Now JJ, the Map Men are going to be very disappointed that you've forgotten everything they taught you about pronouncing British place names a few months ago!
At one place that I worked at there was a collection for a member of staff who was retiring, the collector said "The more you give the sooner he goes".
🤣 Gloucester pronounced Glosster. Leicester is Lester. Newquay = Newkey. Price reducer protective barrier, people are so keen to get the reduced price items that they will jostle staff and other customers ! So barrier means staff can do all reductions on the items and then let the customers have access.
The price reducer is a member of staff who re-prices the items which are due to expire that day to a much lower price (to encourage their sale). Ordinarily they are surrounded by bargain hunting shoppers who give nothing but grief and who ignorantly block the aisles.
@@BinnyBongBaron_AoE They do, which is why it is really sh!tty behaviour when people are aggresive and obnoxious and trying to snatch things off other people, push people out the way etc. I mean, that is appalling behaviour anyway, but often the people who'd most benefit from being able to pick up some decent food for a bargain are unable to actually get any of the good deals, especially when it is elderly people, or people with disabilities who are shoved out by robust working age people.
Even as a Brit, I had to Google the Cowdenbeath mystery puddle because I hadn't a clue what it meant! It seems to be a Scottish local news story about a mystery puddle that appeared in the town of Cowdenbeath, and a particular councillor who was doggedly determined to discover its cause. Apparently, he initially thought the cause was a leak of waste products from the production of pineapple juice at a local dairy - it transpired that it wasn't. Absolutely gripping stuff in British local news.
The important thing about Jack the Chipper is that being located in Whitechapel London it is located in the neighborhood Jack the Ripper carried out his murders.
About the Tesco ad for pubs, when you mentioned that you'd never see something like that in the US. it reminded me of a former colleague, who'd worked at a company in Dublin Ireland, that was taken over by a US company. A few weeks before Christmas, the new owners sent a memo giving the date and venue for the traditional company Christmas dinner. Except ,that year, added to the time, date & location was the notice "We cannot condone alcohol abuse, so consumption of alcohol is strictly prohibited at the event, anyone having consumed alcohol before the event, will not be permitted access and those consuming alcohol at the event will face disciplinary action." So for the event, there was a live stream to the US and several members of management from the US flew in. On the night the management were waiting at the door to meet the staff as they arrived... and they waited, and waited.... it turned out the staff had booked an alternate venue for their own Christmas party. The managers had booked a conference centre, Dj and catering for nearly 200 guests, and less than two dozen (all management) turned up. Apparently the live stream was funny to behold, as the camera showed the empty venue and furious management and awkward looking caterers and Dj.
Considering how many Americans describe themselves as "Irish", organizing an alcohol-free Christmas party IN F*KING IRELAND is a special kind of stupid.
The Tesco ad went up shortly after covid restrictions were lifted and people were still hesitant to visit pubs and clubs. A TV Ariel is what Americans call an antenna, not a satellite dish. I guess that is how we spell licence, when it's used as a noun.
The price reducer is discounting the prices in a discount section of the store. The barrier has been put there to protect them from being stampeded by shoppers eager for bargins while they work 🙂
The Tesco price reducer picture, is a thing to witness when you go shopping. Vultures waiting for staff to put reduced price products on shelves. Chaos.😅
Licence is spelt with the second C in English. Gloucester is pronounced Gloster. Leicester is pronounced Lester. Newquay is pronounced Newkey. And yes there are 100 pence in a pound. Hope that helps, excellent content as always!
@@keithrn9447 ENGLISH spelling enables the reader to trace the etymology/roots of a word. Unlike the USA, all other English speaking countries like Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Commonwealth countries for whom English is their 2nd language spell English properly. Unfortunately, I cannot get the option, on RU-vid, to choose British English
I don't know if people still refer to the big orange glass bowl on top of the Zebra Crossing pole, kerbside, as the Belisha Beacon, so named after the Minister of Transport donkey's years ago! I just remembered this , no need to ask google!
I think Jack the Chipper is a fine name! I get my hair cut in a barbershop called Sweeney Todds 😂 also Gloucester is pronounced Gloster (rhymes with foster) and Leicester is prounced Lester (rhymes with fester) 😉
Sitting in the front seat on the top row of a double decker bus is the best extreme thrill you could have without the risk of dying. Have you ever seen James Cameron's 'Titanic?' You know that scene where Rose is standing on the front bow with her arms out and yelling "I'm FLYING, Jack?" Riding at the front of a double-decker bus is the dry-land version of that.
That feeling on top deck when the bus turns but the top has that tiny delay feeling of turning, so you think you’re gonna keep going and hit something, usually the double decker in front! My youngest calls it the space ship.
