Brits don't presume that everyone wants to talk to us, we also queue because we don't regard one person as better than another regardless of wealth and status, David Beckham queued for 13 hours alongside hundreds of other people to pay his respects to the late Queen Elizabeth. In fact when some minor celebs did use their celeb status to get ahead of the queue there was uproar in the media over it.
Tea is best on a nice hot day ,,,it's more refreshing and you don't drink somuch water ! I could just kill for a really good fis&chips are a bloody good fry up for breakkie with thick slice of fried bread 😂😂😂❤❤❤
Regarding the weather; yesterday was howling with wind and rain and then snow in the morning with roads closed and cars crashing, but by 1PM it had all gone and the sun was out. No wonder we talk about the weather. It’s so variable.
I got told off by my doctor for drinking too many brews (cups of tea) as I was having about 20 cups a day. I’m 65 so it hasn’t done me any harm so far! Tea is the giver of life 😂
Brit here. We don't just drink tea in winter! Most of us know the value of a nice cup of tea when it's hot outside. To warm us up in winter, many of us go for hot chocolate.
Is it true that, so scientists say, a hot drink cools you down? That's what I have read and seen in print! In any event!, I am often dying for a cup of tea in the summer, heat wave or no heat wave. [Also, thank you, Samsung, for putting an exclamation mark where a comma used to be until a week ago on your phone keyboard and making me look like an absolute idiot.]
@@MrBulky992not sure about the science, but as a Brit during summer - for me, I often find a cup of tea can be more ‘thirst quenching’ and have a longer lasting effect to quell my thirst. Don’t get me wrong, I can happily gulp down a coke with ice, get that instant freshness in the mouth, but often the thirst returns sooner than if I had a hot drink. I think I read somewhere that a warm drink gets absorbed quicker, helping you to rehydrate quicker (perhaps that cools you quicker like you say ?) than a cold drink which can ‘stun’ your stomach upon entry and slow the absorption performance… either that or I dreamt it lol.
The politeness/not having small talk is even more common here in Sweden, there's a stereotype (which is true) that we tend to look if any neighbors are around before stepping out, since we don't want to talk to them
I disagree. My toddlers room was 37 degrees C for weeks over last summer. South facing. We have heat-reflecting blinds and blackout curtains. Fans did NOTHING to cool her room down. Dangerous temperatures for vulnerable people. Hence the public health warnings! Air con unit brought her room down to 22 degrees in half an hour and then fans took over from there. I wouldn't give up my units for any fan. They are fine for most of the summer but during a proper heatwave, they are worth their weight.
@@christinamoxonyea the problem is that houses here are designed to keep heat in unless you live in a breezy shed. My room is constantly reaching and going above 25C regardless of the temp outside because it’s just that well insulated and I have a beast of a gaming pc constantly kicking out heat. In winter I can just open the window to vent the excess heat but in summer that room is a death trap that REQUIRES air conditioning… and that’s on a cold day
@@Tony-c7z9t I've been to Orkney a few times. Love the people there, too. I just can't with the lack of trees I'm afraid. I"m not altogether keen on Skye, but the Outer Hebrides have some great folk, too.
A lot of traditional type meals were fatty and perhaps stodgy and often baked in pie. The fattiness was because they were cheaper cuts, more flavourful, and being encased in a pie were more filling. As a child I remember loads of people growing vegetables in their gardens because of shortages due to WW2. So cheap and simple and filling was the choice of the day. Our varied weather is why we have such a green and pleasant land!
Yes, the reason we don't strike up conversations/Friendships out of the blue is exactly because it may be uncomfortable for the other person. Friendships take a bit longer to make as they're not so easy to pull out of if you find you've made a mistake so we take it slow.. 😂
Healthy traditional British food; porridge, kedgeree, leek and potato soup, rainbow trout with potatoes and vegetables (just make sensible choices)....
Think about it. Sunset today was 4pm, Friday November 22nd 2024. It's getting cold (I'm on the South coast and it's about 3°C (37°F) outside) it's getting dark so you really want to warm up with a hot cup of stimulants? Yes, tea is still a stimulant but not nearly what coffee is. Warm you up and you wind down with tea. If you really want no stimulant, make a cup of red bush (rooibos) tea, the herbal tea most like black tea and also goes well with milk and sugar or lemon and sugar.
When I went to florida in January a few years ago, it was pretty cold, so I asked for a heater for my hotel room, the look I got from staff for asking that question left me confused, until I realised it rarely gets that cold in florida that asking for a heater isn't really a thing there.
If the US is month, day, and year, how do you explain the 4th of July? Should the holiday not be called July 4th? It makes no sense. you can't just change your whole system of dating just to make something sound catchy.
Ffs, It's called Weather. Sometimes it's hot. Sometimes it's wet. Sometimes it's cold. In most places in uk, it's mostly cool and dry. Just wear appropriate clothes, and deal with it.
