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My high school maths teacher called me "hallam" , so I said" yes walker!", He said you can call me Mr walker! So I replied, "then, you can call me Mr hallam", he said I am not going to do that, I will call you Jon, I said in that case, I will call you Mike! He laughed, and said ok!

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Yeah that always weirds me out as a Brit 😂

Weirds me out too, but I’m from California. I think it must be a southern thing.

@@ourtubesocks I’m from the south and I also think it’s weird. I think it’s really just a super weirdly strict parents thing.

Same, children should be on a more personal level with their parents. Mum(mom) dad is personal and resentful enough. To say sir/ma'am to your parents shows no personal relationship and it makes me uncomfortable. I expect my children to call me mum or mummy. The only time my daughter occasionally calls me miss is when we are at school. I work in a school and my daughter knows she doesn't get preferential treatment in school and knows not to expect it from me while I'm working.

It’s weird as an American, makes it feel like there’s something wrong in the relationship

In some households fear=respect. Which is really toxic.

American and same. I feel like a lot of these things in this video and the other one are highly region specific. Sir/ma'am seems just too formal, and like something you wouldn't say to your parents unless you felt you were forced to.

right, and in certain languages i know there are ways to refer to you're parents in a respectful way without it sounding subservient (amma/appa in malayalam), but I could just think saying mom/dad would be respectful

It's really not that. My children are happy and sometimes toe the line a bit, but it's in our culture to use Sir and Ma'am. I will even use it for elders and younger folks that are adults. It's just polite as "yes please" and "thank you" to me. So if you visit, don't be shocked if someone uses those terms and holds the door for you. 😘 We just like our manners. Imagine Effie from Hunger Games saying "Manners!" if someone doesn't use any in the south. It's very common for other adults in the south to even correct an unruly child in public if the parent is indisposed. It takes a village...

@@GroundThing Yes sir/ma'am. It's more southern thing, for sure. We are just a bit more traditional.

this is the exact same thing my mother said to me when I was young

Well said.

It gives very authoritarian and abusive vibes to me

It honestly sounds like the southerners in America have no other means of showing respect but formal language

Yeah same with mother and father. I used to sometimes call my mum mother cause I thought it was funny but she hated it. Also it feels like I'm about to say mother fucker, since that is the only time anyone ever says mother

I call my parents by their first name; it's kind of what they prefer too. I personally find that respectful; I call everyone by their first name unless they state otherwise. As a Swede over the age of 18, your first name is the name you've chosen to have; since you have the right to change your first name once for free. So if you keep your name your parents gave you, that's your choice. So using your first name just makes sense.

Exactly. It reminds me in the movies when it's a very rich family that doesn't really care about their kids and make them call them sir and madam...

Agreed. It’s just so strange to call them sir/ma’am. They aren’t just random older people.

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Agreed. I'll just assume they fear their parents instead of loving and respecting them.

Huh. My parents are from the west, so they didn't expect this kind of thing from me, but I grew up in the South, and my friends did that with their parents. Those families were very close. It kinda reinforces the authority structure. It is the kid acknowledging that their parents have authority and that the kids will respect that. It's a little different from how I want to raise my kids, but it certainly wasn't a way to make the relationship more estranged.

@@evan I think it's because "Mum" and "Dad" are already titles of respect. By using their titles ("Mum" and "Dad") instead of their first names, it's already showing that level of respect, so using something like Sir and Ma'am is basically like keeping the respect but removing connotations of familial connection - so I think that's what makes it sound so unloving

Yeah in my family it's basically just don't cuss, don't use a rude tone, don't roll your eyes, etcetera. No prefixes necessary.

yeah it seems like demanding respect for being older, rather than earning it.

Exactly. It feels all about distant authority, not your parents

So, when one of your parents tells you to go clean your room, how do you respond?

@@Kevin6t8 either "ok" or "ok dad/mum" something along those lines.

@@Kevin6t8 'yeah, okay,' or '... in a bit.'

Kevin - 6Y8 how would you respond

I was going to say the same thing, I'm pretty sure they meant you'd only use 'Mrs', (or 'Ms' if they prefer to use that, or Doctor if they are entitled to it), in conjunction with their surname. If you were not using their surname you'd only ever use Sir or Miss. In my primary school I think nearly every female teacher happened to be a Janet, so I don't first names would have worked anyway, at least not in circumstances where it was necessary to identify which female teacher we were talking about.

