I know it’s a plug for the ad, but the blocked American content in the uk isn’t censored, it’s blocked by the websites themselves because they don’t want to comply with the UKs data protection laws, so they refuse the traffic, rather than face penalties for violating
@@YvonTripper But it's still the case that the access is blocked at source (typically for copyright reasons), not censored by any Powers That Be here in UK. Hence the existence of eg Surf Shark.
A lot of the country roads in the UK were once meant for horses, and farm carts etc, which is why they are narrow; these old tracks are often ancient and just get a coat of tarmac to enable cars to use them.
also the preserve the countyside and nature. Ive driven thousands of miles in the usa and its just fucking depressing, everywhere. Even when the scenery was amazing in colorado and utah the road was so far away from everything and so wide that i never really felt like i was there. Just felt like i was watching from the windows. Where as when i drive in the uk, france, norway, germany etc i really feel like im winding and weaving THROUGH nature, not 500 meters away from it at all times on a giant grey slab.
And in some places those lovely hedgerows along the side of the road conceal a stone wall. If you pullover to far to the edge, as well as having twigs and leaves brush the side of the car, the stones are leaving scratches in the paint.
I love those English country lanes. Generally, as compared with country roads in e.g. France or Italy, English ones have 'soft edges', by which I mean you can nudge against them to pass someone without damage - in the south of France or northern Italy there are, far more often, stone walls built right to the edge of the carriageway. Guess how I know :-(
Ah, the lovely English countryside! Now, if only we could cover it with tarmac, so I don't have to pull over occasionally.😅 I often think, why are these drivers on these roads, if not to enjoy the scenery. Plenty of motorways and A roads, to get from A to B
I love a cold drink, but ice is so annoying. Your drink just gets gradually more and more watered down as the ice melts and you drink more of the actual drink. That last third of a pint of cola that is more water than coke is just vile.
@@Karl-oo9mq I don't think it's ignorant, since they know what they're getting. Plus they have unlimited refills on soft drinks in most restaurants so you can ultimately get as much cola as you like. It;s a cultural difference. I don't get it, but we don't need to jump straight to "all American's are ignorant".
I watched a documentary once where they tested the ice in pubs and bars. The bacteria they found was quite literally sickening (think people not washing their hands). I've refused ice in drinks ever since.
My favourite on the weather I used to have a Polish regular customer and said to him one day"Marek,you're turning English You've been talking about the weather for the last five minutes" Lovely guy
Ten years in the UK and you still refer to public transport as "transportation". In case you haven't realised, transportation was the act of sending prisoners to the colonies, and ended in 1868.
Guy goes to Australia House to apply to work in Australia. One of the questions is whether he has a criminal record, and he asks "is it still compulsory?"
@@lizziemyohmy1071, I wouldn’t call it condescending - they’re trying to let her know that the word has a different meaning in the UK, which might explain why she might get blank looks if she talks about transportation, instead of transport.
The blocking is done stateside, not by the UK. We have the same problem in Canada when we try to access U.S. content and it's blocked because we're not in the U.S. I understand that protecting copyright comes into it, but a lot of it simply because U.S. providers do not want to conform to foreign rules.
Its because of European Cookie laws. In Europe (and UK and Canada followed suit) a website has to give you an option to opt out of tracking cookies and personal data retention whereas in the US you dont and the US websites dont want to give the US citizens the chance to opt out or the complication of setting up a system to manage consents, so they simply block foreigners as the easiest way to comply.
with changing demographs that won't be for much longer.. in the old days with British people, the cops didn't need guns.. nowadays though with the third world arriving by the millions - not so much. gangs armed with machetes, knives and guns aren't going to be stopped by a tazer. the major cities are turning into sh*tholes..
I think those "automatic" Yale locks may be getting phased out. I won't ever get one, as I got shut out too often while I was young, but when I got new doors, they were all fitted with ones that needed to be manually locked.
Here in Croatia the country lanes are the same width as those in UK. The speed limit is just a maximum, you have to judge yourself what speed is safe within that limit.
