That’s just a weekly thing tho more of a must do than a tradition, now getting ya mate over the top drunk on there 18th when they can legally go out now that’s tradition 😂😂
@@Shoomer1988that's what most people use, you certainly don't need a drill, just a Philip's head screwdriver push and twist and then use it to thread an old shoelaces through.
& soak it in vinegar & leave it in the airing cupboard?you had to be hard up North when your still fighting with no shell.just a gnarly nut on a shoelace
JT another weird one is Bog Snorkeling in Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales, Plastic Duck Racing down a River, Wellie Trowing, Worm Charming, snail racing 😂😂 😅 😅😅
So many missed, wellie wanging, flaming tar barrels, black pudding tossing, tossing the caber, and Yorkshire pudding throwing. But for me it’s the annual flaming tar barrels at Ottery St Mary that deserves 1st place.
Great video but the video you were watching missed a fair few weird British traditions out. 1. Duck race. A numbered plastic duck is put into a river or a stream and whichever reaches the finish line further down stream which has a net to catch them all is the winner. 2. Bog snorkeling. Basically snorkeling along 2 consecutive lengths of a 60 yard water filled ditch, the quickest wins. 3. Murder ball. 2 teams of any equal size play a game that has only 1 rule to get the ball behind the opposite teams goal line. Unofficially it's a game to give as much damage and hurt to the opposition as possible. 4. Shin kicking. You hold your opponent by the arms as he holds yours and basically you kick him in the shins trying to make him fall over. The brilliant thing about the different regions of the UK is the local traditions. A lot of them are literally are just regional, what's done in one part of the country isn't even heard of in another. So this list can be an incredibly long one if you talk to different people. Just to let you know that the men at the bottom of the hill who catch people in the cheese roll are from the local rugby club as it obviously takes a very burly and strong man (or woman!) to do it.
We do the magpie thing in ireland to 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy 5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a story never to be told, and we see 1 magpie we say good day Mr magpie how's your wife and family.
In England we're supposed to salute 1 magpie!don't know why as it's associated with sorrow?also there was a kids programme called magpie in the early 70's that sang the magpie song.maaaaaagpie🙄😫
There's some great true magpie stories on youtube.people losing shiny things & having them returned & a woman that put a birdbath out & was swarmed with magpie to thank her bringing coins & other shiny objects
on the isle of man , as you go over the fairy bridge , you have to say hello to the fairys or bad luck will befall you ! ............. january 6th the haxey hood takes place in the fields of HAXEY a village near DONCASTER , basicly its a leather tube representing a ladys hat that was lost 100s of years ago up to 300 men wrestle to capture the " hood " between 2 pubs !
Shin-kicking,wife carrying,welly boot throwing,bale push around a Cornish village. These and many more around these unique islands make us a blessed population.
That's coz them homies bruvvers don't no wat de shoelace is innit.parents neva taught them to tie them coz busy on the pipe bro.shoelaces are to stop your feet falling out the shoes stolen from the rioting
That’s because health and safety banned conkers at places like schools. How many relatively tame activities have been banned over the years, only to be gradually replaced by more dangerous and eventually illegal pastimes!
The magpie rhyme he said everybody knows (one for sorrow two for joy ) is the thyme for 70's children's t.v show and is not the historical rhyme which starts " one for sorrow two for mirth three for a wedding four for a birth " etcetera !
No mention of Gurning (unmissable for JT!!) , The Athelstone Ball game, Swan-upping, Worm-charming, and many other great traditions. We could easily make a list of 30! Sheep dog trials? Tar barrels? Coxheath pie throwing? Haggis eating championship? Welly wanging? Black pudding throwing? There is no end (and no game too pointless)!
With the Morris dancers, they used to wear black paint on their faces, was a tradition for centuries, but all of a sudden it was "black face", which still makes me laugh because the tradition started before Europe even discovered Africa, so there weren't any black people around at all.
In days of old, the Morris men used to blacken their faces with soot so they wouldnt be identified as they danced because what they did was tantamount to begging which was outlawed at that time.
Your a strange one who dosent like being scared shirtless by him climbing over loose boards 400ft up a loose chimney stack. Hoping it's sarcasm and your not a dull fecker !@@AndrewwarrenAndrew
We have the turkey/Chicken bone pull here too! As a child (70's) we played conkers, did the maypole dance, played jacks, two ball and British bulldog. Not for getting marbles, tick-a-nick (tag for those who dont know lol ) Hide and seek and skipping. Those were the days eh? ❤
Conkers was the law when the season was right, now you can't play the game without wearing the kind of body armour used to survive as a bomb disposal specialist.
Punch & Judy should be considered child abuse! Gave me nightmares whenever I came across this on holiday and my parents kept reassuring me "oh, don't worry he won't hurt you".... yeah sure! As for magpies, it won't be funny looks from people that would worry me if I started speaking to them, it would the evil eye from the birds themselves! Conkers if timed right, you could inflict serious injury to your "best friend" 😈 There is one tradition that is missed off here involving soon to be married couples. Friends of the soon to be wedded couple would come and "collect" them, put them on the back of an open trailer and drive around the local village or town, whereby local people, shop owners etc would throw flour, spoiled food etc on top of the poor couple. By the time they would get back home they would be honking!
