It’s actually A Ring-a-ring o’ roses, A pocket full of posies, A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down. The ring of roses where red lesions on the skin- the posies were dried flowers and herbs thought to combat the plague- sneezing was a symptom and we all fall down was death - hope this helps
Eh we dye eggs here in the UK. We used to collect petals from the gorse bushes and use that as a dye when I was at school. We also used to paint and decorate eggs as well.
Hey! Good to see you back. You are actually wrong about dyeing eggs. It used to be a thing in UK many years ago but for some reason it has died (dyed? Lol) out. The methods were exactly the same with wax crayons etc except we would "blow" the eggs first - putting a pinprick at each end and blowing hard at one end so the insides all come out leaving you with an intact, empty egg shell.
Yes... used to do eggs this way in Canada also. Not sure if anyone is carrying on that particular tradition though. I know that none of my relatives are doing this at all. You also get a small groan for that pun. 😂
Yes, I’m 47 and remember dying eggs for Easter in England and Scotland. Sometimes hard boiled, that we would roll down a hill in the park and other times we would blow them first. You can still buy egg dying kits.
@@julia2jules That's one occasion I remember, egg rolling with the Sunday School ! I wondered if that was a thing with anyone else apart from the United Reformed Church 70's hippies 😊
I only found your content a few weeks ago, so...... I guess I don't know what I might have missed.😁 To say the UK is more northerly than the USA is a bit of an understament. I'm on the East Coast of Canada, and Halifax, NS is almost on the 45 parallel, about level with Marseilles in the south of France. London is about the same latitude as the north of Newfoundland, and Newcastle is about level with Labrador City. So the UK is waaaayy further north, than almost anyone thinks. The good news, is you are on the correct side of the Gulf Stream, and get all that nice warming water heading your way. Nova Scotia has a similar maritime climate to the UK, but we get much colder winters.🥶 For reference for anyone from the US, Nova Scotia is just north of Maine, which has similar weather. 😊
Ring of roses is a euphemism for the red rashes that would appear, A pocket full of posies was a believed preventive measure Atishoo Atishoo is obviously the sneeze We all fall down... =death What a lovely rhyme
I'm from Derbyshire and when I was a kid, we dyed Easter eggs at school. We used onion skins, and they came out like tie dye. 😊 And btw, I buy white eggs every day because I go to the farm, you wouldn't believe the difference in taste, colour and quality, I'd never buy eggs from a supermarket ever again.
The colour of the shell makes no difference to the taste of the eggs. The flavour is affected by the diet of the hens. That's why free range taste better than battery hen eggs.
Lovely to see you back again and yes, I love hearing about the differences between the UK and USA, so keep them coming. The drive-through banking thing sounds so weird. One thing that I don't get is how you get around in America if you can't drive a car or can't afford to have one. Sounds like you have virtually zero public transport, so are you completely housebound as a result? Would love to hear more about that.
Hey Kalynn, I told you most of us will stick around didn't I, lol. Don't worry, it's almost summer (which I'm soooo looking forward to) and although you've been here for 11yrs, and you're a Floridian, just make sure you put on sunscreen when the sun FINALLY arrives, as the ol' sun here can be a bit 'tasty' and catch many many people out. Sunburn sucks!! A youtuber you might wanna watch, who like you, only puts out vids when he can be arsed is Aussie guy 'turnah81'. Very funny bloke. Nice to see you're doing fine, sweetness. Missed ya loads. xx 😉
I just had a look on a globe and realised for the first time that the southernmost point in the UK is further north than the northernmost point in the US (excluding Alaska ofc which should really be Canada). Good job we have the Gulf Stream :)
Who didn't pay attention in Geography lessons or play with the out of date antique Globe in the corner that the teacher used as a hat stand but this one was a drinks cabinet that was previously in the Headmaster's study.
Incorrect. A 110v appliance draws more current so the power is equivalent. Most European countries run on 110v -120v and have kettles in their kitchens.
@@DavidJones-ss2pebetter go tell Alana from adventure and naps who is Canadian, she boiled a litre of water in Canada and here in the UK when she got back and it took just over twice the time to boil in Canada.
Sunrise and Sunset times are shown every day during the various weather reports on the TV. Both the BBC and ITV do it - I don't generally watch the weather reports on other channels so I'm not sure about them.
Nursery rhyme: ring of roses = blotchy pattern on the skin the plague made. A pocket full of poses = carrying flowers or a perfumed Handkerchief to mask the smell of death in the streets. A-tissue = sneezing, feeling unwell. We all fall down = mass death.
I think the reason dying eggs was never big or died (dyed) out in the UK is that chocolate Easter eggs are ubiquitous in GB. Who wants a cold boiled hen's egg when Mr Cadbury's Parrot has been busy busting his nuts in the factory pumping out a billion sweet globes that are piled high since February blocking out the sunlight... Welcome back to your channel xxxx
The words of ring a ring of roses, comes from when you had a ring of roses on your door if you got sick with the plague to ward off the smell. The posies where to signify that someone inside had died.
The tubes were I think it’s right invented in the uk because they were used a lot in stores passing a build up of cash to the central collection point or requests for change for eg. They are a pneumatic system with sealing shuttles which screw together. I think that’s what your describing. If you’ve had some info they petered out and we’re gone by the end of the 60s beginning of the 70s, I remember them well they made a racket as they were working!
