American Reacts to Biggest English Culture Shocks | Part 1

[@Phiyedough]

I'm British but have also lived in Hungary and Croatia. Most of what she described applies to Europe in general, USA is the weird country, not UK.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

Nobwe are not weird

[@cheman579]

@@tenniskinsella7768 Nobbut you can not spell

[@tenniskinsella7768]

@@cheman579 I can actually sometimes mistakes can happen on phone seen it quite a few times no mistakes on this comment so don't be rude

[@Patrik6920]

..well u do have some wierd habbits, but ya .. USA r rly the oddball out...

[@kevinfairclough4619]

No winners here.

[@edh5043]

Roads in the US : designed for cars Roads in the UK : evolved around horses (or in some cases probably pre horse)

[@elfishmoss1457]

Roads are car sized+a bit more, just our cars are quite a lot smaller

[@richardstribling8865]

this is why england has produced more world f1champions than anyone else

[@stephenlee5929]

@@richardstribling8865 But, Fins & Sweds, there are so many rally champions and some F1

[@DAVIDSHEILS-fs1og]

You've never been on the M25 then!?This woman is chatting pure shit,and your meals aren't that big, it's a myth!

[@malcolmhouston7932]

A Single Track Road is not that Typical- Even the Romans built them wide enough for two vehicles to pass

[@Badgersj]

I was driving up a single lane road near me, towing a horse trailer. Suddenly I met a huge articulated lorry (truck to you!) coming the other way. There were very few passing places on that road and none behind him, so I flashed my lights to say I was going to back up. It was a long way, but I managed it in one go. As he passed he wound down his window and said, "That's the best bit of backing I've ever seen." Gosh I felt smug! (and still do!)

[@Peterraymond67]

Tyler. Many of our roads were not built for cars or trucks. I used to travel a narrow country road in South Wales between two villages. You could no pass another car going in the opposite direction without reversing into a passing place. The best time to drive these roads is at night, you will see other cars coming towards you because of their headlights

[@Badgersj]

@@Peterraymond67 Absolutely. And the worst time to travel them is midday at weekends when they are infested with out-of-town cyclists travelling at 100mph with their arses in the air (oh don't get me started...)

[@Patrik6920]

@@Badgersj ..now imagine a US American tourist in a rental... oh gosh...

[@Badgersj]

@@Patrik6920 😆

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

@@Badgersj That applies to Ireland as well, (and I'm also staying silent on the subject ....)

[@juliecowen3641]

Its not that all food orders are small they are normal portions not unhealthy sized portions.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

America too big portions

[@LeSarthois]

It's also the fact that US food is usually more processed, cheaper, and overall less feeding. There's also a culture of "bigger is better" a culture of "get more for the money". Add to that that Americans in general consider a meal just stuffing food in your face the fastest instead of a moment to relax and enjoy and you get massive unhealthy food portions that taste bland and soaked in sauces and condiments to make up for it.

[@kevintwine2315]

I'd agree although as a fat b*stard myself I am a little jealous of American food portions 😂

[@juliecowen3641]

@@kevintwine2315 😂😂

[@robertclarke2743]

A friend of mine once said that America was the only place where they would use 12 eggs to make a 4 egg omelet.

[@ianroper2812]

Don’t forget some roads in the UK started life as a horse cart track or medieval or Roman roads. So yes, she’s right. That’s why US trucks won’t fit down our roads as they simply are too large. And don’t forget cars and trucks vary in size.

[@zo7034]

Most roads in the UK started as walking tracks used when we were hunter gatherers. We then used them for trade, then we took horses on them etc etc.

[@nasheeds8218]

Ive heard lorries here are actually larger than American trucks but i could be wrong

[@ianroper2812]

@@nasheeds8218 wrong, very wrong. Some of theirs have much much larger living quarters in the back than European. Longer too.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

​@@ianroper2812 For clarity we're discussing articulated trucks/lorries, yes? European trucks also have living accommodation. The difference is: Europeans use Can Over Engine Trucks Americans use Cab Before Engine Trucks. Cab Overs are much shorter and more space efficient than Cab Befores, with better visibility, there are no advantages to Cab Befores. Americans use Cab Befores out of tradition. That's it really.

[@0x2A_]

@@nasheeds8218 Pretty sure it's that they are generally more powerful in Europe than the US rather than size.

[@dominicjohn8954]

I'm a bus driver in Cornwall. On most of my routes there are portions of road which are about 4 inches wider that the bus (2 inches either side). On-coming traffic have to pull into lay-bys which are intermittently spaced along the road for the purpose of passing and just big enough to pass a car. If I meet an on-coming bus or truck, one of us has to reverse back to where the road is wide enough for bigger vehicles to pass each other. It often requires some 'out-of-the-box' thinking and creative problem solving but it's the challenge that makes the job more interesting. I wouldn't want to drive busses anywhere else. I get paid a decent salary to drive around the Cornish countryside. What's not to love?

[@kumoric]

Tyler, it might help if you read the comments, or interact to show that you’ve read the comments. Some of the stuff here is really informative and people want to know if you’ve seen it!

[@DarkSister.]

He doesn't read the comments, unfortunately... He might actually learn something if he did

[@JarlGrimmToys]

Agreed. He’s made mistakes or had misconceptions before. Where the comments were full of people trying to explain. But he doesn’t read them so in future videos he still has those same misconceptions.

[@kumoric]

@@JarlGrimmToys Especially if you’re learning about someone else’s culture too!

[@Will-nn6ux]

It's funny how he goes to Reddit discussions for information, but not his own comments section!

