Now JJ, the Map Men are going to be very disappointed that you've forgotten everything they taught you about pronouncing British place names a few months ago!
My village, Whitwick had the Guiness World Record for most pubs in a village. We used to do 3-legged pub crawls for charity. 28 pubs, a pint in each pub. Nobody died.
At one place that I worked at there was a collection for a member of staff who was retiring, the collector said "The more you give the sooner he goes".
The price reducer is a member of staff who re-prices the items which are due to expire that day to a much lower price (to encourage their sale). Ordinarily they are surrounded by bargain hunting shoppers who give nothing but grief and who ignorantly block the aisles.
@@BinnyBongBaron_AoE They do, which is why it is really sh!tty behaviour when people are aggresive and obnoxious and trying to snatch things off other people, push people out the way etc. I mean, that is appalling behaviour anyway, but often the people who'd most benefit from being able to pick up some decent food for a bargain are unable to actually get any of the good deals, especially when it is elderly people, or people with disabilities who are shoved out by robust working age people.
🤣 Gloucester pronounced Glosster. Leicester is Lester. Newquay = Newkey. Price reducer protective barrier, people are so keen to get the reduced price items that they will jostle staff and other customers ! So barrier means staff can do all reductions on the items and then let the customers have access.
Even as a Brit, I had to Google the Cowdenbeath mystery puddle because I hadn't a clue what it meant! It seems to be a Scottish local news story about a mystery puddle that appeared in the town of Cowdenbeath, and a particular councillor who was doggedly determined to discover its cause. Apparently, he initially thought the cause was a leak of waste products from the production of pineapple juice at a local dairy - it transpired that it wasn't. Absolutely gripping stuff in British local news.
The important thing about Jack the Chipper is that being located in Whitechapel London it is located in the neighborhood Jack the Ripper carried out his murders.
About the Tesco ad for pubs, when you mentioned that you'd never see something like that in the US. it reminded me of a former colleague, who'd worked at a company in Dublin Ireland, that was taken over by a US company. A few weeks before Christmas, the new owners sent a memo giving the date and venue for the traditional company Christmas dinner. Except ,that year, added to the time, date & location was the notice "We cannot condone alcohol abuse, so consumption of alcohol is strictly prohibited at the event, anyone having consumed alcohol before the event, will not be permitted access and those consuming alcohol at the event will face disciplinary action." So for the event, there was a live stream to the US and several members of management from the US flew in. On the night the management were waiting at the door to meet the staff as they arrived... and they waited, and waited.... it turned out the staff had booked an alternate venue for their own Christmas party. The managers had booked a conference centre, Dj and catering for nearly 200 guests, and less than two dozen (all management) turned up. Apparently the live stream was funny to behold, as the camera showed the empty venue and furious management and awkward looking caterers and Dj.
Considering how many Americans describe themselves as "Irish", organizing an alcohol-free Christmas party IN F*KING IRELAND is a special kind of stupid.
The Tesco ad went up shortly after covid restrictions were lifted and people were still hesitant to visit pubs and clubs. A TV Ariel is what Americans call an antenna, not a satellite dish. I guess that is how we spell licence, when it's used as a noun.
Benches in the UK often have plaques or engravings on them commemorating someone's life after they passed away, this could be in their favourite park, the cemetary, a nature reserve that kind of place, that bench was commemorating him whilst hes still alive and he uses the bench, loved the glad your leaving one too, that is us brits to a tee, we take the rip out of each other something chronic and its all in good humour... well mostly 🤣, thanks for another interesting video hun p.s. Gloucester is pronounced Gloster 😀
Once got a very good friend a leaving gift that was a giant cookie that said, 'Hope you choke on it, Bitch'. It was taken in the spirit it was given and we all had a good giggle!
Sitting in the front seat on the top row of a double decker bus is the best extreme thrill you could have without the risk of dying. Have you ever seen James Cameron's 'Titanic?' You know that scene where Rose is standing on the front bow with her arms out and yelling "I'm FLYING, Jack?" Riding at the front of a double-decker bus is the dry-land version of that.
That feeling on top deck when the bus turns but the top has that tiny delay feeling of turning, so you think you’re gonna keep going and hit something, usually the double decker in front! My youngest calls it the space ship.
The price reducer is discounting the prices in a discount section of the store. The barrier has been put there to protect them from being stampeded by shoppers eager for bargins while they work 🙂
The Tesco price reducer picture, is a thing to witness when you go shopping. Vultures waiting for staff to put reduced price products on shelves. Chaos.😅
Gloucester - Gloster Leicester - Lester Newquay, Cornwall - Newkey (I live there) It was where they filmed part of the 1990 The Witches here.(There is also New Quay in Wales) Towan -Town
When I was newly married we rented a place in London and we got cards asking why we had no TV licence. The first one, we wrote on it, Because we don't have a dog. (In those days you needed a licence for a dog). The next one we burnt out all the "o"s in the text. And so on defacing these little cards. We even set out our room to look as though we had removed a telly. Eventually there was a knock on the door, and two gentlemen were outside. "We have no record of a TV licence at this address" "I'll give you three guesses why not" I said. They got it in one. We never had to continue with our charade, sadly. it would have been fun. Incidentally when we did get a television we did pay our licence as we prefer not to watch advertisements the odd times we do watch it.
2:58 its worth pointing out that an ariel and satellite dish arent the same thing to what hes referring to. an arial receiver will be on mostly every home built since the 70#s they are typically mounted on the chimney stack which is right at the top of the house on the roof where as satellite dish receivers will mostly be mounded on the side of buildings typically on the second. but yea one is a dish for satellite the other is like a steel rode with multiple prongs at certain length intervals that come out of both sides either in a + shape or just horizontally
@@DJF1947It's true that most houses since the 1950s have had television aerials but to my knowledge houses were not built with aerials before the 70s - they were always retrofitted, regardless of whether houses were new or centuries old. Not all televisions could operate with the same aerial as many people held onto their VHF 405 lines sets (such as our household with its H-shaped aerial) whilst others had the newer UHF 625 lines sets that could receive BBC2 (with the more modern-looking aerial).
