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- Cheese rolling? The Jaffa cake lawsuit? Just what is the most ridiculously British thing ever that no other country could or would do? Reddit responds!
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Self raising flower is also Australian... I once saw a video of an Australian exchange student and she failed to bake cake , as she couldn't find self raising flour, so she just used normal flower... apparently backing soda is unknown in UK or AUSfailure.
There is an American politician called Vermin Supreme.. his main platform is zombie preparedness, mandatory toothbrushing laws and providing every American with a free pony. He also always wears a boot on his head.
Very British: Everyone boiling their kettle at the exact same time (after, or during advert break for a major Televised event)
I Hadn’t thought about this before, but it’s very true.
It’s like intermission snacks :P
@@Dan-B Yep 😂 Even more so everytime this fact is mentioned on TV it necessitates a visit to Dinorwig Power Station, the hydro power station inside a Welsh mountain with the top of the mountain and bottom of the mountain lakes. In short we all like tea so much as a nation we hollowed out a mountain so we that we could all drink tea at the same time. 😂
Known as a "TV Pickup". The largest on record was Wednesday 4th July 1990. After Chris Waddle missed the penalty throwing England out of the world cup. There was a surge of 2,800 MW in demand. Equivalent to 1,120,000 Kettles being switched on.
@@Dan-B facts
Happens during Coronation street all the time 😆
I feel like Evan wasn't concentrating enough at the Panto if he was wondering why adults were there... every other line is a campy double-entendre it's a wonder they actually let kids watch them!
Maybe he went in with the wrong kind of mindset or something. Or just saw a bad panto 😅
Just like there is something for the adults in Pixar's films.
I mean even children's cartoons have adult jokes in them. That just go over their heads.
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Deniability
But what I really find fascinating about the black cabs in London is "The Knowledge". It's amazing, they train years to learn all the streets and learn routes, they do know their streets and they did tests, they will beat the uber driver with their GPS. The Knowledge was introduced as a requirement for taxi drivers in 1865 and they still have to pass it to drive a black cab!
london was a lot smaller in 1865, just think how much they have to learn now.
@@olavsantiago Some of them only have a yellow badge which means they only operate in and have knowledge of one of nine sectors. Then there are green badge cabs that go everywhere and have cabbies that know every single part of London.
I love black cabs. Nicest and most professional drivers around!
@@olavsantiago it's 320 routes or 'runs', 25.000 streets. In general you talk about a minimum of 2 years, but it can take much longer.
@@Redrally with that training, is it a wonder? It's such a dedication to become a driver of a black cab in London.
Have to say, I never took one in London, but I got a ride paid by national rail, when they caused about two dozen people to miss their connection and they wouldn't be another till the next day. 1 1/2h taxi ride. Was actually pretty lovely.
The fete is pronounced Fate and is a traditional public festival, held outdoors and organised to raise funds for a charity.
thanks I have not quite come across that word before
@@evan Primary schools often do it during the summer as do villages. You get get games like the Coconut Shy, treasure hunt and raffles and cake stalls.
@@evan if you are lucky, you'll get to see what Morris dancers are too. I would describe them, but you might not believe me
Evan please do a British vs American on fetes/ next summer go rural and visit one (around me- Dorset/Wiltshire border) every little hamlet has one. Literally every weekend between June- august somewhere within a 20 minute drive is fete-ing. I’d love to see your reaction (and coconut shy skills)
According to Midsomer Mass Murder, they are the site of, at least, one suspicious death.
Whilst the terror attack on glasgow airport was horrific, I absolutely love that 2 guys saw it happening and went "not in my city, you dont." And took they guy down. No one was killed. Makes me proud to be Scottish.
I love the London story too. Suspected bommer on the bridge. Dude gets out his car, grabs a narwhal tusk from his car and atacks a dude who aparently has a bom straped to his chest. That's a hell of a not today story
Why have never heard a single word about any of this happening?!?! Bloody heroes!
