American Reacts to Outdoor Objects You Can't Find in Britain 

The hydrant picture he showed is just the identification plate. The hydrant itself is a little metal flap in the ground like a small manhole with the letters ’FH’ cast into the lid. The stand pipe is carried on the fire engine and the firefighter will see the identification plate and can tell that an 80mm supply pipe is 2 meters in front of the identification plate.

In the UK we don't "swear allegance to the flag" so the flag is just that, a flag, not a symbol of the nation. The military swore allegance to the Queen (rest her soul) not the flag.

In my almost 47 years of life I've never seen a water tower here in the UK. Even living all my childhood and early adulthood in the countryside your water is just mains pumped to your house like it is in a city.

We don’t normally have specific school buses because we have this novel idea called “public transport”.

As previously said, we DO have water towers in the UK, but they are very very few and far between. The few that I have seen are concrete, but the vast majority of our water comes from gravity reservoirs which are either open and above ground or (very often) underground (in built-up areas/suburbs - hidden under low hills). The only billboards we tend to see off roads/motorways are on the side of an old truck in a farmers field. People don't like them. We have occasional school buses but they tend to be just a normal bus (lots of different colours) hired twice a day. In general we don't bus our kids to school - they walk or take regular transport or the parents do a school run. (The distances except in very rural areas are not far). Mesh fences are VERY rare in the UK around residential homes. Ours are hedges (of privet or box-plants) or lap board fences (look it up!). In the 19th century the GPO (General Post Office) strongly advised homeowners to install a letter slit (mail slot) into front doors, and virtually everyone has one. Even a remote country cottage down a lane a mile from the main road will get their mail through their door. Regarding the culture references - one striking change is that American shows will be shown in the UK (or Australia/Europe etc) as made. Successful British or Australian shows get remade for a US audience (and the remakes are normally not as good as the originals) - because the US networks think that America couldn't cope with something not "made in America"! This is one of the weirdest nationalistic traits of the US (along with the flag). No-one flies a flag outside their house- most of us realise where we live!- although when the world cup (soccer) is on you do see many England (or Scotland/Wales) flags outside kid's bedroom windows!

American yellow school buses and red fire hydrants are as iconic to us, as British red telephone boxes and double-decker buses are to Americans. Virtually no-one flies a flag outside their house or on public buildings in the UK, America is soooooo patriotic it seems a bit culty to us, especially when you salute it and make people recite that pledge thing.

Australia doesn’t have visible fire hydrants either. Ours are in the ground. The firefighters lift the metal cover and attach the hose end.

All fire hydrants in Britain are underground to stop them freezing. They are accessible through cast iron covers which can be broken with a sledge hammer if they are stuck. Flying our flag or displaying it at home or on vehicles is considered crass. We have taken to heart Dr Samuel Johnson’s saying “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”. To show our patriotism we just say we are English, Scottish, Welsh or British

The UK hydrant that was shown is a marker, not the place where the water is dispensed, it's an indicator to show it's nearby, and basic directions. The top number marks the size of the connector in mm, and the bottom number marks the distance the connector is from the marker in meters. The connector is normally under a small cover in the pavement/sidewalk/road. This is lifted, and the hose attached.

I’m curious what interactions Tyler has had with fire hydrants?🤔 And no, Brits don’t have trash cans. They have rubbish bins.

Most kids would use a regular bus, but those same bus companies also put on limited timetable school bus routes to fill in necessary gaps. These would be visually identical to the regular buses in your town.

Brits often grow a hedge around their gardens, with a gate to let people enter

i would say that the yellow school bus is probably as iconically American to us as the red double decker is to you.

There are very few water towers in the UK because we don't usually need them...unless it's a sparcely populated area with few houses. Our water usually comes straight from the mains or from large storage reservoirs built at higher levels and often hidden inside man-made hills - they are basically gigantic concrete tanks hidden in a hill!

