American Reacts to 25 Ways the UK Triumphs Over the USA 

I think 24 is wrong. We have far less Karen's than the U.S.A They certainly beat us in stupid drivers though 😅

@@TherealHeisenberg75 I second that 😂

@@TherealHeisenberg75 1 word alcohol

Agreed, we are superior in democracy, gun safety, healthcare, standard of living, everything outside of defense spending and how much we fuck over our own citizens

@@TherealHeisenberg75 nah just as we don’t have as many Karen’s doesn’t mean we don’t complain worse

*just* a riot? i think it would be mass riots

World War 3, more like.

There would be a war😂

Thats news to me!

There would be a nuclear explosion of testosterone and alcohol. Imagine the riots. Ads in sports at inappropriate moments will never happen!

American's make little sense, like how their national motto is "in "god" we trust", so their judicial system doesn't even think they themselves can handle running the country, they leave it up to a fantasy figure. "The most free country in the world", they say.. So wrong.

It does allow the cheesy puns of “May the 4th (be with you)” of course!

True dat, and you reminded me about this 'confusion'......😁

They did get the whole world saying 9/11 though!

@@julianbarber4708 I just called the muderous mooslumz attack....😄

too much science for the US !!!

wait they dont have this (the door lock) in the us?

@@xandergillam9294 That is what I was thinking

Their is always something showing the toilet is engaged or out of use

Yes they would have there mind blown that we have TV and Radio channels with no adverts and that adds have to fit round the Sports including matches that last 5 days 😂

The worst case of that I noticed was in 2007: an episode of 'Family Guy' had three Ad Breaks in it, it ended and had yet another Ad Break, then came back for the closing credits followed by ... guess what?

On trips to the US over 20 years ago now, as an exercise in anthropology I watched local TV channels wherever I was just for the ads made by the owners themselves or by the local version of the Mrs. Grace L. Ferguson Advertising Agency (and Storm Door Company). - Comedy gold! Mostly hugely overweight, shouty men in various stages of excitement - some apparently on the verge of a stroke or cardiac arrest - with lots of flashing dollar signs and gunshot/slap sound effects - no matter what was on offer - from toilets to real estate.

The TV was terrible. And all adverts.

@@Great_King_Rat Yes, I was in Vegas and watching Family Guy and right at the end there was adverts and after the adverts the credits. What is the actual F is that about!?

😂😂😂

@Dj O.B and then try to sell them our fish with tariffs that have been sat in the docks and are no longer fresh waiting for paperwork to be finished. GG Brexiteers.

@@Rokurokubi83 I'm allergic to fish, Brexit works for me.

@@Thurgosh_OG I’m vegan so don’t eat fish, but we can’t ignore the economical impact. Less money coming in to the country means less public funding which leads to cut becks in health, education etc

​@@Rokurokubi83 Why did you have to start that comment with "I'm a vegan" .? Nobody cares 🙄

His brother was Sir Richard Attenborough, who was an Actor and a Director ("Oh, What a Lovely War", "Chaplin", "Ghandi" and many more as director, but you'll probably know him best as John Hammond in "Jurassic Park")

And to describe him as a "narrator" would be considered Lèse-majesté on this sceptered isle, if not high treason!😊

@@jonisilk Absolutely, 😊but did you know he then became Lord Richard Attenborough?

​@@vilebrequin6923 Exactly! Simply being a narrator doesn't tend to get you two knighthoods!

You know you`ve made it when you get a ship named after you.

Same here in Canada.

Ye like driving is normally miles (imperial) but running is normally metres/km (metric)

My husband is construction worker and he will often txt me to do quick calculations for him. How many square meters in a rectangular with measurements: 4meters 8inches and 7mm by 6 meters 12 inches and 25mm It’s not him, they all do it and then wonder why Maths is so hard😂😂😂

true, you don’t say someone’s height in metres and cm-

@@dwarziyou don’t? everyone i know does lol

And narrates

however, in his now 90s I think he does more narration than before. I met him once.. briefly.. what a charming man.. the bluest of eyes.. he was in his 50s and extremely good looking.

