American Reacts to 50 British Problems!
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- Tea troubles, queuing qualms, and other peculiar predicaments await! From the mildly annoying to the downright hilarious, we'll explore the unique challenges that Brits face daily.
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I remember being in a restaurant once and the waitress dropped a tray of cutlery. Everyone turned with that annoyed expression at such a cacophonous intrusion. When she said "Sorry", everyone's face softened, and then some bloke at the back said, "That's ok, I'm shit at my job too". Place erupted with laughter.
Of my experience, I am a Brit, if bar/pub or resturant staff drop something most people watching will start clapping and cheering!
There are indeed biscuit laws, they vary by biscuit type.
eg, Got Jaffa Cakes? Here's what's required
1. Keep packet in non dominant hand while you...
2. Eat all the Jaffa Cakes.
3. It is only acceptable to put a full Jaffa cake packet down if you have a bonus triple-pack and you are working on the other two.
4. Do not share your Jaffa Cakes. This decreases how many Jaffa Cakes you can eat.
5. Always eat other people's Jaffa Cakes. This increases how many Jaffa Cakes you can eat.
6. Only eat your Jaffa Cakes sitting down if you live alone.
7. The use by date on your Jaffa Cakes packet is for decoration only. Nobody expects your Jaffa Cakes to survive more than an hour or two after they leave the shop.
You're welcome.
You cracked me up 😂😂😂🇦🇺
And don't forget to do the full moon, half moon, total eclipse thing!
@@clairecalton2116 Black hole. Devours everything. Jaffa Cakes especially.
I have the same issues with a chocolate covered biscuits and alike. 🍫😁😋
I can see by your sermon that you really hate Jaffa Cakes?🤣
It's not the 25°c that f*cks us over. It's the humidity. You watch people slowly 🫠
My secret rush to Boots and buy the skin coolant meant for foreign holidays, reduce my underwear aka no vest and walk in the shade. ❤
The humidity in the UK is not that bad. You're an island. As a fellow Euro, I've suffered through weeks in the US with 95F and 90% humidity.
@@DornishVintage The problem is our building, they aren't built for a hot climate and you only find air conditioning in modern, public, industrial and commercial buildings. Most homes are old and so there is always a rush, these days to buy electric fans in hot weather.
@@DornishVintageit's a different sort of heat. And bear in mind we Brits aren't used to it. Anything over 30°C and we are melting
The depressing thing is the people you only see at weddings turn into the people you only see at funerals.
So true
My God, that's the truth isn't it. Got a funeral next week.
Yup very true
Exactly. If you don't do something about it, one day your funeral will be the next one everyone gets together at. So stop bloody procrastinating and arrange a day out with your mates, no matter how much admin is involved in that for you these days with your pets/kids/houses/spouses/jobs/responsibilities. Life is literally too short.
(I think I'm saying that to myself as much as anyone else...)
I've been to more funerals than weddings - let me think... Five weddings ... (Inc two of mine!) ... I think, six (Inc my twins one)...and three more family funerals I wasn't able to attend due to ill health. 🥺
Many non-British people don't understand the subtlety of "sorry". Of course it can be used as an apology but it can also be a prelude to getting a slap as in "Sorry, but who the .... do you think you're talking to!" and anything in between.
Similar to the usage of "mate" 😉
Yeah - a rough translation "You were a dick just then - you know it, I know it, it's a universal accepted truth - but I haven't the time, inclination or patience to get into it with you. So I'll just say 'sorry' & we will both get on with our day."
You couldn't be more British if you were a Bulldog in a Union Flag Waistcoat eating a Frenchmen.
The meaning of the word "sorry" is totally dependent on the inflexion use.
Non Brits will only hear the word used.
We British will know the meaning behind the word
Sorry is an exclamation mark that you put at the start of a sentence
😂🤣 so true my Fellow Englishman 😂
My chum Richard and I were in queue for the cable car down from Mont Blanc, US guy was slowly working his way forward by engaging in conversation and then turning to the one in front to start another. When he got to me he said "where are you from" ?. I said "Britain and queueing is a great British tradition kindly not spoil my enjoyment". Those behind started to chuckle and would not let him back in. A cold day in 1990. RIP Richard.
