9 Things Americans Do That Brits Don't 

I've never seen anyone in PJ's in public.

Unfortunately, American women smile at British men. It is interpreted as a come on. Had a friend who got sexually assaulted and she was slut shamed for having smiled at him at their first encounter. Thank you for calling this out. It is a mere formality to smile, not an invitation for sex.

Exactly. Couldn't have said it better myself.

That's my take on it. If someone else doesn't, then try to keep some distance, because something isn't right with them and distance is what they want anyway.

It's like tipping your hat. A civility.

I'd rather ignore people, but I'm programmed to acknowledge strangers, or the awkwardness would get me.

@ Rowynne Crowley - I worked at a particular hotel near me from 1990 till just recently. I worked outside in the golf grounds department, but all of us had to go inside the hotel to use the employee cafeteria on a daily basis. In the early days there, anytime one of us passed an employee on the sidewalk who worked inside, we would smile or say a greeting, and 90% of the time the person who worked inside would either look away or otherwise pretend not to see us. It was very disconcerting.

I don't blame her

@@hello-cn5nh oh boy, must be UK

I’m from the U.K. and do that often, no problem. Is there something scary about you? Do you carry knives visibly about your person? Or were you wearing a balaclava at the time? 😂

@@nigelwylie01 I don't think its an American v. UK thing. I think it is an Rural v. Urban thing. I remember watching a UK skit that was a faux news broadcast about a man from a rural county moving to London and terrifying everyone by saying 'hello' on the tube.

I'm an American and I'm fine with interaction with strangers like this ,but there was an incident in a doctor's waiting area some years ago that was very awkward and annoying. I was sitting there and this lady I didn't know started talking to me about her family's troubles 🙄 All I could do was occasionally nod and say " yeah " and give a fake look of concern. I couldn't wait to get out of there.

Very good explanation that makes a lot of sense. In Argentina, we usually get them at petrol stations. Americans tend to be more imaginative and practical than the Brits.

Exactly

I like this!!!

Also for keeping fish cold when out fishing

Water with Ice

"Ice residing in water" 😉

Frozen water resting in melted ice

Semi cubed water

Ice-adjacent water.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I 2nd that.

Same xD couldn't agree more

100% agree especially since I'm in South Florida and it does get warm here from time to time. Yes it gets cold here in Florida sometimes it's quite cold when my friends come from the north they are suprised.

I can drink much faster, if the drink is not too cold. And the stomach is not getting a shock and the body it not turning on heat production to compensate the ice. A cold drink gives you a fresh feeling in the mouth, but that'ts about it.

It is a terrible reflection of society. It shows that people have no pride in themselves and dont care about others. This mentality bleeds into all aspects of the culture and if you dont care about others or even your own image why on earth would you care about the country or anything associated with it... and you wonder why things are going down the toilet.

Once upon a time in America, that wouldn't have been acceptable anywhere. I'm not that old, and I never did that. I'm glad that I can go shopping in my jeans and t-shirt. That's casual enough. I don't even wear shorts because I have a mirror.😊

Of course, Walmart is a completely different dimension. Sure, you'll get people in pajamas and sweats, but you'll also get that guy wearing a full suit of plate armor and his friend in a damp wetsuit eating a raw eggplant like an apple.

@@thomgizziz Such a stupid thing to be mad about, THEY'RE STILL PANTS. The only thing different is the material. IT DOESN'T MATTER. My wardrobe has nothing to do with anyone else. I want to be comfortable not squished into an uncomfortable outfit.

@@thomgizziz land of the free to wear whatever we want. Frankly, my idea of success is being able to spend every day wearing a bath robe like The Dude if I feel like it.

And yet I see plenty of people who shout out constantly how America doesn't matter and how what they do doesn't matter, it's weird how many people come into a video about America first and then I'm not saying this one but there are plenty of videos out there about America and people will tell you how stupid it is to do with that way and how they don't do that in their own country.

Kind of like Drachinifel's wife voicing sea mines in his videos, just before The Big Embrace. She's the happiest mine EVER 🤣🤣🤣

Exception: Iced tea. Some like iced coffee too but I hate that. Do love the tea cold though.

Unless you're getting a fountain drink. I paid for a whole cup of soda, I'm getting a whole cup of soda.

