American Reacts to 7 British Things We Don't Have In America! 

He is completely wrong about the toilet brush. they are rarely needed. He gives the impression we clean the toilet every time we use it. NO he is wrong.

Brits don't need to use the toilet brush every time! I don't know what this guy has been eating!!

If you’re using a toilet brush after every poo, then the problem is with your diet, not the toilet.

That toilet brush one is COMPLETELY wrong, we definitely don’t use the toilet brush after every use, like Americans we just use it to clean the toilet! 😂

I worked in the states for 6 months in 1994 and been on several vacations to the US. The UK toilets are designed such that if the loo is blocked the the bowl will hold a flush full of water without overflowing. My experience of the US bowl’s will overflow if the toilet is blocked, and it is flushed. I’d rather use a brush to remove a “Skid mark” than need to unblock the toilet! or clean up after an overflow.

Wellies cost a tenner, maybe £15 at most. Completely waterproof almost up to your knees and they last forever

Brit here and a cleaner; toilet brushes are used to clean the toilet, as in removing limescale, keeping it clean not to push poop down

Blackcurrants were used to create blackcurrant squash during and after WWII to ensure that children were getting adequate amounts of vitamin C, because it's one of the fruits that is plentiful in the UK and didn't have to be shipped in.

Wellies are a must have for festivals in the UK because usually at some point it rains and it gets really really muddy.

The US electrical injury stat is even worse when you realise that UK voltage is twice as high as the US (UK = 240v & US = 120v). It also means our electrical kettles boil a lot quicker here - not that you have any.

As an Australian who has access to both blackcurrant and grape flavoured things, blackcurrant is better.

American grape flavour tastes nothing like grapes. We have grape juice, but not grape jelly because we like eating grapes fresh.

Learning about Tog ratings is potentially the final stage of becoming a real adult.

The thing about pantomime is that, while it is a show to take your kids to, it is full of risque jokes and innuendo. The kids enjoy the fairy tale and the adults are entertained by the jokes that fly over their children's heads... A fun tradition...

Ron deSantis was wearing Wellies with lifts! Also the AUDACITY to call black currants mid! MID!! The man is insane.

We love pantomimes. We brought my Dutch granddaughters to one last Christmas and they were enthralled.

Less water less splashback, and the brush is just for cleaning. The flush clears anything that may have stuck to the sides.

The loo brush is only used for cleaning and scrubbing away skid marks. You dont use it to push the poo away. If it doesnt all get flushed away then people wait til the cistern refills and then flush again.

A duvet isn't the same as a 'comforter'. You place it inside a duvet cover (like a giant pillow slip) and it's all you need over you at night. There is no need for a top sheet between you and the duvet, as you you can wash the duvet cover like a sheet. You use a high tog one in the winter, and a lower tog in the warmer months. If you have a very cold home you might throw an additional blanket over the top in the depths of winter. Have to disagree with Evan on grapes vs black currants. Black currants and black currant flavouring beat grapes hands down!!!!!! Traditional pantomimes are hard to explain to foreigners. There are so many elements and set pieces involved......

Aussie here.. I'd never heard of arugula (rocket here too). Also the squash vegetable he showed, we call butternut pumpkin. We call the concentrated fruit drink "cordial" but we can call it squash - usually a lemon squash we buy at the pub if we're the designated driver. 😅 I prefer pink grapefruit cordial..like he said, just a little in my water. We call a duvet a doona, but never really hear about tog rating..I guess we are more about keeping cool here - maybe just me that hasn't noticed the rating. Most doonas are feathers and down..more down, the warmer the doona. Hot water bottles can be found here but wheat is used here rather than rice for heat packs. Happy to say we have UK level safety here for our plugs and switches on every outlet.

You DON’T use a toilet brush to ‘push poo down the toilet’. Ridiculous.

I certainly don't use my toilet brush after every bowel movement. I use it once a week when I clean the toilet.

UK musical festivals often end up as quagmires due to a combination of constant rain and hundreds of thousands of people walking around.

When I visited the States. Any years ago I thought the toilet was blocked because the water was high.

In addition to the safety of the sockets in the UK, it has been common for over 30 years (and required since 2008) for entire house electrical systems to be protected by one or more Residual Circuit Devices (RCDs) which will cut off the power within 30ms if there is an imbalance between power going out on the live wire and returning on the neutral (i.e. through a person to ground). You almost don't even notice you got shocked.