I remember when I was a kid, my school banned conkers due to "safety concerns". We loved that ban, nothing like a bunch of 10 and 11 year olds finding ways to beat the system and enjoy life lol. Bro, if you ever come over here at the time the cheese rolling is going on, hit us up and I assure you that you'll have a mass of people showing you around whilst watching us lose limbs for fun.
Morris dancing is quite a big thing in my town, happens a lot around May day, carnival etc. We have another May Day tradition that happens every year, if you get a chance you should look up Hastings Jack in The Green. It comes from an old May Day tradition and a few other places still do it but ours in Hastings is the biggest in the country.
Maypole day brings back some memories. Where I grew up we've got a 90ft Maypole. Back in the day the whole village turned up to help bring it down. And back up again. With huge ropes and a lot of pulling. And when it's up. Tradition is for someone to climb it. Then health and safety came into play. Now machinery brings it down and up again. And the person who climbs it has to have safety ropes now. This year one of my friends climbed it last year..It only happens every 3 year's though. It's to repair and repaint it too. Cool video.
One film of horse racing was not the UK, as here in the UK we race on grass, not soil. The first sight of conkers in the shell were sweet chestnuts. Checkout Lewes bonfire, the biggest in the UK
Honourable mention to the Atherstone Ball Game. It's run once a year, and the game is literally "whoever has the ball at 5pm wins". Here are the rules: 1) it stays on Long Street. 2) No killing anyone. "No killing anyone" is un-ironically something they have to specify. Last year there was a town-wide mass brawl and the cops have had to issue warnings due to consistent destruction of property every year 😅
,Shin kicking, Raft race, home made raft fancy dress race. Pram racing and barrel rolling. Also the Fireballs (New Year tradition in Scotland). Pub crawl. Lots of Pagan traditions like the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, Yule logs (not the cake).
I have a video from a few years ago on my YT channel, at the museum I used to volunteer at in Wales, when I lived there! It's their version of Mari Lwyd! It was more to show the audience at the Christmas concert what Mari Lwyd was during the interval! Punch & Judy always scared me as a child, (& I have a severe fear of clowns too)!
the best conker tree in my area was owned by a woman and she wouldnt let anyone take conkers until 1st of october, we played conkers alot and it was a big thing in school, but cheating was one of the things we frowned on, some pushed window putty inside, some soaked them in vinegar, many kept them in the fridge to make them last longer, everytime you won a match you would make a knot in the string to signify how many matches that perticular conker has won...
The origin of Punch and Judy is actually Italian. Cheese rolling is somehow connected with grazing rights for cattle (don't ask!) Maypoles are a... how shall we say... 'replacement' for a certain male appendage that 'pure, unmarried maidens' dance around. Maypoles are still quite common. The 'pure, unmarried maidens'... not so much 🙂
We have a tradition which is maybe more localised to Norfolk, but on Valentines day, a mysterious man called Jack Valentine knocks on your door, runs away but leaves behind a present. No one ever sees him. As you get older you realise it's just your parents or neighbour doing it, kind of like the Santa thing.
We take bonfire night to a whole other level here in Sussex. Many of the towns have their own bonfire societies and they hold torchlit processions on different dates through the town/village with elaborate costumes, drumming and bangers (firecrackers to you) going off all around. The procession leads up to a fire site where there will be a massive bonfire (often in excess of 20 foot high) and fireworks display. All aided by a heavy consumption of beer of course.
Lewes - "Health & Safety? What's Health & Safety?" I understood why all the shops in Lewes board up their windows after I first went there - I thought they were just being a bit too overcautious until it all kicked off.
@chrisperyagh lol, yep! I'm a member of one of the drumming groups out of Hastings, we attend many of the bonfires and drum in the processions every year. Lewes is the best known and undoubtedly the biggest but Battle and Hastings are pretty good too!
3:10 the strawbear festival is bigger than Christmas for us here in and around the town of Whittlesey, the Saturday of is honestly the best day of the year
Most of these are English pursuits but there are others such as Welly Wangling which involves throwing a Wellington boot as far as possible and don't forget the Scots who also inhabit the British isles with sword dancing or caber tossing . Caber tossing inollves strongmen throwing huge logs known as cabers in the highland games .
10:38 you're absolutely right about that hill, I've never done the race but I've walked (or rather climbed) up that hill and it beggars belief how steep it is, it's actually steep enough to be classified as a cliff as much as a hill.
