Brit Reacts To BRITISH THINGS THAT CONFUSE AMERICANS
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It takes 2 seconds to cut a pizza with a pizza cuter. Not enough time is a crazy excuse.
It is just lack of service expectations.
Agreed. I've seen kitchens use a pizza cutter in practically no time. Usually 4 cuts, right? (8 pieces)
There probably is no urgency to do things quickly. I remember the first time I ordered a sandwich from a Jewish deli in Manhattan and it was made in about 5 seconds as all the ingredients were already prepared and spread out for fast sandwich construction. Several years later when I was living in a small town in PA, it took the local deli 5 minutes to make a sandwich as they had to slice the deli meat after taking it out, unwrapping it, slice it, wrap it back up and place it back in refrigeration. In Manhattan, there would be at least 20 people waiting in line while I was the only customer in that PA deli.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Any place that makes pizza they can cut those things up in less than 30 seconds. It is pretty weird that they serve you a whole pizza and give you a butter knife, good luck with that.
@@jongrho602 yeah, but it’s not a matter of urgency. You shouldn’t have to butcher your pizza with a butter knife in order to get a piece of pizza.
Nobody is rebuilding their house every 30 years in the US. Some people may move to a newer house or remodel and update their current house. But our houses are not getting rebuilt every 30 years.
Yeah. My house was made in 1959. It’s still solid.
My house is 112 years old
Just goes to show how clueless the british people are about the US even while claiming to be knowledgeable about the US 😅
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My house is 110 years old. Many of the houses around me were built in the 1800s.
If you think it takes too long to cut a pizza, you haven't seen a pro pizzeria do it. They can cut the whole thing in about 4 secs, either with a pizza cutter or a large blade that reaches across the whole thing.
Kabir, when I was younger, I worked in two different pizza places (one of them was Domino's). So trust me when I say that it takes about two, maybe three seconds to cut a pizza with a proper pizza cutter. Any restaurant that serves pizza should have a pizza cutter, and should cut the pizza for the customer. Serving a pizza uncut is like serving it uncooked.
amen!!! the absurdity! of them thinking that they can and will skimp out on slicing up a pizza? no sir! Not today! and not on my watch! nope! not on my homeland! smh!
If they're too lazy to spend mere seconds slicing my pizza - the moment it comes out of the oven, when it is easiest and best to do so - AND too stupid to even give me a proper pizza cutter to do it myself, giving me a damned butter knife instead… then that is a crappy restaurant, with lazy and stupid employees. And I ain't eatin' their crappy uncut pizza.
I was going to say the same. My daughter works in a pizza shop now. We just have the right tools here that make it a quick and easy process.
Never seen one in Italy.........Pizza Cutters are for Pizzas that are not real Pizzas!
It's not that serious cut it yourself.
I've never had a mail carrier that looked angry, but sometimes if my mail is very late I know they're probably having having to do two routes, if someone called in sick.
Mine are not angry either. They do work long hours though. There are times that our mail is delivered at 8:00 pm.
Mail slots do exist in older houses in America.
i've lived in houses built in the 90s that had mail slots. I was just about to comment that houses do have mail slots in america. (until i saw this comment.)
Yeah. I had a door slot in the house I grew up in. The house is over 70 years old now and very much still in use. I don't understand the 30 year old rebuilding🤔
@@darlenejoyner8200 Honestly? I don't think any got that.
I actually had an apartment here in the US where each apartment door had a mail slot. It was great. The mailman would come up and deliver right through the slot. The building was from 1915 or so.
You are absolutely wrong about having to rebuild houses in the U.S.
Yes. My home was built in 1952.
Mine was in 1950. Also, it’s a row house like British terraced houses. They would all have to be knocked down at once.
Right. Every 30 years? Where?
I have lived on a 50 year old home but updated to modern standards so houses are not built every 30 years. Houses can last much longer.
Nobody is rebuilding their house in America unless it’s been destroyed by storm or something. I don’t know where you heard that Americans have to rebuild their homes, but it’s absolutely not true.
I think it would be fair to say that US homes are often rebuilt by choice within 80-100 years, with exceptions for really nice homes. That's in contrast to someplace like Germany, where they have a lot of 200 year old houses. However, I certainly find 30 years to be a ridiculous number.
