Americans React to Top 10 Things That Are Weirdly Popular in Britain 

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@@siok4375against what? Bears?

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@@WreckItRolfe😂😂😂😂😂 quality

*land of the free* can't cross the street , can't drink a beer in public and children need police in there schools.

I just call it the shitter and get on with my day lol

​@kaylaable Get you Mr Hoity Toity.

The loo

thanks to Bottom live 2 it's called the Kidderminster in my house XD

That's not really true. :T If you go somewhere and say "Excuse me, where's the bathroom?" everyone will know what you mean, and it's commonly said.

And in Scotland drinking in public is actually illegal.

I know I cringed too 😂

I’ve thought this; they all use metric, they just don’t realise it! 😂

Well explained.

Cheeky. Can be applied to a cheeky chocolate , a cheeky drink, etc etc. something that’s a great you shouldn’t be have, something you can do without but really fancy it so have it

The act this needs explaining is concerning ​@@ruthletts9752

The Cheeky Girls

touch my bum@@eddisstreet

Except where they put traffic lights *ON* roundabouts.

​@@BedsitBobyeah those aren't too good but that's because they put roundabouts in bad places where the flow from different routes is uneven and realise they goofed up

@@Hirotoro4692 We had one the worst Roundabouts in Europe every time you went round you diced with death I was lucky thankfully there was always a DD Bus going my way which I needed for a shield, who is going to argue with a Big Red Bus, but a lot of other folk not so lucky and then they put in Traffic Lights I said I can't see that working but I was wrong they have cut accidents down to a quarter, now days when I go around it someone else is driving.🧐

Ah, you must be a town planner! 😅

​@@BedsitBobI'm a big fan of light controlled roundabouts

Thats so funny

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Or spice people 😂

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@@reactingtomyroots If the police even stopped you for walking/staggering drunk (probably not). They would ask where you are going. If you say/slur "I'm going home to bed", they would say something like "Stay safe" and leave you to it. If you said something about operating heavy machinery, they would probably ask more questions but still let you go.

​@@adamcowood7553 I have been near stocious, bouncing off hedges and nearly falling over. A police car drove by and I heard them laughing at me. People were watching me bounce off their fences and hedges.

@@scottneil1187 The reason that the USA has such draconian laws about public drunkenness is the hold-over from the anti-saloon campaigns in 1910s & 20s. The small-town Protestant folks viewed any alcohol and immigrants as the basis for most problems affecting the USA. Therefore, they imposed Prohibition and severe laws against public drunkenness. When Prohibition was rescinded, the public drunkenness laws remained. The echo of that time was the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) that managed to change the USA national drinking age from 18 to 21 in the early 1980s.

or actually kick off at the Police. I remember being at a house party leaving at 4am and having to walk 5 miles home. I had a nice thick coat, it was only November and there was a bench 1 mile from my house but I was so tired and it looked in my state so comfy. No idea how long it was but a local Police car stopped and the woke me up asking where I needed to go. After explaining the situation and that I was really tired, the offered the cells or a lift home if I could get inside. They dropped me off and my keys worked and I slept for most of Sunday. Those police officers are sound. I do remember them telling me to stop saying "thank you" for taking me home.

@@markhutton6824 Don't EVER try that in the USA because you WILL end up in Jail for some time and most likely lose your job & your health insurance in the process.

pretty sure the term on the actual law is "drunk and disorderly" but I don't drink so don't know

@@sillysciben8092 yeah that's the charge. One of our best laws to be honest. Being drunk and friendly all good. Being drunk and punching things not so good so off to the little room without laces and a belt for you. It gives the police some leeway. It's so normal I think the police are actually pretty good at dealing with it. From police interactions I have had while drunk or even just after a couple of drinks they've always seemed fairly relaxed and confident while being fair and honest.

Decimal currency, but still pretty much the same thing as metric as it's mostly in divisions of 10s and 100s.

