We are a small Island in Northern Europe- its not our fault the weather is so changeable- we dont need air conditionong for Gods sake! We dont need mollycoddling! 🇬🇧🏴
@@MaryBradley-s3s "Hot summer's" For those old enough to remember, the Summer of 1976 was so long and so hot that people were literally PRAYING for rain - and boy, wasn't it just heavenly when it came! I've also noticed that extended periods of HEAT tend to make us Brits rather short-tempered. It's just not our 'thing'. A Californian summer would drive ME insane☹. No wonder there's SO many neurotics in that part of the world!
@@marvinc9994 I was 5 and only remember bits of that one like going to the school sports day and ending up with flour on my face so I could not wash it off until I went home due to a water ban
@@jimbo6059 Yep - it was LOTS of fun....NOT! We ALL love Mr Sun - but his mate Mr Heat, not so much. When it gets SO hot that you start to lose your Sex Drive, you just know that something's wrong!🥵
But, that's every conversation that happens by everyone in the UK, every summer and winter, every single day. Any foreign national that has spent more than a week in the UK will start to talk about the weather.
@wispa1a I'm on anglesey and it's not that wet here we might get one or two major rainstorms a year but mostly if it rains it's for the odd day here and there. This year we've had hardly any rain at all all my plants had to be watered daily and I've never known it to be that dry. It does vary year to year though. One thing we are is very cold we don't really see snow if it does it will snow at night then be gone by the morning but that's just where I live. 10 minutes away they could have bad snow and it will stick, I find it depends how close to the beach you are
My wife and I live South East England, at home we only occasionally go to a pub but when we spent a week holiday in Windermere in the Lake District, we went to numerous pubs at least twice every day for the seven days. The pubs are a god send, so many of them you get spoilt for choice! The prices were so reasonable we ate out every night and most lunches. You can use them as a rest stop for a coffee and a sandwich or later for a few beers and a couple of cheers 🍻 a hot home cooked meal and finsh with a brandy by an open fire, no one bothers you, everyone is warm and welcoming even dogs are welcome especially in the Lake district. The secret to a good pub is this.. Remember 'pub' stands for 'public house' the clue is right there, make your customers feel like they're at home y'kno like you have a casual areas, dining areas, comfortable lounge areas normally with a large open fire, outside garden areas etc This is the sort of experience you get, certainly in Windermere ☺️
Neal I love your enthusiasm and your passion for whatever you are watching. I’m here in the U.K and I like the blend of cold, wet and warm weather all in one day. You are so cool 😊
Public transport in the countryside is ..if you’re lucky… a bus every hour . Trains .mainly in the city . Or towns . Villages are very different . Car is need in the countryside
Just a thought in america at 18 you can Marry, drive, go to war, have children, go to university, smoke , gamble, take out a mortgage, have cosmetic surgery, own stock, serve on a jury........ but you can't have a beer because you're not a responsible adult. Really
@@bvn1313 same, I literally pass a church that’s 1000 years old and a pub with a rock brought down from Scotland during the ice age nearly daily and it doesn’t feel out of place. The stone pub in northfield for anyone curious
Yup. Chatting to an American, he was going on about old stuff there. I said: my house is older than the pilgrims arrival in america...And my local church is about a thousand years old. Don't think he believed me!
The British, particularly the English, have had a reputation for heavy drinking for close on 1000 years. It has nothing to do with living on a small island. Most people don't experience the place they live as small. Nor is the UK particularly crowded, even a very great percentage of the island is NOT built upon. Even in the most crowded areas there is still a great deal of open space. A big city in the UK is no more crowded than a big city anywhere else. You must remember that the US was largely British for 150-70 years before it became independent, & even after that migration continued from the UK, & most American's forebears only arrived in the US in the last 150-200 years. So the US has a deep background in British culture, which of course is aided by the English language, & has continued by regular contact through trade & popular culture etc.
5 years in the Uk and still thinking if I should get a driver’s license. With 2 small kids, we walk to school , shops and work . . I love wear my cashmeres in the colder days while walking to sweat.. Really feels good for my mental and physical health.. And I am getting accustomed to “bland” taste now.. I could not stand food that I used to eat .. The transportation is mostly good can get everywhere in the UK by train.. I used to be puzzled how people here would consider 15-30 minutes is a short walking distance.. now I intentionally walk an hour to get to the shopping mall to exercise.
Is it worth it. I drive and sometimes it's easier to bus because of parking. EG. Cardiff day ticket £4.20 any ride around Cardiff as many times. Carpark £3+ hr
Had to laugh at JT going on about the Tesco Meal Deal again. He talked about it last year too. It's not just Tesco, all the major Supermarkets do it. It's a sandwich or wrap, crisps or other snack and a bottle of coke, etc for a really amazingly low price. I also chuckled at the end when you emphasised that JT had been here twice. You used 2 fingers, wrong way round for us and you gave a 2 fingered salute. You basically flipped us all off UK style 😂😂😂
UK actually has no drinking age, in private you can drink at any age but you have to be 18 to buy alcohol or 16 to have alcohol with a meal at a restaurant.
