Surprising Differences Between the UK and the USA 

How old was this video Simon ur keep talking about u not having kids. Is this an old video or r u gonna be the next casual crim video 😂😂

Which decoding the unknown episode did you film while drinking the skull crusher? Lol. I want to watch it right ASAP.

Actually monarchy brings in more money in Compared what they take out. Like tourism Specially with Asians and the Americans those 2 demographics love the monarchy. As a huge history buff when the monarchy do they're ceremony they are doing real history in real time not just a historic reenactment I find that very cool. The line for king and country it sounds awesome. if we don't have a monarchy that line will be for Britain it just won't have a same ring to it. That is my opinion why we should keep a monarchy if you disagree with me that's fine. The monarchy is just part of British culture. Reason I think like that is imagine the French still have a monarchy French culture will be way more interesting do you think? Sorry if my comment goes on for a bit longer I am just very passionate about it. Have a good day.

Wine has much more calories than weak cider, ethanol is 7kcal/g so a calss of whine has more calories than a class of Cider

Can you state where you have obtained your information claiming most plastic sent for recycling is actually burned?

Exactly. 100% correct

They are often conflated despite being different, like yams and sweet potatoes

I didn’t know that 😮thanks

Don't leave out the Brit's marmalade or we'll never hear the end of it. Some of it tastes nasty. Marmalade is citrus preserves, adding the inner part of the citrus-rind and sometimes tastes like it was strained through dirty-socks. Brits probably think the same about our Apple-Butter. 😆

Apple butter.

My Irish friend once said that too a night club bouncer that we was out for the "craic" 😂 luckily the bouncer saw the funny side 😂

Oops!

I had a similar experience returning to the UK after my first trip abroad. I’d bought my girlfriend a large bottle of duty-free perfume. When asked by the customs at Dover Harbour if I had anything to declare, I said “well I’ve got some Opium..” They took my car apart because they thought I was taking the pïss… :)

I was once held up, trying to explain to them I was there for a holiday. They didn't seem to know what that was.

@@dravokivich what we call a holiday they call it a vacation in the US so maybe it was a little lost in translation because they consider holidays like Christmas, Easter time I think 💬🤔

Or McDonalds, or Burger King, or Walmart, or Any Gas Station. Or this internet bill.....

You missed out it was the 7th trip to Wendys that day! Sorry, fat stereotype joke 😜

IKR!! I feel bad the poor Brits are being forced into areas as small as the violently-imploded Titanic-Sub. Reminds me of the Gilligan Island song, 🎶The weather started getting rough........The tiny sub was crushed...🎶 What?? Too much?? Too soon?? 😞🤣

It’s literally every channel he does. And that’s why I subscribe to so many of his channels 😉 😊

It's a part of all of his shows, I love it everytime 🤣

Tbh I was a fan of this but now I'm sick of hearing about Simons kids. Nobody cares and if they do I'd probably put them on a watch list or something 😂

His tangents. Are prooooobably why its called brain blaze😂😂😂 Allegedly in everyones opinion😂😂😂😂

Me as well and if I have to choose between a cup of filter coffee from my trusted Melitta machine and Nespresso, I know excatly what cup i drink and it wont be the capsule with the burned taste ..I love a normal filter coffee because the temperature is always correct you make it as strong as you like and its absolutely affordable compared to the overpriser capsules..

The pods he referred to are ESE pods that are used in an espresso machine. There is an adapter for the espresso machine to use the ESE pods

Do you think his head will explode when he discovers that Nespresso is just the powdered crap that's used in the US 'espresso' machines that go whirrr?

It’s not like filter coffee is even inherently bad. I mean, it’s basically just an automated pour over and results will vary by quality of coffee and machine. I think it’s just that for a lot of people it conjures images of diner coffee or similar, where it started bad and then was left on a hot plate until the only remaining flavours are ash and regret. It was also weird to hear at attempt to distinguish between espresso and third wave specialty coffee. As if the latter is not just people being pickier about what beans they use for the former (or other brewing method of choice). I suspect there is an element of erroneously conflating “specialty” with light roast. But a darker roasted specialty coffee definitely tastes like “coffee” if that is the preferred option.

