American Reacts to 23 Interesting Facts About The Uk That Confuse Foreigners
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- In this reaction I discover a bunch of new facts about the UK that I didn't know before. This was a super fun video that helped me learn some completely new things about the UK, but also helped answer some of the questions I've had for a while.
Some of these facts were downright shocking to hear, but in a good way. I look forward to learning some awesome new facts about the UK in future videos.
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The worlds first postage stamp was called the "Penny Black", not the "Black Penny", which would be a discoloured coin. Also "Big Ben" was cast in the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the same foundry as "The Liberty Bell".
The US doesn't drive on the RIGHT side of the road - it drives on the WRONG side of road!!😀😀
French was not the predominant language of England. English was. French was however the language of government as it was what was spoken by the invading Normans.
You're right but it is more accurate to say that neither language really existed at the time. Norman French was a cousin of old French which itself was to modern French what Old English is to modern English. Norman French was actually a mixture of Germanic and Romance languages itself already, and Norman French is also an ancestor of modern English. There are actually a couple of languages in existence today that are directly descended from Norman French, including Guernésiais, Jèrriais and Sercquiais. The English people of the time did not speak one language but rather a collection of closely related but distinct languages (technically dialects but more dissimilar that modern English is from modern Scots which is arguably a distinct language) that collectively evolved into middle English after absorbing Norman French to a greater and lesser degree in different parts of the country. But yes it is certainly misleading to claim the country spoke French, only the nobles and some of the merchant class spoke Norman and Latin acted as somewhat of a common language for the English nobility to communicate with the Norman nobility at first.
The 'English language' is a combination of French, Saxon, Norse words that have been bastardised. Through the Empire we have also taken words from India for example.
Just to add a bit more to what you have said, the English language really started with the arrival of the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, from Denmark and northern Germany during the 5th century AD. Prior to this inhabitants of Britain spoke a Celtic language, however most of these were pushed west and north by the invaders - Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Then as you said, when William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066, the Normans brought with them a kind of French, which became the language of the Royal Court, and the ruling classes. This created a period of class division, where the lower classes spoke English and the upper classes spoke French. In the 14th century English became dominant in Britain again, but with many French words added. After that, from the 16th century the British had contact with many peoples from around the world and this meant that many new words and phrases entered the language.
So the English language has evolved (and obviously continues to do so) and consists of quite a lot of influences from other European countries. Plus prior to this, obviously the Roman invasion of parts of Great Britain, along with the Viking invasion of Great Britain and Ireland, influenced the language with Latin and Norse.
What I find interesting is that today within the UK, we have quite a number of different languages. For example I live in Scotland and there are 4 official languages: English, Scots, Gaelic and BSL, and within these there are other variations and dialects, like Doric. Wales will also have a number of languages with Welsh, English, Gaelic etc.
I was going to say the same thing: Norman French was the official language of the courts after the conquest, simply because the Saxon nobility were all replaced overnight, wholesale, by Norman nobles. However, they were pretty insular, and the language had very little impact on the development of early English, which at that time was virtually unrecognisable from modern-day English. As a result, English is still classed as a Germanic language, and although Norman French had some influence over it, the majority of French words mainly stem from recent centuries when it was fashionable amongst the upper classes to adopt French, as can be seen in novels of the period.
The nobility spoke French...us peasants spoke an old form of English.....
The Unicorn is a heraldic beast, as are Griffin and Wyvern. We drink hot tea with milk, with or without sugar. Just had one, about to have another.
So, my partner is American (I'm a Brit), and I still remember the first time I took him out for breakfast in the UK. He ordered a Full English, and was shocked at the colour of the eggs on the plate! He said he had never seen yolks so orange as the ones that were served to him then! It wasn't even a one time occurrence either, every time he has eggs over here, its the same joyous surprise that the yolks are such a deep, rich, orange colour, rather than a washed out yellowish.
Got to take care of your chickens better, Americans! Then you’ll get tasty eggs. 🤗
I know what you mean. I eat farm fresh eggs so the eggs are unwashed and the yolks are a bright orange, but when I visit people with store bought American eggs they are pale yolks with weak shells.
