He wasn't actually at 10 Downing Street. It's a gated street backing onto the Cabinet Office, full of armed guards. You haven't been able to just stroll down it for at least 50 years if not more.
In 1974 I was on a grants demo in Hyde Park. We walked back across Green Park and St James’s Park, then up Downing Street. There were no barriers. The police asked us politely not to have our placards up when walking in front of No.10. It was the IRA attacks years later that led Margaret Thatcher to install gates.
Vehicle access was curtailed in 1973 when metal barriers were placed across the entrance to the street.[18] In 1974, the Metropolitan Police proposed erecting a semi-permanent barrier between the pavement and carriageway on the Foreign Office side to keep pedestrians off the main part of the street. The proposal came with assurances that tourists would still be permitted to take photographs at the door of Number 10. The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, rejected the proposal, feeling that it would appear to be an unacceptable restriction of the freedom of the public. Wilson's private secretary wrote "I much regret this further erosion of the Englishman's right to wander at will in Downing Street."[19] In 1982 access was further restricted by railings and a demountable gate. They were replaced by black steel gates in 1989.[20] The increase in security was due to an increase in violence, particularly by the IRA during The Troubles. The Thatcher ministry was particularly moved to increase security after the 1979 Assassination of Lord Mountbatten. WikiPedia
@@stirlingmoss4621 Thank you. I knew fifty years plus was wrong, since I walked up it 49 years ago (gulp). So 1989 is 35 years. My husband worked nearby and was at the window of his office when the mortar landed in the Downing Street garden, and the window was hit with gravel.
Exactly! He has no idea how fantastic an Indian meal can be OR how diverse the tastes and flavours, depending on what part of India the chefs come from...
You don't have to have rice with your curry, you can have dosa, chapati, naan... or a potato based curry alongside for carbs. I am also not a huge rice fan.
Evan’s accent has anglicized a bit, but it’s very subtle. It seems to be a couple of decades+ for a noticeable accent change from what I’ve seen, though of course it varies. Also the British queuing thing is just that we have relatively very rigid social etiquette for lines and taking your turn, where as in some other places it’s more taking your opportunity. The UK and US have very similar etiquette I think, Brits just really abide by them by default, even to their own inconvenience 😛
I don't know why everyone says we love queuing; we do not love queuing. We hate queuing. We detest queuing with a passion. But it's the correct, polite, fair, and right thing to do.
We spontaneously form queues, with no prompting. For example, even at the bar we will all have a mental queue and tell the bar staff who is ahead of us if they’ve lost track. We even find the way to set up the spontaneous queue so it’s as fair and as efficient as possible (e.g. by having a single queue for multiple service points). And as others have mentioned, we genuinely will join a queue without knowing what’s at the front just to find out (I’ve done it myself).
On accents, I think it really depends who you are. I knew a bloke from Glasgow who lived in Australia for 20 years and you could barely tell he'd been away. Me, being from Yorkshire, my vowels are just about wired into my DNA and will probably almost never change, but I tend to pick up the other parts of accents really quickly if I've stayed in a place a few months.
The US is one of the places where queuing is "almost" as strong as in the UK, except for a few things. The UK will form queues you don't even realise are there. Whenever there is a first-come-first serve situation, no matter the chaos, there is a queue. People pay attention to those who were there before them and gesture to offer that you go first. Even in scenarios where it's a chaotic situation that forms a regimented queue, people know who were before them and let them infront or slot in behind them.
That's not 10 Downing Street. That's 10 Adam street, a lookalike quite close by. Popular with tourists. I'm not sure if someone lives there or what the protocol is for photos and knocking. Maybe he didn't really knock, and he dubbed in the SFX. Maybe he did really knock and there's nothing behind it.
The "Queuing" thing is yet another impression of Britain emanating from US Service People over here in World War II. Back then, during the period of rationing, folk had to queue up to get so very many things, especially foods. It sits right there with "It rains ALL the time in Britain" and "British food is bland and horrible". What may have had some truth back in your great Grand-pappy's day sure ain't the case now! 🙂
Whilst I don't agree with everything Evan says, he is far better informed than Lawrence Brown, who just panda's to his American viewers, without letting too many realities get in the way?
