American Reacts to 50 Pics That Prove The UK Is Like No Other Country! 

Nobody dies on the magic roundabout, and don't call me Shirley!!

Literally the only American on yt who has thought to use a pronunciation tool, congrats sir! 🎉

Lego is the plural of Lego.

The British invented gravity. If it wasn’t for us everyone would still be floating about Willy nilly

In the UK It’s common for construction workers to buy a newspaper. Then take a sheet of the newspaper and hide it somewhere in their construction or renovation. So others can see what date the construction happened and what happened on that day. When the property is renovated 😊 The oldest I’ve found is from August 1933 😊

Stonehenge is older than the great pyramids. We did it without the advanced alien tech.

Just staying alive in ancient Britain was probably an achievement in itself.

"there's the goose!" ...you mean a swan?

Examples of names for bread rolls UK - baps, breadcakes, teacakes, cobs, buns, barm cakes, morning rolls, burger buns, batch, and there are more. Having lived in a number of different parts of the UK, it’s amazing how many regional variations there are.

There is an ancient village in Orkney that’s older that either Stone Henge or the Pyramids. It’s called Skara Brae. It’s a small group of homes (that are still recognisable as such) that are around five thousand years old and spent centuries buried under the sand until a massive storm hit the island in 1850 and basically blew the sand dune away and uncovered it.

When starbucks introduced the idea of having your name on your cup and the barista would shout your name when your drink was ready British folk were givibg names like cuntybollocks and R. Swipe.

Considering LEGO (Never Legos) is rated for ages 10-99, Tony's got the right idea

I loved the Olympics idea of having a pub lane to show the relative speed of the top athletes. Genius.

Love your take on a British accent. I don't know anyone who talks like Dick Van Dyke 😂😂

Notes with the queen’s head on are still legal tender. When I was a boy before February 1971 when decimal currency came in, it was possible to have coins with Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI on them, as well as the queen. You help yourself to the bread and pay at the till.

Love the one from the pissed-off bus driver. had me crying with laughter.

we know Brenda Fricker for playing Daniel Day Lewis's mum in "My left foot", and winning the Oscar for best supporting actress.

The lidl backery section is self-service with plastic gloves to put on when picking your item/fill your paper bag and then pay at the counter when you're done shopping, many supermarkets have those, but Lidl seems to have one of the biggest.

I salute you (o7) for giving Leicester the respect of correct pronunciation! lol

Mate, you're an actor! Surprised you didn't recognise an Oscar, calling it an Emmy instead! 😄

As usual,I enjoyed your reaction and the video. The only slight irritation was your slight implication that the old Man bought the young guy a drink for some hidden reason. I'm 69 and when I grew up, even in London, it was a normal, , innocent thing for complete strangers to do small decent gestures like this but, sadly, through the 2024 prism, some might look for something that is not there.

Serve yourself bakery products, lift the lid and use the tongs to select and place in a free paper bag!

Stonehenge was also built way before the Pyramids. Also so was Silbury Hill and it was probably the tallest man made structure until the Great Pyramid, it's still the largest earth built mound in Europe.

Stonehenge is ~1,000 years older than the first Pyramids

Brenda Fricker starred in Casulty a British drama series set in the Accident and Emergency Department of a fictitious hospital (Holby City is also set at the same fictitious hospital)which is still running 38 years later.

That's The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, Wiltshire. It's only about 25 miles from me. I go to Swindon at least once a year. So I'm not a regular user but it's far easier than it looks. It is extremely efficient and no more dangerous than any other road junction.

I paused and laughed at that Harry Potter/Eastenders meme for much longer than I had any right to 😂😂

The wallpaper one, you read the first date as an American (it’s the 5th of December, not the 12th of May 😂) and the seconds date as a Brit 😂

The village hall one made me spit my drink, because even in Australia I've been to about 6 different venues that looked just like that

Fyi. Lego is singular and plural like sheep or bison. ☺

Brenda Fricker is best known in the UK for playing a senior nurse, in the long running BBC medical drama Casualty.

The new banknotes with Charles' face haven't been released yet 😂

Brenda Frika, some of us older Brits know that before pigeon lady, Brenda Played the supporting role alongside Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot.

There is a fish and chip shop in Sheffield called "A Salt and Battery" 😂😂

According to the company, the plural of LEGO is LEGO. They say LEGO is an adjective, the actual product being a “LEGO brick.” And adjectives don't have a singular and plural form, so it's always LEGO, never LEGOs. The plural is LEGO bricks or LEGO sets.

Ah... Swindon's "Magic roundabout"! The Top Gear guy is Jeremy Clarkson - and well done, your comment about the national anthem would be a good example of British humour! And I love the Olympics "control group" idea!

The standing stones at Stonehenge is much older than the pyramids, the top stones are about as old as the oldest pyramids - the ancient Near East is where civilisation developed, we didn’t have the same urban centres or population so you can’t expect the same complexity 😂

Decorator did the job on the 5th of December not the 12th of May (laughs!)

