Things you CAN'T do in UK but CAN do in America (British Culture) 🇬🇧❌
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In the UK the keys you use depend on what type of door locks you have.
It's usually common to see lots of british flags up on houses in sporting events and certain celebrations but other than that not very common.
And about the bacon, I mean I have had over cooked bacon before but thankfully no one I know has ever undercooked it, bacons very very easy to do XD However our bacon isn't that different, the only reason its different is because its actually cut from different parts of the pig.
Your bacon is streaky with fat because its from pork belly, one of the fattest parts of the pig. Our bacon is cut in the same area as pork tenderloin or loin roast so to your goverment its not legally known as bacon but just a different type of pork however its not known as those things as its cured and cut differently.
We do actually have US bacon as well but its definitly not as common as the one we use, which is the one you'd usaully get served in cafes and resteruants, the US bacon, we call streaky bacon over here.
I usaully like having streaky bacon as a snack and like eating it on its own while I prefer our bacon in a sandwich or mixed in with different things and not on its own.
I believe they just mean RE? Which is religios education, its manadorty up to a certain year/grade. I think it's illegal not to do it because they're trying to teach kids to be tolarant of other peoples religions, in my classes anyway it wasn't about forcing kids to follow a religion but understanding different religions and be knowledable off them. Might be possibly different in Christian Schools though?
How did you get the door locks so wrong? We use Yale locks which lock when you close the door, unless you have one of the modern nasty plastic doors supplied by double glazing companies, like we do.
@@pipercharms7374 Like with England in the World Cup but then not a Union Jack in that instance lol (St George flag)
You could do a video addressing how many sports the UK invented, our relationship with them, and our proficiency at them.
“Tea time” isn’t sitting down and eating scones and sipping tea with our pinkies out, it means “Dinner time” 🤦🏻♂️😂
There is a lot of regional and class variation over what the different meals are called in the UK. In Leeds a working class family would regard the midday meal as "dinner" and the evening meal as, "tea".
Southerners have lunch (12pm) and then dinner (5pm), Northerners (me) have dinner (12pm) then tea (5pm)
Is "Supper" not used in the UK? In the southern US the mid-day meal is called Dinner. and the evening meal is Supper. Dinner is often considered the main meal, which is a rural tradition that likely has ties to the older British definitions. In the urbanized US the mid-day meal is not the main meal. Little time to prepare and consume a big meal away from home. The urbanized UK may be the same.
@@loboheeler when I was growing up in Leeds, supper was a small snack just before bed.
@Hammer 001 I genuinely didn't know that but now you've said it it kinda makes sense. I always just thought it was regional. like up here we usually say dinner and tea (although I do know a fair few who will argue it's lunch and dinner). I kinda just say whichever fits based on who i'm talking to haha
those postboxes look like a great way to get letters stolen
Exactly, unless they have locks on them I wouldn't want my post going in them.
Rarely anything good in there. It’s usually just a bill.
Do they just shove any old stamps on them? Don't they weigh them at all?
i'm not sure how it is in other states, but in California we don't really have individual mailboxes in front of our houses anymore. it's moved to a box where each household has their own section, with a lock and key haha
@@arya2571
Oh yeah, I've seen those in movies.
The red flag seems like a good way of letting thieves know you have something in your post box that they might want?
Yes but its a federial crime as far as I'm aware.
@@TheStevenWhiting ah, it's against the law, that will stop thieves. :D
Religious Studies is a standard class in schools the same as maths, English etc so children can learn about the main religions in the uk. Although parents can choose to take their child out of that class I dont know of any who have or would because who would want to choose not to give your child an understanding of others. I feel student have an understanding and respect for it without having to believe in it. X
I think it’s important to learn about different religions. As long as you get taught in a neutral manner, so you can appreciate what each different religion believes, hopefully helping people to expand their views.
It’s super important, but sadly a parent can legally opt out of their child receiving some or all of RS/RE if they wanted to.
I got a lot of disapproval at school for being atheist, even though we weren't a church school.
That isn't what someone means by "religious observance". Many primary schools still (or at least when I was growing up in the '90s) adhere to a lot of Christian doctrines (saying the Lord's prayer in the mornings, going to the local church to perform concerts, etc.) though this became far less common by the time I moved on to comprehensive (secondary) school.
Tyrannosavage Rekt No primary school, unless they are a specific religious school, hold religious assemblies anymore. They don’t say the Lord’s Prayer and many schools, especially in diverse areas, won’t go to church at Christmas. Some schools that do go to the near by church at Christmas have to justify it as a Christmas Carol concert and the vicar or reverent doesn’t preform a sermon at these but will just wish everyone a merry Christmas and give thanks for friends, family and loved ones.
It’s changed days since we were at school lol
Most keys in the UK don't look like that anymore.
There's a difference between a mortice lock and a Yale lock.
Some houses have both of you have a latch lock it’s yale on top and old style key underneath
Most houses I know of have a switch you turn to lock it on inside, a key to unlock from outside.
Most keys in the UK haven't looked like that for decades.
Ben B123 yeah my house has that
If you don’t have a ‘Yale’ style key 🔑 when you go out and the door closes, you will be locked out.
Those ‘Harry Potter’ keys are for mortise locks and we usually have a mixture of the two.
I have the American style key
The Science Museum in London ( pre Covid-19) always used to have a display of locks where you could see the tumblers and everything, great fun.😎👍
I have done this myself. Damn Harry Potter keys.
I should add my house is over 100 years old, so the door probably is, too
I have lived in England all of my life and up until a few weeks ago I hadn't even heard of Garbage disposal, never mind used or even actually seen one.
We tend to compost our food waste in the UK, especially in rural areas, where home-grown fruit & veg is still popular.
That is a good point, we have always had a compost bin in the garden for peeling and food waste.
I found out from the Flintstones
Heard never seen
I've known quite a few people in the UK have garbage or rubbish disposals built in to their kitchens when they bought their house. There was a trend in the early 80s for having them built in to new houses. Everyone I knew that had one has had them taken out due to unreliability. They save their scraps for the garden
I had a latched door for my entire childhood and have now. If the door closes behind you and you don’t have your key your stuffed
There is no ‘fast lane’ on any UK road; but there are ‘overtaking’ lanes.
Motorways have slow / faster / and overtaking
Yes but our speed limits are faster
Lane 1, 2 and 3 as the pros call 'em
you only have to look for overtaking traffic on your right.overtaking on the left only in slow-moving traffic, with care.