The magpie thing is supposedly that the number you see together will tell your immediate future. There are many versions of the rhyme but the one I was taught was: "One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told". And if you see only one (foretelling sorrow), I was told to say "Good morning, Mrs Magpie!" to dissipate the bad luck. Birds in general have a lot of superstitions in the UK. Jackdaws are a portent of death- I had one sitting by my window on 7th September 2022 and joked how I'd never seen one in all the years I'd lived here so uh oh someone's going to pass any day now!... Yeah. 8th September didn't go well and I felt so bad that I'd made such a flippant joke! [the Queen. Not that I believe the superstition of course, I just feel like maybe it was something I shouldn't have joked about]. Robins are supposed to be passed loved ones returning to say hello. Goldfinches symbolise prosperity. And seagulls symbolise that you're about to get your chips/fries stolen by a flying rat.
they missed a couple of classics; the befriending a road cone as your new best mate, that you will inevitably proudly try and wear on your head, The magical beer taxi, that conveys you from a point to your home (with your new best friend Ro de Cone or Mlle flashy light du road-beacon) that miraculously cost you the exact amount of money you had in your pocket to your door. The kettle...
....hope you say hello to the fairys when you cross the bridge , we all did except for my daughter who fell down and grazed her knee as soon as we crossed the bridge !
@@rolybellamy956 I live not far from it lol . If you ever come back you need to find the original old fairy bridge it’s by a river down a farm track not far from Douglas!
I loved growing up playing marbles and conkers we had so much more fun as children than children do now with all the technology around, we had a better imagination and always found fun and exciting things to do. ( even if at times it was hedge hopping and knock a door run )
Kids used to sit outside the shops with a Teddy bear dressed up and ask penny for the guy, but these days it's considered begging, not many people go carol singing anymore either
Teddy bear, what part of the UK are you from? traditionally, children would make a "Guy", or life-size, scarecrow-like effigy of Guy Fawkes, which would be thrown onto the communal bonfire during the celebrations - but not before he was paraded around (sometimes in an old pram or go-cart) by the kids, who would ask for "a penny for the guy" to spend on sparklers.
Christmas crackers contain two long things pieces of cardboard that are joined together inside with gunpowder in the join area. So when pulled apart, you get a loud 'crack' noise, similar to a gunshot, hence the name 'Crackers.'
Lets not forget the old 'lock in' back in the day the pub would close and lock the doors then continue serving those inside till about 3am...ah the 90's.
At one of the Christmas Fairs I do, there is always a Punch and Judy show, and the kids love it. A Punch and Judy show is put on normally by a single entertainer (normally a man), and traditionally they are still referred to as 'Professor'.
I used to love playing conkers at school back in the 80's, there were some notorious ones going around the school yard that you were wise to avoid if you didn't want yours split in two! It was the talk of the school when to high scoring conkers faced off, generating huge crowds! Ps is that a massive conker on that crane in the background?
We do the wishbone too. It was always a big thing while growing up. They didn’t mention pantomime, I thought it was a worldwide thing lol but apparently not. Or bog snorkelling! I knew someone who won the bog snorkelling one year!
I was a kid in the 1990s, we had tvs, phones, etc, but we still played conkers out on the streets. We also played with 'clackers' until one cut my face i think.
as a kid in the early 80's coming back from school, i hit the motherload, 100 of conkers in the park, i went back to my house, got my dad , and a suitcase and filled it up, a suitcase full of conkers, going through them hoping 1 would be that immortal champion conker. People took it seriously at school, there was many theories on how to create the all conquering conker, many went down leave it in vineger route , at the end of it i had a suitcase full of moldy conkers with no champion conker
Where I live in Scotland: on New Years Eve people parade up and down the main street in Stonehaven whirling long ropes with balls of fire at the ends around their heads.
Conkers were still a thing for a while - we still used to do this in early 2000s till our school banned it cause people were using them to hit each other
If you change Punch and Judy into "Florida Man and Judy", beats his wife, kills police officers, wrestles crocodiles. It doesn't seem so far fetched anymore.
I am a Punch and Judy professor’s daughter, I grew up in a town called Edenbridge, famous for it’s huge Guy Fawkes effigies and I used to take part in torch lit processions dressed as a beefeater! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We do tip here in the UK but we don't have to as we do get a proper wage when it comes to going to work so we don't have to rely on other people generosity when it comes to something like working in places like restaurants
Hey JT, im ashamed to say two of those items are within 15min drive of where i live. The straw man is in Whittlesey just to the east of Peterborough on whats is called the fens. That an ex swamp that is below sea level until it was drained a long while ago. The second is the Conker world champs in Ashton near Oundle which is just west of Peterborough. Now theres a very good pub in Ashton with decent ale if its still standing. If not theres a micro brewery just over the road😂 at Nene valley brewery. Sad to say ive not been to either event although the straw man must go back to Pagan times
In terms of "Guy Fawkes Night", notice some of the key words there. "Protestant King"... "formally with anti-Catholic sentiment". The tldr being that the king at the time was massively brutal to the Catholics murdering many for simply not following the "Church of England" (which was the protestant faith with the King of England as the head). When the attempt failed, the kind had many people slaughter with their heads places on spikes in response, and proclaimed that it had been an attempt to attack parlement (ignoring he knew he was the core target) and so the day was "celebrated" as the day "democracy won". It's also why Guy Fawkes masks have very much come to the symbol of groups fighting for freedom against the ruling powers - although this does stem from "V for Vendetta" which in turn is a film/comic based around the Guy Fawkes tail and leaning more towards the "freedom fighter" side of it.
