They missed the traditional pub crawl, that's 1 of my favourites.

Drilling a hole in conkers? Hell no pass me the screwdriver and watch me stab my hand 😂😂

How is it that Americans are happy playing with dads shotgun and yet are too scared to chase a wheel of cheese down a hill 😂😂

So many missed, wellie wanging, flaming tar barrels, black pudding tossing, tossing the caber, and Yorkshire pudding throwing. But for me it’s the annual flaming tar barrels at Ottery St Mary that deserves 1st place.

They missed gurning. I guess Punch and Judy is one of the reasons why we have a sick sense of humour.

JT another weird one is Bog Snorkeling in Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales, Plastic Duck Racing down a River, Wellie Trowing, Worm Charming, snail racing 😂😂 😅 😅😅

I loved playing conkers as a kid

Youths still play conkers in the UK except it's now called ''beat the shit out of each other with baseball bats and machete's''.

Honourable mention to the Atherstone Ball Game. It's run once a year, and the game is literally "whoever has the ball at 5pm wins". Here are the rules: 1) it stays on Long Street. 2) No killing anyone. "No killing anyone" is un-ironically something they have to specify. Last year there was a town-wide mass brawl and the cops have had to issue warnings due to consistent destruction of property every year 😅

For a few minutes..?! Naw, you wear that paper crown the rest of the day! 😂

We do the magpie thing in ireland to 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy 5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a story never to be told, and we see 1 magpie we say good day Mr magpie how's your wife and family.

Punch and Judy used to freak me out as a kid.

Mr Punch does end up in front of the chap dressed in red surrounded by flames for summary judgment.

Great video but the video you were watching missed a fair few weird British traditions out. 1. Duck race. A numbered plastic duck is put into a river or a stream and whichever reaches the finish line further down stream which has a net to catch them all is the winner. 2. Bog snorkeling. Basically snorkeling along 2 consecutive lengths of a 60 yard water filled ditch, the quickest wins. 3. Murder ball. 2 teams of any equal size play a game that has only 1 rule to get the ball behind the opposite teams goal line. Unofficially it's a game to give as much damage and hurt to the opposition as possible. 4. Shin kicking. You hold your opponent by the arms as he holds yours and basically you kick him in the shins trying to make him fall over. The brilliant thing about the different regions of the UK is the local traditions. A lot of them are literally are just regional, what's done in one part of the country isn't even heard of in another. So this list can be an incredibly long one if you talk to different people. Just to let you know that the men at the bottom of the hill who catch people in the cheese roll are from the local rugby club as it obviously takes a very burly and strong man (or woman!) to do it.

J t please can you do some Fred dibnah reactions .

Talking about conkers and horse chestnuts and showing an image of a sweet chestnut.

Shin-kicking,wife carrying,welly boot throwing,bale push around a Cornish village. These and many more around these unique islands make us a blessed population.

No mention of Gurning (unmissable for JT!!) , The Athelstone Ball game, Swan-upping, Worm-charming, and many other great traditions. We could easily make a list of 30! Sheep dog trials? Tar barrels? Coxheath pie throwing? Haggis eating championship? Welly wanging? Black pudding throwing? There is no end (and no game too pointless)!

With the Morris dancers, they used to wear black paint on their faces, was a tradition for centuries, but all of a sudden it was "black face", which still makes me laugh because the tradition started before Europe even discovered Africa, so there weren't any black people around at all.

on the isle of man , as you go over the fairy bridge , you have to say hello to the fairys or bad luck will befall you ! ............. january 6th the haxey hood takes place in the fields of HAXEY a village near DONCASTER , basicly its a leather tube representing a ladys hat that was lost 100s of years ago up to 300 men wrestle to capture the " hood " between 2 pubs !

Imagine growing up back then?! I did grow up back then and I'm barely in my 40s.

10:18 cheese and rice, literally

They tried doing Black Friday in the UK. Nobody was interested.

We have the turkey/Chicken bone pull here too! As a child (70's) we played conkers, did the maypole dance, played jacks, two ball and British bulldog. Not for getting marbles, tick-a-nick (tag for those who dont know lol ) Hide and seek and skipping. Those were the days eh? ❤

Punch & Judy should be considered child abuse! Gave me nightmares whenever I came across this on holiday and my parents kept reassuring me "oh, don't worry he won't hurt you".... yeah sure! As for magpies, it won't be funny looks from people that would worry me if I started speaking to them, it would the evil eye from the birds themselves! Conkers if timed right, you could inflict serious injury to your "best friend" 😈 There is one tradition that is missed off here involving soon to be married couples. Friends of the soon to be wedded couple would come and "collect" them, put them on the back of an open trailer and drive around the local village or town, whereby local people, shop owners etc would throw flour, spoiled food etc on top of the poor couple. By the time they would get back home they would be honking!

