As a British person watching this video, I can definitely hear her Australian accent, although it is interspersed with some English pronunciation. I also think some of her explanations aren't very clear as she isn't from here so some of her views aren't as accurate as a native's would be. All in all a good video but for accuracy, maybe find a video made by a British person 😊
Agreed. I suspect she was probably born in the UK, but has clearly spent the majority of her life in Australia which has resulted in her stating a number of inaccuracies, particularly about the power of monarchy and about guns. Yes there are guns in the UK but it is somewhat more difficult to obtain one by simply having to wait 7 days! It is very difficult to own one.
@@johnnyuk3365 And once you've got one, you don't have to wait seven days before each use so it's not something that should be easily available to hotheads.
Our weather forecasts are all in centigrade (most people don't understand Fahrenheit). Our scales (in the gym, etc) are in stones and pounds, our road signs are in miles, our milk and juices are litres, but when you go to a pub, you order in pints. So you have to be quite versatile when you come over, lest you seriously under estimate or over estimate an important feature during your travels.
being from england and living in scotland for the last 10 years. Financially, the uk government only cares about London. the further away you go the more you are forgotten about. Even northern english cities view it the same way. So when people think England is only London, it is definitely a misconception... but it's actually quite close to what people in the UK feel too.
Tyler, the word Imperial comes from the word Empire, as in British Empire! Why America kept the old British system and then restricted its usage, is bizarre to me. As well as stones, the US also doesn’t use the word “fortnight” which is weird, as is the fact that America says two times instead of twice, and three times instead of thrice. 🧐😵💫😳
The US doesn't use imperial. They use the US Customary Units system, which is based on English units that existed before the Imperial system was created. Britain adopted Imperial. The US went with their own system. This is why they're are differences between the two systems. For example, a US pint is smaller than a Imperial pint; 473ml and 568ml respectively. It's also why the stone unit is not recognised in the US. It's it's an Imperial unit not a US unit.
Never noticed the two times thing before now! hahaha! Think of all the songs that wouldn't work if twice and thrice were used... 🎶Strumming my pain with his fingers 🎶 (one time) 🎶Singing my life with his words 🎶 (twice) The song "Two Times" by Ann Lee (a British artist) would really be screwed. Not only would the title change, the chorus would literally be "Twice, Thrice, Twice, Thrice" 🤣 While being a more common thing to say "twice" or "thrice", it's not one of those things where if an American said "two times" we'd correct them or look at them like they're talking gibberish (and I know that's not your point).
Like the 'Brits have bad food' the 'Brits have poor teeth' come from just after the war, GIs would note that Brits would go to the dentist twice per year, and assume it was because of poor teeth, it was actually because such check-ups were provided by the NHS (free, at the time).
My friends are mostly farmers, they all have guns- shotguns and rifles but there are very strict rules about owning them like they have to be inspected every year along with how they are stored and transported plus you get interviewed each year to assess each owner’s mental health
I grew up in Moss Side, Manchester as a kid, there were shootings between rival gangs every couple of weeks. The idea that there is no gun violence in the UK is a myth, however inner city Manchester has a lot less gun violence than Inner city Baltimore or Detroit
@@fossy4321 Whilst it's true that renewals of Certificates is every 5 years ('Licence' implies the issuing authority is responsible for what you do with it, but they are called Certificates because you are personally responsible for what you do with them and have to be insured as a part of the conditions for £12 Million liability, and the Certificate is just an 'authority to possess'), the inspections are less often, and have to be booked by the Police Officer at your convenience, not theirs, although in practice if they show their Warrant Card no-one would deny them the opportunity to make an inspection; in fact I'm currently going through my second renewal, and haven't been inspected for 10 years.
Guns in the UK are strictly licensed. Farmers can have shotguns, sportsmen can have sports rifles, but all these must be kept locked in the house when not in use. It is illegal for ordinary civilians to carry hand guns. Only special units of the police can carry guns, those mainly trained for anti terrorism.
You do not have to be insured , I've no idea where you heard this. The License is actually a certificate correct but I believe you are being a little pedantic about the wording. The inspections are almost never by a police officer, but by a civilian employed by the police ( often a retired officer) so they will not have a warrant card, and if they turn up police officer or civilian unannounced just to check your guns with no overriding reason to suspect wrong doing you are well within your rights to refuse entry, and agree a date for inspection. @@Judge_Dredd
Knife crime is quite common in certain parts in the UK. It is however massively gang on gang, but there are occasions however where people outside of gangs have been stabbed.
I was just thinking this too. And there is a difficulty with knife crime because they were not designed as lethal weapons. They are tools which we use everyday to prepare and eat our food 🧐
Stop and search is a big thing , but if your policing areas which are predominately associated with crime and knife crime then stop and search is a must , my friends son recently got mugged and a machete pushed into his leg , it is definately getting worse .
The US actually has a higher rate of knife related homicides per capita, than the UK. So guns are not even reducing the chance of being killed with a knife, but they’re greatly increasing the risk of being killed with a gun.
Working abroad in the 1980s, I had an American arguing with me because he was absolutely convinced that the UK was foggy all the time. I gave up trying to explain that smog and coal fires are ancient history because of our Clean Air Acts. A kilometre is 5/8ths of a mile. A US gallon is 3.8 litres, an Imperial gallon is 4.5 gallons. I have seen Americans appalled by Brits being "subjects", instead of being "citizens". We must thank the car industry for making new cars so easy to steal, that our local criminals no longer bother so much with burglary and mugging.
Had an American argue with me that Scotland wasn’t on the island of Great Britain. No matter how much I explained it was, or that I live in England and Scotland is only a couple of hours drive away from me, I’ve been there. They knew better because their great grandfather was Scottish, and I was English. So that made them more of an expert on Scotland than me (they had never been to Scotland though).
In recent years some of the greatest misconceptions about the UK is about the Royal Family based purely on Americans watching the TV drama The Crown, unfortunately many of the journalist and the media in the State's also use this as their base source when talking about past and current events connected to the Royal Family, it would be like the UK using the West Wing as the prime way to learn about the history of American politics.
@@Ray-lw2rh Because it's much easier to understand that 0° is freezing point than learn what constitutes 'hot' in metric. I have finally converted my brain to total Celsius, but only in the last few years have I done it with hot temps.
I'm British, but have lived in Canada for fifty years. I thought right away that she was Australian, but had lived in England for quite a few years. It's amazing how the 'perception' of accent can change between people. With a generic Southern English with a slight Welsh tinge, I have been mistaken for Irish, Scottish and Australian in the US , all on the same day!
I hear ya! Working over there with a West Country accent, Americans thought I was from Australia, NZ, or SA. One sort of got "close" saying "That's a British accent, isn't it? Don't tell me - Scottish!"...
Very similar in the US for me with a Nottinghamshire accent, also got mistaken for Canadian - that one confused me. Quite often I’m asked if I’m from ‘out of state’ as that seems to be the go to for ‘I don’t recognise your accent’ but seems so geographically limited
@@vaudevillian7 Unless you have a posh RP accent or sound like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins trying to do a cockney accent , they do not recognise you as British! Amazingly all the other British accents, from West Country to Glaswegian, sound very similar to them!
@@denewst01 a cup is actually half a US pint, or 236.6ml. There's a "metric cup" which is 250ml, because Americans would rather say "metric cup" than "250ml".
Since I started my new job last june working outside, I can count on both hands how many times I've been to work and it's rained. It really doesn't rain that much to be honest.
I live in the sunshine capital of England and it rarely rains. The South of England is very sunny and from March through to October we have beautiful weather. Even in winter we don't get much rain. There's been water shortages and hosepipe bans every summer for years. We also have had summer holidays all over Britain since I was a kid and have had (mostly) gorgeous weather especially in Scotland in Elgin.
I’m in Brighton and as much as I love it, there’s absolutely no way we could say but rarely rains on the south coast. It’s literally chucked it down for months.
@@cameracamera4415 Eastbourne has a microclimate because of the Downs. You can literally see the clouds separate as they come across the sea and then rejoin once they're back over the Downs. It's a bizarre phenomenon. No I totally agree. I think it was an El Nino year wasn't it and we've had terrible rain this winter but this year has been an exception to the general rule. Eastbourne hasn't had as much rain as surrounding countryside like Alfriston, Littlington, etc which had awful flooding. Even with all of that though they only just lifted the bloody hosepipe ban! Absolute insanity.
To get a gun in the UK usually takes 3-6months as you need to apply to your local police for the ability to buy one. They usually get your doctor's view on you owning one as well. Knife crime is unfortunately a thing mainly amongst kids in gangs in large towns and cities. Fun fact London is much drier than New York. The West of the UK can be very wet with the north west the wettest but London being South East it's protected many times. UK teeth are ranked 5th in the world for the lack of cavities with the US in 7th. As said dental care for kids is free until they're working then it's subsidized substantially if using an NHS dentist. The most expensive treatments like crowns cost £262. That's the fixed charge using an NHS dentist in England.
The only thing people use stones for is bodyweight. Saying someone is 192 pounds to me means nothing, its like saying you are 72 inches high, rather than 6 foot, its too granular. Your doctor will probably record your weight in kilos, but people 'think' in stone and pounds.
I can quickly work out peoples weight in pounds because I watch a lot of boxing and boxing weight classes are in pounds in the USA and generally stones in uk so over the years just memorised the stones equivalent to pounds. Welterweight is 147 pounds so 10 and a half stone. Super middleweight is 168lbs so 12st. Light heavyweight 175lbs so 12 and a half stone.
Just think of the fun we used to have at school when we still had 20 shillings to the pound, and 12 pennies to the shilling - combined with the various length, area, volume and weight variations, some of our exam questions would need multiple calculations and conversions. And all without a calculator - although for some exams we were allowed a slide rule.
Statistically London is drier than New York, Paris, Rome and Sydney. As was alluded to in the video it is the western part of Great Britain that gets the majority of the wet weather.
08:00 she's wrong about the royals only having symbolic roles in the military. Harry served in Afghanistan, Andrew served in the Falklands War, William served on an RAF Search and Rescue helicopter etc.
