American Reacts to UNBELIEVABLE Facts About the UK
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- Today I am very excited to react and learn about a BUNCH of unbelievable facts about the UK straight from the United Kingdom users of Reddit. I have absolutely no idea what to expect from this list of facts but that only makes it all the more exciting. I If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Tyler, just to update you. Amongst your vlogs on the House of Commons you showed some older ones with Betty Boothroyd as Speaker. She was a remarkable Speaker who was ferocious in keeping standards. Unfortunately, two days ago she passed away at the grand age of 93. Much loved and respected.
I understand, she started off as a "Tiller Girl"! Who would have thunk it?
A grand lady, sadly missed.
Thick as !
I dont think any American has really got to grips with how fries are still fries here eg, at Mcdonalds, but that traditional style fried chipped potatoes are called 'chips', and salt and vinegar is the default condiment for them. Its where the idea for salt and vinegar as a flavour of crisps(american potato chips) comes from.
I’ve tried to point that out many times. When an American mentions fries, and says something like “but you call them chip”.
I’m like no we have fries as well but we also have chips. Fries are thin and chips are thicker. A lot of restaurants here have options for chips or fries.
Same with thinking we call cookies biscuits. When we have both biscuits and cookies. Biscuits means twice baked so they’re harder and crunchy, while cookies are soft and doughy.
@CadwaladrTheFirst they do have them but they’re not as popular as over here.
There most common flavours aside from salted are BBQ and sour cream with onion.
They also have things like ranch dressing, cheese, lime.
The fact that he doesn’t know what a chip shop is, is blowing my mind
American court has public that shoot family dogs and skimming them mistaking German shepherds for coyotes ,still allow a fool a weapon and watch for the trouble sadly it seems they have millions of them
@@ShrubScotland he’s younger than he looks. He hadn’t heard of Margaret Thatcher.
If you are asked to provide your driving licence, you normally have seven days to take it to a police station. If you can find one open.
They know almost immediately if you have a driving licence, it's called a computer. It's your identity you have to prove. If there is any doubt over your identity, your arrested.
My last flat was over 500 years old. It was a converted stable which housed both horses and some servants who worked in the castle across the road. The castle over the years housed both Oliver Cromwell and Mary Queen of Scots. Its now been converted into an architects business. I really loved my quirky little flat.
Also foxes are found in both urban and rural areas all over the UK.
used to live in a 500 year old converted parlour shed on the side of a mountainside farmhouse in Wales. i just felt so cozy when the Atlantic gales came roaring in.
@@raverdeath100 I know exactly what you mean. The castle and stables is at the top of a hill on the coast. The walls were at least a couple of feet deep.
Hundreds of viewers screaming at the screen: "It's pronounced EDIN-BRUH!!" You really haven't learned that by now, after all the UK reactions you've done? Really?
What you think Americans are taught how to pronounce it? Plenty of US states are pronounced wrongly by us Brits!
EDIN-BURRUH isn't quite right, it's more EDIN-BRUH
In one ear and out the other
@@FallenAngel9979 Or pronounced wrongly by Americans like New Orleans.
@@DomingoDeSantaClara I've edited my comment.
A few clarifications/explanations:
1) it's traditional to put vinegar on chips, but some chipshops use "non-brewed condiment" as a cheap substitute.
2) Bristol is on the west coast and Edinburgh is on the east coast, so it's easy to assume that Bristol is west of Edinburgh. But because GB slants NW, Bristol is actually east of Edinburgh.
3) the UK climate is very humid, which makes 25C + feel a lot hotter (and often unpleasantly hotter) than you might expect. Also, almost no-one has air conditioning because it's probably only about two weeks (spread over the whole summer) that it would be used. Likewise, much of England gets little or no snow every year, so no one is prepared for when it does snow.
I'll add a bit more to (3) .
All of our houses are insulated and designed to keep heat in.
From the walls to the roof to the doors and windows.
And we have radiators in every room instead of Aircon.
Our houses are literally designed to trap as much heat as possible inside.
I’ve never lived more than 5 miles from the sea here in North East England. The National Health Service is no joke, walk in, get treated, walk out. No bill.
