I'm from the UK and don't want to brag.. however, my teeth are perfect.. I drop a 'Steradent' in the glass from time to time to help keep them clean. :/
"They're not going to put a Royal in the line of fire". Really? Prince Andrew flew Naval helicopters in the Falklands War and Prince Harry served as a Forwards Air Controller and an attack helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. Surprised you don't know that Yvette?
I was thinking the same thing. People the royals are not just wallpaper. They actually work really hard and are very down to earth, especially William and Harry.
@David Rawson So flying an attack helicopter in Afghanistan and a missile deflecting helicopter in the Falklands is out of the way? What do you do for a living, lion taming?
Harry started as a ground soldier in Afghanistan going out on patrols before he went back as an Apache helicopter pilot . He was only pulled out originally when a newspaper broke ranks and told the world that he was there.
I'm a Brit in my late 60's, and I find that one of the most annoying things in British life is the in-ability to complete the transition to the metric system that started in the 1960's. I buy petrol in litres, the road distances are in miles, and the fuel consumption meter in my car is in mile per gallon! We buy beer in pints - unless it's in a can or a bottle when it's in millilitres, centilitres or litres. Milk can be in either litres or pints, I buy 4 pints of milk marked as 2.28 litres. Jam is still usually sold in 1lb jars which are labelled as 454 grams. The final irony is if you ever go to the houses of parliament the distances to the various entrances are signed in metres.
One of the great misconceptions about The UK and Englishmen like me , in particular, is that we are pedantic,trivial and worry about totally minor and irrelevant things..... Oh ! By The Way the 4th and 5th paintings on the right of the wall are not quite straight or level. Well I " askew"....
The weather is definitely something people get wrong when thinking of the UK. I live in the south of England and the climate here is very moderate. In the summer we often get 30+ degrees which really shocks foreigners.
When my Dad was working as a university lecturer he quite often had students from south east Asia - Malaysia, Singapore, places like that - some of whom stayed over here for the whole summer. I remember we had one of those long hot summers we sometimes get in the UK, and they were shocked that it got as hot - if not slightly hotter - than back home!
The royals have and do serve in wars (Prince Harry in Afganistan and Prince Andrew in the Falklands war). However I guess it's right to say the senior royals that are part of the succession never see action despite serving with various military services). The mixture of metric and none metric measurements is mainly down to the EU who wanted to standardise measurements for all countries in the EU.
In school in the UK, from junior school to university everything was metric. I'm now 65 years old. This country is stupid. I'm amazed that milk and beer is still sold in pints and that distances and speeds still refer to miles.
@TheRenaissanceman65 They did it in Ireland - so cost isn't the issue. But even Ireland hedges its bets. The roads show kilometers and KPH speed signs - but you still buy pints in pubs.
Great video, however I think you should really take care to distinguish between Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland (independent, part of the EU). It's not just quibbling over a name, wars have literally been fought over it. It's a really important distininction that I wasn't really aware of as an Australian.
Yes, I was going to make the same comment. It's also easier to keep geographical groupings separate from political; I.e. the British Isles and Great Brittain are geographical, whilst the UK and the Republic of Ireland are political.
@@davew4998 I think it would be generally be acceptable for someone to just say Ireland rather than Northern Ireland,, and casual speech as long as they don't say the republic is part of the UK.
@@Jamie_D I think generally you are right, but specifically if you are talking to Irish people north or south of the border, you could very easily cause offence. God only knows you can say Good Morning over there and someone might take offence.
re: Living in London. When I've lived abroad and people ask from where in the UK I come from, they often ask London first. Coming from Kent (the county / state) next to London, I say close enough. On a few occasions I've got a "Oh, do you know their friend X who lives in one of the towns on the edge of London". It seems that a lot of foreigners think London is a small town of less than 100 people and everyone knows everyone else.
i think the tooth this is that american actors all pay for their perfect teeth, whereas any brits on tv will have healthy teeth (from nhs dentistry!) but wont have done any extra work, so you'll see more unique smiles. even though they are perfectly clean and healthy teeth, we dont tend to have those shiny hollywood symmetrical smiles
Yeah that was my assumption. Bleaching is far less common. Though its becoming more popular. And people really dont get braces unless they actually really need them.
I think theres also a tendency for American TV to focus more on the young and the beautiful. In the UK you see more working class vox pops, and more working class soaps and other non aspirational faces, so I think the US shows more people who happen to have good teeth, rather than people actually all having better teeth.
If you're driving a UK made car your speedometer should be calibrated in both kilometers and miles per hour. It's worth having a look to check. If it is, it will take the guess work out of driving to the allowed speed on the road.
The conflicting thing I have found is that people from other countries focus on London as if it is all of England. But then if you tell them you are from London they will then ask if you know their second cousin twice removed as if they live next door. They have no idea of the size of London. Apart from taxi drivers who have done "the knowledge" most inhabitants of London only know bits of it well.
The queen has no power it's all passed to the government. You need a gun licence to buy a gun in the UK and then you have to pass a test but you can't get a gun as a normal person. And just get the met office app as that's the official weather agency for the uk
Damien Dye the queen can overrule anything the government put into power, but doesn’t because the public have voted for the government and they don’t want civil unrest. If the government want to put another law into place, the Queen has to confirm it first.
You asked how people from other parts of the UK feel. I come from Orkney, a group of islands off the north coast of Scotland. (Not to be confused with the western isles off the West coast). I live in Coventry which is in the southern end of this island less than 1.5 hours drive from the south coast. Problems? Firstly, people here think that they are in the middle of the UK. It would take 10 to 12 hours to drive to the north coast, depending on traffic and your keeping the speed limit! London is seen as the "remote south east" and about as representative of the UK as Aberdeen, except Aberdeen may be nearer the centre of the country. The make up of countries etc here is complicated and a lot of people south of the middle of this island dont get it. There are two nations in the British isles, the Republic of Ireland and the UK. The full name for the uk is "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". It is made of four countries (not nations), England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is 3 of those, England, Scotland and Wales. Some islands are administratively part of one of the four countries. Orkney, for example is supposed to be part of Scotland. My grandfather was insistent he was Orcadian and British but in no way Scottish! The biggest irritation is not people from elsewhere not knowing that weird structure. It is people from southern England talking about the whole British Isles as "England" or assuming that all the rest is just an extra 1% stuck on somewhere remote near the north pole!
The Queen has one interesting "power": once a week the Prime Minister has to go for a private audience with the Queen. It's totally private, the details are never published, but it's formal, with Bowing, "ma'am", and not sitting until invited to etc. She may well keep him waiting a while. He'll have to give an account of himself and his government, and answer pertinent questions. I understand most Prime Ministers hate it and fear it a bit.
It was Prime Minister Harold Wilson who asked the question "Why isn't this country a dictatorship?". Answer "Because every week the prime minister has to go to the palace and kneel before the Queen and explain his job to her".
One of the most significant powers of the Monarch is that they are Head of the Armed Forces. The Armed Forces and the Police swear allegiance (or Affirm) to serve the Monarch, not the Government. Thus, if there is ever a tyrannical Government, the Monarch has the means to remove that Government.
We do have the equivalent of Australia.s Bureau of Meteorology radar in the UK its called PINE CONE and it works as follows the pine cone opens up When its going to be warm and dry the pine cone closes When its going to be damp or cold isnt technology wonderful
Great Britain is the name of the largest island which has Wales, Scotland and England on it. The 2nd largest island is called Ireland but consists of Eire and Northern Ireland. Only Northern Ireland is a part of the UK. There are 136 inhabited islands in total which make up the United Kingdom.
Incorrect. Great Britain refers to the collection of islands, not including Ireland. That's why the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and doesn't list every tiny island around the coast. Great, by the way, is to distinguish it from Brittany.
@@helenwood8482 Sorry, but you're wrong. The correct name for the largest island in the group of British isles is called "Great Britain". Great Britain does not refer to the smaller islands which fall under the collective name of "British isles". Here's a link to the islands and their names - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_British_Isles
It used to rain more frequently - climate change. Now we have long dry periods and torrential downpours which cause flooding. NHS dentistry has been effectively dead since Tony Blair was in power. He screwed with how dentists are paid so that consultants could be paid more, and the result is that now if you need anything more involved than the smallest filling, you have to pay through the nose. It's not remotely free at the point of use anymore. It's just some cheaper than outright private practise.
