11 Things I Didn't Expect When Moving to the UK - American in the UK

[@JustMe-ks8qc]

You said "bins" without even thinking about it. I think we have assimilated you successfully.

[@CovBloke1310]

I noticed that as well...........

[@mrmessy7334]

Yeah but she also said "on accident" so she's not quite there yet!

[@JustMe-ks8qc]

@@mrmessy7334 Another few years, then.

[@davidhines7592]

resistance is futile. tea is eternal

[@RealSteelStreet]

Definitely noticed 🤣 Oh, and the ‘having tea’ with the British Police part…but aren’t they actually called constables there 🤔

[@OriginalNiceButOdd]

A lot of the country roads in the UK were once meant for horses, and farm carts etc, which is why they are narrow; these old tracks are often ancient and just get a coat of tarmac to enable cars to use them.

[@WookieWarriorz]

also the preserve the countyside and nature. Ive driven thousands of miles in the usa and its just fucking depressing, everywhere. Even when the scenery was amazing in colorado and utah the road was so far away from everything and so wide that i never really felt like i was there. Just felt like i was watching from the windows. Where as when i drive in the uk, france, norway, germany etc i really feel like im winding and weaving THROUGH nature, not 500 meters away from it at all times on a giant grey slab.

[@GaryConway-kl5vp]

The main reason they wander this way and that is because the follow the old field boundries, god forbid they actually encroach on anyone land.

[@John.Mann.1941]

And in some places those lovely hedgerows along the side of the road conceal a stone wall. If you pullover to far to the edge, as well as having twigs and leaves brush the side of the car, the stones are leaving scratches in the paint.

[@cr10001]

I love those English country lanes. Generally, as compared with country roads in e.g. France or Italy, English ones have 'soft edges', by which I mean you can nudge against them to pass someone without damage - in the south of France or northern Italy there are, far more often, stone walls built right to the edge of the carriageway. Guess how I know :-(

[@adventussaxonum448]

Ah, the lovely English countryside! Now, if only we could cover it with tarmac, so I don't have to pull over occasionally.😅 I often think, why are these drivers on these roads, if not to enjoy the scenery. Plenty of motorways and A roads, to get from A to B

[@Psmith-ek5hq]

As Basil Fawlty said in "The Waldorf Salad" episode to the American guest who was complaining about the narrow roads, "our cars have steering wheels".

[@MrRjhyt]

"Sorry, all out of Waldorfs!"

[@SJHFoto]

I always found it amusing that they used a Canadian to play the American in that episode (He was also the actor who played General Riekeen in the Empire Strikes Back)

[@Phiyedough]

Here in Croatia the country lanes are the same width as those in UK. The speed limit is just a maximum, you have to judge yourself what speed is safe within that limit.

[@rustybrand8103]

Yes. I live in Devon. There are so many idiots who drive the narrow country roads at high speed. Their attitude is 'The speed limit is 60mph so I will drive up to that speed' without understanding what is an 'appropriate speed', given that there are frequently farm vehicles, walkers, cyclists and horse riders also using the roads. The speed limit is a 'limit' NOT a 'target'

[@sarahtrew9331]

@@rustybrand8103absolutely this!

[@MatronsS]

@@rustybrand8103 I live near Dartmoor and my average speed on those lane is 28, plenty fast enough. Its always fun when you meet a tractor coming around the bend or better still a huge coach load of tourists - we met this coming up to Hay Tor once with a mini bus full of kids going in the opposite direction. Neither driver was prepared to move, until my sister got out and gave them what for and made them move; coach backs up about a meter, mini bus turns into farm entrance, coach goes past, mini bus backs out and on it's way, honestly it was that easy but no, they just sat there gesturing to each other!

[@heneagedundas]

​@@rustybrand8103 Devon lanes are special! It's not the narrowness so much as the addition of stone lined sunken roads that are the challenge.

[@BOABModels]

My postman literally commented on the pleasant weather yesterday morning. Also, regarding swearing - I have spent my entire working career with children and it does irritate me when people cannot manage their language around kids.

[@alanstebbings2886]

My favourite on the weather I used to have a Polish regular customer and said to him one day"Marek,you're turning English You've been talking about the weather for the last five minutes" Lovely guy

[@roberth.7260]

We don't have a climate in the UK, just lots of weather.

[@glynnwright1699]

Many narrow roads were built for pack horses. Bulky items travelled by coastal vessels or canals.

[@ianprince1698]

the roads are bendy as they were marked out by someone coming home from the pub

[@PhilipWorthington]

Yes, I was going to point out that most of our country roads were established way before the invention of the bicycle.

[@alundavies1016]

Yep, UK roads were often built before cars came along, so they weren’t designed to be wide and straight.

[@brun4775]

And generally you should only have to use these roads in the first or last 5 or so miles of your journey. But as most people just blindly follow the satnav these days, they often get used a lot more.

[@jackwalker4874]

Or by rail. Britain's railways used to carry some seriously unusual loads, long before the road network was up to the task. Bridge girders, transformers, ship's propellors, circuses...

[@frogandspanner]

6:30 I live in the southern suburbs of Birmingham, UK - the second largest city. I choose to travel through the narrow lanes rather than major roads to go to the supermarket. Stopping at passing places, and pedestrian and horses in the middle of the road, are much less of an irritation than aggressive motorists on major roads.

[@ATwinam]

Birmingham, England..

[@verandisoldusty6834]

@@ATwinam Engeland is part of the UK 🙄.

[@xneurianx]

I love a cold drink, but ice is so annoying. Your drink just gets gradually more and more watered down as the ice melts and you drink more of the actual drink. That last third of a pint of cola that is more water than coke is just vile.

[@Karl-oo9mq]

It's the ignorance of Americans, imagine paying for half a pint of ice and not the half a pint of cola you asked for.

[@xneurianx]

@@Karl-oo9mq I don't think it's ignorant, since they know what they're getting. Plus they have unlimited refills on soft drinks in most restaurants so you can ultimately get as much cola as you like. It;s a cultural difference. I don't get it, but we don't need to jump straight to "all American's are ignorant".

[@susanpilling8849]

I watched a documentary once where they tested the ice in pubs and bars. The bacteria they found was quite literally sickening (think people not washing their hands). I've refused ice in drinks ever since.

[@alanstebbings2886]

You tend to find if you buy soft drinks in a pub that they half fill the glass with ice Less actual drink for the same price !

[@gaynorhead2325]

Wholeheartedly agree! I hate ice in my drinks, who wants a watered down drink?