I love a "full, whatever breakfast" ie. the local fry-up for breakfast, but only on holiday, when I hae time for breakfast, otherwise, no breakfast at all, really don't want to rush some food when I need to go to work, but if I'm staying in a hotel for fun or for work, I will definitely have the best breakfast going, cos I don't feel some kind of time pressure
I have both fans and air con units and nothing beats the air con to bring a hot room under control in a heatwave. The fans, no matter how you use them, don't cool a room. They just move hot air around. Using a combination, however, is the sweetspot. Have the air con on and a fan to help distribute the cool air quickly. Then you can switch it off for the night and sleep in a reasonable temperature. Without the air con, one of my bedrooms was 37 degrees C. Dangerous for my toddler. Curtains closed all day. Also heat reflecting blinds - so don't think we aren't trying to keep it cool. Air con brough it down to 22 degrees for night time. So I disagree. When you live in homes that are insulated to keep heat IN, then fans and an open window won't save you in severe heat. Fine for the rest of the year but in a heat wave, an air con is worth it's (considerable) weight.
As a Brit with a beast of a gaming pc in a Harry Potter’s cupboard level small room who has tried many solutions I gotta say…. You really can’t beat an Aircon with a typical fan.
She's correct that there may not be public transport in the countryside - at least not regular, every 2 hours kind of thing. In my village we get 2 buses going out in the morning and 2 returning in the afternoon. That's it. When i was a teenager, public transport was a lot more often/regular, but since the cutbacks more people have cars. Or maybe it's because more people have cars that there's been cutbacks. Either way, it does depend on whereabouts in the country you live too. I live near the east Midlands coast, but in Derbyshire buses run out to the remotest villages regularly through the day.
Now we find ourselves in a sticky situation where there are significant cutbacks to public transport and the cost of ownership of a car is unaffordable.
Actually the best date system, which is rarely used outside computing, is biggest to smallest, eg, 2016/03/20, try sorting your compurter files, like that, name them without the slashes.
We need a gofundme to get you over to England for 2 weeks and see you try some of these things. I would contribute and would love to see you actually experiencing the things you have commented on.
60 degrees F is COLD ?. Man that's a warm day here in UK. Now anything below say 50 F might be considered as a cold ish day. but 60-66 boy that's a good da temp.
This video was so interesting, as I spent the first 25 years of my life living in South Africa, before emigrating to the UK (where I have been living for 20 years now). I think I had some similar misconceptions to the lady in the video, but it was her last point about “the UK will never feel like home” that hit the hardest for me. Unless you’ve moved country, it’s hard to understand how alien you can feel in a place (even when moving from one English-speaking country to another). It’s everything from not knowing which store to go to in order to buy the items you need, or not understanding differences in language (it took me AGES to get used to being asked “you alright?” as a form of greeting, as I kept wondering whether I somehow didn’t look like I was okay! 😂). Having lived here so long now, having friends from a range of nationalities, owning a home and raising kids here, the UK actually feels more like “home” than South Africa does. South Africa feels familiar and nostalgic, but it absolutely doesn’t feel like home anymore. We like visiting to see family and friends, but are always so happy to step back onto UK soil after a holiday, and just feel like we’re back where we belong.
Cups is STUPID. Dates - You can't imagine how inconvenient that is for Computer Sorting. It really should be YYMMDD which is how my PC sorts my Bank Statements, or Email Inbox.
for what it’s worth, those Yorkshire stone houses can keep really nice and cool in a heatwave, especially if you keep the curtains closed to keep out the sun :)
I live in jersey and temperatures here are generally warmer than the uk mainland. It rarely drops below freezing but gets over 40°c during the summer. All the houses are built out of either stone or cavity wall construction and its cooler inside than out. Ive got a workshop for building acoustic guitars and if i close the shutters it never gets above 25c even in hot sunshine. Im also half sudanese and experienced 53°c for over a week. It was too hot for the plane to land due to the heat on the runway. The power cut off at 8pm and all there were just fans beforehand so it was hot! You sleep outside but you also cant see the bottom of a cup of water due to how firty it is.
a long time ago my then Belgian girlfriend came to visit me in Liverpool, on the train up from Dover a guy sat at her table and attempted to start up a casual conversation, she was freaked out because he kept calling her "luv" (as - Hi luv, is this chair free). it took a whole week to get her to understand everyone used LUV talking to women , and he was not hitting on her, you might use it to a grandmother as much as a little girl LOL these type misunderstanding might give you a bad idea if you don't know the people from different areas. Northerners can be very friendly
At a guess nearly all Brits have never had a jellied eel - I think we keep it just in rare tourist spots 😂. I’ve never seen it other than walking past a shop in a tourist area of London. And yes, we find the personal questions in America and Canada to be quite invasive of privacy - we wouldn’t want to come across that way. Lastly, we just installed aircon in our 1900’s house - bliss!
Temperature is relative. Lives are at risk in the UK if it goes much above the 20's, yet in Aussie, that's a normal winter temp. 35 is a normal summer temp, no lives are at risk, here it's too darn hot to move at 45°C
Shepherds pie or cottage pie is pretty healthy I'd say. Potatoes, meat, vegetables, gravy. Has everything you need in it really. Oh and not many people make it, but pottage is very good for you too
Scales: How the hell else do you accurately/repeatedly make/cost/sell/manufacture anything, duh! The rest of planet Earth is utterly confused by YOUR dates, paper sizes, gallons that aren't, Fahrenheit, inches...Doesn't it ever get cold/dark in Canada? You cannot even agree on your national language. What has Canada ever invented/produced- oh that 'woman' singer in a suit, anything else? We are in a maritime, temperate climate zone. I have 36 solar panels/14 kw of lithium batteries and a powerful heat pump, thank you. Plus a huge 12kg washer and a heat pump tumble drier, before you ask. I live in the United Kingdom by the way, NOT just England! You will never be 'at home' in England (sic) just as I would never be at home in France, Spain, Thailand no matter how many decades of residence.
