I wouldn't say I think in 24 hour time, more like it's 10 in the morning or 2 in the afternoon, but seeing 10:00 or 14:00 on my watch just translates automatically in my head without any thinking.
I don't remember using 24 hour time as a child. Of course we didn't have digital watches back then. I definitely remember struggling to get my head around it as I got older. I used to think 1700 was 7 pm too.
The thing is, you don't have to cook huge quantities. We had the same size meal on Sunday as on other days but it was a bit more fancy, with roast spuds, Yorkshire pudding (if beef) stuffing (if pork or chicken) or mint sauce (if lamb). There was also a dessert, which we only normally had on Sunday. A typical midweek evening meal would be pork chop, mashed potato, cabbage and gravy.
Sunday roasts are supposed to be too much food, tbh seems to be the whole point of them. The left overs are main meals until they run out about mid week.
depends what number are from the UK most people I know don't have roast dinner on Sunday and I'm English by birth and I live in the UK as most of the people I know . A lot people in the UK use prepared meals from the supermarkets.
@@leeklass3907 Before supermarkets were a thing you got together enough food to actually have a meal. Sunday was as good a day as any and so we get piles of garbage on a plate once a week. It's rather like christmas dinner although my local Chinese (all bless Alice) can cater for those needs.
Blue peter is a great Milton Jones joke(his next door neighbour who has poor circulation!) He asks him"Have you tried a pacemaker? Reply: I can't even walk never mind run.
Back in the days of TISWAS they had a character there called 'Green Nigel' as a mickey take. Blue Peter was always 'Green Nigel' to me and my mates from that day forward. :)
Why did people do things 'For Pete's Sake!' I haven't heard this expression since the 1980s though. (I think 'Pete' is St Peter , and it was a milder way of saying, 'For God's sake!@)
I suspect the lack of public transport might be a factor in adopting the 24 hour clock. Timetables are usuallly posted in that format to avoid confusion.
Public transport is the whole reason for synchronized clocks. Prior to trains you had GMT and local time(which could be different from one village to the next). It made catching trains difficult.
I definitely appreciate popping out! I have two supermarkets, countless smaller shops, six pubs, a library, and my kids' school, all within a five minute walk. I am *never* moving!
Similar here. One day, took stuff to the tip, bought some petrol, bought some paint, bought some food shopping, bought items for the car, all within two miles of my home.
North American here. Well….since the time I served in the military I have used a 24 hour clock. All of my vet friends do too. I am from Long Island, NY. Admittedly we are snobs concerning Pizza. First off, pizza from any of those chains is last resort pizza. It’s terrible. And…nobody dips crust. Also…on Long Island…Sunday is a big meal quite often…particularly with Italian families. We don’t use “Brilliant” but I have always loved that usage. Not a fan of PB and J…..but everyone loves them here! I do love peanut butter. A walk…..is walking anywhere, usually in the neighborhood or local park…lol. Yeah…totally agree with your “popping out” thing.
I live in a quiet neighborhood in my town and don't drive a car. I often complain about the lack of facilities, but there is a corner shop, a Tesco, two pubs, a bus stop and a train station all within a 15 minute walk from my house. We had a Post Office as well but it's closed now.
Time is an odd one as I was definitely taught 12 hours AM/PM as a kid and at school but I’m completely comfortable with 24 hour times too. Perhaps it’s because I’m of the generation for whom digital watches were a new and wondrous thing. To quote the late, great Douglas Adams: “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
Same. I learned 12 hour as a kid, but somewhere along the line I switched to 24. But even though all my electronic stuff is in 24, I still think in 12. So when my phone says 19:45, I say, 7.45pm 😅
The time thing is the reason Americans miss so many flights in Europe as the 24 hour clock confuses the life out of them. I used to work as a booking agent and the amount of abuse I took because they can't tell time. Apparently the 7.2 billion that can use the 24hr clock are stupid for using the 24hr clock. The thing I love the most is the Secret Service that protect the President use Zulu time or at least did, no doubt Donnie changed that, which is actually Greenwich Mean Time or now know as the universal time coordinate!
Yeah, used to date a flight attendant who pretty much said the same thing about Americans and time keeping….but it gets worse! Thanks to their habit of writing the date as “month, day, year” rather than “day, month, year” like the majority of people in the western world do, a lot of Americans missed or showed up too early for their flights- and by too early I mean they booked a flight for what they thought was like the 11th October only they actually booked it for the 10th November! 😂
@@arghjayem I've never become :) (not GOTTEN) used to the weird dating and to make it worse its not even consistent, I always write the month in words having happily immigrated to Canada 27 years ago from South Africa, other than that I 100% love living in Canada and wouldn't change it
I was born in 1973 and, as a kid, I was taught the twelve hour clock way of telling the time. The 24 hour clock seemed to become the dominant version at the start of the 80s when VCRs, ovens, microwaves and heating systems etc. required the use of a digital 24 hour format. It's now the only format I use. I collect Casio G-Shock watches and just can't have that first space without a '1' or a '0' there. :)
No ! We say 11am or 3pm but we do understand 24hour clock, need to for timetables etc. I'm old though so still have problems converting and have to recheck 😂
Peanut butter is great! I love your chat about popping out. We are very fortunate to have so many amenities(depending where in the UK you live) at hand. You are helping me to focus more on all the good stuff we have in the UK and appreciate my home more and miss Canada less. Thank you ❤
The 24 hour clock caught on in the UK with the arrival of the video recorder and digital clocks in the early 80s. It seemed alien to us too. We always used the 12 hour clock before that.
If you ever venture north of Birmingham (there be dragons) you will have to get used to the greeting 'Ay up' or,if the person is a friend, 'Ay up chuck' Considering we are a small island our cultural differences between ourselves,never mind other countries, are enormous!
Whenever I visit my relatives in Canada, the topic of whether I would consider living there always seems to come up. I always answer no, It is the lack of being able to 'pop out' that is the main dealbreaker.
I moved to Vancouver from Europe 2 years ago. And you can definitely ‘pop out’ here as well. And people do that for sure. Unless you move to the suburbs. You can do that in downtown Toronto and in Montreal as well. But yeah in the vast majority of Canada you can’t
@@nicktankard1244 I guess it depends on what you define as 'pop out'. I was in Chilliwack BC and there is a corner store within walking distance, but the main shops were a bit further. Where I live in the UK, my local shops are a 10-minute walk and all the supermarkets deliver, the local GP surgery is a 15-minute walk and the beach 1-minute, so there is no need for a car. There is also the issue of prescription + dispensing charges, the difficulty of getting a family doctor. I did like the recycle center in Chilliwack, where you get paid for your soda cans etc. I would have to pay a lot more tax if I lived in Canada as well. It is a nice country to visit, but it has changed a lot since I first visited it in 1977.
@@G4GUO sure Chilliwack is very suburban but that’s not Vancouver. Even Burnaby which borders Vancouver is not that walkable already. But Vancouver itself is pretty walkable and everything is within walking distance and you don’t need a car. At least if you’re close to downtown which is not a huge area but also not small. The healthcare crisis in Canada is brutal. I still don’t have a family doctor but all my prescriptions are cover by the insurance from work. I’ve heard that healthcare in the UK is also really bad these days.
