Surprising Differences Between the UK and the USA
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How old was this video Simon ur keep talking about u not having kids. Is this an old video or r u gonna be the next casual crim video 😂😂
Which decoding the unknown episode did you film while drinking the skull crusher? Lol. I want to watch it right ASAP.
Actually monarchy brings in more money in Compared what they take out. Like tourism Specially with Asians and the Americans those 2 demographics love the monarchy. As a huge history buff when the monarchy do they're ceremony they are doing real history in real time not just a historic reenactment I find that very cool. The line for king and country it sounds awesome. if we don't have a monarchy that line will be for Britain it just won't have a same ring to it. That is my opinion why we should keep a monarchy if you disagree with me that's fine. The monarchy is just part of British culture. Reason I think like that is imagine the French still have a monarchy French culture will be way more interesting do you think? Sorry if my comment goes on for a bit longer I am just very passionate about it. Have a good day.
Wine has much more calories than weak cider, ethanol is 7kcal/g so a calss of whine has more calories than a class of Cider
Can you state where you have obtained your information claiming most plastic sent for recycling is actually burned?
I knew a woman from Ireland who had a run-in with customs when she was visiting New York. When the agent asked what she was in the US for, she answered that she was "there for the craic". "Craic" being the Irish word for a good time, and being pronounced like "crack". She met a few agents after that.
My Irish friend once said that too a night club bouncer that we was out for the "craic" 😂 luckily the bouncer saw the funny side 😂
Oops!
I had a similar experience returning to the UK after my first trip abroad. I’d bought my girlfriend a large bottle of duty-free perfume.
When asked by the customs at Dover Harbour if I had anything to declare, I said “well I’ve got some Opium..”
They took my car apart because they thought I was taking the pïss… :)
I was once held up, trying to explain to them I was there for a holiday. They didn't seem to know what that was.
@@dravokivich what we call a holiday they call it a vacation in the US so maybe it was a little lost in translation because they consider holidays like Christmas, Easter time I think 💬🤔
Simon: Youre all rich in America
US: This trip to Wendy's will bankrupt us.
Or McDonalds, or Burger King, or Walmart, or Any Gas Station. Or this internet bill.....
You missed out it was the 7th trip to Wendys that day!
Sorry, fat stereotype joke 😜
Its not a brain blaze without tangents about simons average life behind the scenes love it 😂
IKR!! I feel bad the poor Brits are being forced into areas as small as the violently-imploded Titanic-Sub. Reminds me of the Gilligan Island song,
🎶The weather started getting rough........The tiny sub was crushed...🎶
What?? Too much?? Too soon?? 😞🤣
It’s literally every channel he does. And that’s why I subscribe to so many of his channels 😉 😊
It's a part of all of his shows, I love it everytime 🤣
Tbh I was a fan of this but now I'm sick of hearing about Simons kids.
Nobody cares and if they do I'd probably put them on a watch list or something 😂
His tangents. Are prooooobably why its called brain blaze😂😂😂
Allegedly in everyones opinion😂😂😂😂
I like John Green's desc of the coronation the best: "This weekend, I watched an elderly man receive a fancy hat"
Jam and jelly are different things. Its not the same thing by a different name. Jelly is made using strained fruit with no actual fruit in the final product. Jam is made by mashing the fruit.
Exactly. 100% correct
They are often conflated despite being different, like yams and sweet potatoes
I didn’t know that 😮thanks
Don't leave out the Brit's marmalade or we'll never hear the end of it. Some of it tastes nasty. Marmalade is citrus preserves, adding the inner part of the citrus-rind and sometimes tastes like it was strained through dirty-socks. Brits probably think the same about our Apple-Butter. 😆
Apple butter.
Simon, there are exactly 3 things i watch Brain Blaze for:
1: Danny's intros.
2: Sam's memes.
3: Your tangents.
Not saying i dont like any of the other writers, i love all of you, but danny's intros are the stuff of legend at this point.
Yes, hopefully, the Basement is secure enough NONE of them ever escape!!
Simon talking shit about American coffee while hyping up the NESPRESSO of all things had me dead
Me as well and if I have to choose between a cup of filter coffee from my trusted Melitta machine and Nespresso, I know excatly what cup i drink and it wont be the capsule with the burned taste ..I love a normal filter coffee because the temperature is always correct you make it as strong as you like and its absolutely affordable compared to the overpriser capsules..
The pods he referred to are ESE pods that are used in an espresso machine. There is an adapter for the espresso machine to use the ESE pods
Do you think his head will explode when he discovers that Nespresso is just the powdered crap that's used in the US 'espresso' machines that go whirrr?
It’s not like filter coffee is even inherently bad. I mean, it’s basically just an automated pour over and results will vary by quality of coffee and machine. I think it’s just that for a lot of people it conjures images of diner coffee or similar, where it started bad and then was left on a hot plate until the only remaining flavours are ash and regret.
It was also weird to hear at attempt to distinguish between espresso and third wave specialty coffee. As if the latter is not just people being pickier about what beans they use for the former (or other brewing method of choice). I suspect there is an element of erroneously conflating “specialty” with light roast. But a darker roasted specialty coffee definitely tastes like “coffee” if that is the preferred option.
