people, (compare Corrie to Dallas), chip butties, beans on toast, pints and complaining if your beer glass is not full (we wouldn’t complain abroad), saying sorry for something that isn’t your fault, and wallpapering our ceilings (sometimes). I could go on, but I won’t. Love watching your comments, keep them coming please.
they're some good ones! lol !
Hope you're well :)
Pie and mash. Jellied eels.
Really Amanda... I'm English and I've never lived in a house where the toilet or bathroom hasn't been upstairs on the top floor where the bedrooms are
UK houses generally just referred to downstairs and upstairs and loft/attic, other more public buildings are Ground floor then 1st 2nd etc etc.
Ahh thanks! 😊
I use 3 systems now.
I use metric and imperial mixed as in the video, but now a lot of online recipes are American so I’ve started using cups as well.😮😮😮
I disagree about the pancakes, I found the American ones to be a bit too thick an therefore a bit doughy, the British ones are larger and flatter but then we put sugar and lemon and anything else you want such as maple syrup and then roll them up so that they are like a roll, they are absolutely lovely.
I have gravy on pancakes, but then I'm from up north!
Ditto. I've always found US style pancakes a bit too thick, heavy and not as accomodating of as many types of toppings (sugar, lemon, golden syrup, Nutella, fruit etc) as British pancakes/crêpes.
@@missprimproper1022 the American ones or the British ones. I love the British ones with Golden Syrup as well.
@jaysmith2858 not only that you can make a good savoury starter with them by putting cooked bacon strips and chopped spring onions in them then roll them up, cut them in half and pour melted cheese over them and put them in the oven to colour the cheese. Pancakes don`t have to be sweet.
@@thehairygolfer I have never tried that, I suppose they are then a bit like Yorkshire puddings to eat.
Hi Amanda, the moment sheds were mentioned, I just knew you were going to mention Spiders 🕷 😳 😀 lol.
loL!
I was a Little League coach at RAF Alconbury for eight years we packed groceries at the base supermarket, washed cars to raise funds for the World Little League competition. Now here in the UK you can see various groups packing groceries at our supermarkets.
I haven't had a Nandos cheeky or otherwise and I don't feel too bad about it! 🤭
I think the phrase is ‘disgusting Nando’s’ 🤮🤮🤮 👍
Lol!
Brit here never tried a nados, never appealed to me.
On Celsius or fahrenheit you will see that in Uk when newspapers talk about summer heat they use Fahrenheit but when it is cold revert to Celsius
Never had a Nandos, don't drink, never collected football stickers, hate Eurovision, and haven't celebrated pancake day for years. Maybe i'm no longer British.
I think metric v imperial depends on how old you are. I was brought up on the imperial system but then had to change when metric was introduced, but I still use the imperial system, whereas my kids use the metric system.
U.S. gallons an UK gallons are different measurements altogether.
I'm from Scotland and my mothers pancakes were, what some people call DROP SCONES.
The thin ones are just crepe ! ( see what I did there ?)🤭
Who eats pancakes with bacon....apart from the USA !?
I'm English and I've never to Nandos... Its usually a curry or a McDonald's or a KFC... I've never even considered a Nandos... probably not real food lol
The American version of pancakes sound like Scotch pancakes .
Their basically the same had many in the USA and Scotland and their readily available in the UK and i always get some sent to me in Corcisa.
Down here in Oz we like to mix things up as well. For instance one might they're 6'2" and 100 kg and quite acceptable.
Temperature is simple: Above freezing, Fahrenheit; below freezing, Celsius/Centigrade - says a Brit who moved to Copenhagen 45 (!!) years ago.
I’d love to visit someday! What’s it like? I’m assuming you enjoy it as you’ve stayed lol
To convert C to F, multiple by 1.8 & add 32 (20 * 1.8 + 32 = 68), a rough & ready way is to double the degrees Celsius & add 30 (20 * 2 + 30 = 70, just 2 degrees out), you'll be close enough.
Spiders in sheds (Redback & Huntsman). Roundabouts, same with piss up's for sport, festivals, are all big things in Australia too, not just a British thing.
