Actually in the UK we use waivers a lot less - we're a lot less litigious because courts are more happy to say that if you're doing something vaguely stupid it's basically your fault and you can't sue
@@BabyWil88 if you change it to participant beware then that's definitely a neat summary. Caveat emptor itself is actually not legal in the UK since it applies to commerce
@@ines_uk just think of cats ... what happens when you brush them ... with the hair or against the hair :-) if you are timid when grabbing a leaf and "softly brush over it" back and forth, you will hurt a lot, but if you have a tight grip and press the hairs against the leaf, you should be pretty ok. they are most annoying when you don't pay attention and walk into a nettle field with naked legs :-)
The phrase 'to grasp the nettle' (to go for something boldly) gives you a clue about how to handle and eat nettles without stinging yourself. I've eaten nettle leaves fresh from the stem, with no pain whatsoever. But if you handle them too delicately, they will sting you. The smaller and younger leaves can even be eaten as a salad vegetable, but the mature leaves can be cooked to make a very tasty soup. Yarg is a type of cheese from Cornwall which is wrapped in nettle leaves by hand. It's a very tasty cheese.
November 5th is not actually a public holiday in the UK. Probably because fireworks and bonfires work best at night when most people aren't working anyway. Most organised displays are usually moved to the nearest weekend.
The tar barrel thing used to be a bit more risky. They used to be rolled down the hill on the High Street until one year one disappeared through the Coop window.... Been a bit more sedate since.
I can remember going to Ottery and seeing this when I was a kid. It was fun, we just had to keep out of the way of the tar barrel. But the streets weren't so full when I went as I am 50 now. There used to be something similar in Hatherleigh, nearer to where I grew up (Winkleigh). I don't know know if it still occurs there.
May Day goes back to the ancient Celtic celebration of Beltane. A time of rebirth and renewal, hence the deity The Green Man. Beltane was also the most popular day for ancient Britons and Celts to get married as it was an auspicious day for a new beginning. Goes way further back than Roman times.
Double Gloucester is a special cheese, well so are most British cheeses. Also we Brits are very fond of doing daft things in public and often for charity. Most of us are fond of having a good laugh, people who take them too seriously are pitied at the least.
The implication of that statement is that they would'nt do it if Albion had a private health care system, 69. Is that correct ?....They'd still bleeding do it what ever mob was operating health care. This evil we have now in gov is the biggest threat we've ever had against this fabulous practice,(The NHS ) notwithstanding the colonials who come over, abuse it, pay f/all, and skulk back home. That's the price to be paid, BY US, the plebescite, who had no dog in that scrap. That's it.
They should have covered the Lewes bonfires. This describes a set of celebrations held in the town of Lewes, Sussex, England, that constitute the United Kingdom's largest and most famous Bonfire Night festivities. Always held on 5 November (unless the 5th falls on a Sunday, in which case it is held on Saturday the 4th), the event not only marks Guy Fawkes Night - the date of the uncovering of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 - but also commemorates the memory of the seventeen Protestant martyrs from the town burned at the stake for their faith during the Marian Persecutions. To mark the demise of the 17 Lewes Martyrs, 17 burning crosses are carried through the town, and a wreath-laying ceremony occurs at the War Memorial in the centre of town. Ladies' and men's races take place, pulling flaming tar barrels in a "barrel run", which takes place along Cliffe High Street at the start of the evening. A flaming tar barrel is then thrown into the River Ouse; this is said to symbolise the throwing of the magistrates into the river after they read the Riot Act to the bonfire boys in 1847. The festivities culminate in five separate bonfire displays. A number of large effigies are drawn through the streets before being burned at the bonfires. Each year these include Guy Fawkes, as well as Pope Paul V, who became head of the Roman Catholic Church in 1605. In addition, each of the five main local societies creates a topical "tableau"(a large three-dimensional model packed with fireworks), and the Cliffe and Southover societies display on pikes the heads (also in effigy) of its current "Enemies of Bonfire", who range from nationally reviled figures to local officials who have attempted to place restrictions on the event. There are some videos of the event on TH-cam.
@@williamwilkes9873 Actually I made a small error, it is not only British characters who are burnt in effigy. They have also burnt effigies of internationally hated characters like Trump.
Children used to recite: Remember, remember, the 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot. There is no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.
17:42 Worms often come up to the surface when it rains, so if you make the soil vibrate as if it is being hit by raindrops, the worms may come up. 22:18 No, it's not like eating poison ivy. Nettles are perfectly edible, if you boil them in water it stops them stinging and they are basically like salad leaves.
"Remember, remember the 5th of november, gunpowder treason and plot". The shortened version that everyone knows. Stinging nettles only have the spikes on the outside of the leaf. You can boil them and make nettle tea. The boiling of them also stops the sting so you can eat them aswell. The tea and the leafs (even when boiled) are high in antioxidents, which are very good for you. If you do go picking nettles, pick them higher up the plant if next to a path where dog walkers might go.
My mother recalled a visit from an American young farmer's club ( called 4H over there) in the 1940s. One of the girls in the party wiped her bare feet on a patch of nettles at the farm , not having encountered them before , and was badly stung. The hollow hairs on the nettle leaf have a brittle glass like character , and when shattered penetrate the skin . They inject a number of chemicals including histamine and formic acid ( the stuff ants defend themselves with). Other than that nettle shoots in the spring are nutritious and can be boiled down into a soup. The plants are also hosts to te caterpillars of several beautiful butterfly species eg Peacocks. In the past the old fibrous stems were used to make cloth. You will often find the antidote to nettle stings growing nearby as the broad leaved dock ( and nettles ) like fertile disturbed soil. Please note that it isn't the dock leaf , but the gloopy egg white like fluid found in the growing shoot sheaths that does the trick.
London has several mayors. The City of London Lord Mayor (the City of London is a city within a city) and the London Mayor. Then there’s the mayors of a few London boroughs, like Hackney. Presumably they’re weighing the mayor to see if he was enjoying the publicly funded life too much.