Just grind your beans right before you brew. Best drip-coffee ever. Get nice, oily beans. Columbian, or Brazillian peaberry. Deep flavor, low bitterness/acid.
As for instant.... crystals are blegh. Get folgers fast-breaks or starbucks VIA. Those are micro-grinds.
Not freeze dried coffee, but real coffee ground so fine it dissolves in water.
They have one benefit not available with *any* other coffee style.
You can have fresh-brewed coffee ice cream.
Just mix your microgrind with a spoon of sugar, and add a couple spoons of hot water, to make a syrup.
Then put it in a milkshake, or blend it into ice cream.
Its not a cup of coffee, so it doesn't water the cream down and make it too icy. And its not stale, cold coffee, which makes your ice cream taste of pencil-lead. Its fresh-brewed.
It makes an ice cream or milkshake that tastes exactly like a coffee shop smells.
If any of you remember the starbucks ice cream pints they sold in stores that were better than any coffee ice cream you'd ever had, this is what they did to get it so coffee-ey.
I have a Japanese credit card and they put your picture on the back of the card. Many years back, when visiting the US, the cashier asked for a photo ID. I politely said it's on the back of the card. The expression on her face was absolutely classic!!!
Norwegian debit cards also has picture, but they are moving away from it. Probably to stop people using them a photo ID.
Iirc, American Express does this as well; I remember working retail for a bit and seeing cards like that.
@@magnemoe1Yeah new ones don't have it anymore. It's because we can now use the national ID cards that are using the same standards as the ones of the EU countries. So no passport needed anymore when going to the EU.
Bank of America was offering pictures on their credit cards for a while. Not sure if they still do.
The cigarette one reminds of when my Dutch mother visited me in (also) Newcastle and wanted to buy tobacco. In Dutch that's called shag. I still laugh when I remember the face of the poor boy behind the counter when she asked for that. 😂
A proper tobacconist would know what she meant. Local papershop, not so much.
well shag isn't really pronounced the way it's written though is it? At least here in the south of the Netherlands it's pronounced more like check then shag so with a inhale at the end instead of a exhale
@@Paragon643 true, but not if you make it sound English, like my mother did.
There used to be a proper tobacconist in Dartmouth & when I used to smoke a half ounce of Dartmouth Light Shag was a real treat!
Thank God she didn't ask him to direct her to the railway station.
I can't afford to purch the merch, I can't afford Patreon. But I don't skip through the your ads and I always watch till the very end. Thanks for continuing to make excellent content across all your half a million channels.
This is my favorite channel of yours Simon, I love how open you are about UA-cam as a business etc. It’s nice having a UA-camr who doesn’t lie about sponsors and such 😊
I feel like I heard more about Simon's life and thoughts and things than differences between the US and UK, I really enjoyed this video lol
Here's another difference: Dave went to Florida and asked for _a bus timetable._
Public transit. In Florida.
Wonder if he actually got to go someplace or it was just a 3 hour tour to nowhere.
@@mon573r6 it was another Brit speaking to the American at the desk 😄
@@es68951hmm. Okay. Not sure why I thought he was specifically saying an American said that, I guess he didn't necessarily..
I was sitting in a bar in Belize in 1985. Being 18 i was not wordly at all. Sitting next to me was 3 or 4 Brits. One of asked me for a fag and i nearly fell off my stool. I'm from Kentucky so we were enjoying each others accents. It was a great time.
Simon: complains about instant coffee and shitty American Folgers
Also Simon: drinks Nespresso and refers to it as 'real coffee' 💀
Simon should do a UA-cam search for “James Hoffman tries every nespresso pod” 😂
@@egauci1 I thought of that video too!! Poor James! That was a hard watch. XD
Nespresso was some of the worst coffee I've ever had, it was a pod that had been used already which will definitely affect it but I've never had any other preused grounds be anywhere near as bad
I only use instant coffee as an extreme energy drink, dump several spoonfuls into a mug of hot water had several spoonfuls of sugar and a splash of creamer for form and hold your breath while you chug it down and hope it stays down.
@@omgandwtf1 Instant coffee is great as a flavoring agent in other recipes ( I use it to make coffee-flavored ice cream ) but as a beverage on its own i't's pretty "yeugh."
I would love to travel around the world with Simon and have him do all the talking at airports, hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and shops in order to see what kind of trouble he could get into.
We call cloudy apple juice cider in the US because of prohibition. Before that we did the same thing as you, cloudy apple juice was just that and hard cider was just cider. if I remember correctly, it was a marketing ploy to change the name of cloudy apple juice to cider and once prohibition was lifted actual cider became known as "hard cider"
Honestly cider does sound much better than cloudy apple juice. The latter is not a particularly appetizing name. Adding cloudy to any liquid makes it seem impure or dirty. Also cloudy itself generally has a negative connotation. And Adding hard as a descriptor is readily understandable, adds some macho/adult appeal.
I also have never drank any plain cloudy apple juice; it's usually mashed and unfiltered and not from concentrate, then stored in big glass jugs and boiled with packets of spices for mulling; it's just not allowed to ferment.
Since I'm unable to drink alcohol, I (along with the little 'uns) appreciate fall cider very much so I can feel included.
