5 Ways British and American Birthdays Are Very Different
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Not sure I've mentioned this, but today is my birthday. And so what better time to look at 5 ways British and American birthdays are very different.
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There is a "grown up" version of Chuck E. Cheese--it's called Dave and Busters :)
Or Gameworks or Main Event or basically any place calling itself a Barcade
Are Dave & Busters still going? The last one here in England closed at least 15 years ago.
I don't know about since Covid-19, but I can testify that I was in a couple Dave and Buster's, in Biloxi Mississippi and Florida (USA), just a couple years ago.
Dave and Busters in Shelby Township, Michigan
We still have Dave and Buster’s in Texas. They’re fun. It’s Chuck E. Cheese with better food, better drinks, better games, and most importantly, not a gaggle of screaming or crying children. I think after a certain hour, only people 21+ are allowed in so it’s much more fun.
Laurence: “...this way it doesn’t turn into a competition.”
Cat: “Time to make this video a competition.”
Now I'm waiting for the cat. LOL
I went by a Chuck E. Cheese that had a sign out front " Open for take out"
Sad and funny at the same time. No one has ever desired Chuck E. Cheese pizza on purpose.
Haha! So true!
Sells pretty good on DoorDash
Chuck E Cheese pizza is the food you eat while your kids are arcading. (Yes, that's a verb now, I've made it one, deal with it.) My local CEC had one pirate-themed arcade game that was so fun we continued to go there even into my teen years just for that game... then they removed it and it became like every other Child Snot Trap in existence.
Worst pizza ever.
@@jamesfetherston1190 Little Caesar's: Am I a joke to you?
My family and I were taught "it's the thought that counts and to just be thankful someone got you something" so I never really looked or felt disappointed with my birthday gifts.
Mid December birthday here, and with MI winters, scheduling birthday parties was asking for it
@john wallace that is what kids were taught years ago
Same
@@LindaC616 sigh. I know.
I was ecstatic if I got a cake, presents were a bonus. There were years the day passed without anyone noticing and the world did not stop spinning.
Happy Birthday, Laurence! I see you’ve dressed up as Captain Kirk for your special day! 😉
Colonel Mustard! #cluedo
Or any TNG goldshirt.
Lol, the one thing that always took me out of the original series was how much the uniforms look like pyjamas...
...though I guess I'm one to talk, having to wear scrubs all day...
Omg you are on point!!! Yes!
Lol I just noticed that lol
"There comes a time when someone must stop being a child and become a human." - I'm embarrassed to admit how long I laughed at that line.
I wish we opened gifts in private too, I've had the worst reactions to receiving gifts ever since I was a toddler, my excitement is suppressed by my awkward shyness lol. Happy birthday Laurence!!! 🥳
Decades ago it was a tradition in America for kids to dress up as if they were going to church for birthday parties .
Games included pin the tail on the donkey and knocking pinatas full of candy blindfolded
It was like that in England too. Put on your "party dress" ( frilly, floral, church-like)!
When I was a kid, pinatas were unknown. (Yes. I am that old.) We played musical chairs and PTD.
@@saintmichael1779 I was a kid in the mid 60s to early 70s and that's win pirates started being used .Particularly in California I guess
Sweet 16 is traditionally a female thing it was the colonial version of the Spanish Quinceañera,or coming of age. 18 is our legal adult age and voting rights. 21 is the drinking age.
It was just like any other birthday for me and I'm a girl. The only big thing is that you an learn to drive.
Yeah, as raven jade said: being old enough to drive is the big thing for your 16th birthday in most of the US.
Well, to be fair, by world standards, ate you really a full adult at 18 if you cannot purchase alcohol for another three years?
@@ravenjade2553 It's always been more of a thing in the South. I'm on the West Coast, and while I do know of it, it's not a thing here at all.
Now that’s just mean. Every boy should be able to look forward to his sweet 16. 😉
In my day we held our Birthday Parties at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour. The big show involved an enormous ice cream sundae called the zoo. Good times.
