@@joshglynn7811 Do you say "I'll call you" ? It's like that :) What's always gotten me is how Brits say things like "I will do" or "I have done", when in the States we say "I will" or "I have." Just shortening it a diff way I suppose. But it just sounds odd to my ear is all 😅
If someone uses butter on a burger bun instead of sauces, then yeah that's weird, but in my mind, you butter the buns because you wanna toast the buns on the pan before making the burger! Do you make your burgers with untoasted buns?? If yes... I feel sad for you. Please toast your buns.
One thing about the US that I’ll never understand is no uniform at schools. Please tell me how a child is meant to dress themselves appropriately every day. I had such a culture shock when I started sixth form and had to wear my own clothes everyday- it was just a flurry of once-used clothes being thrown across my room trying to find something new to wear.
It’s a security issue. The US financial institutions held back on implementing chip and pin technology as long as possible to save money. They reckoned that the cost of reimbursing customers who had their credit cards hacked was acceptable. Here in Canada we have been using the point of sale terminals with chip and pin for many years. I do not let my credit card out of my sight. I got hacked twice in years past, once in the US and once in Brazil.
A friend of mine worked in a primary school. All the kids called him 'Miss' because he was the only male teacher and they thought 'Miss' is what you called teachers. After the first six months, he gave up trying to correct them.
That's hilarious! 😆 All through my school years (primary included), teachers were miss or sir. We did have a couple of teachers at my secondary school who wanted to feel like they were one of the lads and allowed us to use their first names, although I don't think any of us were really comfortable with that. Even now, my school has a Facebook group of which a handful of our teachers are members, and many of us struggle to respond to their comments using their first names, even though we're all now grown adults with families and proper lives of our own! The only difference for me between primary and secondary school was when we referred to teachers amongst ourselves. In primary we'd refer to them as Mr/Mrs/Miss Whoever, but in secondary school we only ever used their surnames.
@@chelseasmith5169 Yep, I always hate getting called ma'am or madam! It's like, you don't need to call me anything, so please don't remind me how ancient I am. I like when I go home to Glasgow and I might get called 'hen' or 'doll', which are un age-related.
@jojofromtx Canada. Men get called Sir, it's generic or there's no identifier typically. There's been a transition I noticed in my son's school as well though. All female teachers are Madam not Miss, Ms and Madam now
@@surpriseitscaz yes! My gran was from Edinburgh. I miss being called pet and sweet all the time. If people were to try that here there would be a massive uproar against terms of endearment
When my (British) parents were living in the states, they knew someone named Randy Balls. They thought it was hilarious, and even funnier that no one else thought anything of it.
The "there's no rush" at restaurants is actually the opposite of what I've experienced: In the US, everybody tries to get you out the door as quickly as possible, because you're costing them money. (They can't earn tips off the next customer if you're still there.) In Europe, staff aren't dependent on customers' tips, so you can sit there all evening and they won't bother you unless you flag them down whenever you are ready to pay and leave.
What if the restaurant's busy? I've certainly felt pressured to leave in due time at a restaurant in Australia or England, and as an employee I've felt pressured by managers to herd customers out so that more can sit. It's not about the tips in that case - it's about the business itself having more opportunity to sit more customers and receive more money.
I'd love to know which restaurant that was and where. When I was frequenting sit down restaurants (pre covid), my modis operandi was to tell the waiter/waitress to bring me my bill immediately so I can pay it ....... that way when I have finished eating, I can leave. They wouldn't do it because ....... if I had an open tab they figured I could order more food ...... no I do not want another appetizer to nibble on while waiting for my entree, no I do not want another beverage, no I do not want dessert (I would have ordered it at the git go) ...... just bring me my damn bill while I am waiting for my food so I can get up and leave when I have finished eating. It was always so damned annoying and frustrating to sit there trying to wave down the waiter to pay the bill ....... and time was ticking and I had other things I wanted to get to .......LIKE A MOVIE!
@@k-leb4671 I think this is the exact experience the original comment is talking about… I frequently eat out, and every waiter knows that you get better tips if you don’t pester your customers; you’d only do so if your manager directed you to, due to people waiting for tables
I am a brit, living in the usa. Soooo many times the wait staff will ask us what we want to eat before they have even given us the menu.. or about 30 seconds after.. then all the courses come out at once. and you all but kicked out the second you pay.. ok that's a slight exaggeration for the norm, but it has happened.. What I think is also weird is that when you go to someones house for the first time they always want to give me a tour of their house.. so awkward..
American cashiers: "OMG HI HOW ARE YOU TODAY?" British cashiers: "hiuarright" Norwegian Cashiers: *not a word... Maybe they'll ask if you want the receipt if you're unlucky, but otherwise not a word*
@@Navajonkee Yeah, over here you're unlucky (or lucky, depending on how you look at it) if the cashier even tells you the amount.. They usually ask if you want a bag, but that's it. It's custom to say goodbye tho, but that's initiated by the customer, not the cashier.
The fuck? I’ve lived in 4 states and in most of them the cashiers give zero fucks. There are some larger chains that have surveys on the receipts and there’s Chick-fil-a where they act super courteous but for the most part they don’t give a fuck, including walmart
In the UK we call an eraser a rubber. A friend of mine was doing pencil sketches and went into the hotel reception and asked if they had a rubber. He nearly got thrown out! The receptionist didn't like being asked if she had got a condom.
I got kicked out of a class secondary school for asking the guy in front of me for a rubber 🙄 more so the teachers mindset than mine. Nobody was even sniggering let alone myself 😅 But being offended for asking for a condom is also ridiculous 😂
The waiter taking your card is not about convenience its about security. When the waiter takes your card away out of your sight you don't know if they are swiping the details from it. That's why in the UK they bring the payment terminal to the table.
@@krzlcve it wouldn't be worth it for one customers card, but if they did it to every customer they serve it could be lucrative. It can and does happen. That's why I would never let my card out my sight.
Yes exactly. There was a lot of stuff in the news a couple decades or so back when people started getting their cards cloned. It was drummed into me as a teenager, never give your card to anyone, they give the machine to you. Sometimes in smaller companies with old machines you have to put the card in the machine and then they take it back to input the charge, and even when the card is in the machine and never leaves my sight that still makes me uncomfortable. The idea of some random person just walking off with my card to another room would stress me out soo much. They could be doing anything with it.
@@krzlcve It does happen. There are cloing machines where they swipe your card to copy its details. Even without one of these machines they could just take photos of the front and back of your card and hey presto, online credit card theft. I was always taught to never ever let my card out of my sight.
the religion thing I find so weird because we literally don't have separation of church and state in the uk, technically every school is Christian unless stated other wise AND YET we don't include religion in our politics ever
How is every school Christian? I went to a state school and religion was never a part of that. My cousin went to a Christian school though and they did like religious studies and worship and stuff.
@@rachelcookie321 unless you went to a specifically atheist school it was technically religious. Only technically though, like in theory every school should have prayer time but it's not enforced at all. I think every school is supposed to have RE in some form though up until like yr 9. This is my point though, despite technically England being a Christian country it's effectively secular which is the opposite of america
You know what's weirder than calling random people sir? When I see American kids calling their parents Sir and Ma'am. It's weird. They're your parents!
thats weird. i live in america and i've never called my parents sir/ma'am. those kids must have really strict parents, because no one here that i know has ever called their parents sir/ma'am.
(I'm from America) When I was in school I heard people say that to teachers a lot. Never seriously heard someone say sir/ma'am to their parents. (Okay but when they call the teachers that it's usually not super serious)
Most people don’t do that. At least nowadays. I think it’s more common in the Deep South as a form of respect or whatever but I prefer mom and dad as do my friends.
We Brits are absolutely fastidious about the rule that bread MUST be buttered. The surprising thing is how flexible we are about the definition of butter, to the extent that a product that explicitly states in its name that it is (unbelievably) NOT butter, nevertheless counts as butter.
One major difference I noticed when living wit Americans was swearing. Americans did swear, but they were horrified at how often the brits would just insert a swear world unnecessarily.
@@phoenixcaladrius3538 Arabic and Spanish are the best languages I've ever come across for imaginative cursing, Arabic probably wins as as well as offering a huge range of curses it sounds agressive to Europeans where Spanish cursing sounds lyrical.
I am a Scandinavian who lived in England for a year, and I thought shop clerks and servers were way too nice. I had no idea if they were being genuine, doing their job or if they were flirting with me... If they are even friendlier in America I don't think I could handle it!
A lot of these things brought up like the lack of sugar in things and the way we supposedly walk everywhere we’re things I thought were problems about our country. We have way too much sugar jam packed foods and we use our cars a lot, I suppose both of those things are things our country is trying to push to go towards the better but I never thought anywhere could consider us to be successful in this. I guess it’s more of a statement on the obesity crisis and lack of concern for the environment in the US than anything.
@@shanethomas1202 It's a thing, but handhelds are not commonly used. I'm in the business if selling them. Hell, it's difficult enough to get a restaurant owner to upgrade from hand-writing tickets to a POS system, let alone getting them to shell out extra for handheld devices.
Aaa... most of the time, the system is wired in place. These places don't even pay their wait staff minimum wage, so paying extra for newer wireless or handheld devices would hurt the profit margin, so most places prefer buying outdated older stuff to stay cheap.
Many chain restaurants are moving to having a little screen to summon a waiter, order more food, and pay through the screen. So it’s happening, albeit slowly.
The "Miss" thing is probably a leftover from when most female teachers were unmarried. Female nurses and teachers were expected to leave the job when they got married.
"You know how in England when you finish your dish, you put your silverware a certain way--I don't know what it is..." Ah, the reason your citizenship application was rejected becomes clearer.
Same thing in Czechia. Convenient both ways because that way it's easier for the staff to grab off the plate, and they won't attempt to take away your food if you get busy talking with friends but still intend to finish your meal later.
As a brit, I would definitely say dinky as something very small and cute, in a positive way. Don’t think I’d ever associate it negatively unless it was seen as patronising somehow.
I use it as an endearing term for old run down things that are still running strong, like an old lemon car. I find lemon cars kinda fun. Not cute necessarily, but endearing in some way, like I appreciate that they are kept in good enough shape to run.
I know right? All this time I thought I was introverted when I was actually just British the whole time (sans the nationality and accent... and ethnicity...).
A family friend and I have been saying "you should come over sometime" to each other for about the past decade and we still haven't been to each other's houses 😂🤦♀️
Works the same for me, and I'm Czech. I need prep to clean up the house for a visitor, and make snacks - i don't keep my home in a perpetual state of readiness for people, and it sounds very stressful to always be expecting guests without prior notice.
With the train one shouting "hold the door" YES. You're absolutely supposed to wait for another train. Don't screw other people over by making them wait just because YOU were late
If it’s an actual train, like, suburban rail that goes twice an hour, then yeah, fine. But the tube? It’s literally 3-5 minutes wait in most cases, for god’s sake!
@@emberthecatgirl8796 that makes a lot of sense for that, that’s fair. Over here you miss the stop and boom, your late for whatever it was by at least 15-30 min if your lucky
One time at Walmart the cashier made it a point to comment on the items I was buying and even read the birthday card I was buying. It was a wildly uncomfortable experience even as an American.
As an American I understand how it would seem ‘over the top’ or ‘fake’ by the level of friendliness in American customer service or just small talk in general. However, the truth is, 95% of the time (I don’t mean literally 95% just that it’s almost always the case) they are being genuine (except the ‘hi, how’re you?’…yeah, that’s often insincere 😀). Hollywood and TV in general hasn’t done Americans any favors in how we are portrayed, but we as Americans genuinely want to help others out and treat others well, for the most part it is in our nature. If I see an old lady struggling to reach something at the supermarket I’ll offer to get it for her. If a stranger drops things, I’ll help them pick them up, and so on. And while I understand people from other countries may have the view, ‘I’ve been to LA or New York and it wasn’t like that’, America is huge and most of America is NOTHING like LA or New York.
I live in Scotland and we LOVE good customer service, we just hate being hounded and given a routine. They have to actually be nice and helpful, not cheesy and pushy. Worked with a few Americans and they ham it up waaaay too much, it seems fake and upselly.
As an American, that’s because it often is fake and upselly, lol. If you aren’t extra, over-the-top nice, people will assume you are rude or don’t like them.
@@coralovesnature Absolutely! At my job, it’s common for a customer to be upset and even write a bad review if we don’t greet them when they walk in the store. Once I said hello to a lady when she walked in and she didn’t notice but then had the nerve to complain at the checkout counter that no one greeted her when she came in.
That’s cause it is fake and the only reason they do it is cause the manager/owner hounded them to in order to get paid. But I prefer it over the pissed off mcdonalds worker that grunts whenever I ask for a straw cause they forgot to give it to me in the first place and then gets even more annoyed because they are even there. Or the grocery worker that slowly scans items because they can’t be bothered to be more efficient and then give attitude because the chip reader is being stupid and- OH GOD I HATE GOING OUTSIDE
The purpose of butter on a sandwich is to create a barrier between the bread and the filling to prevent oils and juices from soaking into the bread and making it soggy
Also he might be surprised to learn that restaurant and burger chains butter the bread before toasting. I don't know of anywhere in the US or EU than doesn't do this. I know the US burger chains use a roller to get the butter on the bread so you might not notice if you were looking for someone with a knife buttering bread lol
I've always used the word Dinky to mean something small, I even named my cat Dinky, many, many years ago. So I looked it up. Dinky: attractively small and neat. "a dinky little restaurant"
Depends on the context e.g I have heard a British TH-camr review a cosmetic product and say that it was a bit 'dinky' for the high price, meaning it wasn't worth the money
Yeah, I'm Canadian, which is culturally pretty close to America, and around here Dinky is somewhat insulting. Not like a swear word, but to call something dinky... it typically implies that it's either too small to do the task well, or it's small and also low quality.
@@reaganharder1480 haha I know what you mean, but still can’t believe it’d be insulting! It’s a word I’d use rarely, but I’ll hopefully remember not to use it to offend people from your end of the world!!
The UK is one of the only places I've been where it's feasible to not have a driver's license. I'm unable to drive for medical reasons, so living in the suburbs in the UK and being able to get regular public transport is a lifeline. I don't know how non-drivers manage without it.
