These manners are used throughout the UK & not just in London. Queuing is just basically standing in line, waiting your turn, in a store, a restaurant, movie theatre etc.

nobody can say please and thank you too much. good manners cost nothing.

Watch a vid on British and American cutlery etiquette. Vastly different and very interesting

Ha ha, your face at some of these was hilarious James lol! 😂 you’re like ‘yeah, obviously we wait in line’!!! Having visited the US lots of times over the years, I’ve never experienced American’s that don’t queue! Germany on the other hand - 😂!!! The one about clearing plates in a restaurant before everyone is finished is something I’ve always found strange - and a bit uncomfortable. That happens very rarely (in my experience) in the UK, but in the US, it happens to me all the time and it can make me feel rushed. Another one that irritates me a bit is when waiters/waitresses in the US bring your main course out when you’re still in the middle of your starter/appetiser. That doesn’t really happen to me in the UK, for the most part, but has happened a lot in the US. The other one I always think is really weird in the US - and I don’t know if this is specific to a particular state or is just dependent on the restaurant, but it’s when the waiter/waitress won’t bring another alcoholic drink to the table until you’ve finished (or they’ve taken away) the one you’ve already got! So, only one alcoholic drink at a time, regardless of what it is. I’ve had this happen in all different types of eating establishments in the US over the years, from bars/pubs to local ‘hidden gems’, ‘chain’ or franchise style restaurants or even in fine dining /high end restaurants and hotels. When we go out for dinner, especially if it’s for a special occasion, we’ll usually order pre-dinner drinks such as a cocktail or a ‘short’ drink (for example, vodka and coke, gin and tonic etc) when we arrive at the restaurant and/or while we’re looking at the menu and deciding what food to order. So then, we’ll order our food and normally pair it with a bottle of wine to go along with it. If I’ve not finished my drink by the time the food arrives, I prefer to leave it until a break during courses when I’m not eating or more often than not, until the end of the meal - and prefer to switch to drinking wine with the actual food itself. In the UK this wouldn’t be an issue at all and I’ve seen myself having a half full gin and tonic, some leftover wine and sometimes an after dinner liqueur (eg Baileys, Glayva etc) all sitting at the same time in various stages of consumption towards the end of a meal lol! I was so surprised the first couple of times in the US that the server said they couldn’t give me another drink, I thought they were joking lol! I know that’s not really an ‘etiquette’ issue though! 😂

Fun info about queuing, basically we hate not knowing how something works and it feeling unfair. So whenever you are waiting to do something, pay at a shop, board a bus, speak to someone at a kiosk, waiting for taxis, waiting for public toilets etc. we all queue. Sometimes there a specific sides like bus stop tend have a front of the queue for example. We even queue on escalators, we tend to stand to one side so people who want to walk past in a rush can, two people blocking is baaaad. Like they said we all passive aggressively fume at people who jump queues, makes double queues etc. The weird exception to this is the bar, this is totally a ram into a massive crowd and squeeze your way to the bar until you can get someone’s attention. Another weird manner though is decent Brits will always be like “oh this person was next” if they get the persons attention early 😂

I worked in a fancy hotel while I was a student. I was a barman. I had an American chap get very angry with me because I didn't give him a glass of water with his whiskey. (he was really angry about it). He took a moment, and apologised. I smiled and spent the evening chatting with him for 3 hours about the differences between us. We are not so different. He was used to having a barman serve a glass of water with a whiskey. Makes sense. Most Englishmen would look at you like you were a nutter if you gave them a glass of water with their whiskey but we got there in the end. The differences are always more interesting.