Remodeling averages in the USA is 30 years but that's not always a whole house
People are constantly remodeling their homes. This woman is an American and she's right. People are constantly remodeling their homes.
@@christineperez7562 Remodeling is very different from rebuilding.
We do not rebuild our houses every thirty years! lol We have houses that are 200 years old or more. I think maybe you're getting rebuilding confused with remodeling. I expect my wood house to stand for over a hundred years or more.
In New England, many homes are from 1700 and many are from the 1600's. Wherever the earliest migrants arrived, many homes still stand. Heavily forested in many regions, wood built homes are common as trees are the most available resource. Even now.
The Midwest has far more brick homes. New migrants needed shelter quickly.
As more people arrived, they came with many skills.
Germans and Italians brought engineering and amazing masonry skills. Therefore, far more buildings of various stone and brick are quite ornate.
Mail carriers in USA are unionized but can't strike because they consider it essential government employees
I was planning on correcting this assumption too. The unions negotiate for pay and working conditions, but as quasi government employees cannot strike.
The problem with the system is that to me, every day to me felt a bit like basic training, hurry, get it right and hurry more. This is likely compounded because they give hiring preference to veterans, which may (and I hate this word) trigger them.
The stress is real, and I am not surprised some people break under it. I actually was in the central facility that prompted the going postal meme just an hour or two before the incident picking up express mail for our more local office. Nothing ever looked unusual to me there, it was simply a case of someone who was not suited for the job blaming others. I am not saying his issues were invalid, but if you cannot accept the climate where you work - seek other employment.
Maybe, because they aren't meeting their customers either, they don't have enough social contact. I nearly always get to know my post person and greet them.
Air conditioning and garbage disposal are both bad for the environment. I think we are a bit greener over here despite our governments apathy.
The house I grew up in is still standing 50 years later even after 7 hurricanes. People up date certain things but no rebuilding.
Remodeling is rebuilding
Bathroom elec circuits in the US are GFI (Ground Fault Interruptor) which throws the breaker switch automatically to protect against electrocution. GFI circuits are also usually found near kitchen counters in the Kitchen. Modern US homes have some variation of heat pump or heat rransfer units. In the US either a water heater keeps hot water at the ready or there are pumbing heating units (electric) that will heat on-demand (when the faucet is turned on). Thermostats control temperatures in USA homes and can be programmed to have different temps when homeowners are out and when they are home. Many smart phone aps can regulate home thermostats. International Flights are cheaper in Europe vs the USA. The first European Airline that figures out they can msrket with USA Travel Agencies will increase their market share considerably. Most US international travelers are retirees.
I tell Brits that the UK can start putting outlets in their bathrooms at any time by updating their building codes to accept GFI circuits. Then over time they'll get them with remodels and new construction.
I grew up in a house built in the 1950's in Queens, NYC. Since it had steam heating it had a boiler which doubled as the hot water heater, which meant we always had it on. A plumber recommended we install a separate water heater to save on our gas bill which we did, and we ended up only turning on the boiler in the winter. It wasn't until I moved out west that I found out what a heat pump was and since it works as both an AC and heating unit, its much more efficient.
@@Trifler500 Electric outlets are allowed in UK bathrooms. If they are more tham 3 Meters from the bath or shower.
All electric circuits have GFCI or AFCI breakers fitted.
@@grahamsmith9541 So full outlets at the sink counter are legal in the UK now (with GFCI or AFCI)?
@@Trifler500 No, they have to be 3 meters away.
That is weird about the pizza, when i make my own it takes me a couple of seconds to use a pizza cutter.
You have been misinformed about houses being rebuilt every 30 years. My mother's house was built in 1880 and is still beautiful. My house was built in 1900. There are houses all over the country in varying styles and with varying ages.
Yeah but your house probably has been remodeled to be more modern like having Electricity and Gas central Heating and cooling new interior doors walls and floors
@@lost0thech4 electricity and heat upgrade for sure, walls, floors, doors and the house as a whole remains intact. It certainly has not been rebuilt, which was the point.