Yes this exactly! I am English and "miisssss" was shouted/called across a classroom to get the teacher's attention, and less frequently we used Mrs/Miss + surname to talk to them. I've always found it odd that it's Miss for women (regardless of whether they're married) and yet Sir for men (but the history mentioned in the video makes more sense).

exactlyyy. female teachers whether miss ___, ms ___ or mrs ___ are generally called miss and male normally mr ___ are sir, then go straight from that to first names!

@@MrDannyDetail at my school as well, every time there was a doctor we would only use their surname initial in conjunction with their title rather than their full surname I guess because doctor is longer to say so it'd be like sir, miss, mrs smith and doctor s

it's the same in Turkey and as a German I was very confused by it because we use Mr. and Mrs. and their last names for people we don't know well or have a formal relationship with

Agreed. As exaggerated as it is, I'd probably refer to Keith Lemon's celebrity juice persona for a first example. I get why it's easy to miss in real life since it's so quick - more of a missed half syllable. We say 'going t' th' shops' not 'going shops'.

Yes, in Lancashire and Yorkshire the definite article is a glottal stop. Which the Latin alphabet doesn't have a letter for. Which is why a lot of southerners think we use "t' ".

Nah, I definitely just drop the 'the' altogether. I think the t' is a Yorkshire thing. We can't even be arsed with the t' in Manchester 😂

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@@amyhatch3761 nah the t is just a northern thing, I'm from Manchester too and don't know anyone who drops it completely

Totally, it's like the most distant thing. Only teachers, soldiers and the knighted or saying 'alright yessir' as a greeting.

sometimes when my dad is telling me off i have to fight myself to keep myself from saying sir

Agreed, it makes me think of like posh people in the old days when they'd ship you off to a boarding school as soon as you were old enough, you;d see them a few times a year at most, and your entire relationship was stiff and formal and lacking any kind of love or affection

i work in childcare and have a child psych degree and i completely agree. its a huge safeguarding flag and it makes me SO uncomfortable hearing Evan talk about it. Its quite alarming.

@@firecracker1711 yeah I didn't realize that not everyone knew how bad/weird that is; although I guess some people must not know because some kids still have to do it

Around where i live 16/17 is definitely still considered child 😂 im also 22 and i def still don't feel like an adult 😰

My son is 22 and has recently finished university, and I still don’t feel like an adult 😂.

32 and don’t feel like an adult!

Bring an adult us pretending to understand things I grind if people ego pretend to understand what your saying Basically it’s a social construct built around our tribalistic need to fit in

I'm 68 and determined not to act like a grown up.

Sounds like Evan was the one getting robbed, tbh

Not really, because you'll get caught. It's not hard to track down who had access to a card before it went on a shopping spree.

Nah its just 'we're off down spoons init'

but the t is silent

But it should be lets go to THE pub

As another Northerner, can confirm, "the" and "to the" often becomes " t' " in strong northern dialects e.g. "I'm off t' shop" etc.

@@chrisg38 so t' is for 2 words?

more like 30 seconds. two minutes and i'd never use it. might as well wait for the oceans to boil

It depends on how much water your pouring into it Like 2 would be fir 1.5 - 2l I doubt they are referencing 1 cup The American might though kettles can’t get enough power for faster books since they only have half the voltage

That has everything to do with the voltage available to British homes and says nothing of the quality of either kettle.

That’s also my ideal shopping experience as a Brit 😂 if a shop is empty with a ton of staff on the shop floor I avoid it like the plague because I do not want hassled or to feel like I am constantly being watched 😂

Same!

Same! If I need help I'll ask... maybe...

As an italian, same! Btw being called signora (madam) or signore (sir) is so strange as a 28 years old, It makes me feel old

PS: if you ask me how I am I'll ask myself of I know you all day

My son started 6th Form college in September. It took me a whole term to realise that Eleanor and Dan were teachers, not classmates.

I’m also in sixth form and we’ve been told a million times that we can call them by their first names but everyone still calls them Sir and Miss 😂 it’s a difficult habit to get out of

@@Rebecca-vd4ww Yeah, even at university I never got used to the idea that I could refer to my tutors and professors by their first names. In fact there was a lot I missed out on at uni by still being stuck in a "but they're *grownups*! I'm only a kid!" mentality. I never heard any announcement that it was OK to use their first names, so I never really felt I'd been given permission to. =:o\

@@therealpbristow Like a lot of things in adult life, you’re expected just to know how everything works lmao. Sometimes some more instructions would be appreciated.

