American Reacts to 8 Surprising Differences Between the UK and USA that AREN'T Obvious!

[@siangreenwoodx]

She means a pound sterling so a £ Here in the uk we have always called # a hash (not hash tag) because our pound sign is what our money is (£)

[@ItsCharlieVest]

oh ok, thanks for explaining that, i was confused what she meant lol

[@siangreenwoodx]

@@ItsCharlieVest our £ is over number 3 on the keyboard and our # is next to the enter key

[@jfw413]

having the Brittish pound (₤) as a capital 3 instead of the hash (#) is not that big of a problem; having the capital 2 producing a double quote (") ibinstead of an at (@) is a bigger issue (at least for programmers). Other subtle differences also exist. (have not handled an Brittish keyboard for some while and now I'm wondering wat is on the key two positions to the right of the L key there)

[@siangreenwoodx]

@@jfw413 @ and ‘

[@siangreenwoodx]

@@jfw413 sorry thought that was for me

[@AnnQlder]

This belief that “it’s too hard to do it here”, seemingly used for every sensible change to anything, particularly in 🇺🇸, completely does my head in. It makes me realise how a culture that shows the rest of the world such confidence really has no belief in itself in most ways 🤷

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

They always say.... But America is bigger than Europe. And it's not. Does my head in. Ugh we can't have trains go between towns because we're bigger than Europe 😂😂. Madness

[@Pappa_66]

Exactly😂. The richest country in the history of the world is not able to do basically anything for its citizens. Hello, you can start in a smaller scale😮😢😂. But it is the culture, corruption between big companies, politicians and government. Take a while guess like why there are hardly any affordable housing projects?😮😢. In the EU you can not do anything without a strong digital (bank or mobile certification key) identification, but nobody has those dinosauruses, "calculators". You do everything using your phone.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

I'd swear to it that's the large industries, like car and tire producers - I forgot the name, but there's one that very much sponsors anti-public transport groups, and their main argument is that public transport is balderdash. That's it. The idea that a country can organize the largest military in the world, and can plan and conduct missions to space or to the moon or other planets, but *can't* adapt the concept of public transport to their nation? Seriously, anybody tells you that, they are (knowingly or not) insulting your intelligence.

[@AnnQlder]

@@Julia-lk8jn exactly, it’s gaslighting

[@Sine-gl9ly]

@@Julia-lk8jn You are right about anti-public transport lobbying; the road-and-private car faction has been active in the US since at least the 1920s.

[@Dan-B]

People not having even heard of travel insurance is wild to me, but I guess a lack international travel explains it. 🤷‍♂️

[@Patrik6920]

ya ow, thats very needed if ur going outside Europe, and especially USA, ALWAYS have Travel Insurance ... if u get sick/injured in USA without it ur f* ed for US Americans going to Europe not quite as important, but u should have it anyway...

[@micade2518]

Not even, as one could lose one's luggage, break a leg, etc. on a domestic flight, seen as how widely used flying within the vast USA is.

[@wessexdruid7598]

In the UK, if you hit shift+3 you'll get what is shown on the key - a £ symbol. What you call the 'pound sign' is what we call the hash (hence hashtag) which is just to the left of return. There are other differences. 🙂

[@vtbn53]

YOU DON'T HAVE A POUND KEY DAMMIT! She is talking about the symbol for the British pound note, YOU are talking about the hash key - a completely different symbol! LOL

[@Timbothruster-fh3cw]

Easy there Fido, he misunderstood!🤨

[@wrd777]

EGGS- the difference is based on animal husbandry standards. In the UK - and EU - there are strict regulations, strictly enforced, on how the hens are housed. Not so in the US, hence the NEED to wash the eggs, which start off much dirtier. If they were not washed clean, nobody would buy them!

[@Sine-gl9ly]

Where I shop, eggs are next to baking supplies such as flour, sugar, baking powder, yeast etc. Nowhere near the refrigerated sections! I have a few hens, so I rarely need to buy them. The most intensive method of egg production in the UK is the 'colony' system and 'battery' production is now prohibited.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Sadly I don't have a garden to keep chicken, but one of my relatives does. It's adorable, and I even like effects like them having less eggs in winter. I think the colony system is somewhat less hideous than the battery one, but of course it's still designed to maximize profit AKA pushing as many hens as possible in the smallest space you can get away with. (I seriously need to look around for one of those farms where you can get a look at the stables for yourself.)

