Dont even use 1 spray. Spray in front of you and then wait a moment then walk into it and turn around. Cologn and perfume are designed to be very strong and if you spray yourself you SO might gag even on a scent they like. This is just something else the brits do wrong, lol!
So unless I'm mistaken someone is impersonating this channel with a giveaway. On one of my posted comments I received a reply saying I had one a prize . The logo was the same as brain blaze. And the name included it.
Major British actors like Alan Rickman and Brian Blessed and I think also Patrick Stewart were actually regular performers at pantomimes! They tended to play the villains, hamming things up and chewing on the scenery as much as possible, and were generally glorious. Imagine the Jafar or Captain Hook played the way Alan rickman played the Sherriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, only live on stage in front of you, and you are encouraged to be rowdy instead of sitting quietly in the audience and being polite and not making noise. It's a lot of fun! Kinda like the Rocky Horror Picture Show thing. If you go in expecting some kind of transformative experience, or high-brow entertainment, you're going to hate it. Just let loose and have fun, enjoy it for stupid trashy silliness it is.
Yup, panto's are actually actor's holidays. It's a long tradition, and basically they're over-acting purely to play to the crowd, rather than normally having to fulfill a role. And it's totally and utterly glorious! Camper than christmas, and righteously so'! They also provide snide political commentary and a general sense of anarchy, long live the panto! Simon needs to needs to let his hair down a little.. Oh, he can't! Keeps might help...
I was going o comment that it sounded a lot like The Rocky Horror Picture Show at a theatre, you sorta have to know what to expect or you're going be really put off.
I'm Australian and descended from convicts. I'm uncultured and never heard of pantomine but it sounds like a lot of fun. I do like Patrick Stewart though. Sometimes I think he would make a fine captain of some sort of ship.
I took an English History class in college. The prof explained The Gun Powder Plot this way - Half of the country celebrated because the plot was foiled, the other half celebrated because somebody tried to blow up parliament in the first place.
I love how the great British writer Terry Pratchett has a piece of lore in his novels that by law there are no Mimes (Panto or otherwise) allowed within the city or if caught to be nailed upside down to the city gate xD
The nuke with the Legendary Simon Scream instantly brings me laughter 😃🤣 so glad I randomly clicked on a Business (Brain) Blaze three years ago! Instant fan 🥰
I grew up trying to get away from the local village pantomime, trouble was that my dad did the sound and lighting for them, i managed to never be in one though. As for burning Jimmy Savile on the bonfire on Nov 5th, Lewes Bonfire Society did that a few years ago.
You would find it quite hard to find a pub that isn’t a “family oriented gastro pub” in most towns in the Uk nowadays. My main objection to them is that because they make their profit from food the beer is usually terrible.
We used to have a pub in town called 'The Orange Tree', and it was my fave pub, because it was the rarity, an adults only pub. Also, no football / sports attire, no TVs, no slot machines, just decent beer and food. Sadly the small chain folded. It's now open as 'The Tree' and has a 'no under 18s after 7pm' policy.
In the U.S. there are 2 different bars, a bar, and a bar & grill a bar is 21 and up (often checked at the door) and the bar & grill is a restaurant and bar together and kids are allowed
We have something vaguely similar to Pantomimes in the US called "Melodramas". They're similar in that they're an over the top live action theatre thing where the audience is intended to boo the villain, cheer the hero and often throw things related to the plot at the actors. But the story is rarely as weird as the British version (its usually a villain dressed in black with a pencil or handlebar mustache, kidnapping a damsel and tying her to the railroad tracks to be saved by the hero). They also aren't common all over the place and usually are only appear in tourist areas that are somehow connected to the "old west".
Here's a little nugget of information for you, regarding The Fonz. Henry Winker had a taste for water-skiing and to showcase this, in one pivotal episode of Happy Days, he performs a feat while water-skiing as Fonzie. What did he do? He signalled the beginning of the end for Happy Days, and a trope used to describe the downturn of a show. He jumped the shark.
The Fonze was Jewish....Nothing wrong with that, just many people don't know and are surprised, cauze he doesn't exactly meet most people's expectations of a typically young Jewish man.
Pantomimes are a lot of fun! Kids and parents/grandparents/piblings going to watch a silly play that the kids can shout and laugh loudly to… it’s exactly what’s needed in dingy, cold, damp January!
Thanks to V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes managed to somewhat entered American minds with the Guy Fawkes mask getting adopted by protestors in the early 2000s. Although Alan Moore, author of the original graphic novel, got pissed off at the Fawkes imagery being used by anti-Bush protestors given he wrote the novel in response to Margret Thatcher and American protestors should adopt their own imagery. I also remember reading an article by someone who said liberal protestors probably should not use a man who wanted to kill a king only to set up a theocracy as their mascot.
@@DJWESG1 Some people claim Guido "Guy" Fawkes and the conspiritors didn't just want to stop Catholic rape, murder, torture, and persecution, but wanted to turn around and do the same back to Protestant's and Jews.
The movie version of V for Vendetta was inspired by Moores Work and on top of Allan Moore disowning any works based on his works but not true to his image, the protestor's are not wearing Fawkesian masks but V's Mask. V was inspired by Fawkes in the movies, but was not driven by the same causes, as are the protestors and activists that wear the masks not of Allan Moore's V and Fawkes, but James McTeigue's V which acts, looks, and is driven differently. Their masks are Guy Fawkes's mission the way the modern image of Jesus is mostly from reliefs of Alexander the Great. There is a historical connection, but for those using it, it has been largely lost.
Yeah it's not like America doesn't have their own fair share of traitors. We have a whole rogues gallery from which to choose. Starting with Benedict Arnold and and more recent years adding Donald Trump to the list.
That film missed the point of the book so hard PS I'm somehow related to one of the Gunpowder plot guys 🤣 one of the Wright brothers if memory serves me rightly
A good panto is filled with inuendo that the adults get but goes straight over the heads of the kids watching, thus making it enjoyable for both. Sadly many get it wrong and either cause the kids to ask awkward questions, or are plain boring for adults...
The thing about pay versus free public toilets in the US is, there aren't any public toilets, period. All toilets are behind a literal pay wall in the sense that you either need to be a customer at an establishment, or have paid to get into some sort of festival. Though, where I live, it's not really a big deal. I've gone into gas stations or even stores and asked where the bathrooms are. I get told without any hesitation. The first time this didn't happen was on a trip to San Francisco. My cousin and I had been out seeing the sights and had to use the bathroom. We stopped into a McDonalds, and the bathroom had a lock on it, and a sign saying it was for customers only. We were confused, but someone explained it was to keep homeless people out, and that just felt wrong. So when someone left, we just grabbed the closing door and went in, then held the door open for the next guy when we left. The problem is that homeless people have no choice but to go to the bathroom outside, and you could smell it everywhere. It was so ubiquitous, that when we saw flyers for a play called Urine Town being put on that night, we went to see it. It was pretty cool.
First time I ever came across pay toilets was when I was visiting some friends in Sweden. I did remark how that seemed very unkind to the homeless population. Not that we in the US aren't cruel to the homeless in plenty of ways. We definitely are, but a bathroom does seem like the sort of thing people just deserve to have access to.
Everyone should experience homelessness. It shows how evil organized religion can be. Give them the stuff you think they need.. They usually get stuck with the items nobody else wants and greatly appreciate the thought as they watch them spend outrageous prices for useless items that end up in landfills in weeks or months. There are people just like you that end up just like them every day. Be generous to them. Don't be like America's founding fathers were to the Native Americans.
There should be more public restrooms available, especially in large American cities. If you're just window shopping in NYC, on 5th Ave, and you've gotta pee, it can be a real emergency type of situation finding a bathroom.
The only place I remember encountering pay toilets was at the airport in Kansas City, Missouri in the late 1960s. My mother had quite a bit to say about it, and while she was in there we took turns holding the door for the next user, so the airport didn't make much money from us. As I recall, it was 10 cents US for a trip into the stall.
My favorite toilets in the Netherlands are those with a restroom lady. You have to pay to use it, but every Dutch person will always have a euro for the shopping carts. These restrooms are very clean and safe. .
In the US, nearly all public bathrooms are in public businesses (restaurants grocery stores, pharmacies, and gas stations) or public entities (like libraries). We also have rest stops on the side of expressways with bathrooms and veining machines. With the ones in businesses, depending on the business some of them may require purchase, by getting the code after showing receipt. Or using the code on the receipt to unlock the door to get into yhe bathroom, or buying something, and being handed the key (usually only in gas stations).
where the hells do u live in the us because i have been all over the us and i have never seen any restroom a "you can only access if you buy" restroom. you also missed parks have bathrooms we also have portable bathrooms that are usually placed for events or if bathrooms have problems that will take time to fix in public areas they will place a port-a-potty
I'm Australian & saw a panto when I was maybe eight. It was great. All that participatory yelling warnings to oblivious guy that the villain was creeping up on him stuff. The bit I didn't like was the Punch & Judy show beforehand. It was very disquieting for me. I didn't know it at the time but my father was violent towards my mother & Punch had the same patterns 9f behaviour as my father. There was considerable outcry when the Punch & Judy show went out of fashion because it was too violent. The objectors claimed it was "just a bit of fun". No, it ducking wasn't, it was domestic violence. P.S. I quite fancy the idea of burning an effigy of Jimmy Saville every year. You can chuck a Rolf Harris effigy on there too & I say that as an Australian.
I went to a public highschool in my country (Paraguay) in the 2000s and we had to pay to use the bathroom in the school. It was to pay the person who did the cleaning... Also, the price included just enough toilet paper for you to wipe twice (you want more you pay extra), and she also sold pads in case you got your period and weren't prepared.