Non drivers (I guess me, just graduated and haven’t got my license yet for eyesight and meds reasons) around me have to rely on the people who do drive and have time. Public transport is awful, and walking is a nightmare, even here in the state capitol area here in CA (plus it’s way to dangerously hot in the summer anyway. Literally a risk to be outdoors some days)
It's barely feasible and depends where you live. Birmingham and London you don't need to drive, public transport in these places is okay. However, I've had to turn down a job interview before when I was in my first year of uni because I had no way to get to the job location (which they unhelpfully didn't disclose til after inviting me for interview). The location was in some random place outside of Birmingham and by public transport would've taken nearly 2 hours and required multiple train and bus changes plus a 20 minute walk, not something that I could easily do for work every single day. By car it would have taken 30 mins. I had another experience recently where my train got cancelled and the replacement bus services were incredibly poor. I had to walk 40 minutes home because the bus services running didn't take me any closer than that. I'd love to be able to rely on public transport, but it doesn't seem feasible anymore. I'm preparing to get a driving license.
Dinky has always been small and cute for me. As a Brit, I would definitely say that dinky is used to describe something like a charm or a mini piano (dont ask).
In America ‘dinky’ is DEFINITELY derogatory no matter which way you use it…doesn’t matter if you’re saying it’s small or of low quality, either way it’s almost always an insult.
Not sure if it's just a coincidence but when I was a kid, in England, you would get miniature cars from a company called Dinky. Dinky cars..."Dinky" was used for anything small.
Yeah, we have a small cat (2.5kg), who we refer to as our 'dinky little girl'. It's actually quite a term of endearment. Contrast this with the American use of the term 'quaint', which is negatively aspected and means small, archaic, and backwards in BE, but appears to be positively aspected in AE, at least the way all the tourists around Plymouth and Bristol use it.
Brit here and everyone calls my 6 month old daughter who is on the smaller side a little dink because she’s tiny in comparison to babies her age, definitely means small and/or cute here
I genuinely feel bad for the blind in the US, and others who cannot drive like myself, because it sounds like you’d be completely stranded if you don’t live in a city
Yeah the whole needing a car thing is a massive headache. Buses in suburban areas do not cover much area, and sidewalks can be worse kept than streets.
Speaking as someone who lives in the fairly remote highland countryside I can semi confirm this. I was stuck during winter this year and later had no car for over a month (it was at the garage for repairs and mot). It was a headache to rely on others! I can’t get over how helpful my neighbours were but still, it felt like I was a bother. And I still hate myself for actually needing to order food from Tesco instead of actually driving to their shop. I guess I’m just stubborn that way but I prefer to be able to drive to where I need.
Also US money is harder too - all their bills are the same size, whereas British pound notes vary depending on the denominations. A small detail but a very helpful one! :)
During my visit to the US, I was consistently uncomfortable with how in-your-face people working in customer service would be.. It's was very weird not being allowed to just enter a store and do my thing without someone basically following me trying to push stuff on me.
If you complain about them to the owners, you can probably get them fired for being too overbearing. Because that's how jobs work in the US. You need to be psychic.
@@stephenderry9488 Sadly in many cases they don't get paid a lot, so they basically have to be convincing staff member. Reminds me of when Walmart failed here. All this false friendliness just doesn't sit right with us.
When I was on honeymoon in the US, a waiter *sat down with us at dinner*, like fully slid into the booth and had a several minutes chat (that we were clearly weirded out by) before even trying to take the order. There were way too many personal questions and nowhere near enough personal space. I was actually barstaff/waitstaff at the time so it wasn't about being snobby about waiters. I just don't want complete strangers to be so overly personal and chummy. I know tips depend partly on making people feel like they really *matter* to you, but it feels incredibly weird to a Brit.
Or they could just simply take the card details on a piece of paper, take a photo of it etc. I used to work in a hotel restaurant in the uk (i am not from here) and when i took away a card on my first shift, my manager was mortified...
Yeah it's to do with card cloning. When I worked in restaurants it was standard practice that you didn't even touch the customer's card, let alone take it out of their eyeline - present them with the card machine, they do their thing, they take their card back, you hand them the receipt, no opportunity to clone anything.
We have knighted peoples in the UK, maybe thats why "sir" isnt used as much generally. It's like calling someone who isnt the queen "your majesty" Just to say. It does happen and English kids call their teachers sir. I just don't see it as often as I see Americans use it. I work with Americans and they call me sir and I feel very uncomfortable about it. Their UK counterparts normally just insult me as a greeting and I feel much more at ease
Fun fact that's illegal in the US we actually have a rule in the constitution stating that you aren't allowed to have titles of nobility including being knighted
@@Kingdom_Of_Dreams you kinda can: that fact is it's a term with a specific status attatched which you don't have. sure, one's hereditary & one's not but... you'd not call anyone 'your majesty' or 'my lord' without it coming off as a bit odd, perhaps a joke perhaps sarcastic. sir is the same. y'all are a knight. or not. & ofc almost everyone is not.
As a Brit, I have no issue with iced tea itself. I do however have an issue with it being referred to as simply 'tea', or mentioning tea, and someone assuming somehow it must be iced.
In the south part of the states, ice tea is called sweet tea, and hot tea is called tea or by the name of tea. Example: 'Would you like sweet tea or green tea?' At least half of us also have kettles.
There's always a prefix. It's never just tea. It could be sweet tea or iced tea. It's never just "tea". We recognize that there is a difference between the two.
Over here,in England,my local Sansbury’s appeared to be trying out a new approach,to customer/tillperson interactions.They started,actually asking people,going through the till,’what are you doing,for the rest of the day?’,or ‘any plans for the weekend?’.I have never seen so many angry faces,as people activated their bank cards,or heard so much gnashing of teeth.They soon stopped it.
I recall in early 90s after the Soviet era ended here in Latvia one small shop owner apparently had found some US customer service book and started to put on a fake smile and greet everyone “hello, how are you, thank you for the purchase, come again”. We all found that very strange as we were used to customer service actually being hostile… as in Soviet era they were the people who had access to all the goods so had a lot of power and there was no mechanism to really sack a rude person in customer service as Soviet Union prided itself in 100% employment and rudeness was not an offense for which to let people go
Shame, I'd like conversation with normal people, I have so little of it I never get any practice and then people don't talk to me because I don't know how to converse which-!
Ah that’s a bit sad. But figures for England (south presumably?) We’re a bit more chatty over here in Wales, and my goodness do you notice the difference in friendliness levels if you so much as pop over the Bristol.
As an American, I agree with the Brits on customer service. My preferred CS experience is that the clerk leaves me alone until I'm ready to check out, and then rings me up with zero small talk. I wanna get in, get my stuff, and get out.
Shop at walmart = they're incredibly rude LOL. The problem isn't the CSR it's the company. I worked for years as a CSR and if you didn't greet every customer that came in you'd get in trouble. The companies have this weird false ideal in their heads that people want to be bothered. SO NOT TRUE lol.
unfortunately retail can actually get fired for not being discustingly over polite. while working as just a warehouse worker i was rated on how outgoing and polite i was with customers its a shame we focus so much on it.
@@isabellefleszar5851 agreed. I was in a chocolate shop and I won’t say which name and it was a very small one and the whole time the clerk followed me making some more small talk, well you sure I can’t help you find something? I keep wondering did they tell her to follow the customers in case they steal the chocolates. I felt very uncomfortable and I wasn’t encouraging her to talk to me so I walked out without buying anything. Not the kind that steals, ever but I don’t like being followed. Put in a camera or some thing but don’t follow me.
The "How much sugar is added to US food vs UK food" makes me a bit scared. I have a friend who studied in the UK for a while, and she told us that everything in the UK tasted so damn sweet, she told us that UK yogurt tasted like dessert, UK cereals tasted like dessert, and so on. And if that's the case when comparing UK to Sweden, and US is worse than the UK, then I don't want to know how bad it is in the US.
I know we use a lot more natural sugars than other countries, it is why a lot of the US prefer our chocolate to their own, as theirs can taste artificial (especially once you have tried both), so maybe that’s why? We do still have sugary things, but nowhere near as much as the US, especially with the sugar tax here! We are much stricter on what you can and can’t put in foods too.
@@fredbloggs7131 What ?? There's 8 teaspoons of sugar in a calm ok coke in the UK..... So you're telling me that there's over 30 teaspoons of sugar in a can of coke in the USA? 😮
I'm wondering what kind of yogurt your friend had. Plain yogurts are not sweetened but fruit and other flavoured yogurts are sweetemed, because they are a dessert, lol
the butter is on the grilled buns not the burger, it keeps the bun from getting soggy, most fast food places in the US puts a little butter on the buns before they put it on the grill
As a New Yorker who now lives in Florida, I have never seen someone butter the buns before eating the hamburger. That´s disgusting. The same for putting butter on sandwiches. Butter goes on bagels and rolls only!
@@EtherealEmpr3ss I know people butter the buns to toast them, but I was talking about putting butter on a hamburger after cooking it and then eating it.
Yeah, as an Egyptian it’s interesting seeing how both the US and the UK have affected Egypt. Especially being Egyptian American, it’s fun seeing how much of each country I can relate to.
I’m from England and I have never heard someone say dinky, in my tea obsessed house people just say a bit of milk or if it’s my dad doing his dad act of being posh he will say “oh yes dear put a splash of milk in”
"Hiuarrright" is the perfect level of customer interaction 😂. I don't want to become friends, I don't want to talk about your weekend plans, I just want to buy my stuff and get out of there.
Let me just say as a British person that being able to call your teacher Sir or Miss is damn useful. You dont have to remember anyone's name or marital status its actually damn convenient
American, I remember calling my teacher ma'am once to get her attention because I forgot her name in like the first week, and she was so offended... never understood why that was such a faux pas.
In Australia it’s normally Miss + surname, Mr + surname. Everytime. Whether in person or in third person. So no advantage memory-wise! It was so fun being in a Swiss high school for a while, where everyone was on a first-name basis, even the principal and Board members.
Ugh yeah! Like why do some people expect us to remember dozens of random adults’ marital statuses. That’s so weird. I love being able to use Miss and Sir for everyone lmao
I have one as well, an old metal stovetop one that I got for college 20 years ago. I thought electric kettles were only for fancy temperature-specific timed brew and only recently found out that cheap ones just have an on/off switch.
If it is a piece of bread then we put it in the toaster and eat it with butter. Ya know toast. If it’s a sandwich we eat it with mayonnaise like normal people. Who in the world eats sandwhiches with butter and not mayonnaise that’s just so weird to me. Americans don’t just eat bread plain without butter. That would be really weird too. We just don’t use butter as the “sauce” for every type of food. No one here eats bread plain without butter. We just use mayonnaise for sandwiches. And catchup for burgers.
@@rechaljones2447 I don't like mayonnaise either, but I do tend to spread Peanut Butter and Marshmallow Fluff on my breads and eat like that (like a PBJ but I don't like jelly either). Either that or I just eat the bread with ham and cheese, most likely provolone. I don't put sauce of any kind, and I especially don't put butter on my sandwiches.
@@KingKayro87 marshmallow fluff is the best! But I don’t get how you can eat a sandwich with just bread and cheese and ham just because it’s really dry like that and kind of hard to eat, but if you don’t like mayonnaise then I don’t know what an alternative could be so keep on eating those dry sandwhiches cause at least you’re not eating them with butter😉
Card readers are becoming more popular in the U.S., but we do still have establishments that take the card and bring back a receipt for you to sign. At least we did in the before times anyway.
@@BlackTearDrop I use to work in the food industry, all you have to do on the card reader is press enter to bypass the PIN. (Ever since that job I realized a lot of card readers let customers do that too.) The card reader isn’t wireless so you can’t really bring it to the customer. A lot of the time when people get scammed here its from shopping online or losing their wallets.
People in America were mindblown when my parents said that they let me walk to elementary school on my own. They couldn't fathom a child being able to get to school without an adult driving them.
Fun fact when I was about 9/10 I used to walk to school on my own here in the UK which was the norm. This was before mobile phones and what not... I can't imagine letting my kid do that now without a phone.
Nope I realize this is a year late but Evan, after having moved from America to the UK, I went home for a visit and my family TRIED TO MAKE ME TEA IN A MICROWAVE. I blushed at the barbarity, but this has indeed happened. And if it happened to me, I feel sadly sure it has happened to others.
THE SUGAR CEREAL THING OMG. i’m british and when i was younger we weren’t allowed cheerios because they were too sugary. still one of the sweetest cereals here in the uk imo. blows my mind that they get sugaryier
as an American, the regular Cheerios (yellow box) is actually considered the "healthy" cereal. there are some where even Americans think "that's too much sugar" like Froot Loops or Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Yep my Mum was strict with what cereals we had because of the sugar. The American's have crazy colouring in their cereals which would not be allowed here either.
In America we have Cheerios in a yellow box which aren’t sugary at all and then we have Multi Grain Cheerios in a purple box which are a little bit sugary and I’ve heard that in the U.K. they only have Multi Grain Cheerios but they’re just called Cheerios.
For the reasons given in the video, I would just be puzzled. It's the Tube...not even time for your coffee to get to a drinkable temperature before the next one arrives.
@@tonyfisk8081 Mate, when the Tube is delayed, it's DELAYED. Like with Covid closing the lines all the time it takes 15 fucking minutes for the Metropolitan. That's bloody ridiculous
@@auberginemanproductions1608 My comment was only valid for normal operation. I've had to wait an hour for a tube train before now, but half the stations were flooded that day... Just for contrast, imagine if trains to Birmingham ran every 15 minutes, we could scrap HS2!!
Maybe this was just my experience but “Sir” was only used to address teachers in secondary / high school. In primary school we would just address the teachers with Mr / Miss / Mrs followed by their surname
I think it depends on the school, in my high school we used used their surnames eg. Mr Anderson, Miss/Mrs Wilson. Some teachers would let you use their first names but generally that was when you were in you final years (S5, S6) and had been studying the subject for a long a few years.
Hi Evan. I am a teacher ( History and English). The " Miss" thing actually comes from History. Female teachers were required to be unmarried and therefore were always called "Miss". It stuck, and now Miss is used in almost evety school unless the student is using their full name. Sometimes schools try to switch it to " Ma'am", but when our headteacher tried that it made lot's of us feel uncomfortable and it was switched back 😆🤣 Being called Miss keeps you young.
If we called our teacher Miss instead of her actual title of Mrs in school, they would make a point to correct us. I didn't think calling every female teacher Miss was a thing. Now I know.
@@lordshadow3822 mostly in Secondary schools. Every school I have worked at I have been called Miss. Some teachers correct the kids but honestly its sometimes better to just respond to Miss than watch a teen trying to remember your full name when you are the sixth teacher they have seen that day and they honestly don't care. I got shit to do 😆
I was always taught to say 'Mizz'. The 'z' sound sort of implied between married and unmarried. But actually, a lot of my female teachers would specify their marital status and we addressed them accordingly.