[@Sine-gl9ly]

​@@Julia-lk8jnThe 'colony' system is a _significant_ improvement on batteries. It is still too cramped, IMO, but the minimum space allowed is strictly controlled, at least here. Every year I used to get a few former battery hens when one 'batch' was moved out to make room for the next, knowing full well that one or two of them would die within weeks if not days. They were always pathetic things were neither mentally nor physically normal hens. The ones I've had more recently, from colony systems, have all their feathers and know perfectly well how to be a normal hen, which is heartening to see - and none of them have died on me, either!

[@woz_in_oz]

By pound sign she means British pound £

[@elemar5]

The £ sign was first used in 1661, well before the # sign. The £ is derived from the Latin letter L. When Americans weigh things are they in #? 18:35 The US also have traffic circles which are different from roundabouts.

[@wWvwvV]

Coupons from magazines probably never have been a thing in Germany. We have stamps from purchases in a book but even this is fading out. When you've filled up your book with stamps, you can buy an advertised product to a lower price, like a knife set (not a good deal most of the time. And it could even be time limited). Then there is Payback, you have to give them all your data. They connect your shopping carts to your identity. Paypack puts coupons on your receipt for your next purchase by giving you point-multipliers. So your upcoming spending spree should be quite huge. In essence it's the same as the stamp book thingy, I guess.

[@jfw413]

On eggs in Europe; I have kept eggs on a shelf (uncooled) for up to a month and they had not gone off. Sometimes in the summer the yolks lost a bit of their their cohesion but were still fine for scrambled eggs.

[@grahvis]

When it comes to roundabouts in the US, it has been postulated that drivers in the US are not so co-operative with each other and prefer being told what to do as opposed to making decisions.

[@grahvis]

@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches . Why?

[@eidodk]

US roundabouts are ignored, because people don't actually get proper driving instructions. In most european countries, it's a lengthy course with a written and a practical driving test to be "certified"..

[@jpfoto64]

Roundabouts are almost always safer becouse you have to slow down and colission speeds are in general much lower. No one will spped up to try tp beat the light before it turns red. So no high speed crossings. It also keeps trafick moving. The more theire are, the more they get familiar to drivers.

[@pabmusic1]

A pound sign in this context is this - £. As in "that costs £5". What you call a pound sign is a hashtag.

[@TheNiteinjail]

Roundabouts are safer .. under some traffic conditions there may be slightly higher fender benders than at traffic lights .. but always less head on and tbone accidents and then hence less serious and deaths.

[@seanmc1351]

im from the UK, and i often buy eggs, at reduce price, at the end of there, best before, i then put them in fidge, just to help them last longer, i have had eggs 3 weeks past best before, I dont know how the US eggs are, we can test them in jug of water, if you put your egg in jug of cold water, if it sinks your good to go, if the egg floats, its badd

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

That's the most American thing ever to think £ isn't called a pound sign 😂 # this is a hash tag/symbol £ this is a pound

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Yes...!!😊 Much _clearer_ than my own somewhat convoluted explanation😊❤

[@Phiyedough]

Not sure how it works since Brexit but before you could get something called an EHIC card which enabled you to get emergency medical care in other EU countries. A lot of people used to just have that card and not bother with travel insurance.

[@chris747f]

Pound sign isn’t a hashtag # pound sign is £, we have £ sign € sign and $ sign Also think your the first KZbin Reactor that has said roundabouts aren’t confusing, your right they are simple and also another one that have heard is that driving on other side of the road would be a nightmare/hell but I’ve driven on both sides of the road and it’s very simple to do, easy when the steering wheel is on the right side for the particular country 😂

[@AdLamb]

In regards to roundabouts, you being in Indiana, the roundabout capital of America, the concept was learnt quickly. As a Brit, I’ve been in a car with a Californian that just drove straight over it & it took me an hour to explain the concept, still not sure they got it.