@@nicktankard1244I am not too familiar with Vancouver as most of my trips have either been inland or to Tsawwassen for the ferry and then across to the Island. I seldom need to go to see the GP, but when I do, I can get a same day appointment. I guess I am just lucky. I also understand that there is an issue in Canada if you want private healthcare. As I understand it, you have to go out of Province to be privately treated. Here I have a private hospital down the road from me and I can self refer if I want to bypass the NHS.
12-hour format is taught to kids until 24-hour format is taught in primary school for science year six exams. Reading 24-hour clocks as 12-hour clocks gives you an extra two hours which is a bonus. My parents taught me 24-hour when I was a tot. Everything in my home is in the 24-hour format and this is something I have always been around with family and friends. I live on 24-hour format for all of the timezones I work in.
I tried the old blue Peter "here's one I made earlier" comment on a Teams call in my last job. Sadly, it was a call with Italians, French, Germans, Spanish and Portuguese 🤦🤦 Surprisingly, it didn't go well 🤣🤣
The Blue peter flag was flown from ships in harbour indicating that the ship was due to depart, however it was probably not the same flag as the Children's TV show.
Sorry Alana but I was listening whilst looking at stuff my phone and you said.......'the things I don't understand about my British partner'......que transition....then you said 'look at the size of this guy!' ........... I verily spat my PG Tips out over my keyboard. it wasn't until I looked up I realised you were talking about the plant :D :D ...... Perfect editorial timing :D
I agree with you about dipping pizza crusts in Domino’s garlic and herb dip. Yum! However, I don’t like peanut butter or Nutella, but might put banana in sandwiches spread with just butter.
I also love the Domino's garlic and herb dip, although I just make my own now (in case anyone is interested: Fresh garlic crushed and chopped + Coriander (dried stuff from a herb jar) + Mayo, takes like 2 mins to make a batch).
Interesting. I would have said "go for a walk" in the U.S. means more like what the British sense is than the Canadian, except for the pub at the end. If you're going to walk in the woods, that's a hike. It can be a little hike or a short hike, but if it's in the woods I'd say it's a hike
24 hour clock: 'military time' is actually known as 'Zulu'. As in 'we attack at 06:50 Zulu', as in when it's six-fifty in the morning on the Greenwich meridian. We also used two versions during WWII, so that all military operations were happening at two hours before Greenwich time,wherever in the world they were, usually North Africa. This still exists as 'daylight savings time' but is only one hour, altered in summer due to the days being longer. Go to work at dawn, kids in bed before dark. Something else: 'Zulu' had no midnight when I was 'in'. To avoid clocks showing 00:00 being thought to have stopped, time goes from 23:59 to 00:01 two minutes later, with midnight not mentioned. Such fun we had.
Zulu is UTC (GMT). Alpha time is UTC+1 (i.e. BST in the UK), Bravo is UTC+2, etc, etc, depending on the local time zone where you are operating. A military 'Date Time Group' (DTG) is formatted as DDhhmmZMMMYY, where Z is the zone, not necessarily Zulu.
@@wessexdruid7598 Let's correct a minor error. During WWII the UK was on double savings time - Greenwich Mean Time and UTC are the same thing. Ideally we ditch messing with the clocks and the damage it does to health. Almost all of Europe voted to ditch it anyway. We currently keep track with the current situation in Europe - last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October. Of course, one specific newspaper is guaranteed to pop up with their objection to us being on "Berlin Time"!
@irey The UK experimented (unsuccessfully) with British Standard Time (UTC+1 all year round) from 1968-1971. I remember it VERY well - you don't ever forget being run over, as a small child on a zebra crossing, while going to school at ~0815, still in pitch darkness. And - I already pointed out that GMT _is_ UTC. Where's the error?
My sister was married to someone in the USAF who introduced me to pb&j. He was completely confused when I added butter to the bread before the PB & Jam . As for popping out, why don't they build shops closer to the houses?
@@PhiyedoughThat is something that always weirded me out in the US. There just really no corner shops and pubs and so on just down the street and you end up with whole neighborhoods with nothing but houses and no services until you drive a good 10-20 minutes away. And yes walks should end up at the pub. This is the way.
Zoning codes are supposedly there to stop factories being built in residential areas but are far more prescriptive than that. In many parts of the US R1 zoning was specified as a way of perpetuating racial segregation after doing so explicitly had been outlawed.
There are actually quite a few areas throughout the U.S. where there are shops, restaurants and other services very near residential areas which can be walked to. Newer subdivisions further away from city centers probably not as much. @@pitiedvod
There is a lot of food in a Sunday roast dinner but the meat that was cooked would be used in dinners on Monday , Tuesday and maybe Wednesday . Left over vegetables could be fried on a morning to eat with a cooked breakfast
This comment is 3 weeks late but oh well. Fellow Canadian here. Growing up in the 80's 1 of 6 kids in my family. So we couldn't afford much. I might have starved if I didnt have peanut butter and jam, jelly or banana sandwiches to take to school. I eat them alot. So good thing I love them. Now so many people are allergic to peanuts. It's strange.
Oh yes, I recall the military in Northern America have quaint expressions like "ZERO DARK THIRTY" which is so useful in the artic circle where its light for six months of the year!
Moved to Scotland two years ago and just found your videos. Been binge watching for days now. No, I'm not weird. Just enjoy them. As far as your voice goes, I actually think you sound more American and lost a lot of your Canadian inflections from your earlier videos. You used to do harcdore aboots but not so much anymore. Keep the videos coming! The history tidbits have been fascinating and my wife is a naturalized Scottish citizen and she didn't know alot of them.
@@terryomalley1974 I know she isn't specifically saying "aboot". It's just an easier way on social media to convey she sounds Canadian. I guess I failed. Yes she still sometimes still has the accent, which is why I said her accent has diminished from 5 years ago. I wasn't criticizing her. Sheeesh.
Yes, I've been watching and supporting Alanna's channel for years (despite her substantially turning on me for asking a quite innocuous question. She answered the question she assumed I was asking and took offence! Then took offence at another statement. Honestly...). It's interesting how much her accent has changed, plus the lighting in her videos is so much better than the old ring light that she bounced straight off her face. Which meant you could see the ring in her eyes and her face looked flat. I think I also pestered her to include a flag of the Dominion of Canada. Which is good to see.
Grew up in the 1970s with a compulsory family Sunday dinner. Missing it was considered the ultimate sin. We alternated between having a beef joint and a leg of lamb every week. Remembering back to the 1960s, there was absolutely nothing open on a Sunday. Many shops were also closed on Saturday afternoon, and either Wednesday, or Thursday afternoon. So shops were only open for a total of 5 days a week. Sunday was a "rest day" when most people did nothing. There was always a 3:00pm movie on TV to watch after dinner. Watch, or listen to the 1958 Hancock Half Hour episode "Sunday Afternoon at Home". To get a feeling of how boring Sundays in the UK used to be,
Peanut butter and banana on toast !!😋Also been eating peanut butter and Marmite on toast for over 25 years and now you can buy a jar of ready mixed stuff
I'm old enough to remember when AM / PM time was common in the UK. We learned to read 24 hour time at school in the 90's. We used a 24 hour wall clock - Amazon sells them for about 20 quid. Most people will tell you that you take 12 off any number over 12 to get the AM / PM time but I can still see the 24 hour clock in my head and learned by what position = what time. 30 years later its second nature but it definitely took a few years before I never had to think about it in any situation.
