Entering the competitions on ITV when you were younger meant you had to ask your BILL PAYERS permission. i.e the person who owned the house/tv you were watching the ITV channel on had to give you permission to pay to enter the competition. When you're 18 in the UK you are legally seen as an adult and at that point can enter the competition anyway.
Yer even I had to read this so thx, as I was just listening and not watching at the time… SEEING the man’s name was Bill Payer!! Made more sense 😂 What was his parents thinking at the time of his birth tho !?!… I know what we’re call him, Bill Payer! as I’m sure he’ll keep it up 😅
@@stephenlee5929 The red one across the road to me looked to be in good condition but was removed and replaced with the new design. Now that's been gone too for at least a decade, probably longer!
Ahhh, Portacabins. Yep, had these. They're probably still there... Just looked at a satellite image. Can confirm that 30 years later, that "temporary" portacabin is still there 🤣🤣
Yup. The secondary school I went to had these. The most they did was replace the doors once. The whole school was falling apart due to neglect - and in my final year it was sold to another school, who then proceeded to have my school demolished while we were still attending. My final year in school was in a building site for students who didn't even go there yet.
Had one of these the entire time I was at secondary, and the time my younger brother was there (3 yrs younger), they eventually built the building that was supposed to replace them but I think then upped the student numbers again so it wouldn't surprise me if they returned
These were called 'ROSLA' buildings (Raising of the School Leaving Age) when I was at school, used to accommodate the extra students that would be remaining at school for another year (in my case it was in 1972 when the leaving age for students was raised from 15 to 16). They were supposed to be temporary but in many cases became almost permanent.
The funeral director one is from the covid era when you saw signs everywhere saying “thank you nhs” and it reminded me of a sign near where I grew up - there was a large cemetery and the sign pointing to the turning and said “cemetery” but was outside and pointed directly at an old people’s home which upset the residents
'Baby in board' car signs are supposed to be placed where the baby/ child/ pet is within the vehicle, so if you were to have a crash the emergency services immediately know that there is a baby/ child/ pet in the car and where so they can try to help them quickly. (You're supposed to remove them if the baby/ child/ animal is NOT on board for the journey as well)
It was just a fad in the US in the 80s/90s, reminding people to drive safely. Lots of cars had them, then lots of joke versions "baby on a board" "brat in trunk" "adults on board we want to live too"
Geordie's have a habit of putting the word pet at the end of every sentence, as a form of endearment. "What's a wine cellar for?" "Alcohol storage, pet."
@@Samtheman91 I'm from Cheshire originally where it's "love" but live in west coast of Scotland where it's "hen", I've heard "duck" being used in north Wales too.
You do realise that the Funeral Director thanking the NHS was not intended as dark humour? It was literally thanking them for their work during the pandemic - lots of us had similar signs up at that time. The dark humour is the Brits' response to the placement in the funeral director's window. Zante is a Greek Island. There is a stereotype of British people going on hioliday to Greek Islands, and falling ion love with the waiters. In the photo, one of the men is Elton John..... It's not the ramp that's temporary- it's the classroom. Almost all schools have some 'temporary' classrooms which have been in place for at least 30 years....
The funeral director isn't trying to be funny. During the Covid outbreak a lot of people put up signs to express their appreciation of the NHS staff who worked tirelessly to get everyone vaccinated.
'Everyone vaccinated'. You mean the 'sheep'? The majority of the population didn't get the 'Clot Shot'. Including my neighbour who is a surgeon at a Midlands hospital. Neither of us banged pots and pans either.
12:36 in Canada, we referred to those temporary buildings as "portable classrooms" or just "portables". They were put in when the school ran out of room and usually were never removed once installed.
When I was young (55 years ago), there were notices dotted around on walls 'Bill Stickers will be prosecuted' nearly always followed by an addition, 'Free Bill, he's innocent!'. Another use of the word Bill meaning an unauthorised advertisement in this case.
Don't know if anyone has explained but 'die bart' is on the right rear door and the beginnings of the words 'ed' 'sto' on the other.(Eddie Stobart is the name of a big haulage contractor.
Essex is a county in England. In reality, it's unremarkable, but for some time, there was a spate of jokes that went round about Essex Girls, and it developed the stereotype of Essex Girls being unintelligent. They also have the reputation of being "Easy". We have an adult comic here called Viz, and there's a couple of characters called Sandra and Tracey who are known as "The fat slags". I think they're based on Essex girls. But there's also a TV program called The Only Way is Essex, or Towie for short. One of these so called reality shows. I've never seen it but I think it's like a cheap knock off of Love Island. They're all young, supposedly good looking, supposedly financially well off, entitled, and as thick as shit. Also bigger bitches than a kennel full of St Bernard females.
Tyler, Geordies are the inhabitants of a Northern English city called Newcastle. They have a very distinct accent and manner of speech. One of the things that they are known for is calling everyone "pet". Even strangers... A wine cellar is a place where you store alcohol. So if asked what a wine cellar is for, it is plausible that a Geordie might say "Alcohol storage, pet". People from my neck of the woods might say "Alcohol storage, duck". I don't expect you to get that reference Tyler, but the knowers will know.
The pattern was matched just the last one to open them didn’t put them back in the right order or right way around. The first one (all one colour) is 189*s out for example
Bill payer is classic. Years back a cow got loose and a police man was with the cow, I told him he can put the cow in my garden, because it was heading to a busy road. I did not tell my mum she got a huge shock seeing a huge cow at the kitchen window, she did not drop the kettle.
At 12:38 it’s not the ramps that are temporary but the building it self, if the school is low on classrooms or needed more space. I had them al my primary and secondary, their still their. 😭
On a phone line they tell you to ask the bill payer for permission to pay. That means the person who is responsible for phone payments. This is to a man actually called Bill Payer. Thank you NHS signs put up for their work during pandemic.