Dentists were allowed to opt out of the NHS and many did. That created a shortage so a lot us now pay for private schemes like Denplan. Children are still entitled to free dentistry, along with some adults.
Hi, Weather&Radar is a useful rainfall radar app. The met office also have a rainfall radar site. And yes there’s always a comedian saying ‘Just look out the window’ which is fine if you’re just popping out for five mins, but not if you’re going to be out for a couple of hours or all day. Oh, and thanks for bringing up the teeth thing that’s really annoying.
The bad teeth issue came from President Eisenhower who was in the UK for D-Day. He was asked what her felt about the UK people and in a throw-away comment said “bad teeth”. This was pre-NHS times. What you said is quite correct, the UK has social healthcare and the US doesn’t, and an estimated 50m Americans cannot effort health insurance or dental healthcare. British charities go to America to offer the poor free detail help. So it is mathematically impossible for Americans to have better teeth.
Nice video Yvette, very accurate. It has rained a lot the last 6 months, I would say a lot more than normal and with no snow, which again is unusual. Actually there is more rain further west, so you're more likely to get wet in Wales than in Yorkshire (on average). On the subject of Wales, they dont quite have the same power as Scotland. Wales has an Assembly, rather than a Parliament, so powers are more limited. I'm glad you're enjoying your stay and it's nice that you are paying attention. Lol.
The Queen meets with the PM once a week as Andrew Baker said below. All I'm saying is that if you could meet with the PM once a week in total private and if you had the status to make them listen to every word you say, that adds up to quite a lot of influence...
I'm a Cockney with a Geordie father-in-law. Under normal circumstances I can understand him. But when he's had a few and the accent gets a lot broader I can generally get the gist of the conversation but there is no way I could give a literal translation.
Great vid 😁 By the way the full name of the U.K. is United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland 😁 There’s a very good 5 minute video called “explaining the different between england, Britain and U.K. explained” or something that people might find useful 😁
It's a Uk citizen's right to own a shotgun, the police need a reason to refuse a license but to own a rifle or rifles you need a valid reason to own each one. Many shotguns and .22 rimfires are semi-auto but the shotguns are limited to 3 shots unless you own a section one (rifle) license. Contrary to popular belief handguns are allowed but again a valid reason is required for a license to be issued. Target shooting was deemed not a valid reason anymore so thousands of guns were confiscated and destroyed, Many deer stalkers own a handgun for dispatching wounded animals near roads where a rifle would be too powerful. There is no test to own a firearm but background checks are done and a relaxed "chat" with the firearms officer when he checks your security arrangements takes place to make sure of your character, he can refuse you if he just thinks "something is not quite right"
There is no such thing as a Right to own a shotgun in the UK, handguns are not specifically outlawed however any small firearm with a barrel less than 30cm and overall length less than 60cm is prohibited therefore handguns are effectively outlawed, there are a very few exceptions, gun control in the UK is probably the tightest in the world.
No checks? So why do I deal with farmers on a near weekly basis coming to my GP surgery to have their mental health checked by a doctor as part of license renewal? Shotgun licencees must be proven physically and mentally fit to own a shotgun and licensed as such with the police.
No mate this is a common misconception you have a right to own a shotgun but the police can say no if they find a reason to deny it, any slight reason will do and they don't have to justify it. With a rifle the onus falls on you to justify owning it Handguns are OK if you have a valid reason for having one. The exceptions you give basically mean it is not classified as a a handgun! A deer stalker in Northumberland has a standard .44 magnum for dispatching game. If you don't believe me phone you're local firearms dept they are nice people and will confirm what I say.
I said no TESTS. Many European countries test your knowledge of species and accuracy with a gun. but the UK does not. Mental health CHECKS are pretty universal now. Please try and keep up!
Im a UK gun owner, both shotguns and rifles. Im not a farmer. I live in a city. You do need a legitimate reason for ownership... Self defense isnt a reason. Target shooting, pest control, clay shooting are all good enough.. Tho for a rifle you also need a certificated piece of land or written permit to shoot on one, or be a shooting club member. The police will check to see if you are a known scumbag and you have safe storage for you firearms. Your local firearms dept and or gunshop will be generally helpful.
There is no specific waiting period for a gun license. What does happen is you get thorough police checks (by the Special Branch in England), these checks can take a long time. Also many limitations on types of gun.
Geordie here. Americans either think I am Irish or just look very confused. Also - It doesn’t rain a lot in Newcastle. It’s actually one of the driest UK cities.
"The British Isles" is an archipelago (collection of islands) off the north-western coast of Europe. The largest of these islands is called "Great Britain", the second largest is called "Ireland". There are dozens (if not hundreds) of smaller islands. The greater part of the countries of Scotland, England and Wales are situated on Great Britain. By convention, if talking about "Great Britain", other islands that are politically part of England, Scotland or Wales are also included as part of (The Isle of Wight, The Scilly Isles, Anglesey, Skye, The Outer Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland etc. etc. etc.). Ireland is split between Northern Ireland (which is in a political union with the three countries of "Great Britain") and The Republic of Ireland (which is not). Some Irish people dislike Ireland being regarded as part of "The British Isles" as they think this implies some kind of political union and prefer to think of Ireland as being an entirely separate entity. "The United Kingdom" is the political union of England, Scotland, Wales and "Northern Ireland". All four countries send MPs to the Westminster parliament in London. Some islands in the "British Isles" are outside of "The United Kingdom", though historically they owe allegiance to the English Crown. These are The Isle of Man, located in The Irish Sea between England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (on a clear day you can see all four from the highest peak on the island) and The Channel Islands off the coast of France (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Herm, Sark etc. etc.). The Isle of Man and the largest of The Channel Islands each have their own government and their own laws and don't send MPs to the parliament in London, though they all leave their international affairs to be handled by "The United Kingdom". Simples!!
Check out the following apps: Blitzortung Lighting Monitor - it's a radar based app that shows where Lightning strikes and where thunderstorms are active. Really interesting to watch. Also check out the AccuWeather app - it also has a Radar function.
The day we went metric (officially) a friend went for some wood. He asked for posts X feet long. "Can't do that, sir. Has to be in metres. We've now gone metric". Length sorted. Now for width and depth. My friend held his breath. "Do you want 2 inches x 2 inches, or 2 inches x 3?". Nuff said!! I think the bad teeth rumour started in America. Teeth are naturally creamy coloured. In America, film stars etc started to bleach their teeth and the NHS dentists didn't do this. So British teeth were deemed bad because they weren't sparkly white. 👍👍👍
An' anovver fing: Scotland does NOT have a 'government': it has a 'Nicola Sturgeon' - which is a Social Affliction (like the rest of the SNP), not a Political Arrangement.
Converting Kilometers to miles in a UK car you have an automatic chart, the speedometer dial has the equivalence printed on it :) It is closer conversion to one and a half to one or two-thirds converting in the other direction
I am from Yorkshire. When I lived in the states, they thought I was Australian. I think it was because I don't have received pronunciation. However, when I lived in Scotland, everyone thought I sounded Irish. I think it was because it was a mixture of Scotish, Yorkshire and American.
NHS dentistry is available but unless you are on benefits there are set fees to pay as a proportion of the true cost. I have always used an NHS dentist.
yeh im scotish and when i travel abroad, people often can tell im scotish or irish, when i say im scotish, they some times think scotland is part of england and not an actual country, i find it funny not at all annoying :)
Yahoo weather app is pretty good for London. It also can notify you if there is rain coming soon as that is the most unpredictable thing about weather in London. Weather besides rain is more pleasant than back home in Sydney Australia. Rolling 5degree temperature differences are the general average for London
Error: UK is England, Scotland, Wales and NORTHERN Ireland. Republic of Eire is an independent country. You would only include Eire if you used the term British Isles which also includes Jersey, Isle of Man, Guernsey etc. Its another thing to think of because the Isle of Man isnt part of the UK at all and many people in the UK think it does.