[@pickanapple]

​@@Will-nn6uxMaybe we should compile many comments into one Reddit thread for him

[@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138]

The young woman's speech.. " like, like, like, like, like, like, like 😱

[@marvinc9994]

Know what you mean: "I looked up at the church ceiling, and was simply staggered by the intricacy of the fan vaulting" etc VERSUS "I was like wow!" (and stuff) Herein lies a great mystery: the Oxford English Dictionary is _expanding_ , while the vocabulary of some people (not just Rude Colonials) seems to be _shrinking_ ! Very strange.

[@jackiepower1681]

Lol Like is a very Californian trait.

[@shakz86]

​@@jackiepower1681 and scouse

[@rosemarygriffin2184]

Yer, like, like, like, like like, it's very irritating

[@kevintwine2315]

She's very irritating

[@MostlyPennyCat]

They've started trying to sell American pickup trucks and SUVs in the UK and Europe. There's a significant chunk of people that thinks they should be banned.

[@philipmason9537]

European roads are HUNDREDS of years old and were built for horse and carts so many are only wide enough for one or two vehicle widths. The towns and villages next to these roads are very old too and can rarely be changed to widen the roads. Obviously there are now some bigger roads and highways but all minor roads are narrow especially compared to the US.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

I live in a medieval market town. There’s a road in the town centre that can only fit one lane. Because there are two 17th century buildings on either side. Because they were built centuries before the invention of the car. Also some of the little country roads. Were ancient roads built between farmers fields, which is why they snake around rather than being straight.

[@neuralwarp]

The ox waggon way through Stonehenge is probably 8000 years old. Older than horses. Older than the English Channel.

[@karenajane]

Tyler, you've reacted to all this in previous videos but you never seem to remember it.

[@johnrichards2640]

Lad is trying to make a living. Would be a bit crap if he just fast forwarded going ‘yeah…heard it, heard it.’

[@ElizabethDebbie24]

DEBRA HERE FROM SOUTH WALES UK. I think he has problems retaining information.

[@Bob10009]

Tyler makes a goldfish seem smart.

[@omgitsabloodyandroid5161]

The roads are based on 3000 yrs of history

[@neuralwarp]

8000 years plus. The ox waggon way was there when they decided where to build Stonehenge.

[@mimikurtz2162]

Britain's roads are not the same as 3000 years ago. Those that have more use have been widened and straightened, new roads have been built to bypass towns and there are now six-lane freeways for longer journeys. Roads which are only wide enough for one vehicle are the ones which used to be cart tracks. They now form a network which connects rural villages to each other and to the wider, straighter roads which run between towns. Even those old cart tracks often did not follow their original routes, but were diverted around the edges of fields after the Enclosures Acts around 1800. The width of a road is based on functionality, and we don't drive to the local farm for a dozen eggs in a sprawling V8 gas-guzzler.

[@adrianpetyt9167]

American culture typically assumes there are three British accents, fancy "What ho old ben", dated cockney "Gorblimey Guvnah" and Long John Silver "Aaarr, Jim Lad!" In fact there can be a new accent every ten or twenty miles throughout the British Isles!

[@dilligaf73]

Unfortunately I have the cockney. Very flat, monotone, boring

[@WookieWarriorz]

my family literally has about 5/6 unique accents within it and we all live within 100 miles.

[@neuralwarp]

My friend was brung up 3 miles from me. I pronounce New as NYOO; he says NOO.

[@neuralwarp]

​@@dilligaf73I bet you haven't. Bow Bells? Naah.

[@adrianpetyt9167]

@@neuralwarp And you apparently say 'brung up' when the standard English would be 'brought up'.

[@davidmarshall6616]

Prisons are smaller, lunatic asylums are smaller, egos are smaller, hell, people are smaller.

[@martinp8174]

People are taller in the UK

[@tjhudson9678]

​@@martinp8174 Really? I mean most of my family are around 6ft, but we are on the taller side compared to a lot of people. I always thought Americans were much taller.

[@Westcountrynordic]

@@tjhudson9678 Average height of men in USA is 5ft 9 average height of men in UK is 5ft 10

[@neuralwarp]

But our manly achievements (*cough*) are on average ½ inch more than Americans'.

[@AntonyTCurtis]

IIRC average height for people from the UK is only about 2 inches / 5 cm shorter than the average for the USA.

[@nolaj114]

Let me sum it up for you , Tyler ... if you go to a different country, things are different. There.

[@Tony-c7z9t]

Let's face it Americans are brainwashed from birth, all things American are the norm, then when they visit anywhere outside the US, their brains become confused.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

“Wait….what?”

[@Tony-c7z9t]

@@JarlGrimmToys yeah that's true, believe it or not

[@taniakrause9253]

😂😂😂

[@Tony-c7z9t]

@@JarlGrimmToys yeah that's true, believe it or not

[@jennyk488]

We also have, here in Great Britain 150,000 miles of Public Footpaths so we can walk in the countryside. They are all over the place and are hundreds even thousands of years old.

[@101steel4]

No use to Americans. They don't do walking 😂😂

[@christineharding4190]

This young lady needs to 'like' listen to herself. Every couple of words was the word "like". If she 'like' used the word once, she 'like' used it 'like' over and over again. Ye Gods! You came close to being 'like' almost as bad a few times, but you weren't 'like' too bad.

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Using "like" to replace commas 🙄🎩

[@garyskinner2422]

Yes, it does my head in.

[@robgraham9234]

Subliminal way to get you to like and subscribe.

[@helenag.9386]

It's so annoying!

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@robgraham9234 It's unlikely to work...

[@deborahmacrae8299]

Here in Italy and most of Europe, holidays such as Halloween are religious days. I sometimes wonder whether Americans think Easter is a festival celebrating bunnies and chicks. Perhaps the US sees these holidays as just another commercial opportunity.

