American Reacts to Lesser Known Things About England (from a foreigner's perspective)
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There are things that seem normal if you have been living in one place your whole life that can seem completely strange to a foreigner, and England is no exception. Today I am very interested in reacting and learning all about lesser known things about England from an American's point of view. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
In bathrooms, your 110v makes you go “Ow!” Our 240v makes you go “Boom!”
Or more likely a frying sound as you fall to the floor!
110 and 230v volts will kill you its all about the current.
You can have ac outlets in a bathroom in the UK but the average bathroom is not big enough to have it in a safe location away from condensation or splashed water
@@evelbsstudio correct but our body risistance stays the same so the current is more than double at 240v vs 110v,
In Canada we are required to have GFCI outlets near water sources that have trip circuits built in, in washrooms etc. for safety, I don't know if they work for 240V systems or not. Lived in England as a teenager and also remember the ceiling mounted pull string light switches in the washrooms / toilets, in Canada we just have regular switches, again lower voltage here like the USA.
You can have low current shaver and toothbrush electric sockets installed in UK bathrooms. They usually offer 110/240 volts, connected via a two pin socket outlet panel with a small transformer behind it with "shavers only" stamped on the outlet panel.
When we in Britain hear “math” we die a little inside, after all it’s mathematics with an S!
@@mrychards6682 Just chill out it’s not that deep. Math is still wrong though Bwahaha 🤣
I’m NI (or maybe just my school) it was pronounced mazz so math and maths sound weird to me
@@mrychards6682 but maths is an abbreviation for mathematicS. you guys are just wrong and laughing at us for being right. There's a difference between evolving and devolving.
@@mrychards6682 chill out babe 😂
I always thought it’s because there’s different forms of mathematics therefore it would be ‘maths’, or maybe it just rolls off the tongue easier because of the accents
Joking aside the full word is Mathematics not Mathematic so Maths makes more sense than Math, so jokes on you guys I guess! XD
And yet we say 'sport' and not 'sports' like the Americans do. However, you never hear anyone say, "I really like 'Huntings' "
Yes, maths because there are different types of mathematics it's not only thing. Trigonometry, calculus, statistics etc
@@brentwoodbay someone’s not to good at English
@@ShowaMan6 I hope you are not referring to me! I am an expert in English and how it is spoke!
Cause mathematics is a plural subject, so I don't get why Americans use the singular term, it's weird.
When I've seen American films and someone comes back from the grocers they are always clutching the grocery bag with two arms like they are hugging it. In the UK all our grocery bags, or shopping bags as we call them here, have carry handles. That seems a lot easier than clutching a bag to your chest.
Most grocery stores switched from paper to plastic years ago, so no clutching. It's all either plastic or own bag. Some stores have cut staffing by shifting bagging to the customer. Actually, within just the last few years, more & more have shifted all scanning AND bagging onto the customer.
And you usually have to pay for a bag in a shop to encourage people bringing their own reusable bag. Saving the planet, bit by bit.
In the UK you generally only drive an automatic if you weren't good enough to pass in a manual - if you pass in a manual, you can drive either, but if you pass in an automatic, you're only allowed to drive automatics.
Another common reason might be that you have some kind of medical condition. My dad drives an automatic because he has bad arthritis, and he finds it more comfortable. I've heard arguments that manual gives you more control over the car - I wouldn't know, I've never driven an automatic to test the difference for myself - but honestly I think its just a cultural thing more than it having any particularly rational reason behind it. I imagine both automatic and manual have their advantages and disadvantages.
My very tall Dad drove an automatic so he had somewhere to put his left foot. My husband drives an automatic because he's disabled. But increasingly these days it's because the car is electric.
I passed my driving test first time, and have driven everywhere with a gear lever in every car. Recently, I have changed to driving an automatic, as I now have arthritis in my joints -including my wrists and fingers. Driving an automatic was strange at first, but it means I can still drive long distances, so I'm happy with that.
I've driven both manual and automatic over the years. Generally I prefer manual but have no issue with automatic. I actually do find manual gear boxes give slightly more control, but it's not a huge difference.
That sums it up fairly nicely. There's nothing wrong with either as such, but...
Automatics traditionally have been either rubbish or expensive, and that is still true to an extent even now. Thus, entry-level "economy" cars with small engines and 40+ mpg economy were not really suited to being bogged down by a traditional autobox with hydraulic torque converter, not to mention the extra mass added by all that; alternative-tech autos such as CVT or DCT were often unreliable, costly or both, even if excellent in theory. Some people don't like the "lawnmower" engine sound caused by CVTs. Lots of British people like economical little cars because fuel prices are quite high here, and the population density is too, leading to lots of start-stop or low-speed driving.
My previous four cars (both here and in North America) had manual gears and an engine with either four or six cylinders. My current car (here in England) is automatic with a V8 engine and 27 mpg or so if driven very frugally. :)
Manuals DO give better fuel economy but, this requires LOTS of concentration, people who drive all the time can NOT keep up the level of concentration required so though it would save some money on fuel consumption a lot of commercial lorrys use auto boxes.
I personaly, now, drive a car with a CVT (constant velocity transmission). There is no discreet gears so you do not get the 'change when it wants' lumpy change of a 'normal' auto.