@@MrBulky992 I have never heard of aerials being part of the building process; there are still plenty of aerial-installing shops around. OTOH, I have often thought that - with aerials becoming increasingly obsolete - someone with a van, ladders and a head-for-heights could make a good living by removing them. Not only would he be paid for the service, he would also have lots of scrap aluminium to sell.
I think Jack the Chipper is a fine name! I get my hair cut in a barbershop called Sweeney Todds 😂 also Gloucester is pronounced Gloster (rhymes with foster) and Leicester is prounced Lester (rhymes with fester) 😉
Licence is spelt with the second C in English. Gloucester is pronounced Gloster. Leicester is pronounced Lester. Newquay is pronounced Newkey. And yes there are 100 pence in a pound. Hope that helps, excellent content as always!
@@keithrn9447 ENGLISH spelling enables the reader to trace the etymology/roots of a word. Unlike the USA, all other English speaking countries like Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Commonwealth countries for whom English is their 2nd language spell English properly. Unfortunately, I cannot get the option, on UA-cam, to choose British English
At the start of your video, the dashund on top of the thatched roof is actually made of thatch itself. Many of the thatchers do this as part of their work. There's a pub in Knutsford, Cheshire (The Bear), which is thatched, and has a cat which is also thatched.
Here in the UK, a TV Licence is required to watch any broadcast channel and the BBC's on-demand service. Broadcast TV is usually picked up through an aerial similar to the one on the chimney behind the roof dog in the first part of your video, though some have them in the attic or none at all due to using cable/satellite.
I love that you stop to check up on facts while watching. My suggestion on place name pronunciations would be to have the Cambridge Dictionary website open in another tab. You can then click to hear both an English and American voice saying them. We don't make it easy with our place names - but to be fair, for a long time, whenever I heard Pensacola, Florida I actually thought it was Pepsi-Cola - I figured that was probably where it was made - and no, I'm not joking, sadly.🙃
I don't know if people still refer to the big orange glass bowl on top of the Zebra Crossing pole, kerbside, as the Belisha Beacon, so named after the Minister of Transport donkey's years ago! I just remembered this , no need to ask google!
Crows really are the most intelligent birds. In my tree in the garden, they see me in the kitchen and know......... So there is, usually pigeons, sparrows, starlings (s), and Crows. I emerge a few yards into the garden and quickly throw bread on my kitchen roof with a flat top. While the pigeons flap their wings,the starlings flee and the sparrows do not move, the Crows, instantly, leave the tree and swoop onto my kitchen roof, and within,I can hear them above me.
5:00 That's Wallace & Grommit. They're iconic in Britain, much loved and the films have won multiple Oscars. They have loads of silly british humour and lots of little jokes, puns etc, going on in the background. That's a scene form the first film which was made on a tiny budget so not as good as the later ones, though it still won an Oscar. I'd recommend watching the next ones:The Wrong Trousers, A close Shave, A Matter of Loaf & Death and the Feature length film Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Aardman Animations has also made a number of other films such as Chicken Run, Flushed Away (with Pixar), The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, Arthur Christmas, Early Man and some Shaun the Sheep adventures aimed more at young children. Shaun first appears in a Close Shave.
At 4'11 ... I took the '" sharing with your friends " comment to be ironic. I mean you'd never share Tunnocks Teacakes or Snowballs as they are lush. Hence the quotation marks. ""
The americans called theirs ATM because their banks have tellers. We call ours Cashpoints because our banks have Cashiers. (And as we invented cashpoints I think that’s a win,full stop.)
I LOVE the name Jack the Chipper! I hope it's located in White Chapple lol. I like places with funny names. Saw a hairdressers once called "Curl Up and Dye". And there's an Indian Takeaway/Restaurant near where I live with a sign saying "Try our curries - you'll never get better" - not sure if they're in on the joke with that sign or not, but I laugh every time I see it.
There's a driving instructor here called Samuel Jackson. He's put the 'L' plate on the roof-mounted sign between the two names so that it reads "Samuel L Jackson". Clever.
The chalk drawing of the man on the hill is actually really interesting. He's called the cerne Abbas Giant and people have been maintaining him for like 1000 years or something. There's a horse one too.
well, I googled it to make sure my facts were correct and it said they're unsure just how old cerne giant is but could have been made between 700 and 1200 CE so...?@@libradragon934
At 14:20, The 'special offer' is that the 3 x .30pence fudges individually would come to £0.90, where as the Special offer is x3 fudges for £1.00, which is more expensive.
Hi. The stop motion movie is from a TV show called Wallace, the human, and Gromit, the dog. They love cheese and decided to fly to the moon because there’d be loads of cheese there., the place is made of cheese isn't it? Their shows, and films, have led to a great response in the sales of Wensleydale cheese in the UK. Their films are run by Aardman Animations, a Bristol based company. Their great films are Chicken Run 7 the Curse of the Ware-Rabbit. Great films for all the family, especially the kids. Locally we have a chip shop called “A Fish Called Wanda” in the Rhondda Valley.
The "Price Reducer" is the employee who is putting the reduced price stickers on the near-dated stock. There can be a sizeable crowd of would be purchasers of the cheap bargains and the employee can be pushed out of the way so that the an over-eager individual can get the cheaper item before anybody else can get to it!
Mark Radcliffe is a beloved radio dj who was treated for testicular cancer some years back. He presents a weekend breakfast show with Stuart Maconie on 6 Music, it’s very good, was listening just before I watched this video.