Where I live has a similar climate to the UK and I still can't stand tap temperature water. Ew, it's like drinking spit.

laserwolf65, please tell Tevye the Milkman and his family (Golda, Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Bielke and Sprintze) hello for me the next time you're in Anatevka. Mazeltov! : ))

I mean I like my water like 50 Fahrenheit where fridge temp is like 33 and room temp is 75 so kind of in the middle

I brought my own Yeti style insulated Ice Bucket to this hotel I'm living in for 3 months. The ice machine is only a few doors away from mine and I fill that bucket up every day. I GOTTA HAVE ICE! 😅

Yeah, as a Brit myself it is just weird to hear about. I guess it's down to cultural perspective!

@@theparanoidandroid3583 No, it's climate. In England 70°F is a "ghastly heat wave." In Alabama, we call that "a mite chilly."

@@richardfabacher3705 I get why you would want more ice in a hotter climate (especially as I myself lived in Saharan Africa for four years) but it's the actual idea of an "ice machine" that seems weird to me... is it like the reverse of a kettle?

@@theparanoidandroid3583 Much more complicated. There are basically 2 types of "ice machines: Laurence notes the refrigeration units found in stores that sell ice in large bags. The ice is made in a factory, bagged, and transported for sale. The other type, found in motels and hotels as well as restaurants and snack bars, makes ice in trays/molds by trickling water in, freezing it, then dropping it into the refrigerated hopper to be scooped-out as needed. Most home refrigerators in the US have built-in ice makers which may include dispensing crushed or cubed ice by pressing a paddle/bar/tab/lever (varies widely) or they drop cubes into a hopper inside the freezer. All forms involve a water line filling a tray which freezes the "cubes" then when they freeze, a small motorized device pushes them out and the process repeats. All testaments to our addiction to carbonated drinks. But seriously, have you ever tried to drink a 105° F Coca-Cola? Don't!

Same

lol yeah, since Americans are very well known for not knowing shit about anyone elses cultures. lol

Let’s be clear, flying the flag was exponentially more post 9-11-01. They were sold out for months and months and months for the first time since 1941.

Or in general. It's amazing how much we display our flag.

Fun fact: displaying American flags was an act of protest in Texas, as they were against the withdrawal of forces from Vietnam.

Carline Pergola- DeFeo That’s so nice!

Carline Pergola- DeFeo LOL!!!! I LOVE that!!! Thank you for sharing that!!

I'm genuinely curious about why others don't.

now I know to frown overseas, thank you

Craig Benz I don’t know why ,but they are so grouchy looking walking around .

Me in southern Louisiana: y'all are adorable.

MDStallings7 y’all want eggs I’m cooking some on the Arizona sidewalks

Me in Florida also laughed at that. It can get up to 100 degrees there, but down here it stays 100 degrees in the summer 😂 Plus the humidity makes it worse.

Joshua Ebanks 100 is nothing try 120

@@shmarlo3203 100 + humidity is worse than dry heat. It feels like your in a sona 24/7

How strange! I can't imagine NOT speaking to the people I see. And we wave at our neighbors, too. No wonder my forebears left. 😅

We DO greet each other believe it or not! You were most likely (being American), being overly friendly, not with any malicious intent obviously, but it does raise our suspicions when someone is "too cheery", like what are you hiding?

I’ve encountered something similar in my time in New Zealand. I’ll be out for a walk and will smile, nod, or say hello to someone and half will ignore me or purposefully look away. Makes me feel like I’m weird or something 😅 Is always a bit awkward but so is ignoring the person and/or they initiate the hello so it’s just a gamble either way haha. Definitely miss American’s more consistent openness to talk to passerbys.

Its an overhang of status thing. Unless you've been introduced you do not approach another. The higher status person is allowed to address lower status people. Thus, on average most general people would not start conversations with strangers.

​@@Reece-Mincher3601are we overly friendly or are you guys friendly deficient?

I also ask for no ice for that same reason, but that does include free refill places so I can go longer before needing a refill and it's usually cold anyways. Also, I hate that watered down taste when the ice melts.

A certain large fast food chain in the US has calculated the delution of the ice so the drink has a standard of sweetness to the finish. The drink might be sweeter than liked if it comes without ice.

@@jrt818bless those chains, the drinks always end up tasting so much better when they account for the ice

They don't realize you can just NOT fill your cup up again.

@@kyungrix1112 Or buy the smallest size pop and then refill it. At least in America they usually have three or four sizes (usually about 250ml, 500ml, 600ml, and sometimes 1L or larger) you can buy--but with free refills, why buy anything but a small?

@@curtisa3069 absolutely, I never get a large drink of I'm in the place with free refills. even then, I don't refill the drink when I'm done. there's no point unless you got alcohol to put in it 😉🤣🤣🤣

I don't think I've ever taken advantage of free refills beyond just refilling as I'm leaving. One cup to drink with my meal, one to sip on as I go about my day. The second one I'd rather have with no ice so that I can put it in the fridge at home and later add my own ice.