The driving test in the UK is one of the most rigorous and difficult to pass in the world. Almost everyone in the UK drives a manual gear shift and it's the default when doing your driving test. I've got some American friends and it blew their minds how well in people in the UK can drive compared to in North America. Weird to think though considering people drive for everything across the pond.
It's because our roads are narrow and winding and crowded and we have to be able to point our tiny little cars at very small spaces. Americans don't have to try very hard because they are all driving gigantic trucks on wide, straight roads. Unfortunately, in the SE of England, our roads are now full of foreign drivers who haven't passed our driving test and so the standard of driving is absolutely diabolical.
The postman does not collect mail from the house. You have to take it to a mailbox or the post office. You can not hand it to the postman either.
They have designed their roads to be simple. The cities are often square blocks, and their long roads are all straight.
They heavily rely on traffic lights to tell them when to go and when to stop. Which is why they struggle with roundabouts. Where it’s on the driver to give way to the right. Even though roundabouts are far better at managing traffic.
In UK we used 240v electricity rather than 110v in US/Canada. So, it's more dangerous to have power outlets in bathroom.
Also, our bathrooms are tiny, so anywhere you would place a socket/outlet, it would be close to a water source, increasing the risk considerably.
We have 230v and small bathrooms where I live, and we have outlets in there. Nobody gets electrocuted, that's silly. You also have water sources in a kitchen, so why is that ok?
@@Efebur because it's mainly to protect from dropping electrical items into a bath whilst the person is bathing, I.e. death follows. You are unlikely to have a bath in the kitchen.
@@Efebur you have to remember they is a bath a sink a shower and all that hot water causes condensation water dripping down the tiles and with such high voltage 240 that’s just too risky.
Why light switches are on the ceiling and you pull a cord tho even them have become less common now have light switches placed outside the bathroom.
It’s time as many appliances are designed for 120v or 240v so one would think 120v for lighting and outlets for bathrooms would be 120V and 240v for other rooms.
Also bathrooms in the UK not as big as in the US.
We have shaving sockets in UK bathrooms where you can charge your electric razors & toothbrushes
Its not just the UK driving a 'standard' cars.....its the majority of Europe!!
What’s a “standard car?”
@@leonbanks5728 manual
@@aaron_p12 Ok. Thanks.
Also most Ex-British colonies. We have the same in South Africa and most people learn on a manual so you don’t have an automatic driver’s license because manual cars are WAY cheaper than automatic cars.
@@brynngerson3524 Are there more of them as well as them being cheaper?
My daughter's boyfriend is a statistician University lecturer and it drives him nuts when people say 'math' instead of math's... your forgetting steam in the bathroom Tyler! We have always packed our own bags, 3xcept maybe at Christmas when it's really busy! We all like manual cars, in fact if you past your test in an automatic you are NOT allowed to drive a manual..! She must live where the fox's are massive, yes fox love is terrifying, in Sheffield I have a fox den somewhere near and for years we've watched them and their cubs walk through our backgarden and play in the street. We write USA we say America. We call the hole in the door a letterbox and walk to a postbox to post something.. the X is a kiss and only a stranger doesn't get one although if you send oxo for kiss an hug to a Brit it means a stock cube 🤣
Bagging our groceries is something I think we prefer to do to ensure our eggs don’t get crushed by the potatoes through someone bagging badly!!!
We also have our own way of bagging by putting specific items in different bags.
@@douglasmcclellandthat’s what I was just about to say. You put all frozen stuff in one bag, and keep shampoo or bleach separate from food, bottles and tins at the bottom, bread and lighter items on top, etc. it’s also easier to unpack.
I had an English friend who lived in the US. Who didn’t like the fact they just rammed in whatever came next.
Yeah I'd much rather pack my food in my bags myself 😅
Maths (mathematics) is plural not singular. There is only a shaver socket in British bathrooms no plug sockets in the bathroom it’s a health and safety issue. We have letter box on our doors for the post to be put through by the postman/woman, we go to the post box to send anything by post once it has the correct postage on or we go to the post office attach the postage or the assistant will it put on and then put with the other post with the same postage on.
You can have a socket in the bathroom in the UK provided it is at least 2.5 meters from the bath.
And the shaver socket is where we charge our electric toothbrushes as well.
@@Ga11ifreyan yep but not meny uk bathrooms big enough for anywhere to be that far from the bath, most are not much bigger than than 2m x 2m, you can also hardwire appliances with a fuse spure that's how my TV is installed and my google home is pluged in the loft space as is my RGB Led strip
both versions are correct, if complicated by the fact that while mathematics sounds plural, it may actually be singular.
the sockets is bathroom and Kitchens in US house have a circuit breaker inside it and when it gets wet ,it automatically kicks of the ciircuit breaker inside it and at the circuit breaker box at the same time so NO power to it, and you can not reset it until , it is 100% dry.
Some supermarkets in the UK have gone a step further with the self checkout. I pick up a handset when I go in, and scan and bag as I walk around.
And yes. Foxes scream, and it's horrifying.
manual cars are generally the norm. If you pass you driving test in an automatic car, you can only drive and automatic car. But if you pass your test in a manual car, you can drive manual or automatic
"x" means a kiss, but I have NEVER finished a note/letter/email with an "x" if it wasn't to a very close friend or family member.
It's important to note that this is heavily gendered. Women will put an x on a message to pretty much any other woman they've ever met before, and any man they're related to, whereas I don't think it's common for men to use an x except to their romantic partner or their mother!
