#1 We British have the _appearance_ of politeness. Inside we seeth, and when that reaches a threshold we'll kick you in the bollocks - in a very polite and proper way.
I remember in London one time. Where an American tourist bumped into an English bloke. It was clearly the Americans fault. He had stopped abruptly, the English bloke went to walk around him. When the American suddenly went left towards instead of carrying straight on. He wasn’t looking where he was going, and bumped into the other guy. The English person said “oohhh sorry”. And the American said rather aggressively “YOU NEED TO WATCH WHERE YOURE GOING”. It was literally the Americans fault. But that’s where the British politeness ended. “YOU ******* WALKED INTO ME YOU ******* ****HEAD, AND IF YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT AGAIN. I’LL ******* KNOCK YOUR TEETH OUT” The American just stood there with his mouth opened looking shell shocked. Never said a word and put his head down and walked away fast. And I think the misunderstanding the American had. Was that even though it was his fault, the other person apologised. Which I think the American saw as perhaps a weakness, and he could project his embarrassment at walking into someone in public. By shouting at someone who had apologised even though they weren’t the ones that caused it. But misunderstanding basic British politeness for weakness.
Lucky it was London... in Glasgow he'd've caught a bunch of fives. A Danish friend of mine went there and, passing a young child, smiled and "Hello" as he walked past. He'd gone less than ten paces when half a brick flew past his ear.
@@lindsayheyes925 That is the common, stereotypical misinterpretation that people who're not from Glasgow (I AM) will believe. As with ANY City, it has its gangs and violence. We're correctly known for not putting up with BS. BUT, we're also very well known for being really friendly!! I'm thinking your Danish friend was either telling (pork pies = lies) to make his trip sound more interesting, OR IF that actually happened, then his smile may have seemed creepy and was misconstrued as being TOO friendly? I've never seen that kind of example at any point of living in Glasgow!
@@diannegreenshields7421 I don't doubt both that the brick incident happened and that you are otherwise correct. Glasgow, has great ice-cream parlours, parks, universities and museums. My son lived there for about six years and is engaged to a Glaswegian. My wife's ancestors lived in Greenock and Glasgow, working as foundrymen and sugar boilers, and were members of a pacifist, apolitical, teetotal sect. Nevertheless, Glasgow has had a reputation for persistent multi-generational sectarian and gang violence which has attracted peer-reviewed criminology research. It also spawned one of the finest police drama series of all time - Taggart - which survived the death of the actor who played the character of the title, the superb Mark McManus. Well, it's a city where alcohol and drug abuse have loomed large - but it does have square sausage and black pudding.
We go to the public house ( the pub) to socialise with our family and other families We exchange ideas , hopes and opinions while having a drink and maybe something to eat. This is why the pubs will always be here, it’s part of our culture
But it often happens in a checkout queue that the person in front turns round and says 'you go before me as you have fewer items'. It is rude to decline the polite offer even if you have all day or whether the number of items is pretty much the same!
I understand there are many people who would prefer it to be sunny and warm every day if the year, but I’m not one of them. Sure, there are times when we get too much rain, and times when we get too little, but most of the time our weather is balanced, giving us the chance to see nature in all its varied glory, from the saturated high contrast colours of unbroken summer sunshine to the dark brooding majesty of a heavy rain laden sky. Our country for the most part is green and we suffer less sun damaged prematurely aged skin than I believe is the case in America. Sorry, I went off on one a bit there. Just standing up for our unfairly maligned weather.
Totally agree. How boring to waken up to the same weather every day. I love our seasons and watching them change. If you had the same sunny weather every day then there would be nothing to look forward to as winter comes to an end. I was the same before I retired. I couldn't understand people who chose not to work. They missed out on that Friday feeling every week.
I am italian, and I definitely prefer English weather to italian... I can't stand too much sun and heat, I'm more an autumn or winter person... and right now I am sweating, I wear a T shirt, and it's October...
Agreed. It only rains 154 days of the year on average in the UK, so roughly three days out of five are dry. Also the UK has a temperate climate: So it avoids hurricanes, monsoons, severe droughts or ice storms, destructive tornadoes and hailstones.
The food thing.... Americans coming back from WW2, described UK food as not the best. However food was rationed and we had just been at war for yonks. Poundland, think Dollar Store.
Back in the 60's Europeans started the stereotype of British food as being bland and tasteless mush. Obviously they had their own foods and we were still recovering from the second world war.
@@raphaelperry8159 Just to be clear France had Rationing (on food) after WW2, it ended in 1949, in Germany rationing ended in1950, in UK rationing ended in 1954.
Re Poundland, Think Dollar Store, except, its not Dollar + Tax (tax is included. Having said that Much of the stock is now £2, £3 or £5, but it is the marked price, not + Tax.
