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Top 10 Things In British Culture Impossible to Explain to Non Brits
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- This country of ours can certainly be baffling to outsiders. For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down the Top 10 Things in British Culture Impossible to Explain to Non-Brits. Featuring some of our favourite foods, accents, and other parts of pop culture. Let us know in the comments what YOU find weird about the UK.
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How about explaining isle of man, Guernsey and Jersey status. Then British Caribbean nations and Pitcairn
So you decided to use an actor from New Zealand as the thumbnail 🤦♂️
@WatchMojoUK How about period instruments and being formal with vocabulary. Vocabulary is more important than accent(except Southern one)?
I won a years supply of Marmite in a competition once...
One jar.
Second prize was two jars 😁
One jar would last a life time, since I wouldn't even open the stuff.
And I bet it was one of the small jars ...
More like two or three months supply for me.
Thast onen days
There was a British guy in college that used to make fun on my puertorrican English accent. In return I made fun of his up-arse British one... we became the best of friends making fun of everyone else.
That sums up how we Brits make friends. If we don't like you we pretend to be happy and civil around you. If do like we take the piss out of you for just about anything.
The Puerto Rican has honorary British Passport
Proper British (and Australian) style humour.
@@dnmurphy48 A lot of Americans I have met are thoroughly taken aback to learn how much we like to use blue language in the UK too.
I used to live near several US air bases in England when I was younger and there was one local pub whose landlord we all called c*nty John because every second or third word from his mouth was the c word.
The look on the faces of these blokes who just came over and got a weekend pass when they first tried striking up a conversation with c*nty John was priceless.
I'm an american but my Mother is English and I grew up on beans on toast and find it one of my go to comfort foods, especially with a bit of cheddar melted on it, but my wife looks at me like I'm from another planet when I make it and still hasn't tried it to this day.
Get rid she's not the one
Why ? I thought all white people eat beans - at least its not sushi or dumpling !
A true Brit at heart don’t worry the homeland shall welcome you back whenever you want where sanity prevails 😂
Got a sudden craving now for baked beans on toast
More for you.
An American tourist in London is asking for directions to the British Museum from a local,
He doesn't understand the local and says, "Sorry, You just have a really strong accent."
The local stares at the American with a smirk and says,
"I speak perfect English Mate, You're the one with a funny accent."
As Jimmy Carr says, 'I dont have an accent, this is what English sounds when spoken properly'.
@@ayrshireman1314 And probably keep arguing over who speaks with a real accent
I swear, I was just thinking about this a couple days ago. To US, we’re perfectly understandable, and how can OUR accent be incomprehensible 😂. We don’t have one!🙈 I’d go live there in one, hot second.
like a native
@@ayrshireman1314 ......when spoken correctly ! 😜.....and we always correct bad grammar. 🥴
"Is Britain metric or imperial?" Answer: yes
We're intelligent enough to use both
The only country where you ask for 3 meters of inch and a quarter pipe.
@@kyuss1984
Ummm no we still have BSP plumbing fittings in Australia, as standard here, 3/8" copper to 2", including PVC up to 4"...all the fittings going back to pre 1972 fit still....Australia makes the UK look well sorted.
I have a 1/4" drive metric socket set...brand new..2022... we went decimal currency in 1966 and metric in 1972 to '74... and still can't get it straight...as our PVC rain pipe comes in 6.0M lengths of 3 1/4"... and 6" sewer pipe...hummmm...
@@kyuss1984 and fuel consumption in miles per litre
I still understand the Imperial system better than the Metric system but then, I am 70 now and never tried wholeheartedly to immerse myself in the "new-fangled" ways which my children all learned !! I still use acres over hectares, feet and inches over metres and hands (to measure horses and ponies) instead of...whatever they are measured in these days !! 🐴🐴🐴❤ I don't drive so seldom gave cause to consider mile's over kilometres, but I still regard 1 AU* as 93 million miles (*astronomical unit - the distance from the Earth to the Sun) instead of however many kilometres it is.
I would (if I had bathroom scakes) weigh myself in stones and pounds and bake
(if I had an oven) using pounds and ounces to weigh ingredients but then, I am a stubborn old lady and loath to change if / as I have no need to !! 😊❤❤🖖LLAP🖖PALL🖖❤️
Regarding bathroom taps - when I was young in the 1960s you were expected to put the plug in and fill the basin with water from both taps before washing your hands. Washing your hands under running water would have seemed very wasteful of the hot water.
& how much water dies it take to fill the basin, so you'd likely use more? I used to do this to as a kid, because the hit water was to hot, so to get warm water
@@kurtsudheim825 much smaller basins
@@kurtsudheim825 - You don't need to 'fill' the sink... DUH !
@@kurtsudheim825 don't be ridiculous. you dont fill the sink.
Can we talk about when the English started using the word "bathroom" because if it's for the American market, I feel like they are condescending to me.
The key with Marmite is to spread it verrrrry thinly until you know how much you like and remember that it is a salty savoury spread.
Do not start by slathering it on like Nutella! (or filling bath tubs with it).
The key with Marmite is to throw it in the bin and never open the jar
Never has the expression 'Less is More' been so applicable !
You don't dip your finger in the jar and eat it when you're waiting for the toast?
@@SW-fn7cl - I bloody do - LOL !
@@JF1908x as with Vegemite...........horrible stuff
My mother loves beans. Watching BBC America she was so happy seeing Brits eat beans with breakfast that it is at least one Saturday a month now. (She would do it everyday but my father and I do have some limits.)
And now you made me want a nice cup of tea. Thank you very much.
Your mom must be a pretty gassy gal.
Has she discovered beans on toast yet?
I'm from New Zealand - love marmite - we've had it on the shelves here since 1910, and yes, vegemite isn't even in the same category! We still have separate taps for hot and cold water too. Cup of tea here is also the same. I think we must have been heavily influenced in the early days.
That is why we didn't let you join Australia in 1901!
Always look at NZ as upside down UK..
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂@@bugsygoo
I'm a Pom in NZ and NZ Marmite is nothing like as good. Lucky I can get the real stuff here though.
Aussie here. I find Promite nicer than both Vegemite and Marmite.