In 1975 I was in Great Falls Montana with colleagues and met a family. The wife was a GI bride and we were the first Brits she'd met in thirty years. To her family she still sounded British but to us she sounded American. The door he knocks on isn't 10 Downing Street, which was closed to the public after some mean people threw bombs into the garden. It's actually in Adam Street which is a side street off the Strand, about 15 minures walk from Downing Street.
I think the accent is to some extent to do with age, but mostly it is down to the person. Some people just adapt and conform, indeed when they go home they can revert very quickly. Lawrence and Even also have a career based on their status as the foriegner observing, they need to preserve it.
Evan has definitely picked up a bit of an English accent! I’d agree about the queuing - it’s not that different to America at all. It tends to be made more of a deal because a fair bit of Europe don’t queue and it’s a total nightmare. I do think escalator etiquette is stricter in the UK though, people will not hesitate to correct you if you stand on the left.
Queuing at the bar in a pub is a bit different. In the UK, it is polite to say if someone has been waiting longer than you and wait your turn to be served, while they now get served their order. Typically, you wait for someone to give you the same respect back, but it doesn't often happen amd end in disappointment amd a long wait. You just hope the bar person remembers you for your previous good deed, before the next rude person pushes in front of you next time 😂
Connor, you ALWAYS say that one of your FAVOURITE foods is 'Shepherd's Pie' - YET in the same breath will often mention that you don't think you have EVER eaten lamb or sheep!? What you HAVE been eating is 'Cottage Pie' (which contains beef!)... 🤔🥺
The bland idea I think is a residue from war, in that, the rations were so small you had a limited choice foods to bulk up meals. People grew foods in their gardens and bulking food was usually potaoes. We were over the moon when you decided (to late again) and your troups bought some tastey treats and stockings.
My ex-husband was born in UK and moved to San Diego when he was about 10, moved back at 20, he had a weird English/ American drawl. We don't love to queue, we just do it and occasionally make a 'tutting' noise when it is taking too long.
No 10 door is made of reinforced metal. This is checked reguarly. The only time No 10 in came under direct threat recent times was when it was fired on by mortar . I think in the 80s.
At the age of 75 I have neither read a Harry Potter book nor seen a Harry Potter film. Good luck to all those who like them, but it seems that many US commentators seem to find it obligatory to mention him as something that goes towards defining my country.
Connor, I emigrated to Australia from Scotland when I was eight and have lost my Scottish accent. Two of my cousins emigrated a year later when they were fourteen and sixteen and still have noticeable accents
I’ve been on rickshaws a few time you can only be charged crazy prices if you let them, if they take the piss have non of it and tell them what you’re paying they’ll soon come up with a reasonable price a bit higher than what you said
Returning from France at Victoria with four kids and a dumb wife in tow I decided to take a Fast Black for simplicity. Half way to Paddington, my old transfer point when I was in the RN, I remembered we were headed to Glasgow via Kings Cross. The Cabbie didn't flinch, complain or refuse. He nonchalantly turned off, took a number of back streets I wouldn't ride a bike down, and got us to KX with minutes to spare. Wouldn't even take a tip. London Cabbies are saints.
02:26 It's not the real 10 Downing Street. It's a fake one on Adams Street in London, used for fake photos and such. An ordinary person can't get anywhere near the door of the real 10 Downing Street. The entire street is behind a secure gate and fence that is guarded by multiple police officers and the door of 10 Downing Street itself is guarded by a police officer.
only few years ago was £1.75p pint in places were the same pubs mid and north England were £2.20p or somewhere close to that. i doubt its that cost now tho. best mate lives in Rhyl go stay for few weeks every year, even if i was not staying at mates house but wanted to stay on the coast id pick Rhyl because accommodation is a bargain in places and you only 30 min drive to places like Conwy, Llandudno or in to the Snowdonia N park where accommodation more costly you can have a much bigger saving using Rhyl as a base as from there it don't take long to get to very pretty places, im from Llangollen about 40 min drive another place i spend 3-4 weeks a year at to see family and friends, love going back to North Wales, fun driving roads great countryside and people
I've watched Evan since he first started his pun-casts. He's almost assimilated into British, still some rough edges in thinking, but the London magic has worked yet again. So nice to see it's still happening 😊. Brit here, lived in London and somehow, no matter your culture you become part of London, the city constantly evolves but somehow remains the same. Amazing place.
