Our teeth are healthier! - The NHS just doesn't do cosmetic dentistry! The hoodie thing is bollocks!

The fact that people in the US can't name the countries of the UK doesn't surprise me at all. When I visited the US several times some years ago, I was amazed that speaking to the average person I knew more about the individual States than they did, also more about their history. It was also impossible to have a conversation about anywhere else in the world. Sadly, they don't know that they don't know. I really felt sorry for them and the education system which had let them down. The American people I met were great and very friendly.

Beans on toast is a snack that can be eaten at any time of the day, not just breakfast. In fact, beans on toast are rarely eaten for breakfast, I would venture, though baked beans are sometimes included in a cooked breakfast with bacon, egg, mushrooms etc. Tea (with milk) is ubiquitous here at any time of day.

The food in the UK is far healthier than the US. It is also much better. There are pizza places everywhere and lots of pubs that have home cooked meals which you do not find in the States. The dairy products are superb in the UK. It is a myth to say that the food is not good. It is excellent.

A number of these preconceived ideas date from the experiences of US military in the UK during and in the decade following the Second World War. At that time, food was in short supply, foreign trade was crippled, people had no money for luxuries like dental plans. By today, the British rate higher in international cuisine than the US, and while gleaming white teeth may not equal those of US tv stars, oral hygiene rates higher on average than in the US. Btw, New York, Miami, and Seattle each have about twice the average annual rainfall of London. 🤔

I love that the chap actually knows the different pronunciation between Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic.

The British love of curries originated from the days of the British Raj. So many British people were stationed in India, learned to enjoy curry and wanted to have it back home. Couple that with much Indian immigration and the opening of Indian restaurants, and the food becomes common. It is also the reason why so many common English words originated in India, pyjamas for example.

A recent study showed that the average number of missing teeth was significantly higher in the US (7.31) than in England (6.97), and that people were more likely to suffer poor dental health because of socioeconomic factors if they lived in the US. With regard to our climate we hit 100 degrees last year. We don't normally have massive temperature swings throughout the year. "Going for an Indian" is the norm, particularly at weekends, or having an Indian takeaway. Chinese, pizza, Thai, Caribbean, Mexican, McD's, et al, you name it we eat it. Whilst on holiday in the south of France we were visiting Carcassonne (recommended) and I started speaking with an American couple who were also on holiday. After an enjoyable 10-minute chat they rose to leave and he said "why do I always feel so dumb when talking to a Brit". It was nothing to do with the content of our chat I assure you, it was simply because of the accent (which has a Black Country twang to it). He obviously didn't know me.😂😂

I suspect that the "English teeth" thing comes from the second world war (which was the last time Americans in any great number left the US). Back then we didn't have the NHS and dentists were unaffordable to many. Since then of course, all children are covered until they are 18 and any corrective work is carried out during this period. Conversely, it's often funny to see adult Americans wearing braces on their teeth. Presumably this is sometimes because they've decided to pay for treatments that their parents couldn't afford, when they were children. Another factor that may help the stereotype persist, is that we don't really hold with cosmetic dentistry so much and tend not to fix things that aren't broken. You may see people who are quite happy with teeth that aren't to some idealised cosmetic standard and overly white teeth are generally regarded as freakish and artificial looking.

The most popular dish according to recent surveys is chicken tikka masala. This is an English take on curry. I believe the UK came 5th on the list of population with least teeth cavities while the US came 9th. You may be correct though that teeth are straightened and whitened more in the US.

Beans on toast can, and is eaten for every meal and it’s satisfying no matter what time of the day it’s eaten! And if you wanna make it a little more boujee.. add a sprinkle of grated cheese on top… mmm chefs kiss!

Tyler doesn't read the comments, if he did he would learn a lot....

Tyler, I don't honestly think people would mistake you for some sort of gang member, whatever you wore !