Yes!! Or eating the Pig's Trough by yourself and getting a ribbon, giggle!
Where I live, there's a YMCA centre that does rollerskating. That was every child's party from age 7-10. It was great fun. Big room with a load of kids in rollerskates, then junk food.
As an introvert I LOVE the idea of NOT opening the presents in front of everyone. Christmas, birthdays, etc, I'm always so stressed out when everyone in the room is eagerly leaning in, grinning manically at me, waiting for me to open the gift, and then immediately demanding my feelings about it, sometimes before I've even had a chance to register what it is. Oh and you have to hold it up for everyone, like immediately, before you've even had a chance to absorb what you've been given. Just, you know, give me the time to process without the entire room breathing down my neck ok!
Just try being the guest of honor at a wedding shower or baby shower. It's that awkwardness x1000. You just have to walk in thinking, "No matter what, I'm going to fake like I like it and I'm so happy and grateful, and there'll be time to process and de-stress later."
I'm so onboard with what your saying 👍🏻. I'm an introvert, also, and have social anxiety mega bad.
Yeah, there's kind of good and bad sides to each. It is strange for some receivers and probably leaves some of the kids giving gifts open to feeling pressure about being judged or seen as financially disadvantaged. It makes giving a performance and leads to gift anxiety beforehand. On the other hand, it's nice for kids to learn to be generous in the same way adults mostly are to them and navigate the rewards and challenges of that process with their peers and to understand that others care about their approval. I remember feeling brilliant at one birthday party. I opened two identical Barbie dolls each from a different kid and handled the situation with the glee that I had "twins". I did indeed keep and enjoy the dolls that way, but I also remember being proud that my fast thinking and understanding of my affirming role probably saved the kids some disappointment.
@@myragroenewegen5426 that was brilliant
As a Brit this is the first time I've ever heard of presents not being opened in front of the giver. Don't think he's got this one right.... sorry to disappoint!
the disappearance and reappearance of the orange coffee mug: call Scotland Yard !!!
Adults in the UK are expected to bring a cake to work for their coworkers to enjoy whilst in the US it's the other way round.
Where I worked in Chicago back in the 60's, 70's and 80's the birthday person brought in sweet rolls or cakes for break. The office would get 1 card and everyone would sign the card and attach a rolled up, very tight, 1 dollar bill or make a fancy shape (cat, dog, fan shape, etc.) out of 1 dollar bills. Chicago in the past had some wonderful neighborhood bakeries. The office I worked in had many people per floor, over 100 and birthdays were a big deal.
Same with holidays, every one MADE a favorite food they were experts at making. Polish pastries and cookies, Lithuanian foods, Italian foods and cookies, Mexican foods, African-American foods, Whatever ethnic group a person claimed we brought in that type of food from main course to desert. WONDERFUL CULINARY EXPERIENCE. I miss those days. It was FUN to go to work. People were very nice and I made many friends.
I never knew
Only if you have exceptionally nice coworkers lol
I've never had anyone bring a cake to work for their birthday anywhere I worked. But last year -- wait, no, 2019, I've totally removed 2020 from my memory -- I had a coworker buy me an Amazon Echo for my birthday. I was like, "No, no, that's way too expensive, I can't accept this," but he insisted. To be fair, I helped hire him, so I guess there was some semblance of gratitude mixed into the birthday wishes. I don't have the heart to tell him that I don't ever use the Echo 😂
@@IceMetalPunk I feel you on this one. Maybe re-gift the echo - he probably did too.
I’m glad you finally received the calendar I sent you. The Bar Maids of Britain.
I love the magically appearing can of beverage at 3:13! And it disappears again at 3:33!
I kept expecting the Pimm's and Kahlua to feature in the narrative. Then I realized that the only thing they were doing there was buttressing the host before he gets back to punishing the bottles once again post haste.
Okay, then it wasn’t just me.