It's an interesting cultural difference. I was almost stopped dead in my tracks by a highway billboard in Missouri that advertised something like "Joe's Adult Toys Emporium in 15 miles". The questions went something along the lines of: - Why are you telling this now? - In fact, why are you telling me this at all?

In UK white picket fences are rare, as are the chain link fence shown (these tend to be used in commercial or older properties). The type of fences/boundaries used are often local choices but range through, none, rope on small posts, a hedge plant (often Privet), brick walls, stone walls, Aris rails, Lapped planks, woven planking (panels)

We do have metal mesh fence in the UK. They are slightly different as they have a protective plastic to reduce corrosion and are usually a green colour. They are more commonly found in the back yard. Not so much on the front or sides of property. Plus most people rip these fences out and install a wooden fence. Brick and local stone is mostly on the front of the property 😊

The iconic American fire hydrant was made here in my home town of Rotherham Yorkshire. The company making them Guest and Chimes went out of business just a few years ago. Their factory is being preserved as a Grade 11 listed building.

UK hydrants are actually near to one of those markers, which tell you where it is and how much pressure it has by the numbers on it. Usually they are underground covered by a small manhole cover.

There was a 1970s kids' TV series in the UK about a time-travelling wizard called Catweazle who lived in a water tower. It was disused though so, presumably, they'd built a nice, big reservoir uphill by the time he moved in. The UK has practically always got a handy hill to run water from to create the necessary water pressure to get water to come out when you turn on the tap.

The water tower that was built near where I lived when I was a child in Lincolnshire in the 1960s was like an enormous concrete mushroom, with a thin stem and a wide tank at the top. Concerning fire hydrants, the "H" sign just tells the firefighters where the hydrant is located. The hydrant is actually under a metal plate in the pavement, and the firefighters attach a detachable standpipe to an underground connection to the water system when they need to use it. The hose then gets connected to the standpipe. The advantages of this are that they can't be crashed into by a vehicle (unlike the American ones), and being underground they are less likely to freeze up in the winter.

The only American style front yard mailbox I’ve seen in the UK. Is when you drive through country roads or small villages. But they are not for mail! It’s usually something called an honest box. The proper owner will put some eggs or vegetables that they have grown into the mail box. You are then expected to leave money inside the mailbox to pay for the items that you took from the mailbox 😉

I live in uk Never seen a water tower

The slot in the door is called the letter box, but we have large rounded red pillar box's that you can put letters in which are collected a couple of times a day, these letters are taken to a sorting office and sent on to the appropriate address.

Mesh fences are definitely not a thing in the UK, we have wooden panel fencing in 4 ft or 6 ft high panels with either wooden or concrete posts between the panels, or we have hedges/boundaries made of plants, shrubs bushes, small trees etc. As for yellow school buses they aren't a thing in the UK, we do have some buses and coaches used for schools but they are owned by private companies local to the schools and are whatever colour the companies livery is, and many children just take the regular bus to school that's used by everyone else, or they use the train or walk as many live close to their schools. We don't have any adds on our motorways or main roads. We do have add boards in the cities at the side of the street on boards, but they are few and far between in most places. Of course in many of our cities adds are carried on the side of our double deck buses, especially in the larger cities like London.

That wasnt a British fire hydrant he showed, its just the marker. The actual hydrant will be in the ground somewhere in front of the marker and one of the numbers on the marker tells you how far in front it is. The ground covers should be coloured yellow too although this isnt always the case.

Our fire hydrants are set into the ground. What he is showing in the video is an marker that tell the firemen there a hydrant near-by. The "H" indicates its a hydrant then the numbers tell you the size of the pipe and the distance from the marker. Effectively in the ground is a connection to a water main with value that our firemen connect a stand-pipe too, then connect their hose to stand-pipe and open the valve to get water.

Brit fire hydrants are almost always underground. The yellow identification plate displayed on a short concrete sign post (or wall) has two numbers top = size, lower = distance to metal cover often with FH cast into it, often painted yellow. Once cover lifted a stand pipe (from fire appliance) is inserted and hose connected.

