American Reacts to SHOCKING Things About English Culture 

Plus we have drivers at fault rather than the children so they’re more incentive to watch for kids

It was the greencross code for me as a small child I would have to cross the main road at age 4 alone and never been hit by a car. We had them advert of the squirrel going for an ice cream and on how to cross the road and what would happen if you didn't 😂. Because I was a child career for my sick disabled mother so always crossed the road alone and learnt at a very young age how to stay safe with traffic

Not any more we don't. Kids seem to think they have free rein to fuck about on the road, and in the dark as well. AND the motorist gets prosecuted and suffers life-long trauma when they kill one of these suicidal lemmings

@@kathryndunn9142 The Greencross Code guy was none other than David Prowse AKA Darth Vader

@@Richard_Ashton that's right 😁

Not sure what you mean by 'tilt', but we always look right first because of the driving on the left thing.

@@gingerfreak01 Yes, 'tilt' is not the right word, but personally, I look left and right before crossing as you never know what random decisions people will make in regards to their movements...

​@@gingerfreak01 I have a one way road round the corner from me but I always look both ways when crossing it, partly due to instinct and partly due to the fact some nutter might not know what a no entry sign means

@@samuelpinder1215 yeah i know what you mean, i live on a one way road with a roundabout at the bottom, and busy roads to get everywhere on either side, so i gamble on whether im getting hit by some asshole who doesnt understand one way, doesnt indicate at the roundabout, or one of about 10 a day of police and ambulances ramming down my street to get to the rough part of here quick

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Enough to live is subjective but they recieve a minimum wage, which we see as a society to be enuf... I personally despise minimum wage as a general Rule but can't see an alternate so ;/ not complaining necessarily

Also it's a gesture of good service and it's 100% optional

@@nameunavailable-gp3ot Enough to live on is not subjective. It can be easily quantified and is used to determine what is known as the poverty line, a measure that civilised nations use to ensure that no citizen actually lives in poverty.

@@davidbarry994 not true at all u have no idea how the economy an markets work clearly

@@nameunavailable-gp3ot we cant trust employers to pay a fair wage so the minimum wage is necessary, with out it people would still be paid 5 quid an hour, the current wage is still too low in my opinion and should be closer to 15 an hour

I had a Swedish colleague about 15 years ago who informed me that London is Sweden's third largest city. I don't know whether that is still true.

@@CreamCobblerFiend Thanks, didn't know that

Though that rule confuses the heck out of everyone including the pedestrians so we often have cars waiting for people to cross the junction and people waiting for the car to go, so no one goes anywhere lol.

Always fun when it's the only car on the road and it would have been faster for them to just keep going, but now you have to wait for them to come to a stop before you can cross It's like, "Nice try, but you're actually making things worse"

In my opinion its the most stupid change ever made, Its been introduced for mobile phone zombies that cant look up from their phones to see where they are going to put the blame on motorists for knocking these idiots over.

Damn I didn’t even know that and I live here😂 but yeah I can’t believe you get arrested for that, like if there’s no cars on the road you still have to use the lights. Mental

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Yeah, either use the force, or join the Dark side....RIP David Prowse ( Green Cross Code man )

Yes we wre

And the Green cross code man

He came to my school in 1980 and I was the child that got picked to help demonstrate. So I got to hold his hand and told him he sounded like my Grandad (who was also from Somerset). I also got to meet him dressed as Darth Vader in London when I was a couple of years older. Lovely guy.

I always use a crossing for fear of a telling off or a fine.

@@georgebarnes8163 from whom ?

so true😂

@@stevenjohnson4190 the plod

@@georgebarnes8163 you won't Unless you are being a dick. You are allowed to cross the road anywhere you choose

But if you think about it, the switch doesn’t really make it any safer. The U.K. pins are shielded so that when you remove a plug it is not possible to get electrocuted even if you touch them. Furthermore, the socket has shutters over the live and neutral holes so that a child cannot insert a metal object in them without putting something in the Earth hole. It is more likely done for convenience if you don’t want to remove the plug, you can just switch it off.

@@hks-lion you are correct in that UK pins are shielded but the switch is a safety thing, mostly fire safety if i remember correctly. Also with the UK style you can often get the electrical current jumping as you plug it in (Which is very unsafe), which another reason to be able to turn off the power so you can safely plug it in

Higher than the rest of Europe? The rest of Europe is not getting electrocuted all the time, and I thought we were all using the same in this continent

@@mscatzord Europe uses a slightly different type of plug. It’s similar but not the same

@@deathvai364 I know it has a different shape and no switches. But isn’t it the same voltage, without needing a switch for safety?