In Australia they have had the rules , for near 40 years, "any one in a bar area under 18 must leave", "in a dual use area under 18s must be accompanied by an over 18 person" and the open/beer garden/restaurant area "all welcome (sometimes pets) no alcohol to be consumed by under 18s"
I feel like it's becoming more common for U.S. parents to take their kids to bars, especially craft breweries, some of which even have playgrounds like some kind of reverse Chuck E. Cheese. (Catering to a generation that grew up on Chuck E. Cheese, in fact.)
In WI, pubs that serve food can allow kids, so most have frozen pizza, at least. There's also an exception that lets underage children in bars as long as accompanied by a parent.
YES DANNY GO CRAZY WITH THAT INTRODUCTION! Also, I'm very satisfied that there exists an obscure website called "allegedly" where you can buy actual rotting turtle! Definitely sounds shady and dodgy but after visiting the website (and being a fan of the beard oil) it's peak meta and I love it 😆
Because of the accent (I'm in Oklahoma) I thought he said "Rotting Churchill "... I then thought to myself; They did really like their Churchill so...👋🧐👌
Am I one of the few that actually LIKED those pantomimes...I mean, they were an excuse to be silly and loud in the theater without repercussions...I'd never go to one now but if I had kids I'd definitely take them
It's still a very popular show type, there wouldn't be so many put on if it wasn't popular. I once went to a Panto at the Bristol Hippodrome with Lily Savage as the evil step-mother/dame, I forget which play it was supposed to be, and I can't remember if there was a traditional dame as well, Paul O'Grady's performace was just so memorable. I was about 15 or 16 at the time. The last one I went to was a local production at the local College theatre, and it didn't have any actors that I recognised. I went with my neices and they enjoyed it as did all of the adults, I found it entertaining but not as memorable as some.
I love them. 🙂 Me and my family would all go together. I like the singing, the raunchy jokes, shouting out. But then again I like going to see the rocky horror picture show too.
We never have paid to use the public bathrooms in Canada. But we also don’t have just public ones around. If anyone needs to go while out you go to a business or a gas station.
I lived in Britain in '83, and do distinctly remember a Gentleman's section of a pub, and a workingman's section of a pub. The prices were even slightly less for a pint on the workingman's side.
3:20 In my state (Virginia) places that serve alcohol have to also serve food (with the exception of the ABC, The Alcoholic Beverage Commission, but you can’t drink in the store anyways). So most bars I see in the state are restaurants that serve alcohol and also have a bar portion in the restaurant.
Huh. I've lived in Virginia my entire adult life and never noticed this before. I just figured all bars served food for business reasons, not because they were required to.
the original paid public toilet in england was actually a service pot man who would carry a bucket through the streets and anyone wishing to use the bucket would pay, while as they sat on the bucket ,the service man would use his gigantic cloak to enclose them for privacy! lol
I'm an American but have lived in the North East of England for around 20 years. Bonfire night is just so interesting to me. When I first moved here I lived in Wallsend and we still had a few groups of kids who would make Fawkes effigies and ask for a penny for the guy. The different ways the different British classes celebrate Bonfire night is quite distinct. I've been to Bonfire night a few times in Hexham, which is an upper middle class area, and they have a beautiful wood bonfire with professional fireworks and hot cider. Then I experienced a bonfire night in a Gateshead Council Estate, the bonfire was huge as everyone on the estate saves all their unwanted furniture so they can burn it in the bonfire instead of pay the council to take it away! They clear out the parking area and everyone piles up their old sofas and beds and pour petrol over it and light that shit up to the heaven's and small children burn themselves playing with fireworks while the adults smoke weed and get properly pissed. The council one was the most entertaining.
Scarely accurate. Americans aren't supposed to see the council ones, we put a lot of effort in to convincing them we all all either 1800s gentlemen or 1970s east end gangsters.
@@tmarritt It's the North East, there's too many council estates to hide. There's actually a meme I've seen that is so accurate, one side says 'What Americans think of the British' and it's a picture of a Downton Abbey manor house, and then the other side says 'What Europeans think of the British' and it's a picture of drunken Magaluf package holiday Brits.
It's no longer a thing in the US but once upon a time, public pay toilets were very common here. I remember this particular bit of graffito from a pay toilet in the '70s: "Here I sit, broken-hearted Paid a dime and only farted"
The idea of paying for a public toilet is such an alien concept to Aussies, was certainly strange to us when we went there. The term spending a penny is still used in the rural areas. And by the way, a vast number of Aussies would absolutely pee on the streets if they introduced that here nowadays Oh and Guy Fawkes Night was absolutely a thing here, more or less until the purchase of fireworks was banned
In the UK I haven't seen a public toilet charging me outside of London.. All public toilets are PUBLIC.. it's paid for by the council tax. That's why they aren't overly clean/well kept, and why charging is outrageous.. Also, my dad back when he was 10 used to go to the pub and bring back beers for his dad (drinking them).. it was the 50s then, and in the architecture of very old pubs you had the "public" side - families could go, but also the other side was where you would have more raucous and probably "working women".
I like how everyone says "Guy Fawkes wanted to end Catholic persecution" by eliminating the Protestant king like it's a good thing. But remember the part where he wanted to install a Catholic monarch who would then persecute Protestants. He wanted to swap one brutal oppressive regime with another brutal oppressive regime that favored him.
@@ShadowReignhartWell tbh that is so normal, the rest of the world do not have the same reaction to 911 as the US but that 1 actually happened(as in 1 failed the other succeeded), 2 was way more recent and 3 was more relevant to the rest of the world from it being a world trade centre in a well connected world and utilised planes highlighting global issues with security.
Hum, I remember distinctly having "family" rooms in pubs. If I remember correctly, there was no "bar" in the family room, so your Dad had to wander through a couple of doors to get to the bar area. Usually when you entered the lobby to the left was the bar, to the right was the "family room", so technically the kids never entered the "Public House". Also yes, the Public House is where "pub" came from to distinguish it from the a private club (typically "gentlemen's clubs" and social clubs that were open to the riff raff of the local community but again you had to "join" with some sort of nominal fee), so anyone could enter a Public House over the age of majority until the 1995 act. We also used to have Alehouses and Taverns which both served food and drink (Taverns come from the bastardised Latin for wine houses tabernae, so it was the Itallians that started our culture). Alehouses so called as they brewed their own ale, rather than (I presume) homebrew which had probably been the standard before whatever the Romans did for us. Inns provided in-house accommodation for the weary traveller, as well as food and drink.
We've been going to the panto every year for about 17 years, and every year my mam asks if we want to go that year and every year it is an insult that she thinks we may not, we're coming up 30 and it's still one of the highlights of the year. Having said that, the guys that have done it every year have really nailed the formula down, the 2 that I have seen elsewhere were absolutely awful!
Performing in a pantomime takes a LOT of skill. Your energy has to be way up constantly, characters need to be big; almost like caricatures, which few outside the acting profession can achieve with entertainment value and, regardless of the script, you must respond to what the audience is doing and saying, not ignore them and plow on regardless! There's SO much skill involved!
I'm American, and I got to see our version of a pantomime. I don't recall if it was called that, but it was a similar concept, boo and hiss at the villain, yell at the characters. The American twist is it was about cowboys and train robbers, but even as a kid, I was impressed with the level of skill it took, dealing with all the interaction the actors had with those of us in the audience. I personally LOVED it.
4:40 Pub or public houses came from the middle ages, they were also called ale houses, They were essentially a house in the village or town that had too much ale made and opened up as the local bar for the night. Middle ages ale is not the same thing as modern ale, it had a short shelf life and thus it got sold and drank but it was also low on alcohol and heavy on grain juice so called liquid bread, It was ofcourse a lucrative business and one home in most every village was the public house for the night. It was lucrative enough that some made too much ale everyday and became the local pub and eventually lost the house part of the name. They were also exclusive to the peasant class both owned and operated as well as patronized on the hush hush so the lord of the land couldn't tax it.
My local pub, has "lounge" (now the eating area, which has a bar), ladies and gents were always welcome in there, but no kids. A "tap room" (men only, traditionally, although not in the last 40 years) and an "off sales" window... During my youth, kids sat outside with a "cola and crisps"!
3:10 so then it's basically exactly the same as in the US lol, I regret to inform you that Danny has some bad info. See the way it works in the US is we have clubs where in certain states like mine (FL) you have to be 18 to get in & 21 to drink, then there are bars that only serve alcohol and you must be 21 to go into those, HOWEVER most of the types of places that we call pubs (again at least in FL) are places w/ a bar area that also have tables AND serve food & the way it works in the US, is that if the place serves food and has a sit down area then you can bring your kids & ppl of any age, it's only if the place solely serves alcohol that you can't bring kids.
Back in the mid 90’s I travelled a lot for work and frequented Hooters restaurants all across the country. Typically these places attracted mainly male customers interested in seeing some T&A - except in Florida you’d often see several families with kids. Just odd.
The most ADHD thing I ever accomplished was getting distracted with a doorbell ringing somewhere else while Simon is on his 800th tangent about Rotting Turtle
I'm watching this on the ipad, picking out another video on the Roku, have several tabs plus additional programs going on the computer while editing video, and I'm arguing with the cat. And I just remembered I have coffee brewing in the kitchen. Yes, all of this right now, while procrastinating chores. My meds wore off hours ago.
Actually in the uk, we've gotten rid of most public toilets. the only places that have public toilets these days are shopping centres and supermarkets (some even require you to spend money) in most cases these are free.
The kids in pubs thing is similar here is Australia. Sports bars tend to discourage kids but some gastropubs offer kids meal deals. It really depends on the place. I once saw an upmarket rural pub that advertised a food, wine tastings, a beer garden and a playground.
