South Carolina here. A sweeper is a vehicle that sweeps the streets. A vacuum is a vacuum and some times a hoover. Keep in mind different parts of America calls different things different things.
killrade4434, are you old enough to remember the old comedy "Mr. Ed"? If so, do you remember the theme song line, "A horse is a horse . . ".? If so, you'll know why your comment reminded me of it when you said "a vacuum is a vacuum".
A cheese ball is a literal ball of soft cheese rolled in crushed nuts. Using a knife to scoop some onto a cracker. There are many flavors available some with wine added.❤
The bee’s cheese is a play on an old American slang phrase. “It’s the bee’s knees “ means something is very cool. I know, silly, but this goes back almost a hundred years. Lawrence was making a pun using the word cheese instead of knees.
Gnats are very tiny. You’ll walk into a cloud of them, and they can get in your eyes, mouth and hair. In some areas we also have biting midges, “no-see-um’s,” which are so tiny you really don’t see them, but you definitely feel their little painful bites. But the worst are chiggers…really teeny insects that run up your legs if you’re in tall grass and cause intense itching. Depends which area of the country you’re in.
Here in Western NC, when we say "gnats" we're referring tiny fly-like insects that tend to migrate around food and trash cans, or sweaty people. There's always at least one on every summer night that invades my bedroom while I'm sleeping and eventually makes camp in one of my nostrils.
@@charlieschuder9976 exactly i was so confused why he called that a gnat because in NC a gnat is tiny tiny flys that hover above my eyes my food the trash and sweaty ppl
I love when British RU-vidrs explain Americanisms to Americans. Like, the fact that you call them "Cougars" should be a dead giveaway that it's an American saying.
Your definition of cougar ( the older woman stalking a younger guy) is actually derived from the predatory behavior of cougars (the big cats of North America) stalking their prey. The difference being that cougars (the cats) are ding it for food and survival. The older woman... well it isn't for survival.
Just remember, not everyone in the U.S. uses the same terms. He is specifically talking about the midwest. For instance, most people say vacuum instead of sweeper.
My Grandma would have used a sweeper, which was a precursor to a vacuum. It's a carpet sweeper. It has two roller brushes that sweep debris into a chamber between the rollers. They're used predominantly at movie theaters now to clean up popcorn without having the movie goers hearing a vacuum. I'm in Iowa. Worked at a movie theater for years.
I’m from Southern Indiana; I say vacuum (if someone said sweeper I’d assume they’d want a broom), I also say Soda and other than Cougar (an older woman going out with a younger man) I do not recognize any of those other words…
In the US, there's a saying about the weather: If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes. The weather in many places around the country can, and often does, change drastically just within a few minutes. One minute it may be sunny and warm, then a few minutes later it's pouring rain with a side of wind and hail, then it's sunny again. Of course, it also goes the other way around.
I grew up in the Midwest and we called them a vacuum. I can see someone maybe calling a broom a sweeper, but not a vacuum. I love sun Showers that is when you most likely will see a rainbow.
@@saltysunflower If you asked your in-laws, what was the name of the appliance they used when they swept the carpet, would they say sweeper or vacuum? I'm curious, this is a sincere question.
Lawrence lives in Chicago, Illinois, the state Lewis pointed to was Indiana. I know because I'm in Michigan and pretty familiar with our surrounding states because they're all in the BIG10 & I've either traveled to or through those states.
He lived in Indiana for a LONG time. Only twenty miles from where I lived. It's where he got his start in the USA, and he talks about it at the start of this video.@@kathrynnisse5105
The term “cougar” for middle aged women looking for younger men, was invented back around the late 1990s by Walton and Johnson, a southern regional radio show. It was taken by David Letterman and them became a common term in the US. It was adopted later in Britain, not invented there.
This winter has been the mildest winter I've ever experienced. Spring time temperatures and rain instead of snow, I'm loving it. As for pop up rainstorms they happen on occasion here, but you can usually see them coming. When the entire horizon is darker you can tell that rain is falling in the distance.