Happy Birthday Laurence! Love the channel, as a lifelong resident of the US I find your perspective on things here extremely interesting and love learning about how it differs from the UK. That cat is adorable, BTW! 🐈⬛
I started to notice things for children in the UK are very different when I found a forum online where British parents were being blatantly hostile to the point of their words reading as if they are apoplectic about the idea of American parents celebrating very many things, especially accomplishments, or at least what are considered accomplishments in the US, related to children other than birthdays. If that sentence is too convoluted, I'll reword it later. The whole "opening your birthday presents in front of other kids" thing is also given a second layer in the American South, especially. it's used as a lesson of how not to give your honest reaction when you absolutely hate something you get. You're told that it's about learning to be gracious and polite when you're upset, but it's really just a lesson in lying and hiding it.
Every time I hear about Chucky's, it's about some fight between parents where everybody gets arrested.
It's a horrendous place. They always look filthy and noisy and horrible.
And no child ever left a party without a little party bag! Mini Marathon (now Snickers) piece of birthday cake wrapped in Kitchen Roll. And that Plastic parachute guy 🪂..throw him in the air and watch him gracefully descend to earth!
Oh man I loved plastic parachute guy. Id always grab as many as I could throughout the year so when we played toy soldiers I had a strong number of paratroopers.
The jointed plastic snakes were pretty popular in my group.
*throw him in the general direction of the ceiling fan
@@funnyusername8635 YES! The plastic parachute soldier guy was a classic, as were the jointed snakes! Oh, the nostalgia...
@@TheRepublicOfJohn 😳
US born and raised and I remember playing "Pass the Parcel" as a child, though I believe it was called something else. Seems like it may have made its way to the US somehow, though maybe it never became popular. "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" was popular in the US decades ago, but it's long since fallen from trend.
As a young child soft play party's were what every one had
Laurence you forgot to say with pass the parcel that it is played with music. So an adult plays the music then randomly stops it then the child unwraps the pass the parcel. Then restarts the music then randomly stops it. It’s ends when you get to the end and nothing to un rap.
Now it's starting to sound like 'musical chairs'...something that is played in Canada.
@@l.5832 We have musical chairs too (UK)
His full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese.
Upchucky Cheese :-)
Loud, obnoxious, upchucky cheese!
I did not know that!! 🤓
YES, another Defunctland viewer!
I got so engrossed in your video I was surprised when it came to the end. I thought it was just a commercial and then it stopped. WAAAAAAAAA
Also, Chuck E. Cheese is its own level of hell.
*Beer from 2017*
"Why haven't we chucked these yet?"
Why haven't you downed them yet?
We had a bottle of pimms when William and Kate got married and it’s been our favorite ever since!
And if I could never open another gift in front of the giver I’d be thrilled.
Pimm's cup. Try that cocktail. Freaking delicious!
I remember at a relatively young age, (around 5), that I was expected to show joy and appreciation over each and every gift regardless of how I actually felt about it. It was seen, (at least in the 1960's in New England), as a way of teaching kids how to be gracious. I wish we had a more private gift opening like the UK. I must say though the whole "let's teach our young how to mask emotions" seems more British than American.
Idk seems like good training for other disappointments that will likely be encountered in school and work.
In the region of the US I'm from, piñata is a popular game. You hang a colorful papier-mâché sculpture from a tree, blindfold someone; they hit it, and if it breaks, candy falls out and everybody scrambles to pick up the most.
True story: my sister bought one of these once for her kid's party. She thought it was pre-filled with candy. It was not.
I did not try even a little to hide my laughter when it did break and disappointment fell out.
(I guess it was heavy even empty? IDK.)
I like the British custom of waiting until guests leave to open the gifts. Some kids* are terrible at masking their feelings, and a young gift-giver can be pretty devastated when the birthday boy or girl clearly telegraphs disgust with a thoughtfully chosen present. (*Note: Some adults aren't much better.)
Good old Sweet Sixteen; home alone, baking my own cake, and then the cat eating that cake. Such wonderful memories.
My sweet 16 was spent packing up my grandma's house. We stopped for a minute to eat some cookies but that was about it 😭😭
For my 16th, my boyfriend gave me 16 roses, and 16 different birthday cards.