Yes. I live in Devon. There are so many idiots who drive the narrow country roads at high speed. Their attitude is 'The speed limit is 60mph so I will drive up to that speed' without understanding what is an 'appropriate speed', given that there are frequently farm vehicles, walkers, cyclists and horse riders also using the roads. The speed limit is a 'limit' NOT a 'target'
@@rustybrand8103 I live near Dartmoor and my average speed on those lane is 28, plenty fast enough. Its always fun when you meet a tractor coming around the bend or better still a huge coach load of tourists - we met this coming up to Hay Tor once with a mini bus full of kids going in the opposite direction. Neither driver was prepared to move, until my sister got out and gave them what for and made them move; coach backs up about a meter, mini bus turns into farm entrance, coach goes past, mini bus backs out and on it's way, honestly it was that easy but no, they just sat there gesturing to each other!
Sites like the BBC do it the other way around, which is annoying when you have paid your BBC licence and want to watch something on iPlayer when you're in Greece. 🧐
Years ago on holiday we were drinking rum and coke. The bartender would throw in ice and half fill the glass with rum and hand us a bottle of coke to top it up ourselves. I don't like ice bashing against my teeth when I'm drinking so asked for no ice. The bartender filled my glass with rum to the same level as the others. From then on none of us had ice. The coke was cold enough to make it a nice cool drink. One disadvantage - The hangover next day
It’s not that the UK blocks some US websites, it’s that some US websites block UK & European visitors, due to the GDPR regulations. There are incentives for some US sites to allow UK traffic (legitimate UK customers), but regional news sites in the US have no need for UK visitors, so there’s no point investing in refactoring the website to take account of UK/EU legislation around data
My sister never swears. She shouts 'Sugar!' 😁 Q. How can you tell when it's summer in England? A. The rain's warmer. Of course we don't want ice in drinks. We're paying for a full glass, not a glass half filled with frozen water. PMQs. Aka Feeding time at the zoo. I was walking home from the pub one night. A cop car stopped and gave me a lift home. 😁😁😁 The locks that engage automatically when you close them aren't deadlocks. Their technical name is 'night latch, commonly known as a Yale lock. Houses with Yale locks may also have a separate deadlock. Back doors usually only have a deadlock, so take your rubbish out that way. 😁😁
My Grandma was brought up in The Gorbals, Glasgow in the 1910's and 1920's before getting married and moving to Lancashire. Trust me, nothing I could say would be a patch on her language when she was in full flow!
Number 6: ice in drinks. One of my pet hates is asking for a pint of diet cola in a pub and getting American levels of ice in it. The result of an amount of coke that is no where near a pint, and within a few minutes, you have a very diluted unsatisfying drink!
6:30 I live in the southern suburbs of Birmingham, UK - the second largest city. I choose to travel through the narrow lanes rather than major roads to go to the supermarket. Stopping at passing places, and pedestrian and horses in the middle of the road, are much less of an irritation than aggressive motorists on major roads.
Country lanes; If you're going at 60mph you're going TOO FAST ! And remember that most of these roads are at least a thousand years old. They weren't intended for cars, let alone 2 abreast.
@Kevin-mx1vi Why is 60mph too fast? There are plenty of nsl roads where 60mph is perfectly safe with great vision, and indeed others (or parts of the same road) where it is not. You can't blanketly say it's too fast because there are many occasions where it wouldn't be. If the whole area is unsuitable for speeds up to 60 it would have a reduced limit.
@@juliegreen7604 because country lanes twist and turn unexpectedly and are narrow. You do not want to meet an oncoming vehicle with a closing speed of 120mph (if they too are doing 60mph) and just a few inches clearance. Also just around the next blind bend you may encounter a tractor doing 20mph or a flock of sheep at a standstill.
@@rosemarielee7775 Utter nonsense. The National Speed Limit Varies depending on the ROAD and the VEHICLE TYPE. There is no 25mph speed limit. In Roads where there are STREET LIGHTS and Built-Up Areas the Speed Limit is 30mph unless signed otherwise. Outside of BUILT UP AREAS where there are NO STREET LIGHTS the limits is 60mph unless otherwise signed, for CARS and switches to 70mph on DUAL CARRIAGEWAYS FOR CARS and MOTORWAYS FOR CARS. 25mps is just made up by you and is not based on any regulation.
And generally you should only have to use these roads in the first or last 5 or so miles of your journey. But as most people just blindly follow the satnav these days, they often get used a lot more.
Or by rail. Britain's railways used to carry some seriously unusual loads, long before the road network was up to the task. Bridge girders, transformers, ship's propellors, circuses...