Re public transport, mostly buses. If you live in a rural area here in the UK you may only have buses every couple of hours or even once or twice a day. Some places once a week. If you live in urban areas they are more regular.
You’ll find that only a small amount of people in the uk have tried jellied eel, the majority of us would never try it lol. As for talking to strangers, we are taught from a very young age never to talk to strangers but also to respect your elders. So if someone I didn’t know spoke to me in the bus stop I’d acknowledge them if I felt comfortable to, if I felt uncomfortable I’d avoid them at all costs. If an elderly person spoke to me I would engage in that conversation because I am being respectful to them. But in passing with people I might acknowledge them by smiling, saying hello or good morning etc and then going on with my day, it’s all about judging people and if you feel comfortable talking to them. If someone is asking me for my full credentials I’ll make an excuse and I’m not talking to them lol. As for the weather, we don’t have good weather in the uk, we can have some good days and a lot of bad days. We aren’t prepped for any weather because we don’t have long periods of heat or snow. We’ve had it so stifling hot that it’s unbearable and so cold it’s unbearable. We never have a happy medium because the weather changes so sporadically even in a day most times. So the weather conversations happen regularly and even I find this topic annoying but I catch myself talking about it 😂.
It got hot that year. The last 2 summers it barely got past the low 20s 😂. That year was an anomaly. Even in northern Spain there's not air con in most houses.
Being food intolerant to both coffee and tea, and a long list of other stuff. I had a hot choc to warm my hands in the UK years ago, and no hot drinks since.
I'd say Northerners are alot more friendly I remember last year going to a Gig in Manchesters "Band on the Wall" n we started in the posers pubs n till I'd had enough of people looking at what designer clothes we were wearing, so I dragged em upto Shudehill Manchester n my mates were non plussesd as everyone who went to the bar they disappeared and come back with great stories , from others at the bar , now I go Manchester alot because I follow football Home n Away n at United..I ended up up on my own on this particular sunny day, on a Balcony drinking sat outside on the balcony a couple of hundred yards from the venue and a quite large group came out onto the Balcony and within an Hour, everyone who'd come out onto the balcony, thought that I was with them , they were stunned when I explained that I was with my own group of friends n going to "The Band on The Wall" but my mates were in the pub across the the road , We really are different people due to our historical pasts but I had to say my goodbyes n go n find my mates, Manchester is a great place to be, the best city within England without a doubt Great pubs, great people n great music venues..
Americas opinion on British food comes from WW2 and the 1950's. German U-boats were sinking ships transporting food. Government imposed rationing meant nobody starved although variety of foods was limited and bland. Some foods were rationed until 1954. Post war immigration has brought in new foods which have been added to the national diet.
Haggis are beautiful and tasty, but trying to catch the wild ones is impossible ! 😏 As for jellied eels. Imagine a snake cut up into 1" sections and coated in clear coloured jelly !
Jellied eels have virtually disappeared and were only 'a thing' in East London working class of a hundred or more years ago, and to flog (once) to idiot foreign tourists. I expect they would be very healthy though, for poor people who could not afford much else in the way of protein dishes.
Our weather is not as warm as America. However (due to global warning) our weather is becoming more extreme. It’s hotter Summers and I think eventually air conditioning will become standard here too
Neal, regarding the month thing. Let me explain why whatever you grew up with is 'ingrained'. People don't really understand how the culture they're raised in dominates our understanding. The parameters within which our whole spectrum of understanding of the world is comprehended, understood & formulated, in our mind, is largely dictated by the culture or society we are part of. This, in turn, influences our thoughts, opinions, views, morals, principles, attitudes, and actions. The things that we accept in life or accept as just part of life are the result of cultural conditioning or culturally laid down models of behaviour. We need to transcend these modes of thinking in order to change the world we live in. In a world of cultural conditioning it's very hard to find people that are willing to take the time to think about life, that feel the need to understand the real purpose & meaning of our lives, most go their whole lives without that spark of interest or need for a deeper connection with life, largely because mainstream society dictates that these questions are not that important. So when you ask most people what the purpose of life is, they won't tell you what they have concluded through questioning & searching. In most cases they'll simply tell you they don't know or haven't given it much thought, or they will tell you what someone else said, or what their friends say or what their family says - basically what society says, because those friends & family are influenced by the same parameters of thinking. The extent to which we are influenced by our cultural conditioning is immense, it shapes our internal understanding of how to relate to ourselves & to life, of what life is, what its meanings are & what its values are. Culture is the programme you run on, the programme which all of your thoughts are formed from & filtered through and it's not until you realise this that you are able to step outside of it and begin to see things from a different perspective. To transcend culture is to see beyond our internal conditioning of said culture, of its language, concepts & contexts, its Images, symbols & learned emotional responses to these stimuli that drive our internal dialogue - our learned behaviour of everything that's important and has meaning, what's truth and what's not, what's real or imagination, in our hearts & in our minds. Culture is the pre-programmed set of blueprints from which our internal relationship with reality is caged and like the phoenix rising from the ashes of the old, one must understand this to be born again in mind, into a new paradigm of thought. Lemmi know what ya'll think Neal.
