American Reacts to The Average Brit!

[@jamesxlennon]

Icecream is just a lot less appealing as a snack when there's torrential rain/hail blowing at 45mph directly into your face.

[@timbuktu8069]

That and it's more difficult to keep on hand.

[@jennifergibbard8782]

This is me! I was born in October 83. I live in Leicestershire too. My cousin got the Emma name so I’m a Jennifer.

[@Jamie_D]

Hey first :) Boots isn't just beauty, it's a pharmacy as well, so health and medicine.

[@reddeviluk]

Like Walgreens, but civilised.

[@crimsonwizard2560]

it's a chemist.

[@Jamie_D]

@@crimsonwizard2560 no it's not lol, go google Boots, it's in the name 😅Health & Pharmacy - Boots

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@crimsonwizard2560 Boots used to be known as "Boots the Chemist" but that was decades ago and has diversified into multiple services including but not defined by chemist items.

[@crimsonwizard2560]

@@brigidsingleton1596 I still call it a chemist. But, I know where you're coming from.

[@klaxoncow]

The ice cream thing is because it's cold. When the Summer comes round, we all love an ice cream. The ice cream man will drive around in his ice cream van - playing music to let you know he's coming (typically "Greensleeves") - and the kids rush out of their homes to grab an ice lolly or a 99 with a flake. Cool down in the Summer sun. Like, that's how much we love an ice cream. We have the institution of the ice cream man in his ice cream van, providing doorstep delivery of all your favourite ice creams to a joyous tune. Door-to-door ice creams. That's how much we love 'em. But then, this is the UK, so "Summer" last no more than two weeks, and then it's too cold and rainy to have an ice cream for the rest of the year (and the ice cream man goes back to his "real job" for the rest of the year). Brits do love an ice cream. But it's weather dependent, and you know what our weather is mostly like, right?

[@irreverend_]

To be fair, I don't think anyone would consider ice cream a snack here, I certainly wouldn't. It's a treat, I think that's probably why it's so low

[@klaxoncow]

@@irreverend_ True, true. As a kid, the ice cream van coming around is a treat. You hear the van playing its tune, as it enters your street, and then you turn to your parents: "can we have an ice cream? Can we? Can we?", pestering them. Ah, go on, then. And the kids rush to the parked van to look at the picture menu of treats, deciding if they want the strawberry or chocolate sauce on their 99. (A misnomer these days, as no-one sells their 99s for 99p anymore - inflation - but that's the origin of their name, that they were a penny under a pound, for a cone of ice cream - optionally with a chocolate flake and a choice of "sauce".) Or, if you're eating out as an adult, the desserts will typically include an ice cream option and, ah, go on, then, let's have the ice cream as a treat. So, yeah, ice cream is well loved by the Brits - the ice cream van is an institution - but it's seen as a Summer treat. Something to celebrate the sunny weather. Of course, it is perfectly possible for you to go to the supermarket and buy a big tub of ice cream all year round, if you want to. You can treat it as a snack. But it's like having turkey at Christmas (or Thanksgiving for the Americans), it's a treat for a special occasion. Nothing stops you buying and eating roast turkey every single day, if you wanted to. But it would steal all the magic out of having it on Christmas Day. So, generally, it's a chicken for Sunday roast and then a turkey (or goose or duck or some other meat you don't normally have) for Christmas, exactly as a treat that you don't normally have.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@klaxoncow Ice cream isn't weather dependent. It can be eaten indoors all year round, and still fondly enjoyed just as much, moreso in fact than melting all over you in hot Summer weather!!

[@daviniarobbins9298]

And yet if you are hot eating ice cream is the worst thing you can be eating to cool down on. A hot drink on a hot summer day is better at cooling you down than something that is almost frozen.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@daviniarobbins9298 Exactly. Ice cream as a treat, yes, but not melting and covering you with stickiness!! I tend to go for a small pot of tea when at my local hospital's café... (after my appts, usually) and I drink my tea black - no milk and no sugar / or sweeteners, at all... Tasty, refreshing and a nice thing to look forward to after being 'jabbed with a 'pricky-thingy' 💉🩹' prior to discovering the week's INR / Warfarin levels (to help prevent the possibility of strokes🤞) 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿♥️🇬🇧😷🖖

[@julianbarber4708]

I can't believe that you, as a blogger, doesn't seem to know this 'bear' thing, which swept the world a month ago!