You forgot to mention we British drive on the correct 'left' side of the road, proven by historical facts and logic. The majority of the world adopted the wrong side.
Actually, since driving originated in Rome, on horse & carriage, then the car came via Germany, the right side was the original side. So actually it's the UK that's wrong, & it's just that must of the commonwealth had to comply with them so that's why they drive on the left. Don't get me wrong, I prefer sitting on the right side of the car because I'd prefer to change gear with my left hand, but it's not the original, & there is no correct side, they're just different, that's like arguing being over/underweight is better, a man or woman whatever...
@@kurtsudheim825
Actually you are wrong must countries traveled on the left before changing
@@kurtsudheim825 Sorry my friend, driving on the left is historically correct. It dates back to Knights on horseback. They hold the horses reigns with their weakest left hand and hold their lance or sword in their strongest right hand facing their opponent and vice-versa. It's also applicable to Centurions on foot in battle where they hold their dagger, flail, sword and shield accordingly while approaching from the left. The Egyptians also drove their carts on the left proven by deeper ruts leaving quarries on the right.
@@trancehi that is some interesting shit
@@kurtsudheim825 your wrong the car that has 3 pedals clutch brack accelerator was invented in England and still used to this day
but your right about the 1st was combustible engine car came from Germany
Baked beans on toast with fish fingers, the ultimate British student fare! Surprisingly, in Malaysia we use marmite as a soup base or marinade, never spread on toast :)
Marmite chicken!
try creamy mash and black pudding in a Yorkshire pudding with cheddar on top, you're welcome.
or bacon if you don't like black pudding
@@benjaminmajor5144 Toad in the hole, and followed by Spotted Dick with custard :)
I can't stand marmite but have used it in soups and stews to enhance flavour.
Years ago on a trip to the National Portrait Gallery, an old Swiss friend asked an attendant where the Way Out was. In response, he asked what made her think there was a way out.
😂
@@staceykeeley4219 Such a British response. It's like the apocryphal US tourist asking how old a building/museum is "Is it pre-war?" and being told "It's pre-American, sir"
@@fuzzblightyear145 😂😂 Ah yes us Brits do laugh at others, but the difference is we laugh at ourselves first.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When I was living in the US, I had flatmates that loved to watch UK programmes and I'd be asked to translate occasonally (I knew to come in when I'd hear them watch the same section a couple times). It was fun.
The hot tap being unsafe was true in our house when we moved in - my Dad found a dead pigeon in the hot water tank (he promply put the cover on (which was leaning on the tank)) It took years before I'd actually use the hot water for scalding out a mug or teapot.
About tea - My friends and family in the States really don't understand dunking biscuits. I've tried to explain, but they just look at me as if I've got 3 heads. I feel sorry for them, really.
Pidgeon Funfact #11. Snap! :)
Dunking biscuits has evolved so much in my lifetime. It was amazing even as a child with the old school type biscuits. Now though there's so many biscuits that are basically designed for Dunking and out of this world. They really are missing out.
Upstairs taps were also a no drinking zone in the old days because cold water also went through a tank in the loft.
The latter is still a thing in many US homes (such as in New York), and it's lousy there too.
I have a British aunt who says biscuit dunking is low brow and unacceptable, lol
@@vancityplantie5752 Yes absolutely ... for anyone between the ages of 6 and 60 for sure. Unless you go hide in the bog and knock a cheeky one out :-)
I was born in the '50s and live in Singapore and my family still must have a cuppa every afternoon at 4 pm! My parents came from Borneo and learnt English from teachers from the UK. They also picked up some English habits along the way which have been passed down. English marmalade on toast is my fave (yay to M&S) but nope to Marmite LOL! So a lot of British habits and mannerisms are not foreign to me.
I can't stand marmalade but love marmite. I love everything orange or orange flavour. Weird.
A true Brit doesn't wait until 4pm for a cup of tea, it's drunk every half hour throughout the day 😅
@@aldozilli1293 Sorry, I don't claim to be one 🤣
You're one of us 😉
Slightly wrong about hot water. When hot water came along the water tank heated by a coal fire or an electric immersion heater tank was mostly fed from a cold water storage tank in the attic and not by a direct line from the mains. This attic storage tank was not hermetic and so the water could be contaminated by all sorts of things from dust to insects to rats so drinking water from the hot tap was deemed unsafe. Hence two separate taps. This has largely been sorted out except in very old systems. Also the metric system was introduced in 1971, so no one under 50 would know the true imperial system, not 70. Tiny little errors like this are rather annoying.
Here's a big error. Americans think that Native Americans are Native to America.
Wasn't 1971 when they changed over the coins?
The metric system was officially introduced in 1965 so no one under the age 57 (in 2022) is unfamiliar with it. Decimalisation of the monetary system happened in 1971.
@@serendipitylovejoy4724 thank you for clarifying that for me
You’re alright my lovely. X
Sarcasm and being blatantly rude to show love, are my favourite UK imports. Although I dare say we South Africans have perfected the art.🤪🇿🇦
Hmmm, I do tend to be sarcastic 😅
Sarcasm sits next to our nuclear warheads in being the UK 's most potent weapon.
So we created it and you perfected it? Keep dreaming.
No, you knob, they are still the original & best (hp, unintended, but I'll take it). I live watching comedy on BBC, pretty we don't get all the stuff, but can find it here. I feel that's a bit of an issue though, because I do like calling people horrible names, but it's too people I like, but I think they think I'm being mean so can't do it so often
@@JF1908x the originators aren't always the best, as claimed, tea is such a British thing, uhhh is check in with the Chinese in that
Love Marmite in buttered noodles with mushrooms and garlic. Heinz Beans on toast is a treat. For my birthday, my friend bought me a case of Heinz Beans. I treat those beans like liquid gold. Love Eccles cake too. Oh, I am from the United States.
Eccles cakes are the bomb! You have good taste.
It’s a great addition to stews and for making vegetarian shepherds pie. Full of goodness - like you.
You are an Honery Brit!
Come visit us and experience our sarcastic humour 😁
Mate, get some Branston beans as soon as you get the chance.