I think the remnants of those US servicemen who were here in the UK during WW2 would be well into their 90s now and would have been aware of the privations which our civilian population had perforce to undergo and not nearly matched in their home country. I am sure they reported back to their relations that British food was pretty substandard, but to perpetuate this snapshot in time into a continuing myth is pretty dim.

Can you remember "Frasier" the show about the psychiatrist. Daphne had a broad Manchester accent. then later we met her brother who wore a Man U shirt but strangely had the Dick Van Dyke cockney accent.

On average the US gets more rain annually than the UK. The east side of England is actually very dry compared to many places in the world. I personally think Americans like to spread misinformation about England and the UK as they are jealous of our weather. We don't have really cold over the top snowy days or weeks as in the US and we don't have stiflingly hot humid days during the summer, it's really nice most of the year round and our summer days last way longer than days in America as the sun rises at 4am and sets at 10pm. 🌞

The bad teeth thing started in WW2 with rationing of everyday items including toothpaste resulting in bad teeth. The newly arrived American armed forces assumed bad teeth was the norm for Brits and so became part of the American image of British people.

I think the teeth thing is a media thing, where american media is more focused on the young and the beautiful, where as UK TV are more likely to get out and talk to 'normal' people.

I think it's rare people eat Fish and Chips weekly (more like monthly), I think the only thing that people might eat weekly in the UK might be the Sunday Roast and that certainly isn't everybody. As far as curries go, one believed to have started in the UK (by Indian Restaurants), is Chicken Tikka Misala, which takes the traditional Indian Chicken Tikka and places it a cream sauce to reduce the spiciness. UK also has a lot of pasties and pies, for example the Sausage Roll. There is also the Scoted egg and let's not forget about the Full English Breakfast. As for Desserts, Many have been invented in the UK from Apple Pies to Jam Roly-Poly; And yes, the Apple Pie was invented hundreds of years before the Colonizers went over to settle in the Americas. We even improved on the Apple Pie with the Apple Crumble which goes well with Custard, Ice Cream or Cream. A lot of people in the UK do drink tea, but a lot also drink a lot of coffee, there are coffee shops all over, we even have a few of our own large chains like Costa and Caffe Nero.

I think with the hoodie thing was in the media a while back, when teenagers were hanging out hiding their faces with their hoods and they assumed they were up to no good.

I once met an American who thought he had an amazing British accent. He sounded like James Bond. He also did a Scottish accent which sounded like Sean Connery who also played James Bond.

You need to see the actor, Chris Pratt, imitate the TOWIE (tv show) accent. It's spot on.

The World Dental Association ranks the UK as 4th in the world while the USA only ranks 9th behind Canada and Mexico. The top 3 are Denmark, Finland and Germany. So the UK has much better teeth than the US. Most of the world doesn't bleach their teeth white like the US...I guess Americans are very vein!

I live in Newfoundland and the reason why the weather is different here and the UK (and apparently Hawaii) and usually more harsh is due to the Atlantic Ocean which is what dictates our weather, whether the wind is blowing north east or south west etc. So while we get harsh weather we also get the most beautiful days too

Chicken Tikka Masala was created in the UK and is the national dish of England, Indian food is HUGE. The teeth thing, I believe it's a mix of how it used to be in like the 70ies/80ies and the fact of some famous people like Shane MacGowan and Joe Strummer having really bad teeth

A lot of people drink tea in the uk but not everyone does I don’t

Teeth here (uk) are healthier. US teeth are straighter and whiter, but not healthier.