As kids getting stung by nettles would spoil our day out it is so painful and there was a rush y all our friends to find dock leaves to help alleviate the pain.
About worm eating, down here in Gloucestershire on the banks of the River Severn there is an elver-eating contest (elvers = baby eels, like raw wriggling spaghetti). To eat as many eels as you can in one minute. My dear other half won the competition one year. At one point he was stuffing them in so fast we worried he was going to 'decorate the grass'.
Check Sedgefield Village Shrove Tuesday football match ( soccer, Jin bur not as we know it)!!! No rules. No sides. Hours long. Handmade ball, like a cricket ball. No protection. A few broken windows and limbs ! At least 800 years old. All through the village and beyond ! More of a riot ! Ive lived there for 50 years!!!!! By the way.Nivember the 5th Isn't a holiday.
There are so many village traditions all over the country and most of them are crazy. There is a Leicestershire village that does Bottle Kicking, which is brilliant. Another Leicestershire village has The wheelbarrow race which is bonkers. I have also been told about an annual Dwarf Chucking competition but it was stopped many years ago for obvious reasons
You’re going to get to see a lot of traditions to learn about in the next few weeks given the events of this afternoon. God save the Queen, Long live the King.
The nettle sting are small hairs that are sharp and made of glass like hypodermics filled with histamine, serotonin, and acetylcholine. If you brush against them they raise swollen welts on your skin that is very painful for 15 to 20 minutes and then afterwards itches badly for about an hour, it is a form of contact dermatitis.
in relation to the Jack in the Green, there was a thing near me called the celebration of the straw jack, where someone dressed in a conical shell covered in straw would visit various local pubs, before ending up at one (always the same one), where a bonfire would be lit and participants would take it in turns to throw sheaves of straw onto the fire. I don't quite fully understand what the tradition was about - i think it tied into a wicca or pagan thing - but it was enjoyable nonetheless :)
I absolutely love how you're respectful and eager to learn, it's so endearing. 😃 and try to remember, we think of America as cousins, our history is your history.....
Might have been had they paid their taxes. But with about 14% of Americans identifying as being of German descent there are about twice as many as identify as being of English ancestry 7%. So no our history is not their history.
12:51 Hahaha my grandparents used to take me to this as a child (as it is hosted in my home town and one other town). Even as a child I used to think it was a bit weird. Most of the people who do it flop straight off the pier into the sea. Occasionally, you get a glider that goes really far and gets the prize money though
May day is the more modern version of Beltane, the old pagan celebration. It's celebrated on the 1 St May and represented by the green man, the pagan link was the oak king ruled print and summer and at autumn the Holly King takes over for winter.
Tyler , you need to watch a video on just cheese rolling , there's more than one race . Seagulls pat the ground with their feet in the the same way to attract worms .🇬🇧
I have to say, most of these traditions are weird to Brits too - but we love them and embrace them in exactly the same way other cultures embrace their odd traditions 😀
May Day is the first Monday in May. I live near Oxford which is a well known University city. As part of this we have maypole dancing which is people dressed in costumes dancing around a pole with ribbons weaving in and out. Also choirs start singing at dawn and some usually very drunk people dive off a bridge into the river.
stinging nettles are very beneficial if you just boil them and eat them like cabbages. I know they used them for eating in WW2. higher in iron than cabbage.
I am really enjoying your video's especially regarding the UK. I am very surprised that you only have 4k subscribers as I watch other American Reacts video's and they have 80 or 90k subscribers. You deserve a lot more than you are getting, so keep up the good work.
His British orientated channel (he has a Canadian themed one, too) is only a few weeks old. I think he's got a decent following for such a young channel.
Unfortunately we don't get a holiday (vacation) on November 5th, we work on a day that nothing happened (Unlike the USA on July 4th)! Other weird things you could check out are things like Lewes bonfires, Atherstone football game and perhaps pancake races. The town where I went to high school (Rye in Sussex) has a tradition of throwing hot pennies from the top floor windows of Rye town hall when a new mayor is appointed which adds coins, gravity, temperature, and crowds together for a fun time.
Faroe Islands belong to Denmark. I can't compare poison ivy to stinging nettles as poison ivy doesn't grow in Europe but stinging nettle hurts like a sonofabitch, for a minute. People do eat nettles, in salads, sandwiches, soups and teas, but they pick the nettles when they are young, before it becomes prickly.
Tyler, if I were you I would give up trying to figure out what makes us Brits tick, and there isn’t always a logical reason or historical event surrounding our traditions, obviously they started for some reason, but that reason gets lost to the mist’s of time, I am a through and through Brit and sometimes I don’t get what makes us tick, we are just us. P.S, God Save The King. 😢🇬🇧🏴👍
I live in Sheffield. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the place. We're so remote the ferry takes all night to get here. The islands have a completely different culture to the rest of the UK. The islands have been inhabited since the stone age. We have the most ancient archeological sites per square mile in Europe.
The Cheese Rolling is an odd one. The implied message is "We're good natured but hardened British eccentrics with a taste for chese. You'll need to get up pretty early in the morning to compete because we set the bar quite high." The nearby town of Cheltenham is the National Security equivalent of Langley, Vaginia, and has alot of low profile US Intelligence People living there. I recall in the 1970s seeing one such friend of the family watching cheese rolling for the first time in confusion as he tried to process what he was watching. You can hear a major bone break from about 100 feet away, and a bone breaker will usually get a sympathtic round of applause as they are lead to the ambulance. Gloucster Rugby Club 1st XV act as stoppers at the bottom of the hill to absorb the momentuum of participants, and there is a 50 foot high chain link fence at the bottom of the 1-in-1 45 degree hill to stop the 17 pound wheels of Cheese as they "Barnes Wallace" their way down the hill. This is worth seeing.
Most of these are alien to me too, but they're localised for the most part. I've heard of Jack-in-the-Green, but that's a song on a Jethro Tull album, so... See, listening to music can be educational. I love your enthusiasm. You clearly have a lot of fun doing these videos, which is great.