Hoovers or vacuums. Sweepers are motorless brooms with the scooper attached. Perdiddle is a car with one headlight working. Piddle is like pee. A sun shower is rain while the sun is still shining. Sometimes there are incredibly violent thunderstorms with downpours. In the southwest, we have to watch out for flash floods in the arroyos (dry ditches) if there is any rain in the region, sometimes miles away. Keep that in mind if you visit any of the canyon areas in rainy season. We have a saying, “ditches are deadly” because they can be.
Gnats are really tiny..Much smaller than a fly. They do fly in groups snd are a pain but they don't hurt you. Sweeper and vacuum are used interchangeably.
Rain, . . . He isn't talking about the sort of rain you are accustomed to. He is talking about fast HEAVY rain that causes flooding. He is also in the Midwest. Very flat lands that can move a weather system very fast. Cheese Balls are a mix of herbs and a cheese mixture, usually cheddar based that are formed into a ball and rolled in a mix of chopped nuts and served as part of a snack tray. If you like cheese, you will like a Cheese Ball. They are served with a cheese knife, or small butter knife. You butter a cracker with the cheese mixture. The Midwesternisms are words you will hear in the Midwest, but the rest of us know what they are talking about.
Lol. I was born in Oklahoma and have lived in St Louis MO since I was 3. If that doesn't make me an expert on Midwestern sayings, I don't know what does 🤷 I am in the Show-Me state after all. So I'll show all of you pretend Midwesterners a few examples of when we use the term "ope". In general, it's said after bumping into someone, dropping something, or as an alert of someone needing to get around or “sneak right past ya.” Midwesterners use "ope" as a reflex to express a variety of emotions: Surprise: "Ope" is a small exclamation of surprise, similar to "oops" or "uh-oh". For example, if you accidentally bump into someone, you might say "Ope!" rather than "oh!". Apology: "Ope" can be used to express an apology. For example, you might say "Ope. I did not see you". Excitement or awkwardness: "Ope" can communicate excitement or awkwardness. "Lacy just won the tourney!" Reply "Ope! That's awesome!" Urgency: "Ope" can be used to convey urgency. "Ope! Grab the phone!" Interruption: "Ope" is a discreet way to interrupt someone. For example, you might hear "ope" at a grocery store, sporting event, or family gathering. "Ope! Excuse me, can I reach around you?"
He's right. It's a joke: if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes. The difference between UK and US rain is that the UK has a more steady drizzle whereas in the US it could go from sprinkling to a heavy downpour (a couple of inches in an hour.) And then you have the useless umbrella when there's a strong wind associated with the rain. It renders the umbrella moot.
Hoover is a brand name of a vacuum cleaner. U.K. calls them hoovers because they were the first ones on the market and were the dominant brand in the U.K.
Laurence moved to the US Nov of 2007, a fact that he's mentioned more than once. Your definition of "cougar" is also used in the US for the same thing. But in the context of the clip he showed it's a wild cat.
Yeah it's the same as calling all pop coke. It's also the same thing as sweeper pretty much, as it was just older folks calling new yet similar things the terms they were familiar with. Using Coke and sweeper like that is dead for the most part with younger generations outside of some random places.
You can mostly tell when the rain is coming here, but there are pop-up showers, and sometimes it does rain when the sun is out and and when my grandmother lived in Florida you could just about set your clock by afternoon thunder showers. As far as cheese goes, the average American currently eats about 40 lb of cheese a year.
Yeah, when I lived in the St. Petersburg area of Florida and also in Mobile, AL there was a period of time during every summer where it rained (typically a downpour) nearly every afternoon. Days when it didn't were rare. It was always around the time in the afternoon where the humidity levels had noticeably decreased and felt a bit more tolerable. Afterwards it always felt downright swampy.
