In the USA they provide special rooms in all the buildings in case visitors get tired. I've seen signs for these 'rest rooms' everywhere. Remarkable idea.

​@@MisterChrisInTheUKI had a nap in one of those, would not recommend. It stank and was very uncomfortable. Everyone kept walking by and staring at me. Not restful at all

Also football are played with a ball.

Now I realise why when I asked for a first floor level apartment in America ( as I prefer sleeping upstairs) I was given a ground floor one!

Americans call it’s soccer because British people called it that,first rugby has always been called rugby football and football has always been called association football. It was shortened to soccer football then at somepoint after they went to America Americans kept soccer and the British kept football. Rules of rugby football were changed up and became just football. The rugby club I played for when I was young was called *townname* rugby football club because it’s so old that when it was made everyone in the uk would have called rugby rugby football.

Insults are part of interaction. Funnily enough I work at a Spar BP garage in Yorkshire and there's been many occasions where I've seen a customer do something daft and I made fun of them when they come to the counter and they laugh about it, like I saw someone my age filling his car up and left his fuel flap open and ran back and nearly slipped to close it, when he got to the counter I said "I'll pretend I didn't see you forget to close your fuel cap mate" just bants like that, I've also called people (only people my age, wouldn't dare with older people) povvos when their card declines, specifically when it's a problem on our side with our card machines messing up, and they laugh about it

True, but it's definitely getting worse in the uk, and they should probably do something about it

@@PabloEscobar-ws8rzi would say that brain rot apps like tiktok are primarily to blame

@@PabloEscobar-ws8rz I totally agree

@mothmagic1 - That used to be true, but it hasn't been for forty-odd years.

@@PabloEscobar-ws8rz There is little discipline in homes or schools. Used to be a mark of shame if you got punished at school and you never told your parents as the penalty was a lot worse. Now if kids are disciplined at school the parents now go to the school to take it out on them for enforcing an acceptable standard of behaviour. We lived in fear of the cane which was only used for serious breaches.

don’t underestimate the mind of an american lad

never underestimate the power of 'stupid' - tower blocks can cause untold confusion. where my mum lived, there's 11 floors and six flats on each floor and the numbering reflects that - fifth floor, flat 4 = 54. someone got in the lift wanting 54 and assumed '45' and in the short journey between the ground floor and my mums floor, I helped this lost soul and nearly ended up losing my goddamned mind explaining the building and it's layout. told my mum what had happened on my way there, she called the random person 'an idiot at best'. my mum regularly had to put pizza delivery people right thinking that my mums place was the point of delivery. just a damned good thing that the lifts in the building went to all floors! and an even better thing my mother wasn't on a higher floor! 🤣

To be fair at one of the hospitals I work at, the ground floor is actually Level 2… as in you walk in off of the street on to floor/level 2, it has 2 basement levels (level 1 which is a patient area and level zero which is strictly for staff and the un-alive)

That’s exactly what I thought. All lift buttons are marked to the corresponding floor, as are the doors on the stair. I don’t know how anyone could be told to go to floor 4, and end up on floor 3. Unless they’re climbing through a window from the outside.

My thought exactly. Stairwells and lifts are all numbered.

The problem with common sense is that it's not that common!

​@@Fifury161same for common decency

49% of the world don’t have ‘common sense’. But yeah, it still baffles me that all of these ‘comparison with the UK’ videos always contain something about crossing roads. Obviously, remembering to drive on the correct side of the road is important. But as a pedestrian, surely everyone, regardless of country of origin, are taught to look both ways, and to continue to look both ways as you cross the road, until you get across safely? I refuse to believe that Americans (even on one-way streets) are just going ‘Oh, well I looked to my left and there was nothing there, so now I’ll close my eyes and assume I’ll make it across okay…’

@@lewismantle3887 I suppose that these "road comparison" are more for people that are distracted or on "autopilot" as was said in the video. Distraction on the road is dangerous even in our own country and must be exponentially so when going to UK which has a whole opposite intuition about it for most of us. Note how the warnings are painted down on the road which suggest that they are aimed at people focused more on their own shoes.