@Beware the Lily of the Valley yeah people like to say Americans will just sit in the restaurant constantly drinking the free refills, but most people do what you just described or don't get a refill at all.

“Im smiling so you know I won’t kill you and hope you don’t kill me”

"look I don't have fangs like those other monkeys! I'm not a threat! dont attack me" lol

and yet you beat and kill each other for the most meaningless of things

@@cplcabs says the guy with a Union Jack as his pfp. How many centuries did Europe spend suppressing the entire world?

@@cplcabs Brit’s when they realize they’re brutal ways of killing eachother with knives is just as bad 😮

Colleges and universities in the USA for the first two classes of the day. 8 am and 9 am. IIRC we were also allowed to bring in coffee. Some of us took a long time to wake up properly. I had classes at 8 am for the first two years. PS I *chose* that time. Enough to go back, get a proper breakfast in the dorm and do my foreign language homework immediately as far as possible. (I had a shower at 7 am and got ready). Then off to other classes 10 am, 11 am, then lunch, 2-5 pm....

my wife and I went to Manhattan in like 2003 or something and took the style to the streets. After that, we started to notice people wearing PJs in public a whole lot more... could it be that we were looking for it, or that it was happening more...? I don't know.

If I am just going to the corner store down the street then my pj's are good enough. But anywhere else i will get dressed to go. As soon as I get back home I'll get my comfy PJs back on😊

Yes we love our ice..but I at least would never water down my whiskey. That is why we have whiskey stones here!

Scotch on the rocks is what it's called. They don't dilute the whiskey much at all since you usually finish it before the cubes have melted down all the way

What a madlad that waiter was!

Ice in whiskey or scotch. Just wrong!

omfg so he just adds another cube without even asking first, wow, lol

I'm 52, lived in FL since 2000. Prior to living in Florida, 20s 30s I rarely added ice to cold drinks, soft drinks. Up to 30, I'd have ice in a tray for weeks, unused.

Here in New hampshire it's a little rarer, but we have frozen coco and iced or frozen coffee drinks we drink up here all year around.... -10f some days out and we still drink an ice coffee.

​@chemp231 that's what I like to do even when it's cold asf outside I need me some iced coffee

Prepared iced drinks, such as iced coffee, I do drink, but otherwise I drink room temp drinks..room temp as in, air conditioned room. I'm a Floridian and prefer my drinks this way. My husband, on the other hand, is literally an ice hog.

I live in Michigan. I rarely use ice in anything. Water and soda during the summer when it is above 90 degrees. But most days if I put ice in my drink I might start shivering.

I had similar experiences.

@@TDI-87 If you want isopropyl alcohol, at the chemist's (pharmacy), you should ask for surgical spirit.

We generally view iced tea as an abomination. You can buy cans and bottles of iced tea (Lipton's etc) in shops. But you will be judged for buying it. You'll rarely see it being served in a restaurant or cafe. Isoprop is usually called surgical spirit.

There are more steps involved using ice trays: pull out trays; twist trays then ice flies all over the counter w/some cubes falling onto the floor; carefully pouring water into trays so it doesn’t spill (I don’t use tap water); & carefully walking to freezer. If water spills on the floor it has to be wiped up. With a bag of ice: reach in, put in glass DONE!

Its necessary for the tailgate party!

I live in storm country (southern Louisiana) and I've learned to keep four big bags of ice in the freezer for when the power goes out. It keeps the perishable food cold enough that it won't spoil if the power is restored that day. My power has gone out for 8-12 hours FOUR TIMES since February 1 (a little over three months) so this is not an idle concern.

@@trixie9777 there's also the step of picking the ice up off the floor, throwing it in the sink, having it bounce off the side of the sink, and landing on the counter or, if the universe is being a particular b**ch that day, back on the floor.

As an American, this will amaze non-Americans. I buy bags of Ice, because I like the shape of the ice done by various brands. I can just make rounded cubes, but if I buy ice, I can have disc-shaped, hollow tube shaped, or broken shard-shaped. Ice is a key component of cocktails, and ice matters. That's why we BUY ice !!

as a suburban American, it's great when you're bored/social but definitely annoying when you're super tired and just want to go home!

They are usually nice but if they don't want to talk to you they will tell you to f off

Sounds like Pleasantville or Stepford.

