American Reacts to Top 25 Ways UK Totally Triumphs Over America

If you're an American, prepare yourself for a lil bit o'envy and admiration for some (not all) of the things on this list. Let's celebrate our differences and try to understand where each other's coming from, yeah?
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[@grahamtruckel]

As others have said, we haven't gone totally metric here in the UK. But we're getting there, inch by inch.

[@alandoust551]

Thats miles better than the joke I was thinking of.

[@BigglesSJW]

lmao, perfect joke :)

[@aidencox790]

As Winston Churchill famously stated, “You can depend upon the Americans to do the right thing. But only after they have exhausted every other possibility.” I think that Winston's parents provided him with a charmed balanced perspective given that his father was English and his mother was American. And on a related note : Lord Randolph’s ancestor John Churchill made history by winning many successful military campaigns in Europe for Queen Anne almost 200 years earlier. His mother was the American Jennie Jerome. The Jeromes fought for the independence of the American colonies in George Washington’s armies. The best of both worlds one could say!!

[@MissHellybaybee]

😂🤣😂🤣 that made me laugh. I’m probably 50/50 with metric and imperial

[@thecowboycarper]

If i have to explain how to convert Centimetres into Millimetres to my family one more time aaaaaggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

The UK has a police service. The US has a police force.

[@donnadeaville7558]

Perhaps it's because they are commanded under the crown

[@mattywilliamson3171]

​@donnadeaville7558 nope. The orgin of the uk police is connected with gangs and mobs formed by rich, upper-class private citizens to protect themselves from other gangs and street robbers, which became a huge problem for london in the mid 1800s. It took like 20 years for the government to start minimal funding for the groups and even longer to form a centralised police service. What your thinking of is the french police, which started off as militia and over time were used more in peace keeping roles. This came to a head during the french revolution as the new government in france adopted a police force to maintain order and monitoring political adversaries. This is also one of the reasons it took longer for the uk to have a fully centralised police service, general mistrust of uk upper-class by lower classes.

[@paulwallace4332]

And boy, aren't they forceful?!

[@gunproofgrandad]

Hey I’m glad our bobbies aren’t killing people. I wish our plod actually shown an interest in stopping crime as opposed to silencing hurty word tweets

[@philiprice7875]

yea and a cop shooting someone is rare but more people killed by cops in the UK in traffic accidents. one of the police sit along shows had police pull over a car (no insurance) kid driver (black) says to the tv crew look at this i am getting car towed i have to walk miles but the cops are polite about it i am walking around talking to you. If i was in the US i would be face down handcuffed in a ditch with 4 guns pointed at me waiting to be shot for the crime of "driving whilst Black" it is hard to come up with a better system of policing then the UK it is so easy to think of something WORSE

[@sureshot8399]

Glad the UK plugs got a mention. I live in Canada so we share the same plugs as the US and I hate them, they are crap. UK plugs are an understated and underappreciated masterpiece of design.

[@effyleven]

Yeah! Let's hear it for the UK's 13 amp plugtop! Well, it is a bit big, but despite its size, it is actually quite compact in use. This is because the electric cord comes out of it down the plane of the wall, instead of sticking out at 90°, as American and Europlugs do. This slightly reduces the trip hazard, and means that furniture can be put rather closer to the wall. Did I mention that the wall sockets are fitted with switches, so that things can be disconnected without being unplugged? You don't know how handy this is, until you run into sockets without 'em.

[@notninelivesbrian8471]

Come to Malta or Cyprus! :-) Plus you get to drive on the correct side of the road. The really great thing about UK plugs is that they usually have an on-off switch right next to them.

[@corneliussmiff2773]

So simple yet so amazing.

[@diane9656]

And you can push your furniture nearer to a wall 😂

[@totallybored5526]

Please tell me that Canada hasn’t gone full American and got plug sockets in toilets

[@mandymelbourne4188]

My granddaughter spent most of her 1st year in hospital because of a heart defect. She had 4 operations on her heart, and spent weeks hooked up to drips and machines in NICU. I dread to think how much that would have cost my daughter if we lived in the US. What would American parents do if they knew their child needed life saving surgery, but they couldn’t afford it, and the insurance doesn’t pay out, that’s if you can afford insurance. God bless the NHS.

[@adamnewton8565]

This is why we have "health tourists" who will hop on a plane and demand to be taken to hospital as soon as they land, because it's a heck of a lot cheaper than their own state health providers

[@richeturbo21071982]

You would think, they'd make it free for kids at least

[@markmaher4548]

The NHS saved my fat arse when I was diagnosed with stage 3 classic hodgkins, if I'd had to pay for 6 months worth of chemo? I'd be brown bread, the funeral would be cheaper.

[@michellebrown4903]

​@@richeturbo21071982you still don't get it, huh?

[@JanetTruelove]

​@@markmaher4548I've said the same when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. 6 rounds of chemo, mastectomy and reconstruction, countless blood tests, numerous other test and minor ops, complications after surgery, dozens of hospital visits....and now 10 years of meds! Not a hope ur be able to afford that. I love the NHS! I couldn't have been better cared for anywhere.

[@jonathanemptage1593]

We had TV's just before the war and the first thing said by the presenter when it came back was "As i was saying before I was so rudely interrupted". absolute legend.

[@geoffstewart6580]

Absolute British!

[@patriciamcl54]

Which war was that? No-one, but no-one had TV in the 1930s.

[@michaelwant8501]

​@@patriciamcl54Regular television broadcasts in the UK started in 1936. Mainly in the London area and only affordable by the reasonably wealthy, admittedly.

[@patbaker2199]

@@michaelwant8501 you mean the very wealthy xD

[@michaelwant8501]

@@patbaker2199 Yes, I'm sure you're right! I've just done a quick Google and a television set back then apparently cost between £100 and £150. According to an inflation calculator I've just used that's up to £13000 in today's values. So filthy rich is nearer the mark!!

[@jimmarshall2757]

I’m on 1,130mb/sc Broadband speed. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee an Englishman invented the World Wide Web. No guns, no deaths, simple. No chemical’s allowed in our food. Good channel. 🇺🇸🇬🇧👍

[@sarahfields288]

I wondered what he was on about

[@adamcummings20]

What, how on earth is your Internet that good? Is that megabits or megabytes? Mine is only like 2.2megabytes/s lol

[@Scor3keeper]

Same. 1.2Gbps broadband in Glasgow Scotland.