Not always walk out but you can definitely leave with no bill ☺️
@Jenscee The government DO bill you, step by step by taking money to fund the NHS from your taxes and national insurance contributions. So, if you work, you've been paying for the NHS your whole life by having your money taken from your pay before it gets to you. The NHS is only truly free if you don't work.
Can't imagine being hundreds of miles from the sea , it's noticeable when travelling inland , fresh water lakes just arent the same . When travelling home you can feel it as it's usually a degree warmer . Lots of urban foxes in our cities , they have capitalised on food left overs to supplement their normal diet and there are plenty of warm isolated spaces . You generally don't see them during the day but definitely hear them at night .
You don't see them during the day? They are getting very daring here in London. I see them day and night. I was once at a school function in the evening and as I walked up a corridor I was passed by a fox calmly walking down it going the other way! Maybe he was just handing in his homework.....
There are a lot of foxes around the country, but there are so many in London, that at night you cannot escape the sound of foxes mating at some times of the year. Rarely heard this when I lived in the country.
"When travelling home you can feel it as it's usually a degree warmer" Where I live its more than just 1c from the coast to the suburbs. In the Summer it can be 2/3c warmer inland just travelling the 3 miles and thus much warmer than I am right on the coast. In fact, the opposite is true in Winter (Due to the warming sea air effect) and where I live it rains all the time even when snow is forecast, but travel to the suburbs of this town 3 miles away??? Its snowing, and pitching on the ground cos its like 2/3c colder in just the space of 3 miles. And no, there are no hills, I remember one time it started snowing on a Friday evening at my school (this was back in 2003 or 2004ish) in the towns suburb, it started snowing, it was pitching, by the end of the school day it was 3" deep, I was getting very very excited (Cos I love snow). On the journey home my excitement waned, the snow disappeared and turned to rain. No snow at home for me, I returned to school Monday morning to find snowmen everywhere and I had zilch at home... 3 miles away. Bloody sea air!
I worked in central Manchester and would often see fox’s in and around the city centre when I drove in early in the morning
There's a fox that walks on top of my garden fence all the time. It's a small garden so we can see it when we're watching TV in the evening
Not only does London have foxes, we have a few black foxes (melanistic) which are relatively rare but their numbers are rising. I've seen one walking along the road near my house and initially I thought it was a dog until I heard it bark that very eerie foxy bark and saw the white tip on its tail.
I have yet to meet one. Must look quite spooky.
loads of foxes here too. if we had black ones, the local idiots would be on the blower to the council dog warden 🤣
When we buy chips from the chippie, we like to sprinkle salt and vinegar on them but apparently the 'vinegar' is not actual vinegar but a different condiment. It still tastes like vinegar
It used to be vinegar in all chippies but most have gone with the cheaper 'non brewed condiment' these days.
Edinburgh is pronounced Edinburra
I used to live in East London and would bump into our local fox whilst out walking the dog. I now live back in Scotland and have wild Grouse and Deer in the field at the back of my garden.
Also east London, lots of foxes, and lots of parakeets.
"Embruh" if you're local 😄
@@lucyj8204Didn't want to confuse him too much 😁
During the lockdown in the early days when there was very little of the normal road traffic, there was a lot of footage online of all kinds of animals wandering around the streets, it was fascinating to see them.
As well as the island Guernsey itself, the namesake crown dependency also includes the islands of Alderney, Herm and Sark. Jersey and Isle of Man are the other two British crown dependencies. There also 14 British oversea territories. Neither crown dependencies or British overseas form part of the UK, but they are under UK sovereignty and associated with the UK.
It's similar to Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands being under USA sovereignty-- but not part of the USA proper.
The chip shop one explained;
Most people in the UK think that when you go to the chip shop [a place that usually sells battered sausages, battered fish and steak fries] that they will use salt and vinegar.
because typically whenever a brit seasons their steak fries at home [chips] they'll use salt and vinegar.
In reality they're not using vinegar, but non-brewed condiment which has a similar flavor profile to vinegar but is completely different.
