06:13 (UK) we can pay by card everywhere, chip on the card, just tap the payment machine just as you would with a phone. We also pay with phones, everywhere.
Exactly, I think it's the other way around. About 5 years ago I was in New Mexico went into Walmart, past the guns section! Imagine going into Asda and them having a guns n crossbows aisle! Anyway went to pay for a basket of shopping, presented my card and asked "contactless" she looked at me blank, so I said "OK chip and pin" and she said "no we don't have chip and pin" and then took my card and swiped it which printed a receipt which I had to sign, like we all did over a decade ago, I signed it and then I was refused the shopping because I hadn't signed the back of my card. I struggled on my whole trip to find anywhere that even took chip n pin.
I was going to say feels very much the other way around - Contactless Europe/UK and still signing card chits in USA. Also know a 65 year old who couldn't buy a glass of wine in a restaurant due to not having ID on them. They had 30 year old children but the 'no proof you are over 21' ended up going around in circles.
@RiptideRambo I appreciate it is the law. It is law in the UK to be 16 to buy energy drinks but the cashier takes one look at your grey hair and goes 'yep' and presses a button that says 'customer appears over 25' ( with a nice margin of error built in). I have no problem with people doing the jobs or upholding the law just pointing out that when you are 3x the legal age it can be frustrating.
That's true. I've also seen the stats. Part of the reason is because sugar has been lessened in most products in the UK and people have been made aware of the overall benefits of a healthy diet.
America in a lot of places suffers from people wanting things to look healthy or fresh; than actually be healthy or fresh; But I guess that is mostly because the FDA lacks teeth.
I have to comment on the dental hygiene thing because the uk is ranked 5th while America is ranked 9th. The big difference is the whiteness of whatever chemicals americans add to their teeth
@@JamesLMason The poorest get free treatment and everyone else gets heavily subsidised treatment. If you aren't registered with an NHS you can ring 111 and they will arrange an appointment for you.
@@JamesLMason you can contact NHS and they will find you one - it might take a little while. i have NHS dentist - who works 4 days a week and only spend 2 on NHs patients. so i often see him for 6 monthly checkups, but sometimes see someone else at same surgery for any treatment that might be needed. dentists are extremely well paid and NHS simply don't pay them as much as private patients do. it certainly is harder finding one these days. its a scandal - there is no shortage of dentists, its a complete scam.
When I was shopping in the US, I just walked into a clothes store and all I want to do is look around, see what I like and I'll ask if I want something. But the lady who worked there came over with a massive smile and starts asking me what am I looking for, how's my day etc and it is a bit much. I'm used to just having my earbuds in and minding my business
I had one the other day who bounded toward me almost skipping in a shop in Truro when I looked at a pair of jeans,then asked me how my day was going. Well……love,it was going pretty good actually. She was about 20 and her hair was made to look like a rainbow and wearing dungarees ffs! I thought at first she’d slipped her carer but she actually worked there.
@@blaer5at least they engage in the US. Here in the UK, you're lucky to find a shop assistant at all, let alone one willing to help you out without a sigh and a look of complete disinterest.
@@TheCornishCockney that is unusual. Probably a drama student who thinks that any customer just might be an agent or kids' TV producer. Actually she sounds perfect for kids' telly!
Much of Europe has not only been paying with plastic for some time, we've been paying 'contactless' or using Google Pay or apps using NPC on our mobiles and smart devices.
Americans think Europeans are still living in the fucking 1800s. They literally know fuck all about what's outside of the USA but for some reason pretend they do.
This difference with the tipping is that here in the UK waiters/waitresses are generally paid a proper wage so are not reliant on tips whereas in the US they are so poorly paid that the only way they can survive is through tips so of course they are going to be extra nice. Also in the US they will try and rush you from the table so they can get more people through whereas in the UK yo7 can sit at the table all day if you really want to and for the most part no one will mind
i just have to say...i cant get over how purely and genuinely happy anna always is!!! it's so rare and wonderful, i cant get my head round it! what a fantastic couple you are!!! great vid, great reaction!
Despite some weird old myth about UK dentistry which seems to be based on us having dentists who are concerned about dental health whilst in the US they are more concerned about the cosmetic aspects.
It’s not really a myth tho, dentists here don’t do braces cause the nhs class it as cosmetics or something. Our teeth may be white but there’s a lot of crooked teeth out there. I’m lucky my grandparents payed for an orthodontist for me when I was younger
@@definitelynotatroll246 To quote from the NHS: "Are braces available on the NHS? Orthodontic treatment is available on the NHS for young people under the age of 18 at no cost, if a dentist feels they need it."
@@rocketrabble6737 nhs dentists will only recommend an orthodontist if there’s something seriously wrong with your teeth, a little crookedness isn’t enough to get recommended cause the waiting list for an nhs orthodontist is over 2 years. Just face it in general our teeth ain’t the best
A long time ago when my Mum had moved to the US, I flew out to Florida (from the UK) and went out grocery shopping with her (and her new husband). After having everything bagged, I picked up the shopping, turned to leave, only to hear the checkout girl say, "Come back now!" I turned back thinking I had done something wrong. Then I realised it was just a simple invite to return some time in the future...
Card and contactless is much more popular in Europe (or the U.K. at least). It’s very rare for us to have to put our PIN in nowadays due to the contactless limit being £100 or Apple Pay being unlimited. Vending machines, public toilet turnstiles and even buskers in the street are all contactless
The UK has been paying by card most places for years and we actually had chip and pin way before the USA did. I'm 27 and I remember getting pretty worried if my card would even work when I had to swipe it in the USA as I had never paid by swiping before. I was actually shocked and a little concerned when it did work.
It’s a valid concern. Some UK banks already block mag stripe payments as default (options to temporarily unblock in an app) and Mastercard have announced that they won’t require European card issuers to include mag stripes at all from next year.
Commercials / advert. There was a satellite TV channel owned by an American group that broadcast to the UK, and they lasted about two days. I flipped through the channels, saw Star Trek was soon to be on, waited, and there was an ad right AFTER the titles (this NEVER happens), then another about eight minutes later, and altogether a 45 minute episode filled with ads took nearly 1 1/2 hours. Never watched that channel again, heard later they had dropped about 90% of ads, too late, they folded / sold a week or two later.
24 hours supermarkets became a big thing in UK about 20 years ago and then seemed to drop off. fact is that not that many ppl do want to do their shopping at 3am. even if shift workers - which i was for a long time. the old myth about "British teeth". i think UK scores higher than USA these days. Americans might consider that bleaching your teeth is simply wearing away the enamel faster. so having super shiny white teeth when young will lead to yellow in middle age and no doubt then ppl will have their's capped. out of vanity.
Two things I find weird: 1. The Superbowl. It's a 60 min game that goes on for hours. Start, 5 secs, stop, go to commercial for 5 mins. Start, 5 secs, stop, go to commercial for 5 mins. Start, 5 secs, stop, go to the studio to talk about the 15 seconds of play, go to commercial... it's sooooooo dull! 2. NASCAR. All they do is turn left over however many laps?!
Yes - we're not used to paying by plastic in Europe. We use our phone or watch. The USA lags behind in payment methods.I don't think I have used plastic this year (apart from occasional plastic banknotes).
the concept of random people owning guns is so weird in Europe. Over here in the UK, while it is legal to own a shotgun or rifle, very few people actually own them and you always require a permit. Handguns are also banned completely. In reality it's just a difference in culture however many Europeans, including myself, wouldn't feel particularly safe knowing that people can just carry guns around.
