Took your recommendation on BritBox, impressed by the shows available. SIgned up. NOT IMPRESSED. Freezes up incessantly and just stops dead and won't start again.
That reminds me, I love how as a Canadian we also have to fight with American spelling as its still the standard on Windows, Most software, and even the internet unless something uses GB/UK English
It's not illegal to give a fake name when signing up for non-legal services in the US. So one can be Laurence A Brown, Laurence B Brown, Dr. Larry Brown, Lawrence Q. Brownie etc. Write down where you gave each version to and then you can figure out who sold your data! It works.
I do this with websites where I think they might be untrustworthy. It makes it easier to have the false name put in as a filter term to be automatically deposited into my spam folder
You can do the same with some email providers, Gmail for example lets you stick a +tag between your name and the @, so you can directly reference the site you're giving your information to and never need to remember another alias, and you can even use it when signing up for legal services. Use of this feature actually lead to me discovering that some companies are apparently selling the information from their job applications or do not protect the information very well.
As someone who works in IT, anything you put out on the internet will ALWAYS still be around, somewhere. Deleting the pics on (name site) will not get it done. :)
Every website I have been to asks for permission to use cookies and I am in the us. I imagine they use cookies for everything except for checking if you have agreed or disagreed to use cookies.
@@robertszynal4745 The law doesn't actually ban cookies, it bans "tracking technologies". Tracking is one use of cookies, but not the only use, and cookies are one way to do tracking but not the only way.
I get the hatred of the red squiggly lines, but at the same time if you have a learning disorder, or are trying to write your Downton Abbey fan fiction in the best British English you can, they are a life saver.
As a Brit, I still use AOL email accounts from back in the day. You would get a free CD at supermarket checkouts and sign up for a few quid a month. ALomst everyone I knew used AOL in the early days.
I'd like to see what the delivery distance is. My guess is that UK stores have a shorter distance and therefore can be precise in delivery time. While the US distance is greater and then must allow more time for delivery.
Cheryl on the channel "what's for tea?" Is in Scotland, always shows the receipts on her Saturday shopping run, so I guess you could see there. She does Sainsburys, Lidl, sometimes Tesco, sometimes M&S
Most of the UK supermarkets with online shopping have both one hours slots and four hours slots, and you can toggle between them when booking a slot. Four hour slots are advertised as 'economy' slots, because it gives the company flexibility to choose when they can fit you in within that four hour timeframe, whereas one hour slots usually cost about double what the four hour slots do because you are paying for the convenience of getting it exactly when it's most convenient for you.
For me in Georgia US...the closest delivery store is 10 miles away. That has to be somewhat similar to rural areas of Scotland and The Uplands or Dales of Northern England. When I lived in a small town USA in Alabama (downtown), the closest store was 6 blocks away. Their delivery was as immediate as possible as typically elderly homebound people got delivery ten years back. Usually within an hour when they had a staffer to spare
@@STho205 Nope. Your 10 mile delivery was probably down a superslab 6 lane freeway. Scotland doesn't do those !! In fact you're likely to get accosted by bandit Haggis (Haggii ?) groups or waywood sheep as the (narrow) road wends its way through dale & valley.
Regarding British sites requiring you to give a telephone number, you can just make up a telephone number. Sometimes there are even telephone numbers that don't ring anywhere.
watch a couple of Brit shows and look for a number being displayed on a sign or on the side of a van, like a real estate sign or a plumber's van. Those numbers are non-assigned and don't ring thru. They are somewhat equivalent to the 555-xxxx prefix used on US shows.
I enjoy changing people's Word processor to UK English as a joke. I always choose "The Honorable" when available, if not "reverend" is technically accurate if we're counting signing up as one on the internet this time time counts.
Yeah, it's getting pretty common. In fact my ad blocker now offers a feature to block them! I don't use it, 'cause I like to be able to make sure the marketing cookie option isn't set, but still...
Maybe the reason we all get "cookie settings" in the U.S. is because, if even one state requires it, it's easier to just require it of every one than to set up some kind of complicated algorithm, that changes the requirements for every state. I could have sworn we had that law nationwide, too.
@@marydavis5234you must live someplace where there are options. Where I live, we basically have one decent cable provider on the island, and their business model is to sell you a package, and then after about a year gradually increase it until you either cannot pay any more and cut the cord, or until someone is paying $300 or $400 a month for the equivalent of what you have for 100
It really depends on speed as some cities have gigabit fibre while some rural places still only have ADSL. We also tend to have those things separate unless you still have a landline phone. You can get them bundled together from companies like Sky or Virgin though. A quick search shows you can get 100Mb fibre for £24/month, 1000Mb for £40/month, and 11Mb ADSL for £18/month. For mobile service you can get 3GB/month (with 300 minute call cap) for £4.40/month, 5GB/month for £4.90/month, 30GB/month for £8/month, Unlimited data for £16/month. Most people just use streaming services but, for those that use traditional TV, Sky basic package is £31/month, Virgin TV is only available bundled with their 264Mb fibre internet at £32/month (pretty good deal if you want their TV) So there's no easy like-for-like comparison but it seems to all be cheaper in the UK. Probably better choice and service levels too from the monopolies I've heard you guys have over there.
@@robertszynal4745 american price similar to australia .. but 1970~ 1980~ 1990 univercity access everywhere was $20\ month ,, then after 1989 increased $10 more each 3 years .. by 2007 home internet was same as univercity $60/ month .. then $80 in 2010 .. we got digital tv ,, but i would rather use laptop for internet ,.. finally used Smart tv in 2023 ,.. lol, i had a no tv rule for 7 years then watched all tv that i missed . for 1 year watching .., well after 56 years online , 20,000days some days 24 hours a day for internet research ,, i assume 480,000 hours research ,,.. but i only slept 1 hour a week..
Yeah growing up in this time where it was coming out and all that was happening just happened so fast. I don't miss having to argue with siblings or parents on why they need to get off the computer and just end the session for them, LOL
As a former Data Center/Applications/Network manager I always got a kick out of conference calls where my fellow American's would display a total look of confusion when we would be talking about network devices with our UK divisions. The use of the word "rooter" when talking about routers would always call for explanations the first time someone experienced it.
@@ianz9916 :) Or, as we called it... Woodwork/Carpentry was just plain ole Shop. I'm originally from western Pennsylvania with a bit of Indiana in my heritage. I would hear Route from one relative and "Root" from another all the time. (not to mention getting "warshed" up for friday dinner as we decided we would either have a sit down dinner at church "Feesh (fish) in a Deesh (dish), or "Feesh in the box (take out). (all the while other relatives would be rolling their eyes and chuckeling.) I quickly adapted to listening to some of the different pronouncinations of my Britt co-workers, not to mention my Indian friends. It's all good.