Lol Tyler your “allo how are ya doin mate” wasn’t the worst I’ve heard! From an Englishman living in LA

I made curry and fried rice for tea tonight and for tea yesterday I had pizza! 😂 when we refer to ‘Tea’ it may not be the beverage we actually refer to our evening meal as ‘Tea’ and lunch as ‘Dinner’ although some do call dinner lunch and tea as dinner. But where I come from it’s breakfast, dinner, tea and supper, supper is before bed time 😊

i think the teeth thing comes from us europeans not really having the typical hollywood smile. every american seems to have perfectly straight teeth that have been whitened, and although that's sorta catching on in europe because of the popularity of american social media influencers who have teeth like that, the reality is that a lot of us in europe have teeth that have a bit of a yellowish tone and they're not always perfectly straight, but they're healthy teeth so the dentist doesn't try to push whitening or braces on us. also important to note that despite countries in europe having universal healthcare, dental isn't covered in a lot of countries, so we're paying for every single thing at full value, which can be very expensive, making it more of an optional cosmetic thing that a lot of people opt out of

the uk is on the same latitude as canada, so they got the same type of weather. canada probably has more altitude so it gets more snow while the uk gets more rain

In regards to the thing about teeth and the general influence cultural norms have: So I'm from England, as I was growing up and my adult teeth were coming through my canine tooth on the right of my mouth over extended as it was growing and took over the spot the incisor would usually be. The dentist performed some X-Rays to see if there were any complications from this occurring such as if incisor that should have come through was being displaced and might cause problems if it did try to grow out still. They found the root was just happily sat there where it should be under the surface not growing any further, it wasn't causing any discomfort nor posing any long term problems. So they presented a procedure to gradually move the canine back to its original place over a period of time and to then have a fake incisor fixed in, all for the cost of approximately £5,700 for the cheapest method and then the cost escalating for better quality of fake incisors and so forth. They then said unless I ever had thoughts of going into a career where the imperfection in my teeth could potentially be detrimental to finding work or how I am reacted to, they couldn't recommend the procedure unless I wanted it purely for personal self-image reasons as it would be entirely cosmetic and pose no real improvement to my quality of life.... this I feel very much sums up the difference between the cultures of the UK and the US when it comes to things like teeth, external image and more importantly the motivation behind recommendations made by health professionals like dentists. I very much expect if I were to have grown up in the US, the dentists recommendation would strongly have been to take such a procedure under the urgence that my quality of life would be vastly improved from having it done and a fake incisor installed after the canine was pushed back to open up the space it had extended over, so that people would be unaware that anything was abnormal. And I fully expect that urgence would have come not just because the dentist would have genuinely believed that my life would be so much improved from having people not occasionally noticing the abnormality when I smiled, but also because of the financial incentive on their part from having me agree to it.

Our Monarchy gives the UK such a lot of traditions, pomp and ceremony. Foreign visitors admire our traditional regimental marches which are a wonderful spectacle - Changing of the Guard, Beating Retreat, Trooping the Colour, all wonderful spectacles which somehow typify, especially London and Windsor. (Many on You Tube).

There is also a Cornish language in Cornwall (Kernow), England.

There was about twenty years ago an attempt to discourage us from wearing hoods, but most of us disregarded it. We thought back through our history, when our mediaeval ancestors wore them a lot. But the best hoodie picture is from the mosaic pavement at the Roman Villa at Chedworth in Gloucestershire. I'm trying to find the link. In our climate the Romans couldn't swan around in togas... The Celtic languages have struggled to survive against English pressure, but, after a colossal battle, Welsh (cymraeg) is starting to expand again. I believe that, using the strictest criteria, only about 20-25% of Welsh people use the Welsh language everyday; but I also believe that over 60% have some familiarity with the Welsh language, which is compulsorily taught in schools. Many Welsh schools, both primary and secondary, use the Welsh language to teach with. Scottish Gaelic has had more of a struggle. It is similar to, but not the same as, Irish, which can be called 'Gaelic', pronounced gay-lic. The 'Gaelic' in Scottish Gaelic is pronounced gal-ic. A few communities in the North-western Highlands and Islands still speak this, and it is sometimes used to teach in primary schools. It is a very beautiful language - the 'language of heaven'. If you want to hear these languages, the BBC has two channels for them. On the BBC website look up "Cymru' and 'Alba': the news in those languages are 'Newyddion' and 'Nathraichean'. But really the rest of the Scots have their own language, related to, but not the same as, English. When speaking officially, or to the English, they use a register which is English with an accent. But when the Scots speak to their families, most English would not understand a word, and I would call this speech 'Scots'. The dialects of Eastern Scotland are a bit different, and I believe they can be called 'Doric'. Rain varies enormously in Britain. The prevailing west-south-west winds go all the way across the North Atlantic, across a warm current, and are therefore loaded with water vapour when they hit us. Therefore high hills/mountains can get huge rainfall - 200 inches a year - but in the lee of theses areas the rainfall can be very much less.