Ok if you want to stay in one of London’s larger more leafy outer boroughs, just remember that not all of London has the Underground. The London Borough of Bromley is London’s largest borough at just under 59 square miles but has no TfL Underground stations. We have National Rail stations, TfL buses and TfL trams, but no TfL Tube. However the High Street in the capital town of Bromley is only 10 miles from London Bridge. We also have many towns, villages and even a few hamlets and lots of farms and lots of commons (one of which is owned and managed by the Corporation of the City of London. London is so much more than the 3-5 square miles that the tourists think of - London is actually about 606 square miles.
Yes, about those red phone boxes. When my family ran a post office and general store, we were in charge of cleaning out the phone box at the bottom of our garden and collecting the coinage and sending it to the GPO via the remittance that went with the afternoon post. That box always stank of cigarette smoke and - yes - sometimes urine and/or booze. That is when I really started to hate human beings, especially their weaknesses for additions.
A school friend of mine from here in Britain moved to the US 30 years ago. Now all her English friends think she sounds like she was on Sex and the City and her US friends still think she sounds like Mary Poppins.
With regard to people taking on a different accents when they move to a different country (or area), this varies from person to person. My father was from Scotland and moved to England when he was in his 20's, but he retained his Scottish accent for the rest of his life. It's probably more common for children to pick up a local accent when they move. My sister moved from the North of England to Suffolk for a couple of years, and her son (aged 10) picked up the local accent within 2 months and sounded as if had lived there all his life, but dropped it just as quickly when they returned to the North. His sister, who was 2 years younger, retained her original accent throughout the two year period.
I was recently standing at the south-side bus stop of tower bridge and an Italian Tourist Family approached me. "Please sir, can you tell us how to get to Tower Bridge" ME, "That's it there" -pointing at it from which direction they had just walked 20 yards away. ITF "No, that is London Bridge, we want Tower Bridge". After similar to and fro they accepted they had not yet been to London Bridge but TB and that it was just a short stroll along the embankment to get to it. However, it is not worth visiting.
I think if you’re a child when you emigrate you pick up the accent/language quite quickly. My brother’s kids were 10 and 12 when the moved to Australia and they had Oz accents in a year!
Biggest mistake is that London is not a representation of England or the UK. It a multicultural tourist city. 1 hour outside London via train is Windsor, where the King actually lives. for HARRY POTTER FANS, just over an hour by train of coach and your at the H P studio tour where the films were shot.. 2 hours outside London and you have Warwick castle which is amazing and next door is Stratford on Avon. You have the counties of Kent, Hampshire, and Surrey which have so much history less than a couple of hours outside the capital..
Usually enunciation and accent is set by Parents and High School. I am from the North West of England and have lived in London for forty years, Oxford educated and professionally qualified in a posh profession but still speak with my original accent. I knew a guy who was brought up in London but his father was a northerner and he spoke with his accent!
With the accent thing, it depends on how vacuous you are - if you're easily influenced, then you'd pick up the accent fast. I've heard some people from the UK start speaking with an American twang from only being there a week.
Laurence Brown (Lost In The Pond) Is originally from Grimsby, North East England. Evan Edinger is originally from New Jersey. It _isn't_ the "chube" !! It _is_ "The Tuube"
Hipsters are obsessed with going to "non touristy" places full of crime and graffiti. I've no idea why. Normal people will have a much nicer time in zone 1. The tube is cheaper than a cab, but it's also way less comfortable with no sights and a lot of walking. Who goes on holiday to save money?
If you're after the genuine "Authentic Brit Experience", I think you should go to the shops and restaurants ordinary people here actually use. Wetherspoons, McDonalds, Nando's, Tesco, Aldi, Greggs, Bargain Booze, B&M Bargains, Poundland, Argos etc. Oh yeah, and don't bother going to London... Go somewhere like Wigan or Hull, way more authentic.