When you try Marmite, spread it in a thin smear; so that you can see through it. My son, when he was Very young, put it on like chocolate spread - fiercely indigestible. 'Leicester' is Lester, 'Newquay' is Newkey. 🙂
Tv aerials are what we had before satellite dishes. It took places like the UK & where I live Australia longer to get them so they were still common until the late 90s, early 00s when foxtel came over.
pub numbers may be declining as a whole but dont let that make you think tens of thousands of pubs arent still insanely packed out all across the country every week haha.
11:08 we call this the whoops aisle. When items have a short sell by date, supermarkets reduce the prices. While us Brits are usually polite & respect queues & waiting our turn, if there's a bargain to be had we can throw elbows 😂 that barrier is to let the staff member put the items out for sale without getting shoved out of the way. FYI Gloucester/Gloucestershire are pronounced Glosster
Towards the end of each day supermarkets reduce the price of food close to its sell by date is reduced. People wait for the stickers to go on and literally fight over the best offers.
In "proper" English, licence is a noun and license is a verb. See also practice and practise. Pretty sure that "eurotunnel" image is Kelly Tarlton's Sealife Aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand. The big chalk carving is called the "Giant (or Rude Man) of Cerne Abbas". It's in southwest England and is at least 400 (and possibly over 1000) years old. Repeat after me: GLOS-tuh, LES-tuh, NEW-key :)
Went to visit the Verge Abbas Giant a few years back. There was a newly married couple running about inside the figure. Still in their wedding clothes!
A nan is what the brits call a grandmother. His nan packed him a lunch full of food that roths teeth for him to eat while waiting for a dentist appointment.
Crows really are the most intelligent birds. In my tree in the garden, they see me in the kitchen and know......... So there is, usually pigeons, sparrows, starlings (s), and Crows. I emerge a few yards into the garden and quickly throw bread on my kitchen roof with a flat top. While the pigeons flap their wings,the starlings flee and the sparrows do not move, the Crows, instantly, leave the tree and swoop onto my kitchen roof, and within,I can hear them above me.
Jack the Ripper also worked in Whitechapel.Pronounced Gloster (Gloucester) and Lester (Leicester). Remember the British pint is larger than the US pint, (US pint = 16 fluid ounces, British pint = 20 fl oz. 25% larger)
The US fluid ounce is larger than the UK (or "Imperial") fluid ounce. Hence a US pint is 16.665348 UK fl.oz, or 83.267418464% of a UK pint at 20 fl.oz (Imp.)
@@gavmusic I was trying not to be too pedantic, just comparative. It doesn't change the fact that a US gallon is 3.78L compared to 4.54 for the UK gallon.
Price reduction on perishable items that are almost out of date usually happen at about the same time on the same day in UK supermarkets. The price reducers are often hampered in their task by shoppers eager for a bargain. Protective strategies are a silent request for patience. LOL. Cheers.
At 4.11 the party food is for little children so his mum still thinks he and his friends are about 7 or 8 - imagine if you turned up at a manly sports event with that instead of beer . Well meaning but embarrassing mum joke. The presenter’s voice is really soothing btw
My plan is to have the Stones "Start me up " as my last song as I'm put into the fire. It will either piss some off or laugh, either way I think its funny.
British supermarkets usually have a place, often at the end of an aisle, where food that is close to it's sell by date is placed, massively discounted. There's usually something of a rugby scrum around the area, especially when new items have just been added. :)
He's talking about a UHF tv broadcast aerial , they've been around since the 60s . Whilst many have satellite and cable channels the basic standard is broadcast tv for which you need a licence .
Aerial is not a satellite dish. Aerial is used to pick up the the Freeview no subscription channels. 81 entertainment, 12 Children's, 6 news 33 radio. If tv is also connected to the internet watch most programs from the previous 7 days. Just by selecting them from the tv guide. Satellite dishes are mostly used for subscription services.
yes that is how we spell incence, an aerial is an antenna, the Tv licence is for having a tv capable of receiving broadcast signals - not just some channels.
The tescos ad was after the pandemic when pubs were closed. Now Pubs are thriving. They are resilient. As for tv license (spelt correctly) Licence is a noun, license is a verb. Before learning to drive, you apply for a provisional driving licence, but the DVLA must license you to drive. When you install a TV in your home, you must have a TV licence.
Thank you SO much for mentioning dogs being tied up outside, being made to wait - but the dog doesn't have a clue why he's beeb left there. You can see the anxious look on their faces every tines someone walks out, but it's not their owner 😥
the chalk hill figure the National Trust is touching up,is the Cerne Abbas Giant. A lot of people think it's ancient,but it was done in the 1700's .PS My friend, it's Gloucester as 'GLOS-STER and Newquay,as NEW-KEY
My girlfriend thought you were still talking about Rick Astley when you said "He seems like he has a heart of gold. […]This little guy has come to visit me every night for the past 2 weeks" 😂
1) There are 100 pence in 1 pound (we’ve been decimal since 1971) so yes, equivalent to cents and dollars. Pence is an antique form of the plural pennies, so five pence but one penny. As you said, the supposed promotional offer would cost more than 3 bars bought individually. 2) Yes, the Map Men told you that -cester at the end of (most) place names is just pronounced as -stuh. Doctor Foster rhymes with Gloucester, fester with Leicester etc. The word ‘quay’, a wharf built parallel to the shore, is pronounced like ‘key’ (in Britain and the US!) so Newquay is pronounced ‘NYOO-key’. It’s in Cornwall. Towan is derived from Cornish (Celtic), and means ‘sand dunes’. Points for saying ‘York-shush’ though👌 3) British English spelling differentiates between noun and verb in these words: practice/practise and licence/license. Also offence (noun) but offensive (adjective). So someone licensed to watch TV would have a TV licence. TV aerials are NOT satellite dishes, they’re those old-fashioned looking metal antennae seen on rooftops. 4) Yes, ‘Jack the Ripper’ operated in the Whitechapel area of London. Definitely not Whitehall!