Most of the royal men, in their early adulthood do military service of some type. In most situations what they are doing is kept confidential for obvious reasons. BUT... Do some research on prince Andrew during the Falklands conflict and it is well documented that he was flying in the line of fire to transfer and rescue other servicemen and was in the thick of it with no regard to his royal title etc. He then went on to be an Air-Sea rescue pilot which is not in the line of fire but is probably a very similar level of risk. Some royals just use their title and attend garden parties while others defend our nation, protect and serve the public alongside their countrymen and women.
Easy ways to convert metric to imperial: - a mile is about 1600m, so 5 miles is about 8km, 50 miles is about 80km and so on. So 80 kph is 50 mph. - 3m is about 10 ft, so 100ft is 30m, etc. An inch is about 2.5 cm, 6ft is 183 cm, 2m is 6ft 7". - 14 lbs is a stone, so 140 lbs is ten stone, 15 stone is 210 lbs, etc. - 2.2 lbs is 1 kg, so 10kg is 22 lbs, etc.
Willie Bauld I still get the impression that there was likely someone tasked to be with him, probably without his knowledge, to make sure he was safe. Or his unit was only ever sent into low risk areas, as it'd be too much of a 'win' if he was killed
The Queen essentially does the job that a President would do in those countries where the President is just the head of state, countries like Ireland and Norway for example. They both have Presidents who represent their country as head of state, but aren't involved in the day to day running of the government. Technically their presidents, like our Queen, is responsible for appointing the Prime Minister, but in reality it's a formality and they simply appoint the leader of the party who won the general election. The Queen does have some political powers left over from the early days of the formation of our parliament, but they are only really formalities, such as the power to appoint the Prime Minister already mentioned , the power to dissolve parliament, the power to command the armed forces etc. Being Scottish I've never been mistaken for English when I've been to the States, but I have been mistaken for Irish.
The miles to KM is about rounding up or down. It's 1 mile = 1.6km, or 1km = 0.6 of a mile. 10km is 6 miles, 20km is 12, etc and 10 miles is 16km, 20 miles is 32km, etc. you can round up or down to the nearest 5 and always be in the ballpark.
Can't see it anywhere so, first health system - Bismark introduced compulsory universal health insurance into Germany in 1884. Still the model for most of Europe.
Queen has some logical impact too - i.e. allegiance by armed forces is to the queen, prime minister forms a government at the queen's request... so you get some logical separation of politicians, state, law, religion etc. The queen sort of 'is/represents' the country/state - everyone else in parliament, forces, law even etc is separate/related but in deference to the head of state. Certainly NOT merely a tourist attraction.
I had a mate who, when in southern California, was assumed to be Australian by many. Crocodile Dundee was a big movie hit at the time. Personally I don't think he sounds anything like Paul Hogan but there you go.
Miles to kilometers? I don't know how others do it, but I'm okay with doubling & calculating 10% and then 20%. So starting with miles, I double & then deduct 20%. Sounds complicated, but it works for me to give me a rough conversion.
I don't think you necessarily need an app to get weather radar. You can just got to the weather.com webpage and click the weather radar option for london - click the play button if you want it animated: weather.com/weather/radar/interactive/l/7517a52d4d1815e639ae1001edb8c5fda2264ea579095b0f28f55c059599e074?layer=radar
The Met office website is where most others get their weather from. It's literally the meteorological society site, which provides weather forecasts to the rest of Britain, so they can tell the public what the weather is doing.
Hey Yvette I enjoy your vids. Not usually my cup of tea but find them both amusing and sometimes informative for me even as a brit! Nice to see that you appreciate that London is not Britain and Britain is not just London, and you realise that people outside the M25 get frustrated with that perception. On the topic of the accents around UK never heard you mention West Midland accent, Birmingham, Coventry and Black Country. Birmingham, after all is England's 2nd City.
The gun law in the UK roughly, and I'm not an expert so I am sure others will correct me where I am wrong lol. You are not allowed to have semi-automatic or automatic weapons and handguns were banned after the Dunblane Massacre when a man went into a school and shot and killed 16 primary school children (all aged between 5 and 6 years old) and a teacher. That was the point when gun laws were tightened in the UK including the banning of handguns and mandortry licensing of weapons. You are still allowed to keep shotguns and airguns but they must all be registered and have a reason to need them and if they are over a certain rate you have to apply for a Class 1 license, that includes airguns. The main reason farmers have them is for pest control, ie rabbits, foxes and such. I think you can still own some airguns without a license as long as they are not over a certain psi. Any shotguns or Class 1 weapons must be kept in a secure locker/gun case with at least 2 locks. Ammo I am not sure of what the limit is. Knives, which have been in the news a lot recently, I think (again not an expert so might be out of date) cannot have a blade over 3 inches unless it is a folding knife. It is illegal to carry any knife in public unless it is a folding knife with a cutting edge of 3 inches or less unless you have good reason. Lock knives are not included as folding knives so they are banned as if they were a normal knife. All other knives, ie butterfly knives, flick knives, gravity knives etc are banned.
For the guns in the uk, you can't get handguns, rifles and shotguns are ok if you get licences. If you go to target ranges you can get all sorts, but generally you don't get to take it home, it's locked up at the range.
I think pistols aren't allowed even in ranges. That's why our pistol marksmen Olympians train abroad. Also, you need a mental health certification from a GP to gain a licence, which is renewed every 10 years.
No matter what you have to have in order to get a gun, once you have it you also have to keep it correctly, have regular house inspections and prove you are sticking to the rules even if they are updated, you need to keep up to date too. Otherwise you are not legal to own a firearm. It's a decent bit of work.
I've got a couple of issues with what you've said, but they're not very important. We've actually got lots of guns here, but we use them mostly for sport. It's not legal to own a gun for the purposes of home or personal defence. I don't remember sitting on any courses and there's no 7-day wait, but you do have to be interviewed by a police officer and they do background checks on you before granting you a licence. That can take weeks to months. The rules are more stringent depending on what type of firearm you want to acquire. Private handgun ownership is almost completely outlawed. But you can have semi-automatic shotguns, and self-loading rifles in very small calibres. For the miles to kilometres thing, It's better to add 50% than to double it. So yes, 40 miles isn't far off 60km. It's actually 64.something. And yes, teeth in Britain used to be awful. Kids grew up eating sweets and not brushing their teeth, and cosmetic dentistry certainly was not covered on the NHS. I doubt it is now, but the cost of dentistry has dropped dramatically, while children eat more healthily than they did 20 or 30 years ago. Lastly the issue with your channel is that you haven't done a makeup video - or at least not one I can find. I'm always struck by how beautiful your eyes are and how your skin is glowing. I know you're not trying to be a beauty UA-camr, but come on, can't you do one? For me!??
Northy my first certificate came 2 weeks after the firearms officer interviewed me. But then I only wanted an SGC. Renewal took nearly 3 months. Coterminous suggests an FAC and of course those take even longer to be processed!
Much better is to add on 50% for miles into KM. (It's actually 60% more). So 40 miles = 60 km is closer as was your second guess (it's actually 64km). The reverse is more annoying, because you need to take about 2/3. So 90km -> 60 miles (actually 56). Should be a lot closer than your halving/doubling system
The rainy weather is a favourite misconception made by non-Brits regarding the UK. It rains more in Dusseldorf, Germany, where I have relatives, than in London. I call it Drizzledorf.
I'm not surprised you're mistaken for being English (specifically from London) considering Australia was colonised and founded by Cockneys. There are some subtle similarities as a result.
Isle of Man Channel Islands (Jersey, Gurnsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm) Isle of Man are crown dependencies. Crown Dependencies are not part of the United Kingdom but are self-governing possessions of the British Crown.. Love your videos, you have a mild OZ accent you will have a British RP accent soon.
In sports in the UK people use KM, like running 5K, but when driving, body weight and height etc. it's imperial, but for food we use grams and kg, and in healthcare doctors also all use metric only
I'm a Geordie who was mistaken as Scots, Welsh and Irish when I visited the US. When I explained my surname originates from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, they had heard of neither. Not really a surprise as an American I befriended in Belgium once asked me if France was in London.