Pub is literally short for public house. It is simply not a bar, although it has a bar. It is also not a restaurant although they usually serve food (usually on a plate). It is a house. And therefor it is not weird to go every day and/or bring kids or a dog and you don´t need to drink alcohol.
...and though we wouldn't class a pub that serves food necessarily as 'a restaurant', we have to excuse Americans for thinking of them as such. After all, Americans class McDonalds as 'a restaurant' and in our pubs, at least you're supplied with plates and proper cutlery, which puts them at least a couple of levels higher than the US standard for 'restaurants'.
The stereotype about British food was from US soldiers returning from being stationed here during the war. What they didn't seem to understand or didn't pass on the information along with their opinion is that the UK had been under food rations for years during the war and importing was too difficult due to whole world at was and most of Europe under constant bombing.
it's interesting how the whole world still only gets this old piece of American information in 2024. All the visitors from all over the world have never tasted anything in Britain, just keep spreading the American war-time impression. Jesus Christ, and you believe it...
One point that should point out to visitors how important pubs are…. In the USA you get directions by roads/streets/intersections, in England (and maybe the whole UK) we direct you by the pubs. So you go down this street to the Shakespeare, then turn left and keep on the right to the lord nelson, if you reach the Richard iii you’ve gone the wrong way!
We do respect a queue. If you push in line you will be confronted with, “ hey, there’s a queue here’ with a dirty look. The queue is sacrosanct lol. The bad food thing I think came from American GIs in the Second World War when food was in short supply and rationed so although it was apparently the best diet, health wise, we’ve ever had, it was very bland.
You want to see the veneer of politeness drop, jump the queue. I dare you. I double date you mofo! And not holding a door or thanking someone for holding a door. I’m getting impolite just thinking about it.
I totally agree with you about the food. WW2 also garnered us the reputation for poor personal hygiene but soap was rationed too and a hotel size slither of soap had to last you a week!
So in my village (a village of about 700 people in Mid Wales) has two pubs, and one of them has a barman who’s been there for 60 years, when it came to his most recent birthday about 20% of the village’s population came in to celebrate and buy him a pint… it’s strange the way I’d describe a good pub is like the comfiest house you’ve ever been in is completely dedicated to nice relaxed drink and (often) tasty food
"Standing in line" is an expression we usually wouldn't use in the UK. If we were to use it at all it would refer to standing in a line formation or "lining up", such as people would do in the armed forces or perhaps a dance troupe. If you're waiting in a queue, then you're queueing. It's clear and unambiguous.
Number of rainy days on average - New York 129, Lodon 109. Average annual Rainfall - New York 618 mm, London 557 mm.Both East Coast Cities. My local city of Leicester in the English Midlands has approx 318mm of rainfall annually and 14 days of precipitation average monthly. Can't wait for part 2.
@@Mmjk_12 I think it depends where you visit. London for example is far more ethnically diverse than any city in the USA (New York being the closest I expect) with London being awarded the title of the most ethnically diverse food city in the world with 123 types of cuisine available. There are over 300 languages spoken in London schools, again more than any other city in the world. Obviously this is not replicated elsewhere but major UK cities are very much melting pots now of immigrants from many countries and it is possible to go to Glasgow for example and experience Mongolian cuisine or Argentinian cuisine as well as the usual Indian sub continent, French, Mexican, Turkish Italian restaurants etc. I don't think Thurso or North Wales or any rural area is really representative of this in the UK (apart from landscapes).
I agree. In one of my classes I taught most of the "English" children were of Italian or Glaswegian descent and I also taught Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Polish, Iranian, Russian, Latvian, Congolese, Chinese and occasionally other children who either had English as a second or third language or who had no English at all. Living in north Wales is to be isolated from the diversity of most of of the uk. I found that when I lived in Norfolk. We live in islands that have at least 6 indigenous languages. Our cities are totally metropolitan. In our country you only have to travel a few miles to hear different dialects and accents, experience different foods and customs and activities. Our history will take you back 5000 years. If you are looking at similar area size then you would have to compare the USA with Europe. Then the true scale of diversity can be seen
@@Mmjk_12oh yeah, North Wales is well known for its diversity, where they consider anyone from England, Scotland, Ireland or even South Wales as a 'foreigner'
With respect to the politeness, I'm in the South of England and on my way back from school I had to walk along a canal, and as I was walking I'd ALWAYS say hello and smile at people along the canal as they would for me, but this one time there was a woman who didn't say hello back. That was 3 years ago and I still remember her face
Being from London I always found it very strange to be greeted by complete strangers. I visited some family in the midlands and while walking, their fellow villagers said 'ey up' to me. It was uncomfortable and unexpected. All I could do was say hello back and mutter under my breath 'do I know you?' The only strangers I'll talk to in London are the people we tell to eff off when they ask us for money + cigarettes 😂
The average annual rainfall in NY city is more than in London, so the weather thing depends on where you live in USA. I have had coffee or sometimes a pot of tea in a pub without anyone questioning it or making it seem odd, because in the UK it's NOT odd. The word pub is short for public house, so whole families are welcome, and in the countryside you can even take your dogs to the pub where outside areas (beer gardens) have tables and chairs. COVID really hurt the pub industry in UK very badly and a lot of small pubs closed down. It is sad, really.
