American Assumptions about The Brits

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  • @Maxrodon
    @Maxrodon 4 місяці тому +123

    I'm half Nigerian and half German but spent my university years up "North" in Newcastle and they are the friendliest, lovliest and most welcoming people. I even had a memory where an old lady at the bus stop struck up a conversation with me and after a good while the bus arrived and instead of boarding it, she went into her house that was next door to it! She said she just fancied a chat.
    I've since moved south, and people are still friendly.......if they know you personally and jokes aside people in the south are not hostile but rather more bland and less open/friendly compared to the North. The difference is huge.

    • @gingerfellah5665
      @gingerfellah5665 4 місяці тому +24

      I love that story and I’ve become that lady.

    • @chasidahL
      @chasidahL 4 місяці тому +14

      I'm from Newcastle, now living in London. Totally agree! Lovely story ❤

    • @queenvagabond8787
      @queenvagabond8787 4 місяці тому +12

      Yeah, I moved to Newcastle because the people were basically culturally very similar to my native Glasgow, I love it here, and its cheaper to get a flat than in Glasgow! :P

    • @NonePlayableCharacter
      @NonePlayableCharacter 4 місяці тому +1

      these comments are definately from visit newcastle ltd, geordies are horrible

    • @A-se2ur
      @A-se2ur 4 місяці тому +5

      @NonePlayableCharacter by any chance are you from somewhere close by that isn’t Newcastle?

  • @closeben
    @closeben 4 місяці тому +219

    I was so confused at the begining because I definately thought the VPN ad was a skit and I couldn’t figure out how it connected to the video topic.

    • @TheStevenWhiting
      @TheStevenWhiting 4 місяці тому

      Ironic having the Wall of China considering VPNs are banned in China. And no, its not secure. It sounds a lot like TOR which is good but the end points can be compromised. If the end point on this VPN solution is compromised then they'll be able to read all your traffic no doubt.

    • @georgemckenna7570
      @georgemckenna7570 4 місяці тому +10

      I couldn't imagine anything less "Michael Spicer" 😂

    • @carolinecrollick6305
      @carolinecrollick6305 4 місяці тому +9

      It is brilliant as usual

    • @cjmitz
      @cjmitz 4 місяці тому +14

      Totally ruins the content

    • @djoakeydoakey1076
      @djoakeydoakey1076 4 місяці тому +6

      ​@@cjmitzjust skip it, easy enough. I understand some creators need to get some cheddar.

  • @Bennett2104
    @Bennett2104 4 місяці тому +121

    The chips/fries conversation had me in tears of laughter

    • @samuelmath1723
      @samuelmath1723 4 місяці тому +5

      That was a funny one.

    • @dkoppenol
      @dkoppenol 4 місяці тому

      Such a classic

    • @heeeeeresrossy
      @heeeeeresrossy 4 місяці тому

      Top tier stuff.

    • @hero3717
      @hero3717 4 місяці тому +1

      ironically thicker cut french fries are known a 'steak fries' or 'steak cut fries' in the part of the US I'm from

    • @buggs9950
      @buggs9950 4 місяці тому

      A fight in a coffee shop did it for me.

  • @CulturePhilter
    @CulturePhilter 4 місяці тому +69

    I feel called out… literally as he was saying we love things in tins, I was pulling a tin of tuna out of the cupboard for lunch. 😄

    • @szilardfineascovasa6144
      @szilardfineascovasa6144 4 місяці тому +4

      I'd feel feel vulnerable, violated and exposed as well 😁.

    • @gingerfellah5665
      @gingerfellah5665 4 місяці тому +5

      My ex has family in Cyprus, after their return they confused their parents for wanting “something in a tin” every lunchtime.

    • @ChrispyNut
      @ChrispyNut 4 місяці тому +4

      I had Beans nuking in the microwave to go with mashed potatoes and Cornish pasty.

    • @szilardfineascovasa6144
      @szilardfineascovasa6144 4 місяці тому +1

      @@gingerfellah5665 😆
      Spam-eatin' Muricans: "Whaaaaaat? Whaaaaat?"

