American Reacts to 50 Pics That Prove The UK is Unlike Any Other Country 

To quote a former Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, "We don't think of the British as foreigners. We think of them as very strange Norwegians"

"Are seagulls a thing in some parts of the UK?" You have no idea mate

The brits have always been known as eccentric, and I think we are proud of it

A notice outside a fortune tellers tent in Whitby in the 90s. "Closed due to unforeseen circumstances". True story.

We don't fight over the front seat of the bus, but there is no feeling like getting it. Then you can imagine you are driving the bus. We are a nation of big kids, puddle splashers and snowball fighters. Age is just a number.

UK sarcasm/humor at it's best

Seagulls are the skinheads of the skys and your pronunciation of Gloucester is adorable

17:00 = 5 p.m. in what you Americans call military time - just normal time to us Brits expressed either way. We stole baked beans from you Americans and we are not giving them back.

Here in Germany we have 4 different bins: blue for paper, yellow for plastic, green for bio waste and grey for the rest. They are emptied on different days, so in every street there is usually a person who is up to date with the pattern of emptying dates. Thats the binfluencer. :)

Colin the caterpillar was the original - Cuthbert is a clone

I'm from Northumberland, nice to see it represented! Beautiful place and a great tourist choice for people who prefer peace and quiet combined with a lot of natural beauty.

Different names for bread rolls is a rabbit hole you probably don't want to go down...

There's an old song called "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun." i.e. We're a nation of eccentrics and proud of it!😁

after our lockdown we learnt allowed to drink in pubs you had to be outside, it was pouring but didn't put me off I went with brolly ordered a beer, went in to buy another but was told that 6 people had bought me a beer, that's us British we do mad things

Yep we have a British sense of humour, we can find a reason to laugh at anything. I think it's because of the weather, because we have so much rain we have to cheer our selves up somehow.

" as an American beans freak me out" You're countrymen invented them and we're very glad you did

My bindicator is to see what everyone else does 😂 Usually the more mature residents on the street know whats happening

The bonus of drinking in the rain is a never ending pint, however the taste does diminish

We have 7 different bins (not by choice). At this point it's more like a hobby than just dealing with rubbish :(

In the UK we recycle 70 - 80 % of all our rubbish/garbage where it's more like 30% in the US. We often have multiple rubbish wheelie bins which are different colours to denote what you should put in that particular bin. We also have boxes too. For example in my area there are three bins. A red bin for cardboard and plastic recycling, a brown bin for garden waste such as lawn cuttings and then a green bin for general waste. But then there are stacker boxes for things like glass jars and tin/soda cans. Different rubbish/garbage trucks will come around each week. Eg, one week they come empty my green bin and boxes, the next week they come and empty my red and brown bins. The idea behind this system is that all the rubbish/garbage is pre sorted by the public at your home before pickup which makes it easier for it be recycled.

Actually the original book 'The Birds' by Daphne DuMarrier was about Seagulls Hichcock changed it to Crows.

The two guys sitting in the rain reminds me when I once saw two women having coffee outside in snow. They were sitting at a table which had an inch of snow on it, chatting and having coffee. I suspect they were only able to smoke outdoors.

A lot of that stuff is unusual in the UK thats why it was photographed

British seagulls are huge in comparison to what most people in the states are used to. They will grab small dogs and eat them. And being an island, there's a lot of them. And a barm is basically just like a burger bun. Every area of the UK has a different term for it and barm is from the north west. Cobs, breadcakes, butties, etc.

Hahah that sinkhole with the Dino's was near me.. in Flackwell Heath, Buckinghamshire. A sink hole appeared in the street outside some shops and was there for years before it was repaired.

I just said to my wife yesterday that Americans can't read the 24 hour time/clock and Tyler just proved it at 8:14 minutes in

In most European countries we do recycling on a very serious scale. Paper, plastic, metal, glass in different colours, and kitchen waste all necessitate their own bin.

I’m in the uk and I once took a lightbulb with me when buying a replacement table lamp for one I broke. So as to make sure I got a lamp that fits the same bulb. So the bread and toaster scenario seems pretty practical and sensible to me 😂👏

Generally when you register a brand new vehicle a registration number plate is issued, you do not get a choice. Generally a vehicle in the UK retains the registration number for its whole life.

Waitrose is the fancier pricier supermarket. Stands to reason the buskers are a bit more middle class. 😂

Am I the only one who laughed at the long chip /size of potato one? 😅

During the pandemic, I went to my friends house, we sat in the back garden whilst it snowed, under an umbrella, eating mexican food. Most British moment of my life.

