AMERICAN Reacts to 10 Things That Are Weirdly Popular in Britain! *CONFUSING*

[@urbanshadow777]

Roundabouts keep traffic flowing better and there are less accidents on them compared to cross roads not to mention the accidents there are usually less serious because traffic is all moving in the same direction. I know it seems like chaos to folk who don't use them but the more you use them the more logical it becomes. After about two weeks of using them it becomes second nature.

[@rickb3645]

Yeah... Here in the UK all you have to remember is... When approaching a Roundabout... You must always give way to traffic already on the Roundabout... Or to any traffic coming from the right... If it's clear to enter the Roundabout... You may enter... And all other traffic wanting to enter the Roundabout at the next Roundabout entrance ahead of you... Must give way to you... As you're already on the Roundabout and have the right of way... You'll usually have three lanes... The direction of travel will be displayed on both road signs on your approach and on each road lane too... As a general rule of thumb... Just to keep their concept easy for you to understand... The left hand lane is for turning left... The right hand lane is for turning right... And the middle lane is for going straight ahead... However... It's not always that simple... Sometimes the left hand lane can allow you to turn left at the Roundabout as well as going straight ahead... The middle lane can be used to go straight ahead or turn right... But the right hand lane will usually only mean turn right... There are exceptions to this rule though with more than three lanes on a much larger Roundabout... Like in Swindon you have the "Magic Roundabout"... This is a multi-directional Roundabout made up from five smaller Roundabouts circling around a much larger Roundabout... Where you must give way to traffic already entering the Roundabout... But on the large central Roundabout... Traffic actually travels in an anti-clockwise direction... There are videos of Swindon's "Magic Roundabout" on KZbin... I'll put a link below in the reply section for anyone interested in having a look for themselves. 👍

[@xhogun8578]

Your suppose to get off the magic roundabout, not stay on it for two weeks 😜

[@darthwiizius]

@@rickb3645 There are more single and double lane 'bouts individually than 3 lane bouts so here are the rules: Unless otherwise instructed by signage/markings: on a single laner you can only position and use indicators to display intentions, upon approach indicate left if taking first exit off and right if exiting from 3rd exit or further exits. On a 2 laner the left lane is for exits one and two and the right exit for exit 3 or further. On a 3 laner follow instruction signs and markings, these will normally be for major junctions, motorway junctions and will be often signal controlled and organised into spiral lanes.

[@djdeemz7651]

​@@xhogun8578 sugar cubes 😁😁😁

[@xorsyst1]

Plus roundabouts work with more than 4 exits.

[@Kerppu68]

From Finland. Believe me, roundabouts are genius. They make crossings so much easier and safer

[@MCHNCLgoosecat]

From UK. Can confirm this comment is correct.

[@tedroper9195]

If you’re over 18, there aren’t any blanket restrictions against drinking in public in the UK. But local councils can put measures in place to stop drinking in certain areas where they believe alcohol could contribute to anti-social behaviour.

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

Street drinking is illegal in the uk, you can get quite a heavy fine from it too if you dont comply

[@callumcurtis15]

​@@HolyFreakinDragonSlayerI don't think I have ever seen it enforced, usually people get in trouble for being drunk and anti social/disturbing the peace. But most of the time they get plenty of warning to go home or get locked up .

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

@@callumcurtis15 ive seen it many a time enforced. You can have your alcohol confiscated or poured away regardless of age.

[@sholtodepuma]

Illegal to drink in public in Scotland, its enforced

[@_M-_-C_]

Ive seen police force people to pour their alcholic drinks away if the container is open alot (England) . Ive had to pour a full bottle of whiskey away once and i was not happy about it then i was threatened with a fine.

[@stephenlee5929]

Roundabouts have some advantages over 4 way stops & traffic light controlled junctions: 1: no requirement to stop, just Yeald/give way thus faster 2: they are less prone to accidents 3: when accidents do happen, they are less damaging or dangerous Due to lower speeds and angles involved Head-on and T-bone crashes are virtually unheard of 4: they generally cost less to create 5: they cost less to run, zero running cost. They also work for 3, 4 5 ... road junctions.

[@vacuumssuck26]

You have to admit when you watch US paramedic shows every road accident they go to seems to be someone getting obliterated at a 4 way junction 🤷🏻‍♀️ Makes sense once someone spells it out to you

[@module79l28]

6: they're better for the environment compared with traffic lights and STOP signs, reducing air pollution by reducing the amount of time the vehicles are stopped with the engines running.

[@mattwoodford1820]

Roundabouts are more efficient because you join in a gap. Think of it as a minature circular freeway where you join it on 1 junction and leave at another. The beauty of this is that you can merge into the roundabout while other traffic is on it and leave when you get to your junction. They allow traffic to keep flowing with drivers joining the roundabout in the gaps rather than having to wait for traffic lights which always have a gap where no traffic can move each time they change. Fun fact, traffic lights are called traffic lights cos they create more traffic

[@carlh429]

Pancake Day in the UK is always 47 days before Easter Sunday so the date varies from year to year, it can be anytime between February 3rd and March 9th. This year Pancake Day was on February 21st…absolutely stuffed myself😂

[@ChimpManZ1264]

Easter Sunday takes place the Sunday after Passover which falls after the first moon of the new nisan year which starts around Spring.

[@molybdomancer195]

Pancake Day is also called Shrove Tuesday and is the day before the start of Lent (the 40 days before Easter). Easter moves since it’s based on a lunar calendar

[@adamcowood7553]

Don't even think about, let alone have a pancake all year then 1 day eat so many you need a year to get over it... whilst also still having way too many toppings left. Some years be like that 🥞🚷😎

[@duncan680]

We have pancake day whenever we feel like it. Pancakes with sirup, honey, apple&cinnamon, bacon, cheese, sugar, you name it and it probably can be put on a pancake.

[@jillhobson6128]

​​@@duncan680re you talking about US pancakes or UK pancakes? There's a huge difference.