Benches in the UK often have plaques or engravings on them commemorating someone's life after they passed away, this could be in their favourite park, the cemetary, a nature reserve that kind of place, that bench was commemorating him whilst hes still alive and he uses the bench, loved the glad your leaving one too, that is us brits to a tee, we take the rip out of each other something chronic and its all in good humour... well mostly 🤣, thanks for another interesting video hun p.s. Gloucester is pronounced Gloster 😀
Once got a very good friend a leaving gift that was a giant cookie that said, 'Hope you choke on it, Bitch'. It was taken in the spirit it was given and we all had a good giggle!
When I was newly married we rented a place in London and we got cards asking why we had no TV licence. The first one, we wrote on it, Because we don't have a dog. (In those days you needed a licence for a dog). The next one we burnt out all the "o"s in the text. And so on defacing these little cards. We even set out our room to look as though we had removed a telly. Eventually there was a knock on the door, and two gentlemen were outside. "We have no record of a TV licence at this address" "I'll give you three guesses why not" I said. They got it in one. We never had to continue with our charade, sadly. it would have been fun. Incidentally when we did get a television we did pay our licence as we prefer not to watch advertisements the odd times we do watch it.
That's how we spell licence in the uk, it's not wrong just different. NewQuay is pronounced Newkey, there is one in Wales in the place called Cardigan bay, but there is also a Newquay in Cornwall (not in wales) too.
Only when used as a noun, ans spelt license when it's a verb, as in the sentence below. _"Before learning to drive, you apply for a provisional driving *licence*, but the DVLA must *license* you to drive."& Edit. Spelling correction
@@Rachel_M_ oh yeah i forgot the verb and noun spelling lol, btw i'm from the uk and know how to get a licence when learning to drive. Doesn't really matter how its spelt when you learning tho and most will spell it as licence.
2:58 its worth pointing out that an ariel and satellite dish arent the same thing to what hes referring to. an arial receiver will be on mostly every home built since the 70#s they are typically mounted on the chimney stack which is right at the top of the house on the roof where as satellite dish receivers will mostly be mounded on the side of buildings typically on the second. but yea one is a dish for satellite the other is like a steel rode with multiple prongs at certain length intervals that come out of both sides either in a + shape or just horizontally
@@DJF1947It's true that most houses since the 1950s have had television aerials but to my knowledge houses were not built with aerials before the 70s - they were always retrofitted, regardless of whether houses were new or centuries old. Not all televisions could operate with the same aerial as many people held onto their VHF 405 lines sets (such as our household with its H-shaped aerial) whilst others had the newer UHF 625 lines sets that could receive BBC2 (with the more modern-looking aerial).
@@MrBulky992 I have never heard of aerials being part of the building process; there are still plenty of aerial-installing shops around. OTOH, I have often thought that - with aerials becoming increasingly obsolete - someone with a van, ladders and a head-for-heights could make a good living by removing them. Not only would he be paid for the service, he would also have lots of scrap aluminium to sell.
Gloucester - Gloster Leicester - Lester Newquay, Cornwall - Newkey (I live there) It was where they filmed part of the 1990 The Witches here.(There is also New Quay in Wales) Towan -Town
I love that you stop to check up on facts while watching. My suggestion on place name pronunciations would be to have the Cambridge Dictionary website open in another tab. You can then click to hear both an English and American voice saying them. We don't make it easy with our place names - but to be fair, for a long time, whenever I heard Pensacola, Florida I actually thought it was Pepsi-Cola - I figured that was probably where it was made - and no, I'm not joking, sadly.🙃
The americans called theirs ATM because their banks have tellers. We call ours Cashpoints because our banks have Cashiers. (And as we invented cashpoints I think that’s a win,full stop.)
At the start of your video, the dashund on top of the thatched roof is actually made of thatch itself. Many of the thatchers do this as part of their work. There's a pub in Knutsford, Cheshire (The Bear), which is thatched, and has a cat which is also thatched.
Here in the UK, a TV Licence is required to watch any broadcast channel and the BBC's on-demand service. Broadcast TV is usually picked up through an aerial similar to the one on the chimney behind the roof dog in the first part of your video, though some have them in the attic or none at all due to using cable/satellite.
pub numbers may be declining as a whole but dont let that make you think tens of thousands of pubs arent still insanely packed out all across the country every week haha.