I come from the era of the swap from imperial to metric and use both although officially Aussies use metric, alot if ex-pats still talk in imperial.
Eurovision in Australia for the past few years.
Hi Amanda. Some goods things on there. Being of a certain age, I still try to use imperial measurements.😀Car fuel usage is always measured in MPG ( miles per gallon). Roundabouts are OK I live near a magic roundabout. 😀I haven't had a traditional UK pancake in years but my mum used to make lovely pancakes, with lots of sugar🥰
sounds lovely@!
Yesss he mentioned my home town Derby’s footie team…up the Rams🏐
Given the ability to print out a dangerous weapon on your PC's printer, how hard would it be to do the same with a derby county fulback sticker???
You've been here so long you're now... One of us, one of us... 😊
Totally agree about sheds, mine is full of false widows *shudders*
I like a cheeky Indian takeaway, with a bottle of cobra, in my shed, with the resident spider ‘ Oscar’
Regarding spiders in sheds, I am sure those little beggars know every trick in the book and can also detect that they scare me. If I have to change shoes when outside, I will stuff rags in the ones I remove to keep them out because they will see me taking them off and creep right in as soon as my back is turned. As for crispy bacon and pancakes, I would never have imagined those two coming together in a single sentence, let alone on the same plate!
Oh please try it ! lol
@@LADYRAEUK I will try it - and will let you know what I think.
As for the metric system thing, I was taught in Imperial and stubbornly refuse to accept metric - I hate it! I am a carpenter/joiner of over 40 years and now buy mainly US tools because I know how they work (measure). When I buy British/European metric tools, I stamp the equivalent Imperial measurement on them. Metric is rubbish! And yes, pancake flipping race is a real thing - or at least it was when I was a kid.
My other half first drove in the USA, when visiting her sister, when she was learning to drive here in the UK, all she complained about was roundabouts. When I sat with her, I used to find as many roundabouts as possible to get her used to them 🪨
l live in Wiltshire , England, home of the "the magic roundabout," but even so l have only ever gone it once
for me, its the generalised quick greeting of "hey, how you doing?" followed by "I am not too bad! How are you?" "I'm good thanks!" and walking away - yet 99% of of that not is true! 😂but we've just wasted 20seconds of life - but I still can't avoid doing it, its the worst, polite, small talk there is 😆
reminds me of when you go to the doctors, and he asks how are you, we all seem to say fine thanks.
LOL!
Yeah Amanda is Fahrenheit for me too when temperature is given in centigrade I have to work it out what that is in real language
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At secondary school we were taught millimetres and centimetres,but I do a bit of DIY and use inches and feet when I measure,public drunkeness 40yrs ago I did it regularly, I drank myself silly, then walk like you are walking up a steep hill, then suddenly you are walking downhill then you fall over,getting a round in is something that would confuse over seas visitors
I would like to add the great British Cup of tea everyone drinks it
And I would love to see you running down the road
Tossing your pancakes in a race ❤❤
You've been caught snorting again. 😂👍😉
lol!!
Dear Amanda Rae it’s all about Rarity and condition of the baseball card they have placed in plastic protectors like mint condition cards and also scarcity of certain baseball card.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Garden spiders or Alligators and bears 🤔
Think if garden spiders are our most deadly foe over here I'm ok with that 😂
fair lol!
Here in Minneapolis we have loads of roundabouts; slowly but surely we’re replacing all the stupid 4-way stops
Fahrenheit or centigrade. 1 easy to remember temperature is 82 f = 28 c. That just happens to be my best daytime temperature.
Beautiful British it must be the pomp and patented you don’t find anywhere else
Thanks for lovely and funny reply Amanda
I always thought the ground floor loo was there specifically for visitors, as you really don't want people you don't know that well going upstairs in your house.
I was in a gym in Warsaw, where an American lady was working out. Confused by the weights being in kilograms she asked the gym instructor, 'How many pounds is that?'.
'Madam,' he replied, 'they are not for sale.'
lol!!!
Spiders arent bad untill you hear them in their marching boosts ;-)
lol!
Re roundabouts: see Skelmersdale. A whole town without a single traffic light.