[@billyhills9933]

The Imperial system was designed around measuring specific things, and that's what we still use them for even though the metric system is standard. I grew up measuring my height in feet and inches and my weight in stone but I don't really think of other things in those units. I'd be more likely to weigh out a kilo of something using guesswork than I would a pound of something. Case in point is when I used to buy sweets from sweet shops. I would always ask for a quarter of, say, pear drops. It didn't matter what the 'quarter' was (it was a quarter of a pound in actual fact), it was just the unit of measurement of sweets.

[@mehallica666]

True, Haha! A quarter of what? Never even occurred to me back in the day. Just... a quarter.

[@MaraeatsBugs]

I think it just come naturally you just kinda know them

[@anta3612]

Roundabouts have several advantages over traffic lights: fewer crashes, 90% fewer fatalities and 75% fewer injuries, fewer severe crashes, 10 to 40% fewer pedestrian/bicycle crashes, safer for beginner and elderly drivers, can be used in multiple road intersections, 30 to 50% increase in traffic capacity for intersection, less delay waiting at stops and signals, reduce pollution (from cars not waiting at traffic signals), reduce noise, reduces fuel consumption, roundabout islands can be landscaped with native plants and trees, generally take less land than traditional intersections as they don't require turning lanes, no cost for traffic signals and yearly maintenance, intersection still operates in power outages so no need for police to direct traffic, roundabouts can help improve sales at nearby businesses across the country as more people can walk or easily drive to locations compared to traditional intersections, they can act as a marker to a business or downtown district

[@shanus101]

Many crossroads that had traffic lights were replaced because of 'A' people jumped lights and caused horrific accidents and 'B' it was actually observed that roundabouts increased the flow of traffic thus decreasing jams and the flow etc. I like them, they work 🙂

[@unboxing_legend7708]

thats true. what u said goes along well with what i commented about with my 'essay length' of my knowledge of this type of stuff. people used to jump lights all the time yes even i saw that from time to time but these days i rarely see it because even tho people still have 0 braincells when it comes to personal safety, people at least now slow down and are more cautious when driving because of this. it can happen the other way too tho. what i reccommend u do and others to start doing as well is pick a town nearby that u tend to go to the most and every so often just try to notice any changes with either the layout of the area of the town or if stores are closing or upgrading and stuff like roads are being worked on, bridges being put in place stuff like that. it helps get a rough enough picture to figure out if the town is improving over the years expanding and tryna become bigger in its own ways or if the area isnt so great off. ud notice it more by the prices in different towns of say general food and drink items or clothing items if they are less expensive in your town than another close by or that uve gone to enough times to get a rough idea. stuff like that. from what ive seen in the town i live closest to, over the years the town has had some pretty substantial upgrades overall even if it has caused me problems here and there. ive seen roads getting more crossings and actually being repaired, a few train bridges just outside the town are being repaired slowly and even having very minor extensions, buildings have expanded and added a ton of new things, bigger well known stores and fast food resturants have not only move in but had a few upgrades as well, the town still has a marketplace and a meridian center (malls for the US) just stuff ive noticed within i think the last 6 to 8 years alone has gave me enough evidence to point to the fact that the town is now more of a hostpot go to area when shopping for anything really and u can tell that the overall wealth of the area is increasing. now compare that to one other nearby town i live close to, all the stores in that town seem to keep moving locations or going bankrupt, highly known for crime drugs and a shoddy place to even shop around, was meant to be another kind of central marketplace sort of thing but didnt really go anywhere even with minor upgrades here and there. overall its better to go a half mile to a mile and a bit further to the better town just to shop there. bout a 15min walk.

[@Doktor_Redpanda]

It might vary from family to family but most people here in the UK make their pancakes like the French style crêpe so I think the images they used in that video are a bit misleading as they arent quite the same as an American pancake. But yeah its a really fun tradition all the same :-)

[@jeanproctor3663]

Exactly. And ours aren't quite as stodgy as the American-style ones, so you can usually stuff more into your face before the carb-coma hits! Although when I was little my Mum's pancakes were like giant American ones and it was almost impossible to eat more then a couple, but we would have them for two courses - a main one served with hash/stew on top and the dessert ones, which were just as thick, with either sugar or golden syrup and orange or lemon juice. Ahh, those were the days! 😁 (I've got the hang of making them like crêpes now, btw)

[@fleshen]

Yes l agree, l know things are changing but that's my impression!

[@stephenlee5929]

Agreed

[@darthwiizius]

When I was a nipper no one ate French Craps, they're just fried wallpaper paste where English pancakes are an egg batter, ie they are actually cakes and not bread. BTW, sugar and lemon rocks.

[@flamingobeavers]

Love pancake day. Lemon juice and sugar on a hot crepe. Can't beat it.

[@jeanproctor3663]

This voice-over man falls a little short on Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day). Yes, traditionally it meant going to church and confessing (that's where the "shrove" of Shrove Tuesday comes from, people being shriven of their sins because they've confessed to the priest) and yes it was the start of a 40 day fast to emulate Jesus in the wilderness and wanting to do as He did, but it also meant eating up all the good stuff in the house, like the flour, eggs, milk (for the pancake batter) and anything you might use as toppings (sugar, freshly-squeezed fruit juice). So yeah, there's a little more context to the day when you do a deeper dive into the meaning. JT, if you get yourself an on-line UK calendar next year, Shrove Tuesday will most likely be marked on it and as Carl H says below my comment, it's always 47 days before Easter Sunday (similar to Mother's Day over here being always the third Sunday in Lent, which is the period of time in the run-up to Easter, between Shrove Tuesday and Easter Sunday).

[@amandafischer184]

The voiceover also fails to mention that Shrove Tuesday's other name Fat Tuesday literally means Mardi Gras (of French origin) and it's not of Christian origins either, the church repurposed a Pagan holiday, it celebrated the end of winter and the begining of spring.

[@nebwal68]

I noticed when driving around in Miami, there we're so many stop signs that could have been replaced easily with a roundabout... also the Chigago Nandos is nothing like the real thing haha

[@module79l28]

If by "nothing like the real thing" you mean the traditional portuguese grilled chicken, then I agree with you.