Google on what a non-brewed condiment is: "Non-brewed condiment is a malt vinegar substitute created with water, acetic acid, flavorings and often caramel color".
What a cheek! If it's not vinegar they shouldn't be allowed to call it vinegar!
Guernsey and Jersey were the only part of the British Isles to have been invaded and occupied by the Nazis during world war II. The 2 islands are not part of the United Kingdom, but they are part of the British Isles and Jersey and Guernsey people are British.
The Vinegar story may have been written by a Southern as we do have Vinegar in our chip shops, "Chippy" up North, we also have gravy. Just the South missing out. Let's not forget where the Industrial Revolution started.
Don't forget the mushy peas.
First of all, chips and french fries are not the same thing. One is very thin so it can cook very quickly and the other is fatter (merely given a rough chopping rather than being pushed through some sort of mesh) and can sometimes be prepared with more than a single session in the frier. Vinnegar (specifically malt vinnegar) is an extremely common addition for chips to the point that you can't order chips without being asked if you want salt and vinnegar added (and it will usually be in heavy quantities).
"Priorititsing London"......people have trouble getting their heads around the powerhouse Capital which is more than twice the size of New York and has more infrastructure than many countries, for example over six hundred railway stations.
Yup, we do have foxes in London. There's one that spends a lot of time in our neighbourhood. There are a ton of parks all around London, so they sleep there during the day and then come into our neighbourhoods during the evenings. They are a pain as they like to dig up gardens. One fun thing is that our local fox does is pick up dog toys (or kids' toys) from other back gardens and they sometimes end up in our back garden.
In chip shops in uk most chip shops will ask you if you want vinegar on your fish and chips you can say yes or no and chips . I am from uk.
For fox sake, you didn't know about our little urban scavengers? My favourite fact about London is that it has more trees than people. It also has loads of parks and commons everywhere, which could explain why we do have so many foxes but not in Wimbledon Common because the wombles ate them all! Oh btw, regarding the IDs, the government did try to bring in ID cards a few years ago but wanted to charge everyone something like a hundred pounds for it so it never took off.
We have to pay for our compulsory ID cards in South Africa
A Nursery Rhyme or poem : "The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown The lion beat the unicorn All around the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown; Some gave them plum cake and drummed them out of town."
The lion stands for England and the unicorn for Scotland. The song refers to the 1603 accession of James I of England who was already James VI of Scotland.
Yes a favorite seas side of us in the Midlands is Barmouth Wales.. 2hr drive through stunning countryside and mountains.. We also have foxes and badger's.. I live near a wildlife woodland reserve
Urban foxes have been around forever . They tend to be larger than rural ones...
Those 900 year homes in Britain are falling apart? Unlike American homes which disappear into the air when you sneeze.
Most UK cities have urban foxes. I see them regularly and I live just outside Bradford city centre.
When I lived in London I used to get greeted by a local fox on my walk home from my girlfriend's flat. If I was late he would give me a disapproving look when I said "Good evening Mr Fox".
The Edinburgh fact is because Edinburgh is in the east of Scotland, but if you draw a line down it’s actually level with the west of England. It’s just the shape of the Island
The sound of mating foxes is like a woman being horribly murdered. And yes, I heard them when I lived in London.
London doesn't have the monopoly on foxes to be fair. I think Bournemouth has the biggest population, but where we live (a semi rural area near Liverpool called Wirral) I regularly park up at night and see a fox casually trotting down the street 😶😅
This is what I expect every YT'ber to do. Watch a video and fact check each stat as it comes across in the video instead of blindly believing the video (Which can be wrong in many cases or doesnt really expand on such a topic) and asking people in the comments to tell YOU if its correct or not, as I feel that's just lazy. So many YT'bers just do this and you'll get so many comments about how its wrong etc and people screaming at you that its wrong if the vid is outdated or wrong on its info as such. Please keep up with this sort of style of watching and searching to see if correct, You will actually learn more than just blindly believing every stat said on them and having people in the comments trying to prove you wrong. I really wish more YT'bers did this, so good on you Tyler, checking the facts out.