I was waiting in a queue to see a show once really late at night and these people came along and just jumped the line. They just walked up and tried to push in right at the front.
And do you know what we did?
AHA! No! We didn’t just tut and whisper “shocking!” to the other people in line. Instead we did the most un-British thing ever and loudly called them out on it!
It felt like rebellion, and I liked it!
@@QTGetomovI did this in the baker the other day and got the stink eye and sark from a staff member...
At 63, I've given up stepping into the road if two or more people are walking towards me. I just stop and force them to rearrange themselves.
The door-opening procedure is ALL 6 steps, not just one of them . . .
Similarly with the arrival of visitors.
I'm the same; I think we are just getting cantankerous in our old age! 😉
It's the only way to go..@@astrecks
Same age - I have to known to go, "Beep, beep", then smile sheepishly as they apologise.
The older we get, the more we display our British sheer 'bloody-mindedness'.😃😃
On a couple of occasions I have said "Do you know - if you just spread out a bit more you could block the entire pavement". I have to be in full grumpy old Englishman mode to do it, but it works wonders!
22:40 The UK has a generally temperate climate leaning on the colder side, so when it goes above 25°C a lot of us really can’t cope, especially since UK homes aren’t built for hot weather and tend to keep heat in as well as lacking air conditioning. That’s what the post is getting at
I'm a Brit living in Seville in Southern Spain (reputidly the hottest city in Europe) and I joke about the fact that I see posts on FB when it gets over 25° because here that is considered a nice day
@@martinmaynard141As a brit who lived many years in the canaries now back in the Uk I struggle with anything over 25 here. In the Canaries fine with it 35 plus.
Humidity
Also given that 25C usually only happens for an average of two and a half weeks a year, it’s not really worth the expense of getting AC installed, so we complain a lot and use underpowered fans to sluggishly move the hot humid air around.
The Antiques Roadshow signature tune came on at 7pm on Sunday and it triggered every kid who hadn't done their homework to run up to their room and try and finish it. It's still a trigger for a lot of us 😊
Must be a bit older than you, when I was a kid the trigger was Songs of Praise...
To understand the 25C one, there is a video floating around about why that temperature feels so much hotter in the UK than some other places - should make more sense!
I've warned people about it being hotter than they think even though they are from Australia, etc etc usually get told to sod off , until I see a red lobster walking towards me , I smile , they say f.....k off 😂😂😂😂
Faffing is my most favourite word in the world. Brits love Faffing ❤️
🤨
Messin about
Faffing about before leaving the house is my other half favourite activity
@@KyleNornIreland you mean mincing about….
Faffing about while waffling = tapping fingers loudly and impatiently on the nearest flat surface!
My idea of British sarcasm. On a train from Central London to Kent, some passengers were standing, yet I saw one Guy in a 2 seater with his bag on the inside of him.
ME: Pointing to the seat.Thanks! ...HIM: kissing his teeth/muttering some annoyance at my temerity of disrupting his comfort.
ME: Pointing to the offending bag .." NO! Not You! HIM! He's the one(the bag ) taking the seat and not paying mate"...with mock irritation at the bag.
HIM,thinking "I'm going to be sitting next to a nutter!"..... that disorientated him:)
Passive aggression is a British character trait.
Reason why we get into trouble in this woke world.