[@ticketyboo2456]

You might be disappointed to find out that the pancakes we make on Shrove Tuesday are more akin to American crepes. We are moving towards the thicker pikelet version known in the US but mostly they're the thinner ones drenched in lemon juice and sprinkled with sugar.

[@craigchristian344]

We aren't and we shouldn't, American pancakes are naff.

[@nicholaskemp2246]

It made me laugh when they showed your thick american pancakes! Ours are traditionally thin and can be rolled up with lemon juice and sugar, or a dollop of golden syrup, or a wipe of Nutella!

[@pommiebears]

Yummy 🤤

[@Weazla-]

I'm from England but thankfully grew up with a Canadian parent, you's are mad for eating those things with lemon and sugar

[@nicholaskemp2246]

@Weazla Mad! How come? They're delicious. Oh! Wait a minute, you guys like them with maple syrup. 🤮. Lol 😆 Just joshing ya, mate!

[@carlh429]

Before you start eating the first one you think to yourself..I can eat ten of these easy…then by the time you’ve had four or five…the can’t eat anymore sensation kicks in hard!

[@dib000]

​@@Weazla-lemon and sugar is the only way 😍

[@Brandon.Reacts]

7:30 lol, of all the football players to name… I am sat next to his cousin at work 🤣🤣

[@eruantien9932]

Public drinking: I... don't know if public drinking is strictly speaking legal over here. But, as a former morris musician, I can confirm that public drinking does occur. We'd dive into the nearest pub between spots, carry pints in pewter tankards to drink between pubs, and pass a flask of port around just in case anyone runs out of fluid!

[@babalonkie]

1) We use both measuring systems for almost everything, although i think that kids are now only taught the metric system in school and parents/life teaches the imperial system where needed (Some schools will still teach both). 2) Roundabouts are extremely easy and preferred. Traffic moves faster in general... you wait until clear and go, however must give way to oncoming vehicles and are automatically to blame if you fail to do so. 3) Nando's is horrible to me but strangely "popular". 4) Sheds are about 20-30% used in cities but much higher in rural or outskirts. 5) Drinking on the streets is pretty much slowly getting banned everywhere in the UK, but will be a local offence and not a criminal offence. However most bars, pubs and restaurants allow to drink outside at a table or garden. 6) Downstairs toilets are for older larger houses or the "richer". Although a lot of houses wont have one upstairs and have it downstairs. 7) Everyone world wide collects stickers or cards at some point. 8) Eurovision... which features none Euro countries... it's also far overrated. 9) Pancake day was 21 Feb (You just missed it), the time varies and is based on the Easter time table. British Pancakes however are like a Crêpe, which is a thin version of the American pancake. 10) Boot sales are very British. A similar thing would be like a Yard Sale but a LOTS of people do it at the same time and doing it from the back of a vehicle, normally organised well in advanced in a field or car park with strict permission.

[@mlee6050]

In the United States, Pancake Day, also known as Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras, is observed on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Christian season of Lent, which is a time of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter.

[@fullfacility]

Roundabouts are much, much more efficient than ordinary junctiuons and traffic flows many times faster. They are easy to get used to.

[@anta3612]

Pancake day this year was last Tuesday. The date changes every year but it's always on a Tuesday. It's the day before Ash Wednesday (if you're Catholic). In order to be authentic you'll need to learn how to make English pancakes. I'm sure there are plenty of tutorials on YT. They're not like American pancakes but more like crepes. Would love to see a video of you making English pancakes on pancake day!

[@BBKing1977]

The Metric/Imperial measurements mix is a bit of a thing here in Canada, too. Officially, everything is metric, but we usually refer to our height in feet and inches, and our weight in pounds. Occasionally, I'll also hear distances in miles and small measurements in inches, but those are rare. As for Roundabouts, they're safer, more efficient, and don't rely on power and computers like traffic lights (which can fail if something goes wrong). We're seeing a lot more of them pop up here in Canada, and I'm a fan!

[@clairewillgress2221]

Here in the UK, most roundabouts also have lights these days, but at least if the lights do fail it's not difficult to navigate as a normal roundabout and give way to the right.

[@BBKing1977]

@@clairewillgress2221 The ones they're adding here are mostly smaller ones, in residential areas. (But not "mini roundabouts" like you have there, these all have raised circles.) We do have a couple bigger two-lane roundabouts, but those aren't as common, and I haven't seen any here with lights. The ones with lights in the UK that I've seen tend to be the larger ones, aren't they?

[@clairewillgress2221]

@@BBKing1977 yeah we have some pretty huge roundabouts at motorway exits and all these ones have lights, smaller roundabouts usually don't.

[@wotexpat9367]

Mythbusters did a test and Yes, roundabouts are more than 30% more efficient than a 4 way stop.. They also reduce accidents.

[@SOPARA862k]

Roundabouts are very efficient, a set of traffic lights near me that always had a 15 minute drive for the half mile leading towards it at rush hour got replaced with a roundabout traffic instantly disappeared. Newer towns about cities like Welwyn and Milton Keynes have loads of roundabouts and they basically no traffic compared to other similar sized places.

[@mihaelajukic1314]

About Roundabouts....my town didn't have it at one intersection and we had a traffic accident almost every week. Since the made roundabout on tha intersection, not a single accident has happend

[@joekel55]

Most countrys in Europ have roundabouts, once you are used to it the traffic goes smoother.

[@ZwaEli]

I'm from the Netherlands and we also love roundabouts. The town I live in put a roundabout in place of a four way crossing and a couple years later replaced the roundabout with a weird three way crossing, that makes it hard to determine who has the right of way. Just leave in the roundabout! Much less confusing... So yeah, I think roundabouts really work wonders!

