8 things I hate about the UK. 1,We let liberals in. 2, We let liberals in. 3, We let liberals in. 4, We let liberals in. 5, We let liberals in. 6, We let liberals in. 7, We let liberals in. 8, We let liberals in. *#MAGA*

My cat goes out, has a shit, comes back. She stays out longer in summer.

Transport in London is ridiculous, 100% agree!!!

@@havoc6_1_6 8 things I hate about the USA, The vote was rigged. The US people didn’t get their day in court. It was a protest not a riot. This Libertarian Englishman stands with my US brothers and sisters. Good luck. You have more friends than you realise. America was always great, stuff the CCP, I lived in HK for 5 years. They are my people. I don’t have 8.

I was suprised you didn't mention the weather. I think every Brit would agree with your points except window mesh.

er, no. Most train fares in the UK (admittedly not all) are regulated by the Govt. Google how much train drivers get paid.

@@superted6960 Er yes... The advent of privatisation has had an obvious effect on the price of train fares in this country. They are more expensive even with regulation. Drivers wages are completely irrelevant to the discussion.

@@jonwilliams6996 the parliamentary far of 1d per mile no longer exists (or its equivalen!)

@@jonwilliams6996 How the cost of any staff wages, together with all the other costs (maintenance, rolling stock, signalling etc etc) can be " irrelevant" to the level of fares beats me. Somebody has to pay. Farebox or taxpayer. If you're suggesting the TOCs are ripping off the passenger then you need to do more research.

@@jonwilliams6996 as someone who has used UK trains for the last 40 years, not only are they now a lot cleaner, but more punctual and faster than there were when run totally by the government. Also a lot more of them. For example there used to be about 8 trains a day to Birmingham, now one every half an hour. It’s not perfect. But certainly better

Really?

You're not wrong!

You don't say ;-)

I thought the difference was that in the US it has to be explained and in the UK everyone gets it or ignores it.

@@geraldmcmullon2465 Yes. Americans just don't get it the way Australians, Dutch,Irish, and Scandinavians do! Theyre painfully literal minded !

What if you can't walk? The disabled are being victimised. I'm chaining myself to a phone box

@@lastfirst5689 umm what

@@Lilscattz1 Relax. I was having a joke

Depends on the stops but yeah in most cases you can probably walk it.

@@lastfirst5689 although it's a joke I'm pretty sure they can get discounts anyway with railcards

This is all very true, but I think it's more to do with the fact that the Tory, right wing leaning UK government made a conscious decision to force the price of playing for real travel onto the traveller and from the public purse, hence why it was privatised in the 90s and continued until today, but the biggest rises have been since they came to power in 2010. The fact that companies in large parts owner by public transport providers in Europe, and even beyond, are making money out of this is just a baffling almost contradictory product. They have to put in a bid to the government to run a franchise, and will put in cheaper his bids, and then increase the fares to make a profit for shareholders. If they didn't do it someone else would - Virgin used to run one of the biggest franchises and had no experience and I think initially weren't owned or in partnership with a nationally owned foreign train company. There is very little competition so if you want to get from a to b there's often very little choice but to pay the required fare - you might be able to if going from say London to Birmingham, or if you go in a very roundabout way, which often isn't cheaper for obvious reasons, though I have done this not going too far out of my way). Lastly fares are still regulated so the government can still stop fares going up, but choose not to, which emphasizes my point.

Nationalise them all

It is not caused by privatisation it is simply that the government subsidy of the rail network is lower than in other countries.

@@corrigenda70 Whilst I agree that this is the biggest reason behind it when you have private companies whose raison d'etre is to make money for their shareholders then this won't help. I don't think the government should be running the real network from Whitehall, but that the system should be nationally run by not for profit operators in a regional franchise way, as we have at present. This kind of system can still be abused - big payouts to CEOs and upper management, but performance should be monitored and anyone failing should be immediately replaced.

Yep - this is why. It’s awful. I suspect most people would support re-nationalising the railways.

Shhhhhhh leave our cognitive dissonance alone! 😂

@@WanderingRavens that should be your new national anthem title

Hey, pssst........don’t argue with the guys that hold the guns :) lol

@@benk9397 tell that to Afghanistan 🇦🇫 how long have they been fighting the farmers and goat herders there for now?