Yeah I think a lot of people dont understand just how old the system is and that it was the first of its kind, designed to service a MUCH smaller population. There is also the problem of an already existing MASSIVE underground tunnel system for water and another for waste. Then there is also yet another massive underground flood tunnel system which has existed for a couple of hundred years. Simply put, there was not enough room for a bigger underground railway system as it had to avoid, run alongside or go under the existing tunnels. All things considered I think they did a very good job to get it as good as they did.

The subway in Boston MA is the second oldest, and is so small that at some stations doors open on both sides, as the subway is so small it’s single track in some places.

Indeed. London Underground's first route opened on 10 January 1863. To put that in prospective, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863... 9 days earlier.

And they were used in World War one and two as air raid shelters

​@@jakesinclair69420 just 2 not much need for air raid shelters in ww1 especially in Britain

This fellow is dim. Firs he thinks 'so many foreigners' means lots of American tourists, then he thinks it means world travellers from all over. All they're saying is that London is full of immigrants and he can't grip it. A little slow on the uptake.....

Same here, south Asian present! 👋

I was born and raised in the uk but i was always taught and believe if you live in the uk or have uk citizenship you are British and whatever else you might be

​@@efficientwillI have always been taught that as well, they are British

The UK is 87% white British. The other 13% live in London.

And you don't have to tip?

@@Thurgosh_OG well, we dont ''HAVE'' to.. its seen as a bonus for servers for good service.. Because servers here get paid hourly or monthly wage and actually can live on it. So tipping is seen as a bonus for good work. Of course we dont have to leave a tip, and usually its not much about 1-3 pounds.

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But if you say something that offend someone in England...you get arrested.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS JAY WALKING IN ANYWHERE BUT AMERICA

yeah, this is the case for most people too. the people in the video make it sound complicated when it’s really not 😂

I thought that I commented this. We have the same profile. Also I’m British as well. What a coincidence.

I've heard though that if you leave the switch on, even if you are not using the equipment that electricity is still being used and so you are wasting money. I can't remember where I heard that from though. Xx

@@tjg750 😂 yeah

@@borntotry4 oh! Good info to have so thanks!

I do and would not Jaywalk

@@georgebarnes8163 What do you do? And where do you not Jaywalk? Since there's no such thing in Britain.

@@Thurgosh_OG NI

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@@Thurgosh_OG Man walks 5 miles to the nearest road crossing of course

I only tip for good service if I know they get to keep it too. I don't agree on places that make the staff pool the tips. If I get a good service I want the person who delivered the service to be the one to benefit it!

I tip in a lot of places, even if the service is standard, waiters get paid a minimum or living wage but a few extra quid does just feel nice. And a lot of them are at the stage in life where a tip can make a difference.

I'd say 10% is the rule of thumb for tipping here. More or less depending on quality of service of course :)

Even a good experience I’m not tipping. They’re just doing their job just like I do mine. I don’t know anyone who tips.

Usually 10% tip if you’ve had good service in like a restaurant

Yeah to me crossing the road or “jaywalking” as they call it is just common sense to me

what is jaywalking?

@@otps8035 not crossing at a cross walk like just walking over the main road

jaywalking was made to make pedestrian incidents the fault of the pedestrian to make society more car dominant

Pedestrians, equestrians and cyclists all have right of way over motor sized vehicles in the UK. Although explaining this to hot headed drivers is always difficult, some people seem to turn into Ronnie Pickering as soon as anybody with a right to be in "their way" is.

This!!! I paused after screaming "USE THE SINK PLUG" multiple times at the screen. You then rinse with cold water & rub your hands dry on towels or use a dryer

?? We don't do that

@@ameliashandcraftedmemes7888 Don't do what?

who wants to wait 30 seconds to fill the sink up tho? and what if you missing the drain plug? i think its just more simple to put a mixing spout on the sink this must be some old time thing

@@Platinumdose420 Sink plugs cost like £1 or equivalent from anywhere selling hardware. Plus using it saves water

It probably because cars are king in the USA and most US cities and towns are built for the car

They haven't invented brakes for cars in Merica, they come as standard features for cars in the UK so the drivers use them to not hit people crossing the roads

Basically people were getting hit by cars and car manufacturers lobbied. Now you can't cross the street like a grown-up. #FreeDumb

@@JamesCorp UK carriage ways (roads to the rest of the world) are just that, they were made for horse-drawn carriages (most being 1-6 horse power, literally), speeding vehicles never used to be an issue, when cars came about, we adapted our carriage ways to accommodate them. In the US, Car is King and their road system was designed for and around cars and those pesky pedestrians just get in the way.