The customer service thing is why I always hate going into shops like JD sports. The staff give you about a second to look around before they come over and ask if you're looking for anything, I'm perfectly capable of looking around by myself thanks.
I was sitting in a bar in Viatnam talking to a Britsh guy, I'm Amarican and I was talking about how I was trying to get a new apartment and he was so horrified when he found out landloards could leagly require credit reports and bank bank balances and proof of income, he was just like, "You want a place to live, you just pay rent and a deposit and you got a place to live" and I was sad.
If you are ever declared bankrupt then I think you might need those things. But, otherwise, all you need to do is pay your deposit and your rent and you have yourself a home!
The "sir" thing at around 9:15 is very interesting. I'm not from the US or the UK but from Finland, and I have a friend in Tennessee, USA. We were on a video call once when I still lived with my parents, and my dad entered my room, and I asked my friend if he wanted to say hi to my dad, half joking. My friend got super serious all of a sudden and very politely asked "how are you sir" when my dad got in frame. My dad really appreciated the gesture but still chuckles about this because this is not a thing in Finland at all :D
People older than you are always called ma´am and sir. It is considered very rude to not use those terms the first time you meet them. This especially true in the south, and Tennessee is in the heart of the south.
As a german the 'Sir' thing also weirds me out. Maybe its because GB is closer but it feels to me like this is something for Royals or the military. Sure we have 'Sie/Ihnen' too but i think thats much less formal than 'Sir'.
@@ESUSAMEX Haha yeah Finnish social politeness is not really about that :'D If they're a parent of your friend or something, you just greet them with "hello" and probably behave politely in front of them. If it's your teacher at school, you usually call them "teacher", "teach", or by their first name, even. Usually not the last name, that's for military, and kids using their friends' surnames as a type of nickname :D Using the equivalents of mr./mrs./ms. (herra/rouva/neiti) sounds old-timey and feels out of place unless used in very specific situations. With old people you don't know, as well as prominent figures like officials or the president, you might use the plural form of "you" to address them to be polite. That also happens in customer service, sometimes, the waiter/clerk addressing you that way. But it does make me feel a bit old :'D Hell, when I would write an email to a professor at uni, I would try to emit all personal pronouns referring to them as well as possible, because "you" as a singular sounded too familiar, but "you" as a plural sounded overly polite xD But yeah I think a lot of politeness in Finnish culture comes from implied considerateness towards the other person :D
@@ESUSAMEX Yes, it's a Southern thing in the US. I grew up in upstate NY and I've never called anyone "sir" in my entire life, including in customer service positions. In British police procedural shows they always call their superior, even just the head person of their duo "sir" or " "ma'am". In the US today they would just typically call everyone at work by their first name, even the head of the business or organization.
Moi! Off topic but my three year old boy is at päiväkoti (Finnish daycare). The idea was to get him to learn some Finnish. The daycare workers are now complaining that his Finnish is limited, whilst all the Finnish kids, are now speaking in English because of him. I am so proud of him.
I think there's a difference between "good" customer service and fake customer service. I think in the UK we feel that if you're being nice you want something and it must be fake. Also I personally feel more awkward if someone is super attentive in a shop, especially if I'm only looking without planning to buy. I don't want to be spoken to!
Definitely if a shop assistant is overattentive I feel like they're trying to pressure me into buying (which just makes me leave without buying anything)
I hate the: "do you want a bag, do you have a loyalty card, can I offer you this, oh let me help you out" like no just let me buy my damn teabags and leave
In the US it’s pretty standard that someone might greet you when you walk into a smaller shop and they usually ask if there’s anything they can help you find. When I don’t want to be bothered I just say something like “no thanks I’m just browsing” and they leave you alone. It is RARE that an employee will be overly attentive and follow you around the store. It’s happened to me maybe once in my life and I totally agree it’s soooo uncomfortable. Like even in Lush this has never happened to me
As a person now working in retail I hate doing it to people. When we get told to interact with customers over the headset I cringe into myself and want to disappear. I'm very socially anxious, and knowing it's likely the exact opposite of what both of us would want in that situation is just painful to me 😭.
I'm surprised that venerating the flag isn't on there. I'm a teacher and I was concerned that flags really were going to be introduced into British classrooms (as recently suggested). I abhor indoctrination.
Well, that's because Johnson basically wants to be a US president in the UK. Also yes, I find that so weird too! Especially the way Americans all have to put their hand on their chest! Always makes me giggle! Also the way many Americans seem to be very sensitive to any perceived disrespect to any given physical US flag - if I saw a UK flag being burned, my first concern would be for the amount of CO2 the fire's putting into the atmosphere.
We do respect flags. A civic building such as a town hall might well have a flag flying -- or perhaps even more. But the government doesn't force us to fly the nation's flag everywhere. This isn't Nazi Germany or North Korea.
Yes - this is one way where America is like Russia. It seems like Ruritania to me, i.e. (they'll hate that!) that you don't have confidence in your country, so you have to reinforce it all the time. Russia and USA are so similar. They should get a room!
I'm from the US, I'm a cashier at a grocery store and I think our customer service is too much. There's no reason why I should need to provide full service to you while checking out your groceries. I don't mind being friendly, but I prefer much how it's done in europe. You bring your own bags, you bag your own groceries, you get what you came for and you go.
yes we have better things to do then having to listen to someone trying to provide customer service. Just leave us alone we can ask if we need help. Good customer service is being visible on the shop floor when we need help, so we can approach you if and when we need to.
Hey hey, I'm British and I use dinky. As in, I'd use it to call a cute, chocolate box village. "The houses in that village are really dinky" it's a positive thing
The best thing along these lines I have heard of involved a British student visiting a US college and encountering a street preacher. Once he figured out what the guy was talking about, the reaction was: "You're talking about religion, to a stranger, in public, on a TUESDAY? It's just not done."
My favourite video in the world is an American street preacher doing missionary work in Glasgow "Don't you want to be free?" "Ah um free!" "No brother you are bound!" "Aye bound tae ma fuckin' missus!"
God, I have got to go to the UK sometime, I appreciate their introverted way of life. Sounds like utter paradise to not be stalked in stores by overly friendly employees you don't wanna converse with.
You’ll love the world outside the US in general. I hear so many people who visit the US, but also Americans, say they really dislike the US superficial fake friendliness. Many Americans think Dutch service sucks, like in restaurants you need to get the attention of the staff if you want to get another drink. Sometimes the waiter comes by and asks if everything’s alright, but generally only when everyone has stopped eating their meal/plates are empty. From what I’ve heard, in the US waiters just continuously come by to ask if everything’s alright and if you want something else to drink etc. So, many Americans think our lack of service is bad service, but Dutch people think American waiters are annoying for interrupting comversations every few minutes. Also, we don’t do “Hi, how are you?” unless we actually genuinely want to know how you are feeling.
@@DanDanDoe and now put into perspective the fact that many people around the world find it difficult to cope with the fake smiles and greetings in Western Europe. While Western Europeans find those people surly 😁.
10:30 probably because in the UK the tube comes pretty often, and on time. public transport in the US sucks ass, so missing a bus/tram/train could cost u like an hour
If the woman yelling for the train was boarding a national rail train I could understand because there's a 30 mins - 1 hour interval until the next one. But if it was an underground / overground train then they run every 2 - 5 minutes.
@@lolarose8973 they said they were at the tube station, not taking the tube. They also said "our train" rather than "a train", and as soon as they got there they saw their train was about to pull out, which makes me think national rail because the tube trains are all underground while the national rail are at street level.
@@hughtube5154 most of the underground is actually subsurface or completely above ground, the tube refers to all deeper level lines. so they probably just meant an above ground station or mixed up overground with the tube (or underground lol so confusing) 😬
@@hughtube5154 every single tube station bar one in my home town is above ground (the one that was underground was originally built above ground too until the 70s). Know what you are talking about before you claim shit about the tube.
"I didn't even know there's sugar in Cheerios" that's the most American thing I've ever heard. If you eat a bowl of Cheerios in Europe, and you're not a kid, they may try to help you to the hospital.
oh by god it is, lol. There's sugar in literally everything here (as it increases profits and there is nothing stopping large corporations from doing so)
Yeah but I don’t understand how people can eat cheerio’s everyday, I’m American yeah I have unhealthy cheerio’s but I don’t eat it everyday/hour’s it make’s my inside feel unhealthy disgusting etc. But the difference is that the U.S. has different options and variety, we can go to McDonald’s to Wendy’s what’s the difference well different ingredients but they are the same in everything.
not from the UK, i'm Russian, moved to the US, a small southern town... please stop smiling at me. I don't know how to smile back. Im so scared. I don't know you don't greet me i'm gonna cry please what are you doing this isn't supposed to be a social interaction and don't suggest i keep my shoes on in the house, if i do i'll combust, let me take em off in peace stop convincing me that it's fine
In the South everything is a social interaction, it's insane. People just randomly talk to people on the street and I'm like ... I don't know you why are you speaking to me
@@chickinnuggit2615 in the US, some people don't take off their shoes in their house and tell visitors that they can do the same. Some find this weird. We are not tell people what to wear in houses on the street.
The idea of a gun show is legitimately terrifying to me. I’ve never actually seen a functioning gun ever and I can’t really fathom the idea of being around people just casually walking around with machine guns or bags of amo and feeling safe
American here. I'm used to guns. You have to understand, we have massive rural areas out here, where a gun is nessacary for protection. Some people live over an two hours away from the closest larger town, sooo, yeah.
@@theramentumbleweed2523 I grew up in rural Canada which is a similar situation. I’ve met people who hunt and own a gun. I still don’t a gun is necessary to just living in rural areas. Even if people felt that way, to have so many people wandering around treating firearms so casually at a gun show is freaky
I've seen a working gun three times in the UK: armed police at Gatwick, armed police in Brighton, and those dudes outside the Turkish embassy with rifles who I assume weren't the Met. Each time has been incredibly unnerving.
As an Aussie, I always use the "watch out for the drop bears" line on foreigners. It's part of our culture to screw with travellers, just an unspoken rule!
I wouldn't even mind. But then, I'm in on the joke. I would just respond that I want to know if they have some in a zoo nearby. Or I just ask about the emu war and if drop bears would be a solution.
American cashier's be like "OMG HI HOW R U TODAY?!" British cashier's be like "hiuarright" German cashier's be like "........ just give me that God damn money" Honestly, I was surprised, how friendly the british cashiers have been in comparison.
As a disabled person I prefer the German. Here in England they ask if I need help sooooo many times and being English I don't want to be rude but I mainly just want to be left alone. In Germany I don't have that problem and if I actually did need help I just went and found someone to ask.
"I enjoy good customer service". Evan the problem is that people from outside the US see that as agressive, intrusive, and definitely the opposite good customer service. Making your patrons feel uncomfortable doesn't seem good?
Exactly, US customer service always felt... forced to me. It's so obviously faked politeness that it makes me uncomfortable. Like I'm not talking to a person, but some cust-o-mat that is programmed to try and please me. Uncanny as hell. But American people in general seem to follow the "always act polite" shtick, which creepes me out, and if anything, makes them seem untrustworthy. Idk why it's outlandish to just be genuine. You're a random person on the street, we both know you don't give a shit about me, so don't act like you do, please.
@MrLumie This was funny to read cause that’s exactly how people behave in France. The fake politeness thing I mean. I’m originally from Eastern Europe and we are known for being cold or whatever, but the reason we’re seen that way is specifically because we don’t fake that kind of polite behaviour. Like you said, if I don’t know someone (even a neighbour), I’m not gonna go out of my way to smile at them and say hi and how’s the weather etc. But then there’s the other to the French where they’ll just tell you to go fck yourself if you’re being too annoying while in America the customer is always right.
American customer service is very forced. As in, "happy faced enthusiasm ALL the time, or you'll be FIRED," level of forced. It's not mentally healthy, in my opinion. But it is necessary to be graded positively on performance. Always up, always energetic, always happy. Ugh.
In America niceness is nothing special. So we don’t reserve it for family and friends. I can talk to a perfect stranger for an hour and walk away without contact info because it doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but it can.
Spunk definitely means the naughty thing in the UK lol and you wouldn't say you were randy yourself but you might say it about someone else "he's a randy old bastard"
I am sorry! I am European and lived and worked in the USA for many years. Many many people make tea in the microwave in the USA. They warm water in the microwave for instant coffee, instant hot chocolate and tea. Microwave water tastes disgusting!
I’m a 23 year old British teacher and being called Miss multiple times an hour seems both mildly demeaning and weirdly formal. I don’t know how to feel about it but I got used to it incredibly quickly
I'm a (male) secondary teacher of a good few years now. Since there are so few men in primary teachers, so many kids just default to saying "Miss!" to me. Most catch on with the "Sir" thing, but then there's the third group who started by self correcting with, "Miss...ter..." I'm all for gender equality, but there's no part of my figure that could be considered vaguely female :O
As someone from Missouri, I would be insulted if someone called my things dinky. It means cheap and off-brand or even broken here. It means it will break easy. But I call my dogs spunky all the time.
Here it's more small and low quality and is kind of insulting. Either "cute little" or "teeny" (sometimes "teeny tiny") are a lot closer in meaning - "what a cute little puppy!" or "look at those teeny flowers!"
@@harmonicaveronica interesting, see teeny flowers sounds insulting to me. Dinky could be insulting here if you're describing something that shouldn't be small and cute, but cute and small sound more insulting than dinky to my British ears. Like a dinky house makes me think of a small, starter home that's really cosy. If I called it cute or small, it sounds like I hate it but am trying to be polite 🤣🤣
I worked for one of the world’s biggest companies, the US managing director’s name was Dick Holder. We got a helluva laugh out of that in the goldfields of Western Australia when he visited the site.
Brits are so easily triggered. They always rant about how Americans are easily triggered by “banter”, yet they moan and complain when it is dished back at them lol.
I've been to the US a few times. The weirdest thing was going into an otherwise ordinary shop and seeing guns on sale. There are a few gun-only shops in the UK - but only a few. Never guns and food and toys and hardware.
Wal-Mart is both a glorious and terrifying place but I can assure you that all Wal-Mart guns are cheap crap and that most folks get their guns from either dedicated gun shops or a sporting goods/outdoor store.
