American Reacts to BIG Mistakes Americans Make in England
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- Americans such as myself definitely are guilty of not being very aware of cultural differences outside of America. That is exactly why I am very interested in reacting to this video on funny and BIG mistakes Americans make in England. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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'Pissed' is a pretty interchangeable word in UK English. It really depends on the context of the conversation.
He's pissed = he's drunk
He's pissed (off) = he's angry
He's pissed off = he's gone
He's pissed about = he's messed around
He's pissed on it = he's urinated on it
He's pissed it = he easily completed it
He's pissed it (away) = he's wasted it
There's an awful lot of words like that in UK English tbh.
Correct on every one!
Well put!
Some of the time it's the same phrase
But completely depends on the contexts and way you say it
I have never heard anyone on the UK use the word "pissed" without "off" to mean angry: I think it would always be interpreted as meaning "drunk". Is this an age-related thing?
He is pissed - he's drunk
He is pissed off - he's angry
He has pissed off - he has gone
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E.g
Mate did you know someone scratch your new car
Yeah I'm pissed,I just got it yesterday
The very fact you don't accept being drunk as a fair reason to shave your beard at a party shows that you are not British 🤣 "because I was drunk/pissed" is a valid excuse for absolutely anything 😅
😂 that's what I thought too lol
I have a friend who got drunk
He had like fairly long hair st the time and was littersly like
"RIGHT, ITS COMIN OFF"
was bald for like 2 weeks
I was going to comment this.
i wonder if he did it as a dare? seems a thing that definitely happen at a party!
I was working in London and a visiting American VP of sales said to 200 people -- men and woman -- that the sales team had to get off their Fannies and start producing. British people know that "fanny" means rear end in the USA, but the laughter was so intense -- the director, a middle ages man, simply had to stop the meeting and leave the room. I think someone filled him in on what "fanny" meant in the UK after the meeting.
It would have been even funnier if the employees sat and made reproductions of something. He would have said, "Get on your fannies and start reproducing."
We have an American branch of the family, and back in the 80s, one of my American cousins came to spend six months in London. To top up her funds, she got a temporary job working in Boots, a well known British chain store (chemist/pharmacy), where the staff are required to wear a uniform. As winter rolled around, my cousin found that she was too cold wearing the skirt that she was required to wear, so decided to ask her boss if she could wear something a little warmer. So she went to him and asked if it was OK for her to wear pants to work! At first, she was a little taken aback when he said that it really was none of his business, but soon realised the mistake she'd made. I'm sure they laughed about it afterwards though. 😁
The 2 fingers come from one of the wars that the UK had with the French. If the french captured a longbow man, the used to chop off one of the fingers used to draw the bow string. As the UK bowmen were feared because they were so good at the start of any battle the bowmen would line up and show the French that they had both fingers at which point the French knew that they could very well be shot by the UK arrows. The sign was given with the nails facing the enemy, with the nails pointing towards the owner is the peace sign. Hope that helps
Yeh, that's not true though.
Urban myth! 🏴
It were during the battle of agincourt its all true no myth about it look up the history squad on here
@@matthew09ify No it's a myth, long been debunked by many historians.
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@@matthew09ify why would the French cut off fingers to prevent archers using them again, when in reality they'd just kill them? Think about it! 🏴
Sanitary towels are also called sanitary pads, abrieviated to pads. That's why many people initially questioned Apple naming their product an iPad.
Or jam rags.
During WW2 the British and Americans had a major disagreement, they were discussing the upcoming D-Day landings and the Americans didn't understand basic English. The British wanted to table some important documents, the Mericans took offense. To table something in America means to postpone, even cancel it. A bill tabled in Congress basically dies. But everywhere else in the English speaking world to table something means to put it up for discussion.
Another word that has a different meaning is the word "fair", as in "my son only got a fair in High School, a C+". In England, if you call something fair, its pretty positive.