And Imperial American is really original British empirical measures from British empire before we moved to metric except for miles mph as UsA uses kilometres as I understand

@@chrislawley6801 most Americans don't know what a kilometer is. 2 pints is a quart or sometimes called a liter here 32 oz. I think your getting confused with Canada with the kilometers.

@@chrislawley6801 The USA do use miles per hour - how can they not use MPH when they measure their roads in miles just as we do? Canada uses kilometres as they went metric.

@@chrisperyagh Somewhere near the Mexico border some roads have speed limits in kilometres per hour.

She shed aka is the female version of a man cave.

May be Linsay means a Beach Chalet.?

Just said this in his voice😂

@@briangibson6527 no , a she shed is a female version of a man cave

@@marydavis5234 obviously, just as Lindsey explained it..... doesn't detract in anyway from me saying it sounds like Sean Connery👀

And its shite

Actually, it's not a song contest, it's a popularity contest, we should pull out and stop giving these idiots money.

The pyrotechnics and costumes seem to play a bigger part in being awarded "points" than the songs - the Icelandic entries spring to mind!

Eurovision is more like a bombastic, walloping visual gimmick competition

Its a joke, the music is garbage,

The best are Breton Crepes

Scottish pancakes look like the ones shown in the video.

It’s charity shops too, not charity stores.

'Pancake day' / Shrove Tuesday was I believe, the last day of shrovetide when Christians enjoyed the last of the stores of good food etc, before Ash Wednesday and giving up on endulgent things for the long period of Lent. I like my pancakes the British traditional way, straight from the skillet, not too thin, covered in fresh lemon juice and caster sugar before rolling and adding more lemon juice and sugar 😂.

We have pancakes in Tyneside/Northumberland called drop scones been around for centuries, my nana made them, call drop scones only because the mix is, literally, dropped into a frying pan, it's exactly the same as your American pancakes

Tried it once. Terrible tbh😂

No I've never been in Nandos in my 57 years. Never had McDonald's either.

@@cyflym11 Neither have I or KFC lol 😆

@@101steel4 Not just terrible, terrible and expensive.

@@101steel4 I rather liked it. I haven't been for a few years though.

I've got pretty much that setup. It's specifically marketed as a garden bar though but it's essentially a modified shed, it's only big enough to like stand behind the bar counter though not big enough for a pool table or anything, but we've got the optics in there for the spirits and a Perfect Draft machine for the beer, thinking of adding a BLADE machine as well for a wider choice of beers. Put it up just before last summer and it was great to be able to finish work and just sit in the garden in the sun and pull a fresh pint etc, we added a firepit later in the year as well really enjoyed having it so far.

In our house, I have the pub, complete with pump, optics, jukebox, slot machine, tv, dartboard, snacks, bell etc. I enjoy games night with the girls in the pub. My husband, who doesn’t drink, has a cup of tea and banter with the lads down the allotment.

@catherinerobilliard7662 That's amazing, Catherine. Please upload a video of you showing us around your pub. I would absolutely love that.

hahah love it! Sounds like the equivalent of "man caves" here in the US

We used to have a bar in our living room/lounge in our first flat. Funny how the guys used to stand around it whilst the girls sat on the comfy chairs when they, too, had the choice to sit comfortably. Happy days. 😄

Thanks for the kind words! We appreciate you hanging out with us

Can’t go up? I have had a nice attic built recently where I’m building a model railway (and where we store boxes of things that my wife would rather throw out).

And don't forget Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson

@@eddisstreetI’d forgotten that skit, I might need a composing shed.

My daughter calls me Brian 4 sheds 🤣

Have you painted them different colours? I'm waiting for my new, smaller shed to be delivered and will get a second one, if needed. I can't tell you how often I discuss sheds (female in her 50s)!

It's illegal to serve someone who's drunk.

Was once charged and convicted for being Drunk in a Public Place, I was crawling along on all fours and bumped into a long pair of blue clad legs. Fined £100 by a Magistrate, after looking up the 1859 act I was charged under the maximum fine was 10 shillings. I appealed the sentence and the Judge reduced the fine to £1, he stated that I should have been charged under a more modern law and the Magistrate had applied the modern one not the 1859 still on the statute one when passing sentence. He couldn't reduce it to 50p as £1 was the minimum and as I had pleaded guilty couldn't quash the conviction.