People in the US are allowed as many firearms as they wish, but it's too dangerous to let people cross the road on their own; presumably because they are weighed down by all the firearms.

Free you know the r is silent dont you

@@geoffpriestley7001 Very drole. However true.

I know Americans are a funny lot

Land of the free which has the highest percentage of the population in prison :)

@DONALDSON51 free lol u get fined for crossing the road lol

I find this a bizarre culture shock for them 😂

In older houses, there was a tank in the roof to give pressure to the hot water system. For some reason, they never put a cover on it! So it might be full of bugs, spiders and even the occasional dead bird. So we were taught never to use the hot tap to fill the kettle or for any food or drink, only for washing and bathing. But we still washed our dishes with it!

@@franroxburgh6055 Even the ones with the lids on I wouldn’t drink as it’s been stagnant and sitting for a while. The cold mains just always feels fresher

It depends on your area. Most hilly areas around the UK are built on flint, chalk or sometimes limestone, which contaminates the water. We call this “hard water” so some of or most houses will have water filters to make the water safer to drink.

Adding on, some may choose to buy filter taps, where one handle is for the filtered water and the other for the hot and cold supply. You can’t adjust the temperature of the filtered water so it depends on the house owner/ tenant.

I moved to Fulham to work about 20 years ago and split my time 50/50 between living in the City & up in Aberdeen. It’s weird - they both cancel each other out. It feels really good to escape to the relative calm of the North East of Scotland but then after 6 months I’m itching to get back to the mayhem. I think you need to live there to really get what it’s like. There’s more people living within Londons boundaries than in the WHOLE country of Scotland - I just find that nuts lol

I watched a good video earlier of a young woman who’s ancestors were from Scotland & North of England so she ditched life in Miami and is currently living in Manchester. It’s good hearing about people moving to places not in London for a change.

Imagine that culture shock, in Yorkshire people are actually courteous 😂 Less multicultural, and shockingly less populated, I personally love going to the north rather than south just because it’s so beautiful and the people are soooo friendly (I’m from the midlands) I notice London city people don’t smile back, they don’t even talk to you, its so unfriendly, which is shocking as there’s so many people.

londoners get a culture shock in the north lol, im in the middle and MUCH prefer north to south

...yeah, or even if they didn't go north, they just went to somewhere smaller...

How else do you prevent wasting power?

@@Granolora usually you don't or just unplug stuff. That's what people use smart switches for now too

@@ChaosAngel1331 It's a lot easier to turn the socket on and off, rather than pull out the plug and then have to find it (possibly under or behind other things) to plug it back in when needed. We do also have unswitched sockets for things that you don't want turned off (like the fridge, PVR, etc,). You could (and still can, although they are less common now) get plugs with a built-in switch for use with existing unswitched outlets.

Our electric plugs are the safest in the world, child. Safe and stupid safe

Civilised world? Don't make me laugh, so long as oppression exists in the world there is no civilised world.

It's also quite unique with the experience of some random kid on his little 50cc scooter to ride along by you snatching your phone you was texting on right out of your hands, or bee threatened to be stabbed while minding your own business in the streets! Good old London and how im so glad im somewhere else equally bad xD (Kent)

@kipp kipper lol yh, tons of tourist down my way too, they love margate for some reason, I think it's a shit hole personally xD

​@kippkipper4126In think native Americans could say the same thing you said regarding the European settlers who entered the USA in the 17th century and afterwards: "Pretty sure this wasn't an issue before the foreigners arrived" regarding crime etc. As those white European settlers did everything they could to wipe out the native Americans. Also the natives in Canada, parts of Africa, India and Australia could say the very same thing about white foreigners on their land. Maybe it's about time to wind your neck in, ey??

How appropriate your name is! I would have known that you were a kipper without reading your name. And, no, that is not a compliment, no matter how proud you are of being a xenophobic "little Englander".

And here come all the little englander racists, London’s diversity is the reason that it rose to become a megacity, it was the mixing of cultures and ideas that led to its huge law, finance and insurance businesses with the Lombards, Jews, Huguenots and Dutch all making major contributions.

as someone whos lived in the countryside their whole life, i completely agree. just look both ways and cross the road. theres nothing to it.

It's like they don't trust adults to be able to cross a road. I've always thought it was weird. Someone I know was angrily shouted at by a random woman for crossing the road in Germany.

