I was fortunate enough to live in England for a year. Another difference is sane liability laws: If you want to hike through a farmers field and get chased by the bull, don't think you can sue the farmer for mental distress. People there are assumed to be responsible for their own actions. What a concept, right!
They most certainly are responsible if they are walking on private land! After all they'll always have signs saying PRIVATE or PRIVATE LAND in block capital letters so that people don't walk on them and if they still decide to ignore the signs and fences making it obvious that it's not public land then you most certainly should be the one responsible for whatever might happen next. After all there's a reason why they're private.
@@redbaron1001 There is another side to the coin. Walking in Herefordshire sticking to public footpaths, including registered long distance public footpaths, I was disconcerted by the number those public footpaths blocked by signs saying: "Beware of the Bull" or "Cows with calves in the field". That represents an awful lot of (presumably some pedigree) bulls and cattle. After scanning one field very carefully to ensure the path leading to a church was in fact clear I crossed it cautiously, whilst thinking the crop did not seem consistent anyway with running livestock. I mentioned that sign to folk at the church to be told "Oh, that's put there just to discourage walkers, many of them are like that." I am not sure that is a wise move overall. I have also encountered water troughs artfully located just under the stile on public footpaths. The result was quite a dangerous stile to negotiate plus a surrounding area of well churned mud mixed with a generous proportion of cattle slurry obstructing the only access route. Someone has a sense of humour I thought, though it is not so hilarious when you have small children with you. Someone's welly boot may still be under there. Rather sad overall, some of those paths have been in use in one form or another for hundreds of years and are rich in history. Even better if you can read an O. S. Map. Sadly, on at least two occasions I have discovered once well constructed foot path route signs sawn into pieces and chucked in a ditch.
@@redbaron1001 Checked the "Right to Roam" legislation lately? And don't forget the managed farming of livestock in the National Parks and the Crown Estate, land which is accessible by walkers. There is an obligation on all sides to act responsibly, vide my related post.
Many years ago, the City of London (not greater London) tried to bring in restrictions on crossing the road. They painted red markings on the edge of some footpath sections to indicate no crossing allowed. Guess what, everyone made sure to cross where the red paint marking were.
@Kal K . Countries in Europe have affordable universal healthcare with more than twice the population of the US. If it can be done in Europe why can't individual states do the same. Unfortunately in the US, healthcare is a very profitable business and not a public service. As for bankrupting the country, per capita the US citizen already pays nearly double that paid in Europe.
@Rae Ward same here, I had a multiple fracture of my pelvis, 6 wks in hospital 2 opps one over 27 hrs, the other 6 hrs. Operations were done by a pelvic specialist. It was a nightmare and at one point(just after admission) I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life(thankfully that didn't happen). All free under NHS, I dread to think what would have happened if I had been in America.
University tuition used to be free in England and Wales up until 1998. There was a loans system for living expenses, but most low income family students also got a subsistence grant, which was just about enough to live on.. I was one of the lucky ones to go to uni and have no debt from it.
@@LADYRAEUK It's also true. Thatcher introduced fees for students, in my view as a way of stopping them questioning the govt and going on marches to demonstrate against the govt. Today, due to the creeping authoritarianism everyone has to apply to the govt for a permit to demonstrate against the govt! I'm not making this up, lived here for 69 years and watched the legislations gradually eroding our freedoms.
At the time of the old grant system, combined with tough examinations, only about 10% of schoolkids ever went on to university. I was the first of my family to go to university and got the full grant and no tuition fees (hooray). However with the expansion that allowed nearly 50% to go to university that was financially impossible to continue.
Driving on the left was the original way for all countries. Because you carry your sword in your right hand (or are empty handed) so someone approaching you can see if you're armed or not, or fight you. This is the same reason you shake hands with your right hand. Napoleon changed it over in France for some reason to do with moving large groups of troops.
She could so do voice-overs on wind-down/sleep apps. Her voice is so soothing! Oh btw Amanda have you switched locations? It looks like you’ve been booted up to the loft/attic with that skylight window in the background.
Yes, I agree. Amanda should do some sort of voice work. Audio books, narration of some kind etc. I feel you have the right kind of clear and soothing voice for educational voice over work, as odd as that may sound.
My parents would allow us a sip of a sherry or beer from a very young age, and as kids we had wine with Christmas dinner or cider on other occasions. It meant that when we were old enough to drink on our own, there was no great discovery to be made, so none of us have ever been big drinkers throughout our adult lives.
Unfortunately, this has not helped with the rate of alcoholism in the UK. Nor has the legal age to drink. Here in Scotland the rates of alcoholism is horrendous!! Our whole culture revolves around drinking.
I was the same always allowed to try it if I wanted. But I'm one of those 'strange' ones who doesn't like the taste of alcohol really, so never been drunk before. I just don't see the fascination. I have enough health issues in my life, I don't need a nasty headache to add to it all 😂🤣
Common sense and discretion: The 'Top Gear' TV crew (in the days of Clarkson, May and Hammond) were filming, with full permission, at a provincial airport in the US. The airport only opened on weekdays and they were filming on a Saturday, which meant there was nobody else there. Their vehicles were parked outside the main entrance, where there were 'no parking' markings. A police officer turned up to check what they were doing. All their documents were in order, but the officer told them to move their vehicles because it was a no-parking zone. Bear in mind this was part of the airport, not a public road. Jeremy Clarkson pointed out that the airport was closed, so there was no sense in observing those markings, as they are intended to prevent congestion when the airport is open. In the UK, that's a fair point and, even if an officer did turn up (unlikely), they would accept that logic. Not in the US, though. The officer allegedly said: "Why use common sense when you have rules?" That, to me, is a huge difference in the mindsets of the two nations.
There are plenty here (UK) who will enforse pointless rules, though - quite often because they fear for their jobs if they were observed not doing so.🙁
School-leaving age England You can leave school on the last Friday in June if you’ll be 16 by the end of the summer holidays. You must then do one of the following until you’re 18: Stay in full-time education, for example at a college, start an apprenticeship or traineeship spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training.
I remember the time I got to spend with my newly born daughter was given in hours in the US…..I really deeply resented that. Not just as a new parent, but as a parent who had lost a number of “pregnancies” before, to have only one of the many pregnancies we had go to term and then to be given only hours with my child …..I’ll never forget nor forgive that. To me the US system is inhumane.
I was very lucky with my only child (lone parent). Whilst I was on maternity leave, the company I worked for collapsed. I was then able to claim benefits, had my rent paid and had access to training courses to get me ready for returning to work. I was able to spend the first 5 years of my daughter's life with her. I've always worked but being able to have a career break was priceless. I will always be so grateful for how we look after each other in the UK. I'd be so resentful if I'd missed those wonderful days/weeks/years.
@@stephenlamley541 I'd only agree because most of the world is right handed and it's important to have your strongest hand on the steering wheel at all times. Though Americans mostly drive automatics, but most of the world drives manual.
I am British and was born here. I keep my eggs in the fridge and always have since having a fridge. But we used to keep them in the pantry. The pantry was a cupboard with concrete shelves and a vent on the shady side of the house to keep food cool. In the past, milk was delivered to our doorstep every day and my mother would shop every other day for fresh food walking a mile or more carrying the shopping bags.
UK here too, and don't keep eggs in the fridge - there is no need. However, I do keep my own hens so the protective "bloom" hasn't been washed off them.
Was told by the farmers and my doctor in my region that the reason we don't really bother putting eggs in the fridge is mostly cause their is little point since the majority of the population if not all have had the vaccines to make it safe to do so either way it's up to you though
On jaywalking, I had a strange experience many years ago, visiting Canada. I was in Edmonton and returning to my hotel at 2 am after a night out. The streets were deserted with not a car in sight. As I crossed the road to my hotel, a lone cyclist yelled at me "No jaywalking!" I was amazed that anyone could be so petty on a completely deserted street!
Similar issue when I was 22 back in 1969 I crossed the street in downtown Detroit, cup blows whistle traffic comes to a stop OMG someone is in trouble and then I realised everyone was looking at me, what had I done ? well I had crossed the road, what a strange law I thought ..
@Alfred Wedmore yup, I swear I’m the only cyclist that uses hand signals in my area! I do wonder if it’s because they don’t do the Cycling Proficiency Test at school any more?
@@sarahbettany7546 I don't think that accounts for all of it, although when I was at school, we weren't allowed to cycle to school until we had passed it. When I'm cycling, it's all about not endangering myself or anyone else. Sadly, that doesn't apply to a lot of cyclists or motorists these days
Actually, everyone living in England alone who were born on or after 1st September 1997 have to remain in education/training....full time or part time (open to correction) until their 18th birthday but yes, can still leave school at 16 as long as it's on the final Friday of June or if their 16th birthday falls by the 31st August end of the summer holiday. Think this law came into force circa 2008.
OMG you're giving me flashback nightmares of my many USA visits with the "pay the price on the tag" thing! Sometimes I'd just want to get something with whatever cash I had with me, and I'd just work out how much I had in my pocket, grab some items corresponding to about that or a few dollars less from the shelf and head to the cashier. Every freaking time they rung it up on the til and added this tax and that tax, I'd have to get out the credit card because it would go over the listed price! It becomes infuriating. Here in Australia it's actually a breach of consumer law to not list the full checkout price of an item (it's basically considered "false advertising").
Australian here of German heritage. My parents allowed me to drink while in their company at the age of 16. At 66 I still enjoy a drink but I don't need to drink. I can count on two hands the number of times I've been horrendously drunk. Happy yes, but not paralytic.
I'm surprised no US shop (sorry, "store") has thought to do the sums and advertise "shelf-edge price shown is what you pay" or some similar slogan: surely it'd give them an edge over their competitors?
I can see how you think of the NHS. As I've nearly died twice and am in remission presently. Also the French feed their children wine watered down with water from around 6yrs old and don't have an issue with binge drinking in the youth.
In the UK you can go for country walks without getting arrested (or shot 😧) for trespassing. There are public rights of way crisscrossing the countryside, and even straying off them is not a crime as long as you leave if requested by the landowner. When staying with my cousin in rural Connecticut I thought it would be nice to go for a stroll in the beautiful area surrounding her home, but we had to drive miles to find a state park instead.
@@mubbles1066 Its a bit more complicated in the UK. The laws allow and forbid various aspects, both in public *and* private land. It's rare anyone is really doing much so most people haven't a clue of the specifics.
@@mubbles1066 as a recomendation do no blackberry pick in a forest or by the side of the road if you need an explanation as to why. Firstly berries by the side of the road draw up fumes from cars just like treets do which they then turn into oxygen berries cant do that but they can absorb the fumes making the berries not safe to eat. Second why not woodland areas because generally speaking dogs homeless and drunk fucks on there way home have merrily pissed all over the berries it rains covers the smell and remember when i said berries are natural asorbers of toxins well piss contains all of the chemicals and waste your body is trying to expel so no amount of washing will get rid of that.
There is a General Sales Tax here in Australia (10%, nationwide) which is already included in a displayed price. So if something has a $10 price tag, $10 is what you pay - not $11. When I spent a couple of years in the US in the 80s it took me quite a while to get used to having to calculate how much I would actually have to pay for things and I could never understand why the tax couldn't be simply incorporated into the price. Still can't, actually.
Same here, there are surely a higher percentage that pay tax than don't, so it makes sense to add it! Imagine having a limited budget for food shopping and not easily adding up as you go along. Although your 10% tax sounds lovely, it's 20% here in the UK!
It’s the same in Canada, well at least Quebec where I spent a few years getting used to seeing the price and then the GST/PST (sorry if I got these wrong… it was a long time ago) taxes added. The question of why can’t the taxes be simply shown in the final price was asked back then too.
It is like tipping, in Australia you are paid a decent wage hourly and the final cost is the final cost. In the US,you are expected to pay extra as the hourly wage is close to slavery andyou are expected to top up the cost of your meal or service.
we drove across the country east-west through a dozen states and the tax percentages were all different. It kinda makes sense that, say, coca cola et al can sell their product nationally and provide the same advertising material with prices, and then have the different states add their own tax, rather than have to create 50 different POS signs, but that doesn't stop it being annoying. Especially when I went in with my Aussie accent. I had no idea if anyone was ripping me off. :P
The drinking age in the UK is.... Between the age of 5 and 16 it is legal to drink at home. From 16 to 18 you can be bought wine, beer or cider if served with a meal. From the age of 18 there are no restrictions.
Indeed. I vividly remember my favourite drink as a child of 7, 8 years old being a Snowball (i.e lemonade and Advocaat). Oh, and I will add I did not become a binge-drinking adolescent like many of my peers. I rarely drank alcohol at all in fact. And don't drink at all as an adult.
If you buy a young adult here in the USA, 16 to 21 alcohol in a restaurant , not only would you get arrested and the young adult but in some states like Florida the server would be arrested as well. I have been carded in Florida at an old age when I have bought drinks with over 21’s in the party as well as them.
Sorry Amanda but the left hand side of the road is the correct side to drive on. It comes down to centuries of military strategy based on the fact that most people are right handed and therefore the right eye is the strongest eye, that's why castles in the United Kingdom have clockwise staircases because they're easier to defend from above. In the States you guys drive on the right because it's a hangover from the drivers of horseteams who traditionally sat on the rear horse on the left-hand side. So if you're getting in your car to drive it from the left hand side then you're the getting in the wrong side.
Some castles have anti-clockwise staircases. It is a myth that clockwise staircases were easier to defend. I was mildly shocked to find that out after years of visiting to castles.
In the UK i started being given alcohol from a young age, mixed with lemonade, then as I got older, 15 or 16, they let me have the occasional full beer, so when I turned 18 it was no big deal...I did notice that people from stricter families who were forbidden from drinking growing up had a much more different attitude when they were finally allowed
Mate a baby can legally drink in the UK if supervised it's greats obviously nobody is going to give a baby alcohol well unless it's rubbing alcohol for sore gums.
Same here, I could have any alcoholic drink I want, but I had to ask my parents for it, answer was always yes, if you drank it without permission..... Hell was coming your way. Best policy to be honest. A mate of mine used to take is daughter (13 -14yrs old) in the local pub, she could only drink non alcohol drinks. As a a result she mixed with older women, IMO her self confidence grew rapidly.
Yeah. I remember going to Australia and seeing a group of young US lads who’d just arrived absolutely destroy themselves with Jack Daniels even before the bus arrived to take us out for the evening. Passing out, vomiting, weeping etc. We all got there over the course of the evening😂, but the brits, Germans and Aussies all managed to get to the end of the evening by having some idea of how to pace themselves!😂
@@samuel10125 ..You are better off using bonjella or marmite for teething gums. Rubbing alcohol is not safe for consumption - it is a sterilising strength alcohol !!! ..then again Samuel, I suppose that you don't use it for your used needles either ??