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

Happy Valley is most definitely award-winning. Fantastic, gritty, but fantastic

[@helenwood8482]

Remember that our bacon is edible. American bacon is not. We love a bacon butty.

[@TheCornishCockney]

When I went there and ordered bacon,what came back was what looked like multi coloured shoelaces all stuck together. It was a tooth breaker on the first bite and very salty. We have delicious back bacon,it’s where all the meat is. Don’t eat the “bacon” in America,it’s bacon,but not as we know it Jim.

[@TryptychUK]

@@TheCornishCockney That's why they have to smother it in sugary syrup, as if it's not already bad enough for you.

[@ruthmeb]

Less of the sexist tripe about CCups and perfectly healthy women being ignored by their partner because they are *marginally* overweight. A BMI of 25 is *not* 25pc overweight.

[@MarkKnightSHG]

Emma can't be the average Brit... She's happy

[@fayesouthall6604]

😂 you’re right though!

[@samanthahadwin]

U.K. here!! When my kids were young they got heathy balanced diets including veg!! I always bought a bag of frozen peas and used them as Ice pacts because my son was an accident looking for a place to happen!! So much so the hospital actually asked him!!! Thankfully he just laughed and said no thank god!!!

[@JayRTownsend96]

You've got such a calm and soothing voice, really enjoy watching your videos!

[@HJJSL-bl8kk]

Seconded! I know it's a terrible stereotype but I'm used to loud and brash American tourists in London so a thoughtful and softly-spoken American is most welcome.

[@vaudevillian7]

Stone is a grouping of pounds just as feet is a grouping of inches

[@elemar5]

Just as quart is a grouping of pints.

[@ralphhathaway-coley5460]

@@elemar5 ......... but is a gallon a grouping of pints or quarts, and how can you tell? 😉😆 I just hope nobody tells him about the UKs fluid ounces, or even pints for that matter! 🤣

[@lordcharfield]

Cannabis is illegal in U.K. but unless you have a “dealer’s amount”, you’re unlikely to get into trouble. People smoke it everywhere without any issue!

[@RosieLee777]

Unless smelt by a sniffer dog. They know when you've had one

[@TyrantSong]

Cannabis is legal in the UK for medical reasons too, didn't know that till recently... it was passed in 2018???

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

​@@TyrantSongvery restricted in terms of conditions approved however.

[@khwezik3894]

Boots is technically a pharmacy that also sells skincare and makeup. But you can also fill/ collect your perscription/medicine/ pills there

[@wessexdruid7598]

They've always refered to themselves as a 'Health & Beauty' business.

[@alexanderwiles2003]

yeah they also have small ones that are a more typical pharmacy

[@Pomdownuder]

"Don't know how Emma consumes so much tea?" I do 10 - 12 coffees a day. 😅

[@alpachinko9154]

Re: the bear - it's a reflection of how unsafe women feel around men, especially younger women. There's a serious issue with stabbing/acid attacks/SA etc in the UK

[@CHRISTSPIRACY.comJESUSwasVegan]

And we all know why but if we say it'll be censored😢

[@alpachinko9154]

Just say it? If it's not something objectively wrong or malicious, you should be fine, right? Unless it is just objectively wrong or malicious overall.

[@CHRISTSPIRACY.comJESUSwasVegan]

@alpachinko9154 no, it's just truthful and goes against the agenda and they're controlling the truth. You sound very silly thinking youtube is a good arbiter of morality 🤣 it's literally a waste to say the truth because it disappears. The satanic nwo don't permit critical thinking and are destroying society deliberately. I'd be surprised of even this answer isn't censored

[@CHRISTSPIRACY.comJESUSwasVegan]

@@alpachinko9154 ignorant

[@alpachinko9154]

@@CHRISTSPIRACY.comJESUSwasVegan You have ample opportunity to speak directly instead of in weird euphemisms, but you're still choosing to. If I'm ignorant, then please do educate me - you have the floor..... please, share with the class..

[@harley2665]

The man vs bear debate is all over social media at the moment and I definitely recommend looking into it because the women putting their points of view online have much better answers than I could give you.