@@trans_boy_kole7640 Actually this dude was a murderer who happened to be at a prisoners' rehabilitation conference along with the terrorist and someone grabbed it off the wall and gave it to him, after his actions his sentence was reduced
And when the reporter asked Smeaton if he had a message for other terrorists planning on coming to Scotland, and he looks straight down the camera and says "Don't come here. We'll set right about ye."
F***in' YES!!!
Made me so proud of my heritage.
Is it me or did Evan just slide in that he has gf now ! I must say loving the British subtlety ! So happy for you !
I feel like it's been not so subtle for a while now! But good for him!
He have mentioned it before in another video, I can’t remember which. He talked about in general how you should be careful about presenting her/him in the video. Both because TH-cam isn’t their life and sometimes the relationship can be over when the video is published.
i was like whattttt. cool for him!
Wait really?! When?
@@brennadryl 9:30ish!
Not exactly Lord Buckethead but in Hungary a guy dressed as a chicken was in the run for an election. By the law every candidate is invited to the national tv to introduce their program, so they literally aired an interview with a guy making chicken noises for 5 minutes. Gotta love Hungary.
I think we can agree bucket head had better policies with his death lasers and abolishment of the House of Lords
We had the McGillicudy Serious Party here in NZ. Policies have included the Great Leap Backwards (to restore the Stuart monarchy), free dung, eliminating money and using chocolate fish instead, abandoning male suffrage, allowing only minors (
@@neonachas honestly there probably the most competent parties I’ve ever heard of
U.S. just always has Vermin Supreme
Yeah, I found his platform a while back, and while some of it was clearly him just showing how ridiculous the whole thing was and how they just made Brexit even harder than it already was, the man had good ideas.
He honestly would have been better than Boris in my non-British opinion. But idk
I believe the closing argument that clinched the deal for mcvities in the Jaffa cake trial was that cakes start off soft and slowly get harder as they become stale, but a biscuit starts off hard and then gets softer as it goes stale.
As a Jaffa cake takes after a cake in this regard, there lawyers argued that it stands to reason that they must be cakes rather than biscuits.
also its due to the cooking process, as a jaffa cake is a fatless sponge - just like a swiss roll, where you whip up the eggs and sugar to gain volume, then fold in the flour before pouring into tin.
Cookies/biscuits do not get softer as they get stale... what are you eating...
@@angelsoups British biscuits do. Most of them start off hard/brittle. If you leave them, they take on water from the atmosphere and go soft.
@@angelsoups all the biscuits i’ve eaten have gone soft if they’re left out for too long
@@angelsoups biscuits do go soft if you leave them, where as cookies harden up, but that will depend on storage and humidity
Re cheering when someone drops a glass, every time I've been present when that's happened, if it was a customer it's usually an overwhelming 'wheey what a wanker', but if people realise it was a server that dropped a glass they usually stop and offer to help (the more drunk the offer, the better (once saw a guy fling himself to the floor to try to clean the glass up with his hands, his mates had to bodily remove him))
Yes if it's a punter it's "Wankaaaaaaaaah!" but if it's staff it's more sympathetic, like 'we've all been there mate'
We do the cheering here in Germany, too. But I think the British are more enthusiastic about it
It used to be a shout of SACK THE JUGGLER
Aussid here. If a server or customer drops ANYTHING especially glass that breaks someone will yell TAXIIII !! As in time for that person to go home. Except in classy restaurants. Wouldnt happen in classy restaurants. Otherwise pubs brs parties barbeques .... TAXIIIII !!!!
"You guys say 'de briss', don't you?"
No. No we do not.
Your pun is safe. 🙂
Had me doubting myself lol like “wait? Do I say it like that?”
Traditional British (DAY bree) vs traditional American (de BREE). Traditional American pronunciation is taking over in popularity though, it does flow better.
I really like the whole cheering when a glass is broken in a pub. It would be really embarrassing if you dropped a glass and the whole pub went silent and stared at you. The cheering is almost a collective "dont worry, it happens."