  • @RoyaltyReynold
    @RoyaltyReynold 4 місяці тому +29

    I need more of The Room Next Door.

  • @applejuice5272
    @applejuice5272 4 місяці тому +60

    Pubs vs coffee shops 😂

  • @SimonFrack
    @SimonFrack 4 місяці тому +6

    9:23
    Gregg’s is top tier food.
    And British desserts are class as well. Sticky Toffee Pudding, Trifle, Fudge Cake, Mince Pies…

  • @bioLarzen
    @bioLarzen 4 місяці тому +30

    Arnold Schwerzanegger here - thanks for the VPN advice - saved my life!

    • @lidbass
      @lidbass 4 місяці тому +10

      Hi! I’m Alanis Merissotte, and (pause) ‘ironically’ (pause), I agree with Arnold!

    • @HotdogWithAFace
      @HotdogWithAFace 4 місяці тому +2

      😂😂

    • @veganbutcherhackepeter
      @veganbutcherhackepeter 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@HotdogWithAFace Nothing to laugh about. For some of us this is serious.
      Sincerely
      Barack Aboma

    • @RankinMsP
      @RankinMsP 4 місяці тому

      HotdogWithAFace being answered by Veganbutcherhackepeter
      Sounds like a Spicer sketch
      😂

  • @blittlej
    @blittlej 4 місяці тому +62

    Michael, even your sponsorship ad is funnier than most other comedians content 😆👏🏻

    • @macnavi
      @macnavi 4 місяці тому +1

      You should check out Ryan George. He set the standard. He might even have been the inspiration for Michael.

    • @sarcasticstartrek7719
      @sarcasticstartrek7719 4 місяці тому +1

      lol you people who watch sponsored segments - there's ad blockers that auto skip the begging for money, it's very clever - ive not seen a single "sponsored by" segment in a year.

    • @krogsta
      @krogsta 4 місяці тому

      Can't hold a candle (yet) to Internet comment etiquette with Erik. His sponsored segments are god tier.

    • @TheVicar
      @TheVicar 4 місяці тому

      His unique VPN service product was sponsored by NordVPN

  • @richardblackmore9351
    @richardblackmore9351 4 місяці тому +13

    Dual citizen here (British/American), and I would like to feel that I inherited the best of both. I have spent most of my life in the US and have an American accent, so strike against me. But I also love a good cue, and enjoy superficial conversations about the weather and sports I don't watch. I have a tendency to avoid awkward conversations, including with coworkers. I do love a good cup of tea (but am quitting caffeine at the moment, irrelevant). I enjoy the sunshine. Plenty of it here in North Carolina. And most definitely, one goes to a pub to drink, and also a coffee shop for a coffee. Quite frankly both "lift" and "elevator" are wrong, as these things go down as well. I prefer "vertical positioning adjustment device" (vpad). It will be a thing!

  • @TallyRocky
    @TallyRocky 4 місяці тому +46

    Tip: when doing an American accent, never say “whilst”. 😅

  • @andreag7822
    @andreag7822 4 місяці тому +6

    The chips/crisp/fries one slayed me 🤣🤣

    • @dawnstanley1733
      @dawnstanley1733 17 днів тому +1

      Omg! I laughed so hard, I have had the same conversation with my cousins.

  • @ben8376
    @ben8376 4 місяці тому +17

    Another great vid Michael Spicy 👍

  • @biruteleipute9230
    @biruteleipute9230 4 місяці тому +1

    "a list of bad things and the royal family" - that's pure poetry 😂

  • @kewune
    @kewune 4 місяці тому +41

    These damn posh vampires

    • @TheVicar
      @TheVicar 4 місяці тому

      Their* country estates are tax deductible
      *Ours, not theirs
      please send help

  • @Dexter101x
    @Dexter101x 4 місяці тому +12

    The waiter skit was so funny 😂

  • @Benrm1664
    @Benrm1664 4 місяці тому +6

    Bangers and mash sounded like an Alan partridge pitch to Tony Hayre.

