Yes, and we have a habit of never directly saying what we mean, it drives Dutch people around the twist who don't know British people as they are very forthright and blunt in their speech, they are far from humourless, just more blunt. They like the sarcasm.
I once had an antediluvian jar of treacle which when opened, the treacle made a rude gesture, pulled the lid back down and rolled the jar back in the corner of the cupboard.
My gramma used to deride anyone who made her a cup of tea that wasn't strong enough to render the tea spoon a light brown colour. "For God sake, boy! Put the bag in the boiling water. Don't just show it to the mug from the other end of the kitchen". Or, after visiting someone, "That woman, I swear she's still using the same tea bag as when I last took tea with her, five years ago." 😅
My gran, on the exact other end of the scale, used to drink her tea by scaring the water with the tea bag. My dad used to say we needed to call an ambulance to get out of the cup
Poor Linda! Ex Railway guy here. Unfortunately "Leaves on the line" is a railway shortcut phrase, you see when wet leaves fall on the railway lines, and trains roll over them, under the pressure, the leaves get converted into a really excellent lubricant, so the trains lose traction, making it hard to go, and hard to STOP which is very dangerous. Keep Reacting!
I live almost next to a single-track railway, which passes through a wood. At this time of year there's a "leaf clearing" train that goes past every other day at about 01:30. Sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner!
@@-elle-o.o yeah from whats been investigated it seems to show that the train slid for a little over 1000 feet on wet leaves at 15mph before impacting the train coming in the other direction
Watched it last night, nearly as good as Shaun of the Dead. As for geese, b@st@rds one and all. I once saw my nearly 50 y/o mother clear a five-bar gate in a single vault with my brothers' Gander chasing her, honking and squawking fit to raise the dead. All my brother said was "his missis is down on eggs and he thinks you're after them, stay out of the field. I'll take swans any day rather than geese.
On the Devon/Dorset border(A35) the County signs are 25 m/yds apart Around 1980 it snowed. The snow was 600mm/2ft deep, each Counties snow plough went up to their sign and stopped and went back leaving a 25 yd impassable, by car, patch of snow.
The only problem with that is that metres and yards are not the same length. A yard is 3 feet. A metre is 3' 4", so 2 metres is 6' 8", and 3 metres is 10 feet, meaning that three metres is 3 and 1/3 yards. 24 metres is therefore 26 yards and two feet. 25 metres then, is 27 yards, two feet and four inches.
What makes British humour top tier? Simple…the weather…hundreds of years of grey skies, unpredictable weather, long muggy winters and short summers…if we hadn’t learned to laugh, the depression would have wiped us out eons ago!
I seriously need crumpets with lashings of butter. NOW! I'm also a crisp hobbyist. Love me some crisps! 😍(PS Happy bonfire/fireworks night everyone in England!)
Leaves on the rail lines makes the rails slippery. Slippery rails make it hard for trains to accelerate and brake effectively. Delays because of this are a safety precaution.
Seems like sliding (though not because of leaves?) was a factor in the recent fatal train crash in Wales. So it's a serious thing, not a feeble excuse.
@ I have only ever seen them sold seasonally. I might have just completely missed them throughout the rest of the year. I’m going to be on the look out now though
The Mighty Boosh!! Full of dark whimsy, oh, also Red Dwarf and Bottom, and all of the task master series... Blackadder.. sooo much Stand up too Grab a bottle of something fruity, gather a friend or two, some cosy clothes, a throw/blanket or too, lights low... Maybe a cake... and have a bloody good giggle, it's cheap but refreshingly good for you! Have fun!
I think the Tesco thing is where they bought up old market halls initially in villages/towns, so already had the clock towers. But some have been purpose built as supermarkets since and they get easier planning permission for a more 'in keeping with the area' building than if were to propose a boring block building. So I've heard...
Nah, my local one they built like that, I suspect that all the stores built around the same time were built in a similar way - late 80’s or early 90’s I think?