[@traceywood5852]

My Internet is 1,200 Mbps if a device is hardwired. WiFi is about 550 Mbps but there are a lot of devices connected to the WiFi

[@insoft_uk]

UK should be faster since we invented it, the light bulb, TV, Trains the list is endless tho not like we like to brag about how we created the modern world 😋

[@alisoncauser2955]

My adult daughter got 2 strains of flu while 6 months pregnant and ended up with double pneumonia and an infection between the heart and pericardium. She ended up in intensive care unit for 3 weeks, saw the consultant and midwifes several times a day. Had 2 on one nursing 24/7 then moved to high dependency unit for another 2 weeks. They not only saved her life but she was very lucky her daughter survived too. We couldnt be more grateful and it didn't cost her penny.

[@marksavage1108]

Yes but every pay packet has paid for it, yours your Lucky Daughter and anybody else in your family has pre-paid through the national insurance deductions.

[@DavidDoranTube]

​@@marksavage1108indeed, and what a privilege it is to have paid tax for that.

[@alisoncauser2955]

@marksavage1108 the nation insurance we all pay does not go towards the NHS. The NHS is funded from our PAYE deductions. Those who are unemployed or too young to work don't pay anything toward the NHS. We don't pay anything up front for the NHS except flat rate prescription charge which is the same no matter the drug. Except I don't have to pay for prescriptions because I'm exempt due to being a type 1 diabetic, so I get all my needs, meds, and equipment for free.

[@marksavage1108]

@@alisoncauser2955 paye is your income tax, it was a ``national insurance`` against illness,

[@marksavage1108]

@@DavidDoranTube Fully 100% agree. Lucky enough to have only used the NHS myself twice. But my family have needed it on numerous occasions.

[@tgsgardenmaintenance4627]

Our tiny little country has punched well above it's weight for a thousand years!

[@kimhicks8443]

In 1913 we were the biggest empire the world had ever seen.

[@andrewmurray409]

@@creative-renaissance I mean...in 1500s England beat the Spanish Armada. In 1400s England thrashed France at Agincourt. Before that you had the Magna Carta in the 1200s, way ahead of its time. Before that in the 1100s England was involved in the crusades (not morally impressive, but militarily and logistically impressive). I'd say that about brings us to 1000 years ago...

[@andrewmurray409]

@@creative-renaissance Empires are complex things. Every empire encounters defeats and setbacks every now and again. What makes the UK unique in the OP's opinion (if I may speak for them) is that England then and Great Britain now achieved a great many things (some good, some not so good) before others did, whilst having a fraction of their core territory, population, foreign support etc and other advantages. They may not be the most moral or even the most impressive of empires to ever exist, but I'm not sure it can be reasonably denied that they have, as the OP says, been punching above their weight for the last millennium. One thing Americans seem to forget is that military might is not the only thing that makes an empire great (not assuming you're American, just addressing a common belief that stems from American cultural thought).

[@creative-renaissance]

@@andrewmurray409 I wouldn't deny British achievements, however I struggle to see where it punched above its weight much before the 17th century. My original post related to the millennium timescale. As for the reason for achieving an Empire, I believe there are two main reasons, 1. It's an island hence was not subject to constant invasion, whilst being sufficiently large to develop. 2. The subjugation of other peoples. BTW, I am British.

[@grahamtoms1738]

Im sorry but i have to disagree. The world owns us. Europe tells us how we have to live. We have to copy america. We only own 10% of buisiness in the county. BP american BT french at least we own BRITISH GAS. None of our PM's have had the balls to put the GREAT back in front BRITAIN. If the rest of the world cut us off, we would not survive.

[@stuartbeard966]

My nephew just came back from a two weeks holiday in America and although he enjoys himself he was absolutely shocked at the poverty he witnessed. He said that "even homeless here wear decent clothes, they were wearing rags".

[@grahvis]

In some places in the US, there are people with a reasonable job who live in their cars because they cannot afford a proper place to live.

[@RTJ3DCosplay]

He must have gone to california lol

[@thomaswilliams5503]

@@RTJ3DCosplayor florida

[@jimmyb640]

Same all over world

[@julietparker4759]

Yeah acutely mentally ill people on the streets and people with cancer. Doesn’t happen here. Also well know statistic that America locks up more kids than anywhere else in the world and 80% of all incarcerated people in the world are in America. Not the land of the free by any stretch

[@ninaaniston1717]

The tax thing is probably one of the most nonsensical thing America has. Right next to not showing correct prices on shelves.

[@mattyball]

The “Union flag” is only called “The Union Jack” when it is flown on a flag pole bows of a Warship.

[@howardstephens5003]

Also, we widely use the 24-hour clock I think you call it military time.

[@gingernightmare9152]

And Celcius instead of Fahrenheit.

[@amcconnell6730]

In Britain it’s illegal to have advertising billboards visible from the highway, as you don’t want drivers distracted.

[@tmarsden1878]

That isn't exactly true there are some on the M6 fly-over through Birmingham which is what makes them rare!

[@Larry]

Britain has highways?

[@Iamtheliquor]

Not illegal at all. You see old lorry trailers advertising this and that up and down the motorway network. Just nowhere near as many as there are in the US

[@amcconnell6730]

@@Iamtheliquor There's a reason they are on old lorry trailers. Section 132 of the Highways Act 1980 enables the highway authority to remove unlawful advertisements such as pictures or signs attached to any trees, highway signs, structures or works in the highway. Putting them on a lorry trailer is a sleazy work-around.

[@davidmellish3295]

​​@@Larryof course it does,what country doesn't? We call them motorways but it's the same thing,just a different word used to describe them. Like the world uses taps but the usa uses faucets. Same thing,different word

[@davidboult4143]

Many years ago there was a newspaper story about two women on holiday in the Middle East, when there was an earthquake. When it had finished, the two English women sat down and calmly made themselves a cup of tea. The other people just stood watching in amazement.

[@paulgraham3901]

A few years ago there was a terrorist attack in London with three lunatics going crazy, there was a picture in the paper of a man escaping down the road with a pint of beer in his hand...

[@alemgas]

Have you seen the price of a pint in London? ​@@paulgraham3901

[@craigarmitage2697]

Never leave a beer behind ​@@paulgraham3901

[@nigep]

Tim Berners Lee is British and he invented the web browser which gave us the internet not a American Great video

[@paolochaffey7544]

I really like this guy (only found him in this video). Both of them happily bashed on there own countries, and neither was upset at the jokes or facts pointed out..... why can't more people just be like this interaction 🤦‍♂️

[@brondahawkins9264]

We used to be. Before everything went to hell in a handcart 😢

[@hopebgood]

We have our differences but the one I feel most glad about is that ordinary British people don't feel the need to carry guns. I live in London and have never even held or seen a gun.