Hi Anna & JT. I’ve been to the US loads of times. I worked on Staten Island (NY) for 6 months. I only got asked for ID once and that was in a bar/cafe in Atlanta, I was 50 at the time so I had to make do with a Coke rather than the beer I was looking for. In the UK we don’t have ID cards and we are not required to carry driving licences with us. Because I was on a coach tour my passport was staying safe in the bus. Yes, I was 50 and I look my age, balding head and greying moustache. In the UK they will only ask for ID if you look too young. Never been asked if I’m over drinking age in the UK. The first time I watched TV in the US I was amazed at how often and for how ling there were ad breaks. I was watching MASH. In the UK this was on BBC and we had no ad breaks at all. A 30 minute programme lasted 30 minutes, not the 40 to 50 minutes in the US. Our ad’s can be entertaining (on the other channels) but getting ad’s for medical things just doesn’t happen. Strict laws prevent that.
Most Brits don't carry ID as we are not required to carry ID . And it's not uncommon for brits not to have a driver's license. Even when stopped by the police you only have to provide a name and address you do not have to have a official ID of any sort.
I’m from the UK and travel to the US for work, I think because of my accent people are slightly friendlier but getting in the lift and someone saying hello, is still very strange to me. Also, the guy saying grumpy England has clearly never been 😊
Liam Gallagher is right about the id thing, I am also 44, and just a few years ago a few friends and I went into a nice Italian restaurant in New Mexico, and the waitress came over and said "any drinks to start" and I said "yes we will have a bottle of Pino Grigio please" she said "you got any id" to which I laughed and said no, and she responded "well you are not getting the wine then" - I was dumfounded, I said to her "we are all in our forties look I have grey hair, and also underage drinkers don't go out and choose posh wine". She refused so we went to another restaurant same thing. We had to go back to our hotel and get our passports. So either 1) Americans don't have the ability to guestimate someone's age or 2) they are terrified about being sued if they do accidently serve someone underage so have a carpet bomb approach
@@Belzediel lol not really, I think I worded it wrong I just meant drinking something more posh than what illegal teenagers would go for like Bud, or alcopops or whatever teenagers drink these days. Chateau d'Yquem is quite Posh wine I should have ordered that
I mean...they did explain this in the video. it's nothing to do with how old you look. It's a requirement that they see ID and has nothing to do with logic, no matter how much you want it to. I was in a place with Florida and tried to order a round of drinks and they demanded an ID per drink. I couldn't order myself a pint and a shot, for example. You could be the knight at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and they'd still ask.
At 0:56...the fact he referred to the country of the Netherlands as "Holland".....No Dutch people do this. Holland is a place in the Netherlands...it would be like calling the USA Baltimore.
That's not true. Dutch people use Holland to informally refer to their country. It's similar to someone from the UK referring to their country as Britain.
@@radman8321 The only scenario a Dutch person would ever call it Holland is if a non Dutch person refers to it thus and they don't feel like having to lecture someone and just let it go. Perhaps if they are being patronising and think someone is just too dense to know the difference...maybe.
@@radman8321 My father is Dutch, I speak Dutch as a third language (Friesian as a fourth) and attended the University of Amsterdam as an Erasmus student... Yourself?
One thing I find weird, every US true crime documentary that includes a bar, the people involved always *drive* to the bar, and from the bar at the end of the night. So it's ok to spend a night drinking and drive home there? In UK even a pint would be over the legal limit 😮
@RiptideRambo I'm talking about actual true crime shows with the people involved saying they 'drove to the bar'. Lots of the crimes are actually committed while they were walking through the parking lot. Nice try though 😆 We have a finite limit, not based on 'tipsy' thankfully.
I live in the U.S. It's not a bit fake it's totally fake. I don't like it and wish business owners would stop having employees do it. You get gas and when you pay they tell you to have a nice day. Why? They don't mean it and I don't expect them to.
In the UK we navigate by pubs and other landmarks, for instance giving directions would be something like 'go left at the Rose and Crown, 3rd right past the Shell garage, left at the King's Arms and it's just past the Red Lion'
In UK cities people are usually given directions by easily recognisable landmarks which are frequently well known pubs. Confusion can arise looking for an address because some street names are duplicated i.e. Church Road or Long Lane (my city has three).
You don't find it so much now but 30 years ago in rural Ireland if you stopped to ask directions people would say something like "go that way until Pat McDonnell's place, then turn left and carry on until just past Liam Kelly's hay barn". To people who were obviously strange to the area. It was funny. Just to add to the confusion, any junction was, and still is, called a "crossroads".
Same when I lived in Amsterdam - the street names were like Burgenhaffenstragenstrasse, so we just gave directions by coffee shops/bars. "Go straight down there, turn right at the Greenhouse Effect then left at the Grasshopper."
The teeth thing. It’s a myth. Look up UCLA’s (I think) study on this very subject and found it to be a stereotype and simply not true,and there were actually more people IN AMERICA per head of the population that had poor dental health. (Probably all in Alabama huh?)
Dentists here don’t do braces so it’s not really a myth. They’re not available cause the nhs class braces as cosmetics which ain’t free on the nhs. Might have white teeth but there’s a lot of crooked teeth here
Top 10 Countries Whose Citizens Have Healthy Teeth. 1. Denmark 2. Germany 3. Finland 4. Sweden/United Kingdom 6. Switzerland 7. Canada 8. Mexico 9. United States 10. France
Hiya, I've only recently found your videos on TH-cam and can I just say as a Brit living here on the South Coast of England I'm really enjoying them. It's fascinating hearing your take on us British folk. Keep up the good work.
I'm not in the habit of taking ID out with me. Mainly because I'm old enough not to need it. Even when I was in my 20s I wasn't asked often even though I looked younger than my age. Showing ID for under 25s has become more common in the uk though.
As a 59 year old Brit I would consider it an infringement of my civil liberties to ever have to carry ID, I'm clearly old enough so who I am is none of your bloody business.
You two are great ! Funny and humble. Hope you come over to England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland. I'm sure many of us would be happy to be a guide for a day if you need that
the store friendliness I found when I went for Florida in a wallgreens any customer that walked in the cashier had to say " welcome to wallgreens!" to every person even if they were currently serving someone....that was nuts
Texas is 2.8 times bigger than the Uk with 67.3 million people in it. Texas has less than 30 million... So basically 3 times the size with half the people and thats just 1 state! No wonder we got small houses 👍
That's not the reason we (UK) have small houses and U.S. has large houses tho. Russia for example has about 1/4th the population density of the US and yet their houses are even smaller than the UK's. Meanwhile the Netherlands is more population dense than the UK and their houses are larger. I dunno why people get stuck on this myth about house sizes being due to free land. A major reason why US homes are larger is due to all their infrastructure and city planning being based around cars; the sizes of their houses would simply be unsustainable without cars and even with cars, economically they are actually unsustainable. There is a lot more behind it than this, including how Europeans usually like to be near parks, local shops and 3rd places (I.E. pubs, bars, etc) but basically the issue of house sizes is unrelated to free land and much more about what people in Europe and what people in America tend to be value in how they get around and what they have access too... If you get back to UK vs. Netherlands, Netherlands has much better public transportation and cycling infrastructure than the UK does, you can travel further, easier, without needing a car.
@@DoomsdayR3sistance I have a bus pass due to not being able to drive with eyesight problems. I have been across every part of the UK on buses, so how exactly can you go further in the Netherlands than the entire country?
@@wyterabitt2149 You can get from the East Coast of the US to the West Coast of the US by bus/coach, that is not a measure of a good public transport system. So the UK public transport system is worse then the US? nobody thinks that, so why use the distance you can travel as a measure when it's clearly not a good one. The US Public transport is slow, infrequent, full of vast gaps with no coverage. The UK system is faster than the US but slower then Netherlands, the UK has more gaps and reliability also sucks. Five out of the last six times I needed to use a train, the train wasn't running due to strikes, maintenance & a breakdown, replacing the service with buses which took longer and were more infrequent than said trains. Additionally Netherlands has considerably more bikes, more bikes is usually less cars and less cars is less congestion. meaning buses actually get less delays since there is less traffic to work with. So yeah, the UK public transportation DOES SUCK against that of the Netherlands.