"Hard" is included because it's no longer a "soft drink" (like a soda pop or beer with a very low volume of alcohol) when a certain amount of alcohol is involved. Hard vs. soft literally just means alcoholic vs. nonalcoholic.
Hard cider also has a TON of sugar added so it can ferment into alcoholic carbohydrates, whereas soft cider is just juice and apple mash with seasonal spices and is much more palatable.
I love the Whistler-Verse, Simon can be so serious and straight and come across as professional on the other channels, and then here spends half the video talking nonsense and wandering off on massive tangents (What IS the record intro length by the way...) It makes the Blaze so much fun.
It had to be when Danny first started to troll him via the intro. Simon complained about it so there's a series of episodes with super long irrelevant ones.
Don't forget all the swearing that we never hear on his more "professional" channels! 😄
I’m sorry there’s something about this episode that troubles me, Dave is allowed outside of Simon’s basement?!
It happened in his head 😂
This is a simulation. Reality is we are all in Simon's basement.
Once in a while Simon pus a tracker on his writers and allows them out, but only one at a time. Thank you Y2K for implanting the little trackers.
It’s Danny in the basement. What, you think he keeps his whole stable of writers down there? What kind of monster do you think he is?
@@baalzeebub4230He's Simon Whistler, back when the channel was called Business Blaze he made it known that he was very into capitalism
The toasted cheese sandwich maker thing reminds me of my own habits with my deep fryer. I tend to keep it stored nearly year round, but every once in a while, I'll pull it out, fill it with oil and binge on deep fried foods for a couple weeks since the oil can be reused several times. Then I reluctantly empty and clean it, which is always a pain, and store it in a cupboard for another year.
You need to put a shirt on your website that says “Fascinating tangent Simon, let’s carry on” because I live for your tangents! They make me laugh every single time you start one! Love you work! 😊
I would buy that shirt!
@@Zulimi2 I been waiting for them to make them so I could buy them!
I’m waiting for that and the CasCrim journal with the rules on the first couple pages! “Rule No. 1: DON’T write down your crimes!”
His tangents are how my brain thinks
I've never seen a percolator in the US. Drip coffee machines were pretty common even when I was a kid. And yes, I do own a proper espresso machine.
They were pretty common when I was growing up. I lived in an area with lots of Hispanics and Italians, every household had one.
yeah, percolators are pretty rare, and usually the reason the coffee from them is bad is the people who use percolators tend to also be stingy with the coffee grounds.
we use percolators when we go camping, it’s just really easy, throw some grounds in the basket and boil it
is it good? no, no it’s not
is it coffee? technically, yes
does it wake you up? also, yes
They are pretty common where I live in the States 🤷♀️
Watching Simon is just a PSA for Attention Deficit Disorder. 😆😆😆 I'm here for every moment of it. Rant away, Fact Boy. ❤
1:08 Simon saying... "... because this is like, safe... its... its... safe, like..." leads me to believe its not safe!
If I'm honest, I think the reason we watch this is because of Sam's edits Danny's absolute banger writing. And all of your tangents.
Together they form a trident of unstoppable power.
Dave wrote this one though
Simon said something at the beginning of the video about not being smart, that's true to an extent. He's extremely smart business wise and with viewer engagement.
I think a lot of us watch Simon because he's like a regular guy learning things and going off on tangents. His new videos vs his almost 10 year old toptenz videos are night and day difference in production, writing and humor quality.
I do miss the script slaps of the Business Blaze era. The constant inside jokes. It's still a good channel, bu it's not as lively as it once was.
@@FuhQueGaming The beard AI hadn't taken over back then.
Fun fact I used to sell coffee machines. The nespresso machines are real coffee that brews inside the aluminum pod which is why it tastes richer. Keurig (or pod machines) typically contain some form of instant or semi instant coffee. That’s why nespresso is better than keurig. I will say a proper espresso machine is better than a nespresso machine and a proper coffee pot is far superior than a keurig. Personally I have a nespresso, a keurig and a coffee pot, but when I have spare time the French press or the cold brew pot is my go to. Significantly cheaper than nespresso or a proper pot as well.
I will say I do have instant coffee with me when I go hiking
1:20 - Mid roll ads
3:05 - Back to the video
4:15 - Chapter 1 - Slang terminology
8:15 - Chapter 2 - Coffee
14:45 - Chapter 3 - Financial transactions
22:15 - Chapter 4 - The monarchy
27:20 - Chapter 5 - Plastic waste
You should start adding in the tangents
You my friend are a legend!
@@alreadyded3709🤣😜👏👏👏👏!!!!! Dead set, I had come here to list tangents 😊. 🤣🤪
@alreadyded3709 sheesh, that's a big ask. They'd have to timestamp every 3 seconds.
Fist sentence of script
Simon tangent
Simon tangent within a tangent
Simon gets back to original tangent
Second sentence of script
If Simon wanted to add time stamps, he'd do so. With that said... I do agree with alreadyded3709! Those tangents need to be pointed out!!! Good luck with posting them! 😂🤣🤪
My favorite thing about Simon is his honesty…. If it’s safe it equals MONEY. Nothing but respect ✊
I've been an American longer than Simon has been alive and the only time I've seen a percolator in person was when we cleaned out my dead grandfather's storage unit. Everyone I know seems to have a drip coffee machine and a pod machine. If anyone offered me instant coffee I would be compelled to slap them. Car seats, am I right Peter!?!