p.s. Our baked beans are not the same as American baked beans. Also, our foods, generally, are not as sweet, not filled to the gills with corn syrup, and we enjoy savoury foods just as much as desserts...and we have so many good quality, filling, tasty and nice-looking meals that I wonder why anyone would want to eat any American foods !! 🤔🤨
Downton not downtown honey it's a series set in the 1920's and they use the beautiful Highclere Castle xx our cops don't carry them because our population are not Interested in guns xx even listening to you say if they didn't have guns they wouldn't be able to do their jobs xx the problem is nobody should own guns we don't shoot people who knock on the door for directions or if they walk across our gardens or back yards oh and we don't chain poor dogs in a yard and then ignore them just vile and we don't have all the additives in our food as someone else said on here why would anyone want to live in the US !!!!
@@lynjones2461you are being too kind with your words there is so much wrong with americans its the most dangerous country in the world..and the are psychopaths...
Whilst watching this video I received a Facebook message from my brother who lives in Australia but is touring England at the moment and he was just letting me know that he and his wife will be in Nottingham where I live on Friday and the first thing he mentioned was going to a pub for a meal on Saturday. That's how much the pub is a focal point here.
I would say British weather is more unpredictable than bad. In summer, it can be wet and cold one week and tropical the next. In the winter, it can be nice and mild one week, then baltic the next. More often, this happens in days and hours 😂😂 Beach weather in the morning and building a snowman in the evening.
The weather is here isn't particularly bad - America has far more extreme weather - but it's more changeable and, slightly more humid due to us being a relatively small island with a Maritime climate. If you come from California then, yes, our weather will be seem bad in comparison. As for the 'Ps and Qs' thing, we might not be the cradle of civilisation but arguably, up until recently, we were the cradle of civilised behaviour. Unfortunately, we're losing this aspect of Britishness. Having spoken to Americans online about visits to British pubs they weren't what they were expecting even if they'd been in Connor O'Clock's Traditional Irish Pub in Boston or something. American 'British-style' pubs are the equivalent of a Disneyland experience or Las Vegas 'Pyramids'. Finally, the irony of Americans complaining about British food never ceases to amaze me.
When I have worked in Hospitality it was always the old and ancient that 'shocked' our American visitors most. I used to live in a cottage built in the 1750's and it was far from the oldest in the town. Comments such as, 'These (fully modernised and beautiful inside) ruins are inhabited!! They would be in a museum back in the States' were commonly heard. Or they would go through a normal Tudor black and white village or one with thatched cottages and think it to be a 'Living Museum'. You would even see people trying to peer in people's living room windows thinking them to be exhibits!
Minding Ps & Qs comes from the old world of printing/typesetting. Manually fixing letters for a sheet of text necessitates the individual letters being set backwards… lower case 'p' and 'q' are easily mixed up, if working quickly. Thus the apprentice printer is always reminded to 'watch their ps and qs'.
My aunt and uncle used to own a village pub. I used to go on a weekend as a teenager, pour myself pints of coca cola, and play pool with some of the regulars. Some of which would come in and have a sandwich at lunchtime and play a round or two with me, other would come in for a drink and play a game. I did it so regularly that the regulars started bringing in their own pool cues and a makeshift tournament sprang up on Saturdays for a few hours when I was there. My aunt began making extra sandwiches and people who didn't play pool would come and watch. It was a fun thing to do on a Saturday afternoon. Pubs are definitely different to bars and clubs.
The weather is not as bad as people make out, we don't usually have downpours all the time if anything it could be a shower, we also have extended periods of dry weather. the biggest difference is that we have a temperate climate neither too hot or cold, rarely freezing rarely boiling. The pub is somewhere to relax at the end of working day usually one or two before going home or at lunch time. Everyone says thank you to the bus driver when they reach their destination.