It's not because of the colour of the yolk, why they're band. It's because the USA insist on cleaning the egg shells which removes the natural protective layer enabling foreign bacteria to enter the egg. We do not wash our eggs, hence why they're band.
The British Library does not only have a lot of books and documents, some date back well over one thousand years.
You should do a video on Guy Fawkes , Remember remember the 5th of November gunpowder treason and plot , I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot . 🙂
Bora da from Wales. 🏴🇬🇧some of these videos made by Americans about the U.K. are a bit silly 😜
And inaccurate.
Hi Rowling is her real name Robert Galbraith is her pen name
Yes The 1313 Statute Forbidding Bearing of Armour forbids members of Parliament from wearing armour in the House.
Bora da from Wales too.😊👌🏴
Bora da, from Ynys Môn (Anglesey) where that village is
I've been in the British Library many times and it is big .... but only holds a fraction of the books. Most are held in repositories around the country and you have to order them if you want to look at them. It's not a lending library ..... only for reference.
Second only in size to the Library of Congress - but since the British Library acquires books faster than the LoC and the current number of books is only an estimation, who knows?
One inaccurate thing in this video that bugs me is the first postage stamp, it wasn't "the black penny", it was "the penny black" (noting the stamp's colour, and its cost, it featured a profile image of Queen Victoria).
Llanfair PG (as it's often shortened) was named purely as a publicity stunt, but it's certainly worked well!
It's longer than Anglesey, where it's situated, lol!
The British Library has to have a copy of every book published in the uk.
Not only books - also every scientific paper and university dissertation
Not just the UK but the UK and Ireland. (In return the Library at Trinity College, Dublin, may request a copy of any book published in the UK.)
I once stayed with a family in Japan and had taken a few small gifts with me, including some badges that showed the crest of the UK organisation I worked for. Turned out the family was descended from Japanese nobility and had the Japanese equivalent which they showed me. They asked if I had anything else with a crest on it so I showed them my passport with lion, unicorn, etc. Inside it had a statement saying that Her Majesty's government required that the bearer (i.e. me) should be allowed to pass freely... which was translated to them as meaning "you have to let Caroline go where she wants or the Queen of England will send gunboats." My Japanese hosts looked suitably impressed. Wow, they said, the Emperor of Japan doesn't say that about us!
They do, by the way, drive on the left in Japan...
Yes London cab drivers do, it’s amazing their memory, they work hard.
I've watched a few of your videos and I feel you'd be lost without the word WOW, stay happy and healthy everyone ✌️
"Big Ben" is only one of the bells in the tower, but it is the biggest.
It is the one which strikes the hours
Regarding the Unicorn and Scotland, it’s not the national animal in the way that states have a bird for example, but rather it’s the heraldic animal
Manchester's Chetham’s Library was founded in 1653 and is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world.
So many mistakes in this video.
The first stamp was the Penny Black, not black penny.
The N. Ireland cinema thing is not a thing for many years.
The big wheel. 1907-1895=12 years.
Under British law The British Library receives a free copy of every book published in the UK as well as a large portional of foreign works which are distributed in the UK too. It isn't only books, the 170 (it's actually estimated to be 170-200) million includes, amongst other things, manuscripts, music scores, maps, newspapers and magazines and they keep a digital copy of all websites which use the .uk suffix. Further to this, under Irish law the library also receives a free copy of anything published in the Republic of Ireland. The library's collection was dispersed across many locations before the huge new facility opened in 1998 and it is still expanding with a further site elsewhere in the country and another planned.
Every book that is published , a copy goes the the British library, that's why they have so many .
The USA has poor standards of animal husbandry. Hence the eggs have to be washed. Once you wash eggs, you take away their natural protective coating. America also washes chicken and salad in chlorine for the same reason. Cattle are not kept on grass mostly - but in concrete yards and fed on corn. Much of the Colorado River water is diverted to feed American livestock and dams for electricity, virtually no water ends up following its natural path, going across the border to Mexico. There’s been much talk about a USA / UK trade agreement after Brexit, including opening our doors to all USA foodstuffs as a result. In the USA, you have to prove that chemicals added to food will harm. In the UK, before you add stuff to food, you have to prove that it won’t harm people. Most food in the USA has higher salt and sugar content than the UK - even bread. So, thank goodness the talk of a USA / UK trade agreement has calmed down as, frankly, you can stick your food as ours is of a much higher quality.
