American Reacts to 7 Things Brits Do Better!
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I have heard Americans say that public health service paid for by taxes is communism,.
Yet a fire service paid for by taxes apparently is not , both are a benefit to the public.
Correct a public health service helps benefit the public and helps benefit the economy too,
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I think they are confused with the word social.
As in that socialism equals communism.
@@stuartauld3193 yea that makes total sense..
@@stuartauld3193 👍
Unfortunately, the NHS and almost all British public services are now used as vehicles for woke indoctrination. I know I was in one of them for 30 years.
French Fries - Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt.
Chips - Potatoes, Oil, Salt.
Sad... just sad!
Whats all that shit?
Nothing better than a potato chip. Just fkn potato
@@johnchristmas7522 All that shit is a way to simulate classic fast food fries. McDonald's built their name not on their burgers, but their fries, which they cooked in beef tallow. In the '60s, a wealthy heart-attack survivor named Phil Sokoloff started a huge media campaign to ban animal fats despite having no science to back his position. The old fries were more flavourful and healthier, but the process has been banned for decades, so all that other stuff is used instead.
@@johnchristmas7522the ingredients list for US McDonald's fries
Our home in the UK had the roof replaced recently, however it was the original roof from 150 years ago.
Our roof was replaced just this morning. Not sure when it was last done, but it's the first time in 20 years at least
JJ ... We Brits tend not to call them a French fries sandwich... We call them a "Chip butty"...and very nice they are too.😊 Either with a fair sprinkling of salt 'n' vinegar, or tomato ketchup...or whichever condiment "takes your fancy"!!
Same, pretty much, replaced the roof two years ago, it did have the original tiles from before 1870. Only replaced them because a bunch of tiles finally fell off after we were hit by 90mph+ winds.
My roof was last replaced in 1920. It might need doing in a few years but it's perfectly fine right now.
My cottage is over 200 years old. I purchased it 10 years ago. The previous owner had a new roof, replaing the orginal one, in 2006. I don't think I'll need to worry about it in my lifetime.
Yeah we are the same here in Ireland. Solid tile roofs, not those tar sheet rubbish ones the US has.
My parents home is almost 80yrs old and has never had any work done on its roof, outside of cleaning off the moss and replacing 3 tiles after a storm just last year ( neighbours bin literally lifted off the ground and landed on it ). I know people in the US who have had to replace their roof "tiles" twice since moving in and they think it is normal. Then again they also use so much wood instead of stone in the buildings that they have replace sections of the outside of their house every 20yrs. Its mental!
It is the same, here in Germany. Our house is from the 70s and the roof is still fine. The plastic lining under the insulation has become porous and needs to be replaced, but otherwise it is still in great condition.
A Briton's first thought when confronted with a chip butty is not "seems like too much starch!" No, on this side of the pond it would more likely be "how quickly can I put myself on the outside of that?"
lol I love that phrase! 😂
As long as the bread is buttered,and i mean butter, preferably normandy french then even in my best dress i would munch happily with butter dripping off my chin . Bliss.
@@priscillaroberts7945 cold butter, sliced some thin slices some not onto the thick cut crusty bread a days ration of salt drowned in tomato sauce............. sod it now i am hungry
my first would be red or brown sauce
YOU ARE ALL MAKING ME HUNGRY AHHHHH
Our house is 100 years old, and we recently lost a few tiles in a storm, but we just had the few tiles replaced. We have no expectation that we will have to replace the whole roof any time soon.
We had to replace our roof a couple of years ago, the roofers had almost finished when we had a fire and the house was completely gutted.
The NHS is wonderful. They saved my life, then saved my left foot. In the US, I would definitely have lost the leg.
It WAS wonderful, now it is just another institution run along woke political lines
...and you'd still be paying for it.
@@oldrenegade6363 ... and probably be homeless due to the cost!
Oh we have a "fuse box" in the UK too. Although most have been replaced with breaker switches that trip nowadays.
The fuse in the plug prevents you from electrocution from the applience if something goes wrong. The fusebox/ breaker box protects you on a much bigger scale.
@DanPyjamas can be temperamental buggers though.
i used to live on site at a workplace (before covid) and we had a communal living room.
Was always fun playing dj on the fusebox at 3am while drunk people are running around flipping switches to see what kept turning all the lights off when nothing had been touched 🙄😆
@@emcr1 🤣
The fuse is nothing to do with preventing electrocution lmao. It's to stop a faulty device from tripping the circuit or blowing the fuses in the breaker....
The point of failure is at the device level instead.
@@DeadlyDan ok thanks
you can even get replacement breakers, that fit into the old fusebox
I have just left hospital in Oxford having had a fractured eye socket repaired. I stayed overnight, was treated by 2 different consultants. After my discharge a motorbike messenger arrived at my home with a bag full of medication for my recovery. Total cost: £35 taxi fare to hospital; £0 for treatment 🇬🇧
What about your national insurance babe. Get well soon x
@@Burglar-King National insurance guarantees 100% entitlement to any and all medical assistance needed, however expensive that might be, no one goes bankrupt over medical bills in the UK.
@@Burglar-King Even when accounting for National Insurance, it's vastly cheaper than America.
Up to a certain threshold, the rate is 0%. Then, above that threshold, NI rates vary from 2% to 8%.
So, for example, if you're earning, say, £2,000 a month then your NI will be about £50 to £100 a month and that's it. That pays for everything.