It happens near Ft Lauderdale at around 1-1:30pm when I was there for 3 weeks. It was totally incompatible with the rain in the Midwest which went from the occasional sun shower, to the nice sound on the roof steady rain to the streets flooding within 5 mins to needing a canoe to get your mail. Then there's the tornadoes 🌪...If the tornadoes sirens go off, you better run full out for the basement or you might just have a house, car, or cow dumped on you. See the movie "Twister." There really are people who chase tornadoes!!
I just did, and my sympathies to you. I also discovered that cicadas hate the smells of peppermint,vinegar and eucalyptus! You might want to consider planting peppermint around the bases of all your trees and big bushes!😁
Not all of us southerners call soda "Coke." Actually here in NC, I don't know anyone who does (but obviously I don't know everyone). Mostly the people I know just say soda or soft drink.
Hey hey, Lew! We do indeed call them Sunshowers in Florida. We also have hot rain, sometimes. You may be used to the English weather, but in Florida, it will have just thunderstormed and then sun shining. Then it turns into a giant greenhouse at 90°F with 80% humidity. You’re literally steaming to death in a tropical paradise! I think that’s why so many death metal bands start here. That green, baggy sweatshirt was the logo for the university I went to: Michigan State! Woo! If you don’t like cheese, the Midwest is not for you. That cheese ball is covered in nuts. It’s really tasty! The regionalisms are totally a thing, and are hilarious. I say pop because Midwestern parents. “Ope!” Is the “excuse me for being in your way.” Paddidling is like pissing about. Cougar is also used here in the same way as England, in slang context. GRINDR is a gay dating app.
Awesome Lewis. Cougars are always on the prowl in all the states where i laid my head in THE U.S.A. Real actual feline cougars are in the hills, rivers, towns, pastures, etc., etc., etc.
I was born and lived in Indiana for over 30 years of my life. I thought we had some pretty hard rains in Indiana until I moved to Florida. The first rain shower I experienced in Florida scared the Hebbie-Jebbies out of me. I was driving down the road when suddenly it was like someone was dumping buckets of water on my windshield. I couldn't see a blasted thing. I'm used to it now and know more about how to handle it but seeing it for the first time is a true culture shock.
I am a real live midwesterner and a sweeper is not really a vacuum.What we call a sweeper is one of those little things that you would use to do a quick, light cleaning of a rug. A sweeper is not electric but has little brushes on the bottom and you push it over the rug to collect the small stuff.
Here in Minnesota for pretty much the first time ever we've barely gotten a winter December -January was so unbelievably green that I went to Alaska to have a proper winter
Most people shorten Soda-pop to either soda, or pop. The one that got me was spending a year in Maine and New England where they called it "Tonic." Properly, Tonic Water is a bubbly, clear seltzer type mixer that has quinine in it, and is most commonly associated with Gin.
I live abt 3 hrs south of Chicago, We call them vacuum cleaners, and pop or soda pop. Usually don't carry an umbrella, because when it rains here, it means it! the wind and force of the rain will turn the umbrella wrong side out. No outdoor wind chimes here, they would blow away, or get very tangled and broken after just one rain. We call lighter rains showers or sprinkles. Its almost always windy, which is great when its hot.
For the rain: the reason why it is different is because you can go straight from clear, bright, sunny day to category 1 hurricane then back again in under an hour.
The single-cloud dumps are usually just scattered showers, which hit some places and miss others. Which suck in summer because they jack up the humidity to swampy. Sun showers are when it's raining while you can see the sun (usually well away from solar noon, or fall/winter when the sun never gets truly overhead).
In Illinois and NY we call a vacuum a vacuum. The sweeper is the little rolly sweeper for quick clean ups like in restaurants. Also, I say soda pop, but I like saying soda pop so 🤷♀️
I live in Richmond, Indiana. It has been a rather warm winter this year. I call it a vacuum. We had some snow Friday the 16th . That was only our second measurable snowfall for this year.
