I used to have a coworker do that sip/sigh routine… it did drive me insane…. I started pretending to do a ‘silent fart’ after every sigh (a little lean to the side and slight facial grimace). She didn’t like it, but never said anything…. So….. We both merrily entered the lands of insanity together……..
I don't see how thanking the bus driver or saying hello to a total stranger are problems. I'm a southerner and lived in London for over 20 years and I do both of those things!
Try doing those in Sweden and you'll be very close to getting arrested! As a Northern Brit', it comes natural to me wherever I am. However, do it in Sweden and you may have well just shed all your clothes and asked them if you look ok for a 'streak' the way they'll look at you!
@Graham Pearce, that's exactly as it should be, however having lived in the Northeast of England for most if my life and now living near Watford I find that the few times I've travelled by bus and said thankyou the driver has totally ignored me. I do get a few acknowledgements when saying hello passing strangers but nothing like the response in the North.
@@peterrichards7387 It doesn't matter if your thankyous and greetings are ignored. That's the recipients problem! Good manners don't cost anything and the act of smiling releases endorphins in your brain and makes you feel better. Carry on smiling and spreading the good work, my friend, the last laugh is definitely yours.
My GP surgery has an automated phone booking system. That day's appointments can be booked from 1am. I always imagine those seeking treatment for insomnia grabbing all the best time slots, those with chronic fatigue syndrome get lumbered with the dregs.
That was fun - and the weather bloke was absolutely on point. This has been a patchy summer and i seem to have worked on the nice weeks and had a couple of rainy weeks off. But the Norwegian girl was projecting. When your only contribution to world cuisine is Lutefisk - dried beige cod served with tasteless beige sauce - the best attitude is one of humility!
Beige foods: sausage rolls, scotch eggs, sandwiches, pies, fish fingers, fish and chips, crumpets, cottage and shepherd pie, cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire pud, mash, rarebit, pork pie, cornish pasty. That's all I can think of right now and that's after a few pints..... oh, I guess beer also
Duvets and changing the covers are the bane of my life - I'm only 5ft 2, and end up having to crawl into the cover to make sure the duvet is laying flat. Every time I change the damn thing, I can guarantee there will a lump or folded in corner! I end up a sweaty, stressed out mess and definitely need a lie down to recover. 😆 😫
The secret is to turn the cover inside out, put your arms in through the opening and grab the far corners of the cover and the corners of the duvet at the same time from inside the cover. Keeping a tight hold you can then shake the cover over the duvet, safe in the knowledge that the corners are perfectly aligned.
Struth Vanessa, is your friend in Vienna giving birth to a baby hippo, those pj’s are rather large or is it twins plenty of growing room, excellent post as usual, keep it up or we well be back to the cat videos.
I have one particular fork that I will never eat with, I just use it for beating eggs or mixing stuff, it also says "property of the NHS" on it...I've no idea where it came from, I didn't steal it.
To be fair, many things we cook *are* "beige" - chicken, turkey, pies (anything with a pastry top etc), cottage/shepard's pies, pasties, Yorkshire pud's (as said), custard tarts,plus anything "Italian"! Being criticized by someone from a Country where nobody needs a cooker due to everything being served cold.....is a bit much!
Good choice waiting till September to go to Vienna. It is closed in August for the holidays - National Theatre, National Opera, Spanish Riding School, ... 😀
Brilliant video, I was giggling at most of the 'problems'. Those complaining about 7AM pedantic much. I don't understand the problem with GP's its just ridiculous. The removing of 'kind' what a utter insult hope the colleague e notice perhaps the victim might like raise an 'eyebrow' as the sign of utter contempt. Thank you for uploading the Vid. Best Wishes.
Or "I'm SOO busy, 20 minutes is too long. I need to get something beige, stab the cover and put it in for 5 minutes and when it goes beep beep, RUN into the kitchen."
