Unfortunately, many British people don't understand the concept, either. At bus stops, when it's happened to me,, I've actually told them in no uncertain terms (politely!), that I or the person in front of me was there first and to wait their turn.
As a Brit, I really value escalator etiquette. I see escalators as "fast stairs" rather than "lazy stairs", and so the left being clear allows me to use them as fast stairs. Particularly useful at metro/underground station where those saved seconds could mean getting an earlier train.
Our escalator etiquette is one of the things I'm most proud of as a Brit... it's actually bloody logical, which is more than can be said for a lot of our other customs! And as someone with very limited mobility, strugglign with stairs, etc, It's nice to know that once I prop myself up on the right for my 'slow stairs', I won't be bothered or jostled, you speedy folk can just race on by happily. :D
There was a study on rush hour escalator flow conducted. And believe or not, it has been proven that the flow of people going through an escalator during rush hour is actually higher if people stand on both side of the escalator instead of letting one lane clear for people walking/rushing. Because by letting one side clear etiquette, people are blocking the escalator entrance when they need to choose a side. If they were not given the choice and everyone has to stand, no one is blocking the entrance and the flow goes smoothly.
Although we Brits stand on the right on escalators we very often don't on the moving pavements getting into airports. People just block it when it's actually supposed to make your walking quicker. Even if they just stood to the side but they block the way and travel really slowly. Nobody likes to complain because they're British.
You don’t need to worry about turning at traffic lights in the UK. Unlike in the US you’re not allowed to turn at a red signal, when you’re allowed to turn there will be a green arrow to tell you
@@KumaBean so you can have a queue (list) of tracks that people have requested And wait for the cue (signal)from your friend to stop the music so he can tell a girl he likes her But you could NOT have a cue (signal) of tracks that have been requested and wait for the queue (list) from your friend to stop the music so he can tell a girl he likes her
@@KumaBean In a track you would `cue` it ready to play, not `queue` it. There are lots of words that sound the same but mean different things, some are spelt differently and often some are even spelt exactly the same but are pronounced different!. Take `wound` for instance, "The bandage was wound around the wound". Sometimes they are spelt the same and pronounced the same but mean different things, "I had to subject the subject to a series of tests". So you see `cue` and `queue` are not so difficult after all!
@@jgreen2015 incorrect. one cues the music (always):- definition of cuing - 1. give a cue to or for. "Ros and Guil, cued by Hamlet, also bow deeply" 2. set a piece of audio or video equipment in readiness to play (a particular part of the recorded material). "there was a pause while she cued up the next tape"
What made me laugh was when he mentioned early on not to confuse England with the UK or Britain. But then later on he said don't try and fake a 'British or Scottish accent'. D'oh. To explain - he meant 'English or Scottish accent'. Scotland and England are both British so a Scottish accent is also a British accent. He was using British to mean English. Don't do that.
As a Brit, let me tell you the amount of times I've had to call out attempted queue jumpers that werent born here is immense. Like how can you even enter this country without knowing the rules of a queue? You try to push in the queue here then youre asking for a fight.
Especially if you have a load of pensioners waiting in the queue because they will not tolerate anyone, regardless of how old you are or who you are, pushing in front of them. Bus stops are a good example!
And if you fail to comply with the sign someone (if they are me anyway) is likely to bellow at you very loudly and then shove past you. Because that 30 seconds saved means I make my train connections and don't have to wait an extra 30 minutes. So the words "are you some kind of imbecile... move out of the f*cking way (f*cking tourist)" isn't unheard. Whilst trying to queue jump will get you tutted, not moving on the escalator will get you barked at.
@@jamesallen4050 my husband tells me that doing that at Holborn on his way to the Royal courts of justice is more exercise than tcr, especially as avoiding a pissed off judge (because you are late) is a very effective form of personal training
I'm English and I've always been under the impression that we invented queuing, we probably didn't but we are definitely the best exponents of it and we absolutely hate when foreigners don't understand this simple concept and try to push in or complain about how long it is taking, just bloody stand there and be patient!
We was staying in a hotel in Spain & the Spanish holiday makers were so rude by walking in front of a queue. They was so ignorant & I enjoyed telling them exactly how rude they was. Manners doesn't cost anything.
I'm probably not alone in getting annoyed when supermarkets open up tills and people behind me get served before by switching queues. I know I shouldn't, but queues are truly ingrained in British psyche.
@@chocoholic832 manners are definitely in short supply outside the UK and often within it with the amount of foreigners we have now, we do not like them, we are not being racist but xenophobic
The talk of meeting the Queen reminds me, she used to walk around her estate in Balmoral (Scotland) just dressed as a little old lady with headscarf and with her plain clothed protection officer. She once bumped into a couple of American tourists who didn't recognise her. The tourists asked if she lived in the area and she replied that she had a house nearby. When they asked her if she'd ever met the Queen, she replied: "No, but this policeman has," gesturing towards her protection officer. I wonder if it ever dawned on them later that they had spoken with the Queen! There's another story of a couple who wrote to the Queen inviting her to their wedding, and obviously they received a letter from one of her ladies in waiting saying thank you but her majesty would not be able to attend. Well it turned out that the Queen was in the area on their wedding day and made a surprise visit to their wedding reception. She was an incredible woman, with a cracking sense of humour (just look at the 007 Olympics arrival, and of course marmalade sandwiches with Paddington Bear), and is greatly missed. As Paddington said; Thank you, for everything.
hahaha that's a lovely story about the Queen being incognito, I bet she enjoyed that so much. It can't be easy living so much of your life in the public eye and to chat to people who didn't know who you were must have been brilliant.
@@macalauresmuse She had a wicked sense of humour. Have you seen the clip she did with Paddington Bear for her jubilee? The other great story I like about her is when the king of Saudi Arabia came to visit, and she gave him a tour of the grounds, at speed, in her land rover (which she used to maintain as she was a trained mechanic). Apparently he was terrified! Oh that reminds me of another one which beautifully demonstrates her personality. She trained as a Land Girl during the war (although had to return to Windsor every night), and to complete the training they had to drive a lorry into London. The palace were in a panic, thinking "as she was just a girl, what if she crashed, how would that affect the country's morale?" so they summoned her to Buckingham palace to tell her under no circumstances was she to be allowed to complete her training. She arrived, driving a lorry! I'd love to have seen the looks on their faces!
By the way...The reason we in the UK Drive on the Correct Side of the Road goes back to the days of the Knights. You hold the Reins in your Left Hand and your Sword, or Axe, or Lance with your Right Hand. So the Horse was 'driving' on the Left Side of the Enemy and you took action on the Right Side. Cars Driving on the Right are a potential danger to you.
I think many people in England say I'm from Cornwall or wherever, (in england), rather than just Im from England, because unfortunately in many situations saying England many people just think of London, London does not represent the whole the whole of England, just like England does not represent the whole of the UK.
@@leestone5356 I dont hate london, i just hate the way london is used to represent the whole of the UK, the vast majority of the UK is nothing like London.
@@mooncatandberyl5372. Cornwall, like Scotland and Wales, is a country in its own right, even if it hasn’t been recognised for a while, which is why we don’t call ourselves english, but we do say that we are British………..
@@mooncatandberyl5372 . Firstly, suggesting that Cornwall is in engaland, is insulting, and secondly, what you basically meant, and what you said, are different things though, aren’t they, especially when you said about many people in engaland say they are Cornish, which is something that only Cornish immigrants to engaland would have a right to say, but they are not likely to be many……..
Brexit ( British exit ) was a referendum on leaving or staying in the European Union. It went on for years and we got sick of it. We really found out people's political views and the results were so close it really divided the country. There were the Brexiteers and The Remainers. People split up with their friends, family even spouses over it. Needless to say it's a bit of a touchy subject still.
I still don't see why people still have to be divided on how we voted for this. My sister and I voted differently in the referendum. But we still have a good laugh and banter over things. We also help each other out if needed. It has happened people should accept the results and move on.
@@rachelpenny5165 Quick guess ... you voted leave? The reason it's still a sore point is the perception, which has been borne out, that those who voted leave did so with their hearts rather than their brains. I didn't vote because I was overthinking it and couldn't decide. I quickly realised that was a mistake. What irritated me the most, though, was the amount of misinformation being constantly shared by Brexiteers online. It was just pure propaganda. I still see Brexiteers wearing rose-tinted glasses over things and still saying it's worked out when it clearly hasn't. Not yet, at least. One Brexiteer was on TV the other day and bizarrely claimed that Brexit hadn't happened yet ... about as clear an admission that it's so far failed to deliver the promises made as you can get. My sister voted leave and even voted for a Tory MP who had to be bussed into our Welsh-speaking heartland from England because they didn't feel they had a decent local candidate. She's lucky I spoke to her again after that. But we still get on and haven't talked about it since my initial outburst.
Oh and the Queens guard thingy...The red tunic and the fluffy wuffy hat is not an invitation to hassle him, he is on duty, not there for selfies. He has loaded live rounds in the mag and 1 in the chamber. Also, he has permission to fire if threatened and a bayonet to run you through with.
And they are proper soldiers, the last person who tried to touch him might have been a heavily armed member of the Taliban in Afghanistan so an American tourist presents no problem.