In the states, you can have bright sunny weather 1 minute and a down pour the next. It can rain when theres no clouds in the immediate area, or you can have heavy clouds roll in but no rain. So you can't really tell if its going to rain by looking at the sky but you can tell if its going to rain soon by smelling it.
Original term was "Soda Pop" in the midwest. In Michigan it's "Pop", in Connecticut where I now live, "Soda". So, I bring, Connecticut and New England words and pronunciations into my daily vocabulary. When in Alabama, I use "Coke" or "Cold drink", as the locals do. It's fun and respectful. The term, "Beverage", is used in many states and regions. It's often used in a restaurant or sometimes in a more formal setting. It's not fancy, it just means available items to drink. "Would you like a beverage to go with your meal or "to start with" when ordering. I use beverage in casual situations just to choose a different word. It's not pompous, it's just choosing a different word once in awhile.
I live in St. Louis, Missouri, and that is definitely in the Midwest. To me, a sweeper is an item that you push back and forth to clean the carpet, but it isn't electrified. That was a vacuum cleaner here. I use soda for various carbonated drinks, I love cheese on almost everything--not ice cream--and that usage of cougar came in when I was a young woman. I'm over 70 now. I hate gnats, but they are smaller than Lawrence's bug. They are found in revolting clouds of thousands, though, and they get in every part of your body that's exposed. Ick. Chiggers, which live in grasses, are way worse. Their bites are hideously itchy and tend to get infected. They are found wherever your clothes are fitted, like around the top of your socks, in your shorts, around the waistband of your pants, your sleeve-ends. Screens are essential here from spring through fall. Those pop-up rainstorms are soaking rains--no umbrella will protect you, and the rain goes sideways quite often, due to the wind, so all your clothing gets soaked. It runs down your face, gets under your collar and runs down your back, soaks your socks and runs into your shoes. That's not as bad as a really bad thunderstorm here. Look up "derecho"--it's a straight-line wind during a storm that is strong enough to topple telephone poles and trees. The weather here is probably more extreme here than you realize, but I love it. I love weather, period.
It totally started POURING down rain on my way home from work today. In full sunshine. There was one cloud that wasn’t even directly over where I was. Lol
I'm from the midwest. Wisconsin cheesehead. Pididdle means one light is out on someone's car. And sometimes you hit the person next to you in the car when you see one and say pididdle.
In Colorado, every once in a while, we get thundersnow. That's right, thunder and lightning while its snowing. I was a gas station watching a person not from Colorado freak out.😂😂😂
@@heatherpayne1995 Born in PA and raised in Illinois and it's the same in both places. Pop or soda (soda pop works everywhere). Coke only refers to Coca-Cola.
Rain....lol, I've seen it rain on one side of the street and sunny on the other, and yes downpours can come out of the blue. Buses on the hour are pretty common here.
Most of the time you can see a heavy storm coming. But I have experienced unexpected downpours that occur out of nowhere when it seems nice and sunny out.
I’ve lived in the Midwest, specifically Indiana, my whole life. I love these kinds of videos. I didn’t even realize that ope was a word that I used until watching some of these. I can confirm that I say ope very frequently.
I’m from Indianapolis originally. When I brought my wife and son to the U.S. from Norwich,Norfolk, I was living in Georgia near the swamps …I mean the “Scenic Marsh “ as they tell Northerners buying property. My son was 5 never been near a mosquito ( where I had my house there were 36 varieties of mosquitoes!) In the U.S. we are a car culture because of the distances between destinations!
In Colorado it can be raining on one side of the street but not the other. A wall of rain that makes a straight line across the pavement. It can also go from sunny to raining so hard streets flood, then boom, sun again. During summer it happens almost everyday sometime between 1-3pm, a nice afternoon cooldown.
I remember years ago, my dad and I went to pick up some tools form the hardware store. When we were about to walk out, we were looking across the parking lot and one of those storms popped up. You could see the like of the rain/ downpour come across the parking lot. We just waited 3 minutes and it was sunny out again.