Move into the small crack towns those are lit asf

@Dalmaen Actually they're just trying to figure out if you're a neighbor or someone from outside the neighborhood. It's like when the salesperson in a store says hello the moment you walk in - they're just letting you know that they know you're there. In the store's case, it's to make it more difficult for people to shoplift; out on the street, it's a way of keeping tabs on strangers vs. neighbors.

I have lived in the Midwest for most of my life and the only way I see this happening is if you don't specify iced tea.

@@bcaye I've seen it here in the midwest when asking for "tea" instead of "sweet tea". I rarely hear "iced tea" around here.

You did it backwards. You're supposed to add the sugar while hot, THEN cool it. Trust me. I'm a professional.

It blows my mind that people STILL get confused about the different types of iced tea. Like, cold tea is a pretty simple concept. It's been in parts of America for centuries. You'd think that an American, despite not living in the South, could still become aware of the concept of deliberately cooling down tea. It's just so odd to me that it's even a conversation anymore.

​@@SeeJayPlayGamesfor sure! Gotta raise that saturation point so that more sugar can dissolve!

When I visited I always had to ask for ice in my beverage. I usually got 1 small cube.

I said the same thing! I missed my ice on my trip. That and my own bathroom. Community bathrooms at our hotel?

@@crystalrose8210 that must have been a very cheap hotel because that’s not standard in the uk

Calling it iced tea when there's no ice? Damn those Brits and their ironic sense of humor:)

Why would you want a watered down drink and a reduced amount off drink?

People in Australia- 😒🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

In AZ it's dry. In GA it's humid. I live in NJ and you notice 100° more when it's humid.

I live in Mesa Arizona.... Freaking over 110degrees, for a minimum of 3months every summer

doesn't Phoenix get hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk? (I think I saw a video of someone doing that like ten years ago)

@@elizabethsohler6516 The humidity also makes cold worse.... much worse.

That's what I got used to working as a civil servant at a naval hospital, because it made the dates sort properly, and it's crept into my private usage, simply because it's come to feel 'right'.

As a Canadian planning on a move to Scotland this brings me comfort, this is how we usually greet people and Lawrence had me worried I'd be confused for a predator if I didn't break that habit!

The north of Britain is very friendly compared to the south. Smiling at strangers or saying hi when passing is completely normal.

I friend of mine who managed a few Taco Bell’s told me soft drinks were so cheap that a customer could buy a regular drink and refill it and drink as much as humanly possible al day and she’d STILL be ahead.

@@Heavywall70 used to work in the restaurant industry, this is so true. Even worse with alcohol. One drink out of a bottle will cover the whole bottle so only the first drink is no profit, the rest is gravy 😂😂

Yes. I was hoping he might mention the cost of a drink in England. I bet it is extremely low. But you are right, when you are paying so much, you want to "try" to get your money's worth. (of course our plan backfired because now we are overdosing on sugar and our waist lines are enormous!)

Someone told me that restaurants have main profit from overpriced drinks, not from food, maybe that's reason why it is so overpriced. In KFC they hare "neverending drink" but also that cup has only 0.4l and cost almost like 2 2l bottles of pepsi and you mostly can't drink more than one or two cups in such short time, so they know what they doing, it's not actually valuable for customer. :-D But in western europe or USA it's crazy, they want for example 5 eur for beer in restaurant, but same brand cost 1 eur in bottle. Here in Czech Republic beer in restaurand cost cca double price of bottled same beer.

Based on the way fast food is produced, you could demand free refills for burgers as well - seriously, how much can it cost to produce a BigMac? In Germany, the calculation of a restaurant usually bases on the assumptions that drinks have to fetch a high margin because the food often does not. And free refills would kill that mechanism.

Larry Davison same for us here in Australia! If you go to someone’s house and they offer you a drink and there is no ice it’s considered almost undrinkable!

A cooler full of beer being cooled by ice is eye candy. It just looks so inviting.

In the distant past there used to be ice trucks that would deliver to homes for the ice boxes in vogue at the time. In fact they used to differentiate natural ice cut from lakes/ponds to artificial ice made in the newly developed refrigeration containers.

Glad to hear it! I hope to make it to there someday, I might not live in Ireland, but I'm damn sure I'm Irish!

And hurricanes when you know it's over a week with no power. Went 12 days in Houston after Ike.

And for making cocktails. I put it in my wine. Has to be crushed, tho. None of this cube bullshit.

Or if your ice maker breaks and it takes you 4 years to order a new one.

in pajamas no doubt

Making ice cream as well

When I was a kid I recall that you only got free refills on certain beverages; iced tea (which was NOT pre-sweetened) and coffee (hot; if you'd asked for an iced coffee you would have gotten some VERY strange looks) generally had free refills, sodas usually did not.