Punch and Judy is nearly 400 years old! Still do the magpie thing - can also turn round and spit where I'm from, oh I loved playing conkers. OMG I left the UK 20 years ago and the only one I haven't done is no 9. +1 Everything else my whole childhood... I really miss bonfire night.
One of the racetracks for the horse racing is in the town I live in in Scotland, and it always amuses us to see the ladies wearing fancy next to nothing skimpy outfits in the usually freezing weather just to watch horses run!
Hogmanay turn up at strangers house with at least a six pack of beer or cider and be invited in as a 'first footer' nowadays usually limited to friends , family or at least people you know but even back in the 90's it was wild .
If it's any consolation, the Punch & Judy Man I saw on a beach in my childhood was not accessible to me. But then very little has been for over 50 years....
Punch & Judy is a strange one. over 400 years old with Italian origins, it pre-dates British police. Which kind of begs the question of why there is a policeman in it at all!
Punch and Judy was funny in the days before we had to ask permission to laugh. The first photo of conkers are not conkers, but sweet chestnuts which you cook on a shovel over an open fire before eating them.
I don't worry if I walk under a ladder or if I put an umbrella up indoors but no way would I not wish Mr Magpie a good day and ask after his wife and children if I see him on his own.
punch and judy scared me too, but i'm not scared of ALL puppets...i think it depends on how they look...some don't bother me...some give me traumatic flashbacks. same with dolls and dummies. i have fond memories of bonfire night, i often went to several growing up...lots of merry people and good food with juice to drink.
one tradition they never mentioned, was mayday parades, on 1st of may, boys and girls would dress up in costume and parade around the streets, i think it was to welcome in the summer
You said about how back in the day, you didn't have so much TV so conkers was the thing....No, that is not correct, back in the day kids played conkers because we didn't have health & safety....just common sense.
They missed the traditional pub crawl, that's 1 of my favourites.
That’s just a weekly thing tho more of a must do than a tradition, now getting ya mate over the top drunk on there 18th when they can legally go out now that’s tradition 😂😂
Pub golf ⛳️ 🍻🤙🏼
That’s a casual weekday evening for me! The weekends are for the crawl around a special area, like the mad mile or wherever! 😂
The pub crawl is purely a myth, I supposedly have experienced this many times but have no recollection so it must surely be just wives tale
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Drilling a hole in conkers? Hell no pass me the screwdriver and watch me stab my hand 😂😂
Right before you smash your knuckles to smithereens!
Why would you use a screwdriver?
@@Shoomer1988that's what most people use, you certainly don't need a drill, just a Philip's head screwdriver push and twist and then use it to thread an old shoelaces through.
& soak it in vinegar & leave it in the airing cupboard?you had to be hard up North when your still fighting with no shell.just a gnarly nut on a shoelace
@@Shoomer1988because I couldn't find the Brad awl
How is it that Americans are happy playing with dads shotgun and yet are too scared to chase a wheel of cheese down a hill 😂😂
It always seem weird to me that Americans think it's odd that Brits can "open carry" a bottle of beer!
JT another weird one is Bog Snorkeling in Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales, Plastic Duck Racing down a River, Wellie Trowing, Worm Charming, snail racing 😂😂 😅 😅😅
So many missed, wellie wanging, flaming tar barrels, black pudding tossing, tossing the caber, and Yorkshire pudding throwing. But for me it’s the annual flaming tar barrels at Ottery St Mary that deserves 1st place.
I loved playing conkers as a kid
Yep played it all the time at school 40 odd years ago lol.
Same. Also fun introducing a German family to it when I went over on a school visit. They loved it, had great fun :)
They missed gurning. I guess Punch and Judy is one of the reasons why we have a sick sense of humour.
Started with pulling a grimace through a horse's collar. More recently a toilet seat.
Great video but the video you were watching missed a fair few weird British traditions out. 1. Duck race. A numbered plastic duck is put into a river or a stream and whichever reaches the finish line further down stream which has a net to catch them all is the winner. 2. Bog snorkeling. Basically snorkeling along 2 consecutive lengths of a 60 yard water filled ditch, the quickest wins. 3. Murder ball. 2 teams of any equal size play a game that has only 1 rule to get the ball behind the opposite teams goal line. Unofficially it's a game to give as much damage and hurt to the opposition as possible. 4. Shin kicking. You hold your opponent by the arms as he holds yours and basically you kick him in the shins trying to make him fall over. The brilliant thing about the different regions of the UK is the local traditions. A lot of them are literally are just regional, what's done in one part of the country isn't even heard of in another. So this list can be an incredibly long one if you talk to different people. Just to let you know that the men at the bottom of the hill who catch people in the cheese roll are from the local rugby club as it obviously takes a very burly and strong man (or woman!) to do it.
Punch and Judy used to freak me out as a kid.
I'm 59 years old and punch and Judy still freak me out.