[@XMan-tu4iu]

I’ve only had one car crash in my 47 years of driving in the UK. A woman from Boston who had only lived in the UK for a week drove straight onto a roundabout in front of me and I “T-boned” her in my three week old car. The police charged her with “driving without due care and attention” and she pleaded not guilty so it went to court. She lied about every aspect of the accident, but luckily I had taken pictures of the accident scene which proved her to be battling. She got 6 points on her licence, a big fine and had to pay police costs and my costs (as a police witness).

[@vonsauerkraut]

Old sneak

[@kevinturner3997]

My favourite difference that the UK has from the USA is, you can drive 10 to 20 miles down the road, and peoples accents/dialect completely change. The UK has many, many accents/dialects I have trouble understanding some of them and I've lived here 60 years.

[@squidcaps4308]

If i drive 50km south-east, i change languages twice and there are dialects that are very hard to understand.... There is one that even has its own dictionary as it has to many different words from old norse bastardized beyond recognition. And that is still in the same county. Even within the city limits there are different dialects, the "island folks" can easily be recognized...To be fair, i live in Finnish Ostrobothnia, which is bilingual region to begin with.

[@ryancook4543]

This birds got the wrong end of the stick on most of observations.

[@isabellajones-hyde9194]

Card readers are for paying online also, as sometimes when you go to pay they ask you for a code from card reader, There are no states in Europe they are Countries

[@pandaradio8431]

The card reader is part of multi factor authentication, you need a user/customer-id a password or pin and a code generated by the card reader. it is also done with a sms verification

[@highlyunlikely3698]

Our hens are also vaccinated againt salmonella.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

I _think_ this lady ("Girl Gone London") is originally from _Florida_ - unless I'm mistaking her for another KZbinr?! So... That may be why _she_ doesnt understand certain things (like roundabouts?!!) Tyler Rumple is in Indiana (like his brother, Ryan Wuzer) and Tyler says there are quite a few roubdabouts near where he lives and he likes them... 😊 We here in Britain also call our plants growing places "nurseries" ... It's where, for example, particular plant types / varieties are grown on / developed into particular strains etc. Our "Garden Centres" are sometimes basic, just plants and basic gardening provisions, whilst others are more 'complex' in that they include the cafes, garden / patio / conservatory furniture for sale. Also DIY and Hobby products, as well as garden statuary, sheds, greenhouse and storage items, garden tools and equipment, as well as plants, seedlings, live flower bouquets, dried flower arrangements etc etc etc!!😊

[@jca111]

A pound sign is £ not # only the US calls # a pound.

[@grahamsmith9541]

The only time I ever use a coupon. Is after paying for yhe car park near a supermarket. A refund coupon is issued with the parking ticket. To get a refund when paying for the shopping. 4 way stops without traffic lights dont exists in the UK. The way they do in the USA. There is always one of the roads that has priority. It is just the trafic on the road crossing that has to give way or stop.

[@beldin2987]

Its about the different places. As a german the biggest, most obvious, problem is that Y and Z are switched on US keyboards. And then most of the shift-number symbols are also complete different i think. Else .. sorry but one of the most boring "comparsion" videos i ever saw. For sure for her its also a shock if she would find out hat american spoons are 1 inch in size and europeans 2.5 cm (instead of 2.54 .. oh shock). And btw. that was not a "real" thing, just a sarcastic example about who people can pretend to be soooo "shocked" about totally unimportant stuf just as if they just saw that their neibors sacrificed their firstborn to god.

[@Timbothruster-fh3cw]

It's just click-bait to get you to comment, that's all!🙄

[@Be-Es---___]

The card reader is an additional safety measure. It's very rare that I have to wait for longer than one minute for a traffic light.

[@killer6ten]

@Be-Es---___ We also do have those kind of card readers in the Netherlands i already have 1 for a lot of years so i know about them

[@HappyLoki585]

My parents use one. They are 70+ years old and the smart phone is too small for them

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

Well, RSA Security had a gadget to let you into your bank account back in 2000, no card needed though. The two step identifaction is quite safe. I don't think it was very popular in the US for some reason. Here in Sweden, we had that tech way earlier, and since maybe 20 years ago it's all done with the phone, no special device required

[@dib000]

Same here in UK those card readers are so old 😂

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

@@dib000 I vaguely remember something similar, though less clunky, back from the mid 90ies or so. They dissapeared around the same time as fax machines and bank checks

[@Jinty92]

I'm in the UK. I have a card reader but never choose to use it as it's quite cumbersome so I get the code sent to my phone instead & is much quicker.