Lol, no. We know what Mail is but we more commonly use the word post. "The postman works for Royal Mail to delivery the post through your postbox (or letterbox)"
That movie was updated to the computer age from an old book. The first movie adapted from that book was an old black-and-white Jimmy Stewart movie, where he uses anonymous personal ads in a newspaper. I think the letters went to a post office box. Without realizing it, he was communicating with a co-worker. Some scenes in the two movies were the same. Not a completely original screenplay.
No but in America they had to change Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone to Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone because nobody knew what a philosopher is and they changed Le Mans 66 to Ford vs Ferrari because nobody knew what Le Mans is.
@@B-A-L It's not that we don't know what a philosopher is, but the opposite: the Philosopher's Stone, and alchemy in general, don't have a strong presence in American culture/folklore. So when a typical American child sees a book with the word _Philosopher_ in the title, they're far more likely to think of boring old Plato than anything magical.
@@B-A-LTrue. When I saw that movie I had to google where Le Mans was because I forgot. I’m not a car person. I had no clue it was a French car race thing
Dial up internet, if you could reconnect to the internet at 2 in the morning without waking up everyone in the house, and next door, you could do anything. I found a cushion was useful.
I only recently discovered that Alexa had an optional British voice and I've switched to her: Much more soothing. Now I will definitely have to get a Sainesbury account so I can become a Duke much less expensively than that outfit that was selling Scottish titles. Fortunately, California does have a cookie law.
Cookie Acceptance notifications are the worst thing to happen to the Internet. There should be a one time click required at the browser-level to give consent , not on every single website.
I shop at several British and EU websites. I absolutely love the way they work! And Tyrrells are the best chip/crisps around. They pair perfectly with a Schweppes Agrumes Zero... I rarely drink pop (Michigan), but when I do, it's imported and excessively expensive. Currently waiting on a Dutch delivery that is late, almost a month...
In college (1990s) I used some program editor on my Mac to look for the audio files in AOL and found the "you've got post" notification sound and use it to this day. Thunderbird now.
Imagine if retail websites deliberately gave you discounts on items just so they could up charge you on shipping. "Yes, that will be $34.99 + $199 shipping."
I've never seen an American flag used for UK English language, every site that I've seen that used flags lists English-US And English-UK, English -CAN, English-AUS, etc, because they also want to know the country for legal and monetary unit reasons. Pages, at times, appear differently based on nationality chosen.
I get asked all the time to select cookie settings, and I live in the US. It exists on many websites and most frequently, you can now reject all cookies.
The modem making a sound was a con. I was poking around in the sound files and found all the connection sounds in a folder. Changed the name of the folder and got silent internet connection
No, if you have an extension phone you hear the sounds on that phone. The alternating high and low start tone is negotiating the fastest connection both modems (and the connection) could support. Then it settles down to a harsh version of white noise. The sound was not coming from your computer speakers, but a speaker on the modem (if you didn't have any phone recievers off the hook). Incidentally, there was a modem setting to turn that modem speaker off. The phone line carries a voltage varying wave form, which the headset renders as sound and vice versa. That hookup sound was on on the modem speaker which turned on by default when starting the connection because you could tell there was something wrong with the connection process and then diagnose it. When the connection was up, it turned off the modem speaker. It is remotely possible you had a cheap modem without a speaker, or an acoustic coupler. That fake sound might have been added to hide the shortcomings of your modem. Just because something is a fake that doesn't mean everything is a fake.
Welcome aboard the runaway train of American capitalism, where everyone and everything is a commodity and corporations have more rights than people do.
You are free, free to download an extension to manage your cookies instead of pretend the popup mandate does anything at all. Meanwhile UK web sites ask for your phone number, because privacy.
Thank you for using "...as all get-out." I grew up with that phrase, learning it from my mom's side of the family but I've NEVER heard anyone else use it. Another favorite from Mom's family was "... from here to who tied it." Do you use that one, too?
I’m so jealous that so many UK things are voiced by my favorite Doctor Who, Dame Joanna Lumley! Love her, and LOVE her voice! I’m very bitter that my GPS persistently refuses to sound like her.
I don't know why I started watching your videos. It's far from anything I normally would watch. I keep coming back to each new video. Now, I'm hooked. I'm subscribed and I'm glad I'm here for the ride.
8:19 once upon a time, I could order things from people in Australia. Now, it takes at least an hour, to even find that record store. I own CDs for musicians that no one in the US remembers, or cares about: Powderfinger. I have a CD that I purchased from a shop Google hides from me now.
That's probably because you have a STATE law requirement. He's talking about FEDERAL laws. I'm in California, and we have that law, as well, but not all states do have it.
I've seen it on every single website so I didn't even know that it wasn't a national thing. It's easier just to have it pop up everywhere and not worry about what state someone's in whether that be United States state or state as in country state.
As an American who is old enough, and skilled enough, to get on the Internet back before there was a worldwide web; I always detested AOL. Aside from their advertising; it let a bunch of people on the Internet who had not the slightest clue what they were doing.
Australia had University internet 1976 to big 1989 World Wide Web .. dungeons .. & fan sites .. my favourite was MTV ... unfurled online .. but systems changed each 3 years .. 1979 IBM got most aust university contracts .. then 1982 Hewit Packard ,,.. i forgot 1985 brand ,, i was too busy chatting ,..i was always at university .. finally got home internet 2003 for myspace ,, wifi 2010.. lol.. ~living at university .. with ..no food in computer room policy .. ah,, when i saw people eating while using computer ..,, i thought ,.. oh ,, the audacity..
Those accessing the Inter-web, via a real UK ISP, a Uni, their employers T2 line, in the early 90s, often refereed to UK AOL community as A-holes-On-Line, as the vast majority had not even visited America, let alone defected, on the promise on no taxes, a right to scalp French Lt's, and the obviously own guns and slaves whatever the Courts have on the books about their criminal or mental state.
My first exposure to the internet was while working for Xerox here in the US where we were using Alto computers to access other internal data sources. My first exposure to the WWW was when they outfitted us with early Compaq laptops complete with PCMCIA cards for connecting to the web, using the Mosaic browser. My first Winbox was also a Compaq and using a 14.4k modem and Compuserve to access the web but before that I had a Xerox PC with the CP/m OS and would dial in to bulletin boards using an acoustic modem. Had a pretty good collection of AOL cd's but never subscribed. Also used a regional ISP called Voicenet.
There have been people who call themselves Lord in the UK, notably Screaming Lord Sutch and Lord Hawhaw, so probably best not, but it's a free country.(I guess only older British will understand this.)
Maybe it was just me - but back then when I was trying to wring every bit of processing power from my PC, using things like Windows, a CD drive, or any online program like AOL just abused my resources without effort. This is where I got my education on how programs can sloppily eat up your very expensive computer resources like memory and hard drive space. Their answer - more memory and more space - it's cheaper for them to have you buy more instead of being more efficient with their code - This was a big problem at Apple with X86 soon to follow.