This is crazy, my two favourite Americans in one video 😅 Both of you have in your part destroyed any negative opinion I have of Americans and opened my eyes to how intelligent and understanding real Americans are. The only bit I’m offended by is the implication we have a good train network 😂
Relative to the USA the UK trains are a good public transport system. I have also seen someone saying that even short haul flights in the USA are very costly, they don't have to compete with trains.
Not just family-friendly, dogs are allowed in most pubs, especially rulal pubs. Sometimes, even the pub itself has a dog, nothing like having a drink and a chat with friends while a strangers dog walks up for a belly rub
@@IanHopkinson-lu8xo 😂 so true. When I visit my family in wales there are loads of dogs in the farm shop/pub just chilling and soaking up the fuss and the dog that lives at the farm shop just patrols the whole area and chases her owner around the village when he’s on his quad bike. The entire village is a dog paradise with how much love they get 😅 my mum is a cat person but she spends 70% of her time looking after friends dogs
@@angelawalker8615separate ticket systems and tariffs for bus and rail is my pet hate on UK public transport. It's such a headache. I went to Brighton and braced myself for the likelihood of having to pay extra for a weekly ticket for bus and rail and it turns out there wasn't even a weekly ticket that's valid on both. That wouldn't happen in other parts of Europe.
Lol, a reactor, reacting to another reactor.!!! Joel's a good lad, I've been watching him for a while. he's been here 3 times now, plus a good few places across the channel. Joel's channel is now morfing into a travel vloging channel, and his getting damn good at it.!!! ✌️🤙👌👍🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧✌️❤️❤️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Just come back from our village pub.Probabky had six or seven pints. Sat chatting to our local Film Guy, they're on the BBC for f*cks sake, might even be shown in the USA. Then moved onto a table just waffling on about rubbish while we drank a few... JPS gets it I'm too old now for the drinking fighting social life at 61, but if it's your thing go for it I loved it forty plus years ago Enjoy!!
Hes right. 7:17 Michael fish actually got the blame for all the damage done in 87/88 because he said that the hurricane hitting the states wouldn't hit us. The weatherman at the time.
There are videos of Americans on here who live here now giving you a different perspective than from folk who are visiting, there are things they miss from America and adjustments they've made, things like that. Also shows the different places around the island and how lifestyles can change from place to place.
Pubs. Prior to 2008 smoking ban owning a pub was a certain money earner. However since pubs have suffered worse. More pubs closing than opening. They also tried fixing it by making shop prices higher.
The Met Office app is pretty good and our weather forecasting is the best in the world because we are an island. Just go everywhere prepared for all weathers. We do get great weather in the summer. I judge it by the date I stop wearing a coat and when I have to start wearing a coat again for anything other than rain. This summer was pretty good🎉
Our local Church was built about 1660 and that isn’t very old.Every now and then they let people climb the steps and you can walk around the turrets.There’s people’s names scratched into the sandstone from the 1600s , probably people who built it.from Kettering.
Hi friend. I like your orange top. OK - 1) weather - this year has been the worst for at least a decade. Some years it gets unbearably hot, but when that happens you won't get your green, green grass. So, you must decide which you prefer.! 2) drunks - it doesn't happen anywhere near everywhere, and it's only at weekend nights (usually when the clubs are spilling out). If you come over in say June, you'll have fine weather (most years) and you'll have daylight until late at night.
Bro I don't think I've ever seen a train on time in UK 😂 They are regularly delayed, the local system are abit better in some regions but the national trains are shit for timing!
Regarding the weather, of course it’s usually cool and damp! We’re further north than any part of the US except Alaska, and we’re downwind of 3000 miles of ocean! There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothes.
You'll find it easier to connect with the British also because you personally have been exposed to so much of the culture, sense of humour, tribalism etc you have an advantage over most Americans who would come here because you have an insight and an understanding of who we are and what we're like when you get off the plane, an American who hasn't done the you tube deep dive would have a much greater shock
I understand what the guy is saying about the weather, but he is by no means 💯 right. We have our share of warm/hot weather too, but it can vary sometimes throughout the day. It's why we are such a green island. Its why British people often have conversations about the weather 😊. To me that excessive persistent heat sounds like a nightmare
The weather - the problem is, we are in the middle of 3 different weather systems. The British Isles are in the Gulf Stream, otherwise we would be more like North Canada. Then we are next to Europe, so we get a typical continental weather system to our East (very hot summers, very cold winters, predictable). Then we have the Arctic weather system popping in from the North. These 3 systems are constantly fighting each other, which means the weather is random. And also there is a chain of high ground running North/South down most of the country which acts as a watershed! ie. weird.
Re: the trains not being delayed - SINCE WHEN?!?! Trains here are NEVER EVER EVER on time! They’re renowned for being delayed. Also, many many people here live in the countryside where you very much need a car. You also need one in towns. It’s only cities where you don’t need a car
A little context for British temperatures in general. Look at a map, and see how north Britain is, compared to mainland USA. We're basically up in Canadian latitudes. :)
I've worked in a traditional pub as a chef , I'd love to come to America and set up a traditional English pub . Not a bar I'm talking lot fires and Sunday dinners.
