Top 10 Things In British Culture Impossible to Explain to Non Brits 

How about explaining isle of man, Guernsey and Jersey status. Then British Caribbean nations and Pitcairn

So you decided to use an actor from New Zealand as the thumbnail 🤦‍♂️

@WatchMojoUK How about period instruments and being formal with vocabulary. Vocabulary is more important than accent(except Southern one)?

you missed that the UK has subjects not citizens

Second prize was two jars 😁

One jar would last a life time, since I wouldn't even open the stuff.

And I bet it was one of the small jars ...

More like two or three months supply for me.

Thast onen days

That sums up how we Brits make friends. If we don't like you we pretend to be happy and civil around you. If do like we take the piss out of you for just about anything.

The Puerto Rican has honorary British Passport

Proper British (and Australian) style humour.

@@dnmurphy48 A lot of Americans I have met are thoroughly taken aback to learn how much we like to use blue language in the UK too. I used to live near several US air bases in England when I was younger and there was one local pub whose landlord we all called c*nty John because every second or third word from his mouth was the c word. The look on the faces of these blokes who just came over and got a weekend pass when they first tried striking up a conversation with c*nty John was priceless.

As Jimmy Carr says, 'I dont have an accent, this is what English sounds when spoken properly'.

@@ayrshireman1314 And probably keep arguing over who speaks with a real accent

I swear, I was just thinking about this a couple days ago. To US, we’re perfectly understandable, and how can OUR accent be incomprehensible 😂. We don’t have one!🙈 I’d go live there in one, hot second.

like a native

@@ayrshireman1314 ......when spoken correctly ! 😜.....and we always correct bad grammar. 🥴

Get rid she's not the one

Why ? I thought all white people eat beans - at least its not sushi or dumpling !

A true Brit at heart don’t worry the homeland shall welcome you back whenever you want where sanity prevails 😂

Got a sudden craving now for baked beans on toast

More for you.

We're intelligent enough to use both

The only country where you ask for 3 meters of inch and a quarter pipe.

@@kyuss1984 Ummm no we still have BSP plumbing fittings in Australia, as standard here, 3/8" copper to 2", including PVC up to 4"...all the fittings going back to pre 1972 fit still....Australia makes the UK look well sorted. I have a 1/4" drive metric socket set...brand new..2022... we went decimal currency in 1966 and metric in 1972 to '74... and still can't get it straight...as our PVC rain pipe comes in 6.0M lengths of 3 1/4"... and 6" sewer pipe...hummmm...

@@kyuss1984 and fuel consumption in miles per litre

I still understand the Imperial system better than the Metric system but then, I am 70 now and never tried wholeheartedly to immerse myself in the "new-fangled" ways which my children all learned !! I still use acres over hectares, feet and inches over metres and hands (to measure horses and ponies) instead of...whatever they are measured in these days !! 🐴🐴🐴❤ I don't drive so seldom gave cause to consider mile's over kilometres, but I still regard 1 AU* as 93 million miles (*astronomical unit - the distance from the Earth to the Sun) instead of however many kilometres it is. I would (if I had bathroom scakes) weigh myself in stones and pounds and bake (if I had an oven) using pounds and ounces to weigh ingredients but then, I am a stubborn old lady and loath to change if / as I have no need to !! 😊❤❤🖖LLAP🖖PALL🖖❤️

& how much water dies it take to fill the basin, so you'd likely use more? I used to do this to as a kid, because the hit water was to hot, so to get warm water

@@kurtsudheim825 much smaller basins

@@kurtsudheim825 - You don't need to 'fill' the sink... DUH !

@@kurtsudheim825 don't be ridiculous. you dont fill the sink.

Can we talk about when the English started using the word "bathroom" because if it's for the American market, I feel like they are condescending to me.

The key with Marmite is to throw it in the bin and never open the jar

Never has the expression 'Less is More' been so applicable !

You don't dip your finger in the jar and eat it when you're waiting for the toast?

@@SW-fn7cl - I bloody do - LOL !

@@JF1908x as with Vegemite...........horrible stuff

Actually, since driving originated in Rome, on horse & carriage, then the car came via Germany, the right side was the original side. So actually it's the UK that's wrong, & it's just that must of the commonwealth had to comply with them so that's why they drive on the left. Don't get me wrong, I prefer sitting on the right side of the car because I'd prefer to change gear with my left hand, but it's not the original, & there is no correct side, they're just different, that's like arguing being over/underweight is better, a man or woman whatever...