The sales tax thing is my number one peeve when I'm visiting the US. It's especially irksome when you're buying small items like magazines or snacks and you've counted out what you thought was the exact money only to be asked for an additional 8 cents when you get to the checkout.
It's not just the USA that does that with the tax I'm in Canada and they don't have the tax and it's separate too here in Canada which I think is stupid and the drinking age in Canada is 19 in eight provinces and the three territories and it's 18 and two provinces
It just amazes me that any society would have it that you don’t pay what it says on the price tag, you get an arbitrary amount added on when you get to the til.
I know that it can be annoying if you're not used to it. However, I prefer it because it is a constant reminder to everyone just how much the government is taking.
I like added sales tax. Yes, it's more convenient the other way, and I remember that (I'm old enough to remember when Canada introduced its sales tax), but the point behind making it visible is it reminds people they're paying a tax. Yes, people hate it, but that's a good thing. People will stop hating paying tax when governments start using the money better.
Biggest differences I noted in time in USA , the number of police and number of different law enforcement agencies and secondly the ease with which firearms can be obtained
the US think we cant own a gun in the UK well we can you just have to pass a psych exam show a need for it and follow strict rules on storage with random inspections, for urban pest control an air weapon is good enuff (OK shooting a mouse with an AK47 will be more fun but the landlord might moan about the holes in the wall)
You're probably right about the alcohol thing, making less of a deal about it and not encouraging sneaking around probably does help. The same approach works with sex too, in countries with good comprehensive sex education and more open conversations about it rates of STIs and teenage pregnancies are much lower than places that take a more taboo approach.
Supermarkets in the UK used to move basic “essential” items around the store regularly. Very frustrating, the reason was to stop shoppers just going straight to what they needed and not be subject to all the marketing and shelf labelling. So cause you had to search for the eggs or sugar, some would end up with a basket of impulse purchases. Basically just a way to get you to buy more than you intended.
That's why I love Aldi for my grocery shopping. They mainly only carry the essentials and whatever more they sell is in a specific location in the store and that layout hasn't changed much in decades. It's all about shopping for groceries as efficiently as humanly possible.
Roaming around the countryside goes back to the days before cars and bicycles when villagers had to walk from one place to the next. The Ordnance Survey maps the whole country and shows paths. As a rambler I like to roam from place to place, hardly ever crossing roads.
2 of my (British) colleagues were in the USA in a suburb of Milwaukee. They looked on the map and found there was a bar about a mile away so, as it was a nice day, they decided to walk there along a country road. They got about half way there when they were stopped by the cops. The cops wanted to know where their car had broken down, and did they need help? They said “No., we’re just out for a walk on a nice day!”. The cops took them in their cop-car to the bar and told them to get a taxi back home afterwards. Why? Nobody walks along American roads, at least not voluntarily! And if you do it, it immediately makes you look suspicious and the cops will probably want to know what you’re up to.
@@martinstent5339 I remember back in 1980 when I stayed at a hotel in Washington DC with three work colleagues. After a day touring the Smithsonian, we headed back on the subway to the station nearest the hotel. We could see it on the other side of the freeway, but couldn't see how to cross the freeway. After asking a local, he told us, "You can't walk there, call the hotel courtesy coach to pick you up."
I (English) didn't know we had _any_ minimum age - are you sure? If so, is it a recent change? (I know you can't _buy_ alcohol, or have it bought for you, below a certain age in a pub or shop [though you can _be_ in the pub with your parents, say, e. g. for a meal.)
@@G6JPG yes im sure! It is a little known obscure law (along with other crazy outdated laws like being arrested for having sex in any position other than the missionary position! (not sure who has the job of finding out how people have sex 😂) that still exists from a bygone time. I mean hopefully parents are not learning about this law then thinking it’s ok to get their 5 year old toasted on vodka!! I do think having these laws covers the parent legally but also demystifies alcohol for kids so it’s not such a forbidden fruit so to speak. With the US being at the opposite end of the spectrum and not allowing citizens to drink until age 21, kids want alcohol even more. I mean, it is crazy that at age 18 US adults can vote, sign up for the military and fight for their country, go to prison or jail, get married, make their own medical decisions… Etc, but can’t drink alcohol! Subsequently, in the US there are way more alcohol induced accidents, and deaths in the teenage population then other more liberal countries that don’t see alcohol as a huge deal!
Amanda the actual legal age to drink alcohol in England is 5 years old (with your parents consent). A 14 year old can have a cider or a glass of wine as long as it's with a meal in a pub. You have to be 18to buy alcohol is 18 years old.
Not 14 though, 16 is the age from which a person can have beer, cider or wine with a meal, so long as it has been paid for by an adult. On private property children from age five can have beer wine or cider.
Amanda - you are quite right regarding alcohol. I was brought up to have a small amount of alcohol as a child - a sip of Dad's beer or a very weak shandy - that's lemonade and a small amount of beer as opposed to the American shandygaff which is light beer mixed with ginger ale or sarsaparilla - I take the second from Robert Lowell's LIFE STUDIES so that version may be New England's equivalent. When I was 18 I was offered a party but chose instead to go with my late Dad to my "local", which incidentally was the famous Top Hat in Cwmtillery, Wales, now demolished, where Tom Jones signed his first professional contract in the eary 60s. There I had one beer, and left it at that! There was no novelty to it and I have never understood the American attitude, which makes it all such a big thing often with bad results. On a different note, all university education was free until the mid 90s and students were even supported by grants, however the growth in the number of entrants made that impossible. That is a political issue however so will stop! Love your videos, warm regards from Wales...
To be fair it was never free it was taxes. And it is free at the point of attending, with basically no actual negative impact on life. The complaints about loans are massively overblown.
@@wyterabitt2149 I know, and the generation moving on effectively paid for the incoming one, but of course you are right. I was thinking more that back then there were fewer entrants and this made such a system viable over the one which exists now.
@@kensummers7757 ...well, yeah, that goes on all the time, I know, but I did say among schoolkids and teenagers that has nothing to do with 'drug gangbangers'. It's a new phenomenon of knives being carried by youngsters that has nothing to do with drugs. It's about other social issues.
@@2eleven48 "Knife crime and murder are hugely on the increase in the UK among schoolkids" Citation needed. Not saying it doesn't happen, but common? No.
The minimum drinking age in the UK is actually 5 years old. The minimum age at which you can purchase alcohol (or have alcohol purchased for you) is 18, but that is not the minimum age at which you can consume alcohol.
When my, then nine and 10-year old, kids joined me for the six yrs we lived in the US, the two things which they first mentioned in this area were very interesting. Firstly, they each informed me that they were told at school that they had to use a pencil for tests, whereas at home they had to use either a ballpoint (my daughter's school) or a fountain pen (my son's). Secondly, they were surprised we couldn't take a bottle of wine with us when we had a picnic in a nearby park. "What, how might one eat shrimp without Chardonnay", I remember D saying when he was 12!
Hi Amanda, just watched the video. Great as usual. The legal age for alcohol in the UK is actually 5 years old (I’m sure social services would have a field day though) however you can’t purchase alcohol until 18. Also you can drink with a meal at 16 in a pub or restaurant while eating if accompanied by an adult. Does anyone know the USA rules on this?
Hi Amanda, I lived in Jacksonville Fl for 4 years. The thing i hated MOST about the US was the incessant Stop signs. WHY, WHY, WHY! For me the Give ways we have here (and the roundabouts) are a much better system. Having said that i really liked that you could stop and if safe to do so turn right on a red light. We should definitely have that here! (it makes a lot of sense)
Having been scared to death in Tucson Arizona as a wave of traffic was bearing down on me when then light was green for me I totally disagree. The idea is insane. Please attend some clinic or other if you can afford it, (that is if you still live in the U.S).
I presume you are advocating that we in the UK should be able to turn LEFT at a red light, as we drive on the left! Having lived most of my life in a so-called New Town (built after the Second World War), which had lots of roundabouts and very few traffic lights, I have now moved to an older established city with fewer roundabouts and lots of traffic lights and it doesn't half mess up the traffic flow, especially with some of the more modern cars with their cut-out systems when the car is stationary. When the lights turn green, there is that extra delay as the engines fire up again.
here in the UK a red light means STOP in the US it means if you carry on your might get T-Boned but you can turn right on red and screw the jaywalker for trying to damage your car
Kids have to stay in school until they're 18 now, unless they have an apprenticeship or go to college. They can't leave full time education at 16 anymore.
Depending on the circumstance you can drink MUCH younger in the UK, you can legally give children as young 5 years old alcohol. Selling to someone is much older but physically being able to have a glass of wine? basically when they are able to go to school they can start having beverage in their home.
Just FYI, In the USA you can allow your children alcohol as religious rituals (communion, Jewish circumcision, bar/bas mitzvah), celebratory events (weddings, baptisms), and ethnic cultural customs. In our Lithuanian-American household, wine and spirits were given to children, mixed with ginger ale or 7-Up. The amount of alcohol was increased as the child grew until the child came of age. The only arrest I have heard of was around 1972 when a very young couple gave their infant an 8 ounce baby bottle of vodka, hoping the child would sleep so they could party. The baby died and they were arrested.
Brit here, we have always kept our eggs in the fridge, You can keep them out, but I dont think it is usually recommended to do so. Besides, they last longer in the fridge, everything does.
Wrong they last just as long not in fridge as long as you don't clean them which destroyes natural protection as farmer i have never put eggs in fridge 🥚
They can last for over a year outside of the fridge if you turn them upside down every few days. It sounds mental but it's true, just ask anyone old enough to remember rationing.
The reason America washes them - and why they also wash their poultry in chlorine is because they have next to no food hygiene laws so most farmers keep poultry in appealing condition battery farms (which are illegal in the UK). So they are covered in faeces, which spreads diseases.
A few points: Except for newly-engineered motorways and bypasses, roads in the UK have been there for hundreds of years; a few even go back to pre-history. People have always used these tracks so they are public rights of way, and they've merely been widened and metalled to take vehicles. Those ancient rights still exist so jaywalking isn't a thing here. You can be given drink here at 5 yrs old (only at home with your parents I think). You can drink in a restaurant at 14 with an adult if you're eating there. And 18 is the age at which you can buy alcohol. And about the eggs: we don't treat them as we inoculate our chickens in the first place.
Student loans aren’t free in Scotland. The fees are paid, thankfully, but we still get maintenance loans etc which we have to pay back. Not complaining though, it’s still less than England and Wales.
Thanks for another enjoyable video. On the issue of tax being added to purchases, whilst many UK visitors to the USA may dislike this, I find that having a British passport often reduces the cost of items. I remember buying a jacket from Bloomingdales and paying less than half the ticket price as the cashier made a reduction on the price due to my being an overseas visitor. A key reminder for those not sure where to store their food purchases is that if it isn't on display in a chilled cabinet in the shop it does not need to be chilled at home, though many of my friends store their eggs in the fridge but only because the manufacturers provide egg shelves
AMANDA RAE Lots of larger stores in London have (or at least used to have) a desk where visitors from certain overseas countries could get assistance to claim back taxes paid on their purchases. Harrods, a favourite of wealthy arabs, Chinese and Russians certainly did. I'm sure most of the Bond Street retailers and jewellers also offer such a service, albeit discretely.
@@spencerwilton5831 I remember a lot of the shops in London in the 80s ,especially the electrical stores around Oxford street had 'ask for export prices' attached - I don't know which countries this applied too ( & Hi-Fi , cameras etc were generally high priced in the UK)
In 1973 when we went from purchase tax to VAT we went through a brief phase of tax being added it the till. It was so unpopular that it was fixed very quickly. We also had a phase of there being no tax on takeaways but tax on the same item eaten in the restaurant. This also went fairly quickly.
Yeah ,then it was 'hot food /takeaways- & for a short time some outlets got round it by not charging for the food but for salt, vinegar ,tomato sauce etc...
Have you covered our measurement system yet? The fact that we drive for miles & miles per gallon but fuel is sold in litres. We buy a pint in the pub or a 4 pinter of milk but it's sold in metric. We give our height in feet & inches & most of us our weight in stones & pounds. (Personally I hate metric but I'm old & was caught between the two systems when it was introduced).
I'm old too (in my 70s) but as an engineer I always used the metric system for my work and definitely prefer it. I do get irritated when there is a heat wave and the newspapers, particularly the tabloids, start writing headlines quoting the temperature in Fahrenheit. The met office switched over to Celsius 50 years ago!
I was brought up during Decimilisation and learnt both, although I personally prefer the imperial system, I use the metric system for weights and Imperial system for lengths. As an Engineer, most European equipment is now fully metric, but USA still fully use imperial on industrial manufactured equipment.
@@stevienico452 Decimalisation was the change of the UKs currency from £.s.d to £.p in 1971, the change to metric measurements is known as metrication. European manufacturing has used metric units for centuries (thanks to Napoleon!). Even the US is now moving towards the use of the metric system in manufacturing in order to harmonise with international standards. Science, of course, has used the (metric) SI system exclusively since the early 20th C.
@@davidfaraday7963 typo error, sorry, I was born after Decimilisation. But I think it's fair to say that by law to Date, it's only recently that Governing bodies are legally finalising changing units over. And as far as I'm aware it's been a journey in getting anywhere near completely changed. Still Today there are people who still use imperial systems, albeit for legacy engineering applications.
Here in the UK a VAT tax sometime you may see plus VAT or may be already added, also second hand commercial vehicle you pay VAT at a dealer, but you don't pay the tax if buying it private.
where I am from (central Europe) you can have up to 4 years of maternity/paternity leave paid by state (for each child a state gives you ca. 6200 EUR support and you can choose for how long you want to stretch this support, the longest time, the lowest monthly payment) and you are allowed to work during receiving this support, so you can use it for a nanny or other forms of daycare. Your employer has to hold your job position for three years (for each child, so e.g. nine years if you have three children), the fourth year is not mandatory for him, but it can be done, if both sides want to.
When I had my children, as well as maternity leave and pay, you got child benefit from the government until your youngest child left school (18), plus if you had worked for the company for at least 2 years they had to keep your job open unless you decided not to return.
You drive on the left to pass strangers with your right hand free to wield a sword if necessary. You drive on the right if you are in charge of a an ox team, traditionally seated on the rear left animal.
We drive on the left due thanks to the Romans. As you say, right hand was needed for swords... However, most of Europe drive on the right, due to Napoleon being left handed and making his troops march on the right.