I had one time (in the US) where I had to get someone's attention and called them "ma'am". They angrily responded "I'm not old enough to be a ma'am." Look, where I'm from calling anyone "miss" who's over 12 is derogatory, "hey lady" is worse, and I don't know you. Do you want the wallet you dropped or not?
It's funny, because calling people "ma'am" in the Southern states is actually totally normal. But as you go more North and West, people start taking it as an insult to their age.
We'd usually go with an 'excuse me' or if that doesn't work just follow them and say 'sorry' until we have their attention. I found it very disconcerting when I went to the States at 20 and people were calling me ma'am because that's what you'd call the Queen
How interesting! I'm from a southern state and if you don't say sir or ma'am It's considered rude. Customers at work always call me ma'am even though I'm 20 and they're usually older.
@@mr.nerd3.142 why would it be more convenient to the waiter? Also unless you're playing a riveting game of monopoly at the restaurant table, I don't see why the card machine being a your table is particularly intrusive?
@@lunaangeleclipse9745 a waiter only having to carry back the card to the reader is easier and faster than having to carry the whole reader to the card. As for the intrusiveness: If your having a conversation with the people at your table, the waiter does not have to interrupt it to scan your card. But they DO have to interrupt it if YOU have to be the one to use the card reader.
@@mr.nerd3.142 1) the waiter doesn't interrupt you at all, you ask the waiter for the card reader at your own leisure. 2) maybe it's different in America, but in England card readers aren't that heavy or cumbersome. If a waiter is having genuine physical trouble carrying something so insignificant as a card reader god forbid they have to carry plates of food around the restaurant.
@Just a potato ahh ok I get it. personally I used it for everything, for example to cook the pasta or rice, because heating cold water in a pot takes more time than boiling it in the kettle (the electric one) and then putting it in the pot, so yeah, and coffee in the morning I used the stove, then tea in the afternoon, camomille before bed hehe.
@@amandaconstanza I've got a perfectly good saucepan that I heat stuff in all the time. Kettles just seem like a really overrated kitchen utensil that don't do enough to justify the space they take up.
@@amandaconstanza Huh, why have I never thought to use the kettle to cook pasta? using a pot does take ages whereas an electric kettle is quick. I'm surprised I use a kettle at all though because I don't really like to drink tea or coffee at home.
The weirdest part for me about Sir and Miss for school teachers in the UK is how they replace their actual names. It is not just, "Miss, can you help me?" or "I don't understand, Sir"... It is also, "But Miss said I could!" And "Sir is acting well strange today."
What I find hysterical was when I went to 6th form one of our teachers wanted us to call her by her first name, we refused. In no other area of my life would I call someone by thier title and surname. Note I don't work in customer facing job.
What I loved when I was working in a secondary school is that there could be three female adults in the room, but when a student said 'Miss', we would usually know which one they meant.
@@Stettafire That's funny to me as a Canadian. At my university, undergrads all called their professor as either Professor last name, or Doctor last name. It was only in grad school that you switched to first names. Even as a grad student, when talking to the students, I was always careful to refer to the professor the same way they would, lest they get the idea they could do it. Which made me very thankful for the grad student bar so we'd have a quiet place to drink away from the undergrads (and was also a nice place to do some marking while having a pint).
My mum is American but I'm a very socially awkward Brit so, during shopping trips, my mum will be smiling and laughing while chatting to the cashier and meanwhile, both the cashier and I are standing there like *h e l p m e*
It's not that we don't mean it, we do! We just want you to ask us if it's OK to come around first, as we might be out or busy or find sudden changes stressful or not be in a good place mentally. You never know what is going on with someone! It's rude to turn up on someone's doorstep without warning, but polite to ask in advance.
@@Sentariana I don't think anyone ever turns up without prior notice, especially in London where one must plan at least 6 weeks ahead. No, I meant that when you talk/see that person the next time AND you mention, that hey so you invited me last time, when should we hang out then? You're given the British look of: WHATTT is wrong with you?! XD followed by a topic change and awkwardness of next levels.
@@askalemuralia see, you're doing it wrong. as an English person, here's the right way: wait for them to ask you, knowing fully that they're waiting for you to ask them, but neither of you are asking each other because it'll end up with that exact situation of both of you backtracking. wait a few months. wait a year. wait a few years. forget about it and move on to find a new friend, who says 'hey, come round sometime!' repeat.
"man who just had his UK citizenship application rejected", that's..........really sad, like, I don't know what to say. Edit: thanks for the 420 likes strangers. I can only say one thing, NOICE.
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I used Sir and Miss in secondary school. It stopped being a formal thing for me, just a way to get their attention really. When you’ve spent years listening to the words being shouted by different people trying to get their attention, the formality tends to fade away.
I will never understand why a good customer service is rated by friendliness. It's the least thing that is important, more important are knowing and availability.
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Not everyone is a butter monster. I only know one and we shame them every time they add butter for no reason.
I don't understand how americans say they'll 'write you' instead of saying they'll 'write TO you'. It doesn't make sense
@@joshglynn7811 Do you say "I'll call you" ? It's like that :)
What's always gotten me is how Brits say things like "I will do" or "I have done", when in the States we say "I will" or "I have." Just shortening it a diff way I suppose. But it just sounds odd to my ear is all 😅
If someone uses butter on a burger bun instead of sauces, then yeah that's weird, but in my mind, you butter the buns because you wanna toast the buns on the pan before making the burger! Do you make your burgers with untoasted buns?? If yes... I feel sad for you. Please toast your buns.
One thing about the US that I’ll never understand is no uniform at schools. Please tell me how a child is meant to dress themselves appropriately every day. I had such a culture shock when I started sixth form and had to wear my own clothes everyday- it was just a flurry of once-used clothes being thrown across my room trying to find something new to wear.
If a waiter ever takes my credit card out of my sight, I would assume I was being robbed lol
Right!
Yes, I’m American and this was always bizarre to me.
It’s a security issue. The US financial institutions held back on implementing chip and pin technology as long as possible to save money. They reckoned that the cost of reimbursing customers who had their credit cards hacked was acceptable. Here in Canada we have been using the point of sale terminals with chip and pin for many years. I do not let my credit card out of my sight. I got hacked twice in years past, once in the US and once in Brazil.
@@gerardacronin334 Every time I'm in Canada, I comment on this to the servers.
@@gerardacronin334 us still doesn't have chip and pin. We have chip and signature. So the terminals will never happen.
A friend of mine worked in a primary school. All the kids called him 'Miss' because he was the only male teacher and they thought 'Miss' is what you called teachers. After the first six months, he gave up trying to correct them.
Never heard of people calling primary teachers miss or sir, it was only in secondary. In primary you address them with mr, miss, mrs (insert name).
That is so cute haha ☺️
@@taboodorito I think it probably varies from school to school.
That’s so cute
That's hilarious! 😆
All through my school years (primary included), teachers were miss or sir. We did have a couple of teachers at my secondary school who wanted to feel like they were one of the lads and allowed us to use their first names, although I don't think any of us were really comfortable with that. Even now, my school has a Facebook group of which a handful of our teachers are members, and many of us struggle to respond to their comments using their first names, even though we're all now grown adults with families and proper lives of our own!
The only difference for me between primary and secondary school was when we referred to teachers amongst ourselves. In primary we'd refer to them as Mr/Mrs/Miss Whoever, but in secondary school we only ever used their surnames.
As a brit being called Sir in the US makes me feel incredibly important and fancy, it’s almost unnecessarily polite
When I was working retail and got called ma'am instead of miss I knew there was no going back 😭
@@chelseasmith5169 Yep, I always hate getting called ma'am or madam! It's like, you don't need to call me anything, so please don't remind me how ancient I am. I like when I go home to Glasgow and I might get called 'hen' or 'doll', which are un age-related.
Yeah
@jojofromtx Canada. Men get called Sir, it's generic or there's no identifier typically. There's been a transition I noticed in my son's school as well though. All female teachers are Madam not Miss, Ms and Madam now
@@surpriseitscaz yes! My gran was from Edinburgh. I miss being called pet and sweet all the time. If people were to try that here there would be a massive uproar against terms of endearment
When my (British) parents were living in the states, they knew someone named Randy Balls. They thought it was hilarious, and even funnier that no one else thought anything of it.
perfect
god forbid they move to the UK 😅
was he really spunky?
Not to mention the NASCAR driver Dick Trickle....😂
A friend from the US once told me that she couldn't talk, as she had Randy on the horn (the phone)
Much hilarity ensured
The "there's no rush" at restaurants is actually the opposite of what I've experienced: In the US, everybody tries to get you out the door as quickly as possible, because you're costing them money. (They can't earn tips off the next customer if you're still there.) In Europe, staff aren't dependent on customers' tips, so you can sit there all evening and they won't bother you unless you flag them down whenever you are ready to pay and leave.
hahhh the perks of actually sustainable minimum wage and service tax
What if the restaurant's busy? I've certainly felt pressured to leave in due time at a restaurant in Australia or England, and as an employee I've felt pressured by managers to herd customers out so that more can sit. It's not about the tips in that case - it's about the business itself having more opportunity to sit more customers and receive more money.
I'd love to know which restaurant that was and where. When I was frequenting sit down restaurants (pre covid), my modis operandi was to tell the waiter/waitress to bring me my bill immediately so I can pay it ....... that way when I have finished eating, I can leave. They wouldn't do it because ....... if I had an open tab they figured I could order more food ...... no I do not want another appetizer to nibble on while waiting for my entree, no I do not want another beverage, no I do not want dessert (I would have ordered it at the git go) ...... just bring me my damn bill while I am waiting for my food so I can get up and leave when I have finished eating. It was always so damned annoying and frustrating to sit there trying to wave down the waiter to pay the bill ....... and time was ticking and I had other things I wanted to get to .......LIKE A MOVIE!
@@k-leb4671 I think this is the exact experience the original comment is talking about… I frequently eat out, and every waiter knows that you get better tips if you don’t pester your customers; you’d only do so if your manager directed you to, due to people waiting for tables
I am a brit, living in the usa. Soooo many times the wait staff will ask us what we want to eat before they have even given us the menu.. or about 30 seconds after.. then all the courses come out at once. and you all but kicked out the second you pay.. ok that's a slight exaggeration for the norm, but it has happened.. What I think is also weird is that when you go to someones house for the first time they always want to give me a tour of their house.. so awkward..
American cashiers: "OMG HI HOW ARE YOU TODAY?"
British cashiers: "hiuarright"
Norwegian Cashiers: *not a word... Maybe they'll ask if you want the receipt if you're unlucky, but otherwise not a word*
I'm not against a good conversation, but I'm perfectly fine with the "Good day.... tree fiddy please... card or cash? ... goodbye" routine.
@@Navajonkee Yeah, over here you're unlucky (or lucky, depending on how you look at it) if the cashier even tells you the amount.. They usually ask if you want a bag, but that's it. It's custom to say goodbye tho, but that's initiated by the customer, not the cashier.
Smiles in introvert.
Well, we say hi. And goodbye
The fuck? I’ve lived in 4 states and in most of them the cashiers give zero fucks. There are some larger chains that have surveys on the receipts and there’s Chick-fil-a where they act super courteous but for the most part they don’t give a fuck, including walmart
In the UK we call an eraser a rubber. A friend of mine was doing pencil sketches and went into the hotel reception and asked if they had a rubber. He nearly got thrown out! The receptionist didn't like being asked if she had got a condom.
Also weird nothing wrong with protection
I got kicked out of a class secondary school for asking the guy in front of me for a rubber 🙄 more so the teachers mindset than mine. Nobody was even sniggering let alone myself 😅
But being offended for asking for a condom is also ridiculous 😂
I mean it's quite inappropriate depending on the setting. Obviously excluding a genuine mistake.
The waiter taking your card is not about convenience its about security. When the waiter takes your card away out of your sight you don't know if they are swiping the details from it. That's why in the UK they bring the payment terminal to the table.
i've never heard of a waiter risking their job and livelihood to snoop on one customers card 😭
@@krzlcve it wouldn't be worth it for one customers card, but if they did it to every customer they serve it could be lucrative. It can and does happen. That's why I would never let my card out my sight.
Yeah I agree, I would worry my card was being cloned if it was ever out if my sight.
Yes exactly. There was a lot of stuff in the news a couple decades or so back when people started getting their cards cloned. It was drummed into me as a teenager, never give your card to anyone, they give the machine to you. Sometimes in smaller companies with old machines you have to put the card in the machine and then they take it back to input the charge, and even when the card is in the machine and never leaves my sight that still makes me uncomfortable. The idea of some random person just walking off with my card to another room would stress me out soo much. They could be doing anything with it.
@@krzlcve It does happen. There are cloing machines where they swipe your card to copy its details. Even without one of these machines they could just take photos of the front and back of your card and hey presto, online credit card theft. I was always taught to never ever let my card out of my sight.
the religion thing I find so weird because we literally don't have separation of church and state in the uk, technically every school is Christian unless stated other wise AND YET we don't include religion in our politics ever
In America we don’t always say it’s religious in politics but if you agree with a b and c your a Christian and it can get very polarized
We can be a little theocratic oftentimes
How is every school Christian? I went to a state school and religion was never a part of that. My cousin went to a Christian school though and they did like religious studies and worship and stuff.
@@rachelcookie321 unless you went to a specifically atheist school it was technically religious. Only technically though, like in theory every school should have prayer time but it's not enforced at all. I think every school is supposed to have RE in some form though up until like yr 9. This is my point though, despite technically England being a Christian country it's effectively secular which is the opposite of america
@@jessemusker I’m wondering what makes the schools Christian though?
You know what's weirder than calling random people sir? When I see American kids calling their parents Sir and Ma'am. It's weird. They're your parents!
So weird! It gives me abuse vibes
Its called manners.
thats weird. i live in america and i've never called my parents sir/ma'am. those kids must have really strict parents, because no one here that i know has ever called their parents sir/ma'am.
(I'm from America) When I was in school I heard people say that to teachers a lot. Never seriously heard someone say sir/ma'am to their parents.
(Okay but when they call the teachers that it's usually not super serious)
Most people don’t do that. At least nowadays. I think it’s more common in the Deep South as a form of respect or whatever but I prefer mom and dad as do my friends.
Im from Scandinavia and Im with the brits on the whole ”butter on bread” thing. First thing that goes on the bread when making a sandwich is butter.
Obviously!
We Brits are absolutely fastidious about the rule that bread MUST be buttered. The surprising thing is how flexible we are about the definition of butter, to the extent that a product that explicitly states in its name that it is (unbelievably) NOT butter, nevertheless counts as butter.