I spent my 16th birthday working at a Sonic Drive-In cos the supervisor said I'd be fired if I didn't come in that day :)
I was at home recovering from throat surgery and subsequent complications on my sweet 16, lol. But my friends came over and we had ice cream, so not all bad. I was never planning on having a big party anyway. I wasn't big on big parties, and my dad forced the big party on me for my bat-mitzvah at 13, so they weren't going to pay for it again even if I'd actually wanted it.
It was snowing that day, so my sleep over sweet 16 which my parents only allowed by having us ALL out in the RV instead of trashing the house and driving them crazy, so it was cold as the furnace in that darn one never would start easy or stay running. Anyways you can fit 8 girls on a RV queen bed. I'm not sure why we didn't blow ourselves up but it was the mid 90's and my mother liked those stupid "if you like (insert expensive perfume) you'll love (cheap ass brand in the stripy gold spray cans)" anyways we spent time lighting the spray on fire. few prank calls to 800's numbers. I know we had taco's for dinner, and cake. somewhere one of us lost a fork to the Silver service set...I still haven't bought the 90 dollar fork. I have no idea what I got for my birthday, other then a lot of fun and a snowfall of about 5 inches.
I’ve never known a kids party in the UK that was fancy dress, and pin the tail on the donkey has been a party game for generations, in the UK, anyway Happy Birthday hope you have had a good one!
Even in the US, with kids parties, opening gifts at the party is happening less and less. Mostly because these places you can rent for parties are expensive and no one wants to waste time opening gifts when they can be laser tagging or go-carting or whatever kids do these days
Don't go to a chuckie cheese. Creepy animatronics and the carpet always smells like thrown up pizza.
Happy birthday!
And wow! Love the cat habitat in the background. Kafka's a lucky boy
"Cat habitat in the background."
What. You mean Lawrence? 🙃
We’ve always done Birthday spankings for every year, and “a pinch to grow an inch” 😃
.....and a “sock to grow a block”!
In Canada we have started not opening gifts in front of friends at children’s parties.
Most parties are at play places and you only have the space for a limited time so opening presents just takes time away from the activity. Also, people are so generous when it comes to gift giving that there are just too many to open that the little ones just don't have the attention span. Finally, as Laurence mentioned it makes friends jealous watching them open toy after toy.
What!?!?
I can see how that might be a good idea.
You kind of touched on this with Chuck E. Cheese, but in America we often go to a big activity destination for kids parties. Laser Tag was a big popular one, especially with boys. Mini Golf or Bowling was another.
Also when it comes to opening gifts, i feel like American Media over emphasizes opening gifts in front of guests. Going to big parties would rarely have a gift opening portion. Opening gifts in front of guests was more so in a smaller intimate occasions. Family birthdays or an individual giving a gift.
I remember going to ice skating and roller skating rinks for my birthday parties when I was a kid. The rest of the times, we just had a party at home.
@@LoyaFrostwind yes. Definitely went to a few ice skating parties.
The kitty came out to say hi, and is so sweet! I love the differences we all have, especially around celebrations! I got drunk on my birthday too...2020 right? Happy Birthday!!!
Look at that cat tree.
In the '80s, every kid wanted a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.
Yup. I was one of them. And so were my friends. I spent many a day there as a kid in the 80s and it was always a birthday for one of my friends. Once I grew up, I realized the only reason our parents agreed to go was because they served alcohol in order to make it tolerable for the adults. Lol.
I went to some myselfand took my own children when I became a mom
Happy Belated Birthday! When you get my age you may want to invest in those silver fireproof coveralls. All those candles can put off more heat than an incinerator.
Happy Birthday and remember getting older beats the alternative lol
So true!
I dunno. I wouldn't mind getting younger; take a few decades off would be nice. ;)
Nah, I'm good to get younger for the next 5 years, then go back to getting older for 5 years; rinse and repeat.