@@lucyj8204I’m a man and I put x’s on messages to my wife, or female relatives, or close female or gay friends IF they put them on a message first.
The only exception is my best friend. We’ve been best mates from 11 and we’re in our 40’s now.
But that is uncommon for most men.
Having had bad reactions to some texts and emails I usually put a x to show it's friendly. Obviously not on business mail
I put an x on most of mine as I usually only text family and friends BUT I have to be careful when I text the lad who helps me in the garden, as an x would be highly inappropriately, and his parents wouldn't let him come round anymore 😂
To send post we use a post box, red in the UK, green in Ireland. Mailman does not collect from houses. We do not have what you call a mail box. The post is securely delivered into the building.
Almost every front door is made with a letterbox , with a spring flap . You've missed out on pillar boxes which are all over the place on our streets , with the Royal Cipher cast into them many dating back to Queen Victoria with newer ones having later monarchs painted bright red . Once letter are posted they are secure and collected every working day . Maths is the one and only abbreviation of mathematics . It's a good video , addressing lots of little things most of the others dont .
'Maths' is recent. It was alway collectively just 'math'. 'maths' sounds like common slang. 'Mathematics' is the plural.
I'd much rather my post was delivered through the letterbox than having to trudge down the drive in the pouring rain!
@@MrBonners In what context and how recent? I been alive a while, and my parent called it maths, as well as my grandparents
@@shmupperfromhell "maths" only in the last 10 years or so. I first heard it in some British media. Then started hearing it in American common language with a street language slang inflection. I'm both a master electrician and electronics technologist and now retired. Have years of algebra, calculus, matrices, physics exposure and use. Generically and collectively just called 'math'. "Math" is already plural and singular. Specific subjects would be 'radio frequency math', ' electrical current load math', 'thermal dynamics' etc. Not 'maths'.
@@MrBonners Oh, you mean in the context of the US, then ok fair enough. By the way, how do y'all do plurals? Coz it may be different.
Just to be clear 'Math' is not plural, 'Maths' is.
I genuinely didn't know postmen in the US collected mail 😅 we go to the post office or drop them in the red postboxes. Keep in mind, most houses here are terraced houses and a lot don't have driveways so that would be a lot to go through.
I actually had to think about this, it’s such a foreign concept to not just post mail that you’re sending 😝
Am amazed that works in the US here there would be a few problems, 1 all the mail would be stolen 2 a lot of houses don't have any front garden at all step state into the public footpath or rad from your door so no space 3 far two expensive and would need to reorganise the whole system to collect from every house, post is collected by different post men and taken to the sorting office after they drop off the post to be delivered, post men and women in the uk in towns and city's walk or ride bikes as there letters are dropped of before they start there round in rural areas like where I live they do have vans but it's not every where
Dont know what the comments here are saying, postmen here also pick up mail, and have been able to for a while
@@michael_177 It depends on where you stay. In the Scottish Highlands, there are post buses which deal with posted items as well as providing transport.
@@michael_177 I'm near London and only recently heard that their gonna start doing this soon
UK and EU regulations only allow for an electrical shaver socket in bathrooms. Light switches have to be on a string if they are in the bathroom or outside of the bathroom by the door to the bathroom itself. Condensation can be a problem in the UK in general due to the high humidity in the months outside of Summer. However, you normally use your hair dryer elsewhere (i.e. your bedroom).
depends on the size of the Bathroom, you can have power outlets in a larger bathroom and EU regulations do not apply in the UK.
@@georgebarnes8163 Where did I say EU regs apply to the UK?...
@@ukmaxi why did you mention the EU on a video about the UK and what makes you think you can not have a power outlet in a bathroom?
@@georgebarnes8163 just highlighting the regs are fairly aligned and across Europe in general there are higher requirements/standards.
@@ukmaxi the UK has its own regulations which are set down by the Institute of Electrical Engineers, nothing remotely to do with the rest of Europe.
"Foxes running around England, that would have scared me if I didnt know!" had me chuckle
"you'd have to be pretty reckless to splash water from the bath tub across the room"
Someone obviously doesn't have kids XD
Yes, after the kids have had a bath it looks like a Tsunami has struck 🌊
To post a letter yourself you have to put your letter in a letter box which will usually be on a high Street or near shops. Or go to the post office if it's a parcel maybe
The escalator thing is more in extremely busy places like tube stations in London, etc. Where I live, if you can't wait for the escalator to run its course, you ask politely to get past and try to ignore the daggers and muttered insults.
The standing on the right thing is really only on the Underground in London (perhaps on the underground sections of the Merseyrail network in Liverpool, Tyne and Wear Metro and Glasgow Subway) and there are frequent signs to remind you of this. It's easy to spot a tourist in London for this reason and you really get criticised (often loudly) if you stand on the left! Personally I'd love it if it was a universal thing but sadly it isn't... note also it applies to moving walkways.
We use the old red pillar postboxes on the street to post letters and small parcels 😊
She's referring to our door letter boxes, the Yanks also use post boxes on the street
Im so glad you like learning about the weird stuff we do in the UK also if you haven’t already check out Lost in the Pond as he’s an English man who’s lived in the US for 14ish years and compares the differences x
I am English but that Lost in the Pond man drives me up the wall and he does not always say things that are correct.