  • @maddyrosenberg6802
    @maddyrosenberg6802 4 місяці тому +16

    I couldn't stop laughing. I'm a New Yorker who has spent many years spending months in the UK for projects (and in Scotland presently). Ah so you think all Americans are alike? I consider I live on an island off the shore of a strange continent (actually sounds like many Brits). As to English language, I wonder why we actually still use words we got from you, but you then decided to call them something else (sweater anyone? how about soccer?), or revert to the French name. And we called them steak fries what you call chips. They are still fries, but again I'm from NY, what people call anything is also regional (still getting used to tea meaning supper not cuppa). Yeah and you may pay for the King's hats, but we pay for Marjorie Taylor Greene's health insurance, when many of us don't have any because of people like her in Congress. Gotta laugh about it to defuse the stress, thank you!

    • @Bakers_Doesnt
      @Bakers_Doesnt 4 місяці тому +3

      Put like that, you have a point! You also have to pay for Trump's security detail - I almost feel bad for foisting off Piers Morgan, Elton John and James Cordon on you (almost...you did manage to sneak Madonna through customs without her having rabies shots and being quarantined). Be nice or you can keep Katie Hopkins too!

    • @claredunne7897
      @claredunne7897 4 місяці тому

      Or pronounce words differently like basil and oregano. The other day I watched a documentary where they described someone being burglarised when we would just say burgled.

    • @TheGoodOldDaysOfSoccer
      @TheGoodOldDaysOfSoccer 3 місяці тому

      "Soccer" was used quite a lot in Britain until recently.

    • @thehammer9599
      @thehammer9599 2 місяці тому

      @@TheGoodOldDaysOfSoccerno it wasn’t

  • @cfoxaskew
    @cfoxaskew 21 день тому

    This is great ! Thank you !

  • @CraigEmpson
    @CraigEmpson 4 місяці тому

    The chips vs fries thing is probably my favourite part you did since the pockets of space gag.

  • @CaptainToadUK
    @CaptainToadUK 4 місяці тому +6

    "Hey Michael, we'll get right back to you with the offer details for the ad read. Can you film it without them?"
    "I, uhm... I'll see what I can do..."
    Awesome ad read, btw 😆

  • @angelpjc
    @angelpjc 3 місяці тому

    Hilarious! Thank you for the content.
    Well wishes from Austin, Texas

  • @smorrow
    @smorrow 4 місяці тому +3

    Alumin(i)um is something I couldn't (yes, couldn't, not 'could') bring myself to care about. Don't get me started on "bangs" and "door jamb", though.

  • @MagentaOtterTravels
    @MagentaOtterTravels 4 місяці тому +2

    This is hilarious! And I love his American character. Although the accent broke down a bit when talking about proper coffee and sofas 😂

    • @smorrow
      @smorrow 4 місяці тому +1

      "Whilst" at 5:04.

    • @MagentaOtterTravels
      @MagentaOtterTravels 4 місяці тому

      @@smorrow yes!!!! No American says whilst 😂

  • @Ruthy-F
    @Ruthy-F 4 місяці тому +1

    Brilliant, as always! 🤣 Even if I was slightly distracted by the sunburnt nose! 🤣☀👃

  • @ReeTM
    @ReeTM 4 місяці тому +1

    Glorious! Thank you, Michael

  • @denawolf5884
    @denawolf5884 23 дні тому

    i 💙 your humor . you are good for my soul. ☮️

  • @juliewake4585
    @juliewake4585 4 місяці тому +1

    So brilliant as usual Michael.

  • @rumsbymusic
    @rumsbymusic 4 місяці тому +2

    😂Excellent video Davey Hostilhuff 👏🏻👏🏻

  • @originalbadboy32
    @originalbadboy32 4 місяці тому

    From someone who has been on holiday in the US for the last three weeks, I found this video strangely cathartic.

  • @katemarlor1816
    @katemarlor1816 4 місяці тому

    I have 3 types of coffee, 2 electric coffee makers, and 4 stovetop options. I make my own syrups and have 2-3 different milks at all times. I still go out coffee. This hit me to.my core.

  • @ryangarritty9761
    @ryangarritty9761 4 місяці тому

    Loved this !
    I'm off to the pub now.