Seagulls in the UK are huge , They eat fish and marine and freshwater invertebrates, both alive and already dead; insects and earthworms; rodents, eggs, carrion, offal, reptiles, amphibians, seeds, fruit, human refuse, and even other birds.

What HAS my mother been up to in Tunbridge Wells?! 😂😂 Oh that made me laugh. And the mobile home overtaking the boat says all u need to know about Cornwall which is where the A30 is & where I live - frankly peak Cornwall was a tractor towing a caravan at which point I was like 🤦🏻‍♀️. The ‘house’ is a mobile home/static caravan heading for one of the many many holiday parks around the Cornish coastline. X

At times, your reactions really make me smile. Yes, this really was a case of meet the English. And.... erm yep, we really are like this. Old forgotten mines and quarries...sinkholes. And yeah, everything else too. Your reaction was worth seeing.

In Britain we tend to have 4 bins: 1 for general waste, 1 for plastic, metal and glass, 1 for paper and cardboard and 1 for garden waste. Bin people collect different rubbish from different bins on different days and it depends on where you live

Pie on a barm is known as a 'wigan kebab' were i'm from, gotta be a good pie though with plenty of filling for it to work, none of that pound bakery shite

17:00 is 5 o’clock pm in adult writing.

England's greatest contribution to the world - the full English Breakfast. Included at all B&Bs. Sausages, eggs, bacon, fried tomatoes, beans, ham, toast, muffin, coffee or tea, and anything else you can get on the plate. Lets you skip lunch and go for a pint instead. Sarnie and crisps at sixes. What a way to live. I just love it.

11:20 - can we also admire the fact that at least one of them came to the pub on his cycle.

Bin colours vary by council region, where I am in Staffordshire, blue bin is recycling, black is general waste and non recyclables, green is garden waste (grass trimmings etc) and purple is paper and cardboard 😊 the principle is the same across the UK, just different colours for different places

Here in leeds we have 3 bins 1 general waste 1 for recycling and 1 for garden waste

The "house on a car" is in fact a caravan/mobile home being transported on a lorry !! The boat is being towed by a car !! We have different coloured wheelie bins for recycling, non recycling and garden waste. Waitrose is the high end grocery store in the UK. Seagulls can be vicious !! They pinch your chips at the seaside ! GLOUCESTER is pronounced GLOSTER. BEANS, BEANS....GOOD FOR THE HEART. THE MORE YOU EAT....THE MORE YOU FART. THE MORE YOU FART....THE MORE YOU EAT. THE MORE YOU....SIT ON THE TOILET SEAT . For all you Americans out there. 17.00 = 5 o'clock. TUBE is pronounced CHOOB not TOOB ! LEIGH is pronounced LEE. BARM is one of the many names for a bread roll in the UK.

Where I live in the UK, we have 4 different bins to put out: general waste, recycling, food waste and garden waste

One funny sign i will always remember from many years ago a shoe repairs shop had a sign... Shoes repaired while you wait on one side of the doorway and continued on other side to say open all day Saturday only the open was missing and it was never replaced. So if your prepared to wait all day on a Saturday.......thats just fine 😂

I'm a Brit.. Baked Beans freak me out too.. Also can confirm we are rather random..

We have four bins. A waste bin, a recycling bin, a food waste bin and a garden waste bin. They all go out on different days in the month.

Hahaha, my sister lives in the village where the dinosaur protest occurred over the forgotten sinkhole. They sorted it out eventually, but for ages it was just fenced off.

10:44 Even more exciting on a route with a low bridge!

The UK is an island, seagulls (mostly herring gulls - the rest aren't as obnoxious) are a big thing most places here, they are the flying trash panda anywhere near the coast (and even some inland areas). They are also pretty big and quite aggressive, my workplace has a local one the muggs people coming out the nearby supermarket.

It’s a play on the film “The Land That Time Forgot” which was a land survivors from a ship hit by a German submarine stumble upon a mystical which still had dinosaurs & Neanderthals. That’s why they’ve also put blow up dinosaurs there 😂

How about putting the video on the main screen and your reactions on the smaller one because some people may not have seen the video before?

We have household, recycling and garden waste bins, some areas have separate glass and paper waste bins depending on the local recycling facilities One or two places even have smaller food waste bins. We also have council recycling centres where bulk household waste can be taken and dumped into skips (US = dumpsters). Waitrose is a chain of British supermarkets. Gloucester, pronounced 'Gloster'. The only time I've seen a 'Cuthbert' cake is on US reaction videos. A barm is a name for a bread bun in some parts of the North in Britain.