@@valeriedavidson2785yeah Laurence he's called and he's lived in the US so long that he's not up to date with what's happening here in the UK.
The x still means a kiss, but it’s rarely romantic, but if it is, the context of the message usually covers that.
the X in text is a show of friendship towards you , revealing you are friendly toward them .
Escalators - I live in the UK and as far as I know the standing on the right, walking on the left only really applies to the London Underground or Tube. I think it’s becoming more common in general use of escalators but it definitely is a major thing on the underground.
We have Manual and Automatic if you take your driving test on a Manual car you can drive both Automatic .But if you take your test on Automatic you can only drive Automatic.
Same in Australia
I have never heard of foxes getting into wheeliebins.
We used to get a fox in the garden all the time. It would often sit in the compost on a frosty day to keep warm.
And yes when they’re mating it sounds like a woman screaming bloody murder. It can be very unnerving when you’re alone crossing the middle of a field on the way back home from a pub.
Our tomcat Barney will not tolerate a dog within a hundred yards of our house, this is his street and he sees tyhem all off, however I have often watched him coming home after a night on the tiles, walking down the garden and passing the fox going home the other way with just a nod and "good morning".
Although not always, the majority of fox damage is if the bin bag (black sack) is left on the floor and not in a proper bin. They’ll occasionally knock a bin over if something smells particularly good
Fun fact, I've only had a boxed mailbox on the side of the house once. My childhood home and the home I've lived in most of my life has the door slotted mailbox.
I live in PA
you can have power sockets in the bathroom, its less common, but they come in the form of a two prong plug designed for either shavers or electric tooth brushes. you can either have a 110v or 230v version of this but it cannot be the the normal full size plugs found in every other room. even in the in kitchen there are laws, for example you cant have a full sized plug within average arms reach of a sink.
you say less common but every house I've lived in have had the 2 prong, lower voltage outlets in the bathroom. I thought it was pretty standard these days
Most things are recharging so you don’t need to keep them plugged in anyway, maths called that because it is plural, Also she says England and UK interchangeably
We post our mail in a post box, which is big and red and stands in the street. But letter are delivered to your door and pushed through the letter box. Also, our paper boys push newspapers through the letter box too
To send mail we post in a red royal mail post box. The postman will go to the postbox at set times, take them to the sorting office to sort and distribute them. We have loads of red post boxes in each village, town or city. We can also just go to a post office and give letters or parcels to them to post.
about the fox thing, I live in the UK near to a trainline in north of London and the foxes come out at night from their homes on the sides of the train tracks in the bushes, and I hear them not every day but pretty much every week, and I just get woken up by them screaming outside my window or just down the road and it really annoys me, and one time at like 4 in the morning I heard one screaming for like 30 minutes straight until one of my neighbor's had to go outside and scare it away.
Time, our military use Zulu time, which is GMT, Greenwich Mean time, which is Zero. We use both clocks 12 and 24 hours, no problems. No outlets in bathroom, our electricity is much higher wattage than yours, not good idea so strict regulations. Manual transmission is normal , never driven an automatic. Letterbox in doors, eons old, the first postage stamps issued in UK, that's why it never has our country 's name on them.
All of the UK says maths, as maths is plural not singular, so we find it odd when Americans use a singular term when it's not, of course maths is a word, isn't a shortened version of Mathematics, we don't say do the maths, we say you work it out or something along those lines, math without the s on the end isn't a word lol.
With a 24 hour clock, it's easy.
13.00 is 1pm
14.00 is 2pm
15.00 is 3pm
16.00 is 4pm
17.00 is 5pm
18.00 is 6pm
19.00 is 7pm
20.00 is 8pm
21.00 is 9pm
22.00 is 10pm
23.00 is 11pm
24.00 is 12pm.
The AM would start with zero, so 09.00 is 9am etc.
Hairdryer is used in you bedroom, shavers you can have battery versions, so then can be used in the bathroom, toothbrushes can be charged in your bedroom, not hard to understand. Plus UK voltages are a lot higher in the UK than America, ours is in the UK 240v , I think America is 110v if I'm not mistaken?. Also you can drop your appliance in the sink. The bagging thing in supermarkets, we Brits aren't lazy, that's why we don't have bag Packers and do it ourselves. In the hole of the UK, we mainly have manual drive, automatic is lazy. All things she is referring to in the video, they're done throughout the UK, not just England btw. Mail box on the door is for receiving mail, we have red mail boxes usually a certain distance away to post mail out.
The X at the end of a message etc, is a kiss, but the context I guess is different, the X isn't always romantic, it's can be towards a friend, a family member or used as being friendly.
Lol you sort of looked down on if you drive automatic and your not disabled.
Also if you want to send mail we have multiple post boxes in every neighbourhood. You just drop your mail in there and it's collected later that day. You must have seen the iconic red postbox. We also have post-office all all over and often local shops(convenience store) double as a post office
Unless I'm mistaken, I believe that the 24-hour clock was introduced to put us in line with the rest of Europe, when back in the 1970s, we joined the Common Market (later in time referred to as the EEC). It has been difficult for some of us older people to adjust to the 24-hour clock, and when speaking the time to someone we'll still use the 12-hour method, such as 18:00 hours on the clock would be 6pm or 6 o'clock if we said it to somebody. We aren't in the EEC now, but I don't think various things we had to change over to in order to comply with their system will ever completely go back to what they used to be.