[@louisrobitaille5810]

1:54 We do that in Quebec, but more. We measure people's height in feet/inches, their weight in pounds, cooking is done in cups, tbsp, tsp, etc, pool temperature is in °F, body temperature is in °F in some places and °C in others (some hospitals legit have both systems in the same building, depending on the nurse taking the measurement 😅), etc. We use (kilo)meters to measure distances, the temperature outside is measured in °C, anything medically related is in grams or milligrams, anything in school is using the meter system (well all SI units), the gas we put in our cars is measured in litres, etc. It's also done in the US too, you just don't realize it 👀. Ever seen a vehicule's motor being measured in 'CC'? That's Cubic Centimeters. Drug dealers and police officers alike use grams to weigh it. Telescopes and cameras have a measure in "mm" (although I have no clue what it is for the cameras), etc. Fun fact: all units are standardized nowdays. Do you know how the inch is officially defined? The definition of an inch is *~2.54 cm.* Bonus facts: we all know there's 100cm in a meter, but what is a meter? A meter is defined by the distance that light travels in a vaccum in exactly 1/299 792 428th of a second . There are no decimals after the 8. It's an exact number. I forgot what a second exactly is, but it's defined by a number of vibrations of a Cesium-133 atom. Basically, modern units standards are based on the laws of the universe. You can find how they're all defined on the SI wikipedia pages.

[@niven834]

Roundabouts keep traffic flowing more and aren't as difficult as they look

[@jantimmerby]

If people are willing to follow the rules of the road, then roundabouts are far more effective than intersections. There can be no doubt about that.

[@Gazzxy]

as for metric vs imperial.... I have literally never thought about it haha just crack on with life. and yes roundabout are there as a traffic flow measure usually save more time than a 4 way stop

[@BrianMcGuirkBMG]

On the topic of metrication, I was told by my teacher in school in Ireland around 1964 that we would learn both the imperial system and the metric system as we would soon be switching over completely to the metric system.

[@reckley]

I'm in my 50s and I was taught the metric system. The reason why we know both is because we'll use what is most relatable to what we are talking about. I know how big a centimeter is but, it doesn't work if I want to discribe something below a meter (100cm). The Imperial system has more, relatable, smaller measurements, that's why we use inches and feet as well. It does work the other way though, I watched a video where something was described as 1 sixtyth of an inch and I have no idea how thin that is but, if they said it's 0.15mm (or whatever it was) I'd know!

[@williebauld1007]

Yeah, a roundabout is FAR more efficient than 4 way lights

[@darrellpowell6042]

Roundabouts are NOT confusing when you have lived with them from birth. As children we learn to ride bikes and taught how a roundabout work. Also when crossing road with roundabouts you learn how the traffic flows. When being a passenger in a car or bus, you learn how they work too. When learning to drive you learn how to approach them in a car. but you know how they work as you've ridden bike as children. They are only confusing if you have not had them in the country as a regular part of traffic management.

[@coot1925]

The simple rule with roundabouts is you give way (yield) to traffic coming from your right. If there's no cars coming you just enter the roundabout by blending into the traffic which means traffic generally keeps moving because you don't have to stop when there's noone coming, unlike stop lights.

[@PedroConejo1939]

Roundabouts are _far_ safer than traffic lights. There are accidents but unless you meet an out-and-out nutter speeding the wrong way around it (probably hotly pursued by the rozzers), you're only going to have a minor prang. Traffic light collisions can be properly nasty. Mixing metric and imperial - if you're my age, you grew up with both. It's like being bi-lingual, you can switch between the two at will. Kids do get taught imperial still, but they only really absorb it by osmosis. You can get some properly decent stuff in a charity shop. Underwear can be a bit ropey though.

[@module79l28]

Roundabouts: popular everywhere except in the US. And they're not weird. Nando's: the fast food adaptation of a traditional portuguese dish. Yes, it's very popular here but it's not weird.

[@TealStarSusan]

PANCAKE DAY is Mardi Gras, Carnevale, Shrove Tuesday but as many have already said the pancakes are crepes! They usually are sprinkled with sugar and lemon juice, rolled up and sprinkled again! Delicious! Because Lent begins the next day, back in the days before fridges etc all non Lent foods were eaten up. So, eggs, milk, fat and flour was made into our pancakes!

[@alexevans1498]

With the measurements it's different for everyone. I tend to use metric for liquids and weights (apart from weighing myself). Miles and yards while driving and feet to mearue your height but metres for anything else. We also use miles per gallon in cars, but meaure petrol in litres. You get used to it

[@Hoscitt]

I work on the railway and we use miles, kilometres, yards, metres and chains 😄

[@staticbuilds7613]

I think some places here in the UK are now introducing public drinking laws as a few incidents (atleast near where I live) Have caused public disturbances so you can now only drink in specific areas in public like around night clubs and pubs. I think this was added just before covid or after covid where I live just because some younger ones and foreigners were getting too rowdy after drinking and causes public issues

[@mrgrumblebum7613]

Roundabouts are way more efficient, they enhance traffic flow by something in the region of 25% since you don't have to come to a stop to navigate them (you often do, but if traffic is not high you usually don't)

[@martinbobfrank]

I am from the UK, and I also use both the Imperial and the Metric system. I was taught the metric system at school, but had to learn the Imperial whilst at work as a glassmaker; you learned from the older guys, and they used the Imperial system. I am also a maths tutor, and teach the metric system. I, and everyone I know uses miles for travel and speed, weigh ourselves in stones and pounds, measure our height in feet and inches (including some smaller bodily items),

[@BoostWorx]

Drinking in public is fine here as long as its not in an area with signs up saying it's prohibited. We are also allowed to drink on public transport here which a lot of people are surprised at.

[@manoadamro1768]

For metric/imperial, I honestly have no idea how many feet are in a mile, but I'll say "it's about 50 miles to London". If I was actually measuring something, I'd use metric. Beer is sold in pints in pubs, and milk is sometimes too, although supermarkets sell both in liters.