  • @7ebr830
    @7ebr830 Місяць тому

    "I had a date?" 🤣🤣

  • @naynaynay324
    @naynaynay324 4 місяці тому +2

    The knack for satire is strong with this one.
    One thing you missed Mr Spicer: The social code, where you'll have to be british to comprehend it (it's mostly about avoiding embarassment, whilst causing embarassment).

    • @pwood6532
      @pwood6532 4 місяці тому +1

      😅there s a show about this called british people problems..or sonething like that.absolutely hilarious!

  • @Ninmpf
    @Ninmpf 4 місяці тому

    We do more than bangers, and fried breakfast - what about roast dinner? And we have some lovely cakes, pies, tarts and puddings! Its quite stodgy I'll grant but tasty in cold weather. And our Indian food especially is usually pretty good

  • @TheAdeybob
    @TheAdeybob 4 місяці тому

    Nice work...great observations and commentary.

  • @sophiecartman
    @sophiecartman 4 місяці тому +2

    I'm looooving all these videos, Michael. The crisps v chips sketch had me in tears. 😂 ho ho it's funny cos it's true. ❤
    You're the best!!

  • @tselengbotlhole750
    @tselengbotlhole750 4 місяці тому +22

    I always laugh when Americans say British food is bad 🤣🤣🤣 the people who fry almost everything

    • @saoirsedeltufo7436
      @saoirsedeltufo7436 4 місяці тому +11

      The people who brought you plastic cheese and chicken in a can think other people's food is bad!

    • @N00bvlog
      @N00bvlog 4 місяці тому

      What's your favorite meal, @tselengbotlhole750?

    • @bn5055
      @bn5055 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@@saoirsedeltufo7436they do cheese in a (spray) can too

    • @speleokeir
      @speleokeir 4 місяці тому

      "The people who fry almost everything"
      You mean the Scots? Deep fried mars bars, deep fried pizza...😁

  • @jettlethedragonpeeltheoran8915

    Just to add to your comment on paying for the Royal Family: the amount of money given to the Treasury from the Crown Estate every year massively exceeds the amount paid from the Treasury to the Royal Family. By about 300%. So overall, there is no net drain on tax funds. Quite the reverse. The Royal Family contribute more to public funds than they take out. Lots of people like to try and say this is incorrect, so I will point out that all these accounts are publicly available, down to the last penny.

  • @shaunjames9469
    @shaunjames9469 4 місяці тому +7

    I do love bangers & Mash 😊

    • @speleokeir
      @speleokeir 4 місяці тому

      With onion gravy...😋

    • @peterrenn6341
      @peterrenn6341 4 місяці тому

      But only the first two seasons.

  • @TheSuf
    @TheSuf 4 місяці тому

    Michael… Whenever you do an American accent, I think of your Agent Smith impression 😎🤣👍

  • @MaiAolei
    @MaiAolei 13 днів тому

    I can't believe I'm doing this, but during my two years in England, I have added English food to my already long list of delicious foods.
    There are three exceptions in order of horrifyingness, most horrifyingnessedly last: Mince Pies, Christmas Pudding and Christmas Cake. Those things should be banned under the Geneva conventions if they aren't already.
    But a Sunday roast, fish and chips, pastries, shepherd's pie, along with their delightful array of sausages are all really a joy.
    And English cuisine is second to none when it comes to pudding ... desserts ... sweet things. Gateau, TRIFLE(!!!), pies, crumbles, shortbread, digestives ....
    Those memories stay with you forever.
    Along with the love handles ...

  • @TilmanBaumann
    @TilmanBaumann 4 місяці тому +1

    The Pub/Coffee skit broke me up

  • @Andrewjg_89
    @Andrewjg_89 4 місяці тому

    Love your comedy sketch. Do keep them coming.