I found out that "to table something" has a different meaning in the US just yesterday! An American colleague was telling me that they were going to table a software change we had discussed a few weeks ago, but then everything else he went on to say implied that they were postponing it until they'd done more research. I was confused, but just assumed that he didn't know what "to table something" actually meant...now I know! 😊
The beard thing- there was no explanation of the beard shaving- that was incidental to the point about pissed/ drunk. In the UK we do use 'pissed off' to mean angry, but 'pissed' on it's own always means 'drunk'.
The 'two fingered salute' as it's sometimes known is the reverse of the 'V for Victory' sign popularised by Winston Churchill in WW2. Palm facing outwards is Victory or peace, back-of-the-hand outwards is like flipping the bird. You were sort of right about the two fingers needed for archery- but the story goes that the 'two fingered salute' was used by English archers toward the french to show they still had their bow-drawing fingers intact (the french were known to remove these from captured Engish archers). This origin story is probably not true, but is a well-known urban legend.
Winston's V-sign clearly knew what it was drawing on, though. NOT the peace sign - the one used by Brits since the 1300s.
You can say pissed for angry too in the right context
Urban legend? Would have been a rural legend back then. Archery was once the only sport that could take place on a Sunday as it was once compulsory that all Englishmen were proficient in Archery. Boys were trained from the age of twelve. The Lord of the Manor was required to provide a minimum number of Archers as asked for (dependant on the male population of the Manor) in time of war.
@@definitelynotatroll246 But it is still an Americanism. We learn lots of those...
@@wessexdruid7598 HE always faced Germany with the back of his hand so it was Victory ✌️ for England and F**k off to Hitler the English Longbow men used it to taunt the French from the 1200's we always beat the French after 1066.
Evan’s TH-cam channel is great, he’s always thoughtful and funny and is actually British now as he became a citizen.
He's so young. Not a hint of the Jesus lookalike that we now know & love.
@@ruthfoley2580 Yes, I didn't realise it was him until he raised his head and spoke.
So now do you see why the line "Nobody tosses a Dwarf" from Lord of the Rings is so funny to the British?
I'm English and didn't find it funny, you must be old!
I always thought that was because of the popularity for a while of pub "dwarf-tossing contests".
@@The.Best.Collector You sound a right good laugh 😂
@@The.Best.Collector You must be very young o.0
@@xmascookies97 I am 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 how old are you? What's wrong with being young? You were young once! I'm old enough to marry 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember that elsewhere on the internet the word ‘pissed’ arose together with ‘jock’. I ventured to suggest that in the USA ‘That jock is pissed’ would mean ‘That admired young sports enthusiast is annoyed’ whereas in the UK it would mean ‘That Scotsman is drunk’.
An unusual occurrence for scotsmen...
There was very popular British comedienne called Marti Caine who related this story on a chat show . She and her husband were in an elevator in Las Vegas and when they kissed they had quite a nasty static electricity shock. When the doors opened their American friends who were waiting for them noticed something was wrong and asked what had happened. She said "We are ok. We just had a bang in the lift" at which point everybody fell about laughing. USA and UK. Two countries divided by a common language.
I used to love Marti Caine... Why the hell has none of her stuff been repeated? Almost as if she's been forgotten.
@@AndrewHalliwell I did as well. A good all round entertainer. Shame she died so young.
I forgot to mention in the original comment that apparently in Yorkshire from where she was from that getting an electric shock was "having a bang". I'm pretty sure I didn't have to add that.😁
I can give you one backwards. I was working as an engineer for a British company installing equipment in the USA. One of the directors of the company came to the site to discuss things with the customer. He arrived somewhat jet-lagged and was trying to recover his wits by drinking coffee with myself and some of the US staff. He was asked how he felt about the journey and he replied that it had been OK except where he'd had to get a connecting flight which had involved having to 'hump his suitcases' right across the airport.
The shock of this statement silenced the entire room.
There are so many different meanings for the word pissed in Britain that this is sentence that can actually have meaning:
he's pissed, pissed off , took the piss, pissed about then pissed off.
