Offically the Northern Ireland flag is also wrong, its a Union Jack, so that two flags wrong. But the flag shown is Ulster Flag, which is kinda the unoffical flag but certain communities hate that flag, so thats why it's not official.
1:18 - Already the video being reacted to has messed up, The England flag known as The Saint George's Cross is a red cross with vertical and horizontal lines on a white background. What the video is showing is the Union Flag when the narrator says England.
There was a big error at the start of this video It kept using the Union flag/Union jack which is the flag of Great Britain & N. Ireland for England. The flag of England is actually St. George's Cross which is a red cross on a white background. This is why it's best to watch videos of facts about Britain made by Brits, rather than Americans!😄 Drinking: Although it's legal for parents to give their kids alcohol it tends to be only very small amounts, usually cider or wine (or perhaps a sip of sherry), often watered down and usually only on special occasions like Christmas or Sunday lunch. As you grow older you might be allowed a bit more and by the time you're in your teens probably a full, unwatered glass of wine or cider. Of course this depends on the parents. By mid-teens kids often start drinking with their friends, often bought by older siblings. I was going to pubs and clubs by the time I was 16, which isn't unusual. There was one, out of the way pub in my town that all the underage drinkers went to. The local police turned a blind eye taking the view it was better to have them in the pub where the publican and bouncers could keep an eye on them, than for them to be hanging about drinking on street corners, scaring the pensioners and causing trouble.
Indeed. The French quite often give their kids "rose" (red wine diluted with water; not rosé, which is its own full-strength thing). As to the Union Flag and the Commonwealth and Dominions, CPG Grey has a fantastic explainer over at ua-cam.com/video/rNu8XDBSn10/v-deo.html and even as a UK native, I still have to watch it every now and then to remind myself. 😄
Well my parents never diluted any drink for me and the same went for all of my peers in the 1960's , nowadays though the country is full of woke snowflakes ........
But the English flag is often overlooked. A holiday vompany advertising holidayscin England Scotland and Wales had Scottish flag gor Scottish Holidays Welsh flag for Welsh holidays and Union flag for English holidays I complained about it.
Growing up in the 90's drinking wasn't uncommon as kids. You'd normally get a glass of wine at things like Christmas or occasionally with Sunday dinner. It was also was pretty common to have something like half a pint of cider if you were with family socialising at the weekend at someones home. Not heavy drinking but you took part with everyone else.
I was born in the 70s. We had the same sort of thing. I've never been a big drinker even to this day. I think that because we had it occasionally, we never thought that it was taboo and binged when we got old enough to buy it ourselves.
Born in 65, when my Dad would pick me up from school when I was 9 & 10, he would give me a bottle (small) of Babycham to drink on the way home (I would also be allowed Babycham at home), never even occoured to me that this was unusual. There would be a bottle of whisky (Scotch), 2 of wine, on the sideboard in the front room, new ones brought maybe once every two or three yrs. My Dad would have a beer one a Friday night after work, maybe one on Saturday too. When I drank when I was at theatre or a gig, it would only be if they had one of my drinks of choice. When at Uni, I got drunk (to were I had a hangover) exactly twice, though to the point of being "merry" with friends, several times. Never saw the point of getting drunk to the point of feeling ill. I was never "The Cool" kid, as I never smoked, that was one of the things that made you "Cool". Though, & I kid you not, there were kids using "Coke" at my middle shool (& the Secondary school next door) in the mid 70's.
I was born in 1965. Mum and Dad had a drinks cupboard at home and we (me and my sisters) were usually encouraged to have a glass of wine with Sunday lunch. Mum always said she'd rather we learnt our limits at home and then we wouldn't go out and get completely paralytic!
I was born in 1979. I was always allowed to try alcohol half a bit or a shandy at family get togethers, glass of wine with Christmas dinner etc. at 16 we used to drink in the local village pub. The landlord knew we were underage, the village Bobby knew we were underaged and drank in there. The idea being that if we weren’t in the pub, we would be drinking in the streets or fields causing mischief. And also being in the local we were surrounded by adults, who all knew our parents. So we sat there or had a few games of pool or darts, had a few beers, and were quiet and respectful. Then when we started going for nights out into the town on pub crawl’s. It wasn’t such a big deal and we knew how to behave ourselves. My cousin on the other hand her mother was a very strict Catholic and wouldn’t let her try even a drop at family get togethers. Then when she had a part time working in an office while she was at college. The boss invited all the staff to his house for a house party. Where they had to call her an ambulance 2 hours into the party. Because she had thrown up red wine all up the stairs, all in the sink, all in the bath, and all over the walls around the toilet. And she ended up getting her stomach pumped. Later she admitted to me that she knew nothing about drinking, knew nothing about wine. Apparently she had been filling up plastic pint glasses with wine, which is nearly 2/3rds of a bottle.
I was born in 94 and I remember trying my dad's beer and having a shandy when I was around 7. I'd just got a PS1 slim for Christmas and so me, my dad, and my uncle all sat around playing gran turismo. I can also remember having a half flute of champagne during the millennium (I was 6). Now I'm nearly 30 I only really drink when I go out with work. Drinking at home is a rarity for me. I suppose my curiosity was sated at a young age so I never really felt the need to binge.
Fun Facts: The British Isles consists of OVER 6,000 islands. 189 are permanently inhabited islands. In order of size/area the top TEN are: (1) Great Britain, (2) Ireland, (3) Lewis & Harris (two names, but one island), (4) Isle of Skye, (5) Shetland (mainland), (6) Isle of Mull, (7) Anglesey, (8) Islay, (9) Isle of Man and (10) Orkney (mainland).
@@simonrobbins8357 - I believe I know and I haven't looked it up... But I bet I saw the same thing you did, because I too only learnt it a few months ago and didn't know it's an island !!! Yes, a great pub quiz question, so an answer worth putting away.
Hey Tyler Juat to assure you witb some of these you are not alone I'm a Brit and have lived here all my life (27 years), and to this day I didn't even realise the drinking age of 5 in private premises was a thing 🤣, Yes British people do get confused with great Britain and United Kingdom quite a bit, but this is more because we commonly refer to ourselves English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish depending on which of thw countries we were born or even names based off of the cities or regions we were born such as scousers (Liverpool) or mancunian (Manchester) for example. We may have started the Industrial Revolution however it was Henry Ford who revolutionised the moving assembly line which boosted productivity in manufacturing significantly. Sorry for my ramblings 😊 Love all the content that you are releasing can't wait for the next one. Much love from here across the pond 🥰
growing up in the UK in the 90's/2000's, I've had small amounts of alcohol since I was 6 or 7 with Sunday roast and had things like shandy (beer & lemonade) since 10 with a meal, wasn't until I was 15 that I had my first proper beer - that meant by the time I was 18 drinking wasn't a new thing so didn't go out to get drunk like most seem to do do at 18 (or 21 in US *cough*legally*cough* )
Yes similar experience . Shandy with Sunday lunch or a weak cider and something like a weak port and lemonade at Christmas perhaps. I was given whisky to try at about 6 and that turned me off spirits for many years as I never felt so sick.
I've given my kids alcohol on special occasions. I've done so for the same reason that you stated. Also, they're in a safe environment (if supervised by their parents) learning to drink responsibly. My eldest 2 have shown this works and no doubt the others will be just the same. They're responsible young adults now, not going out binge drinking and getting drunk whenever possible for whatever reason.
It is a true fact. My first drink was of whisky and I was aged 7 years. I hated it ... had it for dinner one night after pestering my Dad to drink it! I never touched alcohol again until 18 years old on my birthday and that was champagne : )
We made the worlds first metal (iron) bridge it was assembled with woodworking joints at Ironbridge Shropshire over the River Severn Its is a UNESCO World heritage Site and also the first iron framed building a precursor to the Sky scrappers in New York The Flax Mill in Shrewsbury.
