BRITISH MUM REACTS | 5 Summer Objects I Only Encountered After Moving to America 

Ceiling fans can save you money on your heating bills. In winter it can take the warm air near the ceiling and recirculate in around the walls and back down to the floor. Reverse the direction of the fan for summer and it can provide a gentle direct breeze to the whole room. In Kansas it routinely drops to -20°C in winter and hits 40°C in summer, so the fan helps.

My ceiling fan literally only stops long enough for me to clean it.

The front porch is to keep tabs on the neighbors and socialize whereas the back porch is often used more for family BBQ's, etc.

Bag ice is actually made to be put in coolers. Used primarily for large events like parties or family get together. They also work well for camping.

Your mom is a great addition. I've been enjoying your videos together.

Front porches used to be like an outdoor living room in the days before air conditioning. People would socialize with their neighbors and enjoy a cool breeze and shade when the house was too hot to stay inside of. Air conditioning changed all that.

To say that there are places in The US that achieve 90 degrees F is a great understatement....there are MANY places that break triple digits and Death Valley California breaks 120 degrees on a regular basis in the Summer! Our cat loves the A/C, too!

Oh my gosh Millie, your Mum resembles Meryl Streep! That's a compliment. Lawrence , they have remote controls for ceiling fans. Lawrence is called central air conditioning.

I’ve really enjoyed this “British Mum Reacts” series. Hope Mum becomes a regular!

The overhead fans are used year round, there's a switch on the motor at the top to switch rotation one way will push warmer air up the other will push it down 😊 Love y'all ❤

I’m American but absolutely love British dry humor. Come on Monty Python anyone?! 😎

Ceiling fans are a great way to help your AC & furnace be more efficient by keep the air in each room more mixed.

The impression I have of UK weather is that the newspapers call anything over 20 C a heat wave.

I live in Texas. You better believe we have air conditioning and ceiling fans-in almost every room! But the modern ones have wall controls instead of the chain. You can set the speed and direction the blades move (different in winter than summer).

Ceiling fans can be used in the winter, you just swap the direction the blade spins in. One way it sends heat up and the other way it sends heat down

Nice having your mother here. She is a lovely lady.

90 deg F? That’s a cool summer day, I wish it would be so mild in summer.

I am so enjoying these reactions with your Mom. She is a lovely lady!

Millie, you have a lovely, charming mom. She fits your vlog so well. I bet she just can’t wait to hold that new grandson. I can’t wait to see him when you find it appropriate to film him.

I’ve moved 16 times and none of my homes had a front porch, nor ice dispenser in the fridge - but we definitely had ceiling fans. Love to see your mum reacting with you Millie!

A ceiling fan also saves a lot of space, since you don't need to use any floor space, and distributes air without obstructions such as a desk or bed, etc.

Anytime I think of the pioneers who settled in the west, especially Florida, Louisiana or Texas...I am in awe. I mean, to survive in these areas without AC?!?! It's only 100 billion degrees with 100 billion percent in humidity. 😄

Fun reaction - love the mother-daughter team!

Loved it, yes you two!! We have big refrigerators because we don't like going to the grocery store so much so we shop enough that it will last for weeks to a month. That's why we even have the EVEN BIGGER STORES CALLED WAREHOUSE STORES like Costco or BJ's or Sam's Club ( owned by Walmart) that sell giant amounts of toilet paper, milk, lunch meat, alcohol to tires or limited furniture or huge TV's, king size beds, fresh or frozen lobsters, a bakery with birthday cakes & everything in between. Hope ur mum can stand in more whenever u 2 need her. 😍😻🙏💙🧊🥤💙🇬🇧 North Carolina 🇺🇸

1. In Texas ceiling fans are a must! They can lower electricity because you can set the air conditioner to a higher temp. We have one in every room except for the restrooms. 2. Same with central air! 3. Camping is amazing - be one with nature 😊. 4. Yep, I have two porch swings. Gosh, I guess I am really an American. LOL I would say we use the front and back yards; back yard more, from my experience. 5. The more ice, the better. Fill it up with ice and then the drink. :) Can’t wait for baby Beesley! Hugs!

