50 confusing random facts about UK life and British culture! How many of these can you relate to? Is it the same in your country?
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As an American, I also find it rude when people talk loudly on their phones. Luckily, our state's transit company reserves a quiet car that forbids that kind of behavior! I have a lot of friends in the UK and we always have fun comparing our cultures.
Cold blooded, racist and not friendly
I love how almost all of these apply to the US as well if you're not an asshole!
UK seems great if a majority of the population is polite.
Im from australia most of them apply to aussies as well
May .,; may may … your Saturday LIFTED….
The RUSS ROPE pending a new drop PAID TO SPOT MAY…
Summer dumpling hard CHORD BEATEN …. D. Ring roll…. f.
Rap b. Switched through Black SKY and Moon's sunbathed… TIME skipped at a Copinggg gailllll…
Boob stars flown to deep MAY
Rest cockney trip taken…
Ossshhh.
WinterSpring Fall given a HAFT Fairy TAIL.
Dashhh Board betting THE GAP STRINGS …. sailed.
HOOD EXxxxxx MAY NAILED.
A PANIC PAD …. salonnnnnnn Wild HILL NILLY breath PUT MAY.
William SHAKESPEARS die. FOR FOOD. HP 1.4
This video helped me ✨I liked the part about British people not being confrontational ..I have a friend on social media from the UK and I finally just asked them if they dislike me🤔they said Stop..🤔I still cannot figure out if they like or dislike me 🤔
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#15 I live in America and when somebody doesn’t thank you for opening the door. I get a little mad. It’s not just British people.
Ha ha ha ! Such a great time with your 50 tip.
Thanks from Barcelona… and in Catalonia we have the same sense of humor as the Brits!!🤣🤣💪🏼💪🏼❤️
Kisses for you (two, of course !)
So cool ❤️❤️❤️
I hate wasps I once had one in my jacket :/
I can't help but thing that if there hasn't been a study to determine the cost of your royals, then it's probably because they cost more than they take in through tourism. That said, I sill like it. I love British history.
#14: Alcohol is a drug (if you deny it, you have a worse problem than you think), ergo, a drinking culture is a drug culture.
Where is number 20?
George Mikes on the British – a country where people form an orderly queue of one.
We have the same plug in egypt
The weather 💯 it’s been 30+ degrees in most of the uk all week then the weekend ( had a wedding) had rain and storms both days 🤣
I have lived in the U.S. for 23 years and my American hubby and I argue over tipping every time. I NEVER get away with 10% so it is a constant battle between 15% and 20%. Sometimes my victory will be paying $1 less than my husband wants to tip. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Seriously, 23 years and we still argue … every … single … time!
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I think you'll find that Chicken Tikka Masala originated in Scotland.
More like English culture
WOW!! 19 degree heat? I would've been shivering in that temperature.
I love your honesty ❤️
I'm Spanish and yeah, people don't respect queues here. It's sooooooo annoying, I understand you. I also like you politeliness.
I have found your videos very entertaining and as aTexan I even understood most of what you said. I don’t understand the royalty thing. If the British like all the pomp and ceremony, why don’t you just hire attractive actors for the royal positions and be sure to have a moral clause in their contracts. Then get rid of all the rest.
11:00 this is interesting, i wouldn’t necessarily say it has to be the right (unless you’re on the underground that is) – you just have to be on the same side as everyone else. i often stand on the left on an empty escalator since i think anyone rushing can work out that they should go on the other side
I learned the escalator rule the hard way!
Thank you for a well-presented video with minimal use of "like", "kind of" and "kind of like". Full of interesting cultural truths and enjoyable humour.
Number 3: …. Unless u live in certain parts of South London where its every man for himself. Get in where u fit in type of thing lol
Number 15: It really isn't a bother for me to hold the door for a short while. My great-grandmother taught me that it takes 2 seconds out of your day to be nice to someone, and a lifetime to regret being mean. And besides, I stopped being in a hurry when the US Government (Army) handed me my walking papers.
Proud to be British and English by the grace of God.
Car horns? I've actually got out of my car at traffic lights because the car behind me beeped his horn in frustration that I didn't drive off at the split second the lights changed to green. (It's that old joke. The shortest known length of time? The time between the lights going to green, and the car behind you beeping.) Well this one day I was already in a foul mood having been to Ikea with the family. (Yep, that'll do it, everyone cries in unison.) So, I hand-braked up and got out and started looking at MY car. He's now shouting out of his window asking what I'm doing? "Well you beeped your horn. I thought there must be something wrong with my car, because that would be the only sensible reason anyone would beep at the car in front in what is basically stationary traffic.." Might have made him think twice before doing it again, who knows? Oh and fwiw, don't try this if you're not a big bloke btw.. lol
I live in Ireland and they do the same things 🤣
wow such a nice thing to give seat to elderly people in britain . we do it a lot in india . I don’t see it a lot in canada though ☹️
Queue!!! You will enjoy in SG when you come. 🙂
People here loves to queue. Younger days, I and my friend joined queue (pretty long one) at the hawker ctr without knowing where this queue land…
I can finally understand my boyfriend even better. Thank you! xD
Not really , in my country we rather consider it as a bore, not really important so we don't mind lines kipping
You nay……..,.
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