“That’s not how you spell licence” oh JJ..... it most definitely is 😂
...and if British, it's humour!
I'm more concerned about the lack of apostrophes 😉
@@DavidMartin-tk4fs grocer's or otherwise.
Another word to consider is Gaol is the same as Jail.
The nan’s packed lunch went right over his head too, full of sugar and crisps lol while waiting for a dentist 😂
Now JJ, the Map Men are going to be very disappointed that you've forgotten everything they taught you about pronouncing British place names a few months ago!
Newquay - Newkey,Gloucestershire- Glostersher and Leicester- Lester.
Spot On :)@@kerryannestevenson6099
@@kerryannestevenson6099 and Cow (moo), den (where you hide from the bad people), beath with the /ee/ from Leith and Neath... and beer
"19 pints. That could kill somebody"
Tell me you've never been on a pub crawl with some Brits, without telling me.
19 pints is just the lunchtime starter session to get ready for the main crawl
This is 19 pints of Fosters yes? Because 19 pints of McEwans Champion will kill you
My village, Whitwick had the Guiness World Record for most pubs in a village. We used to do 3-legged pub crawls for charity. 28 pubs, a pint in each pub. Nobody died.
At one place that I worked at there was a collection for a member of staff who was retiring, the collector said "The more you give the sooner he goes".
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The price reducer is a member of staff who re-prices the items which are due to expire that day to a much lower price (to encourage their sale). Ordinarily they are surrounded by bargain hunting shoppers who give nothing but grief and who ignorantly block the aisles.
Some people rely on those to eat well.
@@BinnyBongBaron_AoEno excuse for bad manners, the entitlement is overwhelming.
There are also guerrilla price reducers.
Yeah, we real. Don't tell the shareholders.
@@georgeprout42 Yep, a woman practically smacked me in the face to get at something i was looking at.
@@BinnyBongBaron_AoE They do, which is why it is really sh!tty behaviour when people are aggresive and obnoxious and trying to snatch things off other people, push people out the way etc. I mean, that is appalling behaviour anyway, but often the people who'd most benefit from being able to pick up some decent food for a bargain are unable to actually get any of the good deals, especially when it is elderly people, or people with disabilities who are shoved out by robust working age people.
🤣 Gloucester pronounced Glosster. Leicester is Lester. Newquay = Newkey.
Price reducer protective barrier, people are so keen to get the reduced price items that they will jostle staff and other customers ! So barrier means staff can do all reductions on the items and then let the customers have access.
If you want an image, its basically pigeons at feeding time, wait is that too British too?
Glosta, Lesta. He's American. If you write R he'll try to pronounce it like a penguin.
@@neuralwarp I've looked at this any number of times and there's no "r" in 'a penguin'.
@@grahamstubbs4962Everyone knows it's pronounced pengwing. Lol
Everywhere in Scotland is spelt 'Ecclefechan', but pronounced 'Kirkcudbright'.
Even as a Brit, I had to Google the Cowdenbeath mystery puddle because I hadn't a clue what it meant! It seems to be a Scottish local news story about a mystery puddle that appeared in the town of Cowdenbeath, and a particular councillor who was doggedly determined to discover its cause. Apparently, he initially thought the cause was a leak of waste products from the production of pineapple juice at a local dairy - it transpired that it wasn't. Absolutely gripping stuff in British local news.
I rather assumed it was local lads on the way home from pub but haven’t looked up story so ?
@@DMGamanda funnily enough, I initially assumed it was a 'yellow snow' situation also.
The important thing about Jack the Chipper is that being located in Whitechapel London it is located in the neighborhood Jack the Ripper carried out his murders.
@@Dan-B Yes. Hence the reference to the video.
Did you type this whilst not listening to the rest of the video?😂
@@joshua.910 Did I fail to treat a youtube video like a university lecture? Oh my.
Hey Az, its *neighbourhood😜
@@azzajames7661 Yes it is. As a Brit in the US it is irritating my American phone autocorrects tye American way...that being the wrong way.
About the Tesco ad for pubs, when you mentioned that you'd never see something like that in the US. it reminded me of a former colleague, who'd worked at a company in Dublin Ireland, that was taken over by a US company. A few weeks before Christmas, the new owners sent a memo giving the date and venue for the traditional company Christmas dinner. Except ,that year, added to the time, date & location was the notice "We cannot condone alcohol abuse, so consumption of alcohol is strictly prohibited at the event, anyone having consumed alcohol before the event, will not be permitted access and those consuming alcohol at the event will face disciplinary action." So for the event, there was a live stream to the US and several members of management from the US flew in. On the night the management were waiting at the door to meet the staff as they arrived... and they waited, and waited.... it turned out the staff had booked an alternate venue for their own Christmas party. The managers had booked a conference centre, Dj and catering for nearly 200 guests, and less than two dozen (all management) turned up. Apparently the live stream was funny to behold, as the camera showed the empty venue and furious management and awkward looking caterers and Dj.
Considering how many Americans describe themselves as "Irish", organizing an alcohol-free Christmas party IN F*KING IRELAND is a special kind of stupid.
This is brilliant.
Bet they never made that mistake again. Separating an Irishman from his Guinness, how could they.
Frying Nemo in Goole, near me, is one of my favourite fish and chip shop names.
😅😅😅
The one about the Tunnocks cakes "to share with my friends"... There's no way he's sharing those! LOL
Definitely! I've had to buy a new box because I've eaten more than my fair share!