I'd rather watch an American fact check than just saying "Its different in the US, I dont understand" and indirectly defend the US system of how things worked just cos they dont understand it and having the audacity to ask us, the viewers to explain in the comments... Thats not learning, thats arrogance! Its saying "I watch this video but I dont understand YOU explain it for me!" You wont learn that way as being told an explanation is less impactful than actually finding out the information for yourself. ESPECIALLY when YT comments will have many answers and differing ones too on certain subjects due to the difference of opinions AND difference in knowledge. Learn it yerself googling each fact, dont be lazy and ask us to do it for you.
The strangest fact/law about the UK I discovered: Whilst working in a bicycle repair workshop it is illegal to drink tea with milk in! Dates back the 1700s. Has never been amended due to its absurdity/quirkiness!
The Bristol and Edinburgh fact is actually surprising. Bristol is an and always thought of as a western area of England and Edinburgh is pretty much east of Scotland. It just makes you question the shape of the land.
I've played quite a lot of pool in pubs in the UK, and none of them had numbered balls
well noticed indeed!
Isn’t that Guy Fawkes Day where they burn effigies and blow off fireworks?
We live in the inner suburbs and we have foxes nesting in a patch of waste ground next door.
Its not just London ! Manchester has them as well they come in your garden and you can feed them
Here in the UK. We think of apples as a British fruit. Just like Americans think apple pie is American.
The Edinburgh Bristol fact is true , because maps of the UK Sometimes it in isolation not as part of Europe, the top of UK has been tilted East ,if you draw a line down the centre of UK it wil have a 20 - 30 degrees tilt to west at the top.If you look on a map of Europe it's obvious.The fact about kettles using a lot of electricity at certain times is true ,a couple of weeks ago they were so worried about not being able maintain supplies they paid people £2 if they reduced their electricity consumption for a period around 5-6 pm ,they have recently installed smart meters in homes that send a meter reading of your consumption to your supplier every 30 mins ,it's a way of trying to manage consumption, electricity suppliers also have agreements with some companies that they will agree to be dropped of the electricity grid at periods of high demand for a payment for the same reason.
I liked your comment about how the very old British houses might not be well built and might be falling apart, judging by their modern counterparts, the flats of dubious habitability in flammable tower blocks!
Those very old British houses aren't built in areas that have regular massive natural disasters like tornados, hurricanes, wildfires, huge floods etc like Americans seem to insist on building in.
@@B-A-L In recent years, it's the new housing estates built on flood plains which are the most risky. I wonder whether they have stopped doing that now.
A lot of people see Guy Fawkes as a hero, not a terrorist.
And another fun fact, swans here in the UK belong solely to the monarch.
I don't remember its name, but there used to be a chain of stores in the US that was pretty much the same as Argos. I remember buying a Sony personal CD player there when I was visiting my cousin in Pittsburgh, PA. It was about a quarter of the price of the same model in the UK, too!
I think it’s Sears seem to remember buying a pram for my daughter once and it was pretty much like Argos
@Susan Shaw No, it wasn't Sears. I seem to remember the name was made up of two words and was quite long!
@Susan Shaw I just did some googling, it was 'Service Merchandise'!
Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night is actually a LAW, from that time.
Regarding a British accent; fair's fair, we tend to say "an American accent" when your country has dozens too
You need to possess a valid driving licence, but it is not a requirement to carry it with you, but if you are stopped by the police for a driving offence you MUST produce your licence at the police station within 7 days.
Non brewed condiment is just industrialy produced acetic acid that is food grade and diluted, sometimes with aditional flavours added like onion. It is still the same as vinegar it just wasn't brewed from malt. Malt vinegar has aditional flavours from the malt but acidity still comes from acetic acid.
Wandsworth prison still has a working gallows .for executing criminals but the death sentence in the is no longer used. But the sentence can still be passed.
A police officer has the right to demand that you produce driving documents, and if you are unable to do so there and then, you will be required to produce them at a police station within seven days.
UK has a NHS {national health service} we also have private health care which you pay for
The item about the dangerous flats. In June 2017 in London, a fire started in the Grenfell Tower. The external cladding was substandard and not fireproof. The flames ran up the outside of the building and 72 people died in that fire. Now, people in other tower blocks with the same cladding are having to pay for their flats to be made safer with new cladding.