We should go to America we would complain more about what's wrong than what's good. America a bit behind the UK in many things. Remember the UK is a Island America is a Big Country you can't compare than completely different
jps You have not seen anything of the south. I could not understand why you went haring off up north to, mainly, the old industrial cities. There is so much beautiful countryside and villages. Come south and see a completely different perspective of England. Oh! and better weather in the south, really.
If you are able to drive a lethal weapon at 16 you should be able to have a beer at 18 Fact is there’s a reason the states changed their drinking age but that’s long ago
I'm in my late 60s and the weather has not killed me yet, our weather is what makes us so beautiful and green, we are an island in Europe so expect the weather to change throughout the day. Its no big deal. I question that we follow America......
People from the US always comment on the weather in the UK but London in the south of England is on a similar latitude to Warsaw, Kiev, and Winnipeg and is nearly 10 degrees north of Chicago what did they expect? You weren’t going to the Mediterranean for heavens sake!!
Smoking? It's banned in pubs, and other places where the public gathers. Have to go outside to smoke, so that's why he thinks there's more, it's only on the streets.
British weather? It ain't the best, it ain't the worst, BUT, it's usually brief. We don't have long periods of any sort of weather. Protect when it rains, but the sun will be out again in an hour.
Nice to be in UK and walk around at all times of the year. When I visited South Carolina 20 years ago in May, nobody went outside for 6 months of the year as was too hot. Just air conned house to air conned car to air conned work, then back again. What a place to live, NO THANKS.
Where I live we need cars as we live rural. I actually don’t know anyone who doesn’t own a car where I’m from and that includes people in the city. I only know one person who vapes and nobody I know smokes cigarettes but I follow true crime creators on TH-cam and they all smoke 🚬 and all talk about their blunts as they all are cannabis smokers or gummies. I was shocked at how many did and they did it freely online. It all depends where you live in the UK i suppose but I was never into pub culture so I think he generalises a lot. There’s plenty to do besides smoke and drink and it was the UK who started all the fashion trends going back to the sixties. He talks about the weather but it depends again where you live as we don’t get the really bad weather as we are far north but we have the air from the Gulf Stream. There are places now in the US that are having snow already and we are lucky if we get an inch 😂. No tornadoes or mad weather or earthquakes and no dangerous animal species roaming around or snakes. JJ just loves the pub culture but it’s not for everyone. 😂
A visit to London gives an unrealistic impression of Public transport in the UK. Most UK public transport is sadly nothing at all like in London. When the Belgrade metro opens its first 2 lines at the end of this decade, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds will be the 1st, 2nd and 3rd largest European cities without a subway network. Birmingham currently only has a single tram line, despite having 2.2 million people in its metropolitan area. Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh, Hull and most other major UK cities only have buses and no plans to build a subway. Ireland is even worse but in the rest of Europe, cities of that size usually have a combination of subway and tram lines that take you pretty much anywhere in town. Another issue with UK public transport is that you have to buy seperate tickets or pay extra to use all the public transport modes in your area as bus and rail have completely different ticket systems. It's expensive too. In Germany, it costs only €49/month to use all bus, tram, subway, monorail and local and regional trains throughout the entire country. In Luxembourg, they're free to use, while in the UK, many places charge £60/month just to use only buses within a single city and I've met people who pay over £1000/year for a train ticket that's only valid between 2 specific stops. This makes it expensive to just go exploring on bus and rail and you end up having to ration how much public transport you use. This is why a lot more people in the UK drive compared to on the continent. Many UK kids even get driven to school by their parents, while in other parts of Europe, they would use public transport. This creates an extra rush hour known as "the school run".
"We speak the same language". In ONE sense, that's true. Americans tend to use English GRAMMAR, however, as though they were learning a foreign language - and learning it BADLY. I mean, how the hell did they get to say things like "If I WOULD HAVE gone there..." instead of the correct, and much simpler "If I HAD gone there"? The other one of my bugbears is what I call the Intrusive 'Of' - as in "It's not too big OF a deal": what on earth is the 'of' _doing_ there? As for their PRONUNCIATION of certain proper nouns, such as 'SEE-SILL' for Cecil, and 'BAY-ZIL' for Basil, I just dunno. I know, I know - it _shouldn't_ be too big OF an annoyance, but I'm afraid it is, somehow!😀
I have to enlighten uou about the history of public transport in the US. Much of the US had great public transport similar to Europe. But the car companies may have encouraged many cities to remove their public transportation to encourage people to buy cars. Crazy I know but if you look at the history in many cases that may have happened. And given the usa is the wealthiest nation in the world there is nothing stopping the powers that be from building that infrastructure now.
Is it just me or do Americans use the word ‘shocking’ very differently to us? When I see shocked my head conjures up something bad. Then I hear a load of ‘surprises’ rather than ‘shocks’. I find it a shocking misuse of the English language. 😂
The Wether here at Home in the UK IE London isn’t an Exact Science and when Morons Berk and Muppets say But it is Surpassed to start at 1pm and it Actually Rains 10 minutes before or after said Time ! Hello Karens The Wether isn’t an Exact Science for a Good Reason ?.
