I Compared British and American Internet. Here's What I Found. 

The royal tour of intestines! Omg rofl 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Took your recommendation on BritBox, impressed by the shows available. SIgned up. NOT IMPRESSED. Freezes up incessantly and just stops dead and won't start again.

Why don't they call cookies biscuits in the UK? After all, they do call cookies biscuits in the UK. It is very confusing.

Where can I send you a sticker for your laptop? It's from my union hall. We wear em on our hard hats.

Sorry mate I aready been with them for years as nord vpn passed me over for FREE

Mind blown! Good point!

Not weird, we don't have royalty. Therefore no royal mail.

@@garycamara9955 You missed the entire point. 😂

@@garycamara9955 I think you missed the point.

😂

Shorten it to intercrisps

@@aceundead4750 , Too funny!! 😆

Web Bikkies

I thought the sme thing!

then some legal case kicks off because someone came out with 'internet cakes' and they're subject to different rules because they're not biscuits

Eh-O-L was right there!

@@thedennismillerratioGet out. Lol

I never thought about what the internet called anywhere else.. Interesting

That reminds me, I love how as a Canadian we also have to fight with American spelling as its still the standard on Windows, Most software, and even the internet unless something uses GB/UK English

Never heard of it being called "America Online UK" --- only AOL UK.

Oooh! Good tip!

I do this with websites where I think they might be untrustworthy. It makes it easier to have the false name put in as a filter term to be automatically deposited into my spam folder

But they can’t be Uncle Toby.

You can do the same with some email providers, Gmail for example lets you stick a +tag between your name and the @, so you can directly reference the site you're giving your information to and never need to remember another alias, and you can even use it when signing up for legal services. Use of this feature actually lead to me discovering that some companies are apparently selling the information from their job applications or do not protect the information very well.

I'm signed up to some stuff as "You suck"

The "cookie' stuff is really annoying, for a simple browse equivalent of "window shopping."

Yeah, it's getting pretty common. In fact my ad blocker now offers a feature to block them! I don't use it, 'cause I like to be able to make sure the marketing cookie option isn't set, but still...

Didn't realize the recent cookie preferences thing was State law...had assumed it was Federal.

Maybe the reason we all get "cookie settings" in the U.S. is because, if even one state requires it, it's easier to just require it of every one than to set up some kind of complicated algorithm, that changes the requirements for every state. I could have sworn we had that law nationwide, too.

You decide what cookies you want in California. It’s the most user friendly state 😊 Cheers 😎

Where is that setting. I want to update mine to do that.

I changed mine to “Pirate” just now. Arrrrrrgh !

That's a lie you bastard

Bin is in UNIX.

Siri speaks to me in Aussie, I’m a southerner!

They do.

They do and then they charge you to remove them, and then you will find they are back a week later, they are a complete and utter scam, honestly.

They do. It's called make work.

As someone who works in IT, anything you put out on the internet will ALWAYS still be around, somewhere. Deleting the pics on (name site) will not get it done. :)

Boy George was my first thought

I was totally seeing Pee-wee Herman myself

@@theriddler1168 i thought Devo...

It makes sense though.

E-post

"You've got prayers"

I like the female voice! I wonder if that was changeable in AOL Settings? A friendly female voice saying “You’ve Got Mail.” 👱‍♀️

Yeah I have several posts. They hold up my fence.

Johnny Castaway was easily the best screensaver to have ever existed.

​@@robertszynal4745Yes! I spent so much time as a kid just watching the Johnny go through his routine. It was actually pretty relaxing.

3D pipe maze ftw

I liked the floating bubbles. I make my own now

'Everybody wants to rule the world' though?! (Tears For Fears?)

Yes!!!😂

Reminds me of Slaughter (hair band) song. Maybe it's a bit of both, who knows?​@@brigidsingleton1596

Older Lawrence looks like he would have "tears in Heaven".

*let it all out

There are functional cookies that they require in order for you to use the site. The law restricts what they can count under this though.

@@robertszynal4745 Yea, but a lot of websites don't seem to have any record of whether or not you have approved of the use of cookies.

I also have seen the cookie question every site i visit. And i always go in and only allow required cookies and lock all others

@@samcunningham5912 I approve all because i'd rather just have them stop asking, but that doesn't seem to work.

@@robertszynal4745 The law doesn't actually ban cookies, it bans "tracking technologies". Tracking is one use of cookies, but not the only use, and cookies are one way to do tracking but not the only way.

