A Toff is slang for a person who is an upperclass snob. Back in the day Toffs would be a well dressed Gentlemen who would be wearing a Top Hat and carrying a Kane.
'Pied Off' (is a pretty new saying and as he said, mainly used on the TV show 'Love Island): Means to be rejected or dumped ! 'Minted' (which has been around for quite a while now): Means loaded, or having a lot of money (or, sometimes it can mean good). 'Munted' (is quite a bit older, since about 2007/8 ish?): Two main ways of using it: 1/ Refers to the property of an object (or person) as broken, ruined, significantly damaged, disfigured or deformed, often to the extent that it is not reversible or repairable. 2/Very drunk or in an extreme state of intoxication by way of drugs or alcohol such that the subject's ability to perform basic tasks such as walking and talking are significantly impaired. NB: In NZ and Australian slang, 1/ is the more common sense, and in UK slang 2/ is more common.
He steeped the tea almost 2 minutes longer than I would, I'm a wafter rather than a steeper. We enjoy our tea in many varied ways. We even sometimes have colour charts in workplaces to see how people like it.
I recently travelled around Italy with 40 Americans. I was the only Brit. They wanted to know how British people speak so I taught them very useful phrases that will help when they visit. Aye up mi duk = hello Arr ya didlin = how are you Fai ta mod = OK Wan sum scran? = are you hungry Wayers bog? = where is the bathroom By the time we parted they were fluent in Derbyshire. I hope they found it useful in London 😂
@@midwestamericans3806 Hope your going to get a proper frame for the picture you got sent 🙂 Ozzy Osbourne and wife are from The Black Country just outside Birmingham.
You should have taught them how people in Scotland,Wales,Northern Ireland and England speak too,not just England if you wanted to let them know how to sound British.
Not the way my Gran taught me to make tea, and its milk 1st. Grandad liked his black and referred to it a Somme Water. Shows you how old I am. Warm the Teapot, flush, add fresh hot water, add the tea, loose or bag your choice allow to mask/steep. Add milk to cup, just a tot, pour tea, use a filter sieve if loose. Add extra milk if required, the more milk the weaker the tea taste. Ideal colour a dark tan.
BOB'S YOUR UNCLE - the origins are uncertain, but a common theory is that the expression arose after Conservative Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ("Bob") appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887, an act of nepotism, which was apparently both surprising and unpopular. Whatever other qualifications Balfour might have had, "Bob's your uncle" was seen as the conclusive one.
Hello Ethan and Angela. Very British and amusing and interesting to see your reaction, with you having been here. He pointed out that there is not just one type of British person, which can come as news to those elsewhere. The unifying thing is generally tea, which he also covered, though I feel this opinion may be because I am from Yorkshire. I do enjoy gravy, so he got that almost right, except for things better accompanied by mushy peas with vinegar and mint sauce.
@@ticketyboo2456Yes, I was surprised when he said Cockles are a Cockney favourite, I'm from North West England and they are still popular in Blackpool. I remember years ago the cocle seller was always popular in my home town, Bolton going around the pubs selling Cockles and other sea foods..
Jack is great and you should check out A League of Their Own, in which he appeared with Jamie Redknapp (footballer) and Andrew Flintoff (cricketer). They even did a US road trip!
Jack is half cast. He's an idiot! And, would be nothing without his mother. He's second hand. Because his father kept knocking around. So, he's just trying to keep 'cashed' in...
Any word conververted to a past tense verb can be used to mean drunk. Bob refers to a real Robert - Peel a prime minister. Sarah Millican is a Sand Dancer, which iß Geordie to the uninitiated.
It's a massively overrated show, which got below average viewing figures, was given awards which weren't voted for by the public, and was mainly filmed 1.5 miles down the road from me, in *Bradford* the world's first *UNESCO City of Film* contrary to what most people believe.
It actually comes from the TV show 'Love Island' and was used as a phrase to mean someone has been 'dumped' or 'rejected'... It is used throughout Reddit and similar places using young 'lingo or buzz words' etc.
@@stewedfishproductions7959 Never seen "love island", never seen "Reddit" so it's something I don't know or accept.. so you're right calling it lingo, buzz words or maybe jargon. It sounds very American to me...
NO !!! You pour ^boiling^ water on the tea leaves or tea bags in the tea pot, and steep there. You put milk in the cup first, then pour in the tea. If you pour milk into hot tea it gets scalded and spoilt.
Jack Whitehall went to a very expensive public school where I live. He tells a lot of stories about this area and his review of Swindon is so spot on!!!!
Thanks for your reaction. ... ahum, I thought it was pretty average but perhaps better than I expected from him. I do sometimes like his standup and but also less keep on his acting. I think the information supplied suffered a little from some lame jokes, but he did OK with accents and was suitably humble about any weaknesses there. Peaky Blinders is VERY popular here. It's incredibly well written, produced and the acting is great. Pretty brutal. Did you know it is based on a real gang from the late 1900s who 'ruled' Birmingham. They were called the Blinders because they sewed razors into their cap brims and used them to blind their opponents. Many were young boys in their mid-teens. I think they were eventually obliterated by another gang. Violent times.