Love all your content, Especially enjoyed your football chants videos. (Featured a lot of chants from my team Leeds, and trust me they get a lot more offensive)
Although I am familiar with many of these differences, I prefer to have them read by you. On the side of the road, whenever I visit the UK, I always head for the correct door (passenger) as I would normally be driving at home and that's the door I would be opening. The first time I went to the UK, my wife and I flew into Edinburgh and picked up our rental car. Since she was experienced in UK driving as she had lived in England for 5 years and my Amex card would only cover one driver, she got the short straw. I was in the passenger seat and from the long flight and approx 22 hours of go time, I kept dozing off and then waking up thinking I was driving and freaking out when there was no steering wheel or pedals. That was a source of amusement for my wife. To add to her amusement, the super narrow streets would startle me whenever I would wake up and see a parked car less than 12 inches from me whenever I would open my eyes. The cherry on top was when my wife clipped a mirror with the resulting BANG. Enjoyed the video as always and really like the background in today's video. Have a great week! Rob
I`m in Scotland. You should have seen my German wife's reaction, when she drove on single track roads for the first time. Apparently she had never encountered roads without a white line in the middle. :D
Just to note we do leave secondary education at 16 which is like your basic education, but you now are legally required to stay in education until your 18. Usually people between 16-18 will now specialise (so take part in further education in some subjects, specialist courses or apprenticeships). It's more complicated than it seams.
Only time I ever remember jaywalking laws being enforced in the states was when I was at college. And then it was just cops flashing lights at or yelling at students, didn't actually ticket or even formally warn anyone. Even in a big city like New York. Still, better idea to use the cross-walks and obey the lights, the cars are more likely to yield to you that way.
In Silver Spring, MD, they occasionally have periods where they will issue jaywalking tickets in large quantities. One little brat managed to get two in one day. If they would use some brains when they do it, I wouldn't mind, but they blindly cross the road while staring at their phones.
The idea in Britain is that people should be free to cross when there are no cars anywhere near, not that people should seek to make cars slow down. We think it just common sense that people are responsible for their own safety. Americans are too litigious and treat people like children to be told what to do.
In regards to the the egg subject the way I was taught was just look where the supermarket put them, if there on a shelf and not refrigerated just do the same at home..... love your vids keep up the good work 👍
I've always stored my eggs in the fridge (I'm now 70) and was taught to do so by my mother who was taught to do so when she did a Domestic Science course at college in the late 1930s. That's why all refrigerators come with an egg storage rack. I don't know anyone who doesn't store their eggs in the fridge!
I don't keep eggs in the fridge, but I tend to only keep them for a couple of days because I'll buy them just before I'm going to make something with eggs. So if I'm planning to bake a cake or make omelettes on Wednesday I might pick eggs up on Monday. I guess it's just a case of not letting them have a chance to go bad?
My parents first let me have alcohol at 13, a single glass of wine at Christmas. Add to that that we could buy shandy (beer mixed with lemonade) in shops without being asked for ID, and we do tend to teach a healthy respect for alcohol early on.
Love your video's simply because I'm English and have lived in Tennessee for 10yrs. So much fun watching your reactions and things you choose to compare.
@@LADYRAEUK It's all things medical. The filling out of pages of forms and signing them, the dreaded medical insurance and the feeling they just want your money like a business rather than wanting to help you get better.
School leaving age in the UK (well actually Education Leaving age, as you can go to sixth form college, or into a proper apprenticeship) is 18 & has been for around 9 years now.
Hey, love your videos! I'm Canadian & we have a lot of the things you mentioned: paid maternal & paternal leave w baby; free health; if low income can apply to have student loan removed etc. But not jaywalking, wow!!! That's the one I would think would get me the most LOL
Never had any problem getting served and paying for drinks in a pub at 15, it was a country pub, even the one close to school used to serve us in uniform but had to wait until in the forth form (16), different uniform and had to dodge the teachers and sometimes the Headmaster in the lounge bar. We got caught occasionally when in the toilets as they served all three bars. Most teachers turned a blind eye, unless drunk in class, the head was a different story (ouch, can still feel the Willow). He would even confiscate any cigarettes, pipe tobacco and the pipe. He smoked the ciggies and the tobacco, must have saved a fortune. He did have a nice range of Scotch in his office.
Deputy head told some 16yo pupils at my school to use another pub as they were about to go in, the head was inside. Same one, and another teacher were buying the pupils drinks on the ferry to France (with the pupils' money, not giving them free booze).
In Scotland you pay now pay your university fees after you graduate and working, not whilst at university. Taking out a student loan is optional I attended university in England (graduated 20 years ago) and had fees to pay at the start of each year and used my loan for this and finished paying my loan after 14 years.
When I was on holiday a few years ago I was in a bar talking to two guys, an Aussie and an American. After an hour or so of testing the local amber nectar, me and the Aussie were aware that our companion had gone quiet, he was struggling to keep up, so in order to continue the newly formed Anglo Aussie American drinking club we switched to shorts and yes, as could be expected we lost our friend from over the pond, so we carried on as the Anglo Aussie drinking club. I wonder if the US drinking age and the lack of early practise had something to do with it.
Brilliant vid once again, nothing I can add really except with student loans that a large number of student end up not paying anything back as they never earn enough to cross the threshold, which is possibly disappointing since a graduate should be earning more. Enjoyable effort. Best Wishes
@TheRenaissanceman65 I actually wish parents would in general be more supportive of kids not going to uni. Get them set up for a trade and if they are diligent workers they could have a deposit for a house or better long before a uni student graduates. A lot of trades like plumbing, carpentry, and air conditioning are hard up for skilled workers. Unfortunately it seems like nearly every parent wants their kid to be a doctor or lawyer. Can you imagine a world with only doctors and lawyers? Terrifying.
While on honeymoon in Hawaii, my wife and I called in at a local supermarket for a few things. Staying in a beautiful beachside apartment we didn't think twice about dropping a bottle of wine in the basket. Imagine how I felt when I got refused for the wine by the young girl at the checkout because I didn't have any ID on me at the time. I was 35!!!!
@@LADYRAEUK I'm Canadian and I was on holiday in the U.S. with my wife, when we stopped at a supermarket to pick up stuff including beer. I had to present ID to buy the beer despite being very obviously on the wrong side of 60. For me, the arbitrary nature of rules and laws in the U.S. is one of the biggest differences between the U.S. and other places. Elsewhere people are expected to use their common sense, but in the U.S. there's a rule for that.
As a small farmer, when I go to a small amount of specialist stores, the main price tag is pre VAT, (Value Added Tax). A smaller part of the tag in most cases will be VAT included. The same also can apply to some builders merchants, but not the DIY type stores. Also, I have been to so a fair few auctions, where the auctioneer will charge the seller a commission. Now they also do a "Buyers Premium" plus VAT. The old Guineas auctions, the seller had the £1, and the purchaser had to pay the pre 1971, shilling, now 5 pence. A modern guinea is now £1.05. Auctioneers can / will charge VAT on buyers premium, and if the seller is VAT registered, VAT on the auction price. The same can also apply to some "Online" auctions in UK.
Nice list. The one item I think is worth digging further is #7. Camille Paglia argues (and probably she isn't the only one), that this ridiculous measure pushes college students into binge drinking, and is the cause of other regrettable behaviour on campus. Germany has very sensitive provisions: teens can drink wine and beer at 16, but hard alcohol only at 18.
I agree with Mike of Indy, you do have a very relaxing voice and no doubt with living in the Uk your American accent as got much softer. A very pleasant piece of video to listen to with some very educational differences from both sides of the pond.
Yes was going to stay the same about 5 years old. Not sure Amanda is right about the reducing the mystic of alcohol, not seen much restraint from the UK population, and think in the international drinking levels the US are light drinkers😂.
You're partially correct, the drinking age in the UK in a pub is 18; however, there are a few exemptions... for instance when in a restaurant and eating a meal, those under 18 are allowed beer, lager, cider or perry (pear cider I think) with a meal - even if they are not with an over 18. MIght also be worth saying that cider in the uk is alcoholic (and can be quite strong) whereas in the US I found it often to simply be apple juice - I'm sure there are alcoholic versions.
Technically legal for 5 year old to drink in the UK. Though I've never seen it happen. Cider in the US isn't what the UK calls cider (think jelly), I believe the Americans have a different name for alcoholic apple drinks.
You can drink legally at the age if 4 at home if its like a taste of something and your parents give you permission. You can drink in a pub at 14 years old if you are with a responsible adult and getting food too.
the reason we drive on the left is to do with horse drawn carrages, most people are right handed and use the whip with thier right hand so the whip was flicked into the road not on to the pavement, I hope this is correct
interesting comment, I was always told that it goes back even further than that, to the days of swordsmanship, when on horseback, you could draw your sword and attack/ defend from someone coming from the right, or was right handed too
@@LADYRAEUK Not least, the languages! (Sadly, one unfortunate aspect [language and everything else] is that _some_ people - on both sides! - think their way is the _right_ way, or even worse, the _only_ way. I notice it more in USians, but I guess you notice it more in UKians.)
Australian here, I was amused in the UK to see bottles of gin etc randomly on the shelf next to the bread etc. In the US “hard liquor” in a lot of states is only sold in state controlled special shops! In Australia most states have liquor shops which sell all types of alcoholic drink. (Yes Victorians I know you have a section in the supermarket).
You will never see alcohol next to bread in a U.K. supermarket it has is own department normaly at the back or you might see a special offer display near the entrance when you walk in
In Sweden it's state controlled too. Supermarkets can sell beer up to 3.5% but no higher, everything else has to be bought from a state run store. (monopoly) or if you live near the West coast just hop on a ferry to Denmark and buy there or on board.
The law in the UK has changed and you have to remain in full time education until 18, however that doesn't have to be school it can be college or on the job training programs which include some classroom time.
Very interesting video, thank you. I have just retired from the NHS after 24 years & although the pay is way lower than what you would get in say the USA, the annual leave (holiday) allowance starts at 28 days and rises to 33 days plus Bank holidays. Also staff are very multinational & most stay for years in the same job/ directorate - it does feel like an extended family especially in your own department.
The drinking age is whatever you can get away with! I don’t know anyone that didn’t have their first drink in a pub at 14/15, maybe we just look older or have a lot of dodgy landlords !
I was brought up having a small amount of alcohol on special occasions. It meant that when I when to university (1991 - 1994) I didn't go out and drink excessively unlike a lot of others who would get drunk regularly.
That driving on the left hand side thing got me too. It was the other way round. I'm from the UK and inherited a hire car in the Netherlands after my colleague broke his arm. Got in the car and looked up, "who's moved the mirror", "Ah, the steering wheels on the other side", then the penny dropped.
The left side goes far back in history. Charioteers, jousters and soldiers would ride on the left to keep their right arm toward the centre, given that most are right handed
I rented a car in Florida when I went there, it wasn't so much the 'drive on the right!' that got me, coz I drive in France or Belgium quite often, but being able to filter right against the red light, I never felt safe, and had to practice in a supermarket car park for an hour before I'd go on the road!
Steven is correct. It's also known as the "sword arm". When people carried swords on the street, they had to keep their sword arm free in case someone approached them in a threatening manner. Given the preponderance of right handed people, you don't want your sword arm trapped against the wall - walking on the left side of the road stops this happening. It also explains why gentleman allowed their ladies to walk on the inside rather than the outside - something that older men still do today. My Dad always walked on the outside of the pavement. Sorry for waffling.😊
@@elizabethabbott3726 There is also a concept in design of fortifications. The defenders would be upstairs and those stairs were designed to make it difficult for the attackers to use there right hand in a swing.
The minimum education age has changed in the UK over the last 2 or 3 years, i don't know that much about it but i believe you have to stay in education of some sort until 18 now, unless getting a job or apprenticeship at 16.
Since 2011 in England all young people must continue with some kind of education or training until 18 which can include an apprenticeship. In the other home nations school leaving age is 16.
@@LADYRAEUK, retired teacher here. In 2010 the age at which people can leave school was raised from 16 to 18. It was 2011, when the first students were affected by this. That's over 10 years ago. The confusion lies in the fact that many schools only teach up to age 16 (GCSE level) So pupils from those schools do indeed "leave school'. However, they have to stay in full time education by going to a college of further education (FE college), enrol at another school with a sixth form, or enrol on an apprenticeship that has an element of fornal education within it (usually day-release to college 1 or 2 days a week). So yes, many leave school at 16, but nobody leaves education until they are 18.
@@LADYRAEUK, Where the difference between education in the UK and USA lies is that after 16 in the UK, education is no longer 'general'. In FE colleges, the courses offered are vocational and students work towards gaining vocational qualifications. They still take English, maths and IT, but the focus is on vocational training - much of it being practical with some classroom learning and written coursework - the amount depends on the vocational qualification chosen : things like hairdressing, building construction, Graphic design, for instance, have a much greater practical skills element to them than others such as, Travel and Tourism, Business Studies, or Health and Social Care. Many of these courses also entail a 'placement', where the student works (usually unpaid) for one day a week in a setting where they can gain work experience in their chosen profession. Or choosing to do A Levels in a school or sixth form college means choosing 4 or 5 subjects to take full time in the 1st year, and then dropping 1 or 2 of those in the second.
Just to clarify- YES brits can leave school at 16 HOWEVER you are supposed to go on to collage, an apprenticeship or some other educational thing for another 2 years. Not everyone does but you are supposed to. Many brits do keep their eggs in the fridge as it does make them last longer- especially in the summer when it’s hot. But you don’t have to keep eggs in the fridge in uk.
I remember crossing the street to take a photo of the hotel I was staying in in Brooklyn. I got tooted by a car turning the corner at least 50 metres away and I was amazed. I guess I was jay walking. The tax addition was also very confusing. The NHS is amazing. I was hospitalised a month ago and it was no sweat, I knew it wouldn't cost me a penny and it was quite relaxing. Whenever I travel to the US I make sure I have medical insurance to the eyeballs and beyond!
Interesting vid again. Education has now changed you cannot leave any form until you have GCSEs grade 4+ in maths & English up to the age of 19. This includes sixth form, college or apprenticeship.
Gosh Is that true? When I was 16 in the late 50s you could walk away at sixteen and get a trainee engineering job and learn something that would always be useful. Now Britain doesn't seem to manufacture much at all and you need a degree.
The eggs thing is slightly odd because for a while (I'm thinking 70'/80s) some Brits were keeping their eggs in fridges. However it became a problem because (again some) people would then cook theirs eggs from cold rather than room temperature with very mixed results. People eventually realised that refrigerating eggs was unnecessary.
You're right, there is no need to refrigerate them, especially so if you keep hens, the natural "bloom" on the egg protects it - it is often washed off when produced en-mass because they don't want customers to maybe see a bit of poop on the shell. I think we managed perfectly fine for millenia before the invention of the refrigerator. On a plus note, not keeping eggs in the fridge leaves more room for beer!
@@spinningtop5749 I keep eggs in the fridge. In the door there's a row of shallow "cups" to hold them. Perhaps I have a very old fridge and modern UK versions do not have this feature.