I'm doubtful that they generally have live rounds in the gun. It seems unnecessary, and in many cases there will be police offices with semi-automatic weapons nearby. But there is a big knife attached to the end of the gun. And I'm very doubtful about "permission to fire if threatened". What does that mean? Anyone can legally use whatever force is necessary for self defence or defence of others, but what special permission to fire would the King's Guard have or need?
@@barneylaurance1865THEY CERTAINLY DO HAVE LIVE ROUNDS IN THEIR WEAPONS MY FRIEND AND MILITARY BASES AND SUCH LIKE HAVE DIFFERENT RULES AND LAWS THAT APPLY TO THEM. MY FRIEND SERVED 24 YEARS IN THAT REGIMENT AND MY SON IS STILL A SERVING SOLDIER WITH 19 YEARS EXPERIENCE AND IF SOMEONE PRESENTS A THREAT TO LIFE THEY WILL DEFINITELY HAVE ZERO PROBLEM OPENING FIRE AGAINST SUCH A THREAT
The one with the Queen's Guard. That would be like a British person going to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and interfering with the guard currently on duty.
People seem to forget that because Buckingham Palace is a tourist attraction and the guards are not in khaki that they are real soldiers with real guns and are doing a serious job. They aren't 'quaint' ornaments for the benefit of tousists.
@@avaggdu1 Not disagreeing...much, just to say the whole 'oddly dressed guards' thing is bound to cause mixed signals, and it's not like we as a country and London/The Royals don't court the intrigue and sightseeing of visitors. So, in a way they kind of are _also_ quaint ornaments...sort of.
@@carlhartwell7978 absolutely NOT quaint ornaments in any way shape or form. That uniform is taken VERY seriously by the people of the UK and they dont like people disrespecting it. You may as well insult the monarch because you will get the same response. They are literal security for the monarch and their residence. Their order has existed, in many forms, for hundreds of years. They are all ex military of the highest expertise and they can and WILL shoot you if you push it too far. Whilst I believe nobody has been killed by them in a very long time they have shot a number of people. They have knocked people out, broken bones, busted eye sockets with their rifles and stabbed people with the blade. Treat these guys with respect or suffer the consequences.
@@ASavageEye Hi Michael. Firstly please don't confuse me for an republican etc, I'm a subject of King Charles III. I know you didn't but I just wanted to put that out there! I'd like if I may to back this up a little and focus on the uniform. I would be horrified if the royal guards uniforms were 'modernised''. But why do YOU think the royal guards still wear what they wear and all other armed forces have updated their uniforms?
@carlhartwell7978 it's called tradition and they are not the only security forces in the world to wear "strange" uniforms. Let's be fair and point out that's really its only the helmet that is odd looking but it represents something and so it should not be mocked in any way. In the interest of honest discussion I will point out that I am not even a citizen of the UK, I'm Irish, but this still bothers me. Respect is something that is fast disappearing in the world and its sad to see.
I'm Scottish and it doesn't really bother me if I'm called English or British but I have been asked some let's say unthinking questions by Americans like do I have running water in Scotland or do I have television.
Calling the Scottish 'English' is like calling a Canadian 'American' Incidentally I heard a story recently about someone who met the Queen whilst out for a walk, not recognising her asked if she had met the Queen! Apologies if that was on this channel :)
Up to a point, but to be fair Canadian and American English sound very similar and easy to confuse whereas Scottish English and English English sound nothing alike.
It’s also difficult to get away with queue jumping in the uk as not only will other punters call you out often not even for themselves “or mate, that bloke was in front of you” but the server will often have clocked who arrived when and know in their head the order they’re going to get to people in. And on the occasion where a member of bar staff looks to serve you next when you know there was someone waiting before you, the only decent thing to do is step back and say ‘no this gentleman /lady was before me and nod to the person whose turn it actually is.
my experience born in England is that the escalator standing on the right thing, really only applies to the under ground tube in London, iv'e never been any where else where it applies or people care.
Good manners to make room on any reasonable sized escalator. Of course some narrow shop elevators not so much. To be honest I don't get why even something surprising, just like queuing it is plain good manners. People should not even need to be asked. Unless of course they have a disability or luggage that makes it difficult for them to move. Then I wouldn't expect it, even on the underground.
We'll I'm pretty sure it applies to other parts of the country as well, but how loosely people take it probably depends on how much in a hurry they are lol People still come and say excuse me if you're on the wrong side and they're on the run! Taking it larger, this also applies when you go to Hong Kong and Japan, though in Japan which side to stand does depend on which city you're in at times lol
Oh good someone else who has experienced the same as me!, was about to comment. I too haven't experienced this rule in the area I live/grew up but got to experience it when going to London. I really liked that keep to the right/left system the underground has.
Anna, you are completely right. I'm afraid that common sense just isn't very common any more. Jumping a queue (cutting a line?) is definitely frowned upon and you will get very angry looks, people may even "tut" at you (that, in Britain, is almost a punch!)`. Only a fool would deliberately upset one of Monarch's Foot Guards. Many of our visitors from the US seem to think that they are actors dressed up but this is not Disney Land. They are, in fact, some of the most respected infantrymen in the world who just happen to do ceremonial duties as well as normal soldiering. Please keep up your brilliant videos as I'm really enjoying them, although I sometimes have trouble with JT's accent (lol).......................................the ancient Englishman.
Number 3 is not an unspoken rule. It is literally on signs before you get on the escalator and is also written on most of the steps to stand on the right and walk on the left.
@@chocoholic832 I'm extremely sceptical about that. If anything, the older generations are less likely to queue-jump, unless they are blissfully unaware due to age. Kids on the other hand just don't give a toss or think they're still in school where they mill around like sheep and think they own the world.
@@avaggdu1 Where I live it's exactly what happens. Not all elderly people but you'd be surprised how many do. I'd gladly let an elderly person go first but they can be crafty. My mum is 77 & even she says they try to push in front of her in queues 🤦
That Escalator thing is the same in Australia.. But you'll always get idiots grouping up and blocking it.. While 30 seconds may not be a lot of time, it can be the difference between missing a train that only comes every 30 minutes.
Plus on the long escalators in many London Underground stations it takes a lot longer than 30 seconds to get from top to bottom if you stand still. Blocking the escalators can delay people by several minutes, which has a knock on affect on the rest of their journey.
Tbh it's more trains too. I dint drive but notice it a lot more in the train station than anywhere else .we.arent walkers up as I have a small child who would make it difficult lol
The escalator thing is because some people are running to catch a train. And at the end of the day it's just rude to block the way if others want to pass by. It doesn't happen very often, but I have seen someone get knocked out cold when trying to cut the que without a word being spoken. The guy who punched him just carried on with his conversation as if nothing had happened. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
In Wales it’s an unspoken rule that if a host offers you something you shouldn’t immediately say accept as it comes across as entitled. Example: “want some cake?” “oh that looks lovey but I’m good, you don’t have too” “oh I insist it’s not a hassle” “oh sure, I’ll only have a little bit though” I have no idea why this is a thing 😂
The escalator thing is only on the ones on the London underground. There are a lot of them there and some people, mainly business people I'd say, need to get around quickly so you find a lot who want to walk the escalators. At the rate the underground's go through, I'm sure walking could end up making quite a difference on arrival time. it would be interesting to see two people test it, take the same route but one waits, the other walks!
It’s definitely quicker if you walk down the escalator on the tube. I have a disability that has got worse over time. When I was still able to walk up and down the escalator, my overall journey time on the tube was shorter. It’s so annoying to get to the platform just as the doors are shutting and knowing that if you’d walked down the escalator you’d be on your way 😢 Especially if that train was empty and the next one is so packed you have to let it go and wait for the next one.
A lot of people do it to keep fit. I remember when I made a New Years resolution one year to never stand on escalators one year and managed to lose a great deal of weight!
Yes lived and worked in London and I can tell you when rushing up and down escalators all day it makes a big difference on time. Keeps you fit too. The only people I would be patient with are those with lots of luggage or some disability that means they need more room. Other than that I would politely ask them to move to the side they are supposed to be on. Most people use commonsense and can see what others are doing so do not need to be told. You occasionally get the akward person who just loves to be difficult but generally not an issue.
The escalator thing makes more efficient use of it. Allowing room for people to walk up the left of an escalator allows a larger volume of people to be moved in a given time. During the rush hour the tube can get very busy with a huge amount of people trying to exit at once. Remaining still on an escalator only allows as many people as there are steps to be moved, allowing a steady stream of walkers can move an exponentially greater number of people.
I remember being in the train station a couple days ago and I looked up the escalator to see everyone perfectly stood on the right side, no bags or luggage on the left blocking the way. Although, it’s usually difficult to get past everyone without bumping into their side so people usually just use the stairs and jump 3 steps at a time…
Anyone used to the london underground knows a few seconds can make the difference between catching that train and missing it. Its why the escalator has that rule.
When I was a uni student in 1973 I went on a package holiday with some uni friends to Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav holiday rep told us that, unlike England, they do not queue for buses. So when we went to catch a bus, we mingled around and when the bus came, we were first on the bus and nobody else stood a chance of beating us to the door. That taught me why we queue in England!
The escalator thing is weird. 39 years in the U.K. and I’ve never seen it or experienced it. It might be in London, as other commenters have said. But the rest of England isn’t London
i agree, never really seen it. but been through Birmingham lots using the trains, see a bit of it, but it more like if most standing on the left, if you not in a hurry you prob stand left. just what ever side the most people are what sorta gives a clear fast way up or down
When you refer to the British accent, you are referring to Southern English Standard ( also called RP, Oxford or Queen's English even though her way of speaking was quite particular ). Beyond that, there is no such thing like "the British accent" There are dozens of local accentsand dialects all over the UK.