If u want to see a proper English pub you need to head out in the countryside where you'll have a beer garden/yard & probably will also have kids & dogs 🐕 in there aswell 👍
Funniest thing about being English i find is what i call quiet politeness. If someone steps on your foot by accident you say sorry to them 😂 Last week waiting to use an ATM the lady in front of me said thank you to the machine as she got her cash out. Brilliant 😂 I have on occasion said cheers to the self service supermarket check out 😮😮😮😂😂😂
You're not wrong! It's not right! I'm 70 now,and I started my working life in the checkouts at Tesco in (ahem)1968! Never thought our job would be taken over by machines.
English food isn’t just ‘hearty’. We are like everywhere else. We have a vast variety of cooking. We are no different than anywhere else, except that we had to live with rationing during and after the war….. and the reputation stuck.
Something I've not seen mentioned about pubs is the games. A 'proper' pub will have a cribbage set, darts or dominoes behind the bar to borrow, and some have pool or bar billiard tables. Then there are inter-pub competitions like dart, skittle, pool, bar billiard and even football leagues.
And talking about trains, you can even catch a train from London to Paris, Brussels etc. via the Channel Tunnel. It even transports cars if you get on at Folkestone.
As a British person I say sorry to people even if they are the ones who bump into me 😂 Iv even been known to apologise to inanimate objects if I bump into it
British weather- we have a lot of grey days, more than actual rain. The key is to be ready for all weathers at all times. Even in high summer you should have a light jacket readily available, because you really never know!
Depends on where you live ! The UK is an island in the Atlantic and our weather comes from all directions. Here in the east of England our summers are usually dry and sunny, but on the west coast, cloudier and wetter.
@@marycarver1542 We are not in the Atlantic - only the tip of Cornwall juts out into part of the Atlantic. We are surrounded by seas - the North Sea, the Irish Sea, and the English Channel. The islands of Scotland sit in a part of the North Atlantic where the cold winds bliw down from the North Pole. We are mainly in a temperate zone, our West coasts receiving rains from over and across Ireland, our East coasts being in the rain shadow.
Weather wise you gotta remember we are an island, near a large landmass on one side and the Atlantic ocean on the other, and suprisingly close to Scandinavia at the North. That gives a lot of scope for rapidly changing weather.
Yes, and we're surprisingly close to the Arctic, relatively speaking. Washington State extends up to 49°N. Britain is almost entirely north of 50°N, with mainland Scotland going up beyond 58°N. The jet stream can flow north or south of the UK, bringing completely different weather as it changes latitude.
When I was visiting in the USA I noted at bars and restaurants Americans when asking for something would rarely say please or thank you. Something a Brit would always do and I did every time in the US. In a bar I would say "Could I have two beers please".
It rains more in north America than it does London. It's not that bad, there are things like wet April for instance but the rain is a stereotype that coincidence it rained for a couple of days while he was there. Poundland is not an umbrella market either
As to the politeness, respectfulness thing, when my family moved to the US for six years, there were two contexts in which this difference stood out most obviously. One is that as a child I would not be at all nervous to ask any policeman a question. Not so at all in the US! Secondly, school children, even at senior school, are generally respectful of teachers. In the US, my then 10-yr old son came home after his first week in grade 6, saying his classroom often resembled Bedlam. 😮
A friend tried to ask a police officer for directions in NY. Something we take for granted in the UK but he was told in no uncertain terms "move along buddy"! 😂😂
@andrewlaw My Husband and I were touring in the US and managed to get lost in Boston. We spotted what looked like a police station and just curbed the car. My husband leapt out of the car and walked up to a uniformed person to ask for directions. She pointed out that there were 2 machine guns pointed at him as the building was the local penitentiary! She did however, also give us the directions we needed.
I think the contextual meaning of the word "police" is different in the US than elsewhere in the world. Personally, when I see a US Cop (on duty) communicating with a person, it is not a communication between two people, but a communication between a Cop AND a human. It's not really clear to me who they really think they are? because the way they talk, behave, reason, address the person, etc. is totally different than what a human being does. There's no politeness, no manners, but all stiff, strict and robotic.
The thing about pubs that never seems to get mentioned is that pub is short for public house, and that's exactly what a good local is, it's like going round your grandma's house, there's always food, your always welcome, you probably know everyone there, if your dad isn't there your best mates dad probably is. You probably went to school with the bar staff...
I often go to a pub to do my work, I find a quiet corner, get my laptop out, connect to the wifi and work away. I am usually not the only one doing that either. ❤️
Most people don't go to the pub every day, but you can use a pub like a cafe and have a cup of tea and cake. In small towns, villages, and hamlets, the pub is like a community centre.
I think the rain is exaggerated mostly. It depends where you are. If you go to the beautiful Lake District there’s a good chance you’ll get rain. My parents used to take us every year to stay with grandparents and it seemed to rain a lot. We got stuck in floods on one occasion. But it would be a shame to miss it just because of rain.