FYI: The two languages are pronounced differently, thus: Scots (Scottish) GALLic and Irish GAYlic...

The "teeth" thing arose from after WWII when the National Health Service was introduced for all. That Service was not the very best. The care was minimal at best. For example, A van came around my primary school to check all the young children's teeth. This service was quite cavalier. They did not believe in filling young childrens' teeth, but cavalierly yanked them out, hence bringing permanent teeth in quite early and crookedly. This happened to myself and a number of young children in my school. Consequently my parents changed us to a Private Dental Service, which was far better. For secondary teeth the service was as good as any in the world.

The Indians, Pakistanis and the Bangladesh’s were invited to move over to the U.K. in the 1960’s, to work in our cotton mills, and now all our cotton mills have gone they started to go into business themselves. Opening up small grocery stores and Curry restaurants, and us Brits have taken curry as one of national dishes. The famous Chicken Tikka Masala, was a curry invented in the U.K. It was a Pakistani chef in Glasgow, Scotland who invented the Chicken Tikka curry for the milder British palate, but over the years us Brits have got used to hot curries.

A theory I have about teeth is. In the UK we get free or subsidised dentistry, especially as children. So everyones teeth are taken care of. Where I think in the USA that is not the case so 'bad' teeth could be seen as a sign of poverty so people got the idea to seem wealthy you have to have better and better teeth UK dentists work on the principle that harming healthy teeth is unethical so being a little squint or not perfectly white isnt an issue that needs fixed

Even in England we are rather "tribal" ! I'm northern and would be offended if you thought I was from London!

The vast majority of dental work in the uk is done by the private sector not the NHS, the NHS only gets involved when a situation arises when the private dentist cannot complete or attempt the work.

Your try at an English accent almost sounded like a broad Australian accent 😂

The national dish of the UK is Chicken Tikka Masala, apparently invented in Glasgow, Scotland

A few years back hoodies were frowned upon in Dublin. Street hooligans were associated with wearing them for disguise,pulling hood over face, not now, they have become bare faced nuisances now.

Hoodys in the UK was associated with gang culture as were caps because gangs of youths at the time wore them in response to the mass increase in cctv. On top of that, UK garage rappers were heavily influenced by US gangster rappers further increasing the UK view of street wear that included hoods, caps and other items that obscured the face was worn for nefarious reasons. Some places where I grew up banned the use of headwear unless religious or occupational in it's establishments. This has changed over the years as much of the clothing worn by gangs in the early 2000's is considered casual clothing today

I think chicken tikka masala has been voted the favourite dish in the UK for years. Indians including my parents came over in the 1960’s and settled here and many opened restaurants. You’ll find several in most towns and cities. Chinese is also popular, but as much as in the US.

I get the impression that having white, perfectly aligned teeth matters in the US and people will spend a fair bit achieving this. Here in the UK, some kids do wear braces and some adults do too, to straighten their teeth. But no one is going to think it's a big deal if you're teeth are not perfectly aligned. There are NHS dentists who charge very reasonably for dental care, but they're hard to find. Private dental care can be expensive. Some people either can't easily afford that, or maybe they just don't like going to the dentist. So there are some people with bad rotting teeth, but not everyone and no one would look down on you for having poor teeth. There's probably some Brits who couldn't name all four British countries, lol.