@@DoomsdayR3sistance You didn't answer what I asked, how can you travel further. It's the only thing I asked. Trains are massively overhyped in terms of how bad they in the UK at times. I used to take them 4 times a week from 2012-2017 for 99% of that time the worst I ever got was trains running ~5 late or so. Mismanagement from private companies and other issues have impacted them, especially in recent years, but these are outside the norm of when they are running as expected. Counting strikes would be silly. Otherwise a country that outlaws strikes, or makes them extremely difficult, would look good in lots of ways compared to a place where they are used. I also grew up, and now for the last 5 years, live in a village in the middle of nowhere (different villages). Buses run decently enough considering, 3 times an hour all day. I can get a bus from here for 60 minutes, then one other bus. And in total I will have travelled a good 150 miles for £4 total (free for me, unless I set off before 10am during a weekday). I think it needs massive improvement and isn't as good as Netherlands in many way, but I never mentioned anything about that in my first comment anyway.
@@wyterabitt2149 I think you missed my initial point; which is that your question is literally nonsensical. You can get from the west coast of the US to the east coast of the US via public transport. Overall distance here isn't the issue, nobody is going to commute from east coast to west coast just to visit Walmart in the US; Thus the distance here is the distance between the houses and those services, not the maximum possible distance you can journey. If you can get 10 miles away in 30 minutes on system A or 20 miles away on system B, you can travel further on System B to those utilities and services, which is the original point. The distance you can look at is greater because of public transport being better in the Netherlands. I use to train everyday when I was studying at university, the trains really aren't reliable in the UK, they were either constantly late or cancelled, So I had to catch the two trains earlier in the morning to ensure I got to university on time then what should actually have been the case if trains were running against the time tables; this being when the trains weren't straight up cancelled and bus replacement would take over twice as long to get there, if they had them out, which wasn't particularly often. The counter to strikes isn't to ban them, I never said it was, but it is a big issue on the UK train networks. The government needs to sort the train lines out properly; they are not reliable as they are now, privatization is obviously a failure and workers need better conditions.
In terms of dental health, what really matters is decay. On that measure, Britain does better than many other countries around the world - including the United States.
In the UK a lot of places have a "Challenge 25" policy about ID, which means if you think someone is under 25 you ask for ID(even tho the legal age to buy alcohol and cigarettes here is 18 so that doesn't make much sense). Some people do this annoying thing where they ask how old you are, and if you say an age under 25, then they'll ask you for ID and it's just like "Why didn't you save us both the hassle and ask me for ID in the first place ffs?"
I think the teeth thing is because British celebs are happy to keep the teeth they were born with, but US celebs love changing to veneers and implants. I know some British and Irish stars who were advised to change their teeth if they wanted to try to get famous into the US and they went and did it! I think us Brits are just happy keeping the teeth we were born with, crooked or not!
I grew up with British wrestling in the 60's. Even learned a trick to stop my father bullying me. When I found out it was fake, it was my Catcher In The Rye moment.
Lifelong European wrestling fan here. Might not be as big in Europe but the level of entertainment and drama is certainly appreciated by a fairly large group over here. It's just good fun, might be stupid fun but so are most things..
To me it’s fat blokes in leotards shouting a lot and running around gently bashing into each other or dancing a pre-arranged routine while having ridiculous hair. Not for me,much prefer boxing and mma. Honest fighting.
My son is 6 and his favourite wrestling match is the 1992 Royal Rumble 😂. Trying to get him to go to some amateur events that are happening nearby. Im actually getting into it a bit but like him prefer the early stuff
As a duel citizen of the USA and UK I have no problem with American food. Although I was confused when I 1st came over, I went into Denny's and they put corn bread on my plate, and I thought I was some kind of cake.
@@elemar5 well I would but I don't want to carry such a weight around in 115 degree weather, I do have a 2 pistols maybe if I taped them together I could have a duel pistol .
I once watched a UK satellite channel, where they went to the adverts, without warning. I was so annoyed, I changed the channel. I was glad it was someone else's television. 😁
I loved it when pulp fiction came out with the mayo and fries because back then even in the UK it was a wired combo I always had and still do to this day but I don’t get disgusted looks anymore as it’s normal, I recommend you try at least once it’s so good!
Commercials drove me so crazy I got rid of cable and satellite and went to streaming only. Though some streaming that is free have commercials they come less often and are usually only about 30 seconds to 1 minute unlike regular tv that can have 4 or 5 minute commercial breaks. It’s stupid that an hour long program is really about 43 minutes and the rest is commercials.
@@ColmPadraig cash is king I will never pay by card those who pay by card are asleep to what is going on they are going to get a nasty wake-up when it’s too late but I won’t stop fighting this. Every time you pay by card that shop or person has to pay a charge and so on and so on so on until the original money is gone into charges from the banks. Mind you America is already turning digital in lots of areas but the people haven’t woke up to it ignoring it
I've always noticed the space thing. I suppose it is not surprising with the different population densities. When you see American houses outside of town centres on tv they all seem to have sprawling houses and out buildings and large junkyards. I commented on this to an Iranian friend who said it was the same in Iran. Is land a lot cheaper in the US?
I have visited the USA once, Las Vegas, ok but no desire to repeat the experience, nothing terribly wrong with it but sort of, box ticked move on. Unlike Australia or India or Lebanon which were stunningly good. The food, the people, the ambience. Ditto Europe, visited most of the countries there, really classy. Planning to go to Croatia this year and Canada next year!!😁🇬🇧🇬🇧
In the UK we have a think 25 policy. If you look younger than 25 you need to provide identification. I was asked for I.D. when buying a knife when I was 47. I look younger than my age by only about 10 years but definitely not 23 years. Even when I gave my identification the cashier read it wrong and said ' you were born in 1990 so you are old enough '. I had to tell her that 1990 was when I passed my driving test at 21 years old. I also told her she definitely needed to get her glasses prescription changed because I definitely don't look 23 years younger.
My daughter (my carer due now to my various disabilities) and I only use cash - or cash to buy vouchers - in shops / online. We don't have bank accounts. I'd rather use cash, that way I know how much is being spent and what we spend does not (generally speaking) include the extra costs of bank fees added on top.🏴
When I worked retail in the UK we adopted a widely used policy, which was "challenge 21"....If someone looks older than 21 you had no obligation to ID them, if, however you had reason to believe someone didn't look 21, you had to ID them and it would have been recorded on the till during the transaction, although D.O.B. wouldn't be recorded, it would have been the ID's unique number. It is also fairly common for retail staff to be polite & friendly/smiley...maybe a more neutral mood is more accepted in the UK but there is always that one person who would complain....In my visits to America, the one thing I never get used to is tax being payed on top of an items price, in the UK it is already inlcuded in the price, which is so much better than having to do a load of mental gymanstics to figure out your total before reaching the till.
having worked in a supermarket and the policy was id them if they looked under 25, we did not record the no of the card or driving licence etc but did record our refusals in a book as this was our defence if someone crept through the net with fake ID.
I believe its challenge 25 now? I’m 32 and I’m visually impaired so my only ID is my passport so I don’t tend to carry it all the time. I have a really young looking face and about half the time I’m IDed.
I think this is well out of date with regard to contactless payments. Pretty much everywhere in the UK takes them and has for a while now. I'm not just talking cities or major population centres either. Everywhere from Orkney and the Shetland islands, all the way down South to Channel Islands (just off the coast of France). Even rural towns in the Highlands with one pub/hotel (which is the same building), with the convenience store, chemist and post office all on the same street because the town only has one street. And every one of them will accept contactless payments
My local Big Issue seller told me he'd applied for a contactless card reader as virtually no-one was carrying cash so they couldn't sell the mag (for our foreign friends, "The Big Issue" is a magazine sold by homeless people to help make money - it's actually a good read). Prince William went out recently and sold them on the street in London.