I remember as a child (late50s early60s) in the UK we used to paint eggs at Easter 🐣, usually with water-colour paints, same as I used for actual water colour painting which was a common hobby then and certainly for me and my brother. I think boxes of eggs then always came with mainly white shells, with an occasional brown egg so just as you mentioned it was easy to colour them. I presume changing fashion and breed of hens here since then accounts for the change.
We most certainly do dye hard-boiled eggs at easter in the UK. We then hide them in the garden or indoors for those without a garden, for the kids to find. It's called an Easter Egg Hunt.
The dyeing eggs thing did used to happen, mainly in primary school, but you’d more often turn them into little characters for a competition. Maybe that’s something that stopped being as common, as I must admit I’ve never heard of kids doing it now. But it was definitely a thing in the 80s and 90s.
Yes I remembered my mum dieing eggs easter sunday and exist still in some Eastern European countries. I think selling chocolate eggs has become more important
@@chrislawley6801 Chocolate eggs was always a bigger deal. I believe Americans have chocolate bunnies more than eggs. The dyeing thing was very much a school only thing for me 30 years ago, not something you did at home.
@chris lawley Eastern European in the UK here and you are correct. Dyeing eggs is the main Easter activity in the Eastern Orthodox world still (at least in the Balkans) but not so much the chocolate craze 🤔 Also don't remember bunnies ever being traditionally associated with Easter, at least not in Bulgaria
We have been dyeing Easter eggs in the UK all the years that I can remember and I’ll be 68 this year. With brown eggs we would give the kids felt pens Always messy but usually fun. If you want to know wha tI’ve been up to , I’ve been up to no good.😊 Ring around the roses a pocket full of posies Atishoo atishoo we all fall down. The “ring around the roses was for the scab that formed and the posies was the flowers and herbs that were used either to hide the stench of bodies or it was thought as a cure. In those days the smell was called miasma and the belief was if you couldn’t smell it you were still alive. Such fun topics both the plague and the eggs were to do with death. I watched a vid of an American guy wondering what would boil 1 Ltr of water faster - gas or electric - I don’t know what was funnier his reaction or mine with me shouting at youtube silly “Yanker” or his excitement when the electric kettle was twice as fast. Anyway good to hear from you agai. All the best to you and yours. X
It was a source of much amusement to me in the 1980s when I drove through a US Bank that also had BRAILLE instructions. Blind people seemingly drive in the USA! ( This was in Mass. and NH.)
How often do you have to go to a physical bank in the UK? App-based and internet banking (and before that phone banking) has been around for many years in the UK. The US banking system is very antiquated compared with Europe - Chip & PIN is very new in the US, and contactless cards the work of the devil!
You're out of hibernation! Nice to see you again 🙂👍 I haven't heard of egg dying before but I do remember painting them on a couple of occasions as a young child in the mid 1970's.
Sunset in London on 21 December is: 3:53 pm GMT, sunset on 21 June is 9:22 pm (BST) / 8:22 pm GMT; so a difference of about 4.5 hours from earliest to latest (5.5 hours with the extra hour added by British Summer Time). Day length varies from 7 hours 50 minutes on 21 December to 16 hours 38 minutes; so a difference of about 8 hours 48 minutes. In Edinburgh it's 6:57 pm in December and 10:02 pm in June (9:22 pm GMT) and day length varies from 6 hours 57 minutes to 17 hours 36 minutes; a difference of 10 hours 39 minutes.
Growing up in NW England I never realised in other countries as US don't have extremes of day light winter to summer we have. Geographical liverpool Manchester are on same level as Alaska
When I lived in Dundee Scotland there were December days when it was so dark that the automatic street lights never switched off. In June, so light that you could read a newspaper outside at midnight
One of the TH-cam channels I watch transposed an outline map of North America over Europe and found that the likes of Texas, Nevada and Arizona etc basically align with the Sahara desert in North Africa. Also the south eastern side of Britain is statistically drier than Paris Rome New York and Sydney despite the stereotype that gets bandied about. The western parts of Britain get the majority of our rainfall due to the gulf stream warming up what would otherwise be snow and ice.
4:10 Cites on similar latitudes: Calgary, CA -- London, UK / Winnipeg, CA -- Prague, CZ / Vancouver, Ca -- Paris, FR / Chicago, US -- Rome, IT / San Francisco, US -- Seville, ES / Miami, US -- Riyadh, SA
There is a simple explanation for the banking experiences. We have pounds in the bank whereas in my experience, Americans are more likely to have pounds on their fat backsides as a result of refusing to drag themselves out of their cars!🙃
I did a little "woop woop" at 3:36 for all us SAD sufferers. I'm loving the daylight hours we've got now we're into April. I wish it would warm up a bit more, though 😅 good to see you back Kalyn!
I’m a SAD sufferer too, but this winter I’ve avoided the worst of my usual symptoms, by simply taking a daily combined tablet of 4000 IU vitamin D3 and 100ug vitamin K2. I bought a 6 month supply from Amazon for £8-£9. Definitely worth a try!
just to add the other youtubers that watch your content are 'JTReacts, Reacting To My Roots, ItsJPS, Ryan Wuzer, Californian Reacts, Tyler Rumple and finally Brittreacts. these were all the other people i had to find when you started living your life lol! yes you did leave a big hole that needed to be filled lol!