As I'm sure u know, but this is for "them"...Yep, same next door (NZ) pubs have food & kids, bars have no food & no kids (Tech/legally they have food ~available~ but you'd never know if u're in 1). You don't go to the pub to get on the piss before 11pm, unless it's mid-week or you're rural, right?! ...if you're real rural the community centre doubles as the local "pub" (legally) on a Friday, but no kids for sure, all locals, 98% male...n NO taxis.
Maybe it's a rural vs city thing for pubs/bars in the U.S. I very clearly recall us kids wandering in and out of the neighborhood bar as a child (town of 100 people). Everyone knew us, we weren't going to be served alcohol, but if we wanted a parent who was in there, we just walked in. Or to get a drink from the fountain in the back towards the restaurant area. Now, in the city of 50K where I went to university, those bars were not for kids, no matter if they served burgers and pizza or not. But, again, a local pub where my folks are now does pizza and grill and welcomes families. I think it's very region and population dependent.
Yeah… country can be a bit different. A local bar near me had a karaoke night and the bartender’s 5 year old was running around most of the night. Cute kid. We sang Baby Shark and Let it Go.
Kung Fu Panda is a great movie and it has excellent storytelling, acting, a great message, and words of wisdom. "Quit, don't quit, noodles, don't noodles, you are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying, "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called a present." Oogway, Kung Fu Panda, 2008.
This is bloody brilliant! Simon you have absolutely smashed this one, And I watch at least 97% of ur content. But this really made me laugh🤣 jus keep it up brother!
I use to drink pink lemonade in the pub as child in Australia. Pubs are where families can eat meals. The only area kids were not allowed was gambling area and I assume the bar area where alcohol is sold.
I gotta say the first time I went to a pub in the UK I was shocked that they had full food as we have bar and grills for that but a pub here is usually just that... Drink and sometimes snack foods. Very rarely do they have full food. As for the Pantomime, reminds me of the tradition we have with the Rocky Horror picture show
Meals in pubs only really started in the 80’s.. and until the mid-90’s children were (legally that is, some licensees wouldn’t give a toss) only allowed inside a pub if it had a restaurant or dining area. I worked in a leisure centre (publicly owned sports centre) which had a bar and I remember my boss - who was the licensee - going to court to obtain a children’s certificate - which was required when the rules started to relax if you wanted to allow children into the bar (back in the day you went to court to obtain a licence to sell alcohol, in fact, I agreed to become a licensee myself a year or two later and had to go to court and stand in front of the licensing magistrates myself. Now things are much more relaxed, licensing is handled by local councils and children are pretty much allowed everywhere. Pubs meanwhile have morphed pretty much into a relaxed dining restaurant although you will find the odd ‘proper pub’ mostly in town centres, and identifiable by the smell and the complete lack of being able to see what’s happening inside - another feature of pubs when I was little, high windows (if any) with frosted glass. For all I could tell your average pub was just a very rowdy public toilet. As for panto, the Rocky Horror show is very much a pantomime without the child friendly jokes or the magic tricks. I wouldn’t take a five year old to the rocky horror show.. I wouldn’t be able to find a basque and suspenders that fitted him for a start..
Here in Wisconsin, it’s not only legal for minors to be in bars, it’s legal for them to *drink* in bars, if they’re with their parents. The parent would have to order the drink and then give it to the minor, bartenders can’t serve them directly. Bars aren’t *required* to allow this, they just can if they want to.
Lol it blows peoples’ minds when they find out about this. I live in Wisconsin and especially up here in the north almost no one cares who’s drinking it seems.
I’m in Milwaukee. It’s nowhere near as common down here, but I remember a mom who would bring her 18-19 year old daughter to this dance club I frequented. I don’t know if the daughter drank at all, but the two of them definitely never caused any problems.
Growing up in Dry counties (a dry county is an area in which you can't buy alcohol.)in the U.S. kids were able to go to clubs. My first club I went was at the age of 9. We lived in a dry county, so parents had to bring their own alcohol to the club. Because the club did not sell alcohol, kids were able to go dancing. At the end of the night, we would help clean the place. Our payment was a bag of popcorn....lol It also taught us that old people have a lot of energy....lol
Dunking biscuits in tea? As an American who knows that what Brits call a "biscuit" is what a Yank would call a "cookie", I find this to be a totally normal activity. Hell...I'm doing it NOW! P.S. The "weird bit at the bottom" is just the finish and a bit of reward. (Yes, I'm weird, LOL) Unrelated, TBF: Preventing what was an even WORSE attack than 9/11 (if not in umber of lives, but to the structure of the nation.) SHOULD be celebrated.
As an American, I can gladly say I've been to a few pantomimes. My favorite, by far, was a production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show I saw at a local theater here in the Orlando area. If you're looking to get the audience involved, THAT'S the show with which to do it!
@@Hiforest in the traditional sense, you're correct. The particular production I'm speaking of was specifically done as a pantomime. The musical numbers stayed mostly intact, but it was done fully in the style of panto.
@@Hiforest the audience was given a bag of props as they entered, including stale bread, water pistols, and various other seemingly odd items. Each prop was used by the audience to interact with the actors on stage, at times specified by an individual with cue cards standing by the stage.
I live in the US, several of our pubs have playground areas where they have full time staff who watches your children as your drink beer. But most pubs will allow minors if before a certain time depending on state (10pm in my state) and as long as they are not in the bar area, which at most bars is when you actually sit at the countertop area, some bars will have an area that is clearly designated as the bar only area, but most places it is just the counter itself. But there are also dedicated bars, which don't have a pub area, which are less common and tend to be in the same area as the clubs, which the clubs come in varieties, most are 21+ but some are 18+ and others are 14+. When I was in Europe, I found they had similar ratios of pubs to bars to clubs. But I did not spend much time in the UK, so maybe the UK doesn't have clubs nor bars?
@@mollywantshugs5944 Bear in mind Fawkes spent 4 days being 'questioned' in The Tower in 1600, if you google his signature before and that on his confession it looks a lot like he suffered a lot, signing the confession meant he was to be hung until almost dead, drawn - dragged by a horse but not to death, then disembowelled while again still alive before being quartered. Fawkes managed to avoid this by throwing himself off the scaffold and breaking his neck. Other conspirators were not so lucky and suffered the whole process. Plus dont forget England has had at least 3 civil wars, Barons war, War of the Roses and English Civil war, we have a long long history of brutality...
When I was a young'un in my little shire village, we had 2 pubs. The posh pub and the local pub. The local pub had a single curved bar, part of it was in a lounge area (where you would eat food) and the rest was in the bar area. There was a dart board, the dominos and cribbage clubs played weekly and we had a meat raffle on a Sunday. I think it dated back to the 1700s, the pub, not the meat.
I'm 53yo American, and I remember pay toilets here - 10 cents a pop, same as a pay phone, specifically because we were cheap and I was the youngest child - designated to crawl under the door and unlock it so the 3 of us could pee for free. I was so grateful when I was finally too big to crawl under the door, then they were done away with.
The reason pubs started serving food other than crisps and pork scratchings etc was that the Govt put up alcohol duty so high that people couldn't afford to go to their local as much and so they had to find other ways to supplement their income. Also, the introduction of leasehold pubs etc killed the industry like a machete to the neck. Brewers held hegemony over all the pubs they supplied, drastically reducing the potential for profit and also driving prices up by not giving landlords the leeway to maximise profits. Just another story of the rich getting richer and the poor getting stepped and fucked over.
Smoking ban, gentrification, rigged housing market.. plenty of things to explain why the traditonal pub morphed into the food venues and flats we see today. And just as whitbred moved from bitter to coffee, so too did the entire identity of the high street. If you are interested in this particular subject, that being being pubs and highstreets, you look toward the open university and openlearn who have materials from past social science degree modules,most of which is free through openlearn.
i grew up in pubs in Liverpool. as did my sisters, my parents didn't own a pub, it was just the place where people went, it was a social get together, everyone brought their kids. If i sagged off school or ended up off for whatever reason, i'd end up there with my dad. Lots of prawn cocktail and lemonade, borrow a quid from my dad to play double dragon in the video shop. I was in pubs since 1979 onwards, my sisters even earlier.
Oh I think we watched a type of pantomime in 6th grade! It was a British company on tour that made these type of plays for students learning English (this was in Germany). The play was not horrible tbh but I think the actors were used to German audiences not interacting the way Simon described lol
I like the additional camera setup, Simon; just that little touch of occasionally switching the view adds a nice bit of extra energy to the video. Does it take much more effort to film that way? I just have to add that Guy Fawkes night seems pretty well known here in the US, at least as far as I was aware, and ABC News reporting that the fireworks were a celebration of Biden being elected was just a post on Twitter, not an actual report or anything, so it feels to me more like a case of a particularly ignorant and stupid Twitter writer for ABC News. Who knows what kind of underage idiot intern they use to handle their Twitter account; likely someone under 25 who doesn't even know the difference between Britain and England, and if it's any consolation they probably don't even know who was president before Obama, either. "Look, fireworks in England, they must be celebrating _our_ election!" But then again, I often find myself shocked and dismayed at how stupid and ignorant so many of my fellow Americans turn out to be, so maybe I'm the unusual one. (OK, I am _definitely_ the unusual one.)
Here in Newfieland, Canada we ALSO celebrate Guy Fawkes night 🔥 .. although, we don't have effigies. Just a HUGE ASS pile of local burnables. People show up and have hot chocolate and other camp fire-y things. Usually each town has their own BIG (think 2 story house size) bon fire pile but sometimes people have their own smaller ones. The DIY ones don't have any health and safety considerations to follow and you can drink on the job 😉
We celebrated guy Fox night in the '80s and '90s growing up in Newfoundland Canada, and not just my family communities would have bonfires. When I moved away and talked about it people thought I was out of my mind.