@@mickbanner No they don't.
If someone is in the position where they can be overtaken on both sides, that person is inconsiderate, it the wrong lane and they need to move over (and should possibly go home and self flagellate).
That’s the UK stance on undertaking.
Same as middle lane hoggers.
At least the police can nail middle lane drivers now.
I absolutely LOVE this about driving in Britain, along with courteous waves (at least in the Northeast) to each other when allowing people to merge, etc.
Pretty much the stance in Australia as well.
What the f++k is undertaking??? Going ahead either side is OVERTAKING . Surely??
In the US, most states won't give a citation for overtaking on the right but it is actually against the law. The left lane is *explicitly* for passing only. Very rare for it to be enforced because of the sheer number of vehicles on the road.
Front door keys are usually Yale keys. I do fly my St George's cross flag on 23rd April
We do not have a “ fast lane” in the UK. There is a driving lane and two overtakng lanes on motorways.
That is for going faster on. If you’re doing 70 in the third lane then I’m gonna be up you’re arse
@@handsoffmycactus2958 got your licence off the back of a Cornflake packet did you then ?
There is no fast lane on UK Motorways. The speed limit is 70 mph, irrespective of what lane you are in.
In the UK we are far stricter on overtaking because of the risk of road accidents.
Thanks for answering that question for us :D
and thats why in the UK they are called overtaking lanes, and not fast lanes
Of course the rules fall apart if there is congestion and it is not uncommon for the traffic in the "slow" lane on a very busy motorway to be moving faster than that in the "fast" lane!!
Overtaking on the inside - or "undertaking" as its called is not actually illegal in the UK, despite what some people think. It would be impossible to police anyway as sometimes its unavoidable. But if you were blatantly bombing along the slow lane over taking everything to the right of you, you may get pulled over.
It's not illegal to do so though, I am a driver for a living and there is no law saying it is, its just taught to us usually because of safety and courtesy
Some locks automatically lock when the door is closed, that's how you can lock yourself out
Typically dead latch ones if you have double glazing with the doors you usualy have to lock them after you exit you can't lock your self out accidently usually
Check out Yale locks.
John McCallum y’all lock locks whenever the door is shut. If you leave your key inside, you are locked out.
Yeah this Yale lock is described as a "traditional front door lock" - www.robertdyas.co.uk/yale-traditional-front-door-lock The house our family lived in when I was a kid had a front door lock like that, and a couple of student apartment places I lived in had the same, but it's a lot less common than it used to be I think.
Things you can't do in the US. but can in the UK....
* Cross the road anywhere without it being a criminal offence
* Eat Kinder Eggs
* Drink at 18
* Go topless on a beach
* Given more than adequate healthcare without paying massive insurance premiums
Things you can do in the US, but can't do in the UK....
*Own a military grade firearm
I'll take Option A please
Best thing you can do in the UK but not the US? Send your kids to school without worrying whether they're going to get shot.
@Zoned 247 *Get a "small" drink at a fast food change less than gallon
Not sure the healthcare is adequate, there are so many ppl who’s lives have been fucked up because of the nhs and how shit it is
@@demondog571 It's sadly true that the tories have been sabotaging the NHS for the last ten years, and brexit has driven away many of the most talented and qualified nurses and doctors. It's still at least better than the US system where lower-income people are scared to go to a doctor because they can't afford the bills.
@@nbartlett6538 you are confused, the worst parts of the NHS are the socialised parts, don't try blame it on the Tories lol and no it's not, I know of so many ppl who left the NHS a lot worse off than when they arrived. I know people who the NHS just left to rot for years in hospital, don't you dare try blame this on the Tories, go do some research
Actually, the law in the United States says that you can only pass on the left. However we have so many multi-lane highways that enforcing this is not always applicable.
Fun fact: we call dryers ‘tumble dryers’
Yeah and they are very common across the UK, I've seen tumble dryers in council houses and mansions. They are more common in the 'suburbs' than in big cities. It just depends where you are in the UK. Cute little period houses may not have them due to aesthetic and space issues, but an average home more likely than not have dryers and washing machines. But the UK is also a fan of the good old 'washing line' aka hanging your clothes outside to dry, especially in the summer.
Jen Dark Energy 384400 yeah I have a tumble dryer and a washing line
We have a tumble dryer, but we almost always use the washing line. We only really have the tumble dryer for when it’s rainy.
We really do, I have no idea why 😂
Not spin dryers we don't
Re: turn on red. Consider the differences in typical road layouts. In the US, most roads are fairly wide, mostly straight and intersect at right angles. None of those is the norm in the UK. Where a turn is allowed (as someone else pointed out), you will get a green arrow indicating the direction you can go. If the arrow is separate from, but next to, the main set of lights, then that's a filter, if the green of the main set is an arrow, then you MUST go that way.
Re: overtaking both sides. It's down to safety: despite the way many people drive, the rule is to keep left unless overtaking. So, you should be in the left lane on the motorway unless you are going past someone. It means you can have a degree of confidence when moving left that no-one is in your blind spot (you still need to check, though). You may remain in lane 2 if the traffic in lane 1 is a) fairly heavy and b) going slower than you. If traffic is very heavy and moving slowly in lanes, then you may overtake on the left, if the lane to your right is moving slower than your lane. You still need to be aware that someone may move over into your lane without checking, though. Who would be deemed responsible in that event would be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Thank you so much for giving us more insight into this topic! This helps :D
Additionally, in USA jaywalking is illegal, in the UK turn left on a red light and you probably will run a pedestrian over.
@@WanderingRavens in the UK the left lane is for general driving and the right lane(s) are called overtaking Lanes not the fast lane
Rule number 1: never compare us to Harry Potter.
Rule number 2: You do not talk about Harry Potter.
I'm American. I currently live in an 85 year old house, and have lived in houses older than that. On these older houses, with original door knobs, the inside of the door has a lock that is separate from the door knob. On the outside of the door there is a handle that has a thumb latch/lever you push to open the door instead of turning the handle, but you have to "unlock" the door for the thumb latch to work. With these types of door handles, in the door jam (the bit where the little tongue comes out that actually stops the door from opening) are two buttons. If you walk outside without your key, you have to push one of the buttons so it enables the thumb latch to function without a key. Once you're back inside and you throw the lock, the button pops back out and stops the thumb latch from functioning again without a key or until you push the button again. In my current home, I locked myself out of my house within an hour of moving in. LOL
And no, NOT ALL KEYS look like the first one you showed. Until I replaced the French doors on the back of my house, I used a skeleton key (the second one you showed) to open the back door. For safety, it also had a deadbolt, but originally, it only had the skeleton key type lock. In fact, all the interior doors of my house can be locked with a skeleton key.