It's a slightly contentious origin for the two finger salute, but it allegedly comes from the superior archery skills of English archers at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. If the French captured an English archer they would chop off his middle and index fingers to prevent him drawing his bow in future. English archers would taunt the French by waving their middle and index fingers to show they still had them.
The peace sign is the opposite way around, showing the underside of the fingers with the thumb tucked in.
He shaved his beard because he was pissed. We all do crazy things when we’re pissed.
I discovered a mate cleans when he's just the right level of drunk. He apparently woke up at some point with a hangover wondering why his house was so clean.
When my kids and I relocated to the US in the 90s, for six yrs, my then 11 yr old son began at a weekday boarding school in DC and came home at weekends. The first weekend home, he told me his house matron (the 20-something wife of his house master) laughed out loud when he asked her, on his first evening, "I want to go to lacrosse scrimmage tomorrow, Miss, so could you ask someone to knock me up before 6.00?"
The archery thing is an urban myth, but makes for a good story. But omg, how young does Evan look there!
Yes, there’s a difference between pissed and pissed off. Former is drunk, latter angry.
I couldn't care less about these things.
However, I live in a tourist area and things that really, really annoy me with American tourists are
1) referencing everything to Harry Potter - no, my town has nothing to do with Harry Potter - it looks like this because it's a typically English, historic market town - of which there are hundreds.
2) Complaining about things not being the same as in the USA : no ranch dressing anywhere, shops/restaurants not open all hours God sends, not enough fast food places etc... Basically, not being the same as America - this is a different country ffs.
Sorry, rant over.
And by "I couldn't care less", you mean the OPPOSITE of "I could care less"! American language use is weird...
Yeah market town in England is basically 99% of towns 🤣
I’ve been watching Evan’s channel for a few years. He’s a really entertaining guy.
So many of these phrases are used in Australia
In Australia we use the two fingered salute and pissed the same way as the UK too. There was a lot of snickering when Obama came for a visit he was very fond of the old "peace sign"
In Britain we do have the peace sign but that’s when two fingers (Middle and Index) up with the palm of your hand facing outwards. Whilst two fingers up (Middle & Index) with the back of your hand facing outwards means the same as flipping the bird (middle finger). So be careful not to get them confused.
He shaved his beard because, as he said, it's just something he does when he gets drunk...
Omg! This must be an older video! I never saw this one yet! I love watching Evan. I'm learning so much from him in preparation for my trip to the UK for school.
If you go to a UK school, please remember that
US : eraser is UK : rubber
US : rubber is UK:condom
Also : "to feel randy" is to be "aroused" in one language, and to be groping friend Randy in the other.!!!
'Pissed' means drunk, but 'pissed off' means angry in the UK
There's an absurd amount of uses for the word "pissed" in the UK.
You could use "pissed off" similarly to walked off aswell
@@joltingonwards2017 "Pissed my pants" means laughed a lot.
It can also mean you're in need of a sanitary towel...sorry, I meant wet wipe!
Also, in Scotland ' fanny' means something different😂but keep saying 'fanny pack' it makes us laugh 😅
same in the rest of the UK too :)
Aye in Scotland it's a girls name.
@@Thurgosh_OG in England, Hungary, France, Spain, too.
the two finger salute is because English longbowman would stick there two fingers up at the french because if the french captured a English archer they would cut his two fingers off because the longbowman would draw the longbow back with those two fingers... so the English longbowman would hold up those two fingers to mock the french by essentially taunting them...
Never the outcast, he's the entertainment guy
Like he said, they kept him on for the laughs 😃
Actually, he is a winner bcos he can laugh at himself, always endearing, and I bet he gets invited to all the parties now!! 🙄🤪 Loved it ❤
Aha, heres a story:
Im Canadian but my family on my dads side is from England, we visit every few years. Back in 2015 we went to London for a day trip and were walking down River Thames. We saw these 2 bobbies and for some reason I wanted to take a picture with them because there were other tourists doing it too. My mum told me to go ask, so I ran up, looked at them and asked if I could take a picture. One of them replies "With both of us or just one?" And I replied "Both!" While sticking my 2 fingers up at them. I heard my dad do a slight yelp behind me, and the 2 bobbies didn't take it seriously but they looked at my parents. Once I got the picture, my dad had to explain that you shouldn't stick your fingers up like that because it is kind of like a middle finger gesture. He explained that its because before archers shot at you back in the day, those 2 fingers would pretty much mean "Im going to kill you".