@RealMrStoofus yeah the newer ones from 90s I think we're due to that planning permission ease. But just something I heard once. One near me also has tower and from late 80s, used to be field and built intended for Tesco. And apparently keeping a more classical town hall look helped with approval
Other people have already pointed out here that leaves on the line can be dangerous for train operation because they reduce the effectiveness of braking - which can lead (and has lead) to accidents. There is also a longer term, costly, condequence. If a train slides on the slippery leaf mush when it brakes, the wheels can be ground flatter at the sliding contact point. It's not a good idea for a train to have wheels that are not properly round - it causes rough riding, wear on the bogies, and wear on the track. So the train operators eventually have to replace the worn sets of wheels with new (round!) ones at great expense. If enough trains are affected this way in a short time then there may not be enough new wheel sets available, so trains waiting for repair have to be temporarily taken out of service. The resulting shortage of rolling stock means a worse service for travellers!
It is worse than that, there is a chemical in the leaves that with the friction and crushing pressure of the train reacts with the iron in the steel rail/wheels that creates a teflon like non-stick surface. Worse than ice for train braking.
Before they replace the wheels, they can be turned, on a wheel lathe. This doesn't require dismantling - the train is run over the lathe, turning one axle set at a time and cutting them circular again (but smaller).
@@wessexdruid7598 Indeed. But I don't think the maintainers of the class 313 trains I used regularly in the 1980s and 1990s when leaf fall started to become a real problem on the Great Northern loop for the first time, had that luxury. I remember the train operators saying that there were cancellations because of a shortage of rolling stock - trains with messed up wheels that couldn't be fixed because they didn't have enough spares and had to wait for more to be manufactured.
@@johnevans2044 I used to work in the same building as the wheel lathe at the St Phillip's Marsh depot in Bristol, in the early 2000s. It was then primarily used for GWR's HST sets (class 43s) - but didn't get a lot of work.
Alanna i just couldn't stop laughing 😂🤣 at the man with the mask on his "nob" oh dear that was seriously funny! Thank you for this video i needed a good laugh.positivity peace and love ♥️
Hey there, we also have the 'Double Entendre' which is a staple of British humour too! It is so understated and sadly much British humour goes over peoples heads because it is too highbrow for them that hey just don't understand it! I often find I have to explain myself after a witty 1 liner that really works but then falls flat on its face cos the other person didn't hear me or they just didn't twig I was joking! But for the people that understand what I am saying, well they are rolling in the aisles! Great show with explanations for your North American compatriots that don't understand our clever, witty, chapstick ideas on humour which you describe brilliantly, well done and thank you! ❤
There are some iconic british comedies like Father Ted, Black Books, Red Dwarf, the IT crowd, the Inbetweeners, Goodness gracious me, Vicar of Dibley, that definately deserve a watch. Just don't ask about "Heil Honey, I'm home", fortunately that only got a single episode.
No seriously, "H- Honey I'm Home" was absolutely fantastic. It was written by a team largely made up of people who were actually Jewish. It was a fantastic take on how Americans would watch any garbage so long as it was a sitcom. It parodied the style of 50s and 60s sitcoms like "I Love Lucy" by casting Hitler as an everyman living in New York and everything about it was perfectly satirical. I watched the only episode that was aired and I laughed so hard even during the opening credits - the theme song was so funny. It was cancelled because people objected to it even though it was written by the very people that were supposed to be the offended demographics. It was really an excellent premise and had great comedy. It was Pythonesque and sadly people did not get it. Supposedly other episodes were recorded but never aired and are lost. Would be great to watch it now.
we have a Canadian Postie in my area, she's been here 22 years. I have only seen her not wear shorts once, in a massive cold snap where the snow was hip deep in places. honestly was shocked to see her out on that day, lord knows how the hell she got the van to our small country village with un cleared roads.
I was on a train that got delayed, we stopped in the middle of no-where for about 20 minutes. Then the driver came over the intercom and apologised to everyone and said he had been told he had to stop the train "because bees had been seen in the area".
That happened to me only once, for about 45 mins and that was in the middle of nowhere too. Never did find out why but on the plus side, I did the same journey the following week but the ticket office was closed as it was late. I got on, planning to pay the attendant but they never showed, so I got off without paying. Karma.
To be fair, that's a reasonable approximation of UK police. The police: "Excuse me Mr Criminal, would you mind awfully not criminalling for a bit?" Criminal: "Right you are then chief, sorry for any inconvenience."
That 'tea' is EXACTLY how my sister likes it, in fact on more than once occassion I haven't put any tea in it (just hot water and milk) and she couldn't tell the difference.