Yes 100% Australian, she is just well spoken and speaking like most Australians do . She is not speaking the Steve Irwin style that all Americans think Australians speak like, which they don’t
My brother met Queen Elizabeth II, 3 times because his company won awards for business. His company made Mixing desks, things that were used by lots of television stations and musicians all over the world. He also worked with some of the biggest music stars. His wife also met the Queen, because she developed the software that is used in the NHS for patient information (when it changed from paper records to computerised). Even my sister met the Queen more than a couple of times, because she works for the British Museum
The Isle of Man, and the the Balliwicks of Jersey and Guernsey (the other Channel Islands are included with them), are Self-governing possessions of the Crown of the UK, previously known as Crown Dependencies. They use the same currency, are part of the same telecommunications and mail networks, and each of them have Governors chosen by the King/Queen, to represent him/her in their absences, as de facto Heads of State. The UK provides them with defence and foreign diplomacy as needed, but plays no other part in their Governance. This relationship is similar to - but not the same as, the 14 UK Overseas Territories that form the residue of what was once the British Empire.
If you want to learn a bit more about gun laws in the UK and why we have the restrictions we do I recommend looking up a video about the Dunblane massacre. I actually lived close by at the time and it happened the year before I started attending school so I was only 4 years old, but going and placing one of my toys outside the Dunblane school gates just a couple of days later is one of my earliest memories, and the impact of that event massively shaped how the UK perceives guns and the laws that have been put in place since. It devastated us and it's one of the reasons we look so harshly at the US making guns easily obtainable despite the numerous school mass shootings that have taken place (and other mass shootings also).
I'll keep on saying it - New York has twice the annual rainfall that London has. Not sure why she hasn't found the Met Office website , which has a lovely radar view ( and it's free) , and also surface pressure charts , along with past 24 hrs stats and 7 day forecasts for your local spot.
The problem of weather in the Uk isn't the volume of rainfall it's the distribution. You can start the day and it's fine, then it will random rain. The rainfall is distributed sporadically and, in most cases, inconveniently. We rarely have heavy rain, just lots of instances of raining.
I think her problem is more that the U.K. weather is just too unpredictable for one app to handle! In the last couple of years the BBC website can’t predict accurately beyond a couple of days and even then, I have gotten wet in a shower when the prediction was less than 5% chance of rain in my area!
@@louise2209 I believe that would pretty much coincide with the time the BBC stopped using the Met Office for its source data in favour of a cheaper alternative. I stick with the Met Office as my experience it that it gets it right most often - though it's true, I don't think anyone can predict something as unpredictable as the British weather very well :) I did once read that if you are asked 'what's the weather going to be like tomorrow?' you should reply 'same as today' and you will be statistically more accurate than most weather forecasts. May not be true but it says a lot about our weather!
The Channel Islands are not part of the British Isles. They are islands of offshore France. The Channel Islands consist of two legal entities, the Bailiwick of Jersey, and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which, together, cover all the various physical islands. Historically, they are the remnants of land still belonging to, and under the sole jurisdiction of, the Duke of Normandy. The present Duke of Normandy is, of course, King Charles III. They have never been, politically, part of France. They are part of Normandy, so already belonged to William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, when he seized the English crown by force in 1066. This pre-dated the establishment of a kingdom of France by 25 years. Jersey and Guernsey are therefore Crown Dependencies (as is the Isle of Man), a status unique to them.
I live in Jersey in the Channel Islands, which gave its name to New Jersey in the USA. The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are not part of the UK, however, they are part of the British Isles. These Islands have the monarch as their head of state but are also self-governing i.e. Parliament has no control over these islands, just like Australia for example, where the monarch is their head of state, but they have their own government and laws. Hope this helps.
Loosely, the Channel Islands are sometimes included in the British Isles but technically (geographically) they are not part of the same archipelago. The UK Government officially refers to the UK and the British Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey as the "British Islands", a convenient label. Pedantic, I know.🙄
The British monarch is the Duke of Normandy in the Channel Islands. Even Queen Elizabeth II was known by that title despite being female. And this was before the current trend of identifying as this that and the other; one could say she was ahead of her time.
Generally the western parts of England, Wales and Scotland get more rain because they get a lot of their weather off the Atlantic and the Gulf Stream. London is on the drier side of the country and on average gets almost half the average precipitation of New York, for instance. We have a very temperate climate without the extremes of continental climates.
I think the whole teeth thing came from the idea that because we don't force & file our teeth down into perfect flat teeth that our teeth must be bad. We also don't remove our wisdom teeth unless there is a problem.
Re the teeth. Also there's less emphasis on having brilliant white, cosmetically perfect teeth. In fact brilliant white teeth can actually be less healthy because the chemicals can in some circumstances actually weaken the enamel.
To get that brilliant white, straight teeth look, some procedures involve filing down natural teeth to little pointy stubs then new false teeth fitted over them, in other words, posh dentures. No thanks. My dentist here in the UK checks all the previous work is still intact, for any changes that may need treatment and for early signs of possible health problems including cancer. The hygienist then does a descale and polish, twice a year. I am 69 and have all my own teeth, apart from wisdoms. I am happy with that.
@@alpey8487 - Try visiting Appalachia or the deep south. Toothless country. There were also rations in the UK for decades after WW2 that meant poor nutrition for many.
What's confusing for us Brits is we put gas (petrol/diesel) in our cars by the litre, but fuel consumption is always given in mpg. We use fahrenheit when it's hot outside and celcius when it's cold. We know miles and can convert to/from kilometres, but have trouble converting lbs/oz to kg/g. We give room dimensions in ft x ft, and sometimes m x m, but never square ft or square metres. Most Brits don't know how many feet are in a mile, or exactly what an acre is, or how many ounces are in a stone. We are not 100% metric and we're not 100% fluent in imperial, and that's why we're still confused 🤣
I'd say that you are right that many people are confused but it's a national disgrace. We should master both systems, both are important both now and historically so lacking a decent grasp of either leaves a person unable to fully enjoy literature, historical documents, current affairs, travel etc.
@@alexmckee4683 As a brit., why would I need to know how many feet in a mile? I do know how many feet in a yard, I also know how many yards in 1/4 or 1/2 a mile (440 & 880 respectively) and by implication how many in a mile. Equally why would I need to know how many ounces in a stone? I know ounces in a pound and pounds in a stone. Most conversions in Britain are single to the next highest (or lowest) unit type. And no I don't know what an acre is, other than being the area of land I would expect a horse drawn plough to cover in a day. But since I don't farm and if I did I would probably use a tractor, its not a measure I'm familiar with, I generally don't use Furlongs either, except when watching horse racing. With miles per gallon, I think the main thing is, its easy to measure miles in UK cars as it is required by law, fuel while sold in litres is easier to approximate in gallons (about 5 litres to the UK gallon). Since the mpg as an approximation (affected by weather, speed, gradient...) its a useful 'yard stick' for how efficient a car is. For MPH to KPH roughly 60mph is 100kph, thus 30mph is about 50kph, note this is visible on most UK speedometers.
I'm a middle aged Brit, who's not confused by either set of measures and use both. I'm often asked to convert on the fly by older family because it's easy for me and most of my similar aged friends too.
@@Thurgosh_OG That's impressive. So without stopping to check or calculate, you know how what 9lbs 5oz is in grams right? Certainly impressive if you do.
I'm Scottish, I went to Disney world Florida with my partner and were asked all the time where we were from and always got told my English is really good 😂😂😂
To say that members of the Royal Family wouldn't be put in combat situations is not true, Harry served 2 tours in Afghanistan, one of which he flew Apache helicopters in. Prince Andrew (yes the kings disgraced brother) was a helicopter pilot during the Falklands war and flew multiple missions. While they probably weren't chosen for the most dangerous missions, I don't think it would be fair to say the were being kept safe, just by the fact they were present in these conflicts.... and they did both fly missions.
I lived in Canada for a year and have a Geordie accent. It was so bad I just started talking in received pronunciation so they could understand me, needless to say I moved back home.
19:30 I think the misconception comes from the fact that America is quite crazy when it comes to their teeth. The whole teeth bleaching and perfect white veneers is very much a US thing. In the UK we go to the dentist etc, but with the strict purpose of having healthy teeth (especially if it's through the NHS). So teeth bleaching is a luxury. UK teeth tend to just have their natural colour. If anything I noticed it can seem a little vein to try and have the Hollywood treatment with your teeth. Not always, but we had British celebrities who have had public mockery when they clearly got work done on their teeth (Rylan comes to mind).
I think the difference between metric and imperial in the U.K. is that metric is used more for everyday personal use (food, measuring, etc) where as imperial is more for things that the average person doesn’t really need specific/accurate measurements for regularly (personal height, body weight, distances, etc)
Re miles and kilometres, an easy rule of thumb is that 50 kph is equivalent to 30 mph and 80 kph is equivalent to 50 mph. Just take a look at your speedometer next time you get in your car. 🤓
When it comes to practical applications the imperial system uses a lot of handy sizes ( at least in farming ). An acre is about the amount of land required to keep a cow for a year. \an acre also used to be the amount a man and a horse could plough in one day. In the sizes of fields that used to be found on farm 10-15 acres was a common dimension. Fertiliser applications are now expressed in kg per hectare , so for example 120 kg per hectare going on at one time. Fertiliser ( in the days before tote bags of 1 tonne) came in bags of one hundredweight ( 112 lbs , but now 50kg which is 110 lbs). So common application rates for crops would be 2 or three bags per acre - nice and simple!! 2 bags per acre is easier to track and visualise than 120 kg per hectare . Stones is an easy measure for peoples weights . Most people fall in the range 8 to 12 stones. Likewise height in feet . A 5 ft person is short and anyone over 6 ft is tall !
The UK has been metric for over 50 years. All my education (apart from about 3 years in primary school) was in metric back in the 60s and 70s. There are only TWO exceptions: road signs are in mile and speed is in mph - everything else is metric.
When I fill up my car it's measured in litres but fuel consumption is measured in miles per gallon. Wheel size is measured in inches but the tyre tread is measured in millimetres. Road signs in the UK are in miles. Milk is sold in litres, beer in a pub is sold in pints, and beer in cans is in millilitres. As a welder at work, I use the metric system, but when measuring someone's height or weight we use the imperial system! As a Brit, this seems normal but I understand foreigners thinking "ffs just pick one" 🤪🤣🇬🇧
Even easier conversion: Unless you're in the thousands just add half onto the miles to get the kilometers distance. It's actually x1.6 properly but adding a half on top is close enough, so 100 miles is about 150 kilometers. She sounds mostly English and she has an Australian twang on a few words.