[@ChattinSquit]

In school they teach the metric system. We use the metric system for anything involving science or mathematics, but distances and how much you weigh (usually given in stone. There are 14 pounds in a stone. So if someone asked how much you weigh you might say "14 stone" meaning 196 pounds) are usually casually spoken about in imperial, miles etc. Speed limit signs are all in miles per hour. At the supermarket you might buy a crate of 440ml cans of beer, but down the pub you would buy a pint of beer in a glass. In the supermarket you might buy a 5Kg bag of potatoes, but down the market you might pay a pound for a pound of bananas. The price of petrol (gas) is given in pounds per litre, but we measure the fuel consumption of our cars in miles to the gallon. Put simply, they teach metric in school and you pick up a little bit of imperial through life experience as you go along. In other words, you don't know wtf you're getting half the time.

[@grumpyone5963]

And did you know the American gallon is smaller than the UK one? In America a gallon is 4 quarts, but a quart is only 946ml so is only 3.784 litres. In the UK a gallon is 4.546 litres.

[@ChattinSquit]

@@grumpyone5963 I thought a quart was two pints. So are American pints smaller too?

[@grumpyone5963]

@@ChattinSquit I don’t know about that. I didn’t think Americans used pints for anything. Maybe their pint is smaller if they use them. All I know is that you can’t directly compare an American gallon to a UK one.

[@darkraptor4203]

Roundabouts are between 30-70% more efficient that lights, depending on the roundabout and time of day. Also the bush next to my house is literally a toilet for drunks from the pub around the corner and my street is a wrestling ring for anyone arguing after leaving the pub.... And it isnt illegal to drink or be drunk in public, but some council put restrictions in certain areas that the police can enforce and make people disperse. But funnily enough it is illegal to be drunk in a pub.... You just missed pancake day😂.

[@DaveBartlett]

Using both the metric and imperial systems at the same time is difficult for some people, to the point where there are a number of rhymes to help people convert: "A litre of water's a pint & three quarters" (1 imperial pint = 1.76 litres) & "two and a quarter pounds of jam, weighs about a kilogram" (1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds) are a couple that spring to mind.

[@blazeneko3384]

I'm shocked that no one mention this Mythbusters did an Ep on roundabouts, and it was faster and I think they also said it was safer, but that of been something else

[@gmdhargreaves]

Great episode that was, JT should react to that video

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Officially, roundabouts are approx. 20% faster at moving traffic through, than the cross junctions preferred in the States. However, the state of Indiana, has installed 256 roundabouts to replace traffic lights since 2016. This has reduced accidents, delays, fuel consumption, air pollution and construction costs, it says. Overall, it has seen a 90% reduction in fatalities, 76% fewer injuries and a 30%-40% fall in the number of accidents involving pedestrians, the state says, adding that roundabouts also increase road capacity by up to 50%.

[@blazeneko3384]

@@Thurgosh_OG that's good to hear

[@martintabony611]

Pancake Day was original "Shrove Tuesday". The idea was to use up the things you would be fasting over Lent by making pancakes. You may be more familiar with the French term for the same occasion, Fat Tuesday or in French, Mardi Gras.

[@nathanaelsadgrove]

In the UK most town centres have alcohol free zones where it's illegal to drink in public appart from pubs and restraunts etc, but outside of the centre it's perfectly fine.

[@zollykod2541]

Regarding the Imperial/metric thing - I was brought up with Imperial (I'm old LOL) and remember buying exercise books which had the back cover full of wonderful measurements such as rods, poles, perches, furlongs and bushels! Now we are **officially** a metric country so all children are taught this system at school. However - as it said in the video, there's a lot of 'Imperial' still in use - we say, 'The fog was so thick you could only see six inches in front of you'. Milk and beer are thought of in pints. Height is often still described in feet and inches - we happily say, 'He's over 6 foot' - not 'he's over 1.82 metres' ! And although they've tried to get us to change distances into kilometres, I think people here almost exclusively use - and think in - miles. At one time programmes like Air Crash Investigation tried to use metres for heights of planes but again, pretty much exclusively we say 'They're cruising at 35,000 feet'. Imperial RULES!!!!!!!

[@xypysvyl]

In school they only teach the metric system. The abnormal things we just pick up as we go

[@sylviagreybe672]

What's weird is the UK thinking Nandos is British - it was founded in South Africa!

[@SteveParkes-Sparko]

Roundabouts are a brilliant way to keep traffic flowing smoothly at an intersection where no-one has an advantage coming from any particular direction. Better than traffic-lights, because you can go as soon as you have a gap - so you never end up waiting as long as you would at lights. Traffic already going round have right of way, so you would wait at the dotted white line until there's a gap, when you drive onto the roundabout and go round until just before your exit, when you'd signal right to exit onto the road you need.

[@TheArmouredArmadillo]

yes we like roundabouts because they have been proven superior to normal 4 way junctions. And of course a roundabout can have more than 4 entrances/exits

[@petersp63]

Anyone else think Watch Mojo hasn't ever been near the UK?

[@annemariefleming]

I'm oldschool, I work in pints, pounds and ounces, and miles...and fahrenheit. I love my she-shed. Sheds are perfect for hobbies, and I do my relaxation exercise (nap, lol!) in mine. Eurovision is NOT popular...it's viewing figures are awful. Pancake day is great. I have them sweet for breakfast, savoury for lunch, and piled high with meat and a sauce or gravy for supper.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

You're right about Eurovision. I've not seen it for 30+ years and I don't know anyone who does watch it. It's just political these days from what I've heard.

[@jondoe2k]

Roundabouts help keep flow moving. Always give way to the vehicle coming from the right.

[@chrisperyagh]

Here's my go-to pancake batter recipe (you'll have to do the conversions from metric): 300ml skimmed milk (or 150ml whole milk and 150ml water) 125g flour 2 eggs around a 1/4 teaspoon of salt at the most Fry them in some lard in a large 11" or 12" frying pan, allowing the batter to fully cover the inside of the frying pan (but not up the sides), turning or flipping them just the once to fry both sides. You'll see the colour of the batter change to yellowish when it's all solidified and that's when to flip them, or lift up a corner to see what the underside looks like - it should be light brown where it's been in contact with the pan. Don't turn/flip them if the centre is still runny. Use 10ml (I think that's about 4oz) of batter per pancake and you should get around six 11" or 12" diameter pancakes from that mix. Just increase the quantities in relation to each other if you want to make more. You're best making the batter mix at least a couple of hours in advance or the previous night and left in the fridge. Serve them with either lemon juice (freshly squeezed is best) and caster sugar sprinkled on them, or spread them with jam, or spread with Nutella and sliced bananas, or maple syrup - or even ham and cheese. Roll them up once you've put your choice of topping on them. You can use that same batter mix to make Yorkshire puddings or toad in the hole.