Man's feeding a swan - nay, teasing a swan - and it's in the mix because that IS so typically British 😅 ... and you think we're gunnu be scared of your geese‽ Pah! You silly gooose 😜🤭
Just FYI, leaves on the line is actually a pretty dangerous condition. If trains run over the leave they are pummled into the track into what is basically a paste. This makes the tracks more more slick and reduces traction meaning is harder for trains to break.
Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures and Alton Towers are The Big Three, do them all one summer. Give each one a weekend too and stay in their hotels. Great fun.
Ex-Postie here, the vans tend to be pretty warm (no functional A/C, the cold still blows moderately warm). That means that, when its hot you want shorts. When it rains, you want shorts because legs dry quickly. When its cold, you want shorts because the van will still be roasting and the walking keeps you warm. Also you want a sort of medium off-grey cargo shorts because the seats are absolutely filthy (I seriously don't know how they get so bad), and you need pockets for the red cards, pens, and if keys if you're doing post-box collections.
The leaves on the line thing is a necessary risk not worth taking, because trains crush them and the residue left over affects a train's ability to brake and stop.
I’m a fellow Canadian and quite a bit older than you. I’ve had a lifetime of watching British comedies, everything from On The Buses and Reginald Perrin to Are You Being Served and Blackadder to be pretty familiar with the British sense of humour.
I phone my mum the other day and I happened to have a cold so I told her this. She replied “yeah, there’s one going around at the moment”. I had to remind her that I left the UK 7 years ago. Whatever is going around there is not going around here.
The 'What did I miss?' Ad was a quit smoking campaign, he popped outside for a smoke and that happened while he was out. Completely outrageous, but so daft it's hilarious 😅
I used to wear trousers all the time when I worked for the Post Office as a collection driver. I collected letters and parcels from Post Offices, businesses, parcel letter boxes, letter boxes of all types, an airport and a shopping mall.
There was a great UK Meme compilation out that I watched a good while ago - with 2 US reactors reacting to it, Alanna - sadly though, all I can tell you about it best now, is that in it, one of them had a lad bungee jumping from a helicopter with a biscuit in his hand - trying to dip it in a cuppa far below . . . he did it, but I can't say if it was managed in only 1 lucky take or many?
Some Postmen are creative, some less than deserving of the title. My own personal favourite, this actually happened to me, was the day the postie hid a parcel in the wheelie bin for safety on the same day that the bins were collected.
Yes, I have actually seen a postie in trousers! He used to deliver our parcels in work wearing shorts, so all us girls as a joke, whistle at him and sing something like You Can Leave Your Hat On. Then one day he came in wearing trousers. This was back in the days where you could actually get away with jokes like that. He was a grumpy git, though.
I was served a cup of tea exactly like that one in April 1966 by the aunt of a schoolfriend in County Durham when we were on a pre-A level jaunt round England. I have had PTSD ever since. I remember the taste, smell and consistency to this day.
Swans are the hardest birds, if you don't include Glaswegian women.
This comment doesn't have nearly enough likes. Absolutely class. 😂
'It's just the one swan actually' 😁
😂😂 😂
You'll definitely hear the Glaswegian bird coming, the Swan not so much. It's mute.....
.... I'll get my coat.
@@theonlyLoneWolf_ Dam right!! Where are the likes.. made me chuckle 🤭 I tell ya 😅
Gunpowder deliveries directed towards Parliament, and you posted this on the fifth of November. Perfection.
Classic Guy Fawkes joke, delivered on time.
Yes, we’re a very dark humoured sarcastic bunch of bastards.
"bastards"
Yep - around 40% of us by now, I'd imagine!😀
And this is why we are the most misunderstood people in the world.
@@marvinc9994 lol
Yes, and we have a habit of never directly saying what we mean, it drives Dutch people around the twist who don't know British people as they are very forthright and blunt in their speech, they are far from humourless, just more blunt. They like the sarcasm.
@@tonyhaynes9080 "Them"
I once had an antediluvian jar of treacle which when opened, the treacle made a rude gesture, pulled the lid back down and rolled the jar back in the corner of the cupboard.