I think Sean Bean's accent is quintessentially English and recognizable as such. Reminds me of doing post grad at Hammersmith and having a clinic with a distinguished professor. He was so happy to hear my northern accent (told I'm posh northern but only because I was brought up from early teens in the Middle East). He said the Londoners look down on his accent. Half the staff wherent even British and didn't have that problem
It's something that's usually observed in other parts of the country, although perhaps not enforced as it is in London. I come from the north east of England (Tyne and Wear) and it's something I've seen whenever I've used the metro.
You obviously don’t use public transport, that or you’re the annoying person always standing in the way! 😂 This is actually a thing across the UK, especially at train stations, underground networks, etc.
@@ffotograffydd Thinking about it, I only came across public transport that required leaving street level when I moved to London. Everywhere else has been buses and trams and street level train stations. My point of reference where I grew up and where I’ve visited is shopping centres etc. and I guess no one’s in such a rush in that setting. So perhaps you’re right, perhaps my experience isn’t broad enough to comment. 😬
@@lizzieg8014 The underground system in Glasgow was opened just a few years after the London Underground, so late 19th century. Tyne and Wear and Liverpool also have underground transport systems. So no, not just London.
I feel like the escalator is a London thing. I live up north and we don't do that up here. If there are people in front of us on the escalator we just wait and ride it up or down lol
I lived in Newcastle for a few years and regularly used the metro, there are signs saying to keep right. I like to walk up and down escalators, so if people are blocking the left, I make my foot steps increasingly louder as I approach. They usually get the hint.
The reason we stand/walk on the right, on stairs, escalators, etc., goes back to medieval times, when you kept you sword arm (invariably your right arm) away from potential attackers. The same applies to weddings, where the groom sits/stands on the right of the bride, to keep his sword arm free.
It's because the first escaltor to be used (successfully) in a station was at Earl's Court, and the platform was to the left of the escalator exit, nothing to do with sword arms - that's more spiral stairs etc.
Talk about a clash of cultures 😂 When i was working in Argentina and got to know people they would always give me a hug (which i later found out was called an Abrazo) and is how Argentinians greet friends. Now i'm an English man and we aren't very touchy feely and it took me ages to get used to it 😂😂😂. Just to add i never had a problem with it when i found out it is cultural and a sign of friendship.
The thing with money I think is more like “How much are you earning” “How much was your house/ rent” “How much is your council tax” It’s awkward being asked what expenses you’re paying
No - a cue and a queue are different things (for some reason). You wait for your cue, if you are an actor waiting to go on stage. A queue is what you would call a line.
I love that the video you're watching s about things you shouldn't say or do to British people and then they go and call it a British accent! They already mentioned that Britain is made up of 4 countries so it's really annoying when people say a British accent because there is no such thing. There is English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish and then as you know, each country has their own regional accents too.
To clarfy, its not why they call it 'wait for your cue' thats a different kind of cue. To stand in line is a queue. To wait for his cue is more for use in theatre or on stage etc. Like hes waiting for the nod to say his part is ready or for him to walk on stage. But to stand in queue is to line up and wait your turn to be served.
8:02 the narrator right there made a mistake. There is no “British accent.” He just got through telling us England, Scotland and Wales are separate countries. There are English, Scottish and Welsh accents🤦♀️
I will say there are exceptions to some of these 'rules'. Escalators, keep to the right mainly applies to the London Underground. In the suburbs this is observed far less. Queuing seems to apply to everything except getting served at a British pub bar. Just get to the front of the bar and wave money or your hand to get noticed. Eventually. 🤬 Driving in the middle of the road. Try driving some of our back roads (country lanes) only wide enough for one car and is two way with up to a 60mph speed limit😅🤣.
Another thing about cars that he didnt mention is that we drive manual cars (cars with a gear stick/shift stick/shifter etc). If you rent a car and don't specifically ask for an automatic, they will give you a manual and many americans have no clue how to drive them. Renting an automatic will also be more expensive because insurance on them costs more. I think the cost of insurance is to do with being able to just put your foot down and blast it, which you can't do as quickly in a manual because you have to shift gears as you speed up.
Hi, Anna and JT. As a 'Team Leader' in a village food store, I have had to ask foreigners (not Americans) to leave. Because they WOULDN'T QUEUE PROPERLY! True story 🤣😡
"Wait for your cue" refers to being cued.... prompted to.....not queued.... which is the past tense of queueing.... although you may get a cue to queue and a cue to step forward at the end of a queue.. .. teleprompter = autocue.....
I find driving on the opposite side of the road isn't much of an issue as long as the steering wheel is also on the 'right' side. Everything still seems to fall in the place. Worst is, for example, driving on the right in a right-hand drive car.
The reason we drive on the left side of the road. Goes back to the mediaeval times when the had jousting competition most were right handed so they had to be on the left hand side. So it was easier and it carried on thru time. Plus we go around a roundabout clockwise unlike Americans go round in anti-clockwise which seems weird.
We Aussies generally usually are queue respectful too. But sadly as we age sometimes that respect for the person in front or ahead in a queue is ignored. I am a senior citizen and I was waiting in a checkout line during covid ( where we respected the distance rule ) and a young woman with her shopping in her arns literally stepped in front of my shopping trolley (cart). I alerted her to the fact that she had pushed in front of me ( and by that time, there were 2 more customers now behind me and I was no longer the end of that queue) . She blithely turned around and said , oh I didn't see you ( me AND my full shopping trolley)🤣🤔 I replied that I was surprised that I had become invisible as I didn't realise my elderliness had caused that to happen , yet. She did go back to the end of the queue ( I expect she did feel embarrassed that she was caught out). Unfortunately ignoring older shoppers can become a thing
4:50 British queues are organic and develop with startling rapidity. So that they are never without a properly-formed queue some people even cultivate their own queues in queue gardens.
If you ever come to the UK, I'll meet you in Swindon and film your reaction to navigating it's infamous "Magic Roundabout". If we survive it'll make a great video for the channel
@@jackyboii97 Don't worry, I reckon they'd park up and abandon the car when they see the road sign, no way they'd be brave enough to give it a go. I usually aim roughly where I think I need to go, close my eyes and hope I get there in one piece.
The one in Hemel Hempstead was worse in my opinion. I first encountered it at 2am after a nightmare 5 hours on the road from Tyneside. My eyes stopped working. 🤣😳
OMG! Just looked it up on Google Maps! That looks weird! Whoever designed that road layout must have been on something! 🤪😵💫🥴 The Hemel Hempstead one looks nearly as bad too...it's basically a bi-directional roundabout. The roundabouts in Doncaster are bad enough and they are only normal roundabouts...except if you get in the wrong lane, you're stuffed!
@@catherinesmalley8587 not sure how true it is but from what I’ve heard growing up round there it was designed with either beer barrels or some other type of barrels 😅 there’s plenty of UA-cam videos explaining how it works and how efficient it actually is
The escalator thing only really applies to the tubes in London, elsewhere people don't really care and stand anywhere. Everyone else isn't in such a hurry.
For the greeting any general response, ie "Good thanks" or "been better but working through it" is acceptable as long as you reciprocate the question back. "Good thanks, yourself?"
My friend DOES know king Charles. Back when Charles was a prince, he even played games with him because my friend was a friend of one of the royal footmen and was his guest at the palace on occasion.
I work in tourism and you'd be shocked how many American's flash their money about, right after they tell me they have a Scottish ancestor which they think makes them Scottish now lol
The King's (Queen's) Guard are real soldiers who are assigned to protect the Royal Palaces. They are humiliated every day by sightseers who think their antics are hilarious but who are actually disturbing them while they work. No wonder they stick their bayonets in people's faces! If you hear them marching towards you, you have to move out of the way or they will walk straight through you & you could be knocked to the ground - after they've screamed at you -"MAKE WAY FOR THE KING'S GUARD!!!!"
Also Birmingham train station and probably a few other places where people have to keep to a timetable. I've seen this etiquette on stairs as well as escalators.
To be fair I’m in the country side n although nowadays the roads are getting more crowded sometimes down the old back roads you kinda mainly just get the road to yourself. The one issue is that they’re tiny, windy, have lots of blind corners and have a 60mph speed limit everywhere including 1 car wide roads with 2 lanes of traffic running up them. Tbh, now I say it it sounds a lot more dangerous than it is driving around the country side 😂 maybe I’m just used to driving like a nutter on the back roads (pro tip if you hear a horn when you aproach a corner, stop! Just do it, because the other guy is gunna come flying round the corner on your side of the road at full speed 😂)
I never get the 60mph, but I'm sure some idiots have attempted it, my Dad calls those tiny roads footpaths. We holidayed in Devon a lot and when in Dartmoor and the hedges hit the car both sides, he was like "oh God not another footpath and they say you can do 60mph!" it was sooo funny!