The UK is small, sits between the edge of the Atlantic ocean and a vast landmass, in the terminal of the Gulf Stream. Of course we talk about the weather ... we get a lot of it! 😆
I think the main point is that the weather is a neutral subject. Everyone is subject to it, we all have opinions about it, but none of us can _do_ anything about it! Whether you're complaining or enjoying it, you can discuss it with a complete stranger without offending them or becoming personal, and once you're talking you can venture onto other topics more safely. Edit: I'm a Brit, in case you hadn't guessed!!
We've had roads in the UK since before the Romans, so they were made for people to walk along or ride horses, or maybe a cart. So cars have been around for about 5% of the time, roads have been. Mind you the US was not build for cars either to start with, they just ripped everything up to fit cars from around the 1950's.
My Yorkshire (of Irish extraction) grandfather (b 1898) would say such things as "what the blue pencil do you think you are doing". He had spent his late teens in the trenches, and letters home were censored by the use of a blue pencil being used to disguise the unacceptable text.
One of the reasons I wouldn't like my glass filled up with ice in the American way is that we don't have the concept of free refills. So having a glass that's mostly ice rather than the actual drink feels like a raw deal.
@@AnotherPointOfView944 Never come across a free refill in a pub or a restaurant as is common in the USA. Fast food places often do like Five Guys etc. MacDonalds stopped offering refills earlier this year. I live in Manchester. Can't you make a point without making a snide comment?
@@AnotherPointOfView944 Well, apart from breakfast buffets I've never in my life come across free refills in pubs and restaurants in the UK so I'd be interested in knowing where YOU live. Or is your experience just limited to fast food outlets?
Hi Kaylin .The narrow roads were actually old farm tracks that have been upgraded to an actual road but because the fields are actually owned and are to produce foods these roads have remained narrow. What you on about the 60 mph speed limit each way. We have to have some fun in the UK you know! Nothing like playing chicken at 60 mph with oncoming tractors lol
What about people living along the road? Can't imagine backing up from a driveway or turning on a junction with some limited visibility while someone might be driving 60mph especially if it's quit busy. Our roads' one direction lanes are wider than some 2 way roads in the UK and the speed limit on such roads is usually 30-35mph. It might get 40-45 if the area is not so densely populated. 55mph is usually a wider road in an area which is not populated or if there are multiple lanes each direction but still having intersections where other vehicles might enter the road or make a U-turn. Anything above 55mph would usually be a dedicated interstate where no pedestrians or bicycles are allowed and which has dedicated ramps allowing vehicles entering the road to match their speed with the traffic when they merge. Some roads in the UK having default speed limit of 60 are actually quite scary to go 60. Just my opinion.
@@bugtracker152 lol. UK single track roads are all designated at the National speed limit which is 60 mph unless otherwise signposted. As for people living on the roads. These roads are sparsely populated maybe one or two houses or farms but that's it. Yes there are possible walkers, cyclists, horse riders etc but most traffic is either farm traffic, trucks, tractors etc or even a herd of cattle or flock of sheep being moved from field to field but the speed limit is still 60 mph unless otherwise signposted. It works for us ok and accidents are rare. I live on a road that is barely wide enough to get my Range Rover up without scraping hedges and with no passing places on it at all. With the bases of the hedges being solid stone walls set into the hedge a bit so not a lot of room for error, It is two way with some sharp bends on too. Meaning that if I meet a vehicle coming the other way one of us has to reverse most of the length of the road until we reach someone's driveway which can be reversed into to let the other one pass. That means reversing possibly up to 1/2 a mile until a drive way is reached. It just makes us better drivers for judging spacial awareness and we actually have fast reaction times to stop in time from having head on smashes. The basic rule of thumb in the UK highway code book is to drive at speeds at which you can clearly see the road ahead and to be able to bring your vehicle to a safe stop within the distance one can see ahead. Or basically just use common sense. The 60 mph is a speed limit not a target so if a person doesn't think it's safe to do 60 due to weather or road conditions then be more careful. But if the road is clear and the conditions are good than 60 mph can be achieved. It's all about how good and experienced the driver is. From what you've said I think UK drivers are probably better at doing these tasks better than the drivers from the USA
@@britbazza3568 And watch out for pedestrians (who have used those ancient routes for centuries), equestrians (who are usually obnoxious twats on big twitchy animals) and cyclists (who deserve to be mown down because of their lycra) And don't kill Hedgehogs!!
I'm always amazed that some visitors expect all our roads to be single track, and concerned about driving between London and Birmingham. There are no pull in places on the M1.