Pantomimes, are normally based in children's fairy tales Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin, Snow White basically any of the early Disney movies.they first started in the Sixteenth century..... normally performed around christmas time, great for Families with Kids, a lot of the humour is double entendre so great for the kids and the adults...

In the UK, we don’t use the toilet brush to clean away poo - used to get rid of limescale. Waste of water to deep flush.

What USians call grape flavour is truly vile. I’ve never tasted a grape that tastes anything like it, fortunately.

The welly or wellington boots were originally worn by officers in the British Army, wellington boots have been around since the 1790s. However, it was Arthur Wellesley, more commonly known as the Duke of Wellington, who popularised the shoe in 1817. This transformed the wellington boot from military uniform to aristocrat fashion.

Thats a pile of crap. Pun intended. You use a toilet brush to clean the toilet. Thats all. You don't use it to push poo down the toilet, because our toilets flush perfectly well, thank you. And if yours doesn't, thats a you problem :D

The toilet brush is meant for cleaning the toilet occasionally and NOT for removing full fresh jobbies! Nobody uses the brush for that. If you have a full turd blocking the bowl. Then you get the special toilet knife and fork out and cut the offending turd up, then use the plunger to push it down and then use the brush to remove any skiddies from around the toilet pan. That is common knowledge.

The other thing about having switches on the sockets is that, like, you can leave things plugged in. Like, permanently. For example, a TV set. You buy it, you set it up, you plug it in and turn on the switch. If you want to turn it off - and that's proper "off off" as well - then flick the switch. And it's a TV, so it's not going anywhere. So you don't ever need to unplug it, until you get a new TV and you're getting rid of it. It's perfectly possible - even common - that a Brit plugs their TV into the socket ONCE and unplugs it ONCE, for its entire lifetime. So it's an even bigger safety measure than you might initially realise, as it basically eliminates the need to plug things in and out in the first place - and you're only doing that rarely, just for portable items (e.g. plugging the phone charger in, or the vacuum cleaner as you move room to room). This also means that the wear and tear on plugs and sockets is basically near zero.

Sure I said this before , but you have a great voice … very relaxing … not like the normal American voice 😂😂😂 it’s like you should be hosting a show on the radio at 3 am 😂❤😂

The wellies at an English outdoor festival is more of a functional thing. Most were camping and it rains a lot, sometimes.

Alright, I'll give you the rundown of cleaning a toilet in the UK. Step 1 - Wear wellies (that's why our water level is so low, we're scared of it overflowing). Step 2 - Put squash down the bowl. Step 3 - Use a toilet brush to 'squash' the poo along with the selected flavour's squash power. Step 4 - Flush. Step 5 - Success. If not repeat process until success. Caveat; If its been more than four flushes give up and blame someone else for leaving the skid marks. Bonus tip; Blackcurrent is the strongest squash we use, prevents limescale.

You don't use a toilet brush to push your poo down ! You flush to get rid of your poo, the brush is there incase you leave a skid mark.

When you go to festivals in the UK. Its like being on a farm with the cows and its rained for a month. The wellies are essential! We have raised the bar with stylish ones such as leopard spot ones. But…. The mood gets very messy if it rains and wellies are without doubt the best choice. The mud rinses off super easy and they are high legged and usually sit just below the knee.

A bog brush is used to scrub away the occasional skidmark on the porcelain, it's not used to push turds round the U bend. It's also used to scrub the toilet( with the aid of some liquid toilet cleaner/bleach) if there's a build up of limescale and a general freshen up.

Even if you have a higher tog duvet, the point of the hot water bottle is to warm your freezing cold bed up for when you first get in it.

Bog brushes are for occasionally scrubbing the bog

When someone's favourite drink is water, it's no suprise they think grape tastes better than blackcurrant. Vimto will easy 1v1 any of Americas cordials.

Further to the kettle thing Britain operates a 240 Volt system whilst America (US) uses 120Volt, so our kettles are a lot more powerfull, and hence boil water quicker.

Wellies for festivals very common becaus we have alot of outdoor festivals in fileds and it rains alot it gets very muddy.

When Dame Shirley Bassey played Glastonbury, she turned up in wellies.

I was brought up,with no heating except in the living room, a coal fire. In the 60s it was cold in winter. We went to bed with a hot water bottle in deep winter. As the night proceeded your body warms the bed and wooden blankets worked well.