Ewe-tube 🐑🐑🐑😉

😂😂😂🖖🏼

@@Vtarngpb No, "Ewe-tube" involves a certain class of perverts and livestock...😀

Yew-chube

yu toob

I have my landline phone, tv and internet in one bill, it costs $100.00 a month.

​@@marydavis5234you must live someplace where there are options. Where I live, we basically have one decent cable provider on the island, and their business model is to sell you a package, and then after about a year gradually increase it until you either cannot pay any more and cut the cord, or until someone is paying $300 or $400 a month for the equivalent of what you have for 100

It really depends on speed as some cities have gigabit fibre while some rural places still only have ADSL. We also tend to have those things separate unless you still have a landline phone. You can get them bundled together from companies like Sky or Virgin though. A quick search shows you can get 100Mb fibre for £24/month, 1000Mb for £40/month, and 11Mb ADSL for £18/month. For mobile service you can get 3GB/month (with 300 minute call cap) for £4.40/month, 5GB/month for £4.90/month, 30GB/month for £8/month, Unlimited data for £16/month. Most people just use streaming services but, for those that use traditional TV, Sky basic package is £31/month, Virgin TV is only available bundled with their 264Mb fibre internet at £32/month (pretty good deal if you want their TV) So there's no easy like-for-like comparison but it seems to all be cheaper in the UK. Probably better choice and service levels too from the monopolies I've heard you guys have over there.

@@robertszynal4745 american price similar to australia .. but 1970~ 1980~ 1990 univercity access everywhere was $20\ month ,, then after 1989 increased $10 more each 3 years .. by 2007 home internet was same as univercity $60/ month .. then $80 in 2010 .. we got digital tv ,, but i would rather use laptop for internet ,.. finally used Smart tv in 2023 ,.. lol, i had a no tv rule for 7 years then watched all tv that i missed . for 1 year watching .., well after 56 years online , 20,000days some days 24 hours a day for internet research ,, i assume 480,000 hours research ,,.. but i only slept 1 hour a week..

Considering that and the IP is the only real difference - yeah . . . .

*almost, not ALomst...

Here in the States, AOL would carpet-bomb us with CD's through the mail.

@@tomkerruish2982😂😂😂

American here. I still use my old aol email account for my junk mail!

remember them huge boxes full of AOL disks when you walked into Walmart?

Cheryl on the channel "what's for tea?" Is in Scotland, always shows the receipts on her Saturday shopping run, so I guess you could see there. She does Sainsburys, Lidl, sometimes Tesco, sometimes M&S

Most of the UK supermarkets with online shopping have both one hours slots and four hours slots, and you can toggle between them when booking a slot. Four hour slots are advertised as 'economy' slots, because it gives the company flexibility to choose when they can fit you in within that four hour timeframe, whereas one hour slots usually cost about double what the four hour slots do because you are paying for the convenience of getting it exactly when it's most convenient for you.

For me in Georgia US...the closest delivery store is 10 miles away. That has to be somewhat similar to rural areas of Scotland and The Uplands or Dales of Northern England. When I lived in a small town USA in Alabama (downtown), the closest store was 6 blocks away. Their delivery was as immediate as possible as typically elderly homebound people got delivery ten years back. Usually within an hour when they had a staffer to spare

@@STho205 the good old days

@@STho205 Nope. Your 10 mile delivery was probably down a superslab 6 lane freeway. Scotland doesn't do those !! In fact you're likely to get accosted by bandit Haggis (Haggii ?) groups or waywood sheep as the (narrow) road wends its way through dale & valley.

There's loads of them. Weird it's so hard to spell aluminium

​@@redboyjanHow did you manage to spell aluminium then?

@@B-A-L at school. In books. In chemistry. See it on lorries. On items made of the stuff

Why are goods delivered by ship called 'cargo' and goods delivered by vehicle called a 'shipment'? 🤣🤣🤣 (- George Carlin)

@@masterchiefburgess and when there is a semi truck, what does a full truck look like?

Now that comes down to how well they check the number for validity.

She was quite a looker back when.

​@@jamesholland8057She still is.

@@B-A-L 78 is not hot by my definition.

⁠@@jamesholland8057- she certainly does look very good, adding the essential caveat - for her age 👍

If you choose a different title for each site that you subscribe to you can work out who has been selling your data.