For dipping pizza we make our own dipping sauce. We buy some full fat heinz mayonnaise, normally the 775g bottle, pour a little out or use it, get a large clove of garlic, grate said clove finely, pop it in the bottle, add some dried parsley and a little water, shake well, pop it in the fridge overnight and enjoy for the next week or so.
Always remember roast lamb with potatoes and greens etc on a Sunday. Half a gallon of gravy. Yorkshire puds. My dad used to stimulate the childhood imagination by referring to the Lamb as 'Brontosaurus'.
I agree with you about the annoyance of losing the hard click-on tops for dips in Tesco. In the name of reducing single use plastic we need to embrace those stretchy reuseable covers which are available in Sainsbury's, althoughI've never seen them in Tesco.
Pizza dipping: My partner introduced me to yellow mustard as a pizza dipping option. I usually reserve it for reheating/leftover pizza, but it's a good compliment to bad pizza!
Hiya Alanna, I was clearing my friends loft out yesterday, I brought down a Betamax Toploader video cassette player,next time you speak to your Mam ask her if she had one, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, I liked your vlog about differences between North America and British Culture,this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Sunday lunch - it was cheaper to buy & cook a large joint - it used to be the mantra roast on Sunday, cold on Monday, mince on Tuesday- it gave us 3 meals
Obviously the New Forrest doesn't compare to Canadian woods but when I was there they had these cool little maps you could take that had "walk" routes on them of various lengths and all the longer walks had a pub at the halfway stage. There was something lovely about walking through the woods then as if by magic a pub appears in front of you. We did three of these walks in the week we were there and stopped at different pubs each time.
3:13 the 24 hour clock time thing only came in when electronic devices became common, in the late 1980s and onwards. I remember just using 12 hour time (because clocks and watches had a round face with numbers 1-12 and two hands) but then 'digital' watches arrived, then computers, and so on, and they all used 24 hour time. So it was imposed on Brits by the manufacturers rather than a conscious decision to change.
Thanks Alana, I enjoyed that... It made me think... Popping Out: The distances involved in living in North America and the barbaric zoning laws prevent "popping out". I can walk 5 minutes to a bus stop, 10 minutes to a train station and 15 minutes to a Post Office. I have 20+ cafe's, take-aways, restaurants, pubs and even a winery within a 20 minute walk (the thing that matters is the walk back tbh.). There's a supermarket and two mini-markets within 15 minutes walk and probably 20+ other retail outlets from pharmacies to lawyers, bathroom shops to estate agents, charity shops to hairdressers. I live in a (albeit big) village. Not even a town, Never mind a city. Can you even imagine what's within 10 minutes DRIVE? Pizza Crust Dipping: ... I called zoning laws barbaric so I have nowhere left to go for this gastronomic abomination.
Can I make a suggestion? Your old vlog-type videos were really cool when you'd visit random cool places - totally would encourage you to make more of those! The British countryside has so many nice and historical places.
They're great except it seems that Alanna goes to quite some effort to ensure that no other person appears in it. It's jarring after a while as that's not the way we see these places. Has there been a severe epidemic that's killed all the population apart from Alanna and her boyfriend? Also remember that people will also give you a sense of scale - Alanna could be showing us a model village for all we know... (And yes, that actually was the question I asked her recently that she immediately took offence at).
I dip pizza if it's hot enough. If the pizza is heavy with pepperoni or peppers or chillies etc. i will dip in a cool sauce like sour cream and chive dip or garlic dip. I never do the opposite though, dip in a hot sauce.
Most British people DO NOT think of and refer to time in terms of the 24 hour clock. Officialdom does use the 24 hour (also referred to as military time). Being ex military I do automatically think in military time but when communicating with others who are not military or ex-military, to avoid confusion, I always refer to the time of day using the 12 hour clock.
I'm a Brit and I think the clock thing is generational. My parents prefer 12h but can cope with 24h, and I am returning to 12h. I've always thought in 12h tho. Love crunchy peanut butter (I love crunchy savoury things) never had it with jam, but must try. With banana sounds absolutely right 👌 What date format do you use ? I find the US format insane. To me, as a walker, going out for a walk means going out with the intention of walking, with no destination. I'd use "going/popping out" if I had more of an intention to do stuff or visit somewhere, maybe spontaneously.
Hi Allana, thanks for the all the entertainment, keep going, its really great! I must just add much of what I have heard you say about life here, I said the same, but from the opposite when I lived in the US for several years. Typically it all came back to the size of the country. Cars are bigger, there is so much more space than we have. We, as a people are long established on this rock and so, towns, cities grew up around them as populations grew. Where you have demand in a smalll area, naturally I guess again back to size, we do not have so much land, so the greengrocer/supermarket or pub will often be just around the corner. I think, size does matter here, when you have come from a large country like Canada. BTW I have always loved the Canadian sense of humour - thinkng John Candy and have worked with some of you. Thank you again.
here's a dipping idea. in colorado, we serve honey with the pizza. when you eat the pizza and only have the crusts left, you can dip them in the honey. like getting dinner and dessert.
I love peanut butter but not with jam! In fact, not with anything sweet at all. I will never understand how anyone can actually like salt and sugar at the same time. I always add salt to peanut butter these days as they have reduced the salt content until it's almost undetectable. Peanut butter sandwiches or on toast, both are fine but not with fruit or jam or chocolate! I did try Reese' stuff once but omg it was truly awful :)
The convenience and the enjoyment of local shops really struck me when I was in Turkey. I think we had 4 "corner shops" selling crisps, colas, local pastries, bread, cheese Etcetera Etcetera. in our one street and conveniently one was right across the road. I don't think there's anywhere that it's like that in England anymore. I wish it was like that and from your description of Canada and the USA it sounds you've got it even worse over there and to pop down the shops means a car ride and a lot of effort and inconvenience.
'Popping out to the shop for an important ingredient for dinner ' is a phrase used by partners (of both sexes) when a quick pint or two is taken in the local pub! - It's a very harmless British 6pm activity!
I've lived in the UK all my life, use 24 hour on my watch etc., but will sometimes see 17 and think 7pm if I'm not paying attention. Also Tesco hummus tubs are the same as the sour cream and chive ones but come with lids. We was the lids and keep a couple in the drawer for when we get the dips without lids.
I moved to Vancouver from Europe 2 years ago. And you can definitely ‘pop out’ here as well. And people do that for sure. Unless you move to the suburbs. You can do that in downtown Toronto and in Montreal as well. But in the vast majority of Canada you can’t
I don't know exactly when or why 24 hour became prevalent but we all were taught 12 hour am, and, pm, clock times in the 70s. I think digital watches and computers especially when they were connected to web and times in different countries became useful to know may have influenced the adoption of the 24 hour system. Before digital time pieces there was only 12 hour clocks and watches.
I went for a walk with some English people, blokes, and they went to a pub had a drink some even had some meals and then we walked back and got lost. I actually enjoyed it.
True but I grew up with non digital clocks and they’ve been like that for centuries. Many people still wear mechanical watches. So it’s not a big deal. It’s even reflected in speech when most people say stuff in 12h anyway.