The date thing is a bit of a myth: in the UK we use both ways of saying the date and have done for decades and centuries. The only format where we in the UK *exclusively* say and write "day - month - year" is when the month is a *number* and not a word. That numeric format of date with its potential ambiguity has only existed since the 19th century which is well after the USA's independence and the UK has never used the US version so we cannot take any blame for it. We made the right choice in the 19th century and the USA independently made the wrong one. I am a family history enthusiast so have looked at many old records which confirm but, even today, many newspapers in the UK, local and national, use the format "November 22, 2024", just as they did in earlier centuries, printed at the top of every page! I was taught at school that this was as correct as the other way, in days when there were stricter standards of writing and grammar than now.
I was born in UK ,and thought of jellied eels turn my stomach ,when I was about 12 years old I could hear alot of noise out side my back door I went out in my garden to see my next door neighbour wrestling with a black eel in a bucket ,that eel wanted to escape ,he fought with it grabbed it by the neck ,I said is that snake he said no it's a eel then he took it inside ,Im guessing chop chops for eel ,off with its head 😂
If you prefer mm:dd:yyyy format (may 12th 2025) then I to be consistent the time should have seconds between hours and minutes. Additionally if you believe the month should be stated first then I guess you need to replace your 4tth of July celebrations with the new July 4th celebrations :)
What do we need air con for in the UK, you can't take it out with you if your gooing shopping can ya, if your at home just blackout your windows on the sunny side, open windows on shady side, setup a fan to blow cool air around, problem solved.
There is a real mishmash in anglophone countries that have converted from imperial measurements to the metric system. It seems pretty much standard when you are asked your height in anglophone countries they will reply in Imperial so in my case 6 foot 1 and a bit I do my weight in Imperial but most other things are used metric 'cause it's just better but when it comes to cooking it is a real mishmasha again between metric and the cup system Ounces don't get a look in, I detest them, I mean 16 ounces to a pound what is that nonsense about? but I do use cups and teaspoons and tablespoon et cetera as well as a scale.
Please - pleeeease. A 'cuppa' IS a cup of tea (or less commonly some other hot drink such as coffee). A 'cup o' tea' (cup of tea with the 'of' as a contraction) IS a cup of tea. Never, never, never 'a cuppa tea'. That would be a tautology. Would you like a drink drink... Jus' sayin' is all. 🙂Easy mistake, but buttock-clenching to English ears (we're fussy sods).
Brits don't presume that everyone wants to talk to us, we also queue because we don't regard one person as better than another regardless of wealth and status, David Beckham queued for 13 hours alongside hundreds of other people to pay his respects to the late Queen Elizabeth. In fact when some minor celebs did use their celeb status to get ahead of the queue there was uproar in the media over it.
A Sunday roast is actually quite healthy. It's protein, carbs and at least 3 of your 5 a day.
We don't have a climate in the UK ....we just have weather. I hope next summer falls on a weekend.
Tea is best on a nice hot day ,,,it's more refreshing and you don't drink somuch water !
I could just kill for a really good fis&chips are a bloody good fry up for breakkie with thick slice of fried bread 😂😂😂❤❤❤
Had cod and chips from an award winning chippy in Cardiff earlier.
Regarding the weather; yesterday was howling with wind and rain and then snow in the morning with roads closed and cars crashing, but by 1PM it had all gone and the sun was out. No wonder we talk about the weather. It’s so variable.
Interesting that the only date Americans use in the ‘British way’ is 4th of July, which ironically is celebrating your independence from us
No that's celebrating our lucky escape! 😁🤣👍
I've never heard an American refer to it as the 4th of July. Always July 4th, or Independence Day.
@@DylRicho ah okay, well yeah they often do, look it up
@@DylRicho What was that Tom Cruise film? Oh yeah, Born on the Fourth of July.
@@elemar5
'Born on July 4th' doesn't quite cut it 😂
I got told off by my doctor for drinking too many brews (cups of tea) as I was having about 20 cups a day. I’m 65 so it hasn’t done me any harm so far! Tea is the giver of life 😂
Every Morning when you wake up, the Day has changed. So the Day always comes First. The month Second and the year last.
Brit here. We don't just drink tea in winter! Most of us know the value of a nice cup of tea when it's hot outside. To warm us up in winter, many of us go for hot chocolate.
Is it true that, so scientists say, a hot drink cools you down? That's what I have read and seen in print! In any event!, I am often dying for a cup of tea in the summer, heat wave or no heat wave.
[Also, thank you, Samsung, for putting an exclamation mark where a comma used to be until a week ago on your phone keyboard and making me look like an absolute idiot.]
@@MrBulky992not sure about the science, but as a Brit during summer - for me, I often find a cup of tea can be more ‘thirst quenching’ and have a longer lasting effect to quell my thirst. Don’t get me wrong, I can happily gulp down a coke with ice, get that instant freshness in the mouth, but often the thirst returns sooner than if I had a hot drink. I think I read somewhere that a warm drink gets absorbed quicker, helping you to rehydrate quicker (perhaps that cools you quicker like you say ?) than a cold drink which can ‘stun’ your stomach upon entry and slow the absorption performance… either that or I dreamt it lol.