The other thing with the 'mailbox' in the door is because some houses front door will open directly onto the street, and there simply isn't the space outside on a terraced street to have an American style box.
in the UK and X on the end of a text is more like a quick friendly hug. Like you'd give someone a quick hug before parting. Very common among girls. Guys tend to do it a lot less. But it wouldn't be strange to get an x on the end of a message from a guy friend if you were upset about a break up, being fired or bereaved, etc.
You're lucky if you find a ketchup dispenser in a McDonalds, they usually give you sachets that no one can open or little pots. Some even charge you for them too!!
Ah. This is one I forgot. What's the big deal with having pump dispensers specifically for barbecue sauce ? If it's OK for tomato sauce, why the exclamation 'they have them for barbecue sauce as well!'
@@quantisedspace7047it's actually brown sauce anyway I think, different to BBQ sauce
We have to go to a post office or drop mail into a post box, which is a public collection point scattered about in different locations :)
The slot in the door with flaps to keep the draughts out, despite just being a slot, is still called a "letter BOX". The mail delivery people do not collect. You have to go down the street to a Royal Mail post box to send your mail out.
I love the issue of 'how does the mailman get the mail you want to send out' when there's a slot in the door rather than a standing mailbox. It sounds like a very American question somehow.
I live in the Netherlands, and we also have the door hole mailboxes. We don't hand our mail to the mailman, we bring it to the post office, or well, these days there aren't many of those around anymore, so we bring them to stores that have a dedicated mail space. Mail itself just goes into giant mailboxes belonging to the mail service itself, you can find them on certain street corners, or around stores as well.
I think there are ways where you can request someone to pick up your mail? Like a package delivery person who can come pick it up? But don't quote me on that, I've never tried it. It sounds like it'd cost money, and it's more of a hassle anyway because why not just take something along to the store when you're going there anyway?
The X thing amused me. Everyone does it, but I find it a bit difficult to get into. I'm too buttoned up to send an X to anyone but loved ones - and even then I often forget. Speaking purely for myself, being the deeply sarcastic person I am who sometimes sounds it even when I'm not being sarcastic, I tend to use it to show I'm not being so.
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I only send an X to loved ones, I wouldn't dream of doing it in say, a work setting. I don't know anyone who does it as a matter of course, come to think of it. Maybe that's a regional thing?
Not everyone does it . . . I don't know anyone who would do it except to a close friend or family member.
@@sameebah Agreed. I've only seen family and couples do that.
5:05 - in the UK bathrooms usually have a dedicated galvanically isolated "shaver socket" (British Standard BS3535). It's not illegal to have a power sockets in UK bathrooms, the recommended safe distance from a splash source is listed as 3 meters and very few UK bathrooms would meet that. We also generally have pull cord switches in bathrooms, but it's not illegal to fit a standard light switch, it's just not recommended due to the increased risk of shock...
We have mixed Cars although for the most part most people drive manual (what you are calling standard). Most Bus/Coaches are Auto now. And yes Foxes make a wonderful noise of a night time. The post people do not collect mail from individual houses. We have post boxes around the streets (search for 'English post box') that we post our outgoing mail into.
Fun uk fact on post; Anthony Trollope introduced the pillar post box (for sending mail out) to Britain in 1854. He regretted it when he realised women could then send letters without the risk/requirement of a male relative reading it before it got to the post office. Loose/independ women were called "Trollopes" for next 100 years!
re: electircs in a bathroom. I think that the biggest issue in UK is that we use 240 volts electric as standard for everything. It is why we use electric kettles rather than cooker top kettles now. They boil within a few minutes. But we also live in much smaller houses so we can't place a electrical socket far enough away from a bath to shower to guarantee that it wont be splashed by water which would cause a electrical discharge capable of killing someone. We do have lights with special sockets for charging toothbrushes or operating electric razors/shavers that convert to 110 volts, which are much safer in the bathroom. However, you would not be able to operate a hair dryer or hair styling tools like tongs or straighteners without blowing a fuse. I think this is why it is still quite popular to have a dressing table in the UK in the bedroom to dry and style hair and do makeup. Electric showers or pumps to make the water pressure stronger do exist but the wiring leads to a switch outside of the bathroom area maybe in what we call a airing cupboard which traditionally contains a electrical immersion heater to heat water. This is usually a cupboard on what we call the landing - a corridor or hallway that connects the bedrooms and bathrooms together on what we call the first floor but I believe in the US is called the second floor. In Ireland I think this cupboard is called the hot press. Another thing in the UK, we either have pull switches for the lighting in the bathroom or if there is a switch it is outside of the bathroom, again this is to do with the voltage. Switches are vulnerable to water penetration and we have really small bathrooms so this is a real possibility, but a pull cord attached to a switch on the ceiling eliminates the danger of direct connection to the electrical source.
15:01 - mailboxes weren't scrapped in the UK - the Royal mail was created in 1516 and mail was delivered by knocking on the door of the intended recipient. It made sense to have a slot on the door to save the postman having to wait for the door to be answered... I guess it could also be due to the fact that a lot of houses in the UK are very close to the street, making direct door delivery easier.
In Canada , where I live, on Vancouver island, we can’t put the trash out the night before because the BEARS may spread it all over , get into it. We found that out quickly, when our neighbors knocked on the door the next morning and told us our garbage was all over her lawn.