[@hopebgood]

@@andrewkash7273 A GBNews subscriber? Says it all really, doesn't it? 🙄

[@claymor8241]

I remember being amazed years ago to learn that Lee Harvey Oswald, when he wanted to go out President shooting, just ordered a rifle through a newspaper ad. Over here we could only get garden sheds and old ladies' fleece-lined zipper boots. Even The Jackal in that film had to assemble his gun out of a kit.

[@hopebgood]

@@claymor8241 I can score you a garden shed. Real cheap. No questions asked. It is what it is, my friend. Badda bing 😉

[@claymor8241]

@@hopebgood Will I be able to launch it out of a 6th floor window on to passing traffic? Just asking.

[@stephenwoodrow9784]

I live in the North Norfolk. Here in the countryside and in our village we all have guns! 😉

[@LB-my1ej]

The police in the UK use negotiating skills rather than force, that's used as a last resort and I'm glad of that we feel much safer. Regarding internet speeds a lot of companies have to pay a fine if the speed drops below a certain acceptable level.

[@1977Harrier]

It's really helps your application chances of joining UK police if you have a degree in psychology or something similar like social studies etc.

[@lifelongred7056]

Only whilst on camera.

[@claymor8241]

Yes I was once negotiated into a van by police outside a football ground for doing nothing other than turning round and saying 'wtf' when someone lobbed a half-eaten burger at me over a fence on my new jacket.

[@Ashtarot77]

@@1977Harrier My son's doing his A-levels now. He wants to become a policeman so has Criminology, Sociology and Psychology as subjects. He will be going to apprentice route rather than uni when he's done next year.

[@Drainingtheswamp2022]

Aa an ex policeman in the UK, the best coppers have compassion, common sense, and can fight. No degree necessary

[@adaobastos5681]

3 things I agree with 1) Taxes : yup......in UK we have to do very little here, practically takes care of itself 2) Health care :....enough said 3) Internet : I live in the middle of nowhere but still haven't encountered buffering since I was a child 🤣

[@elemar5]

Isn't it illegal to buffer children?

[@Flibbles]

@@elemar5 We didn't have buffering as children, our parents wouldn't let us.

[@gemmabutterworth1208]

As an English citizen, I refuse to believe that England use to call football, "*S O C C E R*" ( 2:19 )

[@nobbynobbynoob]

Soccer and rugger are Oxford toffs' diminutive words: Soccer ➡️ Assoccer ➡️ Assoc. ➡️ Association ➡️ Association *Football* (Oxford, ca 1890)

[@valcarlin2537]

We used it in Liverpool when I was a kid 40 odd years ago

[@Rockabilly999]

Didn't Tim Berners-Lee invent the internet and I'm sure he was British !

[@kipp1231]

Yes he was

[@davidm7847]

Tim and his colleagues invented HTTP. The internet would be something… else without that.

[@skylined5534]

​@@davidm7847 Maybe and maybe not.

[@skylined5534]

​@@JimAtHome He invented what we all use today. The 'internet' was developed for the DoD originally.

[@bottleofbecks82]

Nope. It was Al Gore.

[@abic8560]

America did not invent basketball, the inventor James Naismith was actually Canadian

[@deanlarsen5476]

They also didn't invent the world wide Web (www.) That was a Brit.

[@robertclark2253]

Out of 19 appearances at basketball in the Olympics they've only won 5 gold medals and soccer/football has been played in some form or other across Europe since the time of the Romans . The modern rules and regulations were drawn up in the UK .The UK hasn't got one soccer/football team but each of the four countries in the UK England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland all have their own team and England won the World Cup in 1966 .

[@abic8560]

@deanlarsen5476 Berners-Lee right?

[@user-fe7mg5ot9z]

They think they invented it because he was teaching phys. ed. at an American school at the time.

[@nobodyimportant7380]

To anyone who doesn't live in the US, they consider Canada is the same place , just like London is England.

[@Thunderer0872]

We do have the Metric system here but we still have Miles for road signs also Celsius is easier to understand 0c is freezing as is -1c and so on I was born in 1970 so we went Metric in the early 70's yet I still do feet and inches as my father taught me.

[@alanlangshaw318]

Regarding this video No.1, the person who basically created the internet was, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist born in London.

[@garrybox1495]

No that was the World Wide Web which runs on the internet not the internet itself.

[@garryhughes3869]

100%

[@mrchickflick4444]

@@garrybox1495the World Wide Web is the internet

[@Dragonblaster1]

I'm a 60-year-old UK citizen, I was caught in the crossfire between imperial measurements and metric. I estimate people's height in feet and inches, I drink ale in pints (UK pints are 20 fluid ounces, rather than the 16 in the USA), I look at the miles per hour on my speedometer,, and I consider my range to a destination in miles But I'm also an electronics and mechanics engineer, and I only ever use metric in those disciplines.

[@belperflyer7419]

Me too on most counts - including the engineering. I'm 83 and I just wish we'd go 100% metric and be done with it.

[@helenamcginty4920]

I do woodwork and dressmaking (I'm a Lady!) in metric but cook in imperial. Which is a bit of a pig as I live in Spain but brought my old imperial cast iron balance scales with me. But most of my cooking is done by eye anyway.

[@mark-anthonyconti684]

Me too

[@LucifersTear]

I don't know how we do it over here. Everything we do daily is Imperial and everything we need to be finite and scientific with is metric. Metric for business Imperial for pleasure 😂

[@ScratchySlide]

I was born in the mid 70's and was taught both systems at school.

[@plotanimation3817]

I’m glad they mentioned date format! As someone that that works with data, US date format drives me mad! As time used to be defined by our time in UK, it makes sense the date format standard should be UK format as well 😂

[@UKCougar]

Neither the UK nor the US format makes any sense. Look up ISO 8601.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

We are supposed to be metric but when a baby is born itscalwsys pounds Personally I don't like metric

[@forevercomputing]

​@@UKCougarUnix? The same date format Japan uses? Month day is better spoken . Day month is better written. Month day is better written fully and NOT in just number

[@kirstyskelton3580]

​@@tenniskinsella7768all 3 of my babies (2016/18/21) were weighed in grams, I had to ask for the conversion to pounds

[@ffg_senna-pete613]

When saving a date in a document file name, I use year month date - works perfectly i.e 231014

[@gemmalightfoot2669]

In the uk i dont think we have billboards because they're seen as a distraction when driving. The only adverts we have on the motorway (highway) are for service stations and thats only to encourage drivers to rest when driving. I could be wrong, i haven't looked at crash statistics

[@davidevans3227]

yeah i do get distracted by them even when i just see them around town.. and since the 20mph thing (not complaining about it, i just noticed this with my driving), i'm looking around more at slower speeds and getting distracted by billboards etc..