I don't know where the guy on this video is from, but I've NEVER lived in a city that ONLY had 5 digit street addresses. My current address is 3 digits and the house I grew up in had a 4 digit street number. The ONLY place I've seen that was in Palm Springs, California and the surrounding cities.
In the US, the reference to God in the pledge and on the currency was added in the 1950's, at the start of the Cold War. Before that, neither had a reference to God.
The flag at Bath Abbey is actually the flag of the diocese of Bath & Wells. All Church of England diocese flags are based on the cross of St. George but each has the diocese coat of arms in the first quarter.
Yep. Whoever was moaning about it was way off the mark.
Historically, the Bishop of Bath and Wells was famous for eating babies, but I don't think this is true of the current one.
@@EASYTIGER10 I think that was only in Blackadder!
Thanks for clearing that up for us!!
@@WanderingRavens
Flying flags from churches in England is controlled by law.
You can only fly the flag of St George with the diocesan arm in the top corner nearest to the mast. Of course, you don’t have to fly a flag.
www.churchofengland.org/more/church-resources/cathedral-and-church-buildings/flags-and-military-colours
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/15438/flying_flags_guide.pdf
Waste disposal units - never seen one. My food waste is composted for the garden, recyclables recycled and what's left is trash.
I've looked them up and still not sure what on earth they are.
@@alexwright4930 it's under the sink in the kitchen. They just push their leftovers down the drain instead of composting it or throwing it in the bin.
I don't think it's so necessary to have something like this when there are easier ways of getting rid of leftovers.
They just make it look like something people actually need 😏
My rich auntie had one in the 70’s. I think the water companies don’t like them because the put too much solids into the sewers.
They had one in a care home I worked at to reduce waste in the bins
@@SvenTviking The sewer rats just love the ready supply of food!
In Scotland there are a lot of Scottish flags. It honestly made me confused when they brought up the flag thing
Historically, Scotland has been shat on a lot by the English, so expressions of national pride have their place. The only people shitting on the English are other English and national pride is usually a sign of a twisted perpective.
They are in England I think. That is true in England.
I’ve never been in a house or flat without a tumble dryer, maybe it’s a London thing.
Most home either have a tumble dryer or it built in were I live in the uk
I live in Yorkshire and don't have a tumble dryer.
Same up here in scotland i genuinely don't know anyone that doesn't own a tumbledryer especially considering british weather outside of the summer it's pretty much a household necessity if you want your clothes dried in a reasonable amount of time in early to mid spring, mid to late autumn and winter, maybe what they meant is that a lot of places don't come pre-furnished with a washing machine and tumble dryer but even then that's less common than the landlord having pre-installed a basic model.
The driving and over taking only on the right is a safety thing. As you move to left lane there should never be a car come up form behind you.
The school religious thing was incorrect, in assembly there may be a pray but your parents can tell the school they dont want their child to participate and they would leave for that part, usually it would be towards the end.
Yeah and I think this mainly happens in primary schools. (At least for me anyway)
Yes it's basically because if a car is coming up faster on the inside you have a lot more blind spots where you may not be able to see them. Where I live now out in Asia we have loads of motorcycles on the road and that's even worse, it is very easy to look in the left side mirror and not see them.
The UK has one of the lowest traffic accident rates in the world so on that basis I think the policy makes more sense.
Religious studies is compulsory in secondary schools. Maybe not all secondary schools but my daughter had to take GCSE religious studies. It was a compulsory class like english and maths.
@@tracyfield6930 usually in schools RE is compulsory to study up until year 9 or whenever the students select their GCSE options and then it is only if they choose to study it that they then have to
Overtaking on the right actually illegal in CA but its a rule that often ignored
At some UK traffic lights you can turn left on red, but there is a specific green arrow light telling you when this is allowed.
Good to know!
If there’s a green arrow then it’s not red is it ?
@@martynadams2011 You can have a Red light for straight on and a Green arrow for turning left. The light will then go Red/Amber to Green which means you can go left or straight on. You can also have Right green arrows if you are meant to only go right from that lane when the arrow shows
Yes, it's like this when you turn left towards Aldi when you've just visited Staples
Peter Hoult as I live in UK. I know this. But it’s totally different to turning when a light is red which is the case in the US and was the point of the original post.
I'm American and def locked myself out many times over the years.
Theirs are just a cupule that are making up lies just to fill time in the video i found multiple lies. i never seen an apartment with a in the usa. are they renting a luxury apartment or something. and saying how keys in the uk are all skeleton keys. they must have rented a space in an old building in the uk. do the same in the usa. there is a lot of placeless in san Francisco that still use skeleton keys on he inner doors.
@@Pdariean I think they were just reading from someone else's online review, and they themselves were questioning things as they went through the list!.
I love living in the UK and having a garden where I can opt to dry my clothes outside. It is environmental friendly, and it's good to get fresh air through the fabric! But I understand some places just can't have this option!
Never even seen a garbage disposal that's not in a movie.
Last time I saw a waste disposal unit I was a chef in the RN emm 50 years ago
I’ve never met anyone who has a garbage disposal. Why put food down into the sewers and encourage rats?? Putting it in the bin is not effort.
I dont even know what they are
First time I went to the US (I was 8), I saw my aunt putting food down the sink and I was sooo confused
@@KeithGadget Not to mention fatbergs
Some things depend where in the US you are. In Tx alot of these aren't just common luxuries but really depends on landlords budgeting etc
Harry Potter keys where the hell are you living?
US style bacon, called streaky here, is readily available in supermarkets, and American owned chain hotels. It is considered a cheap unhealthy cut. UK back bacon is a far superior cut and much tastier, whether smoked or unsmoked. Depending on how you cook it, it can be crispy, or even burnt if you wish.
It is like comparing Hershey chocolate to Cadbury's
No one in the USA considers bacon health just damn tasty
Bacon in the UK is just ordinary ham. Nothing touches the pure taste of savory American bacon. And Hershey's is better. That's why it's a more successful company and wasn't the one bought out. LOL! Cadbury is American owned and is in fact now owned by Kraft foods out of Chicago.