You’ve put a smile on an old Englishman’s face, I’m glad you consider England your home. You might find the North of England more to your liking, we say hello to our neighbours, we’re friendlier and more helpful
Hey slurping tea is how to bring out the flavour, is though considered bad manners. Actually is how they test it for tea blending,when seeing (think they're called the blending manager or something like that) at Taylors in a video and one of their employees saying its the only job they've ever had when been told to spit on their line manager haha
The cutlery thing is me...I have a knife fork and spoon I don't like and only use if I have to, don't know why just don't like them it's crazy. I adopted them when moving from one house to another and don't know why I don't just throw them out or sent them to a charity shop. Love the baby PJ's and enjoy going back to Austria...but please come back soon!
As a late Boomer, I'd just like to say we haven't all had it easy either - I bought my first flat age 28 with a BIG deposit loaned by my Dad, just before interest rates soared to 15%. For 5 years my salary (graduate engineer, well paying job) just paid for mortgage interest, food and petrol to get to work. So I empathise deeply with young people today, but you're not the first generation to find life hard.
I had a very similar situation. I got my first flat, and one month later the interest rates rocketed. I had £10 a week to live off for a long while. Then the roof needed replacing. And the whole market went negative for nearly 8 years, meaning I couldn't sell. So it was not all easy for the older generation. It seems to be fashionable to blame older generations for everything.
No, the problem is boomers blaming young people for a) the way they were raised, as if they were responsible for that, and b) for not understanding that their life is also hard, and not because of avocado sandwiches. Boomers don't seem to understand economics and doesn't understand that houses have inflated in value because old people buy it all up and hoard it, wanting to be rich by doing absolutely nothing. And then turning around and saying that young people don't want to do anything. Buying up houses and selling them off for a profit by squeezing the market is the epitome of laziness.
Hmmm, Vanessa, you're a (gorgeous 😍) breath of fresh air in this messed up world ... Enjoy your trip and if / when you get chance, a longer version of this video would be great 😀
Hiya. I realised I was using the same pieces of cutlery ALL THE TIME, so I bought myself a Canteen and now - I'm STILL using the same pieces of cutlery ALL THE TIME. The Canteen is living in a cupboard. Stay safe. All the best to you.
I could never sign off an email with "regards" - what am I, and heartless monster?! I could be emailing Satan himself and I'd probably finish with "warmest regards as always, Sarah x" EDIT My bf had a spat with someone at work and he signed off his emails with "ESAD" which I'm told means "eat sh!t and die."
My current favourite is the term of endearment Stevie Gerrard taught Fernando Torres when they were both at Liverpool FC ,...Do one Blurt...and yes I did see one of those on a work email..nice one Sarah ,best wishes from the wirral....E
Hey Van Norwegian food is fantastic, Cheeses in a Tube, Salmon in a Tube, Meat in a Tube yes if you love food in a Tube Norway is the place for you, even Christmas dinner on the 24th of December ( So Wrong) in a Tube oh and lots of smelly raw fish.
Great reaction btw also you look great do you have a Instagram or anything by the way? sorry i just wanted to know 😂 also i never knew you were Austrian you don't sound like it at all i thought you were American for some reason lol
the Queue Ettiquette, you can let someone in front of you IF you are the only one in the Queue, you are only inconveniencing yourself, but if theres someone behind you are you inconveniencing them and thats a BIG NO
20 mins at 180 sounds right to me. That's what I do. 😂 180 is for a fan oven of course. 200 for a conventional oven. How did you know that the government were bringing out a scheme to stop the 8.00am appointment thing a whole year before it was announced? 😲 Not that the 8.00am thing is a real thing if you understand how the system works.
A Norwegian skits British cooking... Hmmm, let me think. We've a good few chef's famous all over the world. And Norway, does it even have a cuisine? Can anyone think or a Norwegian dish, i'm wracking my brain, and i've got nothing...
@@Alan_Mac I think you're right. I'd not heard of it so just watched a vid on it's preparation. Possibly the most boring dish i've ever seen. And it's a Christmas speciality/tradition they said! Then just when i thought it couldn't get any worse, they recommended serving it with... wait for it... boiled potatoes. Note to self, don't do Christmas in Norway :)
@@jfergs.3302 I worked in Stavanger for two years and you CAN get some outstanding restaurant food but the average daily cuisine in Norway is reminiscent of growing up in Glasgow in the 70s - minus the curries, of course.