It was never in date. A national change to chip and pin didn't start in the US until a decade after the UK and a good 5 years after the UK started rolling out contactless.
as far as im aware, the reason we have a bad rep in the uk for bad teeth is because 1, we drink a lot of tea that stains teeth, 2, we dont care as much about how our teeth look, unless theres danger to our teeth we tend to leave them alone, some of us will get braces but for the most part we dont care besides stuff like that im pretty sure we actually have better dental stats than the us, remember the uk has the nhs and even tho now its extremely hard to find a nhs dentist that isn't full people in this country have access to free dental care and privet if they was to expedite the procedure
This was clearly made by an American since a lot of this does not seem real😂 I’m from the UK and the WWE is insanely popular here as well as paying by card everywhere and Britain statistically have better teeth than the US that’s just an ancient stereotype that people outside the uk still believe
In UK with have a thing called 'check 25' ' or something like that anyway😂 basically if you look under 25 you will get asked for ID or occasionally if your with someone under 25(more 18) but depends if the shop follows the rule or not, big super markets always do
If I go out for drinks and the bill for that round comes to say £17.45 il give them £20 and say keep the change. We do tip but it’s not expected in the UK
I get navigation by blocks in some US cities. In most of the US it must be completely useless. You’re going to say “drive up until you see the Dairy Queen then hang a left”, aren’t you? In the UK we navigate by pub. “You go down the road until you get to the “Red Lion”, you turn right past “The Bell and Cross”, and keep going until you see “The ship Inn”, at the ship, you turn left until you get to “The Old New Inn”.
I work in a restaurant in the UK, our servers once they have served you they will leave you alone for the rest of the evening, only approaching your table if you ask for them or if you are leaving. Very different to the US where servers hover nearby and interject every 30 mins to ask if you need something. In all fairness I can't say whether one system is better than the other as both have merit, some people like to be left alone to dine, others like to know that the establishment is trying to cater to any needs they might have. I think 30 years ago it was black and white, Europeans liked to be left alone to eat while Americans liked to know that the establishment was looking after them, but today it's a huge grey area where some Europeans like the US method and some Americans like the European method. blame the internet? I do think however that the difference in styles came about due to tipping. In the US tips are necessary and personal so a server will always hover nearby and help in any way they can in order to get a good tip, European servers on the other hand not only see tips as an added treat to their daily wage but tips are also usually pooled, meaning that at the end of the day all servers get a percentage of that day's tips. If 10 people are working then they all get 10% of the tip pool - this system would not go down well in the US where servers stick to their table and pride themselves on being the best server (and thus the person who gets most tips), but in Europe where servers all help each other out on all tables and work together it works. Heh, we Europeans sneak socialism into everything 🤣 Though lazy people who hold back the team lose popularity quick.
06:13 (UK) we can pay by card everywhere, chip on the card, just tap the payment machine just as you would with a phone. We also pay with phones, everywhere.
Contactless is not a big thing in America at all.
Exactly, I think it's the other way around. About 5 years ago I was in New Mexico went into Walmart, past the guns section! Imagine going into Asda and them having a guns n crossbows aisle! Anyway went to pay for a basket of shopping, presented my card and asked "contactless" she looked at me blank, so I said "OK chip and pin" and she said "no we don't have chip and pin" and then took my card and swiped it which printed a receipt which I had to sign, like we all did over a decade ago, I signed it and then I was refused the shopping because I hadn't signed the back of my card. I struggled on my whole trip to find anywhere that even took chip n pin.
I was going to say feels very much the other way around - Contactless Europe/UK and still signing card chits in USA.
Also know a 65 year old who couldn't buy a glass of wine in a restaurant due to not having ID on them. They had 30 year old children but the 'no proof you are over 21' ended up going around in circles.
Swede here, havent used cash in over 10 years.
@RiptideRambo I appreciate it is the law. It is law in the UK to be 16 to buy energy drinks but the cashier takes one look at your grey hair and goes 'yep' and presses a button that says 'customer appears over 25' ( with a nice margin of error built in). I have no problem with people doing the jobs or upholding the law just pointing out that when you are 3x the legal age it can be frustrating.
According to statistics the UK has better teeth than the US.
That is so true. I’ve seen some really nasty ass teeth on American tv and TH-cam
The Red Cross send dental teams to the US.
That's true. I've also seen the stats. Part of the reason is because sugar has been lessened in most products in the UK and people have been made aware of the overall benefits of a healthy diet.
It’s cause Americans bleach them 😂 they’re basically dead inside lol
America in a lot of places suffers from people wanting things to look healthy or fresh; than actually be healthy or fresh; But I guess that is mostly because the FDA lacks teeth.
I have to comment on the dental hygiene thing because the uk is ranked 5th while America is ranked 9th. The big difference is the whiteness of whatever chemicals americans add to their teeth
We have free NHS services over here
Not for dental care sadly and good luck finding an NHS dentist taking on new patients.
@@JamesLMason The poorest get free treatment and everyone else gets heavily subsidised treatment. If you aren't registered with an NHS you can ring 111 and they will arrange an appointment for you.
@@JamesLMason you can contact NHS and they will find you one - it might take a little while. i have NHS dentist - who works 4 days a week and only spend 2 on NHs patients. so i often see him for 6 monthly checkups, but sometimes see someone else at same surgery for any treatment that might be needed. dentists are extremely well paid and NHS simply don't pay them as much as private patients do. it certainly is harder finding one these days. its a scandal - there is no shortage of dentists, its a complete scam.
@Precise. I was on carers allowance, caring for my dad and I have yet to be able to obtain dental care as it's not an emergency.
When I was shopping in the US, I just walked into a clothes store and all I want to do is look around, see what I like and I'll ask if I want something. But the lady who worked there came over with a massive smile and starts asking me what am I looking for, how's my day etc and it is a bit much. I'm used to just having my earbuds in and minding my business
I know what you mean!! America is just a bit......FULL ON!! If that makes sense!!😂😂🇬🇧
I had one the other day who bounded toward me almost skipping in a shop in Truro when I looked at a pair of jeans,then asked me how my day was going.
Well……love,it was going pretty good actually.
She was about 20 and her hair was made to look like a rainbow and wearing dungarees ffs!
I thought at first she’d slipped her carer but she actually worked there.
I agree, stay out of my face.
@@blaer5at least they engage in the US. Here in the UK, you're lucky to find a shop assistant at all, let alone one willing to help you out without a sigh and a look of complete disinterest.
@@TheCornishCockney that is unusual. Probably a drama student who thinks that any customer just might be an agent or kids' TV producer. Actually she sounds perfect for kids' telly!
Quite often in UK we use pubs as a frame of reference for directions " When you get to the White Lion pub take the second left..." etc🤣
At least that makes sense, providing landmarks...
Bus stops tended to be linked to pub names too. I know that my journey to school on three different busses sounded like I was planning a pub crawl!
Much of Europe has not only been paying with plastic for some time, we've been paying 'contactless' or using Google Pay or apps using NPC on our mobiles and smart devices.
NFC*
Americans think Europeans are still living in the fucking 1800s. They literally know fuck all about what's outside of the USA but for some reason pretend they do.
This difference with the tipping is that here in the UK waiters/waitresses are generally paid a proper wage so are not reliant on tips whereas in the US they are so poorly paid that the only way they can survive is through tips so of course they are going to be extra nice. Also in the US they will try and rush you from the table so they can get more people through whereas in the UK yo7 can sit at the table all day if you really want to and for the most part no one will mind
Being waffles instead of pancakes doesn't really make it better! 😂
I am a convert. Maple syrup, hot sauce, friend chicken, buttermilk waffles. Yum
Contactless payments by card have been common for a long time in the UK. The only place I pay with cash is the barbers.