I don't think that's ever been enforced unless you are being a nuisance, i mean that's like saying you can go to.the swimming Baths but you aren't allowed to get wet.

@@nealgrimes4382 It is enforced occasionally, it's happened to me on both sides of the bar. But there's either something else going on (when I was refused service the barman thought I'd caused trouble the previous week, when I hadn't even been 'in' the pub that week) or you're very obviously drunk (when I've worked in pubs, I've refused service to people that were struggling to stand/get to the bar, that sort of thing). Essentially, as long as you can mostly walk straight, still speak while being understood and don't worry staff that you might vomit, you'll probably be fine.

​@@tonys1636good job you didn't get drunk in the pub then as that's also against thenlaw also that is actually a thousand pound fine

I had 4 new tyres fitted on my car yesterday and wondered what the numbers/letters meant. Thanks for enlightening me.

Boot = Trunk of the car. Not selling boots by the way. 🤣

Prefer my local large boot sale as starts at 9am for sellers and public buyers at 10am. Much better than others as doesn't start so early on a Sunday. It's very popular as has a indoor area if it's forecast for rain.

Sounds like heaven for Lindsay hahah

@@lynzp7438 one of my local boot sales used to be 6am open to buyers, but then new people took it over and changed it 9. Some of the really big ones start at like 4-5am for sellers to get in as it takes ages get all the cars set up

@@lynzp7438 When I was a teen, so late 80s, there was a car boot that started midday, so much better.

Yes, the proper name is "United States customary units".

In theory the USA is metric! Sure they use measures that are mainly inherited from the uk. But an inch in the USA is officially measured out in cm/mm. Other measures too. Much of American government and industry is basically metric. The national parks service, the military, vehicle manufacturing. But in day to day living the USA still uses the old units. (Except soda which is sold in litres) In the uk many people still think imperial but business has (mostly)grabbed the metric system by both hands. No wonder as it is easier to use.

@@MrBlaxjax it's baffles my American friends that we use both imperial and metric, blows their minds even

I tend to use metric for small measurements where accuracy is more important, but imperial measurements for larger things. For example I use millimetres for 3D design but imperial for large DIY projects

Imperialist measurements, is the more accurate term, but then, how to distinguish it from the British...

Adults do, the kids use metres.

That's true. Kitchen and bathroom scales tend to have both options. Hospitals in the UK weigh and record birth weights in metric, but tend to tell the parents the weight in imperial.

It is the same in the US , rulers in the US have both imperial and metric measurements and I even have a scale that measures you weight in pounds and stones.

@@marydavis5234 American and British Imperial are different.

@@nealgrimes4382 only in the volumes, but that's enough to bake anyone's noodle! UK/US 1 ounce 1 (fluid) oz. 28.41 mL 1 (fluid) oz. 29.57 mL 1 pint 20 (fluid) oz. 568.26 mL 16 (fluid) oz. 473.18 mL 1 quart 40 (fluid) oz. 1.137 L 32 (fluid) oz. 946.36 mL 1 gallon 160 (fluid) oz. 4.546 L 128 (fluid) oz. 3.785 L Bonkers!

@@nealgrimes4382 Only the liquid measure, a pound is 16 ounces in the US & in Britain & the ounces are the same weight, an inch is the same in the US & UK, whereas a US pint is 16fl.oz where a UK pint is 20 fl.oz, there's stll 8 pints to a gallon in both countries, so a US gallon is 4/5ths of a UK gallon.

As I understand, Americans do tend to use cubic centimetres/centimeters an litres for the size of vehicle engines. I know there is also cubic inches but I think that is little used nowadays.

The British pancake is a version of a French crepe.

Indeed.@@ElizabethDebbie24

Touche 😂

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basic food for basic types

Calling Nando’s a restaurant is a bit of a stretch.

@@Jabber-ig3iw Is more a crèche...