The politeness/not having small talk is even more common here in Sweden, there's a stereotype (which is true) that we tend to look if any neighbors are around before stepping out, since we don't want to talk to them
"How's the weather"
_"Still Swedish"_
Yeah, I can see how that'll get old fast
Us British people are not quite that bad
No point in having airconditioning. It’s only hot enough to use that for about 20 days a year. Pointless. Just open the windows and use fans
I disagree. My toddlers room was 37 degrees C for weeks over last summer. South facing. We have heat-reflecting blinds and blackout curtains. Fans did NOTHING to cool her room down. Dangerous temperatures for vulnerable people. Hence the public health warnings! Air con unit brought her room down to 22 degrees in half an hour and then fans took over from there. I wouldn't give up my units for any fan. They are fine for most of the summer but during a proper heatwave, they are worth their weight.
@@christinamoxonyea the problem is that houses here are designed to keep heat in unless you live in a breezy shed. My room is constantly reaching and going above 25C regardless of the temp outside because it’s just that well insulated and I have a beast of a gaming pc constantly kicking out heat. In winter I can just open the window to vent the excess heat but in summer that room is a death trap that REQUIRES air conditioning… and that’s on a cold day
I lived in Kent for over a decade. Then I moved north. The further north you go, the friendlier folk are. Shetland being the friendliest of all.
I am from London and I am going to have to admit the unfriendliest people I've ever met were in Ramsgate and Margate. i.e. Kent.
_Except_ for Portsmouth.
Portsmouth is very... _Northern_
And really, if you start people talking they will. _They_ just won't _start_ the talking.
Have you tried the Orkney islands yet.
@@Tony-c7z9t I've been to Orkney a few times. Love the people there, too. I just can't with the lack of trees I'm afraid.
I"m not altogether keen on Skye, but the Outer Hebrides have some great folk, too.
@@NauiByeolEge ah great, so pleased you love us viking folk so much
A roast dinner is pretty well balanced
A lot of traditional type meals were fatty and perhaps stodgy and often baked in pie. The fattiness was because they were cheaper cuts, more flavourful, and being encased in a pie were more filling.
As a child I remember loads of people growing vegetables in their gardens because of shortages due to WW2. So cheap and simple and filling was the choice of the day.
Our varied weather is why we have such a green and pleasant land!
Yes, the reason we don't strike up conversations/Friendships out of the blue is exactly because it may be uncomfortable for the other person. Friendships take a bit longer to make as they're not so easy to pull out of if you find you've made a mistake so we take it slow.. 😂
Love your videos id love to see you over experiencing it
Healthy traditional British food; porridge, kedgeree, leek and potato soup, rainbow trout with potatoes and vegetables (just make sensible choices)....
A British ploughman's salad is gotta be the healthiest. Its basically a salad with extras.
Jellied Eels are way healthier than the eighteen ingredients America has in their McDonald's fries.
It's also disgusting.
Think about it. Sunset today was 4pm, Friday November 22nd 2024.
It's getting cold (I'm on the South coast and it's about 3°C (37°F) outside) it's getting dark so you really want to warm up with a hot cup of stimulants?
Yes, tea is still a stimulant but not nearly what coffee is. Warm you up and you wind down with tea.
If you really want no stimulant, make a cup of red bush (rooibos) tea, the herbal tea most like black tea and also goes well with milk and sugar or lemon and sugar.
So why do Americans say "the 4th of July"?
during the war the Brits used to stop for a cup o tea even when attacking the germans
And it worked- we won !!
Of course we did. The reputation had to be upheld just to show the other side we were more cultured than the
We do have air con. It's called opening a window, with the boost of a fan of necessary.
That won't help you when it's over 30 degrees inside. British homes are built to retain heat. A fan simply doesn't cut it for me.
When I went to florida in January a few years ago, it was pretty cold, so I asked for a heater for my hotel room, the look I got from staff for asking that question left me confused, until I realised it rarely gets that cold in florida that asking for a heater isn't really a thing there.
In the warm weather a fan and open windows can keep you cool she's right about us being polite where I live if you get insulted it means we like you
If the US is month, day, and year, how do you explain the 4th of July? Should the holiday not be called July 4th? It makes no sense. you can't just change your whole system of dating just to make something sound catchy.
Ffs, It's called Weather. Sometimes it's hot. Sometimes it's wet. Sometimes it's cold. In most places in uk, it's mostly cool and dry. Just wear appropriate clothes, and deal with it.
I love a "full, whatever breakfast" ie. the local fry-up for breakfast, but only on holiday, when I hae time for breakfast, otherwise, no breakfast at all, really don't want to rush some food when I need to go to work, but if I'm staying in a hotel for fun or for work, I will definitely have the best breakfast going, cos I don't feel some kind of time pressure
Actually, you don't need cold air, you need moving air, so a £20 fan will do you just as much good as an expensive air conditioner
I totally agree.