I think the NHS reference was a gag their having failed and he died so he had it put on his gravestone, or someone stuck it on after the fact for shits and giggles. Bang on about bill payer though....
In the lower school of my secondary (High) school we had 7 wooden huts put up after the war as temporary classrooms (presumably while the new ones were built), I used them in the 80's - still there until the school closed 50 years after being built!
As our population outgrew the existing schools a temporary measure was Pre-Fabricated Classrooms. These were supposed to be cheap and quick to make and erect, and act as short term solutions until brick and mortar rooms could be built, but became permanent fixtures instead. Some of the modern ones are nothing more than modified shipping containers fitted with desks and lighting.
We had one at my middle school it was known officially as the temporary class and was there for years before I started and was only got rid of when they knocked the school down about 15 years after I left! 🤣
Before hair straighteners, I used to iron my daughter’s very thick and wavy hair straight by putting paper over her hair to protect it. It actually was a thing from the 60’s when lots of women did it.
I love the bill payer one 😂 we had these competitions on some TV shows where before the ad break they’d have a quiz question show up with multiple choice answers, usually very easy, and you’d text in your answer. Texting in was usually fairly expensive for a text, like £1-2, and they’d pick a winner from everyone that sent in the correct answer to win a large amount of money or a car or holiday or something. It was basically like a raffle but they had to make it a question to satisfy some sort of law so they’d make the question overly simple so more people would enter. They’d always say at the end like the terms and conditions and it was usually like “you have to be 18 or older to enter and ask for the bill payers permission”. Basically ask the person who was paying for the phone contract and in turn the entry text permission to spend their money on an entry. I know they say if you have to explain a joke too much it isn’t funny, but i like this one 😂
The school building was what we call a prefab building, they put them up in school playgrounds in the 50’s and 60’s as extra classrooms. They still have them at some schools. Unfortunately if they were like the ones in my school, they had asbestos ceiling tiles and flammable insulation. Sometimes the ceiling tiles would start to fall down on pupils. My old school only removed the buildings a couple of years ago.
The Evergreen truck, it was also the ship that jammed up the Suez Canal. The school one, the temporary classrooms is nothing compared to Spain where I used to live. They started building a new school, the youngster due to start there had to wait, they were entry level, 5 and 6 year olds. They have just opened that said school, the new Principal was appointed and was one of those entry level kids. So he grew up, went to University, qualified, worked his way up the ranks then got a job at the school he should've attended. Whereas with me, in the 1970s, we had temporary classrooms to house pupils that were put up in WW2 because the school had been bombed. They were there and being used temporarily until 1992!
It took me longer than I'd admit to get the Bill Payer one! but it made me chuckle, reminded me of kids when I was at school looking up J. R. Hartley in a phone book to ring because of that yellow pages advert!
Although there are different definitions, most people say that to be a Geordie, you have to be from the Tyneside area of North East England. Some linguists think that the strong accent and local slang remains because the area is tucked in the northernmost corner of the country.
In boxing people refer to a knockout punch. In parts of Britain it is still common to hear things like "He knocked him spark out". In the picture, Boris looks aggressive, like he is angry and ready to punch the woman spark out..
Btw (Brit here) at 17:20, pasty is pronounced as pa, as you would say in “past” or “pat”, and sty as in “steam”, fyi. It is like a pocket of pastry with savoury filling, like meat, vegetables, both, and other things. If it is available in the US, deffo give it a try.❤❤❤
The "Thankyou NHS" was a country-wide nod to all the incredible medical staff, cleaners, doctors, ambulance crews etc who'd worked - at some risk to themselves - throughout Covid. The unintentional black humour of it appearing in the funeral directors, is nevertheless fun!
My primary school had three of these classrooms when I went there from 1996-2003, which had been there for an unknown length of time before I started. I went back to my hometown a few months ago and drove past the school. The temporary classrooms are still there, as are the signs informing you they're temporary.
I think the Funeral Directors was taken during covid when the Thankyou NHS poster was everywhere thanking the Nurses. Bill Payer - often you get the message 'you must get the Bill Payer permission - IE the person who pays the bill.
The Clarkson, Hammond and May is referring to the former Top Gear, current Grand Tour presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. The three guys in that picture look quite similar, and are posed in a weirdly similar way to a lot of the photos you get of them, but are just random workers. ETA: Top Gear was, when they presented it, the MOST watched nonfictional programme IN THE WORLD with something like 350million regular viewers!
Baby on Board is just that in case of a accident and the adults are knocked out or worse , just makes the rescuers aware there may be a child on board, The weird bricks are a man hole cover that has been put back in place back to front .
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To give you context into the "Thank You NHS" poster on the funeral director's window, during COVID is was very common place to have that phrase everywhere to thank the staff, gp's, doctors, nurses and coordinators of the NHS for all they were doing for us. Here in Wales "Thank You NHS" was even painted on the roads.
That Thank You NHS is hilarious. People hang that in their windows in the UK, usually to virtue signal. The funeral director hasn't realised the irony of what they've hung in their window. - a Geordie is somebody from Newcastle, they call everyone "pet". - Spark out, means Knockout. - Welsh Italian Pizza....wel shit alian pizza
Banksy is an anonymous graffiti artist who is famous for drawing/painting pieces of work that often point out the hypocrisy of mankind. He's a very talented artist, and very good at making these statements. He might leave a piece of work on the side of a building or public walkway or somewhere, and sometimes people try to cut them out and take them home. His works are worth lots of money. Nobody knows who he is, (allegedly).
21:04….these are inspection hole covers on the pavement (sidewalk) with inlays to match the surrounding ground…so two have been incorrectly mixed over, which the responsible worker would have to be an idiot, not caring, or purposely joking to get wrong.