World Champions:)
@@flybobbie1449 Not always as the wonderful thing about it,is that it is,usually,open to interpretation:)
The reason we're not allowed guns our sarcasm is deadly
Faffing what the wife does goes to the checkout , puts everything through and bags it . Then it starts she looks for her purse in her bag finds it. Starts counting out the cash finds she hasn't enough money . Back in bag searching for her credit card wallet, finds it sorts though 12 cards, then remembers the loyalty card so looks for that . By this stage I'm either back at the car or hiding in the toilet
Slapping your thigh and saying 'Right!', is standard practice for declaring your intention to terminate the conversation and leave. I think it was Alannah on the Adventure & Naps channel, (a Canadian who has lived in the UK for years), who said that she had noticed it was something that she had started doing. It's taken a few years, but she is almost fully assimilated now! 😂
Also Wandering Ravens (a American couple) picked up on that
Sorry, but we don't call cookies biscuits, you call biscuits cookies. :-)
Just came here to day this 😂
WW3 about to kick off over a piano at a train station is a very British problem 😄
😂
GO! Brendan Kavanagh - you show those bloody commies!!! 😂😂
"It's cold out."
"Well, put it away then!"
That genuinely made me chuckle .
Ah, the old ones are the best 😄
I remember that from Round the Horne 😂
😅😅😅
I love the fact that after reacting to this, you'll use the word 'faff' in a conversation which will be met with very confused expressions.
Oh, that has to be done. I used to have a dictionary in the toilet, I would look for a word I didn't know and have 24 hours to use it. I used to drink in a local pub then, so it was easier, I loved when a word would come back at me, amazing stuff. You have to entertain yourself sometimes.
Can't stand people messing around with bank cards on their phone that don't work. 😁
I love the word 'faffing' and use it often. No other word quite fits the bill so well.
@@nolajoy7759 I always used it in conjunction with farting as in "They were farting about and faffing on."
Eveybody knows broken biscuits have no calories. Broken biscuits also spoil the look of the biscuit jar so it's just good housekeeping really.
The Dutch version of queuing:
Walk into a store. Silently make a mental note on the people who were inside before you got inside and thus will be served before you. Be nervous about new people coming in who might not follow this rule. Be relieved that they do. Wait your turn.
Correct. Upon entering, asking: "Are you all together?" is optional.
The reference to roasting everything in the fridge is talking about our Sunday lunches. Such options include: slices of roast beef, roasted potatoes, roasted yorkshire pudding... the peas and corn will be on the hob (the flat bit at the top). All of it will be heavily coated in gravy. Hence the 50,000 calories.
Don't forget the roast parsnips!!!! 😅
@@jillosler9353 Oh, I forgot a lot of things. I think it takes first-hand experience to appreciate what a British Sunday roast is like. :)
Corn?
Finally another person who has corn with their roast dinner....respect!!
Very British Problems is a great account. Always hilariously true!
Thinking it's 'lovely' at 70 degrees is VERY un British!!!!! That's just about the hottest temperature people feel ordinary life can continue. Any hotter and we melt into a puddle and can't do anything!
Say ' sorry', but it's also expected that the other person apologises too, as it's normally 50:50, especially bumping into someone.
When they say 'that's alright ', I feel like punching them.
When a relative invited me to join her at the head of a queue, she explained to the whole queue we were related, and would be travelling together, just to avoid a mutiny.
A man once stepped in front of my wheelchair and I accidentally ran over his foot and we were both so mortified we spent literal minutes going over the 'no no, I'm sorry' routine until it got awkward
6:45-ish, the comment about queue skippers reminded me of the one time I've used an airport (we were going to Shannon Airport in Ireland).
still in the English airport (Gatwick), we were all in line and someone pushed in further up. turns out the British public will unite over only 3 things; hating the weather, Bonfire Night, and complaining/tutting loudly about someone cutting the queue.
We tend to say jumping the queue
@@marycunningham8466 out of interest, who's 'we'?
I ask because in my area of England, we tend to use cutting and jumping interchangably. I've heard both about an equal amount since I was born.
I hate it when people start complaining about everything! My Dad says “This coffee is expensive, £1.75 for 2 custard creams, £5 for parking, it’s ridiculous!”
Look Dad if you don’t stop complaining we won’t invite you round again!!! 😂
I’m Joking - l don’t speak to my Dad, we’re not allowed to - he’s a bus driver.