As you said we do think our American friends are great, it’s some of the policies we have problems with, of which I’m sure the Americans feel the same way about us. On an individual level we get along great. Obviously we both have certain types of people who don’t show us in our best light. We’ve both got gangs and hooligans but thankfully they are in the minority. In fact it could be said of most countries. The rest of us generally just want a quiet peaceful life, don’t care where you from, your skin colour, religion, sexuality or anything else. If you’re good with me, I’m good with you.
For the smoking thing, I don't think as many people smoke as they once did, not many kids smoke cigarettes, my sons 19 now, but what I noticed was a lot of kids his age never actually smoked, they went straight for the vape because they thought they looked cool. Thankfully my son had more sense. Absolutely hate smoking. Disgusting habit.
Our prevailing weather comes in from the west across the Atlantic drawing much moisture . The west coast much wetter therefore compared to the east. Indeed the average rainfall in London is less than that of Rome. Should also be remembered we are a temperate climate and duevtome Gulf Stream we have relative mild winters. Our seas don’t freeze like that in the St Lawrence River, Canada/US despite much the same latitude. Can’t have it all ways!. /
Sometimes the trains get delayed or cancelled ..not allways perfect ..if you have an umbrella ☔ your good to go ...come on over. Neal try a pub. ..or double decker bus ..or fish and chips 🍟 ...great video...
I watch Jps video's and he's a lovely guy, but I missed him saying that we drink alcohol because there's little else to do ... totally wrong, we have almost the same to do as the US do, with variations of course, especially nowadays.
I think the drinking age in the UK is too high and a reason behind the binge drinking culture. I grew up in a country where the drinking age was 16 so when I moved to the UK at 18, all the need to go drink was already behind me.
Pub culture can never happen in America as you have this thing that if someone drinks a couple pints a day then they have a alcohol problem which is stupid. Also your beer really isn't very good at all nowhere near as nice as European lagers or Australian. Czech is probably the best there is although I do have a taste for Cruzcampo.
Follow JPS,and this vid of his,is nearly 2-3 years old,from either his 1st or 2nd UK trip [this year,he has just returns from his 3rd one!] and very out-of-date ! 🙄
We are a small Island in Northern Europe- its not our fault the weather is so changeable- we dont need air conditionong for Gods sake! We dont need mollycoddling! 🇬🇧🏴
My American ex boyfriend didn't understand why he couldn't bring his three guns here to the UK.
God bless him. 🇬🇧 😆
@@mamasunshine80 because the majority of our population aren't violent.
Depends where you live in america too. Doubt new york is very warm
@@mamasunshine80 yeah when im packing I dont think phone charger passport, sunglasses & guns.
That’s why Britain is so green plenty of rain not too hot not too cold
And why we still produce the best wool in the World!
We do get Hot summer's.
@@MaryBradley-s3s
"Hot summer's"
For those old enough to remember, the Summer of 1976 was so long and so hot that people were literally PRAYING for rain - and boy, wasn't it just heavenly when it came! I've also noticed that extended periods of HEAT tend to make us Brits rather short-tempered. It's just not our 'thing'. A Californian summer would drive ME insane☹. No wonder there's SO many neurotics in that part of the world!
@@marvinc9994 I was 5 and only remember bits of that one like going to the school sports day and ending up with flour on my face so I could not wash it off until I went home due to a water ban
@@jimbo6059
Yep - it was LOTS of fun....NOT! We ALL love Mr Sun - but his mate Mr Heat, not so much. When it gets SO hot that you start to lose your Sex Drive, you just know that something's wrong!🥵
I have followed JPS for a while. I really enjoyed his visits to the UK. Great to see him learn and grow
Yes same here such a decent guy well brought up and a likeable lad 😊
@@williambailey344 I saw him in Manchester filming his trip.
The first time he moaned it was too hot, the next time there was too much rain.
No pleasing some people 😂😂
But, that's every conversation that happens by everyone in the UK, every summer and winter, every single day. Any foreign national that has spent more than a week in the UK will start to talk about the weather.
@@markgrygielewicz8047 that's the joke. We complain every season too😂 one of us, one of us
Sounds like a Brit.
Everything is within a ten-minute walk for me here in Manchester. The shops, the doctors, the dentist, barbers, bookies, pub, take-aways...
In fairness, the persistent rain makes one appreciate the sun that much more 😊
The weathere here is perfect not too hot not too cold, plants and grass grow lush and we have amazing scenery
Wales is wet more than often.
Another welshman.