@@lozzylols You should drive appropriately to the situation. There are national speed limits but whilst they are the legal maximum they are by no means necessarily the speed you should drive. On the other hand it is inconsiderate to hold up traffic on a normal well-constructed open road by driving at 40 mph when you can safely do otherwise or when you can make it easy for other traffic to pass you. And if you are driving on single-track roads with passing places, particularly in the North of Scotland where these roads are often the only route for a long distance, the speed that is safe for you is NOT the speed that the locals who know the road need to do. There will be sections with good visibility where they can quite safely do 60 mph, and they are not on holiday, and they need to get a long distance to do their work, purchase supplies, etc. Please pull in ON THE LEFT at the next available passing place, and the driver behind you will, in about 60% of cases, give you a cheery wave for being considerate instead of yet another arrogant English person who thinks this road is so hazardous that he will jolly well make sure NOBODY may drive above 25 mph. I'm English by the way but lived for a long time in such places.
I think Anna nailed it with the common sense comment at the end, I happen to think that common sense is the rarest thing on the planet, incredible how so many ppl don’t have it.
#3 I guess is mainly London where everyone is forever stressed and in a hurry. I've never seen this happen anywhere else in the UK. But then most people mistake London for the entire UK.
This is very true. I was on an escalator on the tube last year and there were some girls from Manchester standing on the left. They were surprised when I told them to move over and pointed at the signs. 🙄
@@natalielang6209 it drove me nuts at Leeds train station, where people would stand everywhere on the escalator (or have cases next to them!), and me, running late for my train home (because I finished work at a certain time and my train was at a certain time!), needed to run up the escalator in order to get to the platform. I'd usually glare at people!
I live near Conwy castle in North Wales, it's a tourist hotspot and we gets lots of American visitors all summer, my Dad was a train driver and the station he was based at was next to the castle, one year they were doing work on the castle so it was surrounded by scaffolding and my Dad's favourite joke was, every time an American tourist asked him how old the castle was he'd say, well they started building it in 1283 but they haven't finished it yet! 🤣 There's nothing you can really say to offend anyone over here, and in Wales we hear people saying they're in England when they're in Wales every day, so you become immune to it.
The escalator thing it's very common on The London Underground, but in a shop it's unlikely to be a problem as people are shopping instead of commuting
Loving the content my fellow beings... sometimes I feel like the video in question gatekeeps English people in away, as a brit and and a English person number 6 and 8 really dont bother me, to really be honest the only one that would bother me is cutting the que, everything else wouldn't phase me. Keep up the awesome content, me and my housemate are bloody loving you guy!!!
Regarding driving on the left; we're different to you guys in the sense that, when I approach a red light, I have to stop, full stop. I cannot turn left. In the US, you guys seem to ignore red lights if you are making a right turn...? I drove when I visited San Francisco, the fact that most of your vehicles are automatic was the biggest issue, that took a bit of getting used to. The oppo side of the road is pretty quickly absorbed in.
I once made the mistake of standing on the wrong side of an esculater when visiting London. I was pushed in the back out of the way! My instinct was to push this person back then I realised it was my fault for being in the way, but a polite excuse me would have been enough!
There are signs. I think the world believes us English/British are always so polite and friendly. There in lies the first mistake. Never jump a queue, never stare at someone, never read someone’s newspaper over their shoulder, and never barge past anyone. I’ve seen full on fist fights break out because someone got too close to someone else.
I first came across the US aversion to queuing whilst was on holiday (vacation) a few years ago in Jamaica. (for many Americans it is similar to Spain is to UK). I am the best part of 18st and didnt take kindly to fellow holidaymaker pushing in front and taking the last piece of pizza.
Funny, I met an American in France. He was very excited about meeting an English person who spoke as he thought English people should, but was confused that he should meet that English person in France, not England.
@@ladyelainefairchild3546 You are commenting on the wrong channel. Nobody wants your opinion here. JT and Anna are very young, but making an effort to learn about a different culture and in many respects a different language. While not having all the knowledge required to process 20 seconds of information can make a person(s) appear ignorant, the real ignorance is having that knowledge and choosing not to share it. Think on this, in just as many words it takes to insult someones lack of knowledge, you could enhance it
As a brit, I can't even comprehend not respecting a line. like, how can you push in front of someone and think that's normal?
Also as a Brit nothing infuriates me more than queue jumping.
Unfortunately, many British people don't understand the concept, either. At bus stops, when it's happened to me,, I've actually told them in no uncertain terms (politely!), that I or the person in front of me was there first and to wait their turn.
@@susangamble6038 exactly.
@Susan Gamble who wants to get on the bus first in the Uk
When I get to the tills in a shop, I always ask if someone is in the queue if they're stood nearby (if it's not clear), and then stand behind them.
As a Brit, I really value escalator etiquette. I see escalators as "fast stairs" rather than "lazy stairs", and so the left being clear allows me to use them as fast stairs. Particularly useful at metro/underground station where those saved seconds could mean getting an earlier train.
Our escalator etiquette is one of the things I'm most proud of as a Brit... it's actually bloody logical, which is more than can be said for a lot of our other customs! And as someone with very limited mobility, strugglign with stairs, etc, It's nice to know that once I prop myself up on the right for my 'slow stairs', I won't be bothered or jostled, you speedy folk can just race on by happily. :D
There was a study on rush hour escalator flow conducted.
And believe or not, it has been proven that the flow of people going through an escalator during rush hour is actually higher if people stand on both side of the escalator instead of letting one lane clear for people walking/rushing.
Because by letting one side clear etiquette, people are blocking the escalator entrance when they need to choose a side.
If they were not given the choice and everyone has to stand, no one is blocking the entrance and the flow goes smoothly.
@@araisikewai Well, it goes smoothly until someone starts a fight because their way is blocked and they might miss the last train home!
Although we Brits stand on the right on escalators we very often don't on the moving pavements getting into airports. People just block it when it's actually supposed to make your walking quicker. Even if they just stood to the side but they block the way and travel really slowly. Nobody likes to complain because they're British.
To be fair that’s only in London. The rest of us stand where we like on escalators
You don’t need to worry about turning at traffic lights in the UK. Unlike in the US you’re not allowed to turn at a red signal, when you’re allowed to turn there will be a green arrow to tell you
Or even talk Welsh.
Cymru am byth 🙌❤️
The only real issue with driving on the opposite side of the road is that the gear stick is on the wrong side.
@@maxximumb If it was on the side you prefer you would need to open the door.
@Maxx B its not hard at all, I drive in the us when I visit
actually "wait for your cue" is a totally different word from "queue".
Cue means signal. wait for your signal.
Queue means list/sequence
So, as a DJ, am I cueing the next track or tracks, or am I queueing them?
Both seem to work, lol 😂
@@KumaBean nb it's cuing without the e
@@KumaBean so you can have a queue (list) of tracks that people have requested
And wait for the cue (signal)from your friend to stop the music so he can tell a girl he likes her
But you could NOT have a cue (signal) of tracks that have been requested and wait for the queue (list) from your friend to stop the music so he can tell a girl he likes her
@@KumaBean In a track you would `cue` it ready to play, not `queue` it. There are lots of words that sound the same but mean different things, some are spelt differently and often some are even spelt exactly the same but are pronounced different!. Take `wound` for instance, "The bandage was wound around the wound".
Sometimes they are spelt the same and pronounced the same but mean different things, "I had to subject the subject to a series of tests".
So you see `cue` and `queue` are not so difficult after all!
@@jgreen2015 incorrect. one cues the music (always):- definition of cuing -
1.
give a cue to or for.
"Ros and Guil, cued by Hamlet, also bow deeply"
2.
set a piece of audio or video equipment in readiness to play (a particular part of the recorded material).
"there was a pause while she cued up the next tape"
What made me laugh was when he mentioned early on not to confuse England with the UK or Britain. But then later on he said don't try and fake a 'British or Scottish accent'. D'oh.
To explain - he meant 'English or Scottish accent'. Scotland and England are both British so a Scottish accent is also a British accent. He was using British to mean English. Don't do that.
I’m Scottish, whenever we fill out a form for whatever,and it asks your nationality, but the only option is (British) 😑😂
That’s because Scottish isn’t an official nationality. You don’t have a Scottish passport you have a British one. I’m Welsh, same thing.
I'm English tick other and write English, I mean why is it not on the form as mandatory?!
@@boneythelynx8884 that’s actually a great idea, I’ll do the equivalent one n future. Nice one👍
@@noblestsavage1742 but hopefully you tick Welsh lol. Hopefully your having a great bank holiday weekend over there
As a Brit, let me tell you the amount of times I've had to call out attempted queue jumpers that werent born here is immense. Like how can you even enter this country without knowing the rules of a queue? You try to push in the queue here then youre asking for a fight.
queue jumping is just unwritten rule ya dont break lol seen bare fights for that and thats in local Asda haha
Especially if you have a load of pensioners waiting in the queue because they will not tolerate anyone, regardless of how old you are or who you are, pushing in front of them. Bus stops are a good example!
2:46 That 'unspoken rule' is written on every one of those blue signs in between the escalators. 😂
And if you fail to comply with the sign someone (if they are me anyway) is likely to bellow at you very loudly and then shove past you.
Because that 30 seconds saved means I make my train connections and don't have to wait an extra 30 minutes. So the words "are you some kind of imbecile... move out of the f*cking way (f*cking tourist)" isn't unheard.
Whilst trying to queue jump will get you tutted, not moving on the escalator will get you barked at.
@@animated_ads I'm the guy who used to (in my youth) run up Tottenham Court Road escalators, two steps at a time. I was never late, just.