I have a couple of foxes who raise a litter at the bottom of my garden every year. I encourage them and leave dog food out for them every night and sit in my living room watching them as they feed and play. I really don't get her issue because they are a bundle of pleasure as far as I am concerned. I love the fact that, even here in London (in fact they are more common in cities than in the countryside), I always see foxes when I am out during the hours of darkness. The screams she refers to are the fox cubs yelping in pain when play occasionally gets too boisterous, not the adults mating.
I never refer the USA as America .. in fact it really pisses me off when people do.
As for charging her toothbrush in the kitchen: WTF? In my 63 years I have NEVER lived in a house in the UK that didn't have an 115/240 volt two-pin outlet above the bathroom sink, in every bathroom, which allows you to power/charge shavers and electric tooth brushes etc with any two-pronged plug from anywhere in the world, but you'll fry the circuit if you try to use it to power laptops, hairdryers, curling irons, or other high-draw devices (all of which are supplied with three-pin earthed and fused plugs in the UK) ... and yes we are allowed regular power sockets in the bathroom provided they are at least 2.5 meters away from the bath and outside of the spray radius of the shower, but there is no demand for them unless there is no provision for a washing machine elsewhere in the home.
If you pass your UK driving test in an automatic car your driving licence is restricted to automatic cars only .. so most of us make the choice to learn to drive and pass our test with a manual gearbox. The USA is the only place I've ever driven an automatic because that's what you get with a hire car in the US .... but otherwise I avoid automatic like the plague. In Europe most hire cars will be manual unless you specifically request an automatic in advance.
As for the use of X to sign off: she has some weird friends and cleaners . In my circle we would only use that for family and loved ones and anyone using an X more liberally than that would be considered weirdos.
Actually if you do have to put your washing machine in the Bathroom as I had to, then the machine is not connected via a plug, it has to be wired directly into a closed socket, and it has to have a separate On / Off switch (Double Pole) outside of the Bathroom
@@grabtharshammer Regs have changed recently ... it all depends on distance (ie more of less than 2.5 meters ... which until recently used to be 3 meters). Most bathrooms in the UK are so small that you need to wire directly, but you don't need to if you have a luxuriously large bathroom.
Letterboxes in the UK are for the security of you're post when it's delivered.
We do have post boxes where mail is collected 3 times a day except Saturdays which is only once and no collections on Sundays
Maths is short for mathematics
Also people used to bag items for you in the UK, but it went out of style ages ago.
As a single Male shopping, I often still get asked if I want help bagging, in which case either the cashier will, or they get a colleague to do it. Because apparently we males are no good at it 😄
@@grabtharshammer I won't let anyone else (even my wife, because she agrees) bag our shopping as they put the wrong things together and heavy things on crushable stuff. Apart from xmas, it has been decades since staff bagging shopping was a more regular thing here in the UK.
Every few streets in British towns there are red post boxes ('pillar boxes') into which mail to be sent is put and kept secure. (mail stealing would definitely happen if the mail was not kept secure, for id theft, credit cards etc). Many of the pillar boxes date back over 100 years and the age of them can be known by looking at the royal cypher on the front which is of which ever monarch was in at the time the post box was made and put there. It's the Royal Mail. There are a few places where the boxes do not have cyphers, including some places in Scotland who did not want Elizabeth 2nd's cypher on the boxes because she should actually have been Elizabeth 1st of UK - the previous Elizabeth was only Queen of England, so some Scots are insulted by her being called the 2nd. Where this was an issue, new boxes during Elizabeth's reign had no cypher on. In villages there is usually one in the centre of the village, which might be a red post box in a wall. A post office worker in a van comes along anything between once a day (countryside) or 3 or 4 times a day in busy city areas to pick up the mail - it goes to a distribution centre.
Theres a fair few been electrocuted because of bathroom sockets, nowadays its due to folks plugging in a phone to charge while stood in water/with wet hands
Electronics we tend to use in our bedrooms, it frees the bathroom for other folks to use aswell, alot of houses here usually only have one small bathroom
Brits don’t leave mail for the post person to take. You either post it at a post box, post it at the post office or if you arrange ahead of time you can have a parcel collected in person. We never leave mail to be collected.
The manual transmission thing is all of Europe, not just the UK.
I'm using the original Mini here as my example as its something I know about!
European cars traditionally focussed on handling rather than power, whereas American cars focussed on power rather than handling. This is evident if you see any rally footage from the 60's where the little Mini with its 1.0l engine took on big American 4.0l muscle cars. The American cars would win on the straights, but the Mini could corner so much faster and so would on many occasions win.
The problem with this is that small engines were awful at powering automatic transmissions.
I've driven a manual Mini, and an automatic one. The difference in performance was incredible. The auto, whilst being more convenient, was terrible to drive compared to the manual. So yes, whilst having a clutch pedal and having to shift is a hassle, its a million times better than the poor performance of the auto.
Whilst the technology has now caught up (small engine cars can successfully power an auto transmission), the reputation has remained. Its generally considered that Automatics are for old women!
We DO have power in the bathroom, but it’s a specific type of plug/socket - usually in the bathroom cabinet - this is used for electric razors and charging electric toothbrush or water pic. However no, we don’t have regular sockets, so you dry your hair in the bedroom.