In fact, "National Insurance" covers more than the NHS, it's really a payment for the whole Welfare State. So your National Insurance also goes towards unemployment benefits, housing benefits, child benefits and things like that as well.
So, you know, how much are you paying for "social security", babe? Other countries have these payments too, but the UK system rolls them all into one - a single state-run insurance scheme.
More over, in the UK, we have "Pay as you Earn" (PAYE) if you're employed, rather than self-employed. Basically, what this means is that your employer registers their employees with the tax authorities, the NI and taxes are calculated and then it's deducted from your pay automatically.
So, for the majority of people, there is no actual act of payment. You can think of it as that the money was never yours - and you can see as your employer paying you this much and also paying the tax man another amount on your behalf.
Indeed, I've always thought that they should introduce a law where, when advertising jobs, the annual salary should be specified minus taxes. Take away that remaining thought that the money was "yours". It never was. It never will be.
No, you're being paid a wage and the employer is also paying an "employee tax" to the government on your behalf that covers your state-provided welfare.
Also, of course, the NHS is not-for-profit. It's paying cost price.
Like, $2000 for an ambulance in America. What are they putting in the fuel tank? Liquid unobtainium? Is the ambulance made out of gold?
There's no way it costs that much. It's a massive mark up for pure profit, to feed all the parasites and vultures. Knowing that they've got a captive audience and an effective monopoly.
Americans are being scammed. It really is as simple as that. The UK is an extreme, sure - but nowhere else on planet Earth charges as much as America.
@@klaxoncow Barely any NI Contributions go towards NHS funding. Most of NI is used for NAtional Pensions, with a little on 3 benefits (1 of which is almost unused due to being replaced). The NHS is mainly funded from Income Tax.
@@Burglar-King The are several videos on YT comparing the true cost of healthcare. On average, they agree that the UK pays 60% less for healthcare through taxation. In US that 60% would be profit for the providers.
I'm not sure that a US home could hold the weight of UK style roof tiles
They absolutely wouldn't.
Is that because US homes are made of something other than bricks?
Of course they would. Most homes in Scandinavia (including my house in Norway) are stick frame, and most (including mine) have roofing tiles. Even with a metre or more of snow on top, that weight is handled just fine.
There are many areas in the UK that do have large (2’ x 2’ square ) terracotta tiles, not only on houses but also on barns. North Hampshire/Berkshire in particular.
those shed-houses, might be warm in the winter.. but ...
Couple of points here, as a northern englishman
Slate tiles are designed to deal with heavy rain which happens a lot at this part
The 3rd plug pin is actually known as the Earth, which is another safety feature.
Remember the key part of a chip butty is the butter!
A chip sandwich without butter would be a disaster.
That goes for all sandwiches.
True. In the states though they rarely butter their bread for any kind of sandwich. Some use mayo.
Plus US bread is, frankly, awful. And ridiculously expensive for anything approaching decent. You can pay an hour's worth of labour (at minimum wage) for anything close to good bread. No point in dollar vs pound amounts because the economies don't work that way.
I'm from the UK, and I think if we had hurricanes here, we wouldn't use big heavy tiles for our roofs, the idea of being whipped in the face by a heavy clay tile moving at 90mph sounds like it would ruin my day.
It definitely ruin your face a lot of people look like they already been hit in the face by a 90mph roof tile round here. Damm theres some right sights in my town
A thin bitumin shingle flying at 100mph could easily decapitate you so I'd prefer the heavy roof tiles.
Remember 1987 & heavy roof tiles buried vertically into lawns.
We have had ex hurricanes though as my school was damaged by one.
That potentially explains why they're using shingles in Florida, Louisiana, etc. but why are they using shingles in places that don't frequently get hurricanes like Michigan?
At the start, I think she may be overreacting to the usual internet trolls. I've watched a few of her videos and never got the impression that she hated the UK, in fact, more the opposite.
There are quite a few negative comments to some of her videos though so she has a point. I'm British and agree that she's never given the impression of even disliking, never mind hating the UK.
After almost ten years she still doesn’t get British humour I suspect, silly cow.
@@Thurgosh_OG She may also delete some of the most negative comments.
It tends to be new people who have never seen their videos before. Chris Broad gets it when he dares to criticise Japan even though he's lived there 10 years so he must like it!
I love the fact we preserve our old buildings . The oldest building near me is a castle 900yrs old . Bloody love it
I love that too! I think old buildings mentally connect us to the past and give us a more accurate perspective of how small we all are, in a good way. You’re in a great spot!
@@JJLAReacts There is a Saxon church near me that dates from ~700AD. But then of course there are Avebury, Stonehenge, Bronze & Iron Age hill forts & barrows, through to Georgian Bath & Devizes. The sense of history - and that we are just part of a cycle of life - is palpable.
@@JJLAReacts My town has a Norman Cathedral, Roman ruins (amphitheatre, baths and palace), the remains of a medieval motte and bailey, which still has archaeological digs, and lots of buildings from other periods (Georgian, Victorian etc), alongside more modern architecture. Lots of small, quaint older churches too.
I took it for granted that behind my house where I grew up was a Norman Castle with a Saxon Church and a Roman Lighthouse. At the time they seemed unloved and it was free to enter the grounds and pocket money price to enter the Castle.
Now they have slapped a huge charge on and it is full of visitors.
I’m from the UK and 65 years old, and I’ve never lived in a house that has needed the roof replacing
I used to work for a pretty large Corporation in the U.K from 1980-1990.