Jack in the Green is a local version of something probably much older: you will find many Public Houses named 'The Greene Man' often with a symbol of a face with plants growing from him. Yes: fertility, nature, but he's the male side of nature itself. Read 'Gawain and the Green Knight' an ancient legend later added to the King Arthur stories, and it'll become a little clearer; it's about the turning of the seasons, the return of spring, and life and death. A bit of our pagan past that made it into the present.
Jack-in-the-Green is not pagan - it's a late 18th century London May Day tradition linked to chimney sweeps The 'Greene Man' pub signs have only recently portrayed the 'Green Man' that is to be found in churches as a decorative carved feature. Prior to that they would show the 'Wild Man' or 'Greene Man' seen at Tudor and Jacobean processions. Neither have anything to do with the usual fertility nonesense. And neither do they have any connection to the 'Green Knight' - other than the colour green.
I ate a ploughman's lunch today which included a pork pie, cheese, pickle and scotch eggs. Then I watched the Queen's procession. We are a 1000 year old country so we have accumulated a lot of layered cultural traditions!
We have a festival in my market town called straw bear, its a parade which involves lots of drinking and dancing and a man dressed as a straw bear to celebrate the end of harvest, it has Pagan roots. On the sunday we burn the bear (man has exited costume at this point) although the whole festival does have big WickerMan vibes.
When I was a child their was a race in my town called the pram race A pram was a heavily converted pram or shopping trolley made to look like a over sized pram they had around 4 pushers dressed as mothers and a person dressed as a baby in the pram everyone would be all be over 18 In the race , the mothers would push the baby to each pub and the baby would run into the pub and drink a pint of beer and then get back into the pram well in my town at the time we had around 15 pubs and it was who could complete the course of all the pubs the fastest As you can imagine by around the 10th pub the effects of the beer and drinking it so quickly where taking toll and many of the babies wouldn't complete the course and the ones who did normally needed help getting into and out of the pub often carried by the mothers inside and out many races where lost because a baby simply collapse or could no longer continue Due to health and safety the race was stopped in the 90's
@@iriscollins7583 as far as i know no one died but some of the people where extremally drunk I remember one crew carrying in one person and almost pouring the beer down them and then carrying them out and you would get a lot of the people throwing up and staggering all over the place tbh it was probably very dangerous and I cannot imagine any of the babies had a good time even if they won especially when you think the course would have taken about about 90 mins to complete just enough time for the beer to start taking effect in addition to this as it was a speed race a fair few prams lost wheels or crashed and it was also done up and down 3 steep hills but most people lost or won because the baby couldn't drink quick enough
May Day - now that’s a national holiday on 1 May or near to it. This year it was moved to a week later to extend the platinum jubilee celebrations. There’s a tradition of the green man. There’s also Morris Dancing, in which middle aged men (usually) dress up, with hats, big blousy shirts, waistcoats, clogs and bells on their legs, dance around bashing sticks together in unison to music. Often one man is dressed as the green man or a horse. It’s a pagan ceremony but is often done outside the local church these days. They collect money for charity.
@@goldfish2379 When I was at school, our chemistry teacher was a Morris dancer. We used to tease him rotten about it, but when he was doing Morris dancing in the village centre he would get a lot of support from his students.
My favorite is Flounder tramping championships at Palnackie, but there are hundreds of at first sight wierd traditions, like Pancake races, scufffels with halberdiers at Rothwell Fair, conker championships etc. They are really a good excuse for fun and to open the pubs all day.
I think the only issue with running so many youtube channels @tyler rumple, is it can be a bit harder to have any fan interaction, for example i dont think i've ever seen a comment on a video on this channel ever be hearted by the uploaded, or ever replied to a comment. I just think it'd help the channel a lot
November the 5th is NOT a Holiday in the UK. We only consider it a holiday, if it's a Bank Holiday (Public Holiday) and get the day off. It's just Fireworks night or Guy Fawkes night. May day is a Bank Holiday on the first Monday of May each year.
St columb major in Cornwall have a yearly tradition called the silver ball where the locals are literally lobbing a silver ball (the size of a tennis ball) all over town, the shops and homes have to board up window for the day
There is also the term "mayday", the phonetic equivalent of the French m'aidez ("help me") or m'aider (a short form of venez m'aider, "come [and] help me" That term is unrelated to the holiday May Day.
Have a look at "The Atherstone Ball Game", started in the 1200s, only rule, don't kill anyone! If you want badass, try the Isle of Man TT, the worlds' oldest, and most dangerous motorcycle race, held on 37.73 miles of public roads, top speed recorded 207mph, lap record 135mph.
Here in Northumberland, Alnwickhave a thing cathedral Shrovetide football game which goes back to the 12th century, has no rules and is basically fun chaos
The common garden worm come to the surface when they feel the vibrations from rain hitting the ground this prevents them drowning. Locally the jackdaws (usually hang around in groups) have learned that if they all stamp their feet on the ground worms come to the surface they then eat them. Seagulls have learnt this trick from them and now do the same. I often drive by the entrance of the local golf club and see a large number of both all stamping thier feet on the ground.
Chester ( the county town of the Cheshire), dates back to roman times, the ancient city walls and roman racecourse are still there and many pubs are medieval. Every year have a parade from the ancient cathedral, featuring roman soldiers, dragons, skeletons, giant puppets, green men and lots of historical stuff! Its been going fo4 hundreds of years!
International Birdman Day - great fun very similar to Bridge Day in West Virginia Feyatteville, worm charming - the vibrations on the ground are used to simulate rain falling on the surface, Worms rise to the surface when there is rain.
We don’t get a holiday on 5 November. Individual towns and villages have developed their own traditions. Most bonfires have an effigy of Guy Fawkes on the top and set on fire. Some towns have alternatives. For example, in recent years, a certain ginger haired guy with a drastic combover who owns a few golf courses has been set aflame on top of a few bonfires.
