Queuing is also known as having manners.

Ta is a very common expression (especially 'Up North') for 'thanks' but most people in the UK know what you mean...😂

"Ta" is one of the first words we try to teach our babies. You give them something and say "Ta?" So when they want something they reach out and say "Ta". We teach them to say thanks before anything else.

"Cheers, ta, see ya later!" "Do you want a Jaffa Cake with your brew? "No ta, I'm full, but cheers anyway!"

When Aussies say "cheers, mate" we usually mean thanks. We also say "Ta" or "ta muchly" (informally).

Why aren't Americans taught from childhood how to behave in social situations? Like not staring, waiting their turn, using cutlery etc.

stare excessively at someone in the UK, Tyler? And you'll earn a, "You got a f*cking PROBLEM, mate?''' As a threat. ;-)

Tea everyday? No guv, I have it every hour except when I'm asleep!

Builders' tea - strong, not much milk.

I can't imagine why queueing or standing in line isn’t standard behaviour all over the world! It's fairness exemplified. The phrase 'half eight' is just a contraction of 'half past eight'. Both are equally widely used in the UK. We say 'quarter TO nine', not 'quarter till'.

If you hold eye contact for more than a second, you are either going to fight or kiss.

Concerning how people like their tea, it's not just milk and/or sugar, but how much milk to use, and also how long to brew the tea for: some people like it strong, others like gnat's pee. There was a woman in one office where I worked who liked the hot water just to be shown the teabag.

I find queuing to be a very civilised form of behaviour,it’s really about fairness and consideration for others.

Sticking your little finger out when drinking tea is the height of ignorance and bad manners

I'm from the northeast of the UK . Half past 8 is the correct terminology, but it's more of a nickname, to shorten it half 8, say all the time.

Saying sorry even if it's not your fault

Quarter past eight, half past eight and a quarter to nine (not till nine) are perfectly good English phrases. But so is 'half eight'. Also 'quarter-past' or 'quarter-to' - but we never add the number in those cases.

'Pissed' = 'Drunk'… 'Pissed off' = 'Angry.

Drinking tea with a pointed pinkie is thankfully a thing of the past. In times gone by teacups were made small and of delicate bone china. the handles were tiny and one could only hold them with thumb and forefinger. The pinkie was a used as a balance to make that process easier. Nowadays if you drank your tea like that most people would have a giggle at you and think you were being pretentious.

In Yorkshire they say "Now Then" or "Sithee" instead of hello. In Wales they say "Bye Now" for goodbye.

“Brits drink a tea everyday, right?” It’s just gone midday and I’m on my 7th cup already. If I don’t break double figures for the day, you can assume I’m very ill.

Most Brits drink BLACK tea and this needs sugar( optional) and then milk to give it colour and flavour. The US herbal and Green teas definitely don’t need milk but US holiday destinations that are popular with Brits, such as Florida, are now used to us asking for hot breakfast tea and serve this black tea with a milk jug. Saying ‘TA’ ( tar) is a very common alternative to Thankyou. Saying Half Eight instead of eight thirty or Quarter to nine instead of Eight Forty Five is very common here but another complication is that most children and teenagers are used to digital timepieces and are not taught to use traditional clocks so these terms are incomprehensible to them !

There’s just something about Brits, it doesn’t even need to be the clothes, but as a fellow Brit you can just tell when someone is British without them even speaking 😆

6:21 I'm not british, but as someone who drinks a lot of tea I can assure you there are a LOT of ways to make it, like its diferent depending on how much sugar or milk you put in it, if you put any, if you drink it hot or cold, there are also many kinds of tea like theres green tea, black tea and so on. I, for one, like to drink my tea from a mug, two tablespoons of sugar in it, but I know people who drink their tea with honey in it.

In parts of Scotland we also say 'the back of 8', which means just after 8, up to about 8.15, ish.

In a New York Italian restaurant, I replied to the waiter that would be lovely. He was so pleased, said New Yorkers were never so polite.

Arriving at someone's house and saying "put the kettle on, I really need a cuppa please..." 😂😂😂

In the UK we do say "pissed" meaning "drunk", however we do also say "pissed off" to refer to us being angry.