You are right, in the North it is often accompanied by light hearted comments like "Sack the juggler"
What made McIlveen's feat more remarkable, and even more Glaswegian, was that the terrorist was on fire at the time. The more recent events with a narwhal tusk in London are another contender in this category.
I rember the narwhal tusk on London Bridge
I think the best part of the more recent one was the shouting of “fuck you, I’m millwall” while fighting terrorists who had knives with his bare fists.
I was just coming to write this comment, just kicking a terrorist does this man a disservice.
Many moons ago, I was at a pub with a few friends, and one was walking confidently back from the bar with four pints. He tripped. We were dedicated drunks (90s students) so he managed to keep the four glasses mostly level as he fell to the floor, and cushioned the landing using his face, as his arms pivoted up around it. Spilled very little. I'm fairly sure that wouldn't have happened outside of Britain
My proudest moment as a student was when my kneecap dislocated walking down some steps while carrying 2 pints (old footy injury). Not only did I manage to straighten my leg and push my kneecap back in, I barely spilt a drop of either pint!
Oh my word
I think Finns would do that as well. I've seen a Finn pass out and still managing to not spill his drink.
As a Morrisons employee please come and do a little dance when there’s a good offer on. We could use the entertainment
Also being a Morrisons employee I agree!
10p for 1lb of Billy Bear ham? * *happy Morris Dancing intensifies* *
As a bartender in a pub, the "weeeyyyyyy" when you smash a glass truly depends on your mood. If you're busy and stressed it is the most agitating thing in the world. If you're fine or having a good shift, it's just banter and is worth a chuckle.
Morris dancing is usually old men with flowery hats, bells on their knees and ribbons, hitting each others sticks.
what
@@evan I can't believe you've not come across Morris dancers in all your time here. You're very fortunate.
@@evan Morris dancing may not be fashionable.... It's understandably irritating. Yet... I would love to watch a video of you with a group of Morris dancers.
@@evan you don't know how lucky you are to have had a childhood unscathed by the trauma of creepy old beardy blokes Morris dancing at a summer fair or fête.
There's often a fool character involved who doesn't take part in the dancing (you can tell he's hilarious because he's wearing a wacky hat!). Instead, in addition to extorting donations from the crowd/increasingly desperate captive audience, sometimes they try to make you *join in*. Horrifying.
@@evan it's more of a thing in rural places so I can understand why you've never come across it but you need to look it up, it's that ridiculous
it should be noted that while the boat isn't called boaty mcboatface, the boat carries a fleet of 3 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and the leader of which IS called boaty mcboatface.
Watership Down legit scarred me as a child. I had nightmares for 10 years
That and the American film "old yella".
That film is horrific, y they ever thought it was suitable for kids is beyond me!
3 yrs old, I cried so much in Dumbo that my parents had to remove me, and refused to take me to any more Disney cartoons. Ever.
@@helveticaification lol Dumbo has nothing on watership down trust me.
Just watch the trailer and u will understand what I mean.
It has graphic imagery of rabbits dying in different ways and graphic fight scenes with blood
It's not a KIDS story
Pubs being open and football on is a metric for ‘everything is normal’. Opening them up first after lockdown was definitely a ploy by the government to make sure it seemed they’d solved everything and were being effective. It’s why backtracking now despite pressure for medical profession is unlikely as they’ve already opened the pubs which is the ultimate sign that ‘the UK is just absolutely fine, please look the other way’
people can watch the game, get shitfaced and have a kebab. Sounds like life is back to normal.
The Royal family as a business run and keep dozens of listed national heritage buildings and sites. Many of which are tourist destinations. Many aspects of London Tourism for instance only exist because eof the Royals (Queen's guard etc). People assume that the royal family are entirely funded by taxes but they are a business and have ventures which bring in capital and all in all they cost the average person around £1.20 a year which I feel would probably be higher if we were having to maintain all of the land and properties that they do.