@@jamesallen4050 my husband tells me that doing that at Holborn on his way to the Royal courts of justice is more exercise than tcr, especially as avoiding a pissed off judge (because you are late) is a very effective form of personal training
Exactly
I don't think it's just a British thing. I think there is the same unwritten rule here in Spain. Although they're not very good with queues here.
I'm English and I've always been under the impression that we invented queuing, we probably didn't but we are definitely the best exponents of it and we absolutely hate when foreigners don't understand this simple concept and try to push in or complain about how long it is taking, just bloody stand there and be patient!
We was staying in a hotel in Spain & the Spanish holiday makers were so rude by walking in front of a queue. They was so ignorant & I enjoyed telling them exactly how rude they was. Manners doesn't cost anything.
I'm probably not alone in getting annoyed when supermarkets open up tills and people behind me get served before by switching queues. I know I shouldn't, but queues are truly ingrained in British psyche.
@@chocoholic832 manners are definitely in short supply outside the UK and often within it with the amount of foreigners we have now, we do not like them, we are not being racist but xenophobic
Queueing is common throughout northern Europe.
Are you aware that the cute little dog behind you was the star in this video.
The talk of meeting the Queen reminds me, she used to walk around her estate in Balmoral (Scotland) just dressed as a little old lady with headscarf and with her plain clothed protection officer. She once bumped into a couple of American tourists who didn't recognise her. The tourists asked if she lived in the area and she replied that she had a house nearby. When they asked her if she'd ever met the Queen, she replied: "No, but this policeman has," gesturing towards her protection officer. I wonder if it ever dawned on them later that they had spoken with the Queen! There's another story of a couple who wrote to the Queen inviting her to their wedding, and obviously they received a letter from one of her ladies in waiting saying thank you but her majesty would not be able to attend. Well it turned out that the Queen was in the area on their wedding day and made a surprise visit to their wedding reception. She was an incredible woman, with a cracking sense of humour (just look at the 007 Olympics arrival, and of course marmalade sandwiches with Paddington Bear), and is greatly missed. As Paddington said; Thank you, for everything.
hahaha that's a lovely story about the Queen being incognito, I bet she enjoyed that so much. It can't be easy living so much of your life in the public eye and to chat to people who didn't know who you were must have been brilliant.
@@macalauresmuse She had a wicked sense of humour. Have you seen the clip she did with Paddington Bear for her jubilee? The other great story I like about her is when the king of Saudi Arabia came to visit, and she gave him a tour of the grounds, at speed, in her land rover (which she used to maintain as she was a trained mechanic). Apparently he was terrified! Oh that reminds me of another one which beautifully demonstrates her personality. She trained as a Land Girl during the war (although had to return to Windsor every night), and to complete the training they had to drive a lorry into London. The palace were in a panic, thinking "as she was just a girl, what if she crashed, how would that affect the country's morale?" so they summoned her to Buckingham palace to tell her under no circumstances was she to be allowed to complete her training. She arrived, driving a lorry! I'd love to have seen the looks on their faces!
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When Paddington said that, it brought tears to my eyes.
Loved reading this!! 😍
By the way...The reason we in the UK Drive on the Correct Side of the Road goes back to the days of the Knights. You hold the Reins in your Left Hand and your Sword, or Axe, or Lance with your Right Hand. So the Horse was 'driving' on the Left Side of the Enemy and you took action on the Right Side. Cars Driving on the Right are a potential danger to you.
I think many people in England say I'm from Cornwall or wherever, (in england), rather than just Im from England, because unfortunately in many situations saying England many people just think of London, London does not represent the whole the whole of England, just like England does not represent the whole of the UK.
I do that because I hate London and people in it and don't ever want to be associated with it
@@leestone5356 I dont hate london, i just hate the way london is used to represent the whole of the UK, the vast majority of the UK is nothing like London.
@@mooncatandberyl5372. Cornwall, like Scotland and Wales, is a country in its own right, even if it hasn’t been recognised for a while, which is why we don’t call ourselves english, but we do say that we are British………..
thats basically what I mean@@ArghansMordonMarghek
@@mooncatandberyl5372 . Firstly, suggesting that Cornwall is in engaland, is insulting, and secondly, what you basically meant, and what you said, are different things though, aren’t they, especially when you said about many people in engaland say they are Cornish, which is something that only Cornish immigrants to engaland would have a right to say, but they are not likely to be many……..
Brexit ( British exit ) was a referendum on leaving or staying in the European Union. It went on for years and we got sick of it. We really found out people's political views and the results were so close it really divided the country. There were the Brexiteers and The Remainers. People split up with their friends, family even spouses over it. Needless to say it's a bit of a touchy subject still.
What a shit idea it turned out to be
I still don't see why people still have to be divided on how we voted for this. My sister and I voted differently in the referendum. But we still have a good laugh and banter over things. We also help each other out if needed.
It has happened people should accept the results and move on.
@rachel penny Guess it depends on how strongly you felt about it.
@@rachelpenny5165 Quick guess ... you voted leave? The reason it's still a sore point is the perception, which has been borne out, that those who voted leave did so with their hearts rather than their brains. I didn't vote because I was overthinking it and couldn't decide. I quickly realised that was a mistake. What irritated me the most, though, was the amount of misinformation being constantly shared by Brexiteers online. It was just pure propaganda. I still see Brexiteers wearing rose-tinted glasses over things and still saying it's worked out when it clearly hasn't. Not yet, at least. One Brexiteer was on TV the other day and bizarrely claimed that Brexit hadn't happened yet ... about as clear an admission that it's so far failed to deliver the promises made as you can get. My sister voted leave and even voted for a Tory MP who had to be bussed into our Welsh-speaking heartland from England because they didn't feel they had a decent local candidate. She's lucky I spoke to her again after that. But we still get on and haven't talked about it since my initial outburst.
It's still going on, but then it's mostly in fun but all agree that woke has to be stopped
When they said don’t push in during the queue I was so shocked that you were actually able to do that in some countries! Like WHAT!
Oh and the Queens guard thingy...The red tunic and the fluffy wuffy hat is not an invitation to hassle him, he is on duty, not there for selfies. He has loaded live rounds in the mag and 1 in the chamber. Also, he has permission to fire if threatened and a bayonet to run you through with.
And they are proper soldiers, the last person who tried to touch him might have been a heavily armed member of the Taliban in Afghanistan so an American tourist presents no problem.
@@peterc.1618 spot on. Peter i can tell, is as proud as i am, of our boys. If you want to poke and prod and take photo's...find a celebrity.
They've served active duty, and they have some legal immunities because they serve the queen. They can hurt you.
I'm doubtful that they generally have live rounds in the gun. It seems unnecessary, and in many cases there will be police offices with semi-automatic weapons nearby. But there is a big knife attached to the end of the gun.
And I'm very doubtful about "permission to fire if threatened". What does that mean? Anyone can legally use whatever force is necessary for self defence or defence of others, but what special permission to fire would the King's Guard have or need?
@@barneylaurance1865THEY CERTAINLY DO HAVE LIVE ROUNDS IN THEIR WEAPONS MY FRIEND AND MILITARY BASES AND SUCH LIKE HAVE DIFFERENT RULES AND LAWS THAT APPLY TO THEM. MY FRIEND SERVED 24 YEARS IN THAT REGIMENT AND MY SON IS STILL A SERVING SOLDIER WITH 19 YEARS EXPERIENCE AND IF SOMEONE PRESENTS A THREAT TO LIFE THEY WILL DEFINITELY HAVE ZERO PROBLEM OPENING FIRE AGAINST SUCH A THREAT
The one with the Queen's Guard. That would be like a British person going to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and interfering with the guard currently on duty.
People seem to forget that because Buckingham Palace is a tourist attraction and the guards are not in khaki that they are real soldiers with real guns and are doing a serious job. They aren't 'quaint' ornaments for the benefit of tousists.
@@avaggdu1 Not disagreeing...much, just to say the whole 'oddly dressed guards' thing is bound to cause mixed signals, and it's not like we as a country and London/The Royals don't court the intrigue and sightseeing of visitors. So, in a way they kind of are _also_ quaint ornaments...sort of.
@@carlhartwell7978 absolutely NOT quaint ornaments in any way shape or form. That uniform is taken VERY seriously by the people of the UK and they dont like people disrespecting it. You may as well insult the monarch because you will get the same response. They are literal security for the monarch and their residence. Their order has existed, in many forms, for hundreds of years. They are all ex military of the highest expertise and they can and WILL shoot you if you push it too far. Whilst I believe nobody has been killed by them in a very long time they have shot a number of people. They have knocked people out, broken bones, busted eye sockets with their rifles and stabbed people with the blade. Treat these guys with respect or suffer the consequences.
@@ASavageEye Hi Michael. Firstly please don't confuse me for an republican etc, I'm a subject of King Charles III. I know you didn't but I just wanted to put that out there!
I'd like if I may to back this up a little and focus on the uniform.
I would be horrified if the royal guards uniforms were 'modernised''. But why do YOU think the royal guards still wear what they wear and all other armed forces have updated their uniforms?
@carlhartwell7978 it's called tradition and they are not the only security forces in the world to wear "strange" uniforms. Let's be fair and point out that's really its only the helmet that is odd looking but it represents something and so it should not be mocked in any way.