[@willmartin2078]

A pint is 568ml so yes i prefer pints of 🍺 in the UK to 500 ml everywhere else 😉🤟🤟 and yes you can drink anywhere in public in the UK🇬🇧

[@razor1uk610]

So long as your not causing strong offence or too disorderly to others.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

US pints are only 473ml or 16oz, compared to our 20oz, 568ml UK pints.

[@willmartin2078]

@@Thurgosh_OG you could also say the same about gallons, UK 4.546 and US 3.785

[@LarkspeedNL]

The watchmojo video you are using for reference is out of date, they say in the UK they use both pounds and ounces and kilos and grams "it depends how we feel on the day", this is untrue now. New laws in the UK mandate that all loose and pre packaged goods in the UK must be sold in Kilos and Grams. And the downstairs toilet thing is wrong as well, I live in The Netherlands and everyone I know here has a downstairs toilet so they are not that unpopular outside the UK.

[@colinlegrys9434]

Re pan cake day, pan cake racing was only mentioned in passing and I don't think the American noticed it. Pan cake racing is very popular in towns and villages. Races are run over a fairly short course, there are races for all type of competitor, the runners must toss their pancake while running usually a set number of times and the whole event is light hearted.

[@unboxing_legend7708]

from the knowledge ive gained from just hearing about the usefulness of roundabouts in the UK, they are usually decent for dealing with traffic congestion and sometimes even smarter are deliberately installed in specific areas with the intention to slow down traffic over it dealing with the congestion instead due to rush hour or something but even though they are common, the obvious thing of having too many would become an issue because in different countries, what many people dont actually know is that things to do with how things like roundabouts and traffic lights and all that is actually managed is by the population the area averagely sees within a certain period of time and the population of people who live in the area actually does sometimes determine what they decide to put in that area. if the population is dense like rio and heavily congested like alot of rio tends to be, any like crossing signs and anything to try and improve the congestion will be at a set time but most likely different to other countries where say the time to sit and wait for a traffic light to turn green in the uk for one town is like 10 seconds as its a small country side town that isnt that populated and rarely visited by many people. but for say towns and citites for instance portsmouth in the south of the UK is 1 of 2 biggest hot spot areas down by the south coast the other being london. those areas can have longer traffic light times to turn green but for people also walking for it to turn red. its a very genuis idea. if more people walk or ride bikes and less drive or driving isnt so congestive, the times are typically shorter and less the roads will have congestive plan measures on the roads. if more people drive in the area and its highly populated and very congested, the times are longer and more susceptable to traffic jams within rush hour times so they tend to build more things intended to control as many roads as possible. this goes so in depth in so many ways even out of my own knowledge however the last thing it can be determined by that ik of is labeling the different types of roads. so im pretty sure this is in most if not all countries but in the UK at least we label are roads for instance country side roads are well country roads, roads going into towns are considered rural roads, the M roads are the motorways, i forget what the A roads are but you have those too. this also is planned out by the population density of the area, where the roads go to and how congested the area gets throughout each year. the 1 thing ive started to notice over the last few years is one of 3 of the nearby towns i live closest to, the roads have slowly been upgraded and/or changed to include more crossings or to have mini roundabouts to slow congestion, to have zebra crossings, cctv camera's and zebra crossings and even some that are being converted into other types of roads from what they once were and this comes down to the fact that the town in the last few years has seen a larger population of people shopping and living in the area making profit to the point they are spending some cash to upgrade expand if possible and become more of a hotspot to shop at. ive seen common fast food stores such as mcdonalds being upgraded, tescos manged to get a 2 story building with a built in cafe section for the second story that connects to a roof parking lot as well as the ground floor underneath the building also being used for car parking space, them having a little gas station next to their 2 story building and even some stores like subway and dominos which moved into the area the last few years in which dominos managed to upgrade their building after just like 1 year of moving into the town/moving locations. i think what people should start to do is just overtime, notice the difference the nearby town where u live close to or in changes overtime, whats come and gone, whats been upgraded and downgraded to get a better idea what the state of the towns situation is likely in. see whats good and bad. the reason as to why i didnt talk about the other 2 is that i dont go to those areas much anymore as one is stuck back in the old cobble road days and the other has seen consistant downgrades and tons of issues in that town where everything just sucks there for the most part.

[@chrisashwin8548]

you just missed pancake day lol it was the 21st of Feb this year. But it changes depending on when easter is. However, we dont have the thick puffy things you would call pancakes. We have the thin crepe's. Often with sugar and lemon juice instead of maple syrup

[@darthwiizius]

We do not traditionally make crepes, English pancakes are made with a standard egg batter mix and can be cooked to any thickness thick or thin, and if you've got a bit left over make a toad in the hole. Crepes are basically flat breads like chapatis, Rotis etc.

[@chrisashwin8548]

@@darthwiizius fair enough I'm not an expert on pancakes mate 😂 just trying to help an American understand a visual that the pancakes shown in the video/ what he was expecting are not what we traditionally serve 🤷‍♂️

[@kjn3350]

​@@darthwiizius Crêpes are translucently thin, American pancakes are tall, British pancakes are in the middle (and just right, if you ask me). Easiest way to remember it.

[@rosspearson2805]

i work in a factory that uses both often mixed in on the same spec sheets. e.g measurements would be 4 and 3/8 inches from the bottom and 50mm from the sides. we also buy petrol in litres but measure fuel economy in gallons.