He is a national treasure and the day he dies will be a day of national mourning, at least there better be. I'm getting a lump in my throat just thinking about it!

He is the original national treasure! (although probably Richard dimbleby is up there too!) And of course it's no just the documentaries, it's so much more!

you don't 'think' that - you know that! 😊

Steve Irwin had a charisma that came close, A different approach obviously but he made people interested in what he was talking about.

@@17Blower Steve was like Dave on a pound of coke.

Or referencing him as a narrator. He happens to narrate his nature programs but he’s more than the narrator.

It's probably the only sport that is dangerous to the spectators.

agree- the Tom Scott video on this is really good :)

@@mmcgrath2510 - I have found NO source for the UK having faster internet, but many for the opposite. Plus: I'd rather have an empire of bases than a faux ceremonial empire. 🙂

@@mmcgrath2510 tom Scott is a legend

@@mmcgrath2510 Was about to suggest that exact video.

@@SilvanaDil We have a faster national average than the US, but the US has faster max speeds so depends how you define faster.

It's not free it's paid for out of NI contributions

@@AL-PAKA Free, in this context means 'free at the point of use', which means you don't pay when you visit a doctor, or pay for an ambulance or pay for hospital treatment, as you say it is covered by taxes.

So does Cuba.

@@nedludd7622 Can you cite any American or anyone from anywhere in the world going to Cuba for any sort of surgery? Why aren't American refugees risking the high seas to escape to Cuba? Obviously they don't realise that Cubas 'free' health service, free housing, free education has created a communist utopia.

@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 Actually it's not 'taxes' it's 'insurance'. This technically means that the latter must be invested not spent by the Government. Last I looked National Insurance was 11% on salaries. It gets the rest of its money from its investments. Not sure how well they are doing with the latter. There have been some very big disasters in the last 20 years.

So Far: OfCom is trying to increase that. The BBC is already making "30 minute" programmes with only 21 minutes of actual content [the remaining 9 is currently infested with Trails, Recaps, Look-Aheads & pointless repetitions, so they can be edited down for selling to fit the 21-minute standard overseas]. If OfCom get their way, the BBC will make 19-minute programmes for the half-hour slot and 38-minutes for the hour, instead of 21 & 42. Or, 4 extra 30-second advertisements per hour on a commercial channel.

@@Great_King_Rat When I was at school in the 80s. None programme content was only nine minutes per clock hour.

i thought it was 8 mins for the big channels and 12 for the smaller less watched ones

@@pauldootson7889 Probably varies between different territories. OfCom rules only apply to United Kingdom.

Exactly

Yep, and hopefully the hinges are constructed so the door gently swings open if the door's not locked.

And why do Americans insist on calling a toilet or lavatory a bathroom? To qualify it as a bathroom, a room needs to have a bath (or bathtub if you prefer)!!

@@citizen9378 Calling a toilet a bathroom is definitely still a British (and Aussie) trait too in my personal opinion, I've heard many Brits and Aussies say this. The word toilet can be received awkwardly whereas saying bathroom implies the same meaning without the awkward crudeness; in effect it's a basic form of manners (which some Brits and Aussies pride themselves on) that has trickled down from upper class mannerisms over the years. Bathrooms and toilets are rarely far away from each other (at least here in Australia, excluding outhouses). Very interesting question though 😅 can't say I've ever thought about it until now.

I just ask where the shitter is, saves any ambiguity

​@@HarrisonEkebladEither if it's at an expensive restaurant or you're referring to the "posh" English. Nowhere in Wales, Ireland or Scotland would u hear "I'm off to the bathroom" it most likely be, "off for a piss" "need a pisser" etc we hardly say toilet either unless in company.

And the most hated man is the go compare guy

Have you really not heard of David Attenborough? Not pronounced Attenburrow. Don't you watch PBS where they show his documentaries?