Just grind your beans right before you brew. Best drip-coffee ever. Get nice, oily beans. Columbian, or Brazillian peaberry. Deep flavor, low bitterness/acid. As for instant.... crystals are blegh. Get folgers fast-breaks or starbucks VIA. Those are micro-grinds. Not freeze dried coffee, but real coffee ground so fine it dissolves in water. They have one benefit not available with *any* other coffee style. You can have fresh-brewed coffee ice cream. Just mix your microgrind with a spoon of sugar, and add a couple spoons of hot water, to make a syrup. Then put it in a milkshake, or blend it into ice cream. Its not a cup of coffee, so it doesn't water the cream down and make it too icy. And its not stale, cold coffee, which makes your ice cream taste of pencil-lead. Its fresh-brewed. It makes an ice cream or milkshake that tastes exactly like a coffee shop smells. If any of you remember the starbucks ice cream pints they sold in stores that were better than any coffee ice cream you'd ever had, this is what they did to get it so coffee-ey.

Yes, hopefully, the Basement is secure enough NONE of them ever escape!!

Norwegian debit cards also has picture, but they are moving away from it. Probably to stop people using them a photo ID.

Iirc, American Express does this as well; I remember working retail for a bit and seeing cards like that.

​@@magnemoe1Yeah new ones don't have it anymore. It's because we can now use the national ID cards that are using the same standards as the ones of the EU countries. So no passport needed anymore when going to the EU.

Bank of America was offering pictures on their credit cards for a while. Not sure if they still do.

@@mon573r6 it was another Brit speaking to the American at the desk 😄

​@@es68951hmm. Okay. Not sure why I thought he was specifically saying an American said that, I guess he didn't necessarily..

A proper tobacconist would know what she meant. Local papershop, not so much.

well shag isn't really pronounced the way it's written though is it? At least here in the south of the Netherlands it's pronounced more like check then shag so with a inhale at the end instead of a exhale

@@Paragon643 true, but not if you make it sound English, like my mother did.

There used to be a proper tobacconist in Dartmouth & when I used to smoke a half ounce of Dartmouth Light Shag was a real treat!

Thank God she didn't ask him to direct her to the railway station.

Honestly cider does sound much better than cloudy apple juice. The latter is not a particularly appetizing name. Adding cloudy to any liquid makes it seem impure or dirty. Also cloudy itself generally has a negative connotation. And Adding hard as a descriptor is readily understandable, adds some macho/adult appeal.

I also have never drank any plain cloudy apple juice; it's usually mashed and unfiltered and not from concentrate, then stored in big glass jugs and boiled with packets of spices for mulling; it's just not allowed to ferment. Since I'm unable to drink alcohol, I (along with the little 'uns) appreciate fall cider very much so I can feel included. "Hard" is included because it's no longer a "soft drink" (like a soda pop or beer with a very low volume of alcohol) when a certain amount of alcohol is involved. Hard vs. soft literally just means alcoholic vs. nonalcoholic. Hard cider also has a TON of sugar added so it can ferment into alcoholic carbohydrates, whereas soft cider is just juice and apple mash with seasonal spices and is much more palatable.

It had to be when Danny first started to troll him via the intro. Simon complained about it so there's a series of episodes with super long irrelevant ones.

Don't forget all the swearing that we never hear on his more "professional" channels! 😄

You should start adding in the tangents

You my friend are a legend!

@@alreadyded3709🤣😜👏👏👏👏!!!!! Dead set, I had come here to list tangents 😊. 🤣🤪

​@alreadyded3709 sheesh, that's a big ask. They'd have to timestamp every 3 seconds. Fist sentence of script Simon tangent Simon tangent within a tangent Simon gets back to original tangent Second sentence of script

If Simon wanted to add time stamps, he'd do so. With that said... I do agree with alreadyded3709! Those tangents need to be pointed out!!! Good luck with posting them! 😂🤣🤪

I would buy that shirt!

@@Zulimi2 I been waiting for them to make them so I could buy them!

I’m waiting for that and the CasCrim journal with the rules on the first couple pages! “Rule No. 1: DON’T write down your crimes!”