The rain in America is pretty varied. In the western part of Washington and Oregon, the rain is very light in volume but fairly constant for half the year or more. Places like in the video and parts of the south, it's a heavy rain that'll last only a few minutes
The rain here in the wet part of the PNW is actually very similar to the rain in the UK. Very different from those super heavy rains you can find east of the Rockies.
When it rains that hard here it can be short, but in the spring it can go on for hours. You'd be drenched in under a minute. Because I live in Chicago too, I can admit there is a saying here. ' There is no spring in Chicago. It goes from 30 degrees to 90 degrees.' I can also admit that it often feels like that!
He was right within the south we called a sunshower because it doesn’t really get dark especially in the summer. It just rains with the sun out. There’s not a cloud in the sky but you have you can have a torrential downpour or you can just have like a drizzle, but it just rain and then it stops in a few minutes.
Moving from the West Coast to the south, the species of mosquito varies and I had massive bruising swelling bites called skeeter syndrome. It took a year for my body to adjust to southern mosquitos. Gnats don't bite but midges do.
As someone born and raised in and around. Chicago, I have only heard it called vacuum or vacuum cleaner. Sweeper is a big vehicle that cleans the streets. Now it’s not uncommon for someone to say they are going to swifter their floors, but that seems more national than regional. Swifter is a brand of dusters and mops for cleaning. But they are NOT a vacuum. Also with the rain it depends. Sometimes we will get a surprise shower (Florida has been known to time things around these usually in the afternoon), but storms, which last longer, we have some warning.
In large US urban areas, public transportation can be very good. I live in a medium sized city. I can walk to the corner of my block and stand at the bus stop. Two different bus routes pass this stop. One every ten minutes and one every twenty minutes. In a single bus ride from my stop, I can access four different commuter rail stations, one AMTRAK long distance rail station and an international airport. I can also be in the center of the city as well as have access to several local bus hubs at which I can transfer to other routes. Cheese balls are actually balls of cheese spread [usually a blend of cheddar and cream cheese] rolled in chopped nuts. They're great when spread on RITZ crackers. Lewis, where do you think the usage "cougar" for older woman on the prowl came from ? Most sources say that it originated in Western Canada, and spread south to the US. FYI, "Hoover" is the registered trademark of the Hoover Company which makes vacuum cleaners. It also operates in the UK. NOTE : Before there were vacuum cleaners, there were "carpet sweepers". Believe it or not, carpet sweepers are still being manufactured and sold.
I'm from outside of Philadelphia and my step-father is originally from Chicago area. It took a while to remember that whenever he said Pop, he meant soda. It's funny that we say different things, however they mean the same thing. Midwesterns says, going to the beach, while Philly says, down the shore. Lol.
When it comes to rain out of nowhere, the two states you’re almost guaranteed to have sudden out of nowhere rain are Florida and Hawaii. I was in bootcamp in Florida during hurricane Andrew back in 92. We were inland in Orlando so there wasn’t much threat from the sea. But the electrical storms and sudden pour downs were crazy for a left coast chick like me. You’re literally standing in the sun, then look behind you and it’s nothing but dark clouds. You can literally see the wall of water as the rain approaches. It was quite the sight for me.
The impression i get is that UK rain is more of a steady sort of thing. We get torrential downpours. And yes, often out of nowhere. Sunny and wonderful, 5 minutes later you're standing in a 3" deep puddle that is growing fast. 15 minutes later the sun is out again. I grew up in Denver and we could set our clocks by the afternoon thunderstorm in the summer. Super intense, would flood streets in minutes. Often had hail that would block drains making the street flooding way worse. Never lasted more than 20 or 30 minutes.
What's weird about gnats, they hang around in tight swarms. And somehow they remain hovering over the same spot even when a considerable breeze is gusting.
The rain in America not only shows up out of nowhere, but it's most often strong enough to break your umbrella, ruin your shoes, and cause multiple car accidents before you have time to get to a dry location.