@@ptorq That seems to have been the custom all my life in my neck of the woods. Places that give free refills on cold drinks exist, but they're very rare.

well done 😐

I would sooner bring back streaking than go out in public in pjs (I don't own any anyhow).

Same. My sister and I dared each other to do it once, but we put on the nicest/newest PJ's we owned and then we couldn't work up the nerve to go anywhere except Waffle House at 11 something at night. And the five people there stared at us the whole time. Ugh! It was pretty funny though. We felt like idiots.😂

I'm with you.

@@laurenblachford1501 Except at WalMart....

If you put the year first, you'd know what century and decade it was, and the information would flow even better.

I lived in Germany for 6 years. You learn quickly not to ask for tap water. There water is very hard and has a lot of minerals in it. Most of the Americans living on the army base had to give their cats and dogs bottled water, or they would get kidney stones.

@@maryrichardson1318 lucky I live in the mountains of North Carolina, Asheville literally sells their city water in bottles, I’ve always drank from the creek and tap as springs are common here. But going to Florida, nah man, I’m good I’m not drinking tap water from the plains and swamplands.

@@chowderwhillis9448 I know how you feel. I live in central Kentucky. We have an underground spring in a cave near us that bottles the water and sells it. High Bridge Spring Water. It is DELICIOUS.

You dont pay for tap (fawcet) water, just bottled water.

@@chowderwhillis9448 Pennsylvania, at least my area of it is pretty much the same way. I remember an actual local civil conflict that got next to zero media coverage happened because nestle tried to but the rights to all the springs .

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Deedric Kee yes!! Nor will I!! Lol

I purposely by pajamas that I'm not embarassed to wear outside. Just in case I need to make a late night run to the store. I'm not getting dressed just to pop out for smokes. Or in case of fire.

I only wore pjs at school on spirit days lol. But in winter I will wear sweat pants when I walk my dog at night.

I definitely think there's a generational divide between who will and won't go out in public in pajamas. 😂

Bee Aye xD Yep 😂😂😂. I’m a Zoomer and I would probably go out in public in my PJs to be honest with you. 🤣🤣🤣

really dude and those Americans who still have self respect.

People who go out, especially to work, in pajamas might as well just wrap themselves in plastic garbage bags and be done with it.

My roommate does this shit all the time and it drives me fucking nuts... can’t figure out why he can’t get a girlfriend, I have told him that going into public looking like a slob isn’t helping his case

I'll go in my pajama bottoms, but I will wear a t-shirt, lol.

Agree

Honestly, it could be blizzarding and I would still want cold water. I live on the transition between Rockies and Canadian prairies, so it gets damn chilly. But it doesn't matter when I need a drink of water. If it isn't at least cooler than room temperature, it simply doesn't feel right.

I live in the South and like no ice in my drinks ever. I don't even refrigerate my beer at home. Everybody that knows me tells me that I'm weird. 🤔🤓🍻

Don't they sell bottles of water everywhere?

​@@alsaunders7805Thats because you are weird!

@@garycamara9955 Yep, I know and I don't care. 👍🤓🍻

Because people are slobs now. Look at photos of people out and about in the 1950s and you will quickly realize that we've become lazy, fat, depressed people.

The other day, I saw a young woman at the store who was wearing pajama bottoms, but with a stylish blouse, jacket, and shoes, all of it coordinated. She was cute, and the outfit was attractive, so, I don't know, I guess I give up.

I'm 40, and when in high school I remember the girls starting that trend, usually on test days. Not sure if that was the beginning of it generally but it was the start of it in my part of the world.

It's not so much literally going out in pajamas, it's more just the casual nature of American attire. Like a previous commenter pointed out, many people will go out in "pajamas," but it's still "coordinated" and meant to be a style. I'd also like to point out many places in the US are much hotter than the UK. This is especially true for any state in "The South," but also areas like Southern California, Arizona, and so on. Both those states have big cities in warm climates. (LA and Phoenix respectively.)

Um would scrub pants count, I have to admit I gone to sleep in scrub pants, no I don't work in the medical field, and gone on errands in the same scrub pants, just like the feel of scrub pants, being their made of basically bed sheet material.

They were doing this in the UK until about ten years ago when shops started putting up signs saying it wasn't allowed. This video is all wrong!

But it is still wrong!

Isn’t it ghastly. So glad to be missing this.

@@adrianlambert7130 most of his videos are complete lies, he either lived under a rock in the UK or is just an idiot just blatantly lying about things.