The chalk drawing of the man on the hill is actually really interesting. He's called the cerne Abbas Giant and people have been maintaining him for like 1000 years or something. There's a horse one too.
well, I googled it to make sure my facts were correct and it said they're unsure just how old cerne giant is but could have been made between 700 and 1200 CE so...?@@libradragon934
5:00 That's Wallace & Grommit. They're iconic in Britain, much loved and the films have won multiple Oscars. They have loads of silly british humour and lots of little jokes, puns etc, going on in the background. That's a scene form the first film which was made on a tiny budget so not as good as the later ones, though it still won an Oscar. I'd recommend watching the next ones:The Wrong Trousers, A close Shave, A Matter of Loaf & Death and the Feature length film Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Aardman Animations has also made a number of other films such as Chicken Run, Flushed Away (with Pixar), The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, Arthur Christmas, Early Man and some Shaun the Sheep adventures aimed more at young children. Shaun first appears in a Close Shave.
Mark Radcliffe is a beloved radio dj who was treated for testicular cancer some years back. He presents a weekend breakfast show with Stuart Maconie on 6 Music, it’s very good, was listening just before I watched this video.
When you try Marmite, spread it in a thin smear; so that you can see through it. My son, when he was Very young, put it on like chocolate spread - fiercely indigestible. 'Leicester' is Lester, 'Newquay' is Newkey. 🙂
The "Price Reducer" is the employee who is putting the reduced price stickers on the near-dated stock. There can be a sizeable crowd of would be purchasers of the cheap bargains and the employee can be pushed out of the way so that the an over-eager individual can get the cheaper item before anybody else can get to it!
Crows really are the most intelligent birds. In my tree in the garden, they see me in the kitchen and know......... So there is, usually pigeons, sparrows, starlings (s), and Crows. I emerge a few yards into the garden and quickly throw bread on my kitchen roof with a flat top. While the pigeons flap their wings,the starlings flee and the sparrows do not move, the Crows, instantly, leave the tree and swoop onto my kitchen roof, and within,I can hear them above me.
At 14:20, The 'special offer' is that the 3 x .30pence fudges individually would come to £0.90, where as the Special offer is x3 fudges for £1.00, which is more expensive.
Hi. The stop motion movie is from a TV show called Wallace, the human, and Gromit, the dog. They love cheese and decided to fly to the moon because there’d be loads of cheese there., the place is made of cheese isn't it? Their shows, and films, have led to a great response in the sales of Wensleydale cheese in the UK. Their films are run by Aardman Animations, a Bristol based company. Their great films are Chicken Run 7 the Curse of the Ware-Rabbit. Great films for all the family, especially the kids. Locally we have a chip shop called “A Fish Called Wanda” in the Rhondda Valley.
I LOVE the name Jack the Chipper! I hope it's located in White Chapple lol. I like places with funny names. Saw a hairdressers once called "Curl Up and Dye". And there's an Indian Takeaway/Restaurant near where I live with a sign saying "Try our curries - you'll never get better" - not sure if they're in on the joke with that sign or not, but I laugh every time I see it.
There's a driving instructor here called Samuel Jackson. He's put the 'L' plate on the roof-mounted sign between the two names so that it reads "Samuel L Jackson". Clever.
Thank you SO much for mentioning dogs being tied up outside, being made to wait - but the dog doesn't have a clue why he's beeb left there. You can see the anxious look on their faces every tines someone walks out, but it's not their owner 😥
Crows really are the most intelligent birds. In my tree in the garden, they see me in the kitchen and know......... So there is, usually pigeons, sparrows, starlings (s), and Crows. I emerge a few yards into the garden and quickly throw bread on my kitchen roof with a flat top. While the pigeons flap their wings,the starlings flee and the sparrows do not move, the Crows, instantly, leave the tree and swoop onto my kitchen roof, and within,I can hear them above me.
At 4.11 the party food is for little children so his mum still thinks he and his friends are about 7 or 8 - imagine if you turned up at a manly sports event with that instead of beer . Well meaning but embarrassing mum joke. The presenter’s voice is really soothing btw
A TV Licence is required if you own a TV or other equipment (like a PC with a TV receiver card) capable of receiving domestic digital broadcast frequencies, whether or not you watch them. It also applies if your TV is able to watch On demand services from the domestic channels. The aerial is the kit that can pick up domestic broadcast frequencies (VHF, all digital these days since the switchover).
Towards the end of each day supermarkets reduce the price of food close to its sell by date is reduced. People wait for the stickers to go on and literally fight over the best offers.
A nan is what the brits call a grandmother. His nan packed him a lunch full of food that roths teeth for him to eat while waiting for a dentist appointment.
My plan is to have the Stones "Start me up " as my last song as I'm put into the fire. It will either piss some off or laugh, either way I think its funny.