Sus - another word youngsters think they invented.. just like Nandos food quality

My son in law used to be a manger at a large Nando's and we could all eat there for free as often as we liked as a family or individuals. We only ever went once and it was a unanimous decision to never go back because "Dad cooks better food" - it's not like it hard though! @@niallrussell7184

It is an offence to be drunk in public. Although the fine is less than . Drunk and disorderly .

I was charged with being Drunk.and incapable, though that was some time ago, not sure if it still stands.

I was picked up for being drunk in a public place once, but I wasn't charged with anything. I was just put in a cell overnight to sleep it off and let go in the morning.

USA would be better described as the land of illusion no one is free in America if freedom was a real thing in the USA they would be in a civil war constantly to create the illusion they converted America into a plantation now you are all slaves to the elites,

I once saw a woman arrested in a recreational area in a Texas subdivision for having a small, discreet wine with her picnic. A neighbour had grassed her up. She wasn't warned or advised, just put in handcuffs in front of everyone then taken away in a police car. Yeah, land of the free certainly felt free that day.

​@@PedroConejo1939I went to Twickenham with a couple of mates to see the Army-v-Navy rugby match one day. Match wasn't up to much, so we went to the pub instead, via an off licence (bodega). Walking down the street drinking beer from bottles, we passed a policeman. He looked at us and said "Good afternoon". And that's all he said.

Eurovision is a great big Camp exercise in silliness which is why the British love it. Irony in overload. Our hosts usually give tongue in cheek commentaries whilst countries have been known to send deliberately bad entents because they don't won't to incur the cost of hosting it the next year. Voting exposes political enemies. Watching involves football style shouting at the screen, drinking games. One year the winner was a tall statuesque drag queen with luxuriant facial hair. If you want to start watching try the funniest Eurovision acts etc.

@@tonywalton1464I used to get the feeling in the States that some of the freedoms they had were things that should be restricted, and many of the restricted things should really have been freedoms. Not that the UK is perfect by any means. It just felt like there was an underlying tension in the US.

Cheeky was a word to describe a child that was disrespectful to adults. Now its used more as snacky, light heartedly comment

I don't, it's more of a South Eastern thing

Or something just a little bit "naughty". Like you might go for a cheeky pee behind a bush if you're caught short in the countryside. My dad used to day he was off for a "swift half", where I think today, that might be a "cheeky beer" 😀🍺

Lindsay would love that, for sure!

And Bargain Hunt, Cash in the Attic, Money for Nothing… so many shows!

We tend to say thrift or second hand.

And Israel!

Or charity shops, as most of the shops selling second hand goods in the UK are raising money for a specific charity.

I’m the same lol I can convert quickly, and with money, thruppeny bit, shilling etc lol

@@TanyaRando Do you remember half a crown? 2 shillings and sixpence. It was a small fortune to me as a child. My darling Aunt and Uncle used to give me half a crown every time they visited us. 🥰

I'm a Brit too, just a fraction younger than yourself. I remember the change over of money. I may have just started school at the time. Anyway, what I wanted to say was I totally get the Cup system and here's why. When it started out, I believe it was because everyone had a cup, so Two cups of this and three cups of that gave you the right ratio for your recipe. It doesn't matter how big your own cup is, it will still work if you follow the recipe. Now if you were only cooking for your small family, then you may have enough by using your small cup. If you were feeding a farm full of labourers your little cup wouldn't work. so use a bucket. Same recipe + bucket = huge amount, a great method in my opinion. Later the Cup became an exact amount/weight and messed up that great method.

@@Whippy99 yes! And when my grandad would come home from working away we’d get a 10 Bob note 🤣🤣

@@TanyaRando Ooh you lucky thing! 😍

Man caves!

My shed has become the local pub

What's the Weather like where you are ? It's not to bad here in Worcestershire. Overcast with sunny spells and mild.

@@matthewbishop9342 lol sunny and warm in my part of devon

Especially with strangers! Was chucking it down all day here today!