The public money given to The Business (as George VI referred to it as) comes from the income of the Crown Estates - the lands that would personally be owned by the queen but are gifted to the government at the beginning of each reign thanks to George III. The amount given to the queen from this is always less than ¼ of the total income. For those who say the monarchy costs the taxpayer, you're wrong. If the royals didn't gift that income to the government, the tax payable on it would be less than what the government currently gets.
it's the first time I hear an american not being obsessed with the royal family and the queen lol, but yeah assuming we pay for the royal family couldn't be more wrong lol
Somewhat similar to the Jaffa cakes case (but not British) in Ireland there is a legal limit on how much sugar can be in bread. Subway bread exceeds this limit and so under the law is classified as cake and taxed as a result. Subway tried to challenge this but lost the case.
We have that in Britain too. Subway was in a lot of trouble with all of us on the islands it seems 😂
The great British bake off is comforting! It’s an hour out your week to watch cake fails and ‘show stoppers’ with a cup of tea and a slice of cake! It was more comforting with Mary Berry though, the nations Nanna
I preferred it with Mary Berry
I would have to be physically forced to watch that show. It baffles me the amount of viewers it gets.
I miss the old hosts even more. Remember they used to sometimes do little field trips and provide actual history on the bake of the week?
Lizzie from Bake Off this year is hilarious - she says such weird things in a dead pan Liverpudlian accent, my favourite was her story about riding a runaway ostrich as a child 😅😅
@@ecocentriclife omg yesss! I loved those parts
The apologizing after someone bumps into you is definitely a thing in Canada as well.
A wee anecdote WRT biscuit/cake tax thing. Before 1973 we didn't have VAT, we had Purchase Tax. Under the rules Ice Cream was a dessert and subject to the tax, but mousse was considered a regular food so wasn't. My dad was in HM Customs and Excise (before it was amalgamated with Inland Revenue into HMRC) and they used to seize loads of mislabeled ice cream 🍦. A couple of times, after the legal niceties were over, he would bring home a huge vat of the stuff which had to be scoffed right away as domestic freezers weren't common back then. We were pretty popular with our friends those afternoons.
while I do agree that kicking someone in the balls and being acknowledged by the queen for it could definitely happen in Denmark, we did not eat our prime minister! You're thinking of The Netherlands, we are not the same country please 🤧🤧🤧
"FET" ... haha my little British heart just broke when I heard you pronounce fete like that hahahaha
Homophone with 'fate'.
"Two taps, one cold and one warm."
No no no. One cold and one scalding!
The Warburtons thing isn't the best PR stunt. That has surely got to be Greggs and the Fenwick Christmas display, surely?
They realised that in Fenwicks window that their sign when it's dark was reflected in that stores window. And since it gets hundreds of people viewing it everyday, Greggs flipped their sign backwards, so when it's reflected it reads 'Greggs' out properly.
Absolute genius
Last time I visited London we went to Windsor on Garter day (did not know that was a thing) and somehow got to watch the procession. I definitely met people there from other countries who came to the UK just for this event and even queued for hours to get a got spot to see the royal family.
The addition of "over" to "he's behind you" did not sound right at all 😂😂
Related to Jaffa Cake taxes: Subway (the sandwich company) puts too much sugar in their bread and so Irish courts determined that it's legally cake and ineligible for the tax exemption that bread receives.
“British grannies” aka 25 year old me crocheting seasonal hats for my villages postbox
Yay our local one has sprouted an octopus and the kids love it! Well done all the knitters yarn bombing out there!
went back home to the village where i grew up for the fist time since lockdown and had the shock of my life to find the entire village square covered in underwater themed yarn bombing art and a little laminated note on the post box crediting it to the knitting society, which didnt even exist before Covid.
Boaty mcboatface is the name of one of the life boats on the RS David Attenborough
It's actually the lead electric submersible vehicle that the ship uses for its deep dive oceanic research that bears the name rather than one of the lifeboats.
@@simonorourke4465 thanks for the correction I'll leave my mistake above. So your comment makes sense.
There's also a model of it on display in the Science Museum (or there was a few years ago when I visited!)