In "proper" English, licence is a noun and license is a verb. See also practice and practise. Pretty sure that "eurotunnel" image is Kelly Tarlton's Sealife Aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand. The big chalk carving is called the "Giant (or Rude Man) of Cerne Abbas". It's in southwest England and is at least 400 (and possibly over 1000) years old. Repeat after me: GLOS-tuh, LES-tuh, NEW-key :)
Went to visit the Verge Abbas Giant a few years back. There was a newly married couple running about inside the figure. Still in their wedding clothes!
Jack the Ripper also worked in Whitechapel.Pronounced Gloster (Gloucester) and Lester (Leicester). Remember the British pint is larger than the US pint, (US pint = 16 fluid ounces, British pint = 20 fl oz. 25% larger)
The US fluid ounce is larger than the UK (or "Imperial") fluid ounce. Hence a US pint is 16.665348 UK fl.oz, or 83.267418464% of a UK pint at 20 fl.oz (Imp.)
@@gavmusic I was trying not to be too pedantic, just comparative. It doesn't change the fact that a US gallon is 3.78L compared to 4.54 for the UK gallon.
Price reduction on perishable items that are almost out of date usually happen at about the same time on the same day in UK supermarkets. The price reducers are often hampered in their task by shoppers eager for a bargain. Protective strategies are a silent request for patience. LOL. Cheers.
My girlfriend thought you were still talking about Rick Astley when you said "He seems like he has a heart of gold. […]This little guy has come to visit me every night for the past 2 weeks" 😂
He's talking about a UHF tv broadcast aerial , they've been around since the 60s . Whilst many have satellite and cable channels the basic standard is broadcast tv for which you need a licence .
Tv aerials are what we had before satellite dishes. It took places like the UK & where I live Australia longer to get them so they were still common until the late 90s, early 00s when foxtel came over.
1) There are 100 pence in 1 pound (we’ve been decimal since 1971) so yes, equivalent to cents and dollars. Pence is an antique form of the plural pennies, so five pence but one penny. As you said, the supposed promotional offer would cost more than 3 bars bought individually. 2) Yes, the Map Men told you that -cester at the end of (most) place names is just pronounced as -stuh. Doctor Foster rhymes with Gloucester, fester with Leicester etc. The word ‘quay’, a wharf built parallel to the shore, is pronounced like ‘key’ (in Britain and the US!) so Newquay is pronounced ‘NYOO-key’. It’s in Cornwall. Towan is derived from Cornish (Celtic), and means ‘sand dunes’. Points for saying ‘York-shush’ though👌 3) British English spelling differentiates between noun and verb in these words: practice/practise and licence/license. Also offence (noun) but offensive (adjective). So someone licensed to watch TV would have a TV licence. TV aerials are NOT satellite dishes, they’re those old-fashioned looking metal antennae seen on rooftops. 4) Yes, ‘Jack the Ripper’ operated in the Whitechapel area of London. Definitely not Whitehall!
Aerial is an antenna, which might still be on a roof if you no longer have a TV. . Not a satellite dish which you pay for and have installed only if you have a TV. In the UK you have to pay for and have a TV license from the BBC to watch TV if you have a TV.
That is how you spell licence - in real English 🙂 Your sense of humour is quite different, isn't it. I laughed at most of these, and you didn't seem to get most of them. We have lollipop ladies in Australia (or lollipop men!)
The quay part of UK place names is pronounced like key. Newquay = Newkey. Torquay = Torkey. Places ending in ster typically lose a few letters in pronunciation. Gloucester = Gloster. Leicester = Lester. Worcester = Wooster. The pronunciation has evolved over the centuries, so we wouldn’t expect outsiders to know that the pronunciation doesn’t match the spelling.
“Pop to your local if you can”. That’s an ad for Tesco local. Tesco is not telling people to go to their local pub. Lol😂 and “every little helps” is tescos slogan.
Our aerials are typically a directional aerial group aimed at the local TV broadcast tower. While there are satellite dishes these are far less ubiquitous than the terrestrial aerials.
in the UK at the moment you are required to have a Licence to INSTALL Television receiving equipment ie Television,Video Recorder or anything with a tuning device its an Urban myth that you only need a Licence to watch BBC. Suggest anyone who disagrees reads the back of a licence.
the chalk hill figure the National Trust is touching up,is the Cerne Abbas Giant. A lot of people think it's ancient,but it was done in the 1700's .PS My friend, it's Gloucester as 'GLOS-STER and Newquay,as NEW-KEY
The 'price reducer' is the person whos job it is to reduce the price on perishable products about to go out of date. They are all put in the same place on the shelf as a first come, firsr served thing. The barrier is to stop customers literally snatching whatever it is out of his hand or off the shelf before anyone else has a chance.
In British English, Canadian English, Irish English, Australian English, South African English, and New Zealand English the noun is spelt licence and the verb is license. The spelling licence is not used for either part of speech in the United States