Whenever I've had chips from a chippie they always ask if you want salt and vinegar. Remember these are not fries, they are much thicker and juicier and vinegar makes them taste divine.
And they are hot to warm when you neat them. Every fry I've ever had have been cold.
other words for being drunk - blootered, hammered, plastered, squiffy.
Hi, Foxes not just in London, in every city and town in the U.K., old houses , my flat is in a building built in 1660 . Regards JH
Chips without Vinegar is like Kippers without custard ,...lol never been in a UK chip shop that ain`t got vinegar
I prefer the amount of salt & vinegar, of my personal preference to sprinkle onto the fish & chips. Which is always placed on the counter top. That is WHY the shopkeeper doesn't add it!
6:35 New Town in Edinburgh was being built during The American War of Independece. NEW TOWN
Here's another obscure fact, Wales sports one of the most hilarious place names in the UK. This is a real place, is something I have to reiterate when I tell people this: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Llanfair PG for short) XD
Argos doesn't have a catalogue anymore ,online only now .
I think police officers have "the office of constable", which is probably why they're not employees. Chickens are tame versions of the "jungle fowl", from Indian jungles. Foxes do indeed make the most extraordinary noises at night.
Chickens don't run wild in the UK countryside, however. People do keep them as pets as well as farm them commercially for meat and eggs.
Foxes are suprisingly calm animals!
I live right in the centre of London and see foxes regularly.
The sound they make when mating sounds like the screams of a woman being murdered. I've had to listen carefully a few times before deciding it was foxes and I don't need to call the police.
All our cities have a fox population. I once found a whole family sitting on my back lawn.
Edinburgh is on the east side of Scotland and Bristol is on the west side of England so it's surprising that Edinburgh is west of Bristol.
We, in South Africa get an ID card when we turn 16. Not all people have drivers licences. Chips in SA are also eaten with vinegar on it.
Have you checked that it is vinegar?
@@paulmidsussex3409 yes, it's vinegar. 2 types here. Spirit vinegar and grape vinegar
The first time I saw a fox, it was sitting on a bench in Croydon, eating fish and chips wrapped in paper. It looked to all intents and purposes like it had gone in there and bought them. The fox even gave me a typical London ‘you wot mate?’ look
Yeah foxes don't care they'll nick your scran and be like "yeah and what mate? you aren't gonna do anything about it"
Did it have vinegar on them? 🤣
We used to live in Lewisham, my sons mates mother used to leave a big tray of sandwiches out for the foxes every night, an elderly neighbours dog used t share his breakfast with a big old fox every morning lol, it used to infuriate my Jack Russell.
On line shopping originated in Wales.
We used to have Identity cards during the war, I can still still remember my Number.
Edinburgh is on the East coast of Great Britain, and Bristol on the West coast, so it initially seems illogical that Edinburgh is in fact west of Bristol. The truth is that GB is not oriented with its south coast horizontal, as it appears on many maps, but rotated with the western side lower than the eastern. Therefore, the Northeastern coast is in fact further west than the Southwestern (well, at least where Bristol is).
The westernmost railway station in the UK is not Penzance, as many people assume. It is in fact Arisaig on the Scottish railway line from Glasgow to Mallaig.
It blew my mind when I found out that Ardnamurchan Lighthouse in Scotland was further west than Lands End in Cornwall. This being the furthest westerly point on mainland Britain.
If you fly from John o Groats to Lands End in a straight line, you don't pass over a single English County.
@@ianpodmore9666 Yes you do: Cornwall! I’ve just tried it on my mapping app, and after going over the sea close to Lands End you go back over Cornwall near Cape Cornwall.
And you also go over Pembrokeshire, the “Little England Beyond Wales” ;-)
@@jerry2357 Your correct, but if your claiming Pembrokeshire as Little England, I'm claiming Cornwall as not English. So it's a draw.