@@simonorourke4465 presumably this is because in naval parlance a ship is a surface vessel while a boat is a submersible one, and thus RS David Attenborough couldn’t be Boaty McBoatface, it’d have had to have been Shippy McShipface to be correct.
@@lordofuzkulak8308 your probably right, but I suspect that they just didnt want there new shiny expensive research vessel being called Boaty mcboatface.
The fact that it happened to coincide with Sir David Attenbourgh's birthday was I'm sure a happy coincidence which worked due to how beloved a figure he is.
You need to stay with a British family and join their daily life, you’ll have so many questions 🤣🤣 I’m sure there’d be some great Brit vs USA stuff to be had! 😁
Like a school Exchange Student 😅
How could you have been in the UK that long and not known what Morris Dancing is? If you really don't you need to look it up. It basically tops that list of ridiculous things. Fun video!
London is pretty insular
One ridiculously British thing, or which I'm guilty, being mildly triggered throughout this video because Evan has a hat on while indoors.
American here and it bothered me too. But here it’s considered old school to take your hat off indoors.
Non British person here but it also bothers me.
drives my ex-british now Canadian husband absolutel mad when people wear hats indoors. especially in retaurants.
The hat goes on the coat rack together with the coat and umbrella.
oh god! farthing wood! the scene where the hedgehogs try to cross the busy road
"dont curl up, don't curl up, don't curl up" still vivd memories of this!
"You guys say deb-riss, don't you." What??! No! It's debris, like de brie... 😂😭🧀
Yeah, 'Day-bree'
"He's over behind you!"
Made me laugh more than I expected
Our local council wanted to start charging car park fees at the only park in a 3mile radius to us. All of the previous parks/green belt land had been developed on - 16 years ago I had 4 fields and that park to play on, to put it into perspective.
Now they want to charge people who visit that park to park their vehicle there, knowing that most people who visit live quite a way away and it's the closest area for children to play in for them.
People wouldn't drive to parks if there was more land for their children to play on nearer to them.
It's all about money with councils, unfortunately.
US knitter piping in: yarn bombing is not just a UK thing!
I visited a friend in Glasgow once, went for a walk and was a bit hungry so I bought a crumpet and ate it straight out of the pack cold. When my friend found out, I was almost sent back home for committing such a sin.
Evan mimicking a pantomime: he's over behind you
British people: he's not one of us yet
In Australia when a glass is dropped everyone just yells “WHEEEY TAXI” 😂
Why the word taxi?
@@gracev8762 because if they're too drunk to hold onto a drink they are too drunk to drive themselves home.
Maybe we also need to incorporate uber😅also aussie
Voting on a name…normally I’d agree with you, apart from the names given to road gritters in Scotland. Check it out, Evan! They are flipping quality
I’ve worked as Medic at Cheese Rolling….and people literally do break their spines for a cheese. What’s even more British about the office cake scenario…..you have to buy the cake for your birthday!!
Also, John Smeaton….the man who groin kicked a terrorist also shouted some very British words whilst he did it: ‘Fuckin come on then!’
Okay, Evan. Next May Day you have to make a video about Morris Dancing. You will not regret it.
I've lived in the UK my whole life, and I've never heard anyone pronounce "debris" as "deb-riss".
Aaaah all the memories of hoping the 345 will actually get to Peckham when the driver stops in a random residential street in Brixton and buggers off, leaving the bus unattended for 20 mins at 11.30 at night, no explanation given
The only exception I know of to the biscuit tin thing is I worked with a girl who was allergic to chocolate, and the first time a tin came round, she couldn't have any, so every time after that, she'd sort of be like, "oooh, can I pick one first?" and nobody minded. But that's pretty niche, and in general, you're supposed to wait your turn.
Oh, and "fete" is pronounced like "fate".