The fire hydrants in the UK actually aren't hydrants at all. That thing with the H on it indicates where the stopcock is, (in feet from the location of the sign), that's situated underneath a steel plate that's on the footpath. When the fire brigade need access to water, they place their own hydrant onto the stopcock and switch it on. The idea being that there's not this huge thing sticking up out of the path when it's not needed. There are school buses, but they're not specifically for schoolkids to travel to and from school. They're just normal buses with normal livery that are assigned as school buses. Or, where there are none, kids would use normal buses and walk the rest of the way from the nearest stop to their school, and vice versa. Water towers exist, but they're not really that common. They're only really used in areas where the water pressure isn't high enough, where pumping it isn't an option, for whatever reason.

Britain does have amazing water towers from the late 1800s Victorian era constructed of brick and ornate, looking more like a church bell tower than a water tower. Concrete towers tend to be early 1900s. In addition to brick walls, 6 foot privacy fences are more common at British homes. Wood panels typically prefabbed and attach to either a wood post or slide down in slots of large concrete posts. Diamond wire fence not common with Britain preferred a tight rectangular mesh and crimped for rigidity. More secure fencing at businesses may be a palisade fence with galvanized steel angles and spiked at the top. Watching lawn care videos from Australia, they also use sheet metal panels for home fences and if maintained look great too (and practical). Hydrants: along British streets, sometimes an H is posted on a street lamp signifying a hydrant location, often yellow sign and not blue like the US signs directing drivers to a hospital. One thing Lawerence didn't cover in this video is US homes love their concrete or asphalt driveways. In Britain, off street parking is typically rock chip or brick pavers. Individual businesses will opt for brick pavers as part or all of their parking areas as part of the landscaping appeal. Sure lots of places use tarmac (asphalt) or concrete but brick car parks are still common (sometimes different colors and brick patterns). 🥸yeah, me is american nerd addicted to watching videos across Britain

In the UK, school buses are operated by private companies that have been contracted to run them by the county/borough/district council. As such are just the buses that get used for other routes these companies operate. As other people have commented though, there is nothing to stop kids from using normal buses to get to school if its convenient to do so. If a bus is needed for a school trip, then the school hires a coach from a private hire company.

Something I've not seen mentioned on your videos so far, is the consistant use of the common noun "home" when Brits and others would say "house". My grandsons will invite friends to their house, but will announce to their parents, "I'm home". As the old adage says, "A house is not a home". 😅

In Australia, we have public buses owned by the government, as well as private buses which are privately owned and decided on their own routes through our suburbs. Private buses often fill the gaps between train stations and home, or they go past your local school so you can be dropped at the school gate. We had bus passes at a greatly reduced fee, not sure about modern day because my school years ended decades ago.

There are several objects you find in UK Streets that you will not find in Amerian Streets. Just as we have Letter Boxed for our incoming mail in our doors, we also have OUT GOING Mail Boxes dotted randomly arround out towns and cities when any one can Post a Letter to a friend or relative that the UK Mail Company (Royal Mail) will COLLECT the letters and take them back to the Sorting Office for onward Delivery to the Addressee .

In my small town the water tower looks like a castle built on the top of a hill. It looks gorgeous, it's a shame it's not used any more.

We have metal fences in the UK but you would never see them as someones garden fence. Lots of places here have metal fences, particularly schools but not houses.

If you travel round the world you will find that the U.S really is the odd-man-out on so many of the things Americans react too - that doesn't mean there is not some cross over.

6:49 First Group (a UK Bus operator) did actually have import some school buses from the US but they didn't catch on. In the UK school buses are normally just regular buses that are allocated on the routes although exceptions may apply such as the MyBus BMC Condors. Another thing, I noticed that the school buses in the US are high floor with a bonnet in the UK our buses have to DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) compliant and there for require a wheelchair ramp on buses and chair lift on high entry coaches.