So, my thought is... aren't there clubs in the UK that don't allow any minors? The reason I ask is this... I've lived in both Chicago, and a small town (15k people)... And I've noticed that anything called "club" or "bar" doesn't typically allow children (in small towns you can sometimes find a regular or two in a bar with a kid or two in tow. But we have "bar and grills" aka "pubs"... And it's normal for a family to eat at one. There's a couple bar and grills in town that are much more appreciated for their food than for their booze. So really, I'm sure there are many clubs that don't allow minors in the UK, just as ours don't. But otherwise, the UK has it's pubs, and the U.S. has it's bar and grills.
Well we do have nightclubs and stripclubs which have age restrictions but that’s about it. Some places make you feel uncomfortable if you have kids but most embrace kids and the money families bring in.
No minors are allowed in clubs in the UK (although that doesn't stop them getting in). Most clubs are only open in the evening though unlike the pubs and bars. We do have pubs that don't serve any food that generally won't let children in either. A lot of pubs near football grounds are like this. I also know of local pubs that don't serve food but will happily have families in with kids running around.
@@slayingroosters4355 So pretty much the same as it is in the U.S... there are bars that tend to cater towards families, but then there are bars and clubs that don't allow minors in (we all know some get in tho). It's funny that I finally figured out something they got completely wrong.
The state I live in (missouri), bars are only open to minors before 8pm or 9pm. After that time they aren't legally allowed in the building at all. That law is also taken very seriously in my area.
In the '80s they used to charge $0.10 to use the bathroom, when we were small enough we'd lay our jacket or whatever and crawl under the door... We were young, we had no money and we had to go. 😁
My uncle Jack - not my real uncle, just a friend of the family who we called uncle: another great British tradition ... My uncle Jack owned a pub (probably why he was a friend of my Dad) in Manchester. It was very traditional having a "tap room" and "lounge bar". The lounge had padded seats and tables and even carpet; While the Tap room had no chairs, a wood floor and a dart board. With the exception of the rather fearsome auntie Phil, who served drinks, women weren't allowed in the Tap room.
Simon I have been following you since you had a map on your wall behind you, but didn't know you had non British father. So just cause I'm curious, how many languages do you speak?
"American" here. V for Vendetta came out while I was in high school ~20 years ago; every year since then, on Nov 5th someone in our HS friend group will send out a mass text: "Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot; for there is a reason why gunpowder and treason should never be forgot."
Hey Simon, I'm an American and we have a whole lot of things that other people in the world think is weird or something else. It just the way it is, plus when visiting other countries it makes life much more interesting. Cheers. Everything in the vid is not that weird. Hell, the pantomime sounds like fun if you have a good buzz of some sort. They have pay toilets here, but a lot of people will go outside and wizz on the ground.
One of my favourite things as a kid was my dad taking me to the pub. I loved it in there! The pub did have a no kids rule (this was in the 1990s) but they made an exception for me cause I was well behaved. My favourite thing was watching random people play pool. If I was lucky they'd pull a stool up to the pool table for me to watch and sometimes would let me keep score. Letting your kid hang out with random adults in a pub would probably be frowned upon now, but I had great fun.
Aussies take dunking biscuits in tea to a whole new level. I hate the crumbs in the bottom of my cup so I generally don’t. Been here for 41 years and only last year did I try the Tim Tam Slam. Omg it’s the best! Now I dunk them into my coffee sometimes.
Pubs in New Zealand have "family bars", where you can bring your kids. You can even give them booze if you choose. But they can't buy it themselves. Technically they're not allowed to come up to the bar itself. Many of these pubs have an outside area that includes a small playground. There is often a pub dog.
Bars with families there also exists in the US, they're typically national chain restaurants: Applebee's, chili's, etc. But you don't go there to get drunk, that's a place you just go to have a couple drinks, get dinner, then go to an actual bar to get drunk
Pantomimes sound a lot like some of the shows (we call them trunk shows bc they traditionally involve a trunk full of props and costume bits) from american renaissance faires. Ren-faires are a unique cultural phenomenon in the U.S. where variety theatre and vaudeville lives on under the veil of puffy shirts and tights.
Pantomimes are a lot more fun than Simon makes them sound. They're more about the ridiculousness(characters wearing "disguises" consisting of a sign claiming they're not the villain or similar "I can't be the wicked stepmother, she doesn't wear a hat"), jokes built into everything(especially Aladin which has tons of puns based on the princess wishing there was "a lad in me" or similar), and general complete breakdown of normal rules(typically a lot more beer than at a normal theater show). They also often have very famous actors playing bit parts just because they can, so if you don't mind attending you can often see the cast afterwards which is one of the better parts of the good productions.
Kids can go in bars here (in the US) as long as food is being served, they just can’t sit at the bar. But when we say we’re “going to the bar,” that usually means out for a night of drinking at places that have sticky floors and loud music. (Also not a club; that’s different).
Here in the U.S., we generally don't have public toilets except in large cities and usually only in the downtown area. Those are definitely not free. As for restrooms in businesses, it seems to vary. Some places will let you freely walk in and use the restrooms, others require you to be a customer, which means you need to buy something just to use the restroom. Then they'll give you a code or a token depending on the lock. Also, Shitting in the streets?!?! Welcome to San Francisco in 2022!!
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Edenbridge burns an effigy of a hated public figure on bonfire night.
Dont even use 1 spray. Spray in front of you and then wait a moment then walk into it and turn around. Cologn and perfume are designed to be very strong and if you spray yourself you SO might gag even on a scent they like. This is just something else the brits do wrong, lol!
Thanks, enjoy your channel muchly, but use Nord VPN, and have for years. Can't see any real reason to change now. Panto really is shite. Cheers.
So unless I'm mistaken someone is impersonating this channel with a giveaway. On one of my posted comments I received a reply saying I had one a prize . The logo was the same as brain blaze. And the name included it.
@@omgandwtf1 same
Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter the houses of Parliament with fully honest intentions.
Bravo
Major British actors like Alan Rickman and Brian Blessed and I think also Patrick Stewart were actually regular performers at pantomimes! They tended to play the villains, hamming things up and chewing on the scenery as much as possible, and were generally glorious. Imagine the Jafar or Captain Hook played the way Alan rickman played the Sherriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, only live on stage in front of you, and you are encouraged to be rowdy instead of sitting quietly in the audience and being polite and not making noise. It's a lot of fun! Kinda like the Rocky Horror Picture Show thing. If you go in expecting some kind of transformative experience, or high-brow entertainment, you're going to hate it. Just let loose and have fun, enjoy it for stupid trashy silliness it is.
Watch out Harry, Snape’s behind you!
Oh no he’s not!
Yup, panto's are actually actor's holidays. It's a long tradition, and basically they're over-acting purely to play to the crowd, rather than normally having to fulfill a role. And it's totally and utterly glorious! Camper than christmas, and righteously so'! They also provide snide political commentary and a general sense of anarchy, long live the panto!
Simon needs to needs to let his hair down a little.. Oh, he can't! Keeps might help...
I was going o comment that it sounded a lot like The Rocky Horror Picture Show at a theatre, you sorta have to know what to expect or you're going be really put off.
We love pantomimes in South Africa! (at least, Afrikaners does) Haven't been to one in a while but its awesome!
I'm Australian and descended from convicts. I'm uncultured and never heard of pantomine but it sounds like a lot of fun. I do like Patrick Stewart though. Sometimes I think he would make a fine captain of some sort of ship.
I took an English History class in college. The prof explained The Gun Powder Plot this way
- Half of the country celebrated because the plot was foiled, the other half celebrated because somebody tried to blow up parliament in the first place.
6:55 - Mid roll ads
8:50 - Chapter 1 - Pantomimes
15:30 - Chapter 2 - Spending a penny
18:55 - Chapter 3 - Gunpowder, treason & plot
You got Simon to say 'in continental Europe' during a segment about public toilets. Well played Danny.
Haha! I wish I could say that was intentional, but I'd be fibbing. Sharing this on Twitter though as it made me chuckle.
Does this channel have a Telegram account?
@@kerrystromire6384 it's a scam bot
@@ivanzivkovic7572 Yep. The illegitimates are all over TH-cam! Pity they can't be tossed on the bonfire! :(
I love how the great British writer Terry Pratchett has a piece of lore in his novels that by law there are no Mimes (Panto or otherwise) allowed within the city or if caught to be nailed upside down to the city gate xD
Maybe I like Terry Prather after all.
with a upside down sign “Learn the words”
Lord Vetinari has *views* on such things.
@@eloisefergerson2012 😆
L8
I'm only 2 minute in but I can already tell Sam's editing is really at a high point in this video.
The nuke with the Legendary Simon Scream instantly brings me laughter 😃🤣 so glad I randomly clicked on a Business (Brain) Blaze three years ago! Instant fan 🥰
@@anthonymcconnaughey8225 So am I. Will always be business blaze to me.
@@anthonymcconnaughey8225 no way it has been 3 years already... Absolute Legend
I grew up trying to get away from the local village pantomime, trouble was that my dad did the sound and lighting for them, i managed to never be in one though.
As for burning Jimmy Savile on the bonfire on Nov 5th, Lewes Bonfire Society did that a few years ago.
Thanks for the comment.
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You would find it quite hard to find a pub that isn’t a “family oriented gastro pub” in most towns in the Uk nowadays. My main objection to them is that because they make their profit from food the beer is usually terrible.
I thought the issue is because it's family orientated then bar patrons have to simmer down any drunken profanities or else be kicked out.