I'm from the UK and even I don't get the tea thing, my grandparents, mother and mother-in-law love tea (hit black tea with milk, that is) but these days you will often find coffee is the preferred hot drink of choice. I drink green tea occasionally and I drink normal tea when I'm not feeling 100% but coffee is our go to hit drink in our house. We eat far more Thai, Japanese and Chinese foods in ur house compare to the supposed English stereotypical foods, and I never cook a roast. Mainly because as a family we don't eat much meat. We also only eat 1 main meal a day and will often skip breakfast or lunch ... not on purpose but just because we for get andndont have an appetite. The teeth thing might go back to stereotypes from before the NHS was formed and dentistry was a bigger thing from films that portray that era. My grandad who was born in 1906 had his and my Nan's teeth that were all healthy removed when they were young (in their 30's I think he said) so they could replace all their teeth with dentures to save on the cost of dentistry. But by the time they were old the dentistry was free on the NHS. Dentistry in England was offered from 1907 by the local government and the NHS was formed in 1948 but the dentistry formed slow. Denture charges were added in 1951 but prior to that it was free. Initially before dental work was started jn 1907 people's teeth were very bad. These days we meet some people with bad teeth but as a general rule most people have very healthy teeth. We have a shortage of NHS dentist in the UK and this cab be a problem for people that cannot afford to gonprivate for their dental care. Anyone wji is pregnant or had had a child who is younger than 1 can have free dental treatment on the NHS as well.

You learned that accent from Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins

English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Cockney, Cornish, Scots, Shelta, Angloromani, Irish are the spoken languages native to the UK even though many other languages are spoken as we are a multinational society. As for sign language, there is British Sign language, Irish sign language, and Northern Irish sign language widely used. Rain hmmm when you live on an island in the Atlantic you are going to get rain. We can get rain for a whole day or even days at a time. We have a rich amount of food from all over the world here that are enjoyed, especially curry. Beans on toast is good for any meal and even as a snack. As for tea it is well loved and many people here enjoy it and we have many people who have origins from the middle east, Africa, and Asia where tea is also traditional.

Why does it rain a lot? You asked about the geographic factors. It’s because of the North Atlantic drift. Basically a warm current from the mid/ south Atlantic which hits the south West of England bringing warm moist air which then rises, cools and dumps rain. It’s the reason why we have a temperate climate most of the time. Why Bath is historically famous for rain. Why the south east tends to be a bit drier. And why you can grow palm trees on the sea front in Torquay in Devon. When cold winds hit us from the east off of Russia in the winter, temperatures plummet and the country freezes. Fortunately it doesn’t happen that often. As I understand it, if climate change disrupts the north Atlantic drift, our weather is likely to change drastically and become much colder.

Older people in uk like their meat and 2 veg. But younger generations are very multi cultural when it comes to food eating dishes from all over the world.

Mate, if you want to know how influential tea is then consider this: The tea break. Everyone's breaks they get in a working day outside of lunch break started with the tea break.

Most of the UK gets less rainfall than the non-desert areas of the US. BUT the weather is really changeable. So it can be bright and sunny, then rain for an hour, then go back to being bright and sunny, without any real warning. Curry is probably one of the most popular foods here - because of the Indians who came here as a result of the British empire. If you say 'asian' here, you're most likely to be talking about India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc, not the far east. Beans on toast is an anytime food. Has the advantage of being really cheap.

Hoodies don't make you look like you're in a gang, they make you look like a robber🇬🇧 Tyler, your accent was Australian

When we were living in New York (Queens) some years ago, many people had difficulty understanding my wife's Hertfordshire accent, people kept asking if she was Russian saying 'Gee, you speak good English' to which she replied 'Of course, I am English'.

Tea is a stereotype that is most definitely not wrong about the British, although its not the sit down, cups and saucers and teapot thing that some people percieve. Coffee is on the rise here though, particularly as it is easier to get a decent coffee when out and about than a decent cup of tea. But I am happy to be a walking stereotype. I consume tea almost constantly throughout the day, and get quite anxious when I can't have it. When I visited the US, I found the lack of it stressful. It wasn't so much that it was impossible to find, I didn't have to look far. But finding a good cup was often a challenge. Next time I visit, I shall bring my own!