@@Rebecca-vd4ww yeah personally that's why i appreciate college being more casual so you can slowly learn to be more adult by the time you're in uni lol not that it works for everyone but it worked for me

The correct response to "pub?" is "pub."

Or just the standard "pint?"

[Pub name] 9 o'clock-ish?

Or not even saying the word pub, just the name of the place. Like “wanna meet at tavern or cat?”

Brits 🤝 Aussies with this haha

Or vote, not allowed to do that either. But join the army or buy a gun, can do that EDIT: I have been informed that you can vote at 18 in America, so apologies for my ignorance

Americans make me laugh when you say your a adult at 18 but your a adult who can't drink. I was already 2 years into work and earning money by then

@@wildste you can vote at age 18 in the USA

We called the teachers at our sixth form college (16-18) by their first name.

@@andream4452 I do apologise for being wrong, I thought it was 21

It's a dynamic that says "I make my kids do push ups in the mud when they question me"

I use sir and ma'am with my parents as a way to show im displeased and what they said is bullshit :p

If my kids started referring to me as ma'am I'd be like "?? wtf im a man, its Mister, is this some sort of insult?"

I had similar experiences in Ireland and Northern Ireland

So fun!

Down south they're scared if you smile and say hi, up north it's normal to chat to strangers.

In Sheffield, I accidentally started a bus-wide game of Eye Spy 😂

I really miss the impromptu singalongs on nights out outside pubs and clubs in Manny...good times!

Same. I'm friends with a couple of former teachers on facebook and when we interact, I still call them Mr. Hurley or Señora Sargeant (she was my Spanish teacher).

In my school in the UK, we would call teachers Sir or Miss to their faces. But when talking to other students about teachers, we would always just refer to them by their last name. So it wouldn't be "I have a lesson with Mr Smith", it would be "I have a lesson with Smith".

Literally I can't get over the fact that they do that. I cannot think of any situation in which it wouldn't be extremely weird to call a parent Sir or Miss.

@@OHYS I’m thinking it’s more common when they are disciplining you

@@OHYS literally never would call my mom miss. Only ma'am.

@@OHYS my mum was a teachers assistant at my school - I called her 'miss' in lessons and when talking about her in her work role. Mostly because she was the one who ran detentions for anyone who annoyed a technology teacher and distancing myself from that-scary-lady-in-tech was a priority for my social life. Never did it outside of school though.

Indeed ma'am

Not. Remotely. True. They care if their kids have manners for one thing.

Yeah imagine being so insecure you gotta make your own kid call you sir.. like oh sorry pops didn't realise you knew the Queen 🤣

@@gemoftheocean caring if the kids have manners.. that sounds like it could fit under "strict" to me. Having manners is a good thing, but how is it enforced? By a talking to if it gets out of hand, or with a slap or belt? Both will ensure manners, but one is done with caring for the child, the other is caring what other people might think of YOU as a parent, and ignoring the needs of the child.

Yep British person here. And everytime I've been on holiday to mainland europe it really surprises me how little they interact. Even not taking the cash from you but instead you have to put it down into a dish & then they pick it up their side from the dish. It crazy how disinterested they are but yet they do that which takes longer to process the transaction & leaves you both standing there awkwardly for a longer period of time than is necessary.

this sounds heavenly, when I see a shop clerk coming towards me it never fails to trigger fight or flight

Haha, hello fellow Norwegian! I couldn't agree more😂 I truly love when I'm being ignored. If I need your help, I'll ask - thank you very much. Please don't force me to converse with you.

I’m from America It was kinda a culture shock when I went to England for the first time because the cashiers don’t even make small talk with you while scanning your stuff it kinda made me feel unwelcome because the cashiers are usually so friendly

Introvert 100

Same, except I ended up using Miss and Sir because I’m terrible with names and kept forgetting what each teacher was called. Though teachers only ever called students by their forenames at my school. Never title and surname

It’s interesting. I never new most schools in the UK refer to teachers as miss as in my school it was always Madam, but it must sound weird to people not accustom to it but for me miss just sounds quite condescending and kind of crass, I suppose because I’m just not used to it and I can only recall seeing or hearing it on tv.

