American Reacts to 50 Pics That Prove The UK Is Like No Other Country!
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- These are 50 captivating pictures that showcase why the United Kingdom is truly one of a kind. From historic landmarks to quirky traditions, we'll delve into the charm that sets the UK apart.
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Literally the only American on yt who has thought to use a pronunciation tool, congrats sir! 🎉
Nobody dies on the magic roundabout, and don't call me Shirley!!
Doogle had a melt down and Zebedee had freek out, on this magic roundabout.
Ha! Airplane
Just imagine living here and having to negotiate it during your driving test.
On a serious note, it's very safe, with very few accidents.
80%safer than a junction
If you travel around it in the right sequence it will teleport you to any place in the world - how else could such a small country control a quarter of the planet.?
Lego is the plural of Lego.
I was just about to comment the same thing😂😂
Gets me toooooo 😵💫😖😖😫😫 if you have a pile of those bricks made in Denmark, you have a pile of Lego! One brick is a Lego brick, more than one? still only Lego!
😱😱Bleedin' septics 🤯🤯
Facts!!!
@@weedle30 exactly. One lego brick, two lego bricks. Not legos 😂
Just staying alive in ancient Britain was probably an achievement in itself.
Bit like London now eh.
Bloody right. 60 years old was a rarity.
@@markhughes8314Mehhhh. 🙄
London is a paradise compared to other major capitals on earth, just no one cares or knows to look into it. These cities are forgotten because no one cares and little is known or broadcasted.
Living to old age. At 35
I loved the Olympics idea of having a pub lane to show the relative speed of the top athletes. Genius.
In the UK It’s common for construction workers to buy a newspaper.
Then take a sheet of the newspaper and hide it somewhere in their construction or renovation.
So others can see what date the construction happened and what happened on that day.
When the property is renovated 😊
The oldest I’ve found is from August 1933 😊
I've always wondered why I keep finding newspapers in the floorboards! I do renovations and the oldest I've found was a Michael Jackson article from the early 90's, it's a habit I've adopted and always put the original back where I found it 😊
Ooh found one in walls from 1923
My dad has been a roof tiler since age 15.
Over the years he's found many newspapers left, one was the day he was born, another was the day after England winning the World Cup and most recently, a local newspaper with my picture on it from 30 years ago! (Carnival Queen aged 12!)
@@Cunning.Stunt7 aw that's nice. Ours had the local court report 🤣🤣
Found one in my house recently. Headline was along the lines of Kennedy and Khrushchev in talks over Cuban Missiles. Dated 6 weeks before my parents were born.
"there's the goose!"
...you mean a swan?
Stonehenge is older than the great pyramids. We did it without the advanced alien tech.
😂😂 nice one!
It’s also funny because (from a previous worker on site) whenever we are certain about it’s age, we find things that label it as even older
Gobekli tepee is older
@@christinecoates9449 there are lots of things older, but he mentioned Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids.
Plus, the stones are actually from Wales, and we're transported all the way
The British invented gravity. If it wasn’t for us everyone would still be floating about Willy nilly
I often wondered how the Wright brothers...
Time also, everyone else would be wafting about all over the joint if we hadn't invented that.
nyeah
*mavity
What's gravity? Do you mean mavity? ;)
Love the one from the pissed-off bus driver. had me crying with laughter.
Examples of names for bread rolls UK - baps, breadcakes, teacakes, cobs, buns, barm cakes, morning rolls, burger buns, batch, and there are more. Having lived in a number of different parts of the UK, it’s amazing how many regional variations there are.
I once asked for a breadcake in a chip shop in Manchester, and the woman just stared at me like I'd asked for a shoehorn with teeth.
@@klinikle5445 If you're from the North, don't ask for a chip teacake in the south😆
@@Sol3UK what the hell is a chip teacake? here in Sheffield is a chip buttie. are you from Rotherham?
Lancashire oven bottoms!
Keep hot cross buns for Easter.
Considering LEGO (Never Legos) is rated for ages 10-99, Tony's got the right idea
When starbucks introduced the idea of having your name on your cup and the barista would shout your name when your drink was ready British folk were givibg names like cuntybollocks and R. Swipe.
That jus makes me think of Dave Gorman!
Because Americans forgot what they ordered
There is an ancient village in Orkney that’s older that either Stone Henge or the Pyramids. It’s called Skara Brae. It’s a small group of homes (that are still recognisable as such) that are around five thousand years old and spent centuries buried under the sand until a massive storm hit the island in 1850 and basically blew the sand dune away and uncovered it.