Another mistake I picked out was calling the UK Parliament a "federal" parliament. The UK is not a federation, it does not have a federal government. It seems like a lot of Americans don't really understand exactly what "federal" means. They seem to think it just means something relating to a country as a whole, without any regard for whether the country is a federation.
If it's federal (it's not), where's the English part of the federation as there's no English parliament? I always think of federations as being built from the bottom up - the USA was founded when 13 colonies created it. The UK, however, had a single parliament from 1801 and the recently created devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales were created top down and their powers are in the gift of the UK parliament which, if it was being particularly bold, could even dissolve and abolish these legislatures if it so chose.
@@MrBulky992 Are you sure the UK parliament could abolish the Scottish parliament? You may be right, but Scottish and English law are distinct, although both have their final court of appeal at the UK Supreme Court, and it seems that the supremacy of parliament is not as strong a principle in Scottish law as it is in English.
@@barneylaurance1865 Yes, I am certain. The Scottish Parliament was created by an act of the UK Parliament, an act that could be repealed by the UK Parliament: there's nothing irreversible about it. The referendum by which Scottish devolution came about was advisory as is always legally the case with referendums in the UK. The Scottish Parliament would be exceeding its powers if it tried to prolong its existence in defiance of the UK Parliament. In the shorter term, the UK Parliament has the power to strike down some legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament or, in the longer term, to reduce its powers. There is a case in progress at the moment regarding gender recognition. The law courts in Scotland ensure compliance with laws enacted by the UK Parliament which apply to the UK in general and those applying to Scotland specifically (including devolution legislation) and, if UK legislation is in place to give it the necessary powers, the Scottish Parliament. If the courts come to an interpretative judgement which either government does not like, either Parliament has the power to change/clarify the law. The courts cannot stand in the way even in Scotland.
You definitely have the greatest treasure of writers and literature (imo). Dickens is my all time favourite. And lets not forget about Shakespeare! The list is almost endless.
You have a point on the drinking aspect. As I hit my teens, I was encouraged to drink every so often so that I understood what effect it would have on me and to know my limits before I got to the legal age where I could buy my own. Turned out I didn't much enjoy drinking and as soon as I reached the legal age I began getting ill quite easily with only a small amount of alcohol, so I decided I wasn't going to drink any more. But it was useful to know since I identified that it was not normal for me to get that ill compared to previous experiences. Also saved me a LOT of money at university lol
I was always given a drink to try when younger. It does let you get used to the effects. I used to go out and get drunk a lot, but never had to go hospital and always got home on my own. My cousin on the other hand was never allowed to try any alcohol until she hit 18. And the first time she got drunk was at a party at her bosses house. When she was working part time in an office while going college. 2 hours in to the party they had to call an ambulance. After she threw up red wine all up the stairs, all in the bath and sink, and all over the toilet. She had gone from never having tried alcohol, to starting with red wine and not knowing how much or how fast was a recommended amount.
Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus. However, “soccer” never became much more than a nickname in Great Britain. By the 20th century, rugby football was more commonly called rugby, while association football had earned the right to be known as just plain football.
Love your videos when I can’t stand listening about the Harkles I put your videos on it cheers me up straight away listen to your comments so funny and enjoyable your a breath of fresh air 🤣🤷♀️
I was allowed to drink alcohol from about 12 with my family on special meals at home. I'd get a beer...which in reality was a shandy and contained only a small drop of beer and mostly lemonade. I thought I was all grown up! 😆
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s there was always a bottle of wine on the dinner table while we had Sunday dinner. It brought up to respect alcohol. Now I'm 46 I hardly ever drink alcohol at all and have no dependency on it due to experiencing whilst I was young. If I do have a alcoholic drink, then it's just one and it's always drank in conjunction with a nice meal. I never binge drink or get drunk. This is thanks to the respect my parents taught me to have toward alcohol when I was young.
8:30 that there is a rugby 🏉 ball! Which is a sport very similar to American football 🏈. Except rugby players don't wear as much body armour and they don't have ad breaks except at half time. Or cheerleaders. Definitely consider reacting to a rugby intro vid some time, it'd be interesting to see how different the two sports are.
I work in and live above an English Pub, on PEI, Canada, named after Winston. I love learning things about the UK, as we have many regulars and the owner is from there. I also love learning about Canada on your other channel. Thanks for teaching me so much!
Winston Churchill's words, "We weep together, we celebrate & bleed together..." resonated deeply at the time of the tragedy of 9/11 in the USA 🇺🇸 and the recent death of the late Queen in the UK 🇬🇧
Fun fact: Winston Churchill was appointed by the monarch, George VI, in 1940 during WWII because the House of Commons had "lost confidence" in the Prime Minister at the time, Neville Chamberlain. I think that was the only time the monarchy has used its power to appoint a Prime Minister. Winston Churchill served twice (during the second world war, and then once after), but was only voted in by the people once. He certainly had a way with words too. That quote in the video reminded me of: "we ride together, we die together. Bad boys for life". 😆
This is incorrect. The monarch of the day appoints EVERY Prime Minister but does this on the advice of either the outgoing Prime Minister or upon the advice of leading members of the ruling party. The monarch have never in recent history appointed a Prime Minister of their own volition. The only occasion that I can remember was when when the Governor-General of Australia, the Queen's representative, dismissed Goff Whitlam during a Constitutional Crisis but he would only have done this on the advice of senior members of the two major political parties.
When I moved to France in 1972, I had my daughter in 1974 - the incredible fact was that in the hospital, at lunch we were given 1/4 litre of wine. However, if you wanted to have water, you had to pay for it - incredible to believe today ......
You could watch the opening segment of the 2012 Olympics which were held in London. It shows the change from the green fields of Britain to the industrial revolution.
2:46 Great Britain or (Greater Britain) is the biggest island. The British Isles includes Great Britain and the Island of Ireland and all the small islands too.
When I was a kid, my dad would give me little sips of his beer to ‘taste’ as I got a bit older I’d have a bit more. When I was in my teens I’d have the occasional can/bottle of beer. It meant that I didn’t go mad binge drinking etc because it took the mystique out of drinking. These days I enjoy a drink but I drink in moderation and hate getting drunk.
As was baseball (no not rounders, or cricket, or some other bat and ball game, BASEBALL), sure the modern game of baseball has been considerably modified in the US, but it's origin was definitely in the UK.
The monarch is Head of the Commonwealth, it is more a community to help promote democracy, peace and prosperity/trade etc. You can leave when you want, and you don't have to have been part of the Empire, as evidenced by the last four countries Rwanda, Mozambique, Gabon and Togo.
I remember being given a glass of champagne at a wedding when I was 8 it was lovely in an old style champagne glass not a flute, I felt very grown up & very glowy even though I only got half a glass 😂🍸🍸🍸
1923 The Intoxicating Liquor (Sale to Persons under 18) Act 1923 prohibited the sale or purchase of alcohol to or by any person under the age of 18 years, but allowed the sale of beer, port, cider or perry to a person over the age of 16 years with a meal.
I grew up in the 80s, and we were taught that too much alcohol is bad, so a lot of my generation seem to not go mad. There was a kids TV show called Grange Hill set in a English secondary school, in the late 80s there was a storyline about one of the pupils having a drinking problem. We seemed to brought up to respect alcohol.
American football was developed from rugby, ice hockey was invented by British troops serving in Canada, Badminton was invented at Badminton House, we changed Real Tennis into Lawn Tennis, we also invented table tennis and bobsled.
To be clear, Great Britian is a geographical term referring to, as said in the video, the main island. The British Isles are also a geographical term and refer to Great Britain and all islands surrounding it, including Ireland. The United Kingdom, isn't geographical and more political and refers to Britain and Northern Island.
5 years! My Mother was putting a very small drop of Gin in my bottle from 5 weeks to get me to sleep for more than an hour at a time. Also rubbed on my gums when teething. The Isle of Man (between Britain and Ireland) and the Channel Islands (off the coast of Northwestern France) are not part of Great Britain or the UK but are part of the British Isles (geographically). They are self governing but have the Monarch as Head of State. The IOM has a historical monarch with no power (dating back to the Vikings the Parliament the Tynwald is also as old and active) and the Monarch in the Channel Islands is known as the Duke of Normandy.