@@janb200 a wall from 1880 does not have the ability to hold and secure Outlets for electrical wiring and the amount of drilling with four foot long drills to then perfectly fish the Lines make me doubt the Walls are 140 plus years old more like 50 years old
@@lost0thech4 I grew up in that house. The walls are made of horsehair plaster. I assure you, they are original. As are the ceilings, hardwood floors, original woodwork, procelaine bathroom fixtures, etc.
All my plugs are secure and don't fall out. If they do, you can pressed the plug tongs together a little and then they don't fall out. I have two plug outlets in my bathroom and they are NOT a safety hazzard. I have to have them - for a curling iron and another on another shelf for a radio. I'd hate to have to wait until water heats. My water heater is in the basement and my hot water is always hot.
You don't have to wait for your hot water to heat. You program the boiler to start working 30 minutes before you wake up, and then the water will be hot by the time you get up. You program it to heat up 30 minutes before you get home from work, and the water is warm by the time you get home. If you want it to be on constantly over the weekend, you can program it to do that too. That way, you don't have to pay to heat the water while you're away at work.
It was only a few years ago that here in the US that I haven't had the mail slot on the door.
Outlets here in the US ARE NOT THAT WEAK. Things remain plugged in unless there's something wrong with the outlet.
The last house I lived in was over 100 years old.
I stay in a lot of motels (2-3 star) because of my job. I notice a lot of the motel outlets are loose. I think that’s what Kabir experienced.
@@andreclark2472 Yeah, that's likely the case. And he did stay at some questionable hotels when he was here. They're not likely to be up on their maintenance. 🤔
@@LaShumbraBates LOL the Bronx.
American here who definitely thinks we need a national health care system. Let people pay for better insurance if they want, but everyone should get some base level automatically.
I guess we do have that with Medicaid. It can be hard to get on though. You cannot own property and can only have $2000 or less in assets (this may have changed).
@@marshsundeen Medicaid isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about something every citizen has from birth.
@@Trifler500 I know. That is the closest we have.
@@marshsundeen it's next to impossible to get if you're married.
my husband made too much money for me to qualify and we couldn't afford the 700$ a month insurance for two people from his work so I had to go without insurance.
@@katielee7364 very few get Medicaid. When my husband got laid off, we had emergency insurance. It was awful. Have you tried the ACA? Some insurance is better than none.
We remodel houses typically every 20 + years.. we don’t rebuild tho- unless a house is totally unsalvagable!
Going Postal used to be used constantly in the 1990s. I don't know if you have seen the movie Jumanji but there was a line where a gun shop was selling a giant rifle to another character and he said "You're not a postal worker are you?"
I remember the phrase being very common for a while. Admittedly, I only remember one shooting incident involving a postal worker though
They don't have 5 seconds (if that) to cut your pizza? Mail: It has to do with the area they have to cover, in large cities you have mail slots in your door and the mailman deliverers it to your door. But in the suburbs and rural areas where you have to cover large areas it makes sense to have curbside mail boxes. Most bathrooms in the bathroom have outlets that automatically switch off if it comes in contact with water, so you DON'T get electrocuted. You can automatically set your thermostat to turn off and on at certain times during the day and set the temp you want for those times as well. My house is 120 years old not 30.
10:25 - The dryers in the UK take a long time because they don't give them a vent to the outside like in the US. Without the vent, it easily takes 3x as long, using a lot more energy.
Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King.
I was Today years old when I learned Emperor sized beds exist.
Ended this video when she said avocado toast.
My mailbox is attached onto my house, right there at the front door. I wouldn't want a mail carrier to beat on my door. My packages are put in a box I keep right beside the kitchen door on my carport. When you order from Amazon, they put the package where you've told them and these instructions are shown to the carrier with every package. Actually they keep your instructions and you don't have to repeat it with every order. If they leave it at the front door - where it can get stolen, they always send you an e mail to give feedback of the package carrier and you can click on It wasn't delivered according to my instructions. After a while they get the message - read buyers instructions as to where to leave the package.
NEVER seen more than one person in a UK mail van!
I work in a restaurant. They cut the pizza. It takes 2 seconds. Really??
House in the states are not rebuilt every 30 year. That is stupidly. I I live in a house that n was built over 50 years ago. Rebuilding every 30 years is bunch of bs.
As Newman put it on Seinfeld; “The mail never stops, and then it’s publisher’s clearing house.”