Tax, make it make sense. The price of the product is known, and the rate of tax is known, add them together and write it on the shelf. It's only difficult because they made it difficult. It doesn't have to be. The building only exists in one location. It's not going to be in a different state tomorrow. So the tax rate that applies to it will still be the same.
I love your appreciation for the UK so much Amanda it reminds me of why I'm proud to be British despite current events which are making me feel ashamed to be British! Once again thank you for cheering me up and I send you my regards, I hope you're doing well! :)
I'm ashamed to be British too... I don't recognise the open racism & hostile environment as my country. Was it always like this and I just didn't notice? Or is it a much newer phenomenon? I imagine there's quite a few people in the USA feeling the same way. But yes, I love the positivity of this channel. Our differences are to be celebrated and learned from.
I’ve heard you can’t live in the USA without a car. If you walk somewhere, you’re immediately suspicious and the police will put their knee on your neck until you stop resisting forever.
In some parts of the USA it is suspicious if you are walking along the highway as the police view you as having a suspended drivers license due to dwi (driving whilst impaired) so they think you have drink or drug convictions and have criminal intend and will stop you sometimes for a well being check.
It may be in the other video, but Taxation is totally different in the UK. Wages in the UK are reduced by the employer who pays your National Insurance contributions (supposed to go toward funding the NHS .. yeah right) and Income Tax (differing percentages depending on a range of factors such as married/single, earning over X per year). The employee gets the 'Take home' pay after these deductions. In the US everyone files a tax return, which in the UK is something only the self employed or independently wealthy do - basically anyone who hasn't already paid Income tax. They don't have NI payments either so health cover is up to them, sometimes private like in the US. Also in the US when you buy something it's the price the company bought it for plus their profit. In the UK VAT (Value dded Tax) is added on top of that - currently 20%. So for example if the original price was £100 the ticket price is £120 with £20 going in VAT to the government. Individual states as I understand it have 'Sales Tax' at varying rates, but in the UK /everyone/ pays VAT. Consumers pay at the till, companies pay the VAT that customers paid - albeit to companies it was never 'their' money so it's in one hand and out the other.
I went to the USA for a holiday in April for a week. I had no problem in driving on the other side of the road. With that said, I always opened the wrong door when getting in to drive! But, when I came back to the UK, that week of driving on the right, really messed up my head! Despite being back over a month, I get confused at times about which side of the road, or door to use! 😖
I used to live in Germany but often went 'home' to England. The danger time I found was pulling out of a petrol station at night onto an empty road. If there is traffic you follow the others. And after a night ferry with few cars I drove through Dover on the wrong side of a dual road until I noticed I couldn't read the road signs as they were back to front 🙃 I also saw many British cars driving through Ostend onto the motorway - again in the early morning. There was a roundabout so the first car went the wrong way and many others followed him. I drove down the motorway on the 'right' side hooting and flashing my lights. I then saw the whole convoy stopping so they were ok. 😀
Paying for petrol. In the UK you fill up and then go and pay. In the US in my experience you had to go to the counter and pay for how much you 'think' you will need. This was madness as a tourist with a hire car. I had no idea how much petrol cost, plus it was in US gallons, rather than what I was used to, litres. I didn't know how much the petrol tank in the hire car would hold. I ended up choosing an amount then having to go back and get a refund as the amount I thought I could fit into the tank was way off! LOL. It's a stupid system.
That’s very true, I think some places have changed it but a lot of places you have to prepay because people were filling up and driving off without paying
@@LADYRAEUK Hi Amanda! It would be a lot simpler (and quicker) if the petrol stations over there used the 'pay @ pump' system that many of ours do now - and in any case, most of the garages tend to have ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras that are linked to the DVLA! Oh, and I love the channel - and your voice! 😍
@@raycardy4843 ANPR wouldn't work in the USA due to the almost unreadable number plates! You have to have a legally enforced size/font/colour number plate system and a centralised database for it to operate.
Why didn't you just pay at the pump? Most gas station pumps are set up so you can swipe your credit/debit card right there and never have to go inside the station.
Someone once described the USA as being 'very backward' as regards the way the government looks after its people. Things here were similar 80 years back, but people had to campaign and fight for better working and living conditions. After World War 2 in 1945, the left-wing British Labour Party won an unexpected landslide election victory, promising to create 'a land fit for heroes'. Most of what we take for granted as part of a decent society nowadays, comes from that time. The right-wing Conservative Party here never dared to dismantle that legacy.
@@AngelicDaemon Churchill's Tories voted against the formation of the NHS 21 times before the act was passed, including both the Second and Third reading.
@Ian Warren Blair's New Labour was just Tory lite. I no longer live in the UK but from what I hear the Conservative party is now more right wing than before.
Everything we have is because someone protested. Now the tories are dismantling our right to protest and the right wing media and bbc have convinced the public that protesters are no good scruffy trouble makers. People are now too selfish and ignorant to appreciate the battles being fought on their behalf
Whilst being aware of the Jaywalking word, I never really found out what it meant even though I spent 10 years when most of my time outdoors was in the US. I assumed it was just walking alongside roads with no pavement/sidewalk. I was in groups on nights out when we were spoken to on about 3 separate occasions by the passing Police, but we weren't drunk or dangerous. We just do our Pub Crawls (Bar Hopping?) on foot in the UK and wouldn't dream of driving. Some of the other guys (I was away that week) once had a SWAT Team descend on them when they tried to buy late night burgers at a drive thru. (Though this has become no longer possible in the UK now) When they realised everyone was still safe after a nights drinking they all got a free lift home in the fleet of Police cars. With a drive through at a different burger drive through. It was a party laugh for months after that the Police thought it was shocking that they went out for a nights drinking without their cars....
Interesting fact about drinking Amanda, I was in Copenhagen recently and went to a supermarket, they had a sign saying 14 year olds could buy beer but not spirits until 18, it's even crazier though, anyone under 17 can drink at home or in public as long as they don't cause trouble.
As the Good Lord intended... the landlord of a pub in my home town had the same policy, he'd let you drink underage as long as you didnt act the arse. Well, he did have a Hyper Olympics machine.....
@@grandmasmagic3858 the answer to that is back in the old days of knife switches, it was required to install them so you had to lift them up to turn them on; to make sure a switch handle left in the off position didn't fall and turn itself on. that led to the standard of up for on. and in fact, our electrical code still has a clause requiring switches to be prevented from falling into the on position.
A few years ago, the UK government made it necessary to stay in education until you turn 18. But this could still mean signing on for an apprenticeship (which includes educational courses at a local college) instead of an academic route (like a college academic course or Sixth Form).
@@insomniacbritgaming1632 You can leave school on the last Friday in June if you’ll be 16 by the end of the summer holidays. You must then do one of the following until you’re 18: stay in full-time education, for example at a college start an apprenticeship or traineeship spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training Cut and pasted from Gov website.
That’s applicable in England, only. For Scotland, Wales and NI, you can leave at 16 if you wish, depending on when your birthday falls. Even in Scotland it’s not upheld rigorously.
It was common to have to add the VAT to the price yourself until as late as the 1990's, until it changed. Also goods didn't come with plugs and you had to fit them yourself. It used to be taught at school in the 1970's just like cooking lessons in Home Economics class.
I never saw a single shop of any kind doing that, or hear anyone who thought it was normal, during the early to mid 80s. In adverts it was different, but not in any shop I ever went in. The reason electronic items didn't come with plugs was over by the 70s, it just took a little while for the practice to end.
@@wyterabitt2149 electrical shops, most non food retailers, small to medium shops, DIY shops though not the big chains. It was very common and a right pain.
I worked in retail in the late 1960s and early seventies, Purchase Tax and then VAT was always included in the price displayed. Goods offered to businesses have the VAT as extra.
@@RogersRamblings So did I in the seventies and we did in a a couple of places I worked and other places in Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, York definitely did.
For me it's food labels, or lack of in USA, that got me. Here you can see the processes and additives placed in food. In the USA, milk has many ingredients added, especially sugar, and no label to tell you what you are consuming. Food addition additives are legal and widespread in the USA as they make the food taste in a way the body craves. The fact I can read a label and make an informed choice is so liberating.
Other than a loop-hole in the food labelling laws. If a colourant is added by a manufacturer it has to be listed, but if a colourant is in another ingredient it doesn't. eg a can of black cherries with a red colourant in the cherries (I kid you not) will have the colourant listed, but if that can of cherries is used to make a black forest gateau, the ingredient list for the cake only needs to contain "black cherries" with no mention of the colourant in those cherries!
I was fortunate enough to live in England for a year. Another difference is sane liability laws: If you want to hike through a farmers field and get chased by the bull, don't think you can sue the farmer for mental distress. People there are assumed to be responsible for their own actions. What a concept, right!
They most certainly are responsible if they are walking on private land! After all they'll always have signs saying PRIVATE or PRIVATE LAND in block capital letters so that people don't walk on them and if they still decide to ignore the signs and fences making it obvious that it's not public land then you most certainly should be the one responsible for whatever might happen next. After all there's a reason why they're private.
@@redbaron1001 There is another side to the coin. Walking in Herefordshire sticking to public footpaths, including registered long distance public footpaths, I was disconcerted by the number those public footpaths blocked by signs saying: "Beware of the Bull" or "Cows with calves in the field". That represents an awful lot of (presumably some pedigree) bulls and cattle. After scanning one field very carefully to ensure the path leading to a church was in fact clear I crossed it cautiously, whilst thinking the crop did not seem consistent anyway with running livestock. I mentioned that sign to folk at the church to be told "Oh, that's put there just to discourage walkers, many of them are like that." I am not sure that is a wise move overall.
I have also encountered water troughs artfully located just under the stile on public footpaths. The result was quite a dangerous stile to negotiate plus a surrounding area of well churned mud mixed with a generous proportion of cattle slurry obstructing the only access route. Someone has a sense of humour I thought, though it is not so hilarious when you have small children with you. Someone's welly boot may still be under there.
Rather sad overall, some of those paths have been in use in one form or another for hundreds of years and are rich in history. Even better if you can read an O. S. Map. Sadly, on at least two occasions I have discovered once well constructed foot path route signs sawn into pieces and chucked in a ditch.
Maybe not so sure. We seem to be getting like the US regards seeing.
@@redbaron1001 Checked the "Right to Roam" legislation lately? And don't forget the managed farming of livestock in the National Parks and the Crown Estate, land which is accessible by walkers. There is an obligation on all sides to act responsibly, vide my related post.
And is was better still years ago seeing culture did start to come across the pond late eighties onward.
Many years ago, the City of London (not greater London) tried to bring in restrictions on crossing the road. They painted red markings on the edge of some footpath sections to indicate no crossing allowed. Guess what, everyone made sure to cross where the red paint marking were.
Lol fair enough 🤣
I owe my life to the NHS and it continues to boggle my mind that in America healthcare is a privilege rather than a basic human right.
I know, it’s awful
@Kal K .
Countries in Europe have affordable universal healthcare with more than twice the population of the US.
If it can be done in Europe why can't individual states do the same.
Unfortunately in the US, healthcare is a very profitable business and not a public service.
As for bankrupting the country, per capita the US citizen already pays nearly double that paid in Europe.
I'm sure a huge amount of Brits are in the same boat,
The have saved my life on more than one occasion,
@Rae Ward same here, I had a multiple fracture of my pelvis, 6 wks in hospital 2 opps one over 27 hrs, the other 6 hrs. Operations were done by a pelvic specialist. It was a nightmare and at one point(just after admission) I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life(thankfully that didn't happen). All free under NHS, I dread to think what would have happened if I had been in America.
@Kal K The US Medicare & Medicaid is already more per head than the NHS, that's before the cost of private insurance
University tuition used to be free in England and Wales up until 1998. There was a loans system for living expenses, but most low income family students also got a subsistence grant, which was just about enough to live on.. I was one of the lucky ones to go to uni and have no debt from it.
That’s incredible
@@LADYRAEUK It's also true. Thatcher introduced fees for students, in my view as a way of stopping them questioning the govt and going on marches to demonstrate against the govt. Today, due to the creeping authoritarianism everyone has to apply to the govt for a permit to demonstrate against the govt! I'm not making this up, lived here for 69 years and watched the legislations gradually eroding our freedoms.
At the time of the old grant system, combined with tough examinations, only about 10% of schoolkids ever went on to university. I was the first of my family to go to university and got the full grant and no tuition fees (hooray). However with the expansion that allowed nearly 50% to go to university that was financially impossible to continue.
Driving on the left was the original way for all countries. Because you carry your sword in your right hand (or are empty handed) so someone approaching you can see if you're armed or not, or fight you. This is the same reason you shake hands with your right hand. Napoleon changed it over in France for some reason to do with moving large groups of troops.
The reason for right hand shaking was also that only the left hand was used for wiping your TROTSKY
Your voice is so comforting. No matter the content really. I mean that in the nicest way.. not the weirdo way
Thank you so much 😊
I totally agree.
She could so do voice-overs on wind-down/sleep apps. Her voice is so soothing! Oh btw Amanda have you switched locations? It looks like you’ve been booted up to the loft/attic with that skylight window in the background.
Lol I have switched locations 😊
Thanks so much!
Yes, I agree. Amanda should do some sort of voice work. Audio books, narration of some kind etc. I feel you have the right kind of clear and soothing voice for educational voice over work, as odd as that may sound.
My parents would allow us a sip of a sherry or beer from a very young age, and as kids we had wine with Christmas dinner or cider on other occasions. It meant that when we were old enough to drink on our own, there was no great discovery to be made, so none of us have ever been big drinkers throughout our adult lives.
Unfortunately, this has not helped with the rate of alcoholism in the UK. Nor has the legal age to drink.
Here in Scotland the rates of alcoholism is horrendous!! Our whole culture revolves around drinking.
Same here. I did that with my four as well.
I was the same always allowed to try it if I wanted. But I'm one of those 'strange' ones who doesn't like the taste of alcohol really, so never been drunk before. I just don't see the fascination. I have enough health issues in my life, I don't need a nasty headache to add to it all 😂🤣
Worst thing about turning 18 was it took most of the fun out of drinking. Once it’s legal most of the thrill went out of it
My parents were the same and I'm not a big drinker either.
Common sense and discretion: The 'Top Gear' TV crew (in the days of Clarkson, May and Hammond) were filming, with full permission, at a provincial airport in the US. The airport only opened on weekdays and they were filming on a Saturday, which meant there was nobody else there.
Their vehicles were parked outside the main entrance, where there were 'no parking' markings. A police officer turned up to check what they were doing. All their documents were in order, but the officer told them to move their vehicles because it was a no-parking zone. Bear in mind this was part of the airport, not a public road.
Jeremy Clarkson pointed out that the airport was closed, so there was no sense in observing those markings, as they are intended to prevent congestion when the airport is open. In the UK, that's a fair point and, even if an officer did turn up (unlikely), they would accept that logic. Not in the US, though. The officer allegedly said: "Why use common sense when you have rules?" That, to me, is a huge difference in the mindsets of the two nations.