2:46 because the term Great Britain is geographical and refers to the entirety of the big island. Northern Ireland is on a different landmass, although tbh most of us don't really think too hard about this one ourselves.
Another fun fact about Margaret thatcher: when she died the number 1 song in the charts was “ding don’t the witch is dead” from the wizard of Oz. Thatcher wasn’t particularly liked to some people would sing it referring to her.
In the early 1960's my parents started giving me a glass of sherry on Christmas Eve when I was 8 and when I was 15 I was allowed to help myself to as much sherry or port as I liked throughout the Christmas season, but I never even considered drinking enough to feel it (until I became generally rebellious at 18). Similarly, British babies are weened from milk directly onto tea, and to coffee soon afterwards in households where it is used. I was really shocked a few years ago to meet an American 16 year old who was still not allowed to have any caffeine.
I am totally surprised by the phrase "Americans really don't know much about the UK, a lot of Americans don't know where it is". I think they MUST KNOW that the language they speak is not from "America", that it has no relation to the native languages spoken in that land. So don't they wonder where it comes from ????? 😳😳😳
As per the comments, I would agree that lots of people won't know the difference between UK, GB etc. It most probably thought of a similar to referring to America as America, the States or USA. They are thought of names for the same basic thing.
Fun facts about New Zealand, there is NO age limit for drinking on private property. Drinking age limits (18) only apply to licenced premises and buying alcohol. Also moonshining is and has always been legal as we never had prohibition here.
It’s easier to get a handle on the titles of Great Britain & UK if you remember the full title of the latter is “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. In other words Great Britain is the grouping of the three mainland countries. Adding N.I. results in the U.K. England is just the largest of the three mainland entities England, Scotland & Wales.
i think having bits of alcohol at an early age like a class of white wine or a sandy helps stop you drinking so heavy as an adult i had shandys (beer & lemonade at 10) and at 13 wine at x mas ect its very normal.
In the UK we are taught about the UK industrial Revolution, but i read today that the United States had its own industrial Revolution and also the Gilded Age. it would be worth comparing what happened on what comparable time lines. As just one fact re this, Samuel Slater was an English/American who introduced British textile manufacturing techniques to the United States and steam power was a British invention which helped industries and of course the steam train and railways was a British invention .
HI RYAN DEBRA FROM SOUTH WALES UK HERE We play a game very similar to Baseball here and it is called Rounders. Courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica. History Origin The term base-ball can be dated to 1744, in John Newbery’s children’s book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book. The book has a brief poem and an illustration depicting a game called base-ball. Interestingly, the bases in the illustration are marked by posts instead of the bags and flat home plate now so familiar in the game. The book was extremely popular in England and was reprinted in North America in 1762 (New York) and 1787 (Massachusetts). Did you know that Sir Winston Churchill was half American as his mother came from Cable Hill, Brookland New Yor and was born on the 9 January 1854, she married Lord Randolph Churcilll in 1874 and she died on 29 June 1921 aged just 67 in Paddington London, England.
american football comes from Rugby were no helmets and shoulder pads are worn as Rugby players use what they are born with as said by Jeremy Clarkson on The Grand Tour when they were in the tent in america, Britain also invented baseball.
Thunderbirds was a Tv series in the sixties. It consisted of marionettes and elaborate sets that made the entire series realistic. Sadly, the married couple who came up with the series, have long passed, and although Hollywood tried to make it into a real person series, the idea never really took off and the marionettes have always reigned supreme! S1, Ep 1: ua-cam.com/video/wLiH4xrCITI/v-deo.html
You are not alone. Almost all countries use a shortened version of their country's full name. Britain is officially The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland but we just say the UK. France is "La République Française" but is referred to as just France. You see, Sweden is no different.
Shame they are using the Union Flag as the flag of England (The Union Flag is the flag of the UK. The Union Jack by the way is the Union Flag but flown on ships and boats). England’s flag, St George’s flag, is a red cross on a white background.
Pub children usually get given drinks early. I pulled my first pint when I was 3 - stood on a crate & I had my first very small glass of sherry soon after. Unfortunately because I cried as a baby my parents were advised to put whisky in my bottle to help me sleep = shut me up which it did.
In Ontario and many other Canadian Provinces, the official age for drinking alcohol is 19 (it was 18 in Ontario but raised to 19 because students were having drinks at lunch and then returning to school slightly inebriated). Children, under 19, may be served alcohol by their parents and/or guardian while in their residence. My parents (Father was a doctor), served my two sisters and me a small glass of wine with dinner each day, from 5 or 6 onward. Thus we grew up appreciating it with a meal but never felt we had to over-drink.
Thunderbirds was an 60’s puppet animation show that uses marionette by using the moniker marionation that spawned other shows like captain scarlet and stingray.
Part of the drinking one is wrong. Specifically about under 18s drinking alcohol in public. You're allowed to drink alcohol in a pub with a meal at 16, it just has to be bought by somebody over 18. It was 14 when I was a kid, but they raised it. That said, most people I know started drinking in pubs and bars between about 14 and 17. I was 16 when I started going to the pub over the road from my 6th form college. Everybody knew how old we were, nobody was that bothered. Heck, even the teachers would go the pub with us. Literature wise you have to remember too, Agatha Christie (who I'm sure would never have considered her work as high art), has sales estimated somewhere between 2 and 4 billion copies. She's outsold only by Shakespeare, and the Bible. Industrial revolution started here (UK) in 1760, officially. I think it was about 20-25 years before it began in the US.
I only found out where the USA was when I was 13. Elvis had died and I knew he lived somewhere in the USA / "America." I read in the newspapers that he lived in a city called Memphis in Tennessee, grabed a map and looked it up. Prior to that I thought that the USA was somewhere in South America. So it`s fair to say that I found out where the USA was on the 17th of August, 1977 - the day after E died.
The reason for the American legal age being 21 comes from the difference between state and federal laws, when legal ages for drinking were originally defined they varied state by state from 16 to 21. The federally imposed 21 was to reduce the amount of drunk driving across state borders. American Football has a lot of similarities with Rugby, with the major exception of helmets and padding which Rugby players don't use. The Industrial Revolution started in the UK but the factory assembly line style of manufacture was started by Henry Ford.
It may be legal for children to drink at age 5 but that doesn’t mean we are giving 5 year olds glasses of wine/beer. It all comes from back in history when water on its own was contaminated so children would be given diluted alcohol. However many Brits do start allowing their children for around 8-10 years to taste alcohol (often diluted with fruit juice) at special events such as weddings, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day. This means that when children get to 18 alcohol is not a mystery to them & they are less likely to go out & binge/get drunk. Both me & my younger brother on out 18th birthdays we’re offered to be taken down the pub to get some alcohol & we both declined because we new what alcohol was & we were enjoying ourselves already. I definitely will follow in my up bringing when I have kids letting them taste alcohol so that hen they grow up they are less likely to get drunk. Of course this doesn’t work for everyone but it does help cut down on the number of people getting drink once they come of age.
American Football comes from Rugby Union, and has many similarities with Rugby League. Thus many of there terms in American Football (line of scrummage, touchdown) make more sense if you know Rugby.
The British Monarch is Head of The Commonwealth - but Commonwealth nations each have their own Governments, and The King is not Head of State of most of those - only 15 out of 56 have him as HoS. Most families don't let their young children drink alcohol at home - although may let them have a taste of an adult's drink. Younger teenagers may be given a couple of drinks at home with their families- and by about 16 it would be common for there to be at least some alcohol at a teens' house party.
Tyler, drinking under the age of 18. yes it has to be done with parental supervision. When I was 12 I used to work in my Dad’s mobile fruit & veg shop. In the summer months there was always a bottle cider (hard, alcoholic cider to the US) kept in the cabbages out of site and kept cool, and we were always allowed a sip. The bottle, a flagon 2 pints would last us for days.