@@mdx7460I’m old enough to remember the time before the digital clocks everywhere. All I had was a normal clock with hands on my wall. It wasn’t a huge problem but you might be confused for a bit lol
It's funny, the walking thing is the opposite for me. A "walk" with family in Yorkshire is a 12 mile plus trek across the moors, minor rock climbing, traversing streams and many muddy cow pastures later, a pub. I have to train before I visit!
2:15 I once did the reverse of this, I was scheduled to start work at 16:00 (4pm) but I somehow converted the 4pm into 14:00 and showed up two hours early, they let me start but it turned my 8-hour shift into a 10-hour shift 😵💫 I will say though, I think a lot of Americans think British people use "military time" but we're not here saying "I'll see you at oh-six-hundred" or "The pub closes at twentythree-hundred hours". It's just automatic, I see 23:00 and think/say 11pm, I see 07:00 and think/say 7am. I don't _consciously_ subtract 12 hours to get the 'right' time, it's just automatic. The only time I'd really consider saying "seventeen-fiftysix" or whatever out loud is with a train/plane departure time, there are probably other exceptions, but in most cases I'd just call that 5:56pm or just 'five to six'.
PB & J, love it! 😜 We briefly lived in Toronto & Stratford when I was young and that’s one thing I brought back, much to the disgust of almost everyone! 😂
Have you considered doing some cookery videos? There are so many videos of people from the wrong side of the pond trying to 'make' British classics - with limited success. A PROPER bacon sandwich with HP sauce for example; there must be places those in Canada and the US can buy the right ingredients, or get bread that isn't 20% sugar!
Some surprises in here: - No suggestion of Peanut butter & Marmite - taste sensation on hot buttered toast! The British crisp (ready salted) or hot chip sandwich. - Reversed uses of cutlery: Brits will use knife & fork for hot food (pizza, burgers) whereas North Americans use their hands; conversely Brits will eat cake with their hands (unless having it with hot custard), whereas North Americans tend to use special tiny forks.
Got sent this video by my Canadian girlfriend. Listening to you talk about the differences, I can totally understand. I'm in the UK and she is in Manitoba. Yeah, there are differences, but it does make for an interesting conversation.
I'm an American and have been using 24 hour time for these past 40 plus years of my life. Having said that I've also been a Pilot since I turned 19 (I'm now 61) and 24 hour time is the format of choice in aviation the world over so...
My phone is set on 24 hour time, but I use 12 hour time. I was taught the 24 hour time because I used the bus to go to school, and the timetables were in the 24 hour.
I've had American's (US) ask me why all of our computers were set to "Military Time" - I didn't have a clue what they were talking about - but it seems only the US Military use the 24 hour system - but they use 24:00 for midnight and not 00:00. I thought Canada was more like the UK were both formats were common - but I must be mistaken? I think as Brits we are very comfortable saying it's 2:30 PM if someone asks us what the time is, but I would always write 14:30. The 24 hour system removes any ambiguity. I'm always really surprised when I see American timetables for trains & planes and they literally print 5 PM, not 17:00 - Most American's don't have any exposure to the 24 hour system at all. Also temperature - American (US) weather forecasts always exclusively use Fahrenheit (it this the same in Canada?). I'm sure they could also put the Celsius equivalent on the weather map, but they don't - America is very happy to be different to the rest of the world. Can we all agree on using the international standard of YYYY-MM-DD please? - We shouldn't have to guess if 07/04/2023 is 7th April or July 4th.
I agree with the post that says something like: I see 16.00 but think 4pm. The walk thing is your partner rather than a Brit - all my friends go for long walks in the countryside, and the woods, or wherever, really often
When I was a kid, all clocks were analogue and 12 hour notation ruled. This remained the case for a while after digital clocks became common. For me there was a light bulb moment in my twenties when my company required me to use 24 hour notation and I found I preferred it. As for the rest of the country, and knowing my countrymen as I do, it seems likely that 24 hour became widespread because it's the default setting on lots of devices, and I suspect people couldn't be arsed to change it.
I wouldn't say I think in 24 hour time, more like it's 10 in the morning or 2 in the afternoon, but seeing 10:00 or 14:00 on my watch just translates automatically in my head without any thinking.
And if I see 2:00 on my watch or phone, that means it is the middle of the night to me.
This is exactly what I was thinking too.
@jonjohnson2844 - I think most of us manage the 24 clock and the am/pm clock - equally.
I don't remember using 24 hour time as a child. Of course we didn't have digital watches back then. I definitely remember struggling to get my head around it as I got older. I used to think 1700 was 7 pm too.
I am American and I just translate it automatically too😊💯💯
Ref. Sunday roasts. Alanna says " there was too much food ?!" 145K subscribers went "Nope".
The thing is, you don't have to cook huge quantities. We had the same size meal on Sunday as on other days but it was a bit more fancy, with roast spuds, Yorkshire pudding (if beef) stuffing (if pork or chicken) or mint sauce (if lamb). There was also a dessert, which we only normally had on Sunday. A typical midweek evening meal would be pork chop, mashed potato, cabbage and gravy.
Sunday roasts are supposed to be too much food, tbh seems to be the whole point of them. The left overs are main meals until they run out about mid week.
I'm from Wales and my family had mint sauce with lamb, pork, chicken or beef roast. I'm still addicted now. 😅
depends what number are from the UK most people I know don't have roast dinner on Sunday and I'm English by birth and I live in the UK as most of the people I know . A lot people in the UK use prepared meals from the supermarkets.
@@leeklass3907 Before supermarkets were a thing you got together enough food to actually have a meal. Sunday was as good a day as any and so we get piles of garbage on a plate once a week. It's rather like christmas dinner although my local Chinese (all bless Alice) can cater for those needs.
Popping out reminds me of Micky Flanagan's sketch, just popped out, then I went out but now I'm out out.
“Who’s Peter and why is he blue?”, has to be the best line in this video.
Brilliant!
Blue peter is a great Milton Jones joke(his next door neighbour who has poor circulation!) He asks him"Have you tried a pacemaker? Reply: I can't even walk never mind run.
Back in the days of TISWAS they had a character there called 'Green Nigel' as a mickey take. Blue Peter was always 'Green Nigel' to me and my mates from that day forward. :)
Why did people do things 'For Pete's Sake!' I haven't heard this expression since the 1980s though. (I think 'Pete' is St Peter , and it was a milder way of saying, 'For God's sake!@)
Will Alana get a 'Blue Peter Badge' For her video!
get down shep
I suspect the lack of public transport might be a factor in adopting the 24 hour clock. Timetables are usuallly posted in that format to avoid confusion.
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Timetables work just as well with am/pm in my experience.
that or the fact there are 24 hours in a day
@@kamelionifyanalog clocks only show 12 hours
Public transport is the whole reason for synchronized clocks. Prior to trains you had GMT and local time(which could be different from one village to the next). It made catching trains difficult.
I definitely appreciate popping out! I have two supermarkets, countless smaller shops, six pubs, a library, and my kids' school, all within a five minute walk. I am *never* moving!
STOOOHP I'm so jealous
Same in my country, so glad.
Similar here. One day, took stuff to the tip, bought some petrol, bought some paint, bought some food shopping, bought items for the car, all within two miles of my home.
@@suttoncoldfield9318Do you really need a car then and what is a tip? Joking, I know but I bet a good portion of the YT audience doesn’t know.