I use an old stone water bottle to keep warm in winter, need to wrap it in something woollen so it doesn’t burn you but I think they hold the heat better and I like being able to rest my back up against it in bed. Its a 4 pint bottle, I used to have a 6 pint one but it developed a crack so it got filled with sand and demoted to a doorstop.

He made that ribena far too weak. And he is totally wrong about grape. Blackcurrant is in a different league to grape. It is the most amazing, sweet, tart flavour. Blackcurrant ice cream is next level shit. ❤

What is the difference between a comforter and a duvet? Duvet vs. Comforter: What's the Difference? The main difference is that a comforter is just one piece, while a duvet is two-an insert and a cover. With a duvet, the insert slides inside the cover, like a pillow that goes inside a pillowcase. A comforter doesn't need a cover, but you can use one to keep it cleaner for longer.21 Dec 2023

The wellies are necessary because it rains so much that flooding is common. Mud turns to bog and puddles grow to huge sizes and are very deep. Even just normal rain amounts can leave you having to get your feet soaked up to your ankles, and if it's also muddy like at a festival it can mean slipping and falling or sinking into it and getting stuck so wellies become necessary

In the UK our bedding is a sheet over the mattress and then a duvet in a a cover which you take off and wash when you change your bed. We have a number of duvet covers. My understanding is that in the US you use a sheet on top of you then a comforter that has a non changeable cover. In summer we would use a light weight duvet as its hotter weather (well its supposed to ge) then in winter a heavy weight, higher tog duvet for extra warmth. That said where I am in Scotland and we rarely need a low tog summer duvet! And, in Scotland we call it a downie not a duvet

I can let everything else go... But blackcurrants shit all over grapes everyday of the fricken' week! Fight me!

Wellies literally keep your feet bone dry. We also have leather walking boots too.

Everyone wears wellies for festivals because they're usually located in big fields and we get alot of rain so they become mud baths

Hot water bottles are comforting in many situations. As is Ribena made with hot water. When you had a cold or sore throat as a kid being tucked up with hot water bottle and mug of Ribena....aah. Cozy.

Toilet brush is for cleaning not plunging. We also do not waste water with every flush like the ones from USA, maybe the ones in the USA do not use the Cistern to flush and just use the excessive amount of water in the bowl.

The duvet was invented Habitat basically it's like a quilt, but thicker. They are either made from synthetic wading or feather and down. The tog rating gives you the level of heat that it will generate. In the summer, 4.5tog is more than enough, whereas between 10.5-15togs is plenty for the winter. Unlike quilts, duvets are covered within a pocket of cotton type material, so at the week, you remove this cover and wash that, not the entire duvet. One thing Evan missed is that our plug sockets have an output of 220-240v, whereas in the US, it's only 110v, yet you have more deaths.

So wrong about the toilet brush…..not sure how he’s shitting but he’s doing something wrong 🤣 He’s talking shite about blackcurrants as well….lovely flavour 😂

Our older toilets are deeper. Modern toilets are smaller and shallower but they are just as efficient as older toilets. The modern design came about to save water. Most of the newest ones have a smaller capacity cistern with two part flush buttons. The smaller part is pressed and gives a smaller volume of flush for when you have a pee. Pushing the larger part of the button depresses the whole button and gives a full flush when you've done a poo. It's all about water conservation. A massive amount of research went into the development of modern British and European toilets to ensure their efficiency both in terms of waste disposal and water conservation.

Wellies are the abbreviation of Wellington boots. They were named after the very famous figure in British history, Arthur Wellesly, who led British armies to victory in the Napoleonic Wars. After the final victory at Waterloo in 1815 he was ennobled as the Duke of Wellington by the grateful monarch, well-known to Americans, George III. He later became Prime Minister. A style of high, water-proofed boot (but not rubber) was associated with him.

No we don’t use a toilet brush after every poo, just occasionally you may need the brush, but not everytime, if your water is that high it would be like sitting in water everytime.

Hot ribena is the bollocks ..🎉

The up 3 prong socket has another safety feature. The top prong is longer and opens up shutters for the two bottom prongs to go in, case kids poke summit metal into them.

A duvet is NOT a blanket or comforter!! It is an item that varies in weight/thickness and can be filled with feathers...such as Duck or goose etc...and feels a bit more like a cloud! You put over them a duvet cover (of any style/colour/theme) and it is super cosy! In the summer months you might use a Tog rated 2.5 duvet, this is lighter in weight and so you shouldn't over heat at night, and in the winter months you might have around a 4.5 - 8.5 tog rated duvet, which is heavier and thicker so keeps you nice and warm and toasty! Hope that helps? And I can see several comments giving a proper explaination about the toilet brush, so I won't start in on that useless explaination from Evan! x

Back in ancient history when a I was a kid, toilets were usually a straight long drop into the water. Which could result in a reciprocating water splash straight back up. So you would preload the water in the pan with toilet paper. Modern toilets are designed for an "in off" the back wall to avoid the splash. Which can lead to smearing, that then needs to be brushed away.