[@eidodk]

The difference between the EU and US egg treatment, is that EU chickens are vaccinated against salmonella, while the US chemically cleans the shells.

[@stevelloyd5621]

Brit here we don't use personal card readers Barcleys bank did issue them for a year or two but I'm 61 and I've never had one

[@robcrossgrove7927]

If you're talking about a card reader to make a purchase with, you're right. Generally we don't have personal ones. But businesses do. The Chinese takeaway where I go has a personal card reader where they tap some stuff in, then I type my pin in, and it goes through. A lot of taxi drivers have them as well. And Ice cream vans and mobile food and drink stalls. If you're talking about a personal one for use at home, we use those too. I've had one for several years. Prefer not to use it as it's easier to get a code sent to my mobile, but it's an option.

[@albin2232]

I tried to write a romance novel on a US keyboard, but when I printed it out, it was a history of Arizona. It was quite good

[@ItsCharlieVest]

That's great lol

[@nukubulibre]

In The Nederlands the card reader has become a bit useless due to the mobile app and qr codes, but some things you cannot do on your account via the app for security reasons, for high level banking you have to log in via the pc with mobile app or the card reader if your mobile is broken or empty. The cardreader is not personal as long it is from the same bank. Two years ago i bought a new Asus laptop with a qwerty keyboard which is normal here, it was paid for with euros and that has been the case for years and what do i have with shift 4... a $ sign ???

[@davidgill5699]

We have nurseries in the UK too. The difference between it and a garden centre is nurseries focus on plants only pretty much

[@squidcaps4308]

The ', ¨ and ^ keys are in different places which has caused problems since the 90s with games that STILL don't localize keyboard layouts.. They all use US default keyboards...

[@HappyHammer69]

You should find a video on the safety features of the British plug and electrical outlets.

[@emmahowells8334]

The uk does have coupons, we just don't have it as much as Americans did/do in your culture i guess. I get regular coupons in a store we have called Tesco via a points card system, you can have the coupons either digital or paper ones, its up to you.

[@robheyes6470]

The Tesco Clubcard coupons have a monetary value that can be used for any purchase. Sometimes you get a discount on a till receipt for certain types of products e.g. clothing or electrical goods. The coupons in the US (as far as I know) are for very specific products - and are generally useable in many grocery stores.

[@emmahowells8334]

@@robheyes6470 actually there are also ones for specific foods to and some that will add points to your total if you buy a specific thing, so not all are like the main ones.

[@robheyes6470]

@@emmahowells8334 I wonder if that depends on where in the country you live or the size of your main Tesco - I don't think I've ever seen those here in West Wales. Or maybe you have to spend more than a certain amount.

[@emmahowells8334]

@@robheyes6470 Could be I guess, I'm in south Wales & yeah maybe it is on how much your total shop is perhaps, didn't realise it would be different being that it's the same company.

[@siloPIRATE]

3:00 Wrong "pound" sign. You're talking about the hash key (#). She's talking about the pound symbol £

[@simonekeijzer7468]

Europeans travel worldwide, it is not about distances. It is usually an unwillingness ofthe Americans to be somewhere where people don´t speak english. That said, the USA sort of offers everything within the country.

[@karlmcgowan9375]

Here in the UK we only call it a yard if it's concrete. If it's grass we call it a garden also in the UK when it comes to temperatures, we use fahrenheit in the summer but use celsius in the winter. Charlie i don't know if you 've seen the episode on mythbusters about roundabouts, they pretty much explained the hows and why's.

[@XMan-tu4iu]

In the UK I’d say that Fahrenheit has all but been phased out of weather reports on TV and radio.

[@robcrossgrove7927]

I only use Celsius for temperature, but I use inches, feet and yards for distance, and Lbs and Stone for weight.