His tangents are how my brain thinks

I use a vintage percolator sometimes, usually when it's all I've got though. I recently got a French press though, it's much better. But my favorite is my Aeropress, that thing is freaking awesome. I just need to get another steel filter, I lost my old one. It pairs well with my ceramic burr hand crank grinder, especially when camping. Eventually I'll probably get a 12v kettle too, and up my road trip coffee game instead of relying on gas stations to clean their coffee machines regularly lol.

Yup also a snobby snob here! Weigh out 20g of beans and 300g of water and time it. Stepless grinder to accommodate different grinds for my different coffee toys. V60 and French press (cafetier) are my personal favorites! But I am neither from UK or USA, I am from South Africa where instant is definitely the most common method of making "coffee"😢

@@TimKapow i only use 29 grams for an entire pot of 12 5 oz cups! I use good beans, but I dont know how anyone can drink coffee as strong as your's.

Also, some people (myself and my parents included) just went to inexpensive espresso machines and french press. I think the only thing keeping drip machines in common use is brewing a whole pot on a timer for the next morning. Which assumes you aren't gonna care about how stale the grounds are gonna be and that margin is narrowing vs pod machines.

I can see a whole pile of moka pot users coming to the attack pretty soon.

Together they form a trident of unstoppable power.

Dave wrote this one though

Simon said something at the beginning of the video about not being smart, that's true to an extent. He's extremely smart business wise and with viewer engagement. I think a lot of us watch Simon because he's like a regular guy learning things and going off on tangents. His new videos vs his almost 10 year old toptenz videos are night and day difference in production, writing and humor quality.

I do miss the script slaps of the Business Blaze era. The constant inside jokes. It's still a good channel, bu it's not as lively as it once was.

@@FuhQueGaming The beard AI hadn't taken over back then.

We have a drip maker, a French press, an espresso machine, and a percolator. If the power goes out, which is sometimes does, I still want my coffee, and we’ve got a fireplace. The pod machines should be banned, to be honest, for how much plastic waste they produce. People need to stop being so goddamned lazy. Get a mesh reusable filter, toss a cop of water in your drip machine, add the grounds, and you’re golden.

​@@Author.Noelle.Alexandriaor get a pod machine and a reusable pod so you're waste is cut down to the giant tin the coffee comes in. On top of that you'll never have any coffee to dump or that needs reheating.

@@joeycampbell940 Is it really that hard for people to only put enough grounds and water in a coffee machine to make just as much as they want? You can make a single cup in a coffee pot. You can also make two cups, half a pot, or a whole, with one machine. Why buy a coffee pot AND a pointless pod machine? Double the space taken up, money wasted, because it’s…too hard to figure out how to measure? If you can’t figure out how to measure grounds and water, that’s a reflection of your critical thinking skills, not an indication that coffee-drinkers should be buying pod machines. You’ve fallen for marketing. It’s truly stunning how many people are literally incapable of figuring out something that was commonly done when people were smarter.

Yep. After affordable Mr. Coffee knockoffs hit the market, the percolator's demise was pretty rapid.

I tend to associate the pod machines with younger millennial and older zoomers. Sort of the same with doordash and ubereats. I think they're just more convenience focused. Trying to get my kid to do anything that doesn't have an instant payoff is like trying to pull teeth from a crocodile. Can't even get him to learn to cook, it's just frozen puzza and canned soup or delivery.

For real!

It happened in his head 😂

This is a simulation. Reality is we are all in Simon's basement.

Once in a while Simon pus a tracker on his writers and allows them out, but only one at a time. Thank you Y2K for implanting the little trackers.

It’s Danny in the basement. What, you think he keeps his whole stable of writers down there? What kind of monster do you think he is?

​@@baalzeebub4230He's Simon Whistler, back when the channel was called Business Blaze he made it known that he was very into capitalism

Simon should do a RU-vid search for “James Hoffman tries every nespresso pod” 😂

@@egauci1 I thought of that video too!! Poor James! That was a hard watch. XD

Nespresso was some of the worst coffee I've ever had, it was a pod that had been used already which will definitely affect it but I've never had any other preused grounds be anywhere near as bad

I only use instant coffee as an extreme energy drink, dump several spoonfuls into a mug of hot water had several spoonfuls of sugar and a splash of creamer for form and hold your breath while you chug it down and hope it stays down.

@@omgandwtf1 Instant coffee is great as a flavoring agent in other recipes ( I use it to make coffee-flavored ice cream ) but as a beverage on its own i't's pretty "yeugh."