The only time I pay cash is when I get weed 😂
I agree. My local barbers doesn't take cards (?) Luckily there's a cashpoint opposite. Also most taxis now do contactless too.
Contacless is up to £100 now, although you can only use it so many times before you have to enter your pin.
@@maxlothar9719 you can also pay for your taxi online before it arrives.
@RiptideRambo I guess it the same both sides of the pond. ✌❤🇬🇧
Your explanation of Chicken and Waffles only reinforced the point about weird foods Americans eat! It did _not_ make it better.
yeah. Chicken with syrup? for breakfast? I'll stick with a good oldfashioned fryup.
With syrup added on top apparently .. that's disgusting lol
No, I'm good, thanks. And especially not for breakfast 😒 . The UK have weird combinations that Americans find revolting.
@@darrenj.griffiths9507 The syrup does not go on the chicken. They told you that.
Now run along and eat some sheep lung.
Are US waffles the same as UK waffles? I just can't even imagine how disgusting they would be with chicken. It's like eating a cake and beef!
06:13 In the uk we mainly use contactless pay and apple pay for stuff but most places still take cash. We use it everywhere on the train, coffee etc
i just have to say...i cant get over how purely and genuinely happy anna always is!!! it's so rare and wonderful, i cant get my head round it! what a fantastic couple you are!!! great vid, great reaction!
Despite some weird old myth about UK dentistry which seems to be based on us having dentists who are concerned about dental health whilst in the US they are more concerned about the cosmetic aspects.
It’s not really a myth tho, dentists here don’t do braces cause the nhs class it as cosmetics or something. Our teeth may be white but there’s a lot of crooked teeth out there. I’m lucky my grandparents payed for an orthodontist for me when I was younger
@@definitelynotatroll246 Dental treatment is free to age 18 and if you need braces then your dentist will refer you to an orthodontist.
@@rocketrabble6737 yeah which isn’t free is it and a lot of working class people can’t afford so they don’t go thru with it🤷🏻♂️
@@definitelynotatroll246 To quote from the NHS: "Are braces available on the NHS? Orthodontic treatment is available on the NHS for young people under the age of 18 at no cost, if a dentist feels they need it."
@@rocketrabble6737 nhs dentists will only recommend an orthodontist if there’s something seriously wrong with your teeth, a little crookedness isn’t enough to get recommended cause the waiting list for an nhs orthodontist is over 2 years. Just face it in general our teeth ain’t the best
Service staff, interrupting our meal every 5 minutes, drove me nuts when I lived in the US. For me it spoiled the whole experience of dining out.
Can't buy beer without ID at 35 but can have a gun when you are a child and can pick one up at the supermarket, make it make sense
Christian fundamentalism of the early 1900s
A long time ago when my Mum had moved to the US, I flew out to Florida (from the UK) and went out grocery shopping with her (and her new husband). After having everything bagged, I picked up the shopping, turned to leave, only to hear the checkout girl say, "Come back now!" I turned back thinking I had done something wrong. Then I realised it was just a simple invite to return some time in the future...
😂😂😂
Card and contactless is much more popular in Europe (or the U.K. at least). It’s very rare for us to have to put our PIN in nowadays due to the contactless limit being £100 or Apple Pay being unlimited. Vending machines, public toilet turnstiles and even buskers in the street are all contactless
The church where I work has contactless donations (UK)
Happy Easter Monday from South Wales in UK. Hope everyone had a good Easter. If you don't celebrate it hope you had a good weekend to.
Swansea.....the most beautiful place in Wales.
Hi Emma, South Wales, Caerphilly here, best wishes to you also lovely ❤
@@wendyfreeman32 I live in neath valley in South Wales
Hope you all had a nice Easter from Cardiff 😁
Hope you all had a good weekend, from porthcawl ( south wales)
The UK has been paying by card most places for years and we actually had chip and pin way before the USA did. I'm 27 and I remember getting pretty worried if my card would even work when I had to swipe it in the USA as I had never paid by swiping before. I was actually shocked and a little concerned when it did work.
It’s a valid concern. Some UK banks already block mag stripe payments as default (options to temporarily unblock in an app) and Mastercard have announced that they won’t require European card issuers to include mag stripes at all from next year.
Commercials / advert. There was a satellite TV channel owned by an American group that broadcast to the UK, and they lasted about two days.
I flipped through the channels, saw Star Trek was soon to be on, waited, and there was an ad right AFTER the titles (this NEVER happens), then another about eight minutes later, and altogether a 45 minute episode filled with ads took nearly 1 1/2 hours.
Never watched that channel again, heard later they had dropped about 90% of ads, too late, they folded / sold a week or two later.
24 hours supermarkets became a big thing in UK about 20 years ago and then seemed to drop off. fact is that not that many ppl do want to do their shopping at 3am. even if shift workers - which i was for a long time. the old myth about "British teeth". i think UK scores higher than USA these days. Americans might consider that bleaching your teeth is simply wearing away the enamel faster. so having super shiny white teeth when young will lead to yellow in middle age and no doubt then ppl will have their's capped. out of vanity.
I can go to my local Asda in the middle of the night
That ID thing is bloody bollocks 😂 cheese 'n' rice! Oh and the card only... they really be monitoring your spending hahaha xx
Most of the world finds what you call biscuits and gravy very strange
YES. yes. This.
For real like name someone who eats that combo😭
I tried them 🤮🤮🤮
Two things I find weird:
1. The Superbowl. It's a 60 min game that goes on for hours. Start, 5 secs, stop, go to commercial for 5 mins. Start, 5 secs, stop, go to commercial for 5 mins. Start, 5 secs, stop, go to the studio to talk about the 15 seconds of play, go to commercial... it's sooooooo dull!
2. NASCAR. All they do is turn left over however many laps?!
Yes - we're not used to paying by plastic in Europe. We use our phone or watch. The USA lags behind in payment methods.I don't think I have used plastic this year (apart from occasional plastic banknotes).
Speak for yourself. Phone or watch. I rarely see anyone doing that except hipsters.
Is there no plastic in your phone or watch? 😂
@@cigmorfil4101 I’m sure there is, but “paying by plastic” means using a card.
the concept of random people owning guns is so weird in Europe. Over here in the UK, while it is legal to own a shotgun or rifle, very few people actually own them and you always require a permit. Handguns are also banned completely. In reality it's just a difference in culture however many Europeans, including myself, wouldn't feel particularly safe knowing that people can just carry guns around.
A lot of otherwise harmless idiots would suddenly become Dangerous individuals who blame society for all their own shortcomings.
Everything in Britain is the best because we made everything that rest of the World adopted. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Hi Anna & JT. I’ve been to the US loads of times. I worked on Staten Island (NY) for 6 months. I only got asked for ID once and that was in a bar/cafe in Atlanta, I was 50 at the time so I had to make do with a Coke rather than the beer I was looking for. In the UK we don’t have ID cards and we are not required to carry driving licences with us. Because I was on a coach tour my passport was staying safe in the bus. Yes, I was 50 and I look my age, balding head and greying moustache. In the UK they will only ask for ID if you look too young. Never been asked if I’m over drinking age in the UK.
The first time I watched TV in the US I was amazed at how often and for how ling there were ad breaks. I was watching MASH. In the UK this was on BBC and we had no ad breaks at all. A 30 minute programme lasted 30 minutes, not the 40 to 50 minutes in the US. Our ad’s can be entertaining (on the other channels) but getting ad’s for medical things just doesn’t happen. Strict laws prevent that.
For me, it will always be the huge gaps around the doors of toilet cubicles in the US 😮
Omdz you're not wrong. I don't want to make eye contact with someone outside the cubicle. I just hold it in as much as possible lol
Most Brits don't carry ID as we are not required to carry ID . And it's not uncommon for brits not to have a driver's license. Even when stopped by the police you only have to provide a name and address you do not have to have a official ID of any sort.