Yep. Totally fine. When seconds count the police are only minutes away.

Blame the Tories.

@@AnimeKnight76 we used to have toilets with an attendant. Not cheap but nor is having to buy a drink to use the toilet.

In my town we have pay to use toilets now it's 20p per person

Let’s be fair, you always had to when they were first built by the Victorians.. hence the euphemism ‘spend a penny’. Allowing for inflation, 20p is a lot cheaper

Blame the Labour Party as public toilets started to disappear around the same time as when Tony Blair and Gordon brown were in power

To add on to this and explain it further, it's the same because its based on WHO is going, like an adult ticket and a child tickets are normally the same price no matter where you go on the tube. Also, to add the tube and a tram are two different things and some places don't have both. Fun fact for you. Like Manchester, we have trams but not a tube system.

Plus you have a daily cap within each zone as well.

Depends on where you are and what line. Further out you go the longer it takes.

Just walk from debden to epping :p

This is true! The north is very cheap!

I agree, just came to write this point haha

@@WanderingRavens compare the price of Scarborough to Maryport..to Bournemouth...

@@WanderingRavens if you go to posh towns and villages you pay posh prices... Go to working towns and you pay sensible prices... If the butcher wears a straw boater that's a posh town...if he wears a D.A.its a working town..

@@david-lt9wj lucky to have a butcher nowadays all taken up by German supermarts or John J Sainsburys

Ehhh, didn't want to rough you up too bad ;D

@@WanderingRavens just checking you know that means 'to beat someone up' ie to physically beat someone.

@@sheenamaclean8324 yeah but just checking you know it’s meant in fun like brothers play fighting.....obviously :)

@@benk9397 i wouldn't necessarily say it means that, to me it's a polite way of saying 'beat someone up' maybe there are regional differences in the meaning.

@@sheenamaclean8324 agreed buts its all about the context :)

Too true! It tends to start at introducing your friend. "This is Dave, my best friend... he is a bit of a twat..."

most definitely, but like a lot of the times it doesn't feel like a joke more like a personal attack

A friend of ours married a lady from Uganda, when she heard me insult her husband (as a good friend) she was visibly shocked. She is used to it now. Especially after being on a night out with myself and my girlfriends.

As an American I can answer your question (from 3 months ago!). American women really do not insult each other. Very fragile we are. No, that's not it. We aren't fragile, but we do offend easily. American women are very complimentary to each other, including strange women. Case in point, I recently volunteered at my daughter's school track meet, specifically the High Jump. The ages were 12-14 yr-old boy teams & girl teams. The girls from one team routinely complimented the jump or form of a competitor girl. Not odd at all. I learned early not to be insulting in my sarcasm. It doesn't go over well with women. Men? Much more insulting to each other--just friends, of course.

Close friends yes, acquaintances no.

😂😂

Why? Because it’s the internet. If someone says they like puppies there will be one guy calling you a racist fascist Hannibal Lecter clone. “We share your despair” Shows you are a beans on toast a phobe. Check your privilege. ;)

I do apologise for saying "sorry" in our last interaction, it will not happen again. Very sorry again, Frank

@@METALFREAK03 “interaction”, Obviously a sign of the patriarchal domination of the modern stamp collecting community. You sir, should be ashamed of yourself.

Brits are fine with being criticised or laughed at, where as yanks take offense

Exactly!

And only allows tourist visas for half the time...

I usually do my resting at home, too!

I just have a shower

This thread 🤣🤣🤣

The a bog at my train station York

So you only go to railway stations to visit some guy named Lou?

Toilets in a church???!!!! Are you planning to use the font?

There are public toilets around the uk

To be fair, I’ve been to half the states in the US and the food over there is soooo much more expensive than London. Especially, when you have to tip. A breakfast would cost around $20/35 in a cheap chain restaurant. That’s the same as breakfast at a fancy restaurant in London. 😅

What I did find on holiday on the North Wales coast was good provision of usable public toilets. Maybe to be more tourist-friendly ?

Try a Wetherspoons....They are everywhere. ... and stop for a drink and meal and repartee. ...

Also cottaging was a big issue in some places. They generally were filth ridden places

It wasn't so much to save money as to stop them being used for drugs and cottaging

Exactly. Imagine: "May I have the keys to your shop toilet, I need a really good dump"?