What cheese rolling was to my dad and uncle when we went to watch:
•fun time to laugh at idiots
•an excuse to start drinking early
•good British fun
What it was to me at age 8 or 9:
•A trek up and down a muddy hill in the rain trying to avoid being vomited on by strangers who'd been drinking since 7am
•Walking past one of the last runners at the end of the event and seeing his bone sticking out of his shin as his mate pulled his blood soaked sock off
Let's just say the next year when they went I stayed with my grandparents
My mum is from Gloucester and I’ve been to the cheese roll twice. I’m Canadian and it fascinates me
Anyone else got triggered on how he pronounced Mcvities or was that just me
so so Evan, lol
How is no-one else talking about this
yes also how he says hmRc
I gave my class a speech once in school about the Jaffa Cake debacle and I think the key convincing point was that Jaffa Cakes get harder when they're left out just like a cake whereas biscuits go softer when they're stale.
Cheering when someone drops a glass in a pub/restaurant/bar is quite common, not only in the UK.
The Glasgow incident was specifically Glaswegian--the only city in the world where beating up is truly a one-size-fits-all strategy for restoring order.
You know what? For the longest time I was baffled that my partner (not from the U.K.) hadn’t heard of so many things since moving here. Kinda puts a little faith in hearing you hadn’t heard of certain things despite being in the U.K. (7?) years. Props to your gf! I’ll continue teaching my bf all about the rediculously British things also! (I recently showed him Morris Dancers).
@@nat3007 Dwile flunking.
I can't believe you didn't look into Morris dancing. Or maybe you're saving that for a full reaction video at another date?
Either way, I want to see what you make of Morris dancing... And just wait until you find out about the Dark Morris 🙂
And when you get to the Molly Dancers, it can get quite strange
as a pregnant lady when the pubs opened after lockdown made me so angry because you could go get drunk with your friends, but my husband wasn't allowed in to see his baby for the first time with me, or women having to Labour alone. I'm about to have a cesarean and my husband is allowed in one hour a day to help me and see his own daughter, but u know u can go watch football with thousands of other people 😬
Hello everyone and welcome back to a guy whose ceiling light makes it look like he has a tiny halo.
Girlfriend! You slipped that in there!!
@@adairs7498 I had to rewind it to make sure i heard right too. I hope its Bliss, she is lovely!
I feel like the office thing is just socially awkward office etiquette instead of a British thing lol. I pretend to be surprised every time someone is passing around a card or cookies or donuts or something, unless I’m the one coordinating it lol
Why are we, as humans, like this?! lol
Not me, I up and tracking the progress!
There is a famous newspaper cover (in The Daily Record) of the guy with his arms crossed and the headline, "I kicked a burning terrorist so hard in the balls that I tore a tendon in my foot".
I must also add that I absolutely visited London multiple times for the monarchy and if they had an attraction where I was guaranteed to see the queen walk by I would do it. There’s obviously many other reasons why I’ve taken multiple trips to the British Aisles but a chance at seeing a royal is def part of it
Go to Royal Ascot - if you buy a hospitality package you can get into the Royal Enclosure without being a member, and see the queen arrive and give out the prizes.
@@paulebroderick omg thank you! I’ll definitely do this next time I go
To be fair, the Jaffa Cake case wasn’t incredibly British, but more incredibly capitalist.
Proving that they’re cakes was about money, and not culture :P
Also ngl, I was kinda hoping that it was Mr.Blobby at your door, Noel’s House Party style..
The weirdest part for me as a Brit is the idea that biscuits are less essential than cakes. You can't dunk a cake! Maybe a ladyfinger, but... now I'm wondering if that's a cake or a biscuit.
@@FTZPLTC Normal Biscuits are 0% Tax. It is only chocolate coated biscuits that are classed as luxury with 15% Tax. But chocolate coated cakes are not Taxed. It was Jaffa Cakes chocolate coating that caused the tax issue.
@@grahamsmith9541 Ah, that makes a bit more sense. I still don't get why cake wasn't VATable though.
@@FTZPLTC Cakes not being taxed doesn't make sense to me either.
@@grahamsmith9541 let them eat cake?
really distancing yourself from Tom Scott by wearing a gray hoodie and not a red shirt
hahahha
Tom Scott bulk buys both red shirts and grey hoodies. This intro was ironic.