Ever since then, whenever my friends did that to me I would tell them not to do that and turn their fingers around just to fool with them. And whenever someone does the peace fingers like that I tell them to turn it around because your palm is supposed to face outward not the back of your hand. Although it means nothing here in Canada, I still accept it for the sake of it.
Just given me the great idea of trolling Americans by telling them they mustn't use the word "it" or use their right hand to open doors etc. I'm SOOO evil!
@@TheRealRedAce 😈
i am a brit and was in atlanta for a few weeks. a friend was running a free arts and crafts club for under priviledged kids, so i went aloong to ''help''. whilst helping a kid to do a pencil drawing i made a mistake, so i asked , quite loudly,....does anyone have rubber i can borrow? some people laughed so much that iwas worried they may choke to death........apparently i should have asked for an eraser!.....however, in some areas of the uk , eraser means a hitman......2 countries separated by a common language!
Here in the UK pants are underwear, what you call pants we call trousers & yeah women's underwear is knickers lol. These words are used throughout the UK& not just England btw. What you call a moist towelette, we call wet wipes😂
But it does happen. I used to boat on the canals a lot. Lots of Americans hire boats to crash around with and look lost. One such was in a basin getting ready to tie up for the night. One American asked what to do so I told him "There are the Bollards - you moor on." He got a bit upset. Calmed down once I explained but got angry again when I suggested we go up the lock together so as an early call, I would knock him and his wife up in the morning.
😂😂😂😂😂
My grandad rest his soul went to the US for the first time in the 70's and shouted to my nan he was going outside to smoke a fag. Apparently this doesn't mean he was going outside to smoke a cigarette and meant someone completely different in the US!
You should look up how some normal words in America are actually slurs in the UK, and viceversa. There's quite a few weird ones.
'Scrub things' with a sanitary towel. 🤣
In the film ‘Darkest Hour’, a secretary is shown telling Churchill that he must do the V sign palm outwards or else it means ‘up yer bum’.
Two fingers with your palm towards you is swearing but palm facing outwards is the peace sign.
If you'd continued reading the description of the two-fingered salute you'd have discovered the story about it being because of English archers fighting the French at Agincourt is entirely apocryphal (basically a myth). You won't find honest, educated historians accepting that. There is a reference to the French threatening to cut off three fingers (the English longbow was best pulled with three not two fingers) by a contemporary of the Agincourt battle, but no evidence it actually happened. It's basically a great, funny story that unfortunately gets parroted as fact. As to the actual origin, I think it's lost in time. My own guess (and it is a guess) was that the gesture relates to the spreading of legs for penetration - so "f you" makes sense accompanying it.
I'll just say how I understood the fingers gesture as a kid in England. Palm facing the person with two fingers meant the peace sign which I'd seen on TV and in school. while the back of the hand with one or two fingers meant you were flipping them off (flip the bird).
I was on a beach in Saudi Arabia with a group of friends all of the girls were English, an American guy wanting to be polite, said to one of the girls “park your Fanny here next to me” she walked away and sat as far from him as she could, all the other girls treated him with hostility, until it was explained to the girls that a Fanny is a polite expression for a but, arse or rear end. The American had to be explained that in England Fanny is a crude vulgar term for a woman’s genitalia. In the end there were some laughs, but the initial girl still treated the American with some caution for several weeks.