[@DeanB84]

I started watching your reacts videos a few weeks ago (I dont normally watch react videos), but now because of the algoryth I am suggested your videos constantly and frankly, I'm all for it. You're a funny guy (for an American 🤣). Some of your pronunciation of English words is excellent. Thanks for keeping me entertained whilst the wife watches Korean nonsense on TV.

[@sckiddle]

Happy Valley is amazing. Definitely watch it!

[@jamiewilson9280]

‘Yo, I’m not used to not being on a graph!’

[@nolaj114]

My son found it cheaper to live in Wimbledon than in Perth, Australia. Certainly the groceries and clothes were cheaper and he didn't need a car.

[@rjb29uk]

I work for a UK supermarket, and every single week the top selling item is loose bananas. I can barely think of any times when it wasn't number 1 item sold by volume, so no idea why it didn't make it into that particular top 5. The rest of the top is usually just different sizes of milk. Sometimes other items get into the top 5, e.g. in the summer, strawberries are often there, and sometimes take the number one spot, particularly when we have a particularly hot week in summer. Although, if you added all the different types of bread together as a single sold item, I'm sure that would always be number 1, forever.

[@Jamie_D]

This government could bring in so much tax if they legalised weed for in the home. Plus it would take a massive load of the police and prison systems.

[@jackhebdon8360]

Man I wish 😢

[@jemmajames6719]

No it wouldn’t it would cause far more problems health and crime

[@leecasson9796]

Yeah more drugs for deadbeats great idea

[@reddeviluk]

​@@jemmajames6719100%✓agreed

[@Jamie_D]

@@jemmajames6719 You wanna at least explain your view better, mine is obvious and makes sense. There's already 10% of people who admit to using it in polls, so in reality likely looking at up to 35% are actually using without any benefit to the country.

[@adamclifford9482]

As a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 person, as far as I am concerned ice cream is for the entire year round. And since whilst growing up with very windy, rainy weather, relying on the sun in order to have ice cream would have been pointless.

[@JJLAReacts]

AGREED! 🍦

[@salome5055]

You always make me laugh JJ, thank you as usual

[@JBW27]

I'm fairly sure I'm a pretty average Brit, but my five shopping items are completely different. I also average roughly 5 coffees and 3 teas a day. Also, regarding rent, don't forget that whilst the numbers seem low compared to LA standards, we also earn considerably less on average ($1500 per month less, before tax), and pay more tax. Also, rent in london for a place with outside space is ludicrous. I'm currently seeing around £3000 per month being the minimum for a semi-decent place with a garden (yard) of some description.

[@keithgrant7950]

1) Tea, I drink on average 21 (some times as high as 42) cups of tea and about 6 cups of coffee a week and 2 mug's of Hot Chocolates every other week. 2) Income, being disabled and living on ESA support my income is between £8,500 and £9,000 a year. 3) Milk always full fat and an average of 16 pints a week between my son and myself (can get as high as 24 pints some weeks) 4) Snack I usually go for a Skinny bar (low calorie and about 8 flavours). 5) sex ,October 2012. Only had four partners in my live (63 Yrs old). Love the show, keep them coming. 😊😊🧡

[@HamsterJam]

Hey, you're relaxing more and more and your personality is shining..! Love it. ..but yes, it sounds like you would be able to live less costly in the UK. Take a trip, check it out

[@MarkKnightSHG]

Yeah come on over. Altho, I order for your channel name to still make sense, you'll have to live in Lancaster (LA post code) lol

[@amandag5072]

I don't know anyone who spends 25% of their income on housing - most spend 50 to 70%!

[@ruthmeb]

Depends where you live and how old you are. Most of my contemporaries have paid off their mortgage So it's an average, as per the subject.

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Bear in mind it is an average of the entire country, so it doesn't necessarily translate to reality in cities as the rural areas will skew things a bit. A better average if its available is per county probably.

[@Muswell]

The rent he mentioned was for "a room" -- not for an apartment.

[@TheCornishCockney]

Yeah,I thought he misunderstood that too. In London,a one bed flat in the burbs would set you back upwards of £1900 pm. Almost half that here in Cornwall. London is NOT all of England.