A few years back I worked in a camera store and a regular customer (a British woman who reminded me of Tracy Ullman) was at the photo teller ordering prints when she said in a very loud English accent “ Oh how funny, it says English, but it has an American flag!” A guy who I worked with at the time leaned over to me and said “yeah, it should say American”
Except, America doesn't even have its own language. It just uses a butchered form of English as its default. Instead of English or American, it should say, "American English". At least Americans get to chose their national option. In Canada, we either get the Union Jack or Stars and Stripes. The Maple Leaf usually leads us to Canadian French.
We all have our own language, as I understand it, more modern English words have origins in the US than England, but it’s not important. I just found it amusing because I never thought about it having the wrong flag. Same with getting French when you see a maple leaf.
Considering American English more closely resembles older forms of English, it is much more accurate to say that England doesn't have it's own language, it just uses a butchered form of English as it's default.
Yes, my wife is from China and I overheard her & my son using the word “Keyi” which technically means “can” but they told me it’s the same as OK and sounds similar. It made me wonder if ok is a slur of keyi. Incidentally, there is a version of chess in China, that made me question the origin of it. I always assumed it originated in Europe.
I remember from watching "Are You Being Served" on PBS that I thought Brits were obsessed with Social Status, but I now recognize that Americans are as well, just in a different way.
I find my favorite of oatmeal chocolate chip to be even more rare. What's worse is finding out after taking a bite that they're raisins and not chocolate chips 😭🤮
The default English language option should always be as follows and nothing else should ever be accepted: 🇬🇧 English - Traditional 🇺🇸 English - Simplified
Lawrence, a lot of us started in AOL. At one time, that was the only way to get connected if you traveled internationally, no matter where you were there were always local numbers to get connected with a telephone modem
Google currency converter...does the work for you. Also, I shop at Meijer here in the Columbus OH area...it's HQ is in Michigan. I can pick my day & which hour I need...ususally pick Saturday, between 10am & 11 am, so some stores do offer that option.
"Up next, where /did/ it all go wrong for Britain?" Holy crap my back was turned during that part and I had to rewind because I was SURE I'd just heard David Mitchell's voice...
You can get pasties in Northern Michigan and the UP of Michigan. Although Cornish food traditions have also been influenced by Scandinavian and Finnish immigrants also, so I don’t know how different they are. I just know they’re delicious and will get you though a whole day of freezing your iron ore off.
I was actually just wondering if pasties or bacon butties were one of the things Laurence misses! I listen to audio books about British Mysteries constantly and they always sound so good!😂
@@bit-tuber8126 you get a sixpence and two farthings every 18 hands you measure, how many shillings do you earn per rod? How many glasses of whisky, 3 gill each can you afford if you measure half a cable and two chains and one glass costs a half crown?
Re: "mail" vs "post": Mail carriers in the US deliver our mail while wearing the uniform of, and receiving a paycheck from, The United States Postal Service. We may also have a Post Office Box, located at the Post Office, where we receive our mail and packages. We may need to visit the Post Office to send a package via Parcel Post, or purchase Postage stamps or pre-paid Parcel Post envelopes or boxes... Ah, tradition!😁
@@HappyBeezerStudios Stuff was cheap before "big oil" gave us rampant inflation. There were potato chips @ 5c for a small bag, and candy averaged 5c / bar. In '78 the same candy was 25c. A 500% increase in 5 years. Now they are nearly $2 each.
I have learned to hate to shop almost anywhere. I'm not going to try to shop online. The bigger the box store does not mean you will find better quality and more choices. I live in Eastern Kentucky. To me it appears that all junk that will not sell in other areas of the U.S.A. is shipped here.
The list of 'titles' asked for in your name/address is hilarious (and, I suppose, the British Class System in action) -- the notion that human beings are differentiated in that way seems pretty alien on this side of the pond.
As an American I have to say that I've been seeing the "Cookie preferences" message all over the place online over the past year or so. Not just EU or International websites either. It's definitely gaining some traction here in the US, especially with news organizations and other very popular websites.
I can think of two reasons: 1) they just do one page for the US, and that is simply in line with californian privacy laws. 2) they do one page at all, and simply go by the strictest law they want to afford to follow. You basically get cookies the same way we got SCART. But in that case it was the french that demanded every TV in France to have the port to prevent foreign manufacturers from pushing into the market, because making a special TV just for France would be to expensive. So they just gave scart to the rest of Europe as well, and we could enjoy full-RGB video output since the mid 1970s.
but here is the thing, I want them to deny cookies. Unless that stops the site from working, then please the "technically necessary cookies only" option.
I’m reminded that about 20 years ago if you wanted to install Apple software on a Mac you would be offered two options - English or International English. If you were British and you chose just English then your machine would display only American English. You’d have to reinstall the software with International English to get British spelling.
I worked with the original voice of AOL, the “You’ve Got Mail” guy…Elwood Edwards at a TV station in Cleveland. Great guy. Nicest person you’d ever want to meet.
I don't believe for one second that clicking those buttons actually does jack squat for my privacy but it sure as hell annoys me. We should pass a law banning cookie privacy popups.
Actually, we have to deal with the cookie pop ups here in the US. Started when that law was passed over seas. I don't know if its more in your face for europeans, but we still get them, especially on mobile browsers.
Did any of the US supermarkets have any free delivery slots for OAP's like many UK and IE ones do, although often subject to a minimum spend. (proof of age required on sign up).
9:27 In US packaging, it often comes with other measurements too. You can see how many grams/liters etc are in a product, not just the US measurements.
Walmart+ has no delivery fee if you have a large enough order. I think the minimum order is $25.00. But you can order anything from a $1.50 candy bar to a $28,766 beach house. You build and install. A little bit beyond my pay grade and way, way beyond my skill level. Most of the items can be delivered in as little as 4 hours. The drivers are really nice and they ate mostly on time. They even have an app that tells you where the driver is.
He’s not condemning the display of the US flag in Britain. He’s condemning displaying the US flag next to the “English Language” option ….. we would refer to “English” (British flag) and “US English” (American flag).
When I was in Ireland, I found that websites sometimes displayed an Irish flag for English, which is especially odd as the Irish language exists and is very much not English. Personally, I think of them as English (Traditional) and English (Simplified). 😆
@@AnotherLostBall not to split hairs but well to add to your statement. What falg dos the Americas us? cause as a natural US citizen I do not raise an American flag but the USA flag. I don't refer to the British flags or the french flags as the eruopian flags no they are euroipan but to end the rant America is the continent not the country.
@@NoOne-ev7vj Interesting. In Europe when we refer to 'America' we mean USA. President... flag... US... of America, it all pertains to USA. In the same logic U.S. of A. does not encompass all countries on both American subcontinents, only USA.