When I was a kid, in the 1960s, everyone dressed up for Birthday Parties. Sunday School Clothes.
Oi Happy Birthday! Here's to many more, and many more Lost in the Pond's!
Canadian here. We did birthday bumps too. I hated getting them because my birthday is Valentines Day so my bumps were usually done in a snowbank. Now for those of you not familiar with Canada in February my think those would soft gentle bumps into fluffy snow. Not a chance. By February the snow has now turned into hard ice filled banks from hell hard enough to stop a truck. Yeah. So I avoided my friends as much as possible and try to get home before they could do any damage to me. Good times ❤️
I don't know anyone who had a sweet 16 party. We're not that boujee I guess. Also, love your couch.
Happy birthday Laurence. Chuck E Cheese was great in the 80's and early 90's when I was a kid. My local one had a ball pit,
tunnel maze, skee ball, slides, and the normal arcade. Went there a couple times around late 90's with my step nephews and it was still nice.
I think the decline happened sometime in the early 2000's. I don't know why they thought it would be a good idea to get
rid of the play area and just have the arcade. Sweet 16 birthdays are only big in the South I think.
We have them in the N.E. too, 🤷🏼.
Buon compleanno! Celebrated my birthday yesterday in quarantine. Profoundly forgettable. Superannuated beer is sounding better by the moment.
Well Happy Birthday. You are one of the best things in this crazy world because I don't have to listen to anything about the craziness. Bless you!🎂
I turned 51 yesterday, happy birthday 🎊🎈
Happy birthday, mate! Here's to many, many more!!
"Except for the missing toenails."
Uh. Wat. HAH!
Happy birthday, Lawrence!! I *love* Lost in the Pond.
Happy Birthday, Mate! My birthday's in a couple of weeks, so I'll take notes.
Early happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, Laurence!
Just discovered your show, and I love, love, love it - American here who lived in the UK for 14 years. I moved my Englishman husband over to the US, and your show cracks us up. After having to cancel our annual visit to GB ...(stupid Covid)... your show has become a real sweet treat. Thank you, cheers, and stay safe. - Z not zed.
Happy Birthday Laurence!!! Hope your day was special. Thank you for all your content. Best wishes. Here's to many more🍾
I'm getting nostalgia for pass the parcel, oh god I completely forgot about it.
Actually, there are many families who celebrate the 15th birthday as coming of age. This is in families that are Latino. I am only familiar with the quincenra parties that my Mexican friends have invited me to so I can't speak about other Latino groups. I do know that I would rather be invited to a quincenra than 95% of the gringo (non-latino) parties I have been to. It is especially true if an Abuela is in charge of the kitchen!
Also for 50, there is a special deal.(A fact I dug up on my Puerto Rican born, friend's 50th).
Yes, though I think it might be a bigger deal in México than some of the other Spanish speaking countries.
In Paraguay and Argentina a girl's 15th Party is also a huge deal. Huge fancy parties with guests young, old, familiar and unknown. But not usually with the Abuela's cooking involved. That would totally make it better!
@@ar.ardilla cool, good to know! I teach Spanish, and Paraguay is one of those neglected countries....
My childhood best friend was from Bogota, Colombia and she had an amazing quinceniera...I was the only white girl that was a part of this over the top 'ceremony', it was quite a memorable experience considering i couldn't/wouldn't dance, didn't speak or understand the language. BUT I had an amazing time and 40+ years later I still remember how lovely n meaningful it meant.
Sidenote: My "Sweet Sixteen" was a bummer compared to that. Lol
My eldest son once requested, "No presents." As we were out collecting party supplies, my wife found these little toy helicopters that you launch by pulling a string. As the part was going and all the children were playing and having fun, I wondered about the helicopters. My wife waited till the children were starting to get tired and cranky, THEN brought out the little helicopters. When the parents came for them, they were all running about the west yard flying their little helicopters.
We had little plastic paratroopers attached to a plastic parachute that we used to throw and wait for them to land.
Happy Birthday, Laurence!!! Here's to many more!