The Royal formerly known as Prince Harry served 2 Tours of active front line service in Afghanistan, all the Royals have had/have some form of military rank and the males have all served in active units during peace time.. The Armed forces and the Police, swear loyalty to the Crown not to the government, so the Queen can start a war if she wants to, and stop one if she wanted to, She is also above the law so can not be arrested for any crime. The Queen is also the divine representative of God for the Church of England, she was anointed to the position during a hidden ceremony when she ascended to the throne in the coronation, seriously... during the coronation screens were placed around the throne while the Arch-Bishop sad some magic words and put magic oils on her....
Universal health care does cover dentistry - in theory. But there's nowhere near enough NHS registered dentists for the whole population. So many of us use private dental care unfortunately.
The conversion from Km to miles 1km= 5/8 of a mile, so treat it like a fraction. 112km ÷ 8 x 5 = 70miles; 48km ÷ 8 x 5 = 30miles to go back reverse 30miles ÷ 5 × 8 = 48km. Simple
II am a very proud Londoner, albeit with not a very pronounced cockney accent. Yet the first time I went to the States one of the first things I was asked was 'What part of Australia are you from!?'
I think I’m right in saying that -Farmers generally have shotguns- the biggest bore rifle allowed is a.22 but their normally for sport-air guns are allowed but no one is allowed hand guns or larger bore rifles- knives kill more people in the UK than guns- The USA is completely bonkers with the amount of weapons in the public domain.
You are required to apply for a fire arms certificate/license this will take much longer than 7 days and the police are involved in assessing if you should be allowed the license Then you have to show that you will keep the fire arm an the ammunition secure at locations. So it is a much more rigorous system of gun control in the U.K. also only sporting rifles and shotguns are permitted.
I'm a Geordie (from Newcastle for anyone who doesn't know!) and someone in Canada thought I didn't speak English - and I don't even have a strong accent. Even people within the UK ask if I'm Welsh(?!), Scottish or Irish - especially if on the phone. Most Americans I've come across struggle with my accent and I have to talk slower and make sure I ditch the slang. Feels like it's done nowt but rain this winter though! Summer wasn't exactly dry - or Autumn. Newcastle is one of the drier places in England though because of the Pennines protecting us. It's also not uncommon for us to be 10c colder than the south coast during summer so it gets annoying when people (including our news channels) think the south coast = the UK and talk about how record breaking it's been. As for weather, I use the weather from netweather.tv on the computer and have the web page saved as one of my browser tabs on my phone. It updates every 5 mins and is one of the best radars I've found. Clear Outside is quite a good website too (the app can be a bit hit and miss with finding locations though) if you want detailed info.
I use the Ventusky app for weather, when I need something that does a little more than the BBC Weather app. They have a website too, which you can check out before downloading the app.
People outside of the UK tend to get Irish and Scottish accents mixed up, its probably the same like for New Zealand and Australian. My experience is that its mostly Americans who believe we all live in London, whereas us Brits can instantly tell the difference between the different dialect and accents of the states. I think this is down to London/cockney and "Queens English" as it is refer too, is the most accent used in films and tv shows.
The UK's best weather app is "the nearest window". The weather can change really quickly. The other night I decided to take my telescope into the back garden because the night sky was stunning and clear. It started raining before I finished setting up the telescope. LOL.
As a Scot, generally, people seem to get that your from Scotland, but they cannot understand that Scotland is part of the UK and that my accent is Scottish, but it is also a British accent. As for a weather app, I use Netweather.tv's weather radar.
The UK is known for bad weather not because the weather is bad, but mainly for its consitency. For other countries weather is simple, spring, summer, autumn and winter. For example America has consistant weather, (more consistant). Whereas the UK will have several weather changes in a day/week. We don't normally have a week of sun or a week of snow. The UK weather isn't consistant which is why people complain. Especially for those who work, planning days off can be a challenge as it may be sunny, but rain several times throughout the day. So it's not that the UK weather is the worse in the world, its just not consistant which in my opinion is more important than good weather.
There's an infamous example online of a US evangelist saying "Loch Ness is in Scotland, England" and I have personally heard a Hong Kong Chinese person say "Scotland is part of London"!
Yes she does use her power, we don't know what she does when it comes to signing bills. Also most of the princes have served in the military and fought in wars.
I assume many people corrected you on the geographical terms already but here's a tip to help understand why it's complicated: there's two sets of terms; physical geographic terms and political geographic terms. They don't line up but they almost do so it's confusing. eg "Great Britain" is a physical geographic term. It's the entire land mass of the big island but doesn't include any of the little islands. British Isles is a bigger physical geography term that includes the entire archipelago. The UK is the political term, so it excludes different countries that are part of the British Isles, which at the moment means only the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and technically the Isle of Man is a British Crown dependency, not part of the UK.
Thanks for mentioning the teeth, it really irks me when the Americans go on about our teeth. One small mistake, it's just Northern Ireland that is part of the United kingdom, Southern Ireland is independent, even though they are one land mass.
I'm from the UK and don't want to brag.. however, my teeth are perfect.. I drop a 'Steradent' in the glass from time to time to help keep them clean. :/
Ditto ; )
"They're not going to put a Royal in the line of fire". Really? Prince Andrew flew Naval helicopters in the Falklands War and Prince Harry served as a Forwards Air Controller and an attack helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. Surprised you don't know that Yvette?
I was thinking the same thing. People the royals are not just wallpaper. They actually work really hard and are very down to earth, especially William and Harry.
No way did that happen!
She meant an important Royal. William and Charles somehow avoided frontline service.
@David Rawson So flying an attack helicopter in Afghanistan and a missile deflecting helicopter in the Falklands is out of the way? What do you do for a living, lion taming?
Harry started as a ground soldier in Afghanistan going out on patrols before he went back as an Apache helicopter pilot . He was only pulled out originally when a newspaper broke ranks and told the world that he was there.
I'm a Brit in my late 60's, and I find that one of the most annoying things in British life is the in-ability to complete the transition to the metric system that started in the 1960's. I buy petrol in litres, the road distances are in miles, and the fuel consumption meter in my car is in mile per gallon! We buy beer in pints - unless it's in a can or a bottle when it's in millilitres, centilitres or litres. Milk can be in either litres or pints, I buy 4 pints of milk marked as 2.28 litres. Jam is still usually sold in 1lb jars which are labelled as 454 grams. The final irony is if you ever go to the houses of parliament the distances to the various entrances are signed in metres.
contractors erected local direction signs but had to change them to yards because. most of them had been marked in metres
One of the great misconceptions about The UK and Englishmen like me , in particular, is that we are pedantic,trivial and worry about totally minor and irrelevant things.....
Oh ! By The Way the 4th and 5th paintings on the right of the wall are not quite straight or level. Well I " askew"....
Badum tish!
The weather is definitely something people get wrong when thinking of the UK. I live in the south of England and the climate here is very moderate. In the summer we often get 30+ degrees which really shocks foreigners.
When my Dad was working as a university lecturer he quite often had students from south east Asia - Malaysia, Singapore, places like that - some of whom stayed over here for the whole summer. I remember we had one of those long hot summers we sometimes get in the UK, and they were shocked that it got as hot - if not slightly hotter - than back home!
Yes we got 38* which is 104 fareinheit last year
The royals have and do serve in wars (Prince Harry in Afganistan and Prince Andrew in the Falklands war). However I guess it's right to say the senior royals that are part of the succession never see action despite serving with various military services).
The mixture of metric and none metric measurements is mainly down to the EU who wanted to standardise measurements for all countries in the EU.
richt71 The Queen also served during the Second World War.
We agreed to go metric long before the EU. Then we just didn't.
@TheRenaissanceman65 1966 to be precise - although seeking to join the (then) EEC was part of the incentive to do so.
In school in the UK, from junior school to university everything was metric. I'm now 65 years old. This country is stupid. I'm amazed that milk and beer is still sold in pints and that distances and speeds still refer to miles.
@TheRenaissanceman65 They did it in Ireland - so cost isn't the issue. But even Ireland hedges its bets. The roads show kilometers and KPH speed signs - but you still buy pints in pubs.
Great video, however I think you should really take care to distinguish between Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland (independent, part of the EU).