@@colz22the origin of Jaywalking is literally car companies trying to blame pedestrians for getting run over, early in car history the roads were open to everybody including pedestrians so drivers who weren’t careful ended up killing a lot of people and initial reaction was very much anti-car, after all people had been walking in the road for millenia just fine before rich people started driving those death machines. Naturally car companies were worried that potential bans on cars and general anti-car sentiment would ruin sales, so they decided to start a propaganda campaign blaming people for walking in the road, and they needed a really derogatory name for it so they took a slur(jay) and just added walking to the end of it, and somehow it fucking worked. The entire history of the car is full of shit like this from car companies, ruining society at every possible step in order to push their sales, from forcing pedestrians off the roads to buying out and dismantling public transit to enforce an automobile orthodoxy all the way to the modern day where the latest trend is creating bigger and bigger pickup trucks that stroke drivers ego’s while killing more and more kids every year due to the reduced visibility and greater weight

​@@deeznoots6241 pickup trucks is an american thing and has been for years. No one here uses them as farmers will use a land rover or proper offroader that's been made for years by a company who know what they're doing

@@samuelpinder1215 na here in the UK we got stupid ass oversized estate cars instead

​@Colin Daly in Germany, the laws are different. You cannot cross the road at a crossing without it being on green, even when it is safe to do so. It's bonkers too me as someone who is from the UK (West Midlands). They do have a point about the taps though... I've never understood that!!

And the tube is loads safer than the new york subway

I'm from Birmingham and I absolutely despised the Underground. Its not the Underground itself its the people.

@@cyberturkey77 Honestly, when I'm on the tube I absolutely despise people from other towns. Oftentimes than not, clueless and carry themselves like someone owes something to them. When in Rome... lol

Is your name Tyler or Jeanette

I'm from Wales and I've been to London a few times and i say the tube lines are a marvel of engineering

It also saves electricity if its turned off, even if nothing is plugged in

I don't think it's regulations, like 10% don't have switches. It's just convenient.

@@jimmyryan5880 I can't remember tge last time I saw a 13 amp socket which didn't have a switch. I would have thought tgey were extremely uncommon.

Domestic power to US Homes is 240 volts. This is used to all fixed installed appliances , (Washers/Dryers, Aircon) etc. This is split into 110 for room sockets.

@@jimmyryan5880 I think it is in the regs now. You can have unswitched sockets, where the socket is not easily accessible, so you put a switch elsewhere that is. eg a washing machine under the workop would be plugged into an unswitched socket, but there would be a switch above the worktop to cut the power to the socket. I wonder if it's because of our traditional ring circuits for sockets which can handle a higher current that an equivalent radial circuit. In mainland Europe, 230 V is alos used, closer to 220 in most countries, but only radial circuits are allowed. There all sockets are unswitched. Mayne someone more knowlegeable can confirm?

But 90% not talking English🤣😂🤣 its not like that yet.

@@deanmaximus9770 True

Add the overseas residents and the tourists and in some places in London you would be hard pressed to find a native born person. Of the native borns few were born in London. People move to London from all over the UK and the World. I was born in London but had to move away because it became too expensive to live there. Cheese - there are over 700 recognised British cheeses, when you add in the hundreds from mainland Europe which are also available in the UK the choice is huge.

@@deanmaximus9770 yes they were a bit heavy on that number :)

@@deanmaximus9770 do we think maybe Americans can't understand some British dialects...?

Yes, simples

Exactly

Could you not have just ignored the fine ? Argued you’re case

@@cameronrichardson3108 I probably could have but my husband is American and I didn't want to jeopardise my ability to go to the US

It's about raising revenue.

Can I ask where you were visiting that you got fined for this? Because I've lived here my entire life and I've never heard of this law being enforced. It's pretty widely accepted as a joke law... I'm guessing maybe NYC takes it a bit more seriously because of the sheer amount of traffic, but I've never been there so that's just speculation.

@@dannykent6190 it was in Shelton, CT. We're talking 15 years ago

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How can they be Londoners if they're from another country..? A Londoner is someone born there. I'm from London (well Essex originally, but my bit was absorbed into Greater London yonks ago). I now live in Scotland, but I'll never be Scottish however long I live here.

@@TestGearJunkie. Scotland is a country, ofc you'll never be Scottish unless it's literally bred into your bloodline. Living in a City long enough and integrating can definitely make you a member of said City. Regardless of your birthplace. Example: I'm not a Scouser, but I'm still a Liverpudlian.

You nailed it Jabbra

Eh? What do you mean complete the circuit? The earth pin doesn't switch on the socket??? The only thing the earth pin does is move the plastic guard out of the way so that L & N can be inserted. It's possible to stick anything into the earth to expose the L & N.