We have a drip maker, a French press, an espresso machine, and a percolator. If the power goes out, which is sometimes does, I still want my coffee, and we’ve got a fireplace. The pod machines should be banned, to be honest, for how much plastic waste they produce. People need to stop being so goddamned lazy. Get a mesh reusable filter, toss a cop of water in your drip machine, add the grounds, and you’re golden.
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandriaor get a pod machine and a reusable pod so you're waste is cut down to the giant tin the coffee comes in. On top of that you'll never have any coffee to dump or that needs reheating.
@@joeycampbell940 Is it really that hard for people to only put enough grounds and water in a coffee machine to make just as much as they want? You can make a single cup in a coffee pot. You can also make two cups, half a pot, or a whole, with one machine. Why buy a coffee pot AND a pointless pod machine? Double the space taken up, money wasted, because it’s…too hard to figure out how to measure? If you can’t figure out how to measure grounds and water, that’s a reflection of your critical thinking skills, not an indication that coffee-drinkers should be buying pod machines. You’ve fallen for marketing. It’s truly stunning how many people are literally incapable of figuring out something that was commonly done when people were smarter.
Yep. After affordable Mr. Coffee knockoffs hit the market, the percolator's demise was pretty rapid.
I tend to associate the pod machines with younger millennial and older zoomers. Sort of the same with doordash and ubereats. I think they're just more convenience focused. Trying to get my kid to do anything that doesn't have an instant payoff is like trying to pull teeth from a crocodile. Can't even get him to learn to cook, it's just frozen puzza and canned soup or delivery.
"You can afford it America, you're all rich."
*Me ironically laughing while wondering if I can afford to eat out this weekend with my friend's*
For real!
You pronounced "respite" correctly the first time.
I also fed my mother's partner Skullcrusher coffee and I was banned from buying him coffee ever again.
@@chaoticneutral6288 just go for desthwish or devil mountain then, deathwish has like 2x the skull crusher from what I'm seeing online and is one of the smoothest coffees I've had, even the dark roast isn't overly bitter. The devil mountain has twice as much again as the deathwish at like 1555mg/cup, 2 cups of that stuff and you're vibrating like nothing else lol
@noodlelynoodle7052 that sounds awful. What a shitty drug.
@@mattdouplesx it's pretty delicious and when you have a caffeine tolerance it's so much easier to just make one cup of strong coffee than drinking like 6 cups throughout the day. It's honestly one of the least harmful drugs even out of the legal ones, like I'd love to do stronger stimulants like meth but those are actual shitty drugs for long-term use, caffeine just makes ya a bit more tired and have a slight headache for some people if they don't have it
I use a french press for my coffee. This allows for making coffee as a proper infusion, like you do with tea. Almost impossible to screw up.
The coffee rant. Love it Simon. Don't change.
As someone from the US, I've never seen a percolator in use. Most of the US also discovered that percolators are horrible things that over extract like crazy. Unless someone is still using a percolator from the old days, most people from where I lived use drip filter coffee pots or pod machines, Keurig or Nescafe. I use either a pour over (Hario V60) and an aeropress for the most part. But I am a snobby snob who grinds my beans per cup and tries to get nice beans. All hail coffee and coca-cola.
I use a vintage percolator sometimes, usually when it's all I've got though. I recently got a French press though, it's much better. But my favorite is my Aeropress, that thing is freaking awesome. I just need to get another steel filter, I lost my old one. It pairs well with my ceramic burr hand crank grinder, especially when camping. Eventually I'll probably get a 12v kettle too, and up my road trip coffee game instead of relying on gas stations to clean their coffee machines regularly lol.
Yup also a snobby snob here! Weigh out 20g of beans and 300g of water and time it. Stepless grinder to accommodate different grinds for my different coffee toys. V60 and French press (cafetier) are my personal favorites! But I am neither from UK or USA, I am from South Africa where instant is definitely the most common method of making "coffee"😢
@@TimKapow i only use 29 grams for an entire pot of 12 5 oz cups! I use good beans, but I dont know how anyone can drink coffee as strong as your's.
Also, some people (myself and my parents included) just went to inexpensive espresso machines and french press. I think the only thing keeping drip machines in common use is brewing a whole pot on a timer for the next morning. Which assumes you aren't gonna care about how stale the grounds are gonna be and that margin is narrowing vs pod machines.
I can see a whole pile of moka pot users coming to the attack pretty soon.
I went to the UK as a WOOFer (like, traveling/working for bed and board) and it was a sad surprise to learn that the “sheep and cider farm” I was staying at only produced alcoholic cider, and let’s just say the sheep were for something other than wool 😭
Well that is just sus
@@seiyuokamihimura5082They mean for food. I hope.
We support you simon, cover stuff as many times as you want, its YOU and YOUR tangents that make this channel brilliant.
I could listen to Simon rant about any given topic for hours at a time.
I live in Canada. It is interesting to me how we do some things like Americans, and others like the British. I personally would never let anyone in a restaurant walk away to swipe my credit card, but we used to proc🎉ess payments that way in restaurants. If you were to shop in a store in Canada using a British or American card, you would most likely need to sign on the receipt.