When it comes to the whole tea drinking thing, being a child of the 80s yes it was the thing that everyone drank, also there was no major coffee shops back then, over time since the popularity of coffee shops has grown and more and more have sprung up, I now drink more coffee than tea, my family also have coffee beans, grinder and a percolator always ready to go in the morning, plus when I meet up with friends its at a coffee shop, I can say there are at least 2 or more coffee shops in every city or town in the uk.

Dental for children is free in the UK and can have braces if they really need them or really want them, it but a little imperfection is not really a problem. Strange how the south east corner of the country is in almost permanent drought. It very much depends where you live. I'd love a but more rain where I live, as I'm a gardener. The west of the country gets a lot more rain as the wind is usually blowing from that direction and so are most of the hills so they capture the rain before it tavels east. I'd say beans on toast is more of a quick and easy lunch.

The language is different too. Yes, we speak English in England 😂

The British love affair with Indian food goes back to colonial India, the British Empire. Due to the British Empire we have had a great history of many India and Punjabi immigrants, who of course brought their delicious food and various customs which we adapted and made our own. Along with a myriad of different curries, my dad's favourite breakfast was something called kedgerie. Again it's a British dish with it's foundations in Imperial India, made from lightly spiced rice and smoked fish, dressed with boiled eggs and lots of parsley. Very old fashioned now.. My dad was born in India - Jaipur - because his father was stationed in India before the partition.

I think the whole hoody business comes from a brief… legal/moral conundrum(?) about 20-ish or more years ago. As I recall there were issues with people using hoods indoors to hide their faces from cameras so they could steal stuff. Can’t really remember many of the details cause I was a teenager at the time and didn’t pay it any attention. As far as I remember there was something about it being illegal or being made illegal to wear hoods in shopping centres and stores, and the media made it into a bigger deal by connecting gangs to hoodies… but it all kinda just faded off into obscurity without anything actually happening as best I can recall.

We can have our teeth checked and cleaned every six months for around £23.

Royalty is not just a tradition and old. It's our constitution, it's our legal structure - literally and the King has a definite role in public life. Every law is signed by him and he has some veto roles and can appoint a prime minister if there is a hung Parliament.

The hoodie thing is true because me and my friends get looked at like we are dangerous yet all I'm doing is staying warm in the winter

Hoodies frighten me. If I see a person walking toward me with their hoodie UP and it's not raining, I'll cross over to the other side of the street. I myself am a "Teabelly" I drink dozens of cups a day. Some one who doesn't drink alcohol is known as "teatotal" even if they never touch a drop of tea.

Hi Tyler! You should react to a video of all the different accents in the UK

Also regarding teeth, it is not common for teens in the UK to get their wisdom removed. I am 36 and none of my wisdom teeth have come through fully yet, I ended up having one removed a few years ago

We dip dry biscuits in tea. I don't as I don't like tea. Britain was known for plain food. After WW2 supplies were basic and food was plain then. Indian food was an acquired experience for me. I love it now and onion baghgee starters are not to be missed.

Tea is very popular 😂 I can't go a day without me cuppa😂 suppose for some its a comfort drink , a cup of tea in the morning to start the day a tea in the afternoon after a long day, and a tea in bed when your all cozy up haha

It is interesting how the Americans use the word "fancy" to describe things. OK in British English "fancy" has many different meanings but in descibing things, places, language etc we would use it to mean something that is more ornate, higher quality, more expensive or more complex. Where I think you tend to use it to mean something that has more class, greater education and not so base or simple. I think Americans use of English tends to be more simple ( black or white meaning to things) where British English is a very rich language with a lot of nuances and word play. Sometimes I think it would help if you explained what you actually meant by "fancy" as it is not always obvious.