My English teacher uses our surnames but that it is his thing

@@jaymercer4692 at my school we also say madam

At my high school it was always Mrs/Mrs/Miss X, I found it weird that my sister who went to a different secondary called her teachers Sir and Miss most of the time. Now as a primary teacher it's usually Miss H (just "Miss" if I'm teaching a class who don't know me") , but male teachers would always be "Mr X", never Sir.

It may be rubbing off from other service staff. Both hairdressers and cabbies (mainly black cabs) are known for being chatty; I actually tip hairdressers if they pick up on my desire not to engage in chit chat.

As I see it, there is a fine balancing act between being friendly and polite, which makes shopping a pleasant experience, and going beyond that to being over-familiar and trying too hard, which comes over as being insincere here in the UK.

The British education system is pretty good till uni, every other aspect of adult British life is chaotic crap.

I used to work near a US airbase in the UK and no word of a lie, it's like they couldn't call a single item we sold by it's actual name, and then got annoyed with you when you didn't instantly know what they were blabbering on about. You're in a foreign country, I know we mostly understand each other, but the whole world is not America.

I worked in retail pre covid and when Americans came in a waft of either emphasized depression or fraudulent thrill enveloped our expressions and tone. we either want to emphasise our disdain for our jobs and show the Americans our animosity towards their happy go lucky attitude or we played up to their fabricated festivity so we could be distant and allow them to feel slightly at home with our sham ecstasy.

Yeah I agree I used to hate having to make small talk with American customers when I worked at Legoland many years ago ha

Lol poor Americans but they can be warm and personable if you give them a chance... The accent is annoying though...some other state accents aren’t so bad but still. LolZ

@@ruthfoley2580 I have never really thought about it in this much depth, but it's absolutely spot on. And let's not forget that for a long while (and maybe even now) nobody with an american credit card had chip and pin, so they'd need to sign for absolutely everything, which is a nightmare when you have a 20ft queue going out the door and they want to separate every item they have and put them all on separate cards. ARGHHH, just manage your money better or take cash out ffs.

Yeah coz I think the idea is that you "choose" to be there so therefore you get more freedom or whatever

Minor correction, but no one has to be in education until 18 years old. 16 is the minimum age as about 5 GCSEs at A-C grades (or equivalent) are usually required for most basic work and not everyone wants to go to uni.

@@jiggyprawn Actually, in the uk you have to be in some form of education until you're 18, but it can be part time learning if you're working over 20 hours a week.

@@katie7081 has this been the case for a long time? As I'm pretty sure my bf left at 16, I don't think he did any kind of working scheme. This would have been 12 years ago

@@katie7081 Hm, I guess that changed along the way since I grew up. I believe I wasn't obligated to stay in education as a teenager. 🤔

For Uni yeah, no one uses "Sir" or "Mister __", it's just first name basis always. As for school, depended entirely on our teacher and it only became common once we entered 6th form. At that stage we were all basically adults so the respect angle was mutual, teachers liked the informal nature of it as much as we did. As someone who's tutored people from the age of 13 to 18, it's nice when those 18yo's treat you like a friend and not a tutor, I can imagine teachers like having a friendly, almost personal relationship with the older students as opposed to a strictly hierarchical one.

At college yeah and in year 11 we called them by there first name which was nice

I had an English teacher in high school that did that. She was also the same teacher,that would bring in cut up sandwiches for us to eat when we had her . We all knew that it wasn’t really for the class but for the kids that had parents that didn’t feed them, either because they financially couldn’t or just out of complete neglect.

Exactly! Feels like parent saying "I am above you, you must acknowledge that any time you speak to me". Do parents call their kids 'sir/madam' to show respect? Didn't think so

damn i just commented the same thing absolutely how i feel as well

As someone that grew up in the southern us, my ‘sirs’ and ‘ma’ams’ come out like second nature. It just was a way of showing respect I guess In regards to my parents I would only use that when they were pissed off at me and wanted a serious response or very sarcastically.

I call my mom and dad sir or ma’am when they, like, ask me to do something. for example Parent: go do the dishes please Me: yes sir/ma’am It’s quick and usually slurred together but it’s just so they know I heard them and am going to do the task now. It was never “trained” into me and I wouldnt be punished if I just said mom/dad instead but it’s just, polite. And I still was a rebellious teenager and talked back all the time but it’s one thing that I’ve always kinda just done.