I moved to New Zealand from London when I was 6 and picked up the strong accent very quickly. I am suspicious about the Candy stores...covers for something else. Anyway it all looks horrible now. Mini cabs are cheaper than black cabs I think - are they regulated now ?
My Wife is a Dane, she lost her Danish accent after about 20 years here, if anyone picks up on her accent, they usually ask if she's from the north of England
Yes, because of the Viking influence being less eroded in the north than other parts of the UK. Its artifacts still show through in the dialects and accents. I've heard that Scandinavians have less trouble understanding North-Eastern accents than any other. Fascinating stuff. 😊
One thing. Don't ask anybody for directions. They probably don't come from London. Don't know anything about London and only speak so Swedish variant. Nobody in London comes from London (well almost nobody).
With the knocking on the door of 10 downing street, he will have used a green screen and put the image in later. He isn't really by the door, you can't do that lol.
The biggest mistake you can make with London, is going to that foul aired, misery faced, rip off trap and it's horrible tap water in the first place. Go to Edinburgh during the fringe festival and have mercy on your lungs and your wallet and your intestines. Buckingham Palace has got the wrong flag on it. It should have a jolly roger flying from it.
I enjoy your topics, but why do all the videos you pick have presenters who gabble like demented turkeys? They must be breathing through their ears! I’ve stopped watching for today.
Returning from France at Victoria with four kids and a dumb wife in tow I decided to take a Fast Black for simplicity. Half way to Paddington, my old transfer point when I was in the RN, I remembered we were headed to Glasgow via Kings Cross. The Cabbie didn't flinch, complain or refuse. He nonchalantly turned off, took a number of back streets I wouldn't ride a bike down, and got us to KX with minutes to spare. Wouldn't even take a tip. London Cabbies are saints.
He wasn't actually at 10 Downing Street. It's a gated street backing onto the Cabinet Office, full of armed guards. You haven't been able to just stroll down it for at least 50 years if not more.
Correct its two streets down the same door the media like to use
In 1974 I was on a grants demo in Hyde Park. We walked back across Green Park and St James’s Park, then up Downing Street. There were no barriers. The police asked us politely not to have our placards up when walking in front of No.10. It was the IRA attacks years later that led Margaret Thatcher to install gates.
Vehicle access was curtailed in 1973 when metal barriers were placed across the entrance to the street.[18] In 1974, the Metropolitan Police proposed erecting a semi-permanent barrier between the pavement and carriageway on the Foreign Office side to keep pedestrians off the main part of the street. The proposal came with assurances that tourists would still be permitted to take photographs at the door of Number 10. The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, rejected the proposal, feeling that it would appear to be an unacceptable restriction of the freedom of the public. Wilson's private secretary wrote "I much regret this further erosion of the Englishman's right to wander at will in Downing Street."[19]
In 1982 access was further restricted by railings and a demountable gate. They were replaced by black steel gates in 1989.[20] The increase in security was due to an increase in violence, particularly by the IRA during The Troubles. The Thatcher ministry was particularly moved to increase security after the 1979 Assassination of Lord Mountbatten. WikiPedia
@@stirlingmoss4621 Thank you. I knew fifty years plus was wrong, since I walked up it 49 years ago (gulp). So 1989 is 35 years. My husband worked nearby and was at the window of his office when the mortar landed in the Downing Street garden, and the window was hit with gravel.
This explains why I was tasered and wrestled to the ground. Could've used this wisdom a week ago. 🫤
Basmati rice is what's usually served with Indian food - it's nothing like the typical long grain rice you're probably familiar with in the US.
Exactly! He has no idea how fantastic an Indian meal can be OR how diverse the tastes and flavours, depending on what part of India the chefs come from...
There are so many different accents in London that you generally end up keeping your own because you're surrounded by so many different accents!
You don't have to have rice with your curry, you can have dosa, chapati, naan... or a potato based curry alongside for carbs. I am also not a huge rice fan.
Also it's usually basmati rice and NOT the American long grain he will be used too... 😂
Evan’s accent has anglicized a bit, but it’s very subtle.