In the US, many times the bathroom and kitchen outlets near the sink is a GFI. It has a built in surge protection fault to guard against accidental electrocution.
You know what’s really nice? Two smart sensible people talking about things. 🙂
Don't have time to cut a pizza in the kitchen? Are you kidding? With a pizza cutter, it literally just takes a couple seconds. That's why she said that's why the pizza cutter was invented in the first place. It turns what could be a several minute job into a couple second job.
A Brit here Kabir. Why did you say Malta was in Spain???. Youre a few hundred miles across the Mediterranean out there m8 lol
It was once owned by Spain. Malta gained their independence in the 1960s
@@Elsi-77In the 1500s m8. Malta is part of the commonwealth and as you said is now independent and the only country to receive the Victoria Cross for its role in WW2
@@Elsi-77 Independence from the UK not from Spain. That is why English is an official language and you can still see British style post boxes there.
Ok my take on some of these. It takes less than 30 seconds to cut a pizza with a pizza cutter in the kitchen to save the guest from struggling with a fork and dull knife, it is called customer service. Mail slots vs mail boxes, older homes in larger cities in US sometimes has the slots. More common in cities with a walking postal carrier is a flat rectangular box mounted next to door. The mail boxes depicted in video are for rural carriers that drop mail into boxes from their vehicle. Water heaters and boilers. US used to have boilers and radiators, but they were phased out many years ago for electric and gas central heat and air conditioning, while a few older homes may still have them. Water heaters are being replace by tankless heaters that heat water on demand as it is used. Our houses are not rebuilt every 30 years, that is absolutely ridiculous. We have homes still standing from before the USA declared independence. 100+ year old homes are not uncommon. We are building additional homes due to our population growth primarily, not to replace older homes unless they are damaged by fire, storms or neglected and abandoned for some reason. Bathroom outlets in US are GFI and throw the breaker to prevent electrocution. Our health insurance and benefits do suck, no argument.
What are you doing with the extra 25 seconds? It takes 5 seconds or less to cut a pizza, with a proper pizza knife.
In the mid 80s I live in a flat in London that had no central heating at all, just electric space heaters that cost a fortune to run. Both the electricity and hot water heater were operated by coin slot meters that could run out without notice, then you’d be fumbling in the dark for coins to restart it.
Never have bought a pizza that wasn't already cut into pieces.
Frozen pizza is the exception
What do you mean they do not have time to cut your pizza. We eat more pizza in the US, it takes 30 seconds or less to cut a pizza with a pizza cutter. Never been anywhere that they did not cut your pizza. That is messed up!
The staff in American restaurants have time to cut pizza before serving it to the customers.
Rebuild every 30 years? What? No. This girl makes some good points but it seems she doesn't know how several things work in the US.
She’s not the problem. Kabir has his facts completely wrong !!
30 years is the standard mortgage term not the life of a home use. 😂
The UK used to have ACTUAL boilers, but they switched to instant hot water systems a while back. Since both use the same pipes for heating, it was an easy switch. They just continue to call them boilers, even though they're not. We have instant hot water systems in the US too. They are more efficient than hot water tanks. One benefit of gas hot water tanks is they work during a power outage. An instant hot water system (even a gas one) does not work during a power outage.
However, US houses are not plumbed for heating with water. Instant hot water systems in the US are only for hot water, not for heating the house. The air vents the US uses for heating makes it easy to add AC, but leaves no way to heat with water. The water pipes UK homes have for heating allows them to have instant hot water do double-duty, but leaves no way for them to add central AC. On both sides of the pond, the only real fix is to build a new home from scratch with both.
Yeah I heard this before from British people. They think that their housing is typically of much better quality than ours. Funny because I had heard that the quality of British built homes were quite poor. However, I'm sure the quality varies like it does everywhere else. My dad retired from California to Arizona and I was so surprised the his house in Arizona had 1 ft thick adobe walls and was insulated like a cave. My house in Seattle has a cement clad siding and will probably last 60 years. The two styles of houses couldn't be more different and it just depends on where in the country you live.
4:04 Kabir!! You’re supposed to be listening impartially! Slicing a pizza with a pizza cutter takes like 2-3 seconds. They have time. And even if they don’t they should provide the proper tool, like a pizza cutter or a small handgun.