The lower classes use teabags we people with a sense of occasion, when drinking this after we had showered or bathed , shaved and brushed our teeth then drink tea with smoked kippers is a fish, then boiled eggs with asparagus or toast maybe back bacon never streaky bacon in which you Americans eat over done and burnt and Irish pork sausages unless we have a local farm that makes it's own sausages then with scrumble eggs placed in a pan with butter that pan must start from cold then you bring the heat up on a slow heat eggs and by bringing into the centre of the pan and moving all the time soft eggs . Has for builders tea, that's teabags and I myself have had it and it's nice,I I'm used to loose tea and it must be strong one or two sugars are the norm. But for use it's loose tea breakfast tea or earl grey these tea's can be eaten with cakes and sandwiches in the afternoon and evening or with breakfast meals . Boiling hot water poured into a teapot left for two minutes stirring twice before pouring this tea into a fine china cup then add milk full fat, milk, then if you take sugar or sugar free sweeteners then add these until your hearts content, pass this brew to guesses or have your butler or housemaid serve you. A continental breakfast may include cornflakes, bread rolls and jam or marmalade there are some superb different jam's and marmalades, peach,raspberry, strawberry, plum, damson, blackberry, mulberry jam's, lemon and lime, pear and damson, loganberry and orange marmalade all different all unique in favour and taste. Other breakfast foods are tinned tomatoes on buttered toast the same with eggs on toast and mushrooms on toast until you try it don't knock it or with a full English this is where it gets a little bit devisive black pudding or blood sausage some people just don't like it I'm one of them, but put on the plate, people eat it tinned tomatoes or fried tomatoes, the juice it's fantastic you mop up the juice from tomatoes with buttered toast or bread. Then the last thing is do rich or affluent person's does is eat fried bread it's a must with it buttered both sides and fried and with a second cup of tea. My father didn't like tea at all through his life he drunk something called coffea black the tiniest bit of sugar even in the service that's the army being a gentleman serving in the armed forces his batman would serve coffea to him every time, when at luncheon or in the field or officers mess service with other officers in rank to follow with dress code uniforms seating arrangement are senior officer then the ranks in lower order and sitting inbetween the officers ladies not wife's, all officers wife's are referred to as lady and common soldiers had the misses or the wife and we come back to tea, please try loose tea it's ten times better Love mum
The "Milk first" rule only applies when you are pouring hot tea into a bone china tea cup and likewise, the purpose of "warming the pot" all serve to prevent a bone china tea set potentially cracking from the sudden shock of boiling water pured into cold tableware. Builder's Tea is made in the mug; boiling water straight onto a teabag, preferably the punchy "Yorkshire Tea" brand. Squeeze the bag in the cup with a teaspoon until the brew looks about right, Only add milk after you're satisfied the tea has brewed and you've removed the bag. Two teaspoons of sugar into this brew complies as "NATO standard". Pouring the milk in with the teabag first ensures the milky fluid you end up with will never be hot enough to get any depth of flavour out your tea.
When I came to the UK with my parents from South Africa in 1962, we stayed for a while with my mother's parents in Barking. They were very much Cockney, so I had a problem understanding them at first. It was a 'treat' every Sunday to buy fresh steamed cockles (as well as whelks) from a chap with a barrow down the high street. At the table, we were each given a pin to remove the 'cap' on each cockle and extrude the little chewy sea-tasting creature inside. These were served with thin slices of bread and margarine. This was so exotic to me. Recently, in my local supermarket, I discovered with delight a jar of cockles and discovered to my dismay how terrible they were, gristly and saturated with salt. Can people still buy fresh cockles nowadays? Robert, uk.
Cockles are like eating salty boogers. TWININGS is pronounced TWY NINGS. You can put a slice of lemon in some teas such as EARL GREY or LADY GREY. But no milk. A TOFF, short for toffee nosed, is a very posh person. A bit like Jack. Upper class.
Cockney is a London accent, but there are different London accents and someone in the East End sounds different to someone from Tottenham, who sounds different to someone from Chelsea!
He's English. Very few things are British, mostly just passports. We all come from one of the countries contained within Britain, making us all very different.
The island of Britain has nothing to do with being British. British things are from the UK, the British overseas territories, and the crown dependencies.
@@scottythedawg English is English, as distinct from Scottish, Welsh or Irish. We are all British but all different. Not in a bad way, but we all embrace our own culture in our own way, individually. I think our humour is a bit different across the nations, and our outlook on life generally. We are all British but that's a bit of a blanket term that I think is inadequate to put us all under. Together we make a good team Britain, but individually we are different. So I personally prefer to be described as English rather than British.
@judithhope8970 Irish citizens are not British. Northern Irish people can claim Irish citizenship or British citizenship or Both. But Irish citizens from Ireland 🇮🇪 the Republic are certainly not British.
1:07 *Condé Nast Traveler* - An American magazine which has no idea about the Geography of the UK, just like the Ukrainian channel *Leaning Canteen.* I've only read a few articles from *Condé Nast Traveler* over the years, but they're full of misinformation, even the last ones I read which were written by a Brit about filming locations. 1:20 and 1:24 Completely false statements, as we have the best chefs in the world, most of which have visited my city for one specific reason - *Curry.* 7:47 I used to have around 10 pairs of socks, which all contained a different word for drunk, along a picture of things they were inspired by. They included *Trollied* (Trolley), *Ratted* (Rat), *Hammered* (Hammer), *Wrecked* (Shipwreck), *Mashed* (Mashed Potato), *Badgered* (Badger), *Steaming* (Steam Train) etc 10:45 A sentence taken from *Jimmy Carr.* 11:10 No, *Sarah Millican* is not a *Geordie.* She's a *Sand Dancer.* *Geordie's* are from *Newcastle-upon-Tyne,* whereas *Sand Dancers* are from *South Shields.* There's also *Mackems* from *Sunderland,* *Pitmatics* from *Northumberland/County Durham,* and *Smoggies* from *Middlesbrough* (Bob Mortimer land) among others, which all sound similar to *Geordie* but are not the same. 12:24 *Yorkshire* isn't really known for mining, albeit with have done a lot in our history. *Bradford* and *West Yorkshire* in general is known for *Wool.* *Sheffield* is known for *Steel.* *Wakefield* is known for *Coal.* The stone used to build *Manchester Town Hall* and *Bradford City Hall* was mined in *Bolton Woods Quarry* in *Bradford.* 12:27 *Gravy* on everything is more of a *Lancashire* thing than a *Yorkshire* thing. 12:32 *Duck* is used in *South Yorkshire,* however it's mainly used in the counties which surround *Yorkshire* to the East and South like *Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire* and *Derbyshire* the county where it originates. 15:00 *Peaky Blinders* got below average viewing figures until series 5, when *Award Ceremonies which are Picked by the Industry* decided to give it some awards, and *Netflix* started distributing and claiming credit for it outside the UK. However even then the increase in viewing figures wasn't that great, as it still only got a maximum of 5.87 million viewers on average for series 5, yet 7 million is the average for our most popular shows. It's a massively overrated 9/10 show, which was close to being an 8/10 as series 3 and series 6 weren't that good. Also nothing is filmed in *Birmingham* or *London.* Most of the show is filmed in *Bradford* (and *Yorkshire* in general) the world's first *UNESCO City of Film,* contrary to what most people believe. The streets are mainly in *Dudley* and *Liverpool.* The houses are mainly in *Liverpool, Knutsford* and *Port Sunlight.* Their workplaces are mainly in *Leeds, Manchester* and *Bradford.* And things like the prison, hospital, dry cleaners/brothel, hotels, port, cemetery, park, railway station etc are in *Bradford.* Other areas of *Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, Cheshire, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire* and the *West Midlands* are also used, but as I said, it's mainly indoor locations in *Bradford.* 15:41 *Swindon* is a *town,* not a *city.* The clue is in the name of it's football team - *Swindon Town.*
Jeez, the amount of time spent on this, and no-one will actually read it. Still, it passed an hour or two for you. Bless. p.s. Tell me where you got the information that there is a Ukrainian 'channel' called Leaning Canteen, and that its main object is to describe the UK countryside.