It's not just quibbling over a name, wars have literally been fought over it. It's a really important distininction that I wasn't really aware of as an Australian.
Yes, I was going to make the same comment. It's also easier to keep geographical groupings separate from political; I.e. the British Isles and Great Brittain are geographical, whilst the UK and the Republic of Ireland are political.
@@davew4998 I think it would be generally be acceptable for someone to just say Ireland rather than Northern Ireland,, and casual speech as long as they don't say the republic is part of the UK.
@@Jamie_D I think generally you are right, but specifically if you are talking to Irish people north or south of the border, you could very easily cause offence. God only knows you can say Good Morning over there and someone might take offence.
@@davew4998 Oh yea for sure with that :)
@@davew4998 Britain is how we spell it.
re: Living in London.
When I've lived abroad and people ask from where in the UK I come from, they often ask London first. Coming from Kent (the county / state) next to London, I say close enough. On a few occasions I've got a "Oh, do you know their friend X who lives in one of the towns on the edge of London". It seems that a lot of foreigners think London is a small town of less than 100 people and everyone knows everyone else.
i think the tooth this is that american actors all pay for their perfect teeth, whereas any brits on tv will have healthy teeth (from nhs dentistry!) but wont have done any extra work, so you'll see more unique smiles. even though they are perfectly clean and healthy teeth, we dont tend to have those shiny hollywood symmetrical smiles
Yeah that was my assumption. Bleaching is far less common. Though its becoming more popular.
And people really dont get braces unless they actually really need them.
I think theres also a tendency for American TV to focus more on the young and the beautiful. In the UK you see more working class vox pops, and more working class soaps and other non aspirational faces, so I think the US shows more people who happen to have good teeth, rather than people actually all having better teeth.
Basically we don't all look as if we are breaking a new set of teeth in for Shergar (or Sea Biscuit for our American cousins).
@@ianmcallister2268 Too much Shergar's bad for your teeth.... ;-)
@@Blood_Monkey I blame The Osmonds.
If you're driving a UK made car your speedometer should be calibrated in both kilometers and miles per hour. It's worth having a look to check. If it is, it will take the guess work out of driving to the allowed speed on the road.
The conflicting thing I have found is that people from other countries focus on London as if it is all of England. But then if you tell them you are from London they will then ask if you know their second cousin twice removed as if they live next door. They have no idea of the size of London. Apart from taxi drivers who have done "the knowledge" most inhabitants of London only know bits of it well.
When talking about the part of the island of Ireland which is part of the UK, you should say Northern Ireland.
I would imagine most Americans would just not understand a single word from Northerners
Yeah I know Americans and yeah you're right
The queen has no power it's all passed to the government.
You need a gun licence to buy a gun in the UK and then you have to pass a test but you can't get a gun as a normal person.
And just get the met office app as that's the official weather agency for the uk
Damien Dye your wrong about queen havin no power.. everything has to go through her
Damien Dye the queen can overrule anything the government put into power, but doesn’t because the public have voted for the government and they don’t want civil unrest. If the government want to put another law into place, the Queen has to confirm it first.
I know Americans... Im also a Northerner.
They have no problems understanding me
You asked how people from other parts of the UK feel.
I come from Orkney, a group of islands off the north coast of Scotland. (Not to be confused with the western isles off the West coast). I live in Coventry which is in the southern end of this island less than 1.5 hours drive from the south coast.
Problems? Firstly, people here think that they are in the middle of the UK. It would take 10 to 12 hours to drive to the north coast, depending on traffic and your keeping the speed limit!
London is seen as the "remote south east" and about as representative of the UK as Aberdeen, except Aberdeen may be nearer the centre of the country.
The make up of countries etc here is complicated and a lot of people south of the middle of this island dont get it.
There are two nations in the British isles, the Republic of Ireland and the UK.
The full name for the uk is "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". It is made of four countries (not nations), England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Great Britain is 3 of those, England, Scotland and Wales.
Some islands are administratively part of one of the four countries. Orkney, for example is supposed to be part of Scotland. My grandfather was insistent he was Orcadian and British but in no way Scottish!
The biggest irritation is not people from elsewhere not knowing that weird structure. It is people from southern England talking about the whole British Isles as "England" or assuming that all the rest is just an extra 1% stuck on somewhere remote near the north pole!
The Queen has one interesting "power": once a week the Prime Minister has to go for a private audience with the Queen. It's totally private, the details are never published, but it's formal, with Bowing, "ma'am", and not sitting until invited to etc. She may well keep him waiting a while.
He'll have to give an account of himself and his government, and answer pertinent questions. I understand most Prime Ministers hate it and fear it a bit.
Andrew Baker - and long may it continue
@TheRenaissanceman65 I'm going by some comments made by some - they can't get away with anything.
It was Prime Minister Harold Wilson who asked the question "Why isn't this country a dictatorship?". Answer "Because every week the prime minister has to go to the palace and kneel before the Queen and explain his job to her".
@TheRenaissanceman65 partial comments former prime ministers keep sneaking out. Not about the detail of what was said, but about what it felt like.
I wonder how long she would have kept Jeremy Corbyn waiting had he won the election.
One of the most significant powers of the Monarch is that they are Head of the Armed Forces. The Armed Forces and the Police swear allegiance (or Affirm) to serve the Monarch, not the Government. Thus, if there is ever a tyrannical Government, the Monarch has the means to remove that Government.
We do have the equivalent of Australia.s Bureau
of Meteorology radar in the UK its called PINE CONE
and it works as follows
the pine cone opens up When its going to be warm and dry
the pine cone closes When its going to be damp or cold
isnt technology wonderful
Great Britain is the name of the largest island which has Wales, Scotland and England on it. The 2nd largest island is called Ireland but consists of Eire and Northern Ireland. Only Northern Ireland is a part of the UK. There are 136 inhabited islands in total which make up the United Kingdom.
Incorrect. Great Britain refers to the collection of islands, not including Ireland. That's why the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and doesn't list every tiny island around the coast. Great, by the way, is to distinguish it from Brittany.
@@helenwood8482 Sorry, but you're wrong. The correct name for the largest island in the group of British isles is called "Great Britain". Great Britain does not refer to the smaller islands which fall under the collective name of "British isles".
Here's a link to the islands and their names -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_British_Isles
We went to America a few years back and a young guy asked us where we were from. We said England and he said, ‘Is that in London?’.
It used to rain more frequently - climate change. Now we have long dry periods and torrential downpours which cause flooding. NHS dentistry has been effectively dead since Tony Blair was in power. He screwed with how dentists are paid so that consultants could be paid more, and the result is that now if you need anything more involved than the smallest filling, you have to pay through the nose. It's not remotely free at the point of use anymore. It's just some cheaper than outright private practise.
I don't know what part of Britain you live in, but here in the N.W. England it rains more frequently as well as more heavily than it used to.
Dentists were allowed to opt out of the NHS and many did. That created a shortage so a lot us now pay for private schemes like Denplan. Children are still entitled to free dentistry, along with some adults.
Patrick Holt
British people have some of the best teeth in the world according to stats. Look it up.
The royals in general play a very important diplomatic role, it's never mentioned but it's their most important.
the whole of the British government works in the Queen's name
Hi, Weather&Radar is a useful rainfall radar app. The met office also have a rainfall radar site. And yes there’s always a comedian saying ‘Just look out the window’ which is fine if you’re just popping out for five mins, but not if you’re going to be out for a couple of hours or all day. Oh, and thanks for bringing up the teeth thing that’s really annoying.
The bad teeth issue came from President Eisenhower who was in the UK for D-Day. He was asked what her felt about the UK people and in a throw-away comment said “bad teeth”. This was pre-NHS times.
What you said is quite correct, the UK has social healthcare and the US doesn’t, and an estimated 50m Americans cannot effort health insurance or dental healthcare. British charities go to America to offer the poor free detail help.
So it is mathematically impossible for Americans to have better teeth.
Nice video Yvette, very accurate. It has rained a lot the last 6 months, I would say a lot more than normal and with no snow, which again is unusual. Actually there is more rain further west, so you're more likely to get wet in Wales than in Yorkshire (on average). On the subject of Wales, they dont quite have the same power as Scotland. Wales has an Assembly, rather than a Parliament, so powers are more limited.