American card? Yes. Any country with chip and pin (not chip and SIGN looking at you USA) it will be a regular insert + pin or tap.
Source : I work at a university in Canada and we have a lot of not-canadian students.
In most US restaurants, you either have to let the waiter walk away with your card or carry enough cash to pay for your meal & tip in cash. Both of these are annoying options, & I can't WAIT for it to change!
Blows my mind that tap to pay isn't as common in America as it is here, I thought they would've adopted it first
@@ghost_curse Tap to pay is very common in America, just specifically not in restaurants. Most restaurants are still rocking POS systems with Windows XP, though. Or they don't have wireless units to bring to the tables.
@@jessicazaytsoff1494 Chip & sign? That sounds like intentionally modernising the least important half whilst retaining the worst aspect of the old.
I'm a Yank and I live in a historical city, Charleston, SC and along the Carolina/Atlantic Coast, there is a popular form of Beach Music and the dance associated with it is called "shag" or "shagging". So imagine my amusement when a couple with a Manchester accent (I have an Aunt Helen and Uncle Charles in Manchester, UK) just ahead of me saw a sign advertising lessons in that form of dance at $25/hour 19.6P/hour. "How the hell does one teach THAT?" the wife said...I chimed in, "Oh, it's lovely. There's anywhere from 10-25 couples and there's a live band which influences whether it's slow shagging or rather high-spirited shagging and it builds to a climax around the last call for drink orders."
In the US most people think of non-alcoholic apple cider if you say cider.
What you need to understand about the Second Amendment is that it is the means for the preservation of the First Amendment. Our basic protections, from the government, are outlined in the First Amendment, and then the Second is how we insist upon those protections, from the government. It exists precisely so that we can tell the federal government no. And insist upon that no. It is the means for guaranteeing the ability to overthrow the government if that need should arise. It's not about self-defense or hunting. It's precisely about protecting your liberties from the entity which can take them away the most easily. The right to bear arms is the most fundamental basis for the defense of liberty.
And at least half of us voted for Trump.
And while I might be an ultramontane monarchist looking at those Hanoverians as the imposters that they are and desirous of seeing a Stuart (my own kin) back on the throne, you are correct in that any Americans who are interested in the royal family do so from a position of reality show interest rather than any desire to be subservient to a monarch.
Simon: Why don't you just have espresso machines at home like normal people. You can afford it America you're all rich.
Me: ~Laughing in cold brew~
I love cold brew. The 2 local coffee chains in my state have glass growlers you can refill.
I prefer drinking cold brew to regular coffee now. I also love instant coffee, but that's because I'm the only one in the house that drinks coffee.
Imagine getting mad at a car rental company for not knowing how to put in car seats for YOUR OWN CHILDREN.
Watching for the actual content: yeah sure maybe.
Watching for Simon's Tangents and Rants: Yeah absolutely 💯
Toasted cheese.... MAKER?!
I immediately looked this up and sent pictures to my spouse, telling them to get me this as my next gift. I want this!
As to paper straws: straw manufacturers could take notes from early Conway Stewart fountain pens and make them from casein. A milk based plastic that ultimately dissoves with wet. Day or more, so they would still work for drinks with great success, IMO, yet completely degrade in landfills or even the ocean.
They would need to put warning labels on them due to the number of people who are allergic to casein.
Holy crap he actually didn't finish his story. I had forgotten what started the tangent & thought that was the story. Double layer tangent. 😂
Simon's spot on about the plastic waste thing. China makes an insane amount of it, but the numbers just never get tracked. Like on an industrial scale they throw plastic in the ocean. It's crazy.
We should send Saint Greta there to lecture them. I'm sure it'll go down really well!
I think that depends on the individual somewhat, for my brother's household produces more plastic waste in a day than mine would in a week. But generally speaking the amount of plastic packaging is insane.
@@pakde8002 I'm talking about nationwide production. China has both consumer markets and an extremely large production industry, and I've heard it's unreal how much plastic washes down their rivers into the ocean.
Not saying other countries shouldn't curb their use too, but the fact that the US and UK appear to be the top two according to this video is accounting for BOTH their usage/waste and their willingness to document it. Many countries don't have environmental controls that require strict documentation.
I know I am in Canada, but I am sure the US is the same . Percolators haven't been common since about the 70s. Drip coffee makers are the most common but Keurig machines are popular as well
I love it when Simon says in his very British accent, "You better check yourself, before you wreck yourself."
🧑🍳😙👌
In Australia coffee from a Cafe or a restaurant or any food place is always from the bean.
But we do sell a lot of instand for the home. Probably 3/5 is instant at the shops.
thank you for continuing to do the videos... i feel like i've lost a lot of youtubers to bans or AI so it's nice to still have Simon's soothing personality to hang on to in these troubling times.
Australian/Italian here….. watching the Americans and Brit’s argue over who has better coffee is hilarious.