I am English and have only been to London twice in my life, that was quite enough. The further away from London you go the friendliness and cheaper prices you will find. Pubs really do vary, to get the most enjoyment i would say to visit a pub that serves food and admits children or has a beer garden. There can be a totally different atmosphere especially on Friday and Saturday nights. Most pubs serve coffee,tea and soft drinks so non drinkers need not worry. People on the whole do not go to the pub everyday. People who do are known as regulars.
The UK is like a condensed version of the US. Don't forget, there are four different countries in the UK, not just England and each one has it's own capital. We also have counties, kind of like what Americans call states.
Organs and blood are the ingredients for hotdogs, but call it a hot dog rather than the ingredients. We don't call it blood pudding, it's black pudding. You wouldn't call a hot dog, arse hole and ear lobe dog.
The reason US chocolate tastes so bad to people in the UK is because US chocolate contains butyric acid. This is why many people from the UK say US chocolate tastes like vomit. Because vomit contains a high amount of butyric acid. The reason the US puts butyric acid in chocolate is because during WW2, Hershey got a war contract with the US army to produce chocolate for US army ration packs. Trouble is, chocolate with just plain milk in it goes bad too quickly to be put into an army ration pack. So Hershey invented a lipolysis process whereby butyric acid is used to partly sour the milk but which also extends the milks life. Mixing this partly soured milk made via lipolysis into a chocolate bar extended the chocolate's shelf life this it could be put into US army ration packs. Over WW2 the American GIs became use to the taste of Hershey chocolate containing butyric acid and after the war when they returned to the US, wanted to carry on consuming the same taste in chocolate. Hence even today, as we speak, Hershey still use butyric acid in their chocolate making where we in the UK do not.
As ever, an absolute joy to watch. You can't beat decent fish & chips and a good steak and kidney pie. Talking about eating offal, you have to try liver, bacon and onions with mash and peas. The weather is a major topic of conversation! A good pub (public house, literally a house that was open to the public)
People don't eat as much liver and onions as they used to. I remember walking home from school years ago and smelling liver and onions coming from some of the houses and thinking, I hope we're having that too. It's lovely. My mum used to make lambs liver or pigs, she didn't like ox liver because of the tubes in it.
The best way to describe English weather is unpredictable. It can be glorious sunshine and 5 mins later it starts chucking it down (raining). And you could absolutely have a week of mostly rain, if you came in summer you'd have a better chance of good weather but it's never guaranteed. Pubs are part of daily life but you wouldn't go daily, if that makes sense. Older men might go daily because it's a local place they've been going for years and it's a social thing. The younger generation is likely to go several times a week if they're regulars. But I go very rarely, generally speaking it's usually men who will go more frequently and would pop to the pub for a few after work etc. Cost is a big factor too now, it's just too expensive to go regularly but it's definitely still a quintessential part of English life.
If you haven’t tried something (food wise) DONT knock it until you do No it DOES NOT rain every day You are correct in saying that there is nothing like the British pub and the city/town pub is completely different to a country pub
I think it is important to remember that pub is short for Public House, and in a lot of places it is really that. A house you can gather at, but also buy food and drink and socialise. Hence why people might be there to get drunk but equally playing games, chatting or some other activity
Uk pubs do evening events that attract people to go, like darts league, pool league, domino's league. Local town pubs generally enter the league and host nights between them. Often, free food is on offer, even for just patrons of the pub. Pubs also associate with football, rugby, cricket clubs for after match drinks and food, etc.
Chips,not fries,roast potatoes & pork pies that you eat cold. Shepherds pie,roast beef & Yorkshire pudding. Apple pie or crumble with custard you can stand a spoon in. 😢 I miss it all
I think the whole "British food is bland" thing is more about the look of our food, we don't pump our food full of chemicals and artificial colours, so it's not as bright and in-your-face and food in the US. Visiting one city isn't visiting America because the country of The United States of America has 50 states. Well visiting London isn't visiting the Nation of Britain because London has 32 boroughs. After you leave London, the country of England has 48 counties. Then there's also the countries of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each with their own counties and boroughs. Why does Tyler ask people to leave comments? I still have seen zero proof he actually reads his comments. Edit: Well now I feel special getting a heart from Tyler. Edit edit: lol editing the comment made the heart go away.