We used to have a pub in town called 'The Orange Tree', and it was my fave pub, because it was the rarity, an adults only pub. Also, no football / sports attire, no TVs, no slot machines, just decent beer and food. Sadly the small chain folded. It's now open as 'The Tree' and has a 'no under 18s after 7pm' policy.
It's the same here in the US, bar food is just bad.
In the U.S. there are 2 different bars, a bar, and a bar & grill a bar is 21 and up (often checked at the door) and the bar & grill is a restaurant and bar together and kids are allowed
We have something vaguely similar to Pantomimes in the US called "Melodramas". They're similar in that they're an over the top live action theatre thing where the audience is intended to boo the villain, cheer the hero and often throw things related to the plot at the actors. But the story is rarely as weird as the British version (its usually a villain dressed in black with a pencil or handlebar mustache, kidnapping a damsel and tying her to the railroad tracks to be saved by the hero). They also aren't common all over the place and usually are only appear in tourist areas that are somehow connected to the "old west".
Here's a little nugget of information for you, regarding The Fonz.
Henry Winker had a taste for water-skiing and to showcase this, in one pivotal episode of Happy Days, he performs a feat while water-skiing as Fonzie. What did he do? He signalled the beginning of the end for Happy Days, and a trope used to describe the downturn of a show.
He jumped the shark.
The Fonze was Jewish....Nothing wrong with that, just many people don't know and are surprised, cauze he doesn't exactly meet most people's expectations of a typically young Jewish man.
Yep, the Fonze originated the "jumping the shark".
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Pantomimes are a lot of fun! Kids and parents/grandparents/piblings going to watch a silly play that the kids can shout and laugh loudly to… it’s exactly what’s needed in dingy, cold, damp January!
Thanks to V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes managed to somewhat entered American minds with the Guy Fawkes mask getting adopted by protestors in the early 2000s. Although Alan Moore, author of the original graphic novel, got pissed off at the Fawkes imagery being used by anti-Bush protestors given he wrote the novel in response to Margret Thatcher and American protestors should adopt their own imagery. I also remember reading an article by someone who said liberal protestors probably should not use a man who wanted to kill a king only to set up a theocracy as their mascot.
Who set up a theocracy?
@@DJWESG1 Some people claim Guido "Guy" Fawkes and the conspiritors didn't just want to stop Catholic rape, murder, torture, and persecution, but wanted to turn around and do the same back to Protestant's and Jews.
The movie version of V for Vendetta was inspired by Moores Work and on top of Allan Moore disowning any works based on his works but not true to his image, the protestor's are not wearing Fawkesian masks but V's Mask. V was inspired by Fawkes in the movies, but was not driven by the same causes, as are the protestors and activists that wear the masks not of Allan Moore's V and Fawkes, but James McTeigue's V which acts, looks, and is driven differently.
Their masks are Guy Fawkes's mission the way the modern image of Jesus is mostly from reliefs of Alexander the Great. There is a historical connection, but for those using it, it has been largely lost.
Yeah it's not like America doesn't have their own fair share of traitors. We have a whole rogues gallery from which to choose. Starting with Benedict Arnold and and more recent years adding Donald Trump to the list.
That film missed the point of the book so hard
PS I'm somehow related to one of the Gunpowder plot guys 🤣 one of the Wright brothers if memory serves me rightly
A good panto is filled with inuendo that the adults get but goes straight over the heads of the kids watching, thus making it enjoyable for both. Sadly many get it wrong and either cause the kids to ask awkward questions, or are plain boring for adults...
The “Simon Goes Nuclear” will always be my favorite meme from BB
What about heavy metal Simon, “ugh now I gotta go back and read it!”
@sniperboy551 that’s a very close 2nd
The thing about pay versus free public toilets in the US is, there aren't any public toilets, period. All toilets are behind a literal pay wall in the sense that you either need to be a customer at an establishment, or have paid to get into some sort of festival.
Though, where I live, it's not really a big deal. I've gone into gas stations or even stores and asked where the bathrooms are. I get told without any hesitation. The first time this didn't happen was on a trip to San Francisco. My cousin and I had been out seeing the sights and had to use the bathroom. We stopped into a McDonalds, and the bathroom had a lock on it, and a sign saying it was for customers only. We were confused, but someone explained it was to keep homeless people out, and that just felt wrong. So when someone left, we just grabbed the closing door and went in, then held the door open for the next guy when we left.
The problem is that homeless people have no choice but to go to the bathroom outside, and you could smell it everywhere. It was so ubiquitous, that when we saw flyers for a play called Urine Town being put on that night, we went to see it. It was pretty cool.
First time I ever came across pay toilets was when I was visiting some friends in Sweden. I did remark how that seemed very unkind to the homeless population.
Not that we in the US aren't cruel to the homeless in plenty of ways. We definitely are, but a bathroom does seem like the sort of thing people just deserve to have access to.
Yeah it’s this way in Germany as well and it’s bullshit :/
I suppose there are not a lot of homeless people in Sweden.
You pay and then you put a wad of paper in the lock. If it's already open, you put the wad of paper back when you finish.
@@jannetteberends8730 Google search says between 33,000-34,000 homeless in Sweden.
Everyone should experience homelessness.
It shows how evil organized religion can be.
Give them the stuff you think they need.. They usually get stuck with the items nobody else wants and greatly appreciate the thought as they watch them spend outrageous prices for useless items that end up in landfills in weeks or months.
There are people just like you that end up just like them every day.
Be generous to them.
Don't be like America's founding fathers were to the Native Americans.
There should be more public restrooms available, especially in large American cities. If you're just window shopping in NYC, on 5th Ave, and you've gotta pee, it can be a real emergency type of situation finding a bathroom.
The only place I remember encountering pay toilets was at the airport in Kansas City, Missouri in the late 1960s. My mother had quite a bit to say about it, and while she was in there we took turns holding the door for the next user, so the airport didn't make much money from us. As I recall, it was 10 cents US for a trip into the stall.
They tried them in the “70’s too. I would just swing under the door and leave it open for the next person.
I recall pay toilets in the 60s and 70s. In the men's room it was only for the stalls, I think, the urinals were free. Sexism at its finest.
I guess that US public toilets are free because people could just walk through the gaps between the doors and their frames anyway?
@@dantichri5t That and the locks were destroyed rather quickly.
I'm from Kansas City and the airport has always had a negative connotation so I'm not surprised that this is where a pay toilet would be.
My favorite toilets in the Netherlands are those with a restroom lady. You have to pay to use it, but every Dutch person will always have a euro for the shopping carts. These restrooms are very clean and safe. .
I love a clean toilet when I have to go on a public restroom, so I happily pay 50 cents if that’s what’s needed :p
@@OnAcidTripping I know one where the woman cleans the toilet every time someone visit it. She is also very friendly and helpful.
In the US, nearly all public bathrooms are in public businesses (restaurants grocery stores, pharmacies, and gas stations) or public entities (like libraries). We also have rest stops on the side of expressways with bathrooms and veining machines. With the ones in businesses, depending on the business some of them may require purchase, by getting the code after showing receipt. Or using the code on the receipt to unlock the door to get into yhe bathroom, or buying something, and being handed the key (usually only in gas stations).
where the hells do u live in the us because i have been all over the us and i have never seen any restroom a "you can only access if you buy" restroom. you also missed parks have bathrooms we also have portable bathrooms that are usually placed for events or if bathrooms have problems that will take time to fix in public areas they will place a port-a-potty
@@quincyking010 I love in the suburbs and with purchase required for bathroom in Chicago. Not everywhere, but a decent number of places.
_Simon talking about public toilets:_
"I recently took a really long... trip"
I'll be honest, I didn't expect that sentence to end that way.
Same! Haha!
Did he call Europe 'incontinent' : -)
I'm Australian & saw a panto when I was maybe eight. It was great. All that participatory yelling warnings to oblivious guy that the villain was creeping up on him stuff.
The bit I didn't like was the Punch & Judy show beforehand. It was very disquieting for me. I didn't know it at the time but my father was violent towards my mother & Punch had the same patterns 9f behaviour as my father. There was considerable outcry when the Punch & Judy show went out of fashion because it was too violent. The objectors claimed it was "just a bit of fun". No, it ducking wasn't, it was domestic violence.
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I quite fancy the idea of burning an effigy of Jimmy Saville every year. You can chuck a Rolf Harris effigy on there too & I say that as an Australian.
100% Rolf Harris... And if you can't fake him in straw, just use a wobbly board!
I went to a public highschool in my country (Paraguay) in the 2000s and we had to pay to use the bathroom in the school. It was to pay the person who did the cleaning... Also, the price included just enough toilet paper for you to wipe twice (you want more you pay extra), and she also sold pads in case you got your period and weren't prepared.
2 wipes isn't enough for me, i'd have to pay extra
In Australia they have had the rules , for near 40 years, "any one in a bar area under 18 must leave", "in a dual use area under 18s must be accompanied by an over 18 person" and the open/beer garden/restaurant area "all welcome (sometimes pets) no alcohol to be consumed by under 18s"
Yep that's how it was and I didn't think any different until I went overseas!
Hell it was odd not seeing pokies in pubs around the world 🤣🙈
I feel like it's becoming more common for U.S. parents to take their kids to bars, especially craft breweries, some of which even have playgrounds like some kind of reverse Chuck E. Cheese. (Catering to a generation that grew up on Chuck E. Cheese, in fact.)
I think it’s just becoming more and more common for places to sell alcohol.
In WI, pubs that serve food can allow kids, so most have frozen pizza, at least. There's also an exception that lets underage children in bars as long as accompanied by a parent.