Richard Branson can keep his rockets into space - there's nothing better than the front seat on the top deck of a double decker bus!
My kids are car kids. Took them on the double decker couple days ago, buzzing doesn’t even describe it 😂
In London, the front seat on a DLR Train.
@@stephenlee5929 Yes - It's pretty good! Taken that journey many times!
15:07 - It's not brown sauce, no. It's malt vinegar... for chippy chiiiiiips!
There used to be a window cleaner round the corner from here whose business was called Spruce Springclean.
A few ''best chip shop names' - A Fish Called Rhondda, The Cod Almighty, Battersea Cod’s Home, For Your Fries Only, The Star Chip Enterprise.
Don’t forget “the cod father”😊🧜♂️🐟
@@jamescullen8607 Came to replies to say exactly this
I’ll add my own! Oh my cod!
@@siobhanharte5075 Act of Cod, The Right Plaice, New Cod on the Block :-)
You've never haddock so good! In cod we trust!
The Tesco ad went up shortly after covid restrictions were lifted and people were still hesitant to visit pubs and clubs.
A TV Ariel is what Americans call an antenna, not a satellite dish. I guess that is how we spell licence, when it's used as a noun.
Wash your mouth out with soap!
Aerial allows you to watch your TV,
Ariel allows you to wash your UPs.
To license = verb
The licence = noun
in Britain. 🙄🇬🇧
Pretty sure the police eating ice cream on a boat was like the scene in hot fuzz
Benches in the UK often have plaques or engravings on them commemorating someone's life after they passed away, this could be in their favourite park, the cemetary, a nature reserve that kind of place, that bench was commemorating him whilst hes still alive and he uses the bench, loved the glad your leaving one too, that is us brits to a tee, we take the rip out of each other something chronic and its all in good humour... well mostly 🤣, thanks for another interesting video hun p.s. Gloucester is pronounced Gloster 😀
Once got a very good friend a leaving gift that was a giant cookie that said, 'Hope you choke on it, Bitch'. It was taken in the spirit it was given and we all had a good giggle!
That space one with the stop motion characters is from this A Grand Day Out - Landing on the Moon - Wallace and Gromit
Sitting in the front seat on the top row of a double decker bus is the best extreme thrill you could have without the risk of dying. Have you ever seen James Cameron's 'Titanic?' You know that scene where Rose is standing on the front bow with her arms out and yelling "I'm FLYING, Jack?" Riding at the front of a double-decker bus is the dry-land version of that.
I wouldn't say there's zero risk of dying, low bridges can be quite a buzz 😂😂
And what's a "back bow?"
Yeah yeah a bit stern, but we're all being pedantic here.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch The back bow is the front stern ;P (Yeah, I admit, you got me.!)
That feeling on top deck when the bus turns but the top has that tiny delay feeling of turning, so you think you’re gonna keep going and hit something, usually the double decker in front! My youngest calls it the space ship.
the mark radcliffe bench was epic, i love mark and lard on radio 1 the good old days
The price reducer is discounting the prices in a discount section of the store. The barrier has been put there to protect them from being stampeded by shoppers eager for bargins while they work 🙂
The Tesco price reducer picture, is a thing to witness when you go shopping. Vultures waiting for staff to put reduced price products on shelves. Chaos.😅
Hehe, I've seen people in full blown fist fights over the reduced products.. and yes, definitely a sight to see!
Gloucester - Gloster
Leicester - Lester
Newquay, Cornwall - Newkey (I live there) It was where they filmed part of the 1990 The Witches here.(There is also New Quay in Wales)
Towan -Town
Great to see someone from USA doing this sort of stuff and taking time to really get to know/understand UK life. Well done mate
When I was newly married we rented a place in London and we got cards asking why we had no TV licence. The first one, we wrote on it, Because we don't have a dog. (In those days you needed a licence for a dog). The next one we burnt out all the "o"s in the text. And so on defacing these little cards. We even set out our room to look as though we had removed a telly. Eventually there was a knock on the door, and two gentlemen were outside. "We have no record of a TV licence at this address" "I'll give you three guesses why not" I said. They got it in one. We never had to continue with our charade, sadly. it would have been fun.
Incidentally when we did get a television we did pay our licence as we prefer not to watch advertisements the odd times we do watch it.
2:58 its worth pointing out that an ariel and satellite dish arent the same thing to what hes referring to. an arial receiver will be on mostly every home built since the 70#s they are typically mounted on the chimney stack which is right at the top of the house on the roof where as satellite dish receivers will mostly be mounded on the side of buildings typically on the second. but yea one is a dish for satellite the other is like a steel rode with multiple prongs at certain length intervals that come out of both sides either in a + shape or just horizontally
It is spelt 'aerial', and they have been on most UK houses since the 1950s.
@@DJF1947It's true that most houses since the 1950s have had television aerials but to my knowledge houses were not built with aerials before the 70s - they were always retrofitted, regardless of whether houses were new or centuries old. Not all televisions could operate with the same aerial as many people held onto their VHF 405 lines sets (such as our household with its H-shaped aerial) whilst others had the newer UHF 625 lines sets that could receive BBC2 (with the more modern-looking aerial).
@@MrBulky992 I have never heard of aerials being part of the building process; there are still plenty of aerial-installing shops around. OTOH, I have often thought that - with aerials becoming increasingly obsolete - someone with a van, ladders and a head-for-heights could make a good living by removing them. Not only would he be paid for the service, he would also have lots of scrap aluminium to sell.
I believe they're known as antennae over the pond?
The footprint was a dinosaur fossilised footprint, not a dog! The floor in the isnt concrete tiles, its stone...the building was built in 1089!
Thanks. I’m not a dog owner but I thought it looked rather strange.