I'm a US citizen. I'm married to a British citizen. I would like to become a Dual US/UK citizen. I have never lived in the UK , I've only visited. My husband is living here in the US with me. Does anyone know if I qualify to apply for dual citizenship if I live in the US?
We here in the UK did used to have white shelled eggs and back in the '50's & '60's at least, dyeing eggs for Easter definitely _was_ a thing! We used to use wax crayons to create patterns too, and also make nests for them with coloured crepe (wrinkled) tissue papers etc. There were hardback books which I saw / owned as a young girl, which had multiples of directions for this egg-dyeing practice, plus all sorts of home-made games and toys or activities to while away the weekends / school holidays or just evenings spent by the fire on cold winter evenings, to have something to do if not reading an adventure book (by Enid Blyton, for example) ...and regarding these homemade / handmade activities, we also spent time making our own Christmas decorations (both to decorate our rooms and the, back then, real Christmas Trees, too) so there's a distinct possibility that a lot of your American creative ideas originally stemmed from similar habits and activities here "in the Old Country"...🤔 😏🏴❤️🇬🇧 🙂🖖 ⭐🌲🌟🏔️🎀🎈🎇🎨🖌️🎂🍭🍬🍫
Love your videos. A few of the banks in Florida, are finally starting to get away from the tubes. They are starting to install these large ATM (I am guessing that it is also an ATM, only had for a week) that you communicate via video with a teller (don't know where teller is at, as they could be remote). I will say if you are vertically challenged they can be difficult to use from the vehicle. And due to watching UK TH-cam videos, I now have a kettle for my tea. So much faster than using the stove/hob.
I worked in hotels for a while in my 20's. Started a summer working in Inverness in the north of Scotland. Moved, in the middle of the season, to St Hellier on Jersey, off the coast of France. For the first couple of weeks, the internal panic I felt when the sun went down. It must be almost midnight, I'm drunk in a random pub and have to get up in five hours. No, it's not quite seven pm.
As regards banking, you would be hard pushed in the UK to find a bank branch these days. Most people do online or telephone banking and fewer and fewer people actually use cash. As regards daylight hours, in Edinburgh (which is the same latitude as Moscow), it is light at midsummer till nearly eleven pm and then again from about 4am. Even shorter nights further north. Hardly any real darkness in the Shetlands. It often comes as a surprise to visitors to Scotland how long the summer days are.
Not only do we still dye eggs at Easter in the UK, we can also buy pretty transfers for them too. Ring a Ring o' Roses doesn't have anything to do with the Plague/Black Death. That's just a false folk etymology. It was never connected with the plague before WWII. I read a cooking tip the other day that says you don't need to boil the water before adding the pasta. You can put the pasta in the cold water and then boil it, saving you 10 minutes of cooking time. 😁
So nice to have you back and doing the UK/US comparisons. I'm in Stoke on Trent and I think I just saw a Greggs drive through next to McDonald's on my way to the Royal Stoke Hospital, I was just passing in a taxi so couldn't be sure, (more your drive through baking than banking?). US 110 volt electricity would take more than twice as long to boil as UK 240 volts. you could do a video on pronunciation differences, I'm not surprised that Americans don't spread butter on their sandwiches, you pronounce "t" inside a word as "b", who wants to spread budder, isn't he a little fat guy?
"...get more checks (cheques)"? How arcane are personal financial systems in the USA? Does anyone in the UK still use cheques? Have the Americans never heard of chip & pin or contactless banking?
Hey Kalyn, welcome back. Bit of time out from social media to live your best life is no bad thing! While you were away I got my UK/US fix from Amanda Rae, Evan Edinger and for a reverse perspective, JT Reacts/JT & Anna.
Ring a ring o' roses, the marks on the skin. Pocket full o' posies, carrying herbs and flowers to ward off infection. Atishoo, atishoo, all fall down. The sneezing and coughing that preceded death.
On the subject of electric kettles, when we first moved to Australia in the 1970snthere we’re very few kettles. Electric jugs were far more common. These were like a small ewer or water jug, usually glazed pottery with a an electric heating element inside. The two pin plug was pushed in the back just below the lid. This also prevented the lid being opened while the jug was energised. Some even had a cutout which required you to push a red button to boil the water. We still sometimes see one in a thrift shop! The heating element was not covered and could cause slight electrolysis. No issue on AC mains but a health risk if the jug was used on DC mains.
I will never understand why Americans don’t have electric kettles. I know they boil slower due to lower voltage, but surely it’s faster than a stove one. Doing that sounds so Victorian to me. 😂
When you think about it, the variation in US daylight lengths being less than UK makes it all the more strange that "daylight saving" was first championed by an American ( believe it was Ben Franklin whilst he was at the American embassy in Paris). Brits do draw faces on hard boiled eggs (or they did when I was little - 70 years ago) though thinking back most UK eggs were white back then.
