American Reacts The Great British Pub Culture, explained

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[@TheDuked]

bro, you shouldn't say you "have a fanny" to a British audience... different thing innit. Also God bless the pub, we all need to have a few pints to save them.

[@SavageIntent]

I think the chants are quite easy to learn, as they often follow a few well known formulas of songs that everyone already knows, and the words are just made up to fit the context.

[@jackjames3190]

Oh my gosh Conor I nearly died laughing watching this🤣 “Fanny! I have a Fanny” 🤣🤣 How do you STILL not know that Fanny means vagina in Britain ?!! LOOK IT UP ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@claregale9011]

He knows .

[@shinyjohn6568]

he knows what a fanny is! he's just pulling our plonkers😂😂

[@sweeneytodd011]

yeah he knows he's taking the piss.

[@micade2518]

@@claregale9011I'm not so sure he does ...

[@petermizon4344]

IF YOU GO TO UK AND SAY YOU HAVE A FANNY YOU WILL BE LAUGHED OUT OF THE COUNTRY

[@tonybmw5785]

You'd be welcome in the pub Connor. Just be aware that as an American if you get drinking with us there is a good chance that if we like you then we'll mercilessly take the piss out of you especially if you used terms like fanny pack. As for the songs, it's a case of we all know the tunes they are based on (often from school) and if you know the tune picking the words up comes easy. When it comes to the most pubs I'd guess that it would have been one of the old industrial towns where the Victorian and Edwardian eras terrace streets led to incredibly dense housing (look up footage of the Salford slums and likely other Cities to see what I mean) where every few streets there would be either a pub, a chippy, or a paper shop on the street corners.

[@juliegrant8351]

See Bamber Bridge video and as others have said .... please don't say you have a fanny ... although you did nearly make me choke on my cup of tea with laughter .... you had so much passion in your voice. Great reaction Conor. Can't wait for the next one!

[@happydog3422]

Look up the battle of Bamber Bridge for a view of American vs British locals, about the treatment of black soldiers.

[@clairec1267]

There is a video about Bamber Bridge which covers the black US soldiers in British pubs and the British reaction you may want to react to

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

I live in Norwich, Norfolk and there is an old saying that we have a pub for every day and a church for every week. And at one time this was genuinely the case (600 in the 1880s). We have 140k people. Our oldest pub started in 1249, but many others from 16th & 17th century still operating. We also have more medieval churches standing than anywhere else in Europe.

[@anthonyspry2776]

Me too. I live just behind the Champion. Great city!!

[@chris_sssss]

As someone that lives just outside London and frequents pubs and football matches, I can say that the chants are usually made up on the spot by one person, if they have the balls and confidence, they will start chanting, if it's good, others around will join in with them and the chant spreads, if it's bad, that person has to live with the shame and gets abused by his mates for weeks/years after

[@chris_sssss]

Some can also be orchestrated on forums (for football matches)

[@a.n.6374]

And it's usually a known tune, so it's easy to pickup.

[@101steel4]

Of course you're welcome in the pub. As long as you get your round in 🍻

[@MrBulky992]

The reason why smoking is not allowed in any indoor public places in the UK (including pubs) is the health risks associated with passive smoking in confined spaces to customers and staff alike. You may argue that customers in private commercial premises are free to take their custom elsewhere (with market forces applying) but the health of staff is normally protected across the board, without individuals having to limit their employment choices because of health considerations. Smoking is much less prevalent in the UK than it once was but I should imagine that the proportion of smokers amongst pub-goers is higher than in the general population.

[@claregale9011]

I'm not a drinker but I can appreciate an old pub with huge fire place wooden beams etc very cosy 😊

[@antoineduchamp4931]

If you come into a British pub with an American accent, they would all love to speak to you!! you'd probably be the centre of attention. No problems

[@jasongoodacre]

The chants are sometimes known and sometimes improvised. But they always stick to a known rhythm. So when one guy says a verse, the next guy picks it up and it spreads. Then you end up with everyone singing the same chant.

[@normanfairbrass7275]

A recent football chant goes: "He shoots - he scores - he saves Labradors" this concerns a footballer who saved a dog from drowning on a beach recently.

[@antoineduchamp4931]

Connor, the Brits love singing together in public: tradition goes way back... people just pick up the chant from hearing it... these are often sung again and again, and it is easy to pick it up. Do you recall the Bohemian rhapsody sung by 60,000 Brits in Hyde park some years back, all together in unison? That was the biggest sing-along I have ever seen or heard.