Some Rugby Player are now suing the various Rugby Authorities for failure to protect players from head injuries which are leading to early onset dementia.
American football does originate from something known as tudor football from back in the 1600s. Personally i think the americans evolved the sport to be better but yeah thats where american football comes from. regular football was developed in the late 1800s which is why they are so different
You can actually drink alcohol in public in the UK at 16 if you are consuming it with a meal. The reason Northern Island is not part of Great Britain is that Great Britain refers to the largest of the British Isles. Northern Ireland is part of the island of Ireland.
With the drinking age of 5 it’s the parents responsibility. In other words if you let a 5 year old drink till they get alcohol poisoning, you’re going to be held responsible. For me I was always allowed to try alcohol. It might have been half a shandy when I was younger, or a few beers when I was older. You’re right it teaches you to drink responsibly. On New Years Eve my wife bought a pack of fruit cider cans for the kids who are aged 14, 15, and 17. They were told they could drink as much as they wanted, but they would have to clean up after themselves if they were sick. Unknown to them we were actually keeping an eye on how many they had, ready to step in if they started guzzling them. To their credit they only had one each (despite really liking the flavour), and the 17 year old only had 2. At 17 in the 1990’s I was drinking in the pubs.
Here is an interesting fact for you Tyler. The native American Pocahontas converted to Christianity and married John Rolfe. then sailed to England where she was received at the Court of King James 1st/6th of Scotland. At the beginning of her return sailing to Virginia in 1617 she died of an illness and was buried in a churchyard in Gravesend, Kent, east of London. There is now a lovely statue of Pocahontas in a churchyard in Gravesend. The film "The New World" (2005) is a rather beautiful film about the first English settlers, the founding of Jamestown and does include Pocahontas in England.
I am from uk my mum and dad never let me drink at home . When I was 18 my grandmother said she would buy me my first drink but I only got a shandy not a full alcaholic drink.
What we now know as boxing came about in England during the late 1800s with the introduction of the Queensbury Rules (which the Marquess of Queensbury didn't come up with - just agreed that his name could be used) - prior to that it was 'run' under the London Prize Ring Rules - wrestling allowed, no padded gloves etc - introduced in the early 1800s. These superseded Jack Broughton's rules (introduced in the mid 18th Century) which were really the first rules of boxing. Boxing as a sport was included in the first Olympic games - the original ones held in Ancient Greece - so we didn't actually invent it, just the modern version.
The monarchy DOES have a lot of power, an Australian government was dismissed by the Governor General of Australia (who was the Queen's representative in Australia at the time).
The UK did actual invent Soccer, Soccer is a British term. Just ignore those who tell you it’s not Soccer etc they are trying to gaslight you. They are either deliberately doing it or they are what’s known as plastic fans, people who pretend to be fans but actually know nothing about the sport. Never apologise for using the term Soccer, use it unapologetically
Northern Ireland is excluded from Great Britain because Great Britain is the name of the physical island on which England, Scotland and Wales sit. Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland.
Another fun fact. Unlike New Jersey and parts of Oregon. The UK treats it's drivers as adults. To the best of my knowledge. All petrol stations are self service. We also have some weird and/or REALLY old laws. One I didn't know about as someone born and raised in England. There is a law were it's an offence to allow you pet to engage in mating rituals with a pet from the Royal family. Without permission of course. The maximum punishment for braking this law is execution.
I have always considered 'Great Britain' or 'Britain' to be an acceptable abbreviation for the UK , as well as the former also being the name for the larger island. This is seen as Pound Sterling is shown as GBP and of course the UK Olympic Team is known as GB.
Technically everyone can legally buy alcohol in the UK, cans of Bass Shandy are not age restricted and contain 0.05% alcohol, although it would take a few hundred cans to even start feeling a buzz.
Britain's old name was Britannia, some people occasionally still use it in jest or to invoke fond memories of old; this was first used around 2000 years ago & before any involvement with Ireland. So Britain & Great Britain only refer to the main island, which includes Wales & Scotland, Ireland is a different island from the Britannic isles & so is not referred to when using this term, but only when saying The United Kingdom, simple when you know ;-). There's loads of videos about Britannia on YT, you should do one!
Another old name for Britain but more specifically to England was Blighty. It is said to have been used in India during the 1800s and again during the Boer War in South Africa, mainly by soldiers. It became more widely used during WW1 and to a lesser extent during WW2. See various renditions of "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty", an old music hall favourite, on YT.
There were seven years of famine in Scotland in 1690s, so landowners were forced to improve those small -scale industries which they had on their estates. The Enlightenment and revolutions in Agriculture and Industry all fed into each other. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were times of huge upheaval, social change and environmental damage in the U.K.
Gridiron or "american" football, as the name suggests, came from football and rugby. Rules were tweaked and changed by Americans to create a variant the Americans would enjoy. So the sport is American, but was based on British sports.
Don’t forget that drinking alcohol was endemic in days gone by. Look up the history of the discovery that typhoid was a waterborne disease and that those who worked in a local brewery and drank “small” beer did not catch it. Drinking alcohol was a survival mechanism.
10:53 she was besties with Ronald Reagan, very similar policies and popular with the same people. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on your politics.
Another issue is that when people specify 'Great' Britain, it ususally includes the isle of Ireland, when people just say 'Britain' that generally just refers to the mainland.
I enjoy your videos Tyler. There's only a few 'american reacts' videos that I watch and you + TheeLitOne/ChicagoDudeReacts are up there at the top because to me, you guys are very humble and are willing to learn and that goes a long way... If you ever wanna know about the real Robin Hood then check my video out. I do a lot of hiking and wild camping (I think you call it dispersed camping?) While talking about the local history of the area I'm in. Keep up the good work
shame he used the Union flag to represent England instead of the English flag, which is the cross of St George.
Yup, it started badly
Yeah lol. Not a good start
I came here to make the same point... You beat me!
It's says the UK 🤷🏼♀️
Offically the Northern Ireland flag is also wrong, its a Union Jack, so that two flags wrong. But the flag shown is Ulster Flag, which is kinda the unoffical flag but certain communities hate that flag, so thats why it's not official.
1:18 - Already the video being reacted to has messed up, The England flag known as The Saint George's Cross is a red cross with vertical and horizontal lines on a white background. What the video is showing is the Union Flag when the narrator says England.
There was a big error at the start of this video
It kept using the Union flag/Union jack which is the flag of Great Britain & N. Ireland for England. The flag of England is actually St. George's Cross which is a red cross on a white background.
This is why it's best to watch videos of facts about Britain made by Brits, rather than Americans!😄
Drinking:
Although it's legal for parents to give their kids alcohol it tends to be only very small amounts, usually cider or wine (or perhaps a sip of sherry), often watered down and usually only on special occasions like Christmas or Sunday lunch. As you grow older you might be allowed a bit more and by the time you're in your teens probably a full, unwatered glass of wine or cider. Of course this depends on the parents.
By mid-teens kids often start drinking with their friends, often bought by older siblings. I was going to pubs and clubs by the time I was 16, which isn't unusual.
There was one, out of the way pub in my town that all the underage drinkers went to. The local police turned a blind eye taking the view it was better to have them in the pub where the publican and bouncers could keep an eye on them, than for them to be hanging about drinking on street corners, scaring the pensioners and causing trouble.
Indeed. The French quite often give their kids "rose" (red wine diluted with water; not rosé, which is its own full-strength thing). As to the Union Flag and the Commonwealth and Dominions, CPG Grey has a fantastic explainer over at ua-cam.com/video/rNu8XDBSn10/v-deo.html and even as a UK native, I still have to watch it every now and then to remind myself. 😄
Well my parents never diluted any drink for me and the same went for all of my peers in the 1960's , nowadays though the country is full of woke snowflakes ........