The British Library is a legal deposit library - (British) publishers are REQUIRED to submit a copy of any book or magazine they publish. Hence why there are so many. It's also, of course, a major research library - I've been there many times. There are many very, very old manuscripts there too.
Also: Penny Black - there are several mistakes in this video.
London Black Cab drivers - Yes, it's true, they have to memorise all of the streets within a 6 mile radius of Charing Cross in central London. Typically it can take 3 - 4 years.
The KNOWLEDGE isn't just about memorizing names of all the roads. Imagine having to remember which of these are one-way streets, no left turn, and cul-de-sacs, plus all new roads leading to new urban developments. Phew!
My mother was from the other side of the River Mersey, a place called Birkenhead. We were brought up on scouse!! Delicious!
Hot tea, milk, sugar = standard brew. very very few people drink piain tea. Our eggs are salmonella free and we don't 'wash' them like Americans do, no need to refrigerate eggs here
London Eye: I was in London for the turn of the Millennium. (I stood in the middle of Westminster Bridge watching the clock tower as Big Ben chimed 12 midnight.) The London Eye was supposed to start taking passengers on New Year's Eve, but something went wrong & it didn't work until the next day (or the day after). They also had the Concorde fly over the river Thames, but the cloud cover was so low, you couldn't see anything - you could only hear it pass overhead!
British Library: The main thing to see at the British Library is the historical document room, where they have the original Magna Carta, handwritten letters by Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare's works, a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the handwritten music score of Handel's Messiah, amongst others. Fun Fact: The British Library is only a few hundred yards away from King's Cross Station (of Harry Potter fame).
In fairness, the British Library collection includes the BLDSC (British Library document supply centre) in Boston Spa, North Yorkshire. This is the section which loans books via local library systems. The BL in London is reference only. It is a copyright receipt library, so in theory should be offered a copy of every book published in the UK.
hi just to let you know that the ( british library) goes underground deep, i worked on it when it was built . it holds the magna carta and the doomsday book .
I watch them digging out the foundations of the library and I can attest it it VERY deep!
Lobscouse (known locally as scouse) was introduced to Liverpool by Scandinavian seamen. An interesting fact is that it is a dish also related to the city of Hamburg where it known as Labskaus (pronounced exactly the same as in Liverpool)!
Rather than go on the London Eye (ferris wheel) or going up The Shard (tall pointy building) a cheaper option because it's free is London’s Sky Garden but free tickets may need to be booked in advanced.
It is not illegal to stick a stamp upside down - it never has been.
There are tons of old laws. Some of which don’t apply in reality. There used to be a law that a taxi cab must carry a bale of hay and that the drivers had the right to pee on the back wheel - left over from cabs with no engine, but a horse. Citizens granted the keys to the City of London had the right to drive a flock of sheep over London Bridge - this no longer applies.
The reason we drive in the left is a hangover from horse drawn carriages - that started in the 1800s on London Bridge as the traffic was so congested. Castle staircases are designed so you can use your sword arm - usually the right arm against attackers. Weirdly, we stand on the right on escalators in the tube to let people in a hurry pass on the left. That’s because Earl’s Court Station had the first escalator and the exit was on the left. So all escalators followed the same pattern. Scientific experiments have shown that it’s safer to drive on the left - something to do with left hand vs right hand side brain.
WARM TEA you are KIDDING it HOT tea
Yes tea is almost exclusively hot and relatively rarely herbal - it almost always means hot English breakfast tea. ‘Iced tea’ in a bottle is a bit of a thing but no one is making (ludicrously) sweet tea like you have in the southern US
The tower was called St Stevens tower then changed it to Elizabeth tower.
A copy of any book published in the UK has to be deposited in rhe British Liibrary and the Bodleian Library in Oxford .
Big Ben was a 19th Century,London, champion bare Knuckle boxer (Ben Caunt)
Incredibly, the massive bell weighing 13.7 tonnes was named after him,'Big Ben' being his nick name.