We do the magpie thing in ireland to 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy 5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a story never to be told, and we see 1 magpie we say good day Mr magpie how's your wife and family.
The amount of magpies in my garden would require a multi-hour roll call to greet all of them, at least none have tried nicking my watch, yet...
In England we're supposed to salute 1 magpie!don't know why as it's associated with sorrow?also there was a kids programme called magpie in the early 70's that sang the magpie song.maaaaaagpie🙄😫
There's some great true magpie stories on youtube.people losing shiny things & having them returned & a woman that put a birdbath out & was swarmed with magpie to thank her bringing coins & other shiny objects
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Maggie Philbin. 😉
You missed: "8 is a wish 9 is a kiss 10 is a bird you must not miss. Magpie!"
on the isle of man , as you go over the fairy bridge , you have to say hello to the fairys or bad luck will befall you ! ............. january 6th the haxey hood takes place in the fields of HAXEY a village near DONCASTER , basicly its a leather tube representing a ladys hat that was lost 100s of years ago up to 300 men wrestle to capture the " hood " between 2 pubs !
Shin-kicking,wife carrying,welly boot throwing,bale push around a Cornish village.
These and many more around these unique islands make us a blessed population.
Don't forget bog-snorkelling.
Isn't that being pisse d as a youngster.waking up with armitage shanks embedded in your forehead😁
...or Gurning.
@@DaveBartlett Gurning? That's just 2am kicking out time at any nightclub in Britain. It's a relief when they turn you down!!!
Mr Punch does end up in front of the chap dressed in red surrounded by flames for summary judgment.
For a few minutes..?!
Naw, you wear that paper crown the rest of the day! 😂
I’ve woke up in mine many a Boxing Day!😂
The egg and spoon race...now theres a British tradition worth preserving
Youths still play conkers in the UK except it's now called ''beat the shit out of each other with baseball bats and machete's''.
That's coz them homies bruvvers don't no wat de shoelace is innit.parents neva taught them to tie them coz busy on the pipe bro.shoelaces are to stop your feet falling out the shoes stolen from the rioting
That’s because health and safety banned conkers at places like schools. How many relatively tame activities have been banned over the years, only to be gradually replaced by more dangerous and eventually illegal pastimes!
@@susanpearson-creativefibro Bulldog got banned at my school, I think someone broke their arm or something for it
Talking about conkers and horse chestnuts and showing an image of a sweet chestnut.
and it looked like Austrians doing the 1st maypole dance.
To be honest its a pretty second rate offering all round.
The magpie rhyme he said everybody knows (one for sorrow two for joy ) is the thyme for 70's children's t.v show and is not the historical rhyme which starts " one for sorrow two for mirth three for a wedding four for a birth " etcetera !
No mention of Gurning (unmissable for JT!!) , The Athelstone Ball game, Swan-upping, Worm-charming, and many other great traditions. We could easily make a list of 30! Sheep dog trials? Tar barrels? Coxheath pie throwing? Haggis eating championship? Welly wanging? Black pudding throwing? There is no end (and no game too pointless)!
Scottish Highland Games have been going since the 11th century. It’s a wonderful Scottish tradition.
With the Morris dancers, they used to wear black paint on their faces, was a tradition for centuries, but all of a sudden it was "black face", which still makes me laugh because the tradition started before Europe even discovered Africa, so there weren't any black people around at all.
In days of old, the Morris men used to blacken their faces with soot so they wouldnt be identified as they danced because what they did was tantamount to begging which was outlawed at that time.
there are still 'black face' morris dancing groups
J t please can you do some Fred dibnah reactions .
but that would be dull. Always dreaded seeing him on tv nothing but chimneys and steam engines, *yawns*
Your a strange one who dosent like being scared shirtless by him climbing over loose boards 400ft up a loose chimney stack. Hoping it's sarcasm and your not a dull fecker !@@AndrewwarrenAndrew
We have the turkey/Chicken bone pull here too! As a child (70's) we played conkers, did the maypole dance, played jacks, two ball and British bulldog. Not for getting marbles, tick-a-nick (tag for those who dont know lol ) Hide and seek and skipping. Those were the days eh? ❤
Conkers was the law when the season was right, now you can't play the game without wearing the kind of body armour used to survive as a bomb disposal specialist.
Bog snorkeling is a good one
Thank you for mentioning British Bulldog too. Licensed rioting. The best!
Imagine growing up back then?! I did grow up back then and I'm barely in my 40s.
Punch & Judy should be considered child abuse! Gave me nightmares whenever I came across this on holiday and my parents kept reassuring me "oh, don't worry he won't hurt you".... yeah sure! As for magpies, it won't be funny looks from people that would worry me if I started speaking to them, it would the evil eye from the birds themselves! Conkers if timed right, you could inflict serious injury to your "best friend" 😈
There is one tradition that is missed off here involving soon to be married couples. Friends of the soon to be wedded couple would come and "collect" them, put them on the back of an open trailer and drive around the local village or town, whereby local people, shop owners etc would throw flour, spoiled food etc on top of the poor couple. By the time they would get back home they would be honking!