I think what he means is that without taking an extra step to use something to open then guard flaps first the circuit can't be completed as the live parts of the socket are covered

As an electrician, I can assure you the earth doesn't "complete" the circuit. By definition, an earth provides the quickest route to earth, literally. Without it though, electricity is still very much capable of causing death, thus, a completed circuit. We have a much safer system than other countries, granted, but your statement was pretty wide of the truth, it's still incredibly easy to electrocute yourself, but at least in the UK you'll likely survive depending on the circumstances.

Umm, another reason why UK sockets have switches is due to the voltage of the electricity differences in the UK and USA. Typical voltages in the USA are 120 volts while in the UK 230 volts. The switch and fuse add the extra safety to prevent house fires in the UK, which is why the USA does not have switches on their sockets.

@Fidd88 120 volts is still a dangerous amount, so ofcourse you would be shocked when in contact with the live wire.

Yeah. Here in Ipswich where I live, we have a lot of one way streets, but on some the cycle lanes on the sides are going in the opposite direction. Don't ask me why... madness if you ask me. So you gotta watch for motor vehicles from one direction, and cyclists from the other...

There’s that and then there’s the service charge which a lot of places add on. That’s the sort of “tip” but as you said they get paid a fair wage so most people don’t see it necessary

That's true and it's not a good thing.

@@neilgayleard3842 Somewhat new to the concept of history, aren't you.

@@neilgayleard3842 It's an amazing thing.

yes the knife crime and rape gangs are a great addition to our nation.............

@@DamnedDave Added circa 47AD. Because, you know, large cities.

TBH only time tipping is common in the UK is taxi drivers

is this a thing i different areas because im also from the UK and never heard of tipping till i watched videos like these

​@@philiprice7875also betting shops if someone has a large enough win, which is totally down to individual interpretation

Where i live in the UK tipping 5 pounds is seen as mean

​@@randomchaos69 probably from the south then lol

Except Motorways - I'm not sure it's against the law as such, but if you are caught, you will definitely get a stern talking to haha.

the land of the free but its illegal to cross the road haha

@@dylanmurphy9389 makes you wonder if America has "why did the Chicken cross the road jokes" - because if they do, they must find it really difficult to understand the concept of the Chicken crossing the road ;)

@@AndrewJonesMcGuire why did the chicken cross the road? Because the light turned Green

Jay walkingis walking corner to corner at a cross road. We just use our eyes!

Maybe shocked is an overstatement, but every place is different and you kinda have to take some time to get used to it.

Americans are not well travelled. Not like Europeans. It's quite insular in the USA. In fact I would say Brits and Australians are the most travelled nations.

Cos it’s illegal there they are saying

Damn we need that down here in Devon

So I could just go to a farmers field and just sleep there? This should be implemented in England so the pissheads don't get arrested

@@MohammedWentBoom as long as you don't destroy any crops or leave a mess, you're good to go!

​@@Svvich_ You say that, until Londoners arrive

Don't try that in the US or you might end up with a bullet in yo' a**

wait until you find out about fused plugs!

@@del69blue to be fair he gets confused quite easily.

Lol what!! Absolutely outlet switches are better, incase a child with wet hands or something etc is putting stuff in sockets

wait... Americans don't have them??!!

​@@Vallandarsarchive no other country has switched sockets

Additionally, the pressure of mains and tank water is so different, if you tried to do a mixer tap with the old system, the mains water would just push the hot water back into the tank.

Additionaly the cold water is always on the right and the hot water is on the left, even with modern mixer taps, This is so visually impaired people will always know which is the cold water and which is the hot water, Plus both the hot and cold water must not mix until it is coming out of a mixer tap, so that there is still two separate ways to turn both the hot and cold water on and off, (an on/off for cold water and a separate on/off for hot water), 🇬🇧😎👍🏼

@@steelpanther9568 Other way round it's the international standard. Hot is on the left, cold is on the right

@@rupertbear4447 , I thought it was meant to be that way round, but the flat that I’m living in, it’s the other way around, 🤔

@@steelpanther9568 Unironically, every hose I have lived in had cold on the right, because you use cold water much more often and so it's easier to access with the right hand....

limescale also on a bad day included dead pigeons

@@graveperil2169 Rats, bats, and various other dead animals too, in some cases. Mould in several more mundane cases.

The separate tank is an old feature that's being phased out, which is why this isn't as common anymore and you see more mixer taps these days. Modem boilers heat hot water on demand, so there's no need for a tank to store it.

@@Leonfei Exactly this. Also, we have a setting for the hot water temperature on our boilers (I'm guessing you call them "water heater's" in America because you're very literal at naming things (eye glasses, for example, and we just call them glasses). Anyway... we have a temperature setting for the hot water so if you live in a house that doesn't have a mixer tap then you're meant to set the hot water to a temperature that's hot enough to clean, but not so hot that it burns.