I’m from the UK and travel to the US for work, I think because of my accent people are slightly friendlier but getting in the lift and someone saying hello, is still very strange to me. Also, the guy saying grumpy England has clearly never been 😊
Liam Gallagher is right about the id thing, I am also 44, and just a few years ago a few friends and I went into a nice Italian restaurant in New Mexico, and the waitress came over and said "any drinks to start" and I said "yes we will have a bottle of Pino Grigio please" she said "you got any id" to which I laughed and said no, and she responded "well you are not getting the wine then" - I was dumfounded, I said to her "we are all in our forties look I have grey hair, and also underage drinkers don't go out and choose posh wine". She refused so we went to another restaurant same thing. We had to go back to our hotel and get our passports. So either 1) Americans don't have the ability to guestimate someone's age or 2) they are terrified about being sued if they do accidently serve someone underage so have a carpet bomb approach
...you think pinot grigio is posh wine?
Dumb local State laws usually.
@@Belzediel lol not really, I think I worded it wrong I just meant drinking something more posh than what illegal teenagers would go for like Bud, or alcopops or whatever teenagers drink these days. Chateau d'Yquem is quite Posh wine I should have ordered that
I've never been asked for ID in my life, and I was going to pubs when I was 14
I mean...they did explain this in the video. it's nothing to do with how old you look. It's a requirement that they see ID and has nothing to do with logic, no matter how much you want it to. I was in a place with Florida and tried to order a round of drinks and they demanded an ID per drink. I couldn't order myself a pint and a shot, for example. You could be the knight at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and they'd still ask.
At 0:56...the fact he referred to the country of the Netherlands as "Holland".....No Dutch people do this. Holland is a place in the Netherlands...it would be like calling the USA Baltimore.
That's not true. Dutch people use Holland to informally refer to their country. It's similar to someone from the UK referring to their country as Britain.
@@radman8321 The only scenario a Dutch person would ever call it Holland is if a non Dutch person refers to it thus and they don't feel like having to lecture someone and just let it go. Perhaps if they are being patronising and think someone is just too dense to know the difference...maybe.
@@johnsmith8906 You're plain wrong. Do some research.
@@radman8321 My father is Dutch, I speak Dutch as a third language (Friesian as a fourth) and attended the University of Amsterdam as an Erasmus student...
Yourself?
My friends who are Dutch and live in a small town outside Amsterdam, call the “Netherlands” “Holland” and only use/call it Holland
One thing I find weird, every US true crime documentary that includes a bar, the people involved always *drive* to the bar, and from the bar at the end of the night.
So it's ok to spend a night drinking and drive home there?
In UK even a pint would be over the legal limit 😮
@RiptideRambo I'm talking about actual true crime shows with the people involved saying they 'drove to the bar'. Lots of the crimes are actually committed while they were walking through the parking lot.
Nice try though 😆
We have a finite limit, not based on 'tipsy' thankfully.
What gets me is the time they waste on the field sobriety test I have never seen anyone pass it why don't they just breath test them
@@lesblack8996 Finite limit? A limit limit?
As far as television goes, get a clue as they say in California.
@@gillianhynes7120 Yes all the walking in a straight line nonsense and reciting stuff. Just breathalyse them.
@@joeysausage3437 Oh right you don't know what finite means 😆😆
Eh ....... ok, got it
I don't think people tend to get suspicious when a staff member is too happy, it's just very clearly a facade and comes across a bit fake.
I live in the U.S. It's not a bit fake it's totally fake. I don't like it and wish business owners would stop having employees do it.
You get gas and when you pay they tell you to have a nice day. Why? They don't mean it and I don't expect them to.
In the UK we navigate by pubs and other landmarks, for instance giving directions would be something like 'go left at the Rose and Crown, 3rd right past the Shell garage, left at the King's Arms and it's just past the Red Lion'
Except you missed the left at the Red Turban Balti
In UK cities people are usually given directions by easily recognisable landmarks which are frequently well known pubs. Confusion can arise looking for an address because some street names are duplicated i.e. Church Road or Long Lane (my city has three).
Can I take a guess at Liverpool? 3 Long Lanes but 23 Church Roads and pubs as directions indicates a Scouser.
Or people might refer to the turn, "It'll be your 3rd turn on the left, then the 2nd turn on the right after that."
@RiptideRambo Or like towns and villages merging to form a city,
You don't find it so much now but 30 years ago in rural Ireland if you stopped to ask directions people would say something like "go that way until Pat McDonnell's place, then turn left and carry on until just past Liam Kelly's hay barn". To people who were obviously strange to the area. It was funny. Just to add to the confusion, any junction was, and still is, called a "crossroads".
Same when I lived in Amsterdam - the street names were like Burgenhaffenstragenstrasse, so we just gave directions by coffee shops/bars. "Go straight down there, turn right at the Greenhouse Effect then left at the Grasshopper."
At 6:13 I feel like its the other way around, chip and pin and contactless came to europe like a decade before the USA
The teeth thing.
It’s a myth.
Look up UCLA’s (I think) study on this very subject and found it to be a stereotype and simply not true,and there were actually more people IN AMERICA per head of the population that had poor dental health.
(Probably all in Alabama huh?)
Dentists here don’t do braces so it’s not really a myth. They’re not available cause the nhs class braces as cosmetics which ain’t free on the nhs. Might have white teeth but there’s a lot of crooked teeth here
Top 10 Countries Whose Citizens Have Healthy Teeth.
1. Denmark
2. Germany
3. Finland
4. Sweden/United Kingdom
6. Switzerland
7. Canada
8. Mexico
9. United States
10. France
I wish I was asked for ID, it would make me feel younger again 😂
Hiya, I've only recently found your videos on TH-cam and can I just say as a Brit living here on the South Coast of England I'm really enjoying them. It's fascinating hearing your take on us British folk. Keep up the good work.
I live there too...and love you both
I'm not in the habit of taking ID out with me. Mainly because I'm old enough not to need it. Even when I was in my 20s I wasn't asked often even though I looked younger than my age. Showing ID for under 25s has become more common in the uk though.
Serious question. What are you buying to be over the age of 25?
What???!! I can’t remember the last time I didn’t have a friendly greeting or little chat with the cashier at a shop!!! Baffled Brit here!
We Europeans don't need to fly our flag from our houses, because we don't forget what country we are in. 😁
As a 59 year old Brit I would consider it an infringement of my civil liberties to ever have to carry ID, I'm clearly old enough so who I am is none of your bloody business.
Tipping in the US is ludicrous. Always say it should be the employers responsibility to pay the staff, not the customers.
I agree. The server has no control over the quality of the product.
You two are great ! Funny and humble. Hope you come over to England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland. I'm sure many of us would be happy to be a guide for a day if you need that
the store friendliness I found when I went for Florida in a wallgreens any customer that walked in the cashier had to say " welcome to wallgreens!" to every person even if they were currently serving someone....that was nuts
It’s so good to hear that it’s not just uk that doesn’t do 24/7 anymore. Most McDonald’s now don’t open till 6am
Texas is 2.8 times bigger than the Uk with 67.3 million people in it. Texas has less than 30 million... So basically 3 times the size with half the people and thats just 1 state! No wonder we got small houses 👍
That's not the reason we (UK) have small houses and U.S. has large houses tho. Russia for example has about 1/4th the population density of the US and yet their houses are even smaller than the UK's. Meanwhile the Netherlands is more population dense than the UK and their houses are larger. I dunno why people get stuck on this myth about house sizes being due to free land. A major reason why US homes are larger is due to all their infrastructure and city planning being based around cars; the sizes of their houses would simply be unsustainable without cars and even with cars, economically they are actually unsustainable. There is a lot more behind it than this, including how Europeans usually like to be near parks, local shops and 3rd places (I.E. pubs, bars, etc) but basically the issue of house sizes is unrelated to free land and much more about what people in Europe and what people in America tend to be value in how they get around and what they have access too...