But the English flag is often overlooked. A holiday vompany advertising holidayscin England Scotland and Wales had Scottish flag gor Scottish Holidays Welsh flag for Welsh holidays and Union flag for English holidays I complained about it.
🏴 This is the flag for England 🇬🇧 this is the flag of the Union (Union Jack) it would of been more helpful for Tyler if you had used it 🥶
Growing up in the 90's drinking wasn't uncommon as kids. You'd normally get a glass of wine at things like Christmas or occasionally with Sunday dinner. It was also was pretty common to have something like half a pint of cider if you were with family socialising at the weekend at someones home. Not heavy drinking but you took part with everyone else.
I was born in the 70s. We had the same sort of thing. I've never been a big drinker even to this day. I think that because we had it occasionally, we never thought that it was taboo and binged when we got old enough to buy it ourselves.
Born in 65, when my Dad would pick me up from school when I was 9 & 10, he would give me a bottle (small) of Babycham to drink on the way home (I would also be allowed Babycham at home), never even occoured to me that this was unusual. There would be a bottle of whisky (Scotch), 2 of wine, on the sideboard in the front room, new ones brought maybe once every two or three yrs. My Dad would have a beer one a Friday night after work, maybe one on Saturday too. When I drank when I was at theatre or a gig, it would only be if they had one of my drinks of choice. When at Uni, I got drunk (to were I had a hangover) exactly twice, though to the point of being "merry" with friends, several times. Never saw the point of getting drunk to the point of feeling ill. I was never "The Cool" kid, as I never smoked, that was one of the things that made you "Cool". Though, & I kid you not, there were kids using "Coke" at my middle shool (& the Secondary school next door) in the mid 70's.
I was born in 1965. Mum and Dad had a drinks cupboard at home and we (me and my sisters) were usually encouraged to have a glass of wine with Sunday lunch. Mum always said she'd rather we learnt our limits at home and then we wouldn't go out and get completely paralytic!
I was born in 1979. I was always allowed to try alcohol half a bit or a shandy at family get togethers, glass of wine with Christmas dinner etc.
at 16 we used to drink in the local village pub. The landlord knew we were underage, the village Bobby knew we were underaged and drank in there. The idea being that if we weren’t in the pub, we would be drinking in the streets or fields causing mischief. And also being in the local we were surrounded by adults, who all knew our parents. So we sat there or had a few games of pool or darts, had a few beers, and were quiet and respectful. Then when we started going for nights out into the town on pub crawl’s. It wasn’t such a big deal and we knew how to behave ourselves.
My cousin on the other hand her mother was a very strict Catholic and wouldn’t let her try even a drop at family get togethers. Then when she had a part time working in an office while she was at college. The boss invited all the staff to his house for a house party. Where they had to call her an ambulance 2 hours into the party. Because she had thrown up red wine all up the stairs, all in the sink, all in the bath, and all over the walls around the toilet. And she ended up getting her stomach pumped.
Later she admitted to me that she knew nothing about drinking, knew nothing about wine. Apparently she had been filling up plastic pint glasses with wine, which is nearly 2/3rds of a bottle.
I was born in 94 and I remember trying my dad's beer and having a shandy when I was around 7. I'd just got a PS1 slim for Christmas and so me, my dad, and my uncle all sat around playing gran turismo.
I can also remember having a half flute of champagne during the millennium (I was 6).
Now I'm nearly 30 I only really drink when I go out with work. Drinking at home is a rarity for me. I suppose my curiosity was sated at a young age so I never really felt the need to binge.
I love your comments and your critical but humorous way of thinking. Getting very rare on social media these days
Lets not forget The lord of the rings which is considered Britain's best-loved novel of all time by J. R. R. Tolkien.
But it’s sooooooo BORING
@@liamblack2574 then maybe we could reccomend The Mr Men books by Roger Hargreaves for you?
Are they the only two book series you know? Mr men or lord of the rings? I bet you get loads of dates pmsl
Harry Potter is better
Fun Facts: The British Isles consists of OVER 6,000 islands. 189 are permanently inhabited islands. In order of size/area the top TEN are: (1) Great Britain, (2) Ireland, (3) Lewis & Harris (two names, but one island), (4) Isle of Skye, (5) Shetland (mainland), (6) Isle of Mull, (7) Anglesey, (8) Islay, (9) Isle of Man and (10) Orkney (mainland).
What about the Isle of Wight? That has to be in the top 10 for size surely?
@@carolineskipper6976 It lies in 12th place on size.
@@georgebarnes8163 Ok- that surprises me!
@@simonrobbins8357 - I believe I know and I haven't looked it up... But I bet I saw the same thing you did, because I too only learnt it a few months ago and didn't know it's an island !!! Yes, a great pub quiz question, so an answer worth putting away.
@@simonrobbins8357 I think I remember hearing that it's the main part of Portsmouth, but I can't remember what the actual Island is called...
Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds was my favourite show as a kid, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was also amazing
Hey Tyler
Juat to assure you witb some of these you are not alone I'm a Brit and have lived here all my life (27 years), and to this day I didn't even realise the drinking age of 5 in private premises was a thing 🤣,
Yes British people do get confused with great Britain and United Kingdom quite a bit, but this is more because we commonly refer to ourselves English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish depending on which of thw countries we were born or even names based off of the cities or regions we were born such as scousers (Liverpool) or mancunian (Manchester) for example.
We may have started the Industrial Revolution however it was Henry Ford who revolutionised the moving assembly line which boosted productivity in manufacturing significantly.
Sorry for my ramblings 😊 Love all the content that you are releasing can't wait for the next one. Much love from here across the pond 🥰
growing up in the UK in the 90's/2000's, I've had small amounts of alcohol since I was 6 or 7 with Sunday roast and had things like shandy (beer & lemonade) since 10 with a meal, wasn't until I was 15 that I had my first proper beer - that meant by the time I was 18 drinking wasn't a new thing so didn't go out to get drunk like most seem to do do at 18 (or 21 in US *cough*legally*cough* )
Yes similar experience . Shandy with Sunday lunch or a weak cider and something like a weak port and lemonade at Christmas perhaps. I was given whisky to try at about 6 and that turned me off spirits for many years as I never felt so sick.
@@davidwebley6186whiskey at 6 is going a bit too far 😂
@@dylanmurphy9389 but it did its job, disgusting the kid :D
I've given my kids alcohol on special occasions. I've done so for the same reason that you stated.
Also, they're in a safe environment (if supervised by their parents) learning to drink responsibly.
My eldest 2 have shown this works and no doubt the others will be just the same. They're responsible young adults now, not going out binge drinking and getting drunk whenever possible for whatever reason.
My parents did the same with me and my brothers.. and it worked
Yep, that’s my first time consuming alcohol, tho had the opposite effect when I became an adult, I don’t drink
It is a true fact. My first drink was of whisky and I was aged 7 years. I hated it ... had it for dinner one night after pestering my Dad to drink it! I never touched alcohol again until 18 years old on my birthday and that was champagne : )
We made the worlds first metal (iron) bridge it was assembled with woodworking joints at Ironbridge Shropshire over the River Severn Its is a UNESCO World heritage Site and also the first iron framed building a precursor to the Sky scrappers in New York The Flax Mill in Shrewsbury.
Ironbridge is a lovely area.
Another mistake I picked out was calling the UK Parliament a "federal" parliament. The UK is not a federation, it does not have a federal government.
It seems like a lot of Americans don't really understand exactly what "federal" means. They seem to think it just means something relating to a country as a whole, without any regard for whether the country is a federation.
If it's federal (it's not), where's the English part of the federation as there's no English parliament?
I always think of federations as being built from the bottom up - the USA was founded when 13 colonies created it.
The UK, however, had a single parliament from 1801 and the recently created devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales were created top down and their powers are in the gift of the UK parliament which, if it was being particularly bold, could even dissolve and abolish these legislatures if it so chose.
@@MrBulky992 Are you sure the UK parliament could abolish the Scottish parliament? You may be right, but Scottish and English law are distinct, although both have their final court of appeal at the UK Supreme Court, and it seems that the supremacy of parliament is not as strong a principle in Scottish law as it is in English.