Also in much older buildings the hot water pipes used to be made out of lead which was poisonous when ingested, the term plumbing comes from the latin word for lead which is plumbum

@@ოChiamariaო I lived in England for 40yrs I currently have been living in Australia for 35yrs. I'd forgotten that in Swanston St, Melbourne pedestrians are expected to use crossings and obey the lights because of traffic and trams but that's the only place I can think of.

​@@1lordthorpe When I lived in Melbourne, in my first week I saw someone getting fined for jay walking on Elizabeth Street. After that I was always nervous crossing against a red light.

I remember when I was a girl, we were on holiday in Switzerland and went to cross the road to get to a cafe. A policeman blew his whistle and made my dad lead us about twenty feet down the road. There was no traffic. We crossed at the crossing, still no traffic. We went into the cafe and had our lunch. Still no traffic. The jobsworth cop was nowhere to be seen.

​@@checkthiskid Australia you can also get fined for being drunk in public. This isnt america we're talking about. This is the aussies. They then also make drink driving illegal which means you can get drunk but do you have to sleep on the floor of the club or something? How do they expect you to get home

@@checkthiskid Yeah, but they're talking about crossing where there is no crossing or light. If you're at a crossing controlled by lights, then you'd be daft not to take heed of them, because they're controlling the traffic for you as well.

I agree, but we call them subways in Scotland too.

@@glyniswilliamson1912 What of the Glasgow Subway then? I was always curious about it, since it's the only rapid transit line in Britain not to be called the "Underground" or the "Metro," but the Subway, like New York! I'm not from the UK, just a train nerd that finds your trains fascinating! lol

I'm British and I live in Cornwall. I love tipping because must people are on a basis hourly wage. Tipping is very much appreciated and makes people smile. A reasonable tip is at least 10%. However, I would never leave less than £2, when the 10% would be below that. I hope that makes sense.

There was no plug in the sink which the usual scenario! As a Brit, hot and cold taps make me fume. We’re impatient beings. Who’s got time for putting in the plug, mixing hot and cold to an acceptable temperature and then repeating the process to rinse the soap from your hands. And THEN rinsing off the sink(if you care about the next person)! Uses about five times the amount of hot water too!

That's not the taps and sinks fault

@@dominicrannveigparry-davie2852then just grow up and use the hot or cold tap, it’s really not that bad to get cold water on your hands for a few seconds

@@SeanL.. What?

@@aaaa-xf3hx What?

a couple of days ago it was its 160 year anniverisary

Cannit whack it , that's why we're the best country in the world Rule Britannia 🇬🇧

Its also over a 100 years older than the South Korean metro there comparing it to, which was built in the mid 1970's up to today.

Get your tenses right. We're just a backwater since Brexit and steadily declining.

@@1969JohnnyM At least 'Pushers' are not employed yet! To cram people in so the doors can close as in some Asian cities during peak hours.

And you might need a new plug after, but it's not in the wall anymore!

It's crazy how dangerous the American outlets are compared to the UK

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I'm just surprised they don't have switches for their wall sockets, does that mean their circuits are always active as long as you dont have something plugged in? From my knowledge our switches turn that plug socket off from the main power supply.

@@kitty3999 unless you switch it off at the fuse board or something it's always live. Definitely very dangerous compared to the UK

I hear it all the time in Hertfordshire UK it drives me mad WHAT is the need

the problem in the UK isn't facetime or whatever, it's just people listening to music loud in public. horrible, obnoxious music. But being British, we do consider them extremely obnoxious and rude, but we just don't say anything...

⁠@@MarkKnightSHGright?? or people loudly playing youtube videos on their phones… happens all the time on the bus, so annoying like get some headphones!!

WEIRD not wierd

@@MarkKnightSHG I find the phenomenon a very 'inner city' thing. Also people shouting into their phones so an entire restaurant/train/bus can hear the conversation. It's both embarrassing and rude.

Exactly - the deep-cut lines (such as the Northern) have small-diameter tunnels, mainly for strength with many tons resting above them (and the Thames too)! The shallower 'cut and shut' lines (basically covered cuttings) use much larger stock, almost equitable with overground vehicles.

It is still taught. I’m gen Z, we had cycling classes and about 50 thousand videos on how to cross the road. God I used to hate it.

@@rosecardew7063 glad to hear it is still taught!

​@@victoriamyatt1709 Yes, indeed it is. My 5yr old twin grand children are currently taking part at school. 👍

Defo taught in my old school 5 years ago

Me too, that was my memory of childhood too. Loved it when the policeman came to teach these lessons.