To me she sounds completely Australian (maybe New Zealand because I have difficulty telling those accents apart) She does not sound English at all. I suppose it depends what you are used to hearing
@@dominique8233 Oh I know, I've watched her before, I'm just commenting on her accent as the person above says she sounds English with a hint of Australian and I don't hear that. If I didn't know she was Australian however, I might think she might be from New Zealand. But she does not sound English at all to me
Great Britain is a geographical feature, it is called Great Britain because it is the largest of the 6000+ British Isles, of which 136 are permanently inhabited. Like Scotland and Wales not all of England is on Great Britain.
As an Englishman I went to the States (Nevada) with the military back in the seventies, ironically back then, many Americans asked if we were Australian? Some of my colleagues could do a reasonable Aussie accent but very few Americans that we asked could tell the difference.
I'm a Scotsman, and I was once asked in Houston where I was from.. I replied Scotland and this particular woman asked "what state is that in?". I was quite embarrassed for her.
What I don't understand about Americans is why do they say 'The Royal Family', 'The King (or Queen)' when referring to the British royal family. Why is 'The' used when referring to our royalty? Do they refer to other royal families like that - the Dutch, the Finnish, the Danish royal families etc? Is it just because they are more familiar with ours?
I'm from a place called barnsley, Yorkshire in the uk. When we go on holiday ZERO people can understand me. If you are curious search barnsley accent.... its a tough one
Hmm interesting I’m sure all these things would change depending on the age of the person you ask. The last 100 years have been a big change for the UK so things could change massively between a 20 and 30 year old. I’m 24, I use stone for weight although my doctors use kgs. I use Celsius but my mum in her 60s is familiar with Fahrenheit. I also use miles, never ever used km and wouldn’t have a clue how far it was all the signs in England are in miles and we measure speed in miles per hour😂
When I explained some of the roles of the monarchy to my friend in the US the other day he actually thought it was a better way of governance than the US. In the UK it's like power sharing. So no one person has all the power. I think that's a good thing. Take the subject of making a new law. The government can get a new law through parliament but it's not law until the reigning monarch signs it off. They could say no, this is not right. It's an added layer of protection so that in this example, a parliamentary government can't just push through anything it likes. It prevents things like dictatorship.
The rainy thing is, as, she says, a misconception. Put simply, the west of Britain is wetter and warmer, the east is drier and colder. The North is cooler than the south. London, in fact, gets less annual rainfall than Paris and even Rome. The Lake District gets Seattie levels of rain, probably even more.
It’s genuinely strange to me that many North American’s wouldn’t hear the difference, she doesn’t sound British 😆 Lived experience factors in to it I guess.
She has a very very weak Aussie accent. I know people from Melbourne and the accent is strong. Goodday mate! She sounds English with a touch of Australian.
She's young and (clearly) has been miseducated. Most old people use a combination of imperial and metric. Beer is served in pints. Petrol (gas) , confusingly is sold in litres but the efficiency of a car is measured in 'miles per gallon'. Temperature is quoted in centigrade, except when it's hot when the papers use Fahrenheit, because it sounds hotter and makes a better headline. And don't get me started on the currency and the loss of pounds, shillings and pence.
Looking back to when I was a child, I often think that we were mathematical geniuses being able to use pounds, shillings and pence. I only use the metric system if I'm making something. It is great for that but if I'm told that something is for example 14.5cM I have convert it back to inches to get an idea of how big that is. I usually keep rule of thumb conversions on my head, like 10cM is about 4 inches and 40kMs is about 25 miles. Try asking in a shop that sells cheese that isn't pre packed for 500gms of cheese and you'll probably get an answer "How much is that in old money".
Always fun with the measurement systems? As an aeronautical engineer I had to be conversant in both systems (And others) as much of our equipment is/was American. Luckily I was initially taught Imperial measurement in the sixties as a young child. However, even our Imperial measures can be different, look at volume. EG. A British Gallon is larger.
I want to clarify. By people in the UK who don't know the difference I believe she means English people or people from other countries visiting the UK or living there. No Irish, Scottish, or Welsh person will think they are living in England when they aren't.
We use both imperial and metric... i was born in 1952.. so pounds ..shillings and pence.. stones and pounds.. miles and fahrenheit. . Then at around 16 we converted to decimilization(metric)... so i constantly convert back and forth even donkeys years later... but strangely so do my sons who were born into metric... this is pretty widespread... we are fond of our miles.. we rarely use cups for weight we use metric but can still weigh in pounds and ounces.
It's not just Americans - I teach English online and nearly everyone I've spoken to in Saudi, China, Turkey, Japan, Korea etc etc who has asked about where in England I was from, has asked if I'm in London.
Gun clubs are fairly popular in the UK, I used to work at one (clay pigeons don't fly by themselves), 12 bore guns are really popular for wildfowl control.
I lived a few years in Australia & they are up there with the worst at referring to Britain as England. They'd call me Scotty & then say hey Scotty did you do this in England? I'd just say no until the penny dropped, it's not like the Scots weren't prominent in Australia, we certainly have been.
Private handgun or rifle ownership is not allowed except if the weapon is at a gun club and is securely kept there , shotguns are allowed but the rules and application process are very strict . Rifles of .22 Calibre are allowed for like pest control or target shooting .
Can I just point out that in England and Wales ppresciptions are £10 and a NHS Dentist is around £40 to £70 depending what you need. Plus remember Northern Ireland his part of the uk she kept saying Ireland.
You should check out Jersey. In the British isles. Small island. Lots of history. New Jersey is named after us. Also, sports ‘jerseys’ too - after a type of sweater we used to make here. Only 9 miles by 5.
As a Brit I don’t know anyone who doesn’t the know difference between Great Britain and the United Kingdom so no idea what she was waffling on about. 😂
It depends on the season. In some years for example, we don't have enough rain. There are droughts and the water industry imposes restrictions on water usage.
how we use metric/imperial metric: short distances upto approx 500meters, most food stuffs (especially newer foods stuff like fizzy drinks, but not traditional foods stuff like eggs/milk), temperature Imperial: long distances (eg miles), weighing people, measuring height of people eg I might have to go to the town centre, it's only 2 miles away. I'll park-up and the shops are 200 meters away. I'll buy a litre of coke, a pint of milk, a dozen eggs, and 500g of minced beef, then go to the pub and have a pint of beer. I might be 5'9" and weigh 13stone. all good. I can picture exactly what they all are But if someone said they were going to town which is 5km away, parking up and walking to the shops which are 200yards away, buying a fluid ounce of coke, half a litre of milk, 50g of eggs, a lb of minced beef, and a quarter of a litre of beer at the pub. they tell me they are 1.86 meters tall and weigh 75kg. all utterly meaningless. I cannot imagine any of those measurements
Most of the rain happens in the West of the UK. All the storms that cross the pond hit the Western part of the UK first and by the time they make their away across the country to the Eastern part where London is of course the storms have died out.
I have a friend from Newcastle who went to the US, and everyone thought they were Scottish. As for rain, there isn't anywhere where it's always raining, or even regularly rains a few times per week. Granted, we can have prolonged bad weather, but also prolonged good weather. As for teeth, all I can think is that someone heard that Brits are less likely to have fillings and took it as "they don't get fillings when they need them", and not "oh they get fewer cavities".
I can understand why she sounds British to you. As a Brit, I can hear the difference, but she has a slightly more well spoken Australian accent that can sound English to non-natives.
95% of British Police DON’T routinely carry guns. London has less rain in a year than Paris, Rome, New York and Sydney because it’s in Southern England but the NW of England in places like Manchester and Liverpool have up to three times more precipitation than SE England.
And yet, the North East coast has only 24-26 inches of rain per year because of the Pennines rain shadow. Newcastle is almost as dry as London with only 25.6" against London's 23" (but not nearly as warm).
About her telling about ppl saying she's from London(and not somewhere else), thats u hear alot about the Netherlands as well becouse people think all Dutch are from Amsterdam since its the best known city. As for accents, i tend to get the british,welch and scottich all mixed up sometimes, sometimes i can hear the difference just fine but half the time i don't.
It's 90% metric and 10% imperial for me (40yrs old) Milk, beer and maggots (fishing) in pints Non baby (but person) weight in stones, babies in pounds Person heights and heights you'd relate to a persons height in feet (river is 3foot deep, roof was 9foot high) Drive-able or walkable distances in miles Almost every other measurement is done in metric. But most of the ones above for heights and weights you learn from your parents. I can never remember how many lbs in an stone, only really know 12" in foot. Milk, beer, maggots in pints as that's how it's sold and distances because road signs use miles. Would happily use km if signs changed
Regarding accents, every time I spoke to an American when I visited I got 'oh, what's that accent, are you from Australia?'... No I'm English. I guess when you're not that familiar with the accent it can be hard to place... Though I found it odd so many people tried to guess and went for Australian. 🤷
I’m Welsh and experienced the same when I visited America last year. I think if you have a more regional British accent instead of RP it gets interpreted as Australian. That said I’ve also seen other British people be confused by accents. My dad (also Welsh) was once asked if he was from Newcastle.