@@bugtracker152 Strictly speaking the speed limit is 60 mph if appropriate. You are expected to exercise common sense in all circumstances when driving, we tend to put responsibility on people on the basis they are adults and don’t expect to be told what to do on every occasion
On the subject of hay fever. As a Brit I never suffered from hay fever until I was 23. The thing that changed was when, all of a sudden, our farmers started cultivating a crop that I can't even mention as youtube will delete this comment. It's called "Oil Seed X" (where X sounds like a non concentual crime). It has bright yellow (practically flurescent) flowers and the outbreak of hay fever that it caused was astronomical. I still can't stand the smell of it as it is reminiscent of BO. It doesn't affect me nearly as bad as it once did but if there's a lot of it, nearby, I still get watery eyes. There were government studies that concluded, we were all over reacting, but at least 50% of people I knew were affected by it. I suspect it was just the sheer magnitude of it's introduction that caused the problem. We went from fields full of wheat and barley to Oil seed X absolutely everywhere. I'm not even sure it's hay fever because it's not the typical sneezing, it's more like irritation of the eyes and throat. Nasty stuff. So if you've just arrived from a country where this crop isn't common, I suspect you're having the same issues.
Government studies also concluded diazepam isn't addictive... There are clinical studies dating back to the 90's that show it's a bit more complicated with the censored plant.. There are 2 "parts" of hayfever. The "allergic reaction" and the "irritant action". More like very mild pepper spray Turns out the pollen causes the irritant reaction in a wider ranger of people without traditional "allergic hayfever" As you can guess, the same plant really gets me 🤧
@@greypilgrim228 From time to time TV coverage from Canberra has got close to being NSFW... although actual punch-ups in the chamber(s) seem to be less common these days.
Most of our country lanes have been there for at least a millennium. They are horse and cart size, except for a few drove roads where the hedges are far apart - but the tarmac is still around one car wide. You need to know how wide your car is! 😀🇬🇧👍
Hello Colonial Cousin. We had some Californian friends come to visit us. We went out in my car and 'the girls' and our son sat in the back seat of the car. As our friend went to get into the back seat she said, "I hope that I can get my big fat fanny into here!" A silence reigned and we diverted the conversation. Later, my love explained that the word 'fanny' means bottom in Calif speak. Two nations divided by a common language!
The biggest difference of all I would say, is workers rights and the health service. 1. Workers rights... you cannot just be sacked, unless gross negligence and we have around 28 days paid holiday, not including bank holidays. I seriously don't know how Americans cope with not having this. 2. Health Service is basically free... The End
It's usually contextual though. You know when someone is using it specifically to be vulgar or aggressive. Most swearing in normal language is simply 'seasoning' that most people don't even know they're doing.
My lane runs by an Iron Age hill fort, so I would imagine cars weren't taken into account in the planning process. It has grass growing in the middle of the road, which is an indication that absolutely _anything_ can be coming the other way, driven by a sun-shrivelled twig, whose mind is soused in cider. He will have to think about where the brake pedal is, so you just drive accordingly. Our biggest problem is grockles, who just do not have a clue, but do know that the faster you go, the sooner you get there.
First thing I noticed as a Brit travelling in the US was that the all light switches work the other way round (up for 'on' in US / up for 'off' in UK).
About “up for on” in the USA: I think the idea is that if you drop something, and it hits the switch, it turns the lights out. Probably for “safety”. But if it was a glass you dropped, and it shattered, and you are now in the dark…. The best of British luck!
You have to be 'of an age' to know why up is off in the UK. It dates back to the days when the switches were a miniature brass fork operated by a ceramic lever mechanism to a brass toggle and simple spring. If the spring failed (and I've known it happen) the external toggle moves up, not down, so the idea was that in this case it would fail safe. P.S. As a child I lived in a Victorian London house that still had many of the original fittings - including an internal bell system for calling the servants!
When asked if i want ice, my expectation is a lump or two at most. What most places seem to mean is 'do you want some drink with your ice'. So i am very happy to decline ice everytime.
US SITES are NOT censored by the UK or for licence reasons, They don't want to adhere to GDPR rules and make themselves compliant so they just block out the UK and EU so they don't have to comply to GDPR.
🇬🇧 Apparently, hundreds of years ago, the bending roads were fitting around farmers fields. Also, there were just horse and carts . Some Devon countryside roads have extremely narrow roads with nowhere to pass another car. So, one car has to back up a long, long way.