Actually the Union Jack is a combination of England's Cross of Saint George, Scotland's Cross of Saint Andrew and Ireland"s (not Northern Ireland's) Cross of Saint Patrick. The Union Jack flag predates Northern Ireland.
The cross of St. Patrick was taken from the coat of arms of the Fitzgerald clan or maybe it was the other way round 😉
Sorry to be pedantic, but the flag is only called the Union Jack when flown at sea. On land it's called the Union Flag. ❤️
The Union flag, as shown at the beginning and at the end, is being flown upside down - a distress signal.
@@cymrulady1 no it isn't, this was changed in 1906
@@cymrulady1 That was a belief prior to being disproven in 2013.
The reason we can’t get totally to grips with the metric system for temperature is because the weather forecast uses both systems, metric Celsius for cold and imperial Fahrenheit for hot because it’s more dramatic that way.
Also in the aviation world, visibility is in metres and cloudbase is in feet.
Not quite. °F & °C were invented at about the same time (both in Europe) and separate to Imperial and Metric.
Britain though invented two units of Temperature measure, °K (Kelvin) and °R (Rankine).
Many in the USA are ‘Anglophiles’. We no doubt miss the finer points but enjoy what we view as the British sensibility. The phrase ‘our friends across the pond’ demonstrates our basic affinity.
My experience as an American who has lived in the UK for 17 years is that American Anglophiles actually know very little of British culture at all - they tend to form a very distorted picture based on some television shows and bands they like (and maybe some books or magazines).
My experience as a Brit' is the outlook anglophiles in the US & Japan have of us in GB is highly flattering 😁👌 .
Heck: even our detractors tend to inadvertently flatter us by pointing out that we play most villains on screen 😂
(it after all takes skill to look & sound devious)
@@jimtaylor294 not ALL are anglophiles, especially in the Deep South. Even anglophiles like myself can fine plenty to fault or dislike or ‘not get’ at all🥴
Its pretty much the same here. Most of us have a soft spot for the US. Many of us still have the sensibility to remember without your help we'd all be speaking german now.
@@dnmurphy48 thank you for saying that. I’m not supposed to say this, but in a way we are ‘your children’. In the media, the Brits are often enough referred to as ‘our friends across the pond’. England is considered to be our strongest political Ally. As a boomer, its hard not to remember the music connection- the 1960’s ‘British Invasion’ Beatles, Rolling Stones plus others. Leaders of both bands said American R&B and soul had a huge influence on THEM. Chuck Berry, etc. 2 way street
Can we take a moment to appreciate being able to say the Welsh town name 😂 I wouldn’t know where to start
He butchered it (that is an English verb meaning the narrator didn’t come close to pronouncing it even vaguely properly).
@@1515327E troll alert!
@@altovisa5691 Pointing out mispronunciation isn’t a case of intentionally posting an inflammatory remark to create hostility. The guy badly mispronounced LlanfairPG. God bless you.
He butchered the fucking shit out if it
We just call it Llanfair in the south XD
We have baked beans for breakfast, here at Liseli Lodge in Mongu (Zambia), along with Pork Sausage, fried eggs and toast.
Sounds nice.
just missing the black pudding and mushrooms for a full english
Probably a legacy of British colonialism.
Shake off colonial crap food
In Australia, baked beans on toast is usually for breakfast but can be a lunch or dinner too. We also mix metric and imperial measurements. For example babies weights are in lbs.
Funny Candians don't eat it that much.
And yes... Vegemite is better 💪🏻
My baby' s weight was in kilos. I don't know anything that still measured in pounds. But it's wrong to say that Vegemite is as good as Marmite because it's clearly better.
@Cathrinewilson....But you're just Brits with Barbecues , healthy tans and with an extra cricket gene ... So no surprise there 😂
My weight on my birth card in Australia is in kilos... and I was born in 1977?
But height is mostly referred to in feet for some unknown reason. Probably too much US television on our screens growing up.
Although Canadian born and bred I actually went to an English school in Saint Leonards-on-Sea , Sussex in the spring of 1966 for about 4 months . It was quite a puzzlement trying to understand the difference between public and private schools .
The confusion goes back centuries right back to the establishment of schools.
The first establishments called schools were not really what you would describe as school nowadays.
It wasn't a place for general education, the earliest schools were run by the church and were really just places for Bible study and to learn Latin for trainee clergy.
A more general education would be provided to those who could afford such luxuries by private tutors not schools.
Later the church would establish schools to provide a basic general education and although these were fee paying schools they were open for anyone to enrol at regardless of their religious affiliation and became known as public schools because they were open to anyone.
It wasn't until many many centuries later that any kind of school was opened to people to attend without fees and of course by then the name public school was well established for a fee paying school.
The most uncomfortable thing that could happen going round to a friends house for the first time is their hot and cold taps being the wrong way round
Fun fact: it's only called a Union Jack if it's flying from one of HM's ships. Otherwise it should be called the Union Flag.
Nope, changed in 1908. You can call it the Union Jack.
here's another fun fact for you. a video telling us about British culture has more than half of the Union Jacks shown, upside-down!
@@ianforder2886 The Union flag shown in the beginning of this video was upside down too but not the one later on.
@@davidwebley6186 yeah but there are the little flags that people are waving in 1 scene that are mostly upside down
Fact is, American Natives are not Native to America.
If you teach a foreigner this stuff they'll u understand most of it in a week. My Mrs is from Lithuania and I taught her sarcasm and insulting banter immediately. She still won't entertain baked beans for some reason but eats smoked chicken stomachs. I guess you take the girl out of Lithuania, but you can't take the Lithuania out of the girl XD
Not a fan of Beans whether it's the baked beans or the beans used for Chili Con Carne. I'm not a fan of putting grain or raisins in Stews and Curries either.
I just love the idea of teaching your wife insulting banter.😁 Could be that you've thrown a boomerang there!
Many years ago young and socially awkward German lad got a job behind the bar of my local. He was rather confused with the banter of people insulting each other. After it was explained to him, his first attempt to fit in was made with a stranger he was serving. He leaned across and in his Middle German announced "excuse me Sir, but your wife is very ugly"
@@ScatewaveEliot - I love it. Brilliant.