We have 4 bins.House rubbish,garden waste, recycling and food 😸🇬🇧 We are an island,we have Seagulls everywhere.

Brighton was famous for its mods and rockers and huge meet ups along the beach in the summer .

Tyler _ you should check out the notices at underground (tube) stations

A few of these cracked me up..I think my favourite was the sky diving Cuthbert 🤣🤣

The comment about the chips is so touching !

Brighton is in the south of England ,many who cant afford London property prices live in Brighton and commute to work

The UK has a lot of regional slang to refer to "Bread Rolls". Where I am they're called Cobs. Baps is also common. Barm is the Manchester slang.

Here in South Yorkshire we have a pink lid bin for general household waste, black bin for glass/tin/plastics, green bin for paper & card and a Brown bin for garden waste. Colin and Cuthbert are caterpillar cakes made by supermarkets Aldi and Marks & Spencer, Marks & Spencer accused Aldi of stealing their idea... Different areas in the UK have many different names for the same thing a barn is I think what Americans call a bun here they are barns, baps, bread cakes, tea cakes, cobs and many others.

Two quick ones : Northumberland when you say it don’t emphasise the “a” so basically Northumberlund, I have notice US people do emphasise internal letters in place names etc. try smoothing the words out so they are easier to say! The A30 is the main non motorway road from Cheltenham to Oxford on the map. The four lane road is called a dual carriageway and not a major Motorway. OK? Cheers Aah Kid!

The way he pronounced “Gloucester” … bless 😅

"Glouchester", Pronounsed Gloster. "Leigh" pronounced Lee

The BINDICATOR is useful because in the UK there is a set bin schedule you have a green bin that pay for and you put grad clipping or branches basically any plant waste, then we have the food bin for food waste a small bin for food waste only, the usual black bin for all general waste and then of course you have recycling and it can be: food bin green bin and recycling one week and black bin and food the next so if you miss one you’ll have to wait 2 weeks for it to be collected next orrrr you call the council and they have a missed bins line but that’s usually only meant for closed roads or the dustman has not spotted your bin out but most people call when they have put it out way too late and they have already been… but yes bindicator is needed for this

Seagulls are part of most UK towns, I think. We live in a city far from the seaside and we are still “blessed” with the daily noise of their laughs and cries 😅

On the bin/trash we have a lot of recycling collections so a lot of bins. My council have a black bin for unrecyclables, then a green bin for garden waste, a food bin for compostables and a smaller one for the kitchen, a tub for glass, and two bags, one for paper and one for plastic and metal. I’m all for recycling but having seven bins is a bit of a pain. 😂 Hence the way of knowing what gets collected when.

We have a bin for general household waste black We have a bin for nappies and medical waste or adult incontinence pads We have a bin for plastic, paper, card, fabric, bottles, cans, recycling its green We have a bin for garden waste trimmings, weeds, prined shrub pieces.ĺts brown. Different bins are emptied in different days Garden waste is taken and turned into compost and residents can purchase it from the council .

Barm, is like a bread roll, but the dough bakes slightly firmer than a soft roll.

The slice of bread I assume was to try for size in the toasters. There are very different sizes of toaster and bread slices. Sometimes the bread doesn't fit. You can end up with the bread wedged where you force it in or you have to toast one end then turn it round to toast the other end , it's very annoying. Clever idea taking it to try.

UK bins: week 1 - Normal household bin, week 2 - garden waste bin and recycling bin. This repeats every other week. Each bin has wheels and are different colours. Easiest way of keeping track is sticking your head out and checking what the neighbours have done.

Waitrose is a high end supermarket here in the UK where you buy groceries from at usually a higher price compared to other grocery stores.