YES DANNY GO CRAZY WITH THAT INTRODUCTION! Also, I'm very satisfied that there exists an obscure website called "allegedly" where you can buy actual rotting turtle! Definitely sounds shady and dodgy but after visiting the website (and being a fan of the beard oil) it's peak meta and I love it 😆
I bought Rotting Turtle for my 85 year old father for Father’s Day. I hope it smells good. 🤷♀️
@@sallyintucson as long as he doesn't follow Simons lead and go for 8 spritzs!
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Because of the accent (I'm in Oklahoma) I thought he said "Rotting Churchill "... I then thought to myself; They did really like their Churchill so...👋🧐👌
@@amjrpain919 I’ve always thought his accent was very mild. You would have never understood my Father in Law!
Am I one of the few that actually LIKED those pantomimes...I mean, they were an excuse to be silly and loud in the theater without repercussions...I'd never go to one now but if I had kids I'd definitely take them
They should replace the cow with a 4 legged version of Mr. Bobby, really jazz up the thing for the kids.
It's still a very popular show type, there wouldn't be so many put on if it wasn't popular. I once went to a Panto at the Bristol Hippodrome with Lily Savage as the evil step-mother/dame, I forget which play it was supposed to be, and I can't remember if there was a traditional dame as well, Paul O'Grady's performace was just so memorable. I was about 15 or 16 at the time.
The last one I went to was a local production at the local College theatre, and it didn't have any actors that I recognised. I went with my neices and they enjoyed it as did all of the adults, I found it entertaining but not as memorable as some.
@@TheGrinningViking I think I've seen adverts for a panto that included Mr Blobby, but not about 10-15 years
As a child, I hated noise and chaos, so they were hellish to me.
I love them. 🙂 Me and my family would all go together. I like the singing, the raunchy jokes, shouting out. But then again I like going to see the rocky horror picture show too.
We never have paid to use the public bathrooms in Canada. But we also don’t have just public ones around. If anyone needs to go while out you go to a business or a gas station.
I have
I lived in Britain in '83, and do distinctly remember a Gentleman's section of a pub, and a workingman's section of a pub. The prices were even slightly less for a pint on the workingman's side.
there was sometimes a ladies' parlour too. which was very dull, and no-one except grandmas ever went in.
I would LOVE to see you cover the Rocky Horror Picture Show and it's phenomenon!
Now THAT Is the AN American version of PANTOMIME!! (Played Magenta for two years)
3:20 In my state (Virginia) places that serve alcohol have to also serve food (with the exception of the ABC, The Alcoholic Beverage Commission, but you can’t drink in the store anyways). So most bars I see in the state are restaurants that serve alcohol and also have a bar portion in the restaurant.
Yea but do you have Darts and pool tables?
Huh. I've lived in Virginia my entire adult life and never noticed this before. I just figured all bars served food for business reasons, not because they were required to.
Wait…permanently? Not just as a COVID measure?
@@justinrogers1807 Depends on the bar. Most in my experience don't have them, but some do.
the original paid public toilet in england was actually a service pot man who would carry a bucket through the streets and anyone wishing to use the bucket would pay, while as they sat on the bucket ,the service man would use his gigantic cloak to enclose them for privacy! lol
I'm an American but have lived in the North East of England for around 20 years. Bonfire night is just so interesting to me. When I first moved here I lived in Wallsend and we still had a few groups of kids who would make Fawkes effigies and ask for a penny for the guy. The different ways the different British classes celebrate Bonfire night is quite distinct. I've been to Bonfire night a few times in Hexham, which is an upper middle class area, and they have a beautiful wood bonfire with professional fireworks and hot cider. Then I experienced a bonfire night in a Gateshead Council Estate, the bonfire was huge as everyone on the estate saves all their unwanted furniture so they can burn it in the bonfire instead of pay the council to take it away! They clear out the parking area and everyone piles up their old sofas and beds and pour petrol over it and light that shit up to the heaven's and small children burn themselves playing with fireworks while the adults smoke weed and get properly pissed. The council one was the most entertaining.
Scarely accurate.
Americans aren't supposed to see the council ones, we put a lot of effort in to convincing them we all all either 1800s gentlemen or 1970s east end gangsters.
@@tmarritt It's the North East, there's too many council estates to hide. There's actually a meme I've seen that is so accurate, one side says 'What Americans think of the British' and it's a picture of a Downton Abbey manor house, and then the other side says 'What Europeans think of the British' and it's a picture of drunken Magaluf package holiday Brits.
I never understood it to begin with, so are they celebrating what he tried to do? Or that he was caught?
@@Eirik36 that he has caught and we didn't have our democracy over thrown by a religious extremist monarchy.
@@Eirik36 yes
It's no longer a thing in the US but once upon a time, public pay toilets were very common here. I remember this particular bit of graffito from a pay toilet in the '70s:
"Here I sit, broken-hearted
Paid a dime and only farted"
The idea of paying for a public toilet is such an alien concept to Aussies, was certainly strange to us when we went there. The term spending a penny is still used in the rural areas.
And by the way, a vast number of Aussies would absolutely pee on the streets if they introduced that here nowadays
Oh and Guy Fawkes Night was absolutely a thing here, more or less until the purchase of fireworks was banned
That biscuity mush down the bottom of your tea is what makes life worth living... That, and cocaine.
In the UK I haven't seen a public toilet charging me outside of London..
All public toilets are PUBLIC.. it's paid for by the council tax. That's why they aren't overly clean/well kept, and why charging is outrageous..
Also, my dad back when he was 10 used to go to the pub and bring back beers for his dad (drinking them).. it was the 50s then, and in the architecture of very old pubs you had the "public" side - families could go, but also the other side was where you would have more raucous and probably "working women".
I like how everyone says "Guy Fawkes wanted to end Catholic persecution" by eliminating the Protestant king like it's a good thing. But remember the part where he wanted to install a Catholic monarch who would then persecute Protestants. He wanted to swap one brutal oppressive regime with another brutal oppressive regime that favored him.
I find it kind of sad that here in the US, most people only know of Guy Fawkes due to V for Vendetta, without actually knowing who he is.
@@ShadowReignhart It's not a major event for most the world. It's prolly the same way in most of the world.
Rangers fan much?…
@@ShadowReignhartWell tbh that is so normal, the rest of the world do not have the same reaction to 911 as the US but that 1 actually happened(as in 1 failed the other succeeded), 2 was way more recent and 3 was more relevant to the rest of the world from it being a world trade centre in a well connected world and utilised planes highlighting global issues with security.
So like every activist ever but actually honest
Hum, I remember distinctly having "family" rooms in pubs. If I remember correctly, there was no "bar" in the family room, so your Dad had to wander through a couple of doors to get to the bar area. Usually when you entered the lobby to the left was the bar, to the right was the "family room", so technically the kids never entered the "Public House".
Also yes, the Public House is where "pub" came from to distinguish it from the a private club (typically "gentlemen's clubs" and social clubs that were open to the riff raff of the local community but again you had to "join" with some sort of nominal fee), so anyone could enter a Public House over the age of majority until the 1995 act.
We also used to have Alehouses and Taverns which both served food and drink (Taverns come from the bastardised Latin for wine houses tabernae, so it was the Itallians that started our culture). Alehouses so called as they brewed their own ale, rather than (I presume) homebrew which had probably been the standard before whatever the Romans did for us. Inns provided in-house accommodation for the weary traveller, as well as food and drink.
Unhinged Blaze clone is my favorite. Also, did Danny ever get freed from the Simon's basement? 🤣
Heavens no! Why let a good thing go?
@@aceofspadess4945 You right...my bad 😅🤣
We've been going to the panto every year for about 17 years, and every year my mam asks if we want to go that year and every year it is an insult that she thinks we may not, we're coming up 30 and it's still one of the highlights of the year. Having said that, the guys that have done it every year have really nailed the formula down, the 2 that I have seen elsewhere were absolutely awful!
Good for you for keeping the tradition going and enjoying it :)
Performing in a pantomime takes a LOT of skill. Your energy has to be way up constantly, characters need to be big; almost like caricatures, which few outside the acting profession can achieve with entertainment value and, regardless of the script, you must respond to what the audience is doing and saying, not ignore them and plow on regardless! There's SO much skill involved!
I'm American, and I got to see our version of a pantomime. I don't recall if it was called that, but it was a similar concept, boo and hiss at the villain, yell at the characters. The American twist is it was about cowboys and train robbers, but even as a kid, I was impressed with the level of skill it took, dealing with all the interaction the actors had with those of us in the audience. I personally LOVED it.
4:40 Pub or public houses came from the middle ages, they were also called ale houses, They were essentially a house in the village or town that had too much ale made and opened up as the local bar for the night. Middle ages ale is not the same thing as modern ale, it had a short shelf life and thus it got sold and drank but it was also low on alcohol and heavy on grain juice so called liquid bread, It was ofcourse a lucrative business and one home in most every village was the public house for the night. It was lucrative enough that some made too much ale everyday and became the local pub and eventually lost the house part of the name. They were also exclusive to the peasant class both owned and operated as well as patronized on the hush hush so the lord of the land couldn't tax it.
Most pubs in Australia allows children in the bistro.
My local pub, has "lounge" (now the eating area, which has a bar), ladies and gents were always welcome in there, but no kids. A "tap room" (men only, traditionally, although not in the last 40 years) and an "off sales" window... During my youth, kids sat outside with a "cola and crisps"!
3:10 so then it's basically exactly the same as in the US lol, I regret to inform you that Danny has some bad info. See the way it works in the US is we have clubs where in certain states like mine (FL) you have to be 18 to get in & 21 to drink, then there are bars that only serve alcohol and you must be 21 to go into those, HOWEVER most of the types of places that we call pubs (again at least in FL) are places w/ a bar area that also have tables AND serve food & the way it works in the US, is that if the place serves food and has a sit down area then you can bring your kids & ppl of any age, it's only if the place solely serves alcohol that you can't bring kids.