As a British pensioner, I hate more than when younger people talk, they say "like" every other word. I think the American's prudery re swearing and using childish alternatives such as "gosh dang it" "oh darn" "fricking" etc, rather irritating. I am seldom shocked into frazzled distress just from hearing people swear. I don't swear in public, just in my own company when my Tablet freezes etc, of if retelling a joke which may contain swearing, but only to my daughter/ carer who does likewise! Violence is far more shocking to me than swearing.
51 here. I am not a fan of the swaering either. The "like" and swearing. I blame on Social media and more exposure to the US. Imperical evidence is that the US swore a lot more than the UK. I was there for a year in the 90s.
It’s not a modern phenomenon at all. I’m 52, when I started working at 18 a lot of the old boys swore like sailors. My mother in law is council estate born and bred, swears like a sailor. Her husband was the same. You’re more exposed to it these days.
The 60mph speed limit is actually "NSL" which now means National Speed Limit. Its just a blanket way of applying a limit to all non-urban roads. That limit varies according to vehicle type too. But it was actually 1969 when the NSL signs came to mean 60mph (70 on motorways and DCs). Prior to that the black white NSL sign meant "Derestricted". There was no speed limit at all but in the early days, many cars struggled to reach 60 anyway. It only became a problem once motorways were built and cars got faster, but still had poor brakes.
There are 2 hay fever seasons- March/April is tree pollen, and May/June is grass pollen. These are both from wind pollenated plants and plants with (obvious) flowers are not a problem.
I have been to several countries around the world and lived for reasonably long periods in 4 of them and they all have basically the same shops in their major cities, basically a city is a city is a city, some idiosyncrasies but much of a muchness really
In the UK, you can see fields full of yellow flowered plants. The plant is called rapeseed, and it is grown for the oil contained in its seeds. Rapeseed oil is used as cooking oil. The downside is that the yellow flowers produce much pollen, which causes allergies in a lot of people.
In the US, apparently we are squeamish about that word, so it was renamed Canola oil here. I had bad hay fever when I lived in the UK, but less so when I moved to Florida, so it's definitely a Florida thing as when I moved to California my terrible hay fever came back again! I would never move back to Florida though, the climate is just awful compared to California.
I live in the UK and suffer really badly from tree and grass pollen, when I go abroad (e.g. to Canada and Japan) I dont have the same issue as there is less grass/less flowering trees.
Agreed - the word used to mean "take by force" and was very generic, homes, towns, cities, however language changes and now it means only one thing, and it's probably time for the UK to follow suit.
exactly americans just arent used to actual political dialogue, american presidents dont really have to answer to anyone, they cant be jeered at or roasted or critiqued theyre hidden away in a big house or in private chambers, meetings etc. The house of parliment is something a lot of americans wish they had.
Install one of those small external combination lock (3 0r 4 digits) Key Safes by the doors, far more secure than under a pot or in the shed. If emergency services need access the code can be passed over the phone.
In the UK we used to have two basic door locks mortice and rim. The rim lock (or what was commonly known as a ‘yale’ lock) is the one that if you do not activate the latch or ‘sneck’ the spring loaded mechanism will self lock on closing the door. With the advent of more and more double glazed doors all fitted with double turn “dead locking” you will be feeling more at home with the need to actually lock the door manually when leaving the house.
The locking yourself out by closing the front door is a regional thing, could also be a town/city verses country type thing. In 1960's many homes in London had a key on a string hanging behind the flap of the letterbox. The lock type is a Latch Lock often called a Yale Lock, where a bolt is moved into position by turning a key it is normally a Dead Lock. In some places a latch lock has a handle on both sides, with a key being used on to lock the handle.
TJ Maxx is called TK Maxx here because another similar chain called TJ Hughes owned the trademark. They used to be really big but don't have anything like as many stores now as they used to.
Tj Hughes went bust, they expanded a lot into stores that were expensive to run a pity as they had good stuff but didn't really get to London. Boyes and Home Bargains cover some areas of home stuff but not much clothing
In the UK most self-locking doors have a little 'switch' on the mechanism housing, which can be used to easily keep the latch retracted so it doesn't engage when the door is closed. For taking out bins, nipping into the garden, car or whatever, this is what most Brits with these locks would do. Granted you still have to remember to do that, or a call to your local locksmith may be in order.