In reality though, to each their own. I've had Cadbury and it just tasted just like US chocolate to me.
Never y see stood streaky bacon. I want proper back bacon and trim off the fat as it disgusts me but the rest is soooo good
@@sarahbrowne9603 I think most people would prefer Hershey's. It seems to have a lot bigger following than Cadbury. Plus it's a lot bigger chocolate company distributed to a larger region.
Always of course to each their own. I'm not saying someone has to like Hershey's. Maybe the UK is one of the few places it isn't sold in. I'm just saying it's a lot more popular and considered quality chocolate. It has that good snap to it that quality chocolate should have.
Also the Dove bar from Mars is excellent chocolate. It's slightly creamier in texture. I think it's called a Galaxy bar in Europe. It's still made by the US Mars company though like our Dove bar.
Scootaloo
Ham is not cited as bacon is,American bacon 🥓 we give to the dog as it’s just scraps.
It's not at all controversial to fly English / British other UK flags to be flown in appropriate places. Examples include churches, cathedrals, museums, pubs, hotels, palaces / royal residences or certain government buildings.
Only if you're extremely extremely left wing
Its also perfectly normal to fly them during sporting events like world cup for football or rugby or olympics or well any sporting event. On any of the patron saints days or during other national celebrations like the jubilee or queen's birthday.
Quite common on camp sites because campers love a flag pole!
It is controversial to fly them all year round for no other reason than the Americans do it or "Britain first" type reasons.
We are proud of our flag and happy to fly it when appropriate , we are just getting fed up of the misappropriation of it being used to represent racists or prejudice groups of society!
I agree especially in Scotland, flying a union flag or the English st George cross over the past couple of years have unfortunately developed bigot and racist connotations
Claire Meacham If you fly an English flag specifically, instead of the Union Jack, you’re being exclusionary to the Welsh, Scotch Irish, and Scottish people. You’re basically intentionally excluding them. That’s why it is linked and associated with English nationalism and neocon groups. You wouldn’t need to fly the English flag unless you are either supporting the English team, or if you’re being intentionally exclusive towards the people sharing the country.
It is is pretty vulgar and nothing to do with being "left wing". Few conservatives would want to live next door to a house festooned with English flags. That kind of in your face nationalism is highly indicative of social class & generally the province of the welfare claiming classes
@@mrLebesgueintegral , you snob.
With regard to the "passing either side" rules, if you watch a few of the dashcam videos from around the world you will see that a large number of crashes are caused by people passing in the "slow" lane, but not so in the UK.
I had no idea post is collected from homes in the US! I assumed the little red flag was put up by the postman to indicate to the homeowner that they'd left some post for them, so they don't have to keep checking.
Regarding keys, the Harry Potter style is much more basic and becoming somewhat rare. You can't accidentally lock yourself out with those because you have to use the key to lock the door. The locks for the modern keys, on the other hand, automatically click to the locked position when the door is shut, so if you're outside and left your keys inside, you're in trouble! (From the inside the mechanism is opened with a little latch rather than the key, so you won't get trapped indoors if you left your keys in the car or something.)
You're right about flags, people tend not to fly them at home. It's considered redundant and a little vulgar. This is especially the case for the England flag, which unfortunately has come to be associated with the far right in recent years; it isn't inherently a hate symbol in the slightest and certainly not everyone who flies it is automatically racist, however unfortunately English racists do tend to fetishise the flag more than anyone else and display it at every possible opportunity (on homes, cars, t-shirts, tattoos etc), so it suffers by association. This is less the case for the Union flag though, and practically not at all for the Welsh or Scottish flags.
... Oh gosh the free left turn thing made me so anxious when crossing the road in the US.
Nearly got me killed in DC 30 years ago
Me too. Also terrified doing it while driving in the US
Bloody scary ..
Im australian and like uk - turning on red is illegal so i was wondering why everyone honked me when i was stopped at the lights until someone actually told me about this law. Ooops.
Heledd Flower - yes first time driving in the US; I did it, but it felt so wrong!
When I was at primary school (mid-late 70's) every day started with a school assembly and the singing of hymns. Also the lord's prayer I seem to remember every morning too.
We had an assembly with hymns every Friday morning. Started school in 72
Do schools still do that? That's so interesting!
I don't know if my primary school was religiously affiliated. I suppose it was perhaps church of England.
@@WanderingRavens I don't think they do it anymore. Unless you're specifically at say a Catholic school then they might still do it.
@@WanderingRavens My children's schools didn't have them, although I think they walked to an Easter and Christmas service at the local church. It could just be that in the 70's, it was more common no matter the type of school. At Easter, Christmas etc my whole school would walk to a service at the local church.
In a lot of newer British homes, the door locks twice. First when it closes, and you can only open it from the inside, and second when you twist the key, and then you can't open it from either side. Nobody can bring those down.
Yup I locked it from the inside then when out the back garden the back door locked and boom i had to climb up 3 floors from the outside up to an open window shit that was scary
I live in the UK and my house's front door locks automatically when it closes. So you always need a key to unlock or open it but you don't need a key to lock it.
Yes mine also does the same well should i say did because i disabled that feature.
my local council fitted a lockbox so warden service and me can get in, just have to remember my number.
Culturally we British tend to do our patriotism quietly and this usually includes no flag waving. This has provided the opportunity for far right political extremist groups to hi-jack the flag of Saint George to represent them. There are exceptions, such as 'the last night of the proms' at the Albert Hall in London where flag waving and loud singing of patriotic songs is a tradition. Also, i feel sure you have guessed that all the Union flags in London are for the tourists and do not represent the attitude of the general population. Also, to explain a door locking you out you would have to check out the Yale lock common in the UK on front doors.
Thank you so much for the added insight into these topics! :D
have u seen last night of the proms?! haha
Explained perfectly 👌🏻
The whole door thing though, I’ve been locked out with three children one of whom a baby 🤦🏻♀️ not fun, although when we lived in Germany we also got locked out as well! So it’s not just here in the UK.
the only people think that are arsehole middle class liberals, who read the guardian.
I fly the flag proudly, anyone who takes offense to this, please address your concerns to someone who cares 🏴
" a bit of a pickle" , "yes, quite". You guys have been away too long.