[@Gianluca-ROTTERDAM]

We in europe dont practice chants. Its been in our minds in 5 minutes. Greets from a dutchy lives in scotland.

[@G0Lg0Th4N]

If you ain't Dutch you ain't much. Love you guys. Hope you're feeling welcome.

[@steveallen3434]

I will tell you the magic words to being welcome in a pub"My round "

[@paulbromley6687]

Wetherspoons is the pub everyone wants to buy their round in

[@barbaraszymanek9471]

Prices in pubs have gone up so much. Many people now buy alcohol from supermarkets where prices are far lower. This is one of the reasons pubs are declining are customer numbers are falling off.

[@johnp8131]

I hope you're joking? As you have been told before what a "Fanny" is in the UK.

[@ronaldwilson9525]

Unfortunately the host of the channel apparently is very ignorant. Like a vast majority of my fellow countrymen

[@johnp8131]

@@ronaldwilson9525 He can sometimes be so. Trouble is, with this one he has been informed about it many times before. I think he tries often to get too much content out without reading enough of the comments?

[@bensteel3944]

The oldest still functioning pubs in the UK are! The Old Ferry Boat Inn in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, is considered by many to be England’s oldest inn. According to legend, it has been serving alcohol since 560 AD! Another contender is The Porch House in Stow-on-the-Wold, Cotswolds, which dates back to 947 AD and holds the Guinness World Record as England’s oldest inn. Scotland’s Sheep Heid in Edinburgh, dating to 1360, is also one of the oldest surviving public houses in the world

[@timothyallan111]

The late great comedian Sean Lock gave the only advice you really need to know about British pubs; "Never drink in a flat-roofed pub"! The flat roofed pub is a type of pub not mentioned in this video; these are usually found on the edges of bleak, rough housing estate, usually with a Staffordshire bull terrier on a piece of string outside, and St George's flags dotted about the place.

[@sweeneytodd011]

oh yes they did forget those, i grew up on an estate like that with a couple of pubs like that and if you weren't known and went in there chances are you'd probably leave in an ambulance rather than a taxi. absolutely insane places, every estate had one.

[@johnp8131]

I can see what he was saying. There's two or three in one of the less salubrious towns near me, mainly 60's or 70's pre-fabs?

[@cheryla7480]

“ Hen Do “ female equivalent of a bachelor party.

[@camerashy273]

You saying you have a fanny & you had a big 1 made me laugh 🤣🤣🤣 Fanny here = Lady parts 😅😂😂

[@andywells8894]

You’d be welcome and it sounds like you can take a bit of joke pretty much don’t take it seriously and have fun

[@dcoughla681]

The Sun is a tabloid newspaper. Makes the National Enquirer look like the Washington Post.

[@jmschrch]

Hen do = bachelorette party for the bride and her best friends

[@TheMightyHams]

Spoons is like the McDonalds of the pub world. They're everywhere, you know it's gonna be cheap and low quality, but it's consistent so you know what you're getting every time. If you want nice beer, don't go spoons. If you want nice food, don't go spoons. If you want a quiet/chill atmosphere, don't go spoons. But if you're with a bunch of mates and want to get drunk together without spending a lot of money, then it's usually a decent option.

[@Shoomer1988]

Not sure about counties but Scarborough, a town in North Yorkshire has 1 pub per 640 people. And to use a different metric, Portsmouth on the south coast has 12 pubs per square mile.

[@nialpollitt3410]

And there used to be so many more. I lived in a village in West Yorkshire, it had around 500 people. About 20 years a go there was 8 pubs in the village. There's only 2 now:(

[@kimwilson3863]

As said here in the comments please for God's sake don't ever shout out in Britain that you have a fanny lol😂 over here it's a euphemism for lady parts lmao! We call it a bum bag because it's supposed to sit over your bum.😂 Please hurry up and come over, and please video it, it's going to be stupendous! I can't wait.😅

[@stemid85]

Yes, they meet at a pub every saturday until they know the chant. Or they go to the local match and learn it. It's a very social working class culture. Not for nerdy introverts online.

[@paulbromley6687]

The battle of Bamber bridge comes to mind when you mention US troops and the racial divide

[@lottie2525]

We're on holiday in the Cotswolds and almost went into the oldest pub in England today 'The Porch' in Stow-on-the-Wold, dating back to 947 AD but there was a 'wait to be seated' sign at the entrance and we knew it wasn't the pub for us lol. Where I'm from, Norwich, it used to be said there was a pub for every day of the year and a church for every week. We have about 140,000 population.