I have a nap most afternoons (I'm not lazy, I'm recovering from a stroke and neuro fatigue just gets to me) but I'm always happy when I wake coz I know there'll be a new JJ vid to watch. I really enjoyed today's reaction and I was cracking up at the 28,000 bmi bit (gonna be giggling at that one for weeks knowing me). My reccomendations again are;- carrot in a box and carrot in a box the rematch also the top 10 modern British bands to crack the US xx

That first picture was the famous "Magic Roundabout" in Swindon, which was introduced as an experiment at least 50 years ago.

8:30 This one reminds me of something my buddy and I did years ago at his house. We wrote "I will kill again...." on the wall with a marker pen. Then put up the wallpaper. One day, a future owner will scrape off the old wallpaper when remodelling that room and freak out 😄

The Queen's money is totally valid, as a kid in the sixties before decimal coins, I sometimes used Queen Victoria pennies, George the sixth shillings, etc. The notes get more regularly re-issued than the coins. So there are going to be lots of Queen Elizabeth the second and Charles the third coins for ages, even when the notes are all Charles the third.

17:02 "it's great that they've both transitioned" 😆😂🤣

That "Full Welsh" has grilled Cypriot Halumi on the plate! Then that is NOT a true full anywhere! That's a half Cypriot breakfast!

BTW - 5/12/97 is 5 Dec 97. Like everywhere else in the world except North America.

Right turn on red just shows what contempt Americans have for pedestrians.

lol… I’m laughing so hard because my “daughter” tonight said “can’t you just twist the biscuit wrapper like a normal person, why do you always fold it under and push it up against the wall?” 😂🤣. I can now show her this and say “see, I’m not the only one! Perfectly normal!” 🤣😂😆

I’m from Bolton in the north west and I’ve always called it a barm. I did work in a cafe for years and heard all sorts! When someone first asked for a sausage muffin it genuinely took me by surprise

The pyramids have some very complicated polygonal, interlocking stone blocks . Is more of a mystery how they were able to do that than how they would lift and place them.

Tinie Tempah is pronounced Tiny Temper, his wiki page has more on how he coined that persona.

I can beat Tony, I had my name on the Legoland birthday sign when I was 44 😁

Stonehenge was built a thousand years before the Pyramids tho, so in some ways it’s a bigger achievement.

Next time I see an American complain about the lack of ice in the UK I will point out Leicester to them. Maybe we used all the ice putting it in the middle of words where it isn't needed.

The "magic roundabout" in swindon, is actually pretty genius, you can go round it both clockwise or anticlockwise, you can also change direction part way round, if you so wish.

The best- THE BEST- random celebrity invite where they actually turned up was most definitely Queen Elizabeth going to someone's wedding. Unbeatable.

You have the same style of voice as Bob Ross (the joy of painting) very mellow, which I find quite therapeutic. Keep up the good work.

The roundabout is the magic roundabout in Swindon 😊

Bongos Bingo in Liverpool is a great night out! Love it!

The 'roundabout' is the Magic roundabout in Swindon - I used to live near it

In British English it's Lego not Legos. Otherwise, it would be Legosland!

Weirdly enough, that compound roundabout is probably fairly safe because people need to drive slowly to figure out wtf they're supposed to do, or because they are blocked by other cars.

In the UK, Lego is singular and plural, as in “sheep” . We don’t add an S to pluralise “Lego”

i like how he said 5/12/97 as may 12th, it's day first here so it's 5th December

That roundabout is actually really easy to navigate. From the air it looks complicated, but on the ground it's really efficicient and intuitive.

£17 a roll for wallpaper in 1997 was very expensive!

Someone from Lester 😂😂 here well from Northern Ireland living in Leicestershire over 20 years but imagine the accent and that of my kids ( imagine Somerset)

That roundabout is in my town of Swindon in Wiltshire UK. it's called The Magic Roundabout

Some of the names for bread rolls in the U.K. Bap, Bun, Barm, Barm Cake, Buttery, Bridie, Roll, Cob, Stottie, Batch, Teacake, Oven Bottom, Muffin, Rholyn, Morning Roll, Bread Cake, Scuffler, etc, etc.

I have news for you. The Muffin or English muffin if you prefer to call it has been around since AT LEAST 1703. (that’s 73 years before America tore itself free from English colonialism). I don’t know where someone got the idea the English muffin was invented in the United States? There’s even an old English song “Do you know the muffin man” penned around 1820. According to Wikipedia (which must be wrong) they were invented by an Englishman who emigrated from Plymouth in 1874 .. I think NOT. I suspect someone is getting muddled up with the origins of the (American) Sweet muffins which were invented by some English bloke in America called Thomas in 1880 & the English muffin.

all these years i thought Tinie Tempah was American and after watching this video i never knew he was British, i am also British

You do know that Kirkbi co. (Lego) are coming after you right. They have stated time and again, LEGO is an adjective there is no singular or plural term it is simply Lego, Lego bricks or Lego sets, but never Legos.