I live in a sub tropical climate without aircon.Only use ceiling fans
I have both fans and air con units and nothing beats the air con to bring a hot room under control in a heatwave. The fans, no matter how you use them, don't cool a room. They just move hot air around. Using a combination, however, is the sweetspot. Have the air con on and a fan to help distribute the cool air quickly. Then you can switch it off for the night and sleep in a reasonable temperature. Without the air con, one of my bedrooms was 37 degrees C. Dangerous for my toddler. Curtains closed all day. Also heat reflecting blinds - so don't think we aren't trying to keep it cool. Air con brough it down to 22 degrees for night time. So I disagree. When you live in homes that are insulated to keep heat IN, then fans and an open window won't save you in severe heat. Fine for the rest of the year but in a heat wave, an air con is worth it's (considerable) weight.
As a Brit with a beast of a gaming pc in a Harry Potter’s cupboard level small room who has tried many solutions I gotta say….
You really can’t beat an Aircon with a typical fan.
The only time i heard of Cups was in US TV sitcoms.
She's correct that there may not be public transport in the countryside - at least not regular, every 2 hours kind of thing. In my village we get 2 buses going out in the morning and 2 returning in the afternoon. That's it. When i was a teenager, public transport was a lot more often/regular, but since the cutbacks more people have cars. Or maybe it's because more people have cars that there's been cutbacks. Either way, it does depend on whereabouts in the country you live too. I live near the east Midlands coast, but in Derbyshire buses run out to the remotest villages regularly through the day.
Now we find ourselves in a sticky situation where there are significant cutbacks to public transport and the cost of ownership of a car is unaffordable.
Actually the best date system, which is rarely used outside computing, is biggest to smallest, eg, 2016/03/20, try sorting your compurter files, like that, name them without the slashes.
We need a gofundme to get you over to England for 2 weeks and see you try some of these things. I would contribute and would love to see you actually experiencing the things you have commented on.
60 degrees F is COLD ?. Man that's a warm day here in UK. Now anything below say 50 F might be considered as a cold ish day. but 60-66 boy that's a good da temp.
I’ve never driven a car and I’m in my late fifties that’s because I find it easy getting around using public transportation
Only america and canada have the date wrong, the rest of the world are correct, also mathematics is MATHS not MATH?
This video was so interesting, as I spent the first 25 years of my life living in South Africa, before emigrating to the UK (where I have been living for 20 years now). I think I had some similar misconceptions to the lady in the video, but it was her last point about “the UK will never feel like home” that hit the hardest for me. Unless you’ve moved country, it’s hard to understand how alien you can feel in a place (even when moving from one English-speaking country to another). It’s everything from not knowing which store to go to in order to buy the items you need, or not understanding differences in language (it took me AGES to get used to being asked “you alright?” as a form of greeting, as I kept wondering whether I somehow didn’t look like I was okay! 😂). Having lived here so long now, having friends from a range of nationalities, owning a home and raising kids here, the UK actually feels more like “home” than South Africa does. South Africa feels familiar and nostalgic, but it absolutely doesn’t feel like home anymore. We like visiting to see family and friends, but are always so happy to step back onto UK soil after a holiday, and just feel like we’re back where we belong.
Cups is STUPID. Dates - You can't imagine how inconvenient that is for Computer Sorting. It really should be YYMMDD which is how my PC sorts my Bank Statements, or Email Inbox.
for what it’s worth, those Yorkshire stone houses can keep really nice and cool in a heatwave, especially if you keep the curtains closed to keep out the sun :)
I live in jersey and temperatures here are generally warmer than the uk mainland. It rarely drops below freezing but gets over 40°c during the summer. All the houses are built out of either stone or cavity wall construction and its cooler inside than out. Ive got a workshop for building acoustic guitars and if i close the shutters it never gets above 25c even in hot sunshine. Im also half sudanese and experienced 53°c for over a week. It was too hot for the plane to land due to the heat on the runway. The power cut off at 8pm and all there were just fans beforehand so it was hot! You sleep outside but you also cant see the bottom of a cup of water due to how firty it is.
I have a plug in AC unit and also say it's the best thing I ever bought! During that crazy summer I worked in my bedroom with it on all day 😂
a long time ago my then Belgian girlfriend came to visit me in Liverpool, on the train up from Dover a guy sat at her table and attempted to start up a casual conversation, she was freaked out because he kept calling her "luv" (as - Hi luv, is this chair free). it took a whole week to get her to understand everyone used LUV talking to women , and he was not hitting on her, you might use it to a grandmother as much as a little girl LOL
these type misunderstanding might give you a bad idea if you don't know the people from different areas. Northerners can be very friendly
At a guess nearly all Brits have never had a jellied eel - I think we keep it just in rare tourist spots 😂. I’ve never seen it other than walking past a shop in a tourist area of London.
And yes, we find the personal questions in America and Canada to be quite invasive of privacy - we wouldn’t want to come across that way.
Lastly, we just installed aircon in our 1900’s house - bliss!
YYYY-MM-DD is the best - fits with the largest to smallest format for the time, and automatically sorts into date order.
Dates. Like 4th July not July 4th
public transport is definitely a lifestyle, I have never owned a car and rarely felt the lack
4.15 pm in late November as I type and the sun is below the horizon and has been for the last quarter of an hour.😢 Yeah it gets dark fast.