Lynn,I have known some people to dive to explore the underwater world, observe marine life, and experience the beauty of coral reefs and other underwater landscapes but to dive onto a Bus? 😀
I think the most British thing is using insults as terms of endearment.
And Australians have taken that on board and to the next level! 😅 🇦🇺
@@nolajoy7759 You're not wrong.
Walking through Oxford a few months ago I noticed a stampede of students walking towards me whilst they were blocking the pavement, as soon as they got in front of me I shouted "SINGLE FILE" & the young female student in the front jumped at least a foot in the air lol
Summer in the UK is awful because of the humidity and lack of air conditioning in most places
There's nowhere to avoid the heat, and the humidity will usually be 60-90% so even your sweat can't keep you cool because it can't evaporate in the humid environment, add to that that our houses are made to keep heat IN
We had a summer where the heat reached 40°C (104°F) and it's estimated that around 1000 people died from it
they didnt die from the heat , they died because they were old , get over it
Only 495 of the deaths were people over 85, and heat stroke is a well known cause of death that can happen at any age
Bit needless to tell me to get over myself, but okay
maybe also some old people don't have the same feeling of thurst as younger people, so they might not drink enough, or the heat is just harsher to them.
I couldn't sleep upstairs that summer. 🥵
@@julianaylor4351 I had to sleep with just the sheet of my duvet, a fan on, and windows open, and I still woke up drenched in sweat every morning
Single file when someone is walking towards you is just manners.
Yes, but so often ignored nowadays.
There’s something all Americans need to understand:
UK heat is unlike any other, 30° in the UK feels hotter than the core of the sun. Our sweat doesn’t evaporate so you end up both wet and hot. We have no air conditioning. Our houses are designed to retain heat. Opening a window makes it hotter. As someone who can handle it being hot, the 2022 heatwave (40+° in the shade btw) made it physically impossible and medically dangerous to be outside!
"Y'all, I might be British". No, no, that won't do. The line is "Oh my, I think that I might be just a tad British. Although, of course, I do not in any way wish to impose myself upon you, and apologise profusely for any offence or inconvenience caused by proclaiming such". 😂😋🤦🏻♂️
I think its the Blitz mentality that makes us understate everything when facing some sort of hardship, a bit like the Black Knight from The Holy Grail.........you get the idea.
Tis nothing but a scratch.... arm has been taken off. 😁
07:56 now this is why your channel is brilliant - your honest reactions crack me up every time !!😂😂😂😂
You definitely need to react to why it feels hotter in the UK when it doesn’t seem hot - remember the UK has generally had a colder, mild climate and the infrastructure is built around trapping heat. Houses are brick built and insulated and have no AC
Me: *Someone with debilitating social anxiety, realising I’m actually just British*
We’d be happy to have you as an honourable Brit.
Agreed 👍
Motion carried
Ayes to the right...
I think you mean "honorary", though "honourable" would probably work. 🙂
@@heraklesnothercules. You’re quite right. How did that slip through the net? Sorry, sorry, excuse me, sorry……… 😊
During rationing WW2, women would join a queue without a clue what they were queuing for....
Oh! The joy this video has brought me. You are hilarious.
I love Very British Problems, it makes me realise I'm not weird just British
For me it was Bullseye on the tv Sunday evening that made me have the back to school panic. Even now I can't watch repeats of Bullseye without getting the same feeling. I'm an adult.
If you identify with even half of these, you're definitely a honourable Brit, though that did nearly slip when you thought 25C was fine
They had an active serial killer on Bull's eye in one episode
Ski Sunday theme song for me!
@@monkeyspit153Correct! His name is/was Peter Howard Moore & he killed 4 men between September & November 1995. They didn't know at the time when he was on bullseye that he'd already killed ppl, so seeing the episode he was in now is creepy 😬 Weirder for me, as iirc, he was either arrested or charged with the murders on the 30th November 1995, which is the day I was born 😱 Also, I live in Merseyside, which was one of the areas he travelled past! 😨
22:25 - thing is warmer temperatures are unbearable in the UK. Between not having A/C.... I mean virtually no one has A/C at home, and not all businesses will have A/C either, our houses and buildings are mostly designed to trap heat and then there's this pesky little thing.