I can't stand the gut, much too big a lefturd for me.

the problem i have with him is he was director General of the BBC, during the Saville time period and we all know what he got upto everyone knew

@@Greenwood4727 He never was DG of the BBC. Check your facts. You can find them on Google.

And it is pronounced attombruh

I thought the first iteration of the internet was invented in Switzerland.

@@user-yf2un4po3e The WWW and the Internet are two different things. The internet had to exist first before the (HTTP based) WWW. Sorry, my geek slipped out there 🤓

​@cryscorde Internet is different from the World Wide Web but still connectedas of today, it was usually used by scientists to share their work more easier when it first came out. The Internet came after

​​@@mhenryj5525Attenburuh

While English muffins were invented by a British expat in America,so technically American

@@Trebor74 Samuel Bath Thomas arrived in the United States on November 13th 1871. Within ten years, he had purchased his own bakery and began selling his now famous muffins. He did not become a naturalised American citizen until 18th November 1895. So at all relevant times, he was a British Subject. The “English Muffin” was therefore technically a British invention. The fact that it may have been created on American soil by someone who, after the event, became an American citizen is immaterial. Jimi Hendrix found fame in England and created much of his best music there in the late 1960s - that does not make him or his songs British. Conversely, Charlie Chaplin (later Sir Charles Chaplin) found fame in America and did much to develop the film industry in the United States; but he remained British until the day he died. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in the United States but was a British Subject at the time. Indeed, the first song ever sung over the telephone was his rendition of God Save the Queen.

Remember the US Olympic basketball team that was full of professional players and the Americans called it the dream team, they still couldn't win the gold.

@@Trebor74your doing an example of the opposite…

Actually in the 16th Century we played Base-Ball, that came over on the Mayflower

Hey there on the others yes, but boxing now the ancient SUMERIANS invented boxing and its plainly shown in cuneiform

@@theSFCchannel He might be referring to modern boxing using Queensberry rules.

@@theSFCchannel Obviously Horse racing and boxing was done in ancient times. The British created international rules of that sport. Boxing in the modern world has is roots in the UK. Even football is a past sport of humans kicking a thing, that game evolved into football. Those rules and regulations were devised and has rules that qualifies the UK as the inventor of most sports by a nation.

@@darrellpowell6042 sYou could say the inventor off the majority of things. The British have far out invented evey other nation on earth and have the Septic Tanks beat by around 50-1

and Tiddlywinks.

Yes as a few people know ibuprofen can upset the stomach, but it also knackers blood platelets that cause them to clump together and can lead to a stroke or heart attack. Don't start thinking Paracetamol or Asprin are any better either.

Cheers pal 👍

​@@johnrhodes3350hospitals recommend Paracetamol- when I recently broke my right arm and dislocated my right shoulder, I was told to stop taking Ibuprofen and take Paracetamol as the Consultant swore by it so a Junior Doctor told me, the physio at the hospital told me as well. I had to take the 8 everyday whether I was in pain or not so it would build up and help the pain when it came.

And those who interrupt, we won’t buy their stuff anymore

Thomas Frederick Richard Attenborough (born 13 October 1986) is an English voice actor and theatre director. He is the son of theatre director Michael Attenborough, grandson of the late film actor and director Richard Attenborough and the great nephew of broadcaster David Attenborough.

Oh no! Not the dreaded "tea in a microwave" controversy. There should be a universal law against it.

@@DruncanUK It is interesting to think that many people who won't make their tea using the microwave, may well reheat it in the microwave if it gets cold. I'm sure there are those who wouldn't do that either, but I think there are still many many who would.

*voltage....wattage refers to the amount of energy consumed,probably your kettle have around 1500W.

@@draculakickyourass Most kettles I have come across in the UK have been 3 kW. US electric kettles tend to be 1500-1800 W. A third thing to add to tea and our nominal 240 volts: ad breaks. Our ad breaks are the right length of time to either use the toilet or make a cup of tea.

@@draculakickyourass Wattage is actually power - i.e. energy per unit time. Joules is the amount of energy consumed - or the ridiculous but often used kWh (kilo Watt hour), which is a power times time, or energy per unit time times time. A kettle (costing >£5) is more likely to be 2-3kW.