@@matusfekete6503 Americans used to speak that way as well. Latin Americans take offense at this (and in their schools they teach that North America and South America are one continent called America, meaning they say there are 6 continents instead of 7). I personally don't see North and South America as the same continent, and I think if you're being inconsistent, you have to consider them two separate continents if you consider Asia and Africa as two continents, since both are separated by an isthmus with a canal running through it.
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The royal tour of intestines! Omg rofl 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Took your recommendation on BritBox, impressed by the shows available. SIgned up. NOT IMPRESSED. Freezes up incessantly and just stops dead and won't start again.
Why don't they call cookies biscuits in the UK? After all, they do call cookies biscuits in the UK. It is very confusing.
Where can I send you a sticker for your laptop? It's from my union hall. We wear em on our hard hats.
Sorry mate I aready been with them for years as nord vpn passed me over for FREE
It's weird that in the UK "post" is Royal Mail, but in the US "mail" is the United States Postal Service.
Mind blown! Good point!
Not weird, we don't have royalty. Therefore no royal mail.
@@garycamara9955 You missed the entire point. 😂
@@garycamara9955 I think you missed the point.
😂
I was about to laugh at "America Online UK" but then I remembered we also had "America Online Canada." At least we're in North America...
Eh-O-L was right there!
@@thedennismillerratioGet out. Lol
I never thought about what the internet called anywhere else.. Interesting
That reminds me, I love how as a Canadian we also have to fight with American spelling as its still the standard on Windows, Most software, and even the internet unless something uses GB/UK English
Never heard of it being called "America Online UK" --- only AOL UK.
It would be hilarious if, in the UK, they were called internet biscuits.
Shorten it to intercrisps
@@aceundead4750 , Too funny!! 😆
Web Bikkies
I thought the sme thing!
then some legal case kicks off because someone came out with 'internet cakes' and they're subject to different rules because they're not biscuits
It's not illegal to give a fake name when signing up for non-legal services in the US. So one can be Laurence A Brown, Laurence B Brown, Dr. Larry Brown, Lawrence Q. Brownie etc. Write down where you gave each version to and then you can figure out who sold your data! It works.
Oooh! Good tip!
I do this with websites where I think they might be untrustworthy. It makes it easier to have the false name put in as a filter term to be automatically deposited into my spam folder
But they can’t be Uncle Toby.
You can do the same with some email providers, Gmail for example lets you stick a +tag between your name and the @, so you can directly reference the site you're giving your information to and never need to remember another alias, and you can even use it when signing up for legal services. Use of this feature actually lead to me discovering that some companies are apparently selling the information from their job applications or do not protect the information very well.
I'm signed up to some stuff as "You suck"
I had a Gmail account set to UK English instead of US, and the Trash folder became the Bin.
Where is that setting. I want to update mine to do that.
I changed mine to “Pirate” just now. Arrrrrrgh !
That's a lie you bastard
Bin is in UNIX.
Siri speaks to me in Aussie, I’m a southerner!
“You’ve got post”
YOU’RE KIDDING ME
It makes sense though.
E-post
"You've got prayers"
I like the female voice! I wonder if that was changeable in AOL Settings? A friendly female voice saying “You’ve Got Mail.” 👱♀️
Yeah I have several posts. They hold up my fence.
These "data broker services" advertisements never say if they sell your information to data brokers.
They do.
They do and then they charge you to remove them, and then you will find they are back a week later, they are a complete and utter scam, honestly.
They do. It's called make work.
As someone who works in IT, anything you put out on the internet will ALWAYS still be around, somewhere. Deleting the pics on (name site) will not get it done. :)
Young Lawrence looks like he would shout, shout, shout it all out.
'Everybody wants to rule the world' though?! (Tears For Fears?)
Yes!!!😂
Reminds me of Slaughter (hair band) song. Maybe it's a bit of both, who knows?@@brigidsingleton1596
Older Lawrence looks like he would have "tears in Heaven".
*let it all out
Every website I have been to asks for permission to use cookies and I am in the us. I imagine they use cookies for everything except for checking if you have agreed or disagreed to use cookies.
There are functional cookies that they require in order for you to use the site. The law restricts what they can count under this though.
@@robertszynal4745 Yea, but a lot of websites don't seem to have any record of whether or not you have approved of the use of cookies.
I also have seen the cookie question every site i visit. And i always go in and only allow required cookies and lock all others
@@samcunningham5912 I approve all because i'd rather just have them stop asking, but that doesn't seem to work.
@@robertszynal4745 The law doesn't actually ban cookies, it bans "tracking technologies".
Tracking is one use of cookies, but not the only use, and cookies are one way to do tracking but not the only way.
I get the hatred of the red squiggly lines, but at the same time if you have a learning disorder, or are trying to write your Downton Abbey fan fiction in the best British English you can, they are a life saver.
As a Brit, I still use AOL email accounts from back in the day. You would get a free CD at supermarket checkouts and sign up for a few quid a month. ALomst everyone I knew used AOL in the early days.
*almost, not ALomst...
Here in the States, AOL would carpet-bomb us with CD's through the mail.
@@tomkerruish2982😂😂😂
American here. I still use my old aol email account for my junk mail!
remember them huge boxes full of AOL disks when you walked into Walmart?
Remember the screen savers???
Flying Toasters and also Dig for Bones!!
Johnny Castaway was easily the best screensaver to have ever existed.
@@robertszynal4745Yes! I spent so much time as a kid just watching the Johnny go through his routine. It was actually pretty relaxing.
3D pipe maze ftw
I liked the floating bubbles. I make my own now
I'd like to see what the delivery distance is. My guess is that UK stores have a shorter distance and therefore can be precise in delivery time. While the US distance is greater and then must allow more time for delivery.
Cheryl on the channel "what's for tea?" Is in Scotland, always shows the receipts on her Saturday shopping run, so I guess you could see there. She does Sainsburys, Lidl, sometimes Tesco, sometimes M&S
Most of the UK supermarkets with online shopping have both one hours slots and four hours slots, and you can toggle between them when booking a slot. Four hour slots are advertised as 'economy' slots, because it gives the company flexibility to choose when they can fit you in within that four hour timeframe, whereas one hour slots usually cost about double what the four hour slots do because you are paying for the convenience of getting it exactly when it's most convenient for you.
For me in Georgia US...the closest delivery store is 10 miles away. That has to be somewhat similar to rural areas of Scotland and The Uplands or Dales of Northern England.
When I lived in a small town USA in Alabama (downtown), the closest store was 6 blocks away. Their delivery was as immediate as possible as typically elderly homebound people got delivery ten years back. Usually within an hour when they had a staffer to spare
@@STho205 the good old days
@@STho205
Nope. Your 10 mile delivery was probably down a superslab 6 lane freeway.
Scotland doesn't do those !!
In fact you're likely to get accosted by bandit Haggis (Haggii ?) groups or waywood sheep as the (narrow) road wends its way through dale & valley.