Ice in your drink stops you being able to taste how sweet things are which is why all of your food can get away with having so much added sugar. Have a try, eat some sweet food then have an iced drink and taste after.
Between 2012 and 2017 my job involved frequent visits to Florida (Orlando to be precise), I typically spent around 15 weeks of each year in the US. What shocked me is that although the weather was so predictable and pretty much the same every day, as you say in your video, is how much time is devoted to weather reporting on the TV. I’d swear that US TV channels commits a lot more time reporting the weather than UK channels. I get that there can be hurricanes, and I did get caught up in a couple of lockdowns, thankfully, they either died out over the sea or missed, I never encountered a hurricane. So I get that they have all the technology, like satellite and RADAR tracking. I guess that as they have the technology they feel that they may as well use it, so I would see reports showing live RADAR images of a small rain shower that was going to hit Maitland in 12 minutes time, bringing with it a mild rain shower expected to last 4 minutes. As someone from the UK I found myself bemused that anyone would be bothered by such detailed micro-reporting of the weather. I came away with the opinion that Orlando TV channels talk about weather a lot more than UK channels, which seems especially weird because for the most time there is no weather.
I wanted to book a last minute appointment at the dentist and the receptionist told me that they had many cancellations because it's a sunny week so I can come in tomorrow 🤣😂 That was the most British thing I've ever heard lol
Weather is definitely a topic of conversation in the Seattle area. Every day. All the time. Probably for the same reason as the UK since our weather is VERY similar. 😊☁️
Hey Kaylin, I think you should do the coast to coast walk. It only takes a week, and you'll definitely have your blood in the land 😊 ❤ from Northeast England ❤️
American bars and restaurants put so much ice in the drinks to save on the drink content. For instance, if you ask for a pint of coke, you get half a pint of coke and half a pint of ice, but you are paying for a pint of coke !!
As a city dweller in the UK, I don't toil in the fields and rarely need a pint of iced coke. At home, I would often be happy with 300 ml or even 150 ml., but eating out I have to buy far more than I want and then feel guilty about "wasting food" if I leave some behind. Americans did the same with hot water in coffee as they do with ice in cold drinks when they invented the "caffe americano."
In restaurants the use of ice is a cost saving measure, as it is typically cheaper than the drink you put it in, so I think most people are less willing to pay for it. That and our summers don't tend to get quite as hot.
FYI (If I remember correctly), the TK Maxx thing is because we used to have a similar store called TJ Hughes (not sure if they're still going). Given that TJ Hughes was commonly referred to as "TJ's", you can see how the confusion would have been an issue.
Your talking about the weather reminded me of a show that did a skit on weather in a fictitious country that enjoyed sunny weather most days, their weather forecast comprised of one word scorchio. There seemed to be a national panic when one day they predicted clouds.
I am British and my wife is American, and my wife is the opposite of you. She has persistent allergies in the USA but none at all in the UK. I have none in either country. We currently live in the USA however. The reason for the self locking doors is there is way more burglary in the UK because you could break into a lot of UK houses and never encounter a resident with a gun. Self locking doors are probably regarded as a safety feature.
I would say it is historical. Up until the advent of double glazing and UPVC doors, the default doors in the UK were wooden and fitted with Yale locks, which locked behind you. These days, most have UPVC or composite with multi point locks that you have to manually lock behind you. I'm not sure if the burglary rates are any different.
Most new build houses and many council houses in Scotland have doors where you pull up the handle and deadbolts click out all sides of the door into the frame. You then use your key whilst the handle is raised to lock the door. Then your handle drops back down, and the door is securely locked. These have been in use for at least 25 years.
As an Australian visiting the UK, I found these type of handles so confusing! We don't have them in Australia and one AirBNB owner castigated all Australians who stayed in her establishment as being stupid, because we all struggled with the "up to lock" mechanism".
Hi Mrs K, in the South Wales valleys where heavy industry and coal mining were huge employers for over a century, the vernacular embraced swearing as the norm in language because everybody did it. Just as they went to church on a Sunday. There was no history of not swearing in English because the vast majority of people spoke Welsh prior to this (swearing in Welsh is very different). The swearing could be argued is a legacy of this time and continues wholeheartedly. Great stuff, please keep them coming.
Politics is insane both sides of the pond as for PMQs MPs are not allowed to clap in The House it's unparliamentary yet some how boo ing and jeering is fine.