Yes we use both metric and imperial. Mostly those of us in the 30+ age range. Officially we are metric, but a lot of 9lder people grew up in a time when imperial was the norm so there's still a lot of cross over For example we often give our weight in stones and pounds (14 lb = 1 st) though for doctors it's recorded in metric Most items are sold in metric weights older people will still use imperial, such as calling a 500g bag of sugar a pound of sugar (it's actually just over 1lb) We often give our height in feet and inches but most mesurements in metric... unless precision isn't important in which case we may use feet and inches (cut that piece of wood about a foot long) if we need precision we use metric, the ore precise we need to be the smaller the measurement (for example in my job everything is measured in millimetres where we have just 2mm of leeway in our measurements) Tempreture is usually in Celsius though some people use Fahrenheit for high tempretures when refering to the weather As such a lot of us can convert between them on the fly As for KM/mile a kilometres is 1000m a mile is 1606m 1km is about 0.621 miles or put another way 2 miles is 3¼ km
Gun law in the UK is quite strict, for example you can only own a shotgun that can hold no more than 2 shells or a rifle that can hold no more than 5 rounds. Hand guns are tricky as they have to be single shot with a long barrel (can't remeberbthe exact length) to prevent concealed carry. She's wrong about semi autos as we can own self loading rifles just not fully automatic. To get a firearm certificate you have to present to the local police a reason why you want it (hunting, target shooting, or work... and no home defence is not a valid reason) Then you have storage which has to be checked by the police. Which involves a steel box fitted to the structure of the bulding, with a secure lock to prevent easy access. The ammo can not be stored with the gun but in a separate locked box at a minimum distance from the firearm. If you have a bolt action rifle, the bolt must be removed for storage and stowed with the ammo. Then you must join a home office (police) authorised gun club and undergo safety training in the use of the firearm All this before you ever get the gun That whole 7 days thing i think she got that from american films, as it's not a strict 7 day period here in the UK As for knife crime, yeah that's common, heck a few weeks ago a kid was stabbed up the street from me, problem is law makers target legitimate knife owners such as making it hard to buy or collect knives for hobby or work puropses, and ignore the fact that 99.9999% of knife crime is commited with fancy hunting/fish knives or even decorative wall hangers, but with cheep kitchen knives bought at the local £1 store Her accent, I'm guessing she's from the Melbourne area, which does have a bit of a SE english twang, then again there is a large community of austrailians in london area As for the weather, here in wales we joke about how eskimos may have 100 words for snow, we have 100 for rain
I work in precision engineering in England. Metric is mostly used for measurements. We get some drawings (mostly oil and gas sector) that are imperial measurements and we convert them to metric to program the machines. I live in the northeast and it doesn't rain all the time. The lake district and scotland possibly get the most.
There is an amazing video with Simon Whistler on youtube about what powers the queen actually has, needless to say, she has a lot of power in the UK, she can declare war without requiring parliment, she can Veto or Authorise nuclear stikes without parliments permission. All of the armed forces, of which I was a part of swear allegence to Queen / King, Crown and Country, NOT the government, so the queen has defacto power as the head of state and as commander in chief of the entire British Armed Forces. The King can’t create laws, but any laws proposed by parliament require the Kings signiture before they become laws, so the King has Veto powers on any laws. And the Kings powers are kept in check by the only person who can tell him what to do and that’s himself.
Being from the UK Imperial or Metric, have used both systems and I prefer the Imperial system, but do 'partly' accept the mix we have of both. If someone quotes metric system figures I quickly convert back. 1 Kilometre = 5/8 mile. I metre = 1 yrd + 3.4 inches. Reason why I hate the metric system is because it doesn't relate to anything sensible. There is a lot of every day objects you can relate to Imperial. With the Millimetre all that relates to is maybe half an Ant. Reason why 12 and not 10 is using your thumb to count the 3 sections on the fingers on one hand = 12. A Hand use to measure horses =4" you easily measure by putting one hand sideways so step 3 hands up and you get 12" =1 Foot. 1 Yard= 3ft = distance between your nose to fingertips on your sideways outstretched arm. If the Metric system had chosen the Decimetre and Centimetre as the main choice that would be more sensible, but the Metres and Millimetres makes no logical sense. As for weight Stone, Pounds and ounces any day., same with Pints, Quarts, Gallons. Temperature mainly °C but depending what it is also use °F and °K. For me if I had my way I'd even converted money back to Pounds,Shillings, Pence (Libra, Solidus, Denarius). I've watched factual programs before where the same programs have commentry either from the USA or UK. I will always choose the USA version because they talk in measurements that make sense.
For me,one of the main advantages of the monarchy is that the ambition of any would be president is severely curtailed. When you consider what kind of presidents there are around, I’m grateful for our Queen. (Trump)
FYI - she definitely has an Australian accent - though as she says, not extremely stong. She's not entirely correct about the Royal family not being in frontline war situations. Prince Andew served on board ship in the Falklands War in 1982, and both Princes William and Harry had full military careers - there is footage of Harry in Afghanistan doing a TV interview, then suddenly having to scramble to action along with the rest of his unit when an alarm sounds.
This is a good video about why UK gun laws are so strict. This is a good video that gives you an idea what you need to do to get a gun certificate here in the UK. This a good video made last year about the types of guns that can be used here in the UK.
There is knife crime all over England it's scary to let your kids out also Geordie and mackem accents are similar but Geordie is Newcastle and mackem is Sunderland both north east of England
Many Royal males and females have been in the Army, Navy and RAF. We don't have a thing about guns but knives are much more prevalent. It got to over 40C (over 100F) in most of the country last year.
The role of the King or queen is a little complex. Since the English Civil Wars we had 'the King in Parlisnent'. Technically the King has power to overrule parliament but this rarely if ever happens.
I was a GBNEWS video yesterday and there was a constitutional expert being interviewed. Asked where ultimate power resides, according to the constitution, and, it's not Parliament and it's not the King or Queen and it's not voters. It's the jury. He described the Monarch as the prime servant of the people who is meant to provide a level of protection against a rogue Parliament (and the laws which passed control over to the EU were illegal, constitutionally speaking. But, the jury, when it considers a case has a lot of power (if only they knew) to find guilt or innocence, to ignore the judge's direction and, importantly to decide on whether the law is just - despite that it had been passed by Parliament and given 'The Royal Assent' by the Monarch.
The power of the monarch is used quite often and its a misconceptions by most people inside the UK and outside that the monarch is just a figurehead. I could put forward a myriad of examples of the monarch exercising power, but a good example is when Tony Blair (prime minister) got into trouble with the Queen when he announced UK military support in the first gulf war. He was called to the palace and told he nor parliament don't have the power to commit the UK to war.
A few misconceptions there , I thought there was a slight Aussie accent before she said . As an oldie I am equally confused by Kg.s and just llb.s for weight .I know I'm normally around 13stone and usually ask "What's that in old money ? " which shows how decrepit I am . Our modern footballers start acting as if they have been violently assaulted as soon as they get near the 18 yard box , and miss penalties from 12 yards . Metric is used for most things but many still think , and visualise in imperial . For me it's easier to estimate 6 " rather than 15 cm. So it's easy to see why we do still use a few old units . On the subject of guns there is a video explaining them but basically you have to apply for a licence and go through exhaustive checks to own one and few people do .They are not part of our culture . Great Britain is a geographical term for the Uk. Ireland and associated small Islands and the UK. Is England , Wales ,Scotland and Northern Ireland .
Were only taught metric at school in the uk but theres a lot of the population still alive who grew up using imperial so they never really switched over. Btw were so sensitive to accent changes we can tell what regions of different towns and cities youre from, london itself has many different accents in different boroughs, in my city alone I can think of about 5 distinct areas around me where people speak with similar but different accents.
Is it a good idea to let a non-native person tell you about a country, charming though she is? For instance, nearly everything she says about the Royal Family is incorrect. The King cannot declare war, dismiss a minister (although he can a Australian pariamentarian), or get mixed up in politics; the last King that tried that was charged with treason and beheaded (his name was Charles, too). Members of the Royal Family usually serve in the Armed Forces and are involved in combat when their units are deployed: Prince Harry in Afghan and Prince Andrew in the Falklands as examples. In the UK, as soon as someone opens his/her mouth, they are classified by their accent's region (that tells you something about the vestigies of the class system). This would mean that she would be immediately identified as Australian.
I keep watching Americans reacting to lousy videos and wonder why they can't react to better quality videos. Perhaps it would be less controversial and therefore receive less views and subscribers.
That's not true what you said about the king not being able to declare war , as head of the armed forces and a royal prerogative, he could if he chose to , declare war
I'm very sorry to keep contradicting you, but the sovereign does not have the power to declare war or get involved in any political decision. Any attempt to do so would cause such a crisis that it would put the monarchy in jeopardy.
As a British person watching this video, I can definitely hear her Australian accent, although it is interspersed with some English pronunciation. I also think some of her explanations aren't very clear as she isn't from here so some of her views aren't as accurate as a native's would be. All in all a good video but for accuracy, maybe find a video made by a British person 😊
Agreed. I suspect she was probably born in the UK, but has clearly spent the majority of her life in Australia which has resulted in her stating a number of inaccuracies, particularly about the power of monarchy and about guns. Yes there are guns in the UK but it is somewhat more difficult to obtain one by simply having to wait 7 days! It is very difficult to own one.
@@johnnyuk3365 And once you've got one, you don't have to wait seven days before each use so it's not something that should be easily available to hotheads.
@thombennett_tailoring_66 No, but I sometimes hear people 'betting their bottom dollar' that something is the case.
Every single British person instantly picked up on her Australian accent, I guarantee it.
Verry much so, she is so Australian!
@@DeadlyAssets She's living in la la land.🤣🤣
Our weather forecasts are all in centigrade (most people don't understand Fahrenheit).
Our scales (in the gym, etc) are in stones and pounds, our road signs are in miles, our milk and juices are litres, but when you go to a pub, you order in pints.
So you have to be quite versatile when you come over, lest you seriously under estimate or over estimate an important feature during your travels.
being from england and living in scotland for the last 10 years. Financially, the uk government only cares about London. the further away you go the more you are forgotten about. Even northern english cities view it the same way. So when people think England is only London, it is definitely a misconception... but it's actually quite close to what people in the UK feel too.
yeah I'm from West Yorkshire and we have Bradford to prove that the government doesn't care about anyone north of London
Tyler, the word Imperial comes from the word Empire, as in British Empire! Why America kept the old British system and then restricted its usage, is bizarre to me. As well as stones, the US also doesn’t use the word “fortnight” which is weird, as is the fact that America says two times instead of twice, and three times instead of thrice. 🧐😵💫😳
I thought it came from the Roman Empire ! 🤔
its like it was too complicated, and they dumbed it down
'go figure'
i'd not put much kudos on that education system
The US doesn't use imperial. They use the US Customary Units system, which is based on English units that existed before the Imperial system was created. Britain adopted Imperial. The US went with their own system.
This is why they're are differences between the two systems. For example, a US pint is smaller than a Imperial pint; 473ml and 568ml respectively. It's also why the stone unit is not recognised in the US. It's it's an Imperial unit not a US unit.
@@northeything8568 No, it's origin comes from UK Weights and Measures Act of 1824.
Never noticed the two times thing before now! hahaha! Think of all the songs that wouldn't work if twice and thrice were used...
🎶Strumming my pain with his fingers
🎶 (one time)
🎶Singing my life with his words
🎶 (twice)
The song "Two Times" by Ann Lee (a British artist) would really be screwed. Not only would the title change, the chorus would literally be "Twice, Thrice, Twice, Thrice" 🤣
While being a more common thing to say "twice" or "thrice", it's not one of those things where if an American said "two times" we'd correct them or look at them like they're talking gibberish (and I know that's not your point).