@Halfdanr_H And you have expats who have lived on Costa del Sol for more than 15 years, who neither understand the culture nor the language.
I am British; love marmite, hate beans and tea, drink black coffee, had a white jewish Jamaican mum and a dark-skinned english dad, went to grammar school, lived in France then England, love accents and cultural diversity.
You're not really British, are you?
Sounds wonderful
Love brittish food and im from sweden… Baked beans are amazing, on white bread..
I was buying fabric for a pattern from 1967 once and had to convert the amount of fabric into metres when buying it, and so converted the length of the zip into centimetres as well. I then found out zips were still in inches…
I'm a Canadian with an English Cockney father and a Newfoundland/Labrador mother with relatives smeared across the map all the way to California.I like to say I can understand just about any form of spoken English you can throw at me.
That said, it still takes me about 5 to 10 minutes to get up to speed when I watch 'Coronation Street', even with subtitles.
Your mother is a dog?
"Newfoundland/Labrador" possibly the two best dog breeds in the world.🙂
@@RUSH2112RUSH hahaha
I knew there’d be the dog joke coming 😊
Waterloo road school is a classic and brings back memories of when I was in secondary school.
It’s weird how one of my classmates in Ireland constantly calls herself sarcastic yet she can’t catch on to deadpan sarcasm to save her life
I'm Canadian (albeit of mostly British ancestry) and I remember how my mother would occasionally make beans on toast as a lunch or dinner item. Sometimes I will throw chunks of toasted, buttered bread into chili to add a bit more flavour and interest.
That's disgusting!
@@unusedsub3003you’re disgusting
@@unusedsub3003To right, what strange ideas these foreigners have, haha.
Canadian too, I love beans for breakfast 😋
Drinking tea (PG tips, 2 sugars with milk) while saluting the Union Jack!
That is how I role!
'roll'
We moved to UK 7 years ago and what surprised us the most was definitely lack of sockets in the bathroom and no switch for bathroom light. We have a string just like in old-fashioned toilet to turn bathroom light on and off. Of course separate taps is massive inconvenience especially when one has small kids and they are still preferred option by some landlords.
Hey are the preferred option by building standards - it's illegal to put an electric socket in the bathroom.
@gillianrimmer7733 yes, lack of electricity in the bathroom is a legal requirement but I was referring to double taps when stating it is a preferred option :) don't know why though, wash basins for double taps are not cheaper than for single ones and not many houses have old-fashioned hot water tanks especially not the new-builds🤔
why would you have plug sockets in bath room lol
@@weaponizedknight7316 well for example in Poland we have our washing machines in the bathroom, but also you would have sockets for hairdryers, electric toothbrush or any other beauty equipment that requires electricity :)
Our geography teacher explained other countries doing things differently very simply, "they're all just trying to show us that we're no longer in control". The smirk and tone of 'very thinly', veiled contempt though, those spoke volumes.😂
Lol. Inferiority complex in action. America doesn’t care tbh
And now the UK is trying to do things differently to prove they are no longer under European control. Funny that 😂
One mistake. The Union Flag is only called the Union Jack when flown from a 'Jack' pole at the rear of a ship. A common error made by 90% of Brits.
I must have missed that one out in history class back in the day
I was about to say the same thing so thank you.
Not any more, it was changed quite a while ago, the flag can be called either now
This has been disproven. It's properly called the Union Jack or the Union Flag.
Err being picky arnt we? A lot of our tearmaoledgey comes from our sailing history
Like how Billy butcher is in the thumbnail cos the boys is trendy atm, while I’ll give em the props of character being British, Karl Urban the swell fella is a New Zealander
So is the actor for homelander
I think how we talk to each other, last night one of my mates rung up not spoke to him in ages. If anyone heard our 1h 35m conversation you'd of thought we hated each but but we're the best of friends.
This made me even more excited for my trip to Manchester this fall!
Don’t forget your rain coat
@Stacey Raven they’re American, they need to remember what happens with the leaves on the trees
@Stacey Raven And don't say "y'all"
Enjoy your trip i live in manchester🙂
Greatest city in the world.
I love beans on toast!! Don't knock it till you try it!
As a Brit living in the USA, I now find Bush's Vegetarian Beans far better than the Heinze Baked Beans I grew up with. Bacon here is a whole other topic.
Especially with a poached egg on top.
That Michael Caine impression is perfect.
As a Kiwi... most of these make sense because you know we (New Zealand) are part of the Commonwealth
Yes part of the family 😊
Wales isn't on the union flag because they were late submitting it, they finished it on time but they ran out of room to stick the name they gave it on the back on the back" Flygoucontillyochgogococoughertyplerouiteruioasjeouvqedfkkmeoiusflaggy" 😜
Wales isn't on the Union flag because until recently it was considered to be a principality under the England crown, and so not a separate kingdom in the United Kingdom.
I love when English people think this kind of thing is funny
LOL Loving that a Kiwi is used for the tea section: Karl Urban
What is missing from this list is "What is the expected etiquette in a pub". Having visited England, Wales and Scotland each a dozen times, it has been and always will be absolutely mysterious what you are supposed to do, how you are supposed to behave, and what you are under no circumstances supposed to do, to simply order a beer, and receive it without any complications.
Go straight to the bar, order your drinks, find somewhere to sit. Don't look at people 'funny'. Simple.
Out of interest, what do you find different or strange about it? When you say complications are you including altercations or more about the ordering itself?
Main things to remember
1. Chill out, have a laugh, don't be a dick, mind your own business with your own table as much as possible
2. Don't talk to people or offer to sit with people who are sat in a pub alone minding their own business, chances are they just want a quiet drink and to read a newspaper / watch football (if these people strike up conversation with you that's fine although the correct way to handle this is nervously laugh and say "haha, enjoy your night mate" and then hope they go away)
3. Be polite to all staff / other patrons
4. If the pub is quiet(ish) don't be that table in there making more noise than anyone else
5. If you accidentally bump into someone when making your way through a crowd, make sure you apologise immediately (this one is actually quite key)
6. In fact, saying sorry at any point is actually advisable in any situation in a pub, even when its not necessary at all, it's just a British thing to do
7. If someone holds the door open for you and you do not thank them on the way through expect silent and incandescent rage and / or judgement from that person / other patrons who witnessed this
8. Do not push in at the bar or cut the queue for the toilet / any queue in general because you may cause an international incident
Other than the above, just go up order a pint and go find a table and have a good time, you can't go too wrong there
Unfortunately a lot of younger Brits don’t know it either. You don’t queue behind people at a bar, you spread yourself across it, and everyone knows who is next. People filter into the gaps as they become available. Also, and this is something that often doesn’t happen when you are with people who are in the pub to eat, you go to the bar FIRST, then find a table, not the other way round. Don’t offend the locals would be my other tip.