I remember watching a punch and Judy show as a kid at Blackpool

Penny Up The Wall ?..lost so much dinner money.😂

The egg and spoon race...now theres a British tradition worth preserving

Wanna be confused, come for a drive with me in the morning where i salute single magpies and ask them how are the wife and kids 😂😂😂😂

Who's going to tell JT that Halloween started in Ireland?

I have a video from a few years ago on my YT channel, at the museum I used to volunteer at in Wales, when I lived there! It's their version of Mari Lwyd! It was more to show the audience at the Christmas concert what Mari Lwyd was during the interval! Punch & Judy always scared me as a child, (& I have a severe fear of clowns too)!

6:30 Thank you for your pretty accurate summation of my rural english childhood.

Maypole day brings back some memories. Where I grew up we've got a 90ft Maypole. Back in the day the whole village turned up to help bring it down. And back up again. With huge ropes and a lot of pulling. And when it's up. Tradition is for someone to climb it. Then health and safety came into play. Now machinery brings it down and up again. And the person who climbs it has to have safety ropes now. This year one of my friends climbed it last year..It only happens every 3 year's though. It's to repair and repaint it too. Cool video.

Cheese rolling is where I live and that hill is almost vertical at the top...

The origin of Punch and Judy is actually Italian. Cheese rolling is somehow connected with grazing rights for cattle (don't ask!) Maypoles are a... how shall we say... 'replacement' for a certain male appendage that 'pure, unmarried maidens' dance around. Maypoles are still quite common. The 'pure, unmarried maidens'... not so much 🙂

Try the 'Running with Flaming Tar Barrels - Crazy English Folk Tradition. ' I'd love to see your reaction.

I’m in the Isle of Man and we have some weird horse thing like the Welsh . Usually turns up in random pubs at Christmas time

Morris dancing is quite a big thing in my town, happens a lot around May day, carnival etc. We have another May Day tradition that happens every year, if you get a chance you should look up Hastings Jack in The Green. It comes from an old May Day tradition and a few other places still do it but ours in Hastings is the biggest in the country.

Some of them be cutting the cheese while chasing the cheese! 🤣😉

The recent addition to the pub crawl is the 'Greggs Crawl'

,Shin kicking, Raft race, home made raft fancy dress race. Pram racing and barrel rolling. Also the Fireballs (New Year tradition in Scotland). Pub crawl. Lots of Pagan traditions like the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, Yule logs (not the cake).

What's this, "can you imagine back in the day?" Yes! I played conkers at my Junior School. You made me feel old, you young un you.

One film of horse racing was not the UK, as here in the UK we race on grass, not soil. The first sight of conkers in the shell were sweet chestnuts. Checkout Lewes bonfire, the biggest in the UK

the best conker tree in my area was owned by a woman and she wouldnt let anyone take conkers until 1st of october, we played conkers alot and it was a big thing in school, but cheating was one of the things we frowned on, some pushed window putty inside, some soaked them in vinegar, many kept them in the fridge to make them last longer, everytime you won a match you would make a knot in the string to signify how many matches that perticular conker has won...

You do make me laugh when discovering UK stuff 😂

Most of these are English pursuits but there are others such as Welly Wangling which involves throwing a Wellington boot as far as possible and don't forget the Scots who also inhabit the British isles with sword dancing or caber tossing . Caber tossing inollves strongmen throwing huge logs known as cabers in the highland games .

Conkers was a serious sport in UK schools 😂

A village local to me has a tradition called the ‘Fig Pie Wakes’. Every year a road on a hill in the middle of the village is closed and people roll fig pies down it. Why? Originally we have no idea but in the last 30 years or so it’s been to raise money for the local church.

We take bonfire night to a whole other level here in Sussex. Many of the towns have their own bonfire societies and they hold torchlit processions on different dates through the town/village with elaborate costumes, drumming and bangers (firecrackers to you) going off all around. The procession leads up to a fire site where there will be a massive bonfire (often in excess of 20 foot high) and fireworks display. All aided by a heavy consumption of beer of course.

they missed a couple of classics; the befriending a road cone as your new best mate, that you will inevitably proudly try and wear on your head, The magical beer taxi, that conveys you from a point to your home (with your new best friend Ro de Cone or Mlle flashy light du road-beacon) that miraculously cost you the exact amount of money you had in your pocket to your door. The kettle...