My recollection of food in Norway is that in consists of 347 ways to serve fish, only relieved by the odd reindeer steak (an animal far too cute to eat), so I don't reckon they've much room to talk. Totally agree re American pickups, the latest useless, unnecessary and environment-wrecking crap to be foisted on us by the benighted colonials. Presumably the builders who never turn up are trying to pilot one through a narrow street!
The preponderance of American pickups on our roads is really down to individuals with over inflated egos, buying over inflated vehicles that are usually inversely proportional to the size their wedding tackle.
Spending time moaning about life, the Universe,the future,the weather and everything. Being agreed with by the poor person listening to me before they announce a blessed event. If they really agreed with me about future doom why are they bringing another life into it? Then I have to pretend the news is so great. Buy a dog instead.
English people in London thank bus drivers, and have the same British manners generally. We don’t see the point in fake conversations with strangers to make it seem like we are friendly lol you don’t care about that persons day or what they think of the weather etc northerners, stop pretending you do lol
i freely admit it, if i am talking to you on the street and i dont really know you, i only ever talk superficial, i m a northerner i just fake it better than most ;)
@@kJ922-h3jyes basically and to not stand there in silence..and it breaks the ice, and who know they may become friends, but when i first talk its to a stranger
I used to have a coworker do that sip/sigh routine… it did drive me insane…. I started pretending to do a ‘silent fart’ after every sigh (a little lean to the side and slight facial grimace). She didn’t like it, but never said anything…. So….. We both merrily entered the lands of insanity together……..
It's a secret but we all have our favourite ring on the cooker /hob
Ive got a 5 ring hob and only ever use the front right one
The concept of a Norwegian food critic is mind boggling.
is their food that bad?
Have you ever tried their potted herring...??? Give me battered cod anytime...
@@eamonnclabby7067 I'd rather eat my feet..
Agreed, Norwegian food is the definition of rough
I threw away my 'nasty' teaspoon - I just had enough of it!
I don't see how thanking the bus driver or saying hello to a total stranger are problems. I'm a southerner and lived in London for over 20 years and I do both of those things!
Try doing those in Sweden and you'll be very close to getting arrested! As a Northern Brit', it comes natural to me wherever I am. However, do it in Sweden and you may have well just shed all your clothes and asked them if you look ok for a 'streak' the way they'll look at you!
@Graham Pearce, that's exactly as it should be, however having lived in the Northeast of England for most if my life and now living near Watford I find that the few times I've travelled by bus and said thankyou the driver has totally ignored me. I do get a few acknowledgements when saying hello passing strangers but nothing like the response in the North.
@@peterrichards7387 It doesn't matter if your thankyous and greetings are ignored. That's the recipients problem! Good manners don't cost anything and the act of smiling releases endorphins in your brain and makes you feel better. Carry on smiling and spreading the good work, my friend, the last laugh is definitely yours.
We are just polite here whereas other countries are just rude
Lovely video...The tiger trucks are usually tax deductable as they can carry pallets of goods.
7am....it's GMT , we dictate what time the world has breakfast 🤣🤣🤣
Technically we invented time 🙂
My GP surgery has an automated phone booking system. That day's appointments can be booked from 1am. I always imagine those seeking treatment for insomnia grabbing all the best time slots, those with chronic fatigue syndrome get lumbered with the dregs.
That was fun - and the weather bloke was absolutely on point. This has been a patchy summer and i seem to have worked on the nice weeks and had a couple of rainy weeks off. But the Norwegian girl was projecting. When your only contribution to world cuisine is Lutefisk - dried beige cod served with tasteless beige sauce - the best attitude is one of humility!
Brown cheese. They have that too and it's awesome
Beige foods: sausage rolls, scotch eggs, sandwiches, pies, fish fingers, fish and chips, crumpets, cottage and shepherd pie, cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire pud, mash, rarebit, pork pie, cornish pasty. That's all I can think of right now and that's after a few pints..... oh, I guess beer also
Duvets and changing the covers are the bane of my life - I'm only 5ft 2, and end up having to crawl into the cover to make sure the duvet is laying flat. Every time I change the damn thing, I can guarantee there will a lump or folded in corner! I end up a sweaty, stressed out mess and definitely need a lie down to recover. 😆 😫
The secret is to turn the cover inside out, put your arms in through the opening and grab the far corners of the cover and the corners of the duvet at the same time from inside the cover. Keeping a tight hold you can then shake the cover over the duvet, safe in the knowledge that the corners are perfectly aligned.