"You've got post" is what I'll say from now on every time my computer turns on.
now _that_ is a good joke
Save it for internet porn. It'll be funnier.😃
Not sure why you didn't pick a random country code and then have your cat step on the number pad for your phone number... works for me.
Now that comes down to how well they check the number for validity.
Regarding British sites requiring you to give a telephone number, you can just make up a telephone number. Sometimes there are even telephone numbers that don't ring anywhere.
Could just borrow a phone number from the number barn.
Make a Google voice account and get a UK area code. You could also call the UK more cheaply.
watch a couple of Brit shows and look for a number being displayed on a sign or on the side of a van, like a real estate sign or a plumber's van. Those numbers are non-assigned and don't ring thru.
They are somewhat equivalent to the 555-xxxx prefix used on US shows.
I enjoy changing people's Word processor to UK English as a joke.
I always choose "The Honorable" when available, if not "reverend" is technically accurate if we're counting signing up as one on the internet this time time counts.
If you choose a different title for each site that you subscribe to you can work out who has been selling your data.
Esq. as well
Now I wonder which religious title they explicitly include and how to translate titles from elsewhere.
I think I pretty much always get asked about cookies... in the US.
The "cookie' stuff is really annoying, for a simple browse equivalent of "window shopping."
Yeah, it's getting pretty common. In fact my ad blocker now offers a feature to block them! I don't use it, 'cause I like to be able to make sure the marketing cookie option isn't set, but still...
Didn't realize the recent cookie preferences thing was State law...had assumed it was Federal.
Maybe the reason we all get "cookie settings" in the U.S. is because, if even one state requires it, it's easier to just require it of every one than to set up some kind of complicated algorithm, that changes the requirements for every state. I could have sworn we had that law nationwide, too.
You decide what cookies you want in California. It’s the most user friendly state 😊
Cheers 😎
Oooh, Lawrence, it would've been good to have a comparison of internet costs and speeds - maybe in a followup video?
I have my landline phone, tv and internet in one bill, it costs $100.00 a month.
@@marydavis5234you must live someplace where there are options. Where I live, we basically have one decent cable provider on the island, and their business model is to sell you a package, and then after about a year gradually increase it until you either cannot pay any more and cut the cord, or until someone is paying $300 or $400 a month for the equivalent of what you have for 100
It really depends on speed as some cities have gigabit fibre while some rural places still only have ADSL.
We also tend to have those things separate unless you still have a landline phone. You can get them bundled together from companies like Sky or Virgin though.
A quick search shows you can get 100Mb fibre for £24/month, 1000Mb for £40/month, and 11Mb ADSL for £18/month.
For mobile service you can get 3GB/month (with 300 minute call cap) for £4.40/month, 5GB/month for £4.90/month, 30GB/month for £8/month, Unlimited data for £16/month.
Most people just use streaming services but, for those that use traditional TV, Sky basic package is £31/month, Virgin TV is only available bundled with their 264Mb fibre internet at £32/month (pretty good deal if you want their TV)
So there's no easy like-for-like comparison but it seems to all be cheaper in the UK. Probably better choice and service levels too from the monopolies I've heard you guys have over there.
@@robertszynal4745 american price similar to australia .. but 1970~ 1980~ 1990 univercity access everywhere was $20\ month ,, then after 1989 increased $10 more each 3 years .. by 2007 home internet was same as univercity $60/ month .. then $80 in 2010 .. we got digital tv ,, but i would rather use laptop for internet ,.. finally used Smart tv in 2023 ,.. lol, i had a no tv rule for 7 years then watched all tv that i missed . for 1 year watching .., well after 56 years online , 20,000days some days 24 hours a day for internet research ,, i assume 480,000 hours research ,,.. but i only slept 1 hour a week..
Considering that and the IP is the only real difference - yeah . . . .
The voice of Joanna Lumley... how cool was that.
She was quite a looker back when.
@@jamesholland8057She still is.
@@B-A-L 78 is not hot by my definition.
@@jamesholland8057- she certainly does look very good, adding the essential caveat - for her age 👍
Yeah growing up in this time where it was coming out and all that was happening just happened so fast. I don't miss having to argue with siblings or parents on why they need to get off the computer and just end the session for them, LOL
Why does the Royal Mail deliver post and the US Post Office deliver mail?
There's loads of them. Weird it's so hard to spell aluminium
@@redboyjanHow did you manage to spell aluminium then?
@@B-A-L at school. In books. In chemistry. See it on lorries. On items made of the stuff
Why are goods delivered by ship called 'cargo' and goods delivered by vehicle called a 'shipment'? 🤣🤣🤣 (- George Carlin)
@@masterchiefburgess and when there is a semi truck, what does a full truck look like?
You looked like the member of a British New Wave band from the early days of MTV when you were young.
Boy George was my first thought
I was totally seeing Pee-wee Herman myself
@@theriddler1168 i thought Devo...
As a former Data Center/Applications/Network manager I always got a kick out of conference calls where my fellow American's would display a total look of confusion when we would be talking about network devices with our UK divisions. The use of the word "rooter" when talking about routers would always call for explanations the first time someone experienced it.
I always wondered why so many Americans seemed to be so into carpentry or, as they called it when I went to school, woodwork.
@@ianz9916 :) Or, as we called it... Woodwork/Carpentry was just plain ole Shop. I'm originally from western Pennsylvania with a bit of Indiana in my heritage. I would hear Route from one relative and "Root" from another all the time. (not to mention getting "warshed" up for friday dinner as we decided we would either have a sit down dinner at church "Feesh (fish) in a Deesh (dish), or "Feesh in the box (take out). (all the while other relatives would be rolling their eyes and chuckeling.) I quickly adapted to listening to some of the different pronouncinations of my Britt co-workers, not to mention my Indian friends. It's all good.
@@jimbatten1927 So what do Americans call the woodworking tool to cut grooves?
@@ianz9916 Ahh yes.. a router. So then, what do Brits call a device and/or service to clear sewage drains?
@@jimbatten1927 A snake
So, in the UK, did they release that Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan movie with the title “You’ve got Posts” instead of “You’ve got Mail?”
Lol, no.
We know what Mail is but we more commonly use the word post. "The postman works for Royal Mail to delivery the post through your postbox (or letterbox)"
That movie was updated to the computer age from an old book. The first movie adapted from that book was an old black-and-white Jimmy Stewart movie, where he uses anonymous personal ads in a newspaper. I think the letters went to a post office box. Without realizing it, he was communicating with a co-worker. Some scenes in the two movies were the same. Not a completely original screenplay.
No but in America they had to change Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone to Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone because nobody knew what a philosopher is and they changed Le Mans 66 to Ford vs Ferrari because nobody knew what Le Mans is.
@@B-A-L It's not that we don't know what a philosopher is, but the opposite: the Philosopher's Stone, and alchemy in general, don't have a strong presence in American culture/folklore. So when a typical American child sees a book with the word _Philosopher_ in the title, they're far more likely to think of boring old Plato than anything magical.