And in states like mine (VA) you can’t solely sell alcohol so they’re always integrated at least somewhat with restaurants.
Back in the mid 90’s I travelled a lot for work and frequented Hooters restaurants all across the country. Typically these places attracted mainly male customers interested in seeing some T&A - except in Florida you’d often see several families with kids. Just odd.
Aww, man, I love Panto. So many fine actors came out of Panto like Michael Caine and John Inman.
The most ADHD thing I ever accomplished was getting distracted with a doorbell ringing somewhere else while Simon is on his 800th tangent about Rotting Turtle
I'm watching this on the ipad, picking out another video on the Roku, have several tabs plus additional programs going on the computer while editing video, and I'm arguing with the cat. And I just remembered I have coffee brewing in the kitchen. Yes, all of this right now, while procrastinating chores.
My meds wore off hours ago.
@@TrineDaely I was tryna be funny by pointing out Simon's ADHD like behaviour. I do have ADHD too and know what it's like mate.
@@vipbaepsae I just figured we were starting the ADHD thread that crops up in every video so our fellows can find us.
@@TrineDaely honey I'm home
Picked this video, clicked out to scroll on my phone, realised i had a package. And then was like ‘wait i need to make braclets’ 😂
Actually in the uk, we've gotten rid of most public toilets. the only places that have public toilets these days are shopping centres and supermarkets (some even require you to spend money) in most cases these are free.
Love it love it. I love the teams on your channels. Writer, editor, and the Simon.
The kids in pubs thing is similar here is Australia. Sports bars tend to discourage kids but some gastropubs offer kids meal deals. It really depends on the place. I once saw an upmarket rural pub that advertised a food, wine tastings, a beer garden and a playground.
As I'm sure u know, but this is for "them"...Yep, same next door (NZ) pubs have food & kids, bars have no food & no kids (Tech/legally they have food ~available~ but you'd never know if u're in 1). You don't go to the pub to get on the piss before 11pm, unless it's mid-week or you're rural, right?! ...if you're real rural the community centre doubles as the local "pub" (legally) on a Friday, but no kids for sure, all locals, 98% male...n NO taxis.
The idea to burn an effigy of Jimmy Saville is something I really want to see happen.
Maybe it's a rural vs city thing for pubs/bars in the U.S. I very clearly recall us kids wandering in and out of the neighborhood bar as a child (town of 100 people). Everyone knew us, we weren't going to be served alcohol, but if we wanted a parent who was in there, we just walked in. Or to get a drink from the fountain in the back towards the restaurant area.
Now, in the city of 50K where I went to university, those bars were not for kids, no matter if they served burgers and pizza or not. But, again, a local pub where my folks are now does pizza and grill and welcomes families. I think it's very region and population dependent.
Yeah… country can be a bit different. A local bar near me had a karaoke night and the bartender’s 5 year old was running around most of the night. Cute kid. We sang Baby Shark and Let it Go.
when Sam puts "SImon nuke" is guaranteed to be a 10/10 video
I've been calling those Whistle Screams myself, but I guess "Simon nuke" is a better, since it's video+audio, not just audio.
Kung Fu Panda is a great movie and it has excellent storytelling, acting, a great message, and words of wisdom. "Quit, don't quit, noodles, don't noodles, you are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying, "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called a present." Oogway, Kung Fu Panda, 2008.
This is bloody brilliant! Simon you have absolutely smashed this one, And I watch at least 97% of ur content. But this really made me laugh🤣 jus keep it up brother!
I use to drink pink lemonade in the pub as child in Australia. Pubs are where families can eat meals. The only area kids were not allowed was gambling area and I assume the bar area where alcohol is sold.
I gotta say the first time I went to a pub in the UK I was shocked that they had full food as we have bar and grills for that but a pub here is usually just that... Drink and sometimes snack foods. Very rarely do they have full food. As for the Pantomime, reminds me of the tradition we have with the Rocky Horror picture show
"It's just a jump to the left..."
He’s behind you!!!
Meals in pubs only really started in the 80’s.. and until the mid-90’s children were (legally that is, some licensees wouldn’t give a toss) only allowed inside a pub if it had a restaurant or dining area. I worked in a leisure centre (publicly owned sports centre) which had a bar and I remember my boss - who was the licensee - going to court to obtain a children’s certificate - which was required when the rules started to relax if you wanted to allow children into the bar (back in the day you went to court to obtain a licence to sell alcohol, in fact, I agreed to become a licensee myself a year or two later and had to go to court and stand in front of the licensing magistrates myself. Now things are much more relaxed, licensing is handled by local councils and children are pretty much allowed everywhere. Pubs meanwhile have morphed pretty much into a relaxed dining restaurant although you will find the odd ‘proper pub’ mostly in town centres, and identifiable by the smell and the complete lack of being able to see what’s happening inside - another feature of pubs when I was little, high windows (if any) with frosted glass. For all I could tell your average pub was just a very rowdy public toilet.
As for panto, the Rocky Horror show is very much a pantomime without the child friendly jokes or the magic tricks. I wouldn’t take a five year old to the rocky horror show.. I wouldn’t be able to find a basque and suspenders that fitted him for a start..
Here in Wisconsin, it’s not only legal for minors to be in bars, it’s legal for them to *drink* in bars, if they’re with their parents. The parent would have to order the drink and then give it to the minor, bartenders can’t serve them directly.
Bars aren’t *required* to allow this, they just can if they want to.
Lol it blows peoples’ minds when they find out about this. I live in Wisconsin and especially up here in the north almost no one cares who’s drinking it seems.
I’m in Milwaukee. It’s nowhere near as common down here, but I remember a mom who would bring her 18-19 year old daughter to this dance club I frequented. I don’t know if the daughter drank at all, but the two of them definitely never caused any problems.
Growing up in Dry counties (a dry county is an area in which you can't buy alcohol.)in the U.S. kids were able to go to clubs.
My first club I went was at the age of 9. We lived in a dry county, so parents had to bring their own alcohol to the club. Because the club did not sell alcohol, kids were able to go dancing.
At the end of the night, we would help clean the place. Our payment was a bag of popcorn....lol
It also taught us that old people have a lot of energy....lol
Dunking biscuits in tea? As an American who knows that what Brits call a "biscuit" is what a Yank would call a "cookie", I find this to be a totally normal activity. Hell...I'm doing it NOW! P.S. The "weird bit at the bottom" is just the finish and a bit of reward. (Yes, I'm weird, LOL) Unrelated, TBF: Preventing what was an even WORSE attack than 9/11 (if not in umber of lives, but to the structure of the nation.) SHOULD be celebrated.
If I got to a bar and there are families and kids running around screaming I tend to just turn around and leave. Dogs on the other hand. 👍🏽
I totally agree. Dogs don’t bother me. Most owners keep them close. But maybe that’s different in the uk.
My dogs love going to the pub,because they get fed huge amounts of crisps by drunk people. Doggie heaven!
I'm fine with dogs at pubs as long as they are behaved. Children no
The credits at the end really got me. New petition to only address Sam as "The Editor"
As an American, I can gladly say I've been to a few pantomimes. My favorite, by far, was a production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show I saw at a local theater here in the Orlando area. If you're looking to get the audience involved, THAT'S the show with which to do it!
Rocky Horror Show is a musical, it's not the same as panto (panto is for kids and usually based on popular fairytales).
Toss that toast
@@Hiforest in the traditional sense, you're correct. The particular production I'm speaking of was specifically done as a pantomime. The musical numbers stayed mostly intact, but it was done fully in the style of panto.
@@Hiforest the audience was given a bag of props as they entered, including stale bread, water pistols, and various other seemingly odd items. Each prop was used by the audience to interact with the actors on stage, at times specified by an individual with cue cards standing by the stage.
@@sandybarnes887 right on! Best theater experience ever!
I live in the US, several of our pubs have playground areas where they have full time staff who watches your children as your drink beer. But most pubs will allow minors if before a certain time depending on state (10pm in my state) and as long as they are not in the bar area, which at most bars is when you actually sit at the countertop area, some bars will have an area that is clearly designated as the bar only area, but most places it is just the counter itself. But there are also dedicated bars, which don't have a pub area, which are less common and tend to be in the same area as the clubs, which the clubs come in varieties, most are 21+ but some are 18+ and others are 14+. When I was in Europe, I found they had similar ratios of pubs to bars to clubs. But I did not spend much time in the UK, so maybe the UK doesn't have clubs nor bars?
As an American, the guy fawkes thing seems rather tame …
Kinda yeah. Considering Bleeding Kansas, the civil war, and Florida
Don’t forget January 6th
We don't need to burn effigies on a certain day... Americans do that everyday.... Murika!
@@mollywantshugs5944 Bear in mind Fawkes spent 4 days being 'questioned' in The Tower in 1600, if you google his signature before and that on his confession it looks a lot like he suffered a lot, signing the confession meant he was to be hung until almost dead, drawn - dragged by a horse but not to death, then disembowelled while again still alive before being quartered. Fawkes managed to avoid this by throwing himself off the scaffold and breaking his neck. Other conspirators were not so lucky and suffered the whole process.
Plus dont forget England has had at least 3 civil wars, Barons war, War of the Roses and English Civil war, we have a long long history of brutality...
@@mollywantshugs5944 ah Florida. " corporate greed, propaganda, sunshine, and methamphetamine"
When I was a young'un in my little shire village, we had 2 pubs. The posh pub and the local pub. The local pub had a single curved bar, part of it was in a lounge area (where you would eat food) and the rest was in the bar area. There was a dart board, the dominos and cribbage clubs played weekly and we had a meat raffle on a Sunday. I think it dated back to the 1700s, the pub, not the meat.