@@MeFreeBee I'll give it a try at the weekend. :)
Mrs C can so relate at a lofty 5 foot 3 , however after 50 years in the NHS I think she has finally got the hang of it...E
Struth Vanessa, is your friend in Vienna giving birth to a baby hippo, those pj’s are rather large or is it twins plenty of growing room, excellent post as usual, keep it up or we well be back to the cat videos.
I have one particular fork that I will never eat with, I just use it for beating eggs or mixing stuff, it also says "property of the NHS" on it...I've no idea where it came from, I didn't steal it.
A good vid, liked the edits/effects too. Def relate to some of those, Super kind regards, Adz 😂🇬🇧
I definitely have a favourite spoon, a favourite tea spoon....for tea.
and a favourite spoon for desert. 🙂
To be fair, many things we cook *are* "beige" - chicken, turkey, pies (anything with a pastry top etc), cottage/shepard's pies, pasties, Yorkshire pud's (as said), custard tarts,plus anything "Italian"! Being criticized by someone from a Country where nobody needs a cooker due to everything being served cold.....is a bit much!
This is a brilliant video, all so true , loved it 🤣👍x
When you say something directly, they are in shock...their world has shattered, no exaggeration!
Favourite spoon yeah, had it since i was Christened ha, still use it :)
Good choice waiting till September to go to Vienna. It is closed in August for the holidays - National Theatre, National Opera, Spanish Riding School, ... 😀
Brilliant video, I was giggling at most of the 'problems'. Those complaining about 7AM pedantic much. I don't understand the problem with GP's its just ridiculous. The removing of 'kind' what a utter insult hope the colleague e notice perhaps the victim might like raise an 'eyebrow' as the sign of utter contempt. Thank you for uploading the Vid. Best Wishes.
Or "I'm SOO busy, 20 minutes is too long. I need to get something beige, stab the cover and put it in for 5 minutes and when it goes beep beep, RUN into the kitchen."
You’ve put a smile on an old Englishman’s face, I’m glad you consider England your home. You might find the North of England more to your liking, we say hello to our neighbours, we’re friendlier and more helpful
Hey slurping tea is how to bring out the flavour, is though considered bad manners. Actually is how they test it for tea blending,when seeing (think they're called the blending manager or something like that) at Taylors in a video and one of their employees saying its the only job they've ever had when been told to spit on their line manager haha
Ha Ha . Yes the teaspoon thing ! I thought I was the only one !
The cutlery thing is me...I have a knife fork and spoon I don't like and only use if I have to, don't know why just don't like them it's crazy. I adopted them when moving from one house to another and don't know why I don't just throw them out or sent them to a charity shop. Love the baby PJ's and enjoy going back to Austria...but please come back soon!
My sister and I used to fight over the forks. There were a mix of 4 prong and 3 prong.
@@tcroft2165 The things we did and do hey! Out of curiosity which prong did you both want?
@@susanashcroft2674 The 4 prong obviously! Clearly the best !
7am....wtf!!!! How can you be up and looking that good at 7am....purleeeez????
Servus Vanessa.
Totally get the 7 am thing. I am morally opposed to waking up to an alarm, or in the morning. Or waking up at all.
Anything that can't be cooked at 200° ( 180° fan) for 25mins had no place in my kitchen!
Vanessa, please feel free to slerp your tea as much as you like.
Slurping your drink and licking your knife is the height of bad manners. Should be a mandatory prison sentence for it.
As a late Boomer, I'd just like to say we haven't all had it easy either - I bought my first flat age 28 with a BIG deposit loaned by my Dad, just before interest rates soared to 15%. For 5 years my salary (graduate engineer, well paying job) just paid for mortgage interest, food and petrol to get to work. So I empathise deeply with young people today, but you're not the first generation to find life hard.