Skara Brae is fascinating. I would love to visit one day.
@@SideQ-rr6my me too.
The planet Skaro was named after Skara by the proto-Daleks.
probably more of them about the area yet to be found, even better preserved perhaps ? exciting.
@@bradleyware1445 maybe, I’m pretty sure there are quite a few archaeological digs that happen in Orkney every summer.
The lidl backery section is self-service with plastic gloves to put on when picking your item/fill your paper bag and then pay at the counter when you're done shopping, many supermarkets have those, but Lidl seems to have one of the biggest.
Sometimes they have tongs instead.
@@julianaylor4351 yes you're right, just thought about my local Lidl.
Would never touch them, all open for people to touch and cough over.
Plus u never really know what dead things were put in the dough😢
It's real good though
we know Brenda Fricker for playing Daniel Day Lewis's mum in "My left foot", and winning the Oscar for best supporting actress.
Wasn't she in Casualty too?
In Ireland we know her for representing every "Irish mammy" that ever existed
@@garethm3242 Except Brendan O'Carroll, but does he even count?
Awesome film!
Brenda Fricker starred in Casulty a British drama series set in the Accident and Emergency Department of a fictitious hospital (Holby City is also set at the same fictitious hospital)which is still running 38 years later.
Mate, you're an actor! Surprised you didn't recognise an Oscar, calling it an Emmy instead! 😄
Love your take on a British accent. I don't know anyone who talks like Dick Van Dyke 😂😂
DVD.
I think it sounds Australian.
As usual,I enjoyed your reaction and the video.
The only slight irritation was your slight implication that the old Man bought the young guy a drink for some hidden reason. I'm 69 and when I grew up, even in London, it was a normal, , innocent thing for complete strangers to do small decent gestures like this but, sadly, through the 2024 prism, some might look for something that is not there.
I salute you (o7) for giving Leicester the respect of correct pronunciation! lol
Brenda Frika, some of us older Brits know that before pigeon lady, Brenda Played the supporting role alongside Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot.
The village hall one made me spit my drink, because even in Australia I've been to about 6 different venues that looked just like that
Stonehenge is ~1,000 years older than the first Pyramids
That's The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, Wiltshire.
It's only about 25 miles from me. I go to Swindon at least once a year. So I'm not a regular user but it's far easier than it looks. It is extremely efficient and no more dangerous than any other road junction.
Fyi. Lego is singular and plural like sheep or bison. ☺
What?
So bison is the plural of sheep?
And aircraft. No, aircraft isn't the plural of sheep. Or bison.
Notes with the queen’s head on are still legal tender. When I was a boy before February 1971 when decimal currency came in, it was possible to have coins with Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI on them, as well as the queen. You help yourself to the bread and pay at the till.
I paused and laughed at that Harry Potter/Eastenders meme for much longer than I had any right to 😂😂
Brenda Fricker is best known in the UK for playing a senior nurse, in the long running BBC medical drama Casualty.
Stonehenge was also built way before the Pyramids. Also so was Silbury Hill and it was probably the tallest man made structure until the Great Pyramid, it's still the largest earth built mound in Europe.
I know she was joking but it's also kind of odd that she's acting like her ancestors built the pyramids, despite the construction of the pyramids and the Arab conquest of Egypt being thousands of years apart.
Stonehenge is my neck of the woods! Salisbury 🫶
Salisbury also has a beautiful cathedral that holds the. 🔎na 🚗 ter and the
🌎s 👴🏻est 🕖 that is still 🏃♀️
Oh and the spire holds the record for the highest Spire in the UK (after St Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed in WW2)
@@Cunning.Stunt7I'm pretty sure the original St Paul's burnt down in the great fire of London. The rebuilt one has a dome, no spire.
Actually Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid are contemporaries, 2500bce for Stonehenge, 2560bce for the Pyramid.
The most inpressive about Stonehenge was that one bloke carried the stones from Wales, two at a time. His name was Dave, however in his tribe, he was known as 'the weak & puny one'.
The wallpaper one, you read the first date as an American (it’s the 5th of December, not the 12th of May 😂) and the seconds date as a Brit 😂
Ah... Swindon's "Magic roundabout"! The Top Gear guy is Jeremy Clarkson - and well done, your comment about the national anthem would be a good example of British humour! And I love the Olympics "control group" idea!
Serve yourself bakery products, lift the lid and use the tongs to select and place in a free paper bag!
That first picture was the famous "Magic Roundabout" in Swindon, which was introduced as an experiment at least 50 years ago.