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Someone in their 40s is unlikely to be renting a room I think. That's much more a younger city thing.

[@carolineskipper6976]

Boots does sell a lot of 'health and beauty' products, but is also a nationwide chain of Pharmacists - hence Evan's suggestion of combining health and retail. 'Happy Valley' is an extremely top quality drama show which has won armfuls of awards. It's technically a Crime drama, but actually is so much more. The problem with looking at 'the average woman in Britain' is that stats are affected by the high and low numbers on each end of the spectrum. Most interesting would be looking at 'The Mode' figures rather than the average.

[@LindaYoung-o3l]

I don't buy any of the 5 items Emma does mine's more like Evans 🙂 Frozen veg is great. Men don't believe household chores are womens work but they can't be bothered to do them so the women do them rather than live in a mess 😀

[@yzolakitchi]

Loved bike riding as a teen - way too dangerous on the roads now and no place to store a bicycle. I say this as someone living out in the sticks with a heap of boy racers and no cycle lanes!

[@pogleswife7572]

I started riding a bike on a road when I was 6. 60 years later and I'm still riding a bike on roads but will use cycle paths if I can. I'm a considerate cyclist to car drivers (I drive a car too) but a lot of car drivers are not at all considerate to cyclists. Please think, if you hit a cyclist your car may get a dent or a scratch!!!

[@yzolakitchi]

@@pogleswife7572 Yes, truly scary how little care drivers give to cyclists. My mum used to cycle to work but there were a lot of huge, scary lorries on her route. She had a couple of near misses, which led to her learning to drive a Renault 5 when she was 45! She liked the safety, but was sad to lose her daily cycling exercise 🙂

[@miamonan9627]

$80 dollars for 8 chicken breasts in the U.S.??? Costs about £10 here.

[@ninamoores]

….and it’s not chlorinated!

[@pipercharms7374]

As a women I would say it depends on what type of bear and the personality of the man :)

[@JJLAReacts]

LOL

[@elemar5]

Are you schizophrenic? Are there two of you?

[@corringhamdepot4434]

My small local Boots is so "chill". Where the prescription only counter is 3 times the size of the one small retail counter. Where you hang around waiting to pay for a "beauty item", in between long consultations being had about the prescriptions being dispensed at the other counters. In several small "Chemist" shops near me, they make all of their money from dispensing prescriptions. They only have a token display of beauty products and across the counter medications. This is because a licence to dispense controlled drugs, is where the money is being made.

[@W0rdsandMus1c]

I have ice creams in the freezer all year round, love ice cream, I hate tea but drink around five coffees a day, your sense of humour makes these videos so funny.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

I agree with you (except for the tea, I drink Yorkshire Gold (mostly) but no milk and no sugar (& no sweeteners).

[@icklegeeky]

Boots is also a pharmacist in the UK 🤓

[@wobaguk]

Lots of ice cream eaten as a dessert rather than as a snack.

[@jayathome3]

Hopefully he will get the man he deserves too.

[@bbibbibu]

not gen z trolling .. look up statistics of women being attacked by men and then compare that statistic by women being attacked by bears … privileged viewpoint. every single woman knows at least one other woman that has been sa’ed by a man in some way

[@WookieWarriorz]

I pay £500 a month rent in belfast for a 2 bedroom apartment. My total expenses monthly (including car, bills, food, holidays) averages about £1500 per month, i earn about 30k a year, i went away on holiday for 3 weekend breaks and 3 seperate weeks last year. Also Americans dont understand EVERY street corner for the last 50 years has had a kebab shop, chippy, a chineese and an indian without fail. These are NOT resturants, you dont sit in, you get takeway. I can literally walk to easily 5 difference chineese places within 10 minutes from me, im not joking, same with kabab shops which usually double as pizza places too, and most cities and towns in the uk are similar, imo its way way easier to get good takeway food cheap in the uk than the usa. Also our chineese almost always has curry or gravy too.

[@jackjames3190]

Cost of living is high in uk but STILL far lower than in the USA - I always assumed EVERYTHING was cheaper in the us because it’s a far larger market, companies can buy products in bulk for cheaper but at the till I am shocked to see that most things are actually more expensive in the states. Even food - even crappy cheap processed food in the USA is more expensive than good nutritious food in the uk - after a lifetime of wishing I lived in the USA I am now SO GRATEFUL and appreciative to be a Brit living in the uk today / it’s far from perfect but a damn sight better than the rest. Brits also don’t have to worry about deductibles or being held to ransome by immoral pharmacy companies or corrupt hospitals - oh you touched your own baby? I want my cut of that - $100 added to the bill (!) Individually paying for meds and healthcare?! - everyone loses that way. In the USA you have private and public schools. The public schools don’t threaten the private ones - the two systems mean EVERYONE gets an education if they want it. Yet stupid suspicious Americans scream “socialist conumizzzzm!” At the thought of our nhs - which keeps more average Brits healthy and alive for longer than the average American. We have private and free healthcare - the public healthcare is as good ast the private healthcare usually because it’s the same doctors from the same universities - but on the nhs you’ll have to wait longer, and that’s a fact of life. but that’s still preferable to getting it NEVER (!) how is that so difficult to understand? The amount of second hand embarrassment I feel for the usa when I see Americans with good jobs - teachers etc on gofundme pages begging for money from strangers so that they can have operations that will make their lives worth living without becoming bankrupt. If you ever get a universal nhs of your own - when you do have it and look back at the humiliating demeaning things your own people had to do just to be able to live a life free from pain or worry / it’ll be Americas second greatest shame after slavery. That’s not acceptable in the richest nation on earth - you give education for free but not healthcare? So your people are good enough to teach to read so that they can perform mundane low paid jobs and manual work but if they get injured they’re not valued enough to be given a universal healthcare free from confusing contracts about all that nasty deductible nonsense? America isn’t a classless society - it’s class-less , vulgar and unfair, nor is it gods land of the free Americans are more class divided than the Brits. Last month the kings sister princess Ann spent a week amongst us common riffraff at her local nhs hospital In the usa the rich are the aristocracy and everyone else can go jump - horrible. Give me the nhs and lower wages over the American nightmare ANYDAY (!) Because now - everyone who isn’t rich in America is still a slave who’s life is worth nothing when no one is going to foot the bill for their operation.

[@gdok6088]

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the average annual salary for full-time employees (> 30 hours per week) in the UK in 2023 was £42,210. A pack of 8 chicken breasts costs £8.50 at Ocado an online British supermarket, often considered to be one of the more expensive British supermarkets.

[@WIDGI]

""Milk and eggs and ham, that's a lot of pig!" I thought it was a rumour that they drink pig's milk and eat porky eggs.

[@tomfoolery9749]

Loaf of bread, Belgium Buns, Bacon, Pork and Pickle Pies, a packet of Squashums (original) Fuck yeah!

[@PaulHaigh072]

$80?!? Please tell me you are joking. I mean, free range organic would be expensive, but not that much!

[@trampertravels]

I do not do Christmas Day, but I do St Nicholas Day on 6th December and that is when I give presents.

[@lordcharfield]

Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t give Christmas presents, and some Muslims do, some don’t!

[@gwaptiva]

Probably more Dutch people living in the UK than JWs, and they also (traditionally) don't give Christmas presents

[@gwaptiva]

Ok, I was wrong; there's 2x the number of JWs

[@CHRISTSPIRACY.comJESUSwasVegan]

It's actually forbidden in islam and the punishment is death

[@TerryD15]

A 'stone' is 14lbs (pounds) and along with the hundredweight is an Imperial weight measure. Being larger than a pound it makes calculations of larger amounts easier to make, with smaller numbers, so Emma is say, 11 stones which sounds better than 154 pounds. It is yet another difference between the Imperial system of weights and measure compared with the US Customary Units system. A week's 'dry spell' is terrible, not so bad now I'm 77, but at 40? The company, 'Boots', is mainly a Pharmacy chain that expanded into personal care products. "Emma is livin'", this is not unusual for a Brit, remember she is the 'average.

[@TerryD15]

Without Christmas, we would celebrate Yuletide, which celebrated the rebirth of the winter sun at the Solstice. Yuletide was a 12-day celebration of the Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians before Christians forced a change to their own as a replacement, as they did with Eostre in the Spring time, another time of re-birth, when nature comes back to life. Happy Valley was/is a marvellous British gritty Crime Drama based around a female police officer. "I'd be rich", Emma has a reasonable life on her salary because costs and prices are so much lower than the in the US, remember also no high medical insurance costs or bills. I know that we pay for the NHS through taxes, but the spend per person is less than a quarter than that of the US, even though we use it more frequently.

[@pogmeistergeneral941]

we dont dislike ice cream, its just seen as more of a rare occasion snack than a regular snack for example

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Nope... I have a cup of vanilla ice cream everyday after my salad (shredded mixed lettuces, diced pepper, grated Red Leicester two hard boiled eggs, diced cucumber, Heinz salad cream) and an unsweetened cappuccino... Followed by fourteen tablets, caplets, capsules (congestive heart failure, blood-thinners, and meds for CKD) ice cream is a definite must...and my kidneys function has improved since last month from 10% to now 14% so my diet suits me.

[@atay6413]

10 cups of tea a week DAM i can do that many before midday.

[@SabrinaJoshua]

Milk, bread, chocolate or some sort of cake, broccoli, something from the reduced section haha is usually my go to shop unless a big shop. Average cups of tea a day would prob be like 6?? So definitely more than 10 cups a week.. 22-26000 is prob the most average wage with at least outgoings of 1500 a month just on rent, electricity:gas:water etc and then a little left over for food..🙈

[@JimAtHome]

Chicken breast fillets about £6 a kilo or 2LB 3oz imperial, I pay £475 rent per month for 1 bedroom flat in a nice area in Liverpool

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Worth checking out his video where he takes his girlfriend, Heather, to the new Jersey food locations he loves and her rating of them. The ice cream bit might surprise you.

[@Walesbornandbred]

If Emma drinks tea she drinks at least 20 cups a week. My shopping basket is chicken, bacon and fish orientated, plus catfood! And my freezer is never out of icecream. 14lbs =1 stone

[@Amy-fx5co]

I'd say we like Ice cream in the summer when its hot which isn't very often. We spend the majority of the year cold so we eat hot foods. If you asked me what my favourite snack food was it wouldn't be ice cream. Also that tea intake seems far to small.

[@RobynWilson23]

On income and expenses. Yes £22,0000 might seem low to you as an american but most things here in the UK are a LOT and I mean a LOT cheaper. I pay £340 a month for a studio flat (Although this is state housing.), but that is pretty average for my area. £500-700 ($600-$900) per month for a 3 bed house is pretty average if your living outside the big cities like London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh. You can easily get a weeks worth of food for one person for £30-£50 ($40-$65.) I have an anual income of about £16,000 ($20,500) and all my expenses (Rent, food, uttilities, travel etc) are about £13,000 ($16,700.). Granted I don't eat out or drink nor go on holiday.

[@JamesLMason]

I don't live in a big city, not far from Manchester and a 1 bedroom flat goes from around £700pcm upwards. My rent went from £435pcm to £725 pcm in 4 years.

[@RobynWilson23]

@@JamesLMason wow, really that's quite a jump. £725 for a 1 bed flat just seems super expensive.

[@JamesLMason]

@@RobynWilson23 rents are getting stupid around here. There are still places in the country where you can get "affordable" rents but in the more well connected areas, they seem to be going crazy.

[@veroniquewolff8963]

The wages may seem low in Britain compared to the US, but the prices of most things in Britain are also a lot lower, so an annual wage of £22,000 is not that low and you can survive on it.

[@JJLAReacts]

Wow! I would have predicted the incomes would be a bit different, but this is way more than I could have imagined!

[@geactd7708]

Happy valley is very good you should check it out if you can x

[@JenniferAllan-be1vf]

I am currently. drinking about six cuppas a day and many drink more than this.

[@nicw5574]

That was a good video. I do the majority of household chores, but that's because I work less hours than my husband, but according to that video neither my other half or myself are particularly average. Thanks for sharing, wishing you well 😀

[@mcah2725]

Pillock?? Nah I'd go with Plonker.

[@ianwagj]

I think the reason for why ice cream might not be our favourite snack is that I believe that if you blindly ordered Ice cream in the US, and blindly ordered ice cream in the UK, the ice cream in the US would be that tad bit better just because there's so much, cheap, ice cream there is over here. That's not to say you can't find the good bougie ice cream in the UK, it's just that you're more likely to get the lower quality cheap stuff in the UK over the US. Personally I find it easier to find "Really good" ice cream in the US compared to the UK.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

You can get a week's all-in in Spain for the same price as a couple of days in London. Nobody goes to London for a holiday in England, unless they have business or family there...

[@lukespooky]

15:06 that leg looks like a chicken wing that got dropped on a barbershop floor

[@allenwilliams1306]

My five supermarket products are all bottles of Thatcher's Katy cider. Of course cleaning and ironing are a woman's job: if she doesn't want to do it, far enough, but, as far as I am concerned, if there isn't a keen woman on hand, nothing gets cleaned or ironed. No skin off my nose!

[@dankilgariff867]

I live in Leicester like emma in the video!! Although she sounds like a county girl not a city one!! I love ice cream, most brits do I reckon, especially a fresh 99 off the ice cream van!! $80 for that chicken omg 😮at my local Morrisons that’s probably £10 worth !! From watching many of your videos and judging on all the people who you say you would like to party with I think it would be cool to party with JJ, oh and please crowbar in more of your acting appearances and sound engineer stories they’re always fun and you should self promote a bit more I reckon 😃👍

[@helenwood8482]

I'd choose the bear and I'm not even afraid of men. Bears are sweet.

[@elemar5]

You are mad as a hatter.

[@mattpotter8725]

You need to move to London for a year. They said you'd need to learn to drink some tea because having a cuppa solves all problems!!! Yes didn't contain that much caffeine though i wouldn't drink it after 7pm.

[@thisandthat418]

If you get a chance to watch Happy Valley, take it, it's a fabulous, gritty drama that swept the awards boards, not for children!

[@catgladwell5684]

Educated full time working city or town dwelling Emma, aged 34 at the time of the referendum would most likely have voted Remain.

[@stephenlee5929]

That would be my guess, too , though not sure about her location

[@emcr1]

Can confirm 😆 My name is Emma and I was all of those at the time. Voted remain

[@TryptychUK]

The reason Brits are not obessesed with filling their faces with ice cream is we have self-worth and don't act like children only eating unhealthy crap. Note also "dough-based products" ie: doughnuts. Virtually zero. Also note food prices here are considerably cheaper than the US, and not all over-processed and full of additives. (Most Brits grocery shop at least twice a week, Americans once every two weeks, hence their food has many more preservatives.)

[@GraySkull289]

Emma voted for brexit and the tories. That's why Michael is holding back the good stuff.

[@wessexdruid7598]

Yet the last Tory government had a majority of MPs from a minority of the votes - FPTP - and Brexit was passed on a vote of 25% of the population. So, no, not 'average'.

[@deadkennedy9140]

And there you have it! "22K is not enough" and remember we are taxed much higher than the US as well. Those videos talking about how the UK/EU has all these great workers rights, the weeks of paid leave, the sick pay etc, those things aren't "free".

[@daviniarobbins9298]

Ten cups of tea a week? When I used to drink tea I could easily drink 50 cups a day.

[@KeeleyDe-M]

As a 35yr old single female, with a mortgage, I can proudly say I do NOT own an iron 😂 f*ck that 😂

[@heathercoleman9875]

I do have an iron (for absolute emergencies) but threw out the ironing board years ago. Very liberating. If clothes crinkle when scrunched, I don't buy them.

[@KeeleyDe-M]

@@heathercoleman9875 I buy Lenor crease release - work wonders when needed 😂

[@fayesouthall6604]

I’ve been married 24 years. I gave up ironing years ago.

[@ivywalker7989]

I dont celebrate christmas as i have no contact with family lol

[@AngelaVara-i4l]

I dont understand why americans are urged to marry when its cheaper to live together,no divorce etc.

[@TryptychUK]

Religion.

[@Jeni10]

One stone = 14 pounds. We used them too until we switched to metric. 🇦🇺

[@catgladwell5684]

He doesn't get stones? What about cups of flour and sticks of butter, if we're discussing peculiar weights and measures 😅😅

[@isthatthetimealready]

6?!?!?!? I’ve been with more than 6 in the last 15 years, and it feels like a dry spell. My country folks are heavily repressed. They obviously didn’t ask other queers like me

[@Draggonny]

GCSEs aren't a waste of time in the UK. Pretty much any degree requires 5 GCSEs at grades A-C (4-9) including maths and English and 3 A-levels at grade A-C with 2 in a relevant subject. Pretty much all jobs require GCSEs in maths and English or equivalent level 2 qualifications like Functional Skills. About half of UK 18 year olds go to university so not having any qualifications means you're going to struggle to progress in any career unless you start your own business. You can't complete an apprenticeship without either having 2 GCSEs (maths and English) or completing them alongside your apprenticeship.

[@dougalportree603]

Good news JJ, we just voted out the government that had the 80% disapproval rating. Jury's out on the new one, we'll see how it goes

[@juliabell2629]

Hilarious @JJLReacts. 😂 I i love your quacking 🦆f***g comments. An innocent cusser? 😅. UK, where I live, I still know a lot of Emmas. And don't mention the oldie B***it very sore wounds for the least few years. Evan Edgar is taking Brrits to task 😅

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

Ice cream is a treat or we have it for dessert or as part of dessert. We dont eat it as a snack. I drink at least five cups if tea a day, rarely have fizzy drinks abd do enjoy real ale.

[@n.c.3607]

I have 3-5 cups of tea in a day ! 😂

[@MarkKnightSHG]

I have 3-5 cups of tea in a MORNING 🤣

[@julianbarber4708]

I think the ironing figure is so low, is because a lot of people just don't iron!

[@Muswell]

We eat ice cream once or twice in the Summer, but never between October - June . It's too cold !

[@heathercoleman9875]

Ha, speak for yourself. I was raised in an ice cream all year round house 😊

[@lyndapet1]

The average UK woman drinks at least 5 cups of tea a day.

[@emcr1]

I'm probably one of the ones who knocks the average down. I might have 3 coffees a week at work, and maybe 2 or 3 hot drinks a month at home. Though that might change in winter 😆

[@lindziloo1478]

The weed thing is a tough one for me, on one hand i think yeah make it legal no drama BUT on the other hand it absolutely stinks and the smell seems to travel sooo far as well. My friend's downstairs neighbour smokes inside their apartment and it stinks her place out and that's unfair to her. If it's smoked outside you can smell roads away. Can we invent weed that doesn't stink 😊

[@goo-r1k]

They say a man's sexual partners you divide by 3 and multiply a woman's by 3, a lot of people do lie to fit stigmas

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

I think year-round ice cream is a little bit of an American thing. The American navy literally had ice cream ships during WWII to keep up morale.

[@charybdisontherocks]

Everyone I know drinks at least two cups of tea a day

[@karlkuttup]

i drink 10 to 12 mugs of tea a day most folks i know drink 7 to 10 mugs aday icecream is not a snack its a desert

[@marilynseptember21]

I prefer a cup of tea to ice cream and yoghurt to ice cream. No sugar no milk. Yoghurt must be greek style plain yoghurt no fruit but sometimes add honey. Tea even in hot summer. I hate smoking of any kind and have never smoked. Hay fever is a pain. We tend to go to East coast in USA because it is closer. Just returned and was a bit ill and was told I had to pay nearly 300dollars to see a doctor and that does not include tax or anything else so I went to the pharmacist and got some cold medicine which is still expensive but even though I have travel insurant covering everything plus illness cannot imagine my insurance paying so much just to see a doctor for 5mins consultation....nearly 300dollars, why? Back and got a GP appointment (free) and sent prescription and will pick it tomorrow costing about 9.90pounds.

[@grunions9648]

I don't drink tea and I don't have hay fever. Coincidence? Probably.

[@nolaj114]

Happy Valley is amaaaazing... top notch acting. Highly recommend. Watch all seasons..final episode is an example of the most realistic powerhouse acting I've seen on television.

[@dib000]

I thought the ending was rubbish. 😢

[@Andrew-h3q6b]

05:50 I don't give christmas presents... I dont have any friends

[@seijika46]

Reminds me of the days having to learn the difference between mean, median and mode.

[@sbjchef]

medical prescribed cannabis is legal in the uk