Thanks red666 for this list. Though I can honestly claim that I followed all these rules, and still things got awkward. With "complications" (zasherr asked) I mean nothing like actual altercations, but weird looks, eye-rolling, head-shaking, or simply ignoring me altogether (the staff I mean).
As I said, I am a very calm and quiet person anyways, but when being in the UK I pay extra attention to be polite and to say sorry 20 times a minute. And this has worked out perfectly well, except when entering a pub. Maybe people get the scent of me being not a native and therefore make a point of behaving in a way to let me know that I do not belong there.
So I always get the feeling I am doing something wrong when I am cleary the next one up and staff keeps serving other people first. And when I finally get my order in, there is the head-shaking, or the pretending 20 times in a row that they did not understand what I said.
Mind you, this doesn't ALWAYS happen, but it happened often enough (I'd say certainly more than 50% of the time) to make me fell self-conscious and anxious when entering an English pub (or Welch or Scottish).
Brit: "No one else uses this dumb Imperial measurement system."
American: "Hi there!"
Interesting that Britan adopted the metric system in 1965, but over fifty years later, try buying either an entirely metric tape measure or one that has the metric units on the top, thus making life much easier for builders and similar trades folk.
It was about 75 I was about 10 when I had to relearn everything I had only just grasped
We adopted Metric from 1972 and most of the 'important' bits were adopted by 1974, I still calculate back and forth between both systems as it makes sense...now try flying...
Aircraft speed - knots.. altitude...feet, distance from take off/landing..Kilometres, terrain in Metres, separation of aircraft, miles..(in some areas), Kilometres in others, fuel in Litres - light aircraft, Kilograms in Jet aircraft, distance to clouds/visibility...Miles...
Takeoff weight..Tonnes or Tons- pounds..depending on the aircraft type....tyre/tire pressures....pounds per square inch...
Lucky us pilots....
I live in Brittany and some stall holders still use imperial weights (livres = pound), pouces (inches) and sell in dozens...... and France has had metric since Napoleonic times.
Our coinage in the UK changed over to decimal noney on Saturday 15th February 1971 and I've always thought that was when we went officially metric, not way before in 1965! Up until 1971 our maths lessons in school were always in imperial with metric only mentioned as an afterthought - and 1971 was the first year the O-level maths was entirely in metric. Even today, over fifty years after decimalisation we Brits still measure a fair few things in Imperial and I mentally convert prices in shops and weights & measures into Imperial in my head as the measures mean more to me than metric.
I love it when Americans ask for a 'cup o tea'. Its 'cuppa tea' ...obviously! Its especially funny when you hear them say 'bollocks' or 'wanker'. My American brother in law (from Austin Texas) once said "Leave it out bruv!" I laughed my tits off, what a berk!
A more recent study says that coffee is has now over taken Tea as British Drink of choice.
Regarding temperature if it's cold I think in Celsius, if it's hot I think in Fahrenheit. At least I'm halfway there!!!
Normal people only use Celsius
This is 100% me. It amazes friends & family that I don’t understand both temperatures in either of the scales. If someone says to me, “It’s quite warm today. It’s 24 degrees.” I literally have no idea how hot that is until I convert it to 75 F. Yet with cold temperatures, if someone told me it was 32 degrees…I don’t know how cold that is, but 0C I understand fine. (I used Siri to convert the numbers in these examples 😂😂). I’m glad I’m not the only one that has this problem.
@@JF1908x its probably an age thing , the younger you are, the more you'll use C.
@@WillRiker0504 (I used Siri to convert the numbers in these examples ......... i convert them in my head in a second. the bonus of being raised on imperial just before we converted to metric. and i dont have a siri or alexa in the house.
@@richard6440 I’m partially sighted so use an iPad for most things including internet etc., as it has good accessibility features. I use Siri a lot lol.
Here in England we all own red double decker buses and even our butlers have butlers.
Who puts a tea bag in a cup we use a tea pot
As an American, I can say I am completely at home with my tea with cream and sugar. My Irish great grandmother got me started at the age of 4. I remember hearing her say that the only civilized thing the Brits did for the Irish was give them tea. I, to this very day, drink about 4 huge cups of tea a day and always with cream and sugar.
Noooooooooo! We Brits would never have cream in our tea! YUK!
MILK. YOU PUT MILK IN TEA.
@@JF1908x Prefer cream over milk but I will use milk when I am out of cream
Cream ? Bloody hell.
@@anastasia10017 Milk in the UK has a higher fat content than milk in the US. That is why I use cream. When I have gone to Canada, I use milk cuz, again, it has a higher fat content than milk in the US.
Beans for breakfast makes sense to me (an American). The first time someone offered me beans for dinner, I thought that was weird.
As a stalwart Marmite supporter I can both understand why some people despise it whilst also occasionally wondering why. A few slices of bread, lightly toasted, with a sensibly restrained layer of Marmite is a great way to start the day and, yes, follow it up with a tea, not too strong, a dash of sugar and let it sit whilst you munch and masticate on your Marmite marvel ready to perfectly accentuate your breakfast (though it’s a combination that’s welcome at any time of the day) It should also be noted that said tea also works a treat after a soft boiled egg replete with a battalion of toasty soldiers and a pinch of salt.
As for insults my all time best friend and I would regularly insult each other on social media to such extremes that others would regularly intervene baffled as to why such vitriolic slander could exist between mates. I would duly explain it was meant with love, respect and a deep understanding of each other plus the fact he was a actually a deeply repugnant fuck monkey with all the style and sophistication of a fetid puddle of dog semen. And they say true friends are hard to find?