I had a very similar situation. I got my first flat, and one month later the interest rates rocketed. I had £10 a week to live off for a long while. Then the roof needed replacing. And the whole market went negative for nearly 8 years, meaning I couldn't sell. So it was not all easy for the older generation. It seems to be fashionable to blame older generations for everything.
No, the problem is boomers blaming young people for a) the way they were raised, as if they were responsible for that, and b) for not understanding that their life is also hard, and not because of avocado sandwiches. Boomers don't seem to understand economics and doesn't understand that houses have inflated in value because old people buy it all up and hoard it, wanting to be rich by doing absolutely nothing. And then turning around and saying that young people don't want to do anything.
Buying up houses and selling them off for a profit by squeezing the market is the epitome of laziness.
You slurp your tea all you like, I don't have any problems with that.
The beige reference is food with breadcrumbs turns beige when cooked. Vegetarians who are English will say the same
Hmmm, Vanessa, you're a (gorgeous 😍) breath of fresh air in this messed up world ... Enjoy your trip and if / when you get chance, a longer version of this video would be great 😀
The pregnancy transition to double vaccinated, priceless.
Hiya. I realised I was using the same pieces of cutlery ALL THE TIME, so I bought myself a Canteen and now - I'm STILL using the same pieces of cutlery ALL THE TIME. The Canteen is living in a cupboard. Stay safe. All the best to you.
“It’s 7am in the afternoon [and I’m very hungover]”
I could never sign off an email with "regards" - what am I, and heartless monster?! I could be emailing Satan himself and I'd probably finish with "warmest regards as always, Sarah x"
EDIT My bf had a spat with someone at work and he signed off his emails with "ESAD" which I'm told means "eat sh!t and die."
Regards is reserved for that work email reply when you are seriously hacked off with whom you're conversing. It's the equivalent of the parent tone.
ESAD - surely that's a gross misconduct offence 😂
My current favourite is the term of endearment Stevie Gerrard taught Fernando Torres when they were both at Liverpool FC ,...Do one Blurt...and yes I did see one of those on a work email..nice one Sarah ,best wishes from the wirral....E
Loved ❤️your videos I cook everything @200 degrees C till golden brown love and hugs ❤️
Hey Van
Norwegian food is fantastic, Cheeses in a Tube, Salmon in a Tube, Meat in a Tube yes if you love food in a Tube Norway is the place for you, even Christmas dinner on the 24th of December ( So Wrong) in a Tube oh and lots of smelly raw fish.
Great reaction btw also you look great do you have a Instagram or anything by the way? sorry i just wanted to know 😂 also i never knew you were Austrian you don't sound like it at all i thought you were American for some reason lol
I can relate to almost all of these😆
my Norwegian pal told me Immade the best smoked lamb he ever had. fyi x
I feel like if you’re going to be a builder in this country - unreliability has to be one of your traits
Plus the ability to whistle through your teeth and shake your head in a rueful manner...
Sighing after the first sip of tea is fine but not every sip
I have never seen anyone slap their leg except in pantos!
The Norwegian girlfriend is probably talking about pie pastry Cottage Pie and cakes that do look a bit bland before they go in the oven!
A Norwegian has a cheek talking about British food, we don’t eat half fermented fish 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
That's the Swedes!
@@malcolmbrown7683 and Norwegians, It was on the menu of the hotels I’ve stayed in when working in Kristiansand, Stavanger and Bergen
@@williebauld1007 OK. Thought it was just a Swedish thing!
Being first in the queue is nice. Or first commentator.
the Queue Ettiquette, you can let someone in front of you IF you are the only one in the Queue, you are only inconveniencing yourself, but if theres someone behind you are you inconveniencing them and thats a BIG NO
The Devil All the Time is a great movie!
Vanessa, how many cups of tea do you have in a day?
20 mins at 180 sounds right to me. That's what I do. 😂 180 is for a fan oven of course. 200 for a conventional oven.
How did you know that the government were bringing out a scheme to stop the 8.00am appointment thing a whole year before it was announced? 😲
Not that the 8.00am thing is a real thing if you understand how the system works.