It seems to be a couple of decades+ for a noticeable accent change from what I’ve seen, though of course it varies.
Also the British queuing thing is just that we have relatively very rigid social etiquette for lines and taking your turn, where as in some other places it’s more taking your opportunity. The UK and US have very similar etiquette I think, Brits just really abide by them by default, even to their own inconvenience 😛
I don't know why everyone says we love queuing; we do not love queuing. We hate queuing. We detest queuing with a passion.
But it's the correct, polite, fair, and right thing to do.
We spontaneously form queues, with no prompting. For example, even at the bar we will all have a mental queue and tell the bar staff who is ahead of us if they’ve lost track. We even find the way to set up the spontaneous queue so it’s as fair and as efficient as possible (e.g. by having a single queue for multiple service points). And as others have mentioned, we genuinely will join a queue without knowing what’s at the front just to find out (I’ve done it myself).
‘Clap em balls’ followed by shocked pikachu face gave me a good giggle
On accents, I think it really depends who you are. I knew a bloke from Glasgow who lived in Australia for 20 years and you could barely tell he'd been away. Me, being from Yorkshire, my vowels are just about wired into my DNA and will probably almost never change, but I tend to pick up the other parts of accents really quickly if I've stayed in a place a few months.
The US is one of the places where queuing is "almost" as strong as in the UK, except for a few things. The UK will form queues you don't even realise are there. Whenever there is a first-come-first serve situation, no matter the chaos, there is a queue. People pay attention to those who were there before them and gesture to offer that you go first. Even in scenarios where it's a chaotic situation that forms a regimented queue, people know who were before them and let them infront or slot in behind them.
Clearly, never been to a Starbucks in Cali😅
Queueing is common in many countries & no-one enjoys it. It's common because it's better than the alternatives.
@@RobertTaylor-gz2fu You'd be surprised. I'm not talking about formal queues and places with designated places to queue. That's normal and everywhere.
@@naycnay What are you talking about?
Evan is now a British citizen 😊❤
That's not 10 Downing Street. That's 10 Adam street, a lookalike quite close by. Popular with tourists. I'm not sure if someone lives there or what the protocol is for photos and knocking. Maybe he didn't really knock, and he dubbed in the SFX. Maybe he did really knock and there's nothing behind it.
The "Queuing" thing is yet another impression of Britain emanating from US Service People over here in World War II.
Back then, during the period of rationing, folk had to queue up to get so very many things, especially foods. It sits right there with "It rains ALL the time in Britain" and "British food is bland and horrible".
What may have had some truth back in your great Grand-pappy's day sure ain't the case now! 🙂
Whilst I don't agree with everything Evan says, he is far better informed than Lawrence Brown, who just panda's to his American viewers, without letting too many realities get in the way?
In 1975 I was in Great Falls Montana with colleagues and met a family. The wife was a GI bride and we were the first Brits she'd met in thirty years. To her family she still sounded British but to us she sounded American.
The door he knocks on isn't 10 Downing Street, which was closed to the public after some mean people threw bombs into the garden. It's actually in Adam Street which is a side street off the Strand, about 15 minures walk from Downing Street.
I think the accent is to some extent to do with age, but mostly it is down to the person. Some people just adapt and conform, indeed when they go home they can revert very quickly. Lawrence and Even also have a career based on their status as the foriegner observing, they need to preserve it.
Evan has definitely picked up a bit of an English accent! I’d agree about the queuing - it’s not that different to America at all. It tends to be made more of a deal because a fair bit of Europe don’t queue and it’s a total nightmare. I do think escalator etiquette is stricter in the UK though, people will not hesitate to correct you if you stand on the left.
I'm Scottish and have never come across the escalator etiquette so I would get pulled up too.