Like the 'Brits have bad food' the 'Brits have poor teeth' come from just after the war, GIs would note that Brits would go to the dentist twice per year, and assume it was because of poor teeth, it was actually because such check-ups were provided by the NHS (free, at the time).
My friends are mostly farmers, they all have guns- shotguns and rifles but there are very strict rules about owning them like they have to be inspected every year along with how they are stored and transported plus you get interviewed each year to assess each owner’s mental health
I grew up in Moss Side, Manchester as a kid, there were shootings between rival gangs every couple of weeks. The idea that there is no gun violence in the UK is a myth, however inner city Manchester has a lot less gun violence than Inner city Baltimore or Detroit
The inspections checking your security and license renewing is every 5 years and has been for over 25 years.
@@fossy4321 Whilst it's true that renewals of Certificates is every 5 years ('Licence' implies the issuing authority is responsible for what you do with it, but they are called Certificates because you are personally responsible for what you do with them and have to be insured as a part of the conditions for £12 Million liability, and the Certificate is just an 'authority to possess'), the inspections are less often, and have to be booked by the Police Officer at your convenience, not theirs, although in practice if they show their Warrant Card no-one would deny them the opportunity to make an inspection; in fact I'm currently going through my second renewal, and haven't been inspected for 10 years.
Guns in the UK are strictly licensed. Farmers can have shotguns, sportsmen can have sports rifles, but all these must be kept locked in the house when not in use. It is illegal for ordinary civilians to carry hand guns. Only special units of the police can carry guns, those mainly trained for anti terrorism.
You do not have to be insured , I've no idea where you heard this. The License is actually a certificate correct but I believe you are being a little pedantic about the wording. The inspections are almost never by a police officer, but by a civilian employed by the police ( often a retired officer) so they will not have a warrant card, and if they turn up police officer or civilian unannounced just to check your guns with no overriding reason to suspect wrong doing you are well within your rights to refuse entry, and agree a date for inspection. @@Judge_Dredd
Knife crime is quite common in certain parts in the UK. It is however massively gang on gang, but there are occasions however where people outside of gangs have been stabbed.
I was just thinking this too. And there is a difficulty with knife crime because they were not designed as lethal weapons. They are tools which we use everyday to prepare and eat our food 🧐
Stop and search is a big thing , but if your policing areas which are predominately associated with crime and knife crime then stop and search is a must , my friends son recently got mugged and a machete pushed into his leg , it is definately getting worse .
Exactly. It also seems to be very a class based thing. Knife crime on poor areas to way higher.
The US actually has a higher rate of knife related homicides per capita, than the UK.
So guns are not even reducing the chance of being killed with a knife, but they’re greatly increasing the risk of being killed with a gun.
Never witnessed any knife crime in 49 years of living in London. It's not common really? Crime isn't exactly at Gotham City levels either here?
Working abroad in the 1980s, I had an American arguing with me because he was absolutely convinced that the UK was foggy all the time. I gave up trying to explain that smog and coal fires are ancient history because of our Clean Air Acts. A kilometre is 5/8ths of a mile. A US gallon is 3.8 litres, an Imperial gallon is 4.5 gallons. I have seen Americans appalled by Brits being "subjects", instead of being "citizens". We must thank the car industry for making new cars so easy to steal, that our local criminals no longer bother so much with burglary and mugging.
I'm an old school burglar, i didn't move with the times. Still doing old fashoned house robbing and mugging, new car technology scares me 🤣
We haven't been subjects since 1983.
Had an American argue with me that Scotland wasn’t on the island of Great Britain.
No matter how much I explained it was, or that I live in England and Scotland is only a couple of hours drive away from me, I’ve been there.
They knew better because their great grandfather was Scottish, and I was English. So that made them more of an expert on Scotland than me (they had never been to Scotland though).
@@JarlGrimmToys give it time, he may be right within the next 10 years if independence comes
@@FixTheLanes Is she going to dig a canal or something to separate us?
In recent years some of the greatest misconceptions about the UK is about the Royal Family based purely on Americans watching the TV drama The Crown, unfortunately many of the journalist and the media in the State's also use this as their base source when talking about past and current events connected to the Royal Family, it would be like the UK using the West Wing as the prime way to learn about the history of American politics.
When I was growing up, it was quite common to use Fahrenheit for hot weather and Celsius for cold temperatures. It seems to be largely Celsius now.
I’m 56 and still do this 😂
Whyyyyy
@@Ray-lw2rh Because 90 sounds hotter than 32 and 0 sounds colder than 32
@@Ray-lw2rh Because it's much easier to understand that 0° is freezing point than learn what constitutes 'hot' in metric. I have finally converted my brain to total Celsius, but only in the last few years have I done it with hot temps.
@@carolineskipper6976 Just do what the forecasters do and call it Arctic when it gets below 5°C.
I'm British, but have lived in Canada for fifty years. I thought right away that she was Australian, but had lived in England for quite a few years. It's amazing how the 'perception' of accent can change between people. With a generic Southern English with a slight Welsh tinge, I have been mistaken for Irish, Scottish and Australian in the US , all on the same day!
Really? How funny!!! I've spotted her as an Australian right away! 🙂 I'm a French Canadian, from Québec...
I hear ya! Working over there with a West Country accent, Americans thought I was from Australia, NZ, or SA. One sort of got "close" saying "That's a British accent, isn't it? Don't tell me - Scottish!"...
Very similar in the US for me with a Nottinghamshire accent, also got mistaken for Canadian - that one confused me. Quite often I’m asked if I’m from ‘out of state’ as that seems to be the go to for ‘I don’t recognise your accent’ but seems so geographically limited
@@vaudevillian7 Unless you have a posh RP accent or sound like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins trying to do a cockney accent , they do not recognise you as British! Amazingly all the other British accents, from West Country to Glaswegian, sound very similar to them!
You can get semi auto guns in the UK. Source: I was in a shooting club when I was 13 and worked at a clay shooting place when I was 16.
"stones sounds archaic" from a nation that measures things in "cups"
The stone age came before the cup age.
The cups thing is about ratios not specific measurements, so as long as you use the same cup for all of your ingredients you're golden.
@@denewst01 a cup is actually half a US pint, or 236.6ml. There's a "metric cup" which is 250ml, because Americans would rather say "metric cup" than "250ml".
Since I started my new job last june working outside, I can count on both hands how many times I've been to work and it's rained. It really doesn't rain that much to be honest.
I live in the sunshine capital of England and it rarely rains. The South of England is very sunny and from March through to October we have beautiful weather. Even in winter we don't get much rain. There's been water shortages and hosepipe bans every summer for years.
We also have had summer holidays all over Britain since I was a kid and have had (mostly) gorgeous weather especially in Scotland in Elgin.
Where is the sunshine capital?
@@cameracamera4415 Eastbourne believe it or not🤣 We officially get the most sunshine in England (maybe the UK)
I’m in Brighton and as much as I love it, there’s absolutely no way we could say but rarely rains on the south coast. It’s literally chucked it down for months.
@@cameracamera4415 Eastbourne has a microclimate because of the Downs. You can literally see the clouds separate as they come across the sea and then rejoin once they're back over the Downs. It's a bizarre phenomenon.
No I totally agree. I think it was an El Nino year wasn't it and we've had terrible rain this winter but this year has been an exception to the general rule.
Eastbourne hasn't had as much rain as surrounding countryside like Alfriston, Littlington, etc which had awful flooding. Even with all of that though they only just lifted the bloody hosepipe ban! Absolute insanity.
A number of towns in the south have claimed to be the sunshine capital of England but I know Eastbourne used to advertise it on their postmark.
To get a gun in the UK usually takes 3-6months as you need to apply to your local police for the ability to buy one. They usually get your doctor's view on you owning one as well.
Knife crime is unfortunately a thing mainly amongst kids in gangs in large towns and cities.
Fun fact London is much drier than New York. The West of the UK can be very wet with the north west the wettest but London being South East it's protected many times.
UK teeth are ranked 5th in the world for the lack of cavities with the US in 7th. As said dental care for kids is free until they're working then it's subsidized substantially if using an NHS dentist. The most expensive treatments like crowns cost £262. That's the fixed charge using an NHS dentist in England.
The only thing people use stones for is bodyweight. Saying someone is 192 pounds to me means nothing, its like saying you are 72 inches high, rather than 6 foot, its too granular. Your doctor will probably record your weight in kilos, but people 'think' in stone and pounds.
I can quickly work out peoples weight in pounds because I watch a lot of boxing and boxing weight classes are in pounds in the USA and generally stones in uk so over the years just memorised the stones equivalent to pounds. Welterweight is 147 pounds so 10 and a half stone. Super middleweight is 168lbs so 12st. Light heavyweight 175lbs so 12 and a half stone.
The cruiserweight limit is 200lbs which is 14st 4. So I'd quickly take 8 pounds off 14st 4 to know the weight of someone whos 192lbs.
Just think of the fun we used to have at school when we still had 20 shillings to the pound, and 12 pennies to the shilling - combined with the various length, area, volume and weight variations, some of our exam questions would need multiple calculations and conversions. And all without a calculator - although for some exams we were allowed a slide rule.
Yes I remember well.
Statistically London is drier than New York, Paris, Rome and Sydney. As was alluded to in the video it is the western part of Great Britain that gets the majority of the wet weather.
08:00 she's wrong about the royals only having symbolic roles in the military. Harry served in Afghanistan, Andrew served in the Falklands War, William served on an RAF Search and Rescue helicopter etc.
Wow she does not sound British at all, she is clearly Australian 🇦🇺
Got that right cobber 🦘🦘
I agree
Yes 100% Australian, she is just well spoken and speaking like most Australians do . She is not speaking the Steve Irwin style that all Americans think Australians speak like, which they don’t
Without a doubt!👌🏴
My brother met Queen Elizabeth II, 3 times because his company won awards for business. His company made Mixing desks, things that were used by lots of television stations and musicians all over the world. He also worked with some of the biggest music stars.
His wife also met the Queen, because she developed the software that is used in the NHS for patient information (when it changed from paper records to computerised).