The Beltane festival in Edinburgh a Pagan ceremony is attended by thousands .Naked maidens carry flaming torches to the top of the hill at night to welcome the Sun
If it helps you remember the date, here is the first line of a poem to commemorate Bonfire night. "Remember remember the fifth of November! Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot." In the old days, children used to drag around an effigy of Guy Fawkes calling out penny for the Guy. They would use the money raised to buy sweets (candy to Americans). Then in the evening the effigy would sit atop the bonfire to be burnt. These days kids have adopted the American custom of Trick or Treat instead, though the "penny for the guy" tradition is starting to come back in some areas.
The tar barrelling is a beautiful, insane tradition. Yes, it can hurt you, and as you can see there is a children's size barrel! I've had a couple of friends from there and they proudly sport the livid white scars on their neck from dripping globs of burning tar. If you visit the village ever, many true locals are easily distinguishable by those same white scars. The nettle eating really hurts! Cheese rolling is a bit of a classic, and is seriously dangerous, but the video missed out dwarf throwing and shin kicking to name but two. And by the way, nobody at all in the UK thinks any of these things are 'normal' - we revel in the weirdness just as much as anyone else, we're just not surprised by it!
Another fire festival that isn't mentioned is the Tar Bar'l in Allendale, which is centuries old. Another fire parade - dressed in fancy dress, and with their faces blackened with soot, they carry flaming whiskey barrels filled with hot tar, *on their heads*, through the town. Then they smash them down onto the ceremonial Bar'l bonfire, shouting 'be damned to he who throws the last'. And that's how they welcome the new year... Stinging nettles you can actually eat with no ill effects, once they're cooked. They're an old pot-herb that was mostly used in lean times. They really just taste of green. But they're eating them raw, which means the hairs aren't neutralised, so will sting. I don't find them particularly painful (I always get nettle stings picking blackberries, because they grow together), but they itch like mad for a while.
Before I even start watching this I just know I’m going to be embarrassed, but at the same time I know I’ll love your reactions!!!! 😮😊😂.. keep em coming pls
Nettles require technique to eat comfortably. It's worth acquiring. Nettles are rich in folic acid and iron. Very nourishing and delicious. Easily found and a life saver when you can't afford to buy food. Dandelions are good salad stuff too.
Recent cheese-rolling had a visitor win: a girl who could have played Dani Moonstar in the 'New Mutants' movie, who made it to the cheese and won it fair and square, with only a muddy mess and no injuries. Good on her. Looks like being light and nimble may be the winning strategy.
There is a phrase 'Grasp the nettle' meaning something like to go all in on something unpleasant rather than pussy foot around it, stemming from the fact that nettles sting more if you touch them lightly but if you grasp them tightly and squash them hard they sting a lot less.
Oooh I went to Up Helly Aa just before the pandemic. It was stupendous and the islands are beautiful. Although the 15 hour ferry was hell and I vomited all over myself within the first half hour.
Actually in the UK we use waivers a lot less - we're a lot less litigious because courts are more happy to say that if you're doing something vaguely stupid it's basically your fault and you can't sue
"Caveat emptor" (Buyer beware) comes to mind. Basically it's your responsibility to ensure it's suitable for you to do the activity or buy the item
@@BabyWil88 if you change it to participant beware then that's definitely a neat summary. Caveat emptor itself is actually not legal in the UK since it applies to commerce
And who said Brits are Boring there so many things to do in this Small Island.
We use waivers as toilet paper 😀👍
@@JonsTunes our lovely Queen is DEAD sad day
I can't imagine there is ANYONE in the UK who has not, at some time, been stung by a nettle.
I’m sure there isn’t anyone in Europe who hasn’t 😀 I didn’t know one can actually avoid it completely.
I have......upside down,..fine......
@@ines_uk just think of cats ... what happens when you brush them ... with the hair or against the hair :-)
if you are timid when grabbing a leaf and "softly brush over it" back and forth, you will hurt a lot,
but if you have a tight grip and press the hairs against the leaf, you should be pretty ok.
they are most annoying when you don't pay attention and walk into a nettle field with naked legs :-)
I jumped into a bush full of em . Don't question me.
@@Your_Fridge lovely boiled......
The phrase 'to grasp the nettle' (to go for something boldly) gives you a clue about how to handle and eat nettles without stinging yourself. I've eaten nettle leaves fresh from the stem, with no pain whatsoever. But if you handle them too delicately, they will sting you. The smaller and younger leaves can even be eaten as a salad vegetable, but the mature leaves can be cooked to make a very tasty soup. Yarg is a type of cheese from Cornwall which is wrapped in nettle leaves by hand. It's a very tasty cheese.
November 5th is not actually a public holiday in the UK. Probably because fireworks and bonfires work best at night when most people aren't working anyway. Most organised displays are usually moved to the nearest weekend.
This year the cheese rolling contest was won by a Canadian woman. She didn’t know it at first as she had knocked herself out!
Please make of fun of us, it means you like us! I’m sure you have noticed by now how self deprecating our humour is 🤣🤣🤣
The tar barrel thing used to be a bit more risky. They used to be rolled down the hill on the High Street until one year one disappeared through the Coop window.... Been a bit more sedate since.
I can remember going to Ottery and seeing this when I was a kid. It was fun, we just had to keep out of the way of the tar barrel. But the streets weren't so full when I went as I am 50 now. There used to be something similar in Hatherleigh, nearer to where I grew up (Winkleigh). I don't know know if it still occurs there.
Ottery is down the road from me, love the tar barrel.
Shetland was part of Norway until 1469 when the King of Norway gave it to Scotland when his daughter married King James III of Scotland
Nettles are quite nice in homemade vegetable soups. No pain involved
May Day goes back to the ancient Celtic celebration of Beltane. A time of rebirth and renewal, hence the deity The Green Man. Beltane was also the most popular day for ancient Britons and Celts to get married as it was an auspicious day for a new beginning. Goes way further back than Roman times.
Nonesense.
I love your sense of humour! Had me laughing out loud a lot! Thanks for being respectful of our weird uk ways! 😂
Love from Norfolk, UK 🇬🇧 :)
Double Gloucester is a special cheese, well so are most British cheeses. Also we Brits are very fond of doing daft things in public and often for charity. Most of us are fond of having a good laugh, people who take them too seriously are pitied at the least.