I think Jack the Chipper is a fine name! I get my hair cut in a barbershop called Sweeney Todds 😂 also Gloucester is pronounced Gloster (rhymes with foster) and Leicester is prounced Lester (rhymes with fester) 😉
there's jack the clipper barber shop in brick lane, which is in whitechapel, where the jack the ripper murders happened
There’s a barbershop near where I live called Sweeney’s of Tod (in Todmorden) 😂
And Towcester is pronounced Tows-ter, Bicester is pronounced Bis-ter, Worcester is Woos-ter, but Cirencester is pronounced Ci-ren-cester.
Licence is spelt with the second C in English. Gloucester is pronounced Gloster. Leicester is pronounced Lester. Newquay is pronounced Newkey. And yes there are 100 pence in a pound. Hope that helps, excellent content as always!
A licence is the noun, to license is the verb!
Indeed@@christinemarshall1366 but Americans don't need to know that. Sometimes American English just makes more sense
@@borlach_ It's not a question of making more sense, when you change the spelling the etymology, the root, of the words isn't apparent.
@@christinemarshall1366 Humour like labour in the English language has the "U" missing from the US version of the language.
@@keithrn9447 ENGLISH spelling enables the reader to trace the etymology/roots of a word. Unlike the USA, all other English speaking countries like Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Commonwealth countries for whom English is their 2nd language spell English properly. Unfortunately, I cannot get the option, on UA-cam, to choose British English
At the start of your video, the dashund on top of the thatched roof is actually made of thatch itself. Many of the thatchers do this as part of their work. There's a pub in Knutsford, Cheshire (The Bear), which is thatched, and has a cat which is also thatched.
It was barking!
That's not a thatched roof, nor is it a thatched dachshund! 😂
Why can nobody spell 'dachshund'?!
@@DJF1947 Damn You! I was just about to write that all I have learned from this is that nobody can spell Dachshund. lol
@@DJF1947 Unintentional, sorry to offend and all that. My mum used to breed them, so I usually spell it correctly; I'll blame my keyboard this time. 🙂
Here in the UK, a TV Licence is required to watch any broadcast channel and the BBC's on-demand service. Broadcast TV is usually picked up through an aerial similar to the one on the chimney behind the roof dog in the first part of your video, though some have them in the attic or none at all due to using cable/satellite.
Lollypop lady is my favorite british turn of phrase. Its perfect. As a kid It always fascinated me.
*favourite 😜
I love that you stop to check up on facts while watching. My suggestion on place name pronunciations would be to have the Cambridge Dictionary website open in another tab. You can then click to hear both an English and American voice saying them. We don't make it easy with our place names - but to be fair, for a long time, whenever I heard Pensacola, Florida I actually thought it was Pepsi-Cola - I figured that was probably where it was made - and no, I'm not joking, sadly.🙃
Americans reply with Arkansas.. but we're still winning.
Try these surnames... Featherstonehaugh and chulmondeley.😂
Ah yes, Ar-can-zuss ... definitely one I've heard people stumble over 😆😆😆 ...how the heck it's supposed to be read as Arkin-saw is beyond me.
Even call them lollipop ladies here in Australia 😌
I don't know if people still refer to the big orange glass bowl on top of the Zebra Crossing pole, kerbside, as the Belisha Beacon, so named after the Minister of Transport donkey's years ago! I just remembered this , no need to ask google!
Wow that first one, the pub The Three Merry Lads, is about a mile and a half from where I live as the crow flies
Right, now we all know where Stan lives, round yours after closing time Stan? 😂🍺
Crows really are the most intelligent birds. In my tree in the garden, they see me in the kitchen and know.........
So there is, usually pigeons, sparrows, starlings (s), and Crows. I emerge a few yards into the garden and quickly throw bread on my kitchen roof with a flat top.
While the pigeons flap their wings,the starlings flee and the sparrows do not move, the Crows, instantly, leave the tree and swoop onto my kitchen roof, and within,I can hear them above me.
That is an epic distance as the inebriate staggers.
Derby is doing the bee friendly bus stop too
5:00 That's Wallace & Grommit. They're iconic in Britain, much loved and the films have won multiple Oscars. They have loads of silly british humour and lots of little jokes, puns etc, going on in the background.
That's a scene form the first film which was made on a tiny budget so not as good as the later ones, though it still won an Oscar. I'd recommend watching the next ones:The Wrong Trousers, A close Shave, A Matter of Loaf & Death and the Feature length film Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Aardman Animations has also made a number of other films such as Chicken Run, Flushed Away (with Pixar), The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, Arthur Christmas, Early Man and some Shaun the Sheep adventures aimed more at young children. Shaun first appears in a Close Shave.
At 4'11 ... I took the '" sharing with your friends " comment to be ironic. I mean you'd never share Tunnocks Teacakes or Snowballs as they are lush. Hence the quotation marks. ""
The lollipop ladies reminded me of another great British expression: referring to the original type of ATM as a 'hole in the wall' [of the bank].
The americans called theirs ATM because their banks have tellers. We call ours Cashpoints because our banks have Cashiers. (And as we invented cashpoints I think that’s a win,full stop.)
I've always called it the dib dob machine cos that's the noise it makes 😅
I LOVE the name Jack the Chipper! I hope it's located in White Chapple lol. I like places with funny names. Saw a hairdressers once called "Curl Up and Dye". And there's an Indian Takeaway/Restaurant near where I live with a sign saying "Try our curries - you'll never get better" - not sure if they're in on the joke with that sign or not, but I laugh every time I see it.
The sign on our Chinese take away.."danger..the floor is sibbery"...
There's a driving instructor here called Samuel Jackson. He's put the 'L' plate on the roof-mounted sign between the two names so that it reads "Samuel L Jackson". Clever.
It IS located in Whitechapel !