When I started junior school in year 3 (grade 2) were were the first children in a new school, it was meant to house 4 year groups with 2 classes per year, so 8 classrooms, they built it with 6! So we had to have 2 temp classrooms called Terapins, which were only replaced when they started to fall apart 40 years later.
The Bill Payer one, a lot of competitions on TV will say something like "you must be over 18, entries cost £2 and you must have the bill payer's permission to enter"
For the context of the funeral directors. It was during the covid pandemic and people and businesses were thanking the NHS, and clapping for nurses etc. It’s just that at a funeral directors it could be interpreted in another way.
That bus driver one is because all of our bus drivers seem to know each other. Sometimes stopping to talk to each other. And I spent most of my primary school years in one of those temporary porta cabins. There was a line of them on the field for a good few years.
12:38 I don't think its the ramp but the entire building. There was an issue that some schools were built with a dangerous type of material similar to concrete called raac, and many schools were shut down. Temporary buildings like that one were made as classrooms to house the kids while they rebuilt the damaged areas but its taken so long that many have been in temporary classes foe years. They are still fixing it even now in some places
3:15 "Bill Payer" as in the one who pays the bills (some online contests tell kids to ask permission from the parent who earns / pays the bills) 11:48 search for 'bunny chow', a popular food in South Africa 12:23 the building itself looks like it was supposed to be a temporary structure, not just the ramp 13:49 yes, a covid variant. can't remember if it was before or after Omicron 15:25 those are look-alikes of the three guys who once upon a time hosted Top Gear, a car show on BBC 15:53 that applies to large office buildings 16:48 neither do i, but in the pic, Boris looks ready to punch the lady 17:02 Geordie - someone from Newcastle (Northern England) 18:26 Welsh Italian Pizza
3:14 Tyler Rumple To enter the competition you need to ring a phone number which costs more than a normal phone call, So the people hosting the competition always in the small writing will write, Please ask the Bill Payer for permission to call before you do so. So he has literally asked Bill Payer (person) for permission rather than the person that pays the bill. 3:45 The telephone boxes got changed as the older red ones had real glass panes and due to the people in this world becoming scummier every year, people started smashing the windows on the red phone boxes which obviously became too much so they replaced them with those BT phone boxes that had the plasticky perspex windows that did not smash.
BBC is another name for CNN. So is CBC here in Canada. And being from Canada, I think we share a similar sense of subtle humor as the UK. Thought the 2 bus drivers seeing each other was good.
I initially read the title of this video as "American reacts to 50 *pies* that prove the UK is unlike any other country". I thought "yeah, we have a lot of weird pies. That sounds about right".
Its not the ramp that was supposed to be temporary its the entire building, they even occasionally tear down the temp buildings and then replace then with more temp buildings just to throw you off.
Haulage truck : Ed die / Sto bart a popular UK firm. The seagull was in Haddenham Buckinghamshire 1st July 2019. They called him Vinny after a Vindaloo. He was not the first seagull to attempt a disguise. Welsh Italian Pizza
It was referring to the temporary buildings, not the ramp. We had those as our science class building and they were there over 10 years (very not temporary). These buildings are used as temporary offices on building sites, they arsnt supposed to be permenant. They're basically like garden sheds.
TV competitions in the UK, there's always a "small print" speed read which usually at near unintelligible speed tells you terms and conditions, charges, additional charges etc, and to ask the Bill Payer's permission
I think you need a brit on hand to explain this as you're going through it. Your first impression is funny, but if someone could then explain the detail and context I think it could be both funnier and more informative.
How do you not know Clarkson, May and Hammond, the Top Gear/Grand Tour boys? You have to react to some Top Gear content, you're missing out if you haven't. If you have, do it again. There's penny to view
Somebody has probably already said this, but the "Thank you NHS" thing was very common to see during the COVID Pandemic where the NHS (especially the front-line workers) did an extraordinary job in unbelievably difficult and uncertain circumstances. It is a bit dark to see it in the window of a funeral director's, out of context, I'll admit.
A Geordie hails from Newcastle upon Tyne & pet is an affectionate term. So the question is answered thus - Alcohol storage, pet. Recommended viewing Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - an old UK TV programme set mainly in Germany. It would take too long to explain!
Houghton is pronounced as Howton or Hawton. Competitions always say "always ask the bill payer;'s permission' when using the phone. the school buildings were temporary. Supposedly. I've had one of those Amazon things. They left the package with a receptionsit at a student block nearby.
The pizza sign is referring to Welsh-Italian pizza (there is a big Italian community in the South Wales valleys with a history of running cafes and ice cream parlours in mining towns). Wel(l) shit is another way of saying very bad so “welshitalianpizzas” are an entirely different prospect from Welsh-Italian ones.
the bill payer one is because a lot of competitions to do with entering post codes , houses say with bill payers permission so who pays housing , rent, water all that stuff comes under the word bills also you have to be 18 to enter any like show competitions as that's legally an adult in the uk . so in short be an adult and don't enter a house you don't have permission for or isn't yours . done know if anyone else answered this but i think thats the right explanation.
Should've waited and consolidated but... the Baby/Children Onboard signs for cars are more for emergency services. If you're ever in an accident where they're required, it's so they know where to priorise if there's a multi car pile up etc
I rarely see payphones/ phone booths you can still use in the UK (live in Bolton, from the one where the woman who said she wouldn't leave the house... Outside her house) anymore, if I do they are something else but I think "smart payphones" didn't take off. Cause what looks like what could be the only one left near me was intended for something else. But I can confirm that towards the end I was seeing more of the iconic red ones than those other ones.