Oooh,I know this one! The two separate road systems were originally known as the "English system" and the "French system". In England people generally rode on the left side of bridlepaths and roads so as to leave their right hand free to wield sword or flintlock clearly at any travellers coming in the other direction.
At the same time French carriages had a raised seat at the back left where a hired man with a blunderbuss would sit to deter any threats. They started riding their carriages on the right side to give blunderbuss guy a clear shot. We kept our way of doing it and for reasons unknown to me the USA opted to follow the French example.
P.S Yeah,I drink hot tea all day every day. It's a problem. I rarely drink anything else.We don't really have bad teeth they're just tannin stained!😂
Have a great day bruv!👊😎👌
That’s partly true. It’s mostly to do with Napoleon, as he was left handed. The convention across most of the world, Europe certainly was to drive on the left. Then Napoleon forced all the countries he invaded to drive on the right, kind of to be the opposite of England, but also to use attacking from the opposite side to his advantage.
it was also a case that as most people were right handed the sword would be carried in a scabard on the left hand side. If a knight knocked your sword with his own, even in a scabard it could be taken as an insult and initiate a duel. There fore you always passed right hand to right hand to avoid the scabards knocking into each other.
Or at least that is what I have heard.
Although Big Ben is the main bell even Londoners refer to the whole edifice as 'Big Ben' it's more of a quiz question than a real issue, only the sad care...😁
Tube tip: if you lose an umbrella on London Transport, you will probably find one lying on the floor of a tube fairly soon. Umbrellas just circulate.
It was not the Black Penny...it was the Penny Black.
Tea in the UK is usually made in a cup/mug (or teapot if it is for several people), hot (boiled) with milk, many people add sugar for sweeting but it is usually only 1 or 2 teaspoons of sugar per cup although you can have however much you like.
No, not hot milk. It’s not tea-latte. Cold milk in the cup/mug first then pour from the teapot or if mug brewed then milk in last after it’s been brewed.
… in my humble opinion that is!
I’ve just reread that Douglas, I don’t think you meant hot milk, did you?
@@nigethesassenach3614 No I didn’t mean hot milk, the water was boiled, not the milk, that’s cold.
Great video as usual Steve.
170m .... no wonder I couldn't just go in.. they said I needed to apply to get in there...
The eggs are not refrigerated but when I buy them I have always put them in the fridge..
Anything in print in the UK has a copy go to the library, I would imagine that's why the place has so many items.
To clarify, the BL holds copies of everything published in the UK 'AND' Ireland...
Tea is meant to be hot. British eggs are sold on a self (depending on the supermarket eggs can be down the baking aisle or with the dried herbs and spices) not chilled as they are cleaned the chicken crap is removed and they are put into boxes of six or twelve, we don’t wash eggs in England so as to protect the cuticle the protective layer of an egg, I put my eggs in the fridge.
Hi Steve,
You might like to watch the Rememberance Sunday Programme at the Royal Albert Hall. You could watch last year's 2021. At the end of the ceremony poppy petals come down from the ceiling and each one represents a life lost in the wars and ongoing conflicts. It is a long programme but you may be able to find some short episodes.
Good Luck,
Susan Moss
Just to add to my post, because of the virus the one to watch is dated 2018 on TH-cam
The official coats of arms for the UK has a lion on one side and a unicorn on the other.
Your eggs have to be refrigerated BECAUSE you wash them. We leave the natural protective layer on them you don’t need to refrigerate.
On the big Ferris wheel. I don't think you will find anyone who has ridden the 'Great Wheel' (it was taken down in 1905), but if you go to Earls Court tube station it is represented on the sign. Oh you meant the London Eye, yep, good view but expensive. There are similar views at much lower prices from Sky Garden and other tall buildings.
Worth saying that there have been theories that “unicorns” started out as descriptions of rhinoceros. When people weren’t from where they were native, and only had descriptions to go off, it’s probably not surprising that one-horned horse was what eventually became of it. Plus, rhinos are one of the most likely animals to kill a lion.
The reason we drive on the left in the UK is simply a carry on from when horse and carriages ruled the road and they were always driven on the left if the road was wide enough to allow two carriages to pass.
When cars were invented thee drivers just continued the tradition of keeping to the left.
There's a nursery rhyme called The Lion and the Unicorn. It's basically a rhyme about the continued fight between England and Scotland over the Crown.