[@jennigee51]

British public toilets have a lock which, when you slide it across, shows the word “engaged” on the outside, so there’s no doubt whether a cubicle is occupied.

[@petercollins1104]

Why is it you can walk into a gun store and purchase a fire arm but you can't get a kinder egg in a grocery store because they're banned... Just saying

[@24magiccarrot]

Because Americans don't know when to stop eating, they see a plastic thing inside chocolate they assume it's food.

[@joeysausage3437]

You just told a lie, Aldi has them.

[@sashh2263]

@@joeysausage3437 No they don't. They have a different product that is sold as a Kinder egg. Kinder eggs are chocolate eggs containing a toy, they are wrapped in foil and that is it.

[@lindagarczynski2415]

Our health care is not perfect either. There are long queues waiting for operations , we get to see someone at the hospital , then there is an endless wait for the next move. What was a wonderful system has become broken and in a state of collapse. We are not as cool and calm as made out , people have started to bite back with some of the stupid rules that are being brought in for so called ‘Climate change’ and pollution.

[@UPYERKILT]

​@@24magiccarrotwhat country you in? I bought myself one and I'm in scotland

[@adamcummings20]

Our (UK) police are really good at defusing situations before any kind of force is even necessary.

[@ga5712]

Yeah the British police are so unconfrontational... look at the Just So Oil protests... they don't even stop them😂😂

[@0Zolrender0]

remind me about your import problem that robs with knives.

[@joemcglasson8463]

@@0Zolrender0we have our failures yes, but I’d much rather go up against somebody with a knife than a gun. and only criminals here carry knives, whereas in America a situation that would normally have been resolved may end up in a shooting because they person loses their temper when they initially had no intention of using their concealed firearm. The answer to American gun problems does not lie with the fact that other countries have their own issues.

[@PS-ru2ov]

One British police force are armed and that's the police service of Northern Ireland

[@ruthmckay9086]

​@@joemcglasson8463In fact, per capita, the US has a higher percentage of knife crimes than the UK - it just doesn't make the headlines because of all the gun related crimes.

[@adamnewton8565]

Something else I didnt know until my best mate briught his girlfriend over from the US: motorway services - here in the UK we dont just have a simple petrol station with a small convenience store, we also have a separate facility with toilets, resaurants, entertainment, somewhere to walk and stretch our legs, even a separate 3* hotel in most services. Apparently America also lacks local railway lines, that connect the smaller towns and villages, its mostly inter-city and inter-state. Feel free to correct ne if I'm wrong though

[@nobbynobbynoob]

You're correct: regional railways are mostly not a thing in North America. If you've got no car or plane, you're unlikely to get very far quickly.

[@patriciamcl54]

And the food is terrible!

[@karlbmiles]

The level of highway services varies greatly based on the nearness to a town (which supplies workers). Every exit from a highway provides a blue sign that indicates the services available at that exit, such as gas, food, rest stop (a park and toilets), and hotel. Big cities usually have some sort of public transit, i.e. subway, trolleys or light rail. Americans don't like the train, preferring a car that you can use when you get to your destination, or by air to make a 1,000 miles pass in a couple of hours.

[@JonnyRootsDem]

American railway, AMAC i think its called, is absolutely shite, took 3 days to get from LA to Kansas, driver had a heart attack, locomotive blew up, ill never complain about SE Rail or Connex ever again.

[@karlbmiles]

Sorry mate, you should have done more Googling. Americans don't use Amtrak across the country unless they have a fear of flying. @@JonnyRootsDem

[@DanielleLi]

Haha!! You have such a calm voice, so when you lost it on the taxes I laughed so hard!

[@PJ-lb9ur]

Ditto..... Have to admit it made me grin! Ahhhh the joys of PAYE (Pay As You Earn) :)

[@upthesock1]

In the UK it's illegal to put advertising boards along the motorways.

[@katjasaha8396]

same in Scandinavia

[@edelowe248]

Do you know the Ogden Nash parody of a soppy 1913 poem? I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. In fact, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all.

[@gerardphelan7996]

Sure it is illegal to 'advertise', but some farmers allow 'friends' with an old trailer to store it on their field at the side of a motorway (freeway). If said trailer happens to have an advertisement painted onto the side that faces the traffic, then people driving on that motorway might happen to see it as they pass by.

[@klepto5596]

@@gerardphelan7996yeah , I see them all the time.

[@steph6997]

As someone born and bred in the u.k...how have I only just relised this lol.

[@markhutton6824]

This time last year... I slipped off a step to put something in a bin to be collected. I went over on my ankle, broke my fibula and pushed pushed my tibia through the skin... so I have an open fracture of my ankle. An hour later I have an ambulance crew keeping me warm, it was raining, giving me gas and air (pain relief) and then turns up the Emergency Response car attached to the air ambulance, at which point they give me ketamine... no memory of what happens next. I wake up after going through A&E (ER) and get scans and x-rays and a temporary cast to stop my leg moving. I wake up at 09:00 (ambulance arrived at 02:00) to sign form for the surgery and I am introduced to the Oreo and Plastics surgeons and the anaesthetist that count me back from 3, not sure I made 1. After four hours of surgery they have saved my foot... I am on the Major Trauma Ward at St Marys hospital and ever journey in was paid for after I was discharged to replace the temporary cast to a full cast then boot and the six sessions of physio at which point I was running barefoot on a treadmill and the ankle was stable... total cost to me £0... okay I pay my taxes but we all have to.

[@LB-my1ej]

Similar experience as me except mine was a wrist and it wasn’t raining😁 the treatment I received was fast, efficient and all round superb. You can’t beat the NHS, it’s incomparable anywhere in the world and, as you say we fund it by taxes but we don’t go bankrupt if we are ill or have an accident.