Temperature is relative. Lives are at risk in the UK if it goes much above the 20's, yet in Aussie, that's a normal winter temp. 35 is a normal summer temp, no lives are at risk, here it's too darn hot to move at 45°C
How come you say 4th July?
Oops sorry I just posted that too.
Yep correct?
We have air con units in each bedroom. No one else in our area has them - don't know how they sleep in the heatwaves.
Shepherds pie or cottage pie is pretty healthy I'd say. Potatoes, meat, vegetables, gravy. Has everything you need in it really.
Oh and not many people make it, but pottage is very good for you too
Scales: How the hell else do you accurately/repeatedly make/cost/sell/manufacture anything, duh! The rest of planet Earth is utterly confused by YOUR dates, paper sizes, gallons that aren't, Fahrenheit, inches...Doesn't it ever get cold/dark in Canada? You cannot even agree on your national language. What has Canada ever invented/produced- oh that 'woman' singer in a suit, anything else? We are in a maritime, temperate climate zone. I have 36 solar panels/14 kw of lithium batteries and a powerful heat pump, thank you. Plus a huge 12kg washer and a heat pump tumble drier, before you ask. I live in the United Kingdom by the way, NOT just England! You will never be 'at home' in England (sic) just as I would never be at home in France, Spain, Thailand no matter how many decades of residence.
Re public transport, mostly buses. If you live in a rural area here in the UK you may only have buses every couple of hours or even once or twice a day. Some places once a week. If you live in urban areas they are more regular.
with measuring scales i think you mean the results are more consistent?
These aren’t British things, they are everywhere in the world except the USA and Canada things. Why is Canada following US conventions?!
You’ll find that only a small amount of people in the uk have tried jellied eel, the majority of us would never try it lol.
As for talking to strangers, we are taught from a very young age never to talk to strangers but also to respect your elders. So if someone I didn’t know spoke to me in the bus stop I’d acknowledge them if I felt comfortable to, if I felt uncomfortable I’d avoid them at all costs. If an elderly person spoke to me I would engage in that conversation because I am being respectful to them. But in passing with people I might acknowledge them by smiling, saying hello or good morning etc and then going on with my day, it’s all about judging people and if you feel comfortable talking to them. If someone is asking me for my full credentials I’ll make an excuse and I’m not talking to them lol.
As for the weather, we don’t have good weather in the uk, we can have some good days and a lot of bad days. We aren’t prepped for any weather because we don’t have long periods of heat or snow. We’ve had it so stifling hot that it’s unbearable and so cold it’s unbearable. We never have a happy medium because the weather changes so sporadically even in a day most times. So the weather conversations happen regularly and even I find this topic annoying but I catch myself talking about it 😂.
You can buy measuring cups in the UK too. Some people use them to bake.
But usually only so they can follow a US/Canadian recipe.
It got hot that year. The last 2 summers it barely got past the low 20s 😂. That year was an anomaly. Even in northern Spain there's not air con in most houses.
Being food intolerant to both coffee and tea, and a long list of other stuff. I had a hot choc to warm my hands in the UK years ago, and no hot drinks since.
I'd say Northerners are alot more friendly I remember last year going to a Gig in Manchesters "Band on the Wall" n we started in the posers pubs n till I'd had enough of people looking at what designer clothes we were wearing, so I dragged em upto Shudehill Manchester n my mates were non plussesd as everyone who went to the bar they disappeared and come back with great stories , from others at the bar , now I go Manchester alot because I follow football Home n Away n at United..I ended up up on my own on this particular sunny day, on a Balcony drinking sat outside on the balcony a couple of hundred yards from the venue and a quite large group came out onto the Balcony and within an Hour, everyone who'd come out onto the balcony, thought that I was with them , they were stunned when I explained that I was with my own group of friends n going to "The Band on The Wall" but my mates were in the pub across the the road , We really are different people due to our historical pasts but I had to say my goodbyes n go n find my mates, Manchester is a great place to be, the best city within England without a doubt Great pubs, great people n great music venues..
You could try Liverpool we are really sociable, miss that now I'm in Lincolnshire.
Americas opinion on British food comes from WW2 and the 1950's. German U-boats were sinking ships transporting food. Government imposed rationing meant nobody starved although variety of foods was limited and bland. Some foods were rationed until 1954. Post war immigration has brought in new foods which have been added to the national diet.
Haggis are beautiful and tasty, but trying to catch the wild ones is impossible ! 😏 As for jellied eels. Imagine a snake cut up into 1" sections and coated in clear coloured jelly !
Jellied eels have virtually disappeared and were only 'a thing' in East London working class of a hundred or more years ago, and to flog (once) to idiot foreign tourists. I expect they would be very healthy though, for poor people who could not afford much else in the way of protein dishes.
Our weather is not as warm as America. However (due to global warning) our weather is becoming more extreme. It’s hotter Summers and I think eventually air conditioning will become standard here too
Neal, regarding the month thing. Let me explain why whatever you grew up with is 'ingrained'. People don't really understand how the culture they're raised in dominates our understanding.
The parameters within which our whole spectrum of understanding of the world is comprehended, understood & formulated, in our mind, is largely dictated by the culture or society we are part of.