The lion and the unicorn
Were fighting for the crown
The lion beat the unicorn
All around the town.
Some gave them white bread
,And some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum cake and drummed them out of town.
There's more about this origins of this story online.
Many common nursery rhymes have a darker origin than is realised.
11:49 Hot tea, with or without sugar, with or without lemon, with or without milk. What's not combined as far as I know is milk and lemon.
In Ireland, tea, milk, whiskey = the original drink, pretty proletarian, behind the fancy tourist drink Irish Coffee, which originated at Shannon Air Port.
The correct side of the road to drive down also aligns with the direction water goes down a drain. Some countries it swirls to the left and some to the right.
no i've not had sweet tea but i would give it a try. i put the eggs in the refridge as they last longer.
Ok, so, eggs have a coating on the shell which acts a natural barrier. If you handle a freshly laid egg, the shell is slightly sticky which will then dry within minutes. If you wash the egg you get rid of the coating and it will then need to be refrigerated.
I am really enjoying your channel but it would be better if you choose British videos about Britain - US channels tend to know less about Britain than you do!
Putting a stamp upside-down on an envelope is not treason. Don't know if the guy in the video really thought that or was having a laugh.
Went to the British library when I was 17-18 doing history as one of my a-levels. I think I’ve still got the expired access card because I was so impressed by my visit, including looking at the books made of animal skin, books that you have to wear the gloves etc.
The 170 million books are not on display for visitors to view. There is a law in the UK which requires book publishers to provide the British Library with a copy of every new book published for sale in the UK. Those books are held in storage for reference/record, but not necessarily at the library building. I hope that clarifies your curiosity. Best regards.
French may have been the predominant language of the nobility, but old English,( anglo saxon englush), was the spoken language of the people.
Anglo-Saxon, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Modern English, I think those were the stages. Henry IV was the first monarch to speak English officially at court.
I have heard we drive on the left because far back in history people would hold their swords in their right hand to ward off robbers etc so walking or riding on the left of a road meant your sword was ready for action.
Iced tea is available in the UK but it's not the super sweet diabetes inducing tea you have in the US. Washing eggs actually removes the protective barrier on the outside that prevents bacteria getting in, that's why you have to chill eggs in the US. And yes London black cab drivers are tested with routes where they have to tell a panel the exact route with every road name to the destination. If they fail any of the routes they won't get their licence, it's called "the knowledge" and it's what sets them apart from any other cab drivers.
one year the quiz show mastermind was won by a London taxi driver
@@ianprince1698 Fred Housego - what he DIDN’T know about London could have been written on the back of a postage stamp!
The British Library is equivalent to the US Library of Congress, which I believe has a similar number of items. In both cases, a copy of every book published under the nation's copyright must be lodged with them.
It's just the black cab drivers that have to pass that test. I remember seeing a tv programme about it years ago, its very difficult to pass. You do have to know every street and be able to reel off all the roads you would drive on to get there.
For tea it should be tea bag in cup first, add the hot water and then the milk. You can add sugar the to tea to make it sweeter. You normally add sugar before the milk. Sugar is normally messaged in teaspoons. But domes you can get sugared cubes known as lumps. So the phase “one lump or two”. Some people do put the milk in first. (Usually frowned upon). Also we have different names for tea. Cuppa, builders brew, kettle (so if someone says “put the kettle on.” Or sometimes just “kettle” They are saying “make a cup of tea.” Normally in a home setting between family members or very close friends. Saying “kettle“ to a waitress is rude but saying “I will have a builders brew” is totally acceptable. (Depend on the restaurant.) Also at work breaks are sometimes known as tea breaks. As in we stop to have a cup of tea. If you have a builder, plumber or someone round you home to do a job for you. It is polite to offer them a “cuppa” as in cup of tea.
Stood next to Big Ben as it rang out. I was wearing ear defenders. UK citizens used to be able to arrange free tours through their Member of Parliament. Not sure what the position is following renovation work
Been to that Library; I almost couldn't find my way out. It's enormous
Yes I've been on the bicycle wheel- good view, expensive though. The British Library gets every book in English-so more every time. Yes I've been to exhibitions, but I've never applied for a reading card-something for the future.