[@taniakrause9253]

😂😂😂

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Oh surely Halloween is not a religious day in Italy.

[@acommentator4452]

what do you think the name means; all hallows eve, that is the day or night before all saints' day, which 1st nov. christians give thanks for the lives of the saints and the inspiration they give us. this is followed by all souls' day on 2nd nov, when we remember those people whom we have loved and lost, and give thanks for them too. @@MostlyPennyCat

[@patrickw123]

The separation of Church and State is enshrined in the Constitution. If you are religious you are free to celebrate holidays how you wish but no one is compelled to celebrate in any specific way. Is this line between Church and State often crossed? Definitely, especially in the South and Utah, but being a secular republic is a value many if not most Americans hold dear.

[@LeSarthois]

@@MostlyPennyCat He may be confusing with All Saint's Day, which is the next day? And Halloween was originally "the day before All Saint's day" and was celebrated as well. Some local churches may still celebrate it that way. Also, in many European country several non-worked (paid) days are of religious origins. So it may be a quick shortcut to say they are religious days.

[@Ariadne-cg4cq]

The roads are different sizes depending on where they are and what volume of traffic they cater for. There are multi lane highways between large cities or cities where there is huge volume of very large commercial vehicles but roads leading to small villages and connecting small rural centres the roads are narrower because a) there is much less traffic and b) to protect the natural beauty of the countryside. The people in the UK are very protective of the beauty of the landscape and do not want to spoil it with massive multi lane highways unless it is necessary. We love our countryside and do not want to spoil it.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

Yeah some of the single lane country roads. Were originally built between farmers fields. That’s why they can twist all over the place, because they follow boundaries. To build a bigger road. They have to purchase the land from the farmers. BUT as you say we tend to protect our countryside. Building new roads can be problematic. It might be green belt land. There might be a listed tree, it’s illegal to cut down ancient trees that have preservation orders. There might be wildlife conservation, newts are protected as well as bats. There can even be ancient structures like stone circles or burial chambers that are protected.

[@Ariadne-cg4cq]

@@JarlGrimmToys You are quite right. The process of building a new motorway or even a dual carriageway road is long and difficult and many factors have to be taken into consideration and many hurdles overcome. I live on the edge of the South Downs and would be absolutely devastated should someone want to put a motorway right through any part of this beautiful part of our country. I am happy going round and round convoluted country lanes to get from A to B rather than see yet another motorway in this beautiful part of the country. I take great pleasure in the beauty of countryside around me and one of the reason I chose to live here is the beauty of the surrounding countryside. I love having partridges, pheasants squirrels and other animals and birds wondering in my garden or making nests in my trees or roof . All these give me a great deal of pleasure and make life a great deal more worthwhile.

[@planekrazy1795]

Food: It's called Portion Control. A meals portion is calculated on Calorie Content. It's assumed that people eat 3 meals a day so a meal should be around 750 to 800 calories. A man needs 2,500 a day and a woman needs 2,000 on average to maintain a healthy weight. I saw a breakdown of a large American Fast Food meal and it was close to 3,000 calories in just one meal JUST ONE. The average American eats nearly twice the calories recommend each day. Now i do understand that people who train hard and have very physical jobs and need more, as i said 2,500 and 2,000 is only an average. Being or Feeling Full is a very poor indicator of how much you should eat, the more you eat the more your body expects next time. If you don't feel full or satisfied after a meal drink a large glass of water after and you will, its much healthier that a sugar packed soft drink. On that note a regular Soda in the US has nearly twice the amount of sugar you need in a day, and the sugar you need you will get from your regular calorie intake. So No The Portions in the UK and the rest of the world aren't small they are the correct size.

[@andycooke6231]

I've never considered Jason Stathams or Sean Beans accents as posh.

[@markharris1125]

"I say, Robert, old chap, it's so frightfully gauche of you to call for the killing of that dear Targaryen girl."

[@PeterWaddington-i2p]

English people generally don't go overboard on "holidays" probably because we actually get far more time off (fully paid) than "Muricans" do. It's also quite normal for us not to work weekends, so we are used to having spare time to spend with our families and enjoy ourselves,

[@terranaxiomuk]

Our worker rights are privileges in America.

[@Isleofskye]

Tru Say,Mi Bredda. Woek overrated Man. No time to relax,mi bredrin.

[@DarkSister.]

How do you not know that UK roads are smaller when you have already reacted to videos showing this 🤔🤯 fml

[@IndependentHeathen]

More than once in the past year.

[@lawrencemcginley9937]

The village where I was born has been around since Saxon times possibly before, the main road through the centre of the village was built around a single cart track

[@martinwebb1681]

We have loads of small single track roads here in the UK, mainly in more rural areas where there is less traffic, but they are very common here. In my county in Eastern England most of the roads are narrow with many being single track.

[@frankhooper7871]

Also in east of England - I've been cycling on a road where I've had to actually lean into the hedge on one side to allow a vehicle to pass in the opposite direction

[@jacquilarter9290]

Me also, born and bred East Anglian and still here 😊

[@enemde3025]

Why do you never read feedback from commenters on your reactions ? It would be nice to know what you think and have learned. Our roads started as Roman roads and have evolved depending on the traffic. Some country roads are only wide enough for 1 car , other ones, like the Motorways, are 3 lanes on each side. " ACCLIMATED" !? Do you mean ACCLIMATISED !? Halloween, Valentine's Day, Easter and Christmas are NOT " holidays" in the UK ! We call them CELEBRATIONS. Holidays to us are what Americans call VACATIONS.