The number of hours of daylight we have typically when we're getting these heatwaves. At peak time during the summer solstace, sunrise can be as early as 4:15am, and even after sunset, It can still be moderately light up until 10:30pm..... plus we don't have true night at that point. We don't get any time for buildings to cool down, so you're kinda stuck in hot humid places with no chance of escaping the heat.
It's almost as if British people like eating biscuits and drinking tea while looking out of the window at the rain. Especially on a Sunday.
We do..😊
regarding the temperature, .....you dont understand until experience it. This is the thing, most summer you will get a lot days between 25c(77f) and 35c (95f) and in the summer in June through to September you will get spells that most days are around 30c (86f) what you dont know is the humidity that usually comes with that, sometimes , and its rare you will get drier heat at that temp but we are talking maybe 5 times in my life it has been more than a 1 week before the humidity comes back, or the temp drops. I my self am half Greek ,and have been to Greece, and that is 40+c (104f) but drier (I was on the islands but on the mainland its eve drier) and that was comparable to abut 34/35c (92-95f) in the UK in terms of how you feel it, how overwhelming it is.
Couple this with hardly any of our buildings having AC and you will understand Heat tolerance in the UK drops unless you come from a very hot humid place, and then you will ease through it. Also our buildings are built for the 250-300 days of the year when its colder and wetter and its about keeping water out and heat in, same with our cars , we have AC but much weaker AC systems in cars usually as standard, and US style beefier AC systems that would come as standard would be optional extras so we are basically sat in ovens in the Summer slowly cooking LMAO
Every cookie is a biscuit, not every biscuit is a cookie
Woohoo! First commentor and viewer! 😁
ETA: I'm now following VeryBritishProblems and having a good chuckle, while reading such pearls as "You know a British person's life has been completely ruined when they very quietly say "bugger"" - IT'S SO TRUE! 😂
The one about the long queue refers to the queues for the lying in State of Queen Elizabeth ll
The Sunday roast is the big lunch the Brits have and it feels like you've roasted everything in the fridge. And you eat till you pop. Although it can be consumed throughout the week, it is traditionally consumed on Sunday. It consists of roasted meat, roasted potatoes and accompaniments such as Yorkshire pudding, stuffing, gravy, and condiments such as apple sauce, mint sauce, or redcurrant sauce.
And the left over veg makes for yummy bubble and squeak to have with a full English (I know traditionally that's supposed to be on boxing day but who actually follows that rule? Lol)
British weather, it's going to be sunny, put an umbrella in your bag, it's going to be warm, put a scarf in your bag, it's going to be hot, prepare to melt, it's suddenly rain and you forgot your umbrella, jump on a bus and pack it out with other damp people. 😁
They missed, - going to the Dr's - sit in Dr's room, (Dr) 'how are you today' (patient) 'Fine thank you', then thinks 'why did I say that'?
🙄😂
Roast everything in the fridge means we eat roast dinners on Sundays and faffing is looking for change at the cash register or when you can't find your car keys when leaving the house or going to the toilet at the last minute, basically keeping others waiting or delaying your departure because you are faffing around with last minute issues or being disorganised.
AirCon isn't common in the UK, even in our cars. Every car has fans for heating and circulating air but they don't cool the air below the temperature of the car they only heat it up or recirculate it. Air conditioning in a car that actually cools the air costs extra. Newer trains and buses have it but older trains don't, so getting around when it's hot is a nightmare. The company that manages London Underground (TfL) for example has been put under increasing pressure to upgrade all of its stations and lines to have air conditioning as temperatures down there reached 47°C [116°F] - so far less than half the trains have air conditioning with more set to be replaced later this year
I noticed a new phenomenon, people rushing to Argos to buy fans every time they say a heatwave is coming.