Public toilets? Jesus!

i do the same mate

Nah fuck em

Same here. Even as a smoker, I hate people who just walk around the middle of the street blowing smoke in the direction of non smokers

I find most smokers are like this maybe the wandering ravens have had some bad experiences.

If I'm smoking and I want to sit on a park bench and there's someone already sitting there, I'll check the wind direction - if it's blowing from me to them, I'll ask if they'd mind changing places so that they don't get my smoke; never had one refuse. And if I'm smoking at a bus stop, I'll never stand inside the shelter while doing so

Worst thing you could say to an English person perhaps, but not us Scots. #AuldAlliance

@@aw8585 I know 😂 I'd definitely rather live in France than England

Maybe dont be offended just move to france also lets have a protest to get everyone in the uk to move abroad as its seems to already be opular in young ppl and it may solve the issues, then let russia invade the uk so uk no longer exists as a gift to them to stop fighting with Ukraine. That is how id go about it russia would be able to help the uk out i say put the land to a better use build some comy blocks and bring industry which is greatly needed in uk.

NYC, has the same problem. You're just forced to go into a cafe order a coffee just to use their bathroom. May cost you eight bucks.

Have to use pubs, are you inferring that's a bad thing ;)

@@benkernow280 not at all. A great excuse to get in and sink a few 😜

the pound loses. value the closer to London you get. when I worked in London we had London pay to help cover the cost

Agree with all of your points.

@@ianprince1698 Best thing to do (and any younglings in house, take notes) get a job for a company IN london BUT remote work OUTSIDE London. You be laughing as you get paid London wages, whilst living somewhere where their houses cost a fiver for five bedrooms!

LOL 😆

I literally had to Google what a window screen looked like 😂

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Oh god can you imagine I’d hate to become French

There's an element of truth there. I moved to France 5 years ago and now find myself greeting women in the UK with a double kiss to the cheeks. Facial cheeks that is..

@@sim5361 Fair enough. I wasn't given a choice in the matter. Were you?..

@@sim5361 each to their own.

Thank you for the kind words! And we hope so too :D

Good luck in France or Germany, they have their own sets of respective lunacies too, it depends on your pain thresholds for different types of awfulness they might inflict on incomers or residents.

I'm pretty sure anywhere serving food or drink for consuming on the premises has to have toilets by law.

I often pop in for a McPiss, and occasionally a McDump.

I would second that I am sure that anywhere serving food or drinks has to ha e a toilet. All large trains rates have toilets, and a lot or smaller ones do but the signage is appalling

Yes true , they not well sign posted in a lot of places and often can be on the platforms in the train stations

If you know where to look, you don't need to look. You just need to find the right coins.. Or can you use credit cards these days..?

Supermarket, bus stations, train stations, public parks (mostly) and pubs.

Plus you can piss in most alleys in the UK hassle free. Its not even illegal as long as you are out of sight.

@@stretfordender11 : Under the 1986 Public Order Act it is an offence to urinate in a public place...however it's okay to have a dump. Don't you just love British law 🤣

And those there are have doors with huge gaps at the bottom !!!

Haha we hate the toilet doors too! And we've done a video on them before - can't remember which one though.

Just take the doors off. 🤔😄😲

You mean small, surely? I'm horrified that people would be able to see my undies around my ankles.

You mean the cubicle walls are so so small!

American toilet doors aren't big enough! The gaps round them are huge.

Public bathrooms in the US...I've never found a bath in one yet 😂

@@Spiritof1955 I don't find many people having a rest in many either!!!

Because theyre ridiculously puritanical over things like this yet still sell guns in shopping malls and shoot electricity into those convicted of murder!

I work in a cinema and I hate it when British people ask for the Bathroom. I tell them that we don't have Bathrooms but the Toilets are over there.

@@matsamuel5655 why would a British person ask for a bathroom??

I guess tilt-and-turn windows make screen installation difficult?

I used to hate taking the train to school with all the cigar smoking businessmen 🤢 also because my parents smoked having to sit in smoking on a plane or in a restaurant 🤢🤢🤢

Yeah it's changed really fast! I remember first going out drinking in the '90s; smoke everywhere. Quite surprised to hear them say that it still seemed prevalent.