North American here. Well….since the time I served in the military I have used a 24 hour clock. All of my vet friends do too. I am from Long Island, NY. Admittedly we are snobs concerning Pizza. First off, pizza from any of those chains is last resort pizza. It’s terrible. And…nobody dips crust. Also…on Long Island…Sunday is a big meal quite often…particularly with Italian families. We don’t use “Brilliant” but I have always loved that usage. Not a fan of PB and J…..but everyone loves them here! I do love peanut butter. A walk…..is walking anywhere, usually in the neighborhood or local park…lol. Yeah…totally agree with your “popping out” thing.
Some nice stories there. Long Island is lovely - haven't been there in 25 years though 😂. V jealous
I live in a quiet neighborhood in my town and don't drive a car. I often complain about the lack of facilities, but there is a corner shop, a Tesco, two pubs, a bus stop and a train station all within a 15 minute walk from my house. We had a Post Office as well but it's closed now.
Time is an odd one as I was definitely taught 12 hours AM/PM as a kid and at school but I’m completely comfortable with 24 hour times too. Perhaps it’s because I’m of the generation for whom digital watches were a new and wondrous thing. To quote the late, great Douglas Adams:
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
Same. I learned 12 hour as a kid, but somewhere along the line I switched to 24. But even though all my electronic stuff is in 24, I still think in 12. So when my phone says 19:45, I say, 7.45pm 😅
@@mccpcorn2000I think we all do that. Nobody sees 19:00 and thinks nineteen hundred hours. It's just seven o'clock. (Excluding the military).
He also wrote "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so" - so profound.
"Mostly harmless"!
Funny thing about this quote is that it's still incredibly relevant but in the context of smartwatches.
The time thing is the reason Americans miss so many flights in Europe as the 24 hour clock confuses the life out of them. I used to work as a booking agent and the amount of abuse I took because they can't tell time. Apparently the 7.2 billion that can use the 24hr clock are stupid for using the 24hr clock. The thing I love the most is the Secret Service that protect the President use Zulu time or at least did, no doubt Donnie changed that, which is actually Greenwich Mean Time or now know as the universal time coordinate!
Yeah, used to date a flight attendant who pretty much said the same thing about Americans and time keeping….but it gets worse! Thanks to their habit of writing the date as “month, day, year” rather than “day, month, year” like the majority of people in the western world do, a lot of Americans missed or showed up too early for their flights- and by too early I mean they booked a flight for what they thought was like the 11th October only they actually booked it for the 10th November! 😂
They eat like toddlers and tell the time like toddlers!
@@arghjayem I've never become :) (not GOTTEN) used to the weird dating and to make it worse its not even consistent, I always write the month in words having happily immigrated to Canada 27 years ago from South Africa, other than that I 100% love living in Canada and wouldn't change it
Ironically, "gotten" is an English word that fell out of use here, but was preserved in Americanese 😄
Considering few of them can actually read an analogue clock either, they don't have many options.
I was born in 1973 and, as a kid, I was taught the twelve hour clock way of telling the time. The 24 hour clock seemed to become the dominant version at the start of the 80s when VCRs, ovens, microwaves and heating systems etc. required the use of a digital 24 hour format. It's now the only format I use. I collect Casio G-Shock watches and just can't have that first space without a '1' or a '0' there. :)
I was born in 1974 and WAS taught the 24 hour clock - alongside the 12.
24hr clock has been used for timetable for Busses and Trains in the UK for decades so that may be a major reason we interchange so easily.
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24-h clock is FAR better when it comes to timetables!
The 24 hour clock is so much better. I prefer using it on all my devices as much as possible
Thanks for another fun video Alanna !
Thank you so much for watching!
No ! We say 11am or 3pm but we do understand 24hour clock, need to for timetables etc. I'm old though so still have problems converting and have to recheck 😂
Peanut butter is great! I love your chat about popping out. We are very fortunate to have so many amenities(depending where in the UK you live) at hand. You are helping me to focus more on all the good stuff we have in the UK and appreciate my home more and miss Canada less. Thank you ❤
The 24 hour clock caught on in the UK with the arrival of the video recorder and digital clocks in the early 80s. It seemed alien to us too. We always used the 12 hour clock before that.
If you ever venture north of Birmingham (there be dragons) you will have to get used to the greeting 'Ay up' or,if the person is a friend, 'Ay up chuck'
Considering we are a small island our cultural differences between ourselves,never mind other countries, are enormous!
We use both the 24-hour clock and the 12 interchangeably.
yeah, but i’d say 24hr is more common
This channel always makes me smile. Thankyou
Whenever I visit my relatives in Canada, the topic of whether I would consider living there always seems to come up. I always answer no, It is the lack of being able to 'pop out' that is the main dealbreaker.
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I moved to Vancouver from Europe 2 years ago. And you can definitely ‘pop out’ here as well. And people do that for sure. Unless you move to the suburbs. You can do that in downtown Toronto and in Montreal as well. But yeah in the vast majority of Canada you can’t
@@nicktankard1244 I guess it depends on what you define as 'pop out'. I was in Chilliwack BC and there is a corner store within walking distance, but the main shops were a bit further. Where I live in the UK, my local shops are a 10-minute walk and all the supermarkets deliver, the local GP surgery is a 15-minute walk and the beach 1-minute, so there is no need for a car. There is also the issue of prescription + dispensing charges, the difficulty of getting a family doctor. I did like the recycle center in Chilliwack, where you get paid for your soda cans etc. I would have to pay a lot more tax if I lived in Canada as well. It is a nice country to visit, but it has changed a lot since I first visited it in 1977.
@@G4GUO sure Chilliwack is very suburban but that’s not Vancouver. Even Burnaby which borders Vancouver is not that walkable already. But Vancouver itself is pretty walkable and everything is within walking distance and you don’t need a car. At least if you’re close to downtown which is not a huge area but also not small.
The healthcare crisis in Canada is brutal. I still don’t have a family doctor but all my prescriptions are cover by the insurance from work. I’ve heard that healthcare in the UK is also really bad these days.
@@nicktankard1244I am not too familiar with Vancouver as most of my trips have either been inland or to Tsawwassen for the ferry and then across to the Island. I seldom need to go to see the GP, but when I do, I can get a same day appointment. I guess I am just lucky. I also understand that there is an issue in Canada if you want private healthcare. As I understand it, you have to go out of Province to be privately treated. Here I have a private hospital down the road from me and I can self refer if I want to bypass the NHS.
12-hour format is taught to kids until 24-hour format is taught in primary school for science year six exams.
Reading 24-hour clocks as 12-hour clocks gives you an extra two hours which is a bonus.
My parents taught me 24-hour when I was a tot.
Everything in my home is in the 24-hour format and this is something I have always been around with family and friends.
I live on 24-hour format for all of the timezones I work in.
I tried the old blue Peter "here's one I made earlier" comment on a Teams call in my last job. Sadly, it was a call with Italians, French, Germans, Spanish and Portuguese 🤦🤦 Surprisingly, it didn't go well 🤣🤣
omg noooo 😂💀
Their loss.
12/24hr clock. For conversion just subtract 12 from all hour numbers over 12!
The Blue peter flag was flown from ships in harbour indicating that the ship was due to depart, however it was probably not the same flag as the Children's TV show.