Bread for sandwiches needs butter. I don't want mayo in a sandwich, it needs lubrication. A cheese and tomato sandwich is too dry without butter.
@@missharry5727Exactly! I've tried doing a Marmite sandwich without butter. Could not spread it and it was super gloopy.
@@Roadent1241 you made me crave marmite toast. I have eaten the marmite toast.
One major difference I noticed when living wit Americans was swearing.
Americans did swear, but they were horrified at how often the brits would just insert a swear world unnecessarily.
I would say that North Americans swear just because they have zero imagination.
@@Elizabeth-rq1vi And Brits swear because they have way too much of it.
I have always admired the sheer size of the British swear word vocabulary. Wish we had more bad words here. It gets awfully repetitive.
@@phoenixcaladrius3538 Arabic and Spanish are the best languages I've ever come across for imaginative cursing, Arabic probably wins as as well as offering a huge range of curses it sounds agressive to Europeans where Spanish cursing sounds lyrical.
@@Steve_Coates Could they even hold a candle to russian, I wonder.
I am a Scandinavian who lived in England for a year, and I thought shop clerks and servers were way too nice. I had no idea if they were being genuine, doing their job or if they were flirting with me... If they are even friendlier in America I don't think I could handle it!
Same! It took me ages to get used to the level of service in the uk. British people get really defensive when this is brought up though lol
As a brit who spent a year in Sweden it was remarkable how often the cashiers barely even acknowledged my existence 🤣
Same! I'm German. Had a huge culture shock in the UK... And I never knew if they were really interested in how my day was or not 😂
A lot of these things brought up like the lack of sugar in things and the way we supposedly walk everywhere we’re things I thought were problems about our country. We have way too much sugar jam packed foods and we use our cars a lot, I suppose both of those things are things our country is trying to push to go towards the better but I never thought anywhere could consider us to be successful in this. I guess it’s more of a statement on the obesity crisis and lack of concern for the environment in the US than anything.
Based on this as well as your channel name, I presume you're Finnish?
It's even more convenient when the waiter brings the card reader to your table, like it's done in most countries!
I'm starting to think wireless card readers aren't a thing in the usa, like they only have the older reader attached to the register kind??
@@shanethomas1202 It's a thing, but handhelds are not commonly used. I'm in the business if selling them. Hell, it's difficult enough to get a restaurant owner to upgrade from hand-writing tickets to a POS system, let alone getting them to shell out extra for handheld devices.
Aaa... most of the time, the system is wired in place. These places don't even pay their wait staff minimum wage, so paying extra for newer wireless or handheld devices would hurt the profit margin, so most places prefer buying outdated older stuff to stay cheap.
Many chain restaurants are moving to having a little screen to summon a waiter, order more food, and pay through the screen. So it’s happening, albeit slowly.
Wait...isn't this how everyone does it? I mean I live in Botswana 🇧🇼 and its been that way for years lol they aren't allowed to take your card away!
The "Miss" thing is probably a leftover from when most female teachers were unmarried. Female nurses and teachers were expected to leave the job when they got married.
He didn't say what they call them in the USA. Ma'am?
@@andrewmcilwraith1997 miss if they are unmarried or misses if they are married
@@andrewmcilwraith1997"Miss" or "Mrs." with the last name. Or for nuns, "Sister " with the first name she took with her vows.
In Norway we dont have any formal greeting for teachers, we all call them by their first name, male of female.
"You know how in England when you finish your dish, you put your silverware a certain way--I don't know what it is..." Ah, the reason your citizenship application was rejected becomes clearer.
Hahaha i thought the same thing. Error 404 proper etiquette not found
yeah, if you’re done you have to put the cutlery together side by side in a straight line
Same thing in Czechia.
Convenient both ways because that way it's easier for the staff to grab off the plate, and they won't attempt to take away your food if you get busy talking with friends but still intend to finish your meal later.
We don't call it Silverware unless you are having dinner with Upper Class Knobs.... To the average Brit it's just called Cutlery
Social Credit 😂
As a brit, I would definitely say dinky as something very small and cute, in a positive way. Don’t think I’d ever associate it negatively unless it was seen as patronising somehow.
Same- that's the only way I've ever heard it used, but its weird because I'm from the US. The whole negative meaning is news to me tbh-
I'm Aussie, Lydia, and it means exactly the same here - small and cute. I have never heard of it meaning worthless.
I use it as an endearing term for old run down things that are still running strong, like an old lemon car. I find lemon cars kinda fun. Not cute necessarily, but endearing in some way, like I appreciate that they are kept in good enough shape to run.
Huh! I've always heard it used in a kind of derogatory way in the US
yup. small & cute.
“Wouldn’t that be nice in a fictitious world where I actually want you at my house.” Is so exactly how I feel about company, I feel seen.
I know right? All this time I thought I was introverted when I was actually just British the whole time (sans the nationality and accent... and ethnicity...).
A family friend and I have been saying "you should come over sometime" to each other for about the past decade and we still haven't been to each other's houses 😂🤦♀️
Nice pfp
Works the same for me, and I'm Czech. I need prep to clean up the house for a visitor, and make snacks - i don't keep my home in a perpetual state of readiness for people, and it sounds very stressful to always be expecting guests without prior notice.
With the train one shouting "hold the door"
YES. You're absolutely supposed to wait for another train. Don't screw other people over by making them wait just because YOU were late
And it is not just the people on that train, it is the people on every train on the line for the rest of the day.
In Australia we have specific words for train drivers that leave the station when they can see you running for the train.
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 legends
If it’s an actual train, like, suburban rail that goes twice an hour, then yeah, fine.
But the tube? It’s literally 3-5 minutes wait in most cases, for god’s sake!
@@emberthecatgirl8796 that makes a lot of sense for that, that’s fair. Over here you miss the stop and boom, your late for whatever it was by at least 15-30 min if your lucky
As a German: anything more than a curt hello from a cashier makes me wildly uncomfortable. 😂
One time at Walmart the cashier made it a point to comment on the items I was buying and even read the birthday card I was buying. It was a wildly uncomfortable experience even as an American.
As an American I understand how it would seem ‘over the top’ or ‘fake’ by the level of friendliness in American customer service or just small talk in general. However, the truth is, 95% of the time (I don’t mean literally 95% just that it’s almost always the case) they are being genuine (except the ‘hi, how’re you?’…yeah, that’s often insincere 😀). Hollywood and TV in general hasn’t done Americans any favors in how we are portrayed, but we as Americans genuinely want to help others out and treat others well, for the most part it is in our nature. If I see an old lady struggling to reach something at the supermarket I’ll offer to get it for her. If a stranger drops things, I’ll help them pick them up, and so on. And while I understand people from other countries may have the view, ‘I’ve been to LA or New York and it wasn’t like that’, America is huge and most of America is NOTHING like LA or New York.
Lol you would hate to come to my work.
@@cantstopbeatnov9512 precisely! too much of America is judged by a few locations in it.
"Hamse ne paybackkaade?"
"Wollnse Treuepunkte?"
I live in Scotland and we LOVE good customer service, we just hate being hounded and given a routine.
They have to actually be nice and helpful, not cheesy and pushy.
Worked with a few Americans and they ham it up waaaay too much, it seems fake and upselly.
As an American, that’s because it often is fake and upselly, lol. If you aren’t extra, over-the-top nice, people will assume you are rude or don’t like them.
@@coralovesnature Absolutely! At my job, it’s common for a customer to be upset and even write a bad review if we don’t greet them when they walk in the store. Once I said hello to a lady when she walked in and she didn’t notice but then had the nerve to complain at the checkout counter that no one greeted her when she came in.
@@Akane1313 Prople complain about that how that's not their job
@@coralovesnature yessss, we do it as a survival technique against the Karens
That’s cause it is fake and the only reason they do it is cause the manager/owner hounded them to in order to get paid. But I prefer it over the pissed off mcdonalds worker that grunts whenever I ask for a straw cause they forgot to give it to me in the first place and then gets even more annoyed because they are even there. Or the grocery worker that slowly scans items because they can’t be bothered to be more efficient and then give attitude because the chip reader is being stupid and- OH GOD I HATE GOING OUTSIDE
The purpose of butter on a sandwich is to create a barrier between the bread and the filling to prevent oils and juices from soaking into the bread and making it soggy
Also he might be surprised to learn that restaurant and burger chains butter the bread before toasting. I don't know of anywhere in the US or EU than doesn't do this. I know the US burger chains use a roller to get the butter on the bread so you might not notice if you were looking for someone with a knife buttering bread lol
Plus if the filling is warm you get lovely melted butter!
Then eat it quicker. lol
That’s the point of putting pesto or ketchup, that the bread soak the sauce so that it’s not that dry and tasty
@@KBinturong No. No. No. No. No. No. Not ketchup. Pesto is fine I guess... But no.
I've always used the word Dinky to mean something small, I even named my cat Dinky, many, many years ago. So I looked it up.
Dinky:
attractively small and neat.
"a dinky little restaurant"
Not forgetting that mainstay of British toy companies, Dinky Toys, whose entire product line is of cars etc made at a vastly reduced scale.
Sth Australian - I always thought dinky is small and cute, or a valued small toy
yep dinky is small and cute
My friend affectionately calls me Dinky. I'm a 4ft8 dwarf, they're like 5ft10, it makes sense XD
Dinky has always meant small, to me.
Just adding to the pool of British people - I have never thought dinky to mean worthless or of low value! I use it all the time to mean small and cute
Same
Yup
Same
Depends on the context e.g I have heard a British TH-camr review a cosmetic product and say that it was a bit 'dinky' for the high price, meaning it wasn't worth the money
Yesss
I'm French but based on this video, the UK sounds like a friendly neighbour while the US is an alien from outer space.
I mean the UK and France, we are neighbours 😂 (yes America, neighbours, not neighbors)
Trust me,most of the uk is just Europe's florida
That's basically everyone's perspective who's outside the us
@@HaohmaruHL And the perspective of many people from the US, I think.
As a Brit, going to the USA makes me feel European 😂
Yes I would use the word “dinky” as ‘cute and small’, and never knew it could mean ‘cheap’.
Yeah, I'm Canadian, which is culturally pretty close to America, and around here Dinky is somewhat insulting. Not like a swear word, but to call something dinky... it typically implies that it's either too small to do the task well, or it's small and also low quality.
@@reaganharder1480 I had no idea! It’s more of an endearing thing to say about something that’s small and cute. Usually synonyms with ‘precious’.
@@CB-jh1pt in some cases it can be somewhat endearing, but in the way that something stupid would be adored.
@@reaganharder1480 haha I know what you mean, but still can’t believe it’d be insulting! It’s a word I’d use rarely, but I’ll hopefully remember not to use it to offend people from your end of the world!!
@@CB-jh1pt and if you do, most people are pretty understanding of "where I come from..." so a quick explanation oughtta smooth it over.
The UK is one of the only places I've been where it's feasible to not have a driver's license. I'm unable to drive for medical reasons, so living in the suburbs in the UK and being able to get regular public transport is a lifeline. I don't know how non-drivers manage without it.
Genuinely, it's not too expensive and the busses run everywhere. Even rural you can expect one every half hour.
It’s like that in most of European towns and cities, and even with a lot of villages starting to get funds allocated for public transport.
Non drivers (I guess me, just graduated and haven’t got my license yet for eyesight and meds reasons) around me have to rely on the people who do drive and have time. Public transport is awful, and walking is a nightmare, even here in the state capitol area here in CA (plus it’s way to dangerously hot in the summer anyway. Literally a risk to be outdoors some days)
@@Evie0h Time to improve transport then.
It's barely feasible and depends where you live. Birmingham and London you don't need to drive, public transport in these places is okay. However, I've had to turn down a job interview before when I was in my first year of uni because I had no way to get to the job location (which they unhelpfully didn't disclose til after inviting me for interview). The location was in some random place outside of Birmingham and by public transport would've taken nearly 2 hours and required multiple train and bus changes plus a 20 minute walk, not something that I could easily do for work every single day. By car it would have taken 30 mins. I had another experience recently where my train got cancelled and the replacement bus services were incredibly poor. I had to walk 40 minutes home because the bus services running didn't take me any closer than that. I'd love to be able to rely on public transport, but it doesn't seem feasible anymore. I'm preparing to get a driving license.
Dinky has always been small and cute for me. As a Brit, I would definitely say that dinky is used to describe something like a charm or a mini piano (dont ask).
In America ‘dinky’ is DEFINITELY derogatory no matter which way you use it…doesn’t matter if you’re saying it’s small or of low quality, either way it’s almost always an insult.
Not sure if it's just a coincidence but when I was a kid, in England, you would get miniature cars from a company called Dinky. Dinky cars..."Dinky" was used for anything small.
Yeah, we have a small cat (2.5kg), who we refer to as our 'dinky little girl'. It's actually quite a term of endearment. Contrast this with the American use of the term 'quaint', which is negatively aspected and means small, archaic, and backwards in BE, but appears to be positively aspected in AE, at least the way all the tourists around Plymouth and Bristol use it.
A small little dog - awh dinky dog 🐶
Brit here and everyone calls my 6 month old daughter who is on the smaller side a little dink because she’s tiny in comparison to babies her age, definitely means small and/or cute here
From this video, and as a Brit, I completely understand why your British citizenship test was rejected.
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The Tories should use this as 'they can't assimilate' rhetoric instead scapegoating Muslims.
HAHAHA
@@serinadelmar6012 you misplaced your brain.
Got em
Dragoş err okay thanks for that kind soul, I mean fuck wit.
I genuinely feel bad for the blind in the US, and others who cannot drive like myself, because it sounds like you’d be completely stranded if you don’t live in a city
Yeah the whole needing a car thing is a massive headache. Buses in suburban areas do not cover much area, and sidewalks can be worse kept than streets.
Speaking as someone who lives in the fairly remote highland countryside I can semi confirm this. I was stuck during winter this year and later had no car for over a month (it was at the garage for repairs and mot). It was a headache to rely on others! I can’t get over how helpful my neighbours were but still, it felt like I was a bother. And I still hate myself for actually needing to order food from Tesco instead of actually driving to their shop.
I guess I’m just stubborn that way but I prefer to be able to drive to where I need.
Also US money is harder too - all their bills are the same size, whereas British pound notes vary depending on the denominations. A small detail but a very helpful one! :)
@@helenl3193 Our new notes also have braille now too
@@Stettafire That's awesome. The US is very resistant to change like that, even if it's obviously good for inclusion
During my visit to the US, I was consistently uncomfortable with how in-your-face people working in customer service would be.. It's was very weird not being allowed to just enter a store and do my thing without someone basically following me trying to push stuff on me.