@sueKay sue I feel the pain we have had months of rain today was beutifull, where in Scotland are you

@chucky2316 it was nice here too for about an hour. It's raining now lol

The TV programmes Bargain Hunt and Dickinson's Real Deal are probably most people's experience of auctions. I have been to two auctions. One when selling stuff after my parents died. My bald patch shone on Dickinson's Real Deal that time.

@@peterjackson4763 yeah, but people in the US or people with 9-5 jobs likely wouldn't know about those programmes. Sotheby's is a worldwide auction house that handles hugely famous sales. Aside from that, if I was going to make a reference to an auction on TV, I'd have said Only Fools and Horses.

Also Christies.

Dinosaurs? Nobody that I know here in NSW still uses mpg. It’s all litres/100km. Easier to calculate and once you get your head around it (which I agree can take some time) I think that it is easier to use, too. I have gone through the decimal currency conversion and the metric measurements conversion and I found that decimal currency was the easier conversion as it was done effectively overnight, coming into force on the 14th February 1966. Still remember the jingle, too.

​@@DeepThought9999And the UK followed suit five years later,also with a catchy jingle.😂

Sounds awesome!

That’s very kind of her to let you in. My husband will not allow me in his shed. 🤣🤣

Apart from on British military bases. They often have Thrift shops called thrift shops. A lot of military wives go there to get ball gowns for the summer balls held in the Mess's (so we don't all wear the same dress year after year) or an evening dress for the Christmas Draw. But yeah, outside of Military Bases/stations, You're absolutely right.

Drinking in public is not aloud any where in the UK unless its a event but police don't really get involved unless your drunk and Causing a Disturbance

​@@AndrewClemo91Drinking in public is not allowed? Of course it is! SOME places have a ban on 'the consumption of alcohol in X public area', but those are very specific bans, where there are, or have been, known problems/damage/whatever in a specific place, or group of places, eg streets surrounding a popular meeting place, or a conservation area that has suffered the visits of dfunken yobs, but no-one - and crtainly not the police! - is going to check the contents of your picnic basket on a normal day at a public beach or in a public park, if you're behaving in a normal sort of way.

Nandos: overpriced mediocre food.

Also the wind up Radio. A must for 3rd world coutries with no internet etc.

I've been there (heaven!) and it even says "Hay-on-Wye town of books" as you drive in.

@@cyflym11 I visited Hay on Wye with my brother. We had to leave sooner than expected because my brother was spending too much money. It's easily done.

Same in Japan

And anywhere else you drive on the left

NO. UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN ROAD RULES YOU ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE WAY TO VEHICLES ALREADY IN THE ROUNDABOUT. This applies in Western Australia too (I just checked your Government’s “Safe Driving” booklet on line). The advice there is to select a gap in the traffic in order to enter the roundabout. Absolutely no mention of giving way to the right! Essentially the same in my state (NSW) too, of course. It is an Australian Road Rule after all. The “give way to traffic already in the roundabout” rule is a broader requirement than the simpler and often believed “give way to the right” misinterpretation. Under the ARR, not only do you have to give way to vehicles already in the roundabout that are coming from your right but you have to also look out for and avoid vehicles that have gone (or are in the process of going) past you and are now in the roundabout in front of you (i.e. no longer on your right). You must give way to them, too. Get it? Furthermore, the ARR do not give you carte blanche to try to enforce this mistaken “give way to the right” rule and come hurtling into a roundabout trying to get in before somebody else who is trying to come in at the next entrance (effectively on your left initially and then in front of you) to the roundabout - they might just get into the roundabout before you, in which case you MUST GIVE WAY TO THEM. I hope that I have made it clear and that you and anyone else with that mistaken belief wherever the road rule is the same as in Western Australia and New South Wales (I have only checked the ARR, NSW, VIC, SA, QLD and now WA rules as a good professional driver should if likely to be driving in those jurisadictions) reconsider your opinion, for the safety of everyone.