[@joeb2487]

The town I live in, a small town called Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, once had over 200 pubs, the most pubs per square mile of anywhere else in the country. There are nowhere near that many nowadays.

[@cmcculloch1]

We dont memorise any of them. Someone will start the chant to a simple rhythm or melody or well known melody, we parrot and join in, its almost instantaneous as we all know the assignment haha

[@HarlemStinger]

We learnt our chants going to football matches in the 70’s

[@racheldicker5611]

in Britain fanny is female genitalia. Look it up

[@oufc90]

My old hometown of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, I’ve been told had one of the most pubs per person in a town. We’ve sadly lost a lot over the last 30 years or so, but there are still a lot there. It’s also said to be England’s oldest town, but I know Colchester also has claimed that particular title too. I love country pubs or any historic pubs the most personally. You won’t catch me at an ‘All Bar One’ or the like

[@lewistaylor1965]

If you are 'the yank' in the pub you'd probably always be 'the yank' in the pub...just as everyone else in the pub has a label too...Would you be welcome?...Of course you'd be welcome in any brit pub just like everyone else is welcome...Everyone in the pub has a label and they are all fair game for ridicule...It's all about banter, conversation, connection...and of course the beer!...You can sometimes feel you have been verbally beaten by the lads in the pub...we have all been there...but they still keep buying you drinks and telling you to come to the next pub with them...That's the deal

[@voodooacidman]

bamber bridge was the most famous, but not the only example of u.s. army/air force trying to impose segregation in the u.k. it was a bad time, but thankfully is in the past. big love to all people :)

[@mathiasosiriswoodhal]

yeah thats true there was a battle in England over it there's a video about it called battle of Bamber bridge

[@yrkie4785]

I remember when i went to newcastle for a football match there was ridiculous amounts of pubs in the city

[@johnnyrandom100]

Conner in the UK a Fanny refers to a female's private parts.

[@chris_sssss]

People are going to pubs less than 10 years ago because the price of a beer has gone from £2 a pint to (in most places around London) £6.50... Younger people can't really afford a night in the pub these days so they would rather buy half gram of ketamine/mdma and go to a rave, can't blame them, they've been priced out of just going out for a few beers on the weekend

[@micade2518]

You might be interested to know the social importance of such places and why they don't exist in the USA: "The Great Places Erased by Suburbia (the Third Place)" - Not Just Bikes (on YT) NB: Hear what the narrator (a Canadian) has to say about fake pubs chain "Wetherspoon's"!

[@leegodfrey4832]

Fanny… Bum … diff things here buddy…( buddy means friend )

[@dannjp75]

I worked in the Albion Tavern on Guernsey, the closest pub to a church in Britain. A mere 800mm at its closest point.

[@mikefraser4513]

Watch "Straw Dogs" (1971 film) with Dustin Hoffman and his experience in a British pub.

[@camerashy273]

1 person starts a chant & it starts like a wild fire 🔥 👌👍🤣

[@stirlingmw]

The fanny in the UK refers to a ladies parts

[@rayzalaf8988]

Bollington in Cheshire. By 1900, Bollington had twenty-seven licensed premises: one for every 194 inhabitants.” One hundred years later, in 2000, there were about twenty-four licences including the two hotels but not including the restaurants.

[@M1K3YC]

Bridge Bar, Aberdeen - The only pub in the UK that doesn’t have Women’s toilets

[@JustMe-ks8qc]

I think Brits are born knowing all the words to Bohemian Rhapsody. We might not know that we know the words until the song starts, but somehow we join in anyway

[@paulbromley6687]

You know songs, how did you learn it you hear it a few times and eventually you know it.

[@dcoughla681]

Chants have got to have an instantaneously recognisable tune & the lyrics are simple & repetitive. In pubs, people mainly sing songs whilst merry.

[@trixysvinylmusicfordjs8799]

Football chants are sung and learned by 1000's of people in football stadiums so youre bounds to pick up the words and learn them!

[@QuantumShock1]

3:45 Usually chants are simple, repetative and are made popular and spread by word of mouth, other times one person will start one off making his group of friends join after a few repetitions. Usually it just comes down to the British wit for comedy. If a group chant starts its usually spontanious with others quickly getting the gist of the subject matter and words used thus joining in. In the example shown the guy at the bar probably complained to the bouncer about the noise level those friends were making, so they all knew the chant would be aimed at mocking the guy sat at the bar.