😂😂
driving, we drive on the inner lanes , right hand over take only , meant to return to inner lane after over take .
I also noticed that the UK doesn’t have the tall wooden electric poles lining the streets with electric wires like in the US, but I’ve been starting to see them in Yorkshire and Northamptonshire
The "undertaking" thing is just the law here. It gets broken when numpties sit in the outside lane when it should be used for overtaking.
We have a state Church, therefore most schools have a prayer in their morning assembly, occasional religious sermons during the assemblies, and religious celebrations of Christmas, Easter, and maybe Hannukah, Diwali, or Eid depending on the area. Parents can (and often do) exempt their children on the basis of conscience without needing to jump through any major hoops. This allows balance between a state religion and freedom of conscience. It's a bit like a Catholic School in the US if they allowed non-Catholic children to stay out of morning prayers on conscience grounds
Thank you so much for giving us more insight into this! :D
at my school, and the primary school i went to you cannot opt-out of them. maybe it's different in different places.
From what I can make out, although census replies show about 50% of the UK population are "Church of England", actual church membership and attendance is around 2%. Most people claim to be Christian because it makes them sound like "good people"
Not in Wales, the Anglican Çhurch of England was disastablished in 1920. The state church thing is England only. We still had religious school assemblies however.
@Tom Lowrie - You have a legal right to opt out of instruction or worship of a religious nature, child or teacher. "[I]f the parent asks that a pupil should be wholly or partly excused from attending any RE at the school, then the school must comply;" Education Reform Act 1988
To lock yourself out here in the UK you need to leave your keys inside the house then close the front door! BOOM locked out :) edit: Hope this helps!!
I have never met anyone in my life with a 'garbage disposal'. What even is it?
American phrase for a electric food waste disposal system built under the kitchen sink, sits just under the plug hole. Pulps up any food waste put down the plughole. Pretty expensive. Uncommon in the UK but definitely available if you can afford it.
It’s called a bin
I used to work in a hospital in the UK in the early 1980's. We had in sink garbage disposal built into the sink. They were bladed gizmos rather like a food blender. You threw unwanted food down the plug hole and turned on the machine. They made a frightful racket. We called them the gobblers. The food would then block the blades. That meant turning off the electrics, dismantling the gizmo and trying to reassemble it. The half mashed food collected in the waste pipe and rotted. They stank to high heaven. If you accidentally dropped cutlery into it, sparks, broken blades and the electricity cut off for the day. It took about three months of having them before they were consigned for ever to the scrap yard and we all much relieved, went back to using the bin. I think this is why they never really caught on here.
A waste disposal unit...
Lol google it mate 🤣🤣🤣
UK standard house numbering goes 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. and 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. on the other side of the road.
Odds and evens. 🤠
or no numbers at all, just house names :)
@Tony Casey. Except in Closes where the houses are numbered consecutively
We didn't know that!
@@mike04535
Sometimes. The close directly opposite my house uses standard odd/even numbering.
They’re called tumble dryer
We call them tumble dryers in the States too (though less common I think).
but why? all electric clothes dryers tumble.
Wandering Ravens no we don’t!
We have latch-key doors in the UK. Therefore, if the latch is down, when you shut the door it automatically locks. My dad once sleep walked out of his flat naked and had to got to a phone box to call for help (wearing nothing but his door mat).
I was in the Marriot hotel in Memphis and for breakfast, I ordered an omelet and I was asked if I wanted anything inside before he flipped it flat. I said yes, cheese and onion. He said WHAT? Cheese and onion, please. He was shocked and said he'd never heard that before. You have now pal. It was beautiful.
The St George's flag gets a bit of a flak, because it did used to be associated with football hooligans, but the image has been rehabilitated somewhat, through sport, nonetheless. Granted, a St George's could signal a person's... ahem... political leanings, but nowadays it's fine to see it flying from a church and whenever England is playing a major sport event.
Also, as far as overtaking on the road is concerned, they're not equivalent. Overtaking on the inside lane is called undertaking, and it's fine if you're in slow-moving traffic i.e. congestion, but not in any other situation, because the outside lanes are for overtaking. The driver on the outside lane should be overtaking someone, then going back into the inside lane when there's nobody left to overtake. If you undertake, you might end up in the other driver's blindspot, so when they move into the inside lane (which they should be doing) there'll be a collision.
Church of England churches fly the Flag of St. George because it is the The Church of England. St. George of course was not English!
English football supporters of the 80s/90s used the union flag as though it was the English flag, given their reputation at that time as hooligans, it tarred the supporters of the other home nations with the same brush
Alot of the time the US gallon of fuel seems cheaper than the UK gallon until you realise the UK gallon is 4.54 litre and the US gallon only 3.78 litres
Also American fuel is very heavily subsidised by the Govt
@@Westcountrynordic Are you sure it's more that British fuel is heavily taxed by the government
We have transport our petrol and unleaded un like america
@@neilbuckley1613 In 2015-2016 the American govt gave $14.7 billion in subsidies to the oil,gas and coal industry Not sure what update figures are but one web site says that Shell get $2 billion a year
Fuel in the USA is also of a lower Octane than in UK. I use 95 Octane in my family car. I doubt if you could buy that in USA.
Oh my god in primary school we had to sing hymns like every week in assembly and pray to God every day. We also had to go to church a few tikes a year. It was horrible.
The milk thing very much depends where you are in the UK, I lived in Brighton and most cafes have various milk substitutes, but when I’d visit family in Yorkshire in most cafes the staff just look confused if you ask for oat milk. With a few exceptions the North is generally about twenty years behind the south when it comes to stuff like that. Though people in the north will deny it and throw a strop.
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"Yale" locks.
Not as popular these days, coz PVC usage in door and doorframe manufacturing has recently increased. But let's say 10 or so years ago that statement would have been more or less true.
Thank you so much for giving us more insight into this topic! This helps :D
There are locks becoming popular for uPVC doors which lock shut and need a key. They have a rounded Handle on the outside
Many insurers in the UK will insist on you having either five lever mortice or cylinder locks as both types are more secure than yale locks, otherwise they might charge a higher premium for your home insurance.
@@Kevin-mx1vi Yale is a brand like Hoselock and Dulux not a type of lock. they make both cylinder and mortice locks at three security stages, blue for standard, green for medium and red for maximum. if you use a standard lock for an outside door or window then the insurance companies don't pay out. the other two stages of locks have anti-shake and anti snap features, and even anti-drill.