Which is the right ​@@DeepThought9999

@@kevinstreet5709 Yes, but there’s much more to it than that. Here in Oz, we have to do more than just give way to traffic on our right when entering a roundabout. There is a significant difference between “give way to the right” and “give way to traffic already in the roundabout”. So to say that a driver entering a roundabout has to give way to their right is incomplete, misleading and could lead to potentially dangerous beliefs by others, with unfortunate consequences. Hence my comments above, which were only intended correct and to expand on the earlier post and thereby to clarify matters, particularly for those with incomplete knowledge of the Australian Road Rules when driving in Australia. Consider another scenario: a standard-size Medium Rigid Bus 12.5 metres long approaches a small, suburban roundabout. There are no other vehicles already in the roundabout that the bus has to give way to, so the bus enters the roundabout at a cautious (i.e. low) speed. A car is approaching the roundabout from the bus’ right at about 40 km/h but is still some 40 metres away from the roundabout as the bus enters. As the bus travels at its safe speed through the roundabout (unrestrained passengers, remember) it is still within the roundabout but the car enters the roundabout at close to its original speed. The rear of the bus is not yet fully into the roundabout but the front is more than halfway through and the bus is still moving forward carefully at about 20 km/h. Which vehicle do you think was required to give way? Do you think that it’s the bus that’s required to give way to the car because the car is approaching from the bus’s right even though the bus clearly gets to the roundabout first and enters first, having taken the gap in traffic in the roundabout? Or does the car have to give way because the bus is already (but only partially) within the roundabout even though the car has had to slow further to avoid a collision? Is the car driver entitled to blast his horn because he has had to slow for the bus that has approached and entered the roundabout from the car’s left?

Israel too.

@@carriedudley8593 can't believe I forgot, especially as Israel has won more than once - have checked: has won 4 times!

Blimey! same colour as mine👍

You'll never know just how jealous of you, I am.

​@@hellsbells8689and me! 😥

my shed is 7x12 foot contains the lawn mower some tools and my game consoles, not as fancy as yours but still does the trick :p

I don't know how hard it is to get that planning permission, but my cousin got his plumbed with a toilet and a sink.

@@michaeljeacock I want that too! Ain't it mad that Victorians adapted their homes and gave up a bedroom in order to fit a bathroom inside as plumbing technology increased, because they were fed up freezing their arse off and dragging water out a well..... .....150 years later we're putting sheds in our garden to stick a toilet in! 🤣

It was founded a Dutch settler colony that the British took over as a Naval base, so not quite so natural.

And the Arab's 100 years before the Dutch .

@@peterjackson4763 depends what part, the Boers weren't in all of south Africa, a large part was unclaimed.

@@SirZanZa I am not an expert on it, but as I understand it it was the Boers who moved out to other area and then were conquered by the British. So the sequence was largely the same.

​@@peterjackson4763and the Dutch taking over is?

@emdoeslife1355. Perfect explanation.

Mines for gardening tools, DIY tools, decorating equipment, bedding and feed for the chickens (they have a run built on the side of the shed), wild bird seed and all the usual sorts of stuff. However I do have a spare chest freezer and a tumble dryer in there as there is no space in the house.

My grandfather had a huge set up we spent hours in that shed building and watching the trains going round, he even had street lights and buildings that lit up . I learnt how to solder by the age of 5 😂

Crepes is the French word, pancakes is the British word. The British also use the same mixture to make Yorkshire puddings.

Imperial has its own logic - the units and numbers are those useful for everyday or work purposes, e.g. 12 is better than 10 if you are often going to be dividing by small numbers. The metric system is better when you are using a larger range of values or converting from one type of unit to another, which is more common in science than everyday life.

​​@@peterjackson4763this is just false, metric is also easier for everyday life. You're trying to somehow justify inconsistent. Imperial was basically invented by people who had no idea what they were doing. Even Imperial units are officially defined by metric ones! 12 is better than 10 if you're American and keep doing everything in fractions instead of decimals like everyone else 😂

@@Hirotoro4692 You are mistaken.

I miss the illogical Imperial, it had character and it was ours. Also it worked just fine.

@@nealgrimes4382 Indeed! No one thinks it is weird to have 60 secs in a minute or 24 hours a day or 7 days a week or 365 days a year etc.