[@neuralwarp]

He does respond sometimes.

[@neuralwarp]

In a British university, vacations are when the undergrads go away. Holidays are when the academics go away. Closures are when everyone goes away.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

“Outside of London the roads can be one” If you’re driving down a little back country lane, they can be single file. But the way she says it makes it sound common outside of London.

[@elfishmoss1457]

Exactly, I feel like most motorways are still 2-3 lanes on each side, she's just comparing to some city in California it seems

[@susansmiles2242]

I don’t think she has ventured that far from london by the way she is talking

[@stuartfitch7093]

Where I live and have lived virtually all my life out in rural Lincolnshire amongst all the out of the way villages with no mains gas, virtually all the roads are narrow twisty backroads with no pavements (sidewalks) or street lighting. As I child it was a 9 mile each way trip to the nearest supermarket so growing up, you was confined to the small village and secondary school was over a twenty mile bus journey. Growing up the local sheep outnumbered the people. The tarmac on roads around where I live is no wider in some places than about four foot wide with a grass verge on each side then fields. These are two way roads. Supposedly one lane in each direction but in reality, if you do meet an oncoming car then you both have virtually completely stop and put your outside wheels onto the grass verges to pass or find one of the very few lay-bys to pull up into. Why are they so narrow? Because roads are a later thing. Many rural roads are constricted by field boundaries, hedgerows and dry stone walls that were built many hundreds of years ago and pre date the motor car. Basically they're just tarmacked over old cart tracks. They had to be fitted into the space available unlike in the US where you have a lot of flat, wide open land where you are virtually unrestricted as to the land you can use. Americans talk about how old the UK is but don't seem to understand that there's a link with how we live. The country's history affects many aspects our lives often without thinking. Such as 40% of houses not having a driveway, mostly because many of the terraced houses we have here in the UK were built pre motor car or pre mass ownership of the motor car. It is not rare to live in a house that's 150 or 200 years old. Or when I was a child I would go to church service in a small village church that was almost 1000 years old.

[@conollytom7049]

most of the stuff that is considered “normal” in the US is reserved for those that need adapted living here in the UK.

[@johnnyuk3365]

As others have said, outside of cities and towns and major motorway and A road infrastructure, our roads are based on ancient routes used by pedestrians, horses and carts. Some dated back to Neolithic times, 3 or 4 thousand years ago. So what can we do to “improve” this. We could at vast expense buy land from farmers/landowners on either side to widen roads, cut down ancient trees and hedges (we are are doing to much of this already), and transform (for the worse) the British countryside. The choice here is either we adapt our driving behaviour to accommodate narrow roads, e.g giving way to cars coming towards us, or we utterly transform for the worse the countryside. The Uk consensus is that we adapt our driving behaviour to suit and retain the existing precious environment, the American view is to change and alter the environment to suit what humans want to do. Fundamental difference.

[@ElizabethDebbie24]

Debra here from South Wales UK. Also, our country as a whole is a hell of a lot smaller than the US. I read somewhere that you can fit Great Britain into Texas alone 11 or 12 times at least, to put things into perspective.

[@Sol3UK]

I don't know how long the lady has been in England but if it's not long then when she says she was afraid to speak. She has picked up the English pronunciation of many phrases.

[@sarahwhittle4868]

When I went to san Francisco in 2006, I was given a starter of chicken Caesar salad in what used to be British would call a washing up bowl. I was unable to eat it all. My ribs? No way could I even look at them. I learned my lesson that day. Don’t order a side/starter!

[@thehapagirl92]

As an American I order an appetizer and eat it as my meal. I don’t order anything else because the portions here are huge.

[@helenag.9386]

Wow! You go to England and they have English accents! Wow!

[@lindastaines8288]

How can you tell between all the “likes”

[@nolaj114]

🤯🤯🤯

[@thfreakinacage]

UK country lanes are often extremely narrow, hardly room for 2 cars to pass each other, and the speed limit is usually 60mph too, yet the accident and death rate is considerably lower than the US. Take from that what you will 😂

[@davidhyams2769]

Texan to UK host when given a meal "Heck we grow potatoes twice that size where I come from." Host to Texan "Yes, we grow then to fit our mouths too." Americans don't really understand British sarcasm.

[@IndependentHeathen]

😂

[@simondobbs4480]

Halloween means very little over here. Adults mostly do not celebrate it at all.

[@jennyk488]

Halloween is much celebrated in the UK nowadays.

[@simondobbs4480]

@@jennyk488 but not by adults, as I stated.

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

​@@simondobbs4480I'll stick to Bonfire Night, myself.

[@nicolaimrie9008]

The losing wait is as much to do with the ingredients as the portions. There are much more sugary things and i think corn starch? in american foods.

[@alanmoss3603]

Weird British stuff: Colourful tube maps! Weird American stuff: School children getting their heads blown off by assault rifles!

[@elemar5]

What is an assault rifle? Obviously you have no idea.

[@grahvis]

@@elemar5 , How about you explaining what an assault rifle is so we can compare it to an official designation.

[@elemar5]

I asked the question first.@@grahvis

[@grahvis]

@@elemar5 . I asked you, you didn't ask yourself. As I expected, you cannot answer a simple question despite giving the appearance you could

[@elemar5]

Why are you involved in this? You were never asked the question. Is it because you don't know what an assault rifle is either? Maybe you could enlighten me as I supposedly don't have a clue. BTW Your first sentence of your last comment makes no sense.@@grahvis

[@rachelbosworth2438]

Tyler would get through a lot more videos in one go and learn a lot more if he’d learn to stop interrupting the person speaking and either pause it before speaking or just shut up and listen

[@whitedrguy6503]

Just your typical average American, says it all really. 😂😂😂😂

[@Marie_salut]

But on the other hand it would make watching it much more boring. If I just wanted to listen to the person speaking I could just watch her video instead. But I‘m watching Tyler‘s reaction videos because of his reaction. That‘s the main point.