Even my sister met the Queen more than a couple of times, because she works for the British Museum
The Isle of Man, and the the Balliwicks of Jersey and Guernsey (the other Channel Islands are included with them), are Self-governing possessions of the Crown of the UK, previously known as Crown Dependencies. They use the same currency, are part of the same telecommunications and mail networks, and each of them have Governors chosen by the King/Queen, to represent him/her in their absences, as de facto Heads of State. The UK provides them with defence and foreign diplomacy as needed, but plays no other part in their Governance. This relationship is similar to - but not the same as, the 14 UK Overseas Territories that form the residue of what was once the British Empire.
If you want to learn a bit more about gun laws in the UK and why we have the restrictions we do I recommend looking up a video about the Dunblane massacre. I actually lived close by at the time and it happened the year before I started attending school so I was only 4 years old, but going and placing one of my toys outside the Dunblane school gates just a couple of days later is one of my earliest memories, and the impact of that event massively shaped how the UK perceives guns and the laws that have been put in place since. It devastated us and it's one of the reasons we look so harshly at the US making guns easily obtainable despite the numerous school mass shootings that have taken place (and other mass shootings also).
I'll keep on saying it - New York has twice the annual rainfall that London has. Not sure why she hasn't found the Met Office website , which has a lovely radar view ( and it's free) , and also surface pressure charts , along with past 24 hrs stats and 7 day forecasts for your local spot.
The problem of weather in the Uk isn't the volume of rainfall it's the distribution. You can start the day and it's fine, then it will random rain. The rainfall is distributed sporadically and, in most cases, inconveniently. We rarely have heavy rain, just lots of instances of raining.
Less rain in London than Rome
I think her problem is more that the U.K. weather is just too unpredictable for one app to handle! In the last couple of years the BBC website can’t predict accurately beyond a couple of days and even then, I have gotten wet in a shower when the prediction was less than 5% chance of rain in my area!
@@louise2209 I look out of the window for the weather.
@@louise2209 I believe that would pretty much coincide with the time the BBC stopped using the Met Office for its source data in favour of a cheaper alternative. I stick with the Met Office as my experience it that it gets it right most often - though it's true, I don't think anyone can predict something as unpredictable as the British weather very well :) I did once read that if you are asked 'what's the weather going to be like tomorrow?' you should reply 'same as today' and you will be statistically more accurate than most weather forecasts. May not be true but it says a lot about our weather!
The amount of times I’ve witnessed Americans attempt a English accent and come out with an Australian one 😂 drives me kinda crazy!
The Channel Islands are not part of the British Isles. They are islands of offshore France. The Channel Islands consist of two legal entities, the Bailiwick of Jersey, and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which, together, cover all the various physical islands. Historically, they are the remnants of land still belonging to, and under the sole jurisdiction of, the Duke of Normandy. The present Duke of Normandy is, of course, King Charles III. They have never been, politically, part of France. They are part of Normandy, so already belonged to William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, when he seized the English crown by force in 1066. This pre-dated the establishment of a kingdom of France by 25 years. Jersey and Guernsey are therefore Crown Dependencies (as is the Isle of Man), a status unique to them.
I live in Jersey in the Channel Islands, which gave its name to New Jersey in the USA. The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are not part of the UK, however, they are part of the British Isles. These Islands have the monarch as their head of state but are also self-governing i.e. Parliament has no control over these islands, just like Australia for example, where the monarch is their head of state, but they have their own government and laws. Hope this helps.
Wahey 🎉 Guernsey 🇬🇬 here.
Loosely, the Channel Islands are sometimes included in the British Isles but technically (geographically) they are not part of the same archipelago.
The UK Government officially refers to the UK and the British Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey as the "British Islands", a convenient label.
Pedantic, I know.🙄
The British monarch is the Duke of Normandy in the Channel Islands. Even Queen Elizabeth II was known by that title despite being female. And this was before the current trend of identifying as this that and the other; one could say she was ahead of her time.
Newcastle (in the NE of England) doesn't have heavy rainfall. UK weather comes from the Atlantic, and the most rainy areas are in the west.
Im glad someone pointed that out
Generally the western parts of England, Wales and Scotland get more rain because they get a lot of their weather off the Atlantic and the Gulf Stream. London is on the drier side of the country and on average gets almost half the average precipitation of New York, for instance. We have a very temperate climate without the extremes of continental climates.
I think the whole teeth thing came from the idea that because we don't force & file our teeth down into perfect flat teeth that our teeth must be bad. We also don't remove our wisdom teeth unless there is a problem.
Re the teeth. Also there's less emphasis on having brilliant white, cosmetically perfect teeth. In fact brilliant white teeth can actually be less healthy because the chemicals can in some circumstances actually weaken the enamel.
To get that brilliant white, straight teeth look, some procedures involve filing down natural teeth to little pointy stubs then new false teeth fitted over them, in other words, posh dentures. No thanks.
My dentist here in the UK checks all the previous work is still intact, for any changes that may need treatment and for early signs of possible health problems including cancer. The hygienist then does a descale and polish, twice a year. I am 69 and have all my own teeth, apart from wisdoms. I am happy with that.
Britain has the 4/5th best dental hygiene in the world. Yanks sit at 9th.
@@alpey8487 - Try visiting Appalachia or the deep south. Toothless country. There were also rations in the UK for decades after WW2 that meant poor nutrition for many.
@@susieq9801 Any lack of calcium in post-war children's diet was probably balanced by their low sugar intake.
What's confusing for us Brits is we put gas (petrol/diesel) in our cars by the litre, but fuel consumption is always given in mpg. We use fahrenheit when it's hot outside and celcius when it's cold. We know miles and can convert to/from kilometres, but have trouble converting lbs/oz to kg/g. We give room dimensions in ft x ft, and sometimes m x m, but never square ft or square metres. Most Brits don't know how many feet are in a mile, or exactly what an acre is, or how many ounces are in a stone. We are not 100% metric and we're not 100% fluent in imperial, and that's why we're still confused 🤣
I'd say that you are right that many people are confused but it's a national disgrace. We should master both systems, both are important both now and historically so lacking a decent grasp of either leaves a person unable to fully enjoy literature, historical documents, current affairs, travel etc.
@@alexmckee4683 As a brit., why would I need to know how many feet in a mile? I do know how many feet in a yard, I also know how many yards in 1/4 or 1/2 a mile (440 & 880 respectively) and by implication how many in a mile. Equally why would I need to know how many ounces in a stone? I know ounces in a pound and pounds in a stone. Most conversions in Britain are single to the next highest (or lowest) unit type. And no I don't know what an acre is, other than being the area of land I would expect a horse drawn plough to cover in a day. But since I don't farm and if I did I would probably use a tractor, its not a measure I'm familiar with, I generally don't use Furlongs either, except when watching horse racing.
With miles per gallon, I think the main thing is, its easy to measure miles in UK cars as it is required by law, fuel while sold in litres is easier to approximate in gallons (about 5 litres to the UK gallon). Since the mpg as an approximation (affected by weather, speed, gradient...) its a useful 'yard stick' for how efficient a car is.
For MPH to KPH roughly 60mph is 100kph, thus 30mph is about 50kph, note this is visible on most UK speedometers.
I'm a middle aged Brit, who's not confused by either set of measures and use both. I'm often asked to convert on the fly by older family because it's easy for me and most of my similar aged friends too.
@@Thurgosh_OG That's impressive. So without stopping to check or calculate, you know how what 9lbs 5oz is in grams right? Certainly impressive if you do.
I'm Scottish, I went to Disney world Florida with my partner and were asked all the time where we were from and always got told my English is really good 😂😂😂
To say that members of the Royal Family wouldn't be put in combat situations is not true, Harry served 2 tours in Afghanistan, one of which he flew Apache helicopters in.
Prince Andrew (yes the kings disgraced brother) was a helicopter pilot during the Falklands war and flew multiple missions.
While they probably weren't chosen for the most dangerous missions, I don't think it would be fair to say the were being kept safe, just by the fact they were present in these conflicts.... and they did both fly missions.
I lived in Canada for a year and have a Geordie accent. It was so bad I just started talking in received pronunciation so they could understand me, needless to say I moved back home.
It really doesn’t rain half as much as some foreigners think, including up here in York. I believe we still have a hosepipe ban here.
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I think the misconception comes from the fact that America is quite crazy when it comes to their teeth. The whole teeth bleaching and perfect white veneers is very much a US thing.
In the UK we go to the dentist etc, but with the strict purpose of having healthy teeth (especially if it's through the NHS). So teeth bleaching is a luxury. UK teeth tend to just have their natural colour.
If anything I noticed it can seem a little vein to try and have the Hollywood treatment with your teeth. Not always, but we had British celebrities who have had public mockery when they clearly got work done on their teeth (Rylan comes to mind).
I think the difference between metric and imperial in the U.K. is that metric is used more for everyday personal use (food, measuring, etc) where as imperial is more for things that the average person doesn’t really need specific/accurate measurements for regularly (personal height, body weight, distances, etc)
I do find more men (for some reason) especially those who go to the gym, do increasingly use kg for personal weights now.
When i was at school and we did a sponsored walk we were told to get the sponsorship per Km as it would mean more money
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@@andyt8216 And centimetres for measuring other parts of their body no doubt, it sounds more impressive.😀
@@peterc.1618 I might use that :)
I think the English way of mixing and matching measurements is good as no matter where you travel you have an idea of everything!
Re miles and kilometres, an easy rule of thumb is that 50 kph is equivalent to 30 mph and 80 kph is equivalent to 50 mph. Just take a look at your speedometer next time you get in your car. 🤓
When it comes to practical applications the imperial system uses a lot of handy sizes ( at least in farming ). An acre is about the amount of land required to keep a cow for a year. \an acre also used to be the amount a man and a horse could plough in one day. In the sizes of fields that used to be found on farm 10-15 acres was a common dimension. Fertiliser applications are now expressed in kg per hectare , so for example 120 kg per hectare going on at one time. Fertiliser ( in the days before tote bags of 1 tonne) came in bags of one hundredweight ( 112 lbs , but now 50kg which is 110 lbs).
So common application rates for crops would be 2 or three bags per acre - nice and simple!! 2 bags per acre is easier to track and visualise than 120 kg per hectare .
Stones is an easy measure for peoples weights . Most people fall in the range 8 to 12 stones. Likewise height in feet . A 5 ft person is short and anyone over 6 ft is tall !