They've been going to supermarkets in PJ's for over a decade in the UK. Sometimes with their slippers on and a dressing gown as a coat too.

It's soda (I'm from Tennessee)

I'm from Western New York. We say pop. But to me I know the lingo and might change it up with soda. Or soda pop. It's the same thing. I don't know why people get offended.

its pop from northern ohio

I've called it pop all my life (I live in MI a stone's throw from the Canadian border). One time I in TX at a festival and asked for a pop, and the guy looked at me like I had three heads. I then said Coke and got what I wanted, the concession guy still giving me a weird look. Later on, I was told a 'pop' meant a hit of meth.

Agent Red Fox Lots of brits call it pop

Whatever they were selling, it wasn't straight milk. Room temperature milk has a shelf life of like 1.5 hours before some pretty significant and irreversible chemical changes start to occur.

I have honestly never seen room temperature milk, and I hope I never do. Milk goes off fast enough already.

@@TheLobsterCopter5000 I'm so disturbed by what must have been in that milk to make it shelf-stable

@@Levacque we have it here in the US in boxes, I have no clue how it tastes but I think its something called Ultra High Temperature pasteurization.

UHT milk is quite common in parts of the world where cattle don't live (e.g., islands). Can't speak to how it tastes; drinking milk as an adult seems very odd.

@Expo Scotland it will end up flat one way or the other, and its not watered down til the ice melts

Right?! Do NOT serve me an "iced" tea with 3 sad little half-melted cubes bobbing around in a lukewarm beverage. Gross. I want it c.o.l.d.

My dad used to drink warm Mountain Dew. Blech.

I'm in north west Passaic county, and it doesn't matter how cold it is. Hubby always walks around with this mega cup of ice tea with tons of ice in it

Oh hell yeah, ice is a necessity in most drinks!

So true.

Try ordering water without mc-ice. It's still cold.

I HATE when people do that. I was at a wedding once, and I asked the server for a sprite with no ice. He gave me LESS ice. IT JUST MAKES IT SO THAT THE SODA GOES FLAT IN 2 SECONDS, I WILL FIGHT EVERY SERVER WHO DOES THIS.

​@@not_zippyno means no!

I hate ice in anything that isn't water. Waste of space, waters it down, and just a nuisance while drinking. It's still a nuisance in water, but it keeps water cold (the only way I like drinking water) and when the ice melts, more water. Somehow, it's the only way it makes sense in my brain

Canadians also follow the "must talk about the weather" rule when you've been roped into an interaction by your dog. However, we also must smile or nod at strangers like the Americans do. It's a lot of fun watching videos like this, reading the comments, and realizing once again that Canada stands firmly on the cultural fence between Britain and the States.

Not everyone likes to impart all the intimate details of their present condition to a stranger, especially if they might offer advice. We have forms for a reason.

Frostprove, Florida is not a northern town.

Winter for Floridians, fall for basically anyone else.

Florida has two seasons. Summer and fall. You can experience temperatures from anywhere from 20°, 85°, in fall. In summer, you're pretty much between 85° and 120°. If you come to Florida, there are tailgates at both seasons' sporting events. In Jacksonville, we even have a ice skating rink. If you get a chance, every major city in Florida has the best of every cultures' festivals, at least once a year. And, all the government websites for each is found through the state's website, www.myflorida.com.

Last time I was in Orlando was late November. 85°f at 07:00... 98° at 16:00 when these thunder storms sweep through like the armageddon. I don't know how people without air conditioning in every room manage to survive there. Only thing I liked were the little lizards and snakes, everywhere.

@@mmercier0921 ah, I miss my hometown.

Yes! As Ricky Gervais Stunt double! Lol

I know right!!??? I’m addicted!!

You should watch the old show titled An Idiot Abroad, created and starring Ricky Gervais

In Texas, NM & AZ the actual temps are 100's 105, 110 etc. Add humidity and the "heat index" or "real feel" is even hotter..

@@jeanetteshawredden5643 Yes. With the heat index where I live, it tips what it feels like outside to be usually between 100-110°F, too. With the humidity, it feels like Mother Nature is sweating on you.

I am curious how your tap water gets so hot, Even if we run a few weeks with 90f days and like 80f nights here in NJ the tap water never gets that warm. Guessing its because the water mains are not 6ft in the ground.

​@@filanfyretracker During Phoenix summers you don't need to turn on the hot water in the shower unless you like it blistering. The ground is caliche, which is very hard to dig through - your shovel kinda bounces off it - so especially in older area the lines are closer to the surface and there are almost zero basements. Which sucks, as basements are not only very useful, they are also cooler than main/upper floors. They are one of the few things I missed when moving to Phx from the upper quasi-Siberian midwest.