I'm glad you're enjoying your stay and it's nice that you are paying attention. Lol.
The Queen meets with the PM once a week as Andrew Baker said below. All I'm saying is that if you could meet with the PM once a week in total private and if you had the status to make them listen to every word you say, that adds up to quite a lot of influence...
I'm a Cockney with a Geordie father-in-law. Under normal circumstances I can understand him. But when he's had a few and the accent gets a lot broader I can generally get the gist of the conversation but there is no way I could give a literal translation.
Great vid 😁
By the way the full name of the U.K. is United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland 😁
There’s a very good 5 minute video called “explaining the different between england, Britain and U.K. explained” or something that people might find useful 😁
Before 1921, the UK did indeed include the whole island of "Ireland". But after that date, most of Ireland left the UK.
It's a Uk citizen's right to own a shotgun, the police need a reason to refuse a license but to own a rifle or rifles you need a valid reason to own each one. Many shotguns and .22 rimfires are semi-auto but the shotguns are limited to 3 shots unless you own a section one (rifle) license. Contrary to popular belief handguns are allowed but again a valid reason is required for a license to be issued. Target shooting was deemed not a valid reason anymore so thousands of guns were confiscated and destroyed, Many deer stalkers own a handgun for dispatching wounded animals near roads where a rifle would be too powerful. There is no test to own a firearm but background checks are done and a relaxed "chat" with the firearms officer when he checks your security arrangements takes place to make sure of your character, he can refuse you if he just thinks "something is not quite right"
There is no such thing as a Right to own a shotgun in the UK, handguns are not specifically outlawed however any small firearm with a barrel less than 30cm and overall length less than 60cm is prohibited therefore handguns are effectively outlawed, there are a very few exceptions, gun control in the UK is probably the tightest in the world.
No checks? So why do I deal with farmers on a near weekly basis coming to my GP surgery to have their mental health checked by a doctor as part of license renewal?
Shotgun licencees must be proven physically and mentally fit to own a shotgun and licensed as such with the police.
No mate this is a common misconception you have a right to own a shotgun but the police can say no if they find a reason to deny it, any slight reason will do and they don't have to justify it. With a rifle the onus falls on you to justify owning it Handguns are OK if you have a valid reason for having one. The exceptions you give basically mean it is not classified as a a handgun! A deer stalker in Northumberland has a standard .44 magnum for dispatching game. If you don't believe me phone you're local firearms dept they are nice people and will confirm what I say.
I said no TESTS. Many European countries test your knowledge of species and accuracy with a gun. but the UK does not. Mental health CHECKS are pretty universal now. Please try and keep up!
Im a UK gun owner, both shotguns and rifles. Im not a farmer. I live in a city. You do need a legitimate reason for ownership... Self defense isnt a reason. Target shooting, pest control, clay shooting are all good enough.. Tho for a rifle you also need a certificated piece of land or written permit to shoot on one, or be a shooting club member. The police will check to see if you are a known scumbag and you have safe storage for you firearms. Your local firearms dept and or gunshop will be generally helpful.
There is no specific waiting period for a gun license. What does happen is you get thorough police checks (by the Special Branch in England), these checks can take a long time. Also many limitations on types of gun.
Geordie here. Americans either think I am Irish or just look very confused. Also - It doesn’t rain a lot in Newcastle. It’s actually one of the driest UK cities.
Scandinavian is what I usually get!
"The British Isles" is an archipelago (collection of islands) off the north-western coast of Europe. The largest of these islands is called "Great Britain", the second largest is called "Ireland". There are dozens (if not hundreds) of smaller islands.
The greater part of the countries of Scotland, England and Wales are situated on Great Britain. By convention, if talking about "Great Britain", other islands that are politically part of England, Scotland or Wales are also included as part of (The Isle of Wight, The Scilly Isles, Anglesey, Skye, The Outer Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland etc. etc. etc.).
Ireland is split between Northern Ireland (which is in a political union with the three countries of "Great Britain") and The Republic of Ireland (which is not). Some Irish people dislike Ireland being regarded as part of "The British Isles" as they think this implies some kind of political union and prefer to think of Ireland as being an entirely separate entity.
"The United Kingdom" is the political union of England, Scotland, Wales and "Northern Ireland". All four countries send MPs to the Westminster parliament in London.
Some islands in the "British Isles" are outside of "The United Kingdom", though historically they owe allegiance to the English Crown. These are The Isle of Man, located in The Irish Sea between England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (on a clear day you can see all four from the highest peak on the island) and The Channel Islands off the coast of France (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Herm, Sark etc. etc.). The Isle of Man and the largest of The Channel Islands each have their own government and their own laws and don't send MPs to the parliament in London, though they all leave their international affairs to be handled by "The United Kingdom".
Simples!!
Well done Roger, It drives me bonkers when people don't know the geographical and political make up of the British Isles!
Check out the following apps: Blitzortung Lighting Monitor - it's a radar based app that shows where Lightning strikes and where thunderstorms are active. Really interesting to watch. Also check out the AccuWeather app - it also has a Radar function.
The day we went metric (officially) a friend went for some wood. He asked for posts X feet long. "Can't do that, sir. Has to be in metres. We've now gone metric". Length sorted. Now for width and depth. My friend held his breath. "Do you want 2 inches x 2 inches, or 2 inches x 3?". Nuff said!!
I think the bad teeth rumour started in America. Teeth are naturally creamy coloured. In America, film stars etc started to bleach their teeth and the NHS dentists didn't do this. So British teeth were deemed bad because they weren't sparkly white. 👍👍👍
When you start travelling around this beautiful country head West to Cornwall first, stunning coastline and the best pasties anywhere
An' anovver fing:
Scotland does NOT have a 'government': it has a 'Nicola Sturgeon' - which is a Social Affliction (like the rest of the SNP), not a Political Arrangement.
Converting Kilometers to miles in a UK car you have an automatic chart, the speedometer dial has the equivalence printed on it :) It is closer conversion to one and a half to one or two-thirds converting in the other direction
I am from Yorkshire. When I lived in the states, they thought I was Australian. I think it was because I don't have received pronunciation. However, when I lived in Scotland, everyone thought I sounded Irish. I think it was because it was a mixture of Scotish, Yorkshire and American.
The NHS does not normally cover dental care unless you are a child or are on certain benfits (socal secuirty).
But it is highly subsidised and a lot cheaper than the US for example. I use an NHS dentist, always have.
NHS dentistry is available but unless you are on benefits there are set fees to pay as a proportion of the true cost. I have always used an NHS dentist.
I think it is also free if you are pregnant.
@@ministry2627 If you can find one.
@@ethelmini I have never had an issue finding one. It probably depends where you live though.
yeh im scotish and when i travel abroad, people often can tell im scotish or irish, when i say im scotish, they some times think scotland is part of england and not an actual country, i find it funny not at all annoying :)
Yahoo weather app is pretty good for London. It also can notify you if there is rain coming soon as that is the most unpredictable thing about weather in London. Weather besides rain is more pleasant than back home in Sydney Australia. Rolling 5degree temperature differences are the general average for London
Error: UK is England, Scotland, Wales and NORTHERN Ireland. Republic of Eire is an independent country. You would only include Eire if you used the term British Isles which also includes Jersey, Isle of Man, Guernsey etc.
Its another thing to think of because the Isle of Man isnt part of the UK at all and many people in the UK think it does.
Most of the royal men, in their early adulthood do military service of some type. In most situations what they are doing is kept confidential for obvious reasons.
BUT... Do some research on prince Andrew during the Falklands conflict and it is well documented that he was flying in the line of fire to transfer and rescue other servicemen and was in the thick of it with no regard to his royal title etc. He then went on to be an Air-Sea rescue pilot which is not in the line of fire but is probably a very similar level of risk. Some royals just use their title and attend garden parties while others defend our nation, protect and serve the public alongside their countrymen and women.
I am a amateur weather man one I use is meteroradar. And put rain radar after it will show where rain and lightning is
Hi, I'm a brit from Norfolk, when I've traveled to the US, my accent was often mistaken for Australian 👍
But can you read and write? I know you can drive a tractor.