The cheese run, is what happens when you get free healthcare. 😂😂😂🙏🏻🇬🇧
Lol!
@@TylerRumple Actually, this year's winner is from North Carolina!
You can lapse into any length of coma without worrying you are running up a huge bill……
The implication of that statement is that they would'nt do it if Albion had a private health care system, 69. Is that correct ?....They'd still bleeding do it what ever mob was operating health care. This evil we have now in gov is the biggest threat we've ever had against this fabulous practice,(The NHS ) notwithstanding the colonials who come over, abuse it, pay f/all, and skulk back home. That's the price to be paid, BY US, the plebescite, who had no dog in that scrap. That's it.
Les Dawson champion gurner .
Can't believe they missed out the Atherstone Ball Game. That is total carnage ...
I was gonna say about that 😂 that event is fucking nuts lmao
Don't worry, we laugh at a lot of these too, although most of us love that they still happen.
They should have covered the Lewes bonfires. This describes a set of celebrations held in the town of Lewes, Sussex, England, that constitute the United Kingdom's largest and most famous Bonfire Night festivities.
Always held on 5 November (unless the 5th falls on a Sunday, in which case it is held on Saturday the 4th), the event not only marks Guy Fawkes Night - the date of the uncovering of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 - but also commemorates the memory of the seventeen Protestant martyrs from the town burned at the stake for their faith during the Marian Persecutions.
To mark the demise of the 17 Lewes Martyrs, 17 burning crosses are carried through the town, and a wreath-laying ceremony occurs at the War Memorial in the centre of town. Ladies' and men's races take place, pulling flaming tar barrels in a "barrel run", which takes place along Cliffe High Street at the start of the evening. A flaming tar barrel is then thrown into the River Ouse; this is said to symbolise the throwing of the magistrates into the river after they read the Riot Act to the bonfire boys in 1847. The festivities culminate in five separate bonfire displays.
A number of large effigies are drawn through the streets before being burned at the bonfires. Each year these include Guy Fawkes, as well as Pope Paul V, who became head of the Roman Catholic Church in 1605. In addition, each of the five main local societies creates a topical "tableau"(a large three-dimensional model packed with fireworks), and the Cliffe and Southover societies display on pikes the heads (also in effigy) of its current "Enemies of Bonfire", who range from nationally reviled figures to local officials who have attempted to place restrictions on the event. There are some videos of the event on TH-cam.
A veritable fountain of ...,.,..
God.....,.you bore me...,
@@williamwilkes9873 Thank you. I try to be informative.
This no quip,.......,sheer boredom....
@@williamwilkes9873 Actually I made a small error, it is not only British characters who are burnt in effigy. They have also burnt effigies of internationally hated characters like Trump.
Children used to recite:
Remember, remember, the 5th of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
There is no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
There's also no reason we shouldn't try again. Starmer OUT!!!
I can confirm that stinging nettles do indeed bloody hurt! It's not agony just really really annoying 😒 🙄
Dock leaves.
17:42 Worms often come up to the surface when it rains, so if you make the soil vibrate as if it is being hit by raindrops, the worms may come up.
22:18 No, it's not like eating poison ivy. Nettles are perfectly edible, if you boil them in water it stops them stinging and they are basically like salad leaves.
This is the first time I've ever heard of most of these traditions!
"Remember, remember the 5th of november, gunpowder treason and plot". The shortened version that everyone knows. Stinging nettles only have the spikes on the outside of the leaf. You can boil them and make nettle tea. The boiling of them also stops the sting so you can eat them aswell. The tea and the leafs (even when boiled) are high in antioxidents, which are very good for you. If you do go picking nettles, pick them higher up the plant if next to a path where dog walkers might go.
My mother recalled a visit from an American young farmer's club ( called 4H over there) in the 1940s. One of the girls in the party wiped her bare feet on a patch of nettles at the farm , not having encountered them before , and was badly stung. The hollow hairs on the nettle leaf have a brittle glass like character , and when shattered penetrate the skin . They inject a number of chemicals including histamine and formic acid ( the stuff ants defend themselves with). Other than that nettle shoots in the spring are nutritious and can be boiled down into a soup. The plants are also hosts to te caterpillars of several beautiful butterfly species eg Peacocks. In the past the old fibrous stems were used to make cloth. You will often find the antidote to nettle stings growing nearby as the broad leaved dock ( and nettles ) like fertile disturbed soil. Please note that it isn't the dock leaf , but the gloopy egg white like fluid found in the growing shoot sheaths that does the trick.
Plantain is better as it contains an antihistamine, Dock is largely placebo.
I'm totally hooked on your videos. Keep up the good work - so enjoyable thanks.
London has several mayors. The City of London Lord Mayor (the City of London is a city within a city) and the London Mayor. Then there’s the mayors of a few London boroughs, like Hackney.
Presumably they’re weighing the mayor to see if he was enjoying the publicly funded life too much.
Hi from the UK. X
May Day celebrations often include May Pole dancing and Morris dancing. Have a look!
As kids getting stung by nettles would spoil our day out it is so painful and there was a rush y all our friends to find dock leaves to help alleviate the pain.
About worm eating, down here in Gloucestershire on the banks of the River Severn there is an elver-eating contest (elvers = baby eels, like raw wriggling spaghetti). To eat as many eels as you can in one minute. My dear other half won the competition one year. At one point he was stuffing them in so fast we worried he was going to 'decorate the grass'.
Best not to try and make too much sense out of some of this. Just go with it!! That's the charm!
Check Sedgefield Village Shrove Tuesday football match ( soccer, Jin bur not as we know it)!!! No rules. No sides. Hours long. Handmade ball, like a cricket ball. No protection. A few broken windows and limbs ! At least 800 years old. All through the village and beyond ! More of a riot ! Ive lived there for 50 years!!!!! By the way.Nivember the 5th Isn't a holiday.