Cars in the UK have both KPH and MPH marked on the speedometer , so no problem if your driving here or on the continent .🇬🇧
The UK has been metric for over 50 years. All my education (apart from about 3 years in primary school) was in metric back in the 60s and 70s. There are only TWO exceptions: road signs are in mile and speed is in mph - everything else is metric.
When I fill up my car it's measured in litres but fuel consumption is measured in miles per gallon. Wheel size is measured in inches but the tyre tread is measured in millimetres. Road signs in the UK are in miles. Milk is sold in litres, beer in a pub is sold in pints, and beer in cans is in millilitres.
As a welder at work, I use the metric system, but when measuring someone's height or weight we use the imperial system! As a Brit, this seems normal but I understand foreigners thinking "ffs just pick one" 🤪🤣🇬🇧
Even easier conversion: Unless you're in the thousands just add half onto the miles to get the kilometers distance. It's actually x1.6 properly but adding a half on top is close enough, so 100 miles is about 150 kilometers. She sounds mostly English and she has an Australian twang on a few words.
To me she sounds completely Australian (maybe New Zealand because I have difficulty telling those accents apart) She does not sound English at all. I suppose it depends what you are used to hearing
@@Spiklething She is Australiian. She moved to the UK in 2019.
@@dominique8233 Oh I know, I've watched her before, I'm just commenting on her accent as the person above says she sounds English with a hint of Australian and I don't hear that. If I didn't know she was Australian however, I might think she might be from New Zealand. But she does not sound English at all to me
@@Spiklething Definitely not NZ. I picked up the accent straight away but started doubting myself after a few minutes before it became clearer again.
Great Britain is a geographical feature, it is called Great Britain because it is the largest of the 6000+ British Isles, of which 136 are permanently inhabited.
Like Scotland and Wales not all of England is on Great Britain.
As an Englishman I went to the States (Nevada) with the military back in the seventies, ironically back then, many Americans asked if we were Australian? Some of my colleagues could do a reasonable Aussie accent but very few Americans that we asked could tell the difference.
I'm a Scotsman, and I was once asked in Houston where I was from.. I replied Scotland and this particular woman asked "what state is that in?". I was quite embarrassed for her.
If it'd been Wales, they'd likely have wondered why you'd moved onto marine mammals!
What I don't understand about Americans is why do they say 'The Royal Family', 'The King (or Queen)' when referring to the British royal family. Why is 'The' used when referring to our royalty? Do they refer to other royal families like that - the Dutch, the Finnish, the Danish royal families etc? Is it just because they are more familiar with ours?
I'm from a place called barnsley, Yorkshire in the uk. When we go on holiday ZERO people can understand me. If you are curious search barnsley accent.... its a tough one
Hmm interesting I’m sure all these things would change depending on the age of the person you ask. The last 100 years have been a big change for the UK so things could change massively between a 20 and 30 year old. I’m 24, I use stone for weight although my doctors use kgs. I use Celsius but my mum in her 60s is familiar with Fahrenheit. I also use miles, never ever used km and wouldn’t have a clue how far it was all the signs in England are in miles and we measure speed in miles per hour😂
Centigrade went out several decades ago, it's now Celsius.
@@peterc.1618 I mean they're the same thing just centigrade is the older name
When I explained some of the roles of the monarchy to my friend in the US the other day he actually thought it was a better way of governance than the US.
In the UK it's like power sharing. So no one person has all the power. I think that's a good thing.
Take the subject of making a new law. The government can get a new law through parliament but it's not law until the reigning monarch signs it off. They could say no, this is not right. It's an added layer of protection so that in this example, a parliamentary government can't just push through anything it likes. It prevents things like dictatorship.
The rainy thing is, as, she says, a misconception. Put simply, the west of Britain is wetter and warmer, the east is drier and colder. The North is cooler than the south. London, in fact, gets less annual rainfall than Paris and even Rome. The Lake District gets Seattie levels of rain, probably even more.
she does not sound British she sounds very Australian to me
Yvette is Australian and lives in London.
It’s genuinely strange to me that many North American’s wouldn’t hear the difference, she doesn’t sound British 😆
Lived experience factors in to it I guess.
As a Londoner, I could tell the difference!
She has a very very weak Aussie accent. I know people from Melbourne and the accent is strong. Goodday mate! She sounds English with a touch of Australian.
@@Dan-B She only has a weak accent. She sounds English.
I’m from the north east of England near Newcastle it doesn’t rain all the time
The weather app she is looking for is called Windy, it does everything.
Easy way to roughly convert Kilometres to UK Miles is - (example) 10 Kilometres x 5 = 50. 50 divide by 8 = 6.25 miles (UK)
She's young and (clearly) has been miseducated. Most old people use a combination of imperial and metric. Beer is served in pints. Petrol (gas) , confusingly is sold in litres but the efficiency of a car is measured in 'miles per gallon'. Temperature is quoted in centigrade, except when it's hot when the papers use Fahrenheit, because it sounds hotter and makes a better headline. And don't get me started on the currency and the loss of pounds, shillings and pence.
Looking back to when I was a child, I often think that we were mathematical geniuses being able to use pounds, shillings and pence. I only use the metric system if I'm making something. It is great for that but if I'm told that something is for example 14.5cM I have convert it back to inches to get an idea of how big that is. I usually keep rule of thumb conversions on my head, like 10cM is about 4 inches and 40kMs is about 25 miles. Try asking in a shop that sells cheese that isn't pre packed for 500gms of cheese and you'll probably get an answer "How much is that in old money".
One kilometre is almost exactly five furlongs (8 furlongs=1 mile). Five furlongs is the shortest distance over which horses are raced.
Always fun with the measurement systems? As an aeronautical engineer I had to be conversant in both systems (And others) as much of our equipment is/was American. Luckily I was initially taught Imperial measurement in the sixties as a young child. However, even our Imperial measures can be different, look at volume. EG. A British Gallon is larger.
I want to clarify. By people in the UK who don't know the difference I believe she means English people or people from other countries visiting the UK or living there. No Irish, Scottish, or Welsh person will think they are living in England when they aren't.
We use both imperial and metric... i was born in 1952.. so pounds ..shillings and pence.. stones and pounds.. miles and fahrenheit. . Then at around 16 we converted to decimilization(metric)... so i constantly convert back and forth even donkeys years later... but strangely so do my sons who were born into metric... this is pretty widespread... we are fond of our miles.. we rarely use cups for weight we use metric but can still weigh in pounds and ounces.
It's not just Americans - I teach English online and nearly everyone I've spoken to in Saudi, China, Turkey, Japan, Korea etc etc who has asked about where in England I was from, has asked if I'm in London.
Gun clubs are fairly popular in the UK, I used to work at one (clay pigeons don't fly by themselves), 12 bore guns are really popular for wildfowl control.
I lived a few years in Australia & they are up there with the worst at referring to Britain as England. They'd call me Scotty & then say hey Scotty did you do this in England? I'd just say no until the penny dropped, it's not like the Scots weren't prominent in Australia, we certainly have been.
Private handgun or rifle ownership is not allowed except if the weapon is at a gun club and is securely kept there , shotguns are allowed but the rules and application process are very strict . Rifles of .22 Calibre are allowed for like pest control or target shooting .
From Oldham, that's about seven miles northeast of Manchester.
My sister went to new York and she got a few thinking she was Australian.
Can I just point out that in England and Wales ppresciptions are £10 and a NHS Dentist is around £40 to £70 depending what you need. Plus remember Northern Ireland his part of the uk she kept saying Ireland.
Prescriptions are free in Wales and Scotland.
You should check out Jersey. In the British isles. Small island. Lots of history. New Jersey is named after us. Also, sports ‘jerseys’ too - after a type of sweater we used to make here.
Only 9 miles by 5.
As a Brit I don’t know anyone who doesn’t the know difference between Great Britain and the United Kingdom so no idea what she was waffling on about. 😂
In Canada we have all 4 seasons. SPRING temperatures 14C to 20C. Summer 25C to 55C. Fall or Autumn 10C to 20C. Winter -2C to -40C
It rains more on the west coast of the UK, than the east, we predominantly get our weather from the south west.
It depends on the season.
In some years for example, we don't have enough rain.
There are droughts and the water industry imposes restrictions on water usage.
Best guide to UK weather is birdsong. When blackbirds sing very sweetly, it's about to rain.
AS well as the UK we have British Protectorates and the British Commonwealth of Nations.
how we use metric/imperial
metric: short distances upto approx 500meters, most food stuffs (especially newer foods stuff like fizzy drinks, but not traditional foods stuff like eggs/milk), temperature
Imperial: long distances (eg miles), weighing people, measuring height of people
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I might have to go to the town centre, it's only 2 miles away. I'll park-up and the shops are 200 meters away. I'll buy a litre of coke, a pint of milk, a dozen eggs, and 500g of minced beef, then go to the pub and have a pint of beer. I might be 5'9" and weigh 13stone. all good. I can picture exactly what they all are
But if someone said they were going to town which is 5km away, parking up and walking to the shops which are 200yards away, buying a fluid ounce of coke, half a litre of milk, 50g of eggs, a lb of minced beef, and a quarter of a litre of beer at the pub. they tell me they are 1.86 meters tall and weigh 75kg. all utterly meaningless. I cannot imagine any of those measurements
Most of the rain happens in the West of the UK. All the storms that cross the pond hit the Western part of the UK first and by the time they make their away across the country to the Eastern part where London is of course the storms have died out.
I have a friend from Newcastle who went to the US, and everyone thought they were Scottish.
As for rain, there isn't anywhere where it's always raining, or even regularly rains a few times per week. Granted, we can have prolonged bad weather, but also prolonged good weather.
As for teeth, all I can think is that someone heard that Brits are less likely to have fillings and took it as "they don't get fillings when they need them", and not "oh they get fewer cavities".
I can understand why she sounds British to you. As a Brit, I can hear the difference, but she has a slightly more well spoken Australian accent that can sound English to non-natives.
95% of British Police DON’T routinely carry guns.
London has less rain in a year than Paris, Rome, New York and Sydney because it’s in Southern England but the NW of England in places like Manchester and Liverpool have up to three times more precipitation than SE England.
And yet, the North East coast has only 24-26 inches of rain per year because of the Pennines rain shadow. Newcastle is almost as dry as London with only 25.6" against London's 23" (but not nearly as warm).