Toilet brushes aren't poop pushers.. more for regular cleaning. Makes me think of Stephen Merchant's character on "Extras"..on a date at the girl's apartment and has to "drop kids off at the pool" and it won't flush.. .he goes into the kitchen, rummages in the drawer grabs her potato masher and runs back to the toilet! .. bit of a romance killer😅😅😅

This toilet brush thing is overplayed - 99% of the time dont need to use a brush - our toilet flushes are more than good enough

Wellies are usually needed at Glastonbury a 3 day music festival it usually rains and is very muddy.

Toilet brush isn’t for pushing poo down the loo, the long flush does that 😂😂

Wellies are short for Wellington boots named after the Duke of Wellington who won Waterloo. There are wellie throwing contests at country games.

I am in New Zealand and only have to use my brush once a month most times. As a kid I had a hot-water bottle that was made to look like a teddy bear. At work we use what we call Gumboots (Wellies) that are bright white with metal safety caps in the toes as we process frozen vegatables. We must wash the place regularly to keep it clean so it is wet a lot on the floor. I have a bottle of pre-diluted Ribena blackcurrant drink I got out of the vending machine at here at work beside me. We have switches on all plugs in New Zealand and all are grounded but a different style of plug to the UK. NZ plug looks like a US plug with the pins bent 45 degrees and a flat earth pin added (Same plug as our neighbors Australia).

You rarely need the toilet brush. The flush cleans the sides of the toilet. It's only there should the flush not fully do its job - something's sticking to the sides a bit too strongly - or just for general cleaning of the toilet.

Also, a hot water bottle immediately warms the bed, where a higher tog duvet retains more of your own body heat... but how long's that going to take to warm up a freezing bed? Admittedly, though, by the morning, your hot water bottle is very much a cold water bottle. So swings and roundabouts.

There's a lot of adult humour in the form of innuendo in pantomimes. It goes right over the heads of the kids. Some of it is very clever and funny to adults while the kids are blissfully unaware of the often sexual references.

The poo in a British toilet never gets a chance to stick to the bowl. It falls into the water. We also don't get splashback.

This guy is so off the mark!! Wrong about the toilet brush and also u can't compare a warmer blanket to cuddling a hot water bottle in the cold... its soooo comforting

So having vacationed in the USA a lot I know that toilets still get 'skid marks' regardless of the water line. That is the point of the toilet brush... you can remove them so that the next person visiting the loo doesn't get to see the 'poop lines' left by the previous occupant. Sensible in my eyes.

The incredible Dolly Parton headlined the Glastonbury Festival a couple of years back. She came out for her set, very glamourous, wearing wellies. The audience cheered...

As kids in the winter months we went to bed with a hot water bottle. Remembering back then there was no central heating,or any kind of heating in fact. Also no Duvets, just sheets and blankets. Man it was cold.

Am I the only one that remembered Rhod Gilberts skit on bedding when tog ratings came up? 😂

Wellies are far more useful when you consider festivals on grass often turn into complete mudpits because of the british weather. Also ignore the hunter wellies, they're like the high end brand. They even come in a style with heels that actually confuses me..... but hey, they're much better at keeping you dirt and water free compared to duck boots. They look similar to yard or pasture boots I wore at the stables when not trapsing through muddy fields in summer. They would not survive a festival lol

Wellies are a must for many Music Festivals (in the UK ! Lots of rain at a lot of them), you can get Wellies from about £15 (under $20 ish)

Toilets: British toilets use 50% less freshwater in comparison to a American toilet. Since America's freshwater table reserves are down to 6%... maybe taking notes from countries that have been around for 10+ times longer would not be a bad thing... wait until a American goes to the Med... less water and you are not allowed to put toilet paper in the toilet...

Love, love, love Evan's videos! Very thorough and always leaves his sources! Please react to more of his videos!

8:25 it's because when the festivals are on it normally starts raining so the ground gets extremely mudder so people wear Wellington boots. Some brands Hunter I think they're called that. Normally there are a couple of £100's

The brush is for any skid marks left after you flush. You don't push it round the u-bend with it.