@@barneylaurance1865 Yes, I am certain. The Scottish Parliament was created by an act of the UK Parliament, an act that could be repealed by the UK Parliament: there's nothing irreversible about it. The referendum by which Scottish devolution came about was advisory as is always legally the case with referendums in the UK. The Scottish Parliament would be exceeding its powers if it tried to prolong its existence in defiance of the UK Parliament.
In the shorter term, the UK Parliament has the power to strike down some legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament or, in the longer term, to reduce its powers. There is a case in progress at the moment regarding gender recognition.
The law courts in Scotland ensure compliance with laws enacted by the UK Parliament which apply to the UK in general and those applying to Scotland specifically (including devolution legislation) and, if UK legislation is in place to give it the necessary powers, the Scottish Parliament.
If the courts come to an interpretative judgement which either government does not like, either Parliament has the power to change/clarify the law. The courts cannot stand in the way even in Scotland.
@@barneylaurance1865 Isn't the British Parliament, known as the Mother of Parliaments?
We also have Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, and Ian Fleming, along with other great writers
You definitely have the greatest treasure of writers and literature (imo). Dickens is my all time favourite. And lets not forget about Shakespeare! The list is almost endless.
Terry Pratchett
And the great Douglas Adams.😂
And Tolkien
You have a point on the drinking aspect.
As I hit my teens, I was encouraged to drink every so often so that I understood what effect it would have on me and to know my limits before I got to the legal age where I could buy my own.
Turned out I didn't much enjoy drinking and as soon as I reached the legal age I began getting ill quite easily with only a small amount of alcohol, so I decided I wasn't going to drink any more. But it was useful to know since I identified that it was not normal for me to get that ill compared to previous experiences.
Also saved me a LOT of money at university lol
I was always given a drink to try when younger. It does let you get used to the effects. I used to go out and get drunk a lot, but never had to go hospital and always got home on my own.
My cousin on the other hand was never allowed to try any alcohol until she hit 18. And the first time she got drunk was at a party at her bosses house. When she was working part time in an office while going college.
2 hours in to the party they had to call an ambulance. After she threw up red wine all up the stairs, all in the bath and sink, and all over the toilet.
She had gone from never having tried alcohol, to starting with red wine and not knowing how much or how fast was a recommended amount.
Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus. However, “soccer” never became much more than a nickname in Great Britain. By the 20th century, rugby football was more commonly called rugby, while association football had earned the right to be known as just plain football.
Love your videos when I can’t stand listening about the Harkles I put your videos on it cheers me up straight away listen to your comments so funny and enjoyable your a breath of fresh air 🤣🤷♀️
I was allowed to drink alcohol from about 12 with my family on special meals at home. I'd get a beer...which in reality was a shandy and contained only a small drop of beer and mostly lemonade. I thought I was all grown up! 😆
Golf was specifically discovered in Scotland (UK). Think of the old fashioned golf attire. It certainly reflected that!
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s there was always a bottle of wine on the dinner table while we had Sunday dinner.
It brought up to respect alcohol.
Now I'm 46 I hardly ever drink alcohol at all and have no dependency on it due to experiencing whilst I was young. If I do have a alcoholic drink, then it's just one and it's always drank in conjunction with a nice meal.
I never binge drink or get drunk.
This is thanks to the respect my parents taught me to have toward alcohol when I was young.
8:30 that there is a rugby 🏉 ball! Which is a sport very similar to American football 🏈. Except rugby players don't wear as much body armour and they don't have ad breaks except at half time. Or cheerleaders. Definitely consider reacting to a rugby intro vid some time, it'd be interesting to see how different the two sports are.
I work in and live above an English Pub, on PEI, Canada, named after Winston. I love learning things about the UK, as we have many regulars and the owner is from there. I also love learning about Canada on your other channel. Thanks for teaching me so much!
I was 5 when I first had alcohol. The tiniest bit of wine mixed with lemonade on Christmas Day 😁
Winston Churchill's words, "We weep together, we celebrate & bleed together..." resonated deeply at the time of the tragedy of 9/11 in the USA 🇺🇸 and the recent death of the late Queen in the UK 🇬🇧
Fun fact: Winston Churchill was appointed by the monarch, George VI, in 1940 during WWII because the House of Commons had "lost confidence" in the Prime Minister at the time, Neville Chamberlain. I think that was the only time the monarchy has used its power to appoint a Prime Minister. Winston Churchill served twice (during the second world war, and then once after), but was only voted in by the people once. He certainly had a way with words too. That quote in the video reminded me of: "we ride together, we die together. Bad boys for life". 😆
This is incorrect. The monarch of the day appoints EVERY Prime Minister but does this on the advice of either the outgoing Prime Minister or upon the advice of leading members of the ruling party. The monarch have never in recent history appointed a Prime Minister of their own volition. The only occasion that I can remember was when when the Governor-General of Australia, the Queen's representative, dismissed Goff Whitlam during a Constitutional Crisis but he would only have done this on the advice of senior members of the two major political parties.
I was 7 when I had my first drink,a snake bite which is lager and cider,but my dad was Scottish,lol
I'm surprised he never told you cocktails were for puffs.
When I moved to France in 1972, I had my daughter in 1974 - the incredible fact was that in the hospital, at lunch we were given 1/4 litre of wine. However, if you wanted to have water, you had to pay for it - incredible to believe today ......
You could watch the opening segment of the 2012 Olympics which were held in London. It shows the change from the green fields of Britain to the industrial revolution.
2:46 Great Britain or (Greater Britain) is the biggest island. The British Isles includes Great Britain and the Island of Ireland and all the small islands too.
When I was a kid, my dad would give me little sips of his beer to ‘taste’ as I got a bit older I’d have a bit more. When I was in my teens I’d have the occasional can/bottle of beer. It meant that I didn’t go mad binge drinking etc because it took the mystique out of drinking. These days I enjoy a drink but I drink in moderation and hate getting drunk.
Netball or basketball was also invented in the UK
As was baseball (no not rounders, or cricket, or some other bat and ball game, BASEBALL), sure the modern game of baseball has been considerably modified in the US, but it's origin was definitely in the UK.
The monarch is Head of the Commonwealth, it is more a community to help promote democracy, peace and prosperity/trade etc.
You can leave when you want, and you don't have to have been part of the Empire, as evidenced by the last four countries Rwanda, Mozambique, Gabon and Togo.
Love your reactions Tyler ❤
I remember being given a glass of champagne at a wedding when I was 8 it was lovely in an old style champagne glass not a flute, I felt very grown up & very glowy even though I only got half a glass 😂🍸🍸🍸
1923 The Intoxicating Liquor (Sale to Persons under 18) Act 1923 prohibited the sale or purchase of alcohol to or by any person under the age of 18 years, but allowed the sale of beer, port, cider or perry to a person over the age of 16 years with a meal.
I grew up in the 80s, and we were taught that too much alcohol is bad, so a lot of my generation seem to not go mad. There was a kids TV show called Grange Hill set in a English secondary school, in the late 80s there was a storyline about one of the pupils having a drinking problem. We seemed to brought up to respect alcohol.
He missed out Baseball, which was also invented in the UK. Derby Countys old football stadium was called the Baseball Ground
American football was developed from rugby, ice hockey was invented by British troops serving in Canada, Badminton was invented at Badminton House, we changed Real Tennis into Lawn Tennis, we also invented table tennis and bobsled.
Great Britain refers to the largest of the islands.
To be clear, Great Britian is a geographical term referring to, as said in the video, the main island. The British Isles are also a geographical term and refer to Great Britain and all islands surrounding it, including Ireland. The United Kingdom, isn't geographical and more political and refers to Britain and Northern Island.
I drank wine with my dinner from a young age. It's common in Europe. You don't get your kids drunk. One glass will not get you drunk.