My parents are British, I've spent a lot of time there. Yep TA is a thing Tyler.

Calling a Scotsmen, welshman and an Irish man English is offensive

Also remember that in this case, Bum a Fag, Bum means cadge (obtain off you) a Cigarette. Ta is spoken like Tar (the sticky black stuff woolly mammoths fell into a lot) some people drop the pronunciation of the R but the rest of the word is just like Tar. Oh just another one, until at least we have become Americanised by your TV programmes we pronounced Lieutenant (as in the military/police rank) more like Leftenant, Left & tenant flowing into each other. Try it, It's easy to say correctly 😜 Unfortunately most now say it wrongly, having served in the military that one, peeves the shit out of me! (oh that means annoy if it's a new one Lol) English (British) is such a wonderful language, It came from so many other languages, taking a word from here, changing a word from there, we also say things incorrectly from their original sources so ignore if anyone says you're saying it wrong, you may be, but so may they 😀 TTFN (ta ta for now) Mate 😁 P.S. If someone says "Have a good (or nice) day" in the UK they may be taking the piss, the correct response is, "The same to you" with a smile. That way you cover your bases either way. It's not a usual thing to say unless you're in a fast food (or some other) store and they have a policy that says they have to say it to all customers. I hear it from Americans on TV & KZfaq all the time so presume it's a normal parting comment, we use "Catch you later (sometimes with "Aligator" at the end)", "Seeya", "Ta Ta (yes we do say it, or some of us do hehe)" hmmm, there are lots in fact, but rarely wishing people a nice or good day, mainly some form of "Good Bye" or "See you soon" "Have a nice/good day" is usually used with Happy Birthday or other congratulatory sentences, such as:- "Happy Birthday you old fart & may you have a great day, don't get too pissed!" or similar 🙃

Ta is thank you but Ta Ta is goodbye

Here one shouting whaaaay when someone drops something in a pub or restaurant

I’ve seen office charts including colour for everyone on a tea round.

Up until the past ten years in England, if you were walking down a narrow country lane on the road because there was no path, and a car approached, you would always stop walking, step politely up onto the grass verge, to give the car space, then face and watch the car as it drove past, and both driver and walkers would politely smile or nod at each other as a thank you. More recently, I’ve noticed walkers just carry on walking on the road, even if it means the driver is going to hit oncoming traffic if he pulls out to miss the walker. The walker never acknowledges the driver now, just stares straight ahead and stays on the road. I assume they are not English, but in England.

As well as Ta for thanks, we tend to say Ta Ra for goodbye

Here's a conversation I had with my friend last night:- "Do you want another cuppa?" "No ta, I'm off now, got work at half 6 but cheers tho" "What time do you finish?" "Quarter past 11" "Do you want to pop round after?" "Yeah, can do if you like, see ya, ta ra" "Ta ra" Didn't go, went home, she knew I'd go home as well, just 2 British people understanding British etiquette.

I'm English but I do not mind being called British.

I like the way the Scots use the word ken, but I think that would be beyond Tyler's ken.

We are more than 4 countries in GB. On official forms, you have to be British. I always cross it out and write English. We all have our own identity.

The being polite goes back I think when you could get challenged to a duel so that you don’t end in a fight you are extra polite to someone so that they can claim they didn’t start it when one happens when you up before a judge ( even it’s the judgement of public opinion and branded a trouble maker and end up being shunned if it happens a lot )

You can stare at me if you like.... but when I stare back at you ...read my expression and take the hint.

Queing is a very serious thing in the u.k. i once seen a man nearly lynched for jumping the queue

Not passive aggressive...its just we're too polite to cause trouble.... except with our friends where trouble is encouraged 😁

The "half eight" thing can be confusing in Germany, because "halb acht" (i.e. half eight in German) is half to eight (i.e. 7:30), not half past eight.

MyTasmanian grandmother was more British than the British, she taught at a Girls Boarding Grammar School and ruthlessly watched my posture, manners, etiquette, articulation! 🤨 Yes, definitely afternoon tea & politness! 😄 Cheers (mate)! 🇦🇺

People in the office (& other work places) ask others how they like there tea because in work places we make each other cups of tea a lot.. or coffee

Ta means thanks, but tata means goodbye.