Ceiling fans are not just a use as a "fan". They are good to distribute the cool air. Also in the winter, most all ceiling fans have a switch to reverse the direction of the fan, for moving the hotter air at the ceiling back down to the floor level. You won't feel a "cold breeze" in reverse. The AC is also your dehumidifier. Cold air is dry air.

Ceiling fans are made to be used in the winter, too. There's a switch on them to reverse the motor & have them rotate the opposite way to spread the heat around.

I love Ma'ma❣️ She is ssssoooo normal. She gets the US vs. UK thing.

Everyone is waiting for baby and having Mum there is a privilege ❤

We have whole house air conditioning. Usually we open the windows, in the evening, this cools the house. In the day we keep shades drawn, this keeps the house cool. We use our ceiling fans to ease the cost of using the air conditioning.

Here in Arizona, we went through a heat wave this summer where it was 110 +, up to the low 120's everyday for 31 days straight. It was so bad saguaro cactus all over the county were falling over. Thank Goodness for air conditioning and ceiling fans! I enjoy seeing your Mum in the videos.

Millie and your Mum are delightful and love both of your inputs. A good change up for a bit.

Many of us here in the US have both a porch (front of the house) and a deck (back of the house). I usually sit out front in the morning drinking coffee with the next door neighbors watching our other (nor retired yet) neighbors go off to work. The deck and the backyard are more afternoon/night usage, especially for bar-b-ques.

Ceiling fans where I am in the US/NH are used all the time. There are certain speed settings, and they go either clockwise or counterclockwise depending on whether you are in summer or winter. Counter in the summer and clockwise in the winter and I think it helps.

American fridges commonly had automatic ice makers in the freezer long before the ones with dispensers in the doors. They dump the ice in a bin and make more whenever it gets low. I don’t think your restaurants put nearly as much ice in a drink as ours do.

His air conditioner he showed is not the typical AC unit. He’s using what looks like a swamp cooler on his window, which works but most houses in America have a permanent fixture outside their house that blows cool (or warm) air through ducting.

Usually when you buy a bag of ice for a party you'll put it in a cooler so it doesn't really matter if it fits in your freezer.

You can get lids for ice trays so you can make mini popsicles. Usually with sugar kool-aid or lemonade. Oddly not as popular as when I was younger.

Maybe Laurance needs to add Sensodyne (and other similar brands of) tooth paste to the memos "lost in the pond". It may be the secret for how Americans can drink seriously cold drinks painlessly.

They sell coolers nowadays that will keep ice frozen for DAYS, and not very expensive, so you don’t have to put that bag of ice in your freezer. They call them Extreme Coolers, and if you go “cooler shopping,” they will be rated 3 days, 5 days, 7 days, etc. I don’t know how the heck these things work so well, but maybe as Laurence says, it’s Wizards.

I just finally appreciated how creative “lost in the pond” is for his channel It’s gone over my head for years

Can't imagine not having ceiling fans! Gets stuffy without them. Mine are rarely ever turned off. Without AC we'd die.

Hi Milley's Mom 👋! Ceiling fans are great. They disperse smoke from anything that may have dripped onto the bottom of your oven, make things cooler still above the air conditioning in the summer, and make the heat more comfortable in the winter. Overall, it just improves air circulation, which always feels good unless it's 350⁰F and you're a turkey, then it's called a convection oven 😅. Even if it's 85⁰F outside, a/c still feels great and can't imagine life without it. Air conditioning is a beautiful thing, and I would cut my decency on it if I lived somewhere that had a stable climate. Bagged ice is great because even if your new fridge makes the stuff, you'd have to start making ice 2 months before the party to have enough on party day. This way, you go to the store and pick up up 8 5 pounds of ice, and it'll cost about 30-40 dollars but you'll be able to keep the beer and soda cold the food that's going to get cooked cold, your salads cold, the appetizers and desserts cold, and if you run out of room in the fridge you've got about a week's worth of icebox for leftovers. There are lots of things that make summers special here in the states, I just don't know if you have them there or not.