@@robertknight2556 I'm one of the few people on the internet who is a perfectionist, and doesn't spread misinformation like the media, and most people in the comments do. The information is on the channel, just like with every channel, in the "About" section. The Learning Canteen is constantly spreading nonsense about the UK. It's how I know that the majority of the most popular List/Top 10 channels on TH-cam are Canadian, not American, like most people think, at least 20 or 30 of which are owned by WatchMojo. Every single video on the biggest List/Top 10 channels, and information videos about the UK like this, always contain mistakes.
@@robertknight2556 Update, I've just seen that the Learning Canteen have changed their location on TH-cam. They've changed from Ukraine to the United Kingdom in the last month or two, but trust me, it's still run by Ukrainians, as they had British (or people pretending to be British) narrators when their location was still listed as Ukraine. However their address on their website is still the Ukraine, specifically in the city of Sumy. The same goes for Grammarly, the website which claims to be American, yet it was founded by Ukrainians, and was originally located in the Ukraine. I get adverts for it constantly, despite me blocking them constantly, wanting me to use their American spelling and grammar.
@@danielgardecki1046 ...I'm not going to pursue this conversation much further, other than to say that of course there is misinformation, if not plain manipulation, in the media, including you-tube. There is also opinion, which largely makes up the comments on YT, and clearly this can often lead to unmeasured responses, if not downright hostility (or, in my case, condescencion). All of the above is who, for good or ill, we are. You may indeed wish to be rigorous about what is factually correct (but, then, you do also offer opinion); my impression, however, is that most readers simply don't have the tolerance or mental stamina for any comment of some length. They simply move on to the next. I wasn't aware that Learning Canteen was on YT, and had a dip into its contents today, namely on the subject of knife-crime in the UK. Oh dear. You may wish to reply, but I will leave it here. I wish you well. Robert, uk.
@@robertknight2556 What we need is a British WatchMojo which actually uses facts, not made-up nonsense, with people like me working at this new non-existent company. The only proper List/Top 10 channel on TH-cam which is British is WhatCulture, however they've... 1 - Always mainly focused on American stuff. 2 - Haven't been as good since the main 5+ narrators left a few years ago. 3 - Rarely use facts, as it's all about their opinion.
Yea, but you two have been to various parts of England (including York where I live) and you know that there are a multiplicity of accents within the county of Yorkshire alone! The York accent is dying out now and being replaced by a more generic accent more akin to West Yorkshire (Leeds and so on): but my wife used to call people from Sheffield 'southerners' 🙂
South Yorkshire - Might as well merge with Derbyshire, as they have more in common with them than the rest of Yorkshire... Yet, the media always use Sheffield's Sean Bean as the stereotype for Yorkshire, which is why these South Yorkshire things are attributed to rest of Yorkshire.
Jack did a program with his father, Who do you think you are? A program that takes various celebrities and looks at their ancestry, if you can find it on line (do a websearch) - its very interesting and surprising. One ancestor was not a very pleasant person, and was Welsh.
To be British is to get drunk every weekend have fish and chips on a Friday and keep talking about the weather my late mother use to say you have the cheek of the ladd a old Nottinghamshire saying
yay he did Yorkshire. Also watched any thing with Sean Bean in it he has a Sheffield Yorkshire accent. O cool you start watching Peaky Blinders. A toff is a slang word for posh upper -class people. Hopes this helps. 😊
Sean Bean = Shot and Killed in Bradford by Spider-Man. Sean Bean = Narrated a Yorkshire documentary by some Bradford filmmakers. Peaky Blinders = Mainly filmed in Bradford, contrary to what most people believe.
@@yorkshirefox2684 In Peaky Blinders Grace got shot and killed in Liverpool before she could make it to Bradford... However she made it to Bradford as a ghost, so practically completed all the major characters appearing in Bradford locations. The only one who didn't appear in a Bradford location (as far as I could tell, as there's 2 I've never been able to spot) was Tom Hardy, however he had been to Bradford before in Wuthering Heights (2009), which is where he met his future wife Charlotte Riley, who has appeared in at least 6 Bradford filmed productions herself.
I didn't watch Peaky Blinders until 2019 because I live in The Netherlands and literally 90% of people would talk about it to me because of my British accent.. it's a great show
It's a massively overrated show, which got below average viewing figures, and was mainly filmed 1.5 miles down the road from me, in *Bradford* the world's first *UNESCO City of Film* contrary to what most people believe.
He didn't say Ian McKellan... He said Sarah Millican incorrectly... Which is why they repeatedly referred to her as "her." Also she's not a Geordie either, she's a Sand Dancer, which even after pointing it out to people like Jimmy Carr, he still calls her a Geordie whenever she's on 8OO10CDC.
@@midwestamericans3806 I've never paid attention to where Ian McKellen is from, however I've now just Googled it, and he's not from Yorkshire either, so I have no idea where Martyn got that idea from. *Ian McKellan* was born in *Burnley, Lancashire* and was raised in *Bolton* and *Wigan* which are both in *Greater Manchester.* I suspect Martyn was thinking of his X-Men rival *Patrick Stewart* who was born and raised in *Mirfield, West Yorkshire,* and also partly raised in *Jarrow, Tyne & Wear.*
Bob's your uncle ,Easy ,It's from a british prime minister named ,I forget ,who was more oir less handed his position by his uncle A british prime minister ,There that was easy!!!