I cannot post the proof that Tyler has actually responded to a few of my comments recently - but it's true he did - which is why I took screenshots of them because I wouldn't have believed it myself otherwise !! He hardly if ever leaves a comment so it seems as though he never reads anything of what we say but that seems to be just a ruse to get us talking about him - and whether or not we say negative things about him, we are talking about him and I think it feeds his ego (doesn't it, Tyler Rumple ?!!) 😊❤🖖
@@DazzleMonroe What a strange leap in logic, if I wrote books I wouldn't care if people read it, I would care if they're buying it. All I was stating is that many people have left comments over the years and Tyler doesn't reference them in videos in any way and I have never personally seen the 'creator reply' icon on any comment I've read. Furthermore, calling out Tyler for not reading his comments has become a channel meme, I guess you're new to the channel. Edit: Hey look, I got a 'Loves your comment' heart from Tyler.
There is more average rainfall in New York than in London. Not everybody has bad teeth. Blood sausage sounds disgusting,but black pudding sounds better,but the taste is amazing. I’m an exiled native Londoner now living in magical,mystical,beautiful Cornwall,on the Atlantic coast,and trust me,London’s great (or used to be before emperor khan) but the rest of the country is utter beauty away from the cities. Save up fella,you’ll have about 5,000 locals guiding you in every part of our glorious island if you ever come. Fares are not bad for an Atlantic crossing so Chuck some ‘Ackerman (money) into a pot and get your arse over here next summer. Oh and by the way,it DOESNT rain all the time,our summers if anything are too hot. A realised ambition is twice as good as you thought it would be. 👍🏻
With the weather stuff. The problem is that it can start to rain at any day and any moment. It probably isn’t hard rain (just drizzle) and it isn’t long, but it can happen on any given day. So, the lesson is simple - always have an umbrella on you no matter what weather report says.
Its not the amount of rainfall that the problem it is when it damn well comes down that is the problem. India has more rain the UK, but it does not make it wetter. Rain can come at any time in the UK, I mean any time. Any one from the UK knows this. it can rain in the morning and sunshine 10 minutes later. It happened today. I had to go out and I was on my bike, damn it started to rain, then about 1 hour later it was sunshine. People not from the UK do not understand this.
OK so weather. I grew up in the South West of Scotland (near Glasgow) and I've lived in London most of my adult life, the South East of England. Here's the thing: most of the storm fronts move in from the Atlantic and miss the South East of England, while moving up the west of England, Wales and Western Scotland. I remember well when I was growing up in Scotland that when rain moved in, it stayed for hours. Ever since I moved to London, I've experienced that when rain gets very heavy in London, it usually backs off and becomes lighter within 10 minutes. So the truth is, the weather is very different in the parts of the UK, but it never becomes extreme in any part. We don't get hurricanes, for example. We just get a bit of rain sometimes.
Literally a few hours ago I had an American telling me the weather here is bad, five minutes after bringing up their tornado experience. It might not be sunny all the time, but U.K. weather won't throw your house in the air.
toward the end of "WW"2 when some American military were stationed here, the UK had been at war for several years " Nightly bombing raids by the Germans, our houses smashed, and we were subjected to extreme food rationing! We each had a ration book, and had to present it when we asked for food and groceries. No one was exempt. So any kind of food was in extremely short supply. Those who lived in the country supplemented the meagre rations of meat, cheese, butter etc. VERY meagre indeed, maybe 1 egg a week. 1 ounce a week of butter, virtually no cheese. So Brits had to make their meals from whatever they could cobble together, which was not much! Any kind of meat was really hard to come by. It was this situation that had American servicemen, who had not been affected by the war at all, coming in only 2 years before it finished, and being shocked at our food ! This rationing continued until well into the 1950s, many children had never seen an orange or a banana etc etc. !There was no trade between the UK and other countries ! Ships were not put to see bringing food during war time ! Americans arrived here having experienced none of that, and bringing in their own supplies of luxuries such as chocolate and nylon stockings ! Really impressed the girls ! So that is how our reputation for "poor food" came about ! Nowadays and for many years now, British food has been top of the tree !
This is a bit of an exaggeration, British food was very basic and not great quality right up until the 90s. It's only in the last decade that our cheese making has really made a comeback. You can go to any neighbourhood in France and get a great bakery and cheese mongers whereas for the same quality you'd have to go to an artisan shop. The quality exists but our average is still far below many other countries.
@@hanifleylabi8071 There was plenty of good food around in the 60s, when we would get bread from our local bakery. Good British cheese has been easily available since at least the 80s, and is in general better than French cheeses. Also by the 80s Chinese and Italian restaurants were common. Not all were good but some were. (An excellent Chinese restaurant that I started going to with my parents in the 70s closed this year :( )
@@peterjackson4763 There were only about 60 cheese making farms in the 70s and the recovery was in its very beginnings in the 80s. Things didn't start to really improve till after minimum pricing for milk was removed for farmers. The early 60s in when the industrial loaf rose to prominence which has dominated British bread since. Most countries don't even call it bread and only use it for toast(ies).