Every year have a family of foxes living under the shed at the bottom of the garden, it is fun watch the kits grow and play in the garden throughout the summer. Always give them space as their presence keeps down the vermin and they drive off the pigeons that strip the leaves of the garden plants. Only yesterday saw the vixen in the garden, so it looks like there will a new family this year.
It isn't about celebrating the 'torturing' of Guy Fawkes, it's about celebrating saving Parliament and everyone in it.
Unfortunately, true.
And let's face it, without parliament, we would never have got Liz Truss.
London has so many trees it’s officially classified as a forest.
Don't believe everything you see! The same criteria would make Berlin a forest too.
Bricks and Welsh slate for the roofs, make our housing last a long time. None of this wooden house rubbish. We took the Three Little Pigs to heart :)
Here’s me laughing at the jokes that went over Tyler’s head.
“Dogs can’t look up” - Shaun of the dead.
“Cracking owl sanctuaries” - Alan Partridge.
How's that for a piece of fried gold?
but he was right about what “Cracking" meant wonder if he has watched any Wallace and Gromit
Here's an interesting fact from my home county of Lincolnshire - After the Lincoln Cathedral had its spire added in 1311, it became the tallest building in the world, overtaking the Great Pyramid of Giza. It held this title until 1549 when the spire collapsed in a strong storm.
That's really interesting. Aussie here. What an absolutely gorgeous place - Lincoln itself and the Cathedral. I was thrilled to visit about 6 years and got to see the Doomsday Book as well. The history is just astounding to me. I've traced my Lincolnshire agricultural labourers back to 1635 in West Ashby and just love the beautiful countryside. I envy Brits who have such easy access to so many historical places. Planning my next trip now.
@@carokat1111 If you're around Lincoln again on your next trip, be sure to check out the Castle there. Also fairly near by is the Kinema in the Woods. And old film camera museum / traditional cinema. If you're lucky during the intermission during the film, the floor will open up, and a man playing an old organ comes up to keep people entertained! 😍
Just down the road in Boston - apparently, the Boston Stump was going to have a spire added, but they never got round to building one, which is why it's called the Stump!
@@katherinebirkett4706 ha! That's brilliant!
@@JamWard "If you liked it, then you should have put a spire on it..." 😉
I have a local fox that comes into my garden every night, wanting to play with my dogs 😂
There are suburban foxes in virtually every town & city in the UK. Their natural habitat has been stripped away, replaced by farmland & forests removed. Also hunting has had a negative effect on fox numbers in the wild. So they have moved into our cities. I often see foxes in the street night times in my city. They're not a problem, although they can upturn an outside rubbish (garbage) bin. Also a big fox can attack & eat cats. They're a beautiful animal & always great to see. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
How's the view up there on your soapbox?
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 How's the view from right down there.. 'Wally'?
@Nicky L Vermin? That's your opinion. Fox hunting hasn't been killing them for years? What? Farmers do kill foxes yes true.
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 Muppet
@@FallenAngel9979 My Kermit impression is pretty stellar
A Chippy/Chip Shop = Fish and Chip Shop (takeaway). It’s common to have salt and (malt) vinegar on your chips, but the vinegar you get on your chips in the chippy is normally non brewed condiment which looks identical to malt vinegar, but it actually has a slightly different taste. It puzzled me for years that if you put malt vinegar on your chips at home it seemed not to taste quite ‘right’. For years I didn’t know why. I prefer non brewed condiment on my chips and these days I make sure I have a bottle at home too!
I learned something there too lol 😝
Well! Today I learned ....
I'm 59.
My favourite local chippy will actually top up a bottle of non brewed condiment for me for free as I like to keep the fish and chips etc crispy as possible til I get home! 😋
@@scouseofhorror104 It's such a comfy feeling when your chippy knows, and allows for, your little foibles.
And be careful if you are in Canada.... you will get strong, white vinegar as your condiment. 😖 (but it tastes soooo good)😁
I am one of the very few people in the UK who actually have an ID. It was issued to me when I was born in 1947 just after the close of WWII when wartime regulations were still in force. To go with it I also have my ration card entitling me to a certain allowance of milk, sugar. eggs and meat.
Born in 1945 still have my ID card , I can remember taking my ration card to the sweet shop. I think rationing ended about 1954.