Depends on which locks you want really, as my parents have a big key for all their external doors - but.. the front door has a Yale lock too, so it’s easy to lock yourself out, especially when the wind bows the door closed 😂
The front door locks automatically when you close it. You need the key to unlock it, if you left the key in the house you're locked out. It never occurred to me that there would be any other way.
That's so interesting! It never occurred to us that there could be another way either 😂
That's with "Yale" dead lock bolts. Most normal uPVC (usually White) doors will have a lock that doesn't lock without the key like you have in the USA. The "Harry Potter" type lock is found on older houses with wooden doors.
same, if i'm home alone i make sure i've got a key in my pocket when i go out the house for anything, even just to the garage, or in the garden. just in case i lock myself out!
I’m british and my door doesn’t do that
It’s one of the reasons why it’s handy to have a friend or neighbour nearby you trust with a spare key
those garbage dispenser things seem lethal 🥺🥺 we don't have those in the UK. maybe in the odd london apartment?
Do wish the UK would adopt the left turn on red (right turn on red in USA), it's safe and stops you having to hang around for no reason and something you guys definitely got right.
In the USA a lot of foodstuffs are irradiated with gamma rays to extend their shelf life.
Basically th-cam.com/video/2jDBoTEpCwk/w-d-xo.html
Isn't that how The Hulk was created!? ;-)
@@mauricecasey5556 He ate too much Broccoli.
You can fly a Welsh flag or a St David's cross without anyone thinking you're a fascist. The Union Jack is also relatively acceptable, especially if you're ex-military. It's the St George's cross that is the "fascist" flag and there isn't really too much controversy when it's on public buildings (government or Church) in England (a pub flying the cross is possibly suspect depending on the area but is probably more a tourist trap because they're aware of the symbolism of a private individual flying the flag other than to support England in sports).
What a load of tosh. 30 years ago hardly anyone flew the St Georges Flag because it simply wasn't made. Because the Union Flag was hijacked by the far right in ALL of Britain, yes that include Wales, Scotland, NI as well as England. The Union Flag became less popular and the St George became more popular. THEY IS NOTHING FASCIST ABOUT THE ST GEORGES FLAG. And anyhow St Edmund should be our patron saint if we have to have one.
@@sickymicky36 the Union Jack is nearly always accompanied by the Ddraig Goch or St David's cross in Wales. Very few just fly the Union flag. In NI the flag has never been a fascist symbol. It's a loyalist (and occasionally unionist) symbol. Although it can reasonably be called a symbol of oppression in NI by one who has republican/nationalist leanings, it can't be reasonably called fascist.
I love the idea of being able to have your post picked up directly from your house. Why can't we have that here. Loving the channel by the way guys. Just found you.
Because the sticking-up flag says to any dishonest or mischievous passer-by: "look, something to steal in here", even if the something to steal is only an unused second class postage stamp...or something with your identity inside...or your nephew's birthday card with the tenner inside...or whatever...
Actually if you leave ordinary letters hanging out of your door letterbox and the postman calls they will take them, at least in the country they do. just dont try it with 30 odd Christmas cards but the odd one or two no problem!
Don’t really have an issue with stealing mail but might have someone leaning out their window with a baseball bat that they use to smash your mailbox.
Fun fact about house/building numbers in the UK that I learned as a delivery driver, the lowest number (i.e. 1) is usually on the end of the street closest to the post office's sorting office. This is in order to help your postie put the mail in correct order when they have multiple streets in their route. It really helps you find addresses more quickly as a delivery driver.
Fuel is expensive because we, on this side of the pond, care, ostensibly, about climate change.
@SMEGHEAD hm. How obnoxious🥰.
Actually no, it is a way for the government to gather more tax revenue, in some of the European countries the petrol (gasoline) and diesel has over 100% tax on it, the reasoning behind it is road maintenance, but in reality it's just greed.
Very expensive in the UK for fuel besides the tax being ridiculous high you are also charged per liter instead of a gallon, there are 4.55 uk liters per uk gallon
Nothing to do with climate change, all to do with government greed and need for extra taxes. Ireland up to recently had a low car ownership and cars and fuel were not native products so were defenceless against high taxes. Most ordinary workers either cycled, walked or took public transport to work or worked very locally. It was not uncommon for low paid workers to get lifts off more senior and well-off workers if living in rural areas not amenable to public transport. The present day high taxes on car ownership and car fuels is a legacy of those dark times. Couple this with an appallingly wet and damp climate and getting to work in a dry state becomes a real challenge.
Erm no it’s called being mugged off by the government and the oil companies more like
Here in the uk we can rent allotments from the local council to grow food as far as i am aware i don't think they have them in USA, or do they?
"Doe Eyes" vlog gives an example of a "community garden" in her home town which looks very much like an allotment.
I think Brits are far more keen on gardening than Americans. But community gardens - usually free- are common in the cities, and home owners have backyards if they wish to grow their own.
There are community gardens but most of the us don't live in a huge city so we have a lot bigger of a yard and plant gardens at home.
All my houses that I rent has dryers, the keys look like yours (unless it's a garage key) and you can lock yourself out because the latch on the door means without a key on you on all times, it automatically locks the door when closed (you can lock the mechanism). It means it's easy leaving the house, just shut the door and go.
I grew up in a house with a 2 digit street address and live in one now. Keurig is popular because you can make one cup at at time. You can't really do that with regular drip coffee. You can buy reusable K-cups for your Keurig machine as I have done. Obviously this was shot during COVID when no one was driving. We are back up to $3.50+ for gas.
On one of my trips to America to see an American friend, we discussed the price of petrol/gas and I asked why it was not taxed as high as Britain. His reply was any President to do so would be committing political suicide.
Your friend was right! 😂
That makes no sense since it's the state that decides on the gas tax amount, not the President.
@@agoogleuser4443 These days the president decides everything.
@@jillhobson6128 The federal government only controls federal sales tax on gasoline. Not state tax. A bunch of states like Illinois as one example, raised state gasoline tax from 19 cents a gallon in 2018, to 38 cents a gallon starting in June of 2019. And as of June 1st 2020 this year, it went up to 38.7 cents a gallon from 38 cents a gallon. Illinois was the only state as far as I know. that passed a law in 2019, allowing for a annual gasoline tax increase to happen every year forever now. Basically this automated increase adjusts according to the rate of inflation only. So this year it was an increase of seven tenths of a penny. Next year it may be one fourth of a penny. Etc...