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About her telling about ppl saying she's from London(and not somewhere else), thats u hear alot about the Netherlands as well becouse people think all Dutch are from Amsterdam since its the best known city.
As for accents, i tend to get the british,welch and scottich all mixed up sometimes, sometimes i can hear the difference just fine but half the time i don't.
It's 90% metric and 10% imperial for me (40yrs old)
Milk, beer and maggots (fishing) in pints
Non baby (but person) weight in stones, babies in pounds
Person heights and heights you'd relate to a persons height in feet (river is 3foot deep, roof was 9foot high)
Drive-able or walkable distances in miles
Almost every other measurement is done in metric.
But most of the ones above for heights and weights you learn from your parents. I can never remember how many lbs in an stone, only really know 12" in foot.
Milk, beer, maggots in pints as that's how it's sold and distances because road signs use miles. Would happily use km if signs changed
Regarding accents, every time I spoke to an American when I visited I got 'oh, what's that accent, are you from Australia?'... No I'm English. I guess when you're not that familiar with the accent it can be hard to place... Though I found it odd so many people tried to guess and went for Australian. 🤷
I’m Welsh and experienced the same when I visited America last year. I think if you have a more regional British accent instead of RP it gets interpreted as Australian. That said I’ve also seen other British people be confused by accents. My dad (also Welsh) was once asked if he was from Newcastle.
Americans think my mum is Australian, but she’s from London
Yes we use both metric and imperial. Mostly those of us in the 30+ age range.
Officially we are metric, but a lot of 9lder people grew up in a time when imperial was the norm so there's still a lot of cross over
For example we often give our weight in stones and pounds (14 lb = 1 st) though for doctors it's recorded in metric
Most items are sold in metric weights older people will still use imperial, such as calling a 500g bag of sugar a pound of sugar (it's actually just over 1lb)
We often give our height in feet and inches but most mesurements in metric... unless precision isn't important in which case we may use feet and inches (cut that piece of wood about a foot long) if we need precision we use metric, the ore precise we need to be the smaller the measurement (for example in my job everything is measured in millimetres where we have just 2mm of leeway in our measurements)
Tempreture is usually in Celsius though some people use Fahrenheit for high tempretures when refering to the weather
As such a lot of us can convert between them on the fly
As for KM/mile a kilometres is 1000m a mile is 1606m
1km is about 0.621 miles or put another way 2 miles is 3¼ km
Gun law in the UK is quite strict, for example you can only own a shotgun that can hold no more than 2 shells or a rifle that can hold no more than 5 rounds. Hand guns are tricky as they have to be single shot with a long barrel (can't remeberbthe exact length) to prevent concealed carry.
She's wrong about semi autos as we can own self loading rifles just not fully automatic.
To get a firearm certificate you have to present to the local police a reason why you want it (hunting, target shooting, or work... and no home defence is not a valid reason)
Then you have storage which has to be checked by the police. Which involves a steel box fitted to the structure of the bulding, with a secure lock to prevent easy access. The ammo can not be stored with the gun but in a separate locked box at a minimum distance from the firearm.
If you have a bolt action rifle, the bolt must be removed for storage and stowed with the ammo.
Then you must join a home office (police) authorised gun club and undergo safety training in the use of the firearm
All this before you ever get the gun
That whole 7 days thing i think she got that from american films, as it's not a strict 7 day period here in the UK
As for knife crime, yeah that's common, heck a few weeks ago a kid was stabbed up the street from me, problem is law makers target legitimate knife owners such as making it hard to buy or collect knives for hobby or work puropses, and ignore the fact that 99.9999% of knife crime is commited with fancy hunting/fish knives or even decorative wall hangers, but with cheep kitchen knives bought at the local £1 store
Her accent, I'm guessing she's from the Melbourne area, which does have a bit of a SE english twang, then again there is a large community of austrailians in london area
As for the weather, here in wales we joke about how eskimos may have 100 words for snow, we have 100 for rain
I work in precision engineering in England. Metric is mostly used for measurements. We get some drawings (mostly oil and gas sector) that are imperial measurements and we convert them to metric to program the machines. I live in the northeast and it doesn't rain all the time. The lake district and scotland possibly get the most.
There is an amazing video with Simon Whistler on youtube about what powers the queen actually has, needless to say, she has a lot of power in the UK, she can declare war without requiring parliment, she can Veto or Authorise nuclear stikes without parliments permission.
All of the armed forces, of which I was a part of swear allegence to Queen / King, Crown and Country, NOT the government, so the queen has defacto power as the head of state and as commander in chief of the entire British Armed Forces.
The King can’t create laws, but any laws proposed by parliament require the Kings signiture before they become laws, so the King has Veto powers on any laws.
And the Kings powers are kept in check by the only person who can tell him what to do and that’s himself.
Being from the UK Imperial or Metric, have used both systems and I prefer the Imperial system, but do 'partly' accept the mix we have of both. If someone quotes metric system figures I quickly convert back. 1 Kilometre = 5/8 mile. I metre = 1 yrd + 3.4 inches. Reason why I hate the metric system is because it doesn't relate to anything sensible. There is a lot of every day objects you can relate to Imperial. With the Millimetre all that relates to is maybe half an Ant. Reason why 12 and not 10 is using your thumb to count the 3 sections on the fingers on one hand = 12. A Hand use to measure horses =4" you easily measure by putting one hand sideways so step 3 hands up and you get 12" =1 Foot. 1 Yard= 3ft = distance between your nose to fingertips on your sideways outstretched arm. If the Metric system had chosen the Decimetre and Centimetre as the main choice that would be more sensible, but the Metres and Millimetres makes no logical sense. As for weight Stone, Pounds and ounces any day., same with Pints, Quarts, Gallons. Temperature mainly °C but depending what it is also use °F and °K. For me if I had my way I'd even converted money back to Pounds,Shillings, Pence (Libra, Solidus, Denarius). I've watched factual programs before where the same programs have commentry either from the USA or UK. I will always choose the USA version because they talk in measurements that make sense.
For me,one of the main advantages of the monarchy is that the ambition of any would be president is severely curtailed. When you consider what kind of presidents there are around, I’m grateful for our Queen. (Trump)
FYI - she definitely has an Australian accent - though as she says, not extremely stong.
She's not entirely correct about the Royal family not being in frontline war situations. Prince Andew served on board ship in the Falklands War in 1982, and both Princes William and Harry had full military careers - there is footage of Harry in Afghanistan doing a TV interview, then suddenly having to scramble to action along with the rest of his unit when an alarm sounds.
This is a good video about why UK gun laws are so strict. This is a good video that gives you an idea what you need to do to get a gun certificate here in the UK. This a good video made last year about the types of guns that can be used here in the UK.
There is knife crime all over England it's scary to let your kids out also Geordie and mackem accents are similar but Geordie is Newcastle and mackem is Sunderland both north east of England
Many Royal males and females have been in the Army, Navy and RAF. We don't have a thing about guns but knives are much more prevalent. It got to over 40C (over 100F) in most of the country last year.
The role of the King or queen is a little complex. Since the English Civil Wars we had 'the King in Parlisnent'. Technically the King has power to overrule parliament but this rarely if ever happens.
I was a GBNEWS video yesterday and there was a constitutional expert being interviewed. Asked where ultimate power resides, according to the constitution, and, it's not Parliament and it's not the King or Queen and it's not voters. It's the jury.
He described the Monarch as the prime servant of the people who is meant to provide a level of protection against a rogue Parliament (and the laws which passed control over to the EU were illegal, constitutionally speaking.
But, the jury, when it considers a case has a lot of power (if only they knew) to find guilt or innocence, to ignore the judge's direction and, importantly to decide on whether the law is just - despite that it had been passed by Parliament and given 'The Royal Assent' by the Monarch.
The power of the monarch is used quite often and its a misconceptions by most people inside the UK and outside that the monarch is just a figurehead.
I could put forward a myriad of examples of the monarch exercising power, but a good example is when Tony Blair (prime minister) got into trouble with the Queen when he announced UK military support in the first gulf war. He was called to the palace and told he nor parliament don't have the power to commit the UK to war.
I really enjoyed your videos and comments plus learning more about the world around us.
A few misconceptions there , I thought there was a slight Aussie accent before she said . As an oldie I am equally confused by Kg.s and just llb.s for weight .I know I'm normally around 13stone and usually ask "What's that in old money ? " which shows how decrepit I am . Our modern footballers start acting as if they have been violently assaulted as soon as they get near the 18 yard box , and miss penalties from 12 yards . Metric is used for most things but many still think , and visualise in imperial . For me it's easier to estimate 6 " rather than 15 cm. So it's easy to see why we do still use a few old units .
On the subject of guns there is a video explaining them but basically you have to apply for a licence and go through exhaustive checks to own one and few people do .They are not part of our culture . Great Britain is a geographical term for the Uk. Ireland and associated small Islands and the UK. Is England , Wales ,Scotland and Northern Ireland .
Were only taught metric at school in the uk but theres a lot of the population still alive who grew up using imperial so they never really switched over. Btw were so sensitive to accent changes we can tell what regions of different towns and cities youre from, london itself has many different accents in different boroughs, in my city alone I can think of about 5 distinct areas around me where people speak with similar but different accents.
Is it a good idea to let a non-native person tell you about a country, charming though she is? For instance, nearly everything she says about the Royal Family is incorrect. The King cannot declare war, dismiss a minister (although he can a Australian pariamentarian), or get mixed up in politics; the last King that tried that was charged with treason and beheaded (his name was Charles, too). Members of the Royal Family usually serve in the Armed Forces and are involved in combat when their units are deployed: Prince Harry in Afghan and Prince Andrew in the Falklands as examples.
In the UK, as soon as someone opens his/her mouth, they are classified by their accent's region (that tells you something about the vestigies of the class system). This would mean that she would be immediately identified as Australian.
I keep watching Americans reacting to lousy videos and wonder why they can't react to better quality videos. Perhaps it would be less controversial and therefore receive less views and subscribers.
That's not true what you said about the king not being able to declare war , as head of the armed forces and a royal prerogative, he could if he chose to , declare war
@@cerithomas2032 No, he couldn't. What do you think we have a parliament for?
He doesn't use it but he has the right to.
I'm very sorry to keep contradicting you, but the sovereign does not have the power to declare war or get involved in any political decision. Any attempt to do so would cause such a crisis that it would put the monarchy in jeopardy.