In London, you can always tell the visitors or tourists on the 'tube'. They are the one's on the platform, who DON'T stand to the side of the doors, until everyone has gotten off the train. They also DON'T follow the EE Rule ('Escalator Etiquette'): STAND on the right - WALK on the left ! I sometimes see people commenting about Brits queuing, asking who DOESN'T queue? Well they have obviously not visited India (a nightmare!) or even 'closer to home', Italy... Yes, Italian's 'jump the queue' (mainly in the larger city's - just Google Italy - Queue Jumping - Italian Queuing Problems or similar and you may appreciate the issue). And I too send 'Thank You' cards for certain things... Plus we live in the UK, so don't have to suffer the - 'clearing tables quickly, for a quick turn round, next customer & more tips' - routine... Anyway, PLEASE accept my apologies for the length of comment and THANKS for reading, it's very much appreciated (see what I did there - LOL).

To queue or queueing is when you stand in line, like at the supermarket for example. You have to love English.

British dental health ranks much higher than the US and we get free braces up until the age of 18.

When eating out in America, I found the way Americans used their cutlery really weird and the mess they left, no table manners.

I can not understand American waiters/waitresses. At a meal for eight at a "Proper" restaurant in Milwaukee, one of our party asked the waitress, who was whipping away someone's plate, a question regarding a certain Bar in the area. She took this as a signal to sit down and have a conversation with everyone. She dragged a chair from another table and sat at the corner of ours! Even the Americans amongst us began to look a little perplexed. It really looked as if she was settling in for the night, so I asked her if it were possible for her to bring me a new napkin, she said yes but carried on her conversation until I asked again. Whilst she was away getting a napkin, I replaced the chair to whence it came. She returned, dragged the chair back to our table and sat down again. I said that we were finding it a little awkward talking about her whilst she was sitting there and would she mind moving? She wasn't best pleased!

What rude in Europe is when American tourist say Hey You! Plus chewing gum and speaking that is a no no! In the European Style of dining, the fork is held in the left hand and the knife is held in the right hand when cutting food. As with American, cut the food using a gliding motion. Never click your fingers to get waiters attention.

these guys in the vid are 100% tory voters

Americans think we have terrible service in restaurants and we think they do. In a UK restaurant, the staff should be unobtrusive, never interrupting the flow of the meal or conversation. They should not approach the table until a diner makes eye contact with them. Also, it is incredibly rude to complain about the food. Someone has cooked you a meal, so you eat it with appreciation and gratitude. Americans love to omllain and send food back, which is just shameful to most Brits.

Yes queueing (what a weirdly spelled word!) is standing in line in order. Some Americans tend skip the queue saying their friend is holding their spot, etc but Central/Western Europeans are probably worse. It's odd that we (Irish/British) say please and thanks a lot but can't stand the "friendly" nature in American stores, people coming up to you asking if you need help and saying Have A Nice Day after you buy something, it's weird to us. 6:18 I eat in a restaurant about once every 5 years, is taking empty plates really rude? I wouldn't think anything of it. I don't like that the tipping culture is finding its way over here, our waiters/waitresses are paid a decent wage compared to the US. They get €12 an hour. The Federal fair Labour Standards act says Minimum Cash Wage $2.13 and basic FLSA combined cash and tip minimum wage is $7.25. For something called Fair Labour Standards $2-7 isn't very fair is it?

Ha ! Most of us can no longer access a dentist 😢

To a degree they are correct but they are exaggerating because they are middle class and obviously not everyone was brought up with over-pretentious manners like these. I come from an Irish immigrant background, both my parents came to London from Dublin, Ireland and a working-class background but the queuing thing to me is important but I think it's important in most countries all over the world but that doesn't mean you don't get the odd bell end who doesn't push in because you and it does piss everyone else off and yes people do say "oi there's a queue here" and the "sorry" thing again is true we do say sorry a lot, but not if someone beats you up they are just dramatising it lol. The tube thing is correct you are supposed to let people off before you get on but the majority of people who don't do it are the people on their way to work who live here all the time lol. The plate thing isn't necessarily true, I have been to restaurants that take away the rest of your parties plates before I finish because I am always the last to finish, I suppose it depends if you eat in high-end restaurants and considering they come across as stuck up middle-class people, I am sure they can afford to eat in high-end restaurants with mummy and daddy's flexible friend (credit card).