13:55 Where did you hear that we rebuild houses every 30 years?? We have homes in the US that have been standing for hundreds of years. We’re a younger country so everything is newer and there’s a lot of new construction but for the most part that’s not to replace old homes.
Small hand gun had me rolling, lol
Health insurance in the United States obviously depends on the kind of coverage you have. Health insurance for my family costs around $15K, however my copayments are $40. My dad who is on Medicare and has insurance from the VA had everything covered for his knee and hip replacements.
Just to inform, the VA is the medical care supplied to military veterans. It is more similar to your NHS, with wait times to match.
Funny, my dad never had to wait long with the va.
@@ChrisSantino Mine either.
England is technically a theocracy (the head of state/monarch is also the head of the established church) while on paper the U.S. has separation of church and state, yet despite this in practice it seems there is a lot less of a role of religion in government and public life for you guys than for us.
I don't know which MP it was, but people found out one member of parliament was very religious, and people questioned whether he would ever be elected again because people thought his religion might interfere with how he voted on things. We have separation of church and state in the U.S. but many people in government go out of their way to express religiosity and they brag about how they will vote according to the tenets of their beliefs.
I love the vacation time you all get! That’s awesome
We get a lot of Europeans, Canadians, and some Asians coming to the US for Healthcare. Mostly for major problems like heart problems, cancer etc. One Canadian came to Tampa bcuz she had a few brain tumors. In Canada they told her she needed immediate emergency surgery bcuz she would die in 2 months without surgery. She tried to schedule a date for the surgery in Canada but the earliest she could be seen was 8 months later. Too late, she would be dead by then. So she went to Mofitt Cancer Center in Tampa Florida on the University of South Florida. They performed the surgery in less than a week. She went through all the normal cancer treatments and 2 months later she returned to Canada cancer free.
pros: America has some of the best doctors (Only because they can get rich here)
cons: Only rich people can afford those good doctors or else you will be in debt for the rest of your life.
@@katielee7364 Moffit Cancer Center takes on several cases for free every year. They pay for everything, including an apartment they can live in, besides the treatment.
Pizza cutter is 1000x faster than a knife
My home is 100 yrs old. It has been expanded and updated over the years, especially the electric wiring and plumbing. The heating has been changed from coal fireplaces in each room to gas heating.
4:30 the uncut pizza thing sticks out. I've seen Dominos employees here cut a pizza in less than 10 seconds. Surely time isn't the issue. It seems odd that it's too much trouble to have staff cut it in the kitchen with a large sharp cutter, and instead it's easier to just give the customer a butter knife that will barely cut and they'd have to struggle with.
I've seen a pizza place with a big proper pizza cutter cut a full large pizza in about 3 seconds so it's not that they don't have time. that's ridiculous!!!
My house is 102 years old this year. We just upgraded to hot water on demand but still have gravity fed heat furnace from the 1970s. 😂
Taking my wife to the 'Lake District' next week for a holiday... We live in the South East and can't wait to see the beautiful scenery and chill out. I have been there several times but its my wife's first. 😊
I lived in a house built in 1747 in Connecticut. They do knock down homes unless they are in such bad condition they need to be knocked down or if a developer comes in and wants to build more homes on the land. Our homes last. We remodel.
Funny you mention the lamb coming from New Zealand. I work as a cook in Nashville and I noticed just the other day that our lamb comes from Australia. I found it strange that our restaurant in the USA gets its lamb all the way from Australia.
But it's good isn't it 😅
Just remember: whatever the government gives you, it also controls.
The thing that confused me in the UK was that every business shut down between 10pm and 12am. My first night in London, I was hungry at 3am, and couldn't find an open restaurant. In the US, only smaller towns close shop early.
Many American homes also have mail slots into their home. It’s just new build suburbs that have mail boxes.
After WWII my Dad ended up in the UK for 3 years before settling in Canada. As a kid, I just loved his homemade breakfast, with the aroma of the frying blood sausage wafting around. In our case, the love of blood sausage started in Ukraine, stopped over in Newcastle, then landed in Windsor, ON, across the river from Detroit. A truly international delight. And don't forget the fried bread, for which almost every country takes credit lol.