[@simonekeijzer7468]

A traffic circle is NOT the same as a roundabout. The traffic on a traffic circle has to yield, and with a roundabout the oncoming traffic yields for the people on the roundabout. I don´t think traffic circles exist anymore.

[@BrendaBeaulieu-dv9fu]

pound key means money pounds not hashtag pound

[@brigidsingleton1596]

To be clear... (Hopefully?!) ... Our _£_pound 'Stirling' (our UK money) sign is Different from the _#_hash 'pound' sign🇺🇸 which Kaylyn (?) and Charlie referred to. (our '_pound_in_weight_' - as opposed to our money - is shortened to: in upper case: _Lb_, or in lower case: _lb_ If / when described in recipes, ...though I can't explain why, it's probably from the Latin?!🤔) ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂🇬🇧🖖

[@lottie2525]

£ is the pound sign for our money in the UK not the # you were talking about. It's more strange that we do have the $ symbol on the main keys as that's your currency not ours. Think you misunderstood her point.

[@robcrossgrove7927]

Re: Coupons. She's right, we don't really have those here, but our top 3 or 4 supermarkets are always competing with each other, so the more expensive ones try to price match the cheaper ones. I heard you mention Aldis. That's about the cheapest supermarket here and very popular. I tend to shop at Tesco, and their loyalty card is called Clubcard. There are usually quite a few good deals if you have a club card. For instance, a Bottle of Bailys usually costs £22.00, but with a club card it only costs £13.00, (I got a bottle for my sister because it's her birthday. Honest 😁), and other such deals. You don't really save hundreds of pounds, but you do save some. And "Every little helps" as the actress said to the bishop! 😂

[@bazingaburg8264]

Modern day English and modern day American share past days English ancestry. No Latin ciswoman ever gave birth to a French or Italien baby. (Evolution isn't real life Pokémon, nature is under no obligation to operate under our ill-gotten conclusioms on how it's supposed to work. We cut that crap and observe population mechanics 😉) Latin populations simply diversified provincially into regional (so much more but also) linguistic distinctions, that would later become known as French and Italian. In short: "How come there are still apes when We are here?" Is like asking "How come my distant cousin exists when I am here?" Pardon the passionate appeal to our collective best efforts, but the amazement over shared history triggers my desire to highlight wonky foundation. That concludes my f creationism psa, I wish you all a pleasant remainder of your evening.

[@mickstaplehurst8471]

Hi Charlie, in cas we are getting confused here the 'hash' symbol (#) is NOT a 'pound' symbol, this is a £ symbol, used for currency.

[@jledgister]

round abouts granted it was about 20 years ago in FL almost had an accedent because some one whent the wrong way.. so it does happen or did

[@brigidsingleton1596]

😊 Florida Man struck again, then?!😮😊

[@LinaGenX]

Norwegian here. One time I went to the US, I went to see a friend, and we went to Six Flags. This was back in the late 90s. Her mom gave us two soda cans, it was either Pepsi or Coke and on each can a cupon for the admission to Six Flags was printed. We got several dollars off each ticket for each can. But I remember thinking that poor person at the ticket booth had to deal with cans as well as money

[@robcrossgrove7927]

Garden Centres. These vary, obviously. Some are larger than others, some are quite small. Some have cafe's in them, some don't. They're just all different. We did used to call them Nurseries here, but I don't think we still do. If I'm posting to much stuff, please don't hesitate to let me know. I won't be upset or offended, but I won't post so much in future videos.

[@robcrossgrove7927]

Sorry to keep adding stuff to your comments list, but it shows that I'm interested and watching it 😀 The card reader. You're spot on. It's a stand alone thing that the bank sends codes to for you to type in. It also comes into play if you're trying to do certain transactions on line, such as setting up a direct debit, or transferring money to someone else's account, or paying a bill online. The bank provide them free of charge. With my bank, (I don't know if it's the same for any others), I also have the option of using my password, which consists of 6 numbers. They ask me to put 3 of the numbers in, (which 3 changes each time), then if it's right, they'll send a text to my phone, which I need to type in to gain access to my account. As you say, it's just extra security. It would be pretty hard to lose the card reader as it's always by my computer, (desktop). I don't know what it's like to access your bank account via your phone because I don't have a smartphone.