  • @mianilsson9632
    @mianilsson9632 Місяць тому

    About Chips vs Fries. When I was around 14 or 15 yrs, I went to England for a while, studying and lived with a family. Well, being from Sweden🇸🇪 and looved chips. Potatochips that is. On arrival the Mrs of the house offered fish and chips. Odd combo I thought, but I did love chips, so yeah of course I wanted that. Realized it was fries, but didn’t say anything. I was there for 21 days and every night me and my friends went out to this disco and every night we bought chips=fries on our way home. So much that I was soo fed up with fish&chips and til this day I can not stand it. Mind you; That was in the 70’s…🤢😂😂😂

  • @ekidd79
    @ekidd79 4 місяці тому +2

    An example of not knowing about accents: Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks had a postmistress character who was Welsh. In the Special Edition DVD there is an extra scene where they obviously didn't have the original audio and re-dubbed the character....with a Scottish accent, the character then goes back to being Welsh for the rest of the film 🤦‍♀👀🤔 There was a bit of a kerfuffle at the time and the scene has since been removed on further releases.

  • @tony3760758956
    @tony3760758956 4 місяці тому +5

    Nothing better than a full English breakfast, good stew in winter or bloody toad in the hole! English food is great

    • @molybdomancer195
      @molybdomancer195 4 місяці тому +2

      Also roast dinners, a good cottage pie and sticky toffee pudding and custard.

    • @tony3760758956
      @tony3760758956 4 місяці тому

      @@molybdomancer195 Absolutely, treacle sponge and custard is a favourite of mine.

    • @tucoramirez3333
      @tucoramirez3333 3 місяці тому

      Black pudding smoky bacon

  • @glazierblue573
    @glazierblue573 4 місяці тому +1

    I have actually had this aurgment with Americans about chips and fries and crisps so many times! 😅 its seems to be a tradition.

  • @evphex
    @evphex 3 місяці тому +1

    Spicers American accent is amazing 😂

  • @kittyfreya9141
    @kittyfreya9141 4 місяці тому +2

    You missed toad in the hole 😅
    Also crisp comes from cooking thin potatoes in oil to crisp them.

  • @bigman5125
    @bigman5125 4 місяці тому +1

    Try explaining the many different types of chips to an American; sometimes they are thick cut and usually more rigid, they can be moister and a bit flimsy, they may be thinner and really crispy. They are always different to crisps, French fries or wedges though.

  • @aankwenti
    @aankwenti 4 місяці тому

    I never thought there'd come a time when I'd be as fully engaged in a VPN paid promotion I as this one. That was brilliant 🤣

  • @generalpublic3744
    @generalpublic3744 4 місяці тому

    The American have Bush's baked beans in a sweet brown sauce. Very nice they are too! My brother in law who lives on the west coast thought "England," which they always call the UK, was 29 miles across. Hmm...

  • @moondog548
    @moondog548 4 місяці тому

    As an American who understood none of this previously.... roight! cheers, mate!

  • @jamesparker4782
    @jamesparker4782 4 місяці тому

    I shared twice.x also gave you a like.x
    Further your radio 4 show is excellent..

  • @arunbupathy
    @arunbupathy 4 місяці тому +11

    4:21 🤣. But in all seriousness, chips when done properly can beat the best of french fries. Please don't take it away from the Brits, it's literally the one thing that they got right, in terms of the thing itself and its nomenclature!

  • @charlesvanburen50
    @charlesvanburen50 4 місяці тому

    The downtown cameo got me 😂😂

  • @DaSkwire
    @DaSkwire 4 місяці тому +4

    I missed the "But First" caption and thought I'd accidentally skipped on to another video by mistake

  • @iamamangina
    @iamamangina 4 місяці тому

    Our best food is a roast, we do have brilliant Chinese and Indian dishes but surely the roast still reigns supreme

  • @dougalmcguire7202
    @dougalmcguire7202 4 місяці тому +1

    We call pudding ‘afters’, to avoid potential pudding confusion.

  • @LimeyRedneck
    @LimeyRedneck 4 місяці тому +1

    I've had the potato crisp/ chip conversation a few times!! 😅
    Americans call Pringles crisps!! 🫨

    • @TheVicar
      @TheVicar 4 місяці тому +1

      Pringles' ingredients are synthesised alongside chemicals for household cleaning products
      "Once you pop, you're gonna drop"

    • @LimeyRedneck
      @LimeyRedneck 4 місяці тому

      @@TheVicar Why am I not surprised and lol 😅
      I guess I'll add them to my ever growing list of stuff to eat when I want to live dangerously, like prepackaged sandwiches 🫠

    • @TheVicar
      @TheVicar 4 місяці тому

      @@LimeyRedneck The salad lockdown panic is nearly over
      Relax. You don't need to stockpile bleach or bogroll anymore

  • @szilardfineascovasa6144
    @szilardfineascovasa6144 4 місяці тому +3

    From the get-go (before even watching, and as someone with no dog in this fight): this'll be fun 😆.
    L.E. As expected, food was first on the list 😆. Americans do love their food.
    (And asking their Brit friend to ask for a bottle of water.)