I love how this is posted on my birthday! this should be a sign I should just subscribe to your channel.
Having lived in the UK for 5 years, one thing I've found pretty weird is how huge 21st birthdays are here, I've been to one bigger than some weddings!
Happy Birthday, Laurence!! Thank You for all the videos
Growing up, 60 years ago, we starting celebrating our birthdays a whole week before, with mom fixing our favorite foods that week. I carried that tradition for my kids. Having twin boys being the first, they always had some kind of battle with each picking teams. My daughter, mainly great adventures with her BFF. I knew BFF’s mom since Junior High, the girls met when they were 2. They keep the same traditions with my 8 grandchildren. Oh, I almost forgot, the most important thing, Happy Birthday, I do so love watching Lost in the Pond.
I am American and I've never been to Chuck E Cheese. 99% of the children's parties I went to or hosted took place in the birthday child's house. I love the sound of "Pass the Parcel'!
We played Hot Potato, Pin the Tail on the Donkey, something about witches - can't remember what it was called.
I didn't like most of the games, but I loved Spiderweb! That was where the parents wrapped a little gift for each child and tied a long string to it with a card with the child's name on it at the other end. The strings from different children were then woven in and out of each other back and forth across rooms, around furniture legs, creating a massive "Spiderweb" of strings at about knee height, sometimes taking over the entire downstairs of a house. Each child was then given the end of the string with their name on it and had to trace their string back to the gift at the end, following it and unwinding it under and over other children's strings across rooms and back, unwinding it from around an armchair here and a doorknob there. Hard to picture if you never played it, but I was crazy about it!
I am old enough that when I was a child you dressed up for birthday parties. Boys wore little suits; girls wore frilly dresses and patent leather Mary Janes.
I like the sound of spiderweb play, will introduce this one to my daughters and granddaughter here in Germany. You described it very well, so I could imagine very much of how much fun it brings to children. Thank you!
@@jeannetteaugstein3793 I'm so glad! I haven't heard about it since the 1970s so no idea if people still do this. I hope they enjoy it!
Observation: I’m in Canada and while my own childhood had parties where the birthday kid would open up gifts in front of the guests, my own kids have gone to parties where mostly the gifts are opened after everyone has left. Cultural shift? Perhaps.
Did you get to choose your cake, or was it a surprise? My sister's ordered her cake and we'll have that at my mom's, which we would do, anyway. No dinner out, stupid pandemic. So sweet of you to share birthday time with us. Happy Birthday, L.
Happy Birthday Laurence!
I think many of us are having actual lock down birthdays this year. Looks like you're celebrating 🍾 wisely. Even Kafka made an appearance!
Well happy birthday Laurence! But I hate to tell you the mask you got this year it’s not quite the same as the superheroes in the past LOL
I hope you had a great birthday! 🎂 🎈
The only reason I know about “Pass the Parcel” is because it was on Peppa Pig 🤦🏻♀️
Happy Birthday Laurence! And many more to come😊❤🍾🎂
I grew up on Pass the Parcel... I'm in my mid 50s and grew up in Newfoundland Canada.
We did the spanking thing. One swat for each year of age, followed by "A pinch to grow an inch".
Chucky cheese sucks, you weren't missing anything...Hope you have a happy birthday!
Showbiz Pizza was better but a local chain always beat them all. Enchanted Castle in Lombard IL always did great birthday parties
@@nilus2k I loved Showbiz Pizza as a kid.
@@nilus2k I remember Enchanted Caste. I used to live in Naperville and Lisle.
In the 80s it was actually good. Once they started with the mass produced pizzas and lame "learning" games it went downhill :/
@@nilus2k I loved showbiz pizza....I so agree
Happy Birthday Lawrence! 🥂🎊🎉🎂🎁 I hope you enjoy many more!
I totally agree about not opening presents in front of the givers. My friend was a single Mum & didn’t have much money to spend on pressies. It was really embarrassing for her to see the reaction from others on her £1.00 - £3.00 present, where others had spent about £10.00.