[@sweeneytodd011]

btw Connor you'd be fine in the pub and depending on where you are, major city or tourist spots no one would bother much to places less frequented by American visitors where you might attract a bit of attention but pretty positive on the whole although you make have to put up with some piss taking but that's standard for anyone really and a great positive you may find it easy to pull or easier, ive found having an accent where ever you are if its different from the norm this can stand a chap in good stead for appearing interesting and irresistible and of course add the alcohol and you are in there my son,

[@paulbromley6687]

You would be very accepted Connor, are you beer drinker, can you fight like a tiger and play pool like a wizard

[@dzzope]

The Battle of Bamber Bridge.. Mark Felton has a good video on it. No smoking in any public place. Second-hand smoke is worse than smoking in a ventelated area.. And pubs used to have air THICK with smoke.. Eye burning levels.. Ever see a smoking room in an airport when it's busy? Now thats all well and good if your choice is to go but people have to work there too. They don't have a choice(other than get another job). The bigger thing is it's all part of a bigger public health plan. Smoking coauses so many and severe health problems that it costs more to treat them than the revenue from tax on tobacco provides. If people have to go outside to smoke, they will smoke less or maybe quit. Personally, as a smoker, I don't mind it. Smoking is a pretty terrible (self) affliction.

[@highflyer3353]

11:11 "Conor has a fanny, Conor has a fa-a-any, Conor has a fanny!"

[@Shoomer1988]

I think you should that intro every time. Maybe even do a reaction where you say nothing and just stare menacingly into into the camera for 15 minutes.

[@Hornet71]

The town of St Albans use to have the most pubs per square mile as it was historically a travellers point along old Roman roads. It’s lost about a quarter of them in recent years, but there are loads all very close to each other in town centre. Many a good pub crawl had back in the day.

[@johnp8131]

It's still on one of the lists as most pubs per capita in England? However others differ. Used to love the Goat and Lower Red Lion back in the eighties.

[@petermizon4344]

BATTLE OF BAMBER BRIDGE, ISA AND BLACK SOLDIERS BATTLING KZbin

[@Obi-J]

Dude, fanny has a different meaning in the UK! Over here it means a vagina. What you call a "fanny pack", we would call a "bum bag".

[@dcoughla681]

No. You do not have a Fanny, Connor.

[@nialpollitt3410]

Don't assume.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

The chants are from before a battle 100's of years back, one army would chant to the other and the other army would chant back. It was to mess with there mind before the battle. So singing in the form of a chant so it's in our DNA. You must check out The Battle of Bamber Bridge, it was when the English kicked but and stood up to racist Americans, i am extreamly proud of locals sticking 2 fingers up to the US.

[@ZacThomas123456789]

Most chants are just play on words for popular songs that have been around for years so once you hear the new words you already know how the tune goes

[@sweeneytodd011]

"why dont they have some pubs for smokers and some for non smokers" absolutely correct and a question many people asked but were totally ignored on by the government. consequently pubs have suffered massively ever since and close down at rapid rates all across the country. add to that cheap supermarket beer/alcohol and home entertainment plus the cost and the rising cost of living where people went to the pub at least weekly, often more to today where its more a monthly thing like when you're flush (got plenty of cash, loaded, minted etc) and you do a big night out but then are skint (broke, potless, on yer arse) until next month.

[@AmethystRock]

I think there's no choice regarding smoking pubs and non smoking pubs because of the staff. If I'm right in thinking one of the main reasons the smoking ban came in the first place was due to someone well known think it was Roy Castle who worked in pubs and never smoked themselves but died from breathing second hand smoke and developed lung cancer. There was a big campaign around rights of pub staff etc

[@gotmygoodelf]

the city of york has enough pubs to visit a diff one every day of the year

[@keithsowerby8179]

‘Danny’ in the UK is a slangy name for a woman’s vulva and never the bottom. It is considered less strong than the ‘c’ word. Best stick to bum bag in the UK, although these are not common at all these days

[@andyb2920]

Im from Oldham, in the heyday of cotton production there was as many pubs as there where cotton mills. One could have a pint in a different pub pretty much every day. Sadly many pubs have gone or an alternative use found for the building. Certainly a big decline in the past 40 years.😢

[@KellyTheOG]

11:14 😂

[@gailsmith1808]

Connor fanny means something totally different here 😂😂😂😂😂

[@samstorey6498]

definately york has the most, or had untill they started closing. We had a pub for everyday of the week up here, it was a well known fact

[@JustMe-ks8qc]

Connor, you are worrying to much about going in to pubs. If you are friendly and courteous, not loud and don't broach any of the 3 forbidden subjects (money, politics, religion) you'll be just fine. Remember, you don't have to tip, but instead you can offer to buy the bartender a drink (which they'll have later). Brace yourself to have the piss taken out of you- it's a form of endearment. The better you take that, the more welcome you'll be.