American here and I prefer Cuban lol
21:52 it’s absolutely wild to me to hear that this system has been in place in the UK for so long! My friend did a semester abroad in London in 2012 and they literally had a limited amount of internet hours or something AVAILABLE for them to use each week, didn’t have wifi they could access at cafes or anything without using up their internet time, and I remember being shocked even back in 2008 when I went to a hotel in Australia and the hotel didn’t have wifi even as a pay option. But you’re apparently out here popping in chips & with wireless pay machines since 2006?? Why is your technology usage so inconsistent???
wonder if it's anything to do with that unlike bank cards internet access is still considered a luxury not a necessity.
can't say i had a limit on usage when i was in college a few years ago, which was so slow it felt like 2g, but i don't doubt it varies from place to place
Was the limited internet on their phone? Because if it was it sounds like they just had a rather low data usage phone contract (not sure if phone contracts work the same in the States but you choose a plan and that gives you either unlimited calls/texts/internet or a certain amount each month. Generally the cheaper it is the less usage you get). Otherwise I’ve never even heard of an internet limit and I’ve lived in the UK my phone life. 🤔
Know idea what she had,but always been open Wi-Fi to connect with. Or can pay hourly,daily etc
I think it had to do with only being allowed a certain amount of data rather than time, actually? But it was 11 years ago, who knows at this point lol I might have misunderstood.
Definitely the case in Australia, though- I had to go to an Internet cafe to get online, and there turned out to be one very close by. I don’t think those even existed in the US back then- if people didn’t have internet access, I think they mostly went to the library.
American's are all rich? Can I take that to the bank? I was unaware
22:48 monarchy is annoying tbh. I’m with Simon to a degree. I think we should de-class them, slowly remove their stipends until they can support themselves, or at least stop supporting anyone who wouldn’t qualify for universal credit/pension stuff.
If thousands of people are hungry and desperate for rent, electric and gas money on universal credit, what on earth are we doing propping up a family with ridiculous wealth and status, as well as enough estates to run their own council housing project?!
I am guessing you are not aware that in the US "coffee" and "espresso" are NOT the same thing - not by a long way. Also, do not blame us for Starbucks. It was a huge thing back in the nineties, but (here is some UK slang from a Yank for you to laugh at) it eventually became the home of wealthy, arrogant slags and tossers. ;-) I always go to a locally owned, non-asshat coffee bar where the coffee is actually *good* and the prices are not a means to show off your social exclusivity. The last time I was in a Starbucks was in 2009, and I just went in to use the toilet. Ciao, Brain Boy.
i hand grind my own coffee with a Japanese grinder everyone morning because i’m that person.
Me too !😀
@@chaoticneutral6288 Quote :- " One of us, one of us" - - - Tod Browning film, " Freaks" 1932
I can't force myself to get up early enough to have breakfast. That's not happening for me lol.
@@antidotebrain69 i’m a terrible morning person!
Work in retail and used to work in fast food in the US, re the mag strip: there may be smaller businesses that haven't enabled the chip system on their card readers for whatever reason, and there have been times when I was ringing out customers where the chip just *did not* like our reader, so we had to resort to running the mag strip through to get it to work.
I feel so lucky that regardless of whom is writing I’m excited, because it’s always one of a very select few incredible writers, and Sam is a legend too! OGBB FTW! 🎉
13:48 Sure, instant coffee has a bad rep in America, but we also don't purchase it because it's tucked away in a store (usually on the top shelf) hidden away on a giant wall of other coffee options.
Simon, you are grossly underestimating the poverty in the United States. While growing up my mother had a percolator until it died because she was a single parent working at a fast food joint trying to support her kids. When she got a coffee maker it was the lowest price one at Walmart on sale. 🤦♀️ also the quality of the coffee is why whatever you had tasted like donkey bottom instead of coffee from the percolator. It’s not the fault of the percolator. Maybe you should do a tifo video on the rise coffee makers.
Simon, who makes videos on UA-cam for a living, didn't think to pull up a UA-cam video on how to properly install a car seat? Somehow I'm not surprised lmao 😂
If a government fail to update laws to move with the times then the law should be interpreted based on the definition at the time, so anyone carrying anything other than musket or whatever else was around at the time, would be breaking the law.
Yes!!! As an American I've screamed this.
Agreed. They didn’t have the shit we have today, so obviously didn’t mean mass-murder weapons.
Yall are ridiculous. I mean to say, it's really interesting how you trust the government to take care of you like children. Now let's get rid of rhaynpesky free speech too. That's obviously absurd, we need to censor and censure people for the words they utter....
Ah my ridiculous liberal friends. Your years in the land of milk and honey have made you soft.
Then, get off the internet because it wasn't around at the time.
We have nespresso and now between 3 of us drinking 3-4 a day, it costs about $350-400 a month for our obsession with Nespresso. Thanks to my brother for buying us a machine and costing us a shit ton now. 😂
Omg, so the credit card chip thing. It lead to a massive problem for me before American cards started getting them. I was visiting a friend in London and was going to take the tube to his house from the airport but the ticket machine only took chipped cards and there was no teller or any other way to purchase a pass. I ended up having to take a taxi which really hurt the budget :😅
Last time I was in London, I couldn’t pay for the bus because they didn’t take money and only used those tappy cards, which I didn’t have yet. The driver was a crabby ass who didn’t tell me about some sort of something or other…just…British bus drivers were some of the rudest people I’ve met in Europe.