The Hydrant sign in UK is for the firemen it tells them the distance and depth to the nearest hydrant tap is from the sign that’s why there’s numbers on there…( my husband was a fireman)

Yes most houses in uk have a mail slot/box in their door. Some will have a mail box outside if they have gates on their drive but they look nothing like the ones in America. They just have a thin slot to post the mail in and the home owner has a key to get their mail out so no nosy neighbour’s steal your mail or look at it. Uk has mostly slots in their door because it’s is so much SAFER.

Its funny when americans struggle with the term letterbox rather than mailslot, when Americans still called widescreen video with black bars letterboxed, because its the shape of A LETTERBOX.

The older water towers, mainly in the Fens have been designed by an architect of the day, some are quite beautiful and one or two are protected against any changes. Main reasons to have such strong structures is to withstand the weather, maintenance and regular testing must be carried out for water quality and such things as Legionella etc. The only reason I know is because I use to live near the Fens and one of the pubs had beer coasters with 'famous' water tower pictures on the beer mat, the architects name, some history on it, date of construction etc. Very nerdy I know but some of them were very pretty structures.

I think that the UK equivalent of the water tower would have been our large gas holders. That used to be everywhere, but most have now been removed. They were used to store up town gas to meet peak demand. Like when everybody switched on their gas cookers at the same time, to make their Sunday dinners. Not needed now that the pressure in the gas supply can cope with peak demand.

In the Uk if a wood fence is present it usuallly treated with a protective wood stain which i personally feels looks a bit more natural but which also is for more forgiving in regards to its appearance with wear and tear and dirt.

In the UK we tend NOT to venerate our flag, after all it is the 1707 Union Flag. The flags that are important to us are the ones for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Some houses have a cage on the inside on the slit to catch the mail. But most epople dont and the mail drops on the floor.

Our Fire hydrants are mostly underground, the signs are to show emergency services exactly where the hydrants are located, the two sets of numbers on the sign show (bottom) how many metres away the hydrant is and (top) the size of the water main , this is to show the exact location in case the hydrant cover is obscured by something, for example plant foliage.

School buses in the UK are regular buses ran by the Bus Companies in the area, but only run during certain times of the day but when they're not school busses they get incorporated onto other routes. For school field trips in the UK either they either hire a coach service and driver or might use a smaller school owned transit style bus.

The yellow H isn't a hydrant, its a sign indicating where the hydrant is. There's a little cover on the pavement infront of the sign where fire engines can be hooked up to get water.

For my country, the Netherlands, it is basically the same. Our watertowers (No longer in use in most cases, we get our water from pumping stations) look more like Castletowers (including the brick exterior and tilts). Many are no protected monuments. Billboards: Can't be placed just anywhere and are illegal alongside Highways. (Although there are some loopholes depending on the municipality alongside that stretch of highway) Schoolbus: If anyone goes by bus to school, it is public transport. Most children and students will go by bycicle though White picket fence: Seen some in rural areas. If people have a garden it can be bordered by anything ranging from a meshfence, hedge, wooden fence, nothing, flowerbeds etc etc. Front yard mailboxes: You might find them in rural areas. In cities and towns they mostly use mailslots in the door. Might or might not be having a box behind it. Firehydrants. they are generally hidden as a manhole branded as hydrant. Flags: you might find a few here and there but in general only flown on special days like Kingsday or when someone graduated (their schoolbag proudly hanging from the top), with important sporting events. Liberation day etc. I would pronounce it Patriotic because Patriotic just sounds weird

Fire hydrants are under the road or footpath, accessed by a hinged metal plate . The “H” in the photo is a sign telling the firefighters where the plate is….the numbers are measurements from the sign. The metal plate is opened and a vertical hose connector pipe is screwed down onto the underground water pipe

British fire hydrants are set into the pavement under a metal cover. The H sign tells you how far away the cover is -- usually about 2 ft.

Houses in the England from my experience don't tend to have wooden fences in the front garden. For my home atleast we have a roughly chest height brick wall in our front garden and houses that do have wooden fences are rarely even painted and are just bare wood.