My gramma used to deride anyone who made her a cup of tea that wasn't strong enough to render the tea spoon a light brown colour. "For God sake, boy! Put the bag in the boiling water. Don't just show it to the mug from the other end of the kitchen". Or, after visiting someone, "That woman, I swear she's still using the same tea bag as when I last took tea with her, five years ago." 😅
😂 incredible!
Mate your Nan was a legend
My gran, on the exact other end of the scale, used to drink her tea by scaring the water with the tea bag. My dad used to say we needed to call an ambulance to get out of the cup
My mother was very dismissive of people who didn't properly fill the cup with tea: a "vicars' collar cup" is how she described it.
That awful man in the vest is Ronnie Pickering and he is a disgrace to my home town, from Hull in East Yorkshire.
That cuppa needed bloody crutches it was so bloody weak😂😂😂
You can't tell me that wasn't bloody Horlicks!
Weaker than a fortnight and even that is two week
The clever tw@ who put that gunpowder delivery sign next to parliament is a genius.
Had me in stitches for a solid 2 minutes 😂
Posties wear shorts because they dry quicker than trousers when it rains! 😂
One told me it's because long trousers stick to your legs when wet and make walking uncomfortable, but same kinda answer basically
Also, wet trousers will eventually soak into your socks and hey presto! Wet feet too.
A postman told me they played a game on who can wear shorts the longest
Which? The legs or the shorts?
Poor Linda! Ex Railway guy here. Unfortunately "Leaves on the line" is a railway shortcut phrase, you see when wet leaves fall on the railway lines, and trains roll over them, under the pressure, the leaves get converted into a really excellent lubricant, so the trains lose traction, making it hard to go, and hard to STOP which is very dangerous. Keep Reacting!
it's why those two trains crashed into each other in wales a few weeks ago isn't it?
@@-elle-o.o NO COMMENT!
I think that is a subject for the inevitable enquiry (no humour intended or attempted)
Very nasty things train crashes!
I live almost next to a single-track railway, which passes through a wood. At this time of year there's a "leaf clearing" train that goes past every other day at about 01:30. Sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner!
The enquiry has already determined that the mechanism that should have applied sand to the rails to give traction were blocked .@@davidberesford7009
@@-elle-o.o yeah from whats been investigated it seems to show that the train slid for a little over 1000 feet on wet leaves at 15mph before impacting the train coming in the other direction
I genuinely had to stop the video at 6:05, go and make myself crumpets and tea, then return to my computer to eat them whilst watching the rest. 😆
"Mince Pies - The ideal accompaniment for Christmas afternoon tea (best before 04 DEC)"
Ah but which 4th December?
Dec 4 2012
so it's still good then?
That cup of tea is whats referred to as 'Gnats piss'😂
YEP, that's what my auntie used to call it.
Tesco do build places like that.
Yup, they are always some architect's take on a planning requirement to be "sympathetic to local building traditions."
They are all over the place, all purpose built.
I think it was mostly a late 80s/early 90s thing,
This is water from a puddle in a pothole the council hasn't filled yet - might be the most English sentence you've ever uttered X
Highly recommend watching "Hot Fuzz" best cop comedy ever. And yes we have Canada Geese here but beware the swans too.
The pringle baiter was playing with fire !
Watched it last night, nearly as good as Shaun of the Dead.
As for geese, b@st@rds one and all. I once saw my nearly 50 y/o mother clear a five-bar gate in a single vault with my brothers' Gander chasing her, honking and squawking fit to raise the dead. All my brother said was "his missis is down on eggs and he thinks you're after them, stay out of the field.
I'll take swans any day rather than geese.
On the Devon/Dorset border(A35) the County signs are 25 m/yds apart Around 1980 it snowed. The snow was 600mm/2ft deep, each Counties snow plough went up to their sign and stopped and went back leaving a 25 yd impassable, by car, patch of snow.
Thats incredible, love it.
And they have the cheek to tax us. (spitting with justifiable rage)
The only problem with that is that metres and yards are not the same length. A yard is 3 feet. A metre is 3' 4", so 2 metres is 6' 8", and 3 metres is 10 feet, meaning that three metres is 3 and 1/3 yards. 24 metres is therefore 26 yards and two feet. 25 metres then, is 27 yards, two feet and four inches.
@@Crispvs1 Depends which side of the road you measure it, it's on a bend.