[@tatters2072]

The blocking is done stateside, not by the UK. We have the same problem in Canada when we try to access U.S. content and it's blocked because we're not in the U.S. I understand that protecting copyright comes into it, but a lot of it simply because U.S. providers do not want to conform to foreign rules.

[@stephenlee5929]

Quite a lot of it is to do with Cookies and GDPR or similar.

[@jonnor6883]

​@@stephenlee5929 yes because us don't want to adopt to other rules like GDPR. So they just go for the easy solution and block the sites

[@markylon]

They don't want to adhere to GDPR rules and make themselves compliant so they just block out the UK and EU so they don't have to comply to GDPR

[@CyclingSteve]

​@@stephenlee5929yep, I noticed after GDPR lots of local news sites in the US blocked us.

[@watcherzero5256]

Its because of European Cookie laws. In Europe (and UK and Canada followed suit) a website has to give you an option to opt out of tracking cookies and personal data retention whereas in the US you dont and the US websites dont want to give the US citizens the chance to opt out or the complication of setting up a system to manage consents, so they simply block foreigners as the easiest way to comply.

[@rnp497]

I love that the majority of our Plod don't carry guns.

[@coling3957]

with changing demographs that won't be for much longer.. in the old days with British people, the cops didn't need guns.. nowadays though with the third world arriving by the millions - not so much. gangs armed with machetes, knives and guns aren't going to be stopped by a tazer. the major cities are turning into sh*tholes..

[@tnetroP]

I love that the majority of our citizens don't carry guns.

[@lindafox1948]

Would Americans understand the derivation of Plod?

[@lindafox1948]

It's TKMaxx all over Europe.

[@lindafox1948]

I think those "automatic" Yale locks may be getting phased out. I won't ever get one, as I got shut out too often while I was young, but when I got new doors, they were all fitted with ones that needed to be manually locked.

[@jackjorgensen17]

I know it’s a plug for the ad, but the blocked American content in the uk isn’t censored, it’s blocked by the websites themselves because they don’t want to comply with the UKs data protection laws, so they refuse the traffic, rather than face penalties for violating

[@YvonTripper]

And that was only like for 6 months in 2017 after GDPR started, then everyone in the US realized it wasn't a big deal and went back to normal

[@TheRoybeasley]

@@YvonTripper But it's still the case that the access is blocked at source (typically for copyright reasons), not censored by any Powers That Be here in UK. Hence the existence of eg Surf Shark.

[@wyterabitt2149]

The websites aren't blocked, the website is blocking the UK. A subtle but important difference.

[@WgCdrLuddite]

Indeed. Because many US oganisations fail to abide by our GDPR laws.

[@911scTarga]

Sites like the BBC do it the other way around, which is annoying when you have paid your BBC licence and want to watch something on iPlayer when you're in Greece. 🧐

[@jackjorgensen17]

@@WgCdrLudditewe don’t have GDPR in the uk since leaving the EU, it’s covered by the Data Protection Act 2018

[@WgCdrLuddite]

@@jackjorgensen17 Which is also known as "UK GDPR".

[@MENSA.lady2]

Precicely. it's all about money.

[@paulmidsussex3409]

The President makes a state of the Union address once a year. The British Prime Minister has to do it once a week AND take questions after it.

[@danmayberry1185]

(... and again to the Head of State.) And if he/she knowingly lies, it's a firing offense. The last president would have been fired 30,573 times.

[@geoffpriestley7310]

​@@danmayberry1185 in the first year

[@paulmidsussex3409]

@@geoffpriestley7310 Tump lies about everything, even things that are completely inconsequential.

[@Poliss95]

@paulmidsussex3409 Can't remember the last time a PM of any part actually answered a question.

[@andybrown4284]

Prime ministers evasions

[@garysmith5025]

My Grandma was brought up in The Gorbals, Glasgow in the 1910's and 1920's before getting married and moving to Lancashire. Trust me, nothing I could say would be a patch on her language when she was in full flow!

[@welshpete12]

A Tug boat skipper I know in the Netherland. Could swear for 15 minutes without repeating himself.

[@martinmaynard141]

I live in southern Spain and my students (both teenagers and professionals) swear a lot more than I ever do!

[@crackpot148]

The first time I ever heard respectable looking women drop the F bomb was in Scotland. I caught a bus from Rosyth to Dunfermline and sat behind two old dears. They were chatting away to each other and I was taking no notice but I suddenly became aware that they were effing and jeffing every other word. I was truly shocked. I would say they were both in their late 60s or early 70s. Genuinely it was a new experience for me. I had only arrived in Rosyth the previous day but I soon learned that there otherwise respectable women routinely used profane language. This was in 1968.

[@mjudec]

Ah, you Southerners all have soft language.

[@davebarker9144]

Years ago on holiday we were drinking rum and coke. The bartender would throw in ice and half fill the glass with rum and hand us a bottle of coke to top it up ourselves. I don't like ice bashing against my teeth when I'm drinking so asked for no ice. The bartender filled my glass with rum to the same level as the others. From then on none of us had ice. The coke was cold enough to make it a nice cool drink. One disadvantage - The hangover next day

[@alantheinquirer7658]

The UK is small, sits between the edge of the Atlantic ocean and a vast landmass, in the terminal of the Gulf Stream. Of course we talk about the weather ... we get a lot of it! 😆

[@ceejay0137]

I think the main point is that the weather is a neutral subject. Everyone is subject to it, we all have opinions about it, but none of us can _do_ anything about it! Whether you're complaining or enjoying it, you can discuss it with a complete stranger without offending them or becoming personal, and once you're talking you can venture onto other topics more safely. Edit: I'm a Brit, in case you hadn't guessed!!

[@roderickmain9697]

And if you are in Scotland, its occasionally possible to get four seasons in one day. If you are really lucky - twice.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

You don't like the weather on The British Isles? Wait five minutes! 😋

[@annaburch3200]

We say this in Seattle, too. Or drive five miles. 😆

[@georgemorley1029]

Yeah, because in five minutes you won’t dislike it, you’ll bloody hate it.

[@mothmagic1]

If you can't see the hills it's raining if you can see the hills it's going to rain.

[@jackwalker4874]

​@@annaburch3200 five miles? I walked half a mile to the shops and the weather was different. Wales is something else

[@Kerygmachela]

You still won't like it in 5 mins but at least it'll be different...

[@frogandspanner]

My Yorkshire (of Irish extraction) grandfather (b 1898) would say such things as "what the blue pencil do you think you are doing". He had spent his late teens in the trenches, and letters home were censored by the use of a blue pencil being used to disguise the unacceptable text.

[@normanpearson8753]

Mine too.