There are plenty here (UK) who will enforse pointless rules, though - quite often because they fear for their jobs if they were observed not doing so.🙁
@@G6JPG But it's not the default mindset, and that was my point.
@@SpiritmanProductions I see what you're getting at. Though I think some here have it too - not only those fearing for their jobs.
@@G6JPG They do indeed.
School-leaving age England
You can leave school on the last Friday in June if you’ll be 16 by the end of the summer holidays.
You must then do one of the following until you’re 18: Stay in full-time education, for example at a college, start an apprenticeship or traineeship spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training.
Are you sure? Shock horror when did they change the law. I left a 16 a long time ago.
I remember the time I got to spend with my newly born daughter was given in hours in the US…..I really deeply resented that. Not just as a new parent, but as a parent who had lost a number of “pregnancies” before, to have only one of the many pregnancies we had go to term and then to be given only hours with my child …..I’ll never forget nor forgive that. To me the US system is inhumane.
That sounds heart wrenching. I feel for you.
I was very lucky with my only child (lone parent). Whilst I was on maternity leave, the company I worked for collapsed. I was then able to claim benefits, had my rent paid and had access to training courses to get me ready for returning to work. I was able to spend the first 5 years of my daughter's life with her. I've always worked but being able to have a career break was priceless. I will always be so grateful for how we look after each other in the UK. I'd be so resentful if I'd missed those wonderful days/weeks/years.
You could also add relaxing on a sunny afternoon enjoying a drink in a pub garden, and sitting near an open fire in a pub on a cold winters day.
But Amanda, the Left side of the road is the "Right" side.!!
Lol🤣
Well being English 100% agree and so does the majority of the world. Something like 60% drive on the left.
@@stephenlamley541 I'd only agree because most of the world is right handed and it's important to have your strongest hand on the steering wheel at all times. Though Americans mostly drive automatics, but most of the world drives manual.
@@Guttlegob strange thing I'm left handed and mu right arm is stronger. My dad's right handed and his left is stronger I digress
Yes; you hold the reins in your left hand, keeping your sword arm free for the opposing driver …
(Unless you're left-handed like me of course!)
I am British and was born here. I keep my eggs in the fridge and always have since having a fridge. But we used to keep them in the pantry. The pantry was a cupboard with concrete shelves and a vent on the shady side of the house to keep food cool.
In the past, milk was delivered to our doorstep every day and my mother would shop every other day for fresh food walking a mile or more carrying the shopping bags.
UK here too, and don't keep eggs in the fridge - there is no need. However, I do keep my own hens so the protective "bloom" hasn't been washed off them.
Was told by the farmers and my doctor in my region that the reason we don't really bother putting eggs in the fridge is mostly cause their is little point since the majority of the population if not all have had the vaccines to make it safe to do so either way it's up to you though
same as my home. :D
On jaywalking, I had a strange experience many years ago, visiting Canada. I was in Edmonton and returning to my hotel at 2 am after a night out. The streets were deserted with not a car in sight. As I crossed the road to my hotel, a lone cyclist yelled at me "No jaywalking!" I was amazed that anyone could be so petty on a completely deserted street!
Similar issue when I was 22 back in 1969 I crossed the street in downtown Detroit, cup blows whistle traffic comes to a stop OMG someone is in trouble and then I realised everyone was looking at me, what had I done ? well I had crossed the road, what a strange law I thought ..
Well, it was Edmonton. As a Calgarian, I’m legally obligated to give Edmonton and Edmontonians a rough time.
Must have been a German tourist,
@Alfred Wedmore yup, I swear I’m the only cyclist that uses hand signals in my area! I do wonder if it’s because they don’t do the Cycling Proficiency Test at school any more?
@@sarahbettany7546 I don't think that accounts for all of it, although when I was at school, we weren't allowed to cycle to school until we had passed it. When I'm cycling, it's all about not endangering myself or anyone else. Sadly, that doesn't apply to a lot of cyclists or motorists these days
Actually, everyone living in England alone who were born on or after 1st September 1997 have to remain in education/training....full time or part time (open to correction) until their 18th birthday but yes, can still leave school at 16 as long as it's on the final Friday of June or if their 16th birthday falls by the 31st August end of the summer holiday. Think this law came into force circa 2008.
Upping the school-leaving age instantly lowers the unemployed which is why governments do it, especially in the UK.
OMG you're giving me flashback nightmares of my many USA visits with the "pay the price on the tag" thing! Sometimes I'd just want to get something with whatever cash I had with me, and I'd just work out how much I had in my pocket, grab some items corresponding to about that or a few dollars less from the shelf and head to the cashier. Every freaking time they rung it up on the til and added this tax and that tax, I'd have to get out the credit card because it would go over the listed price! It becomes infuriating. Here in Australia it's actually a breach of consumer law to not list the full checkout price of an item (it's basically considered "false advertising").
Same in the Uk. If you end up paying just 1p over the cost of the advertised price, the retailer will get hammered in the courts.
Australian here of German heritage. My parents allowed me to drink while in their company at the age of 16. At 66 I still enjoy a drink but I don't need to drink. I can count on two hands the number of times I've been horrendously drunk. Happy yes, but not paralytic.
I'm surprised no US shop (sorry, "store") has thought to do the sums and advertise "shelf-edge price shown is what you pay" or some similar slogan: surely it'd give them an edge over their competitors?
I can see how you think of the NHS. As I've nearly died twice and am in remission presently.
Also the French feed their children wine watered down with water from around 6yrs old and don't have an issue with binge drinking in the youth.
In the UK you can go for country walks without getting arrested (or shot 😧) for trespassing. There are public rights of way crisscrossing the countryside, and even straying off them is not a crime as long as you leave if requested by the landowner. When staying with my cousin in rural Connecticut I thought it would be nice to go for a stroll in the beautiful area surrounding her home, but we had to drive miles to find a state park instead.
Yeah that’s usually the case, it’s so different .. I completely forgot about that
In Finland we can even pick berries and mushrooms in the countryside, if it’s not anyone’s private property, and most of the landscape isn’t.
@@seppokangas1488 Same here in the UK,always went blackberrying and looking for chestnuts as kids.
@@mubbles1066 Its a bit more complicated in the UK. The laws allow and forbid various aspects, both in public *and* private land. It's rare anyone is really doing much so most people haven't a clue of the specifics.
@@mubbles1066 as a recomendation do no blackberry pick in a forest or by the side of the road if you need an explanation as to why. Firstly berries by the side of the road draw up fumes from cars just like treets do which they then turn into oxygen berries cant do that but they can absorb the fumes making the berries not safe to eat. Second why not woodland areas because generally speaking dogs homeless and drunk fucks on there way home have merrily pissed all over the berries it rains covers the smell and remember when i said berries are natural asorbers of toxins well piss contains all of the chemicals and waste your body is trying to expel so no amount of washing will get rid of that.
There is a General Sales Tax here in Australia (10%, nationwide) which is already included in a displayed price. So if something has a $10 price tag, $10 is what you pay - not $11. When I spent a couple of years in the US in the 80s it took me quite a while to get used to having to calculate how much I would actually have to pay for things and I could never understand why the tax couldn't be simply incorporated into the price. Still can't, actually.
Same here, there are surely a higher percentage that pay tax than don't, so it makes sense to add it! Imagine having a limited budget for food shopping and not easily adding up as you go along. Although your 10% tax sounds lovely, it's 20% here in the UK!
It’s the same in Canada, well at least Quebec where I spent a few years getting used to seeing the price and then the GST/PST (sorry if I got these wrong… it was a long time ago) taxes added. The question of why can’t the taxes be simply shown in the final price was asked back then too.
Same here in the UK and well in fact most countries can’t be bothered with local prices over a single calculation of percentages.
It is like tipping, in Australia you are paid a decent wage hourly and the final cost is the final cost. In the US,you are expected to pay extra as the hourly wage is close to slavery andyou are expected to top up the cost of your meal or service.
we drove across the country east-west through a dozen states and the tax percentages were all different. It kinda makes sense that, say, coca cola et al can sell their product nationally and provide the same advertising material with prices, and then have the different states add their own tax, rather than have to create 50 different POS signs, but that doesn't stop it being annoying. Especially when I went in with my Aussie accent. I had no idea if anyone was ripping me off. :P
The drinking age in the UK is.... Between the age of 5 and 16 it is legal to drink at home. From 16 to 18 you can be bought wine, beer or cider if served with a meal. From the age of 18 there are no restrictions.
Indeed. I vividly remember my favourite drink as a child of 7, 8 years old being a Snowball (i.e lemonade and Advocaat). Oh, and I will add I did not become a binge-drinking adolescent like many of my peers. I rarely drank alcohol at all in fact. And don't drink at all as an adult.
If you buy a young adult here in the USA, 16 to 21 alcohol in a restaurant , not only would you get arrested and the young adult but in some states like Florida the server would be arrested as well. I have been carded in Florida at an old age when I have bought drinks with over 21’s in the party as well as them.
You are legally allowed to be fed small amounts of alcohol in a home setting from the age of 6, would you believe it?
Well, you aren't allowed to drink and drive at 18, so some restrictions.
I thought it was crazy when I first heard it lol
Sorry Amanda but the left hand side of the road is the correct side to drive on. It comes down to centuries of military strategy based on the fact that most people are right handed and therefore the right eye is the strongest eye, that's why castles in the United Kingdom have clockwise staircases because they're easier to defend from above. In the States you guys drive on the right because it's a hangover from the drivers of horseteams who traditionally sat on the rear horse on the left-hand side. So if you're getting in your car to drive it from the left hand side then you're the getting in the wrong side.
Some castles have anti-clockwise staircases. It is a myth that clockwise staircases were easier to defend.
I was mildly shocked to find that out after years of visiting to castles.
In the UK i started being given alcohol from a young age, mixed with lemonade, then as I got older, 15 or 16, they let me have the occasional full beer, so when I turned 18 it was no big deal...I did notice that people from stricter families who were forbidden from drinking growing up had a much more different attitude when they were finally allowed
I was the same. My mum ran pubs and clubs so she knew what was beat
Mate a baby can legally drink in the UK if supervised it's greats obviously nobody is going to give a baby alcohol well unless it's rubbing alcohol for sore gums.
Same here, I could have any alcoholic drink I want, but I had to ask my parents for it, answer was always yes, if you drank it without permission..... Hell was coming your way. Best policy to be honest. A mate of mine used to take is daughter (13 -14yrs old) in the local pub, she could only drink non alcohol drinks. As a a result she mixed with older women, IMO her self confidence grew rapidly.
Yeah. I remember going to Australia and seeing a group of young US lads who’d just arrived absolutely destroy themselves with Jack Daniels even before the bus arrived to take us out for the evening. Passing out, vomiting, weeping etc. We all got there over the course of the evening😂, but the brits, Germans and Aussies all managed to get to the end of the evening by having some idea of how to pace themselves!😂
@@samuel10125 ..You are better off using bonjella or marmite for teething gums.
Rubbing alcohol is not safe for consumption - it is a sterilising strength alcohol !!!
..then again Samuel, I suppose that you don't use it for your used needles either ??
The sales tax thing is my number one peeve when I'm visiting the US. It's especially irksome when you're buying small items like magazines or snacks and you've counted out what you thought was the exact money only to be asked for an additional 8 cents when you get to the checkout.
Now that I’ve lived here, it’s incredibly annoying lol
It's not just the USA that does that with the tax I'm in Canada and they don't have the tax and it's separate too here in Canada which I think is stupid and the drinking age in Canada is 19 in eight provinces and the three territories and it's 18 and two provinces
It just amazes me that any society would have it that you don’t pay what it says on the price tag, you get an arbitrary amount added on when you get to the til.
I know that it can be annoying if you're not used to it. However, I prefer it because it is a constant reminder to everyone just how much the government is taking.
I like added sales tax. Yes, it's more convenient the other way, and I remember that (I'm old enough to remember when Canada introduced its sales tax), but the point behind making it visible is it reminds people they're paying a tax.
Yes, people hate it, but that's a good thing. People will stop hating paying tax when governments start using the money better.
Biggest differences I noted in time in USA , the number of police and number of different law enforcement agencies and secondly the ease with which firearms can be obtained
the US think we cant own a gun in the UK well we can you just have to pass a psych exam show a need for it and follow strict rules on storage with random inspections,
for urban pest control an air weapon is good enuff (OK shooting a mouse with an AK47 will be more fun but the landlord might moan about the holes in the wall)
You're probably right about the alcohol thing, making less of a deal about it and not encouraging sneaking around probably does help. The same approach works with sex too, in countries with good comprehensive sex education and more open conversations about it rates of STIs and teenage pregnancies are much lower than places that take a more taboo approach.
Yes! That’s so true 👍🏻
Supermarkets in the UK used to move basic “essential” items around the store regularly. Very frustrating, the reason was to stop shoppers just going straight to what they needed and not be subject to all the marketing and shelf labelling. So cause you had to search for the eggs or sugar, some would end up with a basket of impulse purchases. Basically just a way to get you to buy more than you intended.
Sneaky! Lol
That is also why the essentials are normally at the back.
That's why I love Aldi for my grocery shopping.
They mainly only carry the essentials and whatever more they sell is in a specific location in the store and that layout hasn't changed much in decades.
It's all about shopping for groceries as efficiently as humanly possible.
Impulse buying and adverts is exactly why they do it.
Yes, it's true. I am tending to avoid the every little helps place these days for various reasons as well as this one.
Roaming around the countryside goes back to the days before cars and bicycles when villagers had to walk from one place to the next. The Ordnance Survey maps the whole country and shows paths. As a rambler I like to roam from place to place, hardly ever crossing roads.
2 of my (British) colleagues were in the USA in a suburb of Milwaukee. They looked on the map and found there was a bar about a mile away so, as it was a nice day, they decided to walk there along a country road. They got about half way there when they were stopped by the cops. The cops wanted to know where their car had broken down, and did they need help? They said “No., we’re just out for a walk on a nice day!”. The cops took them in their cop-car to the bar and told them to get a taxi back home afterwards. Why? Nobody walks along American roads, at least not voluntarily! And if you do it, it immediately makes you look suspicious and the cops will probably want to know what you’re up to.
@@martinstent5339 I remember back in 1980 when I stayed at a hotel in Washington DC with three work colleagues. After a day touring the Smithsonian, we headed back on the subway to the station nearest the hotel. We could see it on the other side of the freeway, but couldn't see how to cross the freeway. After asking a local, he told us, "You can't walk there, call the hotel courtesy coach to pick you up."
Well explained. Indeed some trackways are ancient, such as the Ridgeway.
Kids in England are also allowed to drink in the home with the parents consent at age 5!