Truth!

Ice in scotch? Utter sacrilege... The idea is to allow you to taste the complex flavours, if the scotch is anything decent.

@@wessexdruid5290 As someone (American) that prefers scotch on the rocks, it's the evolution of flavors as the cold scotch warms in your mouth and the volatiles slowly release. I even keep my scotch in the fridge. Some people like scotch and soda, or water, and as the ice melts it approaches those styles also. I'm not too picky about how it's served, especially if someone else is pouring.

@@tubularfrog Have you ever drunk a single malt properly? i.e. without ice and with just a splash of Highland spring water, to unlock it? Compare the two, then come back and talk about which has more flavour - and aroma.

Have you tried scotch frozen bullets or stones instead of ice to chill your drinks?

I moved back to southern Louisiana last fall (I was born here and grew up here) and I didn't even bother with a coat for the entire winter. I think I needed a sweater five or six times. If I need a sweater, it's usually in the summer and someone has the AC cranked too low. (I always brought one with me to the theater, back when we could go to theaters. Sigh.)

Same for me in TX. I have never owned a coat. I have only ever owned jackets and hardly ever wear them.

And you only need the long sleeve every once in a while because sometimes it’s 85 degrees on christmas😂

As someone who lived in Minnesota....I don’t even have words.

Winter in South Florida means i put on a long sleeve.... sun shirt. The same long sleeve sun shirt i wear in the summer because with out it i would get skin cancer.

MediumJohnSilver me too and I’m Australian!!

MediumJohnSilver When we were driving our Spanish exchange student back to the airport to go home after living with us for the school year I asked him what he would miss most, surely he would me, of course! His lighting fast response was “ice!, how am I ever going to go back to drinking anything without ice!.

@@richsimon7838 haha

She went to England, then to the French Riviera. Did her dobermans survive by eating Follett? I've watched that movie many, many times. I taped it off of cable, then purchased the official videotape, then the Criterion Collection version on DVD.

@@teemusid I watched the DVD a few days ago, and it still is delightful. As for the doberman, I suppose she phoned someone to take care of the dog sometime after she got away.

My local supermarket in England has sold bags of ice for years.

U can buy bags of ice in the UK. They have sold them since I can remember which is late 80s early 90s

@@tweetypie1978 Yeah, but can you get ice from rando, pop-up ice dispensers everywhere 24/7? I never understood the economics, but they wouldn't exist if they couldn't make $ off it. Super small towns have these and I can only think they're for keeping game harvested cool enough to transport home.

@@danielwade9487 90% of that "dispenser" ice goes into ice chests for chilling drinks and keeping food from spoiling while camping, boating, having a large bbq, etc. Those super small towns are frequently near camping/boating/swimming areas.

Comes in hand for keeping drinks stored in coolers cold, too. I'm surprised Tara didn't elaborate a bit more on that for Laurence. Also people who go out fishing 🎣 for leisure keep the fish fresh with ice bought at the store. Helps, too, when the fridge and or freezer dies and you don't want perishables to go bad quickly while getting it fixed or replaced.

That's called "The Yank Bucket" back in the kitchen, but they have gotten less rude about it, now. In the 1990s the staff would do a little public shaming ritual of you.

Why would anyone want warm soda? It's not like it can be a preference because It objectively tastes worse. why would people in England want room temperature drinks?

room temperature coke? That shouldn't have happened at all

I've had the reverse... You ask for ice and they bring you ONE cube. 😐🧊 Then they hand it to you as if they had flown to the artic circle and chipped it off a glacier themselves. 😐🧊 It's ice. 😐🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🥤

Warm beer is one thing, but warm Coke? Yuck.

Funny thing about lemonade. In the USA it means a sweetened mixture of lemon juice and (usually still) water. In the UK, when I was there, lemonade was lemon-lime soda, like 7-Up or Sprite or whatever PepsiCo calls it.

It's pretty much the same in the US, except we have a lot of rural areas here, although some cities are nice anyway. I live in Texas, so while I know people are very friendly in Austin, the total opposite is true of Houston.

@@gretalturdberg5954 I’m from Austin and can confirm people are very friendly and polite for the most part. Not so much in other Texas cities.

was going to say up here in the north of england everyone says hello an smiles/chats (or did lol). I would hazard a guess the poster lived down south or in London. Even in big cities in the north definately more chatty in passing.