To say that Brits don't fly our flag as often as Americans, is a massive understatement.....we almost NEVER fly flags outside our homes, and most Brits would regard it as worryingly Nationalistic.

The fence and the mailbox are both results of the amount of land around houses in the US compared to UK housing some of which have has no surrounding land at all

Look in older parts of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, etc. Some of the row houses have mail slots in the front doors. In the UK, some (e.g. us) have a mailbox on the wall outside the house. Big billboards by the road side are not allowed in most parts of the UK. However, people get around that by parking an old semitrailer on a field and turning that into a billboard. I've seen the occasional steel water tower in the UK but they were dedicated factory units. Others are disguised to resemble castles, and some seem to have been taken out of use.

In terms of Buses/transport for school, it very much depends where the school is. If it's in a city or larger town with good Public transport, then the kids will tend to just use the Public transport bus. If however, the school is in a Rural area with limited/ not very reliable Public transport, then the school will generally hire out coaches each day to take the Children back to their Village or (small town). These coaches don't have a uniform colour, but will always have a logo on it to show it is transporting children. Of course, if they live close to the school, then they'll simply just walk home.

For the school bus thing: We do not have a dedicated class of vehicle for school (like the US's yellow school bus). If a bus is used for going to school, it's either a normal public transport one, or one that's been rented/bought for the school's private use. The other more common option is to use a fleet of people movers (Minivans in the US), either hired or school owned.

Well I'm pretty sure Fire Hydrants here in the UK are just connected to the Water mains via an underground pipe that looks like a drain outlet. That Block with the H symbol just shows that the Hydrant outlet is close by. The advantage of that, is that it stops annoying kids from being able to set them off and wasting water, like you see in movies!

Some people do have picket fences in the UK, but rarely painted. Probably stained. Fences are solid wood 6ft high between properties.

Well, you could say that British people don't have 'trash cans' - we have 'rubbish bins' 🙂 I can confirm that the concrete water towers are the norm here, although I've also seen brick ones on occasion. Can't think of any white picket fences near me...nor of any chain-link fences on domestic properties; I have seen something similar to the chain-link fences around schools. Most domestic properties do have fences or walls, but not those specific varieties. You're wrong to say the letter slot doesn't exist at all in the USA. My Dad's house in Orange County had a letter slot; not in the door, but just next to it in the wall. And yes, the vast majority of homes in the UK have the slot in the door; sometimes a block of flats [apartments] will have a bank of letterboxes at the entrance - either outside or just inside a communal lobby. I might see 3 or 4 Union flags when I go for a 15 mile cycle ride - extremely unusual to see one within the town, but occasionally out in the more rural areas someone will fly a flag. The only place within town where I'd expect to see the Union flag is outside the town hall. Quite often, a church will fly the English flag (yes, English, not UK - red cross of St George on a white background).

In New Zealand our fire hydrants are under manhole covers in the road, school buses are just buses and most houses in the suburbs (and rural areas) do have letter boxes near the street.

I'm from Glasgow, Scotland/UK. I've grown up watching movies that have those white picket fences and front yard mailboxes. I don't have anything to say about the fences really, other than they do look clean and pretty. The British mailboxes however, have more advantages than a front yard mailbox. We don't have to leave the house to get our mail. (We have draught excluders fitted inside of our letterboxes...so it's not like there are many things other than letters that can fit through the slot...so random things getting put through is not a problem. We also have an indoor and outdoor sleeved letterbox which also helps with draughts and is aesthetically pleasing...rather than a hole in the door. If you're waiting on an important letter (which MAY contain sensitive information) we don't have to worry about anybody stealing/reading the post. I've never liked the thought of an outdoor mailbox.