I did that
I (English) didn't know we had _any_ minimum age - are you sure? If so, is it a recent change?
(I know you can't _buy_ alcohol, or have it bought for you, below a certain age in a pub or shop [though you can _be_ in the pub with your parents, say, e. g. for a meal.)
@@G6JPG yes im sure! It is a little known obscure law (along with other crazy outdated laws like being arrested for having sex in any position other than the missionary position! (not sure who has the job of finding out how people have sex 😂) that still exists from a bygone time. I mean hopefully parents are not learning about this law then thinking it’s ok to get their 5 year old toasted on vodka!! I do think having these laws covers the parent legally but also demystifies alcohol for kids so it’s not such a forbidden fruit so to speak. With the US being at the opposite end of the spectrum and not allowing citizens to drink until age 21, kids want alcohol even more. I mean, it is crazy that at age 18 US adults can vote, sign up for the military and fight for their country, go to prison or jail, get married, make their own medical decisions… Etc, but can’t drink alcohol! Subsequently, in the US there are way more alcohol induced accidents, and deaths in the teenage population then other more liberal countries that don’t see alcohol as a huge deal!
Amanda the actual legal age to drink alcohol in England is 5 years old (with your parents consent). A 14 year old can have a cider or a glass of wine as long as it's with a meal in a pub. You have to be 18to buy alcohol is 18 years old.
I’ve just said the same above lol then seen your comment
3 pints of cider and 3 roast dinners
I know I’ve said it before I just think it’s a much better approach, alcohol isn’t made to be such a big deal
16 minimum age not 14 with a meal in Pub or Restaurant.
Not 14 though, 16 is the age from which a person can have beer, cider or wine with a meal, so long as it has been paid for by an adult.
On private property children from age five can have beer wine or cider.
Amanda - you are quite right regarding alcohol. I was brought up to have a small amount of alcohol as a child - a sip of Dad's beer or a very weak shandy - that's lemonade and a small amount of beer as opposed to the American shandygaff which is light beer mixed with ginger ale or sarsaparilla - I take the second from Robert Lowell's LIFE STUDIES so that version may be New England's equivalent. When I was 18 I was offered a party but chose instead to go with my late Dad to my "local", which incidentally was the famous Top Hat in Cwmtillery, Wales, now demolished, where Tom Jones signed his first professional contract in the eary 60s. There I had one beer, and left it at that! There was no novelty to it and I have never understood the American attitude, which makes it all such a big thing often with bad results. On a different note, all university education was free until the mid 90s and students were even supported by grants, however the growth in the number of entrants made that impossible. That is a political issue however so will stop! Love your videos, warm regards from Wales...
I do like a shandy, it's lovely. :)
Thank you so much, I hope youre well :)
@@LADYRAEUK British or American, he smiled. I am well thanks, hope all is well with you....
To be fair it was never free it was taxes. And it is free at the point of attending, with basically no actual negative impact on life. The complaints about loans are massively overblown.
@@wyterabitt2149 I know, and the generation moving on effectively paid for the incoming one, but of course you are right. I was thinking more that back then there were fewer entrants and this made such a system viable over the one which exists now.
Children can go to school without having to wear a bullet proof satchel. True but so very sad!
Yeah, they just get knifed instead. Knife crime and murder are hugely on the increase in the UK among schoolkids and teenagers. True, but so very sad!
@@2eleven48 Almost all drug gangbangers stabbing each other. Not a problem tbh.
@@kensummers7757 ...well, yeah, that goes on all the time, I know, but I did say among schoolkids and teenagers that has nothing to do with 'drug gangbangers'. It's a new phenomenon of knives being carried by youngsters that has nothing to do with drugs. It's about other social issues.
@@2eleven48 "Knife crime and murder are hugely on the increase in the UK among schoolkids"
Citation needed.
Not saying it doesn't happen, but common? No.
@@2eleven48 not UK... maybe bits of England, some parts of Britain safer than others......hmmm wonder what the common factor is.
The minimum drinking age in the UK is actually 5 years old. The minimum age at which you can purchase alcohol (or have alcohol purchased for you) is 18, but that is not the minimum age at which you can consume alcohol.
Or 16 if it's with a sit down meal
When my, then nine and 10-year old, kids joined me for the six yrs we lived in the US, the two things which they first mentioned in this area were very interesting. Firstly, they each informed me that they were told at school that they had to use a pencil for tests, whereas at home they had to use either a ballpoint (my daughter's school) or a fountain pen (my son's). Secondly, they were surprised we couldn't take a bottle of wine with us when we had a picnic in a nearby park. "What, how might one eat shrimp without Chardonnay", I remember D saying when he was 12!
Hi Amanda, just watched the video. Great as usual. The legal age for alcohol in the UK is actually 5 years old (I’m sure social services would have a field day though) however you can’t purchase alcohol until 18. Also you can drink with a meal at 16 in a pub or restaurant while eating if accompanied by an adult.
Does anyone know the USA rules on this?
In the US you cannot legally drink or purchase alcohol until age 21.
In the US it depends on which state, some states allow marriage and being able to kill before you can legally drink 🤣🤣🤣
Hi Amanda,
I lived in Jacksonville Fl for 4 years. The thing i hated MOST about the US was the incessant Stop signs. WHY, WHY, WHY! For me the Give ways we have here (and the roundabouts) are a much better system. Having said that i really liked that you could stop and if safe to do so turn right on a red light. We should definitely have that here! (it makes a lot of sense)
Having been scared to death in Tucson Arizona as a wave of traffic was bearing down on me when then light was green for me I totally disagree. The idea is insane. Please attend some clinic or other if you can afford it, (that is if you still live in the U.S).
Agree, stop signs are crazy. Turn up to a four way junction and play guess who’s turn it is.
@@2011littlejohn1 Don't live in the US now! Now back in the land of roundabouts and giveways! (yield signs)
I presume you are advocating that we in the UK should be able to turn LEFT at a red light, as we drive on the left! Having lived most of my life in a so-called New Town (built after the Second World War), which had lots of roundabouts and very few traffic lights, I have now moved to an older established city with fewer roundabouts and lots of traffic lights and it doesn't half mess up the traffic flow, especially with some of the more modern cars with their cut-out systems when the car is stationary. When the lights turn green, there is that extra delay as the engines fire up again.
here in the UK a red light means STOP
in the US it means if you carry on your might get T-Boned but you can turn right on red and screw the jaywalker for trying to damage your car
Kids have to stay in school until they're 18 now, unless they have an apprenticeship or go to college. They can't leave full time education at 16 anymore.
Not quite, you leave school but have to stay in some sort of education and it can be part time
@@boringfunny2767 Equally your not required to be in school at any age, just receive an education
@Megsy Doodle well it’s used to be part time until recently if it’s changed
Depending on the circumstance you can drink MUCH younger in the UK, you can legally give children as young 5 years old alcohol. Selling to someone is much older but physically being able to have a glass of wine? basically when they are able to go to school they can start having beverage in their home.
Just FYI, In the USA you can allow your children alcohol as religious rituals (communion, Jewish circumcision, bar/bas mitzvah), celebratory events (weddings, baptisms), and ethnic cultural customs. In our Lithuanian-American household, wine and spirits were given to children, mixed with ginger ale or 7-Up. The amount of alcohol was increased as the child grew until the child came of age. The only arrest I have heard of was around 1972 when a very young couple gave their infant an 8 ounce baby bottle of vodka, hoping the child would sleep so they could party. The baby died and they were arrested.
Alcohol is never okay in any country for children and teenagers. Alcohol is a poison to the human body.
Brit here, we have always kept our eggs in the fridge, You can keep them out, but I dont think it is usually recommended to do so. Besides, they last longer in the fridge, everything does.
Wrong they last just as long not in fridge as long as you don't clean them which destroyes natural protection as farmer i have never put eggs in fridge 🥚
They can last for over a year outside of the fridge if you turn them upside down every few days. It sounds mental but it's true, just ask anyone old enough to remember rationing.
The reason America washes them - and why they also wash their poultry in chlorine is because they have next to no food hygiene laws so most farmers keep poultry in appealing condition battery farms (which are illegal in the UK). So they are covered in faeces, which spreads diseases.
A few points:
Except for newly-engineered motorways and bypasses, roads in the UK have been there for hundreds of years; a few even go back to pre-history. People have always used these tracks so they are public rights of way, and they've merely been widened and metalled to take vehicles. Those ancient rights still exist so jaywalking isn't a thing here.
You can be given drink here at 5 yrs old (only at home with your parents I think). You can drink in a restaurant at 14 with an adult if you're eating there. And 18 is the age at which you can buy alcohol.
And about the eggs: we don't treat them as we inoculate our chickens in the first place.
Religiously/OANNist/Republican rural US farmers are likely anti vax for their chickens and other animals....
Oh wow, that's umm, fantastic.
As in, fantasy.
I see the TH-cam trolls are still alive and kicking...
@@M0UAW_IO83 How so?
Student loans aren’t free in Scotland. The fees are paid, thankfully, but we still get maintenance loans etc which we have to pay back. Not complaining though, it’s still less than England and Wales.
Try what it costs in the US.
English students studying in Scotland still have to pay full fees. It is discrimination but has not been challenged.
Thanks for another enjoyable video. On the issue of tax being added to purchases, whilst many UK visitors to the USA may dislike this, I find that having a British passport often reduces the cost of items. I remember buying a jacket from Bloomingdales and paying less than half the ticket price as the cashier made a reduction on the price due to my being an overseas visitor. A key reminder for those not sure where to store their food purchases is that if it isn't on display in a chilled cabinet in the shop it does not need to be chilled at home, though many of my friends store their eggs in the fridge but only because the manufacturers provide egg shelves
Really? I didn’t know about costs being less for overseas visitors! That’s well good😊👍🏻
Had the same experience in GAP in NY, heard the Brit accent, asked if I was a tourist and got an extra 20% discount . Job Done..
AMANDA RAE Lots of larger stores in London have (or at least used to have) a desk where visitors from certain overseas countries could get assistance to claim back taxes paid on their purchases. Harrods, a favourite of wealthy arabs, Chinese and Russians certainly did. I'm sure most of the Bond Street retailers and jewellers also offer such a service, albeit discretely.
That’s really interesting, I had no idea 👍🏻
@@spencerwilton5831 I remember a lot of the shops in London in the 80s ,especially the electrical stores around Oxford street had 'ask for export prices' attached - I don't know which countries this applied too ( & Hi-Fi , cameras etc were generally high priced in the UK)
In 1973 when we went from purchase tax to VAT we went through a brief phase of tax being added it the till. It was so unpopular that it was fixed very quickly. We also had a phase of there being no tax on takeaways but tax on the same item eaten in the restaurant. This also went fairly quickly.
Yeah ,then it was 'hot food /takeaways- & for a short time some outlets got round it by not charging for the food but for salt, vinegar ,tomato sauce etc...
Not that quickly. VAT on hot takeaway food was not added until well into the 1980's. I forget the exact year.
Have you covered our measurement system yet? The fact that we drive for miles & miles per gallon but fuel is sold in litres.
We buy a pint in the pub or a 4 pinter of milk but it's sold in metric. We give our height in feet & inches & most of us our weight in stones & pounds.
(Personally I hate metric but I'm old & was caught between the two systems when it was introduced).
I'm old too (in my 70s) but as an engineer I always used the metric system for my work and definitely prefer it. I do get irritated when there is a heat wave and the newspapers, particularly the tabloids, start writing headlines quoting the temperature in Fahrenheit. The met office switched over to Celsius 50 years ago!
I was brought up during Decimilisation and learnt both, although I personally prefer the imperial system, I use the metric system for weights and Imperial system for lengths. As an Engineer, most European equipment is now fully metric, but USA still fully use imperial on industrial manufactured equipment.
@@stevienico452 Decimalisation was the change of the UKs currency from £.s.d to £.p in 1971, the change to metric measurements is known as metrication.
European manufacturing has used metric units for centuries (thanks to Napoleon!). Even the US is now moving towards the use of the metric system in manufacturing in order to harmonise with international standards. Science, of course, has used the (metric) SI system exclusively since the early 20th C.
@@davidfaraday7963 The US military also uses metric but ordinary citizens do not (unless you count buying soda in 2-litre bottles).
@@davidfaraday7963 typo error, sorry, I was born after Decimilisation. But I think it's fair to say that by law to Date, it's only recently that Governing bodies are legally finalising changing units over. And as far as I'm aware it's been a journey in getting anywhere near completely changed. Still Today there are people who still use imperial systems, albeit for legacy engineering applications.
Here in the UK a VAT tax sometime you may see plus VAT or may be already added, also second hand commercial vehicle you pay VAT at a dealer, but you don't pay the tax if buying it private.
where I am from (central Europe) you can have up to 4 years of maternity/paternity leave paid by state (for each child a state gives you ca. 6200 EUR support and you can choose for how long you want to stretch this support, the longest time, the lowest monthly payment) and you are allowed to work during receiving this support, so you can use it for a nanny or other forms of daycare. Your employer has to hold your job position for three years (for each child, so e.g. nine years if you have three children), the fourth year is not mandatory for him, but it can be done, if both sides want to.
That is absolutely amazing. That takes so much pressure off of parents.
When I had my children, as well as maternity leave and pay, you got child benefit from the government until your youngest child left school (18), plus if you had worked for the company for at least 2 years they had to keep your job open unless you decided not to return.
You drive on the left to pass strangers with your right hand free to wield a sword if necessary.
You drive on the right if you are in charge of a an ox team, traditionally seated on the rear left animal.
We drive on the left due thanks to the Romans. As you say, right hand was needed for swords... However, most of Europe drive on the right, due to Napoleon being left handed and making his troops march on the right.
@@Gazz1982 I'm sure the Romans would've found Napoleon's approach quite sinister..
@@edhoward-bearder3081 🤣🤣
@@Gazz1982 a joke 2000 years in the making..
Timing, they say, is everything.. 😁👍
Driving is obvious - Left is right, Right is wrong....
Love all your content, Especially enjoyed your football chants videos. (Featured a lot of chants from my team Leeds, and trust me they get a lot more offensive)
Thank you so much :)
Although I am familiar with many of these differences, I prefer to have them read by you.
On the side of the road, whenever I visit the UK, I always head for the correct door (passenger) as I would normally be driving at home and that's the door I would be opening.
The first time I went to the UK, my wife and I flew into Edinburgh and picked up our rental car. Since she was experienced in UK driving as she had lived in England for 5 years and my Amex card would only cover one driver, she got the short straw.
I was in the passenger seat and from the long flight and approx 22 hours of go time, I kept dozing off and then waking up thinking I was driving and freaking out when there was no steering wheel or pedals. That was a source of amusement for my wife.