22:36 our houses were built to keep us warm so 90% are insulated and they're all made of brick.. So with our summers getting warmer they're basically ovens
Bro you need to watch an episode of the TV sitcom "The Royle Family".
It will teach you everything you need to know about typical British family life lol
Or Eric Idle's wonderful scene in National Lampoon's European Vacation!
That pavement/road comment is spot on 😂 I spend half my time out in the gutter 😂 🇬🇧
If I'm going to have to make eye contact I'd rather be in the road 😅
The term faffing relates to taking an uncessary amount of time doing things you should have done earlier. A good example of faffing: A person has been queuing for five minutes. They get to the till, open their rucksack, rootle around until they find their purse/wallet, comes up with 50 pennies, which they count out one by one, the item is £1.00. so then they have to look again for that 50p, which eventually turns out to be 3 x 10p and 4 x 5p. Then they have to put each thing one by one into their rucksack. Instead of making sure they had the cash correct and ready to go in their purse/wallet and using both hands to pack their items before paying the correct amount. Meanwhile, there is now a queue of 15 people waiting to be served. THAT would be called faffing.
The southern 'Bless your heart' always reminds me of British sarcasm lol
Very truthful and funny. I used to have a friend years ago who's house all the girls ended up at after we had been out on girly nights just to carry on drinking a bit and order our taxis. ( pre mobile phone days ) If we overstayed their welcome her husband used to put his pyjamas on and just sit in the living room lollllllll
I remember over 40 years ago, meeting a Guy on holiday who, also, lived in London and he came over from East to South East London to have a drink a week after we came back from Corfu.. He wanted to come back for a cup of tea before he went home. Reluctantly, I said "Great" and then put on my pajamas and dressing gown.
Paul: "Point taken" and he left soon after, chuckling at my "subtlety..lol.
If you come to the UK, please wait "in line", Iv seen people shanked over it, and rightly so. The ambulance arrived to a chorus of 70 year olds cheering "bleed out, bleed out". Its harsh but fair.
One thing I will always find amusing, is that in the UK, if you ask someone how they're doing, they will never genuinely respond that they're doing "Great" or "Fantastic". The best you'll ever get is "Fine", "Alright", "Could be worse" or of course, "Not TOO bad".
Or not too shabby thanks
In the UK there are basically three types of weather. Cold and wet. Cold and windy. Cold, wet and windy. So if the sun gets to what most Americans would call a cold day, we go on about how hot it is and assume it is a heatwave if it lasts more than a week.
I do enjoy these character studies you are performing for us all! Keep it up! 😁
The Transcript of asking if someone is in a queue, occurs every time I visit my Chemist/Pharmacy. There's usually two queue, and then more waiting for a script to be made up.
I remember over 40 years ago, meeting a Guy on holiday who, also, lived in London and he came over from East to South East London to have a drink a week after we came back from Corfu.. He wanted to come back for a cup of tea before he went home. Reluctantly, I said "Great" and then put on my pajamas and dressing gown.
Paul: "Point taken" and he left soon after, chuckling at my "subtlety..lol.
As a nation, Britain has a history of excessive aggression. There is a theory that we had to develop a culture of extreme politeness to prevent us from all killing each other!
There is also a theory that this aggression/politeness behaviour is also seen in Japan - interestingly another country that is a collection of islands off the end of a continent…
Ha ha. I always say about the British everyone hates the English including most of the English.
(Edit I am English. A Brummie to be precise.)
JJ - you really need to read a book by Kate Fox, an anthropologist, called 'Watching the English'. You will find it both funny - and enlightening.
coming up to a crossroads saying after you no after, you for 10 minutes before someone goes, that's the reason we started using mini roundabouts
Say you could be British but think microwave tea is OK????😂
Roast everything in the fridge- it is pretty much the law (or possibly even the 11th commandment ) that us Brits must eat a roast dinner on a Sunday. Also if its home cooked by your mum then expect at least 10 different veg, and enough food to feed at least every family down your street!!