No one in their right mind drinks Liptons in the British Isles or Ireland. Pour off-the-boil water onto a milk sodden Liptons "tea" bag to achieve the abominable bilge that the rest of the world tries to pass off as English tea - No wonderJack travels with his own teabags.
Tea made in a cup tastes nothing like one being made in a tea pot! The way he made it was total crap!!........Put tea bag, or loose tea into a warmed pot, then pour on "BOILING WATER"....definitely not just "HOT" water.....and leave for at least 3 to 4 minutes, a quick stir, and off ya go!....Milk/Sugar to your own taste!
I don't know why he thought he was an expert on making tea. You warm the teapot then put the tea in the teapot then add the boiling water. Pour your tea from the pot into the cup. Heathen.
It's a bit of shame that the title of the original video is "...teaches you how to be British", but then at 1:12 it literally says "Going to England", and the rest of the video is just about how it is being English and exclusively about English accents. I actually found Jack Whitehall extremely funny in this, but it *is* a bit annoying when Americans equate "British" with a posh Englishman. -They can be lovely, but they are not representative of the whole country!
Swindon is a joke, spaghetti junction and the five ways roundabout in Birmingham is just as bad if not worse. Swindon claim to fame is the worse designed roundabout as it actually rotates in two different directions if I recall rightly, from inner to outer. Which doesn't strictly identify it as a roundabout, more a contraflow system...
@@midwestamericans3806 It was fresh caught in India, might be different from a store or something but as someone who doesn't like fish I really liked it.
Who the hell uses the word ‘Trollied’ to describe getting drunk? I’m a 51 year old English man and I have never heard anyone say that. Pied off that’s a new one on me. It must be a Millennial saying. That was a poor video for people outside of the U.K. to learn about the U.K. Jack did a poor job.
Very nearly any word can be used to mean drunk. Some are more codified than others - bladdered, trollied and so on - but anything will work in context. “He was totally Weetabixed.” “He’d had four bottles of Buckfast and was utterly rafted.” “He got pulled by the rozzers and turned out to be completely broomed.” “He said it was ok to microwave tea, but you can’t really blame him - he was totally clatterwazocked.”
A Toff is slang for a person who is an upperclass snob. Back in the day Toffs would be a well dressed Gentlemen who would be wearing a Top Hat and carrying a Kane.
Toffee nosed
Cane * or rather Walking stick.
Would that be a Harry Kane lol? A cane however might be useful...
I'm a 46 year old Brit and I've never heard anyone say Pied Off. Although, I'm not one of those weird southerners.
Crikey I'm glad someone else said that - I NEVER heard most of those "expressions" like minted or munted or whatever and pied off is news to me
I am one of those weird southerners and I've never heard of it either. I have a feeling it's a youth thing
'Pied Off' (is a pretty new saying and as he said, mainly used on the TV show 'Love Island): Means to be rejected or dumped !
'Minted' (which has been around for quite a while now): Means loaded, or having a lot of money (or, sometimes it can mean good).
'Munted' (is quite a bit older, since about 2007/8 ish?): Two main ways of using it: 1/ Refers to the property of an object (or person) as broken, ruined, significantly damaged, disfigured or deformed, often to the extent that it is not reversible or repairable.
2/Very drunk or in an extreme state of intoxication by way of drugs or alcohol such that the subject's ability to perform basic tasks such as walking and talking are significantly impaired.
NB: In NZ and Australian slang, 1/ is the more common sense, and in UK slang 2/ is more common.
In London MLE slang you would say parred off basically means the same thing, pied off mugged off etc
Yeah I'm from London and I use minted and munted but pied off is alien to me. Probably because neither myself nor anyone I know watches Love Island😂
He steeped the tea almost 2 minutes longer than I would, I'm a wafter rather than a steeper. We enjoy our tea in many varied ways. We even sometimes have colour charts in workplaces to see how people like it.
Please don't look up the phrase "teabagging". You've been warned lol. 😇🇬🇧🇺🇸💜
Yeah, their innocent uncomprehending faces when he talked about and demonstrated the 'technique' was priceless! :-)
Sucking on someone's testicles, usually during gay sex. There, I've said it. Robert, uk.
I recently travelled around Italy with 40 Americans. I was the only Brit.
They wanted to know how British people speak so I taught them very useful phrases that will help when they visit.
Aye up mi duk = hello
Arr ya didlin = how are you
Fai ta mod = OK
Wan sum scran? = are you hungry
Wayers bog? = where is the bathroom
By the time we parted they were fluent in Derbyshire.
I hope they found it useful in London 😂
Haha that is hilarious!
@@midwestamericans3806 Hope your going to get a proper frame for the picture you got sent 🙂
Ozzy Osbourne and wife are from The Black Country just outside Birmingham.
@@midwestamericans3806 PS. Tea bagging is a naughty phrase and dipping the bag is rude, Jack being a little naughty with the US film crew 😁
You should have taught them how people in Scotland,Wales,Northern Ireland and England speak too,not just England if you wanted to let them know how to sound British.
@@manchestertart5614 mae angen i chi ddeall am jôcs
A 'Toff' is a very posh person.
It's one of those words which isn't considered rude, but is used to emphasize your disdain.
A good video. I'm not sure why he used a teapot but still made the tea in the cup.....
Not the way my Gran taught me to make tea, and its milk 1st. Grandad liked his black and referred to it a Somme Water. Shows you how old I am. Warm the Teapot, flush, add fresh hot water, add the tea, loose or bag your choice allow to mask/steep. Add milk to cup, just a tot, pour tea, use a filter sieve if loose. Add extra milk if required, the more milk the weaker the tea taste. Ideal colour a dark tan.
I love Jack Whitehall he is so funny love watching him with his dad as well
Im British and Ive never heard 'pied off'.
BOB'S YOUR UNCLE - the origins are uncertain, but a common theory is that the expression arose after Conservative Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ("Bob") appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887, an act of nepotism, which was apparently both surprising and unpopular. Whatever other qualifications Balfour might have had, "Bob's your uncle" was seen as the conclusive one.
Good video, very good funny Jack I have never heard of "Pied off" either. I am 39 Southerner.
I like Jack Whitehall very much - his portrayal of a (not very good) young teacher in the comedy 'Bad Education' was a real scream.
Haven't seen that but will look into it.