The baseball cap inside offsets it I think? 😅
You know who makes the largest tourism revenue in Europe? France. You remember what they did to their monarchy? :)
The youngest person in my family is 21 and we still get agro at the mere mention of not going to the panto each year. We live all over the country and still it's the one thing we have to do together. Actual Christmas can get fucked, but if we don't go to the panto then it's the entire year ruined
Who says 'deb-ris' instead of 'debree'? Brits definitely don't, so do Americans pronounce it like that?
Americans definitely don't, it's like chassis
@@thewingedporpoise well the British pronounce chassis with sh sound at the start
Am American, that's not how we say it either
American pronunciation duh-BREE. British pronunciation DEB-bree or DAY-bree.
"Don't interrupt me." 💀💀💀
One of the reasons for the monarchy is that all armed services, police etc. swear allegiance to the Crown, not a political party. You can't bribe something that already has everything. They are non political so when politicians from different countries are arguing, the Crown often can visit or invite, opening conversations. This often happens when two arguing countries are invited to attend and politics are off the table, so tensions are reduced. If you look up the figures for maintaining a monarchy vs president, monarchy far cheaper. Add in a wedding etc the revenue is staggering in selling TV rights abroad (not the Crown charging), and increase in tourism is massive. It is also a constant steading presence no matter what politicians are up to.
Ireland here, and I loved 'The Animals of Farthing Wood', but it also scared me. I have a scene from 25 years ago still stuck in my head...
Watership Down or "Waterschapsheuvel" was also on TV way to much in the Netherlands when i grew up. "It's animated so it must be fun for kids!" No, no it isn't.
Yeah... My mom also made that mistake. Oddly enough I found ik mik loreland more disturbing
My parents let me watch it as a kid, havent watched it since, but I still cry whenever I hear the soundtrack 😭
I only just found out how many animals actually die in that movie, but I always knew it kind of fucked me up regarding animals dying, especially rabbits
The Plague Dogs, by the same author (and adapted for screen by the same guy), gets pretty messed up, too. A story about 2 dogs that escape from a research lab and accidentally kill a guy by stepping on the trigger of his shotgun.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t yes the Plague Dogs was harrowing!!!
@@tamsel814 I just never watched Ik mik loreland, even my parents knew that you shouldn't let kids watch that.
At my primary school every single year we went to a pantomime the last week of school before Christmas
Bake Off is directly inspired by a village fête. You'd probably only encounter them irl if you were outside of a big city, and London especially is very insular, but they're referenced a decent amount in British media.
They have a church fete in Hot Fuzz, if you want to imagine the kind of place that'd regularly hold one.
What was hilarious about the Boaty McBoatface incident was that it was a BBC presenter James Hand that came up with the name live on-air whilst interviewing the rep from the NERC about the plan to ask the Internet. And, as soon as they (sensibly) announced that the ship would be named after Sir David Attenborough, a petition was started to try and persuade him to change his name to Boaty McBoatface...
The biggest thing for me is that the Week sponsored you I love the week but like that’s so funny and very British of you
duke of wellington statue in Glasgow now just has a permanent traffic cone on its head because every time they removed it someone else put one on till they gave up. Also some interesting laws like it is illegal to be holding a salmon and look suspicious whilst doing so. Also it is illegal to wear a suit of armor in parliament (don't ask idk why either)
British baking recipes use self raising-flour, it’s only since we have the internet and started using USA recipes that there are more with the baking powder and plain flour combination. (There we’re a handful before but it was unusual), actually more likely was self raising flour plus baking powder for extra light cakes like Mary Berry’s Victoria sponge recipe.
Every one of these so true 😂 really enjoyed the edit of this video Evan!! And as a 🏴 I’d say 3:36 really just about sums us up
Hope you’re putting in some effort to taking care of yourself during this stressful time for you 💕
Thanx for this episode!