I worked on a full-time (35 hours plus 1 hour lunch) salaried position on what they called…Flexi-time. Flexi-time meant that I could come into work anytime between 8am-10am and leave work anytime after 4pm, so long as I made the hours up on later days. I could even take longer lunch times if I wanted to…again so long as I made up the hours later in the week.
Since I was in a management position, I sometimes had to work longer than 7 hours a day which meant that the company owed me either overtime or the hours that I worked overtime.
I also started with 5 weeks vacation. But inevitably…I ended up with more time off due to the extra hours that I had worked. So, one time, I literally had 2 months off. So, I travelled all over the USA for 2 months!! 😂
Then I went to the US to work and I nearly fell off my chair at the interview when they said I would only get 2 weeks vacation time off! 😂😂😂
UK resident here. I've done a flexitime job before and loved it. We had a similar policy that you could accrue days off by working more hours. However, I was young at the time, so I mostly spent my accrued hours by having a short Friday; start at 10, have a 2 hour lunch,12 till 2, at the pub playing pool, and then finish at 4 and back in the pub! 😂
I worked flex time, salaried in America. The first year I got 4 weeks paid leave, plus 2 (or 4?) weeks paid sick live. Any unused paid leave could be carried to the following year. So if I had a week or 2 unused leave from the first year, I'd get 5 or 6 weeks paid leave, plus sick leave the second year. The maximum I could carry from a previous year was 4 weeks, I think, for a maximum of 8 weeks paid leave, plus paid sick leave. It might have even been a maximum of 12 weeks paid leave, but my work would have gotten behind if I had taken that much. Flex time was usually made up in the same day, though I guess it could be during the week too. I arrive early and leave early, or arrive late and leave late, or I could take a longer than one hour lunch and work late.
@@NoDollarCrolla When I was doing IT work in an office, those early Friday departures were my lifeline: Everyone else would clear out of the building, and I - having spent all my core hours that week sitting with head in hands wishing everyone would stop yacking and let me concentrate - could finally relax and start getting some work done! =:o1
Recently I had 10 days off work on leave, I was ill for 6 of the days. My manager insisted that I took my holiday days back and classed them as sick instead
As a British guy who works in America very frequently the polar opposite attitudes to buses is something I found really stark. Buses in America seem to be seen by most as transport for people who can't afford a car, they're seen as rough places to be, risky, scary, dangerous even. In the UK a bus is a perfectly viable option for everyone, generally clean, reliable, good value, and everyone uses them, not just the poor. If you take a bus here it's not noteworthy, it doesn't cross your mind that you shouldn't.
I took a bus in Atlanta and my colleagues thought I was nuts, "why didn't you take an Uber, are you CRAZY? You'll get yourself killed!" was the reaction. I didn't expect that buses would be considered almost a no-go area for many Americans. They weren't much more confident about the metro (Marta). That blows my mind, to have public transport and to be so fearful of it, something's very wrong with that.
I just watched a dr phil episode where a guy refused to get a jib cos he'd lost his licence and was embarrassed to take public transport. Wtf! I'm 64 and never had a licence! I'm not embarrassed to take the bus!
I’ve been to the USA several times. The only incident where I was frightened was in Kansas City, waiting for a bus. There were several people in the depot, outside I saw people shooting up drugs. The bus was not very clean. You had to be at the depot an hour before departure.
The journey I took was only about an hour. On my return I took a taxi despite having a return ticket, it was only about $10 more expensive, took me to my hotel whereas I’d have to take taxi from the depot to the hotel.
Try living in South Dakota.
Assaults on women have gone up by 50% on public transport in the UK so you might feel OK but many many women don't.
@@toni6053 Interesting. I rarely use public transport.
Nowadays the word assault can mean some one being accused just for brushing against another.
Way back, 1960s when mini skirts were the rage, I was on a crowded underground train when someone put their hand under my skirt and grabbed my bum.
I grabbed the hand and yelled out, "Who owns this hand? He’s got it under my skirt!" The man was bright red in the face and departed at the next stop.
It's quite simple really. The UK and many other countries have been around a long long time. Over the centuries we made a great many mistakes and bad decisions, but we worked together, we learned from them and we improved. Then came the wonderful US of A. It had no history of its own, but it was too arrogant to accept the knowledge and experience offered by others. So off it went, making all the same mistakes, all over again, ignoring and changing the tried and tested, claiming they new best. Occasionally they would come across something that did work. Often as not it was the way Europe and been doing it for years. But America would ignore history and claim it was their discovery. They're still doing the same thing to this very day.
The UK has been around only 317 years. Scotland is the oldest nation in the British Isles, founded around the later half of the 9th century.
Tickety boo, absolutely spot on! Great comment. Sums up the great USA perfectly 🇬🇧
@@Mark-Haddow Germany and Italy are much younger than the USA.
@@wessexdruid7598 That's 2 out of 44 so moot point. Even though a couple of country names changed, there were still people living there for many centuries.
@@Mark-HaddowThe kingdom of England was founded in 927AD. A lot earlier than 300 years ago, isn't it?
No, chips are not "French Fries". French fries are from the French "pomme frites". The skinny fries that you get with a burger. The industry standard for "Chip Shop Chips" is 15mm square.
Just to help clarify that measurement for our American friends... that's about 19/32 of an inch, or 1/13th of a banana
Yep you are right they call them Home fries... our normal Chips.