Used to have public service announcements teaching children how to cross a road safely. Was a couple of hedgehogs (often see them dead in the road)

Nah I disagree with the mate bit, I use mate far more as a term of endearment than in annoyance.

I call literally everyone I know mate even my dad so round where I live it's the opposite Sometimes the pal thing applies tho

She’s quite right. What a clown

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They also say "Horseback riding" presumably so people don't get on the wrong part of the horse.

Faucet was used as the word in England decades before tap. It’s not an Americanism.

@@Joanna-il2ur it's two different things

@@101steel4 My American husband would tend to disagree.

@@Joanna-il2ur he would do, he's American 🤣

The French feared British longbow archers so much that when they captured English bowmen they would cut off the Index and middle finger, so they could no longer draw the bow string. Hence it was a taunt to the French soldiers that the bowmen still had all their fingers and where a danger to them.

​​@@avalonm8541Sorry but you're totally wrong on that. There is absolutely no evidence that ever happened, it's an urban myth. Google it

Ah, the classic “Up Yours”

@@FeatherWing162 yep

This is a myth and not true, archers actually use 3 fingers to draw a bow, a captured archer would more likely lose an head not a finger.

I remember once phoning my American aunt in North Carolina, and her first words to me were, "What's up with you?". Of course, to my British ears, it sounded like she was asking me what the matter was, so I responded by saying, "Nothing...I just thought I'd phone to see how you all are."!

When my American friends said what's up I would say the sky.

Americans never cross the street. It's illegal 😂

I’ve always wondered this. I’ve heard a number of Americans concerned that they would get hit by a car while crossing the road. Because we drive on a different side and are used to looking left for oncoming traffic. We are always taught as children to look both ways before crossing the street. I’ll generally look both ways a few times before crossing. Just to make sure no one is speeding, or pulling out of a side road etc. I’ve been many countries that drive on the right and it’s never been a issue.

Americans don't walk

You shouldn’t drink distilled water on a regular basis!

@@Jeni10 It’s perfectly safe to drink but lacks the minerals or calcium in tap or spring water that your body needs. So long as you’re getting those from other things, you’re fine.

Yeah, that episode kinda revealed that Coca Cola was literally selling us Brits tap water and the media had a field day.

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There was a brilliant Tom Scott video about it, it focused on Dasani, which was a US bottled water brand that they tried to launch in the UK that failed spectacularly.

I've pointed that out so many times when this subject comes up! Oh well, if Americans want to think we do it just to be kind to them, who am I to shatter that illusion? 😁

the whole 'look left'/'look right' thing extends away from city centres - busy towns tend to have the roads clearly marked at zebra crossings too - except for where there's no room for it to be written.

Exactly what I was going to say.

Additionally, some main street (new) thoroughfares in London have additional 'bus lanes' which go in the opposite direction to the usual traffic flow, with crossing islands in-between the traffic lanes. And they sometimes come into 'force' literally overnight!

They appear all over the UK. Meant to help children know to stop and look before crossing.

totaly agree, i think us brits only do that,

@seanmc1351 Yea I can't think of any county's that do the same. 🤔💪

@@camerashy273 i worked with a guy, big strong guy, but he could not off the no break a smile joke prank, you never you whether he was serious or not, we didnt take it bad, just tried to figure him out lol, best in the place at his job, but sandwhich short of picnic, he once put pie on micro wave for 35 mins because it said put in the over for 35 mins, wonderful guy tho, taught me alot, nothing was to musch trouble

@@camerashy273 I guess you haven't meet, or spoken to, many Australians then. They will insult a friend in just the same was as we do. They can be pretty polite to an idiot too.

@@AlanEvans789 Yeah Aussie humour is pretty similar I find to our humour in the UK.