[@scdoors4128]

Only 1/3 of Americans have a passport, so the vast majority of Americans never leave the US - so yea, they don't "have" travel insurance. And Barclay's call that PINsentry card reader, but most of that kind of stuff is done via an app these days, I haven't seen those personal card readers in a long time.

[@gillescousineau28]

She was talking about the symbol for their currency, the pound £, not the “hashtag” a.k.a. Pound #

[@quatra1000]

The roundabouts she's talking about are called "punaises" in The Netherlands and yes you can drive over them and some even prevent you from driving around them, so you have to slow down in residential areas and that's the point. Don't call people simpleminded without first investigating. But then, Indiana isn't exactly known for being worldly and progressive.

[@Patrik6920]

card readers: yes its to make it more safe, and faar less hackable... u can loose ur card/wallet and ur card reader and its still cant be exploted as u need the code... put in the code 3 times wrong and the reader will lock itself upp, and be unusable until its unlocked (wich is a process in itself) .. and its not the only way u can log in., u can use other forems of electronic-id aswell, or biometric-ids and code Roundabout/Traffic Circles: a Roundabout is usually a replacement for a 4-way intersection a Traffic Circle is a replacement for more than a 4-way intersection and usually have as in the example more lanes, have a higher troughput than roundabouts but takes more space, theoretically u can drive trrough a Traffic Circle without slowing down..

[@robcrossgrove7927]

Roundabouts. Most of ours are not that elaborate either. She's showing a picture of the infamous "Magic Roundabout" in Swindon UK. It's a central roundabout with lots of little ones around it, and traffic can go any direction around it I think. I don't drive, so I'm not sure of the details. Most of our roundabouts are large ones with grass in the middle, though we do have the little white ones as well. In the East Midlands where I now live, they call them "Islands" which confused the hell out of me when I first moved up here. We do still have the traffic lights as well. Sometimes, you get the traffic lights and the roundabouts combined.

[@davidfree007]

Interestingly the reason mamy people have travel insurance in the UK and Europe is provably sue to horror stories of people travelling to the USA and getting sick or having an accident and ending up with bills for 10k or 100k+ . Also travel insurance is pretty cheap so most people who travel more than once a year will usually just take out a family plan for the year so they don't even have to think about it.

[@bada2839]

Of course you can not use the card reader across banks. She is confused because some banks are belong to the same finantial body. So basically they are different bank but same oners so yes those could possibly be using same reader, but even that I doubted, each bank will send you them reader at the account opening. Also coupons she is totally comparing not different nations but different times, we use to have coupons points books and so and now we have the supermarket card to collect points and redeem deals as you explain. Insurance to travel is not such an important thing, may be to long trips ok, but within european countries??? Not at all, you buy a weekend trip to France or Spain for €17\€20 of course you will not spend 50 on a travel insurance, makes no sense and if they are delayed or loose your luggage they will still have to compensate you so travel insurance for what? Also the keybourd thing she explained it wrong. There are so many differences but she focus on unimportant and not even totally right or poor explain. Also 10 years in UK and she can not tell that not distroing the natural shell protection of an egg is obviously a benefit. I understand it is new to you, but she lives here, is she not curious to find out what is better??? And that luck of interest on important matters as health is the biggest difference with americans and Europeans. In spain we express luck of interest with an idiom it translates as "someone pee on you, but you believe it is raining" meaning that you do not bother to look up to uncover the thruth. She is really not good at explaining things. So itrelevant matters

[@markalexander71332]

I'm from Germany but I like the American coupon way. German don't have the same system.

[@lorrefl7072]

I'm from Belgium and although our eggs don't need to be in the fridge I put them in their otherwise I forget about them. We also have those card readers here and it's an extra security. I don't know how you would loose it if you always keep it in your desk. But in case you loose it or the battery is flat (battery life if many years and for security reasons you can't change it, you get a new one), you just ask for a new one online and your bank will send you 1 within a few days. In the meantime you can either use "it's me" (but that could always get hacked) or with a fingerprint or face scan on your phone.