The Monarchy and the Parliament - in the UK we have a Constitution amounting to some 3,000 documents created over the last thousand years, which controls what Government and Monarch can do - if you want to do some heavy reading then Erskine May covers everything. The King is a Constitutional Monarch and is NOT a figurehead. Parliament is a Constitutional Government and the Civil Service is part of that. There are plenty of easy read introductions to the British Constitution online everywhere.

the hoodie thing is true, only if you have your hood up. but where i live that’s definitely true

Curry is HUGE here in the UK, its like our national dish :D

The Queen had and King Charles has lots of power, but the rub is that with an unwritten constitution, packed with conventions, customs and unwritten dos and don’ts, the monarch exercises very few powers directly. Instead he/she exercises power ‘on the advice’ of his/her prime minister. But even that isn’t what really happens. ‘On the advice of’ really mainly means ‘in the place of.’ The prime minister and his cabinet exercises the crown’s extensive power on his/her behalf. And the PM and he/she get together once a week for an audience where the PM tells the Sovereign what the government is doing in the Sovereign’s name and sending him/her lots of documents to sign authorising it all. Some powers are so seldom used that they’ve pretty much become theoretical. The best example of that being vetoing legislation. The last time the monarch actually personally exercised that power, and even in the instance of this last exercise it was for a very minor administrative mix up concerning pay for a military unit. It took place in Queen Anne’s rein in the early 18th century. Even at that point when party politics was rapidly evolving, it rarely happened after the Glorious Revolution. It never happens now because the sovereign’s government always has the support of Parliament because they have a majority of its members always supporting their agenda. And they control the legislation coming before Parliament so nothing they present to be debated and agreed on will be something they don’t want and therefore something they would oppose or veto.

The recipe for Tikka Massala was created in Scotland, by an Indian chef. Most British people know that curry is an Indian cuisine

Yes the the tea stereo type is one of the most accurate. Uk is one of the biggest tea drinkers. But not everyone drinks tea.

The teeth myth was around long before Austin powers. In the USA on the whole they think straight bright white teeth are healthy. Kids and adults wearing braces, if they can't fix the teeth that way they get veneers. Here in the UK we don't care so much about really bright white teeth or even having gaps or not perfectly straight. So the USA think that because of that we have bad teeth. But if you look up the stats the UK has very healthy teeth compared to the USA.

There are more accents in the UK than the rest of the core Anglosphere (UK, Ireland, Canada, USA, New Zealand and Australia) combined.

Beans on toast with a fried egg on top. Marvellous!

Im Scottish born and raised and ive never met someone who speals Gaelic we dont even learn it in our schools

The reason why we have such great tea and different types of foods It’s because of the Commonwealth as India that was apart for such a long time have great curry’s and we have people from all over the world within the Commonwealth and not apart of the Commonwealth move to England bring the foods and their culture with them. This is why GB 🇬🇧 is so Great London has over 100 different languages are spoken the foods is amazing the people are amazing the cultures is something to be proud 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👌

In my experience, people often try to dismiss the "it always rains" "myth" in the UK by comparing mm of rain per year in different places and seeing that the UK is actually pretty low down. While this is true, we don't get many major downpours or thunderstorms. I've not actually seen the data, but I reckon it rains on more days per year than most other places, it's just the rain that actually happens isn't very heavy so doesn't contribute much to the mm of rain overall. It could probably rain 300 days of the year at some point throughout the day. Also, the weather will change in such a short period of time. It will be bright sunshine in the morning with not a cloud in the sky, and then pouring in the afternoon. Near freezing one day, sunbathing weather the next. And because it changes so much, the weather often ends up as a topic of conversation, which is probably also why we get the reputation of being so wet.

If I had to pick one minute in time over a year, and put 100 pounds on if it's raining or not I'm all in on 'not.'

When I visited Massachusetts in 2003 everyone I spoke to thought I was everything but English. Auatralian, Irish, Canadian, etc.