born here in uk and just found out the slang meaning of toss off, lol
When he asked for a sanitary towel I actually cringed. 😂
You 'do not have to be an American ' for to make mistake... I'm an European who moved to Sweden from central Europe of the age of 19 years old. I started to learn a little bit of Swedish and I worked in a place. One day we were all sitting for a coffee break and we tried to conversate... I wanted to say I like sporting and as I mixed up the word and the word I used meant ' I like to make crime...they looked at me and seen a young innocent girl through in and out and they all blast in laugh... after a while one of the guy said; 'you know I don't think so...' I was so staffed like - what do you mean - and they still laugh and explained to me I may mix up the world... and I find out soon I did. I got so in barest that for 2 years I refused to say a single word in Swedish. After 2 years and lot of study when I were confident I started to talk
Forward two fingers originates from the wars with France where they the French used to cut those fingers of archers if caught. The English used to give the gesture to their enemies to show they still had hand intact. Equivalent to ’flipping the bird’.
I was going to put the same
and I think it's stuck because it's not just a part of the history of the UK but also an interesting story
The two finger salute with palm facing out is peace BUT the same sign with the palm facing you means up yours lol
A comon mistake the English make in America is “Do you have a rubber I can borrow?” To us, a rubber is an eraser!
If you do it facing forward it's either a peace sign or saying "2" but if you do it with the back of your hand it basically means the same as the middle finger
My Mum was an exchange student in America in the 60s & rather embarassed herself in math(s) class asking if anyone had a spare rubber she could use 🤣😂🤣 needless to say she meant an eraser
Pissed by itself is Drunk. If you are "Pissed Off" you are annoyed.
He shaved his beard because he's drunk and not in control of his actions. Therefore because his self control was compromised, he shaved off his beard, that he probably wouldn't have if he wasn't drunk.
more likely because he felt sick and didn't want to deal with the gross vom in his beard to be honest. althought being off your tits drunk will do that too
I laugh at the videos as they are so funny. The two fingers means "go forth and multiply" or Fxxk Off which was a gesture Welsh archers made to French knights to say "look I still have my fingers to draw the long bow". If caught by the opposing army the archers fingers would be cut off. "At Agincourt the archers on the English side came mainly from Wales and were deadly accurate adjusting the range of the arrows very quickly slaughtering the French Knights on horse back who got stuck in muddy ground. The Bird" or one finger salute in the UK means "up yours".
The two fingers started with archers because back in the day when archers were captured they would chop of the two fingers… so in turn when archers weren’t captured they would gesture there two archer fingers as a “fuck you” sort of thing
Evan Edinger's made lots of YT vids. You might enjoy these - 'The average cost of groceries in Britain vs America' and 'Is Aldi that much cheaper? | British vs American groceries 2'
both of those are fake as those are not prices in the US, they are prices in Evan's home state of New Jersey ONLY.
Pants, Knickers, G-string, Thong, Briefs are names for women's underwear.
Y-fronts, Underpants, Boxers are names for men's underwear.
Trousers, Jeans, Slacks are names for what you know as pants in the USA.
Pissed is another word for drunk.
The peace sign is palm facing forward, two fingers palm facing yourself is saying f*** off
The origin of the two fingered salute apparently stems from when the English were at war with France. An English Archer if captured by the French would have the index & middle fingers cut off to debilitate him. Thus the 'up yours' salute that was waved at the enemy before battle & shooting the sh1t out of them. BTW the peace sign is waved with the palm facing out. The Fek you is waved with the back of the hand facing toward the target of your insult.
I think “trouble” is a bit strong 😅 Can’t imagine anyone actually being offended by these (apart from the 2 fingers to be fair). The rest would just be funny. Especially if you know they’re American. Maybe we take things less seriously in Scotland specifically but wouldn’t have thought so
Churchill was well known for putting two fingers up to signify V for victory during world war 2. A member of his staff had to point out to him that he was putting it up in such a way that it meant 'F Off'. If you put 2 fingers up with the rest of the fingers towards the person, that's a V for victory sign. With the V sign with the back of the hand towards the person that is considered extremely rude and is definitely 'F off'
Pants in the UK is underwear, trousers in the USA is trousers.