@@B-A-LTrue. When I saw that movie I had to google where Le Mans was because I forgot. I’m not a car person. I had no clue it was a French car race thing
Dial up internet, if you could reconnect to the internet at 2 in the morning without waking up everyone in the house, and next door, you could do anything. I found a cushion was useful.
You always make me smile, Laurence. Thanks.
I only recently discovered that Alexa had an optional British voice and I've switched to her: Much more soothing.
Now I will definitely have to get a Sainesbury account so I can become a Duke much less expensively than that outfit that was selling Scottish titles.
Fortunately, California does have a cookie law.
You won’t even have to start marrying your cousins!
Even Windows has different national voices. You can turn them on in the accessibility settings.
so your Alexa sounds like the Eastenders??
@@shelbynamels7948 No, she's quite posh. I call her "Lady Alexa".
My husband changed Siri to Irish. When he said “turn on flashlight,” she replied with “turning on torch.” 😂
Cookie Acceptance notifications are the worst thing to happen to the Internet. There should be a one time click required at the browser-level to give consent , not on every single website.
I shop at several British and EU websites. I absolutely love the way they work!
And Tyrrells are the best chip/crisps around. They pair perfectly with a Schweppes Agrumes Zero... I rarely drink pop (Michigan), but when I do, it's imported and excessively expensive.
Currently waiting on a Dutch delivery that is late, almost a month...
In college (1990s) I used some program editor on my Mac to look for the audio files in AOL and found the "you've got post" notification sound and use it to this day. Thunderbird now.
I still have the ICQ notification sounds. Truly a sound for the ages.
Imagine if retail websites deliberately gave you discounts on items just so they could up charge you on shipping.
"Yes, that will be $34.99 + $199 shipping."
"Please select your cookie preference*"
"*) Which will be stored in a cookie..."
I could request a packet of Bourbons but am not sure Americans sell their Bourbon in packets?!😊
I've never seen an American flag used for UK English language, every site that I've seen that used flags lists English-US And English-UK, English -CAN, English-AUS, etc, because they also want to know the country for legal and monetary unit reasons. Pages, at times, appear differently based on nationality chosen.
The Dairy Queen and Burger King joke was actually pretty hilarious
I love how he says he finds the autocorrect helpful, then shows several words that are correct in the UK, but the US autocorrect defies it.
I'd hazard a pretty safe bet that "Online Purchases" became dominant because various numbskull councils taxed parking your car to oblivion.
I get asked all the time to select cookie settings, and I live in the US. It exists on many websites and most frequently, you can now reject all cookies.
I set my AOL mail to announce the arrival of mail in Hugh Grant’s melodious accent.
Way too,late, but I never knew we could change the AOL voice!!,
I would use Vinnie Jones.
The modem making a sound was a con. I was poking around in the sound files and found all the connection sounds in a folder. Changed the name of the folder and got silent internet connection
or switch out the sounds and it starts making music.
No, if you have an extension phone you hear the sounds on that phone. The alternating high and low start tone is negotiating the fastest connection both modems (and the connection) could support. Then it settles down to a harsh version of white noise. The sound was not coming from your computer speakers, but a speaker on the modem (if you didn't have any phone recievers off the hook). Incidentally, there was a modem setting to turn that modem speaker off. The phone line carries a voltage varying wave form, which the headset renders as sound and vice versa. That hookup sound was on on the modem speaker which turned on by default when starting the connection because you could tell there was something wrong with the connection process and then diagnose it. When the connection was up, it turned off the modem speaker.
It is remotely possible you had a cheap modem without a speaker, or an acoustic coupler. That fake sound might have been added to hide the shortcomings of your modem. Just because something is a fake that doesn't mean everything is a fake.
"For a country that so greatly values liberty, this presents something of a paradox"
*_Looks at most of what our government does_* 🤨
Welcome aboard the runaway train of American capitalism, where everyone and everything is a commodity and corporations have more rights than people do.
@@nortyfiner"land of the free"
@@nortyfiner most individuals don't have the wallets to pay for a congressional committee lobbyist
You are free, free to download an extension to manage your cookies instead of pretend the popup mandate does anything at all.
Meanwhile UK web sites ask for your phone number, because privacy.
One of your better 'programs'! Nicely produced, and funny as all get-out.
Thank you for using "...as all get-out." I grew up with that phrase, learning it from my mom's side of the family but I've NEVER heard anyone else use it. Another favorite from Mom's family was "... from here to who tied it." Do you use that one, too?
I’m so jealous that so many UK things are voiced by my favorite Doctor Who, Dame Joanna Lumley! Love her, and LOVE her voice! I’m very bitter that my GPS persistently refuses to sound like her.
Have you ever seen "Shirley Valentine"?
I remember Joanna Lumley from "The Avengers".
My favorite character in Absolutely Fabulous!!
@@LindaC616 I haven't! Although heh, I just read up on her role, and... yeah, seems like the kind of role she'd get cast in! 🤣
@@exstock aw, you ruined the surprise! The film builds it up and the reveal comes near the end
I don't know why I started watching your videos. It's far from anything I normally would watch. I keep coming back to each new video. Now, I'm hooked. I'm subscribed and I'm glad I'm here for the ride.
8:19 once upon a time, I could order things from people in Australia. Now, it takes at least an hour, to even find that record store. I own CDs for musicians that no one in the US remembers, or cares about: Powderfinger. I have a CD that I purchased from a shop Google hides from me now.
6:50 Cookies - every new website I go to (for larger companies) does the 'accept cookies?' thing.
That's probably because you have a STATE law requirement. He's talking about FEDERAL laws. I'm in California, and we have that law, as well, but not all states do have it.
I've seen it on every single website so I didn't even know that it wasn't a national thing. It's easier just to have it pop up everywhere and not worry about what state someone's in whether that be United States state or state as in country state.
As an American who is old enough, and skilled enough, to get on the Internet back before there was a worldwide web; I always detested AOL. Aside from their advertising; it let a bunch of people on the Internet who had not the slightest clue what they were doing.
Not unlike now. Present company excluded, of course.
Australia had University internet 1976 to big 1989 World Wide Web .. dungeons .. & fan sites .. my favourite was MTV ... unfurled online .. but systems changed each 3 years .. 1979 IBM got most aust university contracts .. then 1982 Hewit Packard ,,.. i forgot 1985 brand ,, i was too busy chatting ,..i was always at university .. finally got home internet 2003 for myspace ,, wifi 2010.. lol.. ~living at university .. with ..no food in computer room policy .. ah,, when i saw people eating while using computer ..,, i thought ,.. oh ,, the audacity..