Esq. as well

Now I wonder which religious title they explicitly include and how to translate titles from elsewhere.

now _that_ is a good joke

Save it for internet porn. It'll be funnier.😃

Welcome aboard the runaway train of American capitalism, where everyone and everything is a commodity and corporations have more rights than people do.

​@@nortyfiner"land of the free"

@@nortyfiner most individuals don't have the wallets to pay for a congressional committee lobbyist

You are free, free to download an extension to manage your cookies instead of pretend the popup mandate does anything at all. Meanwhile UK web sites ask for your phone number, because privacy.

I mean in the US we've had the phrase 'keeping up with the Jones's' for a long long time.

@@truracer20 Actually, I haven't heard that phrase since the Jonestown mass cult suicide in the 70's.

I could request a packet of Bourbons but am not sure Americans sell their Bourbon in packets?!😊

You won’t even have to start marrying your cousins!

Even Windows has different national voices. You can turn them on in the accessibility settings.

so your Alexa sounds like the Eastenders??

@@shelbynamels7948 No, she's quite posh. I call her "Lady Alexa".

My husband changed Siri to Irish. When he said “turn on flashlight,” she replied with “turning on torch.” 😂

Lol, no. We know what Mail is but we more commonly use the word post. "The postman works for Royal Mail to delivery the post through your postbox (or letterbox)"

That movie was updated to the computer age from an old book. The first movie adapted from that book was an old black-and-white Jimmy Stewart movie, where he uses anonymous personal ads in a newspaper. I think the letters went to a post office box. Without realizing it, he was communicating with a co-worker. Some scenes in the two movies were the same. Not a completely original screenplay.

No but in America they had to change Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone to Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone because nobody knew what a philosopher is and they changed Le Mans 66 to Ford vs Ferrari because nobody knew what Le Mans is.

@@B-A-L It's not that we don't know what a philosopher is, but the opposite: the Philosopher's Stone, and alchemy in general, don't have a strong presence in American culture/folklore. So when a typical American child sees a book with the word _Philosopher_ in the title, they're far more likely to think of boring old Plato than anything magical.

@@B-A-LTrue. When I saw that movie I had to google where Le Mans was because I forgot. I’m not a car person. I had no clue it was a French car race thing

Could just borrow a phone number from the number barn.

Make a Google voice account and get a UK area code. You could also call the UK more cheaply.

watch a couple of Brit shows and look for a number being displayed on a sign or on the side of a van, like a real estate sign or a plumber's van. Those numbers are non-assigned and don't ring thru. They are somewhat equivalent to the 555-xxxx prefix used on US shows.

Way too,late, but I never knew we could change the AOL voice!!,

I would use Vinnie Jones.

“13/F/Manhattan” Except in reality it was often “40/M/Brooklyn”

33/M/ATX

@@L0VTX_H8CAwhy are you only on between 8 am and 4 pm? Shouldn’t you be in school?👮🏻‍♂️

​@@VtarngpbIt is after 8pm in Manhattan. Also, school is out during the summer.

Didn't know this was an info platform MYOB

Oh, you mean postal code?

@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107it is called zip code in the US.

@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107 👅

@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107 indeed, 😉

I still have the ICQ notification sounds. Truly a sound for the ages.

We have both Cornish and Scottish pasties in the lower peninsula, or at least in the metro Detroit area. Not sure about the rest of the mitten.

I was actually just wondering if pasties or bacon butties were one of the things Laurence misses! I listen to audio books about British Mysteries constantly and they always sound so good!😂

Pasties here in the US are nipple covers

@@thehapagirl92 -- When pronounced "PAY- stees" they are nipple covers. But the items we are discussing are "PAST - tees"

Or the extension, "Bugger Biscuits"

but here is the thing, I want them to deny cookies. Unless that stops the site from working, then please the "technically necessary cookies only" option.

i use to throw them like frisbees😂

I’ve seen them used as Christmas tree ornaments.

I find my favorite of oatmeal chocolate chip to be even more rare. What's worse is finding out after taking a bite that they're raisins and not chocolate chips 😭🤮

@@ReptarsaurusRex I'll take 'em!

Bot alert. Nobody likes oatmeal raisin

Molasses isn’t an option, either. 😢

@@shelbynamels7948 😂

Still too damn high. I remember chips (crisps) for about 5c / ounce, as were candy bars.