[@Stoggler]

Number 6: ice in drinks. One of my pet hates is asking for a pint of diet cola in a pub and getting American levels of ice in it. The result of an amount of coke that is no where near a pint, and within a few minutes, you have a very diluted unsatisfying drink!

[@backrowbrighton]

I know! Hate it.

[@steveallen3434]

i bet if you ask for it without ice you still will not get a pint

[@Stoggler]

@@steveallen3434 I generally do get a full pint if asked .

[@CJ4S147]

As an American I don't have an issue with ice lowering the amount of beverage in the cup when we get free refills. Im used there being some watered down soda at the bottom of the glass and it doesn't bother me much. When I have my druthers at home what I do is put my can of soda in the freezer for 10-15 min so the ice melts very little when I pour the drink into the receptacle. Sometimes I'll even go to the lengths of using an insulated cup but if I time it right I can get very little ice melt in my beverage. Another thing I started doing is keep one of the styrofoam cups that I get from certain restaurants in the car and put the uninsulated cups from others inside it to minimize the melting effect.

[@MooreLeather]

​@@StogglerI doubt it. Pubs don't serve soft drinks in PINT measures....I only found out recently when I asked for a pint of lemonade & lime.

[@davidberesford7009]

The yellow flower: *Brassica napus subsp. napus* Apparently most hay fever is associated with tree pollen, not grasses.

[@Steve14ps]

Mine is, I usually start sneezing end May or start of June, it goes by mid July

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

Country lanes; If you're going at 60mph you're going TOO FAST ! And remember that most of these roads are at least a thousand years old. They weren't intended for cars, let alone 2 abreast.

[@rosemarielee7775]

60 mph is the national limit which covers all non motorways, but you must drive appropriately for the situation. Which on rural lanes is about 25mph.

[@juliegreen7604]

@Kevin-mx1vi Why is 60mph too fast? There are plenty of nsl roads where 60mph is perfectly safe with great vision, and indeed others (or parts of the same road) where it is not. You can't blanketly say it's too fast because there are many occasions where it wouldn't be. If the whole area is unsuitable for speeds up to 60 it would have a reduced limit.

[@janus1363]

@@juliegreen7604 because country lanes twist and turn unexpectedly and are narrow. You do not want to meet an oncoming vehicle with a closing speed of 120mph (if they too are doing 60mph) and just a few inches clearance. Also just around the next blind bend you may encounter a tractor doing 20mph or a flock of sheep at a standstill.

[@markylon]

60mph is the speed limit for these lanes

[@markylon]

@@rosemarielee7775 Utter nonsense. The National Speed Limit Varies depending on the ROAD and the VEHICLE TYPE. There is no 25mph speed limit. In Roads where there are STREET LIGHTS and Built-Up Areas the Speed Limit is 30mph unless signed otherwise. Outside of BUILT UP AREAS where there are NO STREET LIGHTS the limits is 60mph unless otherwise signed, for CARS and switches to 70mph on DUAL CARRIAGEWAYS FOR CARS and MOTORWAYS FOR CARS. 25mps is just made up by you and is not based on any regulation.

[@britbazza3568]

Hi Kaylin .The narrow roads were actually old farm tracks that have been upgraded to an actual road but because the fields are actually owned and are to produce foods these roads have remained narrow. What you on about the 60 mph speed limit each way. We have to have some fun in the UK you know! Nothing like playing chicken at 60 mph with oncoming tractors lol

[@bugtracker152]

What about people living along the road? Can't imagine backing up from a driveway or turning on a junction with some limited visibility while someone might be driving 60mph especially if it's quit busy. Our roads' one direction lanes are wider than some 2 way roads in the UK and the speed limit on such roads is usually 30-35mph. It might get 40-45 if the area is not so densely populated. 55mph is usually a wider road in an area which is not populated or if there are multiple lanes each direction but still having intersections where other vehicles might enter the road or make a U-turn. Anything above 55mph would usually be a dedicated interstate where no pedestrians or bicycles are allowed and which has dedicated ramps allowing vehicles entering the road to match their speed with the traffic when they merge. Some roads in the UK having default speed limit of 60 are actually quite scary to go 60. Just my opinion.

[@britbazza3568]

@@bugtracker152 lol. UK single track roads are all designated at the National speed limit which is 60 mph unless otherwise signposted. As for people living on the roads. These roads are sparsely populated maybe one or two houses or farms but that's it. Yes there are possible walkers, cyclists, horse riders etc but most traffic is either farm traffic, trucks, tractors etc or even a herd of cattle or flock of sheep being moved from field to field but the speed limit is still 60 mph unless otherwise signposted. It works for us ok and accidents are rare. I live on a road that is barely wide enough to get my Range Rover up without scraping hedges and with no passing places on it at all. With the bases of the hedges being solid stone walls set into the hedge a bit so not a lot of room for error, It is two way with some sharp bends on too. Meaning that if I meet a vehicle coming the other way one of us has to reverse most of the length of the road until we reach someone's driveway which can be reversed into to let the other one pass. That means reversing possibly up to 1/2 a mile until a drive way is reached. It just makes us better drivers for judging spacial awareness and we actually have fast reaction times to stop in time from having head on smashes. The basic rule of thumb in the UK highway code book is to drive at speeds at which you can clearly see the road ahead and to be able to bring your vehicle to a safe stop within the distance one can see ahead. Or basically just use common sense. The 60 mph is a speed limit not a target so if a person doesn't think it's safe to do 60 due to weather or road conditions then be more careful. But if the road is clear and the conditions are good than 60 mph can be achieved. It's all about how good and experienced the driver is. From what you've said I think UK drivers are probably better at doing these tasks better than the drivers from the USA

[@ronhall9394]

@@britbazza3568 And watch out for pedestrians (who have used those ancient routes for centuries), equestrians (who are usually obnoxious twats on big twitchy animals) and cyclists (who deserve to be mown down because of their lycra) And don't kill Hedgehogs!!

[@briwire138]

I'm always amazed that some visitors expect all our roads to be single track, and concerned about driving between London and Birmingham. There are no pull in places on the M1.