The Iron Lady moniker was first given to Margaret Thatcher by the USSR as an attempted slight.
5 years! My Mother was putting a very small drop of Gin in my bottle from 5 weeks to get me to sleep for more than an hour at a time. Also rubbed on my gums when teething.
The Isle of Man (between Britain and Ireland) and the Channel Islands (off the coast of Northwestern France) are not part of Great Britain or the UK but are part of the British Isles (geographically). They are self governing but have the Monarch as Head of State. The IOM has a historical monarch with no power (dating back to the Vikings the Parliament the Tynwald is also as old and active) and the Monarch in the Channel Islands is known as the Duke of Normandy.
The Channel Islands, although being part of the British Isles, are actually "Crown Dependencies" as is the Isle of Man.
My son would have a couple of mouthfuls of beer when he was a small child,it helped him sleep. Kids in other countries can drink alcohol too.
2:46 because the term Great Britain is geographical and refers to the entirety of the big island. Northern Ireland is on a different landmass, although tbh most of us don't really think too hard about this one ourselves.
Another fun fact about Margaret thatcher: when she died the number 1 song in the charts was “ding don’t the witch is dead” from the wizard of Oz. Thatcher wasn’t particularly liked to some people would sing it referring to her.
You should do what power does Queen has video that's on youtube and that will answer your question on how much power she literally had
In the early 1960's my parents started giving me a glass of sherry on Christmas Eve when I was 8 and when I was 15 I was allowed to help myself to as much sherry or port as I liked throughout the Christmas season, but I never even considered drinking enough to feel it (until I became generally rebellious at 18).
Similarly, British babies are weened from milk directly onto tea, and to coffee soon afterwards in households where it is used. I was really shocked a few years ago to meet an American 16 year old who was still not allowed to have any caffeine.
I am totally surprised by the phrase "Americans really don't know much about the UK, a lot of Americans don't know where it is". I think they MUST KNOW that the language they speak is not from "America", that it has no relation to the native languages spoken in that land. So don't they wonder where it comes from ????? 😳😳😳
Americans know little about anything outside their home State let alone outside the US.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England is really good tbf
Yes, I was going to comment the same!
As per the comments, I would agree that lots of people won't know the difference between UK, GB etc. It most probably thought of a similar to referring to America as America, the States or USA. They are thought of names for the same basic thing.
Fun facts about New Zealand, there is NO age limit for drinking on private property. Drinking age limits (18) only apply to licenced premises and buying alcohol. Also moonshining is and has always been legal as we never had prohibition here.
I remember being a kid and having a glass of wine with a meal with my parents.
It’s easier to get a handle on the titles of Great Britain & UK if you remember the full title of the latter is “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. In other words Great Britain is the grouping of the three mainland countries. Adding N.I. results in the U.K. England is just the largest of the three mainland entities England, Scotland & Wales.
i think having bits of alcohol at an early age like a class of white wine or a sandy helps stop you drinking so heavy as an adult i had shandys (beer & lemonade at 10) and at 13 wine at x mas ect its very normal.
In the UK we are taught about the UK industrial Revolution, but i read today that the United States had its own industrial Revolution and also the Gilded Age. it would be worth comparing what happened on what comparable time lines. As just one fact re this, Samuel Slater was an English/American who introduced British textile manufacturing techniques to the United States and steam power was a British invention which helped industries and of course the steam train and railways was a British invention .
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We play a game very similar to Baseball here and it is called Rounders.
Courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
History
Origin
The term base-ball can be dated to 1744, in John Newbery’s children’s book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book. The book has a brief poem and an illustration depicting a game called base-ball. Interestingly, the bases in the illustration are marked by posts instead of the bags and flat home plate now so familiar in the game. The book was extremely popular in England and was reprinted in North America in 1762 (New York) and 1787 (Massachusetts).
Did you know that Sir Winston Churchill was half American as his mother came from Cable Hill, Brookland New Yor and was born on the 9 January 1854, she married Lord Randolph Churcilll in 1874 and she died on 29 June 1921 aged just 67 in Paddington London, England.
american football comes from Rugby were no helmets and shoulder pads are worn as Rugby players use what they are born with as said by Jeremy Clarkson on The Grand Tour when they were in the tent in america, Britain also invented baseball.
Thunderbirds was a Tv series in the sixties. It consisted of marionettes and elaborate sets that made the entire series realistic. Sadly, the married couple who came up with the series, have long passed, and although Hollywood tried to make it into a real person series, the idea never really took off and the marionettes have always reigned supreme!
S1, Ep 1: ua-cam.com/video/wLiH4xrCITI/v-deo.html
I’m Swedish and our country’s full name is The Kingdom Of Sweden, but I’ve never heard anyone say anything but just Sweden, including myself.
You are not alone. Almost all countries use a shortened version of their country's full name. Britain is officially The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland but we just say the UK. France is "La République Française" but is referred to as just France. You see, Sweden is no different.
Shame they are using the Union Flag as the flag of England (The Union Flag is the flag of the UK. The Union Jack by the way is the Union Flag but flown on ships and boats). England’s flag, St George’s flag, is a red cross on a white background.
Union Flag and Union Jack are interchangeable. The rule for the distinction was dropped in the early 1800s.
Pub children usually get given drinks early. I pulled my first pint when I was 3 - stood on a crate & I had my first very small glass of sherry soon after. Unfortunately because I cried as a baby my parents were advised to put whisky in my bottle to help me sleep = shut me up which it did.
In Ontario and many other Canadian Provinces, the official age for drinking alcohol is 19 (it was 18 in Ontario but raised to 19 because students were having drinks at lunch and then returning to school slightly inebriated). Children, under 19, may be served alcohol by their parents and/or guardian while in their residence. My parents (Father was a doctor), served my two sisters and me a small glass of wine with dinner each day, from 5 or 6 onward. Thus we grew up appreciating it with a meal but never felt we had to over-drink.
Thunderbirds was an 60’s puppet animation show that uses marionette by using the moniker marionation that spawned other shows like captain scarlet and stingray.
Part of the drinking one is wrong. Specifically about under 18s drinking alcohol in public. You're allowed to drink alcohol in a pub with a meal at 16, it just has to be bought by somebody over 18. It was 14 when I was a kid, but they raised it.
That said, most people I know started drinking in pubs and bars between about 14 and 17. I was 16 when I started going to the pub over the road from my 6th form college. Everybody knew how old we were, nobody was that bothered. Heck, even the teachers would go the pub with us.
Literature wise you have to remember too, Agatha Christie (who I'm sure would never have considered her work as high art), has sales estimated somewhere between 2 and 4 billion copies. She's outsold only by Shakespeare, and the Bible.
Industrial revolution started here (UK) in 1760, officially. I think it was about 20-25 years before it began in the US.
I only found out where the USA was when I was 13. Elvis had died and I knew he lived somewhere in the USA / "America." I read in the newspapers that he lived in a city called Memphis in Tennessee, grabed a map and looked it up. Prior to that I thought that the USA was somewhere in South America. So it`s fair to say that I found out where the USA was on the 17th of August, 1977 - the day after E died.
The reason for the American legal age being 21 comes from the difference between state and federal laws, when legal ages for drinking were originally defined they varied state by state from 16 to 21. The federally imposed 21 was to reduce the amount of drunk driving across state borders.
American Football has a lot of similarities with Rugby, with the major exception of helmets and padding which Rugby players don't use.
The Industrial Revolution started in the UK but the factory assembly line style of manufacture was started by Henry Ford.
Baseball was invented in the UK too.
As was tennis and table-tennis aka ping-pong.
@@gdok6088 Yes, indeed they were.