Those accessing the Inter-web, via a real UK ISP, a Uni, their employers T2 line, in the early 90s, often refereed to UK AOL community as A-holes-On-Line, as the vast majority had not even visited America, let alone defected, on the promise on no taxes, a right to scalp French Lt's, and the obviously own guns and slaves whatever the Courts have on the books about their criminal or mental state.
My first exposure to the internet was while working for Xerox here in the US where we were using Alto computers to access other internal data sources. My first exposure to the WWW was when they outfitted us with early Compaq laptops complete with PCMCIA cards for connecting to the web, using the Mosaic browser. My first Winbox was also a Compaq and using a 14.4k modem and Compuserve to access the web but before that I had a Xerox PC with the CP/m OS and would dial in to bulletin boards using an acoustic modem. Had a pretty good collection of AOL cd's but never subscribed. Also used a regional ISP called Voicenet.
The Year September Never Ended ...
Oh Laurence! It is always a jolly day when you put out a new video! Cheers!
"Yew-tewb."
-Laurence Brown, 2024.
Ewe-tube 🐑🐑🐑😉
😂😂😂🖖🏼
@@Vtarngpb No, "Ewe-tube" involves a certain class of perverts and livestock...😀
Yew-chube
yu toob
I had to chuckle when I recognized the zip code you used to set up Target was the one I used for over 25 years as part of my address
Oh, you mean postal code?
@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107it is called zip code in the US.
@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107 👅
@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107 indeed, 😉
There have been people who call themselves Lord in the UK, notably Screaming Lord Sutch and Lord Hawhaw, so probably best not, but it's a free country.(I guess only older British will understand this.)
Maybe it was just me - but back then when I was trying to wring every bit of processing power from my PC, using things like Windows, a CD drive, or any online program like AOL just abused my resources without effort. This is where I got my education on how programs can sloppily eat up your very expensive computer resources like memory and hard drive space. Their answer - more memory and more space - it's cheaper for them to have you buy more instead of being more efficient with their code - This was a big problem at Apple with X86 soon to follow.
"Otherwise popular dating site"...BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Virginia girl here and that's was fabulous, Laurence!
A few years back I worked in a camera store and a regular customer (a British woman who reminded me of Tracy Ullman) was at the photo teller ordering prints when she said in a very loud English accent “ Oh how funny, it says English, but it has an American flag!” A guy who I worked with at the time leaned over to me and said “yeah, it should say American”
Except, America doesn't even have its own language. It just uses a butchered form of English as its default. Instead of English or American, it should say, "American English". At least Americans get to chose their national option. In Canada, we either get the Union Jack or Stars and Stripes. The Maple Leaf usually leads us to Canadian French.
We all have our own language, as I understand it, more modern English words have origins in the US than England, but it’s not important. I just found it amusing because I never thought about it having the wrong flag. Same with getting French when you see a maple leaf.
Considering American English more closely resembles older forms of English, it is much more accurate to say that England doesn't have it's own language, it just uses a butchered form of English as it's default.
Yes, my wife is from China and I overheard her & my son using the word “Keyi” which technically means “can” but they told me it’s the same as OK and sounds similar. It made me wonder if ok is a slur of keyi.
Incidentally, there is a version of chess in China, that made me question the origin of it. I always assumed it originated in Europe.
@@stevevanness4195 Chess was born out of the Indian game chaturanga before the 600s AD.
I used to use my extra AOL discs as coasters. Ahhhh, youth. 🙂
i use to throw them like frisbees😂
I’ve seen them used as Christmas tree ornaments.
I remember from watching "Are You Being Served" on PBS that I thought Brits were obsessed with Social Status, but I now recognize that Americans are as well, just in a different way.
I mean in the US we've had the phrase 'keeping up with the Jones's' for a long long time.
@@truracer20 Actually, I haven't heard that phrase since the Jonestown mass cult suicide in the 70's.
Every time I am presented with picking my favorite cookies, try as I may, I can't find oatmeal raisin listed anywhere. 😕
I find my favorite of oatmeal chocolate chip to be even more rare. What's worse is finding out after taking a bite that they're raisins and not chocolate chips 😭🤮
@@ReptarsaurusRex I'll take 'em!
Bot alert. Nobody likes oatmeal raisin
Molasses isn’t an option, either. 😢
@@shelbynamels7948 😂
The default English language option should always be as follows and nothing else should ever be accepted:
🇬🇧 English - Traditional
🇺🇸 English - Simplified
Kate Bush DOES save lives!! Love your laptop sticker. What fantastic taste in music you have there! Sending positive vibes from Puyallup. 😊
Lawrence, a lot of us started in AOL. At one time, that was the only way to get connected if you traveled internationally, no matter where you were there were always local numbers to get connected with a telephone modem
Google currency converter...does the work for you. Also, I shop at Meijer here in the Columbus OH area...it's HQ is in Michigan. I can pick my day & which hour I need...ususally pick Saturday, between 10am & 11 am, so some stores do offer that option.
I can do currency, it can do weight, but itcan't do unit x in currency Y into unit W into currency V
'Incogni' is also used (& advised) by the 'Blackbelt Barrister' too, if I recall it correctly.
I can't wait for you to hit 1 million, but I miss Tara. 😢
Excellent, as always.
From A to B.
Between A and B.
Valid on both sides of the pond.
"Up next, where /did/ it all go wrong for Britain?" Holy crap my back was turned during that part and I had to rewind because I was SURE I'd just heard David Mitchell's voice...
Great, I'm never going to un-hear that
Oh, you know my Uncle Dave??!!!
@@richardsbrandon5027 If THAT David Mitchell (the Q.I./WILTY/TM&WL one, not the Cloud Atlas one) is actually your uncle, omg you're my new bff.
@@culturecrashAL hahahahaha, is this David Mitchell from Kenosha WI??
Love that Beatles-do in the clip describing your arrival in The States. Must be from Liverhpewl.
You can get pasties in Northern Michigan and the UP of Michigan. Although Cornish food traditions have also been influenced by Scandinavian and Finnish immigrants also, so I don’t know how different they are. I just know they’re delicious and will get you though a whole day of freezing your iron ore off.
We have both Cornish and Scottish pasties in the lower peninsula, or at least in the metro Detroit area. Not sure about the rest of the mitten.
I was actually just wondering if pasties or bacon butties were one of the things Laurence misses! I listen to audio books about British Mysteries constantly and they always sound so good!😂
Pasties here in the US are nipple covers
@@SimonneShodahl -- When pronounced "PAY- stees" they are nipple covers. But the items we are discussing are "PAST - tees"
Another great video, LB. Namaste.
Ooh, Lawrence, you reminded me of the funniest units of velocity: fathoms per fortnight.
Actually, I prefer furlongs per fortnight, which I think is even more obscure.
@@bit-tuber8126 you get a sixpence and two farthings every 18 hands you measure, how many shillings do you earn per rod? How many glasses of whisky, 3 gill each can you afford if you measure half a cable and two chains and one glass costs a half crown?