If you get back to UK vs. Netherlands, Netherlands has much better public transportation and cycling infrastructure than the UK does, you can travel further, easier, without needing a car.
@@DoomsdayR3sistance I have a bus pass due to not being able to drive with eyesight problems. I have been across every part of the UK on buses, so how exactly can you go further in the Netherlands than the entire country?
@@wyterabitt2149 You can get from the East Coast of the US to the West Coast of the US by bus/coach, that is not a measure of a good public transport system. So the UK public transport system is worse then the US? nobody thinks that, so why use the distance you can travel as a measure when it's clearly not a good one.
The US Public transport is slow, infrequent, full of vast gaps with no coverage. The UK system is faster than the US but slower then Netherlands, the UK has more gaps and reliability also sucks. Five out of the last six times I needed to use a train, the train wasn't running due to strikes, maintenance & a breakdown, replacing the service with buses which took longer and were more infrequent than said trains.
Additionally Netherlands has considerably more bikes, more bikes is usually less cars and less cars is less congestion. meaning buses actually get less delays since there is less traffic to work with. So yeah, the UK public transportation DOES SUCK against that of the Netherlands.
@@DoomsdayR3sistance You didn't answer what I asked, how can you travel further. It's the only thing I asked.
Trains are massively overhyped in terms of how bad they in the UK at times. I used to take them 4 times a week from 2012-2017 for 99% of that time the worst I ever got was trains running ~5 late or so. Mismanagement from private companies and other issues have impacted them, especially in recent years, but these are outside the norm of when they are running as expected.
Counting strikes would be silly. Otherwise a country that outlaws strikes, or makes them extremely difficult, would look good in lots of ways compared to a place where they are used. I also grew up, and now for the last 5 years, live in a village in the middle of nowhere (different villages). Buses run decently enough considering, 3 times an hour all day. I can get a bus from here for 60 minutes, then one other bus. And in total I will have travelled a good 150 miles for £4 total (free for me, unless I set off before 10am during a weekday).
I think it needs massive improvement and isn't as good as Netherlands in many way, but I never mentioned anything about that in my first comment anyway.
@@wyterabitt2149 I think you missed my initial point; which is that your question is literally nonsensical. You can get from the west coast of the US to the east coast of the US via public transport. Overall distance here isn't the issue, nobody is going to commute from east coast to west coast just to visit Walmart in the US; Thus the distance here is the distance between the houses and those services, not the maximum possible distance you can journey.
If you can get 10 miles away in 30 minutes on system A or 20 miles away on system B, you can travel further on System B to those utilities and services, which is the original point. The distance you can look at is greater because of public transport being better in the Netherlands.
I use to train everyday when I was studying at university, the trains really aren't reliable in the UK, they were either constantly late or cancelled, So I had to catch the two trains earlier in the morning to ensure I got to university on time then what should actually have been the case if trains were running against the time tables; this being when the trains weren't straight up cancelled and bus replacement would take over twice as long to get there, if they had them out, which wasn't particularly often.
The counter to strikes isn't to ban them, I never said it was, but it is a big issue on the UK train networks. The government needs to sort the train lines out properly; they are not reliable as they are now, privatization is obviously a failure and workers need better conditions.
Fried chicken for breakfast? I thought that was a joke
Me too lol. Revolting
I got ID in Walmart to use my credit card. Maybe she couldn't understand my Welsh accent 😂
In terms of dental health, what really matters is decay. On that measure, Britain does better than many other countries around the world - including the United States.
Just a small point from the start, it's actually the Belgians who are known for eating their chips with mayonnaise.
And the Dutch.
I like salad cream on chips.
And the Dutch..pulp fiction
In the UK a lot of places have a "Challenge 25" policy about ID, which means if you think someone is under 25 you ask for ID(even tho the legal age to buy alcohol and cigarettes here is 18 so that doesn't make much sense). Some people do this annoying thing where they ask how old you are, and if you say an age under 25, then they'll ask you for ID and it's just like "Why didn't you save us both the hassle and ask me for ID in the first place ffs?"
I think the teeth thing is because British celebs are happy to keep the teeth they were born with, but US celebs love changing to veneers and implants. I know some British and Irish stars who were advised to change their teeth if they wanted to try to get famous into the US and they went and did it!
I think us Brits are just happy keeping the teeth we were born with, crooked or not!
I grew up with British wrestling in the 60's. Even learned a trick to stop my father bullying me. When I found out it was fake, it was my Catcher In The Rye moment.
Lifelong European wrestling fan here. Might not be as big in Europe but the level of entertainment and drama is certainly appreciated by a fairly large group over here. It's just good fun, might be stupid fun but so are most things..
To me it’s fat blokes in leotards shouting a lot and running around gently bashing into each other or dancing a pre-arranged routine while having ridiculous hair.
Not for me,much prefer boxing and mma.
Honest fighting.
The best match at Wrestlemania IMO was between 3 European wrestlers
It's really just soap operas for men. Silly, overwrought stories presented in a more 'macho' way than something like 'The Bold & the Beautiful'.
My son is 6 and his favourite wrestling match is the 1992 Royal Rumble 😂. Trying to get him to go to some amateur events that are happening nearby. Im actually getting into it a bit but like him prefer the early stuff
Europe is MILES ahead of America in regards to cashless payments.
As a duel citizen of the USA and UK I have no problem with American food.
Although I was confused when I 1st came over, I went into Denny's and they put corn bread on my plate, and I thought I was some kind of cake.
So, do you duel a lot? I thought that was a thing of the past.
@@elemar5 only with rattlesnakes, and other dangers of where I live.
@@desertsurvival8235 You may want to get a dual barrelled shotgun then. :)
@@elemar5 well I would but I don't want to carry such a weight around in 115 degree weather, I do have a 2 pistols maybe if I taped them together I could have a duel pistol .
@@desertsurvival8235 duAl.
i am from the UK I love your videos you are just 2 such likeable happy people, can't wait for the video.
yeah i've tried that chicken waffle with the hot sauce and the syrup and let me tell it was god awful for breakfast.
I once watched a UK satellite channel, where they went to the adverts, without warning. I was so annoyed, I changed the channel. I was glad it was someone else's television. 😁
I loved it when pulp fiction came out with the mayo and fries because back then even in the UK it was a wired combo I always had and still do to this day but I don’t get disgusted looks anymore as it’s normal, I recommend you try at least once it’s so good!
It’s Belgium and The Netherlands that have Moyo on their fries, I never seen it happen in France.
@@chuckyboy6977Had a Dutch girlfriend, I swear she loved mayo more than she loved me aha
Commercials drove me so crazy I got rid of cable and satellite and went to streaming only. Though some streaming that is free have commercials they come less often and are usually only about 30 seconds to 1 minute unlike regular tv that can have 4 or 5 minute commercial breaks. It’s stupid that an hour long program is really about 43 minutes and the rest is commercials.
I think I'd find street names in big cities that are basically numbers *very* confusing 1004th Avenue anyone? 🤯
Hahaahaaa, freaked out by a sound effect. Too funny 😂
I always pay by card in the U.K. mostly contactless
Why? You'll be kicking yourself when they phase cash out
@@ColmPadraig I barely use cash even for the smallest transaction
@@philiptodd6255 Well when every penny you have is taxed, traced and taken from you, you may regret it
@@ColmPadraig cash is king I will never pay by card those who pay by card are asleep to what is going on they are going to get a nasty wake-up when it’s too late but I won’t stop fighting this. Every time you pay by card that shop or person has to pay a charge and so on and so on so on until the original money is gone into charges from the banks. Mind you America is already turning digital in lots of areas but the people haven’t woke up to it ignoring it
I've always noticed the space thing. I suppose it is not surprising with the different population densities. When you see American houses outside of town centres on tv they all seem to have sprawling houses and out buildings and large junkyards. I commented on this to an Iranian friend who said it was the same in Iran. Is land a lot cheaper in the US?