Fun fact, i'm from the city where the Iconic London cab is made, and its the only city in the UK i've been too other than London where they can be seen in any great numbers. A place called Coventry, also home to the Transport museum that was a join venture between the EU and Coventry.
The unicorn originated as a 4th/5th/6th hand traveller's story of a rhinoceros
Yes, it makes you wonder if the woolly rhino & lion were remembered in our folklore, going back thousands of years. Both the lion & woolly rhino did inhabit the British isles long ago & the lion probably the only real predator of the woolly rhino (apart from man). I have also heard of the narwhal tusks being believed as unicorn horns.
The British Library holds at least 1 copy of every book printed in English. The building you see goes down to several archive basement levels. They also have computer servers for storage of ebooks and other digital media.
Yes. Amazing views from the wheel
It would have been nice if they had used actual photos of Liverpool, with the exception of the Beatles statue the others were stock photos of somewhere else.
Hi Steve, another great reaction video, I just love your enthusiasm for our wonderful country. If you think the British Library is wow you should check out Chethams Library and Rylands library in Manchester. Chethams is the oldest English speaking library in the world. Cheers 🍺
Thanks Howard. Great suggestions I'll bookmark them for later.
Once you wash an egg you take away it’s protective layer so bacteria can enter, that is why they then need to be kept refrigerated and don’t keep for long. 😀👍
Yes I’ve been on the London eye, fantastic views
I went on the London Eye on a trip for college, it was a pretty amazing view... alas, one of my classmates having a panic attack from the height kinda distracted me from it. Fortunately she was alright afterwards.
Tea with breakfast, coffee twice in the morning, tea around three pm, five pm seven thirty pm, nine pm and sometimes another on later, I also have a little coffee around seven when I;m cooking dinner. Tea is always hot. We use loose tea and make it in a teapot with boiling water and yes, we use a tea cosy to keep the tea hot. Milk in the cup first but some do tea first and then milk. I drink a brand of cold, flavoured tea in the summer. That seems to be much more popular across France and Italy. That was a pretty good video.
NI high stress are closed Sundays as well, only local shops/garages and centres are open.
I'm a 52 year old brit and I didn't know big Ben was just the bell until TH-cam taught me. Don't worry about it. Then again I'm northern so maybe that's why.
The British library receives a copy every publication from the UK and Ireland. They receive over 800,000 publications a year (hardcopy or digital).
Items are loaned out or kept in storage, so not everything is on display.
The Knowledge is the test that drivers of London black cabs must pass to show that they know the name and location of every street and the shortest or quickest route to it.
PS Not everyone in the UK drinks tea. I haven't since my early teens when coffee became my preferred beverage. Only buy for guests, but most of my friends drink coffee. Tea is normally drunk hot with or without milk. If without some people like to add a slice of lemon.
As a Londoner I went on the London Eye when it first opened. yiu can see fr miled but not the whole of London. The British Library is vast but I much preferred the old British Library.
The ONLY tea is hot brewed tea with tea leaves ! Unusual to have sugar,
I drink tea but it has to be red hot, milk no sugar. Also in my 54 years NOBODY has said Salutations lol
Post Office doesn't like upside down postage stamps because it confuses the automatic letter sorters or used to. Nothing to do with Treason. You can get the same effect by writing the address around the edge of the letter or reverse side costing the post office the cost of manual handling.
Eggs have a natural membrane that helps preserve the contents. Food production conditions are lower in the US, than in Europe. So as America washes the dirt from its eggs, it also removes the membrane and so its eggs need refrigerating.
I've been on London eye,it's brilliant.
To ask a brit if he drinks cold tea is like asking an american if he drinks cold coffee
They do
Lipton's do a cold tea range. Just to point out that we have both iced coffee, and Iced tea in the UK. Not too sure about the rest of the world though!!
@@thetruthhurts7675 Yes they definitely drink iced coffee in the US.
@@penname5766 As a Brit who only drinks coffee, yes there are quite a few of us over here. I cannot stand almost any kind of tea, or cool coffee, so iced tea, or iced coffee is something I would rather not try at all. I cant think of anything more horrid, ice cold tea, or coffee yeuck. Just off to make myself a pipng hot coffee now!!