@@kurtsudheim825 Actually you are wrong must countries traveled on the left before changing

@@kurtsudheim825 Sorry my friend, driving on the left is historically correct. It dates back to Knights on horseback. They hold the horses reigns with their weakest left hand and hold their lance or sword in their strongest right hand facing their opponent and vice-versa. It's also applicable to Centurions on foot in battle where they hold their dagger, flail, sword and shield accordingly while approaching from the left. The Egyptians also drove their carts on the left proven by deeper ruts leaving quarries on the right.

@@trancehi that is some interesting shit

@@kurtsudheim825 your wrong the car that has 3 pedals clutch brack accelerator was invented in England and still used to this day but your right about the 1st was combustible engine car came from Germany

Your mom must be a pretty gassy gal.

Has she discovered beans on toast yet?

Hmmm, I do tend to be sarcastic 😅

Sarcasm sits next to our nuclear warheads in being the UK 's most potent weapon.

So we created it and you perfected it? Keep dreaming.

No, you knob, they are still the original & best (hp, unintended, but I'll take it). I live watching comedy on BBC, pretty we don't get all the stuff, but can find it here. I feel that's a bit of an issue though, because I do like calling people horrible names, but it's too people I like, but I think they think I'm being mean so can't do it so often

@@JF1908x the originators aren't always the best, as claimed, tea is such a British thing, uhhh is check in with the Chinese in that

Marmite chicken!

try creamy mash and black pudding in a Yorkshire pudding with cheddar on top, you're welcome.

or bacon if you don't like black pudding

@@benjaminmajor5144 Toad in the hole, and followed by Spotted Dick with custard :)

I can't stand marmite but have used it in soups and stews to enhance flavour.

😂

@@staceykeeley4219 Such a British response. It's like the apocryphal US tourist asking how old a building/museum is "Is it pre-war?" and being told "It's pre-American, sir"

@@fuzzblightyear145 😂😂 Ah yes us Brits do laugh at others, but the difference is we laugh at ourselves first.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Pidgeon Funfact #11. Snap! :)

Dunking biscuits has evolved so much in my lifetime. It was amazing even as a child with the old school type biscuits. Now though there's so many biscuits that are basically designed for Dunking and out of this world. They really are missing out.

Upstairs taps were also a no drinking zone in the old days because cold water also went through a tank in the loft. The latter is still a thing in many US homes (such as in New York), and it's lousy there too.

I have a British aunt who says biscuit dunking is low brow and unacceptable, lol

@@vancityplantie5752 Yes absolutely ... for anyone between the ages of 6 and 60 for sure. Unless you go hide in the bog and knock a cheeky one out :-)

That is why we didn't let you join Australia in 1901!

Always look at NZ as upside down UK..

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂@@bugsygoo

I'm a Pom in NZ and NZ Marmite is nothing like as good. Lucky I can get the real stuff here though.

Aussie here. I find Promite nicer than both Vegemite and Marmite.

I can't stand marmalade but love marmite. I love everything orange or orange flavour. Weird.

A true Brit doesn't wait until 4pm for a cup of tea, it's drunk every half hour throughout the day 😅

@@aldozilli1293 Sorry, I don't claim to be one 🤣

You're one of us 😉

The cross of St. Patrick was taken from the coat of arms of the Fitzgerald clan or maybe it was the other way round 😉

Sorry to be pedantic, but the flag is only called the Union Jack when flown at sea. On land it's called the Union Flag. ❤️

The Union flag, as shown at the beginning and at the end, is being flown upside down - a distress signal.

@@cymrulady1 no it isn't, this was changed in 1906

@@cymrulady1 That was a belief prior to being disproven in 2013.

Here's a big error. Americans think that Native Americans are Native to America.

Wasn't 1971 when they changed over the coins?

The metric system was officially introduced in 1965 so no one under the age 57 (in 2022) is unfamiliar with it. Decimalisation of the monetary system happened in 1971.

@@serendipitylovejoy4724 thank you for clarifying that for me

You’re alright my lovely. X

Also in the aviation world, visibility is in metres and cloudbase is in feet.