Hello Ethan and Angela. Very British and amusing and interesting to see your reaction, with you having been here. He pointed out that there is not just one type of British person, which can come as news to those elsewhere. The unifying thing is generally tea, which he also covered, though I feel this opinion may be because I am from Yorkshire. I do enjoy gravy, so he got that almost right, except for things better accompanied by mushy peas with vinegar and mint sauce.
I love cockles, likewise proper black pudding; its essential to like them before you know what you are eating.
Cockles are run of the mill in Wales. Plenty of vinegar is a must.
@@ticketyboo2456Yes, I was surprised when he said Cockles are a Cockney favourite, I'm from North West England and they are still popular in Blackpool. I remember years ago the cocle seller was always popular in my home town, Bolton going around the pubs selling Cockles and other sea foods..
I’ve been a huge Jack Whitehall fan for a really long time. I got my husband hooked on him watching Travels with my Father on Netflix.
'Toff' is a slang term for someone of the upper class, usually the kind of person who inherits an estate.
Builders tea is extremely strong and sweet tea. As if it's been stewing in a thermos flask for hours...
Can’t help but notice the room you are filming this in.
Is looking more and more British every day 😂 😊
Haha just setting the stuff up people sent to us.
@@midwestamericans3806 if people keep sending you stuff. You guys might need a bigger house 😂
Jack is great and you should check out A League of Their Own, in which he appeared with Jamie Redknapp (footballer) and Andrew Flintoff (cricketer). They even did a US road trip!
Jack is half cast. He's an idiot! And, would be nothing without his mother. He's second hand. Because his father kept knocking around. So, he's just trying to keep 'cashed' in...
A toff is someone very posh , when are you coming over here to live.❤🏴🏴🇬🇧
Haha working on a online job so in school atm.
Any word conververted to a past tense verb can be used to mean drunk.
Bob refers to a real Robert - Peel a prime minister.
Sarah Millican is a Sand Dancer, which iß Geordie to the uninitiated.
Peaky blinders was a big hit here shown on the BBC , looking forward to the movie to see what Tommy does next .
It's a massively overrated show, which got below average viewing figures, was given awards which weren't voted for by the public, and was mainly filmed 1.5 miles down the road from me, in *Bradford* the world's first *UNESCO City of Film* contrary to what most people believe.
This bloke is accurate' Toffs is a slang word for wealthy people! Pissed on of the slang word for being drunk in the common tongue.... Great Caption..
I saw him and his dad, Michael Whitehall live in 2019. He was very, very funny.
Pied off is an attempt to replace the far more popular pissed-off in social engineering...
It actually comes from the TV show 'Love Island' and was used as a phrase to mean someone has been 'dumped' or 'rejected'... It is used throughout Reddit and similar places using young 'lingo or buzz words' etc.
@@stewedfishproductions7959 Never seen "love island", never seen "Reddit" so it's something I don't know or accept.. so you're right calling it lingo, buzz words or maybe jargon.
It sounds very American to me...
Sarah Millican said she's not a Geordie, she's a Sandancer, from South Shields.
No. You make tea in a teapot, not the cup. Freshly boiling water and brew for 4 minutes (in the pot) before pouring the brew onto milk in a teacup.
Ah poor Jack it's boiling water not boiled.
I have seen people stir the tea Anti-clockwise. Heathens.
:o Surely not?!
Just a slight correction: Cillian Murphy from Peaky Blinders' name is Pronounced Kee-lee-an 😊
Fantastic actor, did great as Oppenheimer.
I rarely say "Bob's your uncle" but "Job's a good 'un" frequently serves in it's place.
Yikes, it must've been a while since I saw Jack Whitehall. I remember him looking about 20
NO !!! You pour ^boiling^ water on the tea leaves or tea bags in the tea pot, and steep there. You put milk in the cup first, then pour in the tea. If you pour milk into hot tea it gets scalded and spoilt.
Bob's your uncle. Automatic. No effort. From prime minister Robert Walpole who gave his unqualified nephew a lucrative govt job.
Jack Whitehall went to a very expensive public school where I live. He tells a lot of stories about this area and his review of Swindon is so spot on!!!!
Marlborough?
Yes that's the place!@@w0033944
Haha yea that looks like a roundabout from hell.
Cockles are eaten much wider than London. Most east coast places sell them. Personally i prefer pickled mussels..
Thanks for your reaction.
... ahum, I thought it was pretty average but perhaps better than I expected from him. I do sometimes like his standup and but also less keep on his acting. I think the information supplied suffered a little from some lame jokes, but he did OK with accents and was suitably humble about any weaknesses there.
Peaky Blinders is VERY popular here. It's incredibly well written, produced and the acting is great. Pretty brutal. Did you know it is based on a real gang from the late 1900s who 'ruled' Birmingham. They were called the Blinders because they sewed razors into their cap brims and used them to blind their opponents. Many were young boys in their mid-teens. I think they were eventually obliterated by another gang. Violent times.