I'm from west London, in the US, I was asked if I was from Australia too
@@ivorbiggun710 you're right I have driven a tractor in my time, and I can't read or write, dont know how I've managed
The MET office have a weather app. That is the most accurate I've come across short of looking out the window.
Easy ways to convert metric to imperial:
- a mile is about 1600m, so 5 miles is about 8km, 50 miles is about 80km and so on. So 80 kph is 50 mph.
- 3m is about 10 ft, so 100ft is 30m, etc. An inch is about 2.5 cm, 6ft is 183 cm, 2m is 6ft 7".
- 14 lbs is a stone, so 140 lbs is ten stone, 15 stone is 210 lbs, etc.
- 2.2 lbs is 1 kg, so 10kg is 22 lbs, etc.
Great video. Nice to hear my little island of Guernsey being mentioned 🇬🇬 😃
To convert KPH into MPH, divide by 10x6 near enough not to get a ticket, reverse for the other way round.
I agreevwith everything you said I am from Manchester and it does rain alot here and yes it is raining now
Yvette, prince Harry was in the front line twice in Afghanistan as an Apache pilot and as a forward air controller in the army
Willie Bauld I still get the impression that there was likely someone tasked to be with him, probably without his knowledge, to make sure he was safe. Or his unit was only ever sent into low risk areas, as it'd be too much of a 'win' if he was killed
@@andysutcliffe3915 I'm not 100% sure but he may have had an SF bodyguard so the rumour has it anyway
For Rainfall Radar use Met Office website. Not sure if they have a radar in their own weather app. Just search Meto into google
The Queen essentially does the job that a President would do in those countries where the President is just the head of state, countries like Ireland and Norway for example. They both have Presidents who represent their country as head of state, but aren't involved in the day to day running of the government. Technically their presidents, like our Queen, is responsible for appointing the Prime Minister, but in reality it's a formality and they simply appoint the leader of the party who won the general election. The Queen does have some political powers left over from the early days of the formation of our parliament, but they are only really formalities, such as the power to appoint the Prime Minister already mentioned , the power to dissolve parliament, the power to command the armed forces etc. Being Scottish I've never been mistaken for English when I've been to the States, but I have been mistaken for Irish.
The latest studies have shown that we British have the best teeth, on average, in the world, exactly as you said with regard the NHS
We are certainly in the top 5, but not place one.
The miles to KM is about rounding up or down. It's 1 mile = 1.6km, or 1km = 0.6 of a mile. 10km is 6 miles, 20km is 12, etc and 10 miles is 16km, 20 miles is 32km, etc. you can round up or down to the nearest 5 and always be in the ballpark.
8k is 5miles Hand.
Can't see it anywhere so, first health system - Bismark introduced compulsory universal health insurance into Germany in 1884. Still the model for most of Europe.
I’m a cadet and we can use rifles obversely with military presence so definitely military use them all the time ( with the”gun” thing)
Queen has some logical impact too - i.e. allegiance by armed forces is to the queen, prime minister forms a government at the queen's request... so you get some logical separation of politicians, state, law, religion etc.
The queen sort of 'is/represents' the country/state - everyone else in parliament, forces, law even etc is separate/related but in deference to the head of state.
Certainly NOT merely a tourist attraction.
I have a cockney accent and when I visited Florida some years ago I ran into an older Canadian couple who thought I was Australian!
I had a mate who, when in southern California, was assumed to be Australian by many. Crocodile Dundee was a big movie hit at the time. Personally I don't think he sounds anything like Paul Hogan but there you go.
Miles to kilometers? I don't know how others do it, but I'm okay with doubling & calculating 10% and then 20%.
So starting with miles, I double & then deduct 20%.
Sounds complicated, but it works for me to give me a rough conversion.
I don't think you necessarily need an app to get weather radar. You can just got to the weather.com webpage and click the weather radar option for london - click the play button if you want it animated: weather.com/weather/radar/interactive/l/7517a52d4d1815e639ae1001edb8c5fda2264ea579095b0f28f55c059599e074?layer=radar
The Met office website is where most others get their weather from. It's literally the meteorological society site, which provides weather forecasts to the rest of Britain, so they can tell the public what the weather is doing.
Hey Yvette I enjoy your vids. Not usually my cup of tea but find them both amusing and sometimes informative for me even as a brit!
Nice to see that you appreciate that London is not Britain and Britain is not just London, and you realise that people outside the M25 get frustrated with that perception.
On the topic of the accents around UK never heard you mention West Midland accent, Birmingham, Coventry and Black Country. Birmingham, after all is England's 2nd City.
Vinny Furlong Manchester is Englands second city not Birmingham.
@@Siriuss96 Only in Manchester's eyes!
She can’t mention every single accent in the uk, chill out
@@lucysmart6472 Daint mean anything by it only asking.
To me Birmingham is down south still
The gun law in the UK roughly, and I'm not an expert so I am sure others will correct me where I am wrong lol. You are not allowed to have semi-automatic or automatic weapons and handguns were banned after the Dunblane Massacre when a man went into a school and shot and killed 16 primary school children (all aged between 5 and 6 years old) and a teacher. That was the point when gun laws were tightened in the UK including the banning of handguns and mandortry licensing of weapons. You are still allowed to keep shotguns and airguns but they must all be registered and have a reason to need them and if they are over a certain rate you have to apply for a Class 1 license, that includes airguns. The main reason farmers have them is for pest control, ie rabbits, foxes and such. I think you can still own some airguns without a license as long as they are not over a certain psi. Any shotguns or Class 1 weapons must be kept in a secure locker/gun case with at least 2 locks. Ammo I am not sure of what the limit is. Knives, which have been in the news a lot recently, I think (again not an expert so might be out of date) cannot have a blade over 3 inches unless it is a folding knife. It is illegal to carry any knife in public unless it is a folding knife with a cutting edge of 3 inches or less unless you have good reason. Lock knives are not included as folding knives so they are banned as if they were a normal knife. All other knives, ie butterfly knives, flick knives, gravity knives etc are banned.
You are correct.
For the guns in the uk, you can't get handguns, rifles and shotguns are ok if you get licences. If you go to target ranges you can get all sorts, but generally you don't get to take it home, it's locked up at the range.
I think pistols aren't allowed even in ranges. That's why our pistol marksmen Olympians train abroad.
Also, you need a mental health certification from a GP to gain a licence, which is renewed every 10 years.
Wrong... I have my rifles, shotguns and ammunition at home
No matter what you have to have in order to get a gun, once you have it you also have to keep it correctly, have regular house inspections and prove you are sticking to the rules even if they are updated, you need to keep up to date too. Otherwise you are not legal to own a firearm. It's a decent bit of work.
I've got a couple of issues with what you've said, but they're not very important. We've actually got lots of guns here, but we use them mostly for sport. It's not legal to own a gun for the purposes of home or personal defence. I don't remember sitting on any courses and there's no 7-day wait, but you do have to be interviewed by a police officer and they do background checks on you before granting you a licence. That can take weeks to months. The rules are more stringent depending on what type of firearm you want to acquire. Private handgun ownership is almost completely outlawed. But you can have semi-automatic shotguns, and self-loading rifles in very small calibres.
For the miles to kilometres thing, It's better to add 50% than to double it. So yes, 40 miles isn't far off 60km. It's actually 64.something. And yes, teeth in Britain used to be awful. Kids grew up eating sweets and not brushing their teeth, and cosmetic dentistry certainly was not covered on the NHS. I doubt it is now, but the cost of dentistry has dropped dramatically, while children eat more healthily than they did 20 or 30 years ago.
Lastly the issue with your channel is that you haven't done a makeup video - or at least not one I can find. I'm always struck by how beautiful your eyes are and how your skin is glowing. I know you're not trying to be a beauty UA-camr, but come on, can't you do one? For me!??
True and factual statement on UK gun ownership... Weeks to get granted a license is optomistic.. My last co-terminus renewal took them 8 months!!!!
Northy my first certificate came 2 weeks after the firearms officer interviewed me. But then I only wanted an SGC. Renewal took nearly 3 months. Coterminous suggests an FAC and of course those take even longer to be processed!