@@elultimo102 no idea what that means, but I remember them selling for 1.29 about 1 1/2 years ago, and 1.69 now

@@HappyBeezerStudios Stuff was cheap before "big oil" gave us rampant inflation. There were potato chips @ 5c for a small bag, and candy averaged 5c / bar. In '78 the same candy was 25c. A 500% increase in 5 years. Now they are nearly $2 each.

They need a phone number to send text updates about deliveries.

Have you ever seen "Shirley Valentine"?

I remember Joanna Lumley from "The Avengers".

My favorite character in Absolutely Fabulous!!

@@LindaC616 I haven't! Although heh, I just read up on her role, and... yeah, seems like the kind of role she'd get cast in! 🤣

@@exstock aw, you ruined the surprise! The film builds it up and the reveal comes near the end

Actually, I prefer furlongs per fortnight, which I think is even more obscure.

@@bit-tuber8126 you get a sixpence and two farthings every 18 hands you measure, how many shillings do you earn per rod? How many glasses of whisky, 3 gill each can you afford if you measure half a cable and two chains and one glass costs a half crown?

Not unlike now. Present company excluded, of course.

Australia had University internet 1976 to big 1989 World Wide Web .. dungeons .. & fan sites .. my favourite was MTV ... unfurled online .. but systems changed each 3 years .. 1979 IBM got most aust university contracts .. then 1982 Hewit Packard ,,.. i forgot 1985 brand ,, i was too busy chatting ,..i was always at university .. finally got home internet 2003 for myspace ,, wifi 2010.. lol.. ~living at university .. with ..no food in computer room policy .. ah,, when i saw people eating while using computer ..,, i thought ,.. oh ,, the audacity..

Those accessing the Inter-web, via a real UK ISP, a Uni, their employers T2 line, in the early 90s, often refereed to UK AOL community as A-holes-On-Line, as the vast majority had not even visited America, let alone defected, on the promise on no taxes, a right to scalp French Lt's, and the obviously own guns and slaves whatever the Courts have on the books about their criminal or mental state.

My first exposure to the internet was while working for Xerox here in the US where we were using Alto computers to access other internal data sources. My first exposure to the WWW was when they outfitted us with early Compaq laptops complete with PCMCIA cards for connecting to the web, using the Mosaic browser. My first Winbox was also a Compaq and using a 14.4k modem and Compuserve to access the web but before that I had a Xerox PC with the CP/m OS and would dial in to bulletin boards using an acoustic modem. Had a pretty good collection of AOL cd's but never subscribed. Also used a regional ISP called Voicenet.

The Year September Never Ended ...

I can do currency, it can do weight, but itcan't do unit x in currency Y into unit W into currency V

I always wondered why so many Americans seemed to be so into carpentry or, as they called it when I went to school, woodwork.

@@ianz9916 :) Or, as we called it... Woodwork/Carpentry was just plain ole Shop. I'm originally from western Pennsylvania with a bit of Indiana in my heritage. I would hear Route from one relative and "Root" from another all the time. (not to mention getting "warshed" up for friday dinner as we decided we would either have a sit down dinner at church "Feesh (fish) in a Deesh (dish), or "Feesh in the box (take out). (all the while other relatives would be rolling their eyes and chuckeling.) I quickly adapted to listening to some of the different pronouncinations of my Britt co-workers, not to mention my Indian friends. It's all good.

@@jimbatten1927 So what do Americans call the woodworking tool to cut grooves?

@@ianz9916 Ahh yes.. a router. So then, what do Brits call a device and/or service to clear sewage drains?

@@jimbatten1927 A snake

That's probably because you have a STATE law requirement. He's talking about FEDERAL laws. I'm in California, and we have that law, as well, but not all states do have it.

I've seen it on every single website so I didn't even know that it wasn't a national thing. It's easier just to have it pop up everywhere and not worry about what state someone's in whether that be United States state or state as in country state.

We do have cookies in Britain, y'know.

Great, I'm never going to un-hear that

Oh, you know my Uncle Dave??!!!

@@richardsbrandon5027 If THAT David Mitchell (the Q.I./WILTY/TM&WL one, not the Cloud Atlas one) is actually your uncle, omg you're my new bff.

@@culturecrashAL hahahahaha, is this David Mitchell from Kenosha WI??

or switch out the sounds and it starts making music.