03:28 it depends in the area but generally, most UK councils have a recycling/refuse programme. In my own area (Lancashire in the North West England area), we have 3 wheels bins, ‘blue’, ‘red’, ‘green’, ‘grey’; the blue bin is for paper and cardboard and is emptied every 2 weeks, the red bins are for glass/plastic bottles/jars as well as aluminium cans and aerosol cans, again emptied every 2 weeks, green bins are for garden clippings from trees/shrubs/grass and vegetable peelings from the kitchen these are emptied every 2 weeks in the same day as blue bins but different wagons, and finally the grey bins are for anything that can’t go in any of the other bins so polythene packaging, cooked food/meat waste, household cleaning and sanitary waste, broken items from the house that are small but not electrical. A homeowner is expected to put spent batteries in a plastic bag and place on top of the red bin, the refuse staf will pick the bag and tip into a separate compartment within the wagon, likewise electricals such as a broken toaster or kettle should be put on top of the grey bin for the refuse staff to separate. Anything that you can’t put in a bin or place on top of the bins down to the homeowner to take to the local recycling/refuse plant. This includes household furniture/mattresses/soft furnishings, large electricals such as fridges/freezers/TV’s, polystyrene packaging, old oil/fuel from cars/garden tools. In some areas there might be a Scrapman that travels around urban neighbourhoods that will collect anything metal that can be stripped down. They do this for free and they make it pay by stripping down all the components and weigh them in at a scrap yard for refund. So anything with a copper/iron/steel element is quite valuable but you’ve got to be bothered to strip down a washing machine or a dishwasher, it’s time consuming and not always a money maker if inferior metal was originally used by the manufacturers but that’s the risk the scrapman takes. There are other areas of the UK that don’t operate the same system as Lancashire but there will be similarities, they might not have as many bins or they may have a brown bag system for newspapers and cereal packets in lieu of the blue bin but the homeowner is expected to take all their bulk cardboard packaging to their local refuse themselves rather than it be collected. Some locations won’t accept small electricals and batteries being placed on top of the bin for the refuse collectors to set aside, they will expect the homeowner to their local centre. Some areas are better than others at recycling and reducing landfill to the lowest possible limit, some areas are absolutely useless and set a poor example. I hope this has helped you understand what we do in the UK and why generally our carbon footprint and harmful carbon output is so minimal compared to other countries. We invented and created the Industrial Revolution which enables the world to do so much and now we’re leading the minimising of the impact of industry to keep the planet spinning safely.

To enlighten you, in the U.K. we do have many bins, I live in a flat (apartment) and we have communal bins as follows; general waste, cardboard and paper, recyclable plastic/glass/tin cans and finally kitchen waste. Four bin types in total (technically one is a box and another a mini bin, the others are wheelie bins). Some homes also have garden waste bins (one of our neighbouring blocks has one as he’s our resident gardener for the communal garden. Personally I think a light indicator is a great idea to tell you which bin it is and what day it goes out.

The bins I have in Essex are 1 .general rubbish 2.paper and card 3.metal 4 glass 5.plastic and film packaging 6.clothing and textiles 7.garden and green waste So yes there are a lot of bins and they won’t take it if it’s mixed or too many general waste bins or you can get fined if you don’t separate your rubbish .

It is nice to see you enjoy these things.

Bins ('trash cans'') at least three, usually colour-coded, for general waste, recyclables and garden ('yard') waste (lawn trimmings etc). There is often a separate food waste container (which should be emptied weekly) and other areas break down recyclables by type--glass/metal/paper/plastic. Each colour is collected on a different day or week. Putting out the wrong bin means it won't be emptied and it could be three weeks until the next collection. Mixing the wrong waste types means the bin won't be emptied and you get a large 'sticker of shame' telling you not to be such a naughty citizen!

I’ve taken a surreal photo of a train going down the road. It was on a low loader, likely heading for the local heritage railway.

Where I live we have a black bin for non recyclables green bin for garden waste 3 boxes 1 for cardboard 1 for plastic 1 for paper & glass

we have a black bin for general waste..a brown bin for garden waste..a small green bin for food waste and then seperate bags for plastics, cardboard and cans. oh and don't forget the blue box for glass.💚

We have 4 bins here in our area of the UK. Black - general household waste, brown - glass, plastics and tins, blue - paper and cardboard and Green for organic food/garden waste. (edit) And that place is Leigh which became relevant a few pictures later with the 6 to a table sign. Not that it matters but it is pronounced the same as the name Lee.

Always trust old people which bin on which day! However a new bin has just been introduced and no one really has a clue why.😮

These are great! Most local authorities have different coloured bins for different types of waste- recycling, regular waste, garden waste, and maybe even separate paper waste. Each type has it's own collection schedule (often it's alternate weeks for recycling and household waste) and we spend hours trying to remember which week it is so we can put the right bin out. The car licence plate is a standard British licence plate - the first two letters indicate the geographical area the car was registered,, and the following 2 numbers indicate the age of the car - so you can't blame anyone for 'choosing' it.

We have four bins where I live, general waste (black), plastic bottles, tin cans and plastic packaging (grey), Green Garden waste (green), and cardboard and paper (black with bright purple lid). Other areas bin colours differ.