Ah marmite. Marmite on toast topped with scrambled egg, marmite on hot crumpets... I tried that 'Dynmite' marmite with chilli, unfortunately they forgot to add the chilli.
@@beccabbea2511 Huh, never heard of Dynamite before so I had a wee Google and discovered a) my metabolism probably wouldn’t handle it very well and b) there’s a truffle variant as well. But I say you can’t top the original and, to me at least, Marmite is synonymous with its original, unblemished flavour in the same way you can’t technically call a fruit polo a polo! But I digress. Hot crumpets! Now I’m not fussy whether my crumpet it hot, slightly warm or cold in much the same way as I can’t discuss hot crumpet without at least one wry smile and a subdued snigger but yes, definitely another win there and maybe a baffled look at the individuals silently gagging as I take a bite. Sorry naysayers, but Marmite is indeed a wondrous thing and so is a can of cold rice pudding. No baked beans, though. Can’t stand them with the texture, taste and general beaniness of them. I’ll have the spaghetti on toast, merci garçon!
Now, where was I?
In the UK we do not speak like the toffs (rich folks) I hate that stereotype
Like Jacob Rees-Mogg, for example, too pompous and contrived.
Love how you just annexed the Faroe Islands for the UK!
The UK is my heaven from the food, culture, accents and cheekiness ❤️❤️ Hopefully someday once I hit the Lottery I will get to visit Where I feel my heart belongs. Dang mom why couldn’t you have just had me over the pond. Edit though the one word okay two words I can’t stand and still wouldn’t say if I lived there, they are f*g (cigarettes) and the C word. Other than that bring it on. But can someone please explain why the washing machine is in the kitchen? Also I’ve always loved beans on toast and I’m from the 🇺🇸
Due to the water inlet. Usually the water inlet enters the kitchen and having the washing machine anywhere else would require extending the pipework.
*it's just a matter of convenience*
If you don't like the C word then you might not like it here. Many of us use it as a kind of term of endearment toward each other! (Usually men after a few drinks)
The washing machine is often in the kitchen because houses tend to be smaller here so there's no utility room. We have a population of nearly 70 million crammed onto a landmass about the size of Oregon if that helps with regard to comparison, so space is at a premium during home construction.
Why would you want to hang out amongst them soap dodgers?
You've got to say the c word, that's the first rule, it's endearment. Where in from there are others that we use instead, that maybe aren't as harsh, but I have heard Americans have a task distaste for the word. Start with prick & twat, baby steps. But you can't seriously like their food?
Space dear, or lack of is the reason for washing machine’s in the kitchen.
I'm someone, from the US, who has never had the opportunity to try marmite or vegemite. It just sounds like jam made of salt and yeast. How is a school a charity? I think anyone capable of fluently speaking Welsh should be considered a genius. A measurement like a pint is a different amount in the US and the UK, FYI. Americans have a problem with baked beans on toast because it's not the same thing. American baked beans are sweet and smokey, not tomatoey. There is a product which has beans that are like UK baked beans, but they also have pork in them, but that's the closest you'll get without having to pay a crazy price to get them shipped from the UK.
its awful stuff, absolutely disgusting. its also made in new zealand, whereas vegemite is australian.
just avoid all of it.
Yuky da mate it is a hard language
Its fucking brilliant don't listen to these people 🤣
@@paulclarke245 Marmite is the 'Food of the Gods' I even post it to a friend in Arizona who also adores it
Vegemite is foul.
In the UK if you are a charity you don't pay tax and so can keep all the money, you are supposed to use the money to further the charities aims e.g. cancer research. The private schools claim to be "charities" but in reality spend all the money on the school equipment and senior staff salaries. Almost none of them let in scholarships anymore and if they do it is the absolute bere minimum they can get away with.
the metric system became mandatory in British schools in 1974. But they were definitely teaching both imperial and metric in the early 90s.
Hmmmm, I’m guessing that’s why people still know it and that’s why it has not completely gone away
My dad hated the metric system but I suppose its what you know.
The teachers tried pushing metric on me in middle school in the late-'90's; but I wasn't having that 😂 .
Big difference between a Government adopting a system, and the populace - who usually loathe the former - paying any heed to it.
Case in point ULEZ, which's had the most pushback of any road measure in British history.
It was only in the early 90's that food containers had to have metric values printed on them, either alone or as well as imperial.
Sorry, realised it must have been mid 90's
@@rachelnise2473 That, and most manufacturers didn't bother changing containers, so you get milk in 2.272 liters, because it's still in a 4 pint bottle 😁 .
(similar story with Jam jars, and many other container sizes)
@@jimtaylor294 yes, I worked on a farm dairy at the time. We didn't change the size of the yoghurt pots etc, just had a weird metric number on them next to the fluid ounces
Shout out to the Canadians, who also interchange imperial and metric without thinking about it.
I was a land surveyor's assistant on a pipeline project one year, where the right-of-ways were measured in rods and chains, and I overheard a foreman placing an order to his supplier... "I need 120 metres [length] of 18 inch [diameter] pipe" lol
I know! My mom never used the C for reading temperature (which sometimes caused a lot of confusion), and me, for some reason, I don't know my weight in kilos, but in pounds, no problem, and I always say my height in meters. Go figure!
Completely understandable - when I started my work as a mechanical engineer in the petrochemical industry, everything was metric, except pipe and flange diameters!
In other words; the *government* went for French measures but the *populace* stuck with what worked 😁
@@jimtaylor294 No, it didn't! Some years later even the ANSI changed to metric units, exactly because the imperial system didn't work! Why do all you idiots think that over 95% of the world population, and practically ALL engineers, scientists , technicians and doctors use the metric system? Because the imperial system is so good? Forget it and wake up!
@@jimtaylor294😁👍👏👏👏👏
Let’s see, I’m a brit…. They’re doing a Michael Caine impression
Well, being a Portuguese inlove with the British Culture i find this very relaxing and conforting. I should have been a British blocke in a previous life... 🤣
dont forget Trainspoting... i love that, as well 🤣🤣🤣
Portugal is our oldest ally basically honorary Brit anyway should u want to be 😂
As an older chap I detest the dreaded tea bag, tea should be made in a pot with loose leaf tea and then poured using a tea strainer.