It may be legal for children to drink at age 5 but that doesn’t mean we are giving 5 year olds glasses of wine/beer. It all comes from back in history when water on its own was contaminated so children would be given diluted alcohol. However many Brits do start allowing their children for around 8-10 years to taste alcohol (often diluted with fruit juice) at special events such as weddings, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day. This means that when children get to 18 alcohol is not a mystery to them & they are less likely to go out & binge/get drunk. Both me & my younger brother on out 18th birthdays we’re offered to be taken down the pub to get some alcohol & we both declined because we new what alcohol was & we were enjoying ourselves already. I definitely will follow in my up bringing when I have kids letting them taste alcohol so that hen they grow up they are less likely to get drunk. Of course this doesn’t work for everyone but it does help cut down on the number of people getting drink once they come of age.
My dad used to bring me home a bottle of beer from the pub when I was about 7.
American Football comes from Rugby Union, and has many similarities with Rugby League. Thus many of there terms in American Football (line of scrummage, touchdown) make more sense if you know Rugby.
The British Monarch is Head of The Commonwealth - but Commonwealth nations each have their own Governments, and The King is not Head of State of most of those - only 15 out of 56 have him as HoS.
Most families don't let their young children drink alcohol at home - although may let them have a taste of an adult's drink. Younger teenagers may be given a couple of drinks at home with their families- and by about 16 it would be common for there to be at least some alcohol at a teens' house party.
Hi from England, good fun video.
Tyler, drinking under the age of 18. yes it has to be done with parental supervision. When I was 12 I used to work in my Dad’s mobile fruit & veg shop. In the summer months there was always a bottle cider (hard, alcoholic cider to the US) kept in the cabbages out of site and kept cool, and we were always allowed a sip. The bottle, a flagon 2 pints would last us for days.
Rugby is the adult version of American Football (Rugby players do not need crash helmets or padding).
Some Rugby Player are now suing the various Rugby Authorities for failure to protect players from head injuries which are leading to early onset dementia.
American football does originate from something known as tudor football from back in the 1600s. Personally i think the americans evolved the sport to be better but yeah thats where american football comes from. regular football was developed in the late 1800s which is why they are so different
You can actually drink alcohol in public in the UK at 16 if you are consuming it with a meal.
The reason Northern Island is not part of Great Britain is that Great Britain refers to the largest of the British Isles. Northern Ireland is part of the island of Ireland.
With the drinking age of 5 it’s the parents responsibility. In other words if you let a 5 year old drink till they get alcohol poisoning, you’re going to be held responsible.
For me I was always allowed to try alcohol. It might have been half a shandy when I was younger, or a few beers when I was older.
You’re right it teaches you to drink responsibly.
On New Years Eve my wife bought a pack of fruit cider cans for the kids who are aged 14, 15, and 17. They were told they could drink as much as they wanted, but they would have to clean up after themselves if they were sick. Unknown to them we were actually keeping an eye on how many they had, ready to step in if they started guzzling them. To their credit they only had one each (despite really liking the flavour), and the 17 year old only had 2.
At 17 in the 1990’s I was drinking in the pubs.
In public, 16 or 17 year-olds are also allowed to drink beer, wine or cider with food if with an adult (but they may not buy the alcohol themselves).
Here is an interesting fact for you Tyler. The native American Pocahontas converted to Christianity and married John Rolfe. then sailed to England where she was received at the Court of King James 1st/6th of Scotland. At the beginning of her return sailing to Virginia in 1617 she died of an illness and was buried in a churchyard in Gravesend, Kent, east of London. There is now a lovely statue of Pocahontas in a churchyard in Gravesend. The film "The New World" (2005) is a rather beautiful film about the first English settlers, the founding of Jamestown and does include Pocahontas in England.
I am from uk my mum and dad never let me drink at home . When I was 18 my grandmother said she would buy me my first drink but I only got a shandy not a full alcaholic drink.
What we now know as boxing came about in England during the late 1800s with the introduction of the Queensbury Rules (which the Marquess of Queensbury didn't come up with - just agreed that his name could be used) - prior to that it was 'run' under the London Prize Ring Rules - wrestling allowed, no padded gloves etc - introduced in the early 1800s.
These superseded Jack Broughton's rules (introduced in the mid 18th Century) which were really the first rules of boxing.
Boxing as a sport was included in the first Olympic games - the original ones held in Ancient Greece - so we didn't actually invent it, just the modern version.
Also a glass of sherry at new year,before saying goodbye to the old year and letting on the new
Winston Churchill's Mother was American.Jenny Jerome (Churchill) Born: 9 January 1854, Cobble Hill, New York, United States
The monarchy DOES have a lot of power, an Australian government was dismissed by the Governor General of Australia (who was the Queen's representative in Australia at the time).
The UK did actual invent Soccer, Soccer is a British term. Just ignore those who tell you it’s not Soccer etc they are trying to gaslight you. They are either deliberately doing it or they are what’s known as plastic fans, people who pretend to be fans but actually know nothing about the sport.
Never apologise for using the term Soccer, use it unapologetically
Northern Ireland is excluded from Great Britain because Great Britain is the name of the physical island on which England, Scotland and Wales sit. Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland.
The United KIngdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Are you stupid.
Another fun fact. Unlike New Jersey and parts of Oregon. The UK treats it's drivers as adults. To the best of my knowledge. All petrol stations are self service. We also have some weird and/or REALLY old laws. One I didn't know about as someone born and raised in England. There is a law were it's an offence to allow you pet to engage in mating rituals with a pet from the Royal family. Without permission of course. The maximum punishment for braking this law is execution.
I doubt the bit about the dogs is true. Just an urban myth.
I have always considered 'Great Britain' or 'Britain' to be an acceptable abbreviation for the UK , as well as the former also being the name for the larger island. This is seen as Pound Sterling is shown as GBP and of course the UK Olympic Team is known as GB.
Technically everyone can legally buy alcohol in the UK, cans of Bass Shandy are not age restricted and contain 0.05% alcohol, although it would take a few hundred cans to even start feeling a buzz.
"The Iron Lady" is a recent PR thing, she's mainly known to people who lived under her as "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher".
@@simonrobbins8357 Yeah, and she was known as quite a few other things that the newspapers wouldn't print, too...!!
Britain's old name was Britannia, some people occasionally still use it in jest or to invoke fond memories of old; this was first used around 2000 years ago & before any involvement with Ireland. So Britain & Great Britain only refer to the main island, which includes Wales & Scotland, Ireland is a different island from the Britannic isles & so is not referred to when using this term, but only when saying The United Kingdom, simple when you know ;-). There's loads of videos about Britannia on YT, you should do one!
Another old name for Britain but more specifically to England was Blighty. It is said to have been used in India during the 1800s and again during the Boer War in South Africa, mainly by soldiers. It became more widely used during WW1 and to a lesser extent during WW2. See various renditions of "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty", an old music hall favourite, on YT.
There were seven years of famine in Scotland in 1690s, so landowners were forced to improve those small -scale industries which they had on their estates. The Enlightenment and revolutions in Agriculture and Industry all fed into each other. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were times of huge upheaval, social change and environmental damage in the U.K.
Gridiron or "american" football, as the name suggests, came from football and rugby. Rules were tweaked and changed by Americans to create a variant the Americans would enjoy. So the sport is American, but was based on British sports.
Don’t forget that drinking alcohol was endemic in days gone by. Look up the history of the discovery that typhoid was a waterborne disease and that those who worked in a local brewery and drank “small” beer did not catch it. Drinking alcohol was a survival mechanism.
10:53 she was besties with Ronald Reagan, very similar policies and popular with the same people. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on your politics.
Uk: "we started the industrial revolution."
USA: "HOLD MY BEER"
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Another issue is that when people specify 'Great' Britain, it ususally includes the isle of Ireland, when people just say 'Britain' that generally just refers to the mainland.
I enjoy your videos Tyler. There's only a few 'american reacts' videos that I watch and you + TheeLitOne/ChicagoDudeReacts are up there at the top because to me, you guys are very humble and are willing to learn and that goes a long way... If you ever wanna know about the real Robin Hood then check my video out. I do a lot of hiking and wild camping (I think you call it dispersed camping?) While talking about the local history of the area I'm in. Keep up the good work
Bro your channel is growing fast hopefully one day you can visit the uk