The hole in your front door is what we call ‘the letter box’, whether there is an actual box mounted inside the house to receive the post or not. If not, it lands on the hall floor. If you are not in to take delivery of a parcel the postman will either leave it with a neighbour, because he knows you do that for each other, or else it will be taken back to the main sorting office. A card is put through the letter box to advise you where it is so you either collect or you can opt to have it re-delivered. Letters and parcels are referred to as ‘the post’ and dotted throughout a town are the iconic round red cast iron ‘post boxes’ on the pavements into which you ‘post a letter’. There will be a notice on the front giving collection times. Where there is no pavement or it’s too narrow for a round post box, there may be a square shaped one mounted on a brick wall, still painted red and with the notice about collection times. Parcels need to be weighed, and large or thick letters have to be measured because charges vary, so you need a Post Office, which will either be a stand-alone building in a town or else a secure counter within another shop. These are called Sub-Post Offices. They will sell you the right value postage stamps and will take the parcel from you and keep it for collection by the van from the sorting office. Since COVID the Post Office has started a new service whereby they will collect parcels from your home. This was introduced because people stayed indoors and the PO business was being decimated by online shopping being delivered, and sometimes returned, via couriers.

as a brit I have never in my life seen a water tower in the UK so I'd say they are very rare indeed and not as common as the video makes out.

In the UK, we use standard public transport buses, private schools usually use a minibus or coach buse...

A few waters towers here in theUK have been turned into luxury houses usually commanding a lofty panoramic views over the countryside , we have tv shows showing people converting these towers plus old windmills costal forts or any old ruin .

I think perhaps one reason why they have mail boxes in the USA is that for the postal worker to get to the front door would add a lot of extra time onto their shift and so with mail boxes it would make it quicker, in the UK though houses are a lot closer to the pavement and so it is not much of a difference and also post is more secure. I also remember that when I was younger I used to watch the 'House Doctor' on channel 5 with was hosted by english presenter with an american interior designer, she had a lot of good ideas but she had a dislike of net curtains and always removed them not understanding the purpose, in the UK with most houses close to the street you could see inside a house from a pavement and so it was to give privacy but in USA the houses are so far back from the road I believe that is isnt a problem. I had a neighbour who decided to remove their net curtains and within a few months they were burgled.

In the UK, the fire hydrants are underground. But above ground we have a YELLOW SIGN - with a large 'H' to indicate where the hydrant is located. Two numbers appear on the sign, which indicate the size of the water main (the top number) and the distance from the sign (the lower number). Newer signs show these measurements in millimetres and metres, but older signs still use inches and feet.

I've encountered few "mail boxes" in England as a kid. Usually for houses with a dog where the owner didn't like their newspaper being shredded before they read it. The water towers are always concrete and the oldest ones quite elaborate. Where I grew up it was a landmark you could see on the highest hill in town looking like a victorian control tower.

We don’t have trash cans at all we have rubbish bins

You are expected to make your own way to school unless the school is (if I remember correctly) more than 5 miles away when a bus or taxi will be provided. Living in a fairly rural place that means you cannot get a taxi between around 7.30 to 9.30 am as they are all doing school runs

Is the mailbox locked? If so how does the mailman get into it? If not, anyone could steal your mail.

The fire hydrant in Briton is underground for safety the sign shown is the marker black H on a yellow background, the small numbers tells you the size of the pipe and the other number tells you how far the cover is from the sign.

Concrete water towers in the UK are so strong people have converted them into homes.

You don't have bill boards on the side of the motorway but you do sometimes have them in fields by the side.

This guy sacrifices clarity for comedy, he could explain things a little better as many of the comment point out.

In the UK a lot of water towers double up as cell phone sites with the aerials either on the top or more commonly around the out side.

Considering that in the UK mail companies have a legal obligation to make sure that a letter or package is delivered to the resident's door they have no choice but to go up long driveways, to out of reach areas and post it through the box or place it in an agreed safe spot. And for the record there are only water towers in the Lowlands of Scotland because the Highlands get there's straight from the hills 😂

In the city kids normally take a normal public bus, out in villages there is "coaches" that students take since transport is a rarity.