It has been suggested that Ring a ring o' roses is about the black death/plague. The o' is short for 'of' roses, could refer to the red rash/boil on the skin. A pocket full of poses, about carrying flowers or something with a nice sent, as at the time many people believed that the disease was carried by bad smells. A-tishoo perhaps sneezing and then dying 🤷🏻♀️ It has however, also been said that this is not correct and it is a false etymology (where an unfamiliar word is switched for one more familiar). This could definitely be true given the original song is very old and language changes all the time. The American version is proof of this, as presumably the original song travelled there with Europeans and has now clearly evolved to be slightly different again.
1950s rhyme: Ring-a-ring of roses A pocket full of posies Atishoo atishoo we all fall down Ashes in the water Ashes in the sea We all jump up with a one two three
Edinburgh - mid December gets dark about 15:30, doesn't get light in the morning until 08:00. but in summer for about 6 weeks it never get properly dark.
So, it would be mighty convenient to rob a bank from the comfort of your get-away vehicle. Although, the cashier might just say no when you ask them to give you all of the money. That's the only flaw in that plan.
Now I know where the phrase it’s been a second comes from, got the context in top gun maverick but never really made sense. Guess it’s just an Americanism
I only ever saw the dyed eggs in the Steel Magnolias Movie, so I though it was a Southern thing. The whole Easter egg hunt thing wasn't part of my childhood. normally because it was still raining at Easter time. However a drive through atm sounds awesome and I would like to use those please.
I remember my electric kettle broke for a few days; I tried one mug of microwaved water, and it was trash... I ended up going to my boyfriend's and staying there for a few days whilst I got a new kettle!
Hi good to see you get some content again. Since your last video I have been to my brother in law’s wedding in Australia. Still try to help Kayln a little with tips of places to visit in Scotland.
when i was at school (many decades ago) we was told that the US/Canada border was mostly around the 48th , i was also shocked as city i live in was 55 north and Canada is a lot colder/snowier then the UK that is when i realised how lucky we are for the gulf stream
Metro Bank has one drive through bank at Merry Hill Dudley. I am not sure of any others. There bank look like they use a slightly different design of the standard atm.
It was lovely to hear from you again. Always appreciated - but so nice to know you have a proper life rather than reading our dumb comments for a living. :)
I'm 70+ and I have never drank tea or coffee but I have still had an electric kettle for most of my adult life. I would be lost without it for any number of things.
Speaking of Easter eggs, you never left us with a proper Easter egg at the end of the video. I don't know if a nonexistent Easter egg can itself be an Easter egg but I made it to the end of the video and I'm just commenting that there wasn't one.
There used to be a dtive through bank in Liverpool, the building is still there ( next to one of the few Greek orthodox churches in the UK) but its no longer a bank
Redcoats in the village and there's fighting in the streets Indians and the Mountain Men are talking when they meet The king has said he's going to put a tax on tea And that's the reason y'all Americans drink coffee
AAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Let me scream, AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Please, please, please go home & be with your people, please because I know that you need to go so pleeeeeeeease go home
Ring-a-ring a roses a pocket full of posies, atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down
(that's how it was in the fifties when I was a young child anyway).
It’s actually
A Ring-a-ring o’ roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.
The ring of roses where red lesions on the skin- the posies were dried flowers and herbs thought to combat the plague- sneezing was a symptom and we all fall down was death
- hope this helps
Eh we dye eggs here in the UK. We used to collect petals from the gorse bushes and use that as a dye when I was at school. We also used to paint and decorate eggs as well.
Hey! Good to see you back.
You are actually wrong about dyeing eggs. It used to be a thing in UK many years ago but for some reason it has died (dyed? Lol) out. The methods were exactly the same with wax crayons etc except we would "blow" the eggs first - putting a pinprick at each end and blowing hard at one end so the insides all come out leaving you with an intact, empty egg shell.
Yes... used to do eggs this way in Canada also. Not sure if anyone is carrying on that particular tradition though. I know that none of my relatives are doing this at all. You also get a small groan for that pun. 😂
Wow , I forgot all about egg blowing!
I'd forgotten about the blown egg variation.
Yes, I’m 47 and remember dying eggs for Easter in England and Scotland. Sometimes hard boiled, that we would roll down a hill in the park and other times we would blow them first. You can still buy egg dying kits.
@@julia2jules That's one occasion I remember, egg rolling with the Sunday School ! I wondered if that was a thing with anyone else apart from the United Reformed Church 70's hippies 😊
I only found your content a few weeks ago, so...... I guess I don't know what I might have missed.😁
To say the UK is more northerly than the USA is a bit of an understament. I'm on the East Coast of Canada, and Halifax, NS is almost on the 45 parallel, about level with Marseilles in the south of France. London is about the same latitude as the north of Newfoundland, and Newcastle is about level with Labrador City. So the UK is waaaayy further north, than almost anyone thinks.
The good news, is you are on the correct side of the Gulf Stream, and get all that nice warming water heading your way. Nova Scotia has a similar maritime climate to the UK, but we get much colder winters.🥶 For reference for anyone from the US, Nova Scotia is just north of Maine, which has similar weather. 😊
Ring of roses is a euphemism for the red rashes that would appear,
A pocket full of posies was a believed preventive measure
Atishoo Atishoo is obviously the sneeze
We all fall down... =death
What a lovely rhyme
Glad you are back! I am preparing to move to London at the end of June and I am learning so much from you!