10:18 cheese and rice, literally
Or 'cheese and race'. 😉
I remember when I was a kid, my school banned conkers due to "safety concerns". We loved that ban, nothing like a bunch of 10 and 11 year olds finding ways to beat the system and enjoy life lol.
Bro, if you ever come over here at the time the cheese rolling is going on, hit us up and I assure you that you'll have a mass of people showing you around whilst watching us lose limbs for fun.
Morris dancing is quite a big thing in my town, happens a lot around May day, carnival etc. We have another May Day tradition that happens every year, if you get a chance you should look up Hastings Jack in The Green. It comes from an old May Day tradition and a few other places still do it but ours in Hastings is the biggest in the country.
Maypole day brings back some memories. Where I grew up we've got a 90ft Maypole. Back in the day the whole village turned up to help bring it down. And back up again. With huge ropes and a lot of pulling. And when it's up. Tradition is for someone to climb it. Then health and safety came into play. Now machinery brings it down and up again. And the person who climbs it has to have safety ropes now. This year one of my friends climbed it last year..It only happens every 3 year's though. It's to repair and repaint it too. Cool video.
One film of horse racing was not the UK, as here in the UK we race on grass, not soil. The first sight of conkers in the shell were sweet chestnuts. Checkout Lewes bonfire, the biggest in the UK
Honourable mention to the Atherstone Ball Game. It's run once a year, and the game is literally "whoever has the ball at 5pm wins". Here are the rules: 1) it stays on Long Street. 2) No killing anyone.
"No killing anyone" is un-ironically something they have to specify. Last year there was a town-wide mass brawl and the cops have had to issue warnings due to consistent destruction of property every year 😅
Ahaha, was here to mention the Atherstone Ball Game, I'm just up the road in Sheepy, but yeah, the ball game is nuts to butts!! 🤘
,Shin kicking, Raft race, home made raft fancy dress race. Pram racing and barrel rolling. Also the Fireballs (New Year tradition in Scotland). Pub crawl. Lots of Pagan traditions like the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, Yule logs (not the cake).
Isn't there something about Ferrets and Trousers.
What about bog snorkeling and worm charming.
I have a video from a few years ago on my YT channel, at the museum I used to volunteer at in Wales, when I lived there! It's their version of Mari Lwyd! It was more to show the audience at the Christmas concert what Mari Lwyd was during the interval! Punch & Judy always scared me as a child, (& I have a severe fear of clowns too)!
the best conker tree in my area was owned by a woman and she wouldnt let anyone take conkers until 1st of october, we played conkers alot and it was a big thing in school, but cheating was one of the things we frowned on, some pushed window putty inside, some soaked them in vinegar, many kept them in the fridge to make them last longer, everytime you won a match you would make a knot in the string to signify how many matches that perticular conker has won...
They tried doing Black Friday in the UK. Nobody was interested.
6:30 Thank you for your pretty accurate summation of my rural english childhood.
The origin of Punch and Judy is actually Italian.
Cheese rolling is somehow connected with grazing rights for cattle (don't ask!)
Maypoles are a... how shall we say... 'replacement' for a certain male appendage that 'pure, unmarried maidens' dance around. Maypoles are still quite common. The 'pure, unmarried maidens'... not so much 🙂
We have a tradition which is maybe more localised to Norfolk, but on Valentines day, a mysterious man called Jack Valentine knocks on your door, runs away but leaves behind a present. No one ever sees him. As you get older you realise it's just your parents or neighbour doing it, kind of like the Santa thing.
We take bonfire night to a whole other level here in Sussex. Many of the towns have their own bonfire societies and they hold torchlit processions on different dates through the town/village with elaborate costumes, drumming and bangers (firecrackers to you) going off all around. The procession leads up to a fire site where there will be a massive bonfire (often in excess of 20 foot high) and fireworks display. All aided by a heavy consumption of beer of course.
Lewes - "Health & Safety? What's Health & Safety?"
I understood why all the shops in Lewes board up their windows after I first went there - I thought they were just being a bit too overcautious until it all kicked off.
@chrisperyagh lol, yep! I'm a member of one of the drumming groups out of Hastings, we attend many of the bonfires and drum in the processions every year.
Lewes is the best known and undoubtedly the biggest but Battle and Hastings are pretty good too!
Punch and Judy was a thing of the past when I was a kid and I'm in my sixties.
3:10 the strawbear festival is bigger than Christmas for us here in and around the town of Whittlesey, the Saturday of is honestly the best day of the year
Cheese rolling is where I live and that hill is almost vertical at the top...
Most of these are English pursuits but there are others such as Welly Wangling which involves throwing a Wellington boot as far as possible and don't forget the Scots who also inhabit the British isles with sword dancing or caber tossing . Caber tossing inollves strongmen throwing huge logs known as cabers in the highland games .
10:38 you're absolutely right about that hill, I've never done the race but I've walked (or rather climbed) up that hill and it beggars belief how steep it is, it's actually steep enough to be classified as a cliff as much as a hill.