In the interest of honest discussion I will point out that I am not even a citizen of the UK, I'm Irish, but this still bothers me. Respect is something that is fast disappearing in the world and its sad to see.
I'm Scottish and it doesn't really bother me if I'm called English or British but I have been asked some let's say unthinking questions by Americans like do I have running water in Scotland or do I have television.
Running water ! Yeah just put a glass out the window.
@@reluctantheist5224 lol you're not wrong 😂
I have once been asked a similar question
I relyed with I'm english not scottish
Just ask them who invented the television, that always stumps them.
@@Thurgosh_OG it does as well 😂
Calling the Scottish 'English' is like calling a Canadian 'American'
Incidentally I heard a story recently about someone who met the Queen whilst out for a walk, not recognising her asked if she had met the Queen! Apologies if that was on this channel :)
Is that the time the Queen answered, "No but he has." pointing at her plain clothes security guard
Well, no. Canadians *are* Americans. North Americans to be precise.
@@Thurgosh_OG then they asked for a picture with the bodyguard who has met the Queen, whilst the Queen took the picture
@@Thurgosh_OG That's the one 👍👍
Up to a point, but to be fair Canadian and American English sound very similar and easy to confuse whereas Scottish English and English English sound nothing alike.
It’s also difficult to get away with queue jumping in the uk as not only will other punters call you out often not even for themselves “or mate, that bloke was in front of you” but the server will often have clocked who arrived when and know in their head the order they’re going to get to people in. And on the occasion where a member of bar staff looks to serve you next when you know there was someone waiting before you, the only decent thing to do is step back and say ‘no this gentleman /lady was before me and nod to the person whose turn it actually is.
I see that a lot - customers letting the staff know who was next. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy when strangers are so polite to each other.
Good manners :).
The word "queue" is spelled with just the letter Q. All the other letters are just waiting in line.
Hahaha.
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my experience born in England is that the escalator standing on the right thing, really only applies to the under ground tube in London, iv'e never been any where else where it applies or people care.
it's a rule in basically every part of the country, it's a thing in Birmingham as well
Good manners to make room on any reasonable sized escalator. Of course some narrow shop elevators not so much. To be honest I don't get why even something surprising, just like queuing it is plain good manners. People should not even need to be asked. Unless of course they have a disability or luggage that makes it difficult for them to move. Then I wouldn't expect it, even on the underground.
We'll I'm pretty sure it applies to other parts of the country as well, but how loosely people take it probably depends on how much in a hurry they are lol People still come and say excuse me if you're on the wrong side and they're on the run! Taking it larger, this also applies when you go to Hong Kong and Japan, though in Japan which side to stand does depend on which city you're in at times lol
Oh good someone else who has experienced the same as me!, was about to comment. I too haven't experienced this rule in the area I live/grew up but got to experience it when going to London. I really liked that keep to the right/left system the underground has.
Maybe it's just in big cities? Certainly the rule in Liverpool.
Anna, you are completely right. I'm afraid that common sense just isn't very common any more. Jumping a queue (cutting a line?) is definitely frowned upon
and you will get very angry looks, people may even "tut" at you (that, in Britain, is almost a punch!)`. Only a fool would deliberately upset one of Monarch's
Foot Guards. Many of our visitors from the US seem to think that they are actors dressed up but this is not Disney Land. They are, in fact, some of the most
respected infantrymen in the world who just happen to do ceremonial duties as well as normal soldiering. Please keep up your brilliant videos as I'm really
enjoying them, although I sometimes have trouble with JT's accent (lol).......................................the ancient Englishman.
Number 3 is not an unspoken rule. It is literally on signs before you get on the escalator and is also written on most of the steps to stand on the right and walk on the left.
Unspoken rule... That is plastered all over the place on signs and will very much be told to you if you don't follow 😂
Don't jump the queue unless you want to be glared at and have the queue tutting at you.
I'm always happy to call out queue jumpers. it works most of the time but there are always plonkers.
Ditto, don't give a crap if people are embarrassed. You weren't waiting, move back.
Some of the older generation think it's ok to do it then give you a pitiful look knowing they'll get away with it. 😂
@@chocoholic832 I'm extremely sceptical about that. If anything, the older generations are less likely to queue-jump, unless they are blissfully unaware due to age. Kids on the other hand just don't give a toss or think they're still in school where they mill around like sheep and think they own the world.
@@avaggdu1 Where I live it's exactly what happens. Not all elderly people but you'd be surprised how many do. I'd gladly let an elderly person go first but they can be crafty. My mum is 77 & even she says they try to push in front of her in queues 🤦
I'm from the UK, love your videos! Your fish tank makes me need the loo though everytime I watch ya's 😂😝
That Escalator thing is the same in Australia.. But you'll always get idiots grouping up and blocking it.. While 30 seconds may not be a lot of time, it can be the difference between missing a train that only comes every 30 minutes.
Plus on the long escalators in many London Underground stations it takes a lot longer than 30 seconds to get from top to bottom if you stand still. Blocking the escalators can delay people by several minutes, which has a knock on affect on the rest of their journey.
The escalator thing is mainly for the London Underground. It's a form of etiquette. A lot of Londoners are in a rush for some reason or another.
The escalator rule is more an underground ( subway ) thing. I've never seen it observed on store escalators etc.
Plenty of escalators in shops have signs saying keep right.
Not very observant then
@@fenman7147 Not true. I got my Observer's badge in the brownies. Also lighten up.
Tbh it's more trains too. I dint drive but notice it a lot more in the train station than anywhere else
.we.arent walkers up as I have a small child who would make it difficult lol
If there's a sign, sure. But I keep seeing this presented as some unwritten rule that exists all across the UK. Which it is not. @@Thurgosh_OG
The escalator thing is because some people are running to catch a train. And at the end of the day it's just rude to block the way if others want to pass by. It doesn't happen very often, but I have seen someone get knocked out cold when trying to cut the que without a word being spoken. The guy who punched him just carried on with his conversation as if nothing had happened. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
In Wales it’s an unspoken rule that if a host offers you something you shouldn’t immediately say accept as it comes across as entitled.
Example: “want some cake?” “oh that looks lovey but I’m good, you don’t have too” “oh I insist it’s not a hassle” “oh sure, I’ll only have a little bit though”
I have no idea why this is a thing 😂
There'ss a system something like that (but I think much more strongly encouraged and formal) in Iran called Taarof.
Different in Scotland, piranhas couldn't have the cake off the plate quicker. If you don't have any, someone will ask if youre alright
Nope. if someone is going to offer me some cake. The obvious and immediate answer is hell yeah.
i used to do this, then i was like fuck it, sure ill accept everything, don't do it anymore, if someone offer's me a pint im taking it
Not specifically a Welsh thing, just a sign of good manners. As is not forcing the issue if someone says no thank you more than once.
the escalator part amused me.. "its an unspoken rule"
“British or Scottish accent” 🙈
"British or Scottish accent" - now can you see the irony here after what he just said earlier on in the video? Americans just can't help themselves.
Exactly!
Even saying English accent is quite ironic, said the Geordie-Scouse-Brummie-Cockney from Cornwall.
Wrong side! WRONG SIDE! Did he say WRONG SIDE?
That annoys me. Not wrong, opposite if anything.
The escalator thing is only on the ones on the London underground. There are a lot of them there and some people, mainly business people I'd say, need to get around quickly so you find a lot who want to walk the escalators. At the rate the underground's go through, I'm sure walking could end up making quite a difference on arrival time. it would be interesting to see two people test it, take the same route but one waits, the other walks!
It’s definitely quicker if you walk down the escalator on the tube. I have a disability that has got worse over time. When I was still able to walk up and down the escalator, my overall journey time on the tube was shorter. It’s so annoying to get to the platform just as the doors are shutting and knowing that if you’d walked down the escalator you’d be on your way 😢 Especially if that train was empty and the next one is so packed you have to let it go and wait for the next one.
Why do you think this is only on London escalators? This is true in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast...
it's same for Birmingham, west midlands, and every other part of the country that has escalators lmao, London ain't that special
A lot of people do it to keep fit. I remember when I made a New Years resolution one year to never stand on escalators one year and managed to lose a great deal of weight!
Yes lived and worked in London and I can tell you when rushing up and down escalators all day it makes a big difference on time. Keeps you fit too. The only people I would be patient with are those with lots of luggage or some disability that means they need more room. Other than that I would politely ask them to move to the side they are supposed to be on. Most people use commonsense and can see what others are doing so do not need to be told. You occasionally get the akward person who just loves to be difficult but generally not an issue.
Why does the natator only say 'British and Scottish accents and such LOL After saying there are 4 countries.
yes he warns people about getting it wrong then seems to imlpy England=British and Scotland isnt British
So Ironic!
Yeah he fudged up there lol. But given how many accents there are in England alone. And must be the same in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?!
The escalator thing makes more efficient use of it. Allowing room for people to walk up the left of an escalator allows a larger volume of people to be moved in a given time.
During the rush hour the tube can get very busy with a huge amount of people trying to exit at once. Remaining still on an escalator only allows as many people as there are steps to be moved, allowing a steady stream of walkers can move an exponentially greater number of people.
I remember being in the train station a couple days ago and I looked up the escalator to see everyone perfectly stood on the right side, no bags or luggage on the left blocking the way. Although, it’s usually difficult to get past everyone without bumping into their side so people usually just use the stairs and jump 3 steps at a time…
The escalator thing is 100% London-specific. I've never heard of leaving the left side free for climbers, it is certainly not a thing in Dundee.