If you complain about them to the owners, you can probably get them fired for being too overbearing. Because that's how jobs work in the US. You need to be psychic.
@@stephenderry9488 i just uncomfortably left the establishment
@@stephenderry9488 but it’s not their fault they have to act like that. My gripe is with the company, not the workers.
@@stephenderry9488 Sadly in many cases they don't get paid a lot, so they basically have to be convincing staff member.
Reminds me of when Walmart failed here. All this false friendliness just doesn't sit right with us.
When I was on honeymoon in the US, a waiter *sat down with us at dinner*, like fully slid into the booth and had a several minutes chat (that we were clearly weirded out by) before even trying to take the order. There were way too many personal questions and nowhere near enough personal space.
I was actually barstaff/waitstaff at the time so it wasn't about being snobby about waiters. I just don't want complete strangers to be so overly personal and chummy. I know tips depend partly on making people feel like they really *matter* to you, but it feels incredibly weird to a Brit.
The reason why credit/debit card being taken away is shocking is due to the fact you can clone cards. You should never lose sight of your card.
And that's why everybody else uses chip & pin. Or its RFID / NFC counterpart. In germany i never encountered a magnet stripe transaction.
Or they could just simply take the card details on a piece of paper, take a photo of it etc.
I used to work in a hotel restaurant in the uk (i am not from here) and when i took away a card on my first shift, my manager was mortified...
Yeah it's to do with card cloning. When I worked in restaurants it was standard practice that you didn't even touch the customer's card, let alone take it out of their eyeline - present them with the card machine, they do their thing, they take their card back, you hand them the receipt, no opportunity to clone anything.
The credit card company is on the hook if your card is cloned though, not you.
Yes! I'm not from the UK but it's shocking to me too! I'm not giving my card to a stranger
We have knighted peoples in the UK, maybe thats why "sir" isnt used as much generally. It's like calling someone who isnt the queen "your majesty"
Just to say. It does happen and English kids call their teachers sir. I just don't see it as often as I see Americans use it. I work with Americans and they call me sir and I feel very uncomfortable about it. Their UK counterparts normally just insult me as a greeting and I feel much more at ease
You can't compare knights to royalty, but I can see what you mean.
That's a good point, I never thought of it like that.
Fun fact that's illegal in the US we actually have a rule in the constitution stating that you aren't allowed to have titles of nobility including being knighted
@@Kingdom_Of_Dreams you kinda can: that fact is it's a term with a specific status attatched which you don't have. sure, one's hereditary & one's not but...
you'd not call anyone 'your majesty' or 'my lord' without it coming off as a bit odd, perhaps a joke perhaps sarcastic. sir is the same. y'all are a knight. or not. & ofc almost everyone is not.
I'm genuinely a bit confused. What do British people use instead of Sir when speaking to a man?
As a Brit, I have no issue with iced tea itself. I do however have an issue with it being referred to as simply 'tea', or mentioning tea, and someone assuming somehow it must be iced.
In the south part of the states, ice tea is called sweet tea, and hot tea is called tea or by the name of tea. Example: 'Would you like sweet tea or green tea?'
At least half of us also have kettles.
I've never experienced it being called tea by itself.
There's always a prefix. It's never just tea. It could be sweet tea or iced tea. It's never just "tea". We recognize that there is a difference between the two.
As a Brit: this.
In the south, I once made the mistake of asking the waitress if they had sweet tea. In the west we put the sugar in ourselves.
Over here,in England,my local Sansbury’s appeared to be trying out a new approach,to customer/tillperson interactions.They started,actually asking people,going through the till,’what are you doing,for the rest of the day?’,or ‘any plans for the weekend?’.I have never seen so many angry faces,as people activated their bank cards,or heard so much gnashing of teeth.They soon stopped it.
I recall in early 90s after the Soviet era ended here in Latvia one small shop owner apparently had found some US customer service book and started to put on a fake smile and greet everyone “hello, how are you, thank you for the purchase, come again”. We all found that very strange as we were used to customer service actually being hostile… as in Soviet era they were the people who had access to all the goods so had a lot of power and there was no mechanism to really sack a rude person in customer service as Soviet Union prided itself in 100% employment and rudeness was not an offense for which to let people go
Shame, I'd like conversation with normal people, I have so little of it I never get any practice and then people don't talk to me because I don't know how to converse which-!
I would flee and not come back, lol
Ah that’s a bit sad. But figures for England (south presumably?) We’re a bit more chatty over here in Wales, and my goodness do you notice the difference in friendliness levels if you so much as pop over the Bristol.
@SR-zp4je the thing is,we do like to chat with the people on the till,but not that forced,corporate stuff.
As an American, I agree with the Brits on customer service. My preferred CS experience is that the clerk leaves me alone until I'm ready to check out, and then rings me up with zero small talk. I wanna get in, get my stuff, and get out.
Shop at walmart = they're incredibly rude LOL. The problem isn't the CSR it's the company. I worked for years as a CSR and if you didn't greet every customer that came in you'd get in trouble. The companies have this weird false ideal in their heads that people want to be bothered. SO NOT TRUE lol.
If a clerk follows me, I’m like “do they think I’m stealing? Did I steal something without realizing it?”
unfortunately retail can actually get fired for not being discustingly over polite. while working as just a warehouse worker i was rated on how outgoing and polite i was with customers its a shame we focus so much on it.
and that's all i want to do as a cashier. people read my name tag and act like we've been friends for years.
@@isabellefleszar5851 agreed. I was in a chocolate shop and I won’t say which name and it was a very small one and the whole time the clerk followed me making some more small talk, well you sure I can’t help you find something? I keep wondering did they tell her to follow the customers in case they steal the chocolates. I felt very uncomfortable and I wasn’t encouraging her to talk to me so I walked out without buying anything. Not the kind that steals, ever but I don’t like being followed. Put in a camera or some thing but don’t follow me.
“Wouldn’t that be nice in a fictitious world where I actually wanted you at my house” disarmed and killed me
My husband gets mad when I refer to my cats as "sir." Mostly just "hello, sir." and now my toddler says it, too In her little voice "hi, sir" ^.^
Omg that is adorable (!)
I call my cat “Little man” lol
Lol I call my cat Mr. Kitty sometimes-
I would love to see a video of this!
SO ADORABLE!!
The "How much sugar is added to US food vs UK food" makes me a bit scared. I have a friend who studied in the UK for a while, and she told us that everything in the UK tasted so damn sweet, she told us that UK yogurt tasted like dessert, UK cereals tasted like dessert, and so on. And if that's the case when comparing UK to Sweden, and US is worse than the UK, then I don't want to know how bad it is in the US.
I was thinking this- I’m from the uk and always think stuff like cereal (ESPECIALLY something like cheerios) here has way too much sugar in
I know we use a lot more natural sugars than other countries, it is why a lot of the US prefer our chocolate to their own, as theirs can taste artificial (especially once you have tried both), so maybe that’s why? We do still have sugary things, but nowhere near as much as the US, especially with the sugar tax here! We are much stricter on what you can and can’t put in foods too.
Have a look at how much sugar is an American can of soda. As much in a can as you would get in a 2L bottle in the UK.
@@fredbloggs7131 What ?? There's 8 teaspoons of sugar in a calm ok coke in the UK..... So you're telling me that there's over 30 teaspoons of sugar in a can of coke in the USA? 😮
I'm wondering what kind of yogurt your friend had. Plain yogurts are not sweetened but fruit and other flavoured yogurts are sweetemed, because they are a dessert, lol
As a British person, who on earth puts butter on a burger?! Never heard of this and it sounds gross.
the butter is on the grilled buns not the burger, it keeps the bun from getting soggy, most fast food places in the US puts a little butter on the buns before they put it on the grill
@@marydavis5234 it also makes the bread toast faster
As a New Yorker who now lives in Florida, I have never seen someone butter the buns before eating the hamburger. That´s disgusting. The same for putting butter on sandwiches. Butter goes on bagels and rolls only!
@@ESUSAMEX Lol I used to work at Wendy’s we’d butter the buns, toast em, and put the burger or chicken sandwich together.
@@EtherealEmpr3ss I know people butter the buns to toast them, but I was talking about putting butter on a hamburger after cooking it and then eating it.
As an Australian person it’s fun seeing all the stuff we borrowed from both of you
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Yo I’m an Aussie too and it’s so weird lmaoo
Same with kiwis 🤣
Same I but also we're a LOT more British than American so I kinda side with the Brits on things
Yeah, as an Egyptian it’s interesting seeing how both the US and the UK have affected Egypt. Especially being Egyptian American, it’s fun seeing how much of each country I can relate to.
Dinky in the UK means something small, cute, teeny in size. In Scotland we'd maybe say wee like "I only take a wee bit of milk in my tea"
"I only take a dinky bit of milk in my tea"
I didn't see the issue before but, I can see why this guy thought it was strange now to use the word dinky
I’m from England and I have never heard someone say dinky, in my tea obsessed house people just say a bit of milk or if it’s my dad doing his dad act of being posh he will say “oh yes dear put a splash of milk in”
I would personally never use dinky in reference to an amount of something but I often use it in reference to small size (like a model of something)
I always thought it came from dinky toys. Kinda like a predecessor to hot wheels. I've used it
@@ATH-camAccountName I did wonder if that's where it came from. That's the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word dinky.
"Hiuarrright" is the perfect level of customer interaction 😂. I don't want to become friends, I don't want to talk about your weekend plans, I just want to buy my stuff and get out of there.
Let me just say as a British person that being able to call your teacher Sir or Miss is damn useful.
You dont have to remember anyone's name or marital status its actually damn convenient
Ikr, I'm in college and now I have to remember teachers names and it's a pain
American, I remember calling my teacher ma'am once to get her attention because I forgot her name in like the first week, and she was so offended... never understood why that was such a faux pas.
In Australia it’s normally Miss + surname, Mr + surname. Everytime. Whether in person or in third person. So no advantage memory-wise! It was so fun being in a Swiss high school for a while, where everyone was on a first-name basis, even the principal and Board members.
@@rayh.8456 Might be because you implied she was an old woman? I have seen other commenters saying ma'am can be taken that way.
Ugh yeah! Like why do some people expect us to remember dozens of random adults’ marital statuses. That’s so weird. I love being able to use Miss and Sir for everyone lmao
the kettle thing bothers me so much cause i always grew up with a kettle, am i the only american who did?
I didn't grow up with one.. it was the microwave for me until after college
I have one as well, an old metal stovetop one that I got for college 20 years ago. I thought electric kettles were only for fancy temperature-specific timed brew and only recently found out that cheap ones just have an on/off switch.
just u :x
A kettle is a must. You move into a new house with nothing? You have to get a kettle first. Tea fixes everything.
Nope, I own one, we owned one growing up. But we are tea people.
Watching this as an Australian was kinda funny. I swear, we’re the secret love child of these two countries.
😂
I can't believe he brought up the drop bears. Thankfully our secret hoop snakes haven't been revealed.
Same with Canada. (Have you SEEN our snow snakes??)
Hmmm….. The British sent their criminals to Australia and their religious nutters to America. Australia got the better deal.
actually true mate
the most you will ever get in a British cinema is the occasional laugh at a joke, nothing more
Followed by an expanding ripple of shushes, which ironically are more annoying than the original disturbance. See also Wimbledon, second serve.
I once had someone stand up and shout "Extreme takedown!", it was a nearly empty screen though.
today i learned: Americans can eat bread without butter
today i also learned: im scared of americians
Today I learned: Brits can eat sandwiches with bread on them no matter what else is on them
I also learned: I am disgusted
If it is a piece of bread then we put it in the toaster and eat it with butter. Ya know toast. If it’s a sandwich we eat it with mayonnaise like normal people. Who in the world eats sandwhiches with butter and not mayonnaise that’s just so weird to me. Americans don’t just eat bread plain without butter. That would be really weird too. We just don’t use butter as the “sauce” for every type of food. No one here eats bread plain without butter. We just use mayonnaise for sandwiches. And catchup for burgers.
@@rechaljones2447 I don't like mayonnaise either, but I do tend to spread Peanut Butter and Marshmallow Fluff on my breads and eat like that (like a PBJ but I don't like jelly either). Either that or I just eat the bread with ham and cheese, most likely provolone. I don't put sauce of any kind, and I especially don't put butter on my sandwiches.
@@KingKayro87 marshmallow fluff is the best! But I don’t get how you can eat a sandwich with just bread and cheese and ham just because it’s really dry like that and kind of hard to eat, but if you don’t like mayonnaise then I don’t know what an alternative could be so keep on eating those dry sandwhiches cause at least you’re not eating them with butter😉
@@rechaljones2447 sounds like you just need to buy better bread
We’re horrified with the card thing because they bring a card reader over to us with the bill
Yes, this is as though you give the server your wallet and let them take out the money or something, so weird.
How would that even work? They take your card and what? They don't know your PIN. Why take it?
Here in Australia, you literally walk up to the counter to pay? I can't imagine giving someone my card
Card readers are becoming more popular in the U.S., but we do still have establishments that take the card and bring back a receipt for you to sign. At least we did in the before times anyway.
@@BlackTearDrop I use to work in the food industry, all you have to do on the card reader is press enter to bypass the PIN. (Ever since that job I realized a lot of card readers let customers do that too.) The card reader isn’t wireless so you can’t really bring it to the customer. A lot of the time when people get scammed here its from shopping online or losing their wallets.
People in America were mindblown when my parents said that they let me walk to elementary school on my own. They couldn't fathom a child being able to get to school without an adult driving them.
Fun fact when I was about 9/10 I used to walk to school on my own here in the UK which was the norm. This was before mobile phones and what not... I can't imagine letting my kid do that now without a phone.
I tried to tell Americans this and they accused my parents of neglect...
Like, no
I would walk with my parents until year 6 for safety reasons but yes exactly!
I used to walk to school on my own from the age of about 7. But it was the 90's!
For real? We always walked to school in Michigan. In kindy, your parent usually walks you for a bit until you get the hang of it.
Nope I realize this is a year late but Evan, after having moved from America to the UK, I went home for a visit and my family TRIED TO MAKE ME TEA IN A MICROWAVE. I blushed at the barbarity, but this has indeed happened. And if it happened to me, I feel sadly sure it has happened to others.