The chalk drawing of the man on the hill is actually really interesting. He's called the cerne Abbas Giant and people have been maintaining him for like 1000 years or something. There's a horse one too.
There are more than 50 chalk drawings on hillsides in England alone. The Cerne Giant is actually only about 400 years old!
well, I googled it to make sure my facts were correct and it said they're unsure just how old cerne giant is but could have been made between 700 and 1200 CE so...?@@libradragon934
What! A Horse Cock as Well?
Years ago we had a shop in town called ‘Knobs and Knockers’ for door knobs etc 😂
the lads drinking in the rain they're talking about the favourite british pastime ......the weather 😂😂😂
At 14:20, The 'special offer' is that the 3 x .30pence fudges individually would come to £0.90, where as the Special offer is x3 fudges for £1.00, which is more expensive.
For a long time, my local Tesco had an offer on bread. £1 for one loaf, £3 for three loaves! Bargain!
Hi. The stop motion movie is from a TV show called Wallace, the human, and Gromit, the dog. They love cheese and decided to fly to the moon because there’d be loads of cheese there., the place is made of cheese isn't it? Their shows, and films, have led to a great response in the sales of Wensleydale cheese in the UK. Their films are run by Aardman Animations, a Bristol based company. Their great films are Chicken Run 7 the Curse of the Ware-Rabbit. Great films for all the family, especially the kids.
Locally we have a chip shop called “A Fish Called Wanda” in the Rhondda Valley.
Licence is a noun, as in ‘driving licence’. License is a verb, as in ‘she’s licensed to sell alcohol’.
The "Price Reducer" is the employee who is putting the reduced price stickers on the near-dated stock. There can be a sizeable crowd of would be purchasers of the cheap bargains and the employee can be pushed out of the way so that the an over-eager individual can get the cheaper item before anybody else can get to it!
Bundle ! and I enter my 8th decade in May:)
Just found your channel and loving your take on all things British..! Keep up the good word. Great fun to watch 😊😊
15:47 English Village!
If you look at the clouds! You will see a Dragon !!
Mark Radcliffe is a beloved radio dj who was treated for testicular cancer some years back. He presents a weekend breakfast show with Stuart Maconie on 6 Music, it’s very good, was listening just before I watched this video.
When you try Marmite, spread it in a thin smear; so that you can see through it. My son, when he was Very young, put it on like chocolate spread - fiercely indigestible. 'Leicester' is Lester, 'Newquay' is Newkey. 🙂
11:38 They where talking about the weather
11:09 discounted items at end of the day, folks can get quite territorial sometimes 😂
Tv aerials are what we had before satellite dishes. It took places like the UK & where I live Australia longer to get them so they were still common until the late 90s, early 00s when foxtel came over.
YES it is how you spell licence! 😂 Its your way that needs addressing! ❤
First time watcher. Love your reaction. Your voice is so soothing. Can't wait to see more. Peace
pub numbers may be declining as a whole but dont let that make you think tens of thousands of pubs arent still insanely packed out all across the country every week haha.
The brown suace you pointed at was Malt vinegar, for putting on your chips/fries, amongst other stuff.
11:08 we call this the whoops aisle. When items have a short sell by date, supermarkets reduce the prices. While us Brits are usually polite & respect queues & waiting our turn, if there's a bargain to be had we can throw elbows 😂 that barrier is to let the staff member put the items out for sale without getting shoved out of the way.
FYI Gloucester/Gloucestershire are pronounced Glosster
When I mentioned I liked fish fingers to some American mates they looked at me like I was nuts because you call them fish sticks LoL
Your American friend probably thought, wait, fish have fingers?!, lol 😆
But they eat buffalo wings!!
Towards the end of each day supermarkets reduce the price of food close to its sell by date is reduced. People wait for the stickers to go on and literally fight over the best offers.
Licence is spelt correctly. It's English UK not English American. And its pronounced Gloster 😂😂
In English English License and Licence are contextual. Both are correct in the correct usage.
@@darthwiiziusLicence for the noun, license for the verb.
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Yup.
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Licence pronounced Gloster.??😂
7:00 clouds look like a dragon in the sky.
Gave this a like. Didn’t find the clips that amusing, but always enjoy your posts ❤
In "proper" English, licence is a noun and license is a verb. See also practice and practise. Pretty sure that "eurotunnel" image is Kelly Tarlton's Sealife Aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand. The big chalk carving is called the "Giant (or Rude Man) of Cerne Abbas". It's in southwest England and is at least 400 (and possibly over 1000) years old. Repeat after me: GLOS-tuh, LES-tuh, NEW-key :)
Went to visit the Verge Abbas Giant a few years back. There was a newly married couple running about inside the figure. Still in their wedding clothes!
@@carolroberts4614 It's traditionally suppsed to be good for fertility :)
I've just seen that I put verge instead of Cerne! You're right about the fertility thing, I wondered if that couple have lots of kids now
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@@carolroberts4614 I'd assumed it was a spell-check thing :)
Yes it was! I didn't check before I sent! I can't edit either, I'm on my Kindle, and it's not an option!
A nan is what the brits call a grandmother. His nan packed him a lunch full of food that roths teeth for him to eat while waiting for a dentist appointment.
Crows really are the most intelligent birds. In my tree in the garden, they see me in the kitchen and know.........
So there is, usually pigeons, sparrows, starlings (s), and Crows. I emerge a few yards into the garden and quickly throw bread on my kitchen roof with a flat top.
While the pigeons flap their wings,the starlings flee and the sparrows do not move, the Crows, instantly, leave the tree and swoop onto my kitchen roof, and within,I can hear them above me.
the thing at 15:08 was malt vinegar, there was no brown sauce there :(
9:31 fun fact. The Thames River Police are the oldest police force in the UK. ... and they are very proud of it, too.