We got chips, and we got fries. Fries are thin, and tasty when done right.
Chips are chunky bastards and we absolutely love them
French fries are Belgian.
...and called a Home Fry in the USA if you are old enough to know more than 5,000 words.
The tax system is far better here in the UK. It's called P.A.Y.E. ('Pay As You Earn'). Your HR dept coordinates with Inland Revenue (our version of IRS), and your tax is worked out for you. If you get paid weekly, your tax is deducted weekly, and if you get paid monthly, your tax automatically gets deducted monthly. At the end of the tax year (usually 5th April), if you have paid too much tax, you get a refund. The only thing you ever have to be careful with, is to make sure you have the correct tax code (which determines how much you can earn before you start paying tax, and if it's too high, you get a nice refund at the end of the year). I've worked for many companies over the course of my life, and I've never had to work out my own tax. It's only really the self-employed who have to do that
5th April.
As a Brit that lived in the US for 10 years, I totally agree with her on the NHS, the Biggest fault with the US health Care is the Insurance Companies they soak their customers for every dime they can get out of them starting with Co-pay, I was lucky that when I lived in the US it was while working for a UK company which paid for my health insurance which covered EVERYTHING including repatriation a flight with a nurse for the princely sum of $500 a year through a UK insurance provider.
On the construction of houses I agree we tend to build ONCE with Bricks/Blocks and mortar, and Roofing Tiles or Slates, not the flimsy stick/sheathing with Asphalt/Bitumen Shingle builds of the majority of US homes.
And as for the Work Life balance my terms and conditions shocked my American co-workers, 28 days vacation a year this can be added to if you work national holidays, sick pay from day one (you do not have to find a replacement to cover for you, after all that is what Management is for) etc.
The UK (Type G) plug has only one fault if you leave it lying on the floor it has a better than average chance of landing prongs up, and if you tread on one during the night going to the kitchen or what ever, THEY ARE DAMN PAINFUL.
My house is 200 years old. We lived here 25 years we’ve never had a concern with our roof.
The houses in our street were built around 120 years ago and in the last couple of years lots of the roofing has been replaced.
@@vladd6787 but t’s still a Long time.
I'm British, I'm 60 years old and have never had a driving licence. Always managed with buses, trains etc.
Go north. I dare you. 😂
Im from Lancashire...
I can confirm public transport is pretty grim...
But it's all we've got.. and god bless the NHS..
I was in hospital for over a month in January 2023. Apparently I was near death when I was admitted. They kept me on Oxygen throughout my stay, fed me great food 3 times a day, and not once did they ask me for anything. All the staff were great.
I owe my life to the NHS. I have had severe respiratory problems my whole life and have been resusicated more times than I can count, and I am not bankrupt or permanently in debt.
The fact that even with insurance giving birth is still over $3000 is even more ridiculous
You literally pay like $700 on average monthly so that if you have a medical issue you will have a cap, like you only have to pay 10k of your million dollar medical bill@@simonrobbins8357
Probably controversial but, I dont think anybody not born here, and having paid into the system for at least a couple of years should be able to use our NHS.
And have to pay extra to hold your newborn child. Ghastly!
How much does the average birth cost rNHS
There's a reason that births are low at the moment, cost of living and housing costs are a big factor, the younger generations struggling to get into houses means thry are putting off raising a family way later, in the US you don't have a lifeline / safety net if you become ill or unemployed which ultimately helps contribute to the large homelessness problem.
Slate tiles, mined in Wales, are a very popular roofing materials and last for hundreds of years.
The "public transport" point is better for a reason not mentioned for obvious reasons, I have a bus pass specifically because I am disabled and not able to drive (other bus passes are available) I get this pass for free and I can travel by service bus anywhere in England (Scotland and Wales have their own bus passes). I can also buy a subsidised Rail Card for £20 per year and get 30% off rail fairs for two people, this works throughout Britain, I'm not sure about Northern Ireland and Ireland.
That’s a wonderful system! You’re in a great spot!
@ChrisShelley-v2g
Yes, disabled here in Ireland and also get free travel 🇮🇪
The switch is in the socket, not the plug.
My house was built in 1874. The roof needed fixing in the 1970s, so yes, 100 year roofs.
UK roofing materials are clay tiles, concrete tiles or slate laid over roofing felt which is like your singles but about 3 feet wide on a role.
My house is about 80 to 90 years old . Old council house . And the roof is the same one it was built with. And it is still going strong
Another thing to consider is that most UK households these days use oven-baked chips rather than peeling, chopping and frying potatoes at home. It's a much healthier way of cooking them, and has all but eliminated a big issue from the 70s and 80s - chip pan fires. We used to have a specific cooking pot full of oil with a wire basket when cooking chips, and it was very common for somebody to make a mistake (drunk dad on Friday night!) and cause the whole thing to catch fire, which at times could spread to the rest of the house - especially if you tried to use water to put it out.
In 2002 I stayed with a family in Ashford, Kent and they served me fish and oven cooked chips. 30 years ago, in the 1990's, I met an older British couple they were telling me that there was then a (white?) powder sprinkled on chips, before deep frying them and the powder kept the chips from absorbing as much fat as they would without the powder. I have no idea what sort of powder they were talking about. later I learned it might have been some sort of sugar, but I'm not so sure. Do you know what powder keeps chips from becoming too greasy when fried?