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Imagine having your mail right by the public path where passing kids can steal or mess with your mail. Mesh fences..ugh! We wouldn’t buy a house that looked like that! School buses…usually kids hop on the regular service bus…taking them over at school going home time. A few schools have a contracted mini bus service for kids. Hydrants….you can park next to ours without being ticketed, they are under covers in the sidewalk. Flags…We don’t fly the flag of the Union commonly and rarely on houses, but some municipal buildings and of course Royal Residence.

The British "hydrant" shown is simply a sign saying where the hydrant is - it'll be under a small cover buried in the road or paving. The "H" sign has a couple of numbers on it saying the pipe size and exactly where the hydrant is.

Most of the objects that are listed in the video can be found in the UK, but some of them have such different appearance’s that Lawrance(? Spelling?) can be forgiven for not recalling them and some are only found in certain parts of the country. For example water towers are only usual found in the dryer parts of the country and most of them have been demolished or converted into private houses because the water supply is sufficiently interconnected to enable the water to be pumped from one area to another to maintain the supply in all but the worst drought conditions and the pressure is maintained at a higher level in the mains pipes. The water towers that have been sold off for conversions to housing are usually the older ones that are made of brick or concrete and look like they’re an old castle tower. In most cases we store the water in open reservoirs or dams before it is treated and filtered then pumped into smaller storage tanks or subterranean clean holding areas that only hold maybe two or three days worth of water for the areas that are connected to the supply reservoirs and these are hidden all over and interconnected so that if a part of the infrastructure is damaged or contaminated it can be isolated, for repairs or retreated with the minimal effect on the consumer. School buses are usually vehicles from the normal service fleets in the main so they can be used for the public while the pupils are in school instead of being parked up in depots awaiting the trips back home. Billboards are usually only to be found in urban districts so that they don’t detract from the views in the countryside and the driver’s on the motorway’s are not losing their attention from traffic and road conditions I could carry on but I think that my point has been made that the video presenter is out of touch and could benefit his shows by completely back across the pond for some revisions of his knowledge.

Some people in England might like white fences, but most prefer hedges of various sorts. Usually, only gardens that are not accessible to visitors have external boxes. We have a front door and a side door, both with letter boxes. The "H" sign simply shows where the hydrant is, usually like a drain access in appearance.

To answer questions from the US (and ones from Tyler): *Water Towers* - We DO have water towers, but they are usually concrete (the one in the video is a decent example), in the UK our water tends to be kept in Resevoirs (looks like lakes surrounded by concrete), or pulled directly from the water table underground (which is why water in the UK is sometimes called "Hard Water" and can cause limescale). *School Buses* - Most Schoolkids will ride the local bus service or use normal buses, some schools will have a deal with the local Bus Company to hire a couple of dedicated buses to run a special line to certain parts of the town - they do not deliver the kids door-to-door. *White Picket Fences* - British front gardens usually will have tall bushes on the edges (if it's more rural), at the back we usually have tall wooden fences that extend to around shoulder/head height (think of Simon Pegg's running gag of jumping fences for the visual). Some older or lower cost places have a mesh fence at the back, but these tend to be older terraced houses that are in blocks of 4 or more houses so the sides are separated with the normal wooden fences. *Front Yard Mailboxes* - Postmen/women and newspaper deliveries are done through a letterbox (slot) in the front door (they will walk up the front garden path to the front door and push the mail through the slot on the door (which has a spring loaded covering plate that allows stuff to go in but not go out the other way). *Cylindrical Fire Hydrants* - Firemen in the UK can plug a hose into a dedicated small square "manhole cover" in the pavement they can lift up and access the water main under the road. *The American Flag* - less common these days (thanks to American cultural influence), we generally do not fly the national flag unless it's a big sporting event or national event (such as the world cup or a Royal event like a wedding or a birth). In fact those who used to fly the flag all the time (especially the English St George's Cross) used to be viewed negatively by others as there are some unfortunate cultural associations of violence and intolerance associated with the "Football Hooligan" who likes to drape themselves in the English/British flag. This negative view of Flag-waving is becoming less commonly talked about though and people are starting to display flags more these days thanks to all the influence of media from the US.