@0.19 Union flag is upside down. A very British thing to notice 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I knew a lot more about the UK than I thought I would.
Beans were popular in "New England" in the US at breakfast time. No longer, although there may be holdouts far away from the cosmopolitan areas. Beans and biscuits (savory scones) were also a traditional meal.
Boston is famous for it's baked beans. However they are very different to British ones as i learnt to my cost. 😂
From "New England" and lived here all my life- while New England does have a lot of baked beans due to Boston's fame for them as said, they are not a particularly common breakfast food at all even in this US region. (Baked beans are much more common as a side dish with lunch or dinner.)
As an Aussie, most of these are pretty familiar. The places names are too funny - Shitterton, Twatt, Bitchfield, Fatty Head. Pity Me. Scratchy Bottom. Some of Australia's better place names are Foul Bay, Mount Buggery, Useless Loop and Pisspot Creek.
The Union Flag (Union Jack when flown on a ship) can be hung four different ways, three of which are wrong, this allowed the Royal Navy to identify foreign ships sailing under a false flag in our waters, it also allowed our merchant ships to call for assistance because by turning the flag they knew any navy ship in sight would come to investigate and offer aid. One flag but multiple uses, exactly what you expect from a slave nation that fought for and won it's freedom, who then went on to fight for everyone else's. God Bless England the one and only country that created the modern world.
Someone's watched QI...
England didn't fight for other peoples freedom they took other peoples freedom, look what they did in Ireland to start.
Must be to do with the northern Ireland saltire section of the flag? The saltire doesn't line up the way the Scottish saltire does so if hung the wrong way it'll look different id imagine?
@@MrScotty5877304 Yes. The broader white diagonal on the hoist end should be at the top - this then follows round the flag. Despite the way children draw it, the NI saltire doesn't line up across the centre. There's a good design specification (and history) on the Union Jack wikipedia page. It dispells some of the myths too.
Erm, no, half of the ways it can be flown are wrong (ironically the ways shown in the video) and half are correct. And the upside down flag is used in other countries as a distress signal. And we weren't the only colonial aggressors around. And most of what you've said is factually incorrect.
I don't know how many British people know this, but you can't fly the Union Flag at all in the US unless you want someone to think you're a racist as it was the emblem of the Southern states during the American Civil War.
Heheh, I live 2 buses away from Pity Me...also, my old College is a half hour walk away from Pity Me 🤣
About 20 miles away for me
I was watching Auf Weidersehen Pet the other day, specifically series 1. My American wife came in and watched for about 30 seconds, than said "WTF is this? Is that English they are speaking?" :-)
Love the sarcasm. Best ever.
I’m not 70 and I grew up under the imperial system. I have NEVER been able to get my head round the God awful metric, kilogram and kilometres systems!
Good awful, but they're so much simpler. I guess it's just easier to go with what you learn first. Most don't like change
@@kurtsudheim825 I think if they had just switched over like the did from the old money to new money, most people would have had to learn it, but they didn’t.
Now 65, joined local steelworks at 16, tech coll/Uni then semiconducyor plant - used all metric thru' to this day. Although I do relate to own height and weight in imperial.
I'm 60 and was taught imperial. I'm fine with a lot of it but still use feet and inches to refer to height, stones and lbs for weight, and can visualise length better in inches, but fine measuring something in cm. Weights of food and liquid measures are fine too. I no longer use fahrenheit for temps but understand miles better than km when judging distance. I'm sure there's something I've forgotten. I agree that metric makes much more sense, being in 10s and 100s.
As someone rapidly approaching 60 I grew up during the transitional period from imperial to metric and can work with both though I do much prefer metric, it just makes more sense to me.
i was born in aberdeen, lived in inverness till i was 2, lived in county durham till i was 7 and lived in essex now for most of my life, so i know how to make a good cup of tea
1. put sugar in the cup first if you or your guest wants sugar
2. put the tea bag on the sugar make sure is not scrunched up if its a PG tips pyramid, if theres a string cut it off and never buy the stringed tea bags again
3. boil the kettle and pour the water on the teabag slowly fill the cup mostly if you want normal tea or black tea or 3/4 if you want it milky
4. stir 3 times, each time waiting for the tea bag to stop spinning
5. if you're really british you're somehow immune to hot water and can drain the tea bag by pressing it with your left index finger if you're not yet immune just awkwardly egg and spoon race the tea bag to the bin or compost
6. add milk if wanted and stir and serve with biscuits
Nah that marmite ad with the police going in houses was class. Our adverts are next level.
British food is far better than it's reputation. But you can keep the baked beans :)
Imagine trying to put that Welsh dragon on the Union Jack.
I could have sworn the Nicola Sturgeon was Scottish...
Many of our road signs actually mix imperial and metric measurements. ie 5t weight restriction in 1.5 miles. The weight is in metric tonnes.
And to measure forces in newton meatures
But use ft-lbs for machinery
Mainly transport
Even worse, there are many distance signs on the motorway showing "10m" to mean 10 miles not 10 metres!
The units used in Imperial weights and measures are not usually pluralised. We talk about " a six-pound baby " and " a seven-stone weakling " and " a five-mile car journey " etc.
yea and the 14foot low bridge is 200 meters away
I love that the thumbnail is actually a Kiwi actor not a Brit
I've lived here for 8 years and will never understand why they love Nandos so much
Marmite is brilliant spread thinly on toast, not great on crumpets though. Marmite also elevates a standard cheese sandwich, makes a bacon sandwich and is better in a sandwich on its own with butter spread; not real butter and marmite together though that be vile stuff right there.
and a teaspoon added to bolognese
Maritime on crumpets, with a fried egg on top, such a treat.
Oh gosh yes!
Umami. *Rubs trouser legs*
Now I’ve not tried that but it’s definitely worth a wiz.
Marmite never made it into the prisoner of war camps however, Vegemite did. :P
However, at least Vegemite wasnt developed by the enemy, that being a German scientist :D
And as an Australian, baked beans on toast of the morning, nothing wrong with it. Of course my family are England/Scottish descent so it wasnt really that out of place.