[@nolaj114]

Fair comment - but he just tends to chop the dialogue off at the wrong points ... like, he will stop and speculate for a while about meanings but as soon as he presses play, they give the explanation or meaning anyway. Just needs to listen and learn to pause when there is a lull. @@Marie_salut

[@Spiklething]

I’ve always had a big celebration on Valentine’s Day. I get at least 10 cards, some years more than 20 and I get a load of presents as well. I always take an annual leave day on Valentine’s Day. My husband doesn’t usually take me out for a meal because restaurants tend to be more expensive that day but he always cooks me a meal and gets me cake. But then again, it is my birthday 🎂

[@eleanorkhachadourian2519]

We used to own a Chevy Suburban and live in the English countryside. It wasn't the easiest car to own here and navigate country lanes but it was fun. One year we loaded it up and drove to Switzerland where, one day whilst out looking for where my brother in law used to live, we found ourselves stuck at the top of a mountain where we had to turn the car around in order to drive back down the mountain! I think we made a 34 point turn and finally managed it!!! I suppose what I'm trying to say is that an American truck isn't ideal to drive around here but it is possible. Also, with the cost of petrol the way it is, and it's always been substantially more expensive here, filling up was VERY expensive! Here, there really isn't a huge margin for error on our roads, which is why some of our driving laws may seem harsh to you, but things you may get away with driving badly in the US, might have a very different outcome here.

[@jerry2357]

I think that Britain takes Christmas much more seriously than any other country. Everywhere is shut, trains and buses don't run, you need to pre-book a taxi by paying a deposit etc. I've not been to any other country where everything just stops in the same way.

[@jacquelinebryant6056]

Well, i am born in England, but lived most of my life in Norway. It is the same here in Norway, but we celebrate Christmas Eve and several days after.

[@tjhudson9678]

We don't decorate the way they do though. A few lights sure but we don't have the space they do.

[@ebbhead20]

Well, idk Scandinavia gets in there from October and dont pull it down until we hit January. And have you seen the christmas markets in Scandinavia? All the US youtubers that live here are quite impressed with them. Theres a few videos on danish Christmas from two guys from the US that came to Denmark 6 years ago.. And let's not forget Germany. They have the best markets i would say.. But UK are masters of the shop window decorations. Harrods and big shops like that kills it with the window decorations each year..

[@ebbhead20]

But nothing is supposed to shut down at Christmas.? So why would that be good..

[@jerry2357]

@@ebbhead20 Well, for instance, a couple of times I have had Christmas lunch on the steamboat on Lake Lucerne on Christmas Day. If there was no public transport, I couldn't have done that. If you take the train on Christmas Day in Switzerland, you will see lots of passengers carrying presents, obviously going to see their families for Christmas.

[@TheCornishCockney]

The country lanes are tiny yes but no problem to drive down if you keep to the etiquette. The major ‘A’ roads with two lanes are perfectly adequate and there are hundreds of them,the Motorways,freeway/highway to you,are also enough. I think clothes sizes should be included. Apparently you have size x10X,ten times extra large!! My God,no wonder you have to have a tray of “food” to fuel sizes like that. The food we have here is generally healthy which means more taste,leading to normal portions because we’ve eaten enough.

[@bb--ck2dl]

would help if you actually listened to what the observation was before blindly guessing for ages

[@Michelle-bo4hj]

The transport colours are so that its easy to find what train line you need, each colour is a different route . I think the only large thing is user-kq5ke5yb6k attitude which needs to be put back in its place . We have less land so roads , houses etc are smaller . The wealthy have big houses and large 4x4's . 4x4's have become a thing in the uk, problem is the car parking bays are not built for them . Don't be mistaken the fast food industry has really taken off in the last decade and we are starting to have an obesity problem just like the usa.

[@irenepeter-lyons350]

The tube map is so easy to follow due to each line being designated its own colour. The NY subway map is just one colour making it much more difficult to follow.

[@TheCornishCockney]

There are different accents in London alone,I’m south of the river but I could pick out an east ender within a few sentences. Across the whole country though,the accents can change 10 miles away. Listen a Cornishman talking to a geordie (native of the frozen north east,Newcastle) and it’s like two completely different languages,then we have our unique slang which could take up two hours of your time.

[@stevepage5813]

The US is approximately forty times the size of UK - go figure, as you say over the pond. As a lot of people have mentioned on this posting, most of the roads here in UK land were built thousands and thousands of years ago. Back then, the only means of transport other than walking, was horse riding or maybe horse drawn carriage. Wide roads etc.... were not required. Buildings are generally stone, or at least brick built and are built close together, so cannot feasably be moved. Giant vehicles which prevail in the US, are not suitable or needed in UK.

[@kristymac3236]

We don’t call things like Halloween a holiday. A holiday means time off work or school to us. Halloween was non existent when I was a child but popular now. We don’t rake it seriously though, just a bit of fun

[@valeriedavidson2785]

Halloween was taken from Britain by the early settlers to America.

[@marvinc9994]

"non existent when I was a child" Strange - given that the 'celebration' of All Hallows Eve (nothing to do with repulsive children) has been around in England for hundreds of years, dating back - some believe - to pagan times!