According to the company, the plural of LEGO is LEGO. They say LEGO is an adjective, the actual product being a “LEGO brick.” And adjectives don't have a singular and plural form, so it's always LEGO, never LEGOs. The plural is LEGO bricks or LEGO sets.
I have a nap most afternoons (I'm not lazy, I'm recovering from a stroke and neuro fatigue just gets to me) but I'm always happy when I wake coz I know there'll be a new JJ vid to watch.
I really enjoyed today's reaction and I was cracking up at the 28,000 bmi bit (gonna be giggling at that one for weeks knowing me).
My reccomendations again are;- carrot in a box and carrot in a box the rematch also the top 10 modern British bands to crack the US xx
The 'roundabout' is the Magic roundabout in Swindon - I used to live near it
Right turn on red just shows what contempt Americans have for pedestrians.
What is this rule? Can someone explain it to me logically? Surely they have a reason and I’m just too dumb to see the logic of it
@@Lew99900 It's essentially just like a traffic light junction that has a slip road off to the left without lights in the UK. The right hand lane at US junctions is always right turn only (I think), so it is safe to turn into it without stopping. Although, as the OP points out, it does cause problems for pedestrians!
@@Lew99900 I think, the rule is if you are turning right, a red light can be treated the same way you would treat a Stop sign,
i.e. stop then continue if it is safe to do so.
@@Lew99900 I really didn't explain that very well! Let me try again.
The junction is controlled by traffic lights in all directions. The approaching roads all have a dedicated right turn only lane. The roads leading away from the junction have a lane dedicated to receiving traffic turning right onto them. Therefore there is no need for traffic turning right to ever stop.
I think that makes more sense.
@@StormhavenGaming thanks for the reply I’m kinda following along. I’m sure I could get to grips with it after a short while driving over there.
Also- I’m glad I know this because it seems like a recipe for disaster for anyone from Europe 🤣 coulda got flattened on holiday
Decorator did the job on the 5th of December not the 12th of May (laughs!)
The standing stones at Stonehenge is much older than the pyramids, the top stones are about as old as the oldest pyramids - the ancient Near East is where civilisation developed, we didn’t have the same urban centres or population so you can’t expect the same complexity 😂
Thank you. I don't know how many times I've explained that Stone Henge isn't just the stones.
There is also the fact all the pyramids are built along the Nile not at the top of a fecking hill miles from a navigable waterway and granite is a whole lot harder to work with than what is basically compacted sand. The reason there are pyramids on every continent is because they are simply putting some rocks in a big pile taken too far. While the various henge's built all over western Europe are very accurate celestial Calender's allowing the people to measure and predict seasonal changes for more successful farming.
The South American pyramids are older than the Egyptian ones! 🙂
It's also worth remembering that the Blue Stones of Stonehenge are not from the area of Stonehenge.
They're from North Pembrokeshire in West Wales.
The neolithic Britons took the stones almost 200 miles through mountains and over land for some probably religious reason now lost to time.
Also, The Ring of Brodgar and Henge, on the Orkney Islands, is older than Stonehenge. Also, there are around 1300 stone circles in the UK, 508 in Scotland alone.
The "magic roundabout" in swindon, is actually pretty genius, you can go round it both clockwise or anticlockwise, you can also change direction part way round, if you so wish.
You have the same style of voice as Bob Ross (the joy of painting) very mellow, which I find quite therapeutic. Keep up the good work.
The pyramids have some very complicated polygonal, interlocking stone blocks . Is more of a mystery how they were able to do that than how they would lift and place them.
8:30 This one reminds me of something my buddy and I did years ago at his house. We wrote "I will kill again...." on the wall with a marker pen. Then put up the wallpaper. One day, a future owner will scrape off the old wallpaper when remodelling that room and freak out 😄
17:02 "it's great that they've both transitioned" 😆😂🤣
That roundabout is in my town of Swindon in Wiltshire UK. it's called The Magic Roundabout
Bongos Bingo in Liverpool is a great night out! Love it!
I can beat Tony, I had my name on the Legoland birthday sign when I was 44 😁
lol… I’m laughing so hard because my “daughter” tonight said “can’t you just twist the biscuit wrapper like a normal person, why do you always fold it under and push it up against the wall?” 😂🤣.
I can now show her this and say “see, I’m not the only one! Perfectly normal!” 🤣😂😆
I’m from Bolton in the north west and I’ve always called it a barm. I did work in a cafe for years and heard all sorts! When someone first asked for a sausage muffin it genuinely took me by surprise
Oh yeah, barm, call it a cob where I'm from. Fancy a chip cob.