@@BrandonLeeBrown Probably Olestra - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra
Nah, I'm still a chip-pan girl myself, though maybe my being a product of the 70's might have something to do with that! Unlike the death-trap versions of my childhood though, my own deep fat fryer is electric - those stove-top things are indeed just *asking* for trouble, as anyone who's seen the old chip-pan fire informationals can attest to!
@@Tricia_K yep I remember the old PSAs very well! I had an electric deep fryer in the early 90s but switched to oven baking by the mid-to-late 90s
@@ziggythedrummer i've had as many chip pan fires as fish and chip suppers. My way of putting out the flames was to put a basket full of frozen chips in it. Took nerve the first time but it quelled the flames instantly. The fat and the chips were unusable obv. Not for the faint hearted.
When it comes to public transport one thing that usually gets missed is that when you reach 65 you can apply for what is called a Bus Pass. This allows you free travel on buses between 9:30 am and 11:00 pm Monday to Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. In some areas your bus pass will also get you a discount on rail travel. In some cities the first bus after 9:30 is jokingly called the Pensioners Special because many on it will be pensioners.
It actually varies. If you live in England you can get the Bus Pass once you reach state pension age which is currently 66
However, if you live in Wales, Northern Ireland or Scotland, you can get the Bus Pass once you turn 60
Also the time restrictions only apply to England, in the rest of the UK you can take a bus any time you want.
What you cannot do however, is use the bus pass in one of the other countries in the UK. So a Welsh bus pass is only valid in Wales and so on.
we call it the "twilly pass" OAPs would say "am i too early?)
@@philiprice7875 Or 'Twirly'.
reason america has rubbish plugs is because it gives the companies a reason to charge you more for wasted electricity
Regarding the roofing materials used here in the UK, you need to remember that our homes are made from bricks and not lumber. And the roofing materials eg Slate and the clay tiles are attached to the roof with nails and very rarely loosen. However when a slate or tile comes loose and comes off it’s normally a warning sign that it needs checking! On average a British roof tends to last 80-120 years (depending on build quality of the home built). The British chip nowadays are air cooled or done in the oven, which means they are a lot more healthier than the fries in the USA, especially because they are fried twice, so they run the chance of absorbing the fat.
I remember when the Concessionary Bus Travel Act of 2007 came into force for the over 60s, two women travelled diagonally from Cornwall in the far southwest of England to John O’ Groats in the far northeast of Scotland on local buses. Not all in one day though! 🚌
I live in a 300+ year old exfarm house. My roof structure is oak the main beam being an oak tree with the limbs cut off! We have a stone slab roof over 80% of the house and slate over the rest which was where lean to outbuildings were raised to two stories over 150-200 years ago. They have not been replaced, touched up periodically at the most.
Do butter the bread for your chip butty so the hot chips melt the butter...ohh yeahh. If loving this is wrong, I don't wanna be right...
Chip butty FTW!
Definitely agree with you on buttering a chip butty 👍
There are good reasons not to use slate/tile roofs if you are likely to get damage from flying trees and things or the tiles themselves are likely to travel through the air like canon shells in a hurricane. For one thing if damaged they're cheaper and easier to replace. What I would point out though, is bitumen shingles are a bit old hat and there are better things that can be used instead with all of those same benefits that would both perform better and last longer - I suspect it's mostly down to that "this is how we've always done it though" thing.
lol enjoyed that, your face at our roof tiles being expected to last over 100 years loll. class.
Just a quick note about that top pin in the UK plug. That pin connects the appliance to a pole buried in the ground outside the house. Electrical systems are earthed in the UK to provide a safe path for electricity to flow into the ground in the event of a fault or overload (such as a lighting strike). This reduces the risk of fire, electrocution, and damage to equipment.
Also the live sockets are closed until opened by the earth pin, so children (or adults) can't insert metal objects and electrocute themselves.
Re plugs - yes, you got all the good stuff on the plugs! Earth connection as standard; fused plug so you don't always trip your house electrics; made to survive an actual apocalypse; and solid connections. Quick edit as well: houses in the UK are often made to be much more durable than US houses. My parents owned a cottage in Cornwall that was: (a) built sometime in the late 1600s (yes, over 400 years old); (b) made of chunks of granite almost the size of mountains themselves - 2ft x 2ft x 4ft slabs in places; and (c) roofed with slates that were really thick, due to the Cornish fondness for high winds and storms... Mind you, even this cottage was considered a "new build" by some folk cos the church was built in the 13th century...
I live in Cornwall (lucky me), where I live often has 60kts of breeze in the winter. My tiles are over two hundred years old. Nuff said.
My childhood home was a council house built in 1950. (now usually known as social housing) Its never had to have any repairs to the roof. Also my grandparents house was built by the council in the early 1930s. Its still got the original roof.
Hello JJ, I'm a bit more depressed than usual about my beloved, old shambolic country and your vids cheer me up about it and cheer me up generally. You are charming, gifted and funny. Keep going and thank you.
Oh wow, it’s my pleasure! Best wishes to you for better times and being in a beautiful place surrounded by the best people. ❤️
16 personalities in the world? Someone has never been in a UK pub on a Saturday night...One love from Scotland. 💙😃🍻
lol 😂
Glenda sat in the corner with 18 of them just for herself would agree
@@emcr1I'm sure I have more than 16 personalities in a day sometimes
They tried to turn the UK into "Go Getters" in the 80's with all the Yuppies but they were met with howls of laughter and very impolite names. It didn't catch on except in London, which should be avoided if possible
@joannasimmonds3706 it is more fun to keep it spicy 🤣
But yeah i feel that.