[@shaunfarrell3834]

@@bugtracker152 Strictly speaking the speed limit is 60 mph if appropriate. You are expected to exercise common sense in all circumstances when driving, we tend to put responsibility on people on the basis they are adults and don’t expect to be told what to do on every occasion

[@Poliss95]

My sister never swears. She shouts 'Sugar!' 😁 Q. How can you tell when it's summer in England? A. The rain's warmer. Of course we don't want ice in drinks. We're paying for a full glass, not a glass half filled with frozen water. PMQs. Aka Feeding time at the zoo. I was walking home from the pub one night. A cop car stopped and gave me a lift home. 😁😁😁 The locks that engage automatically when you close them aren't deadlocks. Their technical name is 'night latch, commonly known as a Yale lock. Houses with Yale locks may also have a separate deadlock. Back doors usually only have a deadlock, so take your rubbish out that way. 😁😁

[@crackpot148]

The technical name for a "Yale" lock is spring lock. Or maybe what it's called is just a regional thing. Where I come from a dead lock, aka a deadbolt lock, requires a key to disengage it and to engage it.

[@torfrida6663]

Most of our country lanes have been there for at least a millennium. They are horse and cart size, except for a few drove roads where the hedges are far apart - but the tarmac is still around one car wide. You need to know how wide your car is! 😀🇬🇧👍

[@JamesFraser34]

First thing I noticed as a Brit travelling in the US was that the all light switches work the other way round (up for 'on' in US / up for 'off' in UK).

[@harrybarrow6222]

About “up for on” in the USA: I think the idea is that if you drop something, and it hits the switch, it turns the lights out. Probably for “safety”. But if it was a glass you dropped, and it shattered, and you are now in the dark…. The best of British luck!

[@MatthewBrannigan]

Another one is toilet flush handles - left in the US, right in the UK, a bit like where the steering wheel is in a car!

[@Poliss95]

@@MatthewBrannigan They're in the middle these days.

[@jamiesimms7084]

​@@Poliss95Depends

[@musicallyyoshimi9651]

You have to be 'of an age' to know why up is off in the UK. It dates back to the days when the switches were a miniature brass fork operated by a ceramic lever mechanism to a brass toggle and simple spring. If the spring failed (and I've known it happen) the external toggle moves up, not down, so the idea was that in this case it would fail safe. P.S. As a child I lived in a Victorian London house that still had many of the original fittings - including an internal bell system for calling the servants!

[@td1559]

In restaurants the use of ice is a cost saving measure, as it is typically cheaper than the drink you put it in, so I think most people are less willing to pay for it. That and our summers don't tend to get quite as hot.

[@michaelzzzzzzzzzzzz]

The biggest difference of all I would say, is workers rights and the health service. 1. Workers rights... you cannot just be sacked, unless gross negligence and we have around 28 days paid holiday, not including bank holidays. I seriously don't know how Americans cope with not having this. 2. Health Service is basically free... The End

[@TheXeneco]

It’s not that the UK blocks some US websites, it’s that some US websites block UK & European visitors, due to the GDPR regulations. There are incentives for some US sites to allow UK traffic (legitimate UK customers), but regional news sites in the US have no need for UK visitors, so there’s no point investing in refactoring the website to take account of UK/EU legislation around data

[@konradyearwood5845]

The reason for the TK Maxx is there is a department store chain called TJ Hughes (who are based mainly in the North of England) and I think there was some concern regarding confusion and copyright thus the adjustment.

[@grahamguest142]

PMQs is the one place in British politics where heckling is a tradition, none of the parties would put a stop to it.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

I think a lot of Commonwealth countries based on the Westminster system have adversarial parliaments

[@terrylayman1650]

Yes, PMQs is wonderfully participatory.

[@greypilgrim228]

@@alwynemcintyre2184 Canada and Australia definitely followed that tradition lol.

[@jajabez8379]

@@greypilgrim228 From time to time TV coverage from Canberra has got close to being NSFW... although actual punch-ups in the chamber(s) seem to be less common these days.

[@jokepy4230]

I don't like PMQs or any other Parliament debate. They all sound like a flock of sheep with indigestion.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

British police also have an on call community psychiatric nurse, pioneered in my home town.

[@maximushaughton2404]

We've had roads in the UK since before the Romans, so they were made for people to walk along or ride horses, or maybe a cart. So cars have been around for about 5% of the time, roads have been. Mind you the US was not build for cars either to start with, they just ripped everything up to fit cars from around the 1950's.

[@blotski]

One of the reasons I wouldn't like my glass filled up with ice in the American way is that we don't have the concept of free refills. So having a glass that's mostly ice rather than the actual drink feels like a raw deal.

[@blotski]

@@AnotherPointOfView944 Never come across a free refill in a pub or a restaurant as is common in the USA. Fast food places often do like Five Guys etc. MacDonalds stopped offering refills earlier this year. I live in Manchester. Can't you make a point without making a snide comment?

[@barrysteven5964]

@@AnotherPointOfView944 Well, apart from breakfast buffets I've never in my life come across free refills in pubs and restaurants in the UK so I'd be interested in knowing where YOU live. Or is your experience just limited to fast food outlets?

[@mjudec]

@@AnotherPointOfView944 Never in McDonalds, Burger King, pubs or restaurants have I seen free refills on soft drinks. And that's experiences spread across a lot of the UK. I did see it in five guys, but then you're paying about 80 quid for a burger...

[@KenFullman]

On the subject of hay fever. As a Brit I never suffered from hay fever until I was 23. The thing that changed was when, all of a sudden, our farmers started cultivating a crop that I can't even mention as youtube will delete this comment. It's called "Oil Seed X" (where X sounds like a non concentual crime). It has bright yellow (practically flurescent) flowers and the outbreak of hay fever that it caused was astronomical. I still can't stand the smell of it as it is reminiscent of BO. It doesn't affect me nearly as bad as it once did but if there's a lot of it, nearby, I still get watery eyes. There were government studies that concluded, we were all over reacting, but at least 50% of people I knew were affected by it. I suspect it was just the sheer magnitude of it's introduction that caused the problem. We went from fields full of wheat and barley to Oil seed X absolutely everywhere. I'm not even sure it's hay fever because it's not the typical sneezing, it's more like irritation of the eyes and throat. Nasty stuff. So if you've just arrived from a country where this crop isn't common, I suspect you're having the same issues.

[@Rachel_M_]

Government studies also concluded diazepam isn't addictive... There are clinical studies dating back to the 90's that show it's a bit more complicated with the censored plant.. There are 2 "parts" of hayfever. The "allergic reaction" and the "irritant action". More like very mild pepper spray Turns out the pollen causes the irritant reaction in a wider ranger of people without traditional "allergic hayfever" As you can guess, the same plant really gets me 🤧

[@frankfriedlos3721]

Call it canola. Then Kaylin will know what you're talking about.😀

[@coling3957]

rapeseed has nothing to do with sexual assaults...

[@RobertJames-fe2pd]

Interesting fact, there is absolutely no record of hayfever before the industrial revolution, could polluted air have damaged our natural protection?