[@lividliv505]

as a Brit I'll go through and explain all of these the best I can. 10. They teach us the metric system in schools, however most of us just kind of pick up on miles for long distances. Pints are basically only used when measuring beer. 09. Roundabouts keep traffic flowing more and are prevent accidents compared to intersections in the US. They're popular across most of Europe although I don't know about the rest of the world. 08. Nando's is just nice. I love it when I'm on a day out because there's a few in every major city and it's way nicer than somewhere like McDonald's or KFC. I'm at uni and have a tradition of taking my Mum to Nando's everytime she comes down lol. 07. Almost everyone has a shed over here. My parents just took theirs down recently but I have a friend with a large shed that we used to have beers in fairly often. 06. Yeah people always go to the pub to watch the football. It's also a very normal thing in the UK to get drunk in forests and on beaches (although this is most common with people who are under 18.) Also it is legal to drink in public. 05. Yeah almost every house I've ever been in has upstairs and downstairs toilets, with the downstairs one usually only having a toilet and a sink. I've been in houses with two upstairs/downstairs toilets as well. 04. Football stickers weren't that big where I was but FIFA cards were a huge thing, although I don't know anyone who kept collecting them past the age of 10. 03. Yeah British people love Eurovision, I don't watch it myself but ik a lot of people who watch it every year and local clubs usually have Eurovision themed nights as well. 02. Yeah we celebrate this one every year, it's huge over here. I learned to make pancakes pretty much entirely because of pancake day. 01. Car boot sales are huge over here and great for finding some nice stuff for very cheap. Charity shops are really useful if you need something nice and don't wanna fork over tons of money for it

[@Boogledigs]

The traditional way to eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday is to have one fresh from the pan, squirt with lemon juice, sprinkle generously with sugar, roll into a tube, then munch. Glorious!

[@geoffpriestley7310]

Anditmust be eaten before the next ones ready. Then at 1/2 time change ends you cook and your partner eats

[@sueKay]

I'm in my 30s and only learned metric at school, but I can use both. The fun things is that when it's cold we measure in centigrade, as soon as it gets a little bit warm? We switch to farenheit! We also measure height in feet and inches and weight in stones and lbs... I think most people my age can do pretty much everything in either system, but older people still only really use imperial, and I think kids and teens probably use metric for everything. I collected football stickers when I was a kid... even though I don't like football, I just liked collecting them! And yes, pancake day is one of the best days of the year! I usually make Scottish or American pancakes rather than the thin crepe style ones.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I'm a Highlander and was taught both Imperial and Metric at school in Inverness. And I'm in my 50s, so when you say older people, I assume you only mean people who were adults in the 1960s or earlier as they were brought up on Imperial only?

[@Sparx632]

I only learned the metric system in school, but all our milk and beer is measured in pints and our cars are set to MPH so you just kind of pick it up as you go. It does mean I struggle with yards, feet and inches despite making regular use of miles.

[@rozpickering1239]

Metric at school and imperial zt home as parents didn't do metric!!

[@AndrewLakeUK]

It's a bit more complicated, it's sold in pint containers, but they have to say the measurement in litres, (568ml). The Us is even weirder, they do use the metric system, they just have an extra imperial system on top that is legally defined by its relative size to the metric units.

[@Sparx632]

@@AndrewLakeUK Boris tried to change that 😔

[@AndrewLakeUK]

@@Sparx632 I'm not going to get dragged into politics, but I'm sure we can all agree the self-inflicted economic turmoil is worth it for pints of beer, a pound of spuds, and a blue passport. Vive Alexandre.

[@callumcurtis15]

I personally like to use inches when talking about measurements over 10cm as it is just easier for me to picture it in my head .

[@garybarnes4169]

Yeah, we mix them up. Railway bridges are still labelled according to their distance in miles and chains from the station at one end of the line. The same bridge will have a sign warning how high it is in feet and inches, and how many yards it is from that warning sign. Sign at the bottom of my road: 15'-6" 180 yds (Some signs on busier roads give the height in feet and inches, but also metres.)

[@siege2310]

OMFG i didn’t know other places didn’t allow you to drink in public. In UK u can drink anywhere unless it’s specified you can’t. You can still get in trouble with police for being drunk and disorderly.

[@stevemichael8458]

Pancake day is 'shrove Tuesday' (from 'shrive', to confess) - the last day before lent - the day you use up the eggs and flour in the house before fasting. 'Fat Tuesday is the same thing in other parts of the world. This is also the basis of Mardis Gras. The last day of excess before the lent penitence.

[@matwetton]

the roundabout is actually really simple in concept, all you have to remember is give way to cars on the right. so no car coming from the right? you go.

[@mikerusby]

roundabaouts are pretty easy once you get used to them. I hate mini roundabaouts though

[@TheLynneee]

I can vouch for the efficiency of roundabouts. They have changed a roundabout near to where I live to a 4 way traffic lights. It takes FOREVER to get over it. At least twice as long than when it was a roundabout

[@Kit_Bear]

Regarding measurements, yes, we use both. It's not that difficult once you learn it. We use it mostly as an approximation of the value from one to another ie: just over 2cm to an inch, nearly 2 pints to a litre etc.... Roundabouts have been proven to be a lot more efficient than the American traffic light junctions because you don't have to stop most of the time and you don't need to waste electric to power traffic lights.

[@davidlisteresq]

In England you can drink in 99% of public outdoor places.

[@LorenzoWTartari]

In italy you can drink in public, most european countries don't have a law against it

[@MrAshtute]

Roundabouts were examined on mythbusters ...and they found that they were much faster jeeping traffic moving but also safer ...check it out .

[@Manning0151]

In britain, School teaches us metric, surroundings teach us imperial lol we use metric for objects, imperial for ourselves, Eg: Weight, weighing something like food we'd use grams, weighing ourselves its stone and lbs. height of a door frame we/d use metres and cms, height of ourselves feet and inches. and for distance its long vs short, like room length 'x' metres 'x' cms, but say we measure london to scotland we'd use miles... i never realised how odd that is until now

[@matriculus2]

Mythbustets once did an episode comparing roundabouts to the 4 way intersection and discovered traffic flowed quicker at roundabouts. Myth confirmed.