The lower classes use teabags we people with a sense of occasion, when drinking this after we had showered or bathed , shaved and brushed our teeth then drink tea with smoked kippers is a fish, then boiled eggs with asparagus or toast maybe back bacon never streaky bacon in which you Americans eat over done and burnt and Irish pork sausages unless we have a local farm that makes it's own sausages then with scrumble eggs placed in a pan with butter that pan must start from cold then you bring the heat up on a slow heat eggs and by bringing into the centre of the pan and moving all the time soft eggs . Has for builders tea, that's teabags and I myself have had it and it's nice,I I'm used to loose tea and it must be strong one or two sugars are the norm. But for use it's loose tea breakfast tea or earl grey these tea's can be eaten with cakes and sandwiches in the afternoon and evening or with breakfast meals . Boiling hot water poured into a teapot left for two minutes stirring twice before pouring this tea into a fine china cup then add milk full fat, milk, then if you take sugar or sugar free sweeteners then add these until your hearts content, pass this brew to guesses or have your butler or housemaid serve you. A continental breakfast may include cornflakes, bread rolls and jam or marmalade there are some superb different jam's and marmalades, peach,raspberry, strawberry, plum, damson, blackberry, mulberry jam's, lemon and lime, pear and damson, loganberry and orange marmalade all different all unique in favour and taste. Other breakfast foods are tinned tomatoes on buttered toast the same with eggs on toast and mushrooms on toast until you try it don't knock it or with a full English this is where it gets a little bit devisive black pudding or blood sausage some people just don't like it I'm one of them, but put on the plate, people eat it tinned tomatoes or fried tomatoes, the juice it's fantastic you mop up the juice from tomatoes with buttered toast or bread. Then the last thing is do rich or affluent person's does is eat fried bread it's a must with it buttered both sides and fried and with a second cup of tea. My father didn't like tea at all through his life he drunk something called coffea black the tiniest bit of sugar even in the service that's the army being a gentleman serving in the armed forces his batman would serve coffea to him every time, when at luncheon or in the field or officers mess service with other officers in rank to follow with dress code uniforms seating arrangement are senior officer then the ranks in lower order and sitting inbetween the officers ladies not wife's, all officers wife's are referred to as lady and common soldiers had the misses or the wife and we come back to tea, please try loose tea it's ten times better
Love mum
The "Milk first" rule only applies when you are pouring hot tea into a bone china tea cup and likewise, the purpose of "warming the pot" all serve to prevent a bone china tea set potentially cracking from the sudden shock of boiling water pured into cold tableware. Builder's Tea is made in the mug; boiling water straight onto a teabag, preferably the punchy "Yorkshire Tea" brand. Squeeze the bag in the cup with a teaspoon until the brew looks about right, Only add milk after you're satisfied the tea has brewed and you've removed the bag. Two teaspoons of sugar into this brew complies as "NATO standard". Pouring the milk in with the teabag first ensures the milky fluid you end up with will never be hot enough to get any depth of flavour out your tea.
When I came to the UK with my parents from South Africa in 1962, we stayed for a while with my mother's parents in Barking. They were very much Cockney, so I had a problem understanding them at first. It was a 'treat' every Sunday to buy fresh steamed cockles (as well as whelks) from a chap with a barrow down the high street. At the table, we were each given a pin to remove the 'cap' on each cockle and extrude the little chewy sea-tasting creature inside. These were served with thin slices of bread and margarine. This was so exotic to me. Recently, in my local supermarket, I discovered with delight a jar of cockles and discovered to my dismay how terrible they were, gristly and saturated with salt. Can people still buy fresh cockles nowadays? Robert, uk.
Tea needs be Yorkshire Tea or a similar quality brand. There is no ceremony or china cup required.
Great reaction, Jack is brilliant 😀
Accents:
- "Isn't sir Ian McKellen, Geordie?" 11:09
- "I think that's her name, yeah.."
sarah milligan/Sir Ian mcKellen, potato/tomato 🤣
@@scottythedawg Cucumber my friend. They're speaking Cucumberish..
(I'm not even a native speaker.. This isn't my language.)
Peaky Blinders is very popular in UK because it is a UK made show
trolleys have wonky wheels and want to go off in a different direction...hense why trollied is a euphemism for being drunk.
You guys have to do a reaction video to the festival of remembrance 2023. I’m a grown man and I was in tears.
It a teabag is involved, it's not tea. Might need a Malteser or two, but it's not tea.
Bob's Your Uncle has nothing to do with difficulty, it's all about the completion of something..
and Bob's Your Uncle - you're finished...
A famous Geordie is Brian Johnson from AC/DC
Cockles are like eating salty boogers.
TWININGS is pronounced TWY NINGS.
You can put a slice of lemon in some teas such as EARL GREY or LADY GREY. But no milk.
A TOFF, short for toffee nosed, is a very posh person. A bit like Jack. Upper class.
You guys are the most wholesome lovely people. Never stop being you.
Awww thank you!
@@midwestamericans3806 I agree Ethan & Angela, you're such a lovely couple ❤
Cockney is one of many London accents. Most people referring to a London accent mean South London, which is not close to Cockney.
Lovely video. Peaky blinders man's name is pronounced Kill-ian
Cockney is a London accent, but there are different London accents and someone in the East End sounds different to someone from Tottenham, who sounds different to someone from Chelsea!
He's English. Very few things are British, mostly just passports. We all come from one of the countries contained within Britain, making us all very different.
The island of Britain has nothing to do with being British.
British things are from the UK, the British overseas territories, and the crown dependencies.
English is still British so I dont get your point.
@@scottythedawg English is English, as distinct from Scottish, Welsh or Irish. We are all British but all different. Not in a bad way, but we all embrace our own culture in our own way, individually. I think our humour is a bit different across the nations, and our outlook on life generally. We are all British but that's a bit of a blanket term that I think is inadequate to put us all under. Together we make a good team Britain, but individually we are different. So I personally prefer to be described as English rather than British.
@@judithhope8970 I will take either
@judithhope8970 Irish citizens are not British. Northern Irish people can claim Irish citizenship or British citizenship or Both. But Irish citizens from Ireland 🇮🇪 the Republic are certainly not British.
1:07 *Condé Nast Traveler* - An American magazine which has no idea about the Geography of the UK, just like the Ukrainian channel *Leaning Canteen.* I've only read a few articles from *Condé Nast Traveler* over the years, but they're full of misinformation, even the last ones I read which were written by a Brit about filming locations.
1:20 and 1:24 Completely false statements, as we have the best chefs in the world, most of which have visited my city for one specific reason - *Curry.*
7:47 I used to have around 10 pairs of socks, which all contained a different word for drunk, along a picture of things they were inspired by. They included *Trollied* (Trolley), *Ratted* (Rat), *Hammered* (Hammer), *Wrecked* (Shipwreck), *Mashed* (Mashed Potato), *Badgered* (Badger), *Steaming* (Steam Train) etc
10:45 A sentence taken from *Jimmy Carr.*
11:10 No, *Sarah Millican* is not a *Geordie.* She's a *Sand Dancer.* *Geordie's* are from *Newcastle-upon-Tyne,* whereas *Sand Dancers* are from *South Shields.* There's also *Mackems* from *Sunderland,* *Pitmatics* from *Northumberland/County Durham,* and *Smoggies* from *Middlesbrough* (Bob Mortimer land) among others, which all sound similar to *Geordie* but are not the same.