Having a clock or watch set to 24hrs helps you know morning from afternoon. So if you wake at 4 o'clock you don't have to wonder if it's am or pm.
Sorry Alana but I was listening whilst looking at stuff my phone and you said.......'the things I don't understand about my British partner'......que transition....then you said 'look at the size of this guy!' ........... I verily spat my PG Tips out over my keyboard. it wasn't until I looked up I realised you were talking about the plant :D :D ...... Perfect editorial timing :D
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what transition?
The best pizza dipping sauce is Domino's garlic and herb dip.
Also, peanut butter, banana and Nutella sandwiches are so good!
I agree with you about dipping pizza crusts in Domino’s garlic and herb dip. Yum!
However, I don’t like peanut butter or Nutella, but might put banana in sandwiches spread with just butter.
I also love the Domino's garlic and herb dip, although I just make my own now (in case anyone is interested: Fresh garlic crushed and chopped + Coriander (dried stuff from a herb jar) + Mayo, takes like 2 mins to make a batch).
Interesting. I would have said "go for a walk" in the U.S. means more like what the British sense is than the Canadian, except for the pub at the end. If you're going to walk in the woods, that's a hike. It can be a little hike or a short hike, but if it's in the woods I'd say it's a hike
Agree !
"The British way is the right way...and in fact...
The ONLY way"
Alanna 2022 😂
“Stay Calm and Carry On” Alana 2022
24 hour clock: 'military time' is actually known as 'Zulu'. As in 'we attack at 06:50 Zulu', as in when it's six-fifty in the morning on the Greenwich meridian.
We also used two versions during WWII, so that all military operations were happening at two hours before Greenwich time,wherever in the world they were, usually North Africa.
This still exists as 'daylight savings time' but is only one hour, altered in summer due to the days being longer.
Go to work at dawn, kids in bed before dark.
Something else: 'Zulu' had no midnight when I was 'in'. To avoid clocks showing 00:00 being thought to have stopped, time goes from 23:59 to 00:01 two minutes later, with midnight not mentioned.
Such fun we had.
Zulu is UTC (GMT). Alpha time is UTC+1 (i.e. BST in the UK), Bravo is UTC+2, etc, etc, depending on the local time zone where you are operating. A military 'Date Time Group' (DTG) is formatted as DDhhmmZMMMYY, where Z is the zone, not necessarily Zulu.
@@wessexdruid7598 Let's correct a minor error. During WWII the UK was on double savings time - Greenwich Mean Time and UTC are the same thing. Ideally we ditch messing with the clocks and the damage it does to health. Almost all of Europe voted to ditch it anyway. We currently keep track with the current situation in Europe - last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October. Of course, one specific newspaper is guaranteed to pop up with their objection to us being on "Berlin Time"!
@irey The UK experimented (unsuccessfully) with British Standard Time (UTC+1 all year round) from 1968-1971. I remember it VERY well - you don't ever forget being run over, as a small child on a zebra crossing, while going to school at ~0815, still in pitch darkness.
And - I already pointed out that GMT _is_ UTC. Where's the error?
My sister was married to someone in the USAF who introduced me to pb&j.
He was completely confused when I added butter to the bread before the PB & Jam
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As for popping out, why don't they build shops closer to the houses?
In USA it is to do with zoning, they don't allow retail businesses to operate in residential zones. Another feature of the "land of the free"!
@@PhiyedoughThat is something that always weirded me out in the US. There just really no corner shops and pubs and so on just down the street and you end up with whole neighborhoods with nothing but houses and no services until you drive a good 10-20 minutes away.
And yes walks should end up at the pub. This is the way.
@@pitiedvod Well said.
Zoning codes are supposedly there to stop factories being built in residential areas but are far more prescriptive than that. In many parts of the US R1 zoning was specified as a way of perpetuating racial segregation after doing so explicitly had been outlawed.
There are actually quite a few areas throughout the U.S. where there are shops, restaurants and other services very near residential areas which can be walked to. Newer subdivisions further away from city centers probably not as much. @@pitiedvod
There is a lot of food in a Sunday roast dinner but the meat that was cooked would be used in dinners on Monday , Tuesday and maybe Wednesday . Left over vegetables could be fried on a morning to eat with a cooked breakfast
Bubble and squek yummmie
This comment is 3 weeks late but oh well.
Fellow Canadian here.
Growing up in the 80's 1 of 6 kids in my family. So we couldn't afford much. I might have starved if I didnt have peanut butter and jam, jelly or banana sandwiches to take to school. I eat them alot. So good thing I love them.
Now so many people are allergic to peanuts.
It's strange.
Oh yes, I recall the military in Northern America have quaint expressions like "ZERO DARK THIRTY" which is so useful in the artic circle where its light for six months of the year!
Well "Zero Dark Thirty" is already using the 24 hour clock. There's no "zero" hour in the 12 hour system.
@@eadweard. Also, not a bad movie either...
The idea of a Sunday roast comes from not eating meat during the week, only on Sundays, because it was so expensive or rationed.
Well said.
You would presumably have kept some for the next day, even without refrigeration?
Moved to Scotland two years ago and just found your videos. Been binge watching for days now. No, I'm not weird. Just enjoy them. As far as your voice goes, I actually think you sound more American and lost a lot of your Canadian inflections from your earlier videos. You used to do harcdore aboots but not so much anymore. Keep the videos coming! The history tidbits have been fascinating and my wife is a naturalized Scottish citizen and she didn't know alot of them.
There is no such thing as a "naturalized Scottish citizen". She's British.
She couldn't have said "aboot", because we don't say "aboot". As a Canadian, Alaina still sounds pretty Canadian to my ears.
@@terryomalley1974 I know she isn't specifically saying "aboot". It's just an easier way on social media to convey she sounds Canadian. I guess I failed. Yes she still sometimes still has the accent, which is why I said her accent has diminished from 5 years ago. I wasn't criticizing her. Sheeesh.
@@atiskidd Relax. I wasn't dumping on you, just correcting what I thought was inaccurate.
Yes, I've been watching and supporting Alanna's channel for years (despite her substantially turning on me for asking a quite innocuous question. She answered the question she assumed I was asking and took offence! Then took offence at another statement. Honestly...). It's interesting how much her accent has changed, plus the lighting in her videos is so much better than the old ring light that she bounced straight off her face. Which meant you could see the ring in her eyes and her face looked flat. I think I also pestered her to include a flag of the Dominion of Canada. Which is good to see.
Grew up in the 1970s with a compulsory family Sunday dinner. Missing it was considered the ultimate sin. We alternated between having a beef joint and a leg of lamb every week. Remembering back to the 1960s, there was absolutely nothing open on a Sunday. Many shops were also closed on Saturday afternoon, and either Wednesday, or Thursday afternoon. So shops were only open for a total of 5 days a week. Sunday was a "rest day" when most people did nothing. There was always a 3:00pm movie on TV to watch after dinner. Watch, or listen to the 1958 Hancock Half Hour episode "Sunday Afternoon at Home". To get a feeling of how boring Sundays in the UK used to be,
Peanut butter and marmite on toast is the one!!!
Nice to see alannah Morrisette cousin lives in England!
Peanut butter and banana on toast !!😋Also been eating peanut butter and Marmite on toast for over 25 years and now you can buy a jar of ready mixed stuff
I love your videos because of your amazing sense of fun. Thank you for the entertainment.