My husband will usually say "and one for yourself" at least once during an evening in the local pub, and it's always accepted. But I guess it depends on the pub. We usually drink in a traditional local pub, with locally brewed beer, and there's always the regular local drinkers. If we were visiting a homogeneous"chain" pub, he wouldn't usually be saying "and have one for yourself"!

Cheeses? Cheese is its own plural like Chinese you wouldn't call them Chineseeses

@@matbateman2076 If you insist on correcting people at least ensure you are correct. The plural form in a sentence that is describing many types of cheeses. Please feel free to Google it.

@@matbateman2076 'Lots of cheese' could be lots of Cheddar, whereas 'lots of cheeses' would mean a whole gamut of different types...

And adjust the water temperature in the bowl to their preferred comfort level - for several minutes !! Conjoined hot and cold single taps NEVER in my experience (and I'm 80) stay at the temperature that you initially set. Makes rinsing hands easy, rinsing a facecloth (etc) with ones eyes closed whilst being covered in what would be eye stinging soap suds. Also cold water is virtually bacteria free whilst warm water encourages bacterial growth. You want a bacterial cleansing (that IS why you're washing your hands or face right?) rather than a "clean" cleansing? Depends on the heating system of course but you get the idea. Most things in the UK are the way they are for a reason - and the narrow tube cars? First subway in the world and bloody big for thee time they were designed which was ca.1893 (Edit for typo - blind in one eye so there may be more. Oops !!)

Hot water from taps is not hot enough to kill bacteria anyway... it's an illusion.

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I fell of my chair laughing as she flapped her hands under the taps. It must be a joke.

Sometimes the cover of the header tank for the hot water system would shift and a pigeon or mouse might get in and drown, so the hot water was not considered safe to drink.

three countries try four or do we just forget about northern ireland

@@derekrose6949 Reread my comment, if you bothered to notice clever clogs I said there were three OTHER countries in the UK and not just England, all in all that makes 4 countries Derek.

​@@seanmark2674 grade A comeback my guy 😂

@@seanmark2674 Agreed🤣

Exactly, you're meant to run a bit of water in the sink. Using it while it's running is incredibly wasteful.

90% of UK taps are separate, so you're overstating the combined, saying "most".

@@Thurgosh_OG I must live in some kind of weird bubble then, or maybe its geographic. The places visitors seem to visit or stay seem more likely to have split taps.

We use plugs to block the outflow, or plughole as it is known, to mix the water to your preferred temperature.

@@wobaguk This may be a sort of confirmation bias - stay ten places with mixer taps and you just don't notice, but stay two places with separate, and you notice and remember. I've observed that the further from a major city you get, the more separate taps you see. Also older buildings that haven't been renovated since the 80s or earlier will tend to have them. For anywhere urban and modern though, it's practically unheard of. The subject is quite relevant to me because I sell bathroom products for a living here in the UK, I have done for 20 years, and a new set of separate taps is a rare and notable sale (the sales guys will even report back to their colleagues and talk about it afterwards 😂). They do exist, but I can literally count on one hand how many I personally have sold. The last set was in about 2008 to a very elderly couple.

Most of us Brits don’t turn the wall socket off unless you are say going away on holiday, you use the on off switch on the kettle, tv etc. Our plugs and sockets are so much safer than most countries and you don’t get the wire sticking out but running down the wall, so much safer.

there is also a cheese hotel!!! everything looks like cheese, even duvets and cushions! and there is a fridge in the room with lots of cheese in it. there is also room service to bring you more cheese based meals!

They were/are called Cheesemongers. J. Sainsbury & Co. started as a cheesemonger and expanded to selling Pork products (Ham & Bacon etc.) from separate marble counters and staff with a separate cash desk/kiosk so the 'dirty' cash wouldn't contaminate the food when handled. Separate queues for each counter and the cash desk. The shops were always bloody cold even in warm weather - all those white tiles.

We do tip hairdressers and taxi drivers.

The most famous is Paxton & Whitfield at St James's. The epitome of the Cheesemonger.

That's our number 1 rule: Respect Other People. It's why we have queues, hate speech laws, breach of the peace laws, noise laws, pedestrian priorities, decent buses, rigorous driving lessons & tests, zero tolerance policies in shops, etc...

@@elaineb7065 Yep. Although that's a very big lunch box now...

I worked in a coffee shop and was tipped frequently

American restaurants should have a line in the menu saying, "Please remember to always tip our wait staff, so that we don't have to pay them a decent living wage. Thank you for enabling us to exploit them, and you."

If you go to Japan, tipping is disrespctful

@@fayesouthall6604 okay? Not really sure what your point is😅. Tipping is not a forced culture in the UK, that is the point the OP is making.