I had 4 hours this morning where I needed to try and focus on random things, but i couldn't get into the flow fully because 'issues'.
Think I had a different personality everytime someone came up to me to ask me a question.
There were even a few different nationalities unintentionally thrown in there too for the times I got bored of saying yes or no like a normal person 🤣
As a Londoner, I didn’t think twice about taking the bus to work when I was living in LA in the 1980s. My coworkers were horrified! 😮 I also used to love taking the bus from Hollywood High School (Hawthorn and Sunset) along Sunset Boulevard to the Pacific Ocean 🏄♂️ So different to our own dear British seaside ☔️
Our lovely red telephone boxes have mostly disappeared because of vandals and drunks using them as urinals. The boxes are being used in villages as places to leave books for others, flower displays, all sorts of things! We’re left with plastic three sided things where the phone lead has been cut, again by vandals.☹️
I love that they’re being reused for books and flowers! Maybe if they’re beautified enough they’ll stop being peed on?
@@JJLAReactssome towns have phone boxes that contain defibrillators
@@JJLAReactslots are used to house the Village Book & puzzle swap or a Defibrillator.
Our village Book, Puzzle and DVD swap outgrew it and moved into the bus shelter , which it’s taken over 😂
@@JJLAReacts Some peeps buy them from the Hidden Phone box Graveyard (in Surrey), & utilize them as showers ... although I'd prefer a bit more space, myself, lol.
I am swedish and here we have some pizzas with fries on in. It is usually a pizza with kebab meat, fries, cheese and tomato as topping, and some sauce on top. Sometimes with lettuce on top of all that 😀 Taste great 👍
In Scotland we call that the contents of a 'Munchie box." Onion and chicken pakora is a typical extra.
Sounds good.
Americans would explode if we told them we have chips with beans 😂 sausage chips and beans is god level
They seem to approach explosion level quite happily. Seen it on the telly. 600lb life, 1,000 lb sisters. Marvellous entertainment. X
for gods sake DONT mention black pudding they will serve it with custard
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I'm 64. I lived in a rural village until I was 37. Now I live in a city. I have never needed to learn to drive.
Same.
American health care actually means wealth care.
Cheese melted on toast poached egg topped with baked beans.
When i worked in Security, I would work 4 10 hour days, if I worked over time i would get double time.
Americans don't have 'healthcare' - they have a sickness industry. They have zero incentives to keep you healthy, rather the reverse.
i loved monday breakfasts "bubble and squeak" fried in butter and tbh i like poached eggs over fried
In Britain we read "The Three Little Pigs", and we really took it to heart.
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My house is one of probably 100s of 1000s of semi-detatched houses across the UK, especially England, in the 1920s to 1940s (mine is about 1935). It still has the original clay tile roof with some repairs over the years.
Slates last even longer.
slate is over 100. million years old the time since it was stuck on a roof is an eyeblink to it
My favourite thing about the UK is living in Wales 🏴
We say 'sick' meaning both throwing-up and feeling ill - ie. "I phoned in sick to work this morning" does NOT mean you just projectile-vomited on your boss via your telephone!
It's interesting though that "sick" is only used in a very specific work context "Dave's called in sick today"or a throwing up context "I've been sick". I don't know anyone in the UK that would say "I feel sick" and mean they've got a cold. It would definitely mean they feel nauseous
Much as you'd like to.
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I love the nhs. I went into labour 6 weeks early. I gave birth, stayed in hospital a few days, my baby stayed there for a week. While I visited my baby I was fed 2 meals a day for free so I could stay all day. I was lent a breast pump till I got my own, I was so well supported. I will always be a big supporter of protecting our health service
I can honestly say the last time I saw anyone eat pizza and chips was in our school canteen back in the 1980s!
Try chips with a good lasagne
@@petergordon4525 Lasagne isn’t pizza…
@@ffotograffydd never said it was, it was a suggestion to try with chips!
@@petergordon4525 Yeah mate, that was sarcasm. Why would I want to eat chips and pasta in the same meal?! Way to many carbs.
@@ffotograffydd that's why I said to try it, you're missing out imo, has to be fries tho'
If everyone thought like that bit there are way too many Americans that spend their free time bashing other counties online without any experience at all. Thats why people get defensive.
My house is 45 years old and still has the original roof. I've only had to replace a couple of tiles due to wind damage.
Only? My house was built around 1920, no leeks, no replacements
My house is only about 70 years old and needed a repair after a tile linked to the chimney, was broken during a storm.
Just recently had my roof done here in the UK, it had been up fifty years.
The roofer carefully stored the tiles, replaced the batons and beams. And then relaid the old tiles.
His exact words were " you'll save money and new tiles are shit these days. They don't make tiles like yours anymore"
Dude!
Proper chips are like… each chip is 3-6 times the volume of a French/American fry.
French/American fries go cold before the second hits your lips.
The heat in the potato lingers longer in UK chips.
Also… surface area to volume ratio. There’s a lot more fatty surface area in a French/American small-fry per ounce/gram than a proper chip.
chips - proper chips - are fluffy inside. Fries emphasise the fat in the fat/potato ration
The only place I would accept that form if roofing is on the roof of my dogs kennel.