[@N_Loco_Parenthesis]

There was a funny video clip posted recently of two old ladies driving in Wales and getting confused traversing a notorious Welsh roundabout. If you search for the clip, expect strong language.

[@peckelhaze6934]

When my family was bigger at home I would buy my eggs directly from the farm, brown and white. They came in a tray of 30 eggs. They always sat on my worktop, never refrigerated, they were always fine.. The UK has lights that will be all red at a time when it is for pedestrians only.

[@saundyuk]

I'm starting to think Hoosiers might think a lot more like the British do than folks from other parts of America. You seem a lot more familiar with (or a lot less phased by) things and terms we use here in the UK than the woman in the video did (and she's been over our side of the pond for 10 years LOL).

[@whatmatters683]

This woman is not informative, in the UK we are aware that we and Europeans travel to other countries. So in the USA you insure yourselves to the hilt but when you leave the country you don't. I've never seen anyone in the UK with that card reader. No not all of our junctions are controlled by roundabouts, we sit at traffic lights too. She needs to visit Milton Keyes a gridded town full of roundabouts.

[@skipper409]

The “pound sign” isn’t referring to the hash key…as in pounds weight. She means pounds as in UK money “£”

[@InconSteveHable]

the shift 3 sign is the £ sign (uk currency) the # (pound sign) or Hash Key is above the right shift button.

[@LeSarthois]

One thing she didn't mentionned about the keyboard, maybe because she has one on her laptop, is that most of Europe uses ISO layout keyboards, while the US prefers the ANSI layout. If you don't wanna look for a picture, it's very simple to know the difference : ISO layout have a big fat Enter key, ANSI have a small one. And a key moves from next to the Enter key (on ANSI) next to the (short) left shift key (ISO). And OFC in other places in Europe, the key layout will be different : France uses AZERTY (and the top row number are accessed with maj) Germany and several other countries uses QWERTZ, etc...

[@anthropicfailure]

the card reader is a calculator as well and most banks will give the option to send a text code to ya phone

[@neenee1257]

Collecting coupons is like a national sport in Belgium. This is definitely not an America vs Europe thing

[@elinahalla]

I can't understand how everything is so difficult to people in US. I think it has something to do with their education and healthcare but still.

[@StergiosMekras]

Traffic circles and roundabouts are different things. The latter is the proper way to do things, the former is an abomination.

[@clivegilbertson6542]

G'day Mate!Here in Australia we call our garden centres "Nursery" too... Now roundabouts which we have had since the 60's and UK since the late 40's. Not everyone is as logical and clear thinking as you are...A number of years ago I was in England with relatives and I was driving towards Bournemouth and there was a huge roundabout with seven roads coming into it. An elderly local travelling in the roundabout stopped in front of me as he had missed his exit but instead of going round again he proceeded to reverse around the roundabout to get back to his exit and like I said they have had roundabouts over there for more than sixty years! Here in Australia I see people every week who will not enter a roundabout unless there are zero vehicles within 150+ metres and we are supposed to be accustomed to them... Cheers!

[@grahamgresty8383]

She's from Florida but is now a UK citizen

[@jfw413]

Re: Card readers: For logging in they are a 2nd factor thing. The reader itself is universal and you can borrow a reader from someone else (sometimes using the same bank) when you left your reader at home. They communicate with the chip in the card. You enter the challenge offered by the bank website and it then, using the card inserted, it calculates a response. This way the bank can conclude you are the one holding the card. In 2fa parlance this counts as the thing you own factor. (your password/passphrase being the factor/thing you know.) (A fingerprint or a face scan is the 3rd kind of factor counting for the factor for the thing you are.)

[@blackcountryme]

thr dollar sign on computes "$" meant $tring, as in anything in between quotes.