I actually met the guy who started Iceland and he was the one who invented five a day vegetables. Why five? I asked him. This was a meeting of a cancer charity that was plugging it. He replied ‘easy to remember’. That was it. No nutritional benefit over four or six, just easy to remember

​@Joanna-il2ur Iceland was originally called Bejam I always assumed this was a combination of parts of the names of the owners/starters/directors of the company

@@misolgit69 like Waitrose started by messrs Waite and Rose. I forget who t e and s were but the co of Tesco was for Jack Cohen. Debenhams was Debenhams and Freebody. Debenham is a village near Ipswich, on the river Deben, which is pronounced Dee-bn. grocer’s daughter!

I was knocked down by a van travelling the wrong way down a one way street in my late teens, thankfully I wasn't badly injured. I've never failed to look both ways since, even on a one way street because some motorists are idiots.

Aren't restaurants and cafes legally obliged to provide free tap water? Maybe that's just a myth.

@@caw25sha . If they are licensed to serve alcohol, they must provide free tap water if requested.

I was going to post on this topic too - in Northern Ireland the R is included in the pronunciation (we also have a slightly different logo - the text is red on a white background). I guess it depends on what region you are in how they pronounce it - similar to Primark (some places pronounce it PREmark, some PRYmark)

Absolutely, and the higher the education level the more exhausting it can be when you not only get dry humour but may get bilingual or trilingual puns interjected. My mother used to complain that one of my brothers and I gave her a headache when we got together, as she had to be so agile to catch the jokes.

Probably not, they never walk anywhere. My cousin lives in florida, his stepson is 16 and I kid you not, he's never crossed a road 😂😂 He's literally driven everywhere.

The standard road training in the US (at least back when I was small) was simply "stop, look, and listen" or just "look both ways". It's been proven that young children who are told "look both ways and then you can cross safely" take it literally as a sort of magical protection -- as long as you glance left and right, you can step out into traffic and be fine. The Green Cross Code was designed specifically to prevent that, which is why it puts so much emphasis on checking, perceiving, and thinking.

I used to live in Manchester and we had a Spar very close to the shared house I lived in. We did notice that food in their fridges wasn’t as cold as you would expect. Abruptly it closed. for good. Apparently they were turning off the fridges at night. Spar weren’t at all happy and it was a franchise. Their reputation was tarnished so they closed it and if was sold off.

In some parts of the UK, notably the West Country, West Wales and parts of Scotland, Spar is pronounced rhotically, i.e. as in the States.

Your right that would be confusing, as most "Farm Shops" where I am now are proper Farm owned shops. I remember a Spar opening round the corner from my parents house in Hertfordshire in the early sixties. It was a "wonderment" at the time, although small as it was most peoples first experience of a modern style supermarket. Everywhere else you were still served at a counter by people in white coats.

@@johnp8131 I lived next to a new build small Essex town centre in the mid 1960s. That included a SPAR supermarket. Long gone now, it was a KFC for a while and is now an independent "greasy spoon" café. I remember that they did their own savings stamps.

It's an acronym when translated means "Through united co-operation everyone regularly profits". Yeah, really.

Spar is a voluntary chain, consisting of privately-owned shops that take a proportion of their wholesale supplies from Spar-appointed wholesalers, again privately-owned, of which there are several distributed around the country. The shops participate in the promotions and decide for themselves where they actually buy the promoted goods from. They aren't obliged to stock anything that is part of a promotion, but, if they do, it is sold at the promotional price during the its course. All the shops use Spar marketing materials to some extent, and usually, but not always, have Spar-branded fascias and shelving labels, bags, own-label products, etc. The brand is Dutch, but not much else is.

And keep looking both ways as you cross

I had Rupert Bear wallpaper on my bedroom walls for too long as a kid. and the pattern included Rupert Bear holding a sign that said 'Always look both ways before crossing the road' - which makes more sense than it doesn't and simplifies it brilliantly.

The green cross code was..."Stop, look, listen and Think" and i think there was a green cross man superhero advertising it. I also remember the "Charly says always look both ways before crossing the road" campaign, the Prodigy turned it into a banging tune....

@@jezlanejl The green cross code man (Dave Prowse) became Darth Vader.