@wispa1a I'm on anglesey and it's not that wet here we might get one or two major rainstorms a year but mostly if it rains it's for the odd day here and there. This year we've had hardly any rain at all all my plants had to be watered daily and I've never known it to be that dry. It does vary year to year though. One thing we are is very cold we don't really see snow if it does it will snow at night then be gone by the morning but that's just where I live. 10 minutes away they could have bad snow and it will stick, I find it depends how close to the beach you are
@@WelshAmethystGirl087
Caerdydd/Cardiff
Followed Jps for a while, he's so open minded and loves to experience different cultures, great video
My wife and I live South East England, at home we only occasionally go to a pub but when we spent a week holiday in Windermere in the Lake District, we went to numerous pubs at least twice every day for the seven days. The pubs are a god send, so many of them you get spoilt for choice! The prices were so reasonable we ate out every night and most lunches. You can use them as a rest stop for a coffee and a sandwich or later for a few beers and a couple of cheers 🍻 a hot home cooked meal and finsh with a brandy by an open fire, no one bothers you, everyone is warm and welcoming even dogs are welcome especially in the Lake district. The secret to a good pub is this.. Remember 'pub' stands for 'public house' the clue is right there, make your customers feel like they're at home y'kno like you have a casual areas, dining areas, comfortable lounge areas normally with a large open fire, outside garden areas etc This is the sort of experience you get, certainly in Windermere ☺️
Some good food in the lake District pubs.
Neal I love your enthusiasm and your passion for whatever you are watching. I’m here in the U.K and I like the blend of cold, wet and warm weather all in one day. You are so cool 😊
Public transport in the countryside is ..if you’re lucky… a bus every hour . Trains .mainly in the city . Or towns . Villages are very different . Car is need in the countryside
Depends where you are though. I can get a bus to Lindisfarne.
Just a thought in america at 18 you can Marry, drive, go to war, have children, go to university, smoke , gamble, take out a mortgage, have cosmetic surgery, own stock, serve on a jury........ but you can't have a beer because you're not a responsible adult. Really
madness I agree
What about cannabis is it 18-21
@@daviel6595 No age
i can't help but giggle when people talk about "super old" stuff in the US... the school i went to was founded in 1432 😂
@@bvn1313 same, I literally pass a church that’s 1000 years old and a pub with a rock brought down from Scotland during the ice age nearly daily and it doesn’t feel out of place.
The stone pub in northfield for anyone curious
I know what you mean. Two pubs local to me,, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem was built in 1189 and the Bell inn, build about 1437.
We have a pub build 1604
Yup. Chatting to an American, he was going on about old stuff there. I said: my house is older than the pilgrims arrival in america...And my local church is about a thousand years old. Don't think he believed me!
JPS is great, been watching him for years now. He does his research and loves travelling. He comes to Europe as often as he can.
Our weather is perfect. He just doesn't appreciate it.
The British, particularly the English, have had a reputation for heavy drinking for close on 1000 years. It has nothing to do with living on a small island. Most people don't experience the place they live as small. Nor is the UK particularly crowded, even a very great percentage of the island is NOT built upon. Even in the most crowded areas there is still a great deal of open space. A big city in the UK is no more crowded than a big city anywhere else.
You must remember that the US was largely British for 150-70 years before it became independent, & even after that migration continued from the UK,
& most American's forebears only arrived in the US in the last 150-200 years. So the US has a deep background in British culture, which of course is aided by the English language, & has continued by regular contact through trade & popular culture etc.
London is one of the greenest cities in the world, so many parks and green spaces across the metropolis.
Our weather is just fine
A pub is basically if you imagine mixing a bar with a few sports screens .. a restaurant and a house with sofas and sometimes a garden (sort of)
5 years in the Uk and still thinking if I should get a driver’s license. With 2 small kids, we walk to school , shops and work . . I love wear my cashmeres in the colder days while walking to sweat.. Really feels good for my mental and physical health.. And I am getting accustomed to “bland” taste now.. I could not stand food that I used to eat .. The transportation is mostly good can get everywhere in the UK by train.. I used to be puzzled how people here would consider 15-30 minutes is a short walking distance.. now I intentionally walk an hour to get to the shopping mall to exercise.
Is it worth it.
I drive and sometimes it's easier to bus because of parking.
EG. Cardiff day ticket £4.20 any ride around Cardiff as many times.
Carpark £3+ hr
JPS has been to the U.K. three times now.
His last trip to the U.K. was about 2 months ago.
He should be banned. He is a complete arsehole.
He shouldn't be allowed into the UK. Nauseating toe rag.
@@timglennon6814 thank you Wikipedia 😅
@@seldom_bucket Lol
Here in London every summer is boiling, sleepless nights with a fan baside my bed
Had to laugh at JT going on about the Tesco Meal Deal again. He talked about it last year too. It's not just Tesco, all the major Supermarkets do it. It's a sandwich or wrap, crisps or other snack and a bottle of coke, etc for a really amazingly low price.
I also chuckled at the end when you emphasised that JT had been here twice. You used 2 fingers, wrong way round for us and you gave a 2 fingered salute. You basically flipped us all off UK style 😂😂😂
Pubs are often referred to as 'the local', for a reason.
UK actually has no drinking age, in private you can drink at any age but you have to be 18 to buy alcohol or 16 to have alcohol with a meal at a restaurant.
Your local pub is the heart of the community.
Love JPs videos. Also this was a great video.
Just for the record, that is not the hand gesture for 2 in Britain. You would use a peace sign equivalent like JP did (palm forward).
We do get Hot Summers too.
We used to😂
This is crazy, my two favourite Americans in one video 😅
Both of you have in your part destroyed any negative opinion I have of Americans and opened my eyes to how intelligent and understanding real Americans are.