As a child, waiting in anticipation in the cinema for the film to begin and watching the smoke rising in front of the projector. Yes' I'm that old.

@@Lily-Bravo Haha me too! I have an early vivid memory of watching 101 Dalmatians through wreaths of smoke.

Yeah, I think that smoking complaint in the video is mainly a US millennial generation issue as they have no experience how really bad things were before smoking bans were introduced

A more serious problem is in America its common place to have you cats declawed, a barbaric process they can result in a jail sentence in the U.K. In the U.K. we made all of our top predators extinct, where as in most of America, they cats tend to get eaten if let outside. Also cats are much better climbing up trees, than they are at getting back down (for anatomical reasons) so the fire brigade in the UK spend a lot of time rescuing cats from trees when they get stuck.

In many countries its also now illegal to let pet cats outside unattended, as they can quickly kill local endangered species when they hunt.

I have three cats in the UK who have a cat flap. When I tried to keep one of them in by locking the cat flap (because she had a sore foot), they actually broke out of the house by hurling themselves at the cat flap until it broke.

My cat is an indoor cat. She was abused at her previous "home" by being hit in the face and swung around by her tail, so she's now 100% a house cat as she has the tendency to freak at the outside world. But yeah, in the UK cats do come and go as they please!

@@hannahaidastitcher8098 That's outrageous. How'd they find it if an ogre hit their face and swung them around? Some just have no sense.

The railways were privatised, the opposite of nationalised! Naturally the private companies gouge as much as they can.

I think you mean denationalise / privatise. British Rail was a nationalised service until the tories broke it up and franchised the services provided so that they could pay dividends to ever greedier shareholders / tories.

I think he meant de-nationalised the railways

Thanks guys. I meant Tories privatised. Now updated.

@@pratosaurusrex1128 While you're in the business updating... the railways were privatised in 1990s. 1994 to 1997 is when it happened, something to remember if you ever go on The Chase.

🤣🤣🤣 actually, since the 90s it been government cuts to councils that most public toilets were closed. There plenty in London just spaced out 👍

You don’t have to google it, I’m happy to answer any questions.

Cottaging. It sounds so quaint and innocent. However there is no tea and buttered crumpets involved.

@@gmf121266 for those involved its more lubed crumpet 🤣

@@gmf121266 Take a flask!

You're not wrong, but on the flip side, at least we actually have public transport. The US has awful to non-existent public transport...

Good to know!

Yeah I believe Evan Edinger is one of them. Having worked for multiple startups. However he also came here on a student visa before that.

@@WanderingRavens Also want to say, you would be able to get a work visa for 3 years. You then can take a test? or you just apply to live. Once you have lived for 5 or 7 years you can apply for citzenship. I am pretty sure long as you work here and pay taxes on the place (Council Tax) and NI Tax, you be fine. The income tax would be the problem though, maybe that is why they don't allow it? My friend is freelance though and they are from Italy, maybe it's because it's an EU country they allowed them to stay here? Then again, I know plenty from Asian/Oceania areas that have come to live here as freelance, but maybe it's that they were working for British or International companies that have HQs in UK.

@Violet Yes, I noticed. Oooh what a giveaway!

Yep, @evanedinger is one! He lives in london and is going for his citizenship :)

That is something that came to my mind aswell. Yes public transport is expensive here and they re other European countrys that do it better. but compared with usa you can get pretty much to and from anywhere in the country without a car.

@@zarasamuels9377 thats true but you have to remember its not only comparing it to the US, since they have been all over europe and asia it seems. UK transport is just expensive. As for the freelancer thing, i assume its something about keeping out "bullshitters". yeh i work freelance, look these funds were from my freelance work *stamp*. I could be wrong I just think its probably to do with needing 100% concrete proof of income and necessity of ur job being based in england

@@Auron710 yeah I agree with the freelance thing, being about preventing people trying to gain the system. though I do think rules here might need a little updating. as they are a little old now, and freelance work is more common place.

You can also find them at most cafe’s and bars.

Macdonalds is London's unoffical public restroom

LOL

Oh wow!! That's good to know! Thanks!

@@WanderingRavens ... i was about to mention this so im surprised you are not aware of this.