[@kristymac3236]

@@marvinc9994 well it definitely wasn’t happening in south London in the 60’s we celebrated bonfire night and did ‘Penny for the Guy’

[@marvinc9994]

@@kristymac3236 "in south London in the 60’s" 'Nuff said! You should have moved a little further south - to Hampshire, say! 😊As for 'Penny for the Guy' - I fear THAT has gone the way of CHEAP fish-and-chips (remember THEM?)😪

[@stephaniehamilton6217]

​@@valeriedavidson2785Hallowe'en originated in Ireland, where it was called Samhain.

[@robertwhite952]

You have to remember that our roads were built before the car came into being. A lot of our roads were old Roman roads that were built so that soldiers could march 5 abrest.

[@conollytom7049]

15:30 no we don’t 😂 and we know what’s gonna come out your mouth before you do the majority of the time.

[@Brian-om2hh]

I live in a small country village, and the roads round me are basically little more than the width of a car. You usually find roads such as this have slightly wider passing places, for 2 cars to pass if you meet another car coming in the opposite direction.... The culture in Britain is generally not to waste food, and only put on your plate what you know you can eat....

[@ianwagj]

"Why would English roads be smaller?" Do remember that a good number of country roads in the UK existed LONG BEFORE cars even existed, heck, a good number of them would have existed before pilgrims and traders settled in America. Back then they would've used horse-drawn carriages and carts to deliver goods from farms to local towns and cities. The reason why those roads never got wider is that the government would technically be trespassing on the territory of farmers, and most of the time there aren't enough cars going through said country roads to validate spending money on infrastructure. Now, if you go on motorways, yeah, they're wider. Likely because the government purchased the land or already owned the land so that they can build infrastructure. Remember, even the Romans built roads, but they most certainly didn't drive in Teslas! lol! ;D

[@paulhorgan6152]

Americans introducing the word LIKE said every 2 seconds STOP😢

[@barbedwards2755]

Many, many roads in the UK are way older than America. Many are defined by the very solid stone walls that were built many hundreds of years ago, in the days of horses and carts/carriages/buggys, and have stood the test of time. Any argument with those walls doesn't end well, so one drives accordingly.

[@101steel4]

They still don't know the difference between British and English. Even the ones living in England 🙄

[@nathan23wilson]

Tyler, In the uk or particularly Bristol where I’m from, most roads require you to wait for oncoming vehicles or pull in to spaces to allow oncoming vehicles to pass as they are too narrow for 2 cars to move at once. I assume this is un heard of in the USA

[@MostlyPennyCat]

2:07 No, you wouldn't have to buy two meals. Our food is better and more filling. 😉

[@cubeaceuk9034]

If I ate out all the time in the UK I would gain weight 🤣. Our roads are fine. People just keep buying larger and wider cars 😂. We have more public holidays than the States so probably she hasn't visited some of the ones we celebrate more such as May Day.

[@cupid_stunt7414]

A man's daily calorie intake I think should be between 2000-2600 calories...so when a America starts the day with something like Cheesecake Factory Breakfast Burrito and its 2,730 calories it kinda exceeds the daily income for a male in one meal

[@UnknownUser-rb9pd]

Actually the British are often depicted as villains in Hollywood. In shows with predominantly American character immediately the Brit appears on screen you usually know he'll turn out to be the baddie. Even shows with British leads like Elementary frequently follow this theme.

[@weedle30]

If “everything makes sense” to dear old Ty, why the feck does he keep on asking or repeating the same topic?? Everrrrrryyyyy reaction video …… the same old … same old….😵‍💫😵‍💫 but I still watch - just incase he has “learned” something and is no longer “confused” about the differences between the big huge USA part of the Americas and the teeny tiny small dot of an island called GB

[@nolajoy7759]

Two months ago he did a reaction to all the different UK accents, now he is acting like it's news to him that not everyone in England sounds"fancy" like the movies?🤡

[@Attirbful]

You are hilarious! Roads (at least those LOOOOOOOOONG established) are much more narrow, because they were conceived for pedestrians, people on asses and horses, later maybe an oxen-pulled waggon or a horse drawn carriage - and houses were built alongside of them. Later, with the advance of cars and more and more traffic, newer roads were built wider if possible, but that was not always possible as there were houses in the way already! In many villages, there is a larger main road, but in old established neighborhoods (that tend to be somewhere between 300 and 2500 years old) side roads are very narrow, and one must manoeuvre very carefully and mind pedestrians etc. In some places, if two cars meet head one, one must even drive back a bit in order to let the other pass first and then go… We live in a historically grown environment!

[@TerryD15]

1n the US there are 8.3 road deaths per billion miles driven, in teh UK the figure is 3.8, so British roads are safer whatever the size. In the UK we have a system of motorways which are restricted to certain types of vehicles e.g. no bicycles, no horse-drawn or agricultural traffic etc, These run all over the country, i.e. North South and East West and join major cities a good example is the M6 which runs from London and then joins the M84 into Glasgow in Scotland and there are motorways further North from Glasgow. The M6 is mostly 3 lanes in each direction, but in busy areas it can widen to 4 lanes. There are many examples of this type of road. We also have 2 lane and 3 lane dual carriageway roads which has what we call a central division, you call a median, for less major routes and busy urban areas, we also have single carriageway roads which have one or two lanes in each direction with no median for even less busy areas (although they can get busy and carry a lot of traffic at peak times). Then there are narrow rural roads which carry very little traffic generally. We categorise them as M roads, A roads Trunk roads), A roads (local routes) and B roads (;local and urban low traffic routes), anything below this does not have a designation as far as I know, in France they would be 'R' (rurale) roads. Our cars are also narrower generally. By the way, there is no such word as 'acclimate' (it's an American made up word) the word is 'acclimatize'.