[@tonys1636]

Due to changes in farming subsidies and bans on insecticides and fungicides less Oil Seed Rape is being cultivated so fewer yellow fields, not quite as more Sunflower fields now.

[@Sharon_Mc]

🇬🇧 Apparently, hundreds of years ago, the bending roads were fitting around farmers fields. Also, there were just horse and carts . Some Devon countryside roads have extremely narrow roads with nowhere to pass another car. So, one car has to back up a long, long way.

[@johnrhodez6829]

I was told that here in Essex the bendy bits were because the road builders always worked with their backs to the wind!

[@PedroConejo1939]

My lane runs by an Iron Age hill fort, so I would imagine cars weren't taken into account in the planning process. It has grass growing in the middle of the road, which is an indication that absolutely _anything_ can be coming the other way, driven by a sun-shrivelled twig, whose mind is soused in cider. He will have to think about where the brake pedal is, so you just drive accordingly. Our biggest problem is grockles, who just do not have a clue, but do know that the faster you go, the sooner you get there.

[@Trebor74]

They would have had to put in a bypass,done and environmental and feasibility study,etc. I don't think the chieftains wanted the extra work.

[@RichWoods23]

@@Trebor74 When the planning officers pissed them off, the chieftains just threw them in the wicker man.

[@richardh8082]

At PMQs there are still rules around conduct (eg you cannot call another member a liar)

[@WookieWarriorz]

exactly americans just arent used to actual political dialogue, american presidents dont really have to answer to anyone, they cant be jeered at or roasted or critiqued theyre hidden away in a big house or in private chambers, meetings etc. The house of parliment is something a lot of americans wish they had.

[@madjock-ig5bv]

Strangely a member (mostly the PM) can lie their arse off with nothing said but if you call out a lie you are in trouble. Bloody ridiculous.

[@wad951]

Hello Colonial Cousin. We had some Californian friends come to visit us. We went out in my car and 'the girls' and our son sat in the back seat of the car. As our friend went to get into the back seat she said, "I hope that I can get my big fat fanny into here!" A silence reigned and we diverted the conversation. Later, my love explained that the word 'fanny' means bottom in Calif speak. Two nations divided by a common language!

[@The2010designer]

Netflix & US sites censored? It's actually a case of commercial licensing, where different rights owners exist in the USA & Europe!

[@markylon]

US SITES are NOT censored by the UK or for licence reasons, They don't want to adhere to GDPR rules and make themselves compliant so they just block out the UK and EU so they don't have to comply to GDPR.

[@graememorrison333]

You're a very intelligent woman and I love your quirky, left-field, deep-dives!

[@jackwalker4874]

I think that it is important to point out that we DO associate swearing with vulgarity. It's just that we find vulgarity funny.

[@noggintube]

It's usually contextual though. You know when someone is using it specifically to be vulgar or aggressive. Most swearing in normal language is simply 'seasoning' that most people don't even know they're doing.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Back in the early eighties, I had a "Jersey Girl"friend. She couldn't believe how many high street stores we had in common.

[@davedixon2068]

I have been to several countries around the world and lived for reasonably long periods in 4 of them and they all have basically the same shops in their major cities, basically a city is a city is a city, some idiosyncrasies but much of a muchness really

[@altosanon]

My friend's German husband wondered why we have reality TV as PMQ is free entertainment!

[@andrewwmacfadyen6958]

PMQ has no basis in reality MP live on the planet Neptune.

[@Charlie-ez4ts]

There are 2 hay fever seasons- March/April is tree pollen, and May/June is grass pollen. These are both from wind pollenated plants and plants with (obvious) flowers are not a problem.

[@watcher24601]

When asked if i want ice, my expectation is a lump or two at most. What most places seem to mean is 'do you want some drink with your ice'. So i am very happy to decline ice everytime.

[@daphnegeorge7481]

Swearing is a modern phenomenon in the UK. As a pensioner, I find the national habit of swearing in every sentence appalling.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

As a British pensioner, I hate more than when younger people talk, they say "like" every other word. I think the American's prudery re swearing and using childish alternatives such as "gosh dang it" "oh darn" "fricking" etc, rather irritating. I am seldom shocked into frazzled distress just from hearing people swear. I don't swear in public, just in my own company when my Tablet freezes etc, of if retelling a joke which may contain swearing, but only to my daughter/ carer who does likewise! Violence is far more shocking to me than swearing.

[@nigelhamilton815]

Swearing is the crutch of the conversational cripple.

[@Yandarval]

51 here. I am not a fan of the swaering either. The "like" and swearing. I blame on Social media and more exposure to the US. Imperical evidence is that the US swore a lot more than the UK. I was there for a year in the 90s.

[@raspijedi]

​@@davesilkstone6912see Stephen fry on the need for swearing 😊

[@leftmono1016]

It’s not a modern phenomenon at all. I’m 52, when I started working at 18 a lot of the old boys swore like sailors. My mother in law is council estate born and bred, swears like a sailor. Her husband was the same. You’re more exposed to it these days.

[@trevormillar1576]

When Deputy Dawg was on the tv here, the kids' fave not-swear word was "Dag Nabbit!"

[@Poliss95]

@trevormillar1576 I always thought he said 'Dag Navvit' Musky.

[@Trebor74]

Dog darn it? always preferred Hong Kong phooey. Unsure why I've always had a thing for female old bill 🤷

[@ARBC2024]

The 60mph speed limit is actually "NSL" which now means National Speed Limit. Its just a blanket way of applying a limit to all non-urban roads. That limit varies according to vehicle type too. But it was actually 1969 when the NSL signs came to mean 60mph (70 on motorways and DCs). Prior to that the black white NSL sign meant "Derestricted". There was no speed limit at all but in the early days, many cars struggled to reach 60 anyway. It only became a problem once motorways were built and cars got faster, but still had poor brakes.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

The only bit of advice I've given my nephews and families, "The Manual to Adulting never, ever turns up!"

[@grahamstubbs4962]

Bloody post office. Tssk.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@grahamstubbs4962 Its either : out of print or this manual is intentionally left blank or maybe error 404

[@mrmarmellow555]

Z😂😂​@@stephenlee5929

[@welshpete12]

Out of print, due to demand ................

[@stephenlee5929]

@@welshpete12 I think you can get it in braille, Blind leading the blind 😊

[@alantheskinhead]

In the UK, things you never argue about is the weather and the NHS!

[@1marconisa]

It's true, most people simply agree that both are necessary and a good thing, but not at their best at that moment.