THE SUGAR CEREAL THING OMG. i’m british and when i was younger we weren’t allowed cheerios because they were too sugary. still one of the sweetest cereals here in the uk imo. blows my mind that they get sugaryier
as an American, the regular Cheerios (yellow box) is actually considered the "healthy" cereal. there are some where even Americans think "that's too much sugar" like Froot Loops or Cinnamon Toast Crunch
You aren’t really allowed to market unhealthy cereals to kids in the UK, so they have to market them to the parents instead, as healthy.
I love the word sugaryier... As long as it's not describing my food
Yep my Mum was strict with what cereals we had because of the sugar. The American's have crazy colouring in their cereals which would not be allowed here either.
In America we have Cheerios in a yellow box which aren’t sugary at all and then we have Multi Grain Cheerios in a purple box which are a little bit sugary and I’ve heard that in the U.K. they only have Multi Grain Cheerios but they’re just called Cheerios.
The running for the tube person was posted by my partner. I can confirm I’m STILL mortified.
For the reasons given in the video, I would just be puzzled.
It's the Tube...not even time for your coffee to get to a drinkable temperature before the next one arrives.
@@tonyfisk8081 Mate, when the Tube is delayed, it's DELAYED. Like with Covid closing the lines all the time it takes 15 fucking minutes for the Metropolitan. That's bloody ridiculous
@@auberginemanproductions1608 My comment was only valid for normal operation. I've had to wait an hour for a tube train before now, but half the stations were flooded that day...
Just for contrast, imagine if trains to Birmingham ran every 15 minutes, we could scrap HS2!!
Maybe this was just my experience but “Sir” was only used to address teachers in secondary / high school. In primary school we would just address the teachers with Mr / Miss / Mrs followed by their surname
Yup, that was my experience too.
We would call my yr 11 math teacher Grav (short version of his name) but all the other teachers would be sir/miss even married
I guess it depends on the school and the teacher.
@@lucie4185 we’d call a lot of the office staff by their first name
I think it depends on the school, in my high school we used used their surnames eg. Mr Anderson, Miss/Mrs Wilson. Some teachers would let you use their first names but generally that was when you were in you final years (S5, S6) and had been studying the subject for a long a few years.
7:19 It's not that we expect politicians to not be religious, it's politicians mentioning religion and making a thing of it in political speeches.
Hi Evan. I am a teacher ( History and English). The " Miss" thing actually comes from History. Female teachers were required to be unmarried and therefore were always called "Miss". It stuck, and now Miss is used in almost evety school unless the student is using their full name. Sometimes schools try to switch it to " Ma'am", but when our headteacher tried that it made lot's of us feel uncomfortable and it was switched back 😆🤣 Being called Miss keeps you young.
If we called our teacher Miss instead of her actual title of Mrs in school, they would make a point to correct us. I didn't think calling every female teacher Miss was a thing. Now I know.
@@lordshadow3822 mostly in Secondary schools. Every school I have worked at I have been called Miss. Some teachers correct the kids but honestly its sometimes better to just respond to Miss than watch a teen trying to remember your full name when you are the sixth teacher they have seen that day and they honestly don't care. I got shit to do 😆
Excuse me, missus, doesn't sound respectful enough. I dont know why.
@@dominadors4795 haha fair enough
I was always taught to say 'Mizz'. The 'z' sound sort of implied between married and unmarried. But actually, a lot of my female teachers would specify their marital status and we addressed them accordingly.
As a 5 foot tall girl, I have definitely been called “dinky” before ahahha and in the north west “Randy” definitely still has its original meaning
I think its mostly the South East that's had the biggest change lol, Dinky here is pretty neutral but we definitely don't use Randy lol.
@@xander1052 I'm from the midwest and I had never heard Randy in that context until this video. It's a name XD
Dinky was a UK model toy brand. maybe that explains the different interpretation
Also sold in the US. Mostly little cars I think.
Yeah, I call my Aygo a dinky toy 🤣
Yeah in the uk it means small and cute rather than small and worthless
The customer service thing is why I always hate going into shops like JD sports. The staff give you about a second to look around before they come over and ask if you're looking for anything, I'm perfectly capable of looking around by myself thanks.
I was sitting in a bar in Viatnam talking to a Britsh guy, I'm Amarican and I was talking about how I was trying to get a new apartment and he was so horrified when he found out landloards could leagly require credit reports and bank bank balances and proof of income, he was just like, "You want a place to live, you just pay rent and a deposit and you got a place to live" and I was sad.
If you are ever declared bankrupt then I think you might need those things. But, otherwise, all you need to do is pay your deposit and your rent and you have yourself a home!
@@Sentariana yeah, I wish it was that easy, getting a place to live here in the USA is bullshit.
@@RobotsWithKnivesCartoons Really? In Hawaii is way different!!
Not dissing the comment at all but the amount of spelling mistakes
@@godlysum0453 Did you by any chance add a “full-stop”.
The "sir" thing at around 9:15 is very interesting. I'm not from the US or the UK but from Finland, and I have a friend in Tennessee, USA. We were on a video call once when I still lived with my parents, and my dad entered my room, and I asked my friend if he wanted to say hi to my dad, half joking. My friend got super serious all of a sudden and very politely asked "how are you sir" when my dad got in frame. My dad really appreciated the gesture but still chuckles about this because this is not a thing in Finland at all :D
People older than you are always called ma´am and sir. It is considered very rude to not use those terms the first time you meet them. This especially true in the south, and Tennessee is in the heart of the south.
As a german the 'Sir' thing also weirds me out. Maybe its because GB is closer but it feels to me like this is something for Royals or the military. Sure we have 'Sie/Ihnen' too but i think thats much less formal than 'Sir'.
@@ESUSAMEX Haha yeah Finnish social politeness is not really about that :'D If they're a parent of your friend or something, you just greet them with "hello" and probably behave politely in front of them. If it's your teacher at school, you usually call them "teacher", "teach", or by their first name, even. Usually not the last name, that's for military, and kids using their friends' surnames as a type of nickname :D Using the equivalents of mr./mrs./ms. (herra/rouva/neiti) sounds old-timey and feels out of place unless used in very specific situations. With old people you don't know, as well as prominent figures like officials or the president, you might use the plural form of "you" to address them to be polite. That also happens in customer service, sometimes, the waiter/clerk addressing you that way. But it does make me feel a bit old :'D Hell, when I would write an email to a professor at uni, I would try to emit all personal pronouns referring to them as well as possible, because "you" as a singular sounded too familiar, but "you" as a plural sounded overly polite xD But yeah I think a lot of politeness in Finnish culture comes from implied considerateness towards the other person :D
@@ESUSAMEX Yes, it's a Southern thing in the US. I grew up in upstate NY and I've never called anyone "sir" in my entire life, including in customer service positions. In British police procedural shows they always call their superior, even just the head person of their duo "sir" or " "ma'am". In the US today they would just typically call everyone at work by their first name, even the head of the business or organization.
Moi! Off topic but my three year old boy is at päiväkoti (Finnish daycare). The idea was to get him to learn some Finnish. The daycare workers are now complaining that his Finnish is limited, whilst all the Finnish kids, are now speaking in English because of him. I am so proud of him.
I think there's a difference between "good" customer service and fake customer service. I think in the UK we feel that if you're being nice you want something and it must be fake.
Also I personally feel more awkward if someone is super attentive in a shop, especially if I'm only looking without planning to buy. I don't want to be spoken to!
Definitely if a shop assistant is overattentive I feel like they're trying to pressure me into buying (which just makes me leave without buying anything)
customer service in lush gets me every time like just leave me alone just wanna look at some bath bombs
I hate the: "do you want a bag, do you have a loyalty card, can I offer you this, oh let me help you out" like no just let me buy my damn teabags and leave
In the US it’s pretty standard that someone might greet you when you walk into a smaller shop and they usually ask if there’s anything they can help you find. When I don’t want to be bothered I just say something like “no thanks I’m just browsing” and they leave you alone.
It is RARE that an employee will be overly attentive and follow you around the store. It’s happened to me maybe once in my life and I totally agree it’s soooo uncomfortable. Like even in Lush this has never happened to me
As a person now working in retail I hate doing it to people. When we get told to interact with customers over the headset I cringe into myself and want to disappear. I'm very socially anxious, and knowing it's likely the exact opposite of what both of us would want in that situation is just painful to me 😭.
I'm surprised that venerating the flag isn't on there. I'm a teacher and I was concerned that flags really were going to be introduced into British classrooms (as recently suggested). I abhor indoctrination.
Well, that's because Johnson basically wants to be a US president in the UK. Also yes, I find that so weird too! Especially the way Americans all have to put their hand on their chest! Always makes me giggle! Also the way many Americans seem to be very sensitive to any perceived disrespect to any given physical US flag - if I saw a UK flag being burned, my first concern would be for the amount of CO2 the fire's putting into the atmosphere.
We do respect flags. A civic building such as a town hall might well have a flag flying -- or perhaps even more. But the government doesn't force us to fly the nation's flag everywhere. This isn't Nazi Germany or North Korea.
Yes - this is one way where America is like Russia. It seems like Ruritania to me, i.e. (they'll hate that!) that you don't have confidence in your country, so you have to reinforce it all the time. Russia and USA are so similar. They should get a room!
There's still plenty of indoctrination in UK classrooms, it's just more subtle.
As a brit, never before have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with
hahahaha!!!
nice james acaster reference
As an American who has lived in the UK for 4 1/2 years, say your prayers! Say your prayers! Say your prayers, and make them loud, so we can hear!
I'm from the US, I'm a cashier at a grocery store and I think our customer service is too much. There's no reason why I should need to provide full service to you while checking out your groceries. I don't mind being friendly, but I prefer much how it's done in europe.
You bring your own bags, you bag your own groceries, you get what you came for and you go.
yes we have better things to do then having to listen to someone trying to provide customer service. Just leave us alone we can ask if we need help. Good customer service is being visible on the shop floor when we need help, so we can approach you if and when we need to.
It also has the negative effect of being used to justify harassment.
Hey hey, I'm British and I use dinky. As in, I'd use it to call a cute, chocolate box village. "The houses in that village are really dinky" it's a positive thing
+1 Small and cute for me
Interesting. To me (Australian) dinky just conjures up the idea of a run down house or a crappy hotel
oh wow, if you told an American their house was dinky it would be extremely rude and hurtful
it sounds so weird to me since I'm not use to it being used like that lol
I love how he describes someone stealing your credit card as something completely normal
“You can make yourself at home” means “you can sit on the settee if you like”
When I say our equivalent of "make yourself at home" you can go ahead and get yourself a drink (you should still ask before going into the fridge)
@@ApequH😯… too informal !
That would make a good comedy sketch if a host said that and a guest took it literally!
The best thing along these lines I have heard of involved a British student visiting a US college and encountering a street preacher. Once he figured out what the guy was talking about, the reaction was:
"You're talking about religion, to a stranger, in public, on a TUESDAY? It's just not done."
My favourite video in the world is an American street preacher doing missionary work in Glasgow
"Don't you want to be free?"
"Ah um free!"
"No brother you are bound!"
"Aye bound tae ma fuckin' missus!"
God, I have got to go to the UK sometime, I appreciate their introverted way of life. Sounds like utter paradise to not be stalked in stores by overly friendly employees you don't wanna converse with.
Introverts and cynics, that's us to a tee
You’ll love the world outside the US in general. I hear so many people who visit the US, but also Americans, say they really dislike the US superficial fake friendliness. Many Americans think Dutch service sucks, like in restaurants you need to get the attention of the staff if you want to get another drink. Sometimes the waiter comes by and asks if everything’s alright, but generally only when everyone has stopped eating their meal/plates are empty. From what I’ve heard, in the US waiters just continuously come by to ask if everything’s alright and if you want something else to drink etc. So, many Americans think our lack of service is bad service, but Dutch people think American waiters are annoying for interrupting comversations every few minutes. Also, we don’t do “Hi, how are you?” unless we actually genuinely want to know how you are feeling.
@@DanDanDoe and now put into perspective the fact that many people around the world find it difficult to cope with the fake smiles and greetings in Western Europe. While Western Europeans find those people surly 😁.
@@huskytail Western Europe ≠ US
The Uk and Scandinavian countries are part of Western Europe.
@@cajunseasoning1846 I am talking exactly about Western Europe. From Northern France through Germany and the Netherlands to Scandinavia.
10:30 probably because in the UK the tube comes pretty often, and on time. public transport in the US sucks ass, so missing a bus/tram/train could cost u like an hour
in north london, which is not actually the entire island
If the woman yelling for the train was boarding a national rail train I could understand because there's a 30 mins - 1 hour interval until the next one. But if it was an underground / overground train then they run every 2 - 5 minutes.
they said the tube though, so that's like 5 minutes max
@@lolarose8973 they said they were at the tube station, not taking the tube. They also said "our train" rather than "a train", and as soon as they got there they saw their train was about to pull out, which makes me think national rail because the tube trains are all underground while the national rail are at street level.
@@hughtube5154 most of the underground is actually subsurface or completely above ground, the tube refers to all deeper level lines. so they probably just meant an above ground station or mixed up overground with the tube (or underground lol so confusing) 😬
@@hughtube5154 every single tube station bar one in my home town is above ground (the one that was underground was originally built above ground too until the 70s). Know what you are talking about before you claim shit about the tube.
"I didn't even know there's sugar in Cheerios" that's the most American thing I've ever heard. If you eat a bowl of Cheerios in Europe, and you're not a kid, they may try to help you to the hospital.
oh by god it is, lol. There's sugar in literally everything here (as it increases profits and there is nothing stopping large corporations from doing so)
@@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410 and sugar is more addictive than drugs but is perfectly legal to put in food
@@Attackontrashcan exactly
Yeah but I don’t understand how people can eat cheerio’s everyday, I’m American yeah I have unhealthy cheerio’s but I don’t eat it everyday/hour’s it make’s my inside feel unhealthy disgusting etc. But the difference is that the U.S. has different options and variety, we can go to McDonald’s to Wendy’s what’s the difference well different ingredients but they are the same in everything.
American Cheerios (the plain Cheerios, not the special flavors) have only one gram of sugar per bowl.
I'm sorry I heard "making tea in a microwave" and i physically recoiled
this is the proper reaction.
but why? it’s there for heating things up
Tea and microwave don’t even belong in the same sentence!
@@catthatlooksatyoufunny7377 me too when i need lots of boiled water, but for just one mug the microwave is quick and easy
do y’all boil milk to make hot chocolate too?