The magpie thing is supposedly that the number you see together will tell your immediate future. There are many versions of the rhyme but the one I was taught was:
"One for sorrow, two for joy,
Three for a girl, four for a boy.
Five for silver, six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told".
And if you see only one (foretelling sorrow), I was told to say "Good morning, Mrs Magpie!" to dissipate the bad luck.
Birds in general have a lot of superstitions in the UK. Jackdaws are a portent of death- I had one sitting by my window on 7th September 2022 and joked how I'd never seen one in all the years I'd lived here so uh oh someone's going to pass any day now!... Yeah. 8th September didn't go well and I felt so bad that I'd made such a flippant joke! [the Queen. Not that I believe the superstition of course, I just feel like maybe it was something I shouldn't have joked about]. Robins are supposed to be passed loved ones returning to say hello. Goldfinches symbolise prosperity. And seagulls symbolise that you're about to get your chips/fries stolen by a flying rat.
they missed a couple of classics;
the befriending a road cone as your new best mate, that you will inevitably proudly try and wear on your head,
The magical beer taxi, that conveys you from a point to your home (with your new best friend Ro de Cone or Mlle flashy light du road-beacon) that miraculously cost you the exact amount of money you had in your pocket to your door.
The kettle...
I’m in the Isle of Man and we have some weird horse thing like the Welsh . Usually turns up in random pubs at Christmas time
....hope you say hello to the fairys when you cross the bridge , we all did except for my daughter who fell down and grazed her knee as soon as we crossed the bridge !
@@rolybellamy956 I live not far from it lol . If you ever come back you need to find the original old fairy bridge it’s by a river down a farm track not far from Douglas!
I loved growing up playing marbles and conkers we had so much more fun as children than children do now with all the technology around, we had a better imagination and always found fun and exciting things to do. ( even if at times it was hedge hopping and knock a door run )
Kids used to sit outside the shops with a Teddy bear dressed up and ask penny for the guy, but these days it's considered begging, not many people go carol singing anymore either
Teddy bear, what part of the UK are you from? traditionally, children would make a "Guy", or life-size, scarecrow-like effigy of Guy Fawkes, which would be thrown onto the communal bonfire during the celebrations - but not before he was paraded around (sometimes in an old pram or go-cart) by the kids, who would ask for "a penny for the guy" to spend on sparklers.
Christmas crackers contain two long things pieces of cardboard that are joined together inside with gunpowder in the join area. So when pulled apart, you get a loud 'crack' noise, similar to a gunshot, hence the name 'Crackers.'
Lets not forget the old 'lock in' back in the day the pub would close and lock the doors then continue serving those inside till about 3am...ah the 90's.
Penny Up The Wall ?..lost so much dinner money.😂
At one of the Christmas Fairs I do, there is always a Punch and Judy show, and the kids love it. A Punch and Judy show is put on normally by a single entertainer (normally a man), and traditionally they are still referred to as 'Professor'.
I can confess that I am a P & J professor’s daughter!
I used to love playing conkers at school back in the 80's, there were some notorious ones going around the school yard that you were wise to avoid if you didn't want yours split in two! It was the talk of the school when to high scoring conkers faced off, generating huge crowds!
Ps is that a massive conker on that crane in the background?
My brother always soaked his conker in vinegar to make it stronger.
I have lived in Wales for the past 30 years, and I have never heard of the Horses head thing, that's probably why the video was in black and white.
i'ts mostly Glamorgan that did it, fell out of favor but is undergoing a revival in recent years
The recent addition to the pub crawl is the 'Greggs Crawl'
We do the wishbone too. It was always a big thing while growing up. They didn’t mention pantomime, I thought it was a worldwide thing lol but apparently not. Or bog snorkelling! I knew someone who won the bog snorkelling one year!
I was a kid in the 1990s, we had tvs, phones, etc, but we still played conkers out on the streets. We also played with 'clackers' until one cut my face i think.
cant remember last time ive seen a punch n judy show
Conkers was a serious sport in UK schools 😂
as a kid in the early 80's coming back from school, i hit the motherload, 100 of conkers in the park, i went back to my house, got my dad , and a suitcase and filled it up, a suitcase full of conkers, going through them hoping 1 would be that immortal champion conker.
People took it seriously at school, there was many theories on how to create the all conquering conker, many went down leave it in vineger route , at the end of it i had a suitcase full of moldy conkers with no champion conker
“Imagine growing up back then”
I was born in 1987 and I played Conkers even through secondary school 😂
Who's going to tell JT that Halloween started in Ireland?
my grandad used to do punch and judy shows all his life, he carved all the puppets himself. even got invited over to germany once to do a show.
I have never seen a punch and Judy show and have no thoughts to see 1. My school did the maypole dance and sadly it's not done any more.
Where I live in Scotland: on New Years Eve people parade up and down the main street in Stonehaven whirling long ropes with balls of fire at the ends around their heads.
Conkers were still a thing for a while - we still used to do this in early 2000s till our school banned it cause people were using them to hit each other
You do make me laugh when discovering UK stuff 😂
If Punch and Judy confuses you don't even try to understand Pantomime :-(
They missed out Dwile flonking,bog snorkelling,shin kicking and gurning competitions.