    • @gingerfellah5665
      @gingerfellah5665 4 місяці тому +1

      I’m Scottish and I do the typical Brit way of asking for h2o without all the “t’s” but I also do 2 alt versions where I do the clinically precise version request with all letters crisply pronounced and then with Glasgow intonation. Such fun!

    • @szilardfineascovasa6144
      @szilardfineascovasa6144 4 місяці тому +1

      @@gingerfellah5665 Hahaha, waaay to confuse any American friend visiting!
      Boy, that would be some posh trolling alright, asking a different way every time, to the bewilderment of said yank. 😁

    • @hopethisworks1212
      @hopethisworks1212 4 місяці тому +1

      The "get-go". In England we say "the word go" as in the start of a race we wait for the word go. BTW when did doubling down replace doubling up which apparently is it's actual meaning?

    • @szilardfineascovasa6144
      @szilardfineascovasa6144 4 місяці тому

      @@hopethisworks1212 Haha, thanks for that! I find language evolution fascinating. 🙂
      As for the "mystery" you asked about, I have no idea - not a native English speaker, so I'll just let someone more knowledgeable chime in 😁. But it does make sense to my brain to "double up"!

  • @Handletaken4
    @Handletaken4 4 місяці тому

    I went to an English pub but thought the owner was trying to pay for a month in Italy off my tab. £7 for a pint? F right off!

  • @buggs9950
    @buggs9950 4 місяці тому

    I find it interesting how many words which Americans use, such as 'fall', which we write off as Americanisms are in fact the traditional British term. They were taken to America and kept in use while we here changed to something else in the meantime.

  • @TheTrendDoctor
    @TheTrendDoctor 4 місяці тому

    I lost it at 'The British Approach to Gastronomy'

  • @daveys
    @daveys 3 місяці тому

    7:35 - Is that you in Downton Abbey?

  • @SandraHolmes-ur3fm
    @SandraHolmes-ur3fm 4 місяці тому +3

    You must have peaked in my pantry because my tins are stocked up ready for the next war. Mostly bake beans that can be eaten cold and tastes absolutely delicious 😋 I also believe the royal family should be replaced by Pie, he would be an excellent ambassador for the UK 😅

    • @molybdomancer195
      @molybdomancer195 4 місяці тому

      Is your pantry so tall he could peak in it? 😂. (Ok I know it’s a typo for “peek” but I couldn’t resist)

    • @SandraHolmes-ur3fm
      @SandraHolmes-ur3fm 4 місяці тому

      ​@@molybdomancer195I am used to being humiliated by people taking the piss out of my spelling. I am severely dyslexic, shame you have to be more concerned with my spelling then my comment. So very happy for you to be able to spell, for some of us it's a disability.

  • @carltonascarf7694
    @carltonascarf7694 4 місяці тому +7

    After the debate last night they can assume whatever they want! Im just glad im not one of them

  • @JerryShugars
    @JerryShugars 4 місяці тому +5

    Guilty on the coffee.

  • @kirishima638
    @kirishima638 4 місяці тому +2

    Freshen ya drink, guv’na 😂

  • @andrewjones2635
    @andrewjones2635 4 місяці тому +1

    That chip skit broke me

    • @TheVicar
      @TheVicar 4 місяці тому +1

      It was a chips skit

  • @davidr7819
    @davidr7819 4 місяці тому +1

    Mmm. Just had fried eggs and baked beans. Now munching on shortbread with a nice cup of tea. Never thought of myself as a stereotype 😬

  • @bosshog36
    @bosshog36 2 місяці тому

    In most US movie or show, any foreign bad guys are always watching football or its on in the background

  • @demonorb8634
    @demonorb8634 4 місяці тому

    Yes quite 🧐
    Time for a cuppa tea

  • @dar1e
    @dar1e 4 місяці тому

    Crisps skit was amazing

  • @PhillipParr
    @PhillipParr 4 місяці тому +1

    I very much enjoyed the ad for Mysterium, but having researched it I would be concerned to use it.