The only bit I’m offended by is the implication we have a good train network 😂
Yes! Trains... Too expensive and non-existent in some places here!
@ it’s literally cheaper to fly from the south of England to Glasgow than it is to catch a train 😐
Absolute madness
Relative to the USA the UK trains are a good public transport system. I have also seen someone saying that even short haul flights in the USA are very costly, they don't have to compete with trains.
Not just family-friendly, dogs are allowed in most pubs, especially rulal pubs. Sometimes, even the pub itself has a dog, nothing like having a drink and a chat with friends while a strangers dog walks up for a belly rub
Damn I hope you're talking about the dog asking for a belly rub and not the village idiot ! 😂
@@IanHopkinson-lu8xo 😂 so true.
When I visit my family in wales there are loads of dogs in the farm shop/pub just chilling and soaking up the fuss and the dog that lives at the farm shop just patrols the whole area and chases her owner around the village when he’s on his quad bike.
The entire village is a dog paradise with how much love they get 😅 my mum is a cat person but she spends 70% of her time looking after friends dogs
people over 60, disabled people and young people 22 or under get free public bus/trams transport
You are not eligible for a senior bus pass until you reach state pension age which is 66, not 60.
You only get free bus travel ,you pay for a year on trams and trains.
@@angelawalker8615separate ticket systems and tariffs for bus and rail is my pet hate on UK public transport. It's such a headache.
I went to Brighton and braced myself for the likelihood of having to pay extra for a weekly ticket for bus and rail and it turns out there wasn't even a weekly ticket that's valid on both. That wouldn't happen in other parts of Europe.
He has since changed his opinion on the trains!
Lol, a reactor, reacting to another reactor.!!!
Joel's a good lad, I've been watching him for a while. he's been here 3 times now, plus a good few places across the channel.
Joel's channel is now morfing into a travel vloging channel, and his getting damn good at it.!!!
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Looking forward to you showcasing the black and brown influence on and in the uk.
Go to a country on the same latitude as Southern Alaska and complain about the weather?!😅
Just come back from our village pub.Probabky had six or seven pints. Sat chatting to our local Film Guy, they're on the BBC for f*cks sake, might even be shown in the USA. Then moved onto a table just waffling on about rubbish while we drank a few...
JPS gets it
I'm too old now for the drinking fighting social life at 61, but if it's your thing go for it I loved it forty plus years ago
Enjoy!!
Hes right.
7:17
Michael fish actually got the blame for all the damage done in 87/88 because he said that the hurricane hitting the states wouldn't hit us.
The weatherman at the time.
There are videos of Americans on here who live here now giving you a different perspective than from folk who are visiting, there are things they miss from America and adjustments they've made, things like that. Also shows the different places around the island and how lifestyles can change from place to place.
American want big. We dont do big we live comfort and we are happy.
Hw went to city centres at night. If you go to more rural pubs, most people are not drunk.
I assure you, we are. It's just we don't want to have the walk of shame next weekend if you've made a t*t of yourself. Where else are you going to go?
Pubs.
Prior to 2008 smoking ban owning a pub was a certain money earner.
However since pubs have suffered worse.
More pubs closing than opening.
They also tried fixing it by making shop prices higher.
The Met Office app is pretty good and our weather forecasting is the best in the world because we are an island. Just go everywhere prepared for all weathers. We do get great weather in the summer. I judge it by the date I stop wearing a coat and when I have to start wearing a coat again for anything other than rain. This summer was pretty good🎉
Green and pleasant land
To put it in context, the UK is America's parent.
You did a poor job teaching it to read, write, cook and use cutlery! 😂
@@trevorcook4439 Well you know what kids are like right?
@ 😂I think you raised Australia better
@@trevorcook4439 That's true, considering that they were once the trouble maker of the family.
@ still are, on and off the cricket crease!
last time i had a pint in a pub. was just before the government introduced the ban of smoking in pubs 😢
Our local Church was built about 1660 and that isn’t very old.Every now and then they let people climb the steps and you can walk around the turrets.There’s people’s names scratched into the sandstone from the 1600s , probably people who built it.from Kettering.
The USA literally smoke way more than the uk it’s almost double
its funny follow you both on patron
Dogs are also welcome in pubs.. sounds like Newcastle 😅 I went to UNI there, few jackets and loads of alcohol
Drinking age is 18 but you can legally drink in a private property from the age of 5,I love this country
Why not reach out to the guy, and ask to travel with him next time?, just a thought.
I live 50 mins outside of London in the country side and I do not need a car especially as my kids are adults now, so ended up selling it 3 yrs ago.
Hi friend.
I like your orange top.
OK -
1) weather - this year has been the worst for at least a decade.
Some years it gets unbearably hot, but when that happens you won't get your green, green grass.
So, you must decide which you prefer.!
2) drunks - it doesn't happen anywhere near everywhere, and it's only at weekend nights (usually when the clubs are spilling out).
If you come over in say June, you'll have fine weather (most years) and you'll have daylight until late at night.
Bro I don't think I've ever seen a train on time in UK 😂
They are regularly delayed, the local system are abit better in some regions but the national trains are shit for timing!