I'm from Scotland and call the roll itself a morning roll, but ask for a bacon roll in Greggs.
@@aks7698 I’ll accept roll but muffin? Not a chance
You might like to take a look at Knap of Howar on the Scottish island of Orkney. It's older than the pyramids and even older than Stonehenge. It's someone's house rather than a place of burial or worship.
The roundabout is the magic roundabout in Swindon 😊
I've always called it the 'Whirligig Roundabout', thinking it's the official name, but of course I could be very wrong. 👌
@@jumpjet777 only been once and wasn't driving thank god the guy driving called it that lol
@@janolaful Me too, once, maybe twice, when I worked in Swindon for about 6 months. I was renting a room out in the country so luckily had almost no need to use the roundabout.
That roundabout is actually really easy to navigate. From the air it looks complicated, but on the ground it's really efficicient and intuitive.
Someone from Lester 😂😂 here well from Northern Ireland living in Leicestershire over 20 years but imagine the accent and that of my kids ( imagine Somerset)
The best- THE BEST- random celebrity invite where they actually turned up was most definitely Queen Elizabeth going to someone's wedding. Unbeatable.
Stonehenge was built a thousand years before the Pyramids tho, so in some ways it’s a bigger achievement.
Especially as they had to carry those stones miles as there was no Buses or Tubes thn..
Some of the names for bread rolls in the U.K. Bap, Bun, Barm, Barm Cake, Buttery, Bridie, Roll, Cob, Stottie, Batch, Teacake, Oven Bottom, Muffin, Rholyn, Morning Roll, Bread Cake, Scuffler, etc, etc.
04:38 No, I imagine Tony loves LEGO! No “s”! Lego is an adjective not a noun and hence cannot be pluralised save for those with a cricket’s understanding of the English language!!!
12:30 You’ll find a lot of chip shops have great pun names- The Codfather, The Frying Squad (a very British one- the “flying squad” is a particular department of the Metropolitan police that deals with robberies and serious organised crime), Prawnbrokers, A Fish called Rhonda, Codrophenia (google the film Quadrophenia), Salt and Battery (a pun on assault and battery), A Salt and Battered (same as the last), the fat fryer (better if you see the sign- a Franciscan monk), Codfellas, the Codmother, Frying Nemo, Frydays, Oh my cod!, the Town Fryer (a pun on the town cryer, a historical job), The Almighty Cod, Plaice Station (police station), For Your Fries only (for Bond fans), Codswallop, Friendchips, The Frying Scotsman (flying Scotsman), Salty Towers (Fawlty Towers TV show- Itself a pun name), The Star Chip Enterprise, Battersea Cod’s Home (a pun on Battersea Dog’s Home- a dog shelter charity) and Phil’s Yer Tum!
15:48 Baps are also slang for a ladies chest, case you were wondering!
The new banknotes with Charles' face haven't been released yet 😂
£17 a roll for wallpaper in 1997 was very expensive!
The Queen's money is totally valid, as a kid in the sixties before decimal coins, I sometimes used Queen Victoria pennies, George the sixth shillings, etc. The notes get more regularly re-issued than the coins. So there are going to be lots of Queen Elizabeth the second and Charles the third coins for ages, even when the notes are all Charles the third.
Yeah, Charles' new notes have been designed, but haven't been released into circulation yet...
Mid 2024. He's on a couple of coins just now...
Love your reactions JJ, keep 'em coming.
i like how he said 5/12/97 as may 12th, it's day first here so it's 5th December
Next time I see an American complain about the lack of ice in the UK I will point out Leicester to them. Maybe we used all the ice putting it in the middle of words where it isn't needed.
Love how Americans try to say loughborough 😂
We have a similar one in Hemel Hempstead. Easy to use when you know how
Agreed, although back in the late seventies my mate and I had parked up and were walking to the old Gun shop and an older lady stopped and asked him to drive her and her car to the other side from the St Albans road.
Weirdly enough, that compound roundabout is probably fairly safe because people need to drive slowly to figure out wtf they're supposed to do, or because they are blocked by other cars.
I have news for you.
The Muffin or English muffin if you prefer to call it has been around since AT LEAST 1703.
(that’s 73 years before America tore itself free from English colonialism).
I don’t know where someone got the idea the English muffin was invented in the United States?
There’s even an old English song “Do you know the muffin man” penned around 1820.
According to Wikipedia (which must be wrong) they were invented by an Englishman who emigrated from Plymouth in 1874 .. I think NOT.
I suspect someone is getting muddled up with the origins of the (American) Sweet muffins which were invented by some English bloke in America called Thomas in 1880 & the English muffin.