Hot water bottles get used mainly to heat the foot of the bed when temps drop to freezing or so‼️ It takes away the dread, from the bottom of the bed😂‼️🇬🇧❤

I love that I am currently watching this while using a hot water bottle for my cramps 🤭 and yes, I agree with the toilet brush debate - only if there are stains do you need it, so rarely. Don’t be afraid of using the toilet people! 🤭

The toilet brush is only used after doing a jobbie if there is skid marks etc. Squash is a stupid name for the drink. Hence why it's known as diluting juice in Scotland for the most part

You can get wellies for a tenner.

On the wellies at festivals, again it rains all the time here, festivals are absolute mud baths haha - just look up 'festival mud uk' - also wellies here for adults are usually found for about 10-20 quid

Are duvets a British thing? History of the Duvet - Penrose Products The Duvet in Modern Times Sir Terence Conran (founder of Habitat) discovered duvets being used in Sweden and became the first to sell duvets in Britain in 1964. Very soon the use of duvets caught on and were marketed as the 10 second bed as it is much easier to make a bed with a duvet.

Wellington boots as I thought named after Duke of Wellington this Google says Originally worn by officers in the British Army, wellington boots have been around since the 1790s. However, it was Arthur Wellesley, more commonly known as the Duke of Wellington, who popularised the shoe in 1817. This transformed the wellington boot from military uniform.

The best comment in this video is "I like screaming at people on stage." 😂😂😂 Yep. I'm in fits of laughter, who doesn't right?

I'm 40 and I've used a toilet brush maybe a few dozen times in my life, and usually more the way you've described - giving the toilet a general clean, not for removing poop. On the (rare) occasion there is... uh... RESIDUE on the bowl... again, a rare occasion... I tend to whack a load of thick bleach round the bowl, wait five minutes, give it a flush. Jobbies a good un. If this doesn't do the trick and you need to regularly use a toilet brush (even regularly like once a week, let alone every bowel movement) then you need a doctor, because there is something very, very wrong with your arse.

2:23 - British people use toilet brushes for cleaning the toilet, not for cleaning poo off the toilet bowl.

That Evan guy is possibly the most irritating human being ever to have existed.

Due to the weather, quite often British festivals turn into gigantic mud pits, that's why the wellies are not just a mere suggestion, they're a "get some wellies, else you're gonna be in trouble". Download 2016 I went to was atrocious for it, was just pure thick soup, every step was a slog, and you couldn't stand still for too long else you'd pull your foot out and the boot will be stuck. Was still a fun time though.

Even says that US toilets are stronger but to be honest, I don’t know anyone who keeps a plunger in their bathroom because there’s a risk of blockage…I couldn’t even tell you when I last had to deal with a blocked toilet…though I’m pretty sure it wasn’t this century. Most people don’t have to use a toilet brush after every use. It’s mostly used occasionally for occasional mishaps in the toilet bowl and for scrubbing the toilet bowl when cleaning the bathroom in general. If you get hot enough water out of your tap (faucet) then you can fill your hot water bottle from that…it just won’t either be as hot or stay hot as long. There are currants that are a dried form of grape, like smaller raisins. When you see the word currant prefixed by either black, red or white, it’s in reference to a fresh fruit. I’ve tried grape jelly and found it decidedly meh…I found the same with Oreo’s too. I honestly don’t get the hype around either…and in my opinion blackcurrants have a far stronger flavour than grapes do. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll happily munch my way through a bunch of grapes but as a flavour, it’s just not that great. There are a couple of Evan’s videos that compare grocery shopping, school and university…along with school dinners/lunches and one where he discusses US medical costs with an English NHS doctor and what the procedure costs the NHS to perform, that you might find quite interesting.

Every year, there's the Leeds Music Festival. After the festival buses ferry festival goers back into Leeds City centre and drop them off on Sovereign Street. If it's been a wet weekend, there is usually a trail of mud from Sovereign Street to Leeds City train station as hundreds of wellies shed the mud collected at the festival. It's often about 4 feet wide and 600 yards of mud up to an inch deep. 😂❤😂

His bathroom must be disgusting. Our toilets almost never clog, because they area better design. We don't have toilet plungers. The brushes are not for that. They are just for routine cleaning. He apparently only cleans when there are stains. We clean the toilet frequently to get rid of bacteria. All my American friends clean their toilets with brushes, so his parents just never taught him basic hygiene.