12:24 *Yorkshire* isn't really known for mining, albeit with have done a lot in our history. *Bradford* and *West Yorkshire* in general is known for *Wool.* *Sheffield* is known for *Steel.* *Wakefield* is known for *Coal.* The stone used to build *Manchester Town Hall* and *Bradford City Hall* was mined in *Bolton Woods Quarry* in *Bradford.*
12:27 *Gravy* on everything is more of a *Lancashire* thing than a *Yorkshire* thing.
12:32 *Duck* is used in *South Yorkshire,* however it's mainly used in the counties which surround *Yorkshire* to the East and South like *Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire* and *Derbyshire* the county where it originates.
15:00 *Peaky Blinders* got below average viewing figures until series 5, when *Award Ceremonies which are Picked by the Industry* decided to give it some awards, and *Netflix* started distributing and claiming credit for it outside the UK. However even then the increase in viewing figures wasn't that great, as it still only got a maximum of 5.87 million viewers on average for series 5, yet 7 million is the average for our most popular shows.
It's a massively overrated 9/10 show, which was close to being an 8/10 as series 3 and series 6 weren't that good.
Also nothing is filmed in *Birmingham* or *London.* Most of the show is filmed in *Bradford* (and *Yorkshire* in general) the world's first *UNESCO City of Film,* contrary to what most people believe. The streets are mainly in *Dudley* and *Liverpool.* The houses are mainly in *Liverpool, Knutsford* and *Port Sunlight.* Their workplaces are mainly in *Leeds, Manchester* and *Bradford.* And things like the prison, hospital, dry cleaners/brothel, hotels, port, cemetery, park, railway station etc are in *Bradford.* Other areas of *Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, Cheshire, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire* and the *West Midlands* are also used, but as I said, it's mainly indoor locations in *Bradford.*
15:41 *Swindon* is a *town,* not a *city.* The clue is in the name of it's football team - *Swindon Town.*
Jeez, the amount of time spent on this, and no-one will actually read it. Still, it passed an hour or two for you. Bless.
p.s. Tell me where you got the information that there is a Ukrainian 'channel' called Leaning Canteen, and that its main object is to describe the UK countryside.
@@robertknight2556 I'm one of the few people on the internet who is a perfectionist, and doesn't spread misinformation like the media, and most people in the comments do.
The information is on the channel, just like with every channel, in the "About" section. The Learning Canteen is constantly spreading nonsense about the UK.
It's how I know that the majority of the most popular List/Top 10 channels on TH-cam are Canadian, not American, like most people think, at least 20 or 30 of which are owned by WatchMojo.
Every single video on the biggest List/Top 10 channels, and information videos about the UK like this, always contain mistakes.
@@robertknight2556 Update, I've just seen that the Learning Canteen have changed their location on TH-cam. They've changed from Ukraine to the United Kingdom in the last month or two, but trust me, it's still run by Ukrainians, as they had British (or people pretending to be British) narrators when their location was still listed as Ukraine.
However their address on their website is still the Ukraine, specifically in the city of Sumy.
The same goes for Grammarly, the website which claims to be American, yet it was founded by Ukrainians, and was originally located in the Ukraine.
I get adverts for it constantly, despite me blocking them constantly, wanting me to use their American spelling and grammar.
@@danielgardecki1046 ...I'm not going to pursue this conversation much further, other than to say that of course there is misinformation, if not plain manipulation, in the media, including you-tube. There is also opinion, which largely makes up the comments on YT, and clearly this can often lead to unmeasured responses, if not downright hostility (or, in my case, condescencion). All of the above is who, for good or ill, we are.
You may indeed wish to be rigorous about what is factually correct (but, then, you do also offer opinion); my impression, however, is that most readers simply don't have the tolerance or mental stamina for any comment of some length. They simply move on to the next.
I wasn't aware that Learning Canteen was on YT, and had a dip into its contents today, namely on the subject of knife-crime in the UK. Oh dear.
You may wish to reply, but I will leave it here. I wish you well. Robert, uk.
@@robertknight2556 What we need is a British WatchMojo which actually uses facts, not made-up nonsense, with people like me working at this new non-existent company.
The only proper List/Top 10 channel on TH-cam which is British is WhatCulture, however they've...
1 - Always mainly focused on American stuff.
2 - Haven't been as good since the main 5+ narrators left a few years ago.
3 - Rarely use facts, as it's all about their opinion.
Yea, but you two have been to various parts of England (including York where I live) and you know that there are a multiplicity of accents within the county of Yorkshire alone! The York accent is dying out now and being replaced by a more generic accent more akin to West Yorkshire (Leeds and so on): but my wife used to call people from Sheffield 'southerners' 🙂
South Yorkshire - Might as well merge with Derbyshire, as they have more in common with them than the rest of Yorkshire...
Yet, the media always use Sheffield's Sean Bean as the stereotype for Yorkshire, which is why these South Yorkshire things are attributed to rest of Yorkshire.
Yea the amount of accents everywhere is fantastic!
Jack got the tea horribly wrong, but he's right that nut juice does not work in tea.
He must have been abroad too long. Only boiling water to be used.
🇬🇧 Never heard of ‘pied off’.
Bob’s your uncle. Fanny’s your aunt - easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy.
Jack did a program with his father, Who do you think you are? A program that takes various celebrities and looks at their ancestry, if you can find it on line (do a websearch) - its very interesting and surprising. One ancestor was not a very pleasant person, and was Welsh.
*programme
To be British is to get drunk every weekend have fish and chips on a Friday and keep talking about the weather my late mother use to say you have the cheek of the ladd a old Nottinghamshire saying
😂
Most of us know what a phrase means and use that phrase but may not know where it comes from
No one in my family has ever made a cup of tea like that ! Mind you - we're from the East end of London - maybe it's a class thing !
How do you make your tea then?
When making my wife's tea I let the teabag 'infuse' for a couple or three minutes.
yay he did Yorkshire. Also watched any thing with Sean Bean in it he has a Sheffield Yorkshire accent. O cool you start watching Peaky Blinders. A toff is a slang word for posh upper -class people. Hopes this helps. 😊
Sean Bean = Shot and Killed in Bradford by Spider-Man.
Sean Bean = Narrated a Yorkshire documentary by some Bradford filmmakers.
Peaky Blinders = Mainly filmed in Bradford, contrary to what most people believe.