Those who look back with favour on the nationalised rail system must have very heavily rose-tinted spectacles or simply not have been regular rail users. My memory of pre-privatisation British Rail is of hugely overcrowded, dirty, ancient trains running to no apparent schedule. Having spent too many long journeys sitting on my kitbag travelling to and from my RAF bases my memories are not particularly happy. The only positive was that the bar (assuming the there was a buffet car) was always open, whatever the hour.

That's not actually true, but don't let political prejudice get in the way of a good KZfaq comment. 😀

I think they have got worse in many ways, and the prices continue to climb. The same seems to be true of the postal service.

@@MrPaulMorris I am old enough to remember, but was not regular rail user. I probably used them more after privatisation, but not daily or weekly. I seem to remember it as being better in the past. I haven't been on the train since I became disabled, or a bus, so for over 10yrs.

The ones in Westminster give you 20 minuted then automatically open. When they shut they steam clean themselves.

Instead of leaving you're country like a coward make a change your the reason it has so many issues same with the politicians they treat this like a side hobby a part time entertainment stand up comedy show in parliament. Ive seen many brits online living in foreign countries and working there. 85% of working Americans work and live in their home country whereas the uk is only 60% and Germany is 90% Its very sad to me we send all industry abroad and have throughout history, We barely manufacture anything for example steel,wood,glass and cars,tools and nearly everything. There is no mining industry of any true scale and farming is limited to mainly sheep grazing feilds. Therefore the industry from the ground up the primary sector lacks which means the country cant prosper localy meaning the country imports everything and people are forced to work for foreign companies and in foreign countries, in turn selling all its wealth and intelligence to work abroad to help countries abroad. The uk is very similar to japan and both countries have similar faults but I've been to japan and it is incomparable to the uk also. It is much better in many ways with public toilets being much more prominent, subway system of tokyo is much better than londons tube and so on and I'm not even a fan of japan which could also be a result of there sincerity and joyfulness compared to the stubborn movie villain brit who only exist because they exist and automatically feels they have rights over foreign countries which has been show throughout history with the empire and colonisation of the world thank the lord India became independent, Thank the lord Australia, united states. I have never classed the uk as part of europe such an old nation prehistoric but so primitive and pathetic and every part of there culture based on the selfishness on others above putting god first with henry the eighth and so on just so typical of the uk to claim the most ridiculous ideas such as of the church of england which no other county has because it makes changes and doesn't let the past define its incompetence but adapts to new environments. I could write a while book on this but ill end here.

So used to weather changing four times a day that it never stays too bad or too good for long. But that was way back in the last century. Still in the mind set and for some of the year still true but more really bad periods and even worse with burning hot weather in summer for weeks at a time.

Yeah, I use it in Northern England pretty often too.

@Violet In the south of England "bummer" has the same meaning.

Its the homosexual meaning of the word I think they are implying.

It also means someone who does anual sex, most specifically a guy man. It's used insultinly

bummer is a person who enjoys anal sex although I think most UK people will know the americans use it in a different way and will make allowances!

Lets be honest, if you want screens, you can fit them - commercial catering premises all have them (or are meant to) we just don’t really find them necessary (and to be fair, the ones we had fitted to the kitchens where I worked fell apart every five minutes)

She's the best! Sadly, she's not ours, as we're just watching her for some friends 😭😭

@@WanderingRavens It looks more like sha's watching you :)

We had a lovely kitten for eight months...then a car ran it over....223,000 cats die every year in the uk like that....if you live near a dangerous road don’t have a cat....the grief is awful..

Even more reason for the UK to try its best to collect on tourist revenue and EU worker tax money to reinvest in expanding the transit network. With Brexit, this is now less feasible.

Can't wait 😂

Does it matter? Its only a tiny minority who leave their home state let alone , the USA!!!

In Notts, same here. Occasional bee, and that's it

Whenever a British person opens their mouth to speak, another Brit will hate them for their accent.

There is a KZfaq series interviewing people on countries they hate and the UK video is mostly brits saying they hate brits.

@@ThisWontEndWell I hate it when you just give me an idea of which you tube you're talking about... You must be a Brit..

I hate asthmatics, if I see one, I try to blow as much smoke in their face as possible (and I don't even smoke so I have to buy a pack in a hurry).

Despite our experience with Turd Alley, we actually had a pretty good time! Leeds is a gorgeous city with incredible architecture and so much to see!