I'm old enough to remember when AM / PM time was common in the UK. We learned to read 24 hour time at school in the 90's. We used a 24 hour wall clock - Amazon sells them for about 20 quid. Most people will tell you that you take 12 off any number over 12 to get the AM / PM time but I can still see the 24 hour clock in my head and learned by what position = what time.
30 years later its second nature but it definitely took a few years before I never had to think about it in any situation.
Fun video! Your hair looks very pretty today. I also enjoy the fact of not meeting your partner. I like the mystery.
For dipping pizza we make our own dipping sauce. We buy some full fat heinz mayonnaise, normally the 775g bottle, pour a little out or use it, get a large clove of garlic, grate said clove finely, pop it in the bottle, add some dried parsley and a little water, shake well, pop it in the fridge overnight and enjoy for the next week or so.
Always remember roast lamb with potatoes and greens etc on a Sunday. Half a gallon of gravy. Yorkshire puds. My dad used to stimulate the childhood imagination by referring to the Lamb as 'Brontosaurus'.
I agree with you about the annoyance of losing the hard click-on tops for dips in Tesco. In the name of reducing single use plastic we need to embrace those stretchy reuseable covers which are available in Sainsbury's, althoughI've never seen them in Tesco.
Pizza dipping: My partner introduced me to yellow mustard as a pizza dipping option. I usually reserve it for reheating/leftover pizza, but it's a good compliment to bad pizza!
Hiya Alanna, I was clearing my friends loft out yesterday, I brought down a Betamax Toploader video cassette player,next time you speak to your Mam ask her if she had one, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, I liked your vlog about differences between North America and British Culture,this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Yes to Peanut Butter, smooth preferred but has 100% peanuts no added oil or salt.
Sunday lunch - it was cheaper to buy & cook a large joint - it used to be the mantra roast on Sunday, cold on Monday, mince on Tuesday- it gave us 3 meals
Obviously the New Forrest doesn't compare to Canadian woods but when I was there they had these cool little maps you could take that had "walk" routes on them of various lengths and all the longer walks had a pub at the halfway stage. There was something lovely about walking through the woods then as if by magic a pub appears in front of you. We did three of these walks in the week we were there and stopped at different pubs each time.
I live about 5 minutes walk from the vets post office and a number of shops and supermarkets unless I'm doing a big shop i don't need a car it's great
Peanut butter yes, but with cucumber or Marmite. Dipping pizza crusts yes, but in mango chutney. I may be weird
I’m British and I’ve NEVER used the 24 hour clock where I can help it. I do say quarter to and quarter past though.
Easy way to remember the 24 hour clock, just -2 from the second number. 16:00 -2 from the six becomes four, etc etc.
3:13 the 24 hour clock time thing only came in when electronic devices became common, in the late 1980s and onwards. I remember just using 12 hour time (because clocks and watches had a round face with numbers 1-12 and two hands) but then 'digital' watches arrived, then computers, and so on, and they all used 24 hour time. So it was imposed on Brits by the manufacturers rather than a conscious decision to change.
Thanks Alana, I enjoyed that... It made me think...
Popping Out: The distances involved in living in North America and the barbaric zoning laws prevent "popping out". I can walk 5 minutes to a bus stop, 10 minutes to a train station and 15 minutes to a Post Office. I have 20+ cafe's, take-aways, restaurants, pubs and even a winery within a 20 minute walk (the thing that matters is the walk back tbh.). There's a supermarket and two mini-markets within 15 minutes walk and probably 20+ other retail outlets from pharmacies to lawyers, bathroom shops to estate agents, charity shops to hairdressers. I live in a (albeit big) village. Not even a town, Never mind a city. Can you even imagine what's within 10 minutes DRIVE?
Pizza Crust Dipping: ... I called zoning laws barbaric so I have nowhere left to go for this gastronomic abomination.
Can I make a suggestion? Your old vlog-type videos were really cool when you'd visit random cool places - totally would encourage you to make more of those! The British countryside has so many nice and historical places.
They're great except it seems that Alanna goes to quite some effort to ensure that no other person appears in it. It's jarring after a while as that's not the way we see these places. Has there been a severe epidemic that's killed all the population apart from Alanna and her boyfriend? Also remember that people will also give you a sense of scale - Alanna could be showing us a model village for all we know...
(And yes, that actually was the question I asked her recently that she immediately took offence at).
I dip pizza if it's hot enough. If the pizza is heavy with pepperoni or peppers or chillies etc. i will dip in a cool sauce like sour cream and chive dip or garlic dip. I never do the opposite though, dip in a hot sauce.
Most British people DO NOT think of and refer to time in terms of the 24 hour clock. Officialdom does use the 24 hour (also referred to as military time).
Being ex military I do automatically think in military time but when communicating with others who are not military or ex-military, to avoid confusion, I always refer to the time of day using the 12 hour clock.
I still use 12 hour clock system on my device but still can automatically translate it to 24fr system
I'm a Brit and I think the clock thing is generational. My parents prefer 12h but can cope with 24h, and I am returning to 12h. I've always thought in 12h tho.
Love crunchy peanut butter (I love crunchy savoury things) never had it with jam, but must try. With banana sounds absolutely right 👌
What date format do you use ? I find the US format insane.
To me, as a walker, going out for a walk means going out with the intention of walking, with no destination. I'd use "going/popping out" if I had more of an intention to do stuff or visit somewhere, maybe spontaneously.
Peanut butter, and honey is also another popular treat, at least in Canada.
Hi Allana, thanks for the all the entertainment, keep going, its really great! I must just add much of what I have heard you say about life here, I said the same, but from the opposite when I lived in the US for several years. Typically it all came back to the size of the country. Cars are bigger, there is so much more space than we have. We, as a people are long established on this rock and so, towns, cities grew up around them as populations grew. Where you have demand in a smalll area, naturally I guess again back to size, we do not have so much land, so the greengrocer/supermarket or pub will often be just around the corner. I think, size does matter here, when you have come from a large country like Canada. BTW I have always loved the Canadian sense of humour - thinkng John Candy and have worked with some of you. Thank you again.
here's a dipping idea. in colorado, we serve honey with the pizza. when you eat the pizza and only have the crusts left, you can dip them in the honey. like getting dinner and dessert.
I am old- I never use the 24 hour clock. When I worked with mariners we used it now and then; but never now.
Try peanutbutter, slice of cheese and Sambal (Indonesian pepperpaste).
I love peanut butter but not with jam! In fact, not with anything sweet at all. I will never understand how anyone can actually like salt and sugar at the same time. I always add salt to peanut butter these days as they have reduced the salt content until it's almost undetectable. Peanut butter sandwiches or on toast, both are fine but not with fruit or jam or chocolate! I did try Reese' stuff once but omg it was truly awful :)
Love how you fit “ nice “ into the opinions so not to offend the whole country… brilliant 😂😂
The convenience and the enjoyment of local shops really struck me when I was in Turkey. I think we had 4 "corner shops" selling crisps, colas, local pastries, bread, cheese Etcetera Etcetera. in our one street and conveniently one was right across the road. I don't think there's anywhere that it's like that in England anymore. I wish it was like that and from your description of Canada and the USA it sounds you've got it even worse over there and to pop down the shops means a car ride and a lot of effort and inconvenience.