@@hanifleylabi8071 Nonsense I don't know where you were living . I lived in both England and Scotland in Various places between the 1960's and the yr 2000 and whilest the supermarkets did not begin until the 1970's when variety began to expand we were all better at cooking from basics and doing 'ingredients cooking' . Cheese availability was probably more abundant prior to 1990 as much of the the old recipe cheese is gone and cheddar, Wendslydale, Cheshire and Leicester are the brunt of 'local' supply these days. These days local bakers are closing due to Kings Mill, Hovis and Warburtons being pushed through supermarkets and most 'sour dough' isn't. Quality if anything has depleted since the 1980's. Don't mix widespread availability of the things you like as an overall improvement! I now live in Wales and the food here is lovely dont knock artisan or fresh local; it is what we do best.
Recent queue experience for AEW at Wembley. Each turnstile had a queue of course, and they were all straight, until they reached the back of the concourse. So what then? Each queue then took on it's own shape, some turning back around toward the stadium, some snaking around. I'm not kidding here, the one we were in curled back around on itself in a large circle, with the end of the queue in the centre. Weird thing is, people still realised that was where the end of the queue was, and (politely) broke through the line of people to reach the end in the centre!
On hols in Jamaica (for many Americans it is there equivalent to Spain for us). A US citizen decided having to Queue for a buffet lunch was NOT for him and actually tried the "I didn't understand" That is when the British Ps and Qs becomes an F and a U. Black pudding? Don't forget chitlins or rocky mountain oysters
Just looked at my weather app. Here in Bolton, rain and wind. London, fine and sunny. I love our weather. I get soaked out walking in our wonderful countryside. Know what I do? Get changed and put the kettle on. Presto! Warm and happy.
Actually, the term Ps and Qs derives from medieval tavern etiquette. It means pints and quarts, common measures of drinks, and was meant as a warning to not get too rowdy or start fights i.e. "mind your ps and qs" - basically if you start shit you'll ruin everyones drinks and spill them everywhere.
Rather than being of mediaeval origin, the term 'Watch your Ps & Qs' originates from Napoleonic times. When the crews of British ships were on shore leave, they would visit taverns where their drinks would be paid for, after the event, by their commanding officers. With a view to the bill being settled, the landlord would mark up the number of Pints & Quarts consumed on a blackboard near the bar (by marking pints sold under 'P' and quarts sold under 'Q'. The sailors were warned not to drink too much and get into trouble by being told to keep an eye on how much they'd drunk by referring to the blackboard and 'watching their Ps and Qs'.
Our weather is very "mild" compared to the US. It's cold for a big chunk of the year, but not "you can walk on the lake" cold. It's usually just bland, as well. Lots of grey cloud.
I've spent 16 years working and managing Pubs. From the West End of London to a pub in a village with a population of 20. Regardless of location pubs generally serve the same role in society. They're used to meet friends, party, forget the stresses of daily life, hold business meetings, dating, eat. With a good manager and good staff they're more like a counselling and wellbeing group.
Also, the reason why we tend to have a bad rap when it comes to food is because, although we have super old recipes that are really nice, after WW2 when the country was hit with austerity to the bone, the population got a lot poorer and so had to rely on tinned foods that looked 'bad' e.g. baked beans and corned beef
You have to consider where the UK is in Europe regarding weather. We are very close to Scandinavia and the prevailing weather is bad in winter, and we also get rain in the summer. Droughts have happened in past years when we never got enough rain. Summer is usually pretty nice, but rain can happen anytime.
Going to the pub in the UK is kind of like going for a coffee in the states. You can go and socialise, you can go and have a few after work, maybe have a few more, or you can start at the pub, hit a few more pubs and then stay out all night getting rekt :)
The weather is probably the main topic of any conversation, but it can have a double meaning...yes there is the actual weather and we like to complain (its a national pass time) but if can also being about how a person is feeling. Pubs, short for public house is not just for drinking but also socialising and is somewhat integral to British culture. It is a place to relax, socialise, eat, play pool, darts (many have their own completive leagues) but mainly for a good relaxing chinwag. This also depends on the location be it village, town or city. Each will have a different style, catering and ambiance. Also P&Q's is important but we have people who can be rude and brash..queuing is another past time and should anyone try to queue jump, people can be too polite to say anything sometimes and can result is lots of tutting to make objections known. Hope that helps....oh and passive aggressive is a big thing which is a polite way to let your feelings known.
Black pudding is actually more like a sausage. It’s seasoned and not as bad as you might think. It’s no different and probably better than eating a very rare steak as it’s cooked through.
When you say black pudding is like a steak its not. The red juice that comes out of rare steak is not blood, its a fluid that the muscle contains in all animals and harmless.