Assuming your referring to sir and ma’am, it’s not really hierarchical in the US because everyone who is a stranger is pretty much universally called that. It doesn’t matter if you are a beggar on the street or the president, you are still called sir or ma’am.

@@coralovesnature but does it matter if you’re a child or an adult?

That's just patently untrue: would you feel the same level of respect for a Nobel prize winner or someone who cures a devastating disease as you would a serial killer or abuser? If not then you're just arguing about degrees of difference

@@89Keith yes, all human life deserves respect and because you’re at the top or at the bottom of a flawed system doesn’t mean you’re worth more than someone else

@@lemons2001 try looking up Jimmy savile, if you respect him theres something wrong with you

The Real Hustle or something on those lines. Used to watch it regularly

Yeah in the US we'll usually refer to them as Professor (very helpful for when you're terrible at remembering names), or, if they have a title like Dr. you might call them "Dr. [last name]" because they worked hard for that degree lmao

@@nealbrook4226 yes but professor is not the position here in the UK. You have to earn that title. It's a higher qualification which is pretty rare. Calling a general lecturer 'professor' would be like calling someone a DR who hadn't earned it. My brother is a professor in the states but he just laughs and says 'of course I'm not really a professor'.

Right? Im from Denmark, so i grew up just respecting people in general. It was not something I needed to be told to do. Calling my teachers by their first name or nickname, did not mean I respected them less. And it does feel like forced and demanding respect, especially in America with the Ma'am and Sir stuff 🤣

@@TKDDLJ09 Exactly! And this reminded me that I even had teachers that would call me my nickname rather than name😂 It's just so much more comfortable!

I'm from Finland, and it's the same here. I've called all of my teachers by their first names (or nicknames) since preschool, and it's not disrespectful to me. You respect others, whether or not they have a title to hold above you. I completely agree on the "demanding respect" part - if you have to demand respect, something is a bit off in my opinion. Not having titles definitely does create a less stiff atmosphere in classes. I never felt inferior to my teachers and since we were on a more even footing, asking questions and having discussions felt more natural. I'm probably going to have one hell of an adjustment ahead of me, now that I've applied to do my degree in Ireland. Oh well. 😅

@@ursa6420 Seems like it's a Nordic thing then?! Also, you should be fine at uni, in my experience lecturers go by their first names😊

Yes exactly but there is a cultural difference how the society treats teachers. I am an Austrian and spent a year in Norway and the difference how society threats teachers is enormous. In my experience if a child in Norway said the teacher did something unfair the people will listen to the story and often calm the children down and trust what the teachers do. In Austria the parents often call the headmaster and make trouble even for the smallest thing. For example I currently volunteer in a school and one student didn't do anything for two hours and after that they usually have their first break outside. And since he did not do anything he stayed inside to do some work and afterwards could go. The next day the parents called and painted a completely different picture and the teacher nearly got sued for harassing a student.

That’s honestly really interesting and cool.

I second this! I grew up in Norway and went to school there, and did a year abroad in the US in high school, and it was a complete opposite system. I found that the American school relies very heavily on enforcing homework. We had hours of homework to do every day, which had to be turned in the next day in class and we would be marked on whether or not we did homework. By comparison, homework in Norway was a lot more about keeping up with the class, and the teachers trust you to have read the chapter or two of history to prepare for the class but it is usually not enforced. I did feel like the American school was about spoon feeding and making sure everyone did what they were told, but in Norway you have a lot more personal freedom over how much school work you do and how much effort you put into it. American schools also rely so so so much on memorizing. Most of the tests I had in the US were the exact same problems we had worked on during classes and in homework. A math problem on a test would be a math problem I had done 50 variations of over and over and over that same week. In Norway, schools focus a lot more on teaching you critical thinking and learning to make comparisons and draw conclusions. Tests in Norway are so much harder because you don't know what they're going to ask for, and you're usually met with a problem you haven't specifically had to solve before. You have to use the knowledge you gained from solving different kinds of problems to find out how to solve this particular problem. Overall, in the US I spent hours every day working on homework and barely studied for tests (as they were just exact duplicates of the homework), and in Norway I spent less time working on homework on a daily basis but would spend way more time studying for individual tests.