We have a tradition which is maybe more localised to Norfolk, but on Valentines day, a mysterious man called Jack Valentine knocks on your door, runs away but leaves behind a present. No one ever sees him. As you get older you realise it's just your parents or neighbour doing it, kind of like the Santa thing.

The magpie thing is supposedly that the number you see together will tell your immediate future. There are many versions of the rhyme but the one I was taught was: "One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told". And if you see only one (foretelling sorrow), I was told to say "Good morning, Mrs Magpie!" to dissipate the bad luck. Birds in general have a lot of superstitions in the UK. Jackdaws are a portent of death- I had one sitting by my window on 7th September 2022 and joked how I'd never seen one in all the years I'd lived here so uh oh someone's going to pass any day now!... Yeah. 8th September didn't go well and I felt so bad that I'd made such a flippant joke! [the Queen. Not that I believe the superstition of course, I just feel like maybe it was something I shouldn't have joked about]. Robins are supposed to be passed loved ones returning to say hello. Goldfinches symbolise prosperity. And seagulls symbolise that you're about to get your chips/fries stolen by a flying rat.

We do the wishbone too. It was always a big thing while growing up. They didn’t mention pantomime, I thought it was a worldwide thing lol but apparently not. Or bog snorkelling! I knew someone who won the bog snorkelling one year!

Punch and Judy... brilliant 😊 ❤ from Northeast England ❤️

If Punch and Judy confuses you don't even try to understand Pantomime :-(

You said about how back in the day, you didn't have so much TV so conkers was the thing....No, that is not correct, back in the day kids played conkers because we didn't have health & safety....just common sense.

Punch and Judy was a thing of the past when I was a kid and I'm in my sixties.

3:10 the strawbear festival is bigger than Christmas for us here in and around the town of Whittlesey, the Saturday of is honestly the best day of the year

I loved growing up playing marbles and conkers we had so much more fun as children than children do now with all the technology around, we had a better imagination and always found fun and exciting things to do. ( even if at times it was hedge hopping and knock a door run )

cant remember last time ive seen a punch n judy show

Lets not forget the old 'lock in' back in the day the pub would close and lock the doors then continue serving those inside till about 3am...ah the 90's.

I have never seen a punch and Judy show and have no thoughts to see 1. My school did the maypole dance and sadly it's not done any more.

If you change Punch and Judy into "Florida Man and Judy", beats his wife, kills police officers, wrestles crocodiles. It doesn't seem so far fetched anymore.

Pantomime at Christmas. The pantomime that went wrong is a funny one for you all to react to or watch on your own.

“Imagine growing up back then” I was born in 1987 and I played Conkers even through secondary school 😂

Christmas crackers contain two long things pieces of cardboard that are joined together inside with gunpowder in the join area. So when pulled apart, you get a loud 'crack' noise, similar to a gunshot, hence the name 'Crackers.'

I used to love playing conkers at school back in the 80's, there were some notorious ones going around the school yard that you were wise to avoid if you didn't want yours split in two! It was the talk of the school when to high scoring conkers faced off, generating huge crowds! Ps is that a massive conker on that crane in the background?

Oh 😂😂I say hello to the magpie 😂

Kids used to sit outside the shops with a Teddy bear dressed up and ask penny for the guy, but these days it's considered begging, not many people go carol singing anymore either

I used to bake my Conner’s with vinegar! We have got to pc over here now and in schools they have to wear gloves and safety goggles wth!

10:38 you're absolutely right about that hill, I've never done the race but I've walked (or rather climbed) up that hill and it beggars belief how steep it is, it's actually steep enough to be classified as a cliff as much as a hill.

I was in Gloucestershire for the cheese rolling once, while visiting a monastery. It's fun.

Funny to show 9ish magpies and 1 grey and black crow. Sure both are in the same family.

I was a kid in the 1990s, we had tvs, phones, etc, but we still played conkers out on the streets. We also played with 'clackers' until one cut my face i think.

Hi JT, I think the origins of Punch and Judy are from Italy. If you like Morris Dancing, check out the Sidmouth Folk Festival. Also check out the burning barrels of Ottery St Mary. We always think of a black cat as bringing good luck. We do the saluting to the magpie but say "Hello Mr Magpie, I'm on my way to (wherever)"

Where I live in Scotland: on New Years Eve people parade up and down the main street in Stonehaven whirling long ropes with balls of fire at the ends around their heads.