Growing up in the 80s I played Conkers all the time, and my knuckles were constantly damaged
If you change Punch and Judy into "Florida Man and Judy", beats his wife, kills police officers, wrestles crocodiles.
It doesn't seem so far fetched anymore.
Some of them be cutting the cheese while chasing the cheese! 🤣😉
I am a Punch and Judy professor’s daughter, I grew up in a town called Edenbridge, famous for it’s huge Guy Fawkes effigies and I used to take part in torch lit processions dressed as a beefeater! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wanna be confused, come for a drive with me in the morning where i salute single magpies and ask them how are the wife and kids 😂😂😂😂
I'm in my 30s and we still played conkers when I was a kid, though I doubt kids play with them now.
Punch and Judy... brilliant 😊
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The cheese rolling is just down the road from me and it's absolutely barking mad.
We do tip here in the UK but we don't have to as we do get a proper wage when it comes to going to work so we don't have to rely on other people generosity when it comes to something like working in places like restaurants
Hey JT, im ashamed to say two of those items are within 15min drive of where i live. The straw man is in Whittlesey just to the east of Peterborough on whats is called the fens. That an ex swamp that is below sea level until it was drained a long while ago. The second is the Conker world champs in Ashton near Oundle which is just west of Peterborough. Now theres a very good pub in Ashton with decent ale if its still standing. If not theres a micro brewery just over the road😂 at Nene valley brewery. Sad to say ive not been to either event although the straw man must go back to Pagan times
Pantomime at Christmas. The pantomime that went wrong is a funny one for you all to react to or watch on your own.
In terms of "Guy Fawkes Night", notice some of the key words there. "Protestant King"... "formally with anti-Catholic sentiment". The tldr being that the king at the time was massively brutal to the Catholics murdering many for simply not following the "Church of England" (which was the protestant faith with the King of England as the head). When the attempt failed, the kind had many people slaughter with their heads places on spikes in response, and proclaimed that it had been an attempt to attack parlement (ignoring he knew he was the core target) and so the day was "celebrated" as the day "democracy won". It's also why Guy Fawkes masks have very much come to the symbol of groups fighting for freedom against the ruling powers - although this does stem from "V for Vendetta" which in turn is a film/comic based around the Guy Fawkes tail and leaning more towards the "freedom fighter" side of it.
Punch and Judy is nearly 400 years old! Still do the magpie thing - can also turn round and spit where I'm from, oh I loved playing conkers. OMG I left the UK 20 years ago and the only one I haven't done is no 9. +1 Everything else my whole childhood... I really miss bonfire night.
One of the racetracks for the horse racing is in the town I live in in Scotland, and it always amuses us to see the ladies wearing fancy next to nothing skimpy outfits in the usually freezing weather just to watch horses run!
Funny to show 9ish magpies and 1 grey and black crow. Sure both are in the same family.
Then there’s shin kicking, worm charming and the Royal Shrovetide Football match. Plenty of others
Hogmanay turn up at strangers house with at least a six pack of beer or cider and be invited in as a 'first footer' nowadays usually limited to friends , family or at least people you know but even back in the 90's it was wild .
If it's any consolation, the Punch & Judy Man I saw on a beach in my childhood was not accessible to me. But then very little has been for over 50 years....
Punch & Judy is a strange one. over 400 years old with Italian origins, it pre-dates British police. Which kind of begs the question of why there is a policeman in it at all!
They can't talk about Ascot and not mention the outlandish hats women wear...
Better to call 'em fascinators & assorted insane headwear - they give actual hats a bad name!
Punch and Judy was funny in the days before we had to ask permission to laugh. The first photo of conkers are not conkers, but sweet chestnuts which you cook on a shovel over an open fire before eating them.
Cheese rolling takes place in 10 days time (27th) I believe. I live really close to the hill, not a chance I would ever attempt it!
I don't worry if I walk under a ladder or if I put an umbrella up indoors but no way would I not wish Mr Magpie a good day and ask after his wife and children if I see him on his own.
punch and judy scared me too, but i'm not scared of ALL puppets...i think it depends on how they look...some don't bother me...some give me traumatic flashbacks. same with dolls and dummies.
i have fond memories of bonfire night, i often went to several growing up...lots of merry people and good food with juice to drink.
I remember watching a punch and Judy show as a kid at Blackpool
one tradition they never mentioned, was mayday parades, on 1st of may, boys and girls would dress up in costume and parade around the streets, i think it was to welcome in the summer
And dancing around the may pole!!
Still play Conner’s with my niece and nephew. Played the hell out of it as a kid. Was pretty average though. Probably lost more than I won.
Groundhog day is my birthday so it became a tradition to find out what Phil says even though I'm British. Plus great movie.
You said about how back in the day, you didn't have so much TV so conkers was the thing....No, that is not correct, back in the day kids played conkers because we didn't have health & safety....just common sense.
You hardly see Punch and Judy now