Cheques? We aren't in the sixties!
Never apologise for having a life away from TH-cam!
Glad you're doing well, glad you're back!
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I'm from Derbyshire and when I was a kid, we dyed Easter eggs at school. We used onion skins, and they came out like tie dye. 😊 And btw, I buy white eggs every day because I go to the farm, you wouldn't believe the difference in taste, colour and quality, I'd never buy eggs from a supermarket ever again.
Same when we had our own chicken. Amazing taste!
The colour of the shell makes no difference to the taste of the eggs. The flavour is affected by the diet of the hens. That's why free range taste better than battery hen eggs.
Lovely to see you back again and yes, I love hearing about the differences between the UK and USA, so keep them coming. The drive-through banking thing sounds so weird. One thing that I don't get is how you get around in America if you can't drive a car or can't afford to have one. Sounds like you have virtually zero public transport, so are you completely housebound as a result? Would love to hear more about that.
To show how high we are in the Atlantic,if you fly due east from New York the first land you would reach would be Portugal.
Hey Kalynn, I told you most of us will stick around didn't I, lol. Don't worry, it's almost summer (which I'm soooo looking forward to) and although you've been here for 11yrs, and you're a Floridian, just make sure you put on sunscreen when the sun FINALLY arrives, as the ol' sun here can be a bit 'tasty' and catch many many people out. Sunburn sucks!! A youtuber you might wanna watch, who like you, only puts out vids when he can be arsed is Aussie guy 'turnah81'. Very funny bloke. Nice to see you're doing fine, sweetness. Missed ya loads. xx 😉
I just had a look on a globe and realised for the first time that the southernmost point in the UK is further north than the northernmost point in the US (excluding Alaska ofc which should really be Canada). Good job we have the Gulf Stream :)
Who didn't pay attention in Geography lessons or play with the out of date antique Globe in the corner that the teacher used as a hat stand but this one was a drinks cabinet that was previously in the Headmaster's study.
Indeed. New York is level with Spain and Florida is across from North Africa.
10:20 Your so called collage sport is just for profit, which makes it business not sport.
The UK has 240v electric, whilst the US has 110v, that's why you don't have kettles, they would take forever! 😅
Yes just over double the time surprisingly!
Incorrect. A 110v appliance draws more current so the power is equivalent. Most European countries run on 110v -120v and have kettles in their kitchens.
@@DavidJones-ss2pebetter go tell Alana from adventure and naps who is Canadian, she boiled a litre of water in Canada and here in the UK when she got back and it took just over twice the time to boil in Canada.
Sunrise and Sunset times are shown every day during the various weather reports on the TV. Both the BBC and ITV do it - I don't generally watch the weather reports on other channels so I'm not sure about them.
Nursery rhyme:
ring of roses = blotchy pattern on the skin the plague made.
A pocket full of poses = carrying flowers or a perfumed Handkerchief to mask the smell of death in the streets.
A-tissue = sneezing, feeling unwell.
We all fall down = mass death.
I think the reason dying eggs was never big or died (dyed) out in the UK is that chocolate Easter eggs are ubiquitous in GB. Who wants a cold boiled hen's egg when Mr Cadbury's Parrot has been busy busting his nuts in the factory pumping out a billion sweet globes that are piled high since February blocking out the sunlight... Welcome back to your channel xxxx
Like everything else in the states, college sport in the states is highly commercialised
Don't worry about the daylight thing - the entire UK is further north than the entire USA except Alaska.
The words of ring a ring of roses, comes from when you had a ring of roses on your door if you got sick with the plague to ward off the smell. The posies where to signify that someone inside had died.
The tubes were I think it’s right invented in the uk because they were used a lot in stores passing a build up of cash to the central collection point or requests for change for eg. They are a pneumatic system with sealing shuttles which screw together. I think that’s what your describing. If you’ve had some info they petered out and we’re gone by the end of the 60s beginning of the 70s, I remember them well they made a racket as they were working!
I remember as a child (late50s early60s) in the UK we used to paint eggs at Easter 🐣, usually with water-colour paints, same as I used for actual water colour painting which was a common hobby then and certainly for me and my brother. I think boxes of eggs then always came with mainly white shells, with an occasional brown egg so just as you mentioned it was easy to colour them. I presume changing fashion and breed of hens here since then accounts for the change.
We most certainly do dye hard-boiled eggs at easter in the UK. We then hide them in the garden or indoors for those without a garden, for the kids to find. It's called an Easter Egg Hunt.
Comparing the location of the UK to the USA on the planet.
London England is at about the same latitude as the City of Adak in Alaska.
The dyeing eggs thing did used to happen, mainly in primary school, but you’d more often turn them into little characters for a competition. Maybe that’s something that stopped being as common, as I must admit I’ve never heard of kids doing it now. But it was definitely a thing in the 80s and 90s.
Yes I remembered my mum dieing eggs easter sunday and exist still in some Eastern European countries. I think selling chocolate eggs has become more important
@@chrislawley6801 Chocolate eggs was always a bigger deal. I believe Americans have chocolate bunnies more than eggs. The dyeing thing was very much a school only thing for me 30 years ago, not something you did at home.