Thank you Nhs This was seen in many places during covid pandemic to thank the nhs staff for their hard work. It is unfortunate the funeral director had it there and without the context it looks likd dark humour
There is a program called This Morning that comes on the channel ITV. They have a competition and at they end, once they give the phone number out to enter, you have to have the bill payers permission to call and be over 18.
Do Zante is a Greek island which is a popular tourist spot for brits.. Greece also has this somewhat stereotypical idea that older British woman go to Zante to fall in love with a young Greek god working as a waiter so they can run off into the sunset! Also the people in the picture are David Beckham (the footballer) and Elton John (the singer) David is the waiter and Elton the older woman looking for love 😂😂
Zante is a Greek island. Essex is an English coastal county - east of London. Name derived from the settlement of "East" Saxons. (Note: Sussex and Wessex)
A Geordie is someone from Newcastle and they have a very distinct accent and dialect some of which is hard for a non Geordie to understand. Anyone talking that way is said to be speaking Geordie. Pet is a Geordie term of endearment and used much like dude, babe, honey, mate, brother etc so the sign would read as a reply to the person asking the question What are wine Cellers for? … “alcohol storage, pet”. (I.e. “alcohol storage, dude”)
context for the bill payer meme, in the UK we have a TV Chanel called ITV as well as BBC and others anytime they run a competition on air they state the rules and one rule is if you are a minor or do not pay the telephone bill you must ask the bill payer permission to do so hence why he has found someone on Facebook called bill payer to ask him said permission pretty funny actually, fun fact also the phone booths of yester year were replaced with the ugly one and are all now pretty much non existent to be honest they all stunk of piss or had a crack head farming 20p's from outside them
Bill Payer... He's the one that pays the bills. Sometimes the person that pays the TV bills is the only one that can change or update details or enter competitions, i.e. the bill payer is the only one who's authorised.
The online rules state can’t enter a paying competition by text unless you have the permission of the person who pays the bills - “the bill payer”
Entering the competitions on ITV when you were younger meant you had to ask your BILL PAYERS permission. i.e the person who owned the house/tv you were watching the ITV channel on had to give you permission to pay to enter the competition. When you're 18 in the UK you are legally seen as an adult and at that point can enter the competition anyway.
@@JG-qs9bg😂 that’s what he meant
but i dont think he understands thats the guys real name haha.
Yer even I had to read this so thx, as I was just listening and not watching at the time… SEEING the man’s name was Bill Payer!! Made more sense 😂
What was his parents thinking at the time of his birth tho !?!… I know what we’re call him, Bill Payer! as I’m sure he’ll keep it up 😅
@simonrobbins8357 one sensible person that saved me a lengthy comment, thank you.
Bit like when they used to deter fly posters with notices like "Bill Stickers Will Be Prosecuted"
You're right, the phone box downgrade was criminal
Yep, but generally it was not a replacement, it was only new installations.
wasn't it to make them more exposed, so people were less likely to pee in them
@@stephenlee5929 The red one across the road to me looked to be in good condition but was removed and replaced with the new design. Now that's been gone too for at least a decade, probably longer!
If I get into power I'm literally replacing all bins and phoneboxes with the red phone box and frog's 😂
They turned ours into a book swap
It's not the ramp that's temporary, it's the building itself.
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Ahhh, Portacabins. Yep, had these. They're probably still there...
Just looked at a satellite image. Can confirm that 30 years later, that "temporary" portacabin is still there 🤣🤣
Yarp, it's the cabin not the ramp.
Yeah the ramp stays the building goes
Yup. The secondary school I went to had these. The most they did was replace the doors once. The whole school was falling apart due to neglect - and in my final year it was sold to another school, who then proceeded to have my school demolished while we were still attending. My final year in school was in a building site for students who didn't even go there yet.
British humour is both dark and sarcastic. But we usually.poke fun at ourselves more than anyone else
It can definitely be a shock 🤣
@@BirdiesSkateboarding I imagine it can be. We do come across as rude at times lol
The one about the school. It's not the ramp that was supposed to be temporary, but the building.
Same in sweden.
Had one of these the entire time I was at secondary, and the time my younger brother was there (3 yrs younger), they eventually built the building that was supposed to replace them but I think then upped the student numbers again so it wouldn't surprise me if they returned
I suspect he didn't realize because their houses are built with much the same materials as our prefabs 😂
These were called 'ROSLA' buildings (Raising of the School Leaving Age) when I was at school, used to accommodate the extra students that would be remaining at school for another year (in my case it was in 1972 when the leaving age for students was raised from 15 to 16). They were supposed to be temporary but in many cases became almost permanent.
The funeral director one is from the covid era when you saw signs everywhere saying “thank you nhs” and it reminded me of a sign near where I grew up - there was a large cemetery and the sign pointing to the turning and said “cemetery” but was outside and pointed directly at an old people’s home which upset the residents
'Baby in board' car signs are supposed to be placed where the baby/ child/ pet is within the vehicle, so if you were to have a crash the emergency services immediately know that there is a baby/ child/ pet in the car and where so they can try to help them quickly. (You're supposed to remove them if the baby/ child/ animal is NOT on board for the journey as well)
It was just a fad in the US in the 80s/90s, reminding people to drive safely. Lots of cars had them, then lots of joke versions
"baby on a board" "brat in trunk" "adults on board we want to live too"
@@piratetv1 W B A on board and AV fan on board (the family car always fun)
Geordie's have a habit of putting the word pet at the end of every sentence, as a form of endearment.
"What's a wine cellar for?"
"Alcohol storage, pet."
Your explanation helpped. TY.
ahh that makes more sense now, thanks
So weird when you think about it, down here in the Midlands everyone is "duck"
Having watched the TV detective show, "Vera", I think you have to expand your description of use of the word, "pet". She uses it with such menace!