The crews I've worked with have talked incessant crap to each other & when outsiders hear us they think we are about to physically fight. Amongst friends trash talk is common, but saying the exact same thing to a stranger can get you punched in the face or shot.
You also said in another video that your country is short on medical personnel, facilities that aren't kept up etc. That's because nobody works for free, whether that's Dr's or repair ppl or medical manufacturer's. Your system doesn't allow for money for those things.
My dad had his water heater on a timer. It was only operational during certain times unless you went in and switched it on manually.
There are homes here in New England that are hundreds of years old.
I loved you brits, but cut the damn pizza lol
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Live in the U.S. and Going from apartment to duplex to condo to apartment etc. I have RARELY had every appliance I wanted in each place.
Mail slots exist in the US. My grandmother's house has one. It's an older home, but many in her neighborhood have them.
Unless I am starving, do not want beans or blood pudding thank you very much..
There is no heat or air. So in the summer it is very hot. Winter they ae very cold. To many house to walk up to the door.
In general, US postal workers, and many other workers prefer to work alone.
Even the USA isn’t such a “disposable” culture to rebuild our houses every 30 years. Most mortgages are 30 years & who wants to start completely over once it’s paid for? Remodel or add on yes, and that can happen anytime from the day after closing on…but we aren’t rebuilding. A lot of people who buy homes are buying homes 30+ years old.
As for buildings not lasting as long, I'm pretty sure it has all to do with regulations.
Some people in mainland Europe believs it has to do with wood not lasting as long as bricks, but in most of Sweden wood is the preffered material and houses lasts for 100 years or longer
Just to let you know, in the US, where we have electrical plugs in the kitchen, bathroom or laundry room, anywhere there’s water, they’re GFI. Which means the power would automatically turn off when an appliance comes in contact with moisture. Also, I don’t have a garbage disposal, I compost. Not all houses in the US have garbage disposals. Perhaps, new houses, but not all. Many hot water heaters are like in the UK, or high efficiency and only turn on when you need hot water. I think she’s mistaken here. And if anything, I think the newly built homes in the US look the same. No character. Boring. 🥱
I used to work at godfather Pizza they use a curve double handle knife to cut pizza on swipe two swipe three swipe and it's done
We used to have 'Waste disposal units' here in the UK . We had one for years back in the 70s. Now a days, we recycle our food waste to make bio fuels, which goes to our farmers to help keep prices down 😊
We have ground fault plug in bathrooms that are safety plug. Inthink American plugs are dood. They are very good.
My house is Victorian it's 130 years old. It's obviously had updates though time ie: electricity, double glazing and central heating but structurally it's as solid as a rock. I'm personally not a fan of blackpudding but eggs, back bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes and hash browns washed down with a mug of tea is heaven 🇬🇧
It would take the kitchen about 20 seconds to use a pizza cutter for a piza. I've never bought a pizza that wasn't already cut. What if you're on a trip and your family wants to go ahead and eat while you drive?
That doesn't make sense to me. And there's NO WAY I'd eat beans for breakfast.
Some areas in the U.S. have mail slots on the door. You go to different cities and see different approaches.
You can get tankless water heaters in the U.S., but they’re a lot more expensive than a conventional water heater.
17:29 - There's a push in the US to buy "locally grown" meat and produce. It saves a lot of fuel costs and in turn reduces emissions. A lot of our supermarkets support it. Might be something to try in the UK, if it isn't a growing movement already.
Not true about 30 year rebuild in US
My house was built in 1950..actually its a story apartment building. With the original.bathroom.tile. my parents moved in 1964. We.have brownstones.from 1880. We.dont use sticks or hay like the three little pigs
I am electrician. She doesn't quite know whet she is talking about. One our 120 volt system in houses in the US is safer than 220 volt. The outlets in our bathrooms are either GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor) outlets or GFCI breakers feeding the outlet. The same near kitchen sinks. To protect you from shock. This is code in the US.
Brits can safely start putting outlets in their bathrooms at any time by updating their building codes to accept GFI (Ground Fault Interrupt) outlets. Then over time they'll get them with remodels and new construction.
I live in the U.S., I have 3 houses and they were ALL built in the 1920's. Houses are definitely built to last at least a century!!!
The mail box is convenient because we can put out going mail for the carrier to take.