[@kenn1936]

Exactly - people have had to sell their Homes to pay a hospital bill. EVERYTHING is included on NHS, Food is separate when you are paying your medical bill, every single thing is invoiced, in the UK, you don't have to worry about a thing. Even the instrument used is invoiced for in the US. I seriously don't know how they can afford to ever be ill. I lived there for. a very short time, and was shocked at the poor people, they had not seen a dentist for decades and really bad teeth - what they had left of it, simply because they could not afford it. NHS is one of the best things that the UK did. No insurance carry on, no worries about costs.

[@hopebgood]

@@kenn1936 The NHS won't exist soon. Us Brits will soon have to pay for medical care. I guarantee you that kenn. My mum is very ill and she's just basically ignored by our NHS surgery. She gets knocked about from pillar to post to save money. She tries to book an appointment to see her doctor and just gets told to go to A&E who send her straight back home. The NHS used to be one of the best things about the UK but now it's just a sad shadow of what it used to be. I'm not playing the blame game. I'm just saying it how it is.

[@crystalscrochet6484]

I was referred to gyny by gp was told I have to wait at least 6 months and that I on the waiting list the hospital told me to come to a and e they told me after waiting 5 hours that I need a scan to check if I have a ovarian cyst again and to get my gp to refer me for a scan because they couldn't do one there and then so guess I'm gonna be waiting 6+ months for that too and will just suffer while I wait the NHS has gone to 💩

[@hopebgood]

@@crystalscrochet6484 It has. I totally agree. It's sad to say but I really do think the NHS is beyond saving. I've personally had amazing NHS treatment in the past for very minor things really tbh. I'm not bashing the Conservatives and I don't think Labour could save it now either.

[@Leoviliti1]

I'm in the UK I use both imperial and metric systems and can easily work out both measurements

[@justmyopinion526]

Our toilets have an engaged or vacant sign , he did not go on to explain that bit ,but, sometimes you still have to nudge the door slightly because that may be a false positive sometimes its not in use lol!

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

I’m not sure America didn’t in vent the Internet. A British man definitely invented the World Wide Web. And he insisted it should be free. Can you imagine America inventing the World Wide Web and then not monetising it. 😂

[@jollybodger]

If I remember correctly, the US invented computer networks, the UK invented the TCP/IP protocols that allowed data to be encrypted and transferred securely using a world wide web of of computers rather than just a handful of nationally networked computers. So it was effectively a joint invention by both parties.

[@windyfarmer.6095]

The joint academic network, Janet and then super Janet existed prior to the www, and many other groups ran bulletinboards. I started programming with punch cards in trays, run overnight on a distant mainframe. (And occasionally the hand held Hewlett Packard used in the lem by NASA).

[@n.jboltz599]

@@jollybodger Other way around Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. BOB KAHN (1938-) AND VINT CERF (1943-) American computer scientists who developed TCP/IP, the set of protocols that governs how data moves through a network. I think Americans created the internet, but the British made it global

[@jollybodger]

@@n.jboltz599 Americans had the "Galactic Network" which spanned all of 3 states when it was initially setup and was formally know as ARPANET.

[@cerisambrook7692]

@@jollybodger I'm not sure we can assert that 'the UK' invented the TCP/IP protocols. Although Tim B-L is indeed British., he did it working *for* CERN - a European agency, not specifically the UK.

[@laurajarvis3156]

I love seeing you do this. As a UK citizen I've seen American culture all my love, thru the TV, I see your news, chat shows etc all the time on KZbin. I dont think you guys get the same exposure to us and seeing you surprised by English stuff makes me happy. ❤

[@angelavara4097]

I lived in America for 2 years and was glad to get back home to England.

[@OrganMusicYT]

It says the UK, not England specifically. The UK isn't England. Laws, Education, Policing etc differ in different parts of the UK.

[@Stand663]

I can’t imagine doing all my own taxes and having no NHS Lol

[@b34rdy]

tbf theres a reason for that. "MERICA FUCK YEA........"

[@danielkerr4100]

​@@b34rdyfuck no*

[@fabianjones4090]

After we left the EU I have noticed fruit and veg being sold by the Lbs more often. We do measure height in feet and weight in stone but we don't use fluid ounces only pints.

[@annalieff-saxby568]

You've never cooked. Liquids are frequently measured in fluid oz.

[@miked3187]

In America money maybe king. In the UK we kind of expect people to be king. People are more interested in their health, work life balance and personal experiences than the collection of wealth. We like affordable health care, holiday time which is totally supported by our employers to make us happier at our jobs and more productive, and a work life balance that allows us to do our best at work while maintaining our relationships with our families. A 60" TV does not replace a Mum or Dad. To be the best you can at work means you have to be the best you can be outside work. I love going to work, and love leaving work.

[@Shoomer1988]

To be fair every country (that's nearly all of the them) that converted to metric had to overcome the same problems the US would have. They just did it.

[@meyrickgriffith-jones3908]

Actually the US military and aviation has converted to metric. Engineering is almost all metric - NASA etc - even my John Deere lawnmower.

[@richardwest6358]

And still an American gallon is different from an Imperial one !

[@paulwallace4332]

Yeah, but money is King! 😞. It wouldn't take long to adapt either, a coupla years of glitches and then the world might pull together. It really is straightforward.

[@Jamie_Wulfyr]

The metric transplant didn't fully work in the UK. We've ended up with a weird hybrid system where we use bits of each for different purposes.

[@Home8rew]

@@Jamie_WulfyrIt’s true. I was born in the 60s and my first practical use of weights and measures was either helping my Dad with DIY or my Ma with cooking and, since they had learned imperial W&M at school, I grew up using them in practical situations despite learning metric at school. I still think in feet, inches, stones, miles, etc. since I have no real life practical examples of metric to refer to. It’ll probably take a few generations to change the mindset.

[@olivia_andhercat]

2:36 The face I can’t 😂

[@CS-ov8mp]

Started watching your content last night, must say I'm really enjoying it keep it up.

[@littleannie390]

In the UK if you are not self employed then your employer takes the tax directly from your salary and you never have to work it out for yourself. I am retired and have more than one pension income. The tax office sends me a statement each year telling me what my tax free allowance is and how much tax they will take from each of my incomes. I never have to think about it.

[@rjb29uk]

I think I had to do a tax form once in my life. When I was a student, I worked a lot in the holidays and got taxed a lot because they assumed I'd earn the same for the whole 12 months. But then claimed tax back after the end of the tax year, because all the months I didn't work put me under the annual tax threshold.