This, in turn, influences our thoughts, opinions, views, morals, principles, attitudes, and actions. The things that we accept in life or accept as just part of life are the result of cultural conditioning or culturally laid down models of behaviour. We need to transcend these modes of thinking in order to change the world we live in.
In a world of cultural conditioning it's very hard to find people that are willing to take the time to think about life, that feel the need to understand the real purpose & meaning of our lives, most go their whole lives without that spark of interest or need for a deeper connection with life, largely because mainstream society dictates that these questions are not that important. So when you ask most people what the purpose of life is, they won't tell you what they have concluded through questioning & searching. In most cases they'll simply tell you they don't know or haven't given it much thought, or they will tell you what someone else said, or what their friends say or what their family says - basically what society says, because those friends & family are influenced by the same parameters of thinking.
The extent to which we are influenced by our cultural conditioning is immense, it shapes our internal understanding of how to relate to ourselves & to life, of what life is, what its meanings are & what its values are.
Culture is the programme you run on, the programme which all of your thoughts are formed from & filtered through and it's not until you realise this that you are able to step outside of it and begin to see things from a different perspective. To transcend culture is to see beyond our internal conditioning of said culture, of its language, concepts & contexts, its Images, symbols & learned emotional responses to these stimuli that drive our internal dialogue - our learned behaviour of everything that's important and has meaning, what's truth and what's not, what's real or imagination, in our hearts & in our minds.
Culture is the pre-programmed set of blueprints from which our internal relationship with reality is caged and like the phoenix rising from the ashes of the old, one must understand this to be born again in mind, into a new paradigm of thought.
Lemmi know what ya'll think Neal.
Stone Cottage with a Bus Stop outside the front gate.
The date thing is a bit of a myth: in the UK we use both ways of saying the date and have done for decades and centuries.
The only format where we in the UK *exclusively* say and write "day - month - year" is when the month is a *number* and not a word. That numeric format of date with its potential ambiguity has only existed since the 19th century which is well after the USA's independence and the UK has never used the US version so we cannot take any blame for it. We made the right choice in the 19th century and the USA independently made the wrong one.
I am a family history enthusiast so have looked at many old records which confirm but, even today, many newspapers in the UK, local and national, use the format "November 22, 2024", just as they did in earlier centuries, printed at the top of every page! I was taught at school that this was as correct as the other way, in days when there were stricter standards of writing and grammar than now.
The date isn’t a UK vs US format it’s the entire world vs US
The funny thing is the U.S does say 4th July...which i think is the only time they say the day first.....why ? ✌
I was born in UK ,and thought of jellied eels turn my stomach ,when I was about 12 years old I could hear alot of noise out side my back door I went out in my garden to see my next door neighbour wrestling with a black eel in a bucket ,that eel wanted to escape ,he fought with it grabbed it by the neck ,I said is that snake he said no it's a eel then he took it inside ,Im guessing chop chops for eel ,off with its head 😂
Chicken stuffed with haggis is delicious 😊
Yet in america they say 4th July but every other date the month cone first its madness
If you prefer mm:dd:yyyy format (may 12th 2025) then I to be consistent the time should have seconds between hours and minutes. Additionally if you believe the month should be stated first then I guess you need to replace your 4tth of July celebrations with the new July 4th celebrations :)
What do we need air con for in the UK, you can't take it out with you if your gooing shopping can ya, if your at home just blackout your windows on the sunny side, open windows on shady side, setup a fan to blow cool air around, problem solved.
I think a lovely bowl of scouse is quite healthy just a nice stew of meat, potatoes and root veg
You have to understand that jellied eel is a food of the London's POOR, its what you eat when there was literally nothing better during harder times.
i find it funny the only date you have the right way round is 4th july lol
It's true to a sense
Northerner's are more polite, that is FACT!
South East !? Too right. We ALL know about them!
Alanna is wrong in a way. Northerners are friendly and talkative like Canadians and Americans.
It's very noticeable
Some are, definitely not all. 😂
There is a real mishmash in anglophone countries that have converted from imperial measurements to the metric system. It seems pretty much standard when you are asked your height in anglophone countries they will reply in Imperial so in my case 6 foot 1 and a bit I do my weight in Imperial but most other things are used metric 'cause it's just better but when it comes to cooking it is a real mishmasha again between metric and the cup system Ounces don't get a look in, I detest them, I mean 16 ounces to a pound what is that nonsense about? but I do use cups and teaspoons and tablespoon et cetera as well as a scale.
Don’t try jellied eels..think you have to be brought up on them to like them!
British attitudes change depending on where you are
Never trust a scouser tryna sell you 4 fresh wheels
oopps i ment tips
that woman is a troll
Please - pleeeease. A 'cuppa' IS a cup of tea (or less commonly some other hot drink such as coffee). A 'cup o' tea' (cup of tea with the 'of' as a contraction) IS a cup of tea. Never, never, never 'a cuppa tea'. That would be a tautology. Would you like a drink drink... Jus' sayin' is all. 🙂Easy mistake, but buttock-clenching to English ears (we're fussy sods).
Go to Wales, way more friendly then the English
In the Netherlands tea with milk is considered for children not for adults. It takes away the taste of tea.
As a British person in the summer I stay away from hot drinks full stop lol
Do you like hot chocolate Neil
Haha wait until we tell you we drink tea to cool down as well lol