25° is hot for us. I went to Hawaii a few years ago and it was 35° , I swear to God I nearly died from heat exposure.
We do like to apologise a lot. A man on the tube once accidentally trod on my foot, I couldn't stop apologising to him, I mean how dare I put my foot where he wanted to put his foot !!
Also, you don't use the word ages in the US??!
Please, please, please react to carrot in a box (and carrot in a box:the rematch)
Love your channel xx
Walking to work 5.30 am during the winter. Bent over head down huddled in my overcoat very windy with snow hitting my face like needles. Postman walking towards me as we pass he looks up and said "Bloody Global Warming.
😂😂😂
Bet he was wearing shorts. 😊
Good Reaction, as always:)
Brit 1: Makes a suggestion
Brit 2: "We'll See": Translation: Not a chance in hell 😀
and what has, literally, happened to me tonight.....Female Friend: "I'm running late. Be WARNED. " Me: She isn't going to show....and she didn't.......
I'm a Scouser, 😊 I'm 63 now and the last door I held for someone was about a month ago, "he" was an elderly gentleman, around 80, he shuffled past me without as much as a nod so I said "yes Boss" rather loudly in what I think sounds like a black American accent 🙄 😂😂😂
I'm 69 in London. I was at the end of the queue, last year,in a Bank. A customer left the counter and I stepped back from the queue to open the door for him and he never even acknowledged it and I went out into the street and shouted THANK YOU to him:)
I'm a 73 year old English woman, yesterday I I held the door open for an elderly man who didn't even acknowledge my existence. I had to take several deep breaths lol
People who work Monday to Friday - often with the sun beaming down - mentally plan all the fun things and places they will go to at the weekend . . . and then wake up Saturday morning to grey skies which they KNOW will turn into rain. One wet miserable weekend later they go back to work on Monday - with sunglasses on because the sun is out again! 25C doesn't sound hot but our humidity in the UK makes it feel hot and uncomfortable.
This was hillarious. 😂 Seems like I'm an honorary Brit too, cause I could relate to a lot of them(or some of them might be do to being an introvert or just a northern european, that might easier relate) for example sometimes being too polite, too modest, eating broken cookies/crackers first, many times when coming home from work and being glad you have nothing planed so you can just stay inside/at home, and I LOVE tea(just plain, no milk or sugar etc, I only put milk in coffee), count change twice and still often say "they should all be there" etc, and my favorite seasons are spring and autumn so I don't like it too cold or too hot(at 25°c I'd often complain 😅)
Roast everything in the fridge refers to our Sunday roast dinner. ❤️🇬🇧.
I dropped a packet of biscuits from my shopping on the kitchen counter, last week...opened them, ate the broken ones. 😁😋
Sorry but... lol. Your best reaction video yet. Now I'm going back to my tea, biscuits and watching the rain!
I think it's clever how biscuit manufacturers put the broken biscuits at the end of the packets.
You know when summer as arrived UK, blokes put shorts and T shirt on when it hits 10 degress C. Young women dress the same all year round, next to nothing.
Britain doesn't generally have air conditioning in houses, London is like a humid sauna with trapped heat building on itself beyond about 25c.
Our houses retain masses of heat so you can never get cool.
I remember my Grandmother saying "I'll do it in two shakes of a lambs tail". Sometimes the lamb didn't shake its tail.
25:15 When someone is choking my family's go to response is "Sorry but can you die quietly".
Queues, i visited my US cousin in Boston. We went to the Cheers bar and stood in queue outside.After a minute or so, person in queue said, we aren't waiting to go in, we're waiting for a bus..........we sort of then pretended we were weren't waiting and shuffled in...
lol
Take everything out of the fridge, and put it in the oven, to roast.
As a British person, if someone held a door open for me I would stop and say "No, after you" with a forward sweeping arm movement!