[@barrywilliams259]

When I was in the Mid-West last year I noticed pick-up trucks that are wider than some of our two-way country roads!

[@lisbetsoda4874]

In Doc Martin there are several episodes in the beginning when Doc Martin who came from London was also surprised at the narrowest country roads until he learned to maneuvre then

[@tonycapri2608]

When your country is 40 times bigger than another, you have more room for everything. Also our population is 67 million and yours is 335 Million so we have almost 8 times the population density in any comparable area !!!

[@waydomriver2186]

Tyler you do make me laugh when you realise what a person is talking about . It's like a mic.drop moment.

[@nolaj114]

The cogs grind slowly then the ha'penny drops

[@Fergal283]

she certainly like likes the word 'like'

[@NataliePine]

Every year I buy tons of sweets for Halloween just in case this year is the year it 'explodes' over here, but every year I have one or two trick or treaters and a cupboard full of Freddos on 1st November!

[@lindakirk698]

The Tube. Yes many colours as each different line or route is indicated in a different colour. Makes it SO much easier to follow. Traffic signs & street signs are in different colours to indicate if local, national, historical etc etc

[@pamelsims2068]

Moderation in all things! Our cars are big... enough!. Our servings of food are... sufficient! Our houses may be smaller.... but most of them are brick or stone, solid as a rock, not made of cardboard so thin you can put your foot through the wall.

[@SarahTheBoredEnglishPerson]

I wish you’d just watch. You interrupt before she’s finished a sentence.

[@-R.Gray-]

There are videos about Americans driving in the U.K. for the first time. The thumbnail for this video suggests that you are going to explain the differences in detail.

[@davidwright5209]

Re colour / color the money (Notes) are more colourful

[@DelilahM-b6z]

To get to my village Devon home it's a mile and a half down a single track road with half a dozen gateway passing places. When the hedgeways are in full green, my VW Golf's mirrors touch both sides. The main roads for miles around here are narrow 2 lane or single

[@L4g__]

Im from devon (south west England) and we always celebrated halloween but i think it wasa very local event cause our pub did a bunch of stuff for it. The stuff i remember are costumes from the kids and adults, pumpkin carving competition and even closing the road to have moris dancers perform with a fire act at the end. Im probably forgetting stuff cause i havent been sonce i was around 12ish

[@JoannDavi]

No, Dumbo, not all cars are the same size. And, some roads have fewer lanes than others.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

😮😮 You meant "Dim-bo" I hope, poor 'Dunbo' !! He's an innocent elephant! Tyler is 'dim' (maybe...no... Definitely not "dumb" - he talks *too much* to be "dumb"!) So "Dim-bo" please?!! "Wait...What...WHYYY?!!" 😊😅

[@NataliePine]

Wow, rude

[@nolajoy7759]

​@@brigidsingleton1596maybe just Dipstick

[@jessiechen279]

Where i live (Isle of wight) we have some roads that are 6ft wide in total with small passing points for oncoming traffic

[@jessiechen279]

@@jlc7841 Nice, Lol i think you have the better side of the deal i Get a nice view of Fawley 😂

[@jeffpopham5694]

The American accent is a 'Bastardisation' if you really want to know! 😄

[@marvinc9994]

"Bastardisation" The difference being, of course, that illegitimate children don't have a _choice_ - whereas those who murder English DO!☹

[@lynnt9852]

depending what size road you are on, motorway signs are blue, main roads (single and dual carriage) green and local road signs in white with black writing, and exit roads displayed on a large white sign with the roads displayed in their colour so you know that the one pointing to blue is the motorway, just makes it a little easier to know where you're going without having to read everything on the sign

[@JenniferRussell-qw2co]

It depends on which roads you are talking about. The narrow roads are the old tracks that have widened a bit, and have been covered in tarmacadam. The motorways are obviously much wider with more lanes 😊

[@abigailjohnson4270]

I live in Cornwall. We have 2 lane ‘faster’ roads, and we have teeny tiny country roads with walls, where you’re likely to meet a tractor at some point. There’s a skill to country driving & u do have to be careful. Re accents I am that posh sounding Brit. On a trip to the US, we were in Lake Tahoe and this young lady at an entrance booth heard me speaking and asked quite honestly if I knew the queen! 😂 Bless… (no, but my parents did attend a wedding with all the high ranking royals, & I have a christening present from Lady Lothian so that probably counts ;-) ) Food portions in the US are ludicrous. And the food quality is awful. Seemingly the weight loss thing is becoming a def noticed issue for Americans moving to the EU - they still eat well, but find they drop a load of weight and they’re healthier in general. Guess that’s the lack of chemicals and corn syrup then…

[@nolaj114]

I am Australian and an American thought I sounded posh - "like Peter Lawford"... baahaaahaaaaaa!

[@cheman579]

This guy thinks roads in the UK were designed for cars even though most of them were made before cars. They are smaller cos they were made for horses and carriages, also our island is tiny, it's about the same as Cali I think. Donny forgets things he's heard 50 times

[@DougBrown-h1n]