Oh it’s definitely true that the majority of people drive manual cars. Automatic cars are on the up, but still nowhere near as many people drive them. We can take 2 different tests, one for automatic and one for manual. If you pass automatic you can not drive manual. Pass your manual and you can drive both. There are just so many manual cars that it is better to pass your manual test, and that way you can drive both.
Bathroom's have electrical outlets for shavers etc, some more modern houses will have normal outlets but older ones will not
Building regulations in the UK forbid standard electrical outlets in rooms having either a bath or shower with access to heated water. Shaver outlets are permitted, provided they are wired for use only by low power shavers. UK standard voltage is twice that of the US and most European countries. The risk of death should a hairdrier, etc, running at 240 volts fall into an occupied bath or under a shower is serious.
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 Actually the outlets in American bathrooms and Kitchens are GFCIO which is Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter outlets, when any kind of moisture gets on it , it automatically trips the circuit breakers inside it and at the circuit breaker in the circuit box at the same time and it will not let you turn either back on until it detects 100% No moisture.
You CAN have power outlets in UK bathrooms, but domestic electrical safety regulations mean that you can't install them in most UK bathrooms because the rooms themselves are too small to comply with placement rules. Basically, if your bathroom is big enough you can have a power outlet.
Okay, because I am a saddo, I just looked up the deaths by bathroom electrocution per annum in both UK and USA. The most recent figures I could find that matched both nations were for the year 2017. A little bit of mathematics and in the USA in 2017, 0.000006% of the population was killed in bathroom electrocutions and 0.000002% of the UK population was killed in bathroom electrocutions. Three times as many US citizens per capita were killed by lower voltage, lower current domestic systems than UK citizen by a higher voltage, higher current, ring main system. I guess safety regulations work.
Foxes are far more timid than a racoon, if they hear you they usually run away.
You should link to the original channel (@AdventuresAndNaps) so people can go follow her. I've been watching her for years, she is so refreshing and honest
As someone who works in retail in the uk as a cashier the only time I place the items in the bag is when they need assistance but other than that I let the customer pack the stuff.
A majority of cars are manual transmission. Very few people learn with automatics. If you pass your test in an automatic you can’t drive a manual, but if you pass in a manual transmission you can also drive auto.
A manual gear box in cars is normal throughout Europe, not just the UK. Automatics are not usual.
The automatic vs. stick-driving isn't just a SE UK thing. It's a European thing. There are cars with automatic drive but stick is the standard.
in Europe, not only England, when you learn to drive, it's on "standard" car. you must know to drive these cars.
The reason we don't have spockets in the bathroom is because our power output is much higher, our appliances run on 240v and 13 amps, which if mixed with water can be lethal, unlike the US that uses around half that. This is why we have electric kettles instead of using the stove
If you have outgoing mail, you either put it in a post box in the street. As for Foxes they are not normally an urban animal but have been driven into towns and cities due to people destroying their habitat. Yes they do make an awful noise when mating. The bathroom thing is because steam from a hot shower does not stay in the shower and can condense into water anywhere, like near a plug socket plus our electricity is a much higher voltage, typically 240v.
the 24h clock is the standard in Norway too, but you would never say "nineteen hundred hours", you'd say seven o'clock.
the 24 hour system is just convenient to help distinguish the time of day, in the same way americans use the am and pm. let's say you got an appointment scheduled for 7, the paper with the appointment will say 7 if it's in the morning but 19 if it's in the afternoon. in the same way in america it'd say 7am or 7pm. you just gotta learn that 12 is the same as 0, so everything after 12 is the same as everything after 0, so 12 is 0, 13 is 1, 14 is 2, etc
One time my mum woke up in the middle of the night to what sounded like a child's blood curdling scream. It was just a fox being loud
typically theres no outlets in bathrooms.. but you can get protected ones installed. though more common to have a shaver outlet in there... which is the same plug anything you would want in there uses anyway ( not a uk plug)
We have shared are post boxes around each village/town to post letters out... or you just take it to the post office we do have post boxes large and usually red
Our bathroom is tiny, it would be so easy to knock a hairdryer or toothbrush into the water. Most shops in UK do not have seats behind the sales till but often sales assistants have a variety of tasks to do, like filling shelves, so they're not static. Supermarket checkout operators are stuck at the checkout for hours on end, they can't stretch their legs. The foxes she's talking about are urban foxes which weren't all that common until about ten years ago, at least outside of London. Foxes really should be out in the countryside, not raiding bins and eating crap. When you see foxes in the countryside, they're shy, they avoid people, they look very healthy. Foxes in towns look mangy, but strut about like the own the place😆
the thing about standard as you call it or manual as we call it, automatic makes sense to you because when you imagine a road you imagine a north american road. driving down south on southern english roads, trust me you want control of the gear yourself unless you intend to plod around slowly being over taken by every old banger around you and waiting for your gear box to figure out that the hills are just going to keep coming and 4th gear is a pipe dream
Writing times using 24hr time avoids confusion, you don't need to worry about confusing am and pm, 8.00 on its own doesn't tell you if it's morning or evening.
Maths (abbreviation of mathematics) is an umbrella term like science, doing the math or maths should actually be called doing the arithmetic, which is the branch of maths involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
We didn't scrap mailboxes because when letters were delivered, the postman knocked on the door and handed it over. Then letterboxes were put in the door to speed up the process because they didn't have to wait for someone to answer the door.