Yeah, and when we address them we say Sir or Mr etc. I have got so much in the habit that I will call random strangers sir/ma'am as well 😅

Evan saying he doesn't like it when he was called Evan Edinger by a teacher Me being called by my last name in school :/

Always only called my teachers their first name, nickname or last name 😂😂 Where Im from, we dont do sir and mam or mrs. ms ect. We just call them their first name usually, or whatever they like to be called. They also of course call us out first name or a nickname. My English teacher once called me "Ms. Pigeon" because my middle name in English is Pigeon. 🤣🤣 I´m also fairly sure I was called "shut up" a lot in some courses 😂

In my year at school we do it’s not for everyone but for a lot of them we do an they don’t care tbh

In Bahrain and i think most arab counties we say "teacher [first name]" and when we become friend with them we just call them by their first name

In the US Sir and Ma'am are recognition authority, calling someone those signifies you see them as an authority figure in a particular context. Casually it also can be used as form of recognition and formal thanks

Yeah same, we had this in Dutch too but no one actually speaks that way anymore 😂

@Evita Viitala mom and dad are titles for parents, not authority. Parents aren't always an authority figure in a given context

I'm seeing lots of comments saying this and it really doesn't make sense to me. I would say there is a very wide range of loving vs. unloving relationships where the kid might still use sir/ma'am regardless. It's possible the relationship is unloving but It's by no means a guarantee

@@mermaidismyname I think its because in the UK we would use Sir or Ma'am for someone we either didn't know (As in: "Excuse me Sir, I think you dropped this") or for someone of higher status than us, like a Company Head, or maybe a teacher depending on the school or the area. For us, using them sounds cold and distant, like a Victorian child addressing their parents as 'Lord and Lady Smith' instead of Mum and Dad. Maybe Americans attach warmer feelings to the words because they call their parents by them, but for us its only used to _deliberately_ denote distance - as in "I don't know you but I am being respectful" or "we are not equals, I respect you as my superior".

It’s mostly out of respect. I do it off handed to my parents when they ask me to do something. Or sometimes very sarcastically just to piss off my dad, but honestly its just so they know I heard them and will do the thing they ask. People do it all the time in the us, especially in the south and Midwest. Hell I even once had a teacher call me ma’am when I was a senior trying to help him with his class.

I love how Finns are activating to defend the sacred art of minding your own damn business and respecting others by letting them do the same without unnecessary formalities :D

In my experience calling teachers "teacher" was only a thing for the very first grades and then you started using their first names.

@@sipulikorva8717 oh we kept doing that during the normal school and when you go study majors etc you start calling by name..and even then often I heard people still say teacher

@@KkrizztiART Huh, interesting...

OTT politeness and formality is how British people tell you they don't like you too. Working customer service I just defaulted to it.

Nicknames were, and are, rife in secondary schools. What the pupils do not know is that all the staff are perfectly aware of these nicknames, and usually play up to them. When I was at school, one teacher was nicknamed “Bogbrush” because he was bald, but the residual hair around his bald pate stuck out just like a bogbrush. I am sure he got his hair cut to conform to this title. We had a woodwork teacher called Donald Lewis, whom we called “Dai”, because he was very Welsh; I have since learned that all the staff called him “Dai” as well. Mr Branston was called “Pickles”, and Mr Worsel, “Gummidge”. Mr Evans was “Weed” (because he was a bit of a weed), and Mr Nicholas was “Tinbum” (Nickel arse, geddit?). Mr Felix was “Pussy”. I could go on. None of these was used to their faces, of course, but they knew!

We referred to our teachers in secondary by their last names too. It's just so much easier although we never said it to the teachers themselves lmao

At my school we just call all our teachers either just their last name or their first name to their face depending on our relationship with them

One of my teachers has the nickname wormy as he has a vein on his head that looks like a curled up worm

Same here, we called our Sixth form teachers by their first names only.