Not quite. °F & °C were invented at about the same time (both in Europe) and separate to Imperial and Metric. Britain though invented two units of Temperature measure, °K (Kelvin) and °R (Rankine).

My experience as an American who has lived in the UK for 17 years is that American Anglophiles actually know very little of British culture at all - they tend to form a very distorted picture based on some television shows and bands they like (and maybe some books or magazines).

My experience as a Brit' is the outlook anglophiles in the US & Japan have of us in GB is highly flattering 😁👌 . Heck: even our detractors tend to inadvertently flatter us by pointing out that we play most villains on screen 😂 (it after all takes skill to look & sound devious)

@@jimtaylor294 not ALL are anglophiles, especially in the Deep South. Even anglophiles like myself can fine plenty to fault or dislike or ‘not get’ at all🥴

Its pretty much the same here. Most of us have a soft spot for the US. Many of us still have the sensibility to remember without your help we'd all be speaking german now.

@@dnmurphy48 thank you for saying that. I’m not supposed to say this, but in a way we are ‘your children’. In the media, the Brits are often enough referred to as ‘our friends across the pond’. England is considered to be our strongest political Ally. As a boomer, its hard not to remember the music connection- the 1960’s ‘British Invasion’ Beatles, Rolling Stones plus others. Leaders of both bands said American R&B and soul had a huge influence on THEM. Chuck Berry, etc. 2 way street

He butchered it (that is an English verb meaning the narrator didn’t come close to pronouncing it even vaguely properly).

@@1515327E troll alert!

@@altovisa5691 Pointing out mispronunciation isn’t a case of intentionally posting an inflammatory remark to create hostility. The guy badly mispronounced LlanfairPG. God bless you.

He butchered the fucking shit out if it

We just call it Llanfair in the south XD

Eccles cakes are the bomb! You have good taste.

It’s a great addition to stews and for making vegetarian shepherds pie. Full of goodness - like you.

You are an Honery Brit! Come visit us and experience our sarcastic humour 😁

Mate, get some Branston beans as soon as you get the chance.

Nope, changed in 1908. You can call it the Union Jack.

here's another fun fact for you. a video telling us about British culture has more than half of the Union Jacks shown, upside-down!

@@ianforder2886 The Union flag shown in the beginning of this video was upside down too but not the one later on.

@@davidwebley6186 yeah but there are the little flags that people are waving in 1 scene that are mostly upside down

Fact is, American Natives are not Native to America.

Not a fan of Beans whether it's the baked beans or the beans used for Chili Con Carne. I'm not a fan of putting grain or raisins in Stews and Curries either.

I just love the idea of teaching your wife insulting banter.😁 Could be that you've thrown a boomerang there!

Many years ago young and socially awkward German lad got a job behind the bar of my local. He was rather confused with the banter of people insulting each other. After it was explained to him, his first attempt to fit in was made with a stranger he was serving. He leaned across and in his Middle German announced "excuse me Sir, but your wife is very ugly"

@@ScatewaveEliot - I love it. Brilliant.

@Halfdanr_H And you have expats who have lived on Costa del Sol for more than 15 years, who neither understand the culture nor the language.

Sounds nice.

just missing the black pudding and mushrooms for a full english

Probably a legacy of British colonialism.

Shake off colonial crap food

The confusion goes back centuries right back to the establishment of schools. The first establishments called schools were not really what you would describe as school nowadays. It wasn't a place for general education, the earliest schools were run by the church and were really just places for Bible study and to learn Latin for trainee clergy. A more general education would be provided to those who could afford such luxuries by private tutors not schools. Later the church would establish schools to provide a basic general education and although these were fee paying schools they were open for anyone to enrol at regardless of their religious affiliation and became known as public schools because they were open to anyone. It wasn't until many many centuries later that any kind of school was opened to people to attend without fees and of course by then the name public school was well established for a fee paying school.

You're not really British, are you?

Sounds wonderful

Funny Candians don't eat it that much.

And yes... Vegemite is better 💪🏻

My baby' s weight was in kilos. I don't know anything that still measured in pounds. But it's wrong to say that Vegemite is as good as Marmite because it's clearly better.

@Cathrinewilson....But you're just Brits with Barbecues , healthy tans and with an extra cricket gene ... So no surprise there 😂

My weight on my birth card in Australia is in kilos... and I was born in 1977? But height is mostly referred to in feet for some unknown reason. Probably too much US television on our screens growing up.