    • @kirishima638
      @kirishima638 4 місяці тому

      Most of these VPNs are downright dodgy

  • @kikidevine694
    @kikidevine694 4 місяці тому +1

    Black pudding is the ultimate cooked scab

  • @frondulant
    @frondulant 4 місяці тому

    Beautiful. Thank you, sir 😂

  • @ledribbon4819
    @ledribbon4819 4 місяці тому +3

    I spotted you in Bridgerton! Lol

    • @eileenhughes3335
      @eileenhughes3335 4 місяці тому +1

      Sorry - what??

    • @evilcritter
      @evilcritter 4 місяці тому

      ​@eileenhughes3335 He has a part on the first season, I believe.

    • @ledribbon4819
      @ledribbon4819 4 місяці тому +1

      At the 7:34 mark in this video, he shows a screenshot from the part he played.

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 4 місяці тому

    I sat and watched a well known British bass player, have exactly that conversation with a guy in an American steak place.

  • @janetaylor-powell
    @janetaylor-powell 4 місяці тому

    “Different ideas and accents and approaches to life”… I think you missed out “languages” 😂 Siwmae, cariad, o gymru ✌🏾❣️

  • @cathyward698
    @cathyward698 4 місяці тому +1

    British humor is top-tier and I’ll die on that hill.

    • @consideredwhisper
      @consideredwhisper 4 місяці тому +1

      And we spell it ‘humour’. Also Northern English humour is most often blacker and funnier than the South. Nobody in the South West actually has a sense of humour - particularly one which uses irony, rather like the Americans who don’t seem to get irony at all. Exceptions may apply…

    • @peterrenn6341
      @peterrenn6341 4 місяці тому

      @@consideredwhisperAmerican irony does exist. It’s generally very subtle and clever. I’m English (so I have a sense of fair play ;-) and I enjoy a bit of Yank-bashing as much as the next bloke, but the “Americans don’t get irony” myth is unfair.

  • @squiremuldoon5462
    @squiremuldoon5462 4 місяці тому

    I love Brit humor and Brit music , the food you can keep though.

  • @duncanparsons
    @duncanparsons 4 місяці тому +1

    ah. Aluminium. Alas. The Americans are historically accurate on this..
    When Humphry Davy was extending the research on the element freshly extracted from Alum Salts, in his submission he suggested calling it "Aluminum". However an anonymous letter to the Quarterly Review suggested is sounded insufficiently "Classical" and countered with "Aluminium".
    At the time there was no clear leader in the -um/-ium suffix stakes, so this wasn't a particularly reasoned call, just borne out of a feeling of how something should be rather than any coherent narrative. (So much for there having been any real change in the underlying British psyche in the last 200 years..). In the ensuing debate, such as it was, Aluminium was adopted.
    While it appears our cousins across the pond got the initial memo, the update probably sank in some shipping insurance scam.
    The identity of the anonymous letter writer was never found.
    There's probably a mini-series just waiting to be funded about this very subject.

    • @duncanparsons
      @duncanparsons 4 місяці тому +1

      This is why I don't get invited to parties.

  • @spamtes
    @spamtes 4 місяці тому

    @Michael Spicer is there a difference between 'posh' people English and BBC english?
    Also on BBC Radio, why do they whisper whats coming up next ?