Queuing at the bar in a pub is a bit different. In the UK, it is polite to say if someone has been waiting longer than you and wait your turn to be served, while they now get served their order. Typically, you wait for someone to give you the same respect back, but it doesn't often happen amd end in disappointment amd a long wait. You just hope the bar person remembers you for your previous good deed, before the next rude person pushes in front of you next time 😂
Connor, you ALWAYS say that one of your FAVOURITE foods is 'Shepherd's Pie' - YET in the same breath will often mention that you don't think you have EVER eaten lamb or sheep!? What you HAVE been eating is 'Cottage Pie' (which contains beef!)... 🤔🥺
The bland idea I think is a residue from war, in that, the rations were so small you had a limited choice foods to bulk up meals. People grew foods in their gardens and bulking food was usually potaoes. We were over the moon when you decided (to late again) and your troups bought some tastey treats and stockings.
My ex-husband was born in UK and moved to San Diego when he was about 10, moved back at 20, he had a weird English/ American drawl. We don't love to queue, we just do it and occasionally make a 'tutting' noise when it is taking too long.
Hey don't knock Spoons we all go there it's cheap as chips and basically go for cheap booze
I think the queuing and food reputation is a hangover from what GIs experienced during the war.
No 10 door is made of reinforced metal. This is checked reguarly. The only time No 10 in came under direct threat recent times was when it was fired on by mortar . I think in the 80s.
I moved to England from near Glasgow at 15, i lost my accsent but it always comes back when drinking or back in Scotland.
Never apologise for a Harry Potter reference
At the age of 75 I have neither read a Harry Potter book nor seen a Harry Potter film. Good luck to all those who like them, but it seems that many US commentators seem to find it obligatory to mention him as something that goes towards defining my country.
Connor, I emigrated to Australia from Scotland when I was eight and have lost my Scottish accent. Two of my cousins emigrated a year later when they were fourteen and sixteen and still have noticeable accents
Evan does actually know about London, but he is still clueless about the rest of the UK
Curry and chips.....(fries)
I think Evan has lost quite a bit of his accent, he's sounding more and more English here and there.
In the UK we have always been content with having to Queue! Though woe betide anyone who jumps the queue! 😳
I’ve been on rickshaws a few time you can only be charged crazy prices if you let them, if they take the piss have non of it and tell them what you’re paying they’ll soon come up with a reasonable price a bit higher than what you said
Returning from France at Victoria with four kids and a dumb wife in tow I decided to take a Fast Black for simplicity.
Half way to Paddington, my old transfer point when I was in the RN, I remembered we were headed to Glasgow via Kings Cross.
The Cabbie didn't flinch, complain or refuse. He nonchalantly turned off, took a number of back streets I wouldn't ride a bike down, and got us to KX with minutes to spare.
Wouldn't even take a tip.
London Cabbies are saints.
Slighty ammused that in warning against tourist traps he recomended Waxxy O'Connors, which whatever its merits is part of a irish themed chain.
02:26 It's not the real 10 Downing Street. It's a fake one on Adams Street in London, used for fake photos and such. An ordinary person can't get anywhere near the door of the real 10 Downing Street. The entire street is behind a secure gate and fence that is guarded by multiple police officers and the door of 10 Downing Street itself is guarded by a police officer.
OMG sacrilege, how could you say that - Indian food is the bomb! Nom nom nom.
I can vouch for The Anchor and Lamb and Flag pubs, both great places. But never, ever, EVER eat in an Angus/Aberdeen Steak House - utter crap!
I think I read somewhere age 14-18, where you live is very important for accent, culture, social norms etc.
£2 per pint in some pibs in Rhyl.
only few years ago was £1.75p pint in places were the same pubs mid and north England were £2.20p or somewhere close to that. i doubt its that cost now tho. best mate lives in Rhyl go stay for few weeks every year, even if i was not staying at mates house but wanted to stay on the coast id pick Rhyl because accommodation is a bargain in places and you only 30 min drive to places like Conwy, Llandudno or in to the Snowdonia N park where accommodation more costly you can have a much bigger saving using Rhyl as a base as from there it don't take long to get to very pretty places, im from Llangollen about 40 min drive another place i spend 3-4 weeks a year at to see family and friends, love going back to North Wales, fun driving roads great countryside and people
East Asian rice...great choice🎩
I've watched Evan since he first started his pun-casts. He's almost assimilated into British, still some rough edges in thinking, but the London magic has worked yet again. So nice to see it's still happening 😊. Brit here, lived in London and somehow, no matter your culture you become part of London, the city constantly evolves but somehow remains the same. Amazing place.