Exactly this comment. The US are expected to tip because of the preposterous wages the services staff get paid. Here, there is a minimum wage that is not always 100% liveable (in terms of mortgage etc) but you can live a life on our minimum. We tip good service, as was said, and nothing for bad service. The two people in this video I'm sure said they've been living here a couple of years when they made the video? You'd think they'd have the due diligence to have looked this very simple thing up. 2yrs of confusion on when or when not to tip is purely their own ignorance.

Or eg, if the bill is say £36.25, give the £40 and say keep the change.

Not boring LONDON is BEUTUFUL

I think you are joking but I think they mean tunnel boring. Aka digging

@MR Blaze Pukka LONDON HOME

So is Glasgow but everyone still crosses the road without lights anyway

And that is where tiny electric cars come in, so small you can see them and so silent you can't tell they are coming... :D

@@eskhaphey2873 I sometimes just listen out and barely look, i'm dead once electric cars become the norm lol

@@dylanmurphy9389 It is highly unlikely to become, majority EV, due to the lack of resources required. The UK would have to use all of the worlds resources for EVs to become that way.

and a lot more useful than pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth

Are Americans that stupid they can't work out to put the plug I'm the sink and put hot and cold water I'm to make warm water jesus

And don't forget to look over your shoulder too, or you'll be run down by a cyclist or electric scooter!

And these seemed like smart Americans 🤦

In London it’s written on the road at all major junctions which way to look.

Also it means you won't get run over if you go to France.

Stop, look, listen.

Green Cross Code man, (or the person who played darth vader)

1863 actually.

You know between 1776 and 1900 a lot got lost over there😂

I switch my kettle on and off as and when needed. Same with lights. No dripping taps.😂 we have zebra crossings, but if the road is clear, we can cross. Remember being shown by Darth Vader how to cross a road, children are taught from a very young age.

Our kettle switch won't latch on unless there is power to the kettle, so you cannot forget.

The taps ( faucet ) you put the plug in the sink and fill with hot/ cold water

My brother lives in Czech and I've been there a few times and never experienced that. I crossed the road all the time

The weapons were the common easily understood language.

Love Prague. Never saw that in my life.

@@paulgallacher5384 Just relaying my own experience. Here in England, please appreciate that we can cross the road anywhere we like. We don't have to cross at a designated crossing.

I live in London and understand why you may think that but there is so much going on its not always obvious especially to people not too familiar with the place, the same can be said for the majority of other cities too, part of the fun is discovering what they have to offer.

@@eamonndoyle4753 yeah your right but the first thing a foreigner thinks when someone says England they think London. So many better places than a big city when you have the English countryside

I don't know about the south of England being overrated - we have palm trees and warmer weather for two :) - but it is very overpriced, housing in particular.

Rubbish, England is part of the United Kingdom if he wants to use the Union Jack then fair play to himself and you need to keep you ego in check mate.

@@jezlanejl the Union flag is for the U.K. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 have their own flags.

And Northern Ireland has a controversy But what’s new there

Could you please not be such a pedant?

@@jmurray1110 im from northern Ireland. Fuck up

FYI for USA citizenry: Sometimes the plug is operated by a foot pedal. Just remember that brains & eyes are intended to be used throughout the waking hours not just to pass multiple choice tests.

@MR Blaze Pukka The point that you may be trying to make eludes me - & I have read your response more than once! Perhaps if you revisited the text an amendment may be more enlightening. Cheers.

Even more never learned the 'old' highway code.. 😐

@@OurnameisLegion66 So true. 😂 ✌️❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈xxx Oh ps, I know they’re in London, England, but ffs that isn’t the whole of the UK… ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 no NI flag on emojis, says it all so 🇬🇧✌️🤪

Jaywalking is not an offence in GB but it is in NI.

The official flag for NI is the Union flag.

@@OurnameisLegion66 what has a flag got to do with jaywalking?

yes me too. Or I thought it meant someone was walking along the road instead of on the pavement, causing a huge traffic jam!!!

ditto, I always thought it was a hooker vying for business. 😂 Only till I went to the US I found out what it was. Ridiculous law, just educate people properly! 😂

Donkeys years ago you used to have a cold water tank and only one tap (kitchen) was straight from the main inlet and this drinkable water

@@stevenconnor4221 Also it is only fairly recently that Radiator water was separated from drinking water. Better safe than sorry!

Power switches on sockets is a relatively new development. When I grew up we had round-pin plugs and the sockets never had a switch.

@@saxon-mt5by Same with me. I don't often bother switching them off!

Relatively new like the last 45 years?

@@richardsmith2627 Probably longer ago than that, but it seems like yesterday!