I went to a London theatre where the loo doors were made of glass with only the central horizontal panel being ftosted! Not the most relaxing experience!

​@@Lily_The_Pink972 They have ,its of those types of toilets across Europe.

In a tad of trouble or in a bit of trouble but never in a tad bit of trouble😊

​@@reluctantheist5224 I've always said "a tad bit".

@@KissMyFatAxe Are you a fifth columnist ?

That's similar to the "We seem to be in bit of a bother".

This is so true. There was a tragic incident in the Korean War when a British officer was in radio contact with a nearby American tank force. As the British were being overrun by enemy forces the captain said to the US commander he was on a bit of a sticky wicket. The US commander didn't understand the reference and ended the call, leading to the surrender of the British forces with heavy casualties.

The idea that America does that blows my mind.

This blew my mind, imagine being at a Premier League game, and 10mins in they all have a break for adverts .... could you imagine the chanting on the terraces when coverage resumes.

I don't know much about Broadband speeds. I've got superfibre for my PC. Not sure what the speed is. I can't find out. I think the service can provide up to 900MB download speed. Don't know if that's good, bad or indifferent?

@@robcrossgrove7927 900 mega bits is about 112 mega bytes so pretty good.

providers whose primary selling point is providing a better and/or cheaper service than the competition - since there is no decent competition between providers in the US....

@@robcrossgrove7927 Not sure if you are in the UK or USA, but I've had 1Gbps at my house since late 2022. And i'm a home user. Could have got it a few months before that but we were previouisly on 500Mbps so wasn't a huge difference. With Virgin Media and have been since 2016.

This. US providers basically agreed to carve out little fiefdoms across the various states where they wouldn't compete with each other, which allows them to get away with worse overall quality. There's also the logistical issues of setting up network infrastructure over such long distances.

I used to joke "that Americans think 'irony' is something you do to your clothes" 😂

The award goes to a 30 year-long violent conflict called "The Troubles". Now that was a bit of argy-bargy and a rather nasty squabble.

You see it in WW2 documentaries. British vet "5 sillouettes came over th hill towards us, Let's just say one made it back"

or say “lovely outside today innit”

I always jokingly say "It's 'tropical' outside" when it's absolutely chucking it down.

The GPO was the national provider before BT, The GPO was the provider long distance for telegrams long before phones. cities and towns had tere own systems that were linked by the GPO, te GPO provided the "trunk" routes, However, the GPO also made use of an even older and more dense communications system.Tthey used the routes already in existance on the railways, one time the railway was a provider of telegram services to the public most mainstations had "Telegram Offices" where you could get off a train and send a telegram arriving at such a time, ten get back on to complete the journey. The GPO made use of the system, and any village that was near a railway line could be connected to the phone system. a lot of the BT main cable lines still follow the railways, or the path of long closed routes. the GPO began taking over the local city net works to have a common uniform system with interconnectability, the last city to hold out was Kingston upon Hull, and its phone boxes are still a cream and green trim colors. its this GPO interconnection and the railway system combined that has led to a homogenieous whole.

I used to work for a telecoms reseller. The vast majority of the lines in the UK are owned by Gamma Telecom, (under the "BT" brand - now "Openreach"). Some lines are owned by Virgin Media themselves, but only a tiny percentage. Less than 20% if I recall. So when Virgin Media charge for line rental, it's actually a BT or "Gamma Telecom" line they're just obtaining and no doubt adding £2 more onto the cost and passing it on to you.

public loos that is.

​@@mariahoulihan9483In Sweden in our homes too!

There was many years ago now, on UK Channel 4 a sports program for american football. this program showed a complete game start to finish, plus highlights from one or two more games. plus some other news about the game. tis program was about one and a half to two hours long. An american serviceman who used our local pub, used to watch the program and his comments were of surprise on the lines of how short the game was, he was used to spending a whole afternoon watching a game, and in the UK he could in effect watch two games in a vastly shorter time.