6:05 - "Are seagulls a thing in some parts of the UK?"

The house is on a flat bed HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle), the boat is more than likely on a trailer pulled by a car (quite common seeing boats on trailers in the UK as even if you live in the middle of the country you're never far from water being it the sea or a river) Most councils now have at least 3 bins, general rubbish, recycling and kitchen/garden waste (and this is being generous, my council has 6 bins, rubbish, glass, paper, metal/plastic, garden waste and kitchen waste) Seagulls are everywhere in the UK and yes they can be vicious lol Greggs is a religion to some people over here, I admit they do lush bakes, love their cheese ones and quite like the vegan sausage rolls 😊 Anything goes on the tube be it a fan, breakfast or anything else The front seat on a double decker is THE best seat on a bus Rain stops nothing in the UK, if a BBQ is planned and it starts raining we will use a umbrella to cook on the grill, meeting mates at a pub, someone smokes use a umbrella so you can all stand/sit outside with them 🤣 A barm is a bread roll (different places in the UK call them different names) I admit we do have a sarcastic humour over here and we love taking the piss out of others as well as ourselves 😂 we can also find humour in everything, even the worst days will eventually make us find a humourous side.

You don't choose the licence plate..it comes with the vehicle.

There is an ongoing debate about regional variations of names for the bread roll. In the Coventry area we call it a batch.

Barm cake is the slang for white bread rolls around Manchester and South Lancashire in northwestern England. Pie in a barm is a meat pie shoved inside a well-buttered white roll, and it's bloody lovely, especially after a few pints!

I live near the dinosaur sinkhole. It was there for a very long time. We have several bins. In our area we have a large green bin for garden waste, we have to pay to have it emptied (as well as paying our council tax) a large blue bin for bottles & cans etc. a small green one for paper, a small brown one for food waste & a large black bin for any other waste. Other councils differ, some have more bins some less,and some use different colours. Food bins go out every week, the black bin one week & recycling bins the next week

Notice in hair salon window Ears pierced while you wait.

We have three types of dustbins here in nottingham, standard food type none recycle stuff, garden waste and recyclable stuff, they each go out on the same day of the week but alternate weekly, except for the garden waste that seems very random and only happens in the summer months anyway.

Beans are almost the national dish of the US. At the restaurant at the Capitol Building in Washington, Bean Soup has been on the menu EVERYDAY since the Revolution.

Different bin colours for different items. I live in Oxford and we have Blue Bins for recycling green bins for household waste, a small green bin for food waste and a brown bin for garden waste... it can get confusing without checking what your neighbours put out of the council website lol

In the UK we have different colour bins for different types of waste, usually split between recyclable materials (plastics, paper, cardboard, glass, tins), organic matter like food waste, and garden grasscuttings or hedge trimmings, and non recyclable items. Councils will all have different ways to dealwith rubbish, some have better recycling measures than others. Some will collect all bins weekly, some will collect different bins alternate weeks...some on different days weekly or fortnightly. Hence peoples concern about making sure they put the right bins out on the right day in time...otherwise you can have problems disposing of foul smelling rubbish!

Depending where you are there's often separate bins you put out for collection on different days for general recycling, general waste, glass, and garden waste.

heeey im someone from Northumberland.. definitely a place... quite nice to... was surprised to c the first thing in the vid about it xD also having a caravan on the back of ur truck is fairly common.. even in my area.. tho mostly seen on highways or near holiday parks for tourists, and the uk has 2 bins usually.. black and blue.. one for recycling things and the other for stuff that cant be recycled, also yes seagulls r a thing where i am, even watched a seagull walk into a greggs, come out with a packet of crisps and i swear it found a way into the packet and ate them.. tho.. its not common here that they attack unless its nesting time

Northumberland is my home county. We've got four bins. Black for general waste, blue for paper,card and tins, green for garden waste and a small black bin for food waste.The food bin has a small caddy to hold food bags, which are then put in the lockable (to keep out vermin) bin. The food bags are taken to a "digester" to make methyne for electricity production

We have four bin types and one sack type (and its different for each region, to add to the confusion). For me its general garbage/trash (black, large), plastic and metal recycling (black, small), paper and glass recycling (green, small), food waste (brown, small with lid), cardboard (blue sack) and garden cuttings (green, large). Things are also rarely properly labelled.

Yes each week/month we have to put out a set bin, some companies offer list that you can print out the show what one to put out.