Regarding the weather, of course it’s usually cool and damp! We’re further north than any part of the US except Alaska, and we’re downwind of 3000 miles of ocean! There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothes.
@@arwelp 😅 dunno if you’re aware but the no bad weather only bad clothes is such a German saying
There's nothing wrong with our, the countryside looks as beautiful as it does because of the weather.
You'll find it easier to connect with the British also because you personally have been exposed to so much of the culture, sense of humour, tribalism etc you have an advantage over most Americans who would come here because you have an insight and an understanding of who we are and what we're like when you get off the plane, an American who hasn't done the you tube deep dive would have a much greater shock
I understand what the guy is saying about the weather, but he is by no means 💯 right. We have our share of warm/hot weather too, but it can vary sometimes throughout the day. It's why we are such a green island. Its why British people often have conversations about the weather 😊. To me that excessive persistent heat sounds like a nightmare
The weather - the problem is, we are in the middle of 3 different weather systems. The British Isles are in the Gulf Stream, otherwise we would be more like North Canada. Then we are next to Europe, so we get a typical continental weather system to our East (very hot summers, very cold winters, predictable). Then we have the Arctic weather system popping in from the North. These 3 systems are constantly fighting each other, which means the weather is random. And also there is a chain of high ground running North/South down most of the country which acts as a watershed! ie. weird.
Re: the trains not being delayed - SINCE WHEN?!?! Trains here are NEVER EVER EVER on time! They’re renowned for being delayed.
Also, many many people here live in the countryside where you very much need a car. You also need one in towns. It’s only cities where you don’t need a car
You really don't need a car in a town people have just got lazy live in a rural area never driven if there's not trains buses run
Uk … to know the weather look out of the window 😇
A little context for British temperatures in general. Look at a map, and see how north Britain is, compared to mainland USA. We're basically up in Canadian latitudes. :)
I've worked in a traditional pub as a chef , I'd love to come to America and set up a traditional English pub . Not a bar I'm talking lot fires and Sunday dinners.
Log fires ^
Tesco not the only supermarket with Meal Deals - Sainsburys equally good varied choices. I'm not a shareholder btw 😂
We should go to America we would complain more about what's wrong than what's good. America a bit behind the UK in many things. Remember the UK is a Island America is a Big Country you can't compare than completely different
Hahah 18:37mins Love America from UK
jps You have not seen anything of the south. I could not understand why you went haring off up north to, mainly, the old industrial cities. There is so much beautiful countryside and villages. Come south and see a completely different perspective of England.
Oh! and better weather in the south, really.
If you are able to drive a lethal weapon at 16 you should be able to have a beer at 18
Fact is there’s a reason the states changed their drinking age but that’s long ago
I'm in my late 60s and the weather has not killed me yet, our weather is what makes us so beautiful and green, we are an island in Europe so expect the weather to change throughout the day. Its no big deal. I question that we follow America......
People from the US always comment on the weather in the UK but London in the south of England is on a similar latitude to Warsaw, Kiev, and Winnipeg and is nearly 10 degrees north of Chicago what did they expect? You weren’t going to the Mediterranean for heavens sake!!
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If brit weather is not to your liking, Just wait half an hour
I hoped that you got the package 📦 I sent you. From the UK 👵!
Smoking? It's banned in pubs, and other places where the public gathers. Have to go outside to smoke, so that's why he thinks there's more, it's only on the streets.
We are much closer to Australians and NZs
British weather? It ain't the best, it ain't the worst, BUT, it's usually brief. We don't have long periods of any sort of weather. Protect when it rains, but the sun will be out again in an hour.
Nice to be in UK and walk around at all times of the year. When I visited South Carolina 20 years ago in May, nobody went outside for 6 months of the year as was too hot. Just air conned house to air conned car to air conned work, then back again. What a place to live, NO THANKS.
The usa was the creator of mass production cars. Why would they want you to use public transport when you could buy one of ford's cars.
You probably don’t know this but the only US state that’s on the same latitudes as the UK is Alaska.
Come and visit Anglesey North Wales il show you some good pubs
Where I live we need cars as we live rural. I actually don’t know anyone who doesn’t own a car where I’m from and that includes people in the city. I only know one person who vapes and nobody I know smokes cigarettes but I follow true crime creators on TH-cam and they all smoke 🚬 and all talk about their blunts as they all are cannabis smokers or gummies. I was shocked at how many did and they did it freely online. It all depends where you live in the UK i suppose but I was never into pub culture so I think he generalises a lot. There’s plenty to do besides smoke and drink and it was the UK who started all the fashion trends going back to the sixties. He talks about the weather but it depends again where you live as we don’t get the really bad weather as we are far north but we have the air from the Gulf Stream. There are places now in the US that are having snow already and we are lucky if we get an inch 😂. No tornadoes or mad weather or earthquakes and no dangerous animal species roaming around or snakes. JJ just loves the pub culture but it’s not for everyone. 😂
Nice work Neal, WELL DONE.
Thank you! Cheers!
You wouldnt be wearing a jumper in London in july Its more like 90 degrees.