@@greenalison556I don’t think so, I seem to remember that he’s referred a few times to coming from Cleethorpes (on the Lincolnshire coast). I live in Lincolnshire and find people greet each other when out and about, but Lincolnshire people do seem to be quite reserved. Add to that that the coast is an area with a lot of summer visitors.

I was born and raised in America and I found it annoying that total strangers wanted to acknowledge my existence. Then I moved from Michigan to Texas and found people in Texas want to talk to me in the elevator/lift. So I realized I was the problem and I should just act friendly back to spite my annoyance with humans, because why should I spoil such a friendly place.

I went for a two week tour of Scotland in 2018. No ice to be had.

@@randzopyr1038 oh I'm sure they have ice in the winter. I wanted ice in my cup. Makes you realize how things you think are completely normal are completely bizarre somewhere else. Fun though.

They'll bring you three to six cubes, with tongs, and handle them like perscription opioids, looking around furtively.

​@@randzopyr1038 Billy Connolly once joked that Scotland has two seasons, winter and June.

The thing is, any commercial kitchen should have an ice maker for practical cooking purposes. They have access, they're just being weird about it. Like, to treat a request for ice like some kind of freak show curiosity is so silly. You're telling me those cooks and servers haven't gotten way more demanding requests from customers?? Nah. They just decided to be jerks about the ice for some reason.

They don't recommend the ice bath anymore. Not for years, because it's too shocking to the system, but definitely cold water, or cool water increasing the coldness gradually.

Yeah, Margret Thatcher aka The Iron Lady our former Prime Minister used to take ice baths with an electric current running through the water (true). Maybe why she had that massive hair that stood up lol.

It’s funny because when we Americans go to Europe (or most of the world for that matter), and we are served water or drinks without ice, it can feel a little as if we’re being handed uncooked food. 😂. At least at first.

DeAnne Paris myself included. I think I tend to fill my glass with ice not only because I live in Texas but also because it’s something I watched my mother do her entire life. That’s one thing I really can’t part with. At least fill my glass HALFWAY with ice if you’re rationing it. 😉😊😉

I lived in Florida long enough to be surprised and delighted when I moved back to Michigan to get cold water from the cold tap. I had forgotten completely about that.

@@StamfordBridge I wouldn't touch any water that didn't come out of a bottle in Europe. Their rivers are filthy.

Where were you from? I'm in West Allis. #OnWisconsin

Famous Churchill quote, “English: the common language that divides us.” So. True.

@@danielm5535 two countries divided by the same language.

I once was having an online conversation with an Australian, typing text at each other, and she used what I assume was a very common Auzzie slang term (I have since forgotten... it was almost 20 years ago), and I had to have her go back and explain the term to me. After we both had a bit of a laugh over it, I said something to the effect of, "How can we have a language barrier when we're speaking the same language?!"

Two countries separated by a common language...

I have a few American friends and I went to the states last summer to visit them. I popped to the petrol station opposite my hotel to get a few essentials. Anyway, the woman who served me went 'any gas?' to which I replied 'steady on love it isn't even time for dinner yet' lol.

Tracy Zielke Hear-Hear , Nicely Said 🇺🇸🇺🇸

That’s a very nice, very optimistic take. Not the kind of rhetoric I hear from a lot of adamant flag wavers.

The Brits (Canucks & Aussies too) have the queen and so there is a symbol to focus on that unites everyone. Tho Canadians like Americans tend to fly the flag. Keen observation about the representative role of a neutral & common symbol.

I think it even goes deeper than that. The flag doesn't represent the government of the United States. It represents the people, our common desires that come along with self-determination, and thus the nation as a whole, regardless of government.

Yeah but that smells of fascism. Nothing good ever came from behind a flag. Flags and other nationalist symbols are wholly divisive. “This is our thing that makes us better than the others.” Patriotism (the doctrine of pride in something you had no hand in, ie being born somewhere, and the achievements of others) and nationalism are pure poison, an affront to humanity. Like religion and other superstitions, these are things we should have left in the Iron Age.

i’m a brit and the only time i have ice in my drink is when it’s boiling hot (30*C or higher) if it’s any other time i can’t be bothered

I suppose he isn't exposed to this in Chicago, but it is common here for drivers to wave at other drivers and pedestrians.

Tonight people were circling the town square with their vehicles. Windows were down so they could hear each other's radios and waving was happening.

waving the flag in pajamas!

Yeah kindness can really change a person's day, even if your just saying goodmorning.

@@SouthernIowaLady hi guys hope your all staying home !! lock down here in the u.k. we go out on our doorsteps every thursday at 8.00 to clap our nhs staff .. and all the key workers ,is very emotional to witness communities coming together 💕