We live in North Carolina. We have two central AC units (upstairs and down), and eight ceiling fans around the house.

I would use my ceiling fans more often, but I have a parrot that I let out of his cage most of the day and don't want him flying into them. I usually only have the one in my bedroom going when I'm sleeping.

As a meteorologist for the past 43 years working in Houston,TX, I see that people in the UK or NZ have no idea how hot it gets here in much of the southern U.S. In Houston, our highs have ranged from 38-44C since May, with morning lows above 27C (80F). You cannot open an window to let any cool air in, even at night. Having AC is critical to staying alive indoors. Ceiling fans help keep you feeling cooler.

I grew up in a small suburban house the 50's-60's. No more than 50 feet porch to porch. On a summer night all the adults sat out there and often would have conversations w/ neighbors & passersby.

Ceiling fans help regulate the temperature of your home. They can push the warm air down to save on heating and in summer move the warm air up to help cooling. They are not as common now that air-conditioning is common.

The most I like about Laurence is his dry sense of humor. He cracks me up!

They can be used in winter or summer due to the fan blade angles and spin direction. In summer they spin to bring the air down on you to cool you sweeping the hot air away from you. The cord does blade speed. There is a switch that reverses the direction so during the Winter it directs the air upwards. So warm air goes up and bounces off the ceiling and gets directed around the entire room.

Re: ceiling fans: in Texas, where it gets to over 40C, and summer lasts FOREVER, you really WANT them, even WITH air conditioning. My house has an 18' ceiling in the living room and entryway, with an upstairs landing that looks out over them on either side, so you need to distribute the air. While I'd LOVE to visit over there, the "no ice in your drink" thing would be something of a real adjustment for me. I have more-ice-than-drink in my hand for most of my day. (Most folks have ice dispensers on our refrigerator, as well.) Again, though, it's Texas, where you're in shorts from May to nearly November. Most of us don't change out our wardrobes, 'cause occasionally, Christmas will throw a curve ball, and we have to go find a pair then too.

What you do with the ice bags is buy one or two and immediately break it up and dump it in a large travel cooler to fill with beers, sodas, waters, etc. Whatever is left you can then store (a whole bag wouldn’t fit in my freezer either) or put in the plants 🪴 it’s def a party thing for people

Really, really like having your mom on the reactions. Do much more in the future...😊

Hi Mum! The nice thing about ceiling fans is that in the winter you reverse them and they move heat down (heat rises).....so they are useful! Just FYI - most of us (Americans) have central air - he was showing a window unit - which are used also. LOL Porches are on the front of the house - patios are in the back! I have a patio and I have a screened in patio....in the back. My swing "bench" (usually called porch swing) is on my screened in patio - love it when it's raining .... very calming! Watch out Mr. B - Mum is filling in quite nicely!!

I live in Texas. Honestly, we use our air conditioner almost all year long. Our house has central air conditioning and not window units. We only use our heater when it is really cold. Thank goodness we have a wood burning fireplace and a propane grill outside. When we’ve had freezing weather, we’ve lost electricity. (Last winter & 3 winters ago.)

Typically the bagged ice gets put in a large cooler where canned/bottled soda/beer are placed in the ice, and taken outside for say a bar-b-cue. I love seeing some of the differences between our two countries and how you guys react to them. Laurence is terrific, been following Lost in the Pond since he only had a few hundred subs. I have to say he's spot on with pretty much everything. Love your channel, keep up the great videos! Love from Kentucky, USA.