There are dedicated yellow school buses in the UK but it's for the special kids! Oh, i see why they're so popular in america now!

Only private owned schools in the UK have school buses, majority use public transport. The H just shows where the fire hydrant is and how far deep it is. It’s basically underground 😊

The uk fire hydrants are buried under the steet in a little metal box thing. The yellow sign on the wall is to tell firefighters where. In this case the two refers to two feet down and the eight to eight feet acros. There they will find the water supply. Alternatively it gives my dog something to piss on.

There are a few billboards on the side of roads and motorways in the UK.

In the UK kids either catch a regular bus that just happens to go near their school or, if there is a specific bus just for the school run, the local council will usually have a deal with the local bus company and instead of a number on the bus it'll just say something like "St Joseph's School".

another 1 u notice is your parcel deliveries like amazon just dump at door and leave in the uk most off them will knock and actually wait til u answer if not it goes to a neighbour or goes back

European hydrants are usually built into the sidewalk.. Firemen come up to them, pluck out the metal plate protecting it and usually install a "hydrant looking" contraption on top, sometimes with one, or sometimes even with 2 water outlets and dedicated valves for them. The hydrant outlet main valve itself in turn is located in the sidewalk right beneath the connection and you use a relatively huge socket wrench or a more specialised tool to operate it. ;) (After which you then can manage the outlets on top on their own valves ;))

The only yellow school buses in the UK are those used by local councils to get children to special schools, those with severe learning difficulties or disabilities.

"Oh my gosh! What is this thing?" Er...he's just told you: it's a water tower.

In Ireland, we usually have brick walls between our gardens. If I seen one of those metal fences, I'd be shocked because it just doesn't offer enough privacy. You can see through it, and over it. It just doesn't feel like enough of a separation to me. I'd want a barrier that I can't just look through. As that is, it looks more like a fence going through one person's property, not something to divide two properties.

When I was at school in the UK 20 years ago the majority of the school buses were retired touring coaches, with a few service buses as well, we had about a dozen serving our schools routes, all run by private companies.

We do have some motorway adverts in the Uk, but they are anything but common, more like rare. The metal mesh fences in the Uk are more common around business premises. The Fire Hydrants built into the side of buildings in the Uk are usually Dry Risers (very occassionally Wet Risers) with the the inlet joint on the outside of the building for the fire tender to attach itself to , then an outlet joint on each floor of the building for the firemen to attack the business end of their hoses to for easier fire fighting per floor. The outside joint of the Dry Riser is usually situated near a road based Fire Hydrant to allow the Fire Tender to act as a pumping station between the Hydrant & Dry Riser (The Dry Risers are more common than Wet Risers as they can't spring a leak).

Laurence grew up here in Grimsby, service buses are used for school buses which would go back into regular service on a particular route afterwards, coaches are used as well and actual service buses which Laurence would have ridden in. There is/are a video/s on his channel when he has returned to Grimsby. The H signs are marking where the hydrant is located which is under a manhole on the ground in front of the sign the fire brigade insert their equipment in and turn the water on, I watched the fire brigade checking the hydrant opposite the house I grew up in, i don’t know where the nearest one is where I live now.

In Brighton, UK, school buses use regular city buses but have designated route numbers for morning & afternoon, for example: 94 Cardinal Newman, that serviced parts of Brighton & Hove. Other school children just board regular city buses if it wasn't in their housing estate & the rest either just walked or carpooled with friends/neighbours/parents if it was in their housing estate or close by in another housing estate. It took me 45 minutes to walk to my school, I got soaked in the rain by the time I got to the end of my road that that took 10 minutes to walk, so I changed schools which the school was almost opposite my house & left home 10 minutes before class started so I was there for registration on time & dry.