Luckily I live in Wisconsin and we never raised our gas tax here. So I can always buy gas for 20 cents a gallon cheaper than nearby Illinois now. 😁
And the president rarely ever has anything to do with gas prices. It's the house and senate that pass gasoline tax increases on the federal level. The president merly signs, or vetoes the legislation once it's approved by the other branches of federal government.
@@waycoolscootaloo It was meant as a joke!
Nice 'dos both of you.
I've gotten locked out of my places in America. Many doors latch automatically without a key needed.
We've never encountered that before! But thanks for setting us straight :)
@@WanderingRavens yeah, like my previous apartment had a front door that had no way to prevent it from locking. I think that was for security.
However even my current apartment will lock me out if I'm not careful, and that's not even just the security door.
The only self-locking doors I've seen are on hotel/motel rooms, never a house.
Yale locks lock automatically when you close the door, though there is a catch to prevent that if you want. Most front doors though have both a yale and a separate mortice lock, which is like a US lock. Locking yourself out has probably happened to a lot of use at some point.
I have always assumed that the Yale locks which are common on British doors originated in America because of the name, but maybe I'm mistaken. With a Yale lock, many people have found themselves locked out of the house in their sleeping clothes when they went out to collect the milk from the doorstep in the morning.
Being an Australian I can sit on the fence. We're the same as the US on some things and the same as the UK on others mentioned in this list.
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Locks: We can lock ourselves outside as well. It's very rare to require a key to actually lock the door. Back in the 60's and 70's we would require a key to lock the door, but almost every single lock design in the past 40 years auto locks when you close the door. There are two varieties. The first that can be opened from within the house without a key and secondly, a deadlock, which once locked requires a key from inside. A deadlock can literally have you locking inside, or outside. They're considered great for making the leaving of any thief impossible, but they also make it very dangerous in the case of a fire and therefore are generally not used these days.
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Flags: The UK, Australia and the US have very similar flag flying rules. All 3 countries can fly flags on their own property, but it seems the US is far more patriotic with regards to flying a flag. Australia has a higher foreign born population than either the US or the UK. People born overseas in Australia are not discouraged from maintaining ties to their home country, so we feel it's quite strange to fly Australian flags here as it has colonial connotations. You cannot fly the flag of another country unless it's in front of an embassy, beside a national flag.
House numbers: In Australia it depends on how long the street or road is. Start with 1 and alternate odd/even either side of the road. We rarely see 5 digit numbers, because once it gets to a certain amount, the numbering starts again because a road might go through multiple suburbs or towns. The postcode also varies.
Fruit: British here also notice how long the shelf life is for fruit is here. But both Australia and the US have one advantage in that we have all climate ranges covered. The UK has to import a lot. Mangoes fall from public trees in Australia meaning that in summer, tropical fruits are plentiful (Northern Australia is roughly similar to Guatemala).
The UK has to source all their Avocados from California, Mexico or Peru. That long trip must have something to do with limited shelf life.
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Coffee: In Australia both instant coffee and filter are rare. Melbourne and Seattle are both seen as coffee cities although historically the US has a much stronger grip on filter, and we're finally getting the point. Whereas espresso first came to Australia in the 1930's with a large Italian migration. When Starbucks attempted to break into the Australian market, espresso had already been drunk by three generations; a lack of market consideration is what broke Starbucks in Australia, a problem they were not going to repeat for Italy.
With that said, you'll find a LOT of baristas in the UK are actually Australians. London has a large ex-pat Aussie population that demands espresso.
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Milk: Absolutely Australians understand here - but not to same extent. Every cafe should have far more than simply soy on hand. Almond is almost always available, as are various other dairy alternatives.
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Fuel: Almost same as the US. European prices are ridiculous. However it should be noted that (1) US gallons and UK gallons are not the same in calculations. (2) UK taxes on fuel are much higher and (3) Fuel quality and octane ratings are much higher in the UK than the US (worth noting the octane ratings are calculated differently as well - Almost everywhere in the world (UK and Australia) use RON and the US uses AKI. An 98 which would be common in Germany (and in Australia as well), would be a 93 AKI in the US and harder to get.
But the fact that fuel is so poor quality in the US and Australia also leads manufacturers to detune their vehicles. We get fully German tuned Golf's for example in Australia requiring 98, but Mazda sells us the US tuned car so that we can simply use 91.
Extra point though. Whenever I am in the US I usually have to "pre-pay". In Australia we always fuel up then pay. I felt like I was not trusted in the US. The most embarrassing moment for me was pulling up at a military "gas" station in Hawaii and being asked for ID. When I showed my Australian drivers license they laughed and turned me away.
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Turn on red: Australia is more like the UK model. We had signed "turn left on red permitted", but have since most have been removed. One possible reason for the UK not allowing it might have something to do with pedestrians?
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Overtaking: In the UK overtaking hierarchy is serious. In Australia the rule is, the overtaking lane (fast lane) is ONLY for overtaking. This is to increase traffic flow. But Police have been so strict lately with speed cameras that drivers often do what is now referred to as the "Aussie overtake", which involves the car in the overtaking lane, overtaking at 1km/h faster than the car in slower lane to avoid being caught speeding. This is a dangerous manoeuvre and no one in the UK would put up with such nonsense. Hogging the overtaking lane can result in a fine.
A misconception is though that you cannot undertake (overtake in left lane). If it's safe to do so, it is actually legal. But preference is that the right most lane is the overtaking lane, and the remaining lanes are equal.
We do usually always have vegetarian, vegan (with the exceptions of milk choices), and gluten free options but paleo and other diets aren't really catered for. Probably because there's not many of them. I think the uk has the second highest percentage of vegetarians in Europe though so even steak houses and carverys cater to vegetarian diets.
That's great! It was much easier in the UK to find allergen friendly foods than it's been on trips to many other places.
@@WanderingRavens as a vegetarian it's nice but I really struggle when I go to other countries because I'm used to everywhere having something I can eat.
Most doors have two locks - a Yale lock and a key lock. The key lock slides one or more blocks/bars into the door frame. The Yale lock is always engaged, it's spring loaded and its got an angled back so that when the door swings shut the lock is engaged and you need a key to get back in or out.