😂😂😂😂

David Attenborough

It's what his kids called their rabbit

I think he has got Edinburgh ...just the rest he has trouble with.

To be fair it's us who gets the Edinburgh wrong... it actually translates to Odin's Mountain , the same as iceburgs are ice mountains etc. Why its pronounced the same as borough today I have no idea. It's really interesting to see the origin of names and words.

@@edwardecl Hill Fort of Eidyn . Eidyn being the area around the Hill Fort and "'bruh " being an old English form for Fort . Eidyn bruh perhaps.

and "Middlesbrough", known locally as "The Boro"?

As A Scotsman we more often say it as Edin-Bu-ruh. And because we roll our 'R's is sounds better.

..and Pot Noodle!

@@avaggdu1 ahaha yeah them as well, always got to have them in the house incase food shortage

So much so that a large chunk of France was, at one point, mostly under direct control by the British and was more British than French. Even now we have quite a tense relationship with France, but mostly at this point we are just munching popcorn as it tries to tear itself down internally

​@@thevonya3977 We just enjoyed beating France.

We were having such a good time beating France we thought it would be a laugh to just keep extending the war. Ok, 100 years might have been taking the p**s a bit! 😂

@@seanhickling7340 we’re British. Taking the p is what we do best! 😁😉

​​​​@@seanhickling7340 I'm pretty sure France won the 100 years war though. The English were defeated at the Battle of Castillon if I remember correctly.

I think there may be more to this, as when we do finally, find the need to actually complain, we put 'Karens' the world over to shame but with dignity.

I think Americans complain a lot more than Britons in my experience. I saw an American woman being so rude in a restaurant in Whitby, totally unjustified. Don't you have manners? I admire the staff for being nice to her.

"Don't make a scene!" could be the national motto. Can remember once a restaurant forgetting my family's dessert and us sitting there like lemons for half an hour. When they finally came with the bill and realised they had forgotten, we shut down any attempt at an apology by insisting we were quite full and couldn't possibly have eaten dessert anyway.

A joke from 1980s South Africa: How do you know that the British Airways flight has landed? The engines have stopped but the whining continues

This is so true. I had a terrible haircut once, but she never knew I was crying when i got outside, I even tipped her!!!

I'm still a full time teapot user. 😂

But the timings of some big events are governed by commercial TV. At one time football league matches were always st 3pm on Saturdays with evening matches 7pm or 7.30pm on Wednesdays. Since the advent of Sky that has all changed.

@@Lily_The_Pink972 a curiosity this weekend a 3pm game on Saturday on tv. It was supposed to be on Sunday but got moved back because of scheduling and sky had the contract to show it.

That must have been fun to see.

Very poor long drawn out video full of repeating the same words and waffling about nothing.

Haha they think they are the best, but who sees US products in UK shops, other than junk food?

@@redboyjan that’s because there’s a lot of ingredients used in US foods that are banned from use in the uk

Yeah my Dad had that problem with forensics. He was head of SOCO. Americans do like to 'show us how it's done'

Rich tea is my favourite biscuit. Guess I am just low maintenance 😂

Wwll if theyv got rich tea im staying untill iv dunked them all. Id be offended if it wasnt a full pack. Ill dunk rick tea in a cuppa intill the tea has gone. Then go home and nake a cup of coffee. 😂😂😂

I'm from Scotland, if you have tea or coffee in my home you get a chocolate biscuit , plain biscuit or slice of cake or all three! I only invite who I want, it saves any awkwardness of having someone there you don't want. And depends if I'm in the mood for company.

@@catherinemcintosh3793 I never drink black tea nor eat biscuits routinely.. ie I don;t buy them more than twice a year...... yet I call myself British. i should hang my head in shame. I somehow survived being a Police officer..and the Service runs on tea. lol. In from the cold.. make tea.. in with a prisoner.. make tea.. in with a pile of paperwork.. make tea... I was such a maverick not to toe the party line on that one.