I have visited the USA once, Las Vegas, ok but no desire to repeat the experience, nothing terribly wrong with it but sort of, box ticked move on. Unlike Australia or India or Lebanon which were stunningly good. The food, the people, the ambience. Ditto Europe, visited most of the countries there, really classy. Planning to go to Croatia this year and Canada next year!!😁🇬🇧🇬🇧
In the UK we have a think 25 policy.
If you look younger than 25 you need to provide identification.
I was asked for I.D. when buying a knife when I was 47.
I look younger than my age by only about 10 years but definitely not 23 years.
Even when I gave my identification the cashier read it wrong and said ' you were born in 1990 so you are old enough '.
I had to tell her that 1990 was when I passed my driving test at 21 years old.
I also told her she definitely needed to get her glasses prescription changed because I definitely don't look 23 years younger.
I rarely use actual cash in the UK!
Why? Cash is king. I make a point of using it
@Colm Padraig The brits are turning into mindless zombies. That's why I like Germany, cash is king.
My daughter (my carer due now to my various disabilities) and I only use cash - or cash to buy vouchers - in shops / online. We don't have bank accounts.
I'd rather use cash, that way I know how much is being spent and what we spend does not (generally speaking) include the extra costs of bank fees added on top.🏴
Anyone watching US TV knows what a block is. 8 blocks = 8 road crossings in a straight lines as the cities are built in quads.
Of course we use card everywhere, we have tap and pay, so easy.
🙄 gun and balaclava use to be much easier
No "we" don't. I make a point of using cash
@Colm Padraig ahhhh choice
@DORK BRANDON balaclava otherwise known as factor 100 in Scotland.
When I worked retail in the UK we adopted a widely used policy, which was "challenge 21"....If someone looks older than 21 you had no obligation to ID them, if, however you had reason to believe someone didn't look 21, you had to ID them and it would have been recorded on the till during the transaction, although D.O.B. wouldn't be recorded, it would have been the ID's unique number. It is also fairly common for retail staff to be polite & friendly/smiley...maybe a more neutral mood is more accepted in the UK but there is always that one person who would complain....In my visits to America, the one thing I never get used to is tax being payed on top of an items price, in the UK it is already inlcuded in the price, which is so much better than having to do a load of mental gymanstics to figure out your total before reaching the till.
having worked in a supermarket and the policy was id them if they looked under 25, we did not record the no of the card or driving licence etc but did record our refusals in a book as this was our defence if someone crept through the net with fake ID.
I believe its challenge 25 now? I’m 32 and I’m visually impaired so my only ID is my passport so I don’t tend to carry it all the time. I have a really young looking face and about half the time I’m IDed.
One of the reasons Best Buy failed in England was because customers didn't trust how happy they came across
Hope you both had a nice Easter, love you two ♥
Yet another great video guys kept them coming big love fae scotland ❤🏴
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i've never herd of people being effected by the sound of bubbles lol
Great Video, great reaction, great couple. Cheers!
I don’t know why but seeing their version of Liam Gallagher cracked me up😂 couldn’t have looked any less like him if they tired
Also I'm betting a million quid he didn't say "freaking".
3:11 I like smiley happy staff (UK). Probably depends on the vibe the seller is giving I suppose.
I love how Charlie made her grand appearance. 🤣🤣🤣
I think this is well out of date with regard to contactless payments. Pretty much everywhere in the UK takes them and has for a while now.
I'm not just talking cities or major population centres either. Everywhere from Orkney and the Shetland islands, all the way down South to Channel Islands (just off the coast of France).
Even rural towns in the Highlands with one pub/hotel (which is the same building), with the convenience store, chemist and post office all on the same street because the town only has one street. And every one of them will accept contactless payments
My local Big Issue seller told me he'd applied for a contactless card reader as virtually no-one was carrying cash so they couldn't sell the mag (for our foreign friends, "The Big Issue" is a magazine sold by homeless people to help make money - it's actually a good read). Prince William went out recently and sold them on the street in London.
It was never in date. A national change to chip and pin didn't start in the US until a decade after the UK and a good 5 years after the UK started rolling out contactless.
as far as im aware, the reason we have a bad rep in the uk for bad teeth is because 1, we drink a lot of tea that stains teeth, 2, we dont care as much about how our teeth look, unless theres danger to our teeth we tend to leave them alone, some of us will get braces but for the most part we dont care besides stuff like that im pretty sure we actually have better dental stats than the us, remember the uk has the nhs and even tho now its extremely hard to find a nhs dentist that isn't full people in this country have access to free dental care and privet if they was to expedite the procedure
This was clearly made by an American since a lot of this does not seem real😂 I’m from the UK and the WWE is insanely popular here as well as paying by card everywhere and Britain statistically have better teeth than the US that’s just an ancient stereotype that people outside the uk still believe
Not as popular as AEW 😜
Majority stores I shop In Scotland the customer service is usually good they always say hi and even ask how things are
OMG Anna you are owning this. Move over Jt there a new kid on the block. Loved that quip at the end.
The shop assistant thing, ours is the same as yours 😂 some shops will be friendly and nice and other shops wont be just depends where you go
In UK with have a thing called 'check 25' ' or something like that anyway😂 basically if you look under 25 you will get asked for ID or occasionally if your with someone under 25(more 18) but depends if the shop follows the rule or not, big super markets always do
I remember watching a show on a live stream of CBS (I'm in the UK) and the amount of commercials was unbelievable!
I'm in the UK and the only thing I tip is a taxi driver. Waiters and waitresses get paid to do their job
I’m a brit and I work in retail. I always smile & talk to customers if they talk to me.
If I go out for drinks and the bill for that round comes to say £17.45 il give them £20 and say keep the change. We do tip but it’s not expected in the UK
I love us ads they spend 30 seconds telling you how good it is then 5 minutes telling you side affects including possible death lol
Love watching you guys, keep it up. My only criticism is the noise of what sounds like a fishtank pump in the background.
I get navigation by blocks in some US cities. In most of the US it must be completely useless. You’re going to say “drive up until you see the Dairy Queen then hang a left”, aren’t you? In the UK we navigate by pub. “You go down the road until you get to the “Red Lion”, you turn right past “The Bell and Cross”, and keep going until you see “The ship Inn”, at the ship, you turn left until you get to “The Old New Inn”.
I work in a restaurant in the UK, our servers once they have served you they will leave you alone for the rest of the evening, only approaching your table if you ask for them or if you are leaving. Very different to the US where servers hover nearby and interject every 30 mins to ask if you need something. In all fairness I can't say whether one system is better than the other as both have merit, some people like to be left alone to dine, others like to know that the establishment is trying to cater to any needs they might have.
I think 30 years ago it was black and white, Europeans liked to be left alone to eat while Americans liked to know that the establishment was looking after them, but today it's a huge grey area where some Europeans like the US method and some Americans like the European method. blame the internet?
I do think however that the difference in styles came about due to tipping. In the US tips are necessary and personal so a server will always hover nearby and help in any way they can in order to get a good tip, European servers on the other hand not only see tips as an added treat to their daily wage but tips are also usually pooled, meaning that at the end of the day all servers get a percentage of that day's tips. If 10 people are working then they all get 10% of the tip pool - this system would not go down well in the US where servers stick to their table and pride themselves on being the best server (and thus the person who gets most tips), but in Europe where servers all help each other out on all tables and work together it works. Heh, we Europeans sneak socialism into everything 🤣
Though lazy people who hold back the team lose popularity quick.
Only takes about 12-15 hours to get from Scotland to the south of England. Done it many times.