@@Samtheman91 I'm from Cheshire originally where it's "love" but live in west coast of Scotland where it's "hen", I've heard "duck" being used in north Wales too.
"This poor bird", this man has clearly never encountered a seagull. Every Brit is like "Good, you deserve that you little bastard."
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You do realise that the Funeral Director thanking the NHS was not intended as dark humour? It was literally thanking them for their work during the pandemic - lots of us had similar signs up at that time. The dark humour is the Brits' response to the placement in the funeral director's window.
Zante is a Greek Island. There is a stereotype of British people going on hioliday to Greek Islands, and falling ion love with the waiters. In the photo, one of the men is Elton John.....
It's not the ramp that's temporary- it's the classroom. Almost all schools have some 'temporary' classrooms which have been in place for at least 30 years....
And the other one is the equally well known David Beckham
The funeral director isn't trying to be funny. During the Covid outbreak a lot of people put up signs to express their appreciation of the NHS staff who worked tirelessly to get everyone vaccinated.
The funeral direcyor was thanking the NHS for medical errrors that led to them having more funerals to work on.
@@stephenhodges3350 Don't be silly.
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'Everyone vaccinated'. You mean the 'sheep'?
The majority of the population didn't get the 'Clot Shot'. Including my neighbour who is a surgeon at a Midlands hospital. Neither of us banged pots and pans either.
I agree with Stephen. 😊
12:36 in Canada, we referred to those temporary buildings as "portable classrooms" or just "portables". They were put in when the school ran out of room and usually were never removed once installed.
When I was young (55 years ago), there were notices dotted around on walls 'Bill Stickers will be prosecuted' nearly always followed by an addition, 'Free Bill, he's innocent!'.
Another use of the word Bill meaning an unauthorised advertisement in this case.
17.40 - i love how you say "pasty" like paste. Its pronounced like "pasta" pasteeeee ❤
I used to have a chuckle every time I drove past that ad in the east end of Glasgow "Sofa King Cheap"
Don't know if anyone has explained but 'die bart' is on the right rear door and the beginnings of the words 'ed' 'sto' on the other.(Eddie Stobart is the name of a big haulage contractor.
The bus drivers - yes it's literally that they all wave at each other whilst driving past so since they're moving quickly it's blurry.
I liked that one 😅
And of course it was included twice, they're on the return route!
Also a lot of bus drivers drive like they are blind.
And the buses are filthy so the windows would make them look bleary
The meme is a reference to bus windows always being filthy.
@15:05 'I've heard of Essex, what is Essex?' made me actually lol.
Essex is a county in England. In reality, it's unremarkable, but for some time, there was a spate of jokes that went round about Essex Girls, and it developed the stereotype of Essex Girls being unintelligent. They also have the reputation of being "Easy". We have an adult comic here called Viz, and there's a couple of characters called Sandra and Tracey who are known as "The fat slags". I think they're based on Essex girls.
But there's also a TV program called The Only Way is Essex, or Towie for short. One of these so called reality shows. I've never seen it but I think it's like a cheap knock off of Love Island. They're all young, supposedly good looking, supposedly financially well off, entitled, and as thick as shit. Also bigger bitches than a kennel full of St Bernard females.
- what is Essex.
A question many of us have pondered.
@@tmarritt Is it where the Esso fast breeder reactor is stationed?
I'm an Essex! At least he didn't call me a TOWIE, I'll take ignorance thanks!!
Tyler, Geordies are the inhabitants of a Northern English city called Newcastle. They have a very distinct accent and manner of speech. One of the things that they are known for is calling everyone "pet". Even strangers...
A wine cellar is a place where you store alcohol. So if asked what a wine cellar is for, it is plausible that a Geordie might say "Alcohol storage, pet".
People from my neck of the woods might say "Alcohol storage, duck". I don't expect you to get that reference Tyler, but the knowers will know.
getting called 'duck' or 'ducky' when I moved from the great city of Newcastle to Nottingham took quite a bit of getting used to 😀
21:00 They are some kind of maintenance hatch/drain cover etc.. The point is they had one job to match them to the pattern of the bricks...
The pattern was matched just the last one to open them didn’t put them back in the right order or right way around. The first one (all one colour) is 189*s out for example
@@England-Bob I know, that's what I mean, the person had one job to put them on/back correctly
Bill payer is classic.
Years back a cow got loose and a police man was with the cow, I told him he can put the cow in my garden, because it was heading to a busy road. I did not tell my mum she got a huge shock seeing a huge cow at the kitchen window, she did not drop the kettle.
She did not drop the kettle is classic. Quick thinker she is
At 12:38 it’s not the ramps that are temporary but the building it self, if the school is low on classrooms or needed more space. I had them al my primary and secondary, their still their. 😭
On a phone line they tell you to ask the bill payer for permission to pay. That means the person who is responsible for phone payments. This is to a man actually called Bill Payer. Thank you NHS signs put up for their work during pandemic.
I think the NHS reference was a gag their having failed and he died so he had it put on his gravestone, or someone stuck it on after the fact for shits and giggles. Bang on about bill payer though....
@@AL-xk5uh No, I think it was just an ironic mistake.
In the lower school of my secondary (High) school we had 7 wooden huts put up after the war as temporary classrooms (presumably while the new ones were built), I used them in the 80's - still there until the school closed 50 years after being built!
As our population outgrew the existing schools a temporary measure was Pre-Fabricated Classrooms. These were supposed to be cheap and quick to make and erect, and act as short term solutions until brick and mortar rooms could be built, but became permanent fixtures instead. Some of the modern ones are nothing more than modified shipping containers fitted with desks and lighting.