People still drink Fanta....
Yes, the Germans as would most, likely consider Vegemite a punishment.
As an American baked beans on toast in the morning sounds like ‘fun’. Maybe not every morning, though 😂😂😂
When Marmite was invented, in 1902, the Germans were not our enemy. Give it 12 years, though...
@@NathansWargames I haven't seen Fanta in the US in ages, directly anyway. I'll have to look it up again as I used to love the orange Fanta as a kid in the 80s.
That's funny. Although I'm a Franco-Quebecer, most of those are familiar to me because we were colonized by the Brits a long time ago and it became part of my culture. We do eat beans at breakfast simply because it was a simple inexpensive way to feed the lumberjacks in camps during the winter. And now, it is a staple of every brunch menu in Quebec. Incidentally, while buying my groceries lately, I discovered that my supermarket has Marmite now. I'm really tempted to try it...
Be warned. Marmite is dangerous stuff. Spread it very thinly.
If you do try it on toast spread it thin and I mean thin , basically Opacic to the point that if it was on a news paper you could still read it , because you can always add more after the first go
There are a surprising number of people in the world who will flat out refuse to try beans on toast or even a been and cheese toastie and still wonder why it's so popular in Britain.
Before I even watch this, I can tell you that my most confusing thing about the British are the many, MANY dialects, even just within London, let alone those found across the rest of England. The rest probably won't surprise me because I have been doing years of UK research and may have seen much of it.
And everyone in the Good ole US of A spreken the same Their was only a few votes back in the day that decided whether you Yanks spoke German or English Check it out
@@bryansmith1920 I'm referencing the comparison to size of both countries; we basically have 4 dialects, both coasts, south and upper midwest, compared to so many regional and London dialects across a small area. Also source the German vs English claim-thanks
@@patois12 Just go 5 miles in Britain and you'll have another dialect and accent to understand.😀
"The rest of England"? Just England, then?
@@patois12An island only has one coast mate. Unless like lots of others, you're getting your England and Britain mixed up.
No one speaks like Dick Van Dyke. 😂😂😂
WetWang, North Yorkshire, is my personal favourite place name in England, Twatt in Scotland.
I was always fond of 'Blubberhouses' in North Yorkshire.
Essex has the most unfortunate placenames, though: Mucking, Messing, Foulness, and Ugley.
Wetwang has a fabulous chippy.
the thumbnail picture, a New Zealand born actor playing a Brit, also perfectly encapsulates another perfectly pitched trait steeped in British culture - Irony.
Pratts Bottom in Kent always got us kids cracking up whenver we went to margate 🤣
Puerto Rico uses both metric and Imperial. For example I buy gasoline in liters but milk in quarts. I drive in mph but the roads are measured in km. My house is measured in square ft but the land is in square meters. Nails by the pound but sand in cubic meters. And yes it makes sense and easier when traveling .
The reason Wales does not have a specific element on the flag is because after the Welsh Henry Tudor (Henry VII) defeated the English king Richard III and claimed the crown of England by right of conquest, his son Henry VIII decided in 1538 and 1542 to pass Acts to amalgamate England and Wales under the laws of England and effectively become a single political state governed by the same civil and criminal laws and abandoning the laws of Hywell Da in Wales.
When the Crown of England &Wales was inherited by the Scottish King James VI, House of Stewart, he came up with the brand 'Britain' and designed the union flag. At this time the crowns were held in personal union and each country retained it's own laws and legal system...which is still the case today, after the legal Act of Union in 1707 which was put in place by the last Scots Stewart monarch, his great grand daughter Queen Anne.
Spell Stuart correctly please
@@suewhite4821 I am. I use the spelling that wasn't changed to help the French court pronounce it properly and has been the name in my family going back to year dot. Stewart.
Ah OK didn't know Henry 7th was Welsh. Interesting stuff
@@SW-fn7cl Henry Tudor, son of Edmund Tudor, with lineage back to Cadwalladr.
His mother was English, grand daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford down the Beaufort line which was initially illegitimate and then made legitimate when they finally married on later age.
@@SW-fn7cl well, he was Henry Tudor. Edmund Tudor was his father, a welshman!
I grew up with the metric system, I used the metric system for years at work, and now I've been living in a country with metric road signs for fifteen years, and I STILL convert kilometres to miles in my head as I drive.
As a Canadian of British parentage, when I moved to the US I was shocked at what the Americans consider tea, and even how they present it to you in a restaurant, should you be foolish enough to order it...a Lipton tea bag (Lipton tea being the floor sweepings of Indian and Sri Lankan tea factories) on a saucer with a cup of hot tap water water, and a fucking slice of lemon, no less....what the unholy fuck....
Go to petrol station. Buy 20 litres of fuel. Get into my 2 litre engine car. Get 40 miles to the gallon.
Marmite crisps are lush ….
Because they don’t taste like Marmite. Twiglets on the other hand, are disgusting.
I stay about once a month in a premier inn about 200m as the crow flies behind the Pity Me sign. Never been to my place of birth, Durham since i left when I was 3. I'm back twice a month or more now. After 45 years.
There's a village near the Essex/Suffolk border, called 'Fingeringhoe'
Years ago in England l ordered a meal which came with potatoes prepared in either 3 or 4 different ways (long ago), never seen anything like that before or since. Also in the middle of London a gentleman walked up to my friend and l , noticing that we were tourists, asked us if could help us with any directions. Never have had that happen before or since either.
I've often done that in London to tourists. It's polite and you are guests. It's funny though because London has a reputation for not being friendly. Kinda like new york does.
Come to Montréal (Canada). I do that all the time, in French, English or Spanish. Tourists are easy to spot, so, why not offer to help them if you can! I'm always happy to do that. But hey, I'm Canadian...
@sygendron I’m English and have only been to Canada once - a couple of nights in Montreal through work a few years back. One of the friendliest places - if not the friendliest - I’ve ever been.
@@Crall-xb8he Happy to know that you appreciate the friendliness of my hometown!
a works canteen had chips every day, me being a ex cook mentioned that there are other ways to have potatoes, next day we had on the menu, baked jacket potatoes (choice of fillings) with chips. i gave up