04:38 No, I imagine Tony loves LEGO! No “s”! Lego is an adjective not a noun and hence cannot be pluralised save for those with a cricket’s understanding of the English language!!! 12:30 You’ll find a lot of chip shops have great pun names- The Codfather, The Frying Squad (a very British one- the “flying squad” is a particular department of the Metropolitan police that deals with robberies and serious organised crime), Prawnbrokers, A Fish called Rhonda, Codrophenia (google the film Quadrophenia), Salt and Battery (a pun on assault and battery), A Salt and Battered (same as the last), the fat fryer (better if you see the sign- a Franciscan monk), Codfellas, the Codmother, Frying Nemo, Frydays, Oh my cod!, the Town Fryer (a pun on the town cryer, a historical job), The Almighty Cod, Plaice Station (police station), For Your Fries only (for Bond fans), Codswallop, Friendchips, The Frying Scotsman (flying Scotsman), Salty Towers (Fawlty Towers TV show- Itself a pun name), The Star Chip Enterprise, Battersea Cod’s Home (a pun on Battersea Dog’s Home- a dog shelter charity) and Phil’s Yer Tum! 15:48 Baps are also slang for a ladies chest, case you were wondering!

Love your reactions JJ, keep 'em coming.

As a Brit of a certain age, I mostly remember Brenda Fricker from Casualty - I think the closest US comparison to the show I can make is ER.

You might like to take a look at Knap of Howar on the Scottish island of Orkney. It's older than the pyramids and even older than Stonehenge. It's someone's house rather than a place of burial or worship.

We have a similar one in Hemel Hempstead. Easy to use when you know how

At 13:50, the LIDL's bakery are self service hatchways with tongs to select what you want.

In the midlands, we call bread rolls "cobs"

Bread rolls are also known as Barm Cakes, Bun, Cob, Muffin, Tea Cake, Batch, but bread roll is the most popular

Stonehenge's stones were transported from South Wales, plus unlike the Ancient Egyptians, they didn't have the Nile to sail them, to the site on a barge. All done with man power, rolling and levering, so weak...I don't think so.

The roundabout is in Swindon and is known as the Magic Roundabout.

Before Legoland Windsor it’s like nowadays, it was originally WINDSOR SAFARI PARK..used to go there a lot as a kid growing up in the town.. a little bit of local history 😊

There's a Thai noodle restaurant in Chelsea, London, called Phat Phuck( for the uneducated, in English PH is pronounced as F)

The Magic Roundabout layout actually reduces accidents at that intersection. It's pretty easy to navigate, really.

I was confused for a moment when I misheard one of your comments! The pic of the man in a wheelchair, you said "that's dark" - I heard "that's duck", and was thinking no, that's a flamingo!? 🤣

I have used that round about a few times. It's quite safe actually. It works like this.. It's so confusing that people engage their brains and pay attention. My favourite technique is speed and aggression.

A touch of sarcasm from the lad who was bought a pint for passing his driving test , might be over the limit for drink driving and lose his licence .

The washing machine made me think of my parents' microwave. I am 39 years old. They owned it before I was born. They still use it. All their other appliances are modern and fairly new but their Toshiba microwave continues to heat food as safely and efficiently as it did in 1983. It will outlast us all.

Ancient Egypt - The weather is fairly constant but the river runs low sometimes, lets build grand architecture for future generations to see. Ancient England - For half the year there is no food and often it gets so cold that water goes hard and becomes undrinkable, lets build a great monument to predict the weather and grow the food we need to survive! Humans lived easily in Africa for over a quarter of a million years, humans lived in deadly conditions of the UK for 20,000 years and we still built Stonehenge before the Egyptians built the Pyramids! Small and weak my arse, if they had any strength they would have colonised the world before we even existed!

I'm a bit envious, my local Lidl bakery department permanently looks like it's just the few old things they couldn't sell last week.

T cakes, baps, bread rolls, barn cakes, bread cakes, muffins, it’s bloody mental it changes every four miles.

So glad I found your channel 😊

The whole bread-roll thing.. you could probably make a whole video based purely on the variety of different names that different regions have for bread rolls. Could be quite long, depending on how in-depth it gets!

I have to say (and I'm from England) that when you said "Give me a tube of Salt 'n' Vinegar Pringles and I'm a happy boy...", I gasped! This evening, I've been eating none other than... Salt 'n' Vinegar Pringles - in a tube!

The blue stones at Stonehenge were quarries 150 miles away in the Welsh mountains, so there is far more to the site than its final assembly. Plus, it's part of a far faster ritual landscape.

I love your site and you say what you think about our England, but quite politely.

bread rolls have more than 2 names: bap, cob, teacake, breadcake, oven bottom, batch, bun, roll, morning roll, barm, bara, softie, barmcake, stotty, muffin and scuffler

The only thing about 'English Muffins' invented in the US is the name. Here we just call them muffins - and did for several hundred years, before an immigrant from Devon started using his mum's recipe, in NYC, in 1874. And no, they're NOT crumpets.

FFS America, the plural of LEGO is LEGO. LEGOS is *not* a word, and the rest of the world gets this.

You say Brenda Fricker to me and I think of My Left Foot, not Home Alone 2.