​@@peterjackson4763But sadly they dubbed his voice. Cultural vandalism.

I was taught 'Look left, look right, then left again'.

Unless you live in Camelford….

@@skipper409 Oh dear

Some areas have more lime scale than other areas. Which is just minerals but they can build up a chalky residue on taps and in pipes. Which can make it taste different to what you’re used to. But yes there no setting fire to our tap water like in Flint.

@@JarlGrimmToys yup. Bedfordshire water is so hard it's got knuckle tattooes. I'd never seen truly hard water until I stayed with family over the span of a few summers. you couldn't wash with it because using soap was damned difficult, it made the worst coffee - boiling water had no influence on it regardless of filtration. you never felt good stepping out of the shower - because soap wouldn't lather that well. and if you were boiling anything in a pan on the cooker - it was horrendous! and bottled water way back up to the mid 1980's was not a cheap or easy find, but if you needed it, you had to get what was available. my aunt and uncle used to have to order their drinking water through a water supply company - and it was used sparingly because it was expensive back then. the only respite came from being in the town centre where the water was softer. we are spoilt though here in the NW England - we have the softest water in the country. although, I'll shut up. there's been a lot of redevelopment work and other works done here that required losing water quality - and the only way to flush that crap out of the system once work had been done, was to run every tap until the water ran clear. but it's not bad - it's ok to drink on its own.

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They are only pronounced the same in certain regions, probably mostly southern England. We certainly pronounce the .'r' in Scotland. Also pronounced in Ireland, North and South, and many parts of England

A lot of lifts have a voice telling you which floor you are on too.

The only time I could see an American getting confused is if they were told something was on the first floor. They'd be looking all over the ground floor. Otherwise they'd just hit the matching button in the lift (who counts the floors?) or understand the term "ground floor". I have seen Americans get confused in lifts with the ground floor button labelled as zero. It's not exactly a Mensa-level puzzle, but it does look odd if you're not used to it.

Unless the lights have an extra green light with an arrow for people in the turning left lane.

In the 1960s in Suffolk (not far from Ipswich), a close friend of my Gran's lived in a house with a beaten earth floor (covered by carpet, of course). I bet there are still some old houses around with that arrangement.

It’s named after the Belgian town of Spa, not an acronym.

@@Joanna-il2ur How did Spa in Belgium get its name then? From Latin to do with its waters

@@BKKMekong in Roman times it was known as Aquae Spadanae, which is where the city name derives. That is probably the name of a local deity Spadana, similar to Aquae Sulis, modern Bath in England. Sulis was a local goddess, equivalent to Minerva. The Romans didn’t use acronyms.

@@Joanna-il2ur if the Romans did not use acronyms why does the Roman Standard bear the letters SPQR Senatus Populusque Romanus (Senate and People of Rome) Or how about every crucifix with INRI Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum, Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews I could go on but I will save my breath but the Romans certainly did use Acronyms

@@BKKMekong SPQR isn’t an acronym it’s an abbreviation. An acronym is something you can say, like radar and NATO. INRI never existed. The local Jews spoke Aramaic and, in the temple, Hebrew. Jesus spoke some Greek, as he calls Simon Peter, the rock on which I will build, from Greek petros. Nobody there spoke Latin and Jesus was never called that, while Christos is Greek, translating Messiah, which he was never called. The -us of Jesus is a Latin construct, because a masculine name of the second declension has to end with -us (Julius, Claudius etc). His actual name was Yeshua, same as Joshua. The concept of Rex iudeaorum would not have been meaningful to anyone.

If you lived there you presumably had a LHD car which makes it easier than if you'd taken a British car across for a holiday.

@caw25sha no I used my British car

Natural selection

yeah but he never reads the comments.

I live in London so am used to the water but have got a Brita filter which I prefer.

Thank you for telling Tyler this truth. He always asks us to leave a like _or_ a comment but only Once have I ever seen him respond to one of the comments Whyyyyyyyyy ?!! 😢😮😢

Also there are lots of one way road systems in the UK. So even British people don't necessarily know which way to look.