I must have missed that one out in history class back in the day

I was about to say the same thing so thank you.

Not any more, it was changed quite a while ago, the flag can be called either now

This has been disproven. It's properly called the Union Jack or the Union Flag.

Err being picky arnt we? A lot of our tearmaoledgey comes from our sailing history

Your mother is a dog?

"Newfoundland/Labrador" possibly the two best dog breeds in the world.🙂

@@RUSH2112RUSH hahaha

I knew there’d be the dog joke coming 😊

That's disgusting!

@@unusedsub3003you’re disgusting

@@unusedsub3003To right, what strange ideas these foreigners have, haha.

Canadian too, I love beans for breakfast 😋

'roll'

Lol. Inferiority complex in action. America doesn’t care tbh

And now the UK is trying to do things differently to prove they are no longer under European control. Funny that 😂

Hey are the preferred option by building standards - it's illegal to put an electric socket in the bathroom.

@gillianrimmer7733 yes, lack of electricity in the bathroom is a legal requirement but I was referring to double taps when stating it is a preferred option :) don't know why though, wash basins for double taps are not cheaper than for single ones and not many houses have old-fashioned hot water tanks especially not the new-builds🤔

why would you have plug sockets in bath room lol

@@weaponizedknight7316 well for example in Poland we have our washing machines in the bathroom, but also you would have sockets for hairdryers, electric toothbrush or any other beauty equipment that requires electricity :)

So is the actor for homelander

As a Brit living in the USA, I now find Bush's Vegetarian Beans far better than the Heinze Baked Beans I grew up with. Bacon here is a whole other topic.

Especially with a poached egg on top.

Don’t forget your rain coat

@Stacey Raven they’re American, they need to remember what happens with the leaves on the trees

@Stacey Raven And don't say "y'all"

Enjoy your trip i live in manchester🙂

Greatest city in the world.

Noooooooooo! We Brits would never have cream in our tea! YUK!

MILK. YOU PUT MILK IN TEA.

@@JF1908x Prefer cream over milk but I will use milk when I am out of cream

Cream ? Bloody hell.

@@anastasia10017 Milk in the UK has a higher fat content than milk in the US. That is why I use cream. When I have gone to Canada, I use milk cuz, again, it has a higher fat content than milk in the US.

Go straight to the bar, order your drinks, find somewhere to sit. Don't look at people 'funny'. Simple.

Out of interest, what do you find different or strange about it? When you say complications are you including altercations or more about the ordering itself?

Main things to remember 1. Chill out, have a laugh, don't be a dick, mind your own business with your own table as much as possible 2. Don't talk to people or offer to sit with people who are sat in a pub alone minding their own business, chances are they just want a quiet drink and to read a newspaper / watch football (if these people strike up conversation with you that's fine although the correct way to handle this is nervously laugh and say "haha, enjoy your night mate" and then hope they go away) 3. Be polite to all staff / other patrons 4. If the pub is quiet(ish) don't be that table in there making more noise than anyone else 5. If you accidentally bump into someone when making your way through a crowd, make sure you apologise immediately (this one is actually quite key) 6. In fact, saying sorry at any point is actually advisable in any situation in a pub, even when its not necessary at all, it's just a British thing to do 7. If someone holds the door open for you and you do not thank them on the way through expect silent and incandescent rage and / or judgement from that person / other patrons who witnessed this 8. Do not push in at the bar or cut the queue for the toilet / any queue in general because you may cause an international incident Other than the above, just go up order a pint and go find a table and have a good time, you can't go too wrong there

Unfortunately a lot of younger Brits don’t know it either. You don’t queue behind people at a bar, you spread yourself across it, and everyone knows who is next. People filter into the gaps as they become available. Also, and this is something that often doesn’t happen when you are with people who are in the pub to eat, you go to the bar FIRST, then find a table, not the other way round. Don’t offend the locals would be my other tip.