Great video. I don't mind roundabouts but not keen on turning tonight (twice as much traffic to judge. I also collect old childhood toys and love pancakes.
Thanks for sharing
roundabouts are not just an English thing, I know in Holland and France they have them, I assume most European countries do. Austra;ia has them as well
Pancake race in Olney, Bucks.
Thanks! :)
Hi Amanda,
I was born in the early 1970's. We were taught both metric and imperial measurements. Some things I find easier to picture in one system; the height of a person in feet and inches, weight in stones, distance in miles etc. Other things like temperature I can relate to better in celsius, or measuring something smaller in centimetres/millimetres.
Going back to the hot and cold taps. I like having them separate in case owt goes wrong with one, you can still use t'other.😁
Who doesn't love a Nando's you ask? Well... Anyone who has eaten KFC I would hazard a guess. Nando's is to me, about half as good as KFC. For twice the price. Fair do's to the company for pulling off a genius marketing scam for sure.
Stuff like art, property, baseball cards are a good way for very rich people to buy assets under the name of a company and reduce their tax burden in the short term ;)
The magic roundabout is any roundabout on shrooms
I'm at work. My wife is at home 25 miles away. I get a phone call and she's going mad because there is a spider in the house. So i leave work and do a fifty mile trip just to get rid of the spider while my wife is behind me shouting "don't kill it..don't kill it!" Love that woman though❤
Show her how to trap it under a glass until you get back.
Mate. She cannot be in the house let alone find a glass and trap it. But thanks 🤣
Love it! I think your wife and I would get on just fine! 🤣🤣
@@LADYRAEUK I think you actually would. Thanks Amanda and keep those observations coming
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@@LADYRAEUK My wife does not particularly like the non-venomous huntersman spiders only for one reason, because her brother would pick them up and roll them up in his hands and throw them at her when she was growing up. While visiting her parents one afternoon about fifteen plus years ago he did it right in front of me so quickly I didn’t have time to react and my wife was on the receiving end, and boy did she lay into him immediately after she deflected it, he was in his late thirties and still acting like a teenager. There are the most commonly filmed spider in Australia as everyone knows what there are and I don’t dislike them other than there are extremely fast moving so much that people think they jump. Example I notice one on my wrist of a flannelette shirt that I had on, and I had to look twice as four of the legs on one side of his body were not there, by the time my brain computated this and considered he wouldn’t move that fast he was at my neck, needless to say the shirts was ripped off and on the ground. The largest spider I’ve come close to in the wood pile next to my shed is a SE Queensland tarantula it’s abdomen is the size the hunters man legspan an two to three times the size of the James Bond size tarantula in the London Zoo I visited a year later, where I instructed the exhibitor of some thirty years how to treat spider bites as he didn’t know basic Australian scouting first aid. P.S I was treated at London Zoo for a phobia a few years before so was happy to return the courtesy. You will not guess what they got me to pet? NSW in Oz
Couldn’t agree more Amanda, I love cooking but I have to Google American to English ingredient weights 🤦♂️
Roundabouts. Here in the USA I've seen one in Chattanooga TN and laughed my head off ( Perhaps unfairly ) at how bad American drivers are at getting in the right lane to take their exits.
Have a look for the worlds fastest shed.
Never used cheeky with Nandos. But even back in my day we called something cheeky. Cheeky pint usually. Never had lemon and sugar on a pancake either. I have heard of that but my family eat them with gravy or stew. Always savoury never sweet.
We can and do have every style of pancakes it depends on who is making them.
12:03 I would hate to think that the concept of Americans being thick and fluffy might be applied beyond the realm of pancakes.
Pancake races are a British custom that take place in many towns on Shrove Tuesday, Olney in Buckinghamshire is the most famous one, as for bacon on pancakes, sounds disgusting!, you are more likely to have a spider land on you in the garden than in the shed.
We are taking our first trip to England soon. Thanks for the fun educational series. I start the day with a laugh. Bye, bye now,see you, thanks, bye now, bye-bye.
Cheese and pickle sandwiches. Real double Gloucester.
2 meters of 2x4 inch timber.
A kilo of 3 inch nails.
Brits use centigrade for cold temperatures, Fahrenheit for hot ones.