Sweeper is a manual push device with a spinner roll, usually with bristles, that sweeps/scoops up debris and dirt off the floor and captures it for disposal. What you would call a Hoover we call a vacuum.
Mosquitos are actually the most deadly species on the planet. Prior to the 2000s, "cougar" was just a mountain lion, and the pilot that loses his nerve in the opening of Top Gun. Around 2000, it started to mean a granny that tries to hit on her granddaughter's boyfriends. "Pop" is also predominant in my area. Here, if you walk into a grocery store and ask where the "soda" is, they'll figure you mean baking soda, and direct you to that area. "Cola" is the alternative that also sees a lot of use. Also, yea, that's a sweeper, or a vacuum. Or rarely a vacuum sweeper. "Hoover" is the name of a former president.
Grew up north of Chicago in the suburbs. Wisconsin shares a border with Illinois. Now Wisconsin considers itself to be the "Dairy State" and I can remember seeing billboards just before the state line telling you that it's your very last chance to buy lard/oleo/margarine. Seems that they could only sell butter in Wisconsin. Now, because of the "cheese" thing, people have been known to call the residents of Wisconsin "cheese-heads"! So the guys you saw with the cheese hats and green jersey's were most likely Greenbay Packer football fans having fun with the "cheese-head" nickname/stereotype.
Gnats... Sometimes called no-see-ums. One reason we have screens! Wild Rain... It isn't so much that it's raining, it's the volume of rain in a short amount of time! Some rural areas don't even have bus services. Baggy clothing, how else are you supposed to layer??? Cheese... Everything is better with cheddar, bacon and butter! Cougar... A wild cat, not of the house or barn variety! Hoover... vacuum
Born and raised in the Midwest, we always call it soda. I remember the first time I heard someone say pop and I didn’t know what they were talking about. Hahah. Different areas of the Midwest use different words for soda. And I find it confusing when people just say coke cause coke to me is a brand/type of soda. I don’t want a coke, I want a Dr Pepper or a mt dew hahaha
It's now PTSS, not PTSD (from disorder to a syndrome). As far as the sky opening up, we have many days where the forecast is given as a "x percent chance of precipitation" because the forecasted area is huge. So you check your weather, it says 38% and you get dumped on somewhere you go, or it says 62% and you never see a drop. Then there are storm events and everyplace just gets soaked.
There is no such thing as too much cheese!! Cheese balls like he showed are a mixture of cream cheese, soft cheeses like sharp Wisconsin cheddar, and sometimes hard cheeses like parmesan or blue cheeses like Maytag or Asiago. They are all mixed well together, rolled into the cheese ball and then it's coated in either nuts like crushed pecans or a pork product like cooked bacon or prosciutto. Often the cheeses are mixed with a reduction of Port wine. They are really retro and very in right now in some parts of the USA. I use my grandmother's recipe from the late 1960s to make some cheese balls for Christmas gifts.
"Ope" is one of the greatest inventions in the english speaking world. it is neither admittance of fault or an accusation of transgression. It is simply ope
Midwest/Detroit here: Cougar - Female 30-50 hunting for guys 18-25. Sweeper - never heard in my life. It's a vacuum. Pop - Yes. As in, shortened from the full name of the beverage "Soda Pop". Soda and Pop are interchangeable, but we only use, pop.
The cascades are at 67 % in Washington and 83% in Oregon. We are way below our normal snow pack. Most of the weather systems have been going through California. They have been getting way more rain in the lower elevations and more snow in the higher elevations. So not every part of the US has been getting major snow. Less snow pack more melting of glaciers during the summer. Yes glaciers on the mountains.
The reason the brits call vacuums hoovers is also because of Americans. It was named after the William Hoover, the man who started the first vacuum cleaner company. It was the first vacuum sold in Britain after they were made in the USA.
the rain here in some places are nothing like in the UK. the rainstorms can drop so much water in a short amount of time. causing places and bridges to flood. and the thunder can be atrocious, it will literally shake your entire house.