Sorry Simon but all Americans are definitely NOT rich! Btw we do have Espresso machines and The various Nespresso machines and NUMEROUS different types of coffee makers. I mean honestly we have access to any type of coffee maker anywhere in the world; via online ordering. 🧐 I don't know many people that still use Percolators.
Hey buddy you gonna insult us some more in this one? Haha
I would be glad to! Simon would too!
Trust an American to ask that question first instead of just watching the video and finding out without having to say anything
Just messing around, in one of his recent videos he slyly got a dig in on us towards the end of the vid
@@CtheBernwickleIf you had anything to say it might be worth hearing. Fact is nobody's dreaming about getting inside your borders except angry Americans who don't know what they have. Yet everybody wants to be America even when they talk crap. Small dogs always bark haha
@@godwarrior3403 lol I am American bro, all I’ll tell you, I’d insult you just for the American pleasure of doing so, but the reality is that Americans do yes have more freedom that a lot of the world, the problem is that no ammount of freedom will ever be enough for everyone that said, as long as there is politics and a group of corrupt idiots running a country, it’s never really free. That also said.. at least America doesn’t worship a geriatric old man from a heritage that should have long died out, and has no place making any sort of decisions for a populous.. *looks at Biden on tv*.. oh crap..
Ironically, Nespresso is looked down on here in the Ststaes. Everywhere I've ever lived in the US considers it as bad a freeze dried coffee instant coffee.
I have a grinder, a french press, and an industrial Keurig machine. I can use the press or grind and use the Keurig in mesh cups. While I do not need actual espresso with steamed skim milk and all, this works well for me and it is strong and tastes as good as the best coffees you can buy on the go.
One day we need a compilation of all of Simon's rants.
For anyone curious, Republican in the UK is fairly different from Republican in the US.
When i went to europe i was slightly thrown off by the charge for a plastic bag in Wales but the person at the counter was nice about explaining it probably having dealt with tourists a ton of times. I had no issues with the extra few pence to get the bag, I think it's a good idea to help discourage the plastic bags use and I also knew i was going to continue to stuff that bag full of random crap as i was on my trip, to the point it was almost torn/broken by the time i got home.
They add a 5 cent tax for bags here and they only have paper bags unless it's for produce or meat for some reason in which case those are free. Honestly I'd rather still have plastic bags as an option even if I had to pay like 25 cents per bag, paper bags are nearly impossible to carry a significant number of at a time whereas with plastic I can fit as many as I can physically lift. Also paper bags rip much more easily due to heavy things. Sure you can bring a reusable bag but that requires planning and remembering to bring them or if you keep them in your car remembering to put them there after you unpack your groceries and frankly that's all far more effort than I can be bothered with.
If it was "a bag for life" you can get a free replacement at the shop you brought it from,for life
Differences between US & UK: "This topic is safe"
3 minutes in: "women can be flight attendants it's 2023." 💀
This channel is uniquely full of unabashed discrimination, self-awareness, and empathy.
As an American I have a keurig and a fancy latte maker so I use the keurig for black tea and the other one for chai lattes.
I still find it hilarious that my social studies class last year was dead silent until the day someone shouted out in the middle of class the queen is dead and suddenly everyone started talking to each other for the rest of the year
Keurigs are horrid for the environment. The amount of waste the produce should come with penalties for people who buy those pods.
There are differences between the US and the UK, and regardless of how surprising the difference (ranging from “very” to “not at all”), Captain Oblivious (known on this channel as ‘Simon’) will always be blistering unaware of most of it.
“White wine comes in cans?”
As an American, I was worried when I got a replacement card that DIDN'T have a spot to sign in the back. I spent 10 minutes looking for a field they no longer deemed neecessary 😅
As a brit we literally just tap the card against the machine for up to £100 now 😂 I haven’t signed a receipt in like twenty years 😂
My card is metal, has my name on it, a chip, and a stripe. No numbers. It’s also metal. My credit union card has Bigfoot riding a unicorn while carrying a light saber through the forest.
Simon: I won't FEED MY CHILDREN baby formula but you can take my Nespresso from my COLD DEAD HANDS." 😂😂😂
27:43 Love Simon's rant about the paper straws. One of the most useless, counterproductive things that were invented.
I hate the paper straws when I visited the UK back in 2019.
Plus, the soda cans were super small.
Either drink it without a straw or use a metal one if paper is too complicated.
Holy shit, I'm not a class warrior or anything, but simon, your take on coffee is THE MOST upper middle class thing I've ever heard, and I'm here for it 🤣
Funny Boi!
Absolutely FUCK enterprise car rental. I was driving across states and a bird of some sort flew up from the road and hit my car windshield. I contacted them and they sent a tow truck to come pick up the car. Everything was fine until they left me in the middle of nowhere at a gas station for literally a 8+ hours. entire time I am calling them and explained what was going on to 4 different people. Escalated up the chain for them to get me a taxi to bring me to a HOTEL. Not even another enterprise to get another car. Then I had to pay out of pocket for the hotel that THEY basically forced me to get for the night. Then they refused to refund the hotel payment for the night. The next day I had to walk 7 miles to the enterprise chain in the area. I could not afford an uber now that I spent all extra funds on the hotel room for the night. I get to the enterprise and they have a car for me there, everything went smooth the people were friendly. THIS ISNT EVEN THE END. They ended up sending me a bill for 600$ of damage to the car which I had the insurance coverage. I argued and eventually had to pay the $600. After they stranded me in the middle of nowhere for 8+ hours and forced me to pay for a hotel. Then on top charged me full price for the damages. I'm sure I am missing some small details here.