@@lesjames5191 I have my Mum's ID card issued in 1940 when she was a tiny baby. Apparently you needed the ID card to get the ration book.
But today, a national UK ID card is frowned upon, despite everyone having an NHS card/number and a National Insurance card/number. These could be combined into one national ID card.
@@Thurgosh_OG Why on earth would we want to carry an ID card around?
I regard the right to wander unencumbered by petty officialdom like that to be one of the greatest freedoms we enjoy in the UK.
An ID card would be the first step onto a very slippery slope.
@@qwadratix See Tony Blair and William Hague, weirdly teaming up to push for the digital ID. It will come unless we wilfully stop it, they will use immigration as the trojan horse.
London also has two species of wild Parrots - The Ring Neck Parakeet and The Monk Parakeet.
The ring neck parakeet is indigenous to the Indian mainland but has spread all over the world
If you don't know about them, then there is nothing weirder than standing underneath them when they all return home to roost at EXACTLY the same time.
We have small flocks of parakeet's up here in Manchester that have settled in the Didsbury/Chorlton area. What type? dunno they are just green in colour but very, very noisy once flocked together. Nice to look at but not if they are in your garden and strip the fruiting buds off the trees etc 😎 Cheers
Ring Necks are Green.... Monks are White Breasted.
Thanks, then the Mancs flocks are Ring Necks. Whether it's urban legend they were captive parakeet's that were released into the wild, same as the London flocks started by Jimi Hendrix releasing some after a show. Cheers
One of the things that make me smile is that Scotland is roughly the same latitude as the (South of) Alaska
And London (and most of the UK) is North of the entire of mainland USA
Almost every town has a Chip Shop in which you can buy Fish and Chips or a wide range of " " and Chips and Deep Fried Foods with which most people have "Vinegar"
That chip shop bit made me laugh out loud. "Do you WANT vinegar on your chips?!?" 🤣🤣
Foxes can be found in pretty much every UK city and town. Urban foxes are very much a thing and nowadays are more populous than rural foxes
When I lived in outer London (Pinner) I saw occasional foxes in our garden, even saw one running down the main road in front of a bus! Since moving to the country 20 years ago -- haven't seen one!
@@carlgrove8793 I live in fairly rural Wales, and have only once seen a fox in this area, bizarrely on the trading estate where I currently work - not a sign of a fox since then (about 8 years ago I guess).
I live in Manchester and we have a lot of foxes in our neighbourhood. Mating season is terrifying
Look up the documentary The urban fox, filmed in Bristol in the 1970's I think.
Working night for many years I often saw foxes + badgers out + about. We used to bring peanut butter sandwiches to feed the badgers with.
FFS 😡 Tyler I would of thought by now you would know how to say EDINBURGH 😡
Haha, I've just commented the same thing! How can he not know this by now?? Or does he just have a head like a sieve? Anyway, your comment made me laugh as I was going to start with "FFS" myself then thought better of it, but I'm glad you did! 😂
Guernsey (along with Jersey and the Isle of Man) are self-governing possessions of the British Crown, that the UK Government provides defence and foreign relations for. They are also part of the UK telecommunication services, and they use the same currency.
I work at Jersey airport and recall distinctly an event that I probably can't go into too much detail about, in which a guy from England and his wife tried to force their way onto a plane after being denied boarding because they had lost their passports and had no forms of identification on them. In the end they had to be escorted of the premises by police and were ranting and raving about how ridiculous it was as "we" were part of Britain and they shouldn't have to provide ID.
After a while we just get tired of correcting people.
@@GiveMeBackMyUsernameTH-cam Did Jim Bergerac arrest them personally? That would be fun to watch, especially if they were the type who wear lots of sovereign rings and talk like Danny Dyer. Sorry Tyler, this stuff will mean nothing to you -- it's from TV shows.
It amuses me that such tiny places as Guernsey and Jersey each have their own dependent islands nearby, and even their own languages (versions of French).
Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey are all something called Crown Dependencies.
@@GiveMeBackMyUsernameTH-cam Do you not need ID or a passport to get inro Jersey?