@@danielgardecki1046 Sean Bean killer huh. Mind he does tend to die a lot in his roles poor lad.
@@yorkshirefox2684 Andrew Garfield shot him when he was eating one of Bradford's famous curries, in Red Riding 1974.
@@yorkshirefox2684 In Peaky Blinders Grace got shot and killed in Liverpool before she could make it to Bradford...
However she made it to Bradford as a ghost, so practically completed all the major characters appearing in Bradford locations.
The only one who didn't appear in a Bradford location (as far as I could tell, as there's 2 I've never been able to spot) was Tom Hardy, however he had been to Bradford before in Wuthering Heights (2009), which is where he met his future wife Charlotte Riley, who has appeared in at least 6 Bradford filmed productions herself.
He ruined that candy for you ??? I would have thought it was more motivational in certain aspects instead hehehehehehe
I didn't watch Peaky Blinders until 2019 because I live in The Netherlands and literally 90% of people would talk about it to me because of my British accent.. it's a great show
It's a massively overrated show, which got below average viewing figures, and was mainly filmed 1.5 miles down the road from me, in *Bradford* the world's first *UNESCO City of Film* contrary to what most people believe.
The first time I bought tea in Germany, it tasted like Antiseptic liquid (Dettol), after one sip it was only used as an endurance/joke test
A Toff is slang/ a derogatory term for rich, upper class people!
Ian McKellan is from Yorkshire. NOT a geordie
He didn't say Ian McKellan...
He said Sarah Millican incorrectly...
Which is why they repeatedly referred to her as "her."
Also she's not a Geordie either, she's a Sand Dancer, which even after pointing it out to people like Jimmy Carr, he still calls her a Geordie whenever she's on 8OO10CDC.
Yea I guess I did say her last name wrong, sorry about that. I did not know he was from York though so thank you for that info!
@@midwestamericans3806 I've never paid attention to where Ian McKellen is from, however I've now just Googled it, and he's not from Yorkshire either, so I have no idea where Martyn got that idea from.
*Ian McKellan* was born in *Burnley, Lancashire* and was raised in *Bolton* and *Wigan* which are both in *Greater Manchester.*
I suspect Martyn was thinking of his X-Men rival *Patrick Stewart* who was born and raised in *Mirfield, West Yorkshire,* and also partly raised in *Jarrow, Tyne & Wear.*
@@danielgardecki1046 he was! Getting their "Who Do You Think You Are" episodes confused 😄
Bob's your uncle ,Easy ,It's from a british prime minister named ,I forget ,who was more oir less handed his position by his uncle
A british prime minister ,There that was easy!!!
No one in their right mind drinks Liptons in the British Isles or Ireland. Pour off-the-boil water onto a milk sodden Liptons "tea" bag to achieve the abominable bilge that the rest of the world tries to pass off as English tea - No wonderJack travels with his own teabags.
His accents are being dubbed in!
Peaky blinders is massive
Peaky Blinders got less viewers than most average shows, but is massively overhyped by the out-of-touch media and award ceremony judges.
Tea made in a cup tastes nothing like one being made in a tea pot! The way he made it was total crap!!........Put tea bag, or loose tea into a warmed pot, then pour on "BOILING WATER"....definitely not just "HOT" water.....and leave for at least 3 to 4 minutes, a quick stir, and off ya go!....Milk/Sugar to your own taste!
I don't know why he thought he was an expert on making tea. You warm the teapot then put the tea in the teapot then add the boiling water. Pour your tea from the pot into the cup. Heathen.
Find his who do you think you are episode. Entertaining.
Amazing that it's about Britain but he only does English accents.
Yea, we noticed that to.
@@midwestamericans3806, as a Scotsman, trust me when I say we are all too use to it.
It's a bit of shame that the title of the original video is "...teaches you how to be British", but then at 1:12 it literally says "Going to England", and the rest of the video is just about how it is being English and exclusively about English accents. I actually found Jack Whitehall extremely funny in this, but it *is* a bit annoying when Americans equate "British" with a posh Englishman. -They can be lovely, but they are not representative of the whole country!
Yea we thought he did a great job.
Wow. Jack Whitehall doesn't know where any of the phrases come from. That's crazy, he got almost every one wrong.
Pretty sure 'duck' and 'me duck' is more Nottinghamshire than Yorkshire... open to being corrected on that one.
Haha, Scouse does not sound Scottish.
Disappointed in Jack joining in on the tired, cheap and totally baseless joke about British food to pander to the Americans.
Their smirking faces showed that they agreed with Whitehall
Their smirking faces showed that they agreed with Whitehall
Swindon is a joke, spaghetti junction and the five ways roundabout in Birmingham is just as bad if not worse. Swindon claim to fame is the worse designed roundabout as it actually rotates in two different directions if I recall rightly, from inner to outer. Which doesn't strictly identify it as a roundabout, more a contraflow system...
Shark is acually really tasty
Really?
@@midwestamericans3806 It was fresh caught in India, might be different from a store or something but as someone who doesn't like fish I really liked it.
Where was the west country?
MILK IN FIRST
No no no no no no
Might be RP but the word pronunciation is pro- nun -ciation. There is no o between the n's.
Maltesers are delish deloo but for an American maybe not sugary enough. We know you like very high sugar sweeties over there...
Who the hell uses the word ‘Trollied’ to describe getting drunk?
I’m a 51 year old English man and I have never heard anyone say that.
Pied off that’s a new one on me. It must be a Millennial saying.
That was a poor video for people outside of the U.K. to learn about the U.K. Jack did a poor job.
trollied is used in some parts of England to describe being drunk. I think pied off should be peed off or pissed off
His attude about our food is not true
Maltesers, yuk!
@@karonmorrison2531 lol your opinion laugh a minute not
.... no accounting for (ones) taste... I do, however, love Fry's chocolate turkish delight, but can't stand parma violets.
Very nearly any word can be used to mean drunk. Some are more codified than others - bladdered, trollied and so on - but anything will work in context.
“He was totally Weetabixed.”
“He’d had four bottles of Buckfast and was utterly rafted.”
“He got pulled by the rozzers and turned out to be completely broomed.”
“He said it was ok to microwave tea, but you can’t really blame him - he was totally clatterwazocked.”
Please stop insulting the Welsh, if you hang a flag use the correct orientation.