[@harrybarrow6222]

In the UK, you can see fields full of yellow flowered plants. The plant is called rapeseed, and it is grown for the oil contained in its seeds. Rapeseed oil is used as cooking oil. The downside is that the yellow flowers produce much pollen, which causes allergies in a lot of people.

[@MatthewBrannigan]

In the US, apparently we are squeamish about that word, so it was renamed Canola oil here. I had bad hay fever when I lived in the UK, but less so when I moved to Florida, so it's definitely a Florida thing as when I moved to California my terrible hay fever came back again! I would never move back to Florida though, the climate is just awful compared to California.

[@watcherzero5256]

I live in the UK and suffer really badly from tree and grass pollen, when I go abroad (e.g. to Canada and Japan) I dont have the same issue as there is less grass/less flowering trees.

[@tiggerwood8899]

​@@MatthewBrannigan UK person here, a lot of female Brits don't like it being called that either

[@MatthewBrannigan]

Agreed - the word used to mean "take by force" and was very generic, homes, towns, cities, however language changes and now it means only one thing, and it's probably time for the UK to follow suit.

[@ProTantoQuid]

The seed of thE plant is rapeseed; the plant name is a KZbin no-no.

[@jaykevan5120]

American bars and restaurants put so much ice in the drinks to save on the drink content. For instance, if you ask for a pint of coke, you get half a pint of coke and half a pint of ice, but you are paying for a pint of coke !!

[@FrankRowell-db7xq]

Free refills, what's to complain about? Alcoholic drinks are measured before the ice is added.

[@faithlesshound5621]

As a city dweller in the UK, I don't toil in the fields and rarely need a pint of iced coke. At home, I would often be happy with 300 ml or even 150 ml., but eating out I have to buy far more than I want and then feel guilty about "wasting food" if I leave some behind. Americans did the same with hot water in coffee as they do with ice in cold drinks when they invented the "caffe americano."

[@billyhills9933]

Didn't one fast food chain start charging extra if you didn't add enough ice?

[@FrankRowell-db7xq]

@@billyhills9933 Not that I'm aware.

[@jaykevan5120]

@@FrankRowell-db7xq how do you put ice into a full glass?

[@charlottewebster4233]

We do swear a lot but it's seldom with malice or intended to offend. We just do. That said I personally think it's the height of bad manners to swear in front of or around people you don't know well and even though I swear like a drunken sailor most of the time, it's never around anyone I don't know well. Heckling is an extension of ripping the piss out of your friends and family. In our house, if you're ripped on and called a wanker it means you're part of the family and loved dearly.

[@katrinabryce]

TJ Maxx is called TK Maxx here because another similar chain called TJ Hughes owned the trademark. They used to be really big but don't have anything like as many stores now as they used to.

[@highpath4776]

Tj Hughes went bust, they expanded a lot into stores that were expensive to run a pity as they had good stuff but didn't really get to London. Boyes and Home Bargains cover some areas of home stuff but not much clothing

[@debbiemckeown7626]

@@highpath4776some TJ Hughes stores are still open. I work near one that is open and just moved to a bigger store.

[@Trebor74]

Tj Hughes took over the Woolworths store in Southend. Disappeared pretty quick. Shame. Seemed decent stuff.

[@scoops0406]

Similar reason the cartoon Top Cat was called Boss Cat in the UK. There used to be a brand of cat food called top cat, not sure if there still is.

[@merrygoblin]

@@scoops0406 I remember him as Top Cat when I was a child. Maybe the channels I watched back then were showing the american version?

[@mickstaplehurst8471]

By accident, by accident or accidentally, NOT on accident! How can it be ON accident? It doesn't make any sense! 😄😄😄

[@Phiyedough]

It is not as bad as "different than"!

[@owencarlstrand1945]

@@PhiyedoughOr the dreaded ‘Should of’ for should have!😢

[@andrewcurtis4907]

I hate this too. But - on purpose, on accident, so there *is* some logic to it

[@stephenlee5929]

The locking yourself out by closing the front door is a regional thing, could also be a town/city verses country type thing. In 1960's many homes in London had a key on a string hanging behind the flap of the letterbox. The lock type is a Latch Lock often called a Yale Lock, where a bolt is moved into position by turning a key it is normally a Dead Lock. In some places a latch lock has a handle on both sides, with a key being used on to lock the handle.

[@hadz8671]

I've locked myself out so often that now I have a spare key hidden in the garden.

[@tonys1636]

Install one of those small external combination lock (3 0r 4 digits) Key Safes by the doors, far more secure than under a pot or in the shed. If emergency services need access the code can be passed over the phone.

[@Chris-hf2sl]

@@tonys1636 Nah, far too complicated - just leave a key under the mat.

[@cupiddstunt]

In the UK we used to have two basic door locks mortice and rim. The rim lock (or what was commonly known as a ‘yale’ lock) is the one that if you do not activate the latch or ‘sneck’ the spring loaded mechanism will self lock on closing the door. With the advent of more and more double glazed doors all fitted with double turn “dead locking” you will be feeling more at home with the need to actually lock the door manually when leaving the house.

[@tonycrayford3893]

4:11 me "and today's sponsor express VPN" You 1 second later "and that brings us to our sponsor surfshark" I was so close 😂😂😂

[@geezerdiamond]

FYI (If I remember correctly), the TK Maxx thing is because we used to have a similar store called TJ Hughes (not sure if they're still going). Given that TJ Hughes was commonly referred to as "TJ's", you can see how the confusion would have been an issue.

[@annaburch3200]

Weather is definitely a topic of conversation in the Seattle area. Every day. All the time. Probably for the same reason as the UK since our weather is VERY similar. 😊☁️

[@ringosis]

6:10 They were actually built for peoples feet, horses and carts. That's the issue. Loads of these roads are hundreds of years old. Others were basically farm tracks that got more busy. They got paved over after the car got invented and people just got used to them being that narrow. I think most British people want them that way. We'd rather the inconvenience than fuck up our landscape. If there are proposal to make these roads wider every local resident protests, no one wants more traffic going through the countryside, and these roads discourage people from going these ways unless you are specifically going to these places.