I've found the problem with round abouts. Having to use indicators. No one even knows their cars have them.

@@heftyhadrosaur8740 If one lane is distinctly higher volume than the others the other lanes can come to a stand still, so the busiest ones have traffic lights as well. You can even have roundabouts with part time traffic lights.

At a roundabout, the rule is to give way to traffic on your right. This does sometimes cause a problem if four cars arrive at a roundabout at the same time. This leads to a "Mexican standoff" where everyone is waiting for traffic on their right. Someone usually takes a chance and moves first.

​@@arthurennimore-empties6709 the giveaway to the right only applies to vehicles already on the roundabout. In your example no one has right of way until someone enters the roundabout

@@arthurennimore-empties6709 I opted for the words 'look for a gap' because if you went to Europe or one of the few roundabouts in the US you would have to give way to traffic on the left.

Same. They had to force my Nan out of the house she was in in the mid 1980s that still had an outside loo and no bath. Tin bath in the kitchen and a pot under the beds at night. The warnings of "Don't go to the kitchen, Uncle Martin is having a bath." It was the youngest child's duty to "do the slops". Which was my Aunt Sue at the time. Rather disgusting as there were two male lodgers that could have done their own "slops". When we stayed at Nan's, our mum used to bring toilet paper as she knew there would be newspaper hanging in the loo at Nan's.

@@hellsbells8689 Do you remember the family baths once a week, when it was dad, mum then kids by age in the same water?

@@daveofyorkshire301I was fortunate enough to not have to do that but my dad told me, his mum, my Nan would put the three youngest kids (Dad's siblings) in the tin bath at the same time. A brick under one end raising it for the youngest, making the water shallow up that end. He never said if it was clean water but I'm betting it wasn't. It took too long to reboil and refill the tin bath.

@Rhiannon-wv9dk That hard transparent non-absorbant stuff that didn't fold or come close to functional? Yes I remember it. You could actually scratch yourself on any edge you tried to fold.

Oh yes, I’ve used outside lavs of many kinds as my rellies lived in different places! The very worst was on a Lincolnshire farm up to 1964. A plank with a hole and a bucket. That was grim, dark and smelly at night, light and smelly in the daytime!

My Wendy house when I was little (60s and 70s) was like a tent frame with plastic poles and joints that slotted together and then a cover went over the top that was painted to look like a little house. We could play in the garden in the summer but it could also be used indoors in bad weather. I had one for my daughter when she was small but you don't see them so much now. They are more likely to be the more solid plastic moulded ones. It's a shame really, part of the fun was the sense of achievement from knowing how it all went together!

Oh yeah! We definitely have those here, but they're generally just called club house or playhouses here. :)

⁠​⁠@@reactingtomyrootsare they made out of wood or plastic? We also have something called a playhouse. It’s around 4 foot tall and made from plastic. Our Wendy houses are around 6 foot tall and made from wood.

Where as an American pint is 4ounce less than the UK

'all' UK schools teach both Imperial and Metric systems'. I first went to Primary School in 1969. Throughout the 13y of schooling, Imperial measurements were mentioned precisely three times.

As a child of the 70s, imperial was never taught or mentioned. My daughter (now 21) never learnt imperial. That would be bizarre!

@@quantisedspace7047 I am slightly surprised by that statement because the metric system only became part of the curriculum in 1975. It had become an actual proposition in about 1966 but, typically for here in the UK, it took some time to become mandatory. Small changes occurred at different times and, as I’m sure you know, some measurements, eg weights, were simply not implemented by many sectors of society and many people continued to use pounds and ounces. When the National Curriculum was introduced, in 1988, it became mandatory to introduce all pupils to both methods and to learn methods of converting from one to the other. There was quite a long period of time when Maths, generally, was subjected to some very strange curriculum changes (Modern Maths) and there was a very rigid approach to applying metric methods.

@@leec6707 A person aged 21 would have been required , under the National Curriculum, introduced in 1988, to learn Imperial Measurements and simple conversions.