I love in the US how babies have a smash cake on their first birthday. I don’t get why we don’t do that in the UK. I love to see pix & videos of babies covered in their smash cake.
I prefer it with pass-the-parcel when there’s a small present in each layer. It makes it more exciting this way.
"I WANTED ORKO!"
So did I Laurence, so did I.
Opening the gifts later is actually a really good idea...
Happy Birthday! Hope you received as much joy as you bring us with your videos!
Happy Birthday! I love your videos! You're tongue in cheekiness is awesome.
First time getting this notif in a while and glad to be here early
Ps. HAPPY BIRTHDAY
As a kid I always had total crap 💩 parties and by parties, I mean 2. After the second, I told me mum I never wanted another and she obliged. I don’t recall what happened at the 1st, but at the second; I was in the third grade so about 8 years old and Amity Barr purposely threw the big rubber ball into my face as soon as my mom turned her back on us. I cried of course because it hurt. My mum then spanked me in front of my classmates😳 (they certainly weren’t my friends), told me I was embarrassing HER and I was sent to my room to ponder my actions and woeful lack of decorum. 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽 No food, no cake, no presents. I remember being relieved when they left.
That is so sad. I’m so sorry that you went through that.
💔 I wish that there was a “care” button on UA-cam!
I'm so sorry. I hope you're able to treat yourself now, because you are worth it.
While teaching English in China I learned about a cool custom, in terms of birthdays, that I would've loved. When one of the kids came to school on his/her birthday it was expected for their parents to send a cake and a present for all of the other kids. Neither were cheap, either.
In the classroom next door to mine a child's parents bought little robots that were fully interactive. It had so many features that I joked with my British coworker who was with that classroom that I wanted to sneak one into my bag and take it home. (I didn't.)
Happy belated birthday 🎉. I always love your videos, I get a good laugh & learn a lot about the differences between the US & UK.
@5:05 Now I want Laurence to discover Five Nights At Freddy's...
"Doing both in tandem can lead to a Tory government"
Well, now we know how Thatcher kept getting elected. 😂
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday with many more to come.
Happy Birthday Lawrence! We had a 7th birthday party at Chucky Cheese for my son and they had a riot! But my 7yr old daughter a few years later decided that Put-put would be the place for her party. The girls really enjkoyed palying and they were pretty good at it as well. Chucky Cheese is good for pizza, because kids aren't fussy, plus they all got cupcakes and ice cream for dessert. I grew up in a family of 5 kids and thirty cousins, so I was used to the noise a dozen kids can make, but I have friends who can't stand kids' parties. Too bad, they are missing the chance to make some fun memories.
OK, who else here misses Lawrence's comments about subscribing by hitting his "stupid little face"?
I'm confused. You've been in America all this time but you haven't gotten fatter.
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 its an edgy joke
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 k
My fellow Americans are sensitive about this subject. 😄😄
Wow 😯 a stereotypes joke causing upset ❄️
Brits can be chubby, too!
Happy birthday Laurence!! Have fun. 🍧🍰🎁
Happy Birthday, Laurence!!! 🎈🎂🎉
Ewwww, La Croix! Sparkling water made by a machine whilst it thinks of flavor.
Pimm's is also gross.
@@mloftin6472 I'll take your word as I have no clue.
I love laˈkʁwa!
Target's Good & Gather sparkling flavored water is so much better.
You stopped having closed captioning. Bad for us who have hearing issues and your accent. Please restore.
I have to second this.
They're working for me.
There are auto generated English subtitles if you need them. Lawrence’s accent is standard enough British that the auto generated subtitles look pretty accurate.
Thirding. I can usually understand him, but sometimes he mutters.
I need the captioning as well.
Oh my goodness! Happy Birthday, man!! 😁 Hope you had a great day! Xx from Chicago
Happy Birthday Laurence! I hope that you had a wonderful day!
GREETINGS ! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! MAY THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BLESS AND PROTECT YOU ! AMEN ! 🎂 🎈 🎁