[@johninman1354]

Don't say fanny son means something completely different here... worked on a kid's camp in new Hampshire many years ago and one of the camp owners always got a big cob on every time we heard her say that because she knew what it means in the UK.... still makes me laugh bit childish but still funny...😂

[@pontinrob]

Oddly i do My town St Neots had the most pubs per square mile in Europe 😂 (this was about 10 years ago so probably changed now)

[@johnp8131]

For the most pubs? It depends on who surveyed it and what the criterea is? Per capita or square mile? One site says, Portsmouth, Liverpool and Brighton another says St Albans, which for city has loads but, is far smaller than the other three. Per capita, It's probably a small market town that only the locals have heard of? But my books say, it's Edinburgh? Or perhaps it's Scarborough? I give in!

[@hawnyfox3411]

^^ What you mentioned in this video @ 12:30 = 24th June 1943 = named "The Battle of Bamber Bridge" aka en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bamber_Bridge .

[@Tass...]

Chants are a result of tribal mentality. It's that simple.

[@lyncohn9505]

That dart shot you mentioned isnt rare, its a bad shot and the score doesnt count

[@paulkennedy6386]

You would be welcome in a pub Connor, in fact we need to get you over here to slightly change your American ways (joking) If fact if you went in a pub shouting “I have a fanny” and “ I need to change my pants” after everyone had stopped laughing you would get free beer all night.

[@ruddyy123]

😂😂😂😂 if only you knew what a fanny is. When you started saying you have a large fanny, I lost my sh*t 😂😂😂

[@henrygrootenify]

Your A to your Q in the beginning in Scarborough in North Yorkshire

[@emmafrench7219]

Connor my dear, you would be welcome anywhere. .....Just speak in your finest British accent that we have heard you do. Only joking you really could go anywhere.✌

[@andysadler6432]

chants usually from football chants of famous old songs u sort of pick it up

[@andysadler6432]

pubs per capita i dunno but wildest night out is prob still newcastle

[@suffern63]

Beer 6 or 7 and going to the gents!Is that some sort of soft,Southern thing or all young ones like that nowadays?You should never ever,ever go for your first slash until you've had 8.Admittedly at my age I'm struggling after 3 or 4............For the colour bar during the second world war in pubs,look up Battle of Bamber Bridge......Smoking ban was also for workers' health

[@leegodfrey4832]

London had about 6000…

[@petejones7878]

and by the way its a BUM bag, "Fanny " is slang for womens parts

[@MAZ7487]

This covers the US troop battle in Bamber Bridge (just a mile down the road from me!). My Mother in law was there and I remember her telling us the same as in the video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqnIlZWmbLB2hM0si=h0YzflJPIyIIKXgH

[@Shoomer1988]

Yeah, they didn't just fight. They actually shot at each other.

[@garethsillman]

Dude. As a Brit fanny means different things 😂

[@waterloosunset7784]

I was brought up in a northern town in the 60s/70s poulation 10,000 we had 22 pubs. None of the pubs sold food, maybe nuts and crisps. We also had a huge working mens club, a British legion club, a Catholic club, a football club house and a Rugby league club house. We now have 3 pubs and a British legion club left

[@101steel4]

When I lived in London there were so many pubs local to me. 90% have now closed and either been converted to flats, or knocked down to be replaced by them. Now I live in a tiny village, there's 2 pubs which are thriving. Many of the London newcomers don't drink.

[@nicolad8822]

🤣 They just don’t want to drink in smelly back street places with unwashed old men smoking.

[@101steel4]

@@nicolad8822 they will have to move from London then 🤣

[@ianward5670]

lol, love the content mate but you really should not shout "Fanny" in the UK. That is a slang word for a vagina in English lol.

[@smoke5543]

Fanny in uk means private parts 😅

[@petejones7878]

food in a wetherspoons , yuk no thanks