Anyone used to the london underground knows a few seconds can make the difference between catching that train and missing it. Its why the escalator has that rule.
When I was a uni student in 1973 I went on a package holiday with some uni friends to Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav holiday rep told us that, unlike England, they do not queue for buses. So when we went to catch a bus, we mingled around and when the bus came, we were first on the bus and nobody else stood a chance of beating us to the door. That taught me why we queue in England!
the london tube escalators has a written rule.. its everywhere warning you to stand on the right.. posters, on the escalators themselves etc
If someone cuts the queue, we passively aggressively say “oh yes, because we are all waiting here for the fun of it”
*Queue ;)
@LordMorbannaon won't lie I was having one of those days were my brain was like idk this word 🙈😂 xx
No worries,@@camren7271- we all have them!
The escalator thing is weird. 39 years in the U.K. and I’ve never seen it or experienced it. It might be in London, as other commenters have said. But the rest of England isn’t London
Standing on the right is common place here in the UK
It is common practice across the UK, but especially at train/metro/underground stations where the seconds do really matter.
i agree, never really seen it. but been through Birmingham lots using the trains, see a bit of it, but it more like if most standing on the left, if you not in a hurry you prob stand left. just what ever side the most people are what sorta gives a clear fast way up or down
It’s in most places, mate, especially at stations. Maybe look next time you’re out and about?!
Hi you both .love watching you both from Scotland 🏴
Don't forget the Queens/Kings Guard are professional soldiers.
When you refer to the British accent, you are referring to Southern English Standard ( also called RP, Oxford or Queen's English even though her way of speaking was quite particular ). Beyond that, there is no such thing like "the British accent" There are dozens of local accentsand dialects all over the UK.
I think Sean Bean's accent is quintessentially English and recognizable as such. Reminds me of doing post grad at Hammersmith and having a clinic with a distinguished professor. He was so happy to hear my northern accent (told I'm posh northern but only because I was brought up from early teens in the Middle East). He said the Londoners look down on his accent. Half the staff wherent even British and didn't have that problem
Sean Bean 8s from Sheffield Yorkshire
You CAN'T always make left turns in the UK like you can right turns in the US. You have to wait for the lights etc.
Right. This is the best reason not to drive
The escalator rule is really only a big deal in London and it isn’t an unspoken rule there - there are literally signs on the underground. 😆
It's something that's usually observed in other parts of the country, although perhaps not enforced as it is in London. I come from the north east of England (Tyne and Wear) and it's something I've seen whenever I've used the metro.
You obviously don’t use public transport, that or you’re the annoying person always standing in the way! 😂
This is actually a thing across the UK, especially at train stations, underground networks, etc.
@@ffotograffydd Thinking about it, I only came across public transport that required leaving street level when I moved to London. Everywhere else has been buses and trams and street level train stations. My point of reference where I grew up and where I’ve visited is shopping centres etc. and I guess no one’s in such a rush in that setting. So perhaps you’re right, perhaps my experience isn’t broad enough to comment. 😬
@@lizzieg8014 The underground system in Glasgow was opened just a few years after the London Underground, so late 19th century. Tyne and Wear and Liverpool also have underground transport systems. So no, not just London.
I feel like the escalator is a London thing. I live up north and we don't do that up here. If there are people in front of us on the escalator we just wait and ride it up or down lol
We do do that up north
I'm from the South West and we don't either so..
I lived in Newcastle for a few years and regularly used the metro, there are signs saying to keep right. I like to walk up and down escalators, so if people are blocking the left, I make my foot steps increasingly louder as I approach. They usually get the hint.
Or say excuse me or if rude shift
The reason we stand/walk on the right, on stairs, escalators, etc., goes back to medieval times, when you kept you sword arm (invariably your right arm) away from potential attackers.
The same applies to weddings, where the groom sits/stands on the right of the bride, to keep his sword arm free.
It's because the first escaltor to be used (successfully) in a station was at Earl's Court, and the platform was to the left of the escalator exit, nothing to do with sword arms - that's more spiral stairs etc.
Talk about a clash of cultures 😂 When i was working in Argentina and got to know people they would always give me a hug (which i later found out was called an Abrazo) and is how Argentinians greet friends. Now i'm an English man and we aren't very touchy feely and it took me ages to get used to it 😂😂😂. Just to add i never had a problem with it when i found out it is cultural and a sign of friendship.
The escalator thing only really applies in London, in the North people would be annoyed if you pushed past them.
The thing with money I think is more like
“How much are you earning”
“How much was your house/ rent”
“How much is your council tax”
It’s awkward being asked what expenses you’re paying
I also think you should react to monty python and the holy grail, if you haven’t seen it already
No - a cue and a queue are different things (for some reason).
You wait for your cue, if you are an actor waiting to go on stage. A queue is what you would call a line.
You guys got it right with your comment on common sense. Treat people with respect and no matter where you are in the world you will be good.
I love that the video you're watching s about things you shouldn't say or do to British people and then they go and call it a British accent! They already mentioned that Britain is made up of 4 countries so it's really annoying when people say a British accent because there is no such thing. There is English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish and then as you know, each country has their own regional accents too.
Britain is made up from 3 countries, NI is in IRELAND.
@@tommyfergusson2502 The UK is made up of four countries.
Another one about the queen's guard is NEVER obstruct them, they will trample you! Almost learned this the hard way when I was a kid lol
It's going to take a while to get used to saying the King's guard.
To clarfy, its not why they call it 'wait for your cue' thats a different kind of cue.
To stand in line is a queue.
To wait for his cue is more for use in theatre or on stage etc. Like hes waiting for the nod to say his part is ready or for him to walk on stage.
But to stand in queue is to line up and wait your turn to be served.
8:02 the narrator right there made a mistake. There is no “British accent.” He just got through telling us England, Scotland and Wales are separate countries. There are English, Scottish and Welsh accents🤦♀️
Escalator, note: also if you have a Wheely case put it on the step behind you, still on the right.
I will say there are exceptions to some of these 'rules'. Escalators, keep to the right mainly applies to the London Underground. In the suburbs this is observed far less. Queuing seems to apply to everything except getting served at a British pub bar. Just get to the front of the bar and wave money or your hand to get noticed. Eventually. 🤬 Driving in the middle of the road. Try driving some of our back roads (country lanes) only wide enough for one car and is two way with up to a 60mph speed limit😅🤣.
Yes, the country roads. 60mph and it's so narrow and it's two way as well. When I was learning it was so scary
Great fun in the dark and no street lights! LOL! Hopefully there's catseyes to guide you along...😀
All the bar staff I know would tell you waving money is a guaranteed way to get ignored as long as possible.
9:05 loved the dirty dog paw interlude 😂 the second “you ate it??” made me giggle 🏴
Another thing about cars that he didnt mention is that we drive manual cars (cars with a gear stick/shift stick/shifter etc). If you rent a car and don't specifically ask for an automatic, they will give you a manual and many americans have no clue how to drive them. Renting an automatic will also be more expensive because insurance on them costs more.
I think the cost of insurance is to do with being able to just put your foot down and blast it, which you can't do as quickly in a manual because you have to shift gears as you speed up.
We have bigger problems in this country than unaware tourists. It takes a lot to really upset us!
Hi, Anna and JT.
As a 'Team Leader' in a village food store, I have had to ask foreigners (not Americans) to leave.
Because they WOULDN'T QUEUE PROPERLY!
True story 🤣😡
i love how he said it's an unspoken rule but in the video shown there is a clear blue sign stating "stand on the right" lol
"Wait for your cue" refers to being cued.... prompted to.....not queued.... which is the past tense of queueing.... although you may get a cue to queue and a cue to step forward at the end of a queue.. .. teleprompter = autocue.....
This must be a few years old, because the population of the UK is now 69 million and London 9.6 million.
The Queen is also dead.
#3 - it's not an 'unwritten rule' - it's clearly signed, even in the footage of the escalator shown. Those blue signs on the central divider....
I find driving on the opposite side of the road isn't much of an issue as long as the steering wheel is also on the 'right' side. Everything still seems to fall in the place. Worst is, for example, driving on the right in a right-hand drive car.
The reason we drive on the left side of the road. Goes back to the mediaeval times when the had jousting competition most were right handed so they had to be on the left hand side. So it was easier and it carried on thru time. Plus we go around a roundabout clockwise unlike Americans go round in anti-clockwise which seems weird.
We Aussies generally usually are queue respectful too. But sadly as we age sometimes that respect for the person in front or ahead in a queue is ignored. I am a senior citizen and I was waiting in a checkout line during covid ( where we respected the distance rule ) and a young woman with her shopping in her arns literally stepped in front of my shopping trolley (cart). I alerted her to the fact that she had pushed in front of me ( and by that time, there were 2 more customers now behind me and I was no longer the end of that queue) . She blithely turned around and said , oh I didn't see you ( me AND my full shopping trolley)🤣🤔 I replied that I was surprised that I had become invisible as I didn't realise my elderliness had caused that to happen , yet. She did go back to the end of the queue ( I expect she did feel embarrassed that she was caught out). Unfortunately ignoring older shoppers can become a thing
In Australia it's polite to stay on the left hand side of an escalator just as we do when driving.