Saying "Thank You" out loud if a motorist pauses to let you cross the road even though he can't possibly hear you.
... you have to exaggeratedly mouth "Thank you!" whilst maintaining eye contact with the driver 😊
I have found that answering the question "what is your greatest weakness" during interviews with "Marzipan" usually gets the message through that I think that question stinks... and if not, it's not a place I want to work
Oh, I must remember that one.
One of the two Ronnies (Ronny Corbett) had his own comedy show called 'Sorry' 1981 to 1988 (42episodes) & comedian Tony Hancock did one episode of 'Hancock's Half Hour' called 'Sunday Afternoon at Home' S5 E14 in 1958
That was sidesplittingly good, I saw myself. 🤣
The "What do you fancy doing?" one. Welcome to a typical daily conversation with my hubby, usually about what is for dinner. 😂
The thing about getting the washing in, it means the laundry you'd put out to dry on the line. The washing is synonymous with everything waiting to go to the washing machine/the laundry, the washing part of the laundry, the drying part, and sorting it out and putting it away.
When it comes to "being hot" here, remember that these are the British _Isles._ We are fully surrounded by water, some of which comes directly from the Caribbean (Gulf Stream) which warms up the west so much that palm trees can grow outdoors in Scotland. That is not exaggeration, it happens.
We pretty much _never_ get dry heat (unless we're getting wind from the Sahara - bloody red dusty sand gets everywhere), it's always humid. So the temperature feels at least 10° C hotter than it actually is and it's exhausting! Think "wind chill" in reverse (but in winter, it makes everything colder, adding to wind chill!) Even if you blink you will get more sweat pouring down.
So 25°C, which should be pleasantly warm (about the temperature that everyone can deal with, you can go to the beach or not suffer from the heat if you're stuck in an office wearing a suit - though when possible, the jacket is off and either a fan is running or the windows are open). However, it can actually feel like you're in a sauna while wearing a yeti costume. The vast majority of the country is further north than Moscow (and, iirc, Churchill in Canada, but it's nearly midnight and I'm too tired to look. Sorry!), but even Scotland is warmer than there. It's surprising just how hot (and cold) this place can feel - don't go by just the temperature, you're on a hiding to nothing if you do.
Faffing is an art form all its own as is gadding.
What about mincing….
For Americans in comments: The word biscuit comes from the French for *Twice Baked*. If your *cookies* have only been baked once, you are fine. If your *cookies* have been twice baked, they are Biscuits. That is all :)
I really enjoyed this @JJLA Reacts, thanks for the chuckle.
Heartiest best wishes from Wales.
I loved your staring down ... Best laugh I've had all day x
No Brit has ever left anywhere ever without first slapping knee and saying, right 😂
When my late husband was my boyfriend and had come visiting, he would say "Right, I think it's time for home now". 10 minutes later he would still be sitting there and I would say, "Haven't you gone yet??" 😅
I always put my handbag on my lap 😂
When somebody asks me to say a bit about myself, I usually say "I'm Bob and I'm just this guy, you know!" 😂
There's a WW2 cartoon I found once, in a British history book, that had people queueing, but they didn't know what the ration they were queueing for was for. 😁
During rationing, if you saw a queue, you joined it, as it meant the shop had a supply in of something you likely wanted.
The funny thing about the multiple meaning stuff is it is often delivered the same without tone or inflections leaving the hearer to decide what it means. This goes back to most parts of old europe when duels were common and after duels were banned. In order to prevent blood shed this and euphamisims were popular. Its well depicted un zepherellis romeo and juliette and the musketeer films with micheal york
Tea is also a meal served around 5pm, hence tea time.
The best answer to the job interview question I ever saw was.
What is your biggest weakness?
Honesty.
I don't think honesty is a weakness.
I don't give a shit what you think.
Love your videos JJ
From across the pond, we declare you an honorary Brit. Sorry!
Your videos do make me laugh ! Its great when you get our english humour but when you dont get it im there shouting at the screen like “Dude” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂.