American Reacts to Quintessentially British Memes (

[@spacefanatic]

On the back of his head was 'E.R.' which stands for Elizabeth Regina.

[@robbeaman3542]

And he also turned away from the queen which is considered rude. Which is why she looked at him funny when he first turned

[@eileentaylor1691]

@@robbeaman3542 i think he wanted her to see it

[@vayull7163]

@@eileentaylor1691 No, really? That can't be why he turned around. That's completely absurd.

[@Omarkay76]

Also FYI Regina = Queen, Rex = King

[@kanedaku]

ER II

[@ianwalker5842]

The Queen signed herself "Elizabeth R" = Elizabeth Regina = Queen Elizabeth. The shortened form ER appeared on her royal cipher which was all over the place including on post boxes. Charles is Charles R = Charles Rex = King Charles.

[@JJLAReacts]

Oh wow, thanks for clarifying that 🙌

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@JJLAReacts It's actually EiiR on the back of his head - the cypher of Elizabeth _II._

[@kanedaku]

@@wessexdruid7598 ER II

[@Hannah-pk6iq]

Yellow stickers are put on items at discounted prices at the end of the day. M & S is Marks and Spencers.

[@mnomadvfx]

Stinging nettles literally have glass needles on the edges of the leaves that deliver a weak acid. Rubbing dock leaves on the affected area goes some way to mitigating the discomfort of the sting.

[@michaelkenny8540]

At 5:42. I used to work in a moulding shop that made bins. They are made in batches of 1,000s and the Logo is then 'heated on later. It was not unusual to have stock that was surplus or even where the customer went bust/did not pay and we were left with the bins. These would be sold cheaply to middlemen who would sell them on. It is entirely possible someone in Poland bought them.

[@nickjeffery536]

When a product is reduced for quick sale (often due to damage or coming close to the expiry date) supermarkets will put price reduction stickers on the items - in the UK, most supermarkets seem to have chosen yellow as the colour of choice for these stickers...

[@huh7951]

I can answer the pigeon question actually haha. Pigeons in a study were found to be superstitious. So, if they land somewhere and find food, they will associate that pattern of behavior with finding food. They will often repeat things they have done over and over hoping to find the same food etc. So those pigeons he saw last week were actually most likely the same pigeons.

[@barbaraoshea8639]

From Ireland here, I have regularly collected nettles ( use gloves ) and made nettle soup. It is very delicious, and not stinging, just delightful, and practically free! I should add that they need to be picked away from busy roadsides, and above the level of a dog’s capacity to spray. 😂

[@JJLAReacts]

Oh wow! You could survive in the wilderness I think!

[@barbaraoshea8639]

@@JJLAReacts yes, we have nettles everywhere here but we have to be careful about the ones we pick.

[@Ross-df6ge]

The edges of the leaves are not the problem, the problem is the leaves and other parts of the plant are all covered in tiny hairs that will go into your skin.

[@anitaherbert1037]

Dock leaves usually grow close to nettles. The sap of Dock leaves calm the sting.cooked stinging nettles were the first in spring available souce of vitamins including c for the middle ages. Often the only source of vitamins available to the poor during the Irish famine.

[@Simon-lt6fe]

"I dont think ive seen a stinging netal before". Thats why it worked 😂

[@brigidsingleton1596]

*nettles.

[@Simon-lt6fe]

@brigidsingleton1596 Sorry for my bad sbelling

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@Simon-lt6fe Sorry for my edit... I meant no offence.

[@Simon-lt6fe]

@@brigidsingleton1596 none taken mate, just having a laugh. I can't say you weren't right

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@Simon-lt6fe Oh okay... Guess am just too used to being bawled out for daring to offer corrections! (I do, afterall get mightily p'd off when Otto Korrect chimes in and changes what I type, only for me to see it the _second_ I press send!!)

[@Codex7777]

You see "ER" in a stylised form all over the place. It stands for "Elizabeth Regina". Regina meaning queen. We're starting to see "CR" now, for "Charles Rex". In the small village in lived in for a while, as a child, there were 3 postboxes. The oldest had "VR", for Queen Victoria. There was a "GR", for one of the Georges, V or VI and an "ER" for Queen Elizabeth II. :)

[@Blackcountrybloke1976]

If you see stinging nettles the best thing to do is leaf them alone

[@nolaj114]

😅

[@Deano-Dron81]

👌

[@stephenlee5929]

They can be eaten. Generally a really strange summer fairs.

[@richardwani2803]

🤣🤣

[@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl]

​@@stephenlee5929There's a cheese called Cornish Yarg that is wrapped in nettles,they give a Herby note to the cheese, you can also add nettles to soup,make tea with them also,they are full of good stuff like iron,zinc, magnesium,potassium etc very good for you're bones😊

[@MrAlexBun]

The “ER”shaved into the gentleman’s head is the late Queen Elizabeth’s royal cypher. It is like a shorthand logo used to refer to The Queen, standing for “Elizabeth Regina” ie Queen Elizabeth.

[@karencooper3428]

Now that's a question I never thought I'd need the answer to, are people stealing bins and taking them to Poland 👀😂

[@michaelkenny8540]

The moulding shops who make those bins might be in Poland. When the contract ends it possible the moulders had lots of overstock that they sell cheaply. The firm I used to work for often had customers not pay and so were stuck with bins with various logos on them. There are lots of legitimate ways 'English' bins could end up in Poland.

[@Dan-B]

I think the door in the log might actually be a fairy door. It comes from folklore of leaving notes and poems at the door of a fairies house. You’ll sometimes find crafted or painted fairy doors on trees, etc, in the U.K.

[@cerithomas2032]

Yellow sticker ladies are the ones who discount the food when it's near expiry .

[@glastonbury4304]

That bloke who got his gf stung is a muppet if he loses her...

[@paulbromley6687]

The back of his head was a tribute to her majesty it was her tag, she loved it. I bet he was happy with her smiling reaction to that.

[@tantaf8908]

Do you realize you have the most calming voice ever I watch your videos each day then replay them when Im going to sleep at night please don't ever stop love you from Manchester England

[@hiramabiff2017]

The irony ! British police doing memes and being zany for Internet content, while arresting British members of the public for posting memes and talking zany on the internet.

[@happycatyoutube]

Stinging nettles feel a bit like a bee sting, and they create a rash that gets crazy itchy for a few days 😅

[@victoriaroberts7034]

I was out for a walk, slipped and grabbed a whole load of stinging nettles as I fell after the itching had stopped it went numb for about 24 hours 😂

[@stephenlee5929]

Generally growing near by will be dock leaves, which can be rubbed on the sting, to relieve it.

[@happycatyoutube]

@@victoriaroberts7034 ouch! No way! I remember falling into a whole bush as a kid haha! Freaking hate them soo much!

[@happycatyoutube]

@@stephenlee5929 yes! I remember my Dad showing me this as a kid :)

[@Ruthy-F]

That bin is from Grimsby!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 It's the garden waste bin 😂😂😂

[@JacknVictor]

My daughter had hers stolen about 2 years ago, I wonder if it's hers? Lol. More than likely, they are probably made over there and a few of them escape in to the wild. Edit* there are 11 companies in Poland, and some of the UK wheelie waste bins are produced there, so it could just be that it's a factory reject or something. It also had a black lid which makes me think it was cobbled together from 2 different coloured damaged bins at the factory as the ones I see in Grimsby have brown lids, although it is a year or two since I last went there so that may have changed.

[@helenwood8482]

The symbol is ER, her cipher, Elizabeth Regina.

[@emmalacherry]

Yellow stickers are like gifts from god. Discounted items with a very short use by date. You can get absolutely amazing finds and fill up your freezer. Loaves of bread 10p things like that.

[@IanHopkinson-lu8xo]

Nettles, It's not the spikes that hurt you, it's the venom in them that induce pain and gives you a rash similar to a insect sting hence the name stinging nettle, in England we also have a nettle eating competition every year

[@JJLAReacts]

Oh my 😮

[@tiapina7048]

Raw nettle eating? Nettles are lovely cooked.

[@titanium_di2402]

​@@JJLAReacts people also make tea and wine with stinging nettles. I've had the tea - not massively tasty, but helps you lose weight. Would love to taste the wine!

[@titanium_di2402]

​@@JJLAReacts people also make tea and wine with stinging nettles. I've had the tea - not massively tasty, but helps you lose weight. Would love to taste the wine!

[@emcr1]

@tiapina7048 I would like to assume the raw nettle eating competition was borne out of a drunken dare, or elevenerifers* trying to outdo each other 😆 Edit to say *for anyone outside of the UK who reads this... Elevenerifer: people who, if you say you've been to TENerife on holiday, would say they've been to ELEVENerife to get outdo what you've done

[@Bellemorte999]

Dude! Seriously?? You don't know what 'ER' is even with a certain Queen Elizabeth stood there? 🤣

[@Pen12160]

*American, it explains so much 😜

[@lucyblayney2208]

It is the letters ER on the back of his head. It stands for Elizabeth Regina. You'll see the simbol on things like the Royal Mail post boxes. Now that Charles is king, the ER simbol will slowly change to a CR symbol.

[@susanhill2110]

Stinging nettles don’t just sting it’s the after effects that is awful it’s like you’re continuously being stung by hundreds of tiny burning needles after and the best way to remedy this is a dot lead it lessons the effects.

[@titanium_di2402]

I think you mean a 'dock leaf' helps get rid of the sting. Also, nettles and dock leaves grow near each other. 👍🏽

[@barbara184]

The nettle leaves and stems are covered in tiny hairs with a tiny poison sac which, just like a bee sting, becomes detached and continues to push more poison into the skin that's why it feels worse afterwards. Wash the affected area with hot soapy water as soon as possible to remove as many hairs as possible and hopefully reduce the discomfort. Rubbing the area with a dock leaf is supposed to counteract the poison, they usually grow in the same area.

[@sailingayoyo]

The juice of plantain or even nettles themselves are even better than dock leaves , however you get stung again getting the juice. 😂

[@Draggonny]

The best way to treat it is to wash the area with soap and water, take an antihistamine, and apply hydrocortisone cream. Stinging nettles trigger an allergy reaction so allergy medication helps a lot.

[@nicw5574]

Those electric scooters are a pain in the arse, quite literally for the kid who fell off his 😂

[@sc3pt1c4L]

on the last one, she clearly reversed, scraping the black car, then ending up in the bushes

[@pem...]

Canadians probably have a favourite leaf....and the Irish 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@RockinDave1]

Dunno about the Irish, it would be hard to just pick one leaf from a four leaved clover after all 😛

[@letitiakearney2423]

@@RockinDave1no the Shamrock ☘️ 😂

[@candice3559]

Next to nettles there's another leaf called a dock leaf, which if you rub it on your rash it takes the pain away... Isn't nature grand?

[@Bazroshan]

My Nepali lodgers pick young nettle shoots and cook them. Normally eaten with a thick porridge of millet. Delicious!

[@lynnt9852]

yellow stickers get put on goods that are being reduced in price at the end of the day, everything from bread and veggies, to ready meals

[@Marianne-k4u]

Every day british cops don't have firearms. They have like a metal stick like telescope.

[@AlOh-2]

When you are doing the ‘am I robot question’. Your are helping to teach an A.I. How to identify words and sounds 😉

[@jasonalldridge5784]

You can actually pick stinging nettles crumple them up and eat them if you know how to handle them, they make a nice soup too.

[@lizcollinson2692]

Yellow Discount labels, near expiration price reductions.

[@AngelaVara-i4l]

I was about 8 years old when i thought oh i will walk along the fence,my mom shouted at me and said angie there are stinging nettles behind the fence but i took no notice and fell off the fence into a whole load of them. I cried for a long time and never went near one again.

[@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl]

Oooohhhhh no,you should have looked for some dock leaves for the nettle stings they usually grow together,I was always getn stung by nettles

[@HyperDaveUK]

The Newsreader impersonation!!!

[@OneTrueScotsman]

That stinging nettle one is cruel. I only learned recently that the Americas don't have nettles, or at least the species we have here. They pack a punch but the sting doesn't last too long. Also doc leaves are said to relieve the symptoms, but that's actually an old wives tale. And also, I'd still take the nettles over Scotland's midges during mating season.

[@emcr1]

I got nettled all up the back of my leg the other day. I know there are many to be so many ways to help relieve the sting, and to help get the little barbs out, but I swear to god I forget every single one when it happens, and just start trying whatever random thing I find first in the kitchen. Must look like I'm marinating myself at some points 🤣

[@lauralouise1646]

Yep, she needs a docin leaf immediately, they are the only thing that actually works.

[@OneTrueScotsman]

@@emcr1 It's been a while since I've been stung by nettles, but I can still remember how awful the sensation is. I used to rub a bit of saliva on the area, not sure how affective that was either.

[@titanium_di2402]

A dock leaf Will ease the pain of a nettle sting. You just have to crush it enough to get the juice out of one. It's not an old wives' tale...

[@emcr1]

@titanium_di2402 yeah I know the dock leaf is the og that always works, and I know they're always meant to grow near nettles, but I can't always find one (probably just impatient lol)

[@mnicholl93]

You saying that Policeman was "a good cop...not shooting people" let's blow your mind further, he wasn't armed & neither are 90% of all other British police officers & yet they aren't all instantly murdered when they leave the station 🤯😂❤

[@emily.letsendbslintheuk554]

Stinging nettles are evil, but actually very good for you, nettle tea or soup is quite nice (you need to boil them to get rid of the sting), also you usually find dock leaves growing very close/next to stinging nettles and if you rub them over where you were stung it releves the sting 😊 Yellow stickers for some are like a religion, we used to laugh at my Dad as he used to pop down to Asda a couple of times a week and come home with loads of yellow sticker things, he once admitted that he actually followed the woman around the store and wasnt the only one who did this 🤣

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

Yellow stickers are put onto supermarket produce that is close to the use by date. Bartering with a yellow sticker lady would be to lower the price still further. The yellow stickering is often done at the same time of the day so yellow sticker ladies/lads stand in danger of being mobbed while engaged with this task. Laughing up my sleeve!

[@ameliagfawkes512]

She's not just eating crisps - she's eating Wotsits and they stick your teeth together 😦. It's a bit like eating strongly flavoured melt-in-the-mouth cement.

[@cherylthommo1]

The cop before he was two-tiered

[@JacknVictor]

If I remember rightly, it WAS Justin Bieber.

[@HerbalHairbear]

Who doesn't have a favourite leaf? Dirty city dwellers?!

[@peterdurnien9084]

Stinging nettles are covered in minute hypodermics that inject a stinging liquid. This did not stop my son eating one for a £10 bet.

[@RockinDave1]

Ryanair is literally the biggest airline in the world by market capitalisation and the third largest by passenger numbers. It's shares traded at 31.6 billion earlier this year (the data i saw last week was a few months old) but I'm sure you probably thought it was Delta or United or something cute like that 🙃😛

[@JJLAReacts]

I sure did think it was Delta! You’re psychic!!

[@andreharris7211]

Lovely idea playing with a dj deck. But actually my idea of hell. I go to the park for peace and if you live within earshot aagh!!

[@planekrazy1795]

ER is the Cypher of Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth Regina (Queen in Latin) CR is King Charles III Charles Rex (King in Latin)

[@vallejomach6721]

Rex and Regina - Latin for King and Queen...reigning monarchs have an official monogram called a Royal Cypher used for a variety of functions. You will have probably seem the symbol, if not known what it represents. That's what he had on the back of his head ER...should have been EIIR though (Elizabeth II)

[@susanmatthews7761]

Check out fascinating aida with cheep flights 😂

[@christineadams7675]

The simble is ER it stands for Elizabeth Regina

[@KatherineD0506]

The yellow stickers are for dicounted stuff so he is asking for more money off she said no

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

ER - Elizabeth Royal (Regina)

[@golach420]

ER with Queen Lizzie is Elizabeth Regina...

[@bobclarke1815]

Tea Leaf.

[@archieeast3021]

Stinging nettles dont do their damage from the "spikes". the left contains acids and histamines which are injected into your skin. It itches like a bitch, and you get these horrible bumps.

[@ElDubz420]

Ohhh JJ the good old stingy nettle. Every person in the UK has a horror story about these horrible plants 😂

[@eileentaylor1691]

ER elizabeth regina!!

[@JackNap1er14]

Sat in my dad's home when my Thai step-mum came running in from the back garden shouting that she'd been bitten, when my dad asked where she pointed into the shrubbery of (you guessed it) stinging nettles, she thought a snake or an insect had gotten her rotflyshst

[@mattbentley9270]

ER on his head is the symbol for the queen he was a fan clearly, Elizabeth Regina (female) now is C R - Charles REX...male

[@philiprowney]

BTW the 'not co-caine' was at the Formula 1 paddock ;-) [ just so you know who runs the BS-race now... Charlie, not Bernie! [ Ecclestone, fekin luved 'is charles ]]

[@PeakTrans]

I fell into a patch of stinging nettles as a kid. I had to run home as fast as my little legs would carry me and fill a bathtub with cold water and jump in.

[@Thomas_Davies128]

I did the same thing, I had to ride my bike all the way back home with dock leaves all over both my hands

[@lesleycarney8868]

The Queens initials on his head . . in case you didn't know her last name was Regina

[@RockinDave1]

I nearly responded to correct you then realised what you were doing 😂

[@jerry2357]

“Regina” is actually a title, meaning “Queen” in Latin, it’s not a second name. Similarly the “R” in “CR” means “Rex”, or “King” in Latin. Arguably, “CR” should stand for “Carolus Rex”, “Carolus” being the Latin for “Charles”.

[@lesleycarney8868]

@@jerry2357 I bet you get invited to all the best parties.

[@urbanshadow777]

Yo, I see you watching Steve Shives on your account. You can't hide it from me... :)

[@AnneC-xe3qp]

ER Elizadeth Regina

[@nikiTricoteuse]

It's the teeny, tiny hairs on stinging nettle that sting. They really hurt and they hurt for hours. Her boyfriend is a pr*ck and she needs to ditch him. They do make great pasta and risotto though. Pick them with rubber gloves on and leave for an hour or two before you use them and treat them like spinach.

[@juliealderson1180]

I,m sat here watching with a finger that got stung to death on my walk today ,by a nettle,you can eat them you know.nasty things.

[@aroemaliuged4776]

The polis are as funny as a night in the jail

[@sharpskilz]

press x to doubt on the nettle one.

[@Dan-B]

Yeh, they don’t hurt by just prodding them 😛

[@sharpskilz]

@@Dan-B yeah they don't sting the thick skin of the palm (anywhere with a fingerprint)

[@JJLAReacts]

Oh I see. So that one was FAKE!

[@sharpskilz]

@@JJLAReacts I certainly think so.

[@sharpskilz]

They do sting, leaving an itchy rash that lasts about an hour or so. but it's only the soft skin, backs of hands, legs etc.

[@lizcollinson2692]

Pretty sure the cop is in Bristol. Let me know if im right

[@RichardM-kv4uu]

I think that's an ex-boyfriend right there.

[@ameliagfawkes512]

If only the plods were all like that. Sadly, they're getting worse by the day.

[@MrGBH]

Stinging nettles sting for hours. Dont know who Steve is, but he's not someone I would want to be around

[@nolaj114]

Where I live, I think a lot of people have a favourite leaf.

[@ianjones9498]

yellow sticker lower price because getting near sell by date

[@leedsman54]

And that’s one of the reasons people don’t have a great respect for the police.

[@Jamie_D]

We do have a large number of decent fun cops here, not all like any country, but plenty.

[@TyrantSong]

The Jojo video being in a car is a stitch to the pigeon guy

[@unkyduck]

EIIR

[@Joyce-Barker]

I fell in a bed of stinging nettles..it was hell

[@mnicholl93]

Oh, come on, if America had solar powered DJ booths someome wpuld drive up in a pickup, with an angle grinder & steal it!!! 😂😂😂

[@stevemayes8799]

Answering the question asked is not mansplaining. I'd explain why to you but I wouldn't want to be accused of mansplaining to you. :D

[@tightropewalkergirl6485]

Plus the water cycle is pretty much the only thing everyone in the U.K. remembers from school

[@neuralwarp]

This is why the cops haven't solved any burglaries in 3 years.

[@WookieWarriorz]

haha so funny more misinfo about the police, im sure if you keep whinging theyll magically be able to solve every crime. Wind yer neck in our crime in the uk is low as fuck, be greatful. I was in the usa a few months ago and the 7/11's and circle k's had everything behind glass and locks, i had to ask them to open the fridges so i could get a gatorade ffs. Cars in san francisco leave their boots and doors open so smash and grabbers dont break their windows to steal their shit. Theres more homicides in the city of chicago alone at 800 than there is in the entirity of the uk at 600.

[@carolroberts4614]

Because one cop pounding the beat, has a dance with a member of the public? Good relations matter.

[@margaretflounders8510]

is he still her boyfriend? That was just mean....