A visit to London gives an unrealistic impression of Public transport in the UK. Most UK public transport is sadly nothing at all like in London. When the Belgrade metro opens its first 2 lines at the end of this decade, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds will be the 1st, 2nd and 3rd largest European cities without a subway network.
Birmingham currently only has a single tram line, despite having 2.2 million people in its metropolitan area. Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh, Hull and most other major UK cities only have buses and no plans to build a subway. Ireland is even worse but in the rest of Europe, cities of that size usually have a combination of subway and tram lines that take you pretty much anywhere in town.
Another issue with UK public transport is that you have to buy seperate tickets or pay extra to use all the public transport modes in your area as bus and rail have completely different ticket systems.
It's expensive too. In Germany, it costs only €49/month to use all bus, tram, subway, monorail and local and regional trains throughout the entire country. In Luxembourg, they're free to use, while in the UK, many places charge £60/month just to use only buses within a single city and I've met people who pay over £1000/year for a train ticket that's only valid between 2 specific stops. This makes it expensive to just go exploring on bus and rail and you end up having to ration how much public transport you use. This is why a lot more people in the UK drive compared to on the continent. Many UK kids even get driven to school by their parents, while in other parts of Europe, they would use public transport. This creates an extra rush hour known as "the school run".
"We speak the same language". In ONE sense, that's true. Americans tend to use English GRAMMAR, however, as though they were learning a foreign language - and learning it BADLY. I mean, how the hell did they get to say things like "If I WOULD HAVE gone there..." instead of the correct, and much simpler "If I HAD gone there"? The other one of my bugbears is what I call the Intrusive 'Of' - as in "It's not too big OF a deal": what on earth is the 'of' _doing_ there?
As for their PRONUNCIATION of certain proper nouns, such as 'SEE-SILL' for Cecil, and 'BAY-ZIL' for Basil, I just dunno.
I know, I know - it _shouldn't_ be too big OF an annoyance, but I'm afraid it is, somehow!😀
I have to enlighten uou about the history of public transport in the US. Much of the US had great public transport similar to Europe. But the car companies may have encouraged many cities to remove their public transportation to encourage people to buy cars. Crazy I know but if you look at the history in many cases that may have happened. And given the usa is the wealthiest nation in the world there is nothing stopping the powers that be from building that infrastructure now.
Is it just me or do Americans use the word ‘shocking’ very differently to us?
When I see shocked my head conjures up something bad.
Then I hear a load of ‘surprises’ rather than ‘shocks’.
I find it a shocking misuse of the English language. 😂
When Americans talk about the weather in the summer..Why not compare the winter's.plus we don't have earthquakes hurricane and tornadoes..
The Wether here at Home in the UK IE London isn’t an Exact Science and when Morons Berk and Muppets say But it is Surpassed to start at 1pm and it Actually Rains 10 minutes before or after said Time ! Hello Karens The Wether isn’t an Exact Science for a Good Reason ?.
As you said we do think our American friends are great, it’s some of the policies we have problems with, of which I’m sure the Americans feel the same way about us. On an individual level we get along great. Obviously we both have certain types of people who don’t show us in our best light. We’ve both got gangs and hooligans but thankfully they are in the minority. In fact it could be said of most countries. The rest of us generally just want a quiet peaceful life, don’t care where you from, your skin colour, religion, sexuality or anything else. If you’re good with me, I’m good with you.
For the smoking thing, I don't think as many people smoke as they once did, not many kids smoke cigarettes, my sons 19 now, but what I noticed was a lot of kids his age never actually smoked, they went straight for the vape because they thought they looked cool. Thankfully my son had more sense. Absolutely hate smoking. Disgusting habit.
Our prevailing weather comes in from the west across the Atlantic drawing much moisture . The west coast much wetter therefore compared to the east. Indeed the average rainfall in London is less than that of Rome. Should also be remembered we are a temperate climate and duevtome Gulf Stream we have relative mild winters. Our seas don’t freeze like that in the St Lawrence River, Canada/US despite much the same latitude. Can’t have it all ways!.
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America have Tornados forest fires etc.
Sometimes the trains get delayed or cancelled ..not allways perfect ..if you have an umbrella ☔ your good to go ...come on over. Neal try a pub. ..or double decker bus ..or fish and chips 🍟 ...great video...
Double Decker Chocolate
I love jp
I watch Jps video's and he's a lovely guy, but I missed him saying that we drink alcohol because there's little else to do ... totally wrong, we have almost the same to do as the US do, with variations of course, especially nowadays.
Neil please stop commenting over the video....i cant hear...over your yeah.yeah.yeahs lol
I think the drinking age in the UK is too high and a reason behind the binge drinking culture. I grew up in a country where the drinking age was 16 so when I moved to the UK at 18, all the need to go drink was already behind me.
British trains on time? Really?
Pub culture can never happen in America as you have this thing that if someone drinks a couple pints a day then they have a alcohol problem which is stupid. Also your beer really isn't very good at all nowhere near as nice as European lagers or Australian. Czech is probably the best there is although I do have a taste for Cruzcampo.
Follow JPS,and this vid of his,is nearly 2-3 years old,from either his 1st or 2nd UK trip [this year,he has just returns from his 3rd one!] and very out-of-date ! 🙄