Only in England can Jimmy Savile can be a big deal(before getting busted)
I always thought Savile was weird and creepy
I'm 53yo American, and I remember pay toilets here - 10 cents a pop, same as a pay phone, specifically because we were cheap and I was the youngest child - designated to crawl under the door and unlock it so the 3 of us could pee for free. I was so grateful when I was finally too big to crawl under the door, then they were done away with.
The reason pubs started serving food other than crisps and pork scratchings etc was that the Govt put up alcohol duty so high that people couldn't afford to go to their local as much and so they had to find other ways to supplement their income.
Also, the introduction of leasehold pubs etc killed the industry like a machete to the neck. Brewers held hegemony over all the pubs they supplied, drastically reducing the potential for profit and also driving prices up by not giving landlords the leeway to maximise profits.
Just another story of the rich getting richer and the poor getting stepped and fucked over.
At least where I’m (Virginia) places that serve alcohol are also required to serve food.
One of the many reasons i don't drink as weatherspoons, dispute how cheap it is.
Don't forget successive governments f*cking over working people by repeated increases in Duty on alcohol.
Smoking ban, gentrification, rigged housing market.. plenty of things to explain why the traditonal pub morphed into the food venues and flats we see today. And just as whitbred moved from bitter to coffee, so too did the entire identity of the high street.
If you are interested in this particular subject, that being being pubs and highstreets, you look toward the open university and openlearn who have materials from past social science degree modules,most of which is free through openlearn.
@@DJWESG1 might well do that,.
i grew up in pubs in Liverpool. as did my sisters, my parents didn't own a pub, it was just the place where people went, it was a social get together, everyone brought their kids.
If i sagged off school or ended up off for whatever reason, i'd end up there with my dad.
Lots of prawn cocktail and lemonade, borrow a quid from my dad to play double dragon in the video shop.
I was in pubs since 1979 onwards, my sisters even earlier.
Awe Simon's children have inherited his cowardice, how sweet.
Oh I think we watched a type of pantomime in 6th grade! It was a British company on tour that made these type of plays for students learning English (this was in Germany). The play was not horrible tbh but I think the actors were used to German audiences not interacting the way Simon described lol
I like the additional camera setup, Simon; just that little touch of occasionally switching the view adds a nice bit of extra energy to the video. Does it take much more effort to film that way?
I just have to add that Guy Fawkes night seems pretty well known here in the US, at least as far as I was aware, and ABC News reporting that the fireworks were a celebration of Biden being elected was just a post on Twitter, not an actual report or anything, so it feels to me more like a case of a particularly ignorant and stupid Twitter writer for ABC News. Who knows what kind of underage idiot intern they use to handle their Twitter account; likely someone under 25 who doesn't even know the difference between Britain and England, and if it's any consolation they probably don't even know who was president before Obama, either.
"Look, fireworks in England, they must be celebrating _our_ election!"
But then again, I often find myself shocked and dismayed at how stupid and ignorant so many of my fellow Americans turn out to be, so maybe I'm the unusual one.
(OK, I am _definitely_ the unusual one.)
In the American South, your Pub would be called an APPLEBEE's or Chili's restaurant. OR a Bowling alley.
I’ll never understand how any of us animals can feel disgusted at another animal in a restaurant
Just as long as they stay out of my food, I don't mind. No matter how many legs they walk around on.
Here in Newfieland, Canada we ALSO celebrate Guy Fawkes night 🔥 .. although, we don't have effigies. Just a HUGE ASS pile of local burnables. People show up and have hot chocolate and other camp fire-y things. Usually each town has their own BIG (think 2 story house size) bon fire pile but sometimes people have their own smaller ones. The DIY ones don't have any health and safety considerations to follow and you can drink on the job 😉
We celebrated guy Fox night in the '80s and '90s growing up in Newfoundland Canada, and not just my family communities would have bonfires. When I moved away and talked about it people thought I was out of my mind.
Guy Fawkes night but no Christmas Mummers?
So, my thought is... aren't there clubs in the UK that don't allow any minors? The reason I ask is this... I've lived in both Chicago, and a small town (15k people)... And I've noticed that anything called "club" or "bar" doesn't typically allow children (in small towns you can sometimes find a regular or two in a bar with a kid or two in tow. But we have "bar and grills" aka "pubs"... And it's normal for a family to eat at one. There's a couple bar and grills in town that are much more appreciated for their food than for their booze. So really, I'm sure there are many clubs that don't allow minors in the UK, just as ours don't. But otherwise, the UK has it's pubs, and the U.S. has it's bar and grills.
Well we do have nightclubs and stripclubs which have age restrictions but that’s about it. Some places make you feel uncomfortable if you have kids but most embrace kids and the money families bring in.
No minors are allowed in clubs in the UK (although that doesn't stop them getting in). Most clubs are only open in the evening though unlike the pubs and bars. We do have pubs that don't serve any food that generally won't let children in either. A lot of pubs near football grounds are like this. I also know of local pubs that don't serve food but will happily have families in with kids running around.
@@slayingroosters4355 So pretty much the same as it is in the U.S... there are bars that tend to cater towards families, but then there are bars and clubs that don't allow minors in (we all know some get in tho).
It's funny that I finally figured out something they got completely wrong.
The state I live in (missouri), bars are only open to minors before 8pm or 9pm. After that time they aren't legally allowed in the building at all. That law is also taken very seriously in my area.
In the '80s they used to charge $0.10 to use the bathroom, when we were small enough we'd lay our jacket or whatever and crawl under the door... We were young, we had no money and we had to go. 😁
My uncle Jack - not my real uncle, just a friend of the family who we called uncle: another great British tradition ... My uncle Jack owned a pub (probably why he was a friend of my Dad) in Manchester. It was very traditional having a "tap room" and "lounge bar". The lounge had padded seats and tables and even carpet; While the Tap room had no chairs, a wood floor and a dart board. With the exception of the rather fearsome auntie Phil, who served drinks, women weren't allowed in the Tap room.
Simon I have been following you since you had a map on your wall behind you, but didn't know you had non British father. So just cause I'm curious, how many languages do you speak?
Probably speaks 4. English, Czech, Fact, and Bullshit. XD
None because he pronounces literally all non English names wrong
"American" here.
V for Vendetta came out while I was in high school ~20 years ago; every year since then, on Nov 5th someone in our HS friend group will send out a mass text: "Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot; for there is a reason why gunpowder and treason should never be forgot."
Hey Simon, I'm an American and we have a whole lot of things that other people in the world think is weird or something else. It just the way it is, plus when visiting other countries it makes life much more interesting. Cheers. Everything in the vid is not that weird. Hell, the pantomime sounds like fun if you have a good buzz of some sort. They have pay toilets here, but a lot of people will go outside and wizz on the ground.
"I make a little money by taking a piss [in McDonalds] , which is nice" Fucking brilliant, peak Simon XD
Capitalist heart
One of my favourite things as a kid was my dad taking me to the pub. I loved it in there! The pub did have a no kids rule (this was in the 1990s) but they made an exception for me cause I was well behaved. My favourite thing was watching random people play pool. If I was lucky they'd pull a stool up to the pool table for me to watch and sometimes would let me keep score. Letting your kid hang out with random adults in a pub would probably be frowned upon now, but I had great fun.
Aussies take dunking biscuits in tea to a whole new level. I hate the crumbs in the bottom of my cup so I generally don’t. Been here for 41 years and only last year did I try the Tim Tam Slam. Omg it’s the best! Now I dunk them into my coffee sometimes.
Pubs in New Zealand have "family bars", where you can bring your kids. You can even give them booze if you choose. But they can't buy it themselves. Technically they're not allowed to come up to the bar itself. Many of these pubs have an outside area that includes a small playground. There is often a pub dog.
Bars with families there also exists in the US, they're typically national chain restaurants: Applebee's, chili's, etc. But you don't go there to get drunk, that's a place you just go to have a couple drinks, get dinner, then go to an actual bar to get drunk
Pantomimes sound a lot like some of the shows (we call them trunk shows bc they traditionally involve a trunk full of props and costume bits) from american renaissance faires. Ren-faires are a unique cultural phenomenon in the U.S. where variety theatre and vaudeville lives on under the veil of puffy shirts and tights.
Pantomimes are a lot more fun than Simon makes them sound. They're more about the ridiculousness(characters wearing "disguises" consisting of a sign claiming they're not the villain or similar "I can't be the wicked stepmother, she doesn't wear a hat"), jokes built into everything(especially Aladin which has tons of puns based on the princess wishing there was "a lad in me" or similar), and general complete breakdown of normal rules(typically a lot more beer than at a normal theater show).
They also often have very famous actors playing bit parts just because they can, so if you don't mind attending you can often see the cast afterwards which is one of the better parts of the good productions.
I got dragged to my first pantomime in NewCastle, and was horrified to learn it was not just a local thing.
Pantomimes are actually very common at renaissance festivals here in the states!
15:54 "I recently took a really long..." I thought it would be a long "spend-a-penny", but no, it was a trip
Kids can go in bars here (in the US) as long as food is being served, they just can’t sit at the bar. But when we say we’re “going to the bar,” that usually means out for a night of drinking at places that have sticky floors and loud music. (Also not a club; that’s different).
Here in the U.S., we generally don't have public toilets except in large cities and usually only in the downtown area. Those are definitely not free.
As for restrooms in businesses, it seems to vary. Some places will let you freely walk in and use the restrooms, others require you to be a customer, which means you need to buy something just to use the restroom. Then they'll give you a code or a token depending on the lock.
Also, Shitting in the streets?!?! Welcome to San Francisco in 2022!!