Ps the sound effects you use for the swearing cracks me up everytime!
Many years ago I broke my wrist on the first evening of my Christmas hols. Got back to work and had it all replaced by sick leave! Sorted.
I have to admit that I hate the term ‘quite quitting’ and people acting like it’s something new. It is just ‘work to rule’ which has been a Trade Union staple for decades.
There is a pizza available in some take-aways that’s called a London Pizza, which actually has chips (fries) as one of the toppings.
We don’t just have fuses in the plugs we have fuse boxes too, which are fuses for each circuit. So everything that uses electricity has at least two fail safes.
Do you hate the term "quiet quitting" because you don't know how to spell "quiet"?
@@klaxoncow no, that was just a genuine error. I hate it because it makes it sound as though people are doing less than they were employed to do, when in actual fact they are just no longer doing more than they are contracted to. They are just upholding their end of the bargain and no longer allowing anyone further up the chain to take advantage of them. Which isn’t withdrawing from their job, as the term ‘quiet quitting’ may infer.
They are in 'Consumer Units' these days, which have trip switches for each circuit in the house. My unit has bout 14 trip switches and two semi-master switches (turns off power to half the house, so electrical work can be done but the kettle can still be boiled for Tea.) and one master power off switch.
@@Thurgosh_OG in essence, it’s the same thing as the old fuse boxes…just that bit more safe. You’d still say “have you checked the fuse box?” if something had tripped. Even my (retired for over a decade) electrician Dad, still calls it a fuse box.
plus the earth opening the live netural sockets then the switch to send the power to the plug and the wire hanging DOWN so you can not dislodge the plug by standing on the flex
Many Victorian houses about in my area, many with original slates 130+ years old. some have had the old wood trusses replaced but used the original slates.
Regarding all the disclaimers she made at the beginning of the video. It's amazing how careful people have to be when saying anything bad about the UK in a video. I've seen more than one case where someone has made a "x things I love about the UK", then separately an "x things I hate about the UK" video. And a tabloid like the Daily Mail has picked up the 2nd video spinning it as a story of "Clueless American whinges about how horrible the UK is" - and cue 1000 comments on the article about how if she doesn't like it she should go home.
If you are living in a foreign country and there are ten things you hate about it maybe keep them to yourself rather than plaster them all over the internet? Because you'll get a bad reaction wherever you are.
I'm a Brit that worked in the US for 22 years. I told my boss that I DON'T live to work, but work to live. My life belongs to ME not you. He didn't fire me. Why? Because I stood up to him and I told the truth. He looked me in the eye and shook my hand, then I got a pay rise and a promotion.
Agree! Kow-Towing is for the Chinese, not democracies!!
British people: 'we have the best sense of humour in the world, we always take the piss out of people, it's just banter, don't take it personally it's just a joke'
Also British people: has a meltdown when anyone takes the piss out of the UK
Our tiled roof was built 1950's and still going strong!
The mindset in the US tends to be “ knock down and rebuild” rather than preserving the architectural history, which is tragic because, while the UK has maintained their historic buildings including homes, Americans seem to want new and hate old, in pretty much everything. I used to watch a lot of those house hunting/renovating shows coming out of the US, but I had to stop because they were just too much!
Client: This carpet has to go!”
Host: It’s brand new, the whole house has just been renovated.
Client: I don’t care, I hate it so it’s coming out. I want hardwood floors.
Client: What the heck is this?
Host: It’s an atrium, it brings the sunlight into the home and the greenery adds oxygen to the air.
Client: Why on earth would I want a garden indoors! That’s ridiculous! I can use that space for a spare bedroom.
Client: I hate this entryway, it’s too small. I want a double height foyer!
Host: But you will lose the two bedrooms upstairs.
Client: I want my guests to come into the house and be impressed by the foyer and by the huge Christmas tree that can go right here!
Those people were too shallow for me!
I rent my house from a Housing Association, which is half the cost of having a private landlord, and they fitted double glazing, a new bathroom and kitchen for free.
Chip Sammich:
1) BEST white bread, try a premium sour dough in the US
2) Best butter, don't be shy armour the amount
3) Chips/Fries, make sure they're good and crispy.
4) Ketchup, Brown or Chop sauce. Choose one.
If you choose Ketchup, season the fries with salt.
This can also use Gravy or Curry Sauce.
Alternatively, replace fries with:
1) Good British Smoked Back Bacon
2) American Streaky Bacon but not cooked crisp.
3) Good British Pork Chopolatas or Sausages (3 of one or 6 if the other, both sliced length ways
4) Fried egg and Fried Mushroom
For Egg and Mushroom you can try w few squirts of Worcestershire Sauce, careful it's strong flavoured.
I'm English and 3 of my favourite things about my home that I know are better than in the USA are bread, cheese and beer.
Just checked online = cheapest loaf of bread at Tescos is 47p or 61c. It is the same price if you want a brown or white loaf
1.2kg frozen skinless chicken breast (which is around 3lbs) is £5.10 or $6.74 and a whole organic chicken costs £13.50 for one weighing 1.5kg (or $17.83 for a 3.3lb chicken)
The cost of American healthcare sounds terrifying.
I think modern houses in the UK are rapidly becoming cheaply built and won't last as long. But we also have a lot of older homes, not just big houses but it's not unusual for a regular sized house to be over 100 years old, ours is Victorian.