But in the UK, "colleges" go from age about 16 to people well into adulthood. In the US "college is from 18 and over." Depending on the circumstances occasionally an instructor might go by their first name, if they asked to be called by that, but when I was going to University of California, it was ALWAYS "Doctor" or "Professor" X. Never by first name. Community college (mind you University level work in the US) is "all things to all people". The credits given for passing a class transfer to University credits. University is so expensive now, a lot of students may opt to go there the first year. But with permission, a 16-17 may, with permission of community college, and parents, high school, take a course there, and that way gain University academics early. Especially good for bright students of 16/17 if their high school doesn't have a more advanced class he/she would like to take. Example 16 John is excellent in math. He eventually wants to double major in bio/chemistry. His school doesn't offer calculus. However the local community college does. So after his high school classes are over he goes over to the community college to take the calculus. Assuming he passes, after he graduates high school, that way he won't have to take his basic calculus course again, because he already has the credit, and has a better shot at getting his double major completed in 4 years. Same goes for other General Education courses that may be taken to fulfill distribution courses required for your bachelor's degree.

@@gemoftheocean College in the UK doesn't go from 16 - well into adulthood. It is 16-18 and then students leave and go to university. When students leave a formal high school environment at 16 to go to a sixth form college (for two years) which is somewhere in-between the formality of high school and informality of university, the first name thing just makes sense and fits the college environment. 16-18 year olds may not be adults but they are definitely mature enough to call their teachers by a first name without it being disrespectful or something. I was a college teacher and honestly being called miss would have felt weird because of the lack of formality in all other aspects of college learning.

@@sbo3 I mean no you can take college courses at over 18 college is 16+ the same way uni is 18+ in fact some college courses have levels to them so if you need to start from level 1 to get to level 3 you sometimes need to do the level 1 course, the first stage level 2 course, the second stage level 2 course and then the 2 year level 3 course (if you start at 16 than going from just level 1 to level 3 would take you 3 years making you 19 when taking your final 2 year college course) and in fact there are people who go into uni and realise everything they had done to get to that point wasn't what their calling was per se and they end up going back to college to take a different class or sets of classes so karen was right about what they said regarding college being 16+

I feel like I would feel like it would create a barrier between me and my teachers if I called them Sir or Ma'am. like they would seem less approachable to me. I adored so many of my teachers and most of them went by a nickname and I felt so commutable with them and wasnt afraid to ask when I didn´t understand something because they did seem more like someone I could ask for help. I don´t think I would have had that bond with my teachers if i called them sir and ma'am

Younger Kids still use 'fröken' in Swedish schools (which translates to miss) but the kids don't understand it as a form of respect since no one else in regular society uses the term.

@@niclasjohansson5992 lol yes. And they dont care if it’s a male or female teacher. If you are a teacher you get called ”fröken”.

I'm Swede and I totally agree with this.

I'm from Finland and the only time where you'd call anyone Sir/Mrs is if they are the president or the chairman. Any other context and they're making fun of you

In the '90s initially called friend's parents "Mr or Mrs X" cos that's what I'd read in books. They considered it ludicrously formal.

@@alexwright4930 I was always scared to do that in case they had a different last name to what I expected. Like say they were divorced or something. So because I was nervous I just didn't call them anything 🤣🤣

I’m from the US and I think it depends on the age. In primary/ secondary school, I always called my teachers, and most adults who I wasn’t related to, “Mr./Mrs./Miss” last name. In college/ university I call all of my teachers by their first name. I also call my bosses at work and pretty much everyone by their first name. I feel like once you are an adult it is assumed that everyone gets called by their first name.

@@coralovesnature Here in Scandinavia almost nobody is addressed by anything but their first name. In Denmark only in a few places are you expected to use honorifics: Royalty like the Queen, in the Parliament, in law courts and foreign dignitaries. If I met the Prime minister I would say Hej (Hi) Mette, if I addressed her as Mrs. Prime minister she would find it a bid weird. Denmark is not a big country so it's not unusual to meet people from all walks of life.

I’m from Egypt and here people (in American schools) say Ms. or Mr. then their first name. Or you can also just call them Ms. or Mr.

In Spain, also.

Indian here; we always use sir or ma'am for our teachers/professors. In fact no elder is ever called by their first name unless you are being rude on purpose. Having recently graduated and joined the corporate world when I HAD to address people by their first name only I felt very uncomfortable talking like that to people much older than me. Almost 2 years and I am still getting used to it.

Here in the West Midlands (certain parts) we call our mom MOM. I've had people accuse me of not being English because I typed mom instead of mum 🙄 Seems like not many people in the UK know certain areas use 'mom'. We had it before America lol.