Victoria Woods “Lets do it” - peak British comedy xx
Otherwise known as The Ballad Of Barry And Freda. That song still cracks me up and always will, especially the Woman's Weekly line.
@ ah yes, the proper name 🤣, she was so funny - is it on the trolley - sadly missed.
@@louburnett6782 I think the term 'comedy genius' is overused but in her case it very much applies.
Left us far too soon; loved her - R.I.P. Victoria 💜
I'm an American living in the US, and today is our presidential election. This is just the type of escapism I needed today!
Fingers crossed for you! 🙏🏻
Thank you for the good vibes! 🙏
Plenty of British humor on UA-cam ,
Just look at naps posting of them and others
Presidential election is a joke, but not a funny one.
I hope for the USA that Trump doesn’t get voted in to office.
Creature Comforts is available for free on UA-cam nowadays too. Very uniquely British.
10:43 That's not a cup of tea, that's an act of war.
It's a cup of tea. Stop moaning!
As said earlier, it's US election Day. This kind of humor 😂was needed. Thanks Alanna!
Cheers Brian, thank you so much!!
Thorpe Park: Only in Britain do we name an entertainment venue after a 70's politician who's famous for buggering someone and shooting their dog.
"if your Aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle. But she doesn't, so she's not" 😂😂😂
What makes British humour top tier?
Simple…the weather…hundreds of years of grey skies, unpredictable weather, long muggy winters and short summers…if we hadn’t learned to laugh, the depression would have wiped us out eons ago!
I seriously need crumpets with lashings of butter. NOW! I'm also a crisp hobbyist. Love me some crisps! 😍(PS Happy bonfire/fireworks night everyone in England!)
Why just England 😢
Leaves on the rail lines makes the rails slippery. Slippery rails make it hard for trains to accelerate and brake effectively. Delays because of this are a safety precaution.
Tbf with the leaves on the line thing, usually it’s wet leaves because it’s Britain and a train can derail because it will skid.
They don't _derail_ - they slide on braking, grinding the wheels, so that they become flat on one side.
Seems like sliding (though not because of leaves?) was a factor in the recent fatal train crash in Wales. So it's a serious thing, not a feeble excuse.
Yeah train on wet leaves is like walking on ice. Makes it equally hard to stop as it is to get going, so sometimes the best option is to stand
@@wessexdruid7598 im not saying they do all the time but derailments can and have happened.
It is important to remember that these are not just any old leaves - they are the "wrong kind of leaves".
Postmen in shorts is so true. You will see them in the winter snow wearing shorts and a fleece jacket. 😂
Alanna, British humour should be the only thing on the UK Citizen test, if you get it you're in. You would easily pass with flying colours 😄😄😄
Cadburys mini eggs will be delivered to supermarkets on Christmas Eve. More than likely on shop floor before new year
Huh?. Mini eggs are available all year round. Had some the other day.
@ I have only ever seen them sold seasonally. I might have just completely missed them throughout the rest of the year. I’m going to be on the look out now though
The Mighty Boosh!! Full of dark whimsy, oh, also Red Dwarf and Bottom, and all of the task master series... Blackadder.. sooo much Stand up too
Grab a bottle of something fruity, gather a friend or two, some cosy clothes, a throw/blanket or too, lights low... Maybe a cake... and have a bloody good giggle, it's cheap but refreshingly good for you!
Have fun!
You're reactions totally cracked me up! This was so wholesome, i loved it!
I think the Tesco thing is where they bought up old market halls initially in villages/towns, so already had the clock towers.
But some have been purpose built as supermarkets since and they get easier planning permission for a more 'in keeping with the area' building than if were to propose a boring block building.
So I've heard...
Nah, my local one they built like that, I suspect that all the stores built around the same time were built in a similar way - late 80’s or early 90’s I think?
@RealMrStoofus yeah the newer ones from 90s I think we're due to that planning permission ease. But just something I heard once. One near me also has tower and from late 80s, used to be field and built intended for Tesco. And apparently keeping a more classical town hall look helped with approval
@@RealMrStoofus My local one was built like the one on the right in the meme and I've seen several in the same style on my travels.
Quintessential British humour eh. I think you're about ready for the one, the only, "Carrot In A Box".
I saw this live when the episode aired ☺️ great bit of TV history!