In a town near me they have a year football match. Not football as you would understand. Basically the whole village just has a fight
There are so many village traditions all over the country and most of them are crazy. There is a Leicestershire village that does Bottle Kicking, which is brilliant. Another Leicestershire village has The wheelbarrow race which is bonkers.
I have also been told about an annual Dwarf Chucking competition but it was stopped many years ago for obvious reasons
May Day was an ancient pagan festival, celebrating the change of the seasons and new life. It was once called Beltane i think
You’re going to get to see a lot of traditions to learn about in the next few weeks given the events of this afternoon. God save the Queen, Long live the King.
Regicide , get rid of the bat eared chinless wonder ,
Show some respect for Her Majesty, you oaf!
@@MrPercy112 bollocks you serf
The nettle sting are small hairs that are sharp and made of glass like hypodermics filled with histamine, serotonin, and acetylcholine. If you brush against them they raise swollen welts on your skin that is very painful for 15 to 20 minutes and then afterwards itches badly for about an hour, it is a form of contact dermatitis.
in relation to the Jack in the Green, there was a thing near me called the celebration of the straw jack, where someone dressed in a conical shell covered in straw would visit various local pubs, before ending up at one (always the same one), where a bonfire would be lit and participants would take it in turns to throw sheaves of straw onto the fire.
I don't quite fully understand what the tradition was about - i think it tied into a wicca or pagan thing - but it was enjoyable nonetheless :)
I absolutely love how you're respectful and eager to learn, it's so endearing. 😃 and try to remember, we think of America as cousins, our history is your history.....
Might have been had they paid their taxes. But with about 14% of Americans identifying as being of German descent there are about twice as many as identify as being of English ancestry 7%. So no our history is not their history.
@@stephenwaters3515 pre 1776 is English history
@@tonycrayford3893 Pre 1776 England was a part of their history. As were the Dutch and the French.
Fair enough; so bog off then.
That serves me right for trying to be loving......
12:51 Hahaha my grandparents used to take me to this as a child (as it is hosted in my home town and one other town). Even as a child I used to think it was a bit weird. Most of the people who do it flop straight off the pier into the sea. Occasionally, you get a glider that goes really far and gets the prize money though
May day is the more modern version of Beltane, the old pagan celebration. It's celebrated on the 1 St May and represented by the green man, the pagan link was the oak king ruled print and summer and at autumn the Holly King takes over for winter.
Tyler , you need to watch a video on just cheese rolling , there's more than one race . Seagulls pat the ground with their feet in the the same way to attract worms .🇬🇧
Blackbirds do the same. Amazing really.
Hi I live about 15 minutes away from coopers hill where they do the cheese rolling there is no way you’d catch me doing that not mad enough 😂
I have to say, most of these traditions are weird to Brits too - but we love them and embrace them in exactly the same way other cultures embrace their odd traditions 😀
Tar Barrel racing is incredibly fun
May Day is the first Monday in May. I live near Oxford which is a well known University city. As part of this we have maypole dancing which is people dressed in costumes dancing around a pole with ribbons weaving in and out. Also choirs start singing at dawn and some usually very drunk people dive off a bridge into the river.
... and a lot of students end up drowned in the Cherwell.
Life, eh? What can you do?
And let's not forget morris dancers.
@@lj50 I've been trying to forget Morris Dancers - and now you have made me remember!! Shame on you!
@@circus1701 Morris dancing is traditional dance in England.There is no shame in it!
stinging nettles are very beneficial if you just boil them and eat them like cabbages. I know they used them for eating in WW2. higher in iron than cabbage.
They use nettle in tea form as folk medicine I think?
I am really enjoying your video's especially regarding the UK. I am very surprised that you only have 4k subscribers as I watch other American Reacts video's and they have 80 or 90k subscribers.
You deserve a lot more than you are getting, so keep up the good work.
I remember seeing this in Huddersfield in he 1960s
His British orientated channel (he has a Canadian themed one, too) is only a few weeks old. I think he's got a decent following for such a young channel.
R.I.P. Queen Elizabeth II
Unfortunately we don't get a holiday (vacation) on November 5th, we work on a day that nothing happened (Unlike the USA on July 4th)! Other weird things you could check out are things like Lewes bonfires, Atherstone football game and perhaps pancake races. The town where I went to high school (Rye in Sussex) has a tradition of throwing hot pennies from the top floor windows of Rye town hall when a new mayor is appointed which adds coins, gravity, temperature, and crowds together for a fun time.
Faroe Islands belong to Denmark. I can't compare poison ivy to stinging nettles as poison ivy doesn't grow in Europe but stinging nettle hurts like a sonofabitch, for a minute. People do eat nettles, in salads, sandwiches, soups and teas, but they pick the nettles when they are young, before it becomes prickly.
Thanks Tyler, find these vids with your reactions really entertaining! 👍💕🇬🇧
It's a real hoot listening to your videos Tyler, keep up the good work.
Tyler, if I were you I would give up trying to figure out what makes us Brits tick, and there isn’t always a logical reason or historical event surrounding our traditions, obviously they started for some reason, but that reason gets lost to the mist’s of time, I am a through and through Brit and sometimes I don’t get what makes us tick, we are just us.
P.S, God Save The King. 😢🇬🇧🏴👍
And sometimes the reason in the first place was “for shits and giggles”
Probably a wager was involved, knowing how people tick@@rach_laze
Atherstone ball game is a good one to watch
I live in Sheffield. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the place. We're so remote the ferry takes all night to get here. The islands have a completely different culture to the rest of the UK. The islands have been inhabited since the stone age. We have the most ancient archeological sites per square mile in Europe.
Sheffield isn’t remote in the slightest, do you perhaps live on Shetland 😂
@@rach_laze I think it was p an autocorrect. It definitely meant to be Shetland.
The Cheese Rolling is an odd one. The implied message is "We're good natured but hardened British eccentrics with a taste for chese. You'll need to get up pretty early in the morning to compete because we set the bar quite high."