[@xQueenTx]

10. Yes we learn both. 9. Roundabouts keep traffic flowing, are safer & more efficient. 8. Nando’s is over rated. 7. Sheds be versatile 😂. 6. The UK is full of drunks. And depending what part of the UK (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales or England). They have different types of drunk. And not everywhere allows you to drink in the street or outside a pub. 5. Not every house has a downstairs loo “wash closet”. 4. Yeah football stickers weren’t my thing so no comment. 3. Yeah never been into euro vision either. But ABBA and Celine came from it soo slay. 2. Pancake day is really just for kids these days. 1. Okay BUT in our defence. Who doesn’t love a bargain!

[@Rokurokubi83]

In school I was taught metrics but imperial creeps in when measuring large distances, people’s heights and weights. I’m 40. Thankfully my nephew and niece only know metric so I think the mixed approach is being phased out, thank goodness.

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

I'm 25 and I still use both, much to my GPs annoyance

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

You are 40 and grew up with metric.. i guess so actually. You may have just missed decimilisation

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

@@wallythewondercorncake8657 i use imperial measurements, its something ive grown up with and my weighting scales are also imperial and Victorian passed down through my family

[@Rokurokubi83]

@@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer I did, I remember family having pre-decimalised coins in collections, but I grew up on decimalised money

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

@@Rokurokubi83 pounds shilling and pence. 3 n a half pence for a weeks wage

[@AeronNotAaron]

In the UK (especially England) it almost never snows in December or January but when it gets to late February or early March it snows for some reason.

[@robertelliott2026]

Drinking in Scotland is illegal unless you're at a table outside a pub. You can drink on public transport up until 9.00pm in Glasgow.

[@Venenata]

I was taught metric in school then taught myself imperial because its knocking about and once you know it you know it i can convert the two quickly and accuratly in my head if i wanted to i could work it out exactly but i can give a ball park number whe converting them thats always within reason

[@TealStarSusan]

The weirdest thing in the U.K. - buying carpet for wall to wall carpeting. You buy it by the metre…but the WIDTH is in feet/inches! Confusing or what? Took me a while to find out that the reason is because the looms that carpeting is made on are very, very old… so are in imperial ie feet and inches…but you have to buy it in metres! Ouch my head! 😮

[@jonathangoll2918]

To cope with pints and litres, we chant "A litre of water's a pint and three-quarters". We tend to express our weight in stones and pounds, but buy other stuff in kilos. It's years since I've been to a Nando's. Because of the British connection with India, the English have long had spicy curries as part of our diet. But the Portuguese also had a major connection with India, particularly in the South of Portugal, the Algarve. So they also had a spicy cuisine, "peri-peri". Nando's are a chain aiming for this.

[@deb1544]

Roundabouts are definitely more efficient to help traffic flow easier, they are easy once you get used to them. Obviously we are brought up with them so it must look confusing if you haven’t experienced them.

[@42gp]

On the first point about mixing up measurements - I noticed that fuel consumption is measured in "miles per gallon" but when filling up at the petrol station the price of the fuel is measured in "£ per litre" which has never made much sense to me.

[@OreoThePooch]

In my british primary school, my Primary School always taught the metric system in maths. It was only until Year 7 when we used formulas to convert between metric and imperial and vice versa

[@elunedlaine8661]

Usually our pancakes are eaten with sugar and lemon juice sprinkled over the top in the UK

[@paddypleiner5518]

Nooo, pancake day is only stellar as pancakes love Nutella!

[@Denathorn]

Metric is taught in school, but out in the wild, you pick up on imperial, because most things are sold with both units when it comes to size, especially building/DIY stuff like pipes, fittings etc etc as a lot of stuff that may need replacing is old and is imperial sized. Drinking in public, it depends, in the most part, it's defo not the alcoholic type setup you see in the Mojo vid, but, in certain places/situations you can do it... But if you see a lone person leaning against a wall swigging from a bottle, totally mullered, they are probably a piss head! :D Pancake day, yep, I love me pancakes, but they are'nt the same as you get in the US or even from McDonalds over here... They are pretty much like flat yorkshire puddings really, bit of sugar and lemon on... Beautiful! :) Roundabouts, handy things, really easy to use once you've drove on them a couple of times, we have two odd type ones, Swindon Magic Roundabout... A roundabout of roundabouts, there's also one at a town called Hemel Hempstead, it's called Plough Roundabout, and I've managed to navigate that no worries, it's actually a pretty nippy setup and traffic moves great on it! :)

[@Gothtecdotcom]

I've been saying for years, Traffic lights cause traffic congestion. gridlock, pollution, added cost. power consumption and high gas mileage... Replace them all with roundabouts... Only take an angle grinder and a bucket of paint...

[@andreasobuaculla9511]

pints are in pubs,pretty much,in ireland and england

[@mmcbey1401]

Mythbusters proved that roundabouts were better for safety and traffic flow.

[@duncan680]

Yes a well designed roundabout is more efficient then a crossing with or without traffic lights. Traffic can keep moving due to the roundabout. Maybe you have break a bit maybe wait a couple of seconds and you on your way again. One red traffic light and you are standing still for minutes.

[@petercoyne8300]

Picture in the thumbnail isn’t a British roundabout tho , they all on the wrong side of the road 😂

[@charliegreen5361]

Personally, I think they missed out on one of the biggest things we Brits have that you don't have... the annual Christmas pantomime. If you don't know, a pantomime is usually a famous fairy tale (Usually something like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, Dick Whittington, etc.) which is played completely like a comedy. It has innuendo, puns, and a "pantomime dame" (A female character usually played by a man. (An example of a famous panto dame is Ian McKellen (Yes, Magneto from the Xmen movies) in the 2005 production of Mother Goose)), fourth wall breaks, political/social satire and slapstick. In the most recent pantomime I went to (Dick Whittington), they performed 12 days of Christmas in which on the 12th day, they squirted the audience with water guns and made jokes about the main character's name. Whilst some Americans may find this tradition weird... which it kind of is, I do find them fun.