@AdventuresAndNaps the follow up is even better because he won AGAIN
its a Mute Swan Alanna - that particular scene being from Hot Fuzz 🙂
I figured someone would've mentioned it before me :)
Yeah, it's a mute swan, so no chance of getting a confession out of it !
@fredMplanenut 🤣😂👌👍👉👃🦢
That cup of tea was shocking.
The person who made that should be deported for such behavior.
Alana, that is a Swan not a Goose, the scene is from the movie Hot Fuzz, you need to watch it !
Your reaction videos always have me giggling, your cheeky laugh is awesome.
Other people have already pointed out here that leaves on the line can be dangerous for train operation because they reduce the effectiveness of braking - which can lead (and has lead) to accidents. There is also a longer term, costly, condequence. If a train slides on the slippery leaf mush when it brakes, the wheels can be ground flatter at the sliding contact point. It's not a good idea for a train to have wheels that are not properly round - it causes rough riding, wear on the bogies, and wear on the track. So the train operators eventually have to replace the worn sets of wheels with new (round!) ones at great expense. If enough trains are affected this way in a short time then there may not be enough new wheel sets available, so trains waiting for repair have to be temporarily taken out of service. The resulting shortage of rolling stock means a worse service for travellers!
It is worse than that, there is a chemical in the leaves that with the friction and crushing pressure of the train reacts with the iron in the steel rail/wheels that creates a teflon like non-stick surface. Worse than ice for train braking.
Before they replace the wheels, they can be turned, on a wheel lathe. This doesn't require dismantling - the train is run over the lathe, turning one axle set at a time and cutting them circular again (but smaller).
@@wessexdruid7598 Indeed. But I don't think the maintainers of the class 313 trains I used regularly in the 1980s and 1990s when leaf fall started to become a real problem on the Great Northern loop for the first time, had that luxury. I remember the train operators saying that there were cancellations because of a shortage of rolling stock - trains with messed up wheels that couldn't be fixed because they didn't have enough spares and had to wait for more to be manufactured.
@@johnevans2044 I used to work in the same building as the wheel lathe at the St Phillip's Marsh depot in Bristol, in the early 2000s. It was then primarily used for GWR's HST sets (class 43s) - but didn't get a lot of work.
Boris was a modern Benny Hill i think. Compare the postures and gait
There is something very Fred Scuttle about him.
And the running round after women with a lecherous look on his face.
Alanna i just couldn't stop laughing 😂🤣 at the man with the mask on his "nob" oh dear that was seriously funny! Thank you for this video i needed a good laugh.positivity peace and love ♥️
That was from Gogglebox a TV series, of people watching people on the TV, those two are my favourites on there, Jen and Lee.
@@vallee3140 it was so funny it was the expression on Jen's face when he said it.priceless🤣
@@charisse234 I love those two
I can't believe it didn't have 'you can't park there sir'
Alayna , Love your channel . love the fact that our humour rings your bell . TY for the videos x
"It's a swan actually"
The Canada Goose was behind it.
They say a swan can break a man's arm....
No luck catching them swan's then?
@danielblyth2841 it's just the one Swan actually
The Berries and Cream man is from a 2007 Starburst Ad ...
TikTok at the cutting edge as always ..
I stopped buying them because I was annoyed at the name change from Opal fruits
@@NoNo-uwotm8’Opal fruits, made to make your mouth water’ I’m with you on the name change and they changed the taste as well, I’m certain of it.
Lots of (all?) out of town centre Tesco's were built with weird almost church style towers in the 80s and 90s. It was surreal.
So you could find it without a map
'this feels aggressively british' is such a glorious line. Love it
Hey there, we also have the 'Double Entendre' which is a staple of British humour too! It is so understated and sadly much British humour goes over peoples heads because it is too highbrow for them that hey just don't understand it! I often find I have to explain myself after a witty 1 liner that really works but then falls flat on its face cos the other person didn't hear me or they just didn't twig I was joking! But for the people that understand what I am saying, well they are rolling in the aisles! Great show with explanations for your North American compatriots that don't understand our clever, witty, chapstick ideas on humour which you describe brilliantly, well done and thank you! ❤
There are some iconic british comedies like Father Ted, Black Books, Red Dwarf, the IT crowd, the Inbetweeners, Goodness gracious me, Vicar of Dibley, that definately deserve a watch.