To add to her amusement, the super narrow streets would startle me whenever I would wake up and see a parked car less than 12 inches from me whenever I would open my eyes. The cherry on top was when my wife clipped a mirror with the resulting BANG.
Enjoyed the video as always and really like the background in today's video.
Have a great week!
Rob
I`m in Scotland. You should have seen my German wife's reaction, when she drove on single track roads for the first time. Apparently she had never encountered roads without a white line in the middle. :D
Just to note we do leave secondary education at 16 which is like your basic education, but you now are legally required to stay in education until your 18. Usually people between 16-18 will now specialise (so take part in further education in some subjects, specialist courses or apprenticeships). It's more complicated than it seams.
You can visit houses/castles older than a few hundred years old. There's a lot of history dotted around the UK that make for wonderful days out.
Only time I ever remember jaywalking laws being enforced in the states was when I was at college. And then it was just cops flashing lights at or yelling at students, didn't actually ticket or even formally warn anyone. Even in a big city like New York.
Still, better idea to use the cross-walks and obey the lights, the cars are more likely to yield to you that way.
In Silver Spring, MD, they occasionally have periods where they will issue jaywalking tickets in large quantities. One little brat managed to get two in one day. If they would use some brains when they do it, I wouldn't mind, but they blindly cross the road while staring at their phones.
The idea in Britain is that people should be free to cross when there are no cars anywhere near, not that people should seek to make cars slow down. We think it just common sense that people are responsible for their own safety. Americans are too litigious and treat people like children to be told what to do.
In regards to the the egg subject the way I was taught was just look where the supermarket put them, if there on a shelf and not refrigerated just do the same at home..... love your vids keep up the good work 👍
Makes sense👍🏻
Thanks so much 😊
The Food Standards Agency recommends keeping eggs In a refrigerator .
I've always stored my eggs in the fridge (I'm now 70) and was taught to do so by my mother who was taught to do so when she did a Domestic Science course at college in the late 1930s. That's why all refrigerators come with an egg storage rack. I don't know anyone who doesn't store their eggs in the fridge!
I don't keep eggs in the fridge, but I tend to only keep them for a couple of days because I'll buy them just before I'm going to make something with eggs. So if I'm planning to bake a cake or make omelettes on Wednesday I might pick eggs up on Monday. I guess it's just a case of not letting them have a chance to go bad?
I don't. Mine are in the cupboard.
So you've never tasted a real egg? That's so sad! Eggs kept in the fridge are flavourless things and are actually more susceptible to bacteria.
Shops don’t keep eggs refrigerated
I know someone who doesn't store eggs in the fridge. Every single supermarket/shop
My parents first let me have alcohol at 13, a single glass of wine at Christmas. Add to that that we could buy shandy (beer mixed with lemonade) in shops without being asked for ID, and we do tend to teach a healthy respect for alcohol early on.
Love your video's simply because I'm English and have lived in Tennessee for 10yrs. So much fun watching your reactions and things you choose to compare.
Is there any major differences you’ve. One across after years living there?
@@LADYRAEUK It's all things medical. The filling out of pages of forms and signing them, the dreaded medical insurance and the feeling they just want your money like a business rather than wanting to help you get better.
School leaving age in the UK (well actually Education Leaving age, as you can go to sixth form college, or into a proper apprenticeship) is 18 & has been for around 9 years now.
More like at least 21 years , thats when I did it , but I was a bad kid so was tge army for me😫
nah thats only england
I was 16 when I left
@@connormc5809 yh but u have to have an apprenticeship or be in part time education
@@hananasrah No I just left
Hey, love your videos! I'm Canadian & we have a lot of the things you mentioned: paid maternal & paternal leave w baby; free health; if low income can apply to have student loan removed etc. But not jaywalking, wow!!! That's the one I would think would get me the most LOL
Hey, thanks so much! 😊 we visited Canada a few years ago and we absolutely loved it. Vancouver and Whistler were among my favourite places
Never had any problem getting served and paying for drinks in a pub at 15, it was a country pub, even the one close to school used to serve us in uniform but had to wait until in the forth form (16), different uniform and had to dodge the teachers and sometimes the Headmaster in the lounge bar. We got caught occasionally when in the toilets as they served all three bars. Most teachers turned a blind eye, unless drunk in class, the head was a different story (ouch, can still feel the Willow). He would even confiscate any cigarettes, pipe tobacco and the pipe. He smoked the ciggies and the tobacco, must have saved a fortune. He did have a nice range of Scotch in his office.
Hmm, getting caught by the teachers in the toilet … was it a public school … 🤔
Deputy head told some 16yo pupils at my school to use another pub as they were about to go in, the head was inside. Same one, and another teacher were buying the pupils drinks on the ferry to France (with the pupils' money, not giving them free booze).
In Scotland you pay now pay your university fees after you graduate and working, not whilst at university.
Taking out a student loan is optional
I attended university in England (graduated 20 years ago) and had fees to pay at the start of each year and used my loan for this and finished paying my loan after 14 years.
When I was on holiday a few years ago I was in a bar talking to two guys, an Aussie and an American.
After an hour or so of testing the local amber nectar, me and the Aussie were aware that our companion had gone quiet, he was struggling to keep up, so in order to continue the newly formed Anglo Aussie American drinking club we switched to shorts and yes, as could be expected we lost our friend from over the pond, so we carried on as the Anglo Aussie drinking club.
I wonder if the US drinking age and the lack of early practise had something to do with it.
Some sad financial issues in the US health care, holidays, university etc. We are definitely getting something right in the 🇬🇧
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strange in the 1800's people left europe to go to the USA for a better life, nowdays they want to come back
Brilliant vid once again, nothing I can add really except with student loans that a large number of student end up not paying anything back as they never earn enough to cross the threshold, which is possibly disappointing since a graduate should be earning more. Enjoyable effort. Best Wishes
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it. I hope you’re well 😊
@TheRenaissanceman65 'You've hit on the head' so to speak, tanks for the reply. Best Wishes.
@TheRenaissanceman65 You gave me a laugh, when I was thinking of my dear old dad, so thank you.
@TheRenaissanceman65 I actually wish parents would in general be more supportive of kids not going to uni. Get them set up for a trade and if they are diligent workers they could have a deposit for a house or better long before a uni student graduates. A lot of trades like plumbing, carpentry, and air conditioning are hard up for skilled workers. Unfortunately it seems like nearly every parent wants their kid to be a doctor or lawyer. Can you imagine a world with only doctors and lawyers? Terrifying.
Too many graduates = lower pay in those fields... Solicitors are still on the same wage now as they were 20 years ago
While on honeymoon in Hawaii, my wife and I called in at a local supermarket for a few things. Staying in a beautiful beachside apartment we didn't think twice about dropping a bottle of wine in the basket. Imagine how I felt when I got refused for the wine by the young girl at the checkout because I didn't have any ID on me at the time. I was 35!!!!
Hahah crazy isn’t it 🤣😊
@@LADYRAEUK I'm Canadian and I was on holiday in the U.S. with my wife, when we stopped at a supermarket to pick up stuff including beer. I had to present ID to buy the beer despite being very obviously on the wrong side of 60. For me, the arbitrary nature of rules and laws in the U.S. is one of the biggest differences between the U.S. and other places. Elsewhere people are expected to use their common sense, but in the U.S. there's a rule for that.
@@LADYRAEUK I lived in the USA when I was about 50. In a beer festival in Alexandria VA, I had to prove my age. I said are you joking but he wasnt!
I’m 55,and the last time I was visiting the US, I got carded. It happens every time I go. I’ve learned to bring my passport with me when I go out.
I got ID’d in New York at 40 years old 🙄
As a small farmer, when I go to a small amount of specialist stores, the main price tag is pre VAT, (Value Added Tax). A smaller part of the tag in most cases will be VAT included. The same also can apply to some builders merchants, but not the DIY type stores.
Also, I have been to so a fair few auctions, where the auctioneer will charge the seller a commission. Now they also do a "Buyers Premium" plus VAT. The old Guineas auctions, the seller had the £1, and the purchaser had to pay the pre 1971, shilling, now 5 pence. A modern guinea is now £1.05. Auctioneers can / will charge VAT on buyers premium, and if the seller is VAT registered, VAT on the auction price. The same can also apply to some "Online" auctions in UK.
Nice list. The one item I think is worth digging further is #7. Camille Paglia argues (and probably she isn't the only one), that this ridiculous measure pushes college students into binge drinking, and is the cause of other regrettable behaviour on campus. Germany has very sensitive provisions: teens can drink wine and beer at 16, but hard alcohol only at 18.
I agree with Mike of Indy, you do have a very relaxing voice and no doubt with living in the Uk your American accent as got much softer. A very pleasant piece of video to listen to with some very educational differences from both sides of the pond.
Thank you so much 😊
The worst thing on youtube is screechy American women in adverts.
The legal minimum age to drink alcohol (in private) in the UK is 5. I've been fortunate to grow up with a parent who ran pubs & clubs
Yes the age you can drink alcohol in the UK varies on the situation, e.g. out for a meal with parents
@@paulclubley7206 that's also down to the bar manager/landlord. They can still legally refuse
Yes was going to stay the same about 5 years old. Not sure Amanda is right about the reducing the mystic of alcohol, not seen much restraint from the UK population, and think in the international drinking levels the US are light drinkers😂.
@@davidshipp623 UK drinks a similar amount to Germany
@@djlads yeah I think its a Northern European thing, we are all pretty bad 😬!
You're partially correct, the drinking age in the UK in a pub is 18; however, there are a few exemptions... for instance when in a restaurant and eating a meal, those under 18 are allowed beer, lager, cider or perry (pear cider I think) with a meal - even if they are not with an over 18. MIght also be worth saying that cider in the uk is alcoholic (and can be quite strong) whereas in the US I found it often to simply be apple juice - I'm sure there are alcoholic versions.
Thank you 🙌
Americans call the alcohol version Hard Cider.
Technically legal for 5 year old to drink in the UK. Though I've never seen it happen.
Cider in the US isn't what the UK calls cider (think jelly), I believe the Americans have a different name for alcoholic apple drinks.
Not true. I have previously worked in a pub/restaurant. Customers tried this all the time, under 18s cannot consume alcohol even with a meal.
@@davidjones4497 you're correct, under specific circumstancews this is true.
You can drink legally at the age if 4 at home if its like a taste of something and your parents give you permission. You can drink in a pub at 14 years old if you are with a responsible adult and getting food too.
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the reason we drive on the left is to do with horse drawn carrages, most people are right handed and use the whip with thier right hand so the whip was flicked into the road not on to the pavement, I hope this is correct
interesting comment, I was always told that it goes back even further than that, to the days of swordsmanship, when on horseback, you could draw your sword and attack/ defend from someone coming from the right, or was right handed too
Great video as always. I always find the USA/UK differences fascinating👍
me too! :) Thanks so much!
@@LADYRAEUK Not least, the languages!
(Sadly, one unfortunate aspect [language and everything else] is that _some_ people - on both sides! - think their way is the _right_ way, or even worse, the _only_ way. I notice it more in USians, but I guess you notice it more in UKians.)
I've been waiting for this! I really like these comparison videos.
I'm glad :) Hope you enjoy it !
Australian here, I was amused in the UK to see bottles of gin etc randomly on the shelf next to the bread etc. In the US “hard liquor” in a lot of states is only sold in state controlled special shops! In Australia most states have liquor shops which sell all types of alcoholic drink. (Yes Victorians I know you have a section in the supermarket).
or the bottle shop is JUST outside the supermarket..Vic here..
You will never see alcohol next to bread in a U.K. supermarket it has is own department normaly at the back or you might see a special offer display near the entrance when you walk in
@@waynechalkley6693 well I have a photo of bottles of Gin in the shelf next to the Warburtons in Tesco in 2018.
In the USA there are still dry counties. No alcohol can be sold or consumed. Moore county where Jack Daniels is made, is a dry county.
In Sweden it's state controlled too. Supermarkets can sell beer up to 3.5% but no higher, everything else has to be bought from a state run store. (monopoly) or if you live near the West coast just hop on a ferry to Denmark and buy there or on board.
The law in the UK has changed and you have to remain in full time education until 18, however that doesn't have to be school it can be college or on the job training programs which include some classroom time.
Thanks!
Very interesting video, thank you. I have just retired from the NHS after 24 years & although the pay is way lower than what you would get in say the USA, the annual leave (holiday) allowance starts at 28 days and rises to 33 days plus Bank holidays. Also staff are very multinational & most stay for years in the same job/ directorate - it does feel like an extended family especially in your own department.
The drinking age is whatever you can get away with! I don’t know anyone that didn’t have their first drink in a pub at 14/15, maybe we just look older or have a lot of dodgy landlords !
It's for "The Greater Good"
@@Grandude77 The greater good
@@Grandude77 The Greater Good
@@Grandude77 The greater good!
I was brought up having a small amount of alcohol on special occasions. It meant that when I when to university (1991 - 1994) I didn't go out and drink excessively unlike a lot of others who would get drunk regularly.
That driving on the left hand side thing got me too. It was the other way round. I'm from the UK and inherited a hire car in the Netherlands after my colleague broke his arm. Got in the car and looked up, "who's moved the mirror", "Ah, the steering wheels on the other side", then the penny dropped.
The left side goes far back in history. Charioteers, jousters and soldiers would ride on the left to keep their right arm toward the centre, given that most are right handed
I rented a car in Florida when I went there, it wasn't so much the 'drive on the right!' that got me, coz I drive in France or Belgium quite often, but being able to filter right against the red light, I never felt safe, and had to practice in a supermarket car park for an hour before I'd go on the road!
Steven is correct. It's also known as the "sword arm". When people carried swords on the street, they had to keep their sword arm free in case someone approached them in a threatening manner. Given the preponderance of right handed people, you don't want your sword arm trapped against the wall - walking on the left side of the road stops this happening. It also explains why gentleman allowed their ladies to walk on the inside rather than the outside - something that older men still do today. My Dad always walked on the outside of the pavement. Sorry for waffling.😊
@@elizabethabbott3726 There is also a concept in design of fortifications. The defenders would be upstairs and those stairs were designed to make it difficult for the attackers to use there right hand in a swing.
The minimum education age has changed in the UK over the last 2 or 3 years, i don't know that much about it but i believe you have to stay in education of some sort until 18 now, unless getting a job or apprenticeship at 16.
I know there’s quite a few differences, I’m going to do a video comparing the two 👍🏻😊
Since 2011 in England all young people must continue with some kind of education or training until 18 which can include an apprenticeship. In the other home nations school leaving age is 16.
@@LADYRAEUK, retired teacher here. In 2010 the age at which people can leave school was raised from 16 to 18.
It was 2011, when the first students were affected by this. That's over 10 years ago.