Making tea for a colleague and if they say just dip the teabag in for a couple of seconds as they want it to be really weak. If you get on well you are more likely to say ‘knob’ or ‘wanker’ than ‘yuk, why not just have hot water’ 🤔.

Tea, I always say "hot and wet"

Making tea is an art . Never had a decent cup of tea in America some of it I wouldn’t rub it on the cats piles

Just with the standard English Breakfast blend of tea, you have the variety of how long the bag is left to stew, how many sugars/sweeteners, how much milk if any (And what kind of milk, if a vegan coworker) And that's only for one type, some offices will have a variety of blends

"Cheers", "Mate", "Ta", would confuse Americans because we use them in New Zealand and Australia as well. And cheers is like an appreciation or a thank you, not a goodbye. "Cheers mate!" = "Thanks mate!" In NZ "pissed" means both "pissed off" or falling down drunk. I've been both 😂

a cuppa tea with a splash of full fat milk and 2 sugars - perfick

Tea parameters are - ▪︎ what/how much milk/lemon ▪︎ how long steeped ▪︎ what/how much sugar etc

Everyone likes their tea completely differently. The strength of the tea, the type of tea, the amount of milk and sugar. It's true, we ask once and remember forever. I could still make a perfect cup of tea for everyone I worked with in 1991.

Hi Tyler. I've been looking at your replies, and with regards to "ta" - I've remembered, a lot of this is northern, especially Mancunian - "ta ra" for example, is what you'll hear people telling you when you're leaving whereas in London we would say "see yer".

My Dad was welsh, and my mum was English, so my parents were worried about me being mixed race.

"Cheers" was an American sitcom about a bar so surely it's a thing in America; well on the East coast anyway.

I mentioned the use of "Ta" in Yorkshire, 6 days ago on your comments and it surprisingly caused a stir.

its 10.24am here in the u.k and im just having my 3rd cuppa

I'm English..I don't wear a bowler hat...I don't know any of the royal family and I don't drink tea...

I love me tea. I drink 4-5 cups per day. I also drink coffee, but only in the morning.

''Are there really many ways to have your tea?' 😂😂😂😂 wars have been fought for less

the british will say fuck off,thats a dead give away

Yeh as a scotsman I can agree with the "cheers mate" expression. I say both all the time I very rarely say thank you unless I'm speaking with someone down south or other countries. For yes we say aye which unless the person I'm speaking too understands people from Glasgow then I will just say yeh/yep.

I have never ever seen anyone hold their pinky out while drinking tea. (Stereotype). Plus most drink from mugs. Oh yes. I'm 64 yrs old.

cheers is a drinking term,derived from cheerio or as you down the drink you are saying good buy to the drink, people say it instead of good bye when departing . the terms half past and quarter past the hour are very common terms.the little finger sticking out when drinking tea derives from when tea cups were made small and of fine china a rich peoples drink,the tea cup handles were so small only hold able with two fingers and a thumb, tea strength was moderated by the amount of time you brewed the tea in the tea pot before pouring also moderated by the amount of milk you prefer , nuff about tea cheers mate.

Ta is more something I hear people saying to babies/toddlers when you want them to hand over something (especially if they shouldn’t have said item).

Ta is thanks but not for everyone, when in was small I was told to say thank you or thanks when I was small Ta wasn't a thing in the south was normally heard more north.

Tea: milk or no milk? Sugar, no sugar, how strong? Teabag in teabag out?

Yes “tah” instead of thanks usually said to toddlers “say Ta” because thank-you is too difficult.

I've worked in offices before and it is expected you will automatically do the tea round for everyone when it's your turn without being asked, and the first time you go around and ask everyone how they have their tea. But most offices will have a list of names posted up with how they take their tea. As for "mate" I think Aussies say it more than we Brits do. Also they say mate in a friendly way. I feel like Brits use 'mate' ironically in a passive aggressive way mostly.