I know you said they were NOT important but apart from mentioning, Guns and Miles/Kilometres and Teeth and No Makeup but anything else ? :)
Much better is to add on 50% for miles into KM. (It's actually 60% more). So 40 miles = 60 km is closer as was your second guess (it's actually 64km). The reverse is more annoying, because you need to take about 2/3.
So 90km -> 60 miles (actually 56). Should be a lot closer than your halving/doubling system
UK sold vehicles have speedos in both MPH and Km/H. ( unless a private import ) so no need for mental arithmetic.
The rainy weather is a favourite misconception made by non-Brits regarding the UK. It rains more in Dusseldorf, Germany, where I have relatives, than in London. I call it Drizzledorf.
I'm not surprised you're mistaken for being English (specifically from London) considering Australia was colonised and founded by Cockneys. There are some subtle similarities as a result.
Isle of Man
Channel Islands (Jersey, Gurnsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm) Isle of Man are crown dependencies.
Crown Dependencies are not part of the United Kingdom but are self-governing possessions of the British Crown.. Love your videos, you have a mild OZ accent you will have a British RP accent soon.
In sports in the UK people use KM, like running 5K, but when driving, body weight and height etc. it's imperial, but for food we use grams and kg, and in healthcare doctors also all use metric only
no British people use imperial units and we learn imperial units at School as we left the E.u the UK is 100% imperial units
I'm a Geordie who was mistaken as Scots, Welsh and Irish when I visited the US. When I explained my surname originates from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, they had heard of neither. Not really a surprise as an American I befriended in Belgium once asked me if France was in London.
The Royal formerly known as Prince Harry served 2 Tours of active front line service in Afghanistan, all the Royals have had/have some form of military rank and the males have all served in active units during peace time..
The Armed forces and the Police, swear loyalty to the Crown not to the government, so the Queen can start a war if she wants to, and stop one if she wanted to, She is also above the law so can not be arrested for any crime.
The Queen is also the divine representative of God for the Church of England, she was anointed to the position during a hidden ceremony when she ascended to the throne in the coronation, seriously... during the coronation screens were placed around the throne while the Arch-Bishop sad some magic words and put magic oils on her....
Universal health care does cover dentistry - in theory. But there's nowhere near enough NHS registered dentists for the whole population. So many of us use private dental care unfortunately.
UK teeth are actually in the top 5 in the world and above the US.
The UK doesn't include Ireland. It includes Norther Ireland (different country). But close 👍
The conversion from Km to miles 1km= 5/8 of a mile, so treat it like a fraction. 112km ÷ 8 x 5 = 70miles; 48km ÷ 8 x 5 = 30miles to go back reverse 30miles ÷ 5 × 8 = 48km. Simple
Good job your geography lesson wasn't part of an examination. You would have got about 105 Max!
II am a very proud Londoner, albeit with not a very pronounced cockney accent. Yet the first time I went to the States one of the first things I was asked was 'What part of Australia are you from!?'
I think I’m right in saying that -Farmers generally have shotguns- the biggest bore rifle allowed is a.22 but their normally for sport-air guns are allowed but no one is allowed hand guns or larger bore rifles- knives kill more people in the UK than guns- The USA is completely bonkers with the amount of weapons in the public domain.
Yeah we purchased the Queen from Germany for £800 million about 95 years ago as an investment
I used to be in the Regimental shooting team , we were not allowed to travel with Ammunition and weapons at the same time
Only Northern Ireland is in the UK; Channel island and Island of Man belong to the British Crown but not the UK. CGP Grey explains this perfectly
bes tone is cold is measured in celsius but heat is measured in fahrenhiet
Hi, On converting miles to kilometres 60 = 100 (approx) as a drive look at the speedometer.
You are required to apply for a fire arms certificate/license this will take much longer than 7 days and the police are involved in assessing if you should be allowed the license Then you have to show that you will keep the fire arm an the ammunition secure at locations. So it is a much more rigorous system of gun control in the U.K. also only sporting rifles and shotguns are permitted.
I'm a Geordie (from Newcastle for anyone who doesn't know!) and someone in Canada thought I didn't speak English - and I don't even have a strong accent. Even people within the UK ask if I'm Welsh(?!), Scottish or Irish - especially if on the phone. Most Americans I've come across struggle with my accent and I have to talk slower and make sure I ditch the slang.
Feels like it's done nowt but rain this winter though! Summer wasn't exactly dry - or Autumn. Newcastle is one of the drier places in England though because of the Pennines protecting us. It's also not uncommon for us to be 10c colder than the south coast during summer so it gets annoying when people (including our news channels) think the south coast = the UK and talk about how record breaking it's been.
As for weather, I use the weather from netweather.tv on the computer and have the web page saved as one of my browser tabs on my phone. It updates every 5 mins and is one of the best radars I've found. Clear Outside is quite a good website too (the app can be a bit hit and miss with finding locations though) if you want detailed info.
I use the Ventusky app for weather, when I need something that does a little more than the BBC Weather app.
They have a website too, which you can check out before downloading the app.
And Ireland 🇮🇪 is not part of the UK . Only Northern Ireland!
People outside of the UK tend to get Irish and Scottish accents mixed up, its probably the same like for New Zealand and Australian. My experience is that its mostly Americans who believe we all live in London, whereas us Brits can instantly tell the difference between the different dialect and accents of the states. I think this is down to London/cockney and "Queens English" as it is refer too, is the most accent used in films and tv shows.
Yes your right the UK invented universal healthcare in 1948 with the launch of the NHS
Kilometres to miles, just half the Ks and add a bit. Works for small numbers. So 40kph is about 25mph.
The UK's best weather app is "the nearest window". The weather can change really quickly. The other night I decided to take my telescope into the back garden because the night sky was stunning and clear. It started raining before I finished setting up the telescope. LOL.
As a Scot, generally, people seem to get that your from Scotland, but they cannot understand that Scotland is part of the UK and that my accent is Scottish, but it is also a British accent. As for a weather app, I use Netweather.tv's weather radar.
Certainly it rains all the time in Britain - George Harrison wrote Here comes the sun based on something he read in a book.
The UK is known for bad weather not because the weather is bad, but mainly for its consitency. For other countries weather is simple, spring, summer, autumn and winter. For example America has consistant weather, (more consistant). Whereas the UK will have several weather changes in a day/week. We don't normally have a week of sun or a week of snow. The UK weather isn't consistant which is why people complain. Especially for those who work, planning days off can be a challenge as it may be sunny, but rain several times throughout the day. So it's not that the UK weather is the worse in the world, its just not consistant which in my opinion is more important than good weather.
There's an infamous example online of a US evangelist saying "Loch Ness is in Scotland, England" and I have personally heard a Hong Kong Chinese person say "Scotland is part of London"!
To get miles from kilometres Yvette: divide km by 5 then multiply by 3, gets you near enough. The same in reverse for miles to km
Divide 8 multiply by 5 is more accurate. Compare the two calcs on a conversion site.
@@RonSeymour1 , I said near enough for a quick calculation, an easier calculation in your head
@@stevesilk51 Fair enough, Steve.
Yes she does use her power, we don't know what she does when it comes to signing bills. Also most of the princes have served in the military and fought in wars.
I think the misconception that it always rains in the UK/London comes mostly from novels and movies
I assume many people corrected you on the geographical terms already but here's a tip to help understand why it's complicated: there's two sets of terms; physical geographic terms and political geographic terms. They don't line up but they almost do so it's confusing. eg "Great Britain" is a physical geographic term. It's the entire land mass of the big island but doesn't include any of the little islands. British Isles is a bigger physical geography term that includes the entire archipelago. The UK is the political term, so it excludes different countries that are part of the British Isles, which at the moment means only the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and technically the Isle of Man is a British Crown dependency, not part of the UK.
Thanks for mentioning the teeth, it really irks me when the Americans go on about our teeth. One small mistake, it's just Northern Ireland that is part of the United kingdom, Southern Ireland is independent, even though they are one land mass.
They got that teeth myth from an Episode of the Simpsons.
I've seen plenty of Americans with lousy teeth.
@@smudger671 Are you a fan of the movie "Deliverance"?
@@EricIrl Why?
It’s because how much tea we drink xx