UK and Australia have lots of roof options: terracotta roof tiles, corrugated steel roofs, steel roof sheets that appear like terracotta tiles but last longer, and other forms of roofs as well. Some parts of the UK still have thatched roofs in keeping with the ancient tradition of the area. What we don’t have is the flexible slats that get nailed onto the roof and have to be replaced every fifteen years. I grew up in a house with terracotta tiles and even though my parents sold that house in 1981, it’s still standing and still has the same terracotta tiles on the roof, ie for 74 years! The house we moved to has a steel roof that’s been in place since 1981 and is still perfectly fine.
A couple of weeks ago, there was a Bank Holiday in the UK, my departments boss sent round an email the week before - 'Just a quick reminder, Monday is a bank holiday so don't do any work on Monday 😋'... I wonder how many US bosses would send a message like that? lol
I don’t know where the 100 year roof came from. The roof should last for the life of the building with good maintenance. Our house was built in 1776 and we have only just replaced the roof using the original slates.
The UK Plug is called a safety plug and runs at 230-240 volts. There is the Earth pin so grounding the electricity thus helping to avoid electrocution!
I lived in an old cottage in England. A roofer secured some loose roof tiles. He said the tiles were 300 years old and would still be up in another 300 years.
I appreciate the seasons with accompanying different colours/foliage, The National Trust, The Royal Horticultural Society, proper, real, safe food and the freedom to walk/roam pretty much everywhere within reason! I also enjoy the inexpensive air travel to so many interesting places in Europe.
loaf of hovis white bread (average loaf) is £1.20 (ish). I lived in an old pub (built before the US existed) and the coach house had its original tiles (with repairs due to rusted nails) still in place.
Pizza and chips sounds like a kids meal
You can make anything sound like a kids meal if you try hard enough.
Also, uno reverso, it's even easier to make fancy adult fiod sound like a kids meal 😆
(*edit for autocorrect and also not paying attention)
UK public phone boxes have always (in my experience) stunk of piss. You were often lucky to find an unoccupied one that worked, especially in London! ☎️🇬🇧👍
The UK or rather Europe style roofs (as they are common throughout Europe) are simply to heavy for American houses. We are talking several TONS here.
Keep in mind, that European houses are build with stone walls - often reinforced and insulated. These walls can carry a LOT of weight, before they even strain.
In regards to the difference between how UK and US homes are built (and this is not everyone, but the majority) If you think the 3 little pigs.... Your houses are mostly made from wood, where as in the UK its mostly brick. You guys will use wood for the basic framework, and then either use wood or some other light material for the outside, a layer of insulation, then drywall on the inside
We will use wood for the basic framework, but in most cases our exterior or load bearing walls will be made from a wall of blocks, inbetween two walls of brick. Or 2 walls of bricks with a cavity inbetween for the insulation to go in and then a layer of drywall on the interior walls, so we can get a smooth wall surface.
I guess as the us construction would be cheaper than doing it all brick like we do, that accounts for why you can have bigger homes, but you run the risk of it not being as strong.
It's the old Pro's and Con's. You can have bigger homes than us for the same price, but our homes are stronger and so we dont need to worry about fixing them so often.
My house is about 80 years old, we had to get a few minor things fixed on our roof about 3 years ago (a few loose tiles after a hurricane had blown a small branch up the roof). That was the first time the roof had ever needed anything doing to it.
Many Brits, especially of my age, grew up watching Monty Python and will fondly remember such sketches as "The Argument Clinic". This sketch imbued in me a love of a good argument, and I'm certain that I am not the only person to be this way. I constantly come across people in the UK who will argue about anything, seemingly just for the fun of it, so maybe this is why people leave argumentative comments?
look i came here for a good argument not just you contradicting me.
i am sorry is this a 15 minuet argument or the full 30 mins?
A good, reasoned argument keeps the blood pumping and exercises the intellect, too. What’s not to love? These days, soc.med discriminates against Anglo-Saxon dialect … don’t get me started on that!! Fuck!
… I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it! 😂😂😂😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
The chip butty is the greatest british invention ever just with real butter and salt and vinegar
My house is nearly 60 years old, still has the original roof!
My house was built in 1910 we have just replaced it not because of the slate but the wooden batons had started to rot.
When employers realise that potential employees are getting more demanding about time off, etc, i think they realise they have to go with it if they want to be able to attract the best people.
She made me realise that the US uses a different noun : we say transport, that’s our noun. Transportation is unnecessarily long.
Transportation - what we used to do to convicts.
My house used to be a victorian hospital and is over 140 years old, same roof.
I've just replaced my roof on my house....the roof was original and it was 105 years old!!
The house I live in is over a 100 years old and has been in the family all that time . I had the roof recovered about 15 years ago . They found that they could reuse about 90% of the slates . But some of the nails holding them in place had rusted and would not last much longer . So they redone it all with copper nails . It should be ok now for at lest another hundred years before any work needs doing to it. What I like about living in the UK is how stable political it is here . And the country side, from where I live I can be out in the fields or trees in ten minutes .
Wow, the slates outlasted the nails! Wild! Yeah, the UK seems lovely. You’re in a great spot. ❤️
100 year roofs: how long is a US house expected to last? If less that 100 years, then a 100 year roof is a waste. **That's** the difference: we expect our houses to last some multiple of a hundred years.
For roofs, it's closer to 200 years than 100 years. (100 years only takes you back to 1924. Yes, that's the start of the suburban housing boom, but there are plenty of roofs older than that.)