Great video :)
A Norwegian skits British cooking... Hmmm, let me think. We've a good few chef's famous all over the world. And Norway, does it even have a cuisine? Can anyone think or a Norwegian dish, i'm wracking my brain, and i've got nothing...
Lutefisk. Dried cod served with white sauce. Beige and tasteless. The Norwegian girl was projecting, I think.
@@Alan_Mac I think you're right. I'd not heard of it so just watched a vid on it's preparation. Possibly the most boring dish i've ever seen. And it's a Christmas speciality/tradition they said! Then just when i thought it couldn't get any worse, they recommended serving it with... wait for it... boiled potatoes. Note to self, don't do Christmas in Norway :)
@@jfergs.3302 I worked in Stavanger for two years and you CAN get some outstanding restaurant food but the average daily cuisine in Norway is reminiscent of growing up in Glasgow in the 70s - minus the curries, of course.
@@jfergs.3302 Nothing wrong with boiled potatoes especially if they are new potatoes.
@@malcolmbrown7683 No, not as such, but they can be incredibly bland. Of course, Jersey Royal's is another matter, who doesn't love JR's :)
"Crispy beige" :D
As someone who has visited Norway many times, Norwegian food is very bland and dull . Like the people but the food not so much!
My recollection of food in Norway is that in consists of 347 ways to serve fish, only relieved by the odd reindeer steak (an animal far too cute to eat), so I don't reckon they've much room to talk. Totally agree re American pickups, the latest useless, unnecessary and environment-wrecking crap to be foisted on us by the benighted colonials. Presumably the builders who never turn up are trying to pilot one through a narrow street!
The preponderance of American pickups on our roads is really down to individuals with over inflated egos, buying over inflated vehicles that are usually inversely proportional to the size their wedding tackle.
Al Murray got it right when he claimed that America winning the war of independence is seen by the UK as a lucky escape
Ignore the Non Slurpers just shows you are enjoying it
Was that really tea at the one and only 7 am...or was it really a cheeky vino...?? ..indeed why not..??
Best wishes from a currently sober Wirral...E
There are lots of places simply called Manchester in the World!
As regards to the time I could split hairs in relation to this 😉
7am UK or 7am Austrian ( technically 8am GMT) 🤔....😉
I hope you live here for at least another four years .🙂
You should do a reaction to "Can I Come In Your House? | Micky Flanagan Live"
Slurp with a straw it really annoys people 😂😂😂 have same huge bowl for everything breakfast and dinners
Boomers mortgages 15% smoke that 😂😂😂
you're austrian? i always thought you were american
good old vanessa
Saying something is "beige" is a way of saying it's dull and boring
💙💙💙
) well i would rather eat "beige food" than sheep's head or fermented smelly fish ( rakfisk
You have a American accent. 😳 how is that ? When you say you from Austria.
I would take Vienna over London every time.
There’s 7, 7 ams, one for each day of the week lol or 365 if you want to be pedantic 😛
Spending time moaning about life, the Universe,the future,the weather and everything. Being agreed with by the poor person listening to me before they announce a blessed event. If they really agreed with me about future doom why are they bringing another life into it? Then I have to pretend the news is so great. Buy a dog instead.
Be careful when you going on your own to another country
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Jeez how big a baby are you expecting???
English people in London thank bus drivers, and have the same British manners generally. We don’t see the point in fake conversations with strangers to make it seem like we are friendly lol you don’t care about that persons day or what they think of the weather etc northerners, stop pretending you do lol
i freely admit it, if i am talking to you on the street and i dont really know you, i only ever talk superficial, i m a northerner i just fake it better than most ;)
@@Greenwood4727 I appreciate you admitting that, cause then also what really is the point lol is it just to seem friendly? Even though it’s fake?
@@kJ922-h3jyes basically and to not stand there in silence..and it breaks the ice, and who know they may become friends, but when i first talk its to a stranger
@@Greenwood4727 southerners don’t mind the silence lol I think we only think to talk to strangers in sociable settings like in pubs etc
You obviously don't know the UK very well. There are so many regional differences, so don't react to the usual stereotypes.