Thanks red666 for this list. Though I can honestly claim that I followed all these rules, and still things got awkward. With "complications" (zasherr asked) I mean nothing like actual altercations, but weird looks, eye-rolling, head-shaking, or simply ignoring me altogether (the staff I mean). As I said, I am a very calm and quiet person anyways, but when being in the UK I pay extra attention to be polite and to say sorry 20 times a minute. And this has worked out perfectly well, except when entering a pub. Maybe people get the scent of me being not a native and therefore make a point of behaving in a way to let me know that I do not belong there. So I always get the feeling I am doing something wrong when I am cleary the next one up and staff keeps serving other people first. And when I finally get my order in, there is the head-shaking, or the pretending 20 times in a row that they did not understand what I said. Mind you, this doesn't ALWAYS happen, but it happened often enough (I'd say certainly more than 50% of the time) to make me fell self-conscious and anxious when entering an English pub (or Welch or Scottish).

Yes part of the family 😊

Normal people only use Celsius

This is 100% me. It amazes friends & family that I don’t understand both temperatures in either of the scales. If someone says to me, “It’s quite warm today. It’s 24 degrees.” I literally have no idea how hot that is until I convert it to 75 F. Yet with cold temperatures, if someone told me it was 32 degrees…I don’t know how cold that is, but 0C I understand fine. (I used Siri to convert the numbers in these examples 😂😂). I’m glad I’m not the only one that has this problem.

@@JF1908x its probably an age thing , the younger you are, the more you'll use C.

@@WillRiker0504 (I used Siri to convert the numbers in these examples ......... i convert them in my head in a second. the bonus of being raised on imperial just before we converted to metric. and i dont have a siri or alexa in the house.

@@richard6440 I’m partially sighted so use an iPad for most things including internet etc., as it has good accessibility features. I use Siri a lot lol.

Wales isn't on the Union flag because until recently it was considered to be a principality under the England crown, and so not a separate kingdom in the United Kingdom.

I love when English people think this kind of thing is funny

It was about 75 I was about 10 when I had to relearn everything I had only just grasped

We adopted Metric from 1972 and most of the 'important' bits were adopted by 1974, I still calculate back and forth between both systems as it makes sense...now try flying... Aircraft speed - knots.. altitude...feet, distance from take off/landing..Kilometres, terrain in Metres, separation of aircraft, miles..(in some areas), Kilometres in others, fuel in Litres - light aircraft, Kilograms in Jet aircraft, distance to clouds/visibility...Miles... Takeoff weight..Tonnes or Tons- pounds..depending on the aircraft type....tyre/tire pressures....pounds per square inch... Lucky us pilots....

I live in Brittany and some stall holders still use imperial weights (livres = pound), pouces (inches) and sell in dozens...... and France has had metric since Napoleonic times.

Our coinage in the UK changed over to decimal noney on Saturday 15th February 1971 and I've always thought that was when we went officially metric, not way before in 1965! Up until 1971 our maths lessons in school were always in imperial with metric only mentioned as an afterthought - and 1971 was the first year the O-level maths was entirely in metric. Even today, over fifty years after decimalisation we Brits still measure a fair few things in Imperial and I mentally convert prices in shops and weights & measures into Imperial in my head as the measures mean more to me than metric.

Someone's watched QI... England didn't fight for other peoples freedom they took other peoples freedom, look what they did in Ireland to start.

Must be to do with the northern Ireland saltire section of the flag? The saltire doesn't line up the way the Scottish saltire does so if hung the wrong way it'll look different id imagine?

@@MrScotty5877304 Yes. The broader white diagonal on the hoist end should be at the top - this then follows round the flag. Despite the way children draw it, the NI saltire doesn't line up across the centre. There's a good design specification (and history) on the Union Jack wikipedia page. It dispells some of the myths too.

Erm, no, half of the ways it can be flown are wrong (ironically the ways shown in the video) and half are correct. And the upside down flag is used in other countries as a distress signal. And we weren't the only colonial aggressors around. And most of what you've said is factually incorrect.

I don't know how many British people know this, but you can't fly the Union Flag at all in the US unless you want someone to think you're a racist as it was the emblem of the Southern states during the American Civil War.

Ah marmite. Marmite on toast topped with scrambled egg, marmite on hot crumpets... I tried that 'Dynmite' marmite with chilli, unfortunately they forgot to add the chilli.