We have post boxes at the end of some streets that the post man/woman will empty at 5pm everyday and take to the post office to be sorted out and then get delivered the next day
First point - Unless you are working some really weird shifts then it's easier to work in 12 hour - companies will used 24 hour because there are certain people who get confused easily! 4 o'clock is 99.8% of the time going to be 4pm - would you really want to go to a meeting at 4am? Also it's quicker to say 4pm / 4 o'clock (3 syllables) rather than sixteen hundred which is 4 syllables.
if it's that difficult to convert 24hour to 12 hours and vice versa, you can always change it.
Dates vary too - Americans use MM/DD/YY so when the twin Towers fell it was September 11th, but you celebrate the 4th of July!!
Maths is just an abbreviated word for Mathematics
As mentioned previously, We, in the UK use a stronger electrical currency and so much more dangerous to have electrical equipment in the bathroom! Electric toothbrushes / shavers etc are safe because they use a smaller amount of power. As for the hairdryer, some women find it easier to sit in bedroom/changing room to do their make-up before drying their hair on an evening out and again, the hairdryer uses the stronger voltage
Driving a 'standard' car is the norm in UK, generally those stupid/lazy people tend to use automatic as they can't drive a car and change gear at the same time - there are also some people with health issues that use automatic cars because it's easier for them and lets them keep their independence.
When hiring a car, if you have passed in an automatic car you can only hire automatics whereas those who pass in a 'standard' car get the choice of both!
Mailboxes or in the UK Letterboxes are commonly either next to the front door, or in the front door, then again, most people in the UK don't have long a$$ driveways so the Postal Worker has to walk up to deliver the mail/post - A bit like Newspaper deliveries - I've seen so many kids on their bikes just throw the paper and hope it lands near to the door whereas in the UK it's posted through the letter box
We in the UK also post our mail in post boxes which then gets collected several times a day in order to be processed and then delivered or we take it down to the Post Office and sort it out there, especially if you need to buy stamps in order to pay for postage - even more if it's a larger/heavier item.
The post man only delivers your mail - you have to post your mail in a pillar box or go to the post office. A pillar box is a circular metal box or a red metal box set in a wall.
We do have shaver sockets in the bathroom which can charge your electric razor, toothbrush etc.
We put the mail we are sending in the postbox. Red pillar boxes in the street, or at a post office.
Yep most cars are stick shift, although I've gone to Auto as my legs can no longer cope with a lot of clutch work when stuck in traffic. Auto is so nice 🥰
In South Africa the same rule applies with regards to power outlets. You also won't find the light switch in the bathroom, but next to the doorway leading to the bathroom. That's probably also because of the 240v electricity supply. I was rather surprised by having to turn on the light inside the bathroom with my first visit to the US, sometimes with the light switch right next to the power socket.
With the weather in the Scottish highlands , you may have your mail box at the beginning of the day and by the end of maybe not so much 😂😂😂😂🏴❤️
Aye, right enough.
You have to be from Ross-shire with that reply lol, I grew up in strathpeffer, you ?
The escalator thing is mainly a London thing, especially on the London Underground system.
While you can’t have a regular 3 pin socket in the bathroom you can have a 2 pin socket used for electric shavers and toothbrushes.
Oh dear. Where to start ? We /do/ have electrical outlets in bathrooms. They are two-pins and usually marked 'shavers only'. They are not earthed and don't provide much current. You could certainly chg your toothbrush from one. It's not uncommon to have a 10kW electric shower heater on the wall. Building codes require pull-strings rather than switches and there are rules as to how close water-producing items and electrical outlets can be. Seriously though, nobody has a problem hairdrying or tb charging in another room.
Yes, manual transmission cars are the default over most of Europe. You can take a lesser driving test which only qualifies you to drive an automatic. These are not taken seriously. Our letterboxes are holes-in-the-door so we don't have to go outside to pick up the mail. Also, it makes mail a hell of a lot difficulter to steal. Mail delivery is one-way: you have to put it in a public mailbox just like in USA land.
The 24h clock is normal and universally understood. Nobody does any math to convert between them: people just see '17' and '5pm' as synonyns.
Mail boxes…in the UK we typically have the hole in the door with a flap and call it a letter box, you put letters through it!
The post man (or mailman) in the UK only delivers your mail to you he does not collect the mail you want to send. If you want to send some mail you have to go to your nearest post box (outgoing mail box) and put it in there. These are usually at the end of your street / road or at the local post office.
Some do have a special safety socket. But our light switch is usually a pull cord. This is because electricity can travel through steam in the room. Steam is water and water don't mix with electricity
Some people do have electric points in the bathroom but only for small items like shavers
The reason more people drive a manual car is because a) when you pass your test it allows you to drive both types of car and b) it’s just the more common way we’re taught in the UK. It might also be because manual (standard) cars are cheaper than automatic so it’s more cost effective to drive manual
We have several charities who come in and will bag your items for a donation which goes to their causes. Usually scouts and brownies.
2 things, what the eff is a standard car? The other is that we walk to a post box and put our post in the post box.
The car thing is true. I need to start driving lessons soon and it's annoying that I'm going to have to learn manual because automatic cars are way more expensive here. A lot of people drive automatic in London but it's still not the standard. So it's good to learn both in case of emergencies.