[@johnm8224]

For quite some time, I DID have to file a Tax Self-Assessment form, as I was a freelancer / contractor at the time, and had multiple and highly variable income streams, but it was pretty simple (WAY simpler than in the US - I've seen the forms you guys have!), and you can do it online. However, for the majority of people, Income Tax and National Insurance is deducted by your employer's payroll system before you even see it. Your bank will also deduct the relevant amount of tax on your savings income tax (if any) automatically. The only time most people have to wade into the paperwork is to challenge or correct a decision, claim a rebate, etc. But even then, rebates can happen automatically. I had a long period where I was not earning a year or two ago, for personal reasons, and so I'd paid tax for about 5 months of the year as if that would have been my average income over the whole 12 months, thus not getting the benefit of my entire tax allowances for the year. I was about to write to HMRC to ask them how to correct this, when I got a letter from them saying they'd already noticed this, and a cheque was to follow shortly for the balance.

[@Ben-xe8ps]

@@johnm8224 UK banks haven't deducted tax from interest paid on savings accounts (or any other type of account) for several years now.

[@Stand663]

I’m self employed. My accountant takes care of all my taxes. He told me a strange thing once. He said if you pay all your taxes, the government gives it all back to you in a tax rebate. They want you working and earning money. The more money you earn the better for the economy. It make’s sense because money circulates.

[@wietseterpstra8295]

In the Netherlands the same, if you are a houseowner you have to file taxes every year, it's easy 10 minutes online and it's done, when you have a low income it also smart to do this i get every year almost 500 euro refunded, money i would not get if i didn't file my taxes.

[@MrKryss2k]

What bothers me about America is they give you an abundance of ways to get harmed or cause harm and if you survive it could financially destroy you - talk about getting screwed either way 😳 No wonder there's a huge amount of people suing others for things 😮

[@Zero-ph4qk]

Yeah, this vid really sums up one part of the UK, also love your voice, ive heard a character in a game have that similar voice but i have no idea how people just have it, its like a calming whispering talk and i just love it

[@FrankBracher]

8:13 This reaction is hilarious! I have often thought about moving from the UK to the US, but this is one thing that has always really put me off!

[@Twowings2fly]

The shock on your face at number 16 is hilarious.

[@terryleerackley8501]

USA didn't invented the internet, it was invented in the UK

[@danielkerr4100]

No it actually was the usa, 50 years ago you can google it

[@terryleerackley8501]

It all started with one man - Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist born in London. After graduating from Oxford University, Berners-Lee became a software engineer at CERN , the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. This started in the late 1920s via to 1930s but from the 1930s-1940s 2 Americans did help to improve it. This Americans name is Bob Kahn and Vinton Cerf.

[@terryleerackley8501]

Also don't always believe what Google say as it not 100% true.

[@jasonmcclatchie6877]

@@terryleerackley8501 you have conflated the internet with the World Wide Web. They are most definitely not the same thing, although they may appear to be so to a casual user.

[@bottleofbecks82]

It was actually Al Gore. ARPANET. U.S gets this one.

[@SweetLotusDreams]

You should definitely go and see your representative. My village in the UK got together and approached our MP to get faster broadband and he mentioned us in the House of Commons and it was done. Took a while but that's direct democracy for you.

[@francishuddy9462]

It worked out well. But, it is not 'direct democracy' - it is simply influencing a local politician.

[@old.not.too.grumpy.]

We in the UK have only changed to the metric system when we don't have to change permanent signs. We measure roads in miles still. Strange facts, we sell petrol (gas) in litres but measure fuel consumption in mile per gallon We buy cans and bottles of beer in litres, but in pubs, we sell it in pints

[@alchristie5112]

“Too ingrained into the old system” The British invented the Imperial system that the US adopted, so if we managed to give up our own baby I’m pretty sure anyone else could!

[@vinniedixon1140]

We only gave it up due to those c***s in the EU. Time we took it back now we've left

[@Brian3989]

The USA took the Imperial system of measurement and changed some of the values! Now call them Customary Units. UK has mixture of Imperial measures and Metric. Road marking unlikely to change but many daily foods show metric measures.

[@tylerclarke4829]

@@Brian3989The UK also has certainly not given up the imperial system. We interchangeably use both systems. We measure people’s mass in stone and pounds. We measure people’s height in feet and inches. Road signs are in mph. We measure the size of bike’s frame/wheels in inches. Our SATNAV’s are usually in imperial too. So are the bottles we feed our babies with. These are just a few off the top of the head, there’ll be plenty more. No country can so easily abandon an entire measurement that the older members are already used to.

[@cerisambrook7692]

@@tylerclarke4829 Although we do tend to use stone and pounds in discussion, interestingly you may notice that your health records with your GP will list your metrics in ... umm... metric.

[@briangates6707]

The US Didn't change the units, we improved our systems of measure and adopted the Imperial system in the 19th Century. As the US was no longer a British colony they continued to use Queen Anne's wine gallon and the other associated fluid measurements. @@Brian3989

[@longshanks90]

It's hard to get shot by the police here as they're a separate unit who only really come to play when raiding a house or stopping a vehicle which they know has guns in them and terrorism which is pretty rare. There's even a video on youtube of a crazy guy with a machete who gets sandwiched between riot shields until he gets tired and then they arrest him as he can't kill anyone if you take the use of a knife away unlike a gun, it does go wrong now and again but it's so rare I couldn't even use an example off the top of my head

[@becs6761]

Unless those police are (in my opinion, for understandable reasons) striking (or whatever the term is for refusing to carry their guns)

[@limitededition1053]

Britain is an imperial country. The metric system has slowly been forced on us since we joined the European economic community back in 1970. We still have pints, miles on the highways feet and inches etc. Metric coins and litres of fuel instead of gallons, were introduced to raise prices in the hope we didn't notice.....but we did.

[@davidevans3227]

yeah we use both here in Cardiff, depends on the context i find, don't you think.. ?

[@michaelhowell1706]

Such beautiful truth!

[@billydonaldson6483]

The creation of the WWW or the internet as we now know it was by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. The US had systems between the military but not on the scale of WWW.

[@sashh2263]

The internet and the world wide web are different things.

[@tbnrrenagade9507]

⁠@@sashh2263not exactly, the internet is technically an evolution of the world wide web

[@sashh2263]

@@tbnrrenagade9507 The internet is all the hardware, the world wide web is web pages etc.

[@cerisambrook7692]

@@tbnrrenagade9507 You got that the wrong way round.

[@mikelovesbacon]

@@tbnrrenagade9507 No, the WWW is an application that runs on the Internet. Other applications include FTP, SMTP, SSH, Usenet, BitTorrent, and more.