Yasss I live in the south west of England and I call me Mam, “Mam” because I used to live in the north east but, despite it taking a bit longer or having to ask an employee in the Card Factory, I can pick up a card that says “Mam” on it but when I buy a card when I’m visiting her in the north east, they’re easier to find 🤣

@@amethystlarktree5962 are you more Birmingham area? In my West Midlands school there was girl from Birmingham who got teased for saying mom.

We do in Wales too (or at least some people do - depends how Welsh you are)

@@libbyrb8225 I use "oh mam" (as Norman Price used to say it) as my starter phrase for a welsh accent. It's just so iconic.

I used mom and dad too

I think sir and ma’am for parents is more of a Southern thing. I’m from WI and I never used that to refer to my parents nor did any of my friends. My mom is just mom and my dad is either dad or “fa’ter” (a play off of the German word)

I get called "miss" and "lady" when I work with kids. Despite my desperately non feminine appearance. What's the best gender neutral alternative for "ma'am", "sir" or "miss"?

Sweet

@@pablobratcat I would guess at teach

@@pablobratcat the Quakers use friend which is nice

Primary teachers are often called Mum (rarely Dad) as well!

I wondered if it might be a different part in Germany or something, but thinking about it he's probably confusing the fact that there was a "Schlange" behind him with the fact that people were annoyed with him for doing stuff in such a "Schneckentempo" ;-)

I'm also a bilingual German and it's definitely Schlange hahah but I sympathise with your confusion

I'm not allowed to even have my first name in my signature at my school when I'm emailing my students.

I feel like american tv gives a skewed picture... it's not really accurate to real life more like a weird uncanny valley parallel universe type thing. ie my high school expirence was nothing like what high school movies implied it would be like

Majority of American tv shows are nothing like how it actually is here. The most realistic one I can think of is That 70’s Show

Same here! /Swede

I’m from the USA and went to an American university but I actually had a couple of professors who preferred we call them by their first name!

Auntie and uncle at least sounds friendly sir and ma'am just sounds so distant especially to parents

Yes we do this in South Asia!

Its kind of outdated now- but we do this in the uk too

And for young students "fröken" (miss) is like a word for teacher so can also be used for male teachers.

I'm British & by the time we were doing GCSEs at my school so 14/15/16 depending on what set you were in or level of intelligence. We called not all but many of our teachers by their first names & like you some by nicknames. This changed going to a different school for A-Levels which I found a bit of a shock but then changed back again when I went to Uni xD

Surely the water from a Keurig isn't boiling as it's meant for coffee. Tea MUST be made with boiling hot water.

What do you use your kettle for?

@@KathleenMc73 Black/dark tea should use boiling water, but green tea will taste bitter with water above 175 degrees.

@@embercello9688 👍

@@KathleenMc73 I’m guessing you mean English teas, ‘cause a lot of Asian teas are best made with water well below 100C. I grew up drinking green tea and my grandma would always tell me to make sure the water was between 65C and 80C ‘cause anything higher would taste terrible, almost burnt, like a strong bitterness. My friend was actually the one who gave me a box of English Breakfast tea and told me to make sure to boil my water first, ‘cause she always saw me making our green tea with just hot water. 😁 Anyway, I hope u and ur ohana are staying safe and healthy during this pandemic. Love and aloha from Honolulu. 😁🤙🏽❤️🌈☀️(just symbols of Hawai’i)

Where in Germany do they say Schnecke instead of Schlange in Germany? Confused South-West German here 🙋

SCHLANGE BUT SLOWER YA GET IT

Swiss here, also never heard of a Schnecke 😂

@@evan Oh god wow, that was too smart for my late-night brain to think of 😂 Well done for stirring confusion among us German-natives lol 🐌

Let alone "Nacktschnecke" :-D

Sameeeee

same but year 10 but feels very stressful and intense with corona knowing that my mocks may be used to give me grades instead of my gcse's

Me, an English alevel student currently stressed in the middle of lots of exams also despite the government cancelling them

@@rosem3980 wishing you the best of luck!!

@@Cedarellie good luck with everything :)

Wow, that's a real thing? I've seen an Hale&Pace episode where they joked about something like that. I think they did the skit while performing song named "Northern Calypso".

It's true!! So many people ha be random conversations with you in public and it's just too funny