I think the average US 6-lane freeway is so generous that there's actually room for 15-20 cars side to side - talk about leaving room for human error! How they still manage to have 4 times more fatalities per capita than the UK is beyond me. Probably shouldn't be stripping down the ol' AR-15 and stuffing burgers in their face whilst driving.... Regular English road are smaller because England's smaller, and we're not big on unnecessarily demolishing whole villages or tarmac-ing over ancient farmland. If we had US style freeways, there wouldn't be anything left for American tourists to go, "Aww, that's so cute! Can we buy it Harry?". There's a huge variety of English accents (and dialects), and not that many of us actually speak with the stereotypical "received pronunciation" depicted in Hollywoodland. Some accents/dialects are really quite impenetrable to foreign visitors - though most Brits can pretty accurately guess where people are from, within 30-40 miles (less in some areas).I think many Americans don't realise that within Scotland, Wales and Eire - each have a multitude of their own accents too. I'm pretty rubbish at perceiving the differences in US accents. I can recognise Noo Yoik, somewhere up near Canada where they say "aboot" instead of "about", West coast (prob. California), and a sort of generic "below the Mason Dixon line" accent, but that's about it. I wonder if we Brits are less enthusiastic about "holidays", because we're more cynical about all the commerce surrounding them. We do get into it a bit, because it's a reason to indulge the kids - but adults (aside from students) dressing up for Halloween isn't normal. Maybe Americans go OTT on these events because they live in America, and just desperately need a reason to celebrate something... (I know, sorry - I just can't resist it).

[@cookielady7662]

You don't get into holidays because you have no sense of fun. You're stuffy, snooty, and think your society is superior. You wouldn't be caught dead having a good time unless you're drinking.

[@robcrossgrove7927]

Living in Britain compared to the US is like living in a bed sit compared to a mansion. Of course everything is smaller. Meal portions, cars, clothes, roads, egos. I can assure you that not everyone in the UK talks like they're "Fancy and famous". Some of us are quite common and there's some quite rough people. In short, people in the UK are as varied as they are anywhere else. Halloween here isn't an official holiday, and not that many people take much notice of it. Some do, but not many.

[@Pinkoni10]

Try out the “Carry On” films. They’re a bit dated, saucy and by todays standard “not everyone’s cup of tea” but they do show case the dry humour of the British, various accents and has a load of double entendres of the 60’s and 70’s. Which ironically hasn’t much changed over the years in some respects.

[@zedinator]

They are brilliantly funny

[@hgieVcMA]

The reason for the colours on the tube map is because they symbolise different lines (e.g Bakerloo, Piccadilly, Victoria, Metropolitan or Jubilee)

[@GethStar]

In the UK roads are classified differently. Firstly you have motorways (M) which is at least a dual carriageway separated by a barrier. Then there are A roads which is a single or dual carriageway which can be separated by a barrier, a or just road lines. Then there are B roads which go from a small single track road to smaller single carriageway road usually through countryside.

[@kevinfairclough4619]

You’re absolutely right Tyler, the “I love your accent, where are you from” is funny for a few times…. But… too much coffee has corrupted conversation capabilities generally.

[@G1NZOU]

Clothing items are also smaller, sure the US has model sizes for the fashion stores, especially in New York and L.A., but in terms of your average department store clothing range and supermarkets, while we do offer XL sizes the general size range is more heavily on the medium to small end of things. Even though it's no longer owned by Walmart I remember ASDA always having weirdly wide clothes in their George range, even their small t-shirts fit like any other store's large size. Oh and as a Brit my biggest culture shock was the portion sizes in the US, we're used to Fish & Chips here and our portion sizes of the chips can be decent, but when I had fried catfish at a BBQ place in Wisconsin they gave me a huge platter of three fillets, cornbread, fries, beans, and burnt ends, it was enough for three people. Considering we're pretty much the most obese nation in Europe, it still highlights the massive difference in portion sizes between the US and UK if she lost weight, though there's also less sugar and HFCS in our foods and drinks so that probably also plays a part.

[@shaunw9270]

Isn't it obvious that the roads of this tiny island are going to be smaller than the US? Has he never seen an average sized car as used in the UK, Europe and Japan ? Wow .

[@tenniskinsella7768]

Fed upneoth people calling us tiny. There are smaller countries. Big does not mean bestv

[@shaunw9270]

@@tenniskinsella7768 Relax man , I'm British and the British Isles ARE tiny compared to the United States . Fact.

[@eichzoernchen]

"everything is so much smaller"... yeah, that's what she said😅

[@tonycapri2608]

I am repressing my dodgy reply to this !

[@Racheell4520]

The different colours on road signs help you to know if something is coming up (e.g. red and white for warnings, brown for National Attractions, Green for Nature Spots). Also a lot of cities organise their buses by colour (light blue line, green, red, yellow etc) becaues a lot of buses follow similar routes to areas and therefore you know you're heading on the right "line" rather than to a totally wrong destination.

[@sandrabeaumont9161]

Check out Daydreamers Barn. These are an American service family about 18 months into his 3 year tour.

[@babalonkie]

Accents... There are 40 distinct accents in the UK. Those are the recognised generic ones. Every Brit will recognise the 4 country accents and most will know what main region. Less than half will know the specific region, but that would be pin pointing to under 100 miles. For America... Most Brits can guess/recognise south, central and north American... some can go a lot more detailed like west and south (then combining them). Some often mix up Canadian with north states... to the distain of Canadians lol. Most Brits also actually know the states of USA and know more of USA than they know of Canada.

[@ebbhead20]

Again england like the rest of Europe is old so the roads was most likely made 800 years before anybody had been to America yet.. 😏

[@juliaw151]

15:19 can attest, firdt vieit "oh my god you're from england say something in english". Bro, you're literally talking to me in english rn😂😂😂

[@jeanbrown8295]

In Devon some of the roads are so narrow with high hedges on either side ,there is just enough room for 1 vehicle,if another one wants to pass on the other side,one of them mast back up till there is an opening to a field,and back up to there

[@EEmB]

Like, she's, like... like ever other word she's like, you know like, are like.. like she is putting in a like, like between every other word, like, like all the time, like constantly.

[@marvinc9994]

Hope you didn't forget to hit the _like_ button!😄