I don’t think these two are British because they were talking bollox 😂

Whilst this video is fairly accurate, it's worth pointing out that jumping the queue/line when people are drunk would usually result in a fight on the street, at least that's what happens in my area anyhows.

Look, I`ve lived in England for far too long. Please don`t go running away with the idea that we like queuing up at the till. We simply put up with it, whether by manners or routine. It may be a work in practice or a work in progress. And I`ll challenge any other of you readers in England to put up a fair rebuttal to what I say. Let us suppose that it`s a busy afternoon in Store with plenty of shoppers and not enough people working at the tills. So the shop opens another till. I have just finished my shopping and am first the newly opened `empty till. Others from previously `full in line` shoppers rush over and acuse me of juming the queue. But in the till that has just opened there was no queue.I just happened to get to the newly opened till faster than anyone queuing at the other tills. A Manager at the Superstore came over and ruled against me. If you don`t see the problem I`ll spell it out. For 9 tills to be presently open and then a 10th one open . one must exercise ones own wits and join the shorter queue, or `Store Management` must record or otherwise know in what order every shopper in their store must occupy, in order to acertain who takes priority in up to even 30 tills. I tried to tell Management this - and that hadn`t a clue as to the logistics of it. I guess this is ( alas ) a prime example as to how seriously some of us nutters over here take queues as existential rights of way.

As much as I hate the 'class' thing in the UK, primarily because i think its out-dated bollocks and just shows entitlement, these two are clearly middle class (I'll use it here for the benefit of the video). I have worked along side many people from different backgrounds when i was an engineer and working in the food industry, as well as just being out having a drink etc. As far as I have seen the higher up this class system you go the LESS mannors people seem to have and also the less common sense. I am working class and proud of it. like my father before me and his before him etc. i was brought up with the sayings 'mannors maketh the man' 'actions speak louder than words' and 'mind your Ps and Qs'. the higher you go up the chain of 'class' or the chain of wealth you'll see a sense of entitlement that comes with it. people closing doors on workmen because they own a company, saw the workmen coming and just let the door close on them for example, and yes that was a one that happened to me. It is obviously a gross exaggeration to say all middle and higher class people are like this and there are working class people with little to no mannors. To reference the video about the waitress, they are told to go check if the meal is ok with the customers and if their is empty plates to remove them asap because it can make the resteraunt look unkempt from the outside. The waitress should not be reaching over people if at all possible and should navigate around the table to collect BUT if that is not possible the people on the table who have finished should have the mannors to pass the waitress the finished plates and understand they are just doing their job, that is common curtosy not to sit and bitch at the waitress about doing their job. I loved your reactions but these two seem to, at least half the time, talk total bollocks.

lol yeah que is line lol there quite posh tho but most don't do the thankyou cards tho not heard that one before but we do say thankyou alot and sorry lol you say too? cool your almost British then lol good video bud have a good day bud

I have to say that English people have a reputation for bad teeth but statistically we apparently have better teeth than Americans because our dental treatment is free. I don’t know where the reputation comes from

These two are a certain type of British. Very middle class and well mannered. We are not all like this trust me. The working class brits are alot ruder and less concerned with other people. Also cueing is just standing in line and every country i have been too does this with the exception of Turkey where it was just a free for all in the markets

Im British but whenever I go to America they all que ( or stand in line) so dont really know what point those two are making

Who are these English people ? Soooooo annoying Love your reactions mate 😘UK

These two are judgmental middle-class, pretentious, and very much uneducated in the streets. He slandered a working class accent, too, which nobody else seemed to have picked up on. If I'm at a restaurant, the waiter/waitress will ask if it is okay to take the plates that are obviously finished even if there is someone else eating. They are acting like nobody ever pushes in, but it happens all the time.