[@jeepsthetimebandit]

I used to love going to the garden centre with my mum when I was little. Ours had, still has, actually, a miniature railway and an outdoor play area. It was a whole day out 😂

[@akyhne]

You shouldn't make too much fun of Americans not knowing how to use a roundabout. Here's the kicker: Different states have different rules. Here's what happened: Different officials from different large and small cities in the states, went to Europe, to see how roundabouts work. Some of them went back, and made roundabouts with the same rules, as in Europe. A lot of them didn't, but implemented their own rules, often rules, that had been tried, and failed, in Europe. Or they came up with even more complex rules. Here's an example of a rule set, that doesn't work: Traffic going into the roundabout has priority, traffic going into the roundabout must yield 24:25 . This means, that in high traffic, there's zero chance, for any car, to exit the roundabouts. There are states and cities in the US, with these rules. So what did they do, to fix these? Removed few years old roundabouts, and went back to traffic lights. Here's what works: Cars in the roundabout, have priority, those going into the roundabout must yield, and the traffic flows perfectly.

[@pillarwatch]

The latter is a given and what I presume, you treat it like a yield sign. It isn't complicated.

[@akyhne]

@@pillarwatch It is complicated, when the rules are different, than the logic. And they have made roundabouts in the US, that are much worse than that.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@pillarwatch Your "Yield" sign is our 'Give Way' sign.😊

[@nolasmith7687]

Geez! I just found her too whiney to listen to. Left during her coupon treatise.

[@jeepsthetimebandit]

I don't think we use bank card readers anymore. They were more for the days before we had banking apps.

[@Maggie-xu4qn]

The card reader at Barclays is called pinsentry. If you loose one the bank will send you another one. For free

[@2eleven48]

Yeah, but why use shift and number keys when you can strike the £ and $ keys themselves?

[@daveward4358]

If you cant understand rounderbouts you will not pass your test in the UK.

[@albertbreetveld6901]

in the netherland we use by all bank card readers for protection every time you check in get new code

[@michaelprobert4014]

She means a £ sign not a # sign . She says you had a dollar sign but that it was interesting that the UK had a $ symbol too.

[@vonsauerkraut]

Why do Americans say gasoline is a gas when it is a liquid?

[@mattparker8747]

This is a pound £ - this is a hash - #. You don't have a £ key

[@GuinevereKnight]

Hm, in Sweden eggs can be white or brown and are usually kept in the refrigerated area in the store, but you can keep them in room temperature at home. The card reader for logging in to your bank feels a bit retro, like from 15-20 years ago. We use bank-id mostly, I don't really know another way to log in, before there were several methods when it was still new to people. Europe don't have different states but different countries, we are not a united states of Europe. Why is this so hard/confusing? 😅

[@andyt8216]

I’m with a different UK bank, I only need to use mine if I am transferring money online to a new recipient. I enter my card, my PIN and a number which is sent to my mobile. I love this level of security tbh.

[@GuinevereKnight]

@@andyt8216 Do you also use some form of bank-id in the UK? In your phone or computer?

[@paulrobson7887]

I feel you were a bit too harsh and cynical with Cailin in this video (she’s from Florida by the way). She has a great channel and this video is a bit old but she knows what she’s talking about the UK. Don’t be so hard on her, she’s entertained me for years on KZbin.

[@totallypixelated]

I like her too. Seems down to earth and has got into British life pretty well I thought. Her latest video popped up in my recommended the other day. It was about doors. Pretty interesting actually 😁

[@nige4287]

That Las is full of CRAP!!!!.

[@TukikoTroy]

When you say 'pound' do you mean '£' or '#'?

[@nadeansimmons226]

The actual sign and not how to get to them

[@mattymcnally]

Shift 2 is quoting marks "

[@allenwilliams1306]

She's from Florida.

[@alananderson5731]

You can always ask an assistant.

[@victorhbagnelle4551]

she’s from Florida

[@helenwood8482]

# is not a pound sign, £ is.

[@TerranSol]

Dude I've lived in America for 15 years in 5 different states and traveled through about 20-25 states and most people call them traffic circles, a few call them roundabouts. Also the amount of American drivers I've see screw up on a roundabout is ridiculous but that does vary grately depending on how many roundabouts are in the state.

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

A traffic circle and roundabout are two different things. I believe traffic circles were built in the past and the name just stuck, even though it's not a roundabout.

[@TerranSol]

@@DomingoDeSantaClara yea they are very different. Traffic circles don't work, roundabouts do but they've become interchangeable in America.

[@johnveerkamp1501]

SHE DON'T NO THAT. !!