Growing up in Colorado, I had no idea that ceiling fans were a thing. In fact I don’t think I ever saw them in California either. I think I was about 30 before I saw them in Virginia. Definitely needed them in Virginia!

Just wait until you have 90 degrees ferinheit 30 days in a row. You'll be putting ice in your drinks to cool off. Not just a few, half or more, just to feel cool.

I grew up in a 100+ year old house with a big wrap around screened front porch. Of course it had a wooden porch swing and I spent many an hour swinging out there in the Summer in my teen years.

Great job, ladies! BTW, we also use the bags of ice to fill our coolers when we got on trips to the beach or camping or even if you’re day tripping to a theme park and decide not to pay their for and drink prices, so you fill your cooler in your trunk.

Just an FYI: 🙂 When I add ice to a drink or order one, I always ask for "light ice" or "just a bit of ice." I don't like having my drink so full of ice that I have to sieve it thru my teeth and not be able to take a proper swallow. Plus, when you buy it with full ice, you don't get much soda, or whatever, in the glass.

As a former active paramedic in the Deep South I can’t even begin to tell you how many heat stroke and deaths we encountered because a heat wave and a widespread power outage coincided and the A/C wasn’t working! During the summers there it common to get temperatures up to 110° with 100% humidity. We would go inside the houses and it wasn’t uncommon for it to be 120°+ in there!

Actually they would have a good size backyard also, that they would use a lot. Front porches tend to be used like a sitting room. where you sit and talk being neighborly. while kids are in back yard being loud & crazy. It's also often used by the busy body neighbors as way to see what others are doing.

Ceiling fans are good year round. They help flow cool air in summer and push warm air in winter. Win , win. 😊

I freeze melon,fruit and berries for my drinks. So tasty and doesn’t water down my drink. Coffee cubes work great as I don’t like hot coffee

Some Americans have taken camping to another level. Called the motor home or the trailer home.

Porches provide shade for the windows. Before A/C, wraparound porches and sleeping porches were popular. They also provide shelter from snow and rain.

Love your Mom, she reminds me of my Mother-In-Law. My Wife and I married 22 years ago and I gained the greatest Mother-In-Law ever. Fairly quiet, somewhat shy, yet I don’t think I’d ever want to cross her. The English women are the best and funniest women around. P.S. I married a Scouser

ICE industry in USA has been an established industry since 18th century. Before mechanical refrigeration, ICE was used by Railroads for Meat, Beer, and Fruit shipments across the continent. Railroad ICE Refill locations disappeared after 1960s. ** Some of those ICE Suppliers pivoted to Bagged Ice for consumers. ** Fruit Express trains from West Coast (and Florida for Citrus/Oranges) to Midwest / East Coast.

U.S. houses tend to have both front porches & back decks or porches. Most refrigerators have automatic icemakers in the freezer or ice dispensers in door of refrigerator. Usually bagged ice is used for parties & is put in coolers/ice chests that are packed with soda & other bottled beverages or used if transporting cold/frozen foods a distance from your home or when going camping (though battery powered refrigerators are available). During summer, I put a large cooler/ice chest in my car with a few frozen ice packs before going to the grocery store so milk & frozen foods don't spoil or melt on way home. (Not sure what you call coolers/ice chests in UK.)

Sadly front porches are becoming a thing of the past. The house I grew up in was a classic Chicago brick bungalow that had a front porch where in the summer time we would all hang out or as little kids our grandparents would be talking to each other while we played. However as more & more people move into either condos or townhouses you no longer see the expansive front porches. Even with a lot of the newer single family homes built in the last 20 years or so the front porches are so small that there’s really no place to sit.

Generally in my experience, when you buy a bag of ice it's to put in a cooler, for a party or maybe a day at the lake etc. Not to say some people don't put it in their freezer, but that seems less often as almost everybody has ice makers.

In the Pacific Northwest, we do “blue tarp camping.” Because it rains up to 300 days a year, if you go camping you have to string up tarps above your camp site in order to sit out around the fire.