Jack the Ripper also worked in Whitechapel.Pronounced Gloster (Gloucester) and Lester (Leicester). Remember the British pint is larger than the US pint, (US pint = 16 fluid ounces, British pint = 20 fl oz. 25% larger)
The US fluid ounce is larger than the UK (or "Imperial") fluid ounce. Hence a US pint is 16.665348 UK fl.oz, or 83.267418464% of a UK pint at 20 fl.oz (Imp.)
@@gavmusic I was trying not to be too pedantic, just comparative. It doesn't change the fact that a US gallon is 3.78L compared to 4.54 for the UK gallon.
@@TerenceDixon-l6b My apologies for being the dull pedant on this occasion 😀 Peace
Digestive biscuits are so called because they contain arrowroot flour. This was originally marketed as an aid to digestion (it isn't) hence the name.
Price reduction on perishable items that are almost out of date usually happen at about the same time on the same day in UK supermarkets. The price reducers are often hampered in their task by shoppers eager for a bargain. Protective strategies are a silent request for patience. LOL. Cheers.
At 4.11 the party food is for little children so his mum still thinks he and his friends are about 7 or 8 - imagine if you turned up at a manly sports event with that instead of beer . Well meaning but embarrassing mum joke.
The presenter’s voice is really soothing btw
The other funny thing about the Dachshund on the roof is that while Dachshund means "badger-dog" (Dachs-Hund), it's very nearly "roof-dog": Dach-Hund
I also had a visit from the TV licence folk. They were so embarrassed when I produced the licence they didn’t think I had.😂
Lollipop ladies in Australia as well .
My plan is to have the Stones "Start me up " as my last song as I'm put into the fire. It will either piss some off or laugh, either way I think its funny.
What about Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown? Always thought that one would be good!
having " Burn Let me burn. Let me cleanse my soul, cleanse my soul. In napalm " by AVATAR as i go in@@deja-view1017
Curl up and Dye is a good name for a Hairdressers salon.
As is Hair Today Gone Tomorrow.
British supermarkets usually have a place, often at the end of an aisle, where food that is close to it's sell by date is placed, massively discounted. There's usually something of a rugby scrum around the area, especially when new items have just been added. :)
He's talking about a UHF tv broadcast aerial , they've been around since the 60s . Whilst many have satellite and cable channels the basic standard is broadcast tv for which you need a licence .
Aerial is not a satellite dish. Aerial is used to pick up the the Freeview no subscription channels. 81 entertainment, 12 Children's, 6 news 33 radio. If tv is also connected to the internet watch most programs from the previous 7 days. Just by selecting them from the tv guide.
Satellite dishes are mostly used for subscription services.
yes that is how we spell incence, an aerial is an antenna, the Tv licence is for having a tv capable of receiving broadcast signals - not just some channels.
The tescos ad was after the pandemic when pubs were closed. Now Pubs are thriving. They are resilient. As for tv license (spelt correctly) Licence is a noun, license is a verb. Before learning to drive, you apply for a provisional driving licence, but the DVLA must license you to drive. When you install a TV in your home, you must have a TV licence.
Why have you spelled tv license the verb way?
The pack lunch was the fact she ate before seeing the dentist, now there’s food all in the child’s teeth when the dentist does his job, oops 😂
Thank you SO much for mentioning dogs being tied up outside, being made to wait - but the dog doesn't have a clue why he's beeb left there. You can see the anxious look on their faces every tines someone walks out, but it's not their owner 😥
Look at it the way we do....We have children in case we need spare parts in later life.
If I remember correctly, the Tesco one was when we were just coming out of lockdown after covid, hence the “if you feel safe doing so”
8:37 oh dude I haven’t heard the term “lollipop man” since i was 6!
Love your gentle delivery ,your so cute
Smoking was banned in pubs years ago and the whole industry has been dying ever since.
Many years ago my friend’s local chippy was called In Cod we Trust!!😁
If you actually look at the contents of packed lunch perhaps not the best to consume before a dentist appointment - fizzy juice, chocolate etc 😊
In British english, licence is a noun, license is a verb
There is a squash when everyone stampedes to get the reduced items first 😅
the chalk hill figure the National Trust is touching up,is the Cerne Abbas Giant. A lot of people think it's ancient,but it was done in the 1700's .PS My friend, it's Gloucester as 'GLOS-STER and Newquay,as NEW-KEY
Jack the chipper is in Whitechapel, so was Jack the Ripper...so you were spot on.
The door holding one, as a Brit I just say “don’t mention it” sarcastically
My girlfriend thought you were still talking about Rick Astley when you said "He seems like he has a heart of gold. […]This little guy has come to visit me every night for the past 2 weeks" 😂
1) There are 100 pence in 1 pound (we’ve been decimal since 1971) so yes, equivalent to cents and dollars. Pence is an antique form of the plural pennies, so five pence but one penny. As you said, the supposed promotional offer would cost more than 3 bars bought individually.
2) Yes, the Map Men told you that -cester at the end of (most) place names is just pronounced as -stuh. Doctor Foster rhymes with Gloucester, fester with Leicester etc. The word ‘quay’, a wharf built parallel to the shore, is pronounced like ‘key’ (in Britain and the US!) so Newquay is pronounced ‘NYOO-key’. It’s in Cornwall. Towan is derived from Cornish (Celtic), and means ‘sand dunes’. Points for saying ‘York-shush’ though👌
3) British English spelling differentiates between noun and verb in these words: practice/practise and licence/license. Also offence (noun) but offensive (adjective). So someone licensed to watch TV would have a TV licence. TV aerials are NOT satellite dishes, they’re those old-fashioned looking metal antennae seen on rooftops.
4) Yes, ‘Jack the Ripper’ operated in the Whitechapel area of London. Definitely not Whitehall!