@chris lawley Eastern European in the UK here and you are correct. Dyeing eggs is the main Easter activity in the Eastern Orthodox world still (at least in the Balkans) but not so much the chocolate craze 🤔 Also don't remember bunnies ever being traditionally associated with Easter, at least not in Bulgaria
We have been dyeing Easter eggs in the UK all the years that I can remember and I’ll be 68 this year. With brown eggs we would give the kids felt pens Always messy but usually fun. If you want to know wha tI’ve been up to , I’ve been up to no good.😊 Ring around the roses a pocket full of posies Atishoo atishoo we all fall down. The “ring around the roses was for the scab that formed and the posies was the flowers and herbs that were used either to hide the stench of bodies or it was thought as a cure. In those days the smell was called miasma and the belief was if you couldn’t smell it you were still alive. Such fun topics both the plague and the eggs were to do with death. I watched a vid of an American guy wondering what would boil 1 Ltr of water faster - gas or electric - I don’t know what was funnier his reaction or mine with me shouting at youtube silly “Yanker” or his excitement when the electric kettle was twice as fast. Anyway good to hear from you agai. All the best to you and yours. X
I'm British but do remember dying eggs when I was young
It was a source of much amusement to me in the 1980s when I drove through a US Bank that also had BRAILLE instructions. Blind people seemingly drive in the USA! ( This was in Mass. and NH.)
@@marydavis5234 Thanks for your kind reply. These were ATMs in the drivethru.
A mild amusement at best, especially for one so dumb as me. Obviously.
The British Isles are on roughly the same latitude as Labrador, Canada. New York is on the same latitude as Lisbon, Portugal.
Excellent video btw.
How often do you have to go to a physical bank in the UK? App-based and internet banking (and before that phone banking) has been around for many years in the UK. The US banking system is very antiquated compared with Europe - Chip & PIN is very new in the US, and contactless cards the work of the devil!
I think it’s hilarious Americans have to leave the house and get in the car just to do something you can do quickly at home.
There used to be a drive through bank at Martin's Bank in Leicester, the first one in the country, open in the 1960's. It closed in the 1980's
You're out of hibernation! Nice to see you again 🙂👍 I haven't heard of egg dying before but I do remember painting them on a couple of occasions as a young child in the mid 1970's.
Sunset in London on 21 December is: 3:53 pm GMT, sunset on 21 June is 9:22 pm (BST) / 8:22 pm GMT; so a difference of about 4.5 hours from earliest to latest (5.5 hours with the extra hour added by British Summer Time). Day length varies from 7 hours 50 minutes on 21 December to 16 hours 38 minutes; so a difference of about 8 hours 48 minutes.
In Edinburgh it's 6:57 pm in December and 10:02 pm in June (9:22 pm GMT) and day length varies from 6 hours 57 minutes to 17 hours 36 minutes; a difference of 10 hours 39 minutes.
Growing up in NW England I never realised in other countries as US don't have extremes of day light winter to summer we have. Geographical liverpool Manchester are on same level as Alaska
When I lived in Dundee Scotland there were December days when it was so dark that the automatic street lights never switched off. In June, so light that you could read a newspaper outside at midnight
@@julia2jules And here in Australia we complain when it's dark at 5.30pm at winter solstice! We need a reality check.
One of the TH-cam channels I watch transposed an outline map of North America over Europe and found that the likes of Texas, Nevada and Arizona etc basically align with the Sahara desert in North Africa.
Also the south eastern side of Britain is statistically drier than Paris Rome New York and Sydney despite the stereotype that gets bandied about. The western parts of Britain get the majority of our rainfall due to the gulf stream warming up what would otherwise be snow and ice.
Pace eggs
4:10 Cites on similar latitudes:
Calgary, CA -- London, UK / Winnipeg, CA -- Prague, CZ / Vancouver, Ca -- Paris, FR / Chicago, US -- Rome, IT / San Francisco, US -- Seville, ES / Miami, US -- Riyadh, SA
I used to paint eggs, generally blew the yolk out and then just had the shell. I was brought up in Wales
How fun! That's great, thanks for sharing!
There is a simple explanation for the banking experiences. We have pounds in the bank whereas in my experience, Americans are more likely to have pounds on their fat backsides as a result of refusing to drag themselves out of their cars!🙃
@@robertknight2556 Cheery!!
I did a little "woop woop" at 3:36 for all us SAD sufferers. I'm loving the daylight hours we've got now we're into April. I wish it would warm up a bit more, though 😅 good to see you back Kalyn!
I’m a SAD sufferer too, but this winter I’ve avoided the worst of my usual symptoms, by simply taking a daily combined tablet of 4000 IU vitamin D3 and 100ug vitamin K2. I bought a 6 month supply from Amazon for £8-£9. Definitely worth a try!
Cor, pneumatic tubes. That's a good old-fashioned Victorian invention.
Yup… eggs, hard-boiled, chocolate, rabbits and stuff. Oh! And something to do with some geezer called Jesus. Or something. 😜
just to add the other youtubers that watch your content are 'JTReacts, Reacting To My Roots, ItsJPS, Ryan Wuzer, Californian Reacts, Tyler Rumple and finally Brittreacts. these were all the other people i had to find when you started living your life lol! yes you did leave a big hole that needed to be filled lol!