I have enjoyed watching some reactions with Millie and her mom. The first one I thought, "wow, James looks a lot different!" Hope she grows to love my country the way Millie and James seem to have. The great thing about ceiling fans is they can keep a room cooler or hotter while reducing the use of the ac or furnace; most have a reverse switch for forcing the hotter, higher air back down.

When I went to the uk in 1986,i couldn't get ice. I missed it horribly. Finally after waiting half hour at a restaurant,they proudly came back with 1 cube. I thanked them,but was disappointed..

Ceiling fans have a switch where you can change the direction of the blades spinning. So during the summer time you have the fan blowing air directly on you, which cools you. But during the freezing cold of the winter you have the blades drawing air up towards the ceiling. It makes the house heating more efficient and makes you feel warmer.

The other thing is that USA smaller size fridge-freezers have a small freezer OVER the fridge. Thus, the ice trays are easier to use than if you use a chest with a lid that opens on top of it. As you mentioned larger double wide units usually have an automatic ice dispenser in the door. One side is the fridge and the other the freezer WITH shelves. We can also buy upright freezer the size of a smaller fride-freezer that have shelves, too.

Are you familiar with wrap-around porches? Some houses in the US have them in the front and around to the side(s) of their homes. Makes for very nice curb appeal. This style porch is more commonly found on old Victorian style houses as opposed to modern American. I have great childhood memories of the front porch to our house,. On hot summer nights it was a big deal to “sleep out” on the porch with a couple of friends. I’ve never been so relaxed as when I was lying on our old porch glider during a steady summer rain, great book in hand. Sometimes, Mom would allow us to put on our swim suits and dance around in the rain. There was only one above ground swimming pool in our neighborhood, but with 99 kids on our street alone, that pool filled up very quickly. I’m a mature (I don’t do elderly) lady now and still miss our front porch and running in the rain…

Ceiling fans have a switch on them, summer mode or winter mode. The fans can either draw the air up or push the air down. (clockwise/anti-clockwise) I am not sure how many people switch the mode for the seasons. I use ceiling fans just to circulate the air. The fan blades still collect dust.

The hottest day I survived was 123F in Phoenix. Phoenix typically gets up to 118F. And growing up, no air conditioning. We had swamp coolers something you definitely don't have in the UK

Ten years ago, my wife and I took a trip to Ireland and England. When in saloons, what you call pubs, I'd order a double shot of whiskey and a glass of ice water. Apparently they thought I was from another planet. Either that or they were wondering if ice and water mixed. It was good to get back to states where we put ice in everything. I don't do it, but I've seen lots of people put ice in their beer...

alot of times, those outside the fridge ice cube dispensrs clog up when you are using them. so we really just open the freezer up and take the ice from the container tray where the cubes are. those outside dispensers re really good for just getting yourself some cold water (in a glass)

The house I currently live in, built long before ceiling fans were a thing (1904) and even though it received a modern remodel in 2006, no ceiling fans were added. The house I lived in before that which was built in the early 90s had one, which could be reversed during the winter to blow rising warm air back down. It had a remote and a wall mounted activation button control. None of the various apartments that I lived in didn't have fans that weren't for ventilation.

I love this red comparisons between the US and UK, but I also like the comparisons between the north and south US.

Baged ice is a life saver when hurricanes come ashore on the gulf coast of America and the power is out for days if not weeks.

I live in Darwin, Australia in the early 70s. At that time, no one in Darwin had air conditioning except Woolworths (Or, as the Aussies called it, Woolies). Darwin, in the tropics, is terribly hot all year, and every home had ceiling fans in every room. Our living room had two. I don't think we would have survived without them.

I'm in Canada (southwest BC) and we have ceiling fans in the kitchen, living room, bedrooms and dining room, air con in one bedroom, air mattresses for camping,a front porch by the front door, a balcony off the living room and a patio downstairs off the rec room. We have bought bags of ice for every party and sometimes if it's hot we buy them.