We had one at my middle school it was known officially as the temporary class and was there for years before I started and was only got rid of when they knocked the school down about 15 years after I left! 🤣
Clothes hangers like the penguin one are for a whole suit of baby clothes usually
When ever i have been slow on the uptake i like to watch this channel to make me feel better.😉
"Bill Payers" 😂
Before hair straighteners, I used to iron my daughter’s very thick and wavy hair straight by putting paper over her hair to protect it. It actually was a thing from the 60’s when lots of women did it.
You need to be very carefull ironing the curtains with the windows open. Also do not drink and iron just in case the phone rings.
I ironed my hair in the sixties.
3:00 ITV is a tv channel that does a lot of competitions and they always say ''ask bill payer before entering''
“Ask the bill payer if under 18” or something like that
in some towns around ireland, we still have those phone boxes, they're painted green and a defillbrillator housed inside
I love the bill payer one 😂 we had these competitions on some TV shows where before the ad break they’d have a quiz question show up with multiple choice answers, usually very easy, and you’d text in your answer. Texting in was usually fairly expensive for a text, like £1-2, and they’d pick a winner from everyone that sent in the correct answer to win a large amount of money or a car or holiday or something. It was basically like a raffle but they had to make it a question to satisfy some sort of law so they’d make the question overly simple so more people would enter. They’d always say at the end like the terms and conditions and it was usually like “you have to be 18 or older to enter and ask for the bill payers permission”. Basically ask the person who was paying for the phone contract and in turn the entry text permission to spend their money on an entry. I know they say if you have to explain a joke too much it isn’t funny, but i like this one 😂
“welsh Italian pizza”
wel shit alien pizza. 🤣
Wel(l) being a synonym for very
The school building was what we call a prefab building, they put them up in school playgrounds in the 50’s and 60’s as extra classrooms. They still have them at some schools. Unfortunately if they were like the ones in my school, they had asbestos ceiling tiles and flammable insulation. Sometimes the ceiling tiles would start to fall down on pupils. My old school only removed the buildings a couple of years ago.
My high school had a couple when I was there (2006-2011), and I had form and RE in them 😅 but, that was while the 6th form building was being built.
The Evergreen truck, it was also the ship that jammed up the Suez Canal. The school one, the temporary classrooms is nothing compared to Spain where I used to live. They started building a new school, the youngster due to start there had to wait, they were entry level, 5 and 6 year olds. They have just opened that said school, the new Principal was appointed and was one of those entry level kids. So he grew up, went to University, qualified, worked his way up the ranks then got a job at the school he should've attended. Whereas with me, in the 1970s, we had temporary classrooms to house pupils that were put up in WW2 because the school had been bombed. They were there and being used temporarily until 1992!
Not just schools. There were a lot of pre fabricated houses, which, of course, we just called prefabs, around until the early 90s as well.
@@pennyaccleton6227 They're still about and being lived in to this day. There's some in Plymouth, Devon. They look fantastic,
@@janneroz-photographyonabudget says a lot about modern buildings doesn't it?
@@pennyaccleton6227 Haha, yes. The main problem was asbestos. The ones I know of had that removed. I think they're visible on Google Street View.
@@janneroz-photographyonabudgetwe have some in Yorkshire still but they’re terrible and look terrible. They just look like shipping containers.
It took me longer than I'd admit to get the Bill Payer one! but it made me chuckle, reminded me of kids when I was at school looking up J. R. Hartley in a phone book to ring because of that yellow pages advert!
It reminded me of when we would phone people out of the phone book, such as mr wall etc
Although there are different definitions, most people say that to be a Geordie, you have to be from the Tyneside area of North East England. Some linguists think that the strong accent and local slang remains because the area is tucked in the northernmost corner of the country.
In boxing people refer to a knockout punch. In parts of Britain it is still common to hear things like "He knocked him spark out". In the picture, Boris looks aggressive, like he is angry and ready to punch the woman spark out..
Btw (Brit here) at 17:20, pasty is pronounced as pa, as you would say in “past” or “pat”, and sty as in “steam”, fyi. It is like a pocket of pastry with savoury filling, like meat, vegetables, both, and other things. If it is available in the US, deffo give it a try.❤❤❤
Pah-stee or some people pronounce it Par-stee
The "Thankyou NHS" was a country-wide nod to all the incredible medical staff, cleaners, doctors, ambulance crews etc who'd worked - at some risk to themselves - throughout Covid. The unintentional black humour of it appearing in the funeral directors, is nevertheless fun!
It's a temporary classroom that stays forever.
Same in sweden.
😂
My primary school had three of these classrooms when I went there from 1996-2003, which had been there for an unknown length of time before I started. I went back to my hometown a few months ago and drove past the school. The temporary classrooms are still there, as are the signs informing you they're temporary.
My daughter now goes to the senior school I used to, the temporary huts are still there 21 years later 😂
The temporary building that were there when I was are still there 30 years later
The temporary building! It was the worst one to be in, constantly echoing god I hated that building
Yet the temporary Demountable class room that never went away
naturally, my school chose those to teach music lessons in
@@MrGBH oh yikes mine did geographically, history, re, health and social care and I think criminology so it was packed every time
I think the Funeral Directors was taken during covid when the Thankyou NHS poster was everywhere thanking the Nurses. Bill Payer - often you get the message 'you must get the Bill Payer permission - IE the person who pays the bill.
Or it's modern thanking them for not doing their jobs and getting free time off instead, proving lots of extra work for the directors 😅
The Clarkson, Hammond and May is referring to the former Top Gear, current Grand Tour presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. The three guys in that picture look quite similar, and are posed in a weirdly similar way to a lot of the photos you get of them, but are just random workers.
ETA: Top Gear was, when they presented it, the MOST watched nonfictional programme IN THE WORLD with something like 350million regular viewers!