American "candy stores" are now being closed down in the UK by councils.
Red phone BOX not BOOTH !
8:24 Beautiful starlight shining through the tree. Nice.
Ok if you want to stay in one of London’s larger more leafy outer boroughs, just remember that not all of London has the Underground. The London Borough of Bromley is London’s largest borough at just under 59 square miles but has no TfL Underground stations. We have National Rail stations, TfL buses and TfL trams, but no TfL Tube. However the High Street in the capital town of Bromley is only 10 miles from London Bridge. We also have many towns, villages and even a few hamlets and lots of farms and lots of commons (one of which is owned and managed by the Corporation of the City of London. London is so much more than the 3-5 square miles that the tourists think of - London is actually about 606 square miles.
Yes, about those red phone boxes. When my family ran a post office and general store, we were in charge of cleaning out the phone box at the bottom of our garden and collecting the coinage and sending it to the GPO via the remittance that went with the afternoon post. That box always stank of cigarette smoke and - yes - sometimes urine and/or booze. That is when I really started to hate human beings, especially their weaknesses for additions.
No one knows me over there! Connor, your videos have 25 million views, a pretty high proportion in the UK. There are people who know you.
14:00 Don't eat it with rice then - there are plenty of other options. I prefer a few chapatis for example.
Never seen an Irish or Scot loose their accent in my life,
Indian food does not have to be a curry and curry does not have to be Indian.
A school friend of mine from here in Britain moved to the US 30 years ago. Now all her English friends think she sounds like she was on Sex and the City and her US friends still think she sounds like Mary Poppins.
With regard to people taking on a different accents when they move to a different country (or area), this varies from person to person. My father was from Scotland and moved to England when he was in his 20's, but he retained his Scottish accent for the rest of his life. It's probably more common for children to pick up a local accent when they move. My sister moved from the North of England to Suffolk for a couple of years, and her son (aged 10) picked up the local accent within 2 months and sounded as if had lived there all his life, but dropped it just as quickly when they returned to the North. His sister, who was 2 years younger, retained her original accent throughout the two year period.
There's another building nearby Downing Street with an identical front door, he knocked on that one!
Try pouring in a dash pf rice wine vinegar after the rice is cooked, that's how it get's that stickyness
American candy stores aren't what they appear,check it out.
I was recently standing at the south-side bus stop of tower bridge and an Italian Tourist Family approached me. "Please sir, can you tell us how to get to Tower Bridge" ME, "That's it there" -pointing at it from which direction they had just walked 20 yards away. ITF "No, that is London Bridge, we want Tower Bridge". After similar to and fro they accepted they had not yet been to London Bridge but TB and that it was just a short stroll along the embankment to get to it. However, it is not worth visiting.
I think if you’re a child when you emigrate you pick up the accent/language quite quickly. My brother’s kids were 10 and 12 when the moved to Australia and they had Oz accents in a year!
Biggest mistake is that London is not a representation of England or the UK. It a multicultural tourist city. 1 hour outside London via train is Windsor, where the King actually lives. for HARRY POTTER FANS, just over an hour by train of coach and your at the H P studio tour where the films were shot.. 2 hours outside London and you have Warwick castle which is amazing and next door is Stratford on Avon. You have the counties of Kent, Hampshire, and Surrey which have so much history less than a couple of hours outside the capital..
Usually enunciation and accent is set by Parents and High School. I am from the North West of England and have lived in London for forty years, Oxford educated and professionally qualified in a posh profession but still speak with my original accent.
I knew a guy who was brought up in London but his father was a northerner and he spoke with his accent!
With the accent thing, it depends on how vacuous you are - if you're easily influenced, then you'd pick up the accent fast. I've heard some people from the UK start speaking with an American twang from only being there a week.
Clapthemballs 😁 I have a strange sense of humour.
There are more british restaurants in mumbi than london.
Laurence Brown (Lost In The Pond)
Is originally from Grimsby, North East England.
Evan Edinger is originally from New Jersey.