[@nheather]

Between 2012 and 2017 my job involved frequent visits to Florida (Orlando to be precise), I typically spent around 15 weeks of each year in the US. What shocked me is that although the weather was so predictable and pretty much the same every day, as you say in your video, is how much time is devoted to weather reporting on the TV. I’d swear that US TV channels commits a lot more time reporting the weather than UK channels. I get that there can be hurricanes, and I did get caught up in a couple of lockdowns, thankfully, they either died out over the sea or missed, I never encountered a hurricane. So I get that they have all the technology, like satellite and RADAR tracking. I guess that as they have the technology they feel that they may as well use it, so I would see reports showing live RADAR images of a small rain shower that was going to hit Maitland in 12 minutes time, bringing with it a mild rain shower expected to last 4 minutes. As someone from the UK I found myself bemused that anyone would be bothered by such detailed micro-reporting of the weather. I came away with the opinion that Orlando TV channels talk about weather a lot more than UK channels, which seems especially weird because for the most time there is no weather.

[@DECODEDVFX]

It's called TK Maxx in the UK to avoid confusion with TJ Hughes.

[@terrymummery6377]

Your talking about the weather reminded me of a show that did a skit on weather in a fictitious country that enjoyed sunny weather most days, their weather forecast comprised of one word scorchio. There seemed to be a national panic when one day they predicted clouds.

[@johnhammond1141]

The Fast Show….

[@restoflif]

@@johnhammond1141 eth eth eth eth scorchio [hahahaha]

[@johnhammond1141]

@@restoflif 😂😂😂

[@Chevy-jordan]

9:06 It’s because we have (or had) a famous megastore here called T.J. Hughes that sold discounted household goods. They also had a logo with a white typeface and red background. I suppose they changed the name to not appear as if the shops were somewhat related.

[@brianmcdonald1776]

If you want to experience narrow roads just come down here to Devon (and Cornwall)......they are a wonderful feature of our county...all decked out with Primroses and Daffodils in Spring !!!!

[@RobG001]

and some are some 15 ft hight it is like driving down a tunnel, I did like that you had Welsh motorways down there, i.e. a narrow road with grass/weeds growing down the middle. :) Best wishes from Wales.

[@brianmcdonald1776]

@@RobG001 ....ah yes...the 'roads less travelled'.....a favourite of mine when in need of an adventure..."...I wonder what's down this road, then??" Always a surprise !!!!!

[@petertromans5599]

In Somerset we have 2m wide A roads.

[@rachelpenny5165]

Don't forget that some of these roads have grass growing in the middle of them. I used to walk up one daily to catch my bus to school. It is a council road but people new to the area would think it was a farm lane. I did grow up in a farming area in Devon. Best wishes

[@brianmcdonald1776]

@@rachelpenny5165 We're beginning to sound like the Devon Tourist board......Seriously though, can't think of anywhere better !!

[@fionafrazer8820]

What a well thought out, reasonable video - pleasure to watch you, (I'm a Londoner, living in the US).

[@oopsdidItypethatoutloud]

Hey Kaylin, I think you should do the coast to coast walk. It only takes a week, and you'll definitely have your blood in the land 😊 ❤ from Northeast England ❤️

[@Cecilia777100]

These are Yale locks which lock automatically. A deadlock requires a key to lock it.

[@stevetaylor8698]

Being a Titanic addict, you should know where our ice phobia comes from.

[@nigelogilvie9450]

External doors that lock without asking your permission? Yes, they are a terrible idea. I had to make sure that my elderly Mother didn't have that system (when she got new doors installed) as it was obvious that it would only be a matter of time until she locked herself out.

[@TM-tx9ct]

Most new build houses and many council houses in Scotland have doors where you pull up the handle and deadbolts click out all sides of the door into the frame. You then use your key whilst the handle is raised to lock the door. Then your handle drops back down, and the door is securely locked. These have been in use for at least 25 years.

[@gailstevens6831]

As an Australian visiting the UK, I found these type of handles so confusing! We don't have them in Australia and one AirBNB owner castigated all Australians who stayed in her establishment as being stupid, because we all struggled with the "up to lock" mechanism".

[@AndrewJamesWilliams]

The thing with netflix content and on other sites like it isn't censorship but the result of US reluctance to obey foreign data laws. As for the roads being narrow that's because many of them follow old drovers roads and paths that have been used for many millennia. The same is true all over Europe as it's due to the fact that the European nations are thousands of years older than the United States.

[@PUNKinDRUBLIC72]

"Oh shoot" said no Brit ever!🤣🤣🤣

[@luvstellauk]

Oh sugar though

[@theturtlemoves3014]

As a Brit, you might type "shite" to get past the super snowflake moderation on social media

[@blackcountryme]

or "Well bugger me with a ragmans trumpet" too much?😂

[@theturtlemoves3014]

@@blackcountryme Getting daring - but it might just get through the sensor's blue pencil

[@colinpotter7764]

As a Brit who loves holidays in the USA I am so glad to have found this channel, it’s fascinating getting a different outlook on how we live.

[@vkdrk]

I wanted to book a last minute appointment at the dentist and the receptionist told me that they had many cancellations because it's a sunny week so I can come in tomorrow 🤣😂 That was the most British thing I've ever heard lol

[@AdmiralDonkey]

In the UK most self-locking doors have a little 'switch' on the mechanism housing, which can be used to easily keep the latch retracted so it doesn't engage when the door is closed. For taking out bins, nipping into the garden, car or whatever, this is what most Brits with these locks would do. Granted you still have to remember to do that, or a call to your local locksmith may be in order.

[@stevo728822]

PMQ's is a pantomime. A theatrical show.

[@bobhale7302]

Apparently the TJ/TK Maxx difference is because it was changed in the UK to avoid confusion with the existing brand TJ Hughes, or at least that's what wikipedia says. Personally I don't see how anyone could mix them up but I suppose it's possible.

[@rehabwales]

I prefer more of my drink than half a glass of frozen water.

[@iallso1]

10:06 My blue car is currently yellow, but then the streets are also yellow, as is just about anything else that hasn't been washed in the last half day. There is just so much pine pollen everywhere at this time. For those people who have an allergy to it, it is horrendous.

[@philcoogan7369]

Politics is insane both sides of the pond as for PMQs MPs are not allowed to clap in The House it's unparliamentary yet some how boo ing and jeering is fine.

[@wbertie2604]

Britain is already cold and wet. Ice is not required except during one or other of the non-consecutive weeks of summer.

[@OriginalGriff]

The "blocked" US sites is probably a reaction to the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) which require any site with EU citizens accessing it to conform to a particular set of security requirements. And the fines can be humungus - think 4% of the company's annual global turnover! The cheapest way to do that from a US perspective is to check the originating IP address and ban it if it's outside the US.

[@Poliss95]

@OriginalGriff Nah. It's a rights issue. They had to edit the Doctor Who story 'The Chase' because it had a Beatles number on it and the rights owners for Beatles songs are different people in the US. This was the case before the GDPR was thought of.