Wow, I had to go back and look at that pic again. It's a good dupe! 😂
Baby on Board is just that in case of a accident and the adults are knocked out or worse , just makes the rescuers aware there may be a child on board, The weird bricks are a man hole cover that has been put back in place back to front .
Clarkson, Hammond and May were the Top Gear presenters (now Grand Tour Presenters)
When ever they do a phone in competition where they charge a premium for the call they always say ask the bill payer first.
That one with the grass on the Scottish border is laugh out loud and so true.
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i said this over a year ago thats why i unsubscribed.
Hi Elizabeth, he's always asking for comments tho? 🇬🇧
@@alimar0604so that he gets more money. The more people engage the more it will show up in other people's recommendations, then more views. As far as I've seen, he has never acknowledged anything anyone has posted!
He has in one video quite recently about London.
@@alimar0604 yes..he needs people to comment to boost his You Tube algorhythms and get more $$$. It's like 'click bait'. He never intends to reply/read. I have watched his videos on and off for over a year and has never interacted with Commenters on any of them. I feel sorryfor the people who spend a lot of time explaining things to him as they are wasting their time. I unsubscribed because of it, but still watch sometimes to reply to other Commenters.
To give you context into the "Thank You NHS" poster on the funeral director's window, during COVID is was very common place to have that phrase everywhere to thank the staff, gp's, doctors, nurses and coordinators of the NHS for all they were doing for us.
Here in Wales "Thank You NHS" was even painted on the roads.
That Thank You NHS is hilarious.
People hang that in their windows in the UK, usually to virtue signal. The funeral director hasn't realised the irony of what they've hung in their window.
- a Geordie is somebody from Newcastle, they call everyone "pet".
- Spark out, means Knockout.
- Welsh Italian Pizza....wel shit alian pizza
Banksy is an anonymous graffiti artist who is famous for drawing/painting pieces of work that often point out the hypocrisy of mankind. He's a very talented artist, and very good at making these statements. He might leave a piece of work on the side of a building or public walkway or somewhere, and sometimes people try to cut them out and take them home. His works are worth lots of money. Nobody knows who he is, (allegedly).
In Bristol there are people who know who he is, but won't tell you.
21:04….these are inspection hole covers on the pavement (sidewalk) with inlays to match the surrounding ground…so two have been incorrectly mixed over, which the responsible worker would have to be an idiot, not caring, or purposely joking to get wrong.
When I started junior school in year 3 (grade 2) were were the first children in a new school, it was meant to house 4 year groups with 2 classes per year, so 8 classrooms, they built it with 6! So we had to have 2 temp classrooms called Terapins, which were only replaced when they started to fall apart 40 years later.
The Bill Payer one, a lot of competitions on TV will say something like "you must be over 18, entries cost £2 and you must have the bill payer's permission to enter"
Bo point explaining any of these to you, as you never read the comments
Tyler: **watches a video about images related to the uk**
Also Tyler: “I don’t recognise this from America”
For the context of the funeral directors. It was during the covid pandemic and people and businesses were thanking the NHS, and clapping for nurses etc.
It’s just that at a funeral directors it could be interpreted in another way.
That bus driver one is because all of our bus drivers seem to know each other. Sometimes stopping to talk to each other. And I spent most of my primary school years in one of those temporary porta cabins. There was a line of them on the field for a good few years.
12:38 I don't think its the ramp but the entire building. There was an issue that some schools were built with a dangerous type of material similar to concrete called raac, and many schools were shut down. Temporary buildings like that one were made as classrooms to house the kids while they rebuilt the damaged areas but its taken so long that many have been in temporary classes foe years. They are still fixing it even now in some places
3:15 "Bill Payer" as in the one who pays the bills (some online contests tell kids to ask permission from the parent who earns / pays the bills)
11:48 search for 'bunny chow', a popular food in South Africa
12:23 the building itself looks like it was supposed to be a temporary structure, not just the ramp
13:49 yes, a covid variant. can't remember if it was before or after Omicron
15:25 those are look-alikes of the three guys who once upon a time hosted Top Gear, a car show on BBC
15:53 that applies to large office buildings
16:48 neither do i, but in the pic, Boris looks ready to punch the lady
17:02 Geordie - someone from Newcastle (Northern England)
18:26 Welsh Italian Pizza
12:30 It's not the ramp but the building that's temporary. My secondary school had these longer then I was there!
3:14 Tyler Rumple
To enter the competition you need to ring a phone number which costs more than a normal phone call, So the people hosting the competition always in the small writing will write, Please ask the Bill Payer for permission to call before you do so.
So he has literally asked Bill Payer (person) for permission rather than the person that pays the bill.
3:45 The telephone boxes got changed as the older red ones had real glass panes and due to the people in this world becoming scummier every year, people started smashing the windows on the red phone boxes which obviously became too much so they replaced them with those BT phone boxes that had the plasticky perspex windows that did not smash.
The Amazon one she must have the recipient was receptionist lol and it was "Welsh Italian Pizza"
BBC is another name for CNN. So is CBC here in Canada. And being from Canada, I think we share a similar sense of subtle humor as the UK. Thought the 2 bus drivers seeing each other was good.
I initially read the title of this video as "American reacts to 50 *pies* that prove the UK is unlike any other country".
I thought "yeah, we have a lot of weird pies. That sounds about right".
Can't forget the hot toothpaste pie.
Both you and bill payer not getting the joke just made it so much better 😂😂
Its not the ramp that was supposed to be temporary its the entire building, they even occasionally tear down the temp buildings and then replace then with more temp buildings just to throw you off.
The old telephone boxes are red, except in Hull, where they are cream and don't have the Royal crest thing on them.
Haulage truck : Ed die / Sto bart a popular UK firm.