[@jamescairns4051]

Re. 13 - I think that excellent British Queen Quentin Crisp (who gave the nation a big boost during the blackouts) wrote - Treat disasters as mere trivialities but never treat trivialities as disasters……

[@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse]

This is soooo true us brits are great! 🇬🇧

[@Naztash]

"I''m also an audio engineer" Well that explains why this sounds so pleasent with headphones, compared to most youtube videos.

[@margaretknight8690]

I love your soothing voice. You could be a narrator on Audible!

[@ianmobbs4482]

Even edinger an American living in UK dose great videos on British shopping v American shopping prices a good way to see difference

[@johamlett27]

He’s a British citizen now. But yeah he does good comparison videos.

[@robertthomas1717]

It was a fella from the UK who got the WWW up and running

[@geneticjen9312]

I can usually tell a gamer is from the US if they're complaining about online games being unplayable or getting angry at fighting game players using wifi

[@Minabelina]

I'm glad I was suggested your channel because, and no shade to your fellow countrymen but in comparison, your voice is like a spa day 😅 so calm, so quiet.

[@nicksykes4575]

There's a clip from a US news programme aired around 2016, comparing police involved deaths. They just chose the month they did the report, so that it was random. The number was 116, which was just over double the UK figure of 53, for the entire 20th Century!! The average has jumped a bit with the whole post 9/11 terrorist attack business.

[@jimbo1706]

This is not true. If those figures include the whole UK, then they must include NI, where the police killed a lot more than 53 citizens across 3 decades. So maybe they're GB or England figures

[@jobzagudn]

Love from Northumberland to all you guys over the pond. ❤

[@SPLITTY777]

As a taxi driver in the U.K I once had a Frenchman ask if we would one day all be using the same road signs (MPH/KPH) I told him probably not for Europe to change all of your signs in one night would be difficult 🤣

[@jamesbutton2904]

YES!😄

[@sallielyon552]

Nice one.

[@effyleven]

There's no reason to change all the signs overnight. There is a rolling program of sign replacement running the whole time. Just initiate the change on a certain date, and swap to the new ones as they come due... .. just as we do NOW!

[@sarahjames2991]

Have you seen the size of our country .That's why our Internet is faster . Our chocolate is better so is our water and our stubbornness and sarcasm is world class 😊 x

[@Ihavenoidea-dm3wd]

You must be saying this with sarcasm then.

[@sarahjames2991]

@@Ihavenoidea-dm3wd Really?!! I would have never of guessed that . Thank you for pointing it out 😏

[@suzannebaxter2888]

We complain about the weather and we complain about queuing we complain about the traffic we complain about the tourists if you happen to live in a tourist trap but what no one actually says is we complain to ourselves. If we don't rise up we have deemed it not worth it.

[@muddlepond]

I know he said that this was in jest but I can't believe that anyone would think that the British complain more than Americans. I'm English and was once in Vegas at the reception desk to ask them to change some money for me when an American man came up shouting and going bonkers because the water went cold whilst he was having a shower! He got $150 off his bill. I had purposely took a cold shower because it was 100degrees outside.🌞🌞🌞

[@davidevans3227]

lol

[@DreadEnder]

7:14 no we do see those. Not along motorways but on dual carriage ways there are occasionally some

[@keithstevenson6892]

1Gb speed is now common and also NO data caps. Download whatever you want as much as you want and compared to US cheaper

[@glyngasson8450]

The vast majority of British police aren't armed. I went to Seattle this year and I was totally shocked by how much groceries cost

[@dacutler]

About 'keeping calm'. My father tells a story about when he had a break from the Royal Navy during world war 2, and was visiting his sister in London. There was a story in one of the newspapers about citizens being interviewed during the Blintz (when about 50,000 civilians were killed during the nightly bombing for half the year) and one old lady was asked about her opinion about Hitler. She replied ; - 'tut tut . . He's a fidget'.

[@phil84761]

I use imperial and metric. Measuring things if I’m tinkering in the house is in metric, but measuring distances is in imperial. To drive to my Grans it’s 194 miles, no idea what it is in KM. If I’m hiking it’s metric. If I’m saying something was nearby me I’d say it was 100 metres away, but if something was very close to me it’s in feet. Beer is in pints, milk is pints, water and juice is litres. If measuring liquids for cooking it’s all in mls. Body weight is stone and lbs, unless weighing things in which case it’s in grams and kg, though used to use lbs and oz when I was a kid. My friend moved from New York and finds it confusing using both metric and imperial 😂 She often asks questions about it that I don’t know the answer for “why is driving in Miles, but walking or running is in KM”

[@michaelzzzzzzzzzzzz]

I can add to this list. Holidays.... Brits have anything from 25 to 35 Holidays per year plus most weekends or 2 seperate days off. Plus 8 bank Holidays. So I get 28 paid leave per year, plus 8 paid bank Holidays and 5 duvet paid days that's 41 days off plus every weekend off and that's 104 days off unpaid So 145 days off per year And it is amazing

[@oc2466]

The legal minimum amount of days off for a full time worker here is 20days + bank holidays. But yeh lots of companies that are not corporate give extra especially between Christmas and New year.

[@onecupof_tea]

Our company gives employees a paid day for your birthday, but that's after two years.

[@butterflyKiss604]

@@onecupof_tea Yeah and holiday on their birthday would be wasted on one year olds 😃

[@sarahealey1780]

Tax is so easy in the UK even when self employed and filling your own taxes its still easy.

[@user-lm2vs1sl3v]

Yes! Doing taxes in The USA is so difficult.

[@ScpDrRisha]

As a Brit, don't be surprised if you bump into one and they be polite snd then have the audacity to call you a knobhead, bellend, or an actual swear word quietly when walking off 😂 5:09 YUP, SCAR GET OVER HERE!

[@rossmansell5877]

🤣

[@Your-True-Self]

Love your style man, it makes me smile to see your honest reaction to this kind of stuff - there's some brit in you somewhere methinks! Keep it up, love from across the pond x

[@gwalia2112]

I live very rural in North Wales and my internet is about 500mbps, could have had 900 but didn't see any point in paying for that extra speed. Everyone in our little village, ex council houses mostly, can have the same. The UK plug is the best in the world UNTIL you tread on one in the dark bare foot OTW to the loo, the Devils trident will mess up your night, hurts a lot. :)

[@brianbradley6744]

Due to having on/off switches on the outlets we have no need to unplug so why would a plug be lying on the floor. Also useful to stop equipment being left on standby mode. On the North American continent they don't have these switches and have to pull all the plugs when going on vacation etc.