The door to my house automatically locks from the outside when you shut it, once I was outside doing some gardening and my dog pushed the door shut 😤 had to get a ladder and climb through a window
The outgoing mail thing is awesome. I wish we had that in the UK.
Yh I would of lost a lot on money tho
Why it’s weird
You "kids" really need to live for a year on the East Coast of your own country. It sounds like another world to me when you generally talk about standard things in the US. Absolutely not so.
My experience about education and 'religious observance' in Britain was having to sing hymns in assembly during primary school and going to church for my secondary school's founder's day.
We British sometimes have what is called a Yale lock fitted to our doors, usually on a timber door, not so much on a uPVC door. A Yale lock has a spring loaded latch that, if not "snecket" will not allow the occupant to gain entry if the door closes behind them, i.e. popping out to the wheelie bin, unless they use their key to withdraw the latch back into the housing. 👍
How have you guys only got 18k subscribers? Your channel is easily the best US vs UK channel out there.
Aww, thank you so much! We're glad. you enjoy our videos :D
You can fly the Flag of St George when England are playing in The Euros, Or Test Matches. Only (maybe rugby world cups)
Scots are fine to be proud, Welsh are fine to be proud, Irish are fine to be proud, but since the EnglishDefenceLeague ... English can't be proud, unless as you say sports
It's only because we don't need to show off our flag etc to be patriotic. We don't like that idea. We're only seen as patriotic when it comes to the Olympics, football etc 😅. When I was in NYC in 2016, I felt really uncomfortable with the amount of flags on one building. To myself I was like "Ok. Calm down, America. I think I know perfectly well that I'm in your country"
@@corriehingston6744 Maximillions YT channel has been featuring Tory Flag wrapping where an MP has been wasting time about not flying a Union Flag in the House of Commons (apparently All flags and emblands are banned in the Commons - and of course it does not include Wales as a nation on it). I once decided at School to paint the Jamacian Flag - because I liked the colours and it was easier to draw for the set assignment than Celyon's was. I also did a Union Flag in the Jamacian colours for the fun of it.
I'm English and have never found it offensive for any building to fly the national flag.
Hey, nice to see Quora represented!
Bruu what keys have you seen in the UK everyone I know has a similar one to you
A lot of doors will lock when you shut them if the latch is on.
Thank you so much for giving us more insight into this topic! This helps :D
We have some doors with latch locks on them. So unless you put the latch up and you forget your keys, you can lock you self out. Done so several times.
Kinda late, and not from the UK, so there might be a different reasoning.
We also have this rule, where you are supposed to keep to the outside lanes and overtake only on the inner lanes. It makes slow traffic go on the outer lanes, like trucks and slow cars, and the rest can go in the inner lanes unhindered. (Also, it's not allowed for trucks to enter the inner lanes in some cases, for similar purpose.)
The school I went to taught mostly Christian stuff and we had to sing hymns in Assembly.
Yep I remember the hymns and the pray before lunch
Urgh I've locked myself out so many times, the door automatically locks behind you
1:10 I'm English and have all 3, my kitchen tap (faucet) has instant hot water on demand and carbonated water. I just need a mains beer tap and then my life will be complete. American style fridge freezers have been common in the UK for at least 15 years. Lots of homes have ice and water dispensers. Not so many have the sink garbage disposal though. Ours was already installed when we bought our house. Some UK homes (mainly the south and the east) have a separate "drinking water" tap at their sink which is filtered water. In the south and east of England the tap water is very hard and not so tasty so filtering it makes it a bit more drinkable. I am originally from the north of England where the tap water is SO soft and is amazing and refreshing to drink.
I work in a hotel, it has a bar and a coffee machine, we stock coconut, almond, soya and green-cap milk. I think it depends where you visit..
also the thing with the fast lane is because I think our country is alot smaller and our roadways are smaller so on lane is used as a slower land for trucks and long haul vehicles etc, then the other two lanes are for faster cars etc ones that can go faster than the haul speed
Undertaking on the road is really dangerous! Your freeways scare me 😂
Undertaking leads to the undertakers.
Hey, your video became available as I was walking in downtown London and I decided to park my butt on a park bench right here near the Millennium Bridge just to watch it 😁. Of the half dozen or so AirBnbs we’ve used in the UK about half of them had a washer/dryer combo machine. Also I noticed that both of the student housing flats my son has had here also had doors that would lock by themselves once the door was closed. Better security for forgetful students I guess. Great vid as always!
Hi Bob! Say hello to London for us! :D
Keys. The yale lock on doors will automatically lock when you close the door but often houses will have both locks and you need to lock the bottom bolt as well when leaving.
The over taking only on one side thing is to prevent a slower car turning across a faster moving car, for example with all of the motorway exits on the left, if a car in the far left lane was going quickly and a car in the middle needed to move across it would be much more difficult, it means that you can always move over to the left without worrying about cutting off a faster car
I believe 'In God we trust' didn't arrive until the early fifties. In UK the rejoinder is 'all others pay cash!
My understanding of overtaking in the US is that it depends on the state as to whether you can overtake on both sides. In Florida it's OK but in Oregon it isn't? I may be wrong but having driven in both states that was my impression.
Simon Parker yes it depends on the state. In California you must overtake on the offside.
California raid rules are closest to the UK.
Rules the UK is missing:
+ when parking on the road you must face the direction of traffic.
+ Devices such as Sat Nav/GPS have Strick restrictions where they can be placed on the windscreen ie they mustn’t restrict field of view
UNDERTAKING NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE IS DANGEROUS , NOW I KNOW WHY THERE ARE SO MANY ACCIDENTS ON AMERICAN HIGHWAYS. IT,S LIKE DRIVING ON A RACE TRACK. EVERYBODY FOR THEMSELFS. IT,S A FREE FOR ALL.
@@johnsimmons5951 Parking used to be like that, don't know why they changed it. I would have thought position on windscreens would be pretty obvious.
The whole overtaking on outside lane set up is for safety, by being able overtake on eitherside dramatically increases the likelihood of RTA's ( road traffic accidents) by mixing faster and slower moving traffic in the same lane.
Part of the reason UK petrol and diesel prices are so high is that around 70% of that price goes to the government either in VAT or fuel duty.
10 Downing st i gather is the most well known UK address
That only Opens/Locks from inside only!
I wouldn't know, I've never been locked in there