British food relies on seasonal products, hot soups and stews in winter and salads, and new season veg and meat in summer.

Watch, "What powers does the Queen actually have?" The monarch's power is limited only by Magna Carta.

Where i live in the uk, the hoodie thing is true. The muggers and drug dealers wear hoodies so they can't be recognised. If the hood is down then it's OK, if it's up then you avoid them

I've just been two weeks in America and I am happy to talk to you about the differences and similarities. I went to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Oregon. I have also been to LA San Francisco, and Las Vegas. I like America, but I can see differences as well with the UK.

We get the bad teeth misconception because when we came to America the sailors was likely to get scurvy that is why we are referred to as limmeys

"Hoodies" is a term for normally-young delinquents in the UK. Mainly because kids are/were at the time the highest demographic that wore hoodies. So the hoodies themselves were generally...ok, though that old lady may have still looked at you a little cautiously if you wore one. Just when the kids were causing trouble, the common phrasing would have been something like "Those damned hoodies throwing stones again."

In an old job I had I was told not to wear my hoody with the hood on my head. Because it gave a bad impression to clients. Also shops will often have signs saying you can’t wear hoods up inside the shop. Because hoodies years ago (late 90’s or early 2000’s) were associated with anti-social behaviour, with the hood up and sometimes a scarf over the face. As a way to conceal your identity. But in general especially today hoodies are really common. Although you might get some suspicious looks while wearing the hood up if it’s not cold or raining outside.

The OECD says British dental health is the best in the world (Germany was second best, I think USA was about #8). Cosmetic dentistry just isn’t as commonplace as the plastic teeth look isn’t very popular.

Hoodie is true to some extent, though they have relaxed the rules in London

It is true that hoodies have an image to them, especially in larger cities. It is more likely to make you look like a 'chav' meaning someone of a lower class. That was mostly a 2000's - 2010's thing really but a lot of people under 30 tend to wear them to the point that the image is (for the most part) is a thing of the past.

It rains mainly in Winter, the last few Summers were very dry and warm to hot.

Our climate is governed by the fact that we are an island and our geography is extremely varied ie valleys, hills, moorlands all in very close proximity to each other (we are tiny compared to the US). It tends to rain more in the North of the England as we have a line of hills called the Pennines which run down the center of the North (like a spine) and clouds have to become lighter to clear them so, depending on which direction they are moving in, it will rain on one side or the other (Lancashire, Greater Manchester & Cumbria in the West or Yorkshire and Derbyshire in the East). We have more tornadoes here than you do in the US but, because we don't have large areas of flat land in order to allow them to grow, they are never very powerful. The flattest place in the UK is the area known as East Anglia and that is where most of our tornadoes form but they dissipate very quickly due to how small the flat area actually is plus everywhere here is within an hour or two of the coast so the air becomes too heavy with moisture for the tornadoes to get too large. You need dry air and flat ground for big tornadoes. As far as food is concerned... curry is so popular here because we used to have an Empire of which India was a part and we have a lot of immigrants from our previous territories plus we were a very important trading nation for centuries so a lot of products and ideas were brought back as well as a people coming here from all over the world. As we became less reliant upon the food items we could produce here our diet altered. You can literally find most kinds of food here now from all over the world and most cities, and even many towns, will have a wide selection of restaurants that serve specific cuisines from all over the world.

I think the bad teeth myth comes from the number of smokers we have. I know people in their 30s with 17.5 teeth because they've smoked since they were teenagers. But the average person's teeth are better in the UK than in the US

My American daughter in law drinks tea all the time. I live in the UK. She drank tea even before she met my son.

20 years ago, when I worked, my supervisor went abroad somewhere and met an American who told her that she spoke good English for a Swede. He mistook her Yorkshire accent for Scandinavian but this is understandable, as we had the most Viking settlers. Tha mun mog on,lad, tha doin' a reet grand job!