I think the misconception lays with how the terms 'World Wide Web' and 'Internet' began to be used synonymously in the modern world. The original Internet was a form of sending information from one specific computer to another. The World Wide Web focused on having readily receivable information accessible from any device on the network at any time, not specifically between two or more computers in a given timeframe; this is the internet we know of today. The conclusion is that without both the US and British minds the Internet we know of today would not exist. Fascinating stuff. 👍

It wouldn’t have been gifted free if they got their first.

and they cant win a war since, and always beg the UK to help them,

@@theSFCchannel Americans have never won a war on their own.

@@darrellpowell6042 Correct and still lose to most third world nations. The last time we saw them , they were running away leaving us to rescue them....as usual

@@darrellpowell6042 and how do they thank us? Routine friendly fire and funding the IRA via Noraid

The issue was taxation without representation.

So typically American. Instead of using iconography or colors to make people understand the meaning rrespective of what language they speak, they print it as a word only in their own language. Like many of their road signs, while most of the rest of the world has standardised most signs.

And that's it. Brits do not complain anywhere near as much as US Americans but when we do feel the need to complain, oh boy!

Yeah, I was having a steak in a restaurant yesterday, which is usually really good, but this time it seemed to have been out of the pan too long before it was served. When the server asked if everything was OK I said, “Um, not really, the steak’s a bit cool”; the manager came round to apologise and ask if there was anything else I’d like, but I didn’t (I’m big enough already!) so I just said “If you could knock a few quid off the bill….”. When the bill eventually arrived, the steak course was half price (so £10 off) and they’d left off the usual “optional” 10% tip. You don’t need to make a big scene, a few quiet words can have a satisfactory result.

And many of the doors swing open if not locked, so not difficult to see if they are unoccupied.

Bathrooms have baths

thats just voltage , actual power is in Amperage, that one depends on device itself, how much does it load its power supply

Its only the Chinese models that need that higher voltage for charging anyway, Samsung, Apple etc know it isn't good for battery life

@@Salfordian you are joking, right? you do know that devices (mostly electronics) use transformator (usualy internal) to convert AC to whatever DC voltage they "need" , right? you do know that there are a switching power supplies / chargers / ect that detect what AC voltage is (110V or 220V) and switch modes to still give needed DC voltage , right? also, if you use something that is made strictly for 110V AC on 220V AC then "not good" is large understatement for basically any electric device, most likely frying/damaging some components of it.

@@ciberzombiegaming8207 Sherlock the US does not have the voltage to charge a Chinese fast charge model so you need to get over it

@@Salfordian are you sure we are talking about same things? because after this response i beginning to doubt that. i am not about some specific brand or model of chargers, i am about electronics as whole, or even electrical devices in general also why you keep mentioning chinese? since ~110 V is mostly just in north and central america and japan, while ~220 V is in rest of world

Cosmos was fantastic.

Sagan is one of my all time heroes of science.

An absolute hero to me because of Cosmos. I was only 12 when it came on. Blew my mind.

VAT taxes individual items. Sales tax taxes the total cost of taxable items in a transaction at the point of sale. Sales tax 101. You take the total cost of your taxable items say $100. Say the sales tax is 6%. 100 x .06=$6.00. It's pretty basic math.

You say British Empire then dwindle it down to being england attacked?

@@Thurgosh_OG . Because there were factions in Scotland that would ally with the French. Check out the Auld Alliance.

Isn’t true. It’s just a few seconds. The problem with lower voltage you need higher current to transport the same energy. Because the higher current you need thicker wires. Americans don’t drink Thea in the amount of the Europeans .

It is thegeneration side of things the us has to have three phase power to bigger a appli 🎉anc es as 110 volt bigger appliances not viable as ohms law at110 volts is much greater amperage drawn not such a problem at 230 volts nomin al , kettles typical kettle UK is 13 amps at 230.volts .whereas at110volts. 28 amps so cable size from2.5,mm,,to ,4 ,or ,6mm

That baffled me lol they live in third world country conditions 😂

Haha , yeah I don't think it is the quantity but rather the quality.