[@markylon]

@@Poliss95 WRONG US websites don't want to adhere to GDPR rules so they default block the UK and the EU. There might be the odd case for copyright licence issues but that's just a one off or minor issue. ALL the US sites that are BLOCKED are because of GDPR.

[@davefb]

Yeah its this, some even say it.. its just easier for them to do this, than stop misusing your cookies/tracking data.

[@tomwalker779]

We have the same thing in Question Period, als the opposition can ask questions of the cabinet ministers, but the questions are always addressed through the speaker. And look at you taking the bins out😊

[@jonsie1014]

Heckling in the Westminster Parliament? The unfortunate legacy of English public school boys...

[@CM-xg1vm]

Ice in your drink stops you being able to taste how sweet things are which is why all of your food can get away with having so much added sugar. Have a try, eat some sweet food then have an iced drink and taste after.

[@BillCameronWC]

An interesting experience I had that may amuse you - or even provide a novel viewpoint, from one of my first visits to Florida, quite a long time ago, and my one and only encounter with US police (I think they were Florida Highway Patrol, or whatever the official name is) 😉. Briefly, I arrived at Miami International Airport quite late in the evening and navigated my way without too much difficulty to my hotel for the first few nights in Miami Beach (a reasonably expensive/high-end place I had used before on earlier visits). My first visit to the US had been a few years earlier when I landed in Chicago O'Hare and again hired/rented a car there after a few days to drive in northern Illinois and nearby parts of Wisconsin). A couple of days later I departed the Miami Beach hotel for my next scheduled few days on the gulf coast at Fort Myers Beach (lovely place, along with Naples, Sarasota etc - and the most fantastic white powdery sand on the beach there), but leaving Miami Beach/Miami a police vehicle put its roof light on, and sounded its siren, which I presumed meant I had to pull over and stop - which obviously I did. I put my window down & the patrolman got out of his car and approached. I asked him what was the problem - he then realised, I suppose that I was a foreigner (British) from my accent, so he explained the tax sticker on the car's number plate was out of date - I think in those days the tax stickers changed colours each year, no idea if that's the same now - and when I showed him my identification and vehicle paperwork, all in order of course, he told me I could go on my way (I was headed for Naples/Fort Myers along the Tamiami Trail through the Everglades, something I'd wanted to do for a few years). I asked if I might be stopped again because of the tax sticker expiry and he said it was a possibility, so I thanked him and continued on my way. But I was mightily irritated as I had hired/rented my car from a firm whose advertising slogan in in those days was "We're Number Two. We Try Harder.", so I drove straight back to the airport car rental depot of that company (many are perhaps aware which company I refer to 😒), and asked them to change the vehicle they had rented to me me a few days previously for one with a valid tax sticker - they gave me some excuse that there was a two week "grace period" when there should be no issues (my rental period would take it beyond that two week grace period), so I expressed to them my unhappiness with their shoddy penny-pinching business tactics, given they were the number 2 car rental company in the US and worldwide in those days. They gave me a replacement car with a valid tax sticker and I had no further issues for the rest of that visit to Florida. But of course I have never hired/rented a car from that particular company either in the US or in any other country again. But to conclude, I have to say the police patrolman I encountered that day was quite polite and even moderately friendly when he understood what the situation was.

[@donnamcdonald-g8n]

The country roads in UK are ancient roadways. The land either side is private, so the government cannot widen them. Also the roads were originally made for horses, and carts.

[@darkmatter6714]

The policing philosophy between the two countries are wildly different, and it’s reflected in the name: In the States it’s called a Police FORCE. In the UK it’s called a Police SERVICE.

[@ChrisPage68]

It's still a force to many.

[@racheltaylor6578]

People think you’re being short changed when restaurants and bars put ice in drinks in the U.K. I used to work in a bar and it was a way of saving money for the bar.

[@timelordtardis]

You're becoming more British; you called it *Hay Fever* not *Seasonal Allergies*

[@ginnyvogel7754]

Americans used to say "Hay Fever"; I don't know why we stopped.

[@paulathomas4944]

Whilst we do have a lot of very narrow lanes in this country, we do have a good network of motorways, A roads and B roads so the chances of you needing to actually drive down one of these narrow lanes is very small.

[@DavidIngram-o8s]

Yeah..and HUMBER bridge longer than GOLDEN GATE Fact

[@clairewilson332]

As a Brit I hate the heckling in parliament makes it almost impossible to follow. This is one of the traditions I'd love to see change I see heckling in parliament as rude and disrespectful, when your hard of hearing no point even trying to follow whats being said.

[@madmark1957]

It's UK parliament, which means it's the only time being hard of hearing is a positive boon.

[@WookieWarriorz]

would you rather have it like the usa where the president answers to no one, doesnt meet with mps, they cant be jeered at or roasted or critiqued theyre hidden away in a big house or in private chambers, meetings etc. The houses of parliment are a sign of a good democracy.

[@WookieWarriorz]

@@madmark1957 said like someone who doesnt enguage in uk politics and has never watched anything... You people lack perspective, other countries wish they had what we have, real democratic pushback to pms and mp's.

[@clairewilson332]

@@WookieWarriorz No just want to be able to hear whats happening and been said. Where did I say I wanted an American Political system??????? Go find someone else to troll ! I want to hear whats going on so I can be more involved and informed in our politics. I prefer sources in the first person not the multiple different interpretations the media gives you.

[@madmark1957]

@@WookieWarriorz Hmmm that's quite an opinion to form from a single sentence. You are entitled to your opinion no matter how uninformed it is. I actually do not lack perspective, I simply have a different one from you. I would not change the UK system of gov't but that does not mean I have an interest in it personally. You are correct, (entirely coincidence I am sure), in that I do not engage in British or indeed any other politics. This is because of my attitude to politics and politicians, which I will not bother trying to explain to you, as you clearly don't share it, and quite possibly would not even understand it.

[@scottparker9688]

If you think grass pollen allergies are bad you should try being allergic to all of the hayfever agitators; grasses, weeds and trees. Then you get hayfever from March to October. Enjoy.

[@timames4405]

Hollywood pumps out copious films littered with swear words.

[@SteveClark-ob1kj]

I believe the record for the number of f*** words used in a minute is held by Sarah Michelle Gellar in an episode of "Sex and the City" (s3e13). I was quite shocked by the language that nice Buffy was using.

[@desperadox7565]

The roads were not build for 1 car, they were build for 2 horses.🚘🐎🐎

[@owensmith7530]

Door locks that can lock you out are stupid, I always hated them as a child in the UK. When I bought a house I got rid of that type of door lock as soon as I could.