Jersey Telecom made sure they were compatible and interconnected with the UK mainland ... as did Guernsey Telecom who has Blue Phone Boxes ...
The Jersey pound is in a currency Union with the UK Pound ... as is the Guernsey pound
There's a house at the end of my road that was built in the 1600s. It's not a tourist attraction or anything, just a normal house.
I live in France. The police are armed but they have to be under extreme pressure to draw their weapon as the result is about three days paperwork.
Not like your bunch of poorly trained cowboys.
I live in a very green part of London. There's a wood at the back of my flat.
It's not strange to see foxes at all. They seem quite used to living in the city. Added bonus they keep rat and mouse population down.
Same here, South Woodford (North East London), borders on Epping Forest. I've seen foxes wandering up and down the streets late at night
But they do seem happier finishing the leftovers from Chicken Shops and Pizza joints.
Foxes often follow railway lines or river banks to get into urban spaces. Some then settle in green spaces like parks, woodland or gold courses.
I would have said the bulldog is the national animal symbol of England. The lion is the animal identifying the British monarchy although it used to be the leopard originally. The white stag also used to represent the monacrhy.
Crazy how you think police need guns to be respected 🤯
Tyler, coast in UK doesn’t necessarily mean beach, since not all coastline has an accessible continental shelf.
Hey Tyler, I live in a 15th century possibly even earlier timber framed Grade II listed cottage... Imagine how many people have lived in this, cottage?
I lived in a 16th century cottage that had the original worn staircase. You could clearly see and feel the thousands upon thousands of times people had gone up and down them.
Apparently, UK police are "Crown servants locally appointed" and are not classed as employees and therefore exempted from generic employment legislation.
Crown servants serve "at the pleasure of the Crown", and do not therefore benefit from the protections normally available to employees by law. However, the majority of these protections are applied to them by the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.
Other "Crown Servants" include judicial officials and members of the Armed Forces.
There’s definitely more than 10,000 foxes in the capital. I live just within the m25 south London and we have multiple families of foxes living in the neighbourhood. They’re quite harmless to humans
The chip shop or "chippy" is the fish & chip shop. Where you would go buy fish & chips. Salt & vinegar is usually on the counter for the customer to add to their fish & chips if desired. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
The buildings themselves are old, but they have all been renovated and, guess what Americans! they have electric light
fridges, freezers, showes, bathrooms modern kitchens and so on and so on !
Guernsey is a British Crown Protectorate. But not part of the UK, because the treaties under which it became part of Britain pre-date the UK.
Our house is quite new - it's only about 120. I have friends who live in houses that pre-date American colonisation, let alone independence...
The police are employed, but under regulations specific to them, they are Crown Servants. It doesn't mean they don't have employment rights, they are just a bit different.
Hi Tyler, always enjoy your output, this is no exception. There is a of tongue in cheek inclusions in this list, but the one about many chip shops (chippies) don't put vinegar on their chips?? All I can say to that is there are a number of businesses that fail each year in the UK and these so called chippies must be a high proportion of those failures, not to at least offer salt and vinegar is a sacrilege in the UK and any business guilty of non conformity deserves their inevitable fate. I understand that as an American you may think it strange to put vinegar on fries, but were talking "chunky chips" here not "fries" ergo that's when it gets serious! You'll learn when you finally make it over here, some things should NEVER be messed with! God Bless.
Not just London that has foxes, I live in Bournemouth and if I go out at night its more likely that I'll see foxes than not see them, see deer wandering around as well.
If you want to go from Oxford to Cambridge (97 miles) it takes 5 hours on the train and you have to go into London, across the Tube, and out again.
the only scary thing about foxes is the noises they make while mating... they screech and scream, some people have mistaken them for the sounds of a woman being assaulted but foxes themselves are basically harmless, they fight with cats and dogs but mostly it's just establishing territory, not fights to the death. The issue foxes bring is that they love to hunt chickens and will kill all chickens if they break into anywhere with them.
Yes, you want "vinegar" or condiment on chips, common to have them with chips. Chips and french fries might appear similar but taste different and yes, British people do distinguish between them.