Just don't ask about "Heil Honey, I'm home", fortunately that only got a single episode.
No seriously, "H- Honey I'm Home" was absolutely fantastic. It was written by a team largely made up of people who were actually Jewish. It was a fantastic take on how Americans would watch any garbage so long as it was a sitcom. It parodied the style of 50s and 60s sitcoms like "I Love Lucy" by casting Hitler as an everyman living in New York and everything about it was perfectly satirical. I watched the only episode that was aired and I laughed so hard even during the opening credits - the theme song was so funny. It was cancelled because people objected to it even though it was written by the very people that were supposed to be the offended demographics. It was really an excellent premise and had great comedy. It was Pythonesque and sadly people did not get it. Supposedly other episodes were recorded but never aired and are lost. Would be great to watch it now.
Fawlty towers
There's also Yes minster
brit here! Leaves on the line are a real issue. The trains can compress them into what is essentially teflon, really makes them hard to stop
Train driver here. It’s awful. Hard to get going too.
Poor Linda, that is bullying, funny, but bullying.
Insult to injury to bulls, let alone when also @bused and worst of all?
Get a life
Always entertaining, thank you 🙏🏾
we have a Canadian Postie in my area, she's been here 22 years. I have only seen her not wear shorts once, in a massive cold snap where the snow was hip deep in places. honestly was shocked to see her out on that day, lord knows how the hell she got the van to our small country village with un cleared roads.
😂 was thinking the exact same as you "What was that we just saw?" I felt that lethal level of cringe
Tesco's built those in the late 80's early 90's, now they go for the big warehouse thing.
That cuppa tea is frightening, so much so the tea bag jumped out before it had time to brew.
"My nans dead..." got me. Took a good minute to recover
I was on a train that got delayed, we stopped in the middle of no-where for about 20 minutes. Then the driver came over the intercom and apologised to everyone and said he had been told he had to stop the train "because bees had been seen in the area".
That happened to me only once, for about 45 mins and that was in the middle of nowhere too. Never did find out why but on the plus side, I did the same journey the following week but the ticket office was closed as it was late. I got on, planning to pay the attendant but they never showed, so I got off without paying. Karma.
@@Elwaves2925The ticket staff had probably been carried off by a swarm of bees
I've experienced self-deffacating humour - I shat myself and my mate couldn't stop laughing at me.
To be fair, that's a reasonable approximation of UK police.
The police: "Excuse me Mr Criminal, would you mind awfully not criminalling for a bit?"
Criminal: "Right you are then chief, sorry for any inconvenience."
4:40 "British humour is so hard to explain..." *proceeds to give a pretty bang-on explanation* 😆
The guy with the buckfast is the blue van man on UA-cam
6:30 "Apparently they can break a man's arm... Or blow up a man's house."
Just had the best BFG Sainsbury Xmas ad in your video.
You should do some of the brilliant UK adverts. Boddingtons, Milk Tray, Peter Kay's John Smiths adverts and Hamlet to name a few.
Aren`t you happy that you are not called Linda....🤣Thanks again for making me laugh out loud... all gems....even the cringe ones......
Thank you! ☺️
That 'tea' is EXACTLY how my sister likes it, in fact on more than once occassion I haven't put any tea in it (just hot water and milk) and she couldn't tell the difference.
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Those squirrels must be some tough thugs to literally hijack at train...😅🇬🇧
I net it way immigrant grey's, not the more peaceful native red
That's what's commonly known as a cup of dish water from the kitchen sink.....
I've never seen the primark one before so that had me in stitches 😭poor Rose
That cup of tea looks like someone's waved a teabag in it's general direction and then said "This is what you're supposed to taste like"!
I'm British, but all I have to say is "Go Habs Go" (since 1993. You can blame NHL 93 and Patrick Roy). 😂❤😂
We always say that the only men who wear shorts in winter are postmen and scaffolders.
Man's feeding a swan - nay, teasing a swan - and it's in the mix because that IS so typically British 😅 ... and you think we're gunnu be scared of your geese‽ Pah! You silly gooose 😜🤭
Just FYI, leaves on the line is actually a pretty dangerous condition. If trains run over the leave they are pummled into the track into what is basically a paste. This makes the tracks more more slick and reduces traction meaning is harder for trains to break.
Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures and Alton Towers are The Big Three, do them all one summer.
Give each one a weekend too and stay in their hotels. Great fun.
Tomorrow, tomorra, tomorrow, tomorra- you're always a day away!
Tomorrow and tomorra and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day...
@@martinclegg8536 Love it - nice one
Ex-Postie here, the vans tend to be pretty warm (no functional A/C, the cold still blows moderately warm). That means that, when its hot you want shorts. When it rains, you want shorts because legs dry quickly. When its cold, you want shorts because the van will still be roasting and the walking keeps you warm.
Also you want a sort of medium off-grey cargo shorts because the seats are absolutely filthy (I seriously don't know how they get so bad), and you need pockets for the red cards, pens, and if keys if you're doing post-box collections.
The leaves on the line thing is a necessary risk not worth taking, because trains crush them and the residue left over affects a train's ability to brake and stop.
Yeah, its looking like that was partly why the crashin wales happened a few weeks ago killing 1 person
Yup, it basically a Teflon coating on the rails which isn't exactly ideal for stopping a fast moving vehicle
I’m a fellow Canadian and quite a bit older than you. I’ve had a lifetime of watching British comedies, everything from On The Buses and Reginald Perrin to Are You Being Served and Blackadder to be pretty familiar with the British sense of humour.
I phone my mum the other day and I happened to have a cold so I told her this. She replied “yeah, there’s one going around at the moment”. I had to remind her that I left the UK 7 years ago. Whatever is going around there is not going around here.
Thats what they said about covid until it was
The 'What did I miss?' Ad was a quit smoking campaign, he popped outside for a smoke and that happened while he was out. Completely outrageous, but so daft it's hilarious 😅
Watch Gordon Ramsey's series where he cooks at home with his family. It's like watching a Jeykll and Hyde movie.
U almost said a goose can break your arm didn't you? 😂
I used to wear trousers all the time when I worked for the Post Office as a collection driver. I collected letters and parcels from Post Offices, businesses, parcel letter boxes, letter boxes of all types, an airport and a shopping mall.
The reason why Post delivery people wear shorts in bad weather is because it's better than slogging around all day in wet trousers.
Tesco late 80s until late 90s used to build traditional inspired shops - the Essex barn look
poor Linda! I just want to give her a huge hug! As for Gogglebox, such a hilarious TV show!
There was a great UK Meme compilation out that I watched a good while ago - with 2 US reactors reacting to it, Alanna - sadly though, all I can tell you about it best now, is that in it, one of them had a lad bungee jumping from a helicopter with a biscuit in his hand - trying to dip it in a cuppa far below . . . he did it, but I can't say if it was managed in only 1 lucky take or many?
Berries and cream. Think of an activity below the waistline and watch the clip again. Takes on a whole new meaning.
I asked out postman about the shorts - it's because it's miserable to walk around in wet trousers when it rains, so they all get used to shorts.
Hi Alanna,a very entertaining video,I loved you reaction👏👏💐Cheers.Roly 🇬🇧.
Some Postmen are creative, some less than deserving of the title. My own personal favourite, this actually happened to me, was the day the postie hid a parcel in the wheelie bin for safety on the same day that the bins were collected.
Yes, I have actually seen a postie in trousers! He used to deliver our parcels in work wearing shorts, so all us girls as a joke, whistle at him and sing something like You Can Leave Your Hat On. Then one day he came in wearing trousers. This was back in the days where you could actually get away with jokes like that. He was a grumpy git, though.
It's not cold until you see your postie in trousers. 😂
British humour is breaking your tv and saying "oh good heavens", and then making your cup of tea slightly too cold and throwing it at the cat
I was a postman on a bike for 5 years, never wore shorts, to bloody cold in Louth! 😆
Everytime I get in the car its right there on me nob.
Confused but cheeky facial expression. Yeah.... What your mask?
LOL
You're explanation of British humour was perfect. 🎉
They always used to build supermarkets with weird roofs. I miss those days. Now they're all cuboids.
I was served a cup of tea exactly like that one in April 1966 by the aunt of a schoolfriend in County Durham when we were on a pre-A level jaunt round England. I have had PTSD ever since. I remember the taste, smell and consistency to this day.