@@thetruthhurts7675 I know what you mean and, as a fan of hot coffee (not lukewarm or “drinking temperature”) I very much dislike coffee that’s gone cold, BUT coffee that’s properly iced is delicious, especially if you replace the milk for a non-dairy alternative - either oat milk, which is super creamy, or coconut milk, which turns it into a real treat, in my opinion. On a hot day, an iced coffee with coconut milk is the business!
Turkey drinks the most tea per head, followed by Ireland and then the UK. The UK mainly drinks hot tea with milk and some have sugar in it (yuck). We do buy ice tea as a cold drink, in peach or lemon flavour and sweetened, from supermarkets, but it's not as popular as drinks like coke or lemonade.
"The great wheel was opened in 1895 and demolished in 1907, 22 years later." - Hmm... if you say so 😂
i did pick up scouse when i lived there, sadly lost it long ago!
I believe that washing the eggs makes the shells more permeable therefore bacteria can pass inside. That would then be a reason for storing them in the fridge so that the bacteria does not multiply.
It can take upto 5 years to learn to be a black driver in London. And you have to learn the knowledge in your own time and at your own expense.
The British Library is no ordinary library and it’s slightly annoying that the video doesn’t give you any context. It’s one of the largest in the world and contains famous works such as manuscripts and plays and important historical books dating back as far as 2,000 BC. It’s also a legal deposit library, which means that copies of all published books from the United Kingdom are placed there.
We love our tea, hot tea. Occasionally I'll drink herbal but a good old cup of hot char with a biscuit , ohhh yes. 🍵
I think refrigerating eggs is half and half over here. I keep eggs in the fridge, but one or two of my friends don't. 😊🇬🇧👏
The British Library is spread over 30 different locations across London, there are alleged to be 47 miles of shelves.
Regarding tea, I prefer mine hot, black and unsweetened, very few Brits like cold tea.
It's un natural to us.
To confirm (from the BL's official website):
Books & manuscripts etc. occupy over 746km (464miles) of total shelving - equivalent to the distance from London to Aberdeen, and this is growing an extra 8km every year.
Meanwhile their digital collections amount to over 1 petabyte - equivalent to almost 3.5 years of non-stop HD-quality video footage.
They receive a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland through legal deposit. Last year we received over 500,000 printed and digital items and over 100 terabytes from the UK web domain.
Wow.
The taxi drivers have to memorise every street within a six mile radius of the statue of Charles I in Trafalgar Square, plus major routes through the suburbs (including how to get to Heathrow Airport from basically anywhere). And then they have to be able to tell the examiner the best route between two locations, from memory, including any points of interest you pass on the way, without being in a car. (example: th-cam.com/video/u7gp8KBP7ak/w-d-xo.html). It's been proved that qualified taxi drivers have bigger brains than the rest of the population, and their routes are usually better than GPS.
They also have to know the whereabouts of clubs, hotels etc. They only have to know the main roads in the suburbs, My Brother took years going out on his moped with clipboard on it to get used to where things were and when he used to give me lifts and we were stuck in traffic, he would turn of the main drag and go left and right down side streets and emerge approx 1 mile further up the road, the one time he did this with me as a passenger I looked behind and say a line of other taxis doing the same thing.
There are also only a set number of green badge drivers allowed at any time and you knew the amount was close to the limit when they went back for the test as the examiner would ask you to take them to a club that was up a back alley off a road. The examiner sometimes was agressive and rude to the candidate on purpose to see if the candidate reacted as hard as it seems to imagine, Taxi drivers are NOT allowed to voice their own opinion as they could offend the passenger.
I really don't like tea, and never have, in any way, shape or form
The black cab "Knowledge " test can take 3 to 5 years to prepare for. In the exam you have to show your Knowledge by naming the roads along the route to a major hospital (inc the one ways) or a police station, or to get from one place to another destination. It is a written and spoken test. You also have to know several different routes to the same destination incase of traffic jam, accidents or road works. You can get a yellow badge that gives you a 7 mile radius of an area outside of London that will allow you to enter London to go to an air port or hospital or one individual destination but not to work or pick up within the city limits. The Knowledge is also called the green badge.