I have peanut butter in my porridge every day, it helps thicken it up and tastes good, sometimes I also have fruit and honey.
'Popping out to the shop for an important ingredient for dinner ' is a phrase used by partners (of both sexes) when a quick pint or two is taken in the local pub! - It's a very harmless British 6pm activity!
My go to dipping condiment with Pizza might well be Salad Cream 😊
As a Canadian why are you doing thanksgiving?
Canadian Thanksgiving is in October.
With 24 hour clock only the second half of the day is awkward. But all you do is just knock 2 off the second number. 14.00 hours is 2 o’clock.
The one people get screwed with is 12.45 and 00.45... One is 12 midday and other other is midnight. So many missed flights because of this.
I've lived in the UK all my life, use 24 hour on my watch etc., but will sometimes see 17 and think 7pm if I'm not paying attention. Also Tesco hummus tubs are the same as the sour cream and chive ones but come with lids. We was the lids and keep a couple in the drawer for when we get the dips without lids.
I moved to Vancouver from Europe 2 years ago. And you can definitely ‘pop out’ here as well. And people do that for sure. Unless you move to the suburbs. You can do that in downtown Toronto and in Montreal as well. But in the vast majority of Canada you can’t
I don't know exactly when or why 24 hour became prevalent but we all were taught 12 hour am, and, pm, clock times in the 70s. I think digital watches and computers especially when they were connected to web and times in different countries became useful to know may have influenced the adoption of the 24 hour system. Before digital time pieces there was only 12 hour clocks and watches.
I went for a walk with some English people, blokes, and they went to a pub had a drink some even had some meals and then we walked back and got lost. I actually enjoyed it.
24 hr clocks work best if you consider am or pm and both are just as dark.
Yeah, if I had a nap in the winter, and I woke up at 5:30 and it was dark… my brain would probably explode with confusion.
@@mdx7460 absolutely 05:00 or 17:00 one of those would mean I had to get my a55 in gear., the other would mean I just snuggled down a bit more.
True but I grew up with non digital clocks and they’ve been like that for centuries. Many people still wear mechanical watches. So it’s not a big deal. It’s even reflected in speech when most people say stuff in 12h anyway.
@@mdx7460I’m old enough to remember the time before the digital clocks everywhere. All I had was a normal clock with hands on my wall. It wasn’t a huge problem but you might be confused for a bit lol
Please educate me when you said “thanks giving” I didn’t know Canada celebrated it
the only thing to dip pizza in... is curry sauce. Proper curry sauce like madras or masala, not chip shop curry sauce.
It's funny, the walking thing is the opposite for me. A "walk" with family in Yorkshire is a 12 mile plus trek across the moors, minor rock climbing, traversing streams and many muddy cow pastures later, a pub. I have to train before I visit!
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Peanut butter and Marmite!!!!!!!! Yum.
2:15 I once did the reverse of this, I was scheduled to start work at 16:00 (4pm) but I somehow converted the 4pm into 14:00 and showed up two hours early, they let me start but it turned my 8-hour shift into a 10-hour shift 😵💫 I will say though, I think a lot of Americans think British people use "military time" but we're not here saying "I'll see you at oh-six-hundred" or "The pub closes at twentythree-hundred hours". It's just automatic, I see 23:00 and think/say 11pm, I see 07:00 and think/say 7am. I don't _consciously_ subtract 12 hours to get the 'right' time, it's just automatic. The only time I'd really consider saying "seventeen-fiftysix" or whatever out loud is with a train/plane departure time, there are probably other exceptions, but in most cases I'd just call that 5:56pm or just 'five to six'.
I’m not reading all of that
@@JakeJakeP OK? Sorry I have never met you before in my life and didn't fit into your 20-word attention span 👍
@@bobblebardsley obviously related to a goldfish!
@@shaunfarrell3834 I mean it was a long comment but if you don't have time to read it, how do you have time to complain about it?? 🤪😂
PB & J, love it! 😜 We briefly lived in Toronto & Stratford when I was young and that’s one thing I brought back, much to the disgust of almost everyone! 😂
That's funny! PB & J is considered disgusting, but people eat marmite? 😂m
Have you considered doing some cookery videos? There are so many videos of people from the wrong side of the pond trying to 'make' British classics - with limited success. A PROPER bacon sandwich with HP sauce for example; there must be places those in Canada and the US can buy the right ingredients, or get bread that isn't 20% sugar!
Some surprises in here:
- No suggestion of Peanut butter & Marmite - taste sensation on hot buttered toast! The British crisp (ready salted) or hot chip sandwich.
- Reversed uses of cutlery: Brits will use knife & fork for hot food (pizza, burgers) whereas North Americans use their hands; conversely Brits will eat cake with their hands (unless having it with hot custard), whereas North Americans tend to use special tiny forks.
You probably find he doesn't know how to set to 12 hour.
At work in Australia, we used 24 hr system. It prevents mistakes.
Got sent this video by my Canadian girlfriend. Listening to you talk about the differences, I can totally understand. I'm in the UK and she is in Manitoba. Yeah, there are differences, but it does make for an interesting conversation.
I'm an American and have been using 24 hour time for these past 40 plus years of my life. Having said that I've also been a Pilot since I turned 19 (I'm now 61) and 24 hour time is the format of choice in aviation the world over so...
For the lidless dip, try some silicone stretchy lids.
My phone is set on 24 hour time, but I use 12 hour time.
I was taught the 24 hour time because I used the bus to go to school, and the timetables were in the 24 hour.
Great video Alanna YES!! Banana and peanut butter on toast is the food of the gods, it is known as bongo toast at my house. I might try the wrap idea.
I've had American's (US) ask me why all of our computers were set to "Military Time" - I didn't have a clue what they were talking about - but it seems only the US Military use the 24 hour system - but they use 24:00 for midnight and not 00:00. I thought Canada was more like the UK were both formats were common - but I must be mistaken?
I think as Brits we are very comfortable saying it's 2:30 PM if someone asks us what the time is, but I would always write 14:30. The 24 hour system removes any ambiguity. I'm always really surprised when I see American timetables for trains & planes and they literally print 5 PM, not 17:00 - Most American's don't have any exposure to the 24 hour system at all.
Also temperature - American (US) weather forecasts always exclusively use Fahrenheit (it this the same in Canada?). I'm sure they could also put the Celsius equivalent on the weather map, but they don't - America is very happy to be different to the rest of the world.
Can we all agree on using the international standard of YYYY-MM-DD please? - We shouldn't have to guess if 07/04/2023 is 7th April or July 4th.
Here's a confusing time and they're only half an hour apart so you might believe either
22:10 sounds like 9:40 pm if you say it twenty to ten
I agree with the post that says something like: I see 16.00 but think 4pm. The walk thing is your partner rather than a Brit - all my friends go for long walks in the countryside, and the woods, or wherever, really often
When I was a kid, all clocks were analogue and 12 hour notation ruled. This remained the case for a while after digital clocks became common. For me there was a light bulb moment in my twenties when my company required me to use 24 hour notation and I found I preferred it. As for the rest of the country, and knowing my countrymen as I do, it seems likely that 24 hour became widespread because it's the default setting on lots of devices, and I suspect people couldn't be arsed to change it.
I am a Canadian and I use 24 hr time because I have colleagues across time zone