That "Full Welsh" has grilled Cypriot Halumi on the plate! Then that is NOT a true full anywhere! That's a half Cypriot breakfast!
In the UK, Lego is singular and plural, as in “sheep” . We don’t add an S to pluralise “Lego”
At 13:50, the LIDL's bakery are self service hatchways with tongs to select what you want.
As a Brit of a certain age, I mostly remember Brenda Fricker from Casualty - I think the closest US comparison to the show I can make is ER.
In the midlands, we call bread rolls "cobs"
You do know that Kirkbi co. (Lego) are coming after you right. They have stated time and again, LEGO is an adjective there is no singular or plural term it is simply Lego, Lego bricks or Lego sets, but never Legos.
all these years i thought Tinie Tempah was American and after watching this video i never knew he was British, i am also British
The roundabout is in Swindon and is known as the Magic Roundabout.
Bread rolls are also known as Barm Cakes, Bun, Cob, Muffin, Tea Cake, Batch, but bread roll is the most popular
Tinie Tempah is pronounced Tiny Temper, his wiki page has more on how he coined that persona.
Finally I've been scrolling for ages. 👍😊.
In British English it's Lego not Legos. Otherwise, it would be Legosland!
Imagine the dissapointment of going to legoland and their just being one average size brick in a display case 😂
@@harlequinems That's funny.
There's a Thai noodle restaurant in Chelsea, London, called Phat Phuck( for the uneducated, in English PH is pronounced as F)
Before Legoland Windsor it’s like nowadays, it was originally WINDSOR SAFARI PARK..used to go there a lot as a kid growing up in the town.. a little bit of local history 😊
I loved the dolphins they had when it was a Safari Park.
I was confused for a moment when I misheard one of your comments! The pic of the man in a wheelchair, you said "that's dark" - I heard "that's duck", and was thinking no, that's a flamingo!? 🤣
The Magic Roundabout layout actually reduces accidents at that intersection. It's pretty easy to navigate, really.
There is a fish and chip shop in Sheffield called "A Salt and Battery" 😂😂
Hi there JJ
The blue stones at Stonehenge were quarries 150 miles away in the Welsh mountains, so there is far more to the site than its final assembly. Plus, it's part of a far faster ritual landscape.
I have used that round about a few times. It's quite safe actually. It works like this.. It's so confusing that people engage their brains and pay attention.
My favourite technique is speed and aggression.
So glad I found your channel 😊
Stonehenge's stones were transported from South Wales, plus unlike the Ancient Egyptians, they didn't have the Nile to sail them, to the site on a barge. All done with man power, rolling and levering, so weak...I don't think so.
only the blue stones (small ones) are from Wales and where brought to the site by river. The main stones are local sarsen stones from malborough downs, bout 10 miles away.
@@dazymac7619 They had to a roller and lever system, for the larger ones, no ox cart wagons like the Ancient Egyptians. Same once they got the smaller ones off the raft.
Actually the Giza pyramids were built around 2600 BC, wheeled vehicles including chariots & carts were not evident in Egyptian culture till 1600 BC, 1000yrs later. So all manpower im afraid.@@julianaylor4351
The whole bread-roll thing.. you could probably make a whole video based purely on the variety of different names that different regions have for bread rolls. Could be quite long, depending on how in-depth it gets!
I like your thoroughness 👍😁 the YOLK one is quality
Ha I personally know Liam, he's the Liverpool ECHO's politics editor
You say Brenda Fricker to me and I think of My Left Foot, not Home Alone 2.
In the Lidl one, there won't be a counter. You just take what you want, put it in your trolley and carry on with your shopping, then pay for the whole lot at the end.
The Lidl bread/bakery section is self service. It has, however, a really excellent selection of breads and other baked goods, many of which are baked in store.
Brenda was in a long running series called casualty and was great in the film I Married a Mad Axe Murderer
Lidl - yeah - too tempting - too good!
I love your site and you say what you think about our England, but quite politely.
bread rolls have more than 2 names: bap, cob, teacake, breadcake, oven bottom, batch, bun, roll, morning roll, barm, bara, softie, barmcake, stotty, muffin and scuffler
Our football chants are second to none!
T cakes, baps, bread rolls, barn cakes, bread cakes, muffins, it’s bloody mental it changes every four miles.
I'm pretty sure that first pic is of Hemel Hempstead roundabout, it's actually signposted as "Magic Roundabout". I've got a similar one near me at Heathrow airport, they are fun to go around the wrong way it feels.