It _isn't_ the "chube" !! It _is_ "The Tuube"
His advice on Indian dishes was lame. If you like a good curry you NEVER have a chicken tikka. SMH.
Skip the rice and get a naan. Job done!
Totally agree Chicken Tikka is like buying a McDonald's when you want a burger.
Hipsters are obsessed with going to "non touristy" places full of crime and graffiti. I've no idea why. Normal people will have a much nicer time in zone 1.
The tube is cheaper than a cab, but it's also way less comfortable with no sights and a lot of walking. Who goes on holiday to save money?
When I was in Athens I tried to blend in. Even spoke some Greek. Worked for me.
If you're after the genuine "Authentic Brit Experience", I think you should go to the shops and restaurants ordinary people here actually use. Wetherspoons, McDonalds, Nando's, Tesco, Aldi, Greggs, Bargain Booze, B&M Bargains, Poundland, Argos etc.
Oh yeah, and don't bother going to London... Go somewhere like Wigan or Hull, way more authentic.
I moved to New Zealand from London when I was 6 and picked up the strong accent very quickly. I am suspicious about the Candy stores...covers for something else. Anyway it all looks horrible now. Mini cabs are cheaper than black cabs I think - are they regulated now ?
On accents, Evan has changed significantly, see some of his earlier U Tube, also there is a word choice thing.
My Wife is a Dane, she lost her Danish accent after about 20 years here, if anyone picks up on her accent, they usually ask if she's from the north of England
The Danish accent influenced the Northern English accent especially the Yorkshire accent
Yes, because of the Viking influence being less eroded in the north than other parts of the UK. Its artifacts still show through in the dialects and accents. I've heard that Scandinavians have less trouble understanding North-Eastern accents than any other. Fascinating stuff. 😊
That £20 pizza is £10 where I live.
If you change countries before the age of 18, your more likely to lose your accent.
One thing. Don't ask anybody for directions. They probably don't come from London. Don't know anything about London and only speak so Swedish variant. Nobody in London comes from London (well almost nobody).
Connor, I forgot to wish you a Happy Birthday 🎉 🎂 on September 3rd . I hope you had a great day !
Or just don't visit London. That way you can see the UK. London, like all capitals is a front.
He is totally wrong about the phone booths most are coffee shops.
With the knocking on the door of 10 downing street, he will have used a green screen and put the image in later. He isn't really by the door, you can't do that lol.
It's an actual door on a nearby street that resembles 10 Downing Street.
In my experience, after the age 25 the changes tend to be pretty much of vocabulary.
Thinking London is typical England is the biggest mistake tourists make.......
We don't love queuing, its a case of no option in this overpopulated country.
90% of the population lives on 10% of the land. We ain't overpopulated, just wrongly dispersed
That is the weirdest pronunciation of Balham that I have ever heard (2:54)
In the 1950s, Peter Sellers did a spoof travelogue called Balham, Gateway to the South in a cod American accent, pronouncing it bal-ham.
Dude, wtf? Walking away? Are you serious?
Oxford St is a dump.
Thats not No. 10!
Disappointing. I was expecting "I've washed my hands"
The biggest mistake you can make with London, is going to that foul aired, misery faced, rip off trap and it's horrible tap water in the first place. Go to Edinburgh during the fringe festival and have mercy on your lungs and your wallet and your intestines. Buckingham Palace has got the wrong flag on it. It should have a jolly roger flying from it.
I enjoy your topics, but why do all the videos you pick have presenters who gabble like demented turkeys? They must be breathing through their ears!
I’ve stopped watching for today.
There is 264 clock towers in London not 1
Yes but it is the one that tourists want to visit.
Also I would be interested to see the list, and does it include Little Ben (Victoria)?
Returning from France at Victoria with four kids and a dumb wife in tow I decided to take a Fast Black for simplicity.
Half way to Paddington, my old transfer point when I was in the RN, I remembered we were headed to Glasgow via Kings Cross.
The Cabbie didn't flinch, complain or refuse. He nonchalantly turned off, took a number of back streets I wouldn't ride a bike down, and got us to KX with minutes to spare.
Wouldn't even take a tip.
London Cabbies are saints.