@@beccabbea2511 Huh, never heard of Dynamite before so I had a wee Google and discovered a) my metabolism probably wouldn’t handle it very well and b) there’s a truffle variant as well. But I say you can’t top the original and, to me at least, Marmite is synonymous with its original, unblemished flavour in the same way you can’t technically call a fruit polo a polo! But I digress. Hot crumpets! Now I’m not fussy whether my crumpet it hot, slightly warm or cold in much the same way as I can’t discuss hot crumpet without at least one wry smile and a subdued snigger but yes, definitely another win there and maybe a baffled look at the individuals silently gagging as I take a bite. Sorry naysayers, but Marmite is indeed a wondrous thing and so is a can of cold rice pudding. No baked beans, though. Can’t stand them with the texture, taste and general beaniness of them. I’ll have the spaghetti on toast, merci garçon! Now, where was I?

Like Jacob Rees-Mogg, for example, too pompous and contrived.

Due to the water inlet. Usually the water inlet enters the kitchen and having the washing machine anywhere else would require extending the pipework. *it's just a matter of convenience*

If you don't like the C word then you might not like it here. Many of us use it as a kind of term of endearment toward each other! (Usually men after a few drinks) The washing machine is often in the kitchen because houses tend to be smaller here so there's no utility room. We have a population of nearly 70 million crammed onto a landmass about the size of Oregon if that helps with regard to comparison, so space is at a premium during home construction.

Why would you want to hang out amongst them soap dodgers?

You've got to say the c word, that's the first rule, it's endearment. Where in from there are others that we use instead, that maybe aren't as harsh, but I have heard Americans have a task distaste for the word. Start with prick & twat, baby steps. But you can't seriously like their food?

Space dear, or lack of is the reason for washing machine’s in the kitchen.

I know! My mom never used the C for reading temperature (which sometimes caused a lot of confusion), and me, for some reason, I don't know my weight in kilos, but in pounds, no problem, and I always say my height in meters. Go figure!

Completely understandable - when I started my work as a mechanical engineer in the petrochemical industry, everything was metric, except pipe and flange diameters!

In other words; the *government* went for French measures but the *populace* stuck with what worked 😁

@@jimtaylor294 No, it didn't! Some years later even the ANSI changed to metric units, exactly because the imperial system didn't work! Why do all you idiots think that over 95% of the world population, and practically ALL engineers, scientists , technicians and doctors use the metric system? Because the imperial system is so good? Forget it and wake up!

​@@jimtaylor294😁👍👏👏👏👏

My dad hated the metric system but I suppose its what you know.

The teachers tried pushing metric on me in middle school in the late-'90's; but I wasn't having that 😂 . Big difference between a Government adopting a system, and the populace - who usually loathe the former - paying any heed to it. Case in point ULEZ, which's had the most pushback of any road measure in British history.

It was only in the early 90's that food containers had to have metric values printed on them, either alone or as well as imperial. Sorry, realised it must have been mid 90's

@@rachelnise2473 That, and most manufacturers didn't bother changing containers, so you get milk in 2.272 liters, because it's still in a 4 pint bottle 😁 . (similar story with Jam jars, and many other container sizes)

@@jimtaylor294 yes, I worked on a farm dairy at the time. We didn't change the size of the yoghurt pots etc, just had a weird metric number on them next to the fluid ounces

its awful stuff, absolutely disgusting. its also made in new zealand, whereas vegemite is australian. just avoid all of it.

Yuky da mate it is a hard language

Its fucking brilliant don't listen to these people 🤣

@@paulclarke245 Marmite is the 'Food of the Gods' I even post it to a friend in Arizona who also adores it Vegemite is foul.

In the UK if you are a charity you don't pay tax and so can keep all the money, you are supposed to use the money to further the charities aims e.g. cancer research. The private schools claim to be "charities" but in reality spend all the money on the school equipment and senior staff salaries. Almost none of them let in scholarships anymore and if they do it is the absolute bere minimum they can get away with.

dont forget Trainspoting... i love that, as well 🤣🤣🤣

Portugal is our oldest ally basically honorary Brit anyway should u want to be 😂

Boston is famous for it's baked beans. However they are very different to British ones as i learnt to my cost. 😂

From "New England" and lived here all my life- while New England does have a lot of baked beans due to Boston's fame for them as said, they are not a particularly common breakfast food at all even in this US region. (Baked beans are much more common as a side dish with lunch or dinner.)