The confusion lies in the fact that many schools only teach up to age 16 (GCSE level) So pupils from those schools do indeed "leave school'. However, they have to stay in full time education by going to a college of further education (FE college), enrol at another school with a sixth form, or enrol on an apprenticeship that has an element of fornal education within it (usually day-release to college 1 or 2 days a week).
So yes, many leave school at 16, but nobody leaves education until they are 18.
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain that 😊
@@LADYRAEUK, Where the difference between education in the UK and USA lies is that after 16 in the UK, education is no longer 'general'.
In FE colleges, the courses offered are vocational and students work towards gaining vocational qualifications. They still take English, maths and IT, but the focus is on vocational training - much of it being practical with some classroom learning and written coursework - the amount depends on the vocational qualification chosen : things like hairdressing, building construction, Graphic design, for instance, have a much greater practical skills element to them than others such as, Travel and Tourism, Business Studies, or Health and Social Care. Many of these courses also entail a 'placement', where the student works (usually unpaid) for one day a week in a setting where they can gain work experience in their chosen profession.
Or choosing to do A Levels in a school or sixth form college means choosing 4 or 5 subjects to take full time in the 1st year, and then dropping 1 or 2 of those in the second.
Just to clarify- YES brits can leave school at 16 HOWEVER you are supposed to go on to collage, an apprenticeship or some other educational thing for another 2 years. Not everyone does but you are supposed to.
Many brits do keep their eggs in the fridge as it does make them last longer- especially in the summer when it’s hot. But you don’t have to keep eggs in the fridge in uk.
I remember crossing the street to take a photo of the hotel I was staying in in Brooklyn. I got tooted by a car turning the corner at least 50 metres away and I was amazed. I guess I was jay walking. The tax addition was also very confusing.
The NHS is amazing. I was hospitalised a month ago and it was no sweat, I knew it wouldn't cost me a penny and it was quite relaxing. Whenever I travel to the US I make sure I have medical insurance to the eyeballs and beyond!
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It's so funny hearing you speak because every few words you hear a fully English pronunciation that you are likely not even aware of
Haha I’m not aware of it at all.. even after people tell me, I still feel like I sound the same 🤣😊
@@LADYRAEUK the video about animals native to the UK and not the US, you said China with the _strongest_ South East English accent!!
“Choynah!”
@real burglaz official 🤣🤣really?? Lol
@@LADYRAEUK absolutely!! Also, go to bed! It’s quarter to 4 in the morning!
Interesting vid again. Education has now changed you cannot leave any form until you have GCSEs grade 4+ in maths & English up to the age of 19. This includes sixth form, college or apprenticeship.
Gosh Is that true? When I was 16 in the late 50s you could walk away at sixteen and get a trainee engineering job and learn something that would always be useful. Now Britain doesn't seem to manufacture much at all and you need a degree.
If that's the case then in Scotland you could never leave school as these exams do not exist!
@@EuroScot2023 19 is the magic number. If you've still fail they give up on u. It was brought in to stop the amount of NEETs in the system.
Tips are not mandatory in the UK, especially bar staff.
Tips should NEVER be mandatory
Nope, but I think they should be optional, as it means more to the person that you are giving it to if you didn’t have to…
The eggs thing is slightly odd because for a while (I'm thinking 70'/80s) some Brits were keeping their eggs in fridges. However it became a problem because (again some) people would then cook theirs eggs from cold rather than room temperature with very mixed results. People eventually realised that refrigerating eggs was unnecessary.
You're right, there is no need to refrigerate them, especially so if you keep hens, the natural "bloom" on the egg protects it - it is often washed off when produced en-mass because they don't want customers to maybe see a bit of poop on the shell. I think we managed perfectly fine for millenia before the invention of the refrigerator. On a plus note, not keeping eggs in the fridge leaves more room for beer!
@@spinningtop5749 I keep eggs in the fridge. In the door there's a row of shallow "cups" to hold them. Perhaps I have a very old fridge and modern UK versions do not have this feature.
Even my brand new Korean fridge has egg holders at the top of the door. I took them out and use that area to put butter as it fits well.
Tax, make it make sense. The price of the product is known, and the rate of tax is known, add them together and write it on the shelf. It's only difficult because they made it difficult. It doesn't have to be. The building only exists in one location. It's not going to be in a different state tomorrow. So the tax rate that applies to it will still be the same.
I love your appreciation for the UK so much Amanda it reminds me of why I'm proud to be British despite current events which are making me feel ashamed to be British! Once again thank you for cheering me up and I send you my regards, I hope you're doing well! :)
I'm so glad :)
I hope you've had a lovely weekend, and thank you!
I would never be ashamed to be British.. I also love her appreciation for the UK as well..!! :-)
I'm ashamed to be British too... I don't recognise the open racism & hostile environment as my country. Was it always like this and I just didn't notice? Or is it a much newer phenomenon? I imagine there's quite a few people in the USA feeling the same way.
But yes, I love the positivity of this channel. Our differences are to be celebrated and learned from.
Why are you ashamed to be British? We’re great, we have Brexit
@@maldonhammer236 I'm not stating my opinion as to why because I'm not arguing with anyone about this that is how I feel end of.
As always Amanda great video, could I recommend Peter Kay’s Dogging clip it’s hilarious, anyway hope you’ll get to the 50,000 mark soon, God bless.
I'll add it to the list :)
thanks so much!
Yes that is very funny. X
I remember how frustrating it was when I went to Florida having to walk for ages up the road to find a crossing
I imagine in most cases it's fine as long as you're not caught.
That’s the trouble, you never know when there’s a copper around the corner lol
I’ve heard you can’t live in the USA without a car. If you walk somewhere, you’re immediately suspicious and the police will put their knee on your neck until you stop resisting forever.
In some parts of the USA it is suspicious if you are walking along the highway as the police view you as having a suspended drivers license due to dwi (driving whilst impaired) so they think you have drink or drug convictions and have criminal intend and will stop you sometimes for a well being check.
That makes sense
It may be in the other video, but Taxation is totally different in the UK. Wages in the UK are reduced by the employer who pays your National Insurance contributions (supposed to go toward funding the NHS .. yeah right) and Income Tax (differing percentages depending on a range of factors such as married/single, earning over X per year). The employee gets the 'Take home' pay after these deductions. In the US everyone files a tax return, which in the UK is something only the self employed or independently wealthy do - basically anyone who hasn't already paid Income tax. They don't have NI payments either so health cover is up to them, sometimes private like in the US.
Also in the US when you buy something it's the price the company bought it for plus their profit. In the UK VAT (Value dded Tax) is added on top of that - currently 20%. So for example if the original price was £100 the ticket price is £120 with £20 going in VAT to the government. Individual states as I understand it have 'Sales Tax' at varying rates, but in the UK /everyone/ pays VAT. Consumers pay at the till, companies pay the VAT that customers paid - albeit to companies it was never 'their' money so it's in one hand and out the other.
I went to the USA for a holiday in April for a week. I had no problem in driving on the other side of the road. With that said, I always opened the wrong door when getting in to drive! But, when I came back to the UK, that week of driving on the right, really messed up my head! Despite being back over a month, I get confused at times about which side of the road, or door to use! 😖
I used to live in Germany but often went 'home' to England. The danger time I found was pulling out of a petrol station at night onto an empty road. If there is traffic you follow the others. And after a night ferry with few cars I drove through Dover on the wrong side of a dual road until I noticed I couldn't read the road signs as they were back to front 🙃 I also saw many British cars driving through Ostend onto the motorway - again in the early morning. There was a roundabout so the first car went the wrong way and many others followed him. I drove down the motorway on the 'right' side hooting and flashing my lights. I then saw the whole convoy stopping so they were ok. 😀
In Scotland we also get free prescriptions. This really highlights how not a good country America is to live in.
In Scotland you get your prescriptions paid for by the English.
Scrap the Barnett formula
Haha well that's what you get for testing poll tax and the smoking ban on us first. Fairs fair lol 💩
even for Americans, paying "full price" in scotland, the price is cheaper.
Also no prescription charges in Wales
@@FoxDren no prescription charges in Northern Ireland either!
Paying for petrol. In the UK you fill up and then go and pay. In the US in my experience you had to go to the counter and pay for how much you 'think' you will need. This was madness as a tourist with a hire car. I had no idea how much petrol cost, plus it was in US gallons, rather than what I was used to, litres. I didn't know how much the petrol tank in the hire car would hold. I ended up choosing an amount then having to go back and get a refund as the amount I thought I could fit into the tank was way off! LOL. It's a stupid system.
That’s very true, I think some places have changed it but a lot of places you have to prepay because people were filling up and driving off without paying
@@LADYRAEUK Hi Amanda! It would be a lot simpler (and quicker) if the petrol stations over there used the 'pay @ pump' system that many of ours do now - and in any case, most of the garages tend to have ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras that are linked to the DVLA! Oh, and I love the channel - and your voice! 😍
Haha yes that would be much easier 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks so much 😊
@@raycardy4843 ANPR wouldn't work in the USA due to the almost unreadable number plates! You have to have a legally enforced size/font/colour number plate system and a centralised database for it to operate.
Why didn't you just pay at the pump? Most gas station pumps are set up so you can swipe your credit/debit card right there and never have to go inside the station.
Someone once described the USA as being 'very backward' as regards the way the government looks after its people. Things here were similar 80 years back, but people had to campaign and fight for better working and living conditions. After World War 2 in 1945, the left-wing British Labour Party won an unexpected landslide election victory, promising to create 'a land fit for heroes'. Most of what we take for granted as part of a decent society nowadays, comes from that time. The right-wing Conservative Party here never dared to dismantle that legacy.
In the election before the NHS was created, literally every party had the creation of an NHS in their manifestos.
@@AngelicDaemon Churchill's Tories voted against the formation of the NHS 21 times before the act was passed, including both the Second and Third reading.
@@tonysutton6559 Churchill knew where it would lead and he was right although it wasn't blatantly obvious until the 90s.
@Ian Warren Blair's New Labour was just Tory lite. I no longer live in the UK but from what I hear the Conservative party is now more right wing than before.
Everything we have is because someone protested. Now the tories are dismantling our right to protest and the right wing media and bbc have convinced the public that protesters are no good scruffy trouble makers. People are now too selfish and ignorant to appreciate the battles being fought on their behalf
The school/education leaving age was raised to 18 a few years back.
And I agree with the other poster, you do have a very calming voice.
Thank you 😊
Whilst being aware of the Jaywalking word, I never really found out what it meant even though I spent 10 years when most of my time outdoors was in the US. I assumed it was just walking alongside roads with no pavement/sidewalk. I was in groups on nights out when we were spoken to on about 3 separate occasions by the passing Police, but we weren't drunk or dangerous. We just do our Pub Crawls (Bar Hopping?) on foot in the UK and wouldn't dream of driving.
Some of the other guys (I was away that week) once had a SWAT Team descend on them when they tried to buy late night burgers at a drive thru. (Though this has become no longer possible in the UK now) When they realised everyone was still safe after a nights drinking they all got a free lift home in the fleet of Police cars. With a drive through at a different burger drive through. It was a party laugh for months after that the Police thought it was shocking that they went out for a nights drinking without their cars....
Interesting fact about drinking Amanda, I was in Copenhagen recently and went to a supermarket, they had a sign saying 14 year olds could buy beer but not spirits until 18, it's even crazier though, anyone under 17 can drink at home or in public as long as they don't cause trouble.
As the Good Lord intended... the landlord of a pub in my home town had the same policy, he'd let you drink underage as long as you didnt act the arse. Well, he did have a Hyper Olympics machine.....
Oh wow, that's crazy! I'd love to visit Copenhagen someday :)
@@LADYRAEUK I think the thinking would be that a 14 year old couldn't afford to buy beer in Copenhagen. It's a fabulous city though.
@@LADYRAEUK As a Brit I highly recommend Denmark/Copenhagen for a visit. One of the truly wonderful countries/people on earth!
I’d love to visit there someday 😊
Another: Leave your device plugged into the wall and switch if off at the socket. USA outlets rarely have switches.
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Agreed and American plugs often pull out of the wall which is annoying!
and don't get me started on the direction the yanks flip their switches...WHY do you have to flip them up when turning them on..??
What difference does it make?
@@grandmasmagic3858 the answer to that is back in the old days of knife switches, it was required to install them so you had to lift them up to turn them on; to make sure a switch handle left in the off position didn't fall and turn itself on. that led to the standard of up for on. and in fact, our electrical code still has a clause requiring switches to be prevented from falling into the on position.
A few years ago, the UK government made it necessary to stay in education until you turn 18. But this could still mean signing on for an apprenticeship (which includes educational courses at a local college) instead of an academic route (like a college academic course or Sixth Form).
Coming from someone with nephew and nieces of school leaving age... it's still 16
@@insomniacbritgaming1632 You can leave school on the last Friday in June if you’ll be 16 by the end of the summer holidays.
You must then do one of the following until you’re 18:
stay in full-time education, for example at a college
start an apprenticeship or traineeship
spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training
Cut and pasted from Gov website.
That’s applicable in England, only. For Scotland, Wales and NI, you can leave at 16 if you wish, depending on when your birthday falls. Even in Scotland it’s not upheld rigorously.
They never did this...the official age you can leave has remained at 16 for many years.
It was common to have to add the VAT to the price yourself until as late as the 1990's, until it changed.
Also goods didn't come with plugs and you had to fit them yourself.
It used to be taught at school in the 1970's just like cooking lessons in Home Economics class.
I never saw a single shop of any kind doing that, or hear anyone who thought it was normal, during the early to mid 80s. In adverts it was different, but not in any shop I ever went in.
The reason electronic items didn't come with plugs was over by the 70s, it just took a little while for the practice to end.
@@wyterabitt2149 electrical shops, most non food retailers, small to medium shops, DIY shops though not the big chains. It was very common and a right pain.
I worked in retail in the late 1960s and early seventies, Purchase Tax and then VAT was always included in the price displayed. Goods offered to businesses have the VAT as extra.
@@RogersRamblings So did I in the seventies and we did in a a couple of places I worked and other places in Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, York definitely did.
I was born in the 60's and I never had to pay any tax on top of the ticketed price.
For me it's food labels, or lack of in USA, that got me. Here you can see the processes and additives placed in food. In the USA, milk has many ingredients added, especially sugar, and no label to tell you what you are consuming. Food addition additives are legal and widespread in the USA as they make the food taste in a way the body craves. The fact I can read a label and make an informed choice is so liberating.
I didn’t even think about that. That’s a good one 👍🏻
Other than a loop-hole in the food labelling laws.
If a colourant is added by a manufacturer it has to be listed, but if a colourant is in another ingredient it doesn't.
eg a can of black cherries with a red colourant in the cherries (I kid you not) will have the colourant listed, but if that can of cherries is used to make a black forest gateau, the ingredient list for the cake only needs to contain "black cherries" with no mention of the colourant in those cherries!