  • @EverywhereAndyMorrison
    @EverywhereAndyMorrison 4 місяці тому

    I must admit I was a bit shocked by my first Fray Bentos

  • @Michael-r4h5u
    @Michael-r4h5u 4 місяці тому

    Amazing this the posh royals and chips 😂

  • @freightshayker
    @freightshayker 4 місяці тому

    A proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee cup.
    Unique New York
    Sally sells sea shells by the seashore

    • @Bakers_Doesnt
      @Bakers_Doesnt 4 місяці тому +1

      I thought it was 'a proper cup of coffee, made in a proper copper coffee pot' and "she sells seashells by the sea shore"?
      Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines.
      How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

  • @richardwillson101
    @richardwillson101 4 місяці тому

    This was a great video, thanks 😂
    Us Brits are a strange bunch!
    Although, if somebody asked me what the difference between "chips" and "Fries" were, I wpuld say, chips are tasty fried thick potato strips, and french fries are just an abomination 😢

  • @sargeanthrs
    @sargeanthrs 4 місяці тому

    0:00 "Hello I'm Michael and I'm on a quest to uncover all of the memos..."
    Oh wait wrong channel

  • @heeeeeresrossy
    @heeeeeresrossy 4 місяці тому

    Americans considered Mrs Doubtfire whom very clearly spoke with a Scottish accent, to be from England.
    Enough said!

    • @nicolad8822
      @nicolad8822 4 місяці тому

      She actually said she was at one point.

  • @johnmoorefilm
    @johnmoorefilm 4 місяці тому

    I got that Mysterium thingy…the VAT or whatever…on YOUR recommendation Michael…so, if I have dodgy pictures exposed….looking at you.❤

  • @DrumToTheBassWoop
    @DrumToTheBassWoop 4 місяці тому

    I remember speaking to an American on the PS4, and he thought we all knew the queen personally. 😂

    • @TheVicar
      @TheVicar 4 місяці тому

      Did you never have tea with her?

    • @DrumToTheBassWoop
      @DrumToTheBassWoop 4 місяці тому

      @@TheVicar no, I was uninvited.

  • @AgencyScum
    @AgencyScum 4 місяці тому

    Good God that was informative! It's like Wikepedia on steroids.

  • @baronmeduse
    @baronmeduse 4 місяці тому +1

    Many ways a lot of British people have just assumed the 'bad food' narrative given to them by outsiders. I was once told 'English food is no good' by a Spaniard, who then served me shepherd's pie on a visit. It didn't occur to him that many ordinary dishes are historically common throughout Europe. He also assumed there is no cheesemaking culture and we all eat Kraft singles. Most English people are now ignorant about even their own local specialities, so they seem to accept the equally ignorant outside critic's view.

    • @Bakers_Doesnt
      @Bakers_Doesnt 4 місяці тому +2

      I take the cheesemaking thing personally - Britain has more types of cheese than even France. I've never even heard of Spanish cheese, except manchego.

    • @baronmeduse
      @baronmeduse 4 місяці тому

      @@Bakers_Doesnt That's pretty much the discussion I had with him. When I told him rennet-based hard cheese and 'cheddaring' was an English process, he said 'you think England invented everything!'. This after telling me his culture (Basque) is 3000 years old and how his cuisine is 'the best in the world'. Heavy irony.

    • @Jtking3000
      @Jtking3000 4 місяці тому

      People who say British food is bad haven't been outside the UK. Try living in a completely different country and you'll soon realise 'oh I guess I'll just eat junk food from the local 7/11'.

    • @baronmeduse
      @baronmeduse 4 місяці тому

      @@Jtking3000 I lived in France in the early 2000s and a fair number of people ate low-quality food, especially younger people. They also laboured under the delusion that supermarkets in e.g. the Netherlands (where I am now) must have 'lower quality food' than France, when it's actually very high. And this myth is perpetuated by all kinds of people who pretend France is fed entirely by honest market gardeners like in some 1950s newsreel.

  • @Pegaroo_
    @Pegaroo_ 4 місяці тому

    Liked the british museum bit

  • @ceno10101
    @ceno10101 2 місяці тому

    after hearing the american accent in this video. I can understand his critique of british accents. Where was that guy from!?

  • @BigBenn2014
    @BigBenn2014 4 місяці тому +1

    The smell of piss in English pubs became very apparent when the smoking ban came in.

  • @christopherwhittaker2620
    @christopherwhittaker2620 4 місяці тому

    Many chuckles

  • @tonepoet
    @tonepoet 4 місяці тому

    Love when the American you has conversations with the Brit you. 😂😂