Pissed is drunk, pissed off means angry. No clue on the drunk beard shaving thing, probably just a personal issue with that one guy.
The two finger salute was an insult derived from when Scottish warriors would cut off those two fingers from English Archers so they can never fire a bow again, then taunting their enemies with chants of "We've got your fingers".
its to show they still have both fingers after pulling the bow, archers used to flip it to the enemy that's where the insult originated. pulling a 6ft long bow properly without protection and keeping your fingers stunned the enemy or so the stories say.
We all do stupid things when we're drunk, shaving your beard off is better than putting a plastic kettle on a gas stove, panicking that's it's caught fire and then throwing it at a closed glass door you thought was open. Gaz never had another house party (as a school kid) and we never did get the melted plastic off the glass door.....
I say pants for trousers , underwear is what you wear under pants
And pissed is used to mean angry as well as drunk
Pissed =drunk, pissed off = angry
In the UK we have place names that to people out side the UK would find strange there may be a video about it
very true, my parents live near the river piddle!
Another one to be aware of is Fanny, this means female genitalia in the UK
theres a rumor the 2 fingers swear was a way of boasting back in the day that you still had your finger to the enemy too (they used to cut off the archers fingers)
Just to help you with your confusion:
5) Pants means underwear in UK, not as we call trousers.
4) Pissed means drunk. We use "Pissed Off" for angry. Shaving his beard and nothing to do with the story - that's just what the guy did.
3) Two fingers facing outwards in the UK is the same as "giving the bird" in the US. There is a myth about French archers but it's not true. When we gesture two, we use two fingers but palm facing outwards. This means we rotate our hands when we reach 2.
2) This is well explained in the video :)
1) This is also explained well!
Hope this helps.
Pissed = drunk
Pissed off = angry.
The 2 finger gesture is only an insult if the back of your hand is facing them. If you are facing your palm to them like a peace sign, it’s not an insult.
jay walking is a big one in america you can get fined in england you wont. also being drunk can also be referred to as : Mortal, hammered, wankered as well as various others depending on where in the UK you are. the two fingers is considered swearing because when we were at war they would cut off the fingers the archers would use to draw the bow and in turn it became a way of mocking the enemy like ha look we still have our fingers. dont know why im explaining all this but i hope someone finds it interesting i did when i was younger. lastly in the uk sanitary towel is called an antibacterial wipe
'Pants' are underwear.
'Pissed' is drunk. A 'pisshead' is somebody who is drunk (and obnoxious - its derogatory). 'Pissed off' is angry. 'Pissy' is generally grumpy.
The two finger wave means 'F off', or 'F you'.
Yeah... We'd say 'throw me off'. You'd never say toss in that context. It *really* changes the meaning.
Sanitary towels... period pads.
There's a story I once heard a British guy tell on the radio - he was on his year out before university, travelling, and he ended up in the US as a lumberjack for a while, during winter. He kept talking about how cold his 'pecker' was. Couldn't understand why he was getting standoffish reactions, because of course, he was talking about his nose. Somebody had to take him aside and explain.
A two fingered salute with the back of your hand facing the other person is an "F U!" But facing palm out is the peace sign. He should have asked for "wet wipes".
i remember in primary school people were like
"did you here this person did this" and they'd do the sign but cover it with their hand and it was such a big deal and now kids in highshcool are swearing left right and center
He just funny I seen him with his mum and just the way he act and speaks makes me laugh
A two fingers in the UK has two meanings.. If your palm is towards yourself, it a MAJOR insult. If your palm is facing away from you, that (and only that) is the peace sign.
The insult is derived from the English Longbow men from the middle ages. As they were amongst the most feared facets of the English army, if any were captured their fingers would be cut off! Hence, waving two fingers at your enemy is a show of superiority and disdain, in the way of "I've still got both my fingers, and I'm going to carry on shooting arrows at you all!"
we still use toss fir chucking or throwing something but it also means that
When the French caught an English archer, they cut off their bowstring fingers... the two finger salute is showing the enemy they still have them.