It was actually the French who first insulted our food, we had just beaten them again! Our food is made from quality ingredients and doesn't need all the frills. The French food was made up of scraps so they disguised it with sauces and fooled the world into thinking theirs was the best.
You've got to love the British weather. Up north in Otterburn (basically Scotland) it could be beautiful clear blue sky's warm no wind and amazing, then 30 minutes (or less) later its thunder and lightning with hail stones, strong winds and freezing cold.
Hi I from london , it used to rain in every month wen I was a kid , at least once a month in the summer, it don't rain as much any more , pound shop Is a dollar store
Ps and Qs doesn’t means please and queue, it means mind your Pleases and Thank yous (pronounced thank Q). Another suggestion is that it’s from Medieval English pubs for mind your Pints and Quarts
P’s and Q’s doesn’t mean queuing . It means please and thank you. Think please and than-q. And the stereotype of the food being bad in Britain. Was started by American soldiers being stationed here during WWII during food rationing. But also by American tourists only visiting London and not knowing the good places to eat, and instead eating in tourist traps. Or the fact our food is less processed, loaded full of sugar and artificial flavours. Not to mention our fresh vegetables with meals, and a recent study in the US showed 25% of Americans have never eaten vegetables (fries and lettuce on burgers don’t count).
I've watched the original clip and am now seeing your reaction. Thank you for being so dispassionate in your responses. If you ever do visit Britain please do try the food. Steak and kidney pie is a tasty and traditional offering, as is black pudding - or bludwurst if one is German.
Don't bother with Poundland, if it's raining hard, your umbrella will be sucked inside out. You get what you pay for if you go cheap. If you are coming from the US and have your own small umbrella, just pack it, in case! You don't then have to hunt for an umbrella when you are here....Also, we don't go to pubs every day, we are not alcoholics! We may go out for a couple of cheeky's in the middle of the week, but more so on a Friday or Saturday night. Pub dinners are not too expensive if one or two of you eat out, but for a family to eat out, it's about 10 times more expensive than cooking indoors. It's not always a family event, it's something we cook indoors mostly.
In my village they huggle up in a heap in a corner like puppies you find they nurse there drinks all day so I don't think they over drink it's more for a chat
The ridiculous trope about the weather really gets on my nerves. For most of England (excluding Wales and Scotland) the rainfall levels are comparable to most of north east and north west US. Particularly in the south east around London, this area is classed as semi arid with about the same annual rainfall as Israel! Also, if you come in the summer you’ll be incredibly unfortunate if your entire holiday is a washout!
@@Mulberry2000 I never claimed it didn't. That's not my argument. The rainfall statistics for south east England contradict the implication in the video that the UK is a very wet place with rain most days throughout the year. That's simply not the case.
Without the Internet I would of not know Americans demand tipping as a thing, the only time I've seen tips in a building in England have been, those little jars on the counter, used for charities, it's pretty optional. The internet the main reason people use it for is research.
There's nothing better than a very old British country pub with a big log fire and have a traditional sunday roast on a winter's day. You could go into the pub order a pint and sit there all day and no one will hassle you to move on.
Tyler, do you know without looking it up why a Pub is called a Pub? I’ve never heard you say. I’ll give you a clue, “pub” is a shortened term for them.
I remember seeing a video once, from some guy that tested Americans, to name a country, it even got to a point when the guy asked this girl to point to America, she moved her finger around in circles having no idea, and she was getting frustrated doing it. I think the guy meant to say North America, to her.
weekly pub pop quizzes and monthly general knowledge tournaments in some local pubs some pubs have borrowable board games or even internal mini arcades its a place with things for the entire family
Hi, Why don't US have better public transport? You suggested its because you send on the military, I think it might be because you spend on Roads, you force Rail Tracks to be built for profit, but are happy to subsidise Roads and Parking and Gas. The US used to have very good Public Transit, Rail and Street Cars (Trams for Europe). The Street Car systems were bought out by the car manufacturers (GM) and then ripped up tracks replacing with bus routes, then reduce bus services, which makes everyone need a car, did I mention it was the companies making cars that bought out the alternatives.
Dont mistake our politeness for being push overs. In every queue there are always people who will call out someone trying to skip and aren't afraid to make a scene
What is never said is that many pubs have their own darts and football teams (m & f) . The wags and Habs (wives and girlfriends) bring the kids to watch the inter pub matches. Then back to the pub garden for a pint or a coke and pkt of crisps. Now days the Sunday roast can be bought at the pub but I prefer to make my Sunday Roast at home.
Our environments and weather patterns resulted in our food choices, which formed to keep us healthy. I don't like everything British but I do prefer local foods.