The nearby town of Cheltenham is the National Security equivalent of Langley, Vaginia, and has alot of low profile US Intelligence People living there. I recall in the 1970s seeing one such friend of the family watching cheese rolling for the first time in confusion as he tried to process what he was watching.
You can hear a major bone break from about 100 feet away, and a bone breaker will usually get a sympathtic round of applause as they are lead to the ambulance.
Gloucster Rugby Club 1st XV act as stoppers at the bottom of the hill to absorb the momentuum of participants, and there is a 50 foot high chain link fence at the bottom of the 1-in-1 45 degree hill to stop the 17 pound wheels of Cheese as they "Barnes Wallace" their way down the hill.
This is worth seeing.
Most of these are alien to me too, but they're localised for the most part. I've heard of Jack-in-the-Green, but that's a song on a Jethro Tull album, so... See, listening to music can be educational.
I love your enthusiasm. You clearly have a lot of fun doing these videos, which is great.
Jack in the Green is a local version of something probably much older: you will find many Public Houses named 'The Greene Man' often with a symbol of a face with plants growing from him.
Yes: fertility, nature, but he's the male side of nature itself.
Read 'Gawain and the Green Knight' an ancient legend later added to the King Arthur stories, and it'll become a little clearer; it's about the turning of the seasons, the return of spring, and life and death.
A bit of our pagan past that made it into the present.
Jack-in-the-Green is not pagan - it's a late 18th century London May Day tradition linked to chimney sweeps
The 'Greene Man' pub signs have only recently portrayed the 'Green Man' that is to be found in churches as a decorative carved feature.
Prior to that they would show the 'Wild Man' or 'Greene Man' seen at Tudor and Jacobean processions.
Neither have anything to do with the usual fertility nonesense.
And neither do they have any connection to the 'Green Knight' - other than the colour green.
I ate a ploughman's lunch today which included a pork pie, cheese, pickle and scotch eggs. Then I watched the Queen's procession. We are a 1000 year old country so we have accumulated a lot of layered cultural traditions!
Great video mate, you should have 100k subs in no time
You can’t pelt someone with melons. You would cause an injury, concussion or even death.
We have a festival in my market town called straw bear, its a parade which involves lots of drinking and dancing and a man dressed as a straw bear to celebrate the end of harvest, it has Pagan roots. On the sunday we burn the bear (man has exited costume at this point) although the whole festival does have big WickerMan vibes.
When I was a child their was a race in my town called the pram race
A pram was a heavily converted pram or shopping trolley made to look like a over sized pram
they had around 4 pushers dressed as mothers and a person dressed as a baby in the pram everyone would be all be over 18
In the race , the mothers would push the baby to each pub and the baby would run into the pub and drink a pint of beer and then get back into the pram
well in my town at the time we had around 15 pubs and it was who could complete the course of all the pubs the fastest
As you can imagine by around the 10th pub the effects of the beer and drinking it so quickly where taking toll and many of the babies wouldn't complete the course and the ones who did normally needed help getting into and out of the pub often carried by the mothers inside and out
many races where lost because a baby simply collapse or could no longer continue
Due to health and safety the race was stopped in the 90's
Did anyone die due to this Race? Just out of curiosity. Or was it the, I know better than you brigade? Known as Spoilsports.
@@iriscollins7583 as far as i know no one died but some of the people where extremally drunk
I remember one crew carrying in one person and almost pouring the beer down them and then carrying them out
and you would get a lot of the people throwing up and staggering all over the place
tbh it was probably very dangerous and I cannot imagine any of the babies had a good time even if they won
especially when you think the course would have taken about about 90 mins to complete just enough time for the beer to start taking effect
in addition to this as it was a speed race a fair few prams lost wheels or crashed and it was also done up and down 3 steep hills
but most people lost or won because the baby couldn't drink quick enough
May Day - now that’s a national holiday on 1 May or near to it. This year it was moved to a week later to extend the platinum jubilee celebrations.
There’s a tradition of the green man. There’s also Morris Dancing, in which middle aged men (usually) dress up, with hats, big blousy shirts, waistcoats, clogs and bells on their legs, dance around bashing sticks together in unison to music. Often one man is dressed as the green man or a horse. It’s a pagan ceremony but is often done outside the local church these days. They collect money for charity.
Don’t forget the maypole dancing and the May Queen, all very traditional too.
And what's wrong with Morris dancing? It seems perfectly sensible to me....🎩🍺🍺🍺🍺
Have you noticed that although nearly every town has a troupe of Morris Dancers, nobody ever admits to being one?
@@goldfish2379 When I was at school, our chemistry teacher was a Morris dancer. We used to tease him rotten about it, but when he was doing Morris dancing in the village centre he would get a lot of support from his students.
None of the customs in the first post is pagan in origin.
My favorite is Flounder tramping championships at Palnackie, but there are hundreds of at first sight wierd traditions, like Pancake races, scufffels with halberdiers at Rothwell Fair, conker championships etc. They are really a good excuse for fun and to open the pubs all day.
I think the only issue with running so many youtube channels @tyler rumple, is it can be a bit harder to have any fan interaction, for example i dont think i've ever seen a comment on a video on this channel ever be hearted by the uploaded, or ever replied to a comment.
I just think it'd help the channel a lot
November the 5th is NOT a Holiday in the UK. We only consider it a holiday, if it's a Bank Holiday (Public Holiday) and get the day off. It's just Fireworks night or Guy Fawkes night.
May day is a Bank Holiday on the first Monday of May each year.
Happy I discovered your channel Tyler. Devoted follower now
Tar Barrels is great and surprised it wasn't ranked higher. I wouldn't advise going at the weekend though as it gets really crowded.
The Jack-in-the-Green part was filmed in Hastings where I live.
St columb major in Cornwall have a yearly tradition called the silver ball where the locals are literally lobbing a silver ball (the size of a tennis ball) all over town, the shops and homes have to board up window for the day
There is also the term "mayday", the phonetic equivalent of the French m'aidez ("help me") or m'aider (a short form of venez m'aider, "come [and] help me"
That term is unrelated to the holiday May Day.