Conkers were still a thing for a while - we still used to do this in early 2000s till our school banned it cause people were using them to hit each other

They can't talk about Ascot and not mention the outlandish hats women wear...

Hey JT, im ashamed to say two of those items are within 15min drive of where i live. The straw man is in Whittlesey just to the east of Peterborough on whats is called the fens. That an ex swamp that is below sea level until it was drained a long while ago. The second is the Conker world champs in Ashton near Oundle which is just west of Peterborough. Now theres a very good pub in Ashton with decent ale if its still standing. If not theres a micro brewery just over the road😂 at Nene valley brewery. Sad to say ive not been to either event although the straw man must go back to Pagan times

I have lived in Wales for the past 30 years, and I have never heard of the Horses head thing, that's probably why the video was in black and white.

Cheese rolling takes place in 10 days time (27th) I believe. I live really close to the hill, not a chance I would ever attempt it!

Scottish Highland Games have been going since the 11th century. It’s a wonderful Scottish tradition.

Still play Conner’s with my niece and nephew. Played the hell out of it as a kid. Was pretty average though. Probably lost more than I won.

I'm in my 30s and we still played conkers when I was a kid, though I doubt kids play with them now.

We do tip here in the UK but we don't have to as we do get a proper wage when it comes to going to work so we don't have to rely on other people generosity when it comes to something like working in places like restaurants

I’m just 45 and we still played conkers at school, there’s no beating real visual fun ^_^

If you like the Cheese Race, you might also enjoy the Atherstone Ball Game.

The magpie rhyme he said everybody knows (one for sorrow two for joy ) is the thyme for 70's children's t.v show and is not the historical rhyme which starts " one for sorrow two for mirth three for a wedding four for a birth " etcetera !

I don't worry if I walk under a ladder or if I put an umbrella up indoors but no way would I not wish Mr Magpie a good day and ask after his wife and children if I see him on his own.

my grandad used to do punch and judy shows all his life, he carved all the puppets himself. even got invited over to germany once to do a show.

it wasnt so much find a nut from a tree we would go all out as kids and climb the tress jumping up and down on the branches and let it rain 100s of conkers lol or we would get big sticks or lumps of wood and throw them at the tress to knock the conkers down ....fun old times when kids used to be kids and half normal and not brain washed with tech and stuff 🤣

Punch and Judy is nearly 400 years old! Still do the magpie thing - can also turn round and spit where I'm from, oh I loved playing conkers. OMG I left the UK 20 years ago and the only one I haven't done is no 9. +1 Everything else my whole childhood... I really miss bonfire night.

One of the racetracks for the horse racing is in the town I live in in Scotland, and it always amuses us to see the ladies wearing fancy next to nothing skimpy outfits in the usually freezing weather just to watch horses run!

as a kid in the early 80's coming back from school, i hit the motherload, 100 of conkers in the park, i went back to my house, got my dad , and a suitcase and filled it up, a suitcase full of conkers, going through them hoping 1 would be that immortal champion conker. People took it seriously at school, there was many theories on how to create the all conquering conker, many went down leave it in vineger route , at the end of it i had a suitcase full of moldy conkers with no champion conker

In terms of "Guy Fawkes Night", notice some of the key words there. "Protestant King"... "formally with anti-Catholic sentiment". The tldr being that the king at the time was massively brutal to the Catholics murdering many for simply not following the "Church of England" (which was the protestant faith with the King of England as the head). When the attempt failed, the kind had many people slaughter with their heads places on spikes in response, and proclaimed that it had been an attempt to attack parlement (ignoring he knew he was the core target) and so the day was "celebrated" as the day "democracy won". It's also why Guy Fawkes masks have very much come to the symbol of groups fighting for freedom against the ruling powers - although this does stem from "V for Vendetta" which in turn is a film/comic based around the Guy Fawkes tail and leaning more towards the "freedom fighter" side of it.

At one of the Christmas Fairs I do, there is always a Punch and Judy show, and the kids love it. A Punch and Judy show is put on normally by a single entertainer (normally a man), and traditionally they are still referred to as 'Professor'.

still did conkers in the 90's haha

Number 7: One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy. Five for Silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told. Eight for a wish, Nine for a kiss, Ten for a bird you must not miss. Eleven for health, Twelve for wealth, Thirteen beware, it's the devil himself.

The kids do trick and treating in the UK. Xx

Punch & Judy must of influenced good old Florida man.