For the next level, you need to look at giveaways that people are from particular regions. Firstly, the accents - Scouse & Manc are both local to one another but very distinct. If you're from the north east of England, Geordie, Mackem and Smoggie can be distinguished, but if you're not from the area, they can be hard to tell apart. Then there's the terminology. If someone called you "Pet" or "Duck" would you know what part of Britain they were from?

Ta is thanks and it's very common. Head up and eye contact as you walk past shows that your tough. Like a don't mess with me kinda thing.

Drinking tea with milk/ sugar Words like holiday not vacation, zebra crossing, pavement, no medical bankruptcy, it's a huge list but the tea is really 1

Calling a Scots man, Welsh man Irish Man, British, is very highly offensive to most Europeans, especially the English

As a Brit when I moved to Dubai it took me ages to get used to them driving on the other (wrong) side of the road, so I always looked the wrong way first when I crossed the road, so it sticks out that your'e a Brit, and it's even worse when you first start driving getting used to the roundabouts.

Although I refer to myself as English, I would never be offended to be referred to as British by a foreigner. I know thete are people that feel weird about being called British, but I never understood that. They are still British. I feel like it's more Scots who feel that. I dunno, because England is larger and more well known? 😂

The tea thing is quite right. I know how everyone takes their tea at work. You can have tea with or without milk, with or without sugar, with both or neither. I have mine with milk but no sugar. My work mates have theirs very differently. One has weak milky tea and 2 sugars while the other has Earl Grey with the tiniest bit of milk in it and no sugar. TA VERY MUCH = THANK YOU VERY MUCH. We say " quarter TO 9" etc. Not " quarter TILL 9" !

Black tea, white tea, with sugar or without, strong, weak. And any combination of the above

thats more english than british, in scotland and wales, you catch someones eye, you smile and nod in a knowing way, see what they do, hahahaha.

I'm from Wales, we sound nothing like the English. My step-father is from a part of Wales called Neath and when we went to Florida when I was young everyone thought he was Canadian, even though he sounds nothing like a Canadian

Politeness and insulting - the absolute take on this British stereotype culture is the Catherine Tate comedies. Check them out. Another good comedy along similar lines would be "Keeping Up Appearances". Check these both out when you have time.

Half 8 can also be heard in australia, which is not surprising as this was setup by the english. Plus we've had a lot of immigration from the UK from the 1950's to the late 1970's

British vs English/Welsh/Scottish/Scottish easily explained, by the tennis player Andy Murray, when he won he was always British, when he invariably lost he was 'demoted' to Scottish

Dead giveaway, not really. A lot of these things are the same across the English speaking world, including America. It's a little bit more subtle than that.

We say half past 8 too! But in a hurry leave the "past" out.

turns out an unarmed society is a politer society, and less killy

American 'pissed' is surely an abbreviation of 'pissed off', which Brits also say, so not much of a difference really.

Yes there are different ways of having tea- do you like it weak or strong, do you have milk or no milk or just a tiny splash of milk, do you have sugar - if so how many spoons or do you have sweeteners instead of sugar? These are questions asked when making someone tea. Also what type of tea- Earl gray, English breakfast, fruit tea etc.

"Ta" is a bit more northern, but yes, it's another way to say thanks.

Just for a laugh i say its a fifth past seven, as it is now at 7.12pm! 😅

German speakers use a similar construction to “half eight” (halb acht), but when they say it, they mean seven-thirty (half TO eight).

Telling the time to someone? You could say “it’s half (past) seven” or “it’s seven thirty” or “nineteen thirty” and most people would understand it! It’s easy as peasy, ta muchly!

I feel like English people are more likely to call themselves British and not mind being called British. I think people who are Scottish, Welsh, Irish are more likely to want the specification. As a person from England I feel like describing myself as English as opposed to British implies that I don’t like the others and don’t want to be associated with them. I fear it introduces a bad atmosphere and as a British person I must avoid conflict 🙈🤣🤣

We Brits also say pissed off.

We also say half past eight but cut out the middle man. Who's got time for three words when two will do!

Queuing is not a word here in Britain it is a raw expression of our deepest national soul. It's not an activity it's a way of being.

Not all Brits love tea. I agree with the literary James Bond who loathed it and called it “mud”. Give me coffee anytime.