They were pretty common when I was growing up. I lived in an area with lots of Hispanics and Italians, every household had one.

yeah, percolators are pretty rare, and usually the reason the coffee from them is bad is the people who use percolators tend to also be stingy with the coffee grounds.

we use percolators when we go camping, it’s just really easy, throw some grounds in the basket and boil it is it good? no, no it’s not is it coffee? technically, yes does it wake you up? also, yes

They are pretty common where I live in the States 🤷‍♀️

@@chaoticneutral6288 just go for desthwish or devil mountain then, deathwish has like 2x the skull crusher from what I'm seeing online and is one of the smoothest coffees I've had, even the dark roast isn't overly bitter. The devil mountain has twice as much again as the deathwish at like 1555mg/cup, 2 cups of that stuff and you're vibrating like nothing else lol

​@noodlelynoodle7052 that sounds awful. What a shitty drug.

@@mattdouplesx it's pretty delicious and when you have a caffeine tolerance it's so much easier to just make one cup of strong coffee than drinking like 6 cups throughout the day. It's honestly one of the least harmful drugs even out of the legal ones, like I'd love to do stronger stimulants like meth but those are actual shitty drugs for long-term use, caffeine just makes ya a bit more tired and have a slight headache for some people if they don't have it

We should send Saint Greta there to lecture them. I'm sure it'll go down really well!

I think that depends on the individual somewhat, for my brother's household produces more plastic waste in a day than mine would in a week. But generally speaking the amount of plastic packaging is insane.

@@pakde8002 I'm talking about nationwide production. China has both consumer markets and an extremely large production industry, and I've heard it's unreal how much plastic washes down their rivers into the ocean. Not saying other countries shouldn't curb their use too, but the fact that the US and UK appear to be the top two according to this video is accounting for BOTH their usage/waste and their willingness to document it. Many countries don't have environmental controls that require strict documentation.

They add a 5 cent tax for bags here and they only have paper bags unless it's for produce or meat for some reason in which case those are free. Honestly I'd rather still have plastic bags as an option even if I had to pay like 25 cents per bag, paper bags are nearly impossible to carry a significant number of at a time whereas with plastic I can fit as many as I can physically lift. Also paper bags rip much more easily due to heavy things. Sure you can bring a reusable bag but that requires planning and remembering to bring them or if you keep them in your car remembering to put them there after you unpack your groceries and frankly that's all far more effort than I can be bothered with.

If it was "a bag for life" you can get a free replacement at the shop you brought it from,for life

I love cold brew. The 2 local coffee chains in my state have glass growlers you can refill. I prefer drinking cold brew to regular coffee now. I also love instant coffee, but that's because I'm the only one in the house that drinks coffee.

They would need to put warning labels on them due to the number of people who are allergic to casein.

American card? Yes. Any country with chip and pin (not chip and SIGN looking at you USA) it will be a regular insert + pin or tap. Source : I work at a university in Canada and we have a lot of not-canadian students.

In most US restaurants, you either have to let the waiter walk away with your card or carry enough cash to pay for your meal & tip in cash. Both of these are annoying options, & I can't WAIT for it to change!

Blows my mind that tap to pay isn't as common in America as it is here, I thought they would've adopted it first

@@ghost_curse Tap to pay is very common in America, just specifically not in restaurants. Most restaurants are still rocking POS systems with Windows XP, though. Or they don't have wireless units to bring to the tables.

@@jessicazaytsoff1494 Chip & sign? That sounds like intentionally modernising the least important half whilst retaining the worst aspect of the old.

Sounds about right. Should be all good until they're sued because they didn't help or explain how to put the seat in properly.

flavour is basically what keeps me from drinking bare water. Even a shot of lemon juice or having some dried stuff in there for a moment makes it so much more interesting.

Well that is just sus

​@@seiyuokamihimura5082They mean for food. I hope.

Keurigs are horrid for the environment. The amount of waste the produce should come with penalties for people who buy those pods.