Note to self- if I ever order pizza at a U.K. restaurant, remember to take a pizza cutter.
Or learn to use cutlery, pizza should be eaten with a knife and fork ask the Italians. 😊
According to MIT, American houses last less than a human lifespan: “The *average* lifespan of a house in the United States is between 50 and 63 years, from construction to demolition” (13 October 2023, MIT Architecture School).
They are built differently, “inside out”, typically with a timber frame, then the furnace heating/AC ducting + pipework, cabling, plumbing, then the outer walls (not load bearing) and roof.
The best feature is central vac - when installed each room has an extra socket and you just plug in a flexi hose which activates the central vac which sucks all the dust, dirt+crap into a bin in the basement - absolutely brilliant!
Nonsense. You are probably citing the intended lifespan, not the actual. As an example, commercial buildings have a "50 year lifespan" but none of them are torn down when they reach 50.
@@Tijuanabill
If you don’t like the quoted facts then take it up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture! And read it again - the key word is *AVERAGE!!*
@@jaywalker1233 Without even reading it, I can assure you that it's a life expectancy standard for building homes, not an actual statistic that homes are just torn down after 63 years. You are an example of someone who Googled something they don't understand, and now want to claim the credibility of the source, even though the source would not agree with what you are saying, in the context you are saying it in.
@@Tijuanabill
Thank *you* for confirmg u r an ang ry troll
@@jaywalker1233 Thank you for your agreement that I am completely correct, by trying to change the subject. You have no indicators of my current mood, or temperament, so what you are saying is just nonsensical. I don't know of a single time in my life, where I was upset by the words of a stranger, online, or otherwise. You are just making a desperate argument, because you can't refute what I said. Have a nice day, sir.
With the weather in the uk it’s the full English is a classic comfort food most people have it on Sundays or the have a roast dinner which is similar on Christmas Day and leftover food from Christmas Day on Boxing Day which is the following day but is an old victorian pubs meal that helped people back in the old days when they were I’m guessing more hungry in those times
Before mailboxes here in the USA, our front doors had mail slots. She is too young to know this.
For quite a few years now, I believe water heaters with theclarge tanks are being replaced with a heating device that only turns on when you open the hot water tap. It warms the water so that you can wash clothes, dishes or even your face without so much cost.
I'm American and I have a pizza cutter at home! 😂
I remember the first mention of "going postal" nearly 40 years ago. At that time we did not have mass shootings or rages. A postal worker took a gun to work and systematically shot and killed his co-workers. It was in the news across the U.S. We had never seen anything like it. It was the beginning of people getting angry to the point of violence. Cursing each other out and fist fights maybe, but murder😩.
Pizza places don't actually use a pizza cutter like we have at home, there is no little wheel blade; instead they use a giant two handled machete thing, called a pizza knife.
The NHS is able to get healthcare equipment and drugs for much cheaper prices because it is able to say we need this amount of syringes a day for this amount of people within the whole of the UK country. The NHS can negotiate all of its prices based on total population of the UK making it cheaper. The USA system bases its costs on each individual patient healthcare costs making it far more expensive.
Planning laws are restrictive in the UK due to lack of land space. The houses have to be brick built to keep out the cold. Winter in the UK can be harsh. The UK is in Europe and the Commonwealth which New Zealand is apart of the commonwealth. New Zealand have lots of grazing land for sheep which means they can farm thousands more sheep at a lower cost due to having more grazing land. In the UK we don't have that much grazing land available anymore.
We do have sections of the US that have houses way over 100 years old it’s not uncommon it just depends upon what part of the country you’re in because you know we started on the East Coast and moved to the west
We can set the timer on our hot water heaters in the US.
Our houses are not rebuilt ever y thirty years. I have lived in houses well over 100 years old, made of wood.
For that matter, there are wooden houses in the UK that are far older than any of our houses in the US. Some of the oldest residential buildings in the UK are wooden houses! Kabir just has a few odd notions about construction. It's come up quite a few times before.
People rebuild generally to update or improve heir home. But there are many that are pretty old. How old a city is or state is, income, or climate can affect how homes are. People don’t rebuild because house don’t last long.
US electrical current is delivered at 110-115 bolts while UK electricity is double that. The Uk has more safeguards because your power is more dangerous.