I'm a US citizen. I'm married to a British citizen. I would like to become a Dual US/UK citizen. I have never lived in the UK , I've only visited. My husband is living here in the US with me. Does anyone know if I qualify to apply for dual citizenship if I live in the US?
We here in the UK did used to have white shelled eggs and back in the '50's & '60's at least, dyeing eggs for Easter definitely _was_ a thing! We used to use wax crayons to create patterns too, and also make nests for them with coloured crepe (wrinkled) tissue papers etc. There were hardback books which I saw / owned as a young girl, which had multiples of directions for this egg-dyeing practice, plus all sorts of home-made games and toys or activities to while away the weekends / school holidays or just evenings spent by the fire on cold winter evenings, to have something to do if not reading an adventure book (by Enid Blyton, for example) ...and regarding these homemade / handmade activities, we also spent time making our own Christmas decorations (both to decorate our rooms and the, back then, real Christmas Trees, too) so there's a distinct possibility that a lot of your American creative ideas originally stemmed from similar habits and activities here "in the Old Country"...🤔
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Love your videos. A few of the banks in Florida, are finally starting to get away from the tubes. They are starting to install these large ATM (I am guessing that it is also an ATM, only had for a week) that you communicate via video with a teller (don't know where teller is at, as they could be remote). I will say if you are vertically challenged they can be difficult to use from the vehicle. And due to watching UK TH-cam videos, I now have a kettle for my tea. So much faster than using the stove/hob.
I worked in hotels for a while in my 20's. Started a summer working in Inverness in the north of Scotland. Moved, in the middle of the season, to St Hellier on Jersey, off the coast of France. For the first couple of weeks, the internal panic I felt when the sun went down. It must be almost midnight, I'm drunk in a random pub and have to get up in five hours. No, it's not quite seven pm.
As regards banking, you would be hard pushed in the UK to find a bank branch these days. Most people do online or telephone banking and fewer and fewer people actually use cash.
As regards daylight hours, in Edinburgh (which is the same latitude as Moscow), it is light at midsummer till nearly eleven pm and then again from about 4am. Even shorter nights further north. Hardly any real darkness in the Shetlands. It often comes as a surprise to visitors to Scotland how long the summer days are.
Not only do we still dye eggs at Easter in the UK, we can also buy pretty transfers for them too.
Ring a Ring o' Roses doesn't have anything to do with the Plague/Black Death. That's just a false folk etymology. It was never connected with the plague before WWII.
I read a cooking tip the other day that says you don't need to boil the water before adding the pasta. You can put the pasta in the cold water and then boil it, saving you 10 minutes of cooking time. 😁
Glad you are back, and enjoying your life here in the UK. When I was a lad, white eggs were common, and painting eggs was a thing.
Another great video. Your Americanness is what makes you, you. Don't lose everything xx
So nice to have you back and doing the UK/US comparisons. I'm in Stoke on Trent and I think I just saw a Greggs drive through next to McDonald's on my way to the Royal Stoke Hospital, I was just passing in a taxi so couldn't be sure, (more your drive through baking than banking?). US 110 volt electricity would take more than twice as long to boil as UK 240 volts. you could do a video on pronunciation differences, I'm not surprised that Americans don't spread butter on their sandwiches, you pronounce "t" inside a word as "b", who wants to spread budder, isn't he a little fat guy?
London is 54 degrees N, whereas nothing in the US (except Alaska) is further north than 49 degrees. London is on a level with Winnipeg.
Nice to see you on TH-cam again kalyn, why have you been missing? Much love i have missed your gossip based content ✌️♥️🇬🇧
I am watching 19th April 2023. Welcome back.
"...get more checks (cheques)"? How arcane are personal financial systems in the USA? Does anyone in the UK still use cheques? Have the Americans never heard of chip & pin or contactless banking?
Hey Kalyn, welcome back. Bit of time out from social media to live your best life is no bad thing! While you were away I got my UK/US fix from Amanda Rae, Evan Edinger and for a reverse perspective, JT Reacts/JT & Anna.
Ring a ring o' roses, the marks on the skin. Pocket full o' posies, carrying herbs and flowers to ward off infection. Atishoo, atishoo, all fall down. The sneezing and coughing that preceded death.
On the subject of electric kettles, when we first moved to Australia in the 1970snthere we’re very few kettles. Electric jugs were far more common. These were like a small ewer or water jug, usually glazed pottery with a an electric heating element inside. The two pin plug was pushed in the back just below the lid. This also prevented the lid being opened while the jug was energised. Some even had a cutout which required you to push a red button to boil the water. We still sometimes see one in a thrift shop! The heating element was not covered and could cause slight electrolysis. No issue on AC mains but a health risk if the jug was used on DC mains.
I will never understand why Americans don’t have electric kettles. I know they boil slower due to lower voltage, but surely it’s faster than a stove one. Doing that sounds so Victorian to me. 😂
When you think about it, the variation in US daylight lengths being less than UK makes it all the more strange that "daylight saving" was first championed by an American ( believe it was Ben Franklin whilst he was at the American embassy in Paris). Brits do draw faces on hard boiled eggs (or they did when I was little - 70 years ago) though thinking back most UK eggs were white back then.