Good awful, but they're so much simpler. I guess it's just easier to go with what you learn first. Most don't like change

@@kurtsudheim825 I think if they had just switched over like the did from the old money to new money, most people would have had to learn it, but they didn’t.

Now 65, joined local steelworks at 16, tech coll/Uni then semiconducyor plant - used all metric thru' to this day. Although I do relate to own height and weight in imperial.

I'm 60 and was taught imperial. I'm fine with a lot of it but still use feet and inches to refer to height, stones and lbs for weight, and can visualise length better in inches, but fine measuring something in cm. Weights of food and liquid measures are fine too. I no longer use fahrenheit for temps but understand miles better than km when judging distance. I'm sure there's something I've forgotten. I agree that metric makes much more sense, being in 10s and 100s.

As someone rapidly approaching 60 I grew up during the transitional period from imperial to metric and can work with both though I do much prefer metric, it just makes more sense to me.

About 20 miles away for me

Be warned. Marmite is dangerous stuff. Spread it very thinly.

If you do try it on toast spread it thin and I mean thin , basically Opacic to the point that if it was on a news paper you could still read it , because you can always add more after the first go

I could have sworn the Nicola Sturgeon was Scottish...

And to measure forces in newton meatures But use ft-lbs for machinery Mainly transport

Even worse, there are many distance signs on the motorway showing "10m" to mean 10 miles not 10 metres!

The units used in Imperial weights and measures are not usually pluralised. We talk about " a six-pound baby " and " a seven-stone weakling " and " a five-mile car journey " etc.

yea and the 14foot low bridge is 200 meters away

and a teaspoon added to bolognese

Maritime on crumpets, with a fried egg on top, such a treat.

Oh gosh yes! Umami. *Rubs trouser legs*

Now I’ve not tried that but it’s definitely worth a wiz.

And everyone in the Good ole US of A spreken the same Their was only a few votes back in the day that decided whether you Yanks spoke German or English Check it out

@@bryansmith1920 I'm referencing the comparison to size of both countries; we basically have 4 dialects, both coasts, south and upper midwest, compared to so many regional and London dialects across a small area. Also source the German vs English claim-thanks

@@patois12 Just go 5 miles in Britain and you'll have another dialect and accent to understand.😀

"The rest of England"? Just England, then?

​@@patois12An island only has one coast mate. Unless like lots of others, you're getting your England and Britain mixed up.

People still drink Fanta....

Yes, the Germans as would most, likely consider Vegemite a punishment.

As an American baked beans on toast in the morning sounds like ‘fun’. Maybe not every morning, though 😂😂😂

When Marmite was invented, in 1902, the Germans were not our enemy. Give it 12 years, though...

@@NathansWargames I haven't seen Fanta in the US in ages, directly anyway. I'll have to look it up again as I used to love the orange Fanta as a kid in the 80s.

Grate proper cheddar cheese over the top (not that plastic US crap) and you will find delight.

I was always fond of 'Blubberhouses' in North Yorkshire. Essex has the most unfortunate placenames, though: Mucking, Messing, Foulness, and Ugley.

Wetwang has a fabulous chippy.

Spell Stuart correctly please

@@suewhite4821 I am. I use the spelling that wasn't changed to help the French court pronounce it properly and has been the name in my family going back to year dot. Stewart.

Ah OK didn't know Henry 7th was Welsh. Interesting stuff

@@SW-fn7cl Henry Tudor, son of Edmund Tudor, with lineage back to Cadwalladr. His mother was English, grand daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford down the Beaufort line which was initially illegitimate and then made legitimate when they finally married on later age.

@@SW-fn7cl well, he was Henry Tudor. Edmund Tudor was his father, a welshman!

Where do you live, maybe we can swap for a bit? But only after the summer because the weather is lush at the moment 😉.

you CAN live in the UK, with 'free' housing and get 'free' money and 'free' healthcare as long as you're not FROM the UK.....the native idiots will pay for it all for you

Because they don’t taste like Marmite. Twiglets on the other hand, are disgusting.

Melanie Senf please don’t get it twisted, we apologies because we are socially awkward and love hiding the fact that we’re total c&@ts 🙃🙃

Thats true about us Canadians too lol

We're very polite. Just don't make us angry!😀

Older people sure

"Sorry" doesn't mean the same thing in English as it does in American English.