The two finger salute. Palm facing you is an insult. Same as flipping the bird. Also I heard resembles the female
Anatomy how you hold it open.
Palm facing away from you is the peace sign.
The toss off made me giggle because it led to a fun exchange between me and a coworker a few days ago. He needed help getting a door he'd been working on off his work bench and asked me if i could help him "toss this door off"
Me: *in mock indignation* hey don't get me involved in your weird door fetish kinks. If you want to toss off doors do it at home or we'll be up HR
Took him a second to realise what he had said
Pissed means drunk ,pissed off means angry .
In the UK, pants are underwear. Men's are also known as underpants or, specifically, boxers, briefs or y-fronts. Ladies' are known as knickers, which does not mean "the kind of shorts little boys used to wear.. And for any Australians out there, don't comment on women's thongs unless you mean their gstrings - the shoes are known as flip flops here. What Americans call pants are trousers.
English archers of the 14th-15th centuries were very proficient - it resembled machine-gun fire, as they did it in relays so that there was always a rain of arrows coming at the enemy every second. If the French captured an archer, they cut off his relevant two fingers to incapacitate him. English archers waved their two fingers at the enemy to tell them that they could still shoot.
Wow this is a young Evan, he’s British now, has bought his own flat, has a girlfriend and job, he’s ours now
the 2 finger gesture your talking about is called 'Flipping the V' and is much worse then the middle finger
yeah it does seem worse... i think it's because it kinda looks like when you're about to er... use your fingers involving a woman lol!
Right wrong way two fingers FU. No peace.😂😂
Here in England, two fingers up on the front of your hand means peace, whereas the back of your hand is very rude
Apparently, sellotape means condom in the USA. sellotape is in fact sticky tape in the UK.
A very young Evan Edinger!. He is all grown up now and has British Citizenship.. I've followed him for quite a long time...
'Pissed off' means angry in the UK, pissed on its own means drunk.
Wow, can't believe that's Evan Erdinger? He's so young in this! He's been here a while now and even became a British citizen, pkedging allegiance to the Queen (while she was still around) and her Heirs and Successors.
the two fingers for all yanks out there is archers in the middle ages saying "come get are finger we still got them" as captured archers would have those two finger remove to prevent them for using a bow ever again
Pants in the uk are what we call knickers (underwear)
We say paper towels lol also the peace sign was associated with Winston Churchill 🤣 also the drunk man shaved his beard of because he was drunk some drunk people do silly things.
The whole pants thing... it depends on where you are from. As a northerner, you can say pants, and it still means jeans, trousers, etc but it also means underwear too. It depends on which region you are from.
Pissed means drunk in the UK. 'Pissed off' means angry, or when someone has mysteriously left the scene. Telling someone to 'piss off' means to demand someone to go away and to piss means urinating. I don't know why he shaved his beard... that's just weird.
The V sign is like the middle finger but not as insulting. Apparently, the French used to cut off the fingers of captured British archers in battle; it's a vulgar gesture which is normally used in celebration when you have won in a feud or to antagonise your enemy. The middle finger is more of an aggressive statement - like 'F You!' (same as America)
'Toss someone off' means to 'jerk' someone off. To call someone a 'jerkoff' in America, they would be a 'tosser' in England. The other word is 'W**ker' which is a really vulgar term, and is up there with the 'F word 'and the 'C word' in comparison.
lol "wanker" is definitely nowhere NEAR the f-word and certainly NOT the c-word which is like the most offensive of all swearwords!
I'm only half way through but one thing not (yet?) mentioned that pisses us off., well many of us anyway, is the way that many Americans, including Tyler in this video, is to keep referring to the country, all of it, as 'England!
All the brits screaming at there phones "because he was pissed!" It's a valid excuse for most things
In the UK pissed off means angry
In the UK you have Pissed! as in drunk, pissed on its own means nothing else but drunk. You also have Pissed Off as in really upset with someone or something or by a situation you find yourself in. Ok?
Happy New Year by the way!