Have a look at "The Atherstone Ball Game", started in the 1200s, only rule, don't kill anyone! If you want badass, try the Isle of Man TT, the worlds' oldest, and most dangerous motorcycle race, held on 37.73 miles of public roads, top speed recorded 207mph, lap record 135mph.
Here in Northumberland, Alnwickhave a thing cathedral Shrovetide football game which goes back to the 12th century, has no rules and is basically fun chaos
I love your videos and I love the fact you are so interested and gracious about our little island .
The common garden worm come to the surface when they feel the vibrations from rain hitting the ground this prevents them drowning. Locally the jackdaws (usually hang around in groups) have learned that if they all stamp their feet on the ground worms come to the surface they then eat them. Seagulls have learnt this trick from them and now do the same. I often drive by the entrance of the local golf club and see a large number of both all stamping thier feet on the ground.
Chester ( the county town of the Cheshire), dates back to roman times, the ancient city walls and roman racecourse are still there and many pubs are medieval. Every year have a parade from the ancient cathedral, featuring roman soldiers, dragons, skeletons, giant puppets, green men and lots of historical stuff! Its been going fo4 hundreds of years!
9:46 we call a toilet a bog in Yorkshire 😂
that jack in the green is held massively in my town! 😂
International Birdman Day - great fun very similar to Bridge Day in West Virginia Feyatteville, worm charming - the vibrations on the ground are used to simulate rain falling on the surface, Worms rise to the surface when there is rain.
Notice the two RNLI Inshore Lifeboats at the Birdman thing? Sometimes they're needed.
We don’t get a holiday on 5 November. Individual towns and villages have developed their own traditions. Most bonfires have an effigy of Guy Fawkes on the top and set on fire. Some towns have alternatives. For example, in recent years, a certain ginger haired guy with a drastic combover who owns a few golf courses has been set aflame on top of a few bonfires.
Is he Donald ?
Obviously it’s a contest because nettles sting you. They are completely edible though and when cooked the sting disappears
"how much control did she have over the worms?" paaaahahahahahaa 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣
Tar also sticks to the skin like napalm... It is way more dangerous than you are thinking
The Beltane festival in Edinburgh a Pagan ceremony is attended by thousands .Naked maidens carry flaming torches to the top of the hill at night to welcome the Sun
The secret is to get up there before dark, and find a comfortable viewing spot. 😂
The Llanwtyd Wells Bog snorkeling is only part of their 'Alternative Olympics'.
If it helps you remember the date, here is the first line of a poem to commemorate Bonfire night. "Remember remember the fifth of November! Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot." In the old days, children used to drag around an effigy of Guy Fawkes calling out penny for the Guy. They would use the money raised to buy sweets (candy to Americans). Then in the evening the effigy would sit atop the bonfire to be burnt. These days kids have adopted the American custom of Trick or Treat instead, though the "penny for the guy" tradition is starting to come back in some areas.
May Day, you’ve never heard of the May Pole? With people moving in and out with ribbons from the top of a tall pole look it up.
The tar barrelling is a beautiful, insane tradition. Yes, it can hurt you, and as you can see there is a children's size barrel!
I've had a couple of friends from there and they proudly sport the livid white scars on their neck from dripping globs of burning tar. If you visit the village ever, many true locals are easily distinguishable by those same white scars.
The nettle eating really hurts!
Cheese rolling is a bit of a classic, and is seriously dangerous, but the video missed out dwarf throwing and shin kicking to name but two.
And by the way, nobody at all in the UK thinks any of these things are 'normal' - we revel in the weirdness just as much as anyone else, we're just not surprised by it!
Another fire festival that isn't mentioned is the Tar Bar'l in Allendale, which is centuries old. Another fire parade - dressed in fancy dress, and with their faces blackened with soot, they carry flaming whiskey barrels filled with hot tar, *on their heads*, through the town. Then they smash them down onto the ceremonial Bar'l bonfire, shouting 'be damned to he who throws the last'. And that's how they welcome the new year...
Stinging nettles you can actually eat with no ill effects, once they're cooked. They're an old pot-herb that was mostly used in lean times. They really just taste of green. But they're eating them raw, which means the hairs aren't neutralised, so will sting. I don't find them particularly painful (I always get nettle stings picking blackberries, because they grow together), but they itch like mad for a while.
Before I even start watching this I just know I’m going to be embarrassed, but at the same time I know I’ll love your reactions!!!! 😮😊😂.. keep em coming pls
Look up Maypole, Morris Dancing and Herne The Hunter. Lots of these are druidic in nature.
Maypoles and Morris dancing have absolutely nothing to do with Druids.
And neither does Shakespeare's Herne the Hunter.
Nettles require technique to eat comfortably. It's worth acquiring. Nettles are rich in folic acid and iron. Very nourishing and delicious. Easily found and a life saver when you can't afford to buy food. Dandelions are good salad stuff too.
Gurning is just weird. Even to old UK residents who saw it as a child. It's not good, and is not common.
Cheese rolling. Has been won on more than one occasion by Americans!
Ottery St. Mary is a very picturesque village in Devon situated on the river Otter.
Recent cheese-rolling had a visitor win: a girl who could have played Dani Moonstar in the 'New Mutants' movie, who made it to the cheese and won it fair and square, with only a muddy mess and no injuries.
Good on her.
Looks like being light and nimble may be the winning strategy.
There is a phrase 'Grasp the nettle' meaning something like to go all in on something unpleasant rather than pussy foot around it, stemming from the fact that nettles sting more if you touch them lightly but if you grasp them tightly and squash them hard they sting a lot less.
if you boil nettles it takes the sting out of it, my grandma said in her day you use to eat whatever you could find their was no social security.
Oooh I went to Up Helly Aa just before the pandemic. It was stupendous and the islands are beautiful. Although the 15 hour ferry was hell and I vomited all over myself within the first half hour.
stinging nettles hurt like hell! they are all over the UK countryside and in our back gardens (yards to you)