Re: "mail" vs "post": Mail carriers in the US deliver our mail while wearing the uniform of, and receiving a paycheck from, The United States Postal Service. We may also have a Post Office Box, located at the Post Office, where we receive our mail and packages. We may need to visit the Post Office to send a package via Parcel Post, or purchase Postage stamps or pre-paid Parcel Post envelopes or boxes... Ah, tradition!😁
*sigh* more junk mail. I’ll just move that to me spiced ham folder.
AOL Online was known as Awful Online in the UK. Best use for those AOL CDs was, and still is, cup coasters.
7:32 Thems fighting words Larry.
Also, it comes to $0.69 per ounce of Lays, and $0.48 per ounce of Walkers.
Still too damn high. I remember chips (crisps) for about 5c / ounce, as were candy bars.
@@elultimo102 no idea what that means, but I remember them selling for 1.29 about 1 1/2 years ago, and 1.69 now
@@HappyBeezerStudios Stuff was cheap before "big oil" gave us rampant inflation. There were potato chips @ 5c for a small bag, and candy averaged 5c / bar. In '78 the same candy was 25c. A 500% increase in 5 years. Now they are nearly $2 each.
I got onto AOL with a 2400baud modem, and the first person I ended up talking to in a chat room was from London.
I doubt Sainsbury’s would actually call you. You could’ve just looked up the number of a local chip shop and thrown it in there.
They need a phone number to send text updates about deliveries.
I have learned to hate to shop almost anywhere. I'm not going to try to shop online. The bigger the box store does not mean you will find better quality and more choices. I live in Eastern Kentucky. To me it appears that all junk that will not sell in other areas of the U.S.A. is shipped here.
The list of 'titles' asked for in your name/address is hilarious (and, I suppose, the British Class System in action) -- the notion that human beings are differentiated in that way seems pretty alien on this side of the pond.
One of the primary points of the American Revolution, in fact
You don’t often see that level of choice, no idea why a supermarket would use it.
America is truly a classless society.
The way you say goodbye at the end has always reminded me of the voice when logging off during the dial up days 😂
Internet chat in the 90s, the first question was always: asl?
As an American I have to say that I've been seeing the "Cookie preferences" message all over the place online over the past year or so. Not just EU or International websites either. It's definitely gaining some traction here in the US, especially with news organizations and other very popular websites.
I can think of two reasons: 1) they just do one page for the US, and that is simply in line with californian privacy laws. 2) they do one page at all, and simply go by the strictest law they want to afford to follow.
You basically get cookies the same way we got SCART.
But in that case it was the french that demanded every TV in France to have the port to prevent foreign manufacturers from pushing into the market, because making a special TV just for France would be to expensive. So they just gave scart to the rest of Europe as well, and we could enjoy full-RGB video output since the mid 1970s.
5:25 Just install the browser extension "I Don't Care About Cookies". Problem solved.
Or the extension, "Bugger Biscuits"
but here is the thing, I want them to deny cookies. Unless that stops the site from working, then please the "technically necessary cookies only" option.
Walmart (at least in my area) used to book in 1-hour increments, but they switched to 2-hour this month.
Ooh, I've never heard of the Internet and will never use it 😮
I’m reminded that about 20 years ago if you wanted to install Apple software on a Mac you would be offered two options - English or International English. If you were British and you chose just English then your machine would display only American English. You’d have to reinstall the software with International English to get British spelling.
We used to have titles on the US web.
I worked with the original voice of AOL, the “You’ve Got Mail” guy…Elwood Edwards at a TV station in Cleveland. Great guy. Nicest person you’d ever want to meet.
I don't believe for one second that clicking those buttons actually does jack squat for my privacy but it sure as hell annoys me. We should pass a law banning cookie privacy popups.
Actually, we have to deal with the cookie pop ups here in the US. Started when that law was passed over seas. I don't know if its more in your face for europeans, but we still get them, especially on mobile browsers.
Hi all! A/S/L?
“13/F/Manhattan”
Except in reality it was often
“40/M/Brooklyn”
33/M/ATX
@@Sir_Austin_T_Geewhy are you only on between 8 am and 4 pm? Shouldn’t you be in school?👮🏻♂️
@@VtarngpbIt is after 8pm in Manhattan. Also, school is out during the summer.
Didn't know this was an info platform MYOB
Did any of the US supermarkets have any free delivery slots for OAP's like many UK and IE ones do, although often subject to a minimum spend. (proof of age required on sign up).
@Lost in the Pond: Honestly, your younger picture makes me think you could have been a member of Depeche Mode in the 80's. 😀
It is amusing that Joanna Lumley, Patsy Stone of "Absolutely Fabulous", is the voice of email. "Ab Fab" is one of the best British TV comedies ever.
I assume British websites use biscuits instead of cookies 🤷🏼♂️
We do have cookies in Britain, y'know.
9:27 In US packaging, it often comes with other measurements too. You can see how many grams/liters etc are in a product, not just the US measurements.
Hey, it's fine, was only 20 seconds ago I learned it was "You've got post" on AOL UK.
Walmart+ has no delivery fee if you have a large enough order. I think the minimum order is $25.00. But you can order anything from a $1.50 candy bar to a $28,766 beach house. You build and install. A little bit beyond my pay grade and way, way beyond my skill level. Most of the items can be delivered in as little as 4 hours. The drivers are really nice and they ate mostly on time. They even have an app that tells you where the driver is.
The display of the US flag in Britain being a “war crime”….😂😂😂😂😂
He’s not condemning the display of the US flag in Britain. He’s condemning displaying the US flag next to the “English Language” option ….. we would refer to “English” (British flag) and “US English” (American flag).
When I was in Ireland, I found that websites sometimes displayed an Irish flag for English, which is especially odd as the Irish language exists and is very much not English.
Personally, I think of them as English (Traditional) and English (Simplified). 😆
@@AnotherLostBall not to split hairs but well to add to your statement. What falg dos the Americas us? cause as a natural US citizen I do not raise an American flag but the USA flag. I don't refer to the British flags or the french flags as the eruopian flags no they are euroipan but to end the rant America is the continent not the country.
@@NoOne-ev7vj Interesting. In Europe when we refer to 'America' we mean USA.
President... flag... US... of America, it all pertains to USA. In the same logic U.S. of A. does not encompass all countries on both American subcontinents, only USA.
@@matusfekete6503 Americans used to speak that way as well. Latin Americans take offense at this (and in their schools they teach that North America and South America are one continent called America, meaning they say there are 6 continents instead of 7). I personally don't see North and South America as the same continent, and I think if you're being inconsistent, you have to consider them two separate continents if you consider Asia and Africa as two continents, since both are separated by an isthmus with a canal running through it.
Seeing the Gemini Giant on your laptop is a shocking site. Cheers from Wilmington!
Re cookies if it doesn't have a 'reject all' on the first page I don't bother. Move on please.