In America we use K cups because we love to destroy the environment. Also, when looking for a good cup of coffee, we will turn to the French. (French Roast etc.) When looking for a good cup of tea, we will turn to the British. 😎 9:18
Dave needs to write a comparison between poor life of the US and UK in 1880s: who had it worst? Dickens' Tiny Tim or the streetrats of NYC/Boston/Wild West?
WRT the cards: it's because we do one thing that Europe doesn't: our debit cards have a credit card backing on them so we can use them online and whatnot. You don't need to have a credit card in the US to function. That particular feature is hit or miss outside the US. And all of our cards have touchless/RFID/chips these days.
Simon, did you know that every piece of plastic that was ever made, still exists somewhere on this Earth today? I think of this all the time, especially when I'm drinking through a single-use plastic straw.
I’ve never seen a bag of apples individually wrapped in plastic within the plastic bag they all come in.
Maybe I’m just poor and get apples that run against one another and can’t afford the bougie, individually wrapped apples.
A word to the wise: on an airplane in flight, both the coffee & the tea are made with tap water, which comes from the airplane's water tanks. If you want coffee, buy it in the terminal; if you need a caffeine boost during the flight, ask for a Coke or Pepsi. Not drinking tap water on flights is a well-documented no-no.
The reason credit cards still have a magnetic strip is generally incase the chip breaks. People with particular habits you sometimes refer to ❄️ will damage the chip from time to time rendering the chip useless, it allows payments to still be made until a replacement card arrives. Handily it’s a habit a lot of people in the banking industry seem fond of 😂
I think it's funny when people from other countries think they all Americans are rich if that was true I wouldn't be living paycheck-to-paycheck in a studio what's the size of a small run-down hotel room
I made friends with some Irish folks on Cape Cod. 2 Brothers and a sister. One day I tell one of the brothers that I was going to a convenience store and he asks me to pick him up a 'pack of fags'. This was the late 90s and these are the first people from that area that I have hung out with since I was a little kid. My response was a mixture of confusion and thinking he might be talking shit or something. His brother came to our rescue right quick, telling me that he had meant cigarettes. Partied my ass off that summer on the Cape (as one does when one spends the summer there). A lot of drinking with that family. (the three of them were there all summer, a working vacation... I think they ended up staying in the area for awhile after that as well. good people)
Interesting tangent. If the US used the UK's inheritance rules, as they were at the times of each inheritance, with Geroge Washington as the first King, the current US King would be Robert E Lee IV, great grandson of Confererate general Robert E Lee.
Wow, in America, the bank/card issuer is insured and always pays out fraud... even if I accedently put my card somewhere, they pay me back if I did not use it.
American here. I have a Nespresso machine, and holy crap is that the best tasting coffee ever. There are some flavors I don't care for, but it's because I don't like that flavor, not that the flavor is crap. Never had a weak cup, either.
American coffee drinker here. We have two distinct coffee cultures here. There is the shitty pot coffee machine or the pod machine. Then there is the nice coffee, hand brew camp. I prefer the latter and usually grind and make coffee by hand every morning but coffee is coffee in my opinion and as long as it’s hot and brown, I’ll take it.
David Mitchell and Simon are a lot a like, Simon tangents and David's angry logic is funny as f... to watch.
Also Simon, the US constitution doesn't mention guns. It says "arms" There has never been a point ever in US history where you have not been able to own a cannon, although more modern breechloading ones are kind of a bitch to get a hold of.
I love how Americans are all rich I’m poor and percolators are awesome and I don’t even like coffee I like espresso, but my grandfather’s percolator from Italy was dope
As a Canadian living near the boarder, born of English parents... I live on the fine line of this whole video.... but yeah, we have instant coffee bc tea is better
I will say this about the card being taken from you thing. I work in computer security and let me tell you that it's almost as easy to steal your card information from a machine at the table as it is to just copy it down behind your back. There are multiple legally available options to either add to the card reader itself, that will take you information or, and to me more scary, that can read that information wirelessly from somewhere close by. I personally am scared more of someone I don't know stealing my information while a wireless device is running my card, than I am someone at the restaurant making a poor attempt at identity theft. If it's a worker at the restaurant, it's easy to track down. If it's a stranger, than figuring out who stole your information is much harder. In addition to that, keep in mind that laws and policies regarding this in the US are much different than in Europe. I know that my bank will automatically refund any disputed charge while there is an investigation underway. They will also replace the card in question at no charge. I have been unfortunate enough to have my card information stolen before and outside of a slight bit of fear, a wait for a new card to be sent and a phone call, I was out nothing in the end.
Most people haven't used percolators in the US since the 80s. Younger folks might not know what one is!
i have a espresso machine, and espresso pot, aeropress, turkish coffee pot, percolator, 2 french presses, a drip machine and a couple different glass drip coffee makers.
i have a problem, shit.