4:41 Yeah, driving three hours just to meet with some friends and have lunch at some fast food eatery. That's not what we do in Britain.
not from the UK, i'm Russian, moved to the US, a small southern town... please stop smiling at me. I don't know how to smile back. Im so scared. I don't know you don't greet me i'm gonna cry please what are you doing this isn't supposed to be a social interaction
and don't suggest i keep my shoes on in the house, if i do i'll combust, let me take em off in peace stop convincing me that it's fine
In the South everything is a social interaction, it's insane. People just randomly talk to people on the street and I'm like ... I don't know you why are you speaking to me
Huh, do you go naked around your roommates I’m confused? Who cares how you dress in your home?
@@chickinnuggit2615 what
@@chickinnuggit2615 in the US, some people don't take off their shoes in their house and tell visitors that they can do the same. Some find this weird.
We are not tell people what to wear in houses on the street.
@@deanastasya they misinterpreted you.
Arizona Ice tea goes hard, no lie
agreed
me thinking it literally goes hard
Arizona Ice Tea is the best drink in the world, deadass
I just got a Costa advert about iced tea lol
Best in the worlx
The idea of a gun show is legitimately terrifying to me. I’ve never actually seen a functioning gun ever and I can’t really fathom the idea of being around people just casually walking around with machine guns or bags of amo and feeling safe
(I’m not American)
Sounds horrifying to me as well (British)
American here. I'm used to guns. You have to understand, we have massive rural areas out here, where a gun is nessacary for protection. Some people live over an two hours away from the closest larger town, sooo, yeah.
@@theramentumbleweed2523 I grew up in rural Canada which is a similar situation. I’ve met people who hunt and own a gun. I still don’t a gun is necessary to just living in rural areas. Even if people felt that way, to have so many people wandering around treating firearms so casually at a gun show is freaky
I've seen a working gun three times in the UK: armed police at Gatwick, armed police in Brighton, and those dudes outside the Turkish embassy with rifles who I assume weren't the Met. Each time has been incredibly unnerving.
As an Aussie, I always use the "watch out for the drop bears" line on foreigners. It's part of our culture to screw with travellers, just an unspoken rule!
As an American I am terrified of drop bears & will never stop being afraid of them
I've lost count of how many non-Australians I have informed about drop bears. :)
My daughter has educated some people too
I would be surprised and delighted if a koala fell out of a tree my arms. Although in fairness I'd probably split my sides laughing if it missed.
I wouldn't even mind. But then, I'm in on the joke. I would just respond that I want to know if they have some in a zoo nearby.
Or I just ask about the emu war and if drop bears would be a solution.
As a Scot I enjoy telling tourists about the haggis hunting ... with embellishments of course.
American cashier's be like "OMG HI HOW R U TODAY?!"
British cashier's be like "hiuarright"
German cashier's be like "........ just give me that God damn money"
Honestly, I was surprised, how friendly the british cashiers have been in comparison.
I think i prefer the german way from my experience.
@@gregorarmstrong2478 Entirely agree. The whole over-the-top "service" in the US is too much for me, I always found it very awkward.
French here, British cashier are super friendly to me. And in a nice way. Calling you honey sometimes. It felt like I was part of a big family haha
Right?? They will nod at you and frown when you're not out fast enough haha
As a disabled person I prefer the German. Here in England they ask if I need help sooooo many times and being English I don't want to be rude but I mainly just want to be left alone. In Germany I don't have that problem and if I actually did need help I just went and found someone to ask.
"I enjoy good customer service". Evan the problem is that people from outside the US see that as agressive, intrusive, and definitely the opposite good customer service. Making your patrons feel uncomfortable doesn't seem good?
Exactly, US customer service always felt... forced to me. It's so obviously faked politeness that it makes me uncomfortable. Like I'm not talking to a person, but some cust-o-mat that is programmed to try and please me. Uncanny as hell. But American people in general seem to follow the "always act polite" shtick, which creepes me out, and if anything, makes them seem untrustworthy. Idk why it's outlandish to just be genuine. You're a random person on the street, we both know you don't give a shit about me, so don't act like you do, please.
@MrLumie This was funny to read cause that’s exactly how people behave in France. The fake politeness thing I mean. I’m originally from Eastern Europe and we are known for being cold or whatever, but the reason we’re seen that way is specifically because we don’t fake that kind of polite behaviour. Like you said, if I don’t know someone (even a neighbour), I’m not gonna go out of my way to smile at them and say hi and how’s the weather etc. But then there’s the other to the French where they’ll just tell you to go fck yourself if you’re being too annoying while in America the customer is always right.
Just make sure my food comes out warm and my lemon water is refilled regularly and you will get your tip.
American customer service is very forced. As in, "happy faced enthusiasm ALL the time, or you'll be FIRED," level of forced. It's not mentally healthy, in my opinion. But it is necessary to be graded positively on performance. Always up, always energetic, always happy. Ugh.
In America niceness is nothing special. So we don’t reserve it for family and friends. I can talk to a perfect stranger for an hour and walk away without contact info because it doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but it can.
Spunk definitely means the naughty thing in the UK lol and you wouldn't say you were randy yourself but you might say it about someone else "he's a randy old bastard"
You might use it about an animal as well.
@@Ruthavecflute yes true.
I am sorry! I am European and lived and worked in the USA for many years. Many many people make tea in the microwave in the USA. They warm water in the microwave for instant coffee, instant hot chocolate and tea. Microwave water tastes disgusting!
"Dinky" means small and cute and is never derogatory (unless used sarcastically), and yes "randy" is still part of the lexicon.
I’m a 23 year old British teacher and being called Miss multiple times an hour seems both mildly demeaning and weirdly formal. I don’t know how to feel about it but I got used to it incredibly quickly
I'm a (male) secondary teacher of a good few years now. Since there are so few men in primary teachers, so many kids just default to saying "Miss!" to me. Most catch on with the "Sir" thing, but then there's the third group who started by self correcting with, "Miss...ter..."
I'm all for gender equality, but there's no part of my figure that could be considered vaguely female :O
Could be worse, I had to call my teachers sister. Yes they were nuns.
*english teacher, the language is called english not british
Or, they might just be a teacher, who is British. Not one who specifically teaches English.
As a brit, yeah dinky just means small and cute. Really is almost always a compliment. Would never have known it was a bad thing in America
It isn't necessary bad but it generally implies insignificance
As someone from Missouri, I would be insulted if someone called my things dinky. It means cheap and off-brand or even broken here. It means it will break easy. But I call my dogs spunky all the time.
Here it's more small and low quality and is kind of insulting. Either "cute little" or "teeny" (sometimes "teeny tiny") are a lot closer in meaning - "what a cute little puppy!" or "look at those teeny flowers!"
@@dianemiles2720 lol that immediately makes me think your dog humps everything 😅 So funny how these all mean different things 🤣
@@harmonicaveronica interesting, see teeny flowers sounds insulting to me. Dinky could be insulting here if you're describing something that shouldn't be small and cute, but cute and small sound more insulting than dinky to my British ears. Like a dinky house makes me think of a small, starter home that's really cosy. If I called it cute or small, it sounds like I hate it but am trying to be polite 🤣🤣
I worked for one of the world’s biggest companies, the US managing director’s name was Dick Holder. We got a helluva laugh out of that in the goldfields of Western Australia when he visited the site.
That’s a wild name in the US too.
Title should be called: 15 minutes and 37 seconds of Evan pissing off the entire British poulation
Brits are so easily triggered. They always rant about how Americans are easily triggered by “banter”, yet they moan and complain when it is dished back at them lol.
@@kevinhung1575 -it was a joke mate...
@@kevinhung1575 kinda shows the Americans not getting banter right lmao
@@kevinhung1575 Ironic.
@@umdonttalktome The fucking irony lmao.
I've been to the US a few times. The weirdest thing was going into an otherwise ordinary shop and seeing guns on sale. There are a few gun-only shops in the UK - but only a few. Never guns and food and toys and hardware.
Aka Walmart
*person casually buys a firearm*
Wal-Mart is both a glorious and terrifying place but I can assure you that all Wal-Mart guns are cheap crap and that most folks get their guns from either dedicated gun shops or a sporting goods/outdoor store.
Must be in the South. Trust me most of the US is also weirded out by the South.
@@winner78222 I thought y’all thought we had southern hospitality 😔
I had one time (in the US) where I had to get someone's attention and called them "ma'am". They angrily responded "I'm not old enough to be a ma'am."
Look, where I'm from calling anyone "miss" who's over 12 is derogatory, "hey lady" is worse, and I don't know you. Do you want the wallet you dropped or not?
As a brit, I would just say "excuse me, is this your wallet?"
It's funny, because calling people "ma'am" in the Southern states is actually totally normal. But as you go more North and West, people start taking it as an insult to their age.
We'd usually go with an 'excuse me' or if that doesn't work just follow them and say 'sorry' until we have their attention. I found it very disconcerting when I went to the States at 20 and people were calling me ma'am because that's what you'd call the Queen
@@96iceshell In America we're more likely to meet a different sort of queen. And I'd call them ma'am as well.
How interesting! I'm from a southern state and if you don't say sir or ma'am It's considered rude. Customers at work always call me ma'am even though I'm 20 and they're usually older.
6:46 as a British person I have never heard dinky being used to mean anything other than small and cute
The credit card thing... "it's about convenience".
tell me, exactly how convenient is it to have your credit card stolen?
I don't see how having a waiter take your card away is anymore convenient than having the waiter bring the card reader to the table
@@lunaangeleclipse9745 it’s more convenient for the waiter and also less intrusive to whatever you were doing at the table.
@@mr.nerd3.142 why would it be more convenient to the waiter? Also unless you're playing a riveting game of monopoly at the restaurant table, I don't see why the card machine being a your table is particularly intrusive?
@@lunaangeleclipse9745 a waiter only having to carry back the card to the reader is easier and faster than having to carry the whole reader to the card. As for the intrusiveness: If your having a conversation with the people at your table, the waiter does not have to interrupt it to scan your card. But they DO have to interrupt it if YOU have to be the one to use the card reader.
@@mr.nerd3.142 1) the waiter doesn't interrupt you at all, you ask the waiter for the card reader at your own leisure. 2) maybe it's different in America, but in England card readers aren't that heavy or cumbersome. If a waiter is having genuine physical trouble carrying something so insignificant as a card reader god forbid they have to carry plates of food around the restaurant.
It's so weird when I hear people say kettles aren't a thing in the states. Up here in Michigan, everyone own a Kettle. Electric or otherwise.
@Just a potato how you heat the water?
@Just a potato ahh ok I get it. personally I used it for everything, for example to cook the pasta or rice, because heating cold water in a pot takes more time than boiling it in the kettle (the electric one) and then putting it in the pot, so yeah, and coffee in the morning I used the stove, then tea in the afternoon, camomille before bed hehe.
@@amandaconstanza I've got a perfectly good saucepan that I heat stuff in all the time. Kettles just seem like a really overrated kitchen utensil that don't do enough to justify the space they take up.
@@amandaconstanza Huh, why have I never thought to use the kettle to cook pasta? using a pot does take ages whereas an electric kettle is quick.
I'm surprised I use a kettle at all though because I don't really like to drink tea or coffee at home.
@@k-leb4671 haha yesss! use it! for rice and everything too
The weirdest part for me about Sir and Miss for school teachers in the UK is how they replace their actual names. It is not just, "Miss, can you help me?" or "I don't understand, Sir"... It is also, "But Miss said I could!" And "Sir is acting well strange today."
What I find hysterical was when I went to 6th form one of our teachers wanted us to call her by her first name, we refused.
In no other area of my life would I call someone by thier title and surname. Note I don't work in customer facing job.
What I loved when I was working in a secondary school is that there could be three female adults in the room, but when a student said 'Miss', we would usually know which one they meant.
Even in college and uni. We didn't call professors "professor" we called then Nigel, George, Neil, Claire etc
@@Stettafire That's funny to me as a Canadian. At my university, undergrads all called their professor as either Professor last name, or Doctor last name. It was only in grad school that you switched to first names. Even as a grad student, when talking to the students, I was always careful to refer to the professor the same way they would, lest they get the idea they could do it. Which made me very thankful for the grad student bar so we'd have a quiet place to drink away from the undergrads (and was also a nice place to do some marking while having a pint).
@@lizcollinson2692 Huh, I found it so refreshing that we didn't need to stick to that sir/miss crap anymore. Each to there own, I guess.
My mum is American but I'm a very socially awkward Brit so, during shopping trips, my mum will be smiling and laughing while chatting to the cashier and meanwhile, both the cashier and I are standing there like *h e l p m e*
We will send helo from Scandinavia to deal with the situation, don't worry! A nod and a thank you is enough.
The culture shock that came with people not actually meaning their invites - have scarred me for life :(
It's not that we don't mean it, we do! We just want you to ask us if it's OK to come around first, as we might be out or busy or find sudden changes stressful or not be in a good place mentally. You never know what is going on with someone! It's rude to turn up on someone's doorstep without warning, but polite to ask in advance.
@@Sentariana I don't think anyone ever turns up without prior notice, especially in London where one must plan at least 6 weeks ahead. No, I meant that when you talk/see that person the next time AND you mention, that hey so you invited me last time, when should we hang out then? You're given the British look of: WHATTT is wrong with you?! XD followed by a topic change and awkwardness of next levels.
@@askalemuralia see, you're doing it wrong. as an English person, here's the right way:
wait for them to ask you, knowing fully that they're waiting for you to ask them, but neither of you are asking each other because it'll end up with that exact situation of both of you backtracking. wait a few months. wait a year. wait a few years. forget about it and move on to find a new friend, who says 'hey, come round sometime!' repeat.
Believe me, it scares us here too 😢😢😢😢 why do we do this to ourselves??
@@askalemuralia I would wait for them them to invite you next time this is how it works in the uk x
"man who just had his UK citizenship application rejected", that's..........really sad, like, I don't know what to say.
Edit: thanks for the 420 likes strangers. I can only say one thing, NOICE.
I’m hoping it’s a joke I think it is
@@kitkat1321 oh, that might also be the case.
Yeah I hyperfoucpused on this, I hope it was a dark joke
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Here's the video the comment is from, it's not because he actually got rejected, it's because he knows very little British geography... I found where it's from... Idk how I rembered where I'd seen this comment 😂
I need to know if this was a joke or not! Because if not, that's so disappointing and sad :(
I used Sir and Miss in secondary school. It stopped being a formal thing for me, just a way to get their attention really. When you’ve spent years listening to the words being shouted by different people trying to get their attention, the formality tends to fade away.
I will never understand why a good customer service is rated by friendliness. It's the least thing that is important, more important are knowing and availability.