[@gwalia2112]

Haha, that's an unusual way to look at electrical items. Not everything plugged in stays plugged in, hoovers, radios, chargers, irons, hair dryers, shavers, toys, tools, other portable devices etc. Lots of things are removed from sockets. 🤔😁 @@brianbradley6744

[@daftirishmarej1827]

​@@brianbradley6744I think two reasons. 1. Children, and 2. Laziness 😂

[@MrSwifts31]

"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed unless the billboards fall, I shall never see a tree at all! Ogden Nash.

[@AriMalatesta]

7:34 ... There's a famous anecdote during the Korean War when a British regiment was holding a hill, about being overwhelmed and requesting artillery support (manned by a US unit), and they didn't got it as needed at first because the British Col. said: " Ok,, hello.. ... we're just in a pickle here."

[@admiralbenbow5083]

You what ??

[@hypedupgarms9196]

Just found your channel and subscribed straight away you have a great voice over and just calm David Attenboroughesk us Brits love a good voice of will be binging your videos tonight cheers

[@TasteTheD]

Really enjoying binging your content. you say the English are calm... You, my friend are the most chill guy! Thanks for the proper relaxing vids!

[@markdobbie2968]

We don't have billboards along the road for safety reasons, they distract from driving

[@TraceUK]

You have a perfect voice for radio or podcasts. You could put me to sleep 🥰

[@sara-louisehaggan4463]

In the UK, billboards are deemed a distraction and are not allowed alongside busy roads

[@Aloh-od3ef]

There is a video called Howard Russel. The difference between US vs UK Ebola news coverage. I think you may enjoy it 😊

[@deankeith830]

Russel Howard !

[@robimusprime8]

Also the last one, number 1. We the British invented that too!

[@cerisambrook7692]

No we didn't and this is a common but understandable misconception. The Amercian Department of Defense invented the internet for themselves. The Briton, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the tools (HTTP, protocols etc) sometime later (decades) that allowed standardised connections to allow the World Wide Web to develop, whilst working for CERN- a European agency. TB-L deserves a lot of credit- he invented the WWW (for free!) which is a *form* of internet, but did not invent the internet itself.

[@lisabeth2994]

I love your voice… it’s so relaxing 😊

[@magnificentmuttley2084]

For those who do not know about the NHS and PAYE, in the UK it is really simple. Income Tax is automatically paid by PAYE (Pay-As-You-Earn). So your tax is automatically paid to the HMRC (His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs - equivalent to the IRS in the US). Also automatically collected from your earnings is your National Insurance contributions - this is what funds the NHS (National Health Service). Some of your Income Tax also supports the NHS but, I think, National Insurance is the main payment vehicle, which is then budgeted by government funding. What the NHS means to people in the UK is they have no payments to make for health care. If they need surgery or a hospital visit, it is free to UK citizens. The main problem at present, is long waiting lists for treatment and this is due to successive governments in the UK reducing funding, even though we, the public, have no choice but to pay for it. At least, if I need emergency surgery it will happen quickly and won’t cost me a penny.

[@iriscollins7583]

In the UK in the 70s we changed our currency from Sterling to Metric, Over Night. We also changed measurements of weights.Some of us are still working on it😊 especially weights to Metric.

[@denisemeredith2436]

Our currency is still Sterling but it was decimalised. We changed some of our weights and measurements to Metric when we joined the Common Market.

[@Dafmeister1978]

I just love when we mix the systems. We describe low temperatures in Celsius but high temperatures in Fahrenheit, and we talk about a car's fuel economy in miles per gallon (a proper British gallon, mind you, not one of those limp-wristed American gallons) but price the fuel by the litre.

[@gavinreid2741]

Petrol in litres but drive miles.

[@antonliverpool1]

I still measure some things centimetres and others in inches. 😂

[@pobsdad]

@@antonliverpool1 I need that piece of wood cutting three feet seven and a half centimeters.

[@lyndaodell3619]

Just discovered you I am in UK just outside London love your reactions but as many others have said your voice is very soothing you could great audio tapes helping people to get to sleep.Easy on the eye with your looks and voice I think you would have a ton of admirers.

[@lizvickers7156]

I am sorry but going to have to disagree about his voice. For me it's very creepy. He has a Michael Jackson voice, and I do apologise for calling him creepy.Its just how he comes across. Quite effeminate.

[@lyndaodell3619]

@@lizvickers7156 you are entitled to your opinion I agree it is not a masculine voice but it appeals to many to be very soothing.

[@Shatmeself]

great reaction just sitting there and nodding

[@michaelevans4833]

Your vids are brilliant 🇬🇧

[@davidevans152]

Uk invented the world wide Web,,,not the Internet,,2 different things

[@gdok6088]

The world wide web is the software - the Internet is the hardware.

[@Dusk.EighthLegion]

About the complaining part, some family and friends decided to go to a theme park, where it promptly rained all day and half the rides were closed. My mother sent a letter of complaint, and we got nine free tickets to go back once the weather was a bit nicer. We can complain our arses off and usually nothing comes of it, but occasionally, you strike gold.

[@emj3161]

Back in the day we even had 'points of view'. A TV programme dedicated to the Great British moaning. I miss that show. It was comedy gold.😂

[@effyleven]

​@@emj3161Points of View was only opinions about other TV programs, nothing else.... and, as I recall, only those programs from the Beeb.

[@emj3161]

It was mostly complaints. With Terry Wogan making witty comments. If you missed the complaint letters you missed out. Taken from wiki 'The show has been seen as representing a certain passive-aggressive aspect of British culture; Victoria Wood once said "When the Russians feel strongly about an issue they form a bloody revolution - the British write a strongly worded letter to Points of View". Although, much less common now, the show has over the decades featured many a letter beginning "Why, oh why, oh why..." and signed "Upset of Uxbridge" or "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells", or something similar "

[@rossmansell5877]

....and if you complained they came up with an excuse for every complaint...the viewer never won@@effyleven

[@peterwilloughby132]

There's a British film called Brazil by Terry Gilliam you should watch. I thought about it when you mentioned seeing forests instead of billboards. There's a scene where the road that's being driven along has a wall of billboards hiding desert wasteland behind it.

[@RachelDavies-wn7ir]

"I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all" Ogden Nash 1931

[@shirlnmisty]

i'm binge watching I love your reactions lol

[@Qyrtz__]

his voice is so calming omg