My experience in the US is that many people just try to make the lives of servers and sales assistants miserable to make themselves feel important. It's pretty toxic and it's commonplace. When someone is moved to complain in the UK, they usually have a good reason. I had a surly Tesco delivery driver who refused to drop my groceries into the tub I leave outside for the purpose ('cos Covid and my age). Usually it's a quick transfer and he's on his way. This guy made a huge song-and-dance and insisted that I had to do it (while he stood watching with his hands in his pockets, literally). I phoned the customer services line and discussed it with the operative who agreed with me that it was unacceptable. The guy has disappeared from the route, probably fired. I should imagine I wasn't the only complainant. When somebody gets mad enough to make that call in the UK, it's usually taken seriously.

So I had that thought too, but he is not talking about complaining like in a restaurant. He’s talking about complaining to your friends, about the weather, your work, the price of the Freddo, that sort of thing.

I think its understanding the difference between complain and moaning. We are good at the latter.

@@wobaguk haha ! You might be right!

Just as we do in the UK but, of course not because of vicinity to the US but more to the this is our British version of Imperial (example, a UK pint is bigger than a US pint, 20oz, to the US 16oz) and we're not ready to let Napoleon win that battle.

@@Thurgosh_OG Canadians use the British imperial measurements as a secondary, the American pint, and Gallon are smaller, thats why metric took off as it did , standardization and accuracy of measurement , our fuel is sold by the cubic meter as gasses, Liters for liquids, etc , but a LOT of industries still use imperial inches and feet for measurements

America never adopted Imperial, they are still using the old English units. Some Canadian pubs were illegally/unlawfully using American-sized pint glasses to rip off consumers even after being told to stop, so the Fairness at the Pumps Act 2014 introduced bigger fines for using glasses that have been outlawed since 1826. Distance and weights are different to volume measures, because neither old English units or Imperial are used to define the inch/yard/pound. When America's yardstick was found to be getting shorter, America switched to defining the yard based on their meter stick. When Britain's yardstick burned in the Houses of Parliament fire, they replaced it, but eventually inverted the legal definition of the metre so that the metre defined the yard. British Standards defined the inch as 25.4mm, a definition then adopted by America followed by the Commonwealth. Eventually, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Africa created the international yard (defined as 0.9144 metres, imperceptibly longer than the Imperial yard) and the international pound (redefining the avoirdupois pound as 0.45359237 kilos, imperceptibly lighter than the "old" avoirdupois pound).

No device such as a phone, laptop or any kind of tablet charges at 110v... hence why you have the "power brick" in the middle or built into the plug, it's essentially a "step down transformer"... turning the voltage usually from either 110v or 230v (in the UK - EU harminisation in 2003 changed it from 240v to 230v supposedly not 220v as mentioned in the video - it's actually 230v), down to between 9 volts and 20 volts.

Does the USA not have that?

And often says occupied or vacant.

I think some places in the US do have that, but it's not the norm.

And, 4th of July....

@@wessexdruid7598 Oh, good point! Why is that the reverse!

I have found NO source for the UK having faster internet, but many for the opposite. Plus: I'd rather have an empire of bases than a faux ceremonial empire. 🙂

@@SilvanaDil And again fixation on the military stuff. Glad the USA citizens are so happy to pay an arm and a leg for some military landing spaces (not called an empire by the way).

@@SilvanaDil your reply says everything that I need to know about you. The main difference between our 2 countries is that Brits are not brainwashed at school to believe that they are exceptional and better than everyone else. Americans are. Its why there are all these videos by shocked Yanks finding out, other countries have better ways of living, more rights, etc. As well as the disbelief that America didn't invent everything or do everything or has everything. Brits know we aren't the greatest. We can and do laugh at ourselves. All the time. Americans are threatened if someone laughs at something American. They get angry and defensive. Brits just laugh or have some banter for fun. RU-vid has done one good thing. Its teaching Americans they aren't the end all and be all. And its something Americans really need to learn

For the Americans, this is a joke. Not a serious comment

@@CMOT101 Spot on.