My geography teacher used to say 'If you don't like the British weather, wait five minutes and it will change!' It seems to be tree pollen that I am allergic too as I usually get it earlier in the season than most. I never had hay fever until I was 12 years old, but I have it every year now. The doors we have on my house now, you do have to manually lock behind you, but we used to have ones that locked automatically and I did lock myself out once. Sometimes people have a spare key in a hiding place only they know or leave one with someone they trust who lives nearby in case they lock themselves out,
If you want to experience narrow roads just come down here to Devon (and Cornwall)......they are a wonderful feature of our county...all decked out with Primroses and Daffodils in Spring !!!!
and some are some 15 ft hight it is like driving down a tunnel, I did like that you had Welsh motorways down there, i.e. a narrow road with grass/weeds growing down the middle. :) Best wishes from Wales.
@@RobG001 ....ah yes...the 'roads less travelled'.....a favourite of mine when in need of an adventure..."...I wonder what's down this road, then??" Always a surprise !!!!!
Don't forget that some of these roads have grass growing in the middle of them. I used to walk up one daily to catch my bus to school. It is a council road but people new to the area would think it was a farm lane. I did grow up in a farming area in Devon. Best wishes
The "blocked" US sites is probably a reaction to the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) which require any site with EU citizens accessing it to conform to a particular set of security requirements. And the fines can be humungus - think 4% of the company's annual global turnover! The cheapest way to do that from a US perspective is to check the originating IP address and ban it if it's outside the US.
@OriginalGriff Nah. It's a rights issue. They had to edit the Doctor Who story 'The Chase' because it had a Beatles number on it and the rights owners for Beatles songs are different people in the US. This was the case before the GDPR was thought of.
@@Poliss95 WRONG US websites don't want to adhere to GDPR rules so they default block the UK and the EU. There might be the odd case for copyright licence issues but that's just a one off or minor issue. ALL the US sites that are BLOCKED are because of GDPR.
The country roads in UK are ancient roadways. The land either side is private, so the government cannot widen them. Also the roads were originally made for horses, and carts.
Some commenters have mentioned narrow winding roads for horses and carts but one of the reasons they wind is because when they were just muddy tracks before tarmacing (first tarmacing in 1902) the carts made small detours to avoid very muddy places and the detours stayed. Humans do this on muddy footpaths, do you have muddy footpaths in the US?
As a Brit I hate the heckling in parliament makes it almost impossible to follow. This is one of the traditions I'd love to see change I see heckling in parliament as rude and disrespectful, when your hard of hearing no point even trying to follow whats being said.
would you rather have it like the usa where the president answers to no one, doesnt meet with mps, they cant be jeered at or roasted or critiqued theyre hidden away in a big house or in private chambers, meetings etc. The houses of parliment are a sign of a good democracy.
@@madmark1957 said like someone who doesnt enguage in uk politics and has never watched anything... You people lack perspective, other countries wish they had what we have, real democratic pushback to pms and mp's.
@@WookieWarriorz No just want to be able to hear whats happening and been said. Where did I say I wanted an American Political system??????? Go find someone else to troll ! I want to hear whats going on so I can be more involved and informed in our politics. I prefer sources in the first person not the multiple different interpretations the media gives you.
@@WookieWarriorz Hmmm that's quite an opinion to form from a single sentence. You are entitled to your opinion no matter how uninformed it is. I actually do not lack perspective, I simply have a different one from you. I would not change the UK system of gov't but that does not mean I have an interest in it personally. You are correct, (entirely coincidence I am sure), in that I do not engage in British or indeed any other politics. This is because of my attitude to politics and politicians, which I will not bother trying to explain to you, as you clearly don't share it, and quite possibly would not even understand it.
Apparently the TJ/TK Maxx difference is because it was changed in the UK to avoid confusion with the existing brand TJ Hughes, or at least that's what wikipedia says. Personally I don't see how anyone could mix them up but I suppose it's possible.
The policing philosophy between the two countries are wildly different, and it’s reflected in the name: In the States it’s called a Police FORCE. In the UK it’s called a Police SERVICE.
People think you’re being short changed when restaurants and bars put ice in drinks in the U.K. I used to work in a bar and it was a way of saving money for the bar.
Door locks that can lock you out are stupid, I always hated them as a child in the UK. When I bought a house I got rid of that type of door lock as soon as I could.