You can’t help your Americanness don’t worry we make allowances for that. Another 10 or 15 years and you’ll almost be a local. Lol
The U.K. longitude is in line with Quebec, Canada or Newfoundland. It’s actually just above Montana as well.
It has been suggested that Ring a ring o' roses is about the black death/plague. The o' is short for 'of' roses, could refer to the red rash/boil on the skin. A pocket full of poses, about carrying flowers or something with a nice sent, as at the time many people believed that the disease was carried by bad smells. A-tishoo perhaps sneezing and then dying 🤷🏻♀️ It has however, also been said that this is not correct and it is a false etymology (where an unfamiliar word is switched for one more familiar). This could definitely be true given the original song is very old and language changes all the time. The American version is proof of this, as presumably the original song travelled there with Europeans and has now clearly evolved to be slightly different again.
Welcome back Kalen. Missed you, mate. 🇬🇧🇺🇸💜
You have so got the English version of ‘Ring a ring of roses’ completely wrong,please try harder😂🇬🇧🍺😀
1950s rhyme:
Ring-a-ring of roses
A pocket full of posies
Atishoo atishoo we all fall down
Ashes in the water
Ashes in the sea
We all jump up with a one two three
New York is roughly level with Madrid, Spain.
Edinburgh - mid December gets dark about 15:30, doesn't get light in the morning until 08:00. but in summer for about 6 weeks it never get properly dark.
So, it would be mighty convenient to rob a bank from the comfort of your get-away vehicle. Although, the cashier might just say no when you ask them to give you all of the money. That's the only flaw in that plan.
Why drive through a bank when you can go online and it’s instant? It doesn’t make any sense. 🚙💻🤔
Hey! Happy the days are getting longer! Drying clothes outside 👍👍
Now I know where the phrase it’s been a second comes from, got the context in top gun maverick but never really made sense. Guess it’s just an Americanism
For preschoolers we hard boil eggs then remove the shells then paint faces on the eggs using food dyes.
I only ever saw the dyed eggs in the Steel Magnolias Movie, so I though it was a Southern thing. The whole Easter egg hunt thing wasn't part of my childhood. normally because it was still raining at Easter time. However a drive through atm sounds awesome and I would like to use those please.
I remember my electric kettle broke for a few days; I tried one mug of microwaved water, and it was trash... I ended up going to my boyfriend's and staying there for a few days whilst I got a new kettle!
Yeah nobody watches the boat race & I went to Cambridge although I wasn't born with a silverpoint in my mouth.
Hi good to see you get some content again.
Since your last video I have been to my brother in law’s wedding in Australia.
Still try to help Kayln a little with tips of places to visit in Scotland.
You might like Adventures and Naps
when i was at school (many decades ago) we was told that the US/Canada border was mostly around the 48th , i was also shocked as city i live in was 55 north and Canada is a lot colder/snowier then the UK that is when i realised how lucky we are for the gulf stream
I do love your UK v USA comparisons! 😊
Aw, thank you! Will film some more next week!
Hi, nice to see you again. Ring a Ring song describes the symptoms of the plague in order BTW. X
Metro Bank has one drive through bank at Merry Hill Dudley. I am not sure of any others. There bank look like they use a slightly different design of the standard atm.
Imagine being so advanced you have drive-through banking, but not advanced enough to just do all your banking online.
The shortest day in the UK is just before Christmas, around the 21st or 22nd December.
During the summers here in Edinburgh it doesn't get dark until nearly 11pm and even then it doesn't get truly that dark and the sunrises around 3-4am
It was lovely to hear from you again. Always appreciated - but so nice to know you have a proper life rather than reading our dumb comments for a living. :)
I'm 70+ and I have never drank tea or coffee but I have still had an electric kettle for most of my adult life. I would be lost without it for any number of things.
Hi Kalyn. Great to see you again. Wishing you well and look forward to more videos.
Speaking of Easter eggs, you never left us with a proper Easter egg at the end of the video. I don't know if a nonexistent Easter egg can itself be an Easter egg but I made it to the end of the video and I'm just commenting that there wasn't one.
In Ohio 2006 ,went to a drive thru off-licence ! Drive an Drink!!
There used to be a dtive through bank in Liverpool, the building is still there ( next to one of the few Greek orthodox churches in the UK) but its no longer a bank
Redcoats in the village and there's fighting in the streets
Indians and the Mountain Men are talking when they meet
The king has said he's going to put a tax on tea
And that's the reason y'all Americans drink coffee
I've been watching "adventures and naps", "lost in the pond" and evan edinger 🙂
You can struggle to find a walk in bank these days nevermind a drive thru!
Your husband is still wrong. It’s ring a ring of roses, a pocket full of posies atishoo atishoo we all fall down.
One thing I've noticed is that most American reactors shorten 'versus' to verse whaereas Brits either say 'versus' in full or shorten to 'vee'.
the northernmost point of the continental US is further south that the southernmost point of the UK. The UK is on a level with Anchorage in Alaska
All childrens nursery rhymes are morbid. They were originally storeys
AAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Let me scream, AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Please, please, please go home & be with your people, please because I know that you need to go so pleeeeeeeease go home