That's an interesting point and makes sense (I'm from the UK)
4:50 British queues are organic and develop with startling rapidity. So that they are never without a properly-formed queue some people even cultivate their own queues in queue gardens.
I'm 46, lived in England all my life, and iv never heard the escalator one
It's a London thing
If you ever come to the UK, I'll meet you in Swindon and film your reaction to navigating it's infamous "Magic Roundabout". If we survive it'll make a great video for the channel
As a Swindon person I do not advise 😅 the locals will get pissed and point you out as the tourist 😅
@@jackyboii97 Don't worry, I reckon they'd park up and abandon the car when they see the road sign, no way they'd be brave enough to give it a go. I usually aim roughly where I think I need to go, close my eyes and hope I get there in one piece.
The one in Hemel Hempstead was worse in my opinion. I first encountered it at 2am after a nightmare 5 hours on the road from Tyneside. My eyes stopped working. 🤣😳
OMG! Just looked it up on Google Maps! That looks weird! Whoever designed that road layout must have been on something! 🤪😵💫🥴
The Hemel Hempstead one looks nearly as bad too...it's basically a bi-directional roundabout. The roundabouts in Doncaster are bad enough and they are only normal roundabouts...except if you get in the wrong lane, you're stuffed!
@@catherinesmalley8587 not sure how true it is but from what I’ve heard growing up round there it was designed with either beer barrels or some other type of barrels 😅 there’s plenty of UA-cam videos explaining how it works and how efficient it actually is
The escalator thing only really applies to the tubes in London, elsewhere people don't really care and stand anywhere. Everyone else isn't in such a hurry.
It is the same throughout the UK not just London
Thanks u guys for not taking the piss love from England 🏴
For the greeting any general response, ie "Good thanks" or "been better but working through it" is acceptable as long as you reciprocate the question back. "Good thanks, yourself?"
My friend DOES know king Charles. Back when Charles was a prince, he even played games with him because my friend was a friend of one of the royal footmen and was his guest at the palace on occasion.
I was in the military and was posted to Germany. Got off the ferry in Holland and had no problem driving on the right. Even my wife had no issue.
*Even* you're wife?? Your quite the catch aren't you??
@@KM-mv3qr Never heard of humour, irony, etc? And it's always possible the wife had been very apprehensive (as I was).
@@myotherchannel2729 Oh, I've heard of humour and irony alright. I see " the wife" gets a mention. Wow!
I work in tourism and you'd be shocked how many American's flash their money about, right after they tell me they have a Scottish ancestor which they think makes them Scottish now lol
The King's (Queen's) Guard are real soldiers who are assigned to protect the Royal Palaces. They are humiliated every day by sightseers who think their antics are hilarious but who are actually disturbing them while they work. No wonder they stick their bayonets in people's faces! If you hear them marching towards you, you have to move out of the way or they will walk straight through you & you could be knocked to the ground - after they've screamed at you -"MAKE WAY FOR THE KING'S GUARD!!!!"
The escalator thing is only in London and mostly on the underground as there are some very long escalators and people are often in a hurry.
Also Birmingham train station and probably a few other places where people have to keep to a timetable. I've seen this etiquette on stairs as well as escalators.
The only time I got the escalator in London there was no space to move anywhere.
Not just in London.
To be fair I’m in the country side n although nowadays the roads are getting more crowded sometimes down the old back roads you kinda mainly just get the road to yourself. The one issue is that they’re tiny, windy, have lots of blind corners and have a 60mph speed limit everywhere including 1 car wide roads with 2 lanes of traffic running up them. Tbh, now I say it it sounds a lot more dangerous than it is driving around the country side 😂 maybe I’m just used to driving like a nutter on the back roads (pro tip if you hear a horn when you aproach a corner, stop! Just do it, because the other guy is gunna come flying round the corner on your side of the road at full speed 😂)
I never get the 60mph, but I'm sure some idiots have attempted it, my Dad calls those tiny roads footpaths. We holidayed in Devon a lot and when in Dartmoor and the hedges hit the car both sides, he was like "oh God not another footpath and they say you can do 60mph!" it was sooo funny!
@@lozzylols You should drive appropriately to the situation. There are national speed limits but whilst they are the legal maximum they are by no means necessarily the speed you should drive. On the other hand it is inconsiderate to hold up traffic on a normal well-constructed open road by driving at 40 mph when you can safely do otherwise or when you can make it easy for other traffic to pass you. And if you are driving on single-track roads with passing places, particularly in the North of Scotland where these roads are often the only route for a long distance, the speed that is safe for you is NOT the speed that the locals who know the road need to do. There will be sections with good visibility where they can quite safely do 60 mph, and they are not on holiday, and they need to get a long distance to do their work, purchase supplies, etc. Please pull in ON THE LEFT at the next available passing place, and the driver behind you will, in about 60% of cases, give you a cheery wave for being considerate instead of yet another arrogant English person who thinks this road is so hazardous that he will jolly well make sure NOBODY may drive above 25 mph. I'm English by the way but lived for a long time in such places.
You know these videos are interesting and entertaining I might subscribe
I think Anna nailed it with the common sense comment at the end, I happen to think that common sense is the rarest thing on the planet, incredible how so many ppl don’t have it.
#3 I guess is mainly London where everyone is forever stressed and in a hurry. I've never seen this happen anywhere else in the UK. But then most people mistake London for the entire UK.
This is very true. I was on an escalator on the tube last year and there were some girls from Manchester standing on the left. They were surprised when I told them to move over and pointed at the signs. 🙄
Yeah, I've never encountered this before in the UK.
@@natalielang6209 it drove me nuts at Leeds train station, where people would stand everywhere on the escalator (or have cases next to them!), and me, running late for my train home (because I finished work at a certain time and my train was at a certain time!), needed to run up the escalator in order to get to the platform. I'd usually glare at people!
@@natalielang6209 Yes, the signs should be in Mancunian. 😀
Im from yorkshire and i have never seen this either
I live near Conwy castle in North Wales, it's a tourist hotspot and we gets lots of American visitors all summer, my Dad was a train driver and the station he was based at was next to the castle, one year they were doing work on the castle so it was surrounded by scaffolding and my Dad's favourite joke was, every time an American tourist asked him how old the castle was he'd say, well they started building it in 1283 but they haven't finished it yet! 🤣 There's nothing you can really say to offend anyone over here, and in Wales we hear people saying they're in England when they're in Wales every day, so you become immune to it.
The queue jumping should be basic etiquette with all people
The escalator thing it's very common on The London Underground, but in a shop it's unlikely to be a problem as people are shopping instead of commuting
Oh mate, you’re the one getting in everyone’s way on escalators in shops aren’t you?! 😂
@@ffotograffydd Don't kid yourself, I use the lift lmao
@@AlfrescosEmporium So you’re talking about something you don’t actually use… now it all makes sense! 😂😂😂
@@ffotograffydd I was an escalator user like you... Until I took a Primark bag to the knee.
I love, this couple so much. I don’t think there can be another couple. Welcome to Kentucky
Totally agree.
Loving the content my fellow beings... sometimes I feel like the video in question gatekeeps English people in away, as a brit and and a English person number 6 and 8 really dont bother me, to really be honest the only one that would bother me is cutting the que, everything else wouldn't phase me. Keep up the awesome content, me and my housemate are bloody loving you guy!!!
It's not "the wrong side" of the road, it's "the other side" of the road. 2.5 billion people live in countries that drive on the left.
Regarding driving on the left; we're different to you guys in the sense that, when I approach a red light, I have to stop, full stop. I cannot turn left. In the US, you guys seem to ignore red lights if you are making a right turn...?
I drove when I visited San Francisco, the fact that most of your vehicles are automatic was the biggest issue, that took a bit of getting used to. The oppo side of the road is pretty quickly absorbed in.
I once made the mistake of standing on the wrong side of an esculater when visiting London. I was pushed in the back out of the way! My instinct was to push this person back then I realised it was my fault for being in the way, but a polite excuse me would have been enough!
So you ignored the signs telling you to stand on the right. So you didn’t notice what all the others were doing.
There are signs. I think the world believes us English/British are always so polite and friendly. There in lies the first mistake. Never jump a queue, never stare at someone, never read someone’s newspaper over their shoulder, and never barge past anyone. I’ve seen full on fist fights break out because someone got too close to someone else.
I first came across the US aversion to queuing whilst was on holiday (vacation) a few years ago in Jamaica. (for many Americans it is similar to Spain is to UK).
I am the best part of 18st and didnt take kindly to fellow holidaymaker pushing in front and taking the last piece of pizza.
well he couldnt let you eat it all lol
Funny, I met an American in France. He was very excited about meeting an English person who spoke as he thought English people should, but was confused that he should meet that English person in France, not England.
'wait for your cue' and 'wait in a queue' are two different things.
Actors wait for their cue, the audience wait in a queue to get into the theatre.
Yes, these two are so dumb it’s painful.
@@ladyelainefairchild3546 You are commenting on the wrong channel.
Nobody wants your opinion here.
JT and Anna are very young, but making an effort to learn about a different culture and in many respects a different language.
While not having all the knowledge required to process 20 seconds of information can make a person(s) appear ignorant, the real ignorance is having that knowledge and choosing not to share it. Think on this, in just as many words it takes to insult someones lack of knowledge, you could enhance it