Whenever me and my friends went to the desert or river we would always bring 3 or 4 coolers. One filled with food and ice. The second filled with drinks and ice. The third filled only with bagged ice. The fourth filled with only large blocks of ice or dry ice. It would not be uncommon for the temperature to reach 120 degrees, so Ice management was critical. We had rules for draining / filling the coolers, and even how they were packed. All drain water was collected and used in water misters we made from bug sprayers. Even something as simple as drinking a beer had rules. If you opened a beer within a minute or two it would already be too hot to drink or taste good, so we would either shotgun the beer or pass it around (as long as no one had a cold). Later, passing around the can of beer even turned into a game for us.

Your mum is sweet. Well done ladies

Yeah, nobody buys bagged ice and puts it in the freezer. Even our larger freezers aren't big enough for that. :) Instead, we put the ice in a cooler, since it's just for the day.

Bagged ice is mainly used for parties (from what I've seen; I don't go to many parties.)

We use ceiling fans year-round. They move hot and cold air around. Heat rises so in the winter they move the warmer air down

Generally speaking, ceiling fans are not used as a form of air conditioning. They don't rotate fast enough unless you are sitting directly beneath the fan. They are used to circulate the air in a room and can help even out the room temperature.

*_"Yeah man, but it's a DRY HEAT!"_* *-- ALIENS [1986]* 😉

Bagged ice is mostly used for parties, filling coolers, and tubs of soda and beer cans at cookouts.

FYI..I believe when Lawrence did this video he was living in an apartment, hence the window air conditioner. Which alot of apartments probably still have. Most houses though, will have been convertedt to or built with an HVAC system...Heating, ventilation and air conditioning. So with the combination of your furnace and AC and duct work that is run beneath floors and walls..delivers heat in winter and cool air in summer. There are still homes without this system..but the majority of houses will have it. My house growing up did not have air conditioning of any kind! uuughh!🥵 Couldn't live without it now!

Many people in the US also have a "Freezer". A stand alone appliance that is for keeping many things frozen, without using up the limited space in your freezer part of your Refrigerator. Sometimes known a a "Deep Freeze", they are usually kept in the basement or garage. This allows for the purchase of bulk item that must be frozen. Like a quarter of a cow, or half a pig. Pull them out as you need them.

Porches are so great that some guy wrote a song about them. "If the world had a front porch" It was where my mama sat on that old swing with her crochet It was where granddaddy taught me how to cuss and how to pray It was where we made our own ice cream, those sultry summer nights Where the bulldog had her puppies, and us brothers had our fights There were many nights I'd sit right there and look out at the stars To the sound of a distant whippoorwill or the hum of a passing car It was where I first got up the nerve to steal me my first kiss And it was where I learned to play guitar and pray I had the gift If the world had a front porch like we did back then We'd still have our problems, but we'd all be friends Treatin' your neighbor like he's your next of kin, wouldn't be gone with the wind If the world had a front porch like we did back then Purple hulls and pintos, I've shelled more than my share As lightnin' bugs and crickets danced in the evenin' air And like a beacon that old yellow bulb, it always led me home Somehow Mama always knew just when to leave it on If the world had a front porch like we did back then We'd still have our problems, but we'd all be friends Treatin' your neighbor like he's your next of kin, wouldn't be gone with the wind If the world had a front porch like we did back then

Hello, Millie's mom! Nice to meet you! I no longer use the ceiling fan in my office because it frightens my cat half to death, and I value having her sitting here beside me more than I do air circulation. But I do have air conditioning, so the ceiling fan isn't quite as necessary.

For those that don't know. A porch has a roof over head, and a deck does not it's open to the sky. I can't help but notice the left side of the screen (me looking at you two) seems so much brighter, and Nicer then before, I've noticed it a few times now. Since this is old, I hope all went well with the bun coming out of the oven. Hope all is well