The Jaffa Cake thing began in the war with rationing. Biscuits were considered luxuries and cakes weren't, so it was easier to get the ingredients to make them and sell them. Also, Boaty McBoatface was the name they gave to one of the remote operated submersibles they have on board the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
We have Jaffa Cakes in continental Europe too. The name brand here in Belgium and France is LU sold under the name Pim's.
he’s still American Tom Scott but in the grey hoodie, idk if that was intentional or not
"American Tom Scott because the red shirt"
Now you did a plain grey hoodie. The other thing Tom wears!
Nice and frothy. Just lovely for an autumn, dull Sunday. Thank you yet again, Mr Edinger. 😃
Don't know if you'll see this but love your content, you're really uplifting and I look forward to your videos each week. From your comment does this mean you don't like the monarchy? Would we be the same country without it?
The closest American thing to Lord Buckethead would probably have to be Vermin Supreme
Very funny video. I subscribed to The Week for several years and appreciated the world perspective on the news.
Very here for Watership Down and Animals of Farthing Wood, great films! 🐇🦡
I think the fact that monarchy is still actively part of the UK is a huge selling point, most of the european countries have once been a monarchy and yet that's rarely the main tourist attraction
Yeah exactly. The attraction of seeing Buckingham Palace is that HM still lives there. Versailles is impressive but doesn't have the same caché as a government-owned museum and I doubt anyone can name the palaces of many other long-departed monarchies. The Forbidden City is about the only one I can think of
Yes I think so to. In the Netherlands we also still have a somewhat active monarchy and I never knew how much tourism that brought in but once I started working in close proximity to the royal buildings (which don’t really compare to Buckingham palace and the likes) I noticed how many touring busses stop there every single day and how many people buy stuff like mugs with the king and queen on them. When our old queen stepped down for her son it was a huge thing, and even Dutch people still gather every year on Prinsjesdag and celebrate kings day (used to be queens day and on another date. Some tourists still show up on the old date even now while it’s been a at least 10 years ago when the date change happened) I think Evan underestimated how much it brings in, but someone else pointed out that the monarchy probably cost a lot of people a lot of money as well over the decades so that a fair point to
@@DieuwertjeSara literally it’s like half a billion just on tourism alone
As a Welsh person, I don’t think my country benefits in the slightest from the Monarchy. I see them as a horrendous drain on public funds and attention.
The monarchy costs citizens about a pound each a year
@@tonycrayford3893 and it gives nothing back to people in Wales. Should we also tax people in Brazil? It has nothing to do with wales and I’m sure most of wales wants nothing to do with them
I quite like the Monarchy 🤷🏼♀️😂
@@tonycrayford3893 not even that, in fact the other way around. George III gave the income from the Crown Estates to the government in exchange for a stipend. This has happened with every monarch since. Even with the palace refurbishments and renovations, the Queen has never been given more than 25% of the Crown Estates income. That means the government gets to keep 75% of it. If she still kept the income from the Crown Estates for herself, the total tax due would be less than 75%. The government makes on the deal.
Why are the Welsh always negative about almost everything.
On the cheese rolling - it was an official event in the location with support and everything, but they banned it because it was too dangerous. Result: everyone still does it, but without any support / ambulances on standby etc, so it's even more dangerous
Look for the Billy Connely video on Glasgow terror attack, hilarious
1:31 Magesty's? Looks like 2 mistakes at once there, Evan 🤣
Just the 'g'. It should be Majesty's as the Revenue and Customs 'belong' to HM. For my sins I once worked for them.
Came down to the comments for this 😄
Ngl very much enjoying the hair progression- Flynn Ryder impression incoming?
*don’t mention the nose*
Makes me so happy when you say "we" talking about Britain and I think "Yay! Yes Evan is one of us!" Also hang in there with the house buying. It's an utterly awful process of sustained uncertainty and tension and it is one of the worst things ever BUT you'll get through it. My process took 8 months (very different issues to the ones you've had so don't worry that this is a prediction) and it was awful but it did end. You're nearly there.
Usually I just skip in-video ads but somehow I ended watching that one till the end. Loved it! A bit of humour really turns it from "ughh, another ad" to "ooh another ad!"