No, if you have an extension phone you hear the sounds on that phone. The alternating high and low start tone is negotiating the fastest connection both modems (and the connection) could support. Then it settles down to a harsh version of white noise. The sound was not coming from your computer speakers, but a speaker on the modem (if you didn't have any phone recievers off the hook). Incidentally, there was a modem setting to turn that modem speaker off. The phone line carries a voltage varying wave form, which the headset renders as sound and vice versa. That hookup sound was on on the modem speaker which turned on by default when starting the connection because you could tell there was something wrong with the connection process and then diagnose it. When the connection was up, it turned off the modem speaker. It is remotely possible you had a cheap modem without a speaker, or an acoustic coupler. That fake sound might have been added to hide the shortcomings of your modem. Just because something is a fake that doesn't mean everything is a fake.

He’s not condemning the display of the US flag in Britain. He’s condemning displaying the US flag next to the “English Language” option ….. we would refer to “English” (British flag) and “US English” (American flag).

When I was in Ireland, I found that websites sometimes displayed an Irish flag for English, which is especially odd as the Irish language exists and is very much not English. Personally, I think of them as English (Traditional) and English (Simplified). 😆

@@AnotherLostBall not to split hairs but well to add to your statement. What falg dos the Americas us? cause as a natural US citizen I do not raise an American flag but the USA flag. I don't refer to the British flags or the french flags as the eruopian flags no they are euroipan but to end the rant America is the continent not the country.

@@NoOne-ev7vj Interesting. In Europe when we refer to 'America' we mean USA. President... flag... US... of America, it all pertains to USA. In the same logic U.S. of A. does not encompass all countries on both American subcontinents, only USA.

@@matusfekete6503 Americans used to speak that way as well. Latin Americans take offense at this (and in their schools they teach that North America and South America are one continent called America, meaning they say there are 6 continents instead of 7). I personally don't see North and South America as the same continent, and I think if you're being inconsistent, you have to consider them two separate continents if you consider Asia and Africa as two continents, since both are separated by an isthmus with a canal running through it.

Except, America doesn't even have its own language. It just uses a butchered form of English as its default. Instead of English or American, it should say, "American English". At least Americans get to chose their national option. In Canada, we either get the Union Jack or Stars and Stripes. The Maple Leaf usually leads us to Canadian French.

We all have our own language, as I understand it, more modern English words have origins in the US than England, but it’s not important. I just found it amusing because I never thought about it having the wrong flag. Same with getting French when you see a maple leaf.

Considering American English more closely resembles older forms of English, it is much more accurate to say that England doesn't have it's own language, it just uses a butchered form of English as it's default.

Yes, my wife is from China and I overheard her & my son using the word “Keyi” which technically means “can” but they told me it’s the same as OK and sounds similar. It made me wonder if ok is a slur of keyi. Incidentally, there is a version of chess in China, that made me question the origin of it. I always assumed it originated in Europe.

@@stevevanness4195 Chess was born out of the Indian game chaturanga before the 600s AD.

Cookies are so ingrained in websites that just turning them off breaks everything.

No.

It seems more and more in the UK you get a reject all button.

I still miss those old dial phones! Ours was in the kitchen and had a very long curly cord - it was still there in 2001 when Mom sold,the house😮

Never heard of stalkers? There some crazy people out there that believes anything you tell them.

You could have your number unpublished for a small fee.

Oh, the things i could do (to you) with your address and phone number. And I could do it from the other side of the world, I don't even have to leaf thru your local phone book and figure out which Jones, Smith, or Miller you are

Wait until someone steals your ID.

One of the primary points of the American Revolution, in fact

You don’t often see that level of choice, no idea why a supermarket would use it.

America is truly a classless society.

I’m not *a* doctor. I’m *the* Doctor. The original. The definite article, you might say.

Me too. Most of the international sites I use have the British flag for english

I think it should depend on what English is being used, because depending on what type of English you are using the spelling, pronunciations, and even words themselves can change.

American here. I have noticed on foreign websites (especially European) it's common to have a choice of American (US flag) or British (Union Jack) English. Now I'm curious if any websites offer other English options, like Canadian, Australian, etc., or is American and British the only two choices?

I was expecting at least a part on comparing network availability and prices.

He got handsome

I was shocked to find out he’s younger than I am.

😮😂

Yikes! 😂 How rude 😮

Thank you for using "...as all get-out." I grew up with that phrase, learning it from my mom's side of the family but I've NEVER heard anyone else use it. Another favorite from Mom's family was "... from here to who tied it." Do you use that one, too?