Last time I was in London, I couldn’t pay for the bus because they didn’t take money and only used those tappy cards, which I didn’t have yet. The driver was a crabby ass who didn’t tell me about some sort of something or other…just…British bus drivers were some of the rudest people I’ve met in Europe.

wonder if it's anything to do with that unlike bank cards internet access is still considered a luxury not a necessity. can't say i had a limit on usage when i was in college a few years ago, which was so slow it felt like 2g, but i don't doubt it varies from place to place

Was the limited internet on their phone? Because if it was it sounds like they just had a rather low data usage phone contract (not sure if phone contracts work the same in the States but you choose a plan and that gives you either unlimited calls/texts/internet or a certain amount each month. Generally the cheaper it is the less usage you get). Otherwise I’ve never even heard of an internet limit and I’ve lived in the UK my phone life. 🤔

Know idea what she had,but always been open Wi-Fi to connect with. Or can pay hourly,daily etc

I think it had to do with only being allowed a certain amount of data rather than time, actually? But it was 11 years ago, who knows at this point lol I might have misunderstood. Definitely the case in Australia, though- I had to go to an Internet cafe to get online, and there turned out to be one very close by. I don’t think those even existed in the US back then- if people didn’t have internet access, I think they mostly went to the library.

Yes!!! As an American I've screamed this.

Agreed. They didn’t have the shit we have today, so obviously didn’t mean mass-murder weapons.

Yall are ridiculous. I mean to say, it's really interesting how you trust the government to take care of you like children. Now let's get rid of rhaynpesky free speech too. That's obviously absurd, we need to censor and censure people for the words they utter.... Ah my ridiculous liberal friends. Your years in the land of milk and honey have made you soft.

Then, get off the internet because it wasn't around at the time.

I don't drink coffee, I usually stick to Diet Coke, but on a long drive, I'll sometimes grab a specific brand of energy drink that contains ~300mg of caffeine per 12oz can and I *FEEL IT!* It also makes me have to hit the rest stop another half dozen times. 😆

​@@chaoticneutral6288Maybe coffee from a gas station or diner? It sounds weird to me too.

Yea, I love espresso and brewed for different reasons. A nice, fresh cup of black brewed is fantastic.

I've only ever found one instant coffee that tastes halfway decent even with creamer and sugar and that was the deathwish one, most the rest have a weird sourness to them that you can't get rid of no matter how much sugar or cream you add

Instant is never fine in my personal opinion. Its awful stuff that tastes like mud

As a brit we literally just tap the card against the machine for up to £100 now 😂 I haven’t signed a receipt in like twenty years 😂

My card is metal, has my name on it, a chip, and a stripe. No numbers. It’s also metal. My credit union card has Bigfoot riding a unicorn while carrying a light saber through the forest.

Me too !😀

@@chaoticneutral6288 Quote :- " One of us, one of us" - - - Tod Browning film, " Freaks" 1932

I can't force myself to get up early enough to have breakfast. That's not happening for me lol.

@@antidotebrain69 i’m a terrible morning person!

I would be glad to! Simon would too!

Trust an American to ask that question first instead of just watching the video and finding out without having to say anything

Just messing around, in one of his recent videos he slyly got a dig in on us towards the end of the vid

​@@CtheBernwickleIf you had anything to say it might be worth hearing. Fact is nobody's dreaming about getting inside your borders except angry Americans who don't know what they have. Yet everybody wants to be America even when they talk crap. Small dogs always bark haha

@@godwarrior3403 lol I am American bro, all I’ll tell you, I’d insult you just for the American pleasure of doing so, but the reality is that Americans do yes have more freedom that a lot of the world, the problem is that no ammount of freedom will ever be enough for everyone that said, as long as there is politics and a group of corrupt idiots running a country, it’s never really free. That also said.. at least America doesn’t worship a geriatric old man from a heritage that should have long died out, and has no place making any sort of decisions for a populous.. *looks at Biden on tv*.. oh crap..

I hate the paper straws when I visited the UK back in 2019. Plus, the soda cans were super small.

Either drink it without a straw or use a metal one if paper is too complicated.

Tears.....

Are you ok? The trauma you have gone through must have been quite intense... 🙄🙄🙄🙄

If you’re not first you’re last😎🥸

Can not be in "First" when Brain Blaze has their own comment posted hours before you even get a chance to leave one of these pathetic "First" comments.

Or bin liners in bathroom trash cans lol

American here and I prefer Cuban lol