I believe the record for the number of f*** words used in a minute is held by Sarah Michelle Gellar in an episode of "Sex and the City" (s3e13). I was quite shocked by the language that nice Buffy was using.
6:10 They were actually built for peoples feet, horses and carts. That's the issue. Loads of these roads are hundreds of years old. Others were basically farm tracks that got more busy. They got paved over after the car got invented and people just got used to them being that narrow. I think most British people want them that way. We'd rather the inconvenience than fuck up our landscape. If there are proposal to make these roads wider every local resident protests, no one wants more traffic going through the countryside, and these roads discourage people from going these ways unless you are specifically going to these places.
An interesting experience I had that may amuse you - or even provide a novel viewpoint, from one of my first visits to Florida, quite a long time ago, and my one and only encounter with US police (I think they were Florida Highway Patrol, or whatever the official name is) 😉. Briefly, I arrived at Miami International Airport quite late in the evening and navigated my way without too much difficulty to my hotel for the first few nights in Miami Beach (a reasonably expensive/high-end place I had used before on earlier visits). My first visit to the US had been a few years earlier when I landed in Chicago O'Hare and again hired/rented a car there after a few days to drive in northern Illinois and nearby parts of Wisconsin). A couple of days later I departed the Miami Beach hotel for my next scheduled few days on the gulf coast at Fort Myers Beach (lovely place, along with Naples, Sarasota etc - and the most fantastic white powdery sand on the beach there), but leaving Miami Beach/Miami a police vehicle put its roof light on, and sounded its siren, which I presumed meant I had to pull over and stop - which obviously I did. I put my window down & the patrolman got out of his car and approached. I asked him what was the problem - he then realised, I suppose that I was a foreigner (British) from my accent, so he explained the tax sticker on the car's number plate was out of date - I think in those days the tax stickers changed colours each year, no idea if that's the same now - and when I showed him my identification and vehicle paperwork, all in order of course, he told me I could go on my way (I was headed for Naples/Fort Myers along the Tamiami Trail through the Everglades, something I'd wanted to do for a few years). I asked if I might be stopped again because of the tax sticker expiry and he said it was a possibility, so I thanked him and continued on my way. But I was mightily irritated as I had hired/rented my car from a firm whose advertising slogan in in those days was "We're Number Two. We Try Harder.", so I drove straight back to the airport car rental depot of that company (many are perhaps aware which company I refer to 😒), and asked them to change the vehicle they had rented to me me a few days previously for one with a valid tax sticker - they gave me some excuse that there was a two week "grace period" when there should be no issues (my rental period would take it beyond that two week grace period), so I expressed to them my unhappiness with their shoddy penny-pinching business tactics, given they were the number 2 car rental company in the US and worldwide in those days. They gave me a replacement car with a valid tax sticker and I had no further issues for the rest of that visit to Florida. But of course I have never hired/rented a car from that particular company either in the US or in any other country again. But to conclude, I have to say the police patrolman I encountered that day was quite polite and even moderately friendly when he understood what the situation was.
We have the same thing in Question Period, als the opposition can ask questions of the cabinet ministers, but the questions are always addressed through the speaker. And look at you taking the bins out😊
The US has a police force, whixh has law enforcement officers. The UK has a police service with crime prevention officers. I think the words explain a huge amount
I'm British and my sister's swear-adjacent word is "sugar" or in really dire situations "sugarlumps". A friend from Devon used to say "Do things to ducks".
The ones who drive narrow country roads at 60 are usually folk who're not used to coming around a corner to meet a tractor or livestock of some kind that needs avoided. Or locals who're driving something big they know will come off better in a collision and despite being a 4x4 won't bump onto the verge to let another car pass in the other direction. Hayfever is more than just grass, different plants go for different people. I get hit around easter when daffodils are in bloom then a month or so later when the rapeseed fields are in full flow, although rapeseed was one of those crops the EU subsidised and that money dried up with brexit.
You may be pleased to learn that narrow roads have been a problem for hundreds of years. Imagine galloping along in your fancy coach and four , let alone a Mail Coach, and you bump Ito into an ox cart! Don’t think they had insurance in those days.
The UK door locks you are talking about are not dead locks. They are forms of latches, colloquially known as Yale locks. Actual dead locks are more typical in the USA. Also, PMQ's has little to do with the business of governing the country - it's really just designed as theatre to catch all the media and public commentary. Hence the pantomime nature of the MP's performances.