The seagull was in Haddenham Buckinghamshire 1st July 2019. They called him Vinny after a Vindaloo. He was not the first seagull to attempt a disguise.
Welsh Italian Pizza
Oh I love that they called him Vinny! 😂
It was referring to the temporary buildings, not the ramp. We had those as our science class building and they were there over 10 years (very not temporary).
These buildings are used as temporary offices on building sites, they arsnt supposed to be permenant. They're basically like garden sheds.
TV competitions in the UK, there's always a "small print" speed read which usually at near unintelligible speed tells you terms and conditions, charges, additional charges etc, and to ask the Bill Payer's permission
Love British humour. The Bill Payer was brilliant 😂😂😂
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James may were the hosts of Top gear, a very British TV programme about cars.
I think you need a brit on hand to explain this as you're going through it. Your first impression is funny, but if someone could then explain the detail and context I think it could be both funnier and more informative.
The pizza one was Welsh Italian Pizza, but they changed it for a bit of word play.
It's David Beckham and Elton John. David is the Greek waiter. Zante is a holiday destination.
How do you not know Clarkson, May and Hammond, the Top Gear/Grand Tour boys?
You have to react to some Top Gear content, you're missing out if you haven't. If you have, do it again. There's penny to view
Somebody has probably already said this, but the "Thank you NHS" thing was very common to see during the COVID Pandemic where the NHS (especially the front-line workers) did an extraordinary job in unbelievably difficult and uncertain circumstances. It is a bit dark to see it in the window of a funeral director's, out of context, I'll admit.
A Geordie hails from Newcastle upon Tyne & pet is an affectionate term. So the question is answered thus - Alcohol storage, pet.
Recommended viewing Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - an old UK TV programme set mainly in Germany. It would take too long to explain!
Houghton is pronounced as Howton or Hawton. Competitions always say "always ask the bill payer;'s permission' when using the phone. the school buildings were temporary. Supposedly. I've had one of those Amazon things. They left the package with a receptionsit at a student block nearby.
The pizza sign is referring to Welsh-Italian pizza (there is a big Italian community in the South Wales valleys with a history of running cafes and ice cream parlours in mining towns).
Wel(l) shit is another way of saying very bad so “welshitalianpizzas” are an entirely different prospect from Welsh-Italian ones.
the bill payer one is because a lot of competitions to do with entering post codes , houses say with bill payers permission so who pays housing , rent, water all that stuff comes under the word bills also you have to be 18 to enter any like show competitions as that's legally an adult in the uk . so in short be an adult and don't enter a house you don't have permission for or isn't yours . done know if anyone else answered this but i think thats the right explanation.
The tempory one was in relation to the building 😅
Basically large metal cabins space for 1 classroom
Should've waited and consolidated but... the Baby/Children Onboard signs for cars are more for emergency services. If you're ever in an accident where they're required, it's so they know where to priorise if there's a multi car pile up etc
I rarely see payphones/ phone booths you can still use in the UK (live in Bolton, from the one where the woman who said she wouldn't leave the house... Outside her house) anymore, if I do they are something else but I think "smart payphones" didn't take off. Cause what looks like what could be the only one left near me was intended for something else. But I can confirm that towards the end I was seeing more of the iconic red ones than those other ones.
That lorry is the T.A.R.D.I.S. bus replacement service 😅 19:44
A Geordie is a citizen of Newcastle upon Tyne, in UK's North East region. It's also the name of the local accent.
Thank you Nhs
This was seen in many places during covid pandemic to thank the nhs staff for their hard work.
It is unfortunate the funeral director had it there and without the context it looks likd dark humour
The helicopter joke and your response!!!! My friend, that’s the hole point of British humour….. You 🫵muppet 😅( that last bit was the joke right ) 🤣
The pavement at about 20 minutes has three inspection covers which have been replaced in the wrong order - hence abstract art.
There is a program called This Morning that comes on the channel ITV. They have a competition and at they end, once they give the phone number out to enter, you have to have the bill payers permission to call and be over 18.
Do Zante is a Greek island which is a popular tourist spot for brits.. Greece also has this somewhat stereotypical idea that older British woman go to Zante to fall in love with a young Greek god working as a waiter so they can run off into the sunset! Also the people in the picture are David Beckham (the footballer) and Elton John (the singer) David is the waiter and Elton the older woman looking for love 😂😂
The school isn't just the ramps, those porta-cabins are "temporary" class rooms.
12:30, its the building behing the ramp, its not made with bricks
Zante is a Greek island. Essex is an English coastal county - east of London. Name derived from the settlement of "East" Saxons. (Note: Sussex and Wessex)
A Geordie is someone from Newcastle and they have a very distinct accent and dialect some of which is hard for a non Geordie to understand. Anyone talking that way is said to be speaking Geordie. Pet is a Geordie term of endearment and used much like dude, babe, honey, mate, brother etc so the sign would read as a reply to the person asking the question
What are wine Cellers for?
… “alcohol storage, pet”.
(I.e. “alcohol storage, dude”)
context for the bill payer meme, in the UK we have a TV Chanel called ITV as well as BBC and others anytime they run a competition on air they state the rules and one rule is if you are a minor or do not pay the telephone bill you must ask the bill payer permission to do so hence why he has found someone on Facebook called bill payer to ask him said permission pretty funny actually, fun fact also the phone booths of yester year were replaced with the ugly one and are all now pretty much non existent to be honest they all stunk of piss or had a crack head farming 20p's from outside them
Bill Payer... He's the one that pays the bills. Sometimes the person that pays the TV bills is the only one that can change or update details or enter competitions, i.e. the bill payer is the only one who's authorised.
The penguin coat hanger ...Penguin used to be a clothing company mainly for children