Americans DEBUNK British Stereotypes (Queuing, Politeness, Bad British Teeth...)

[@WanderingRavens]

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[@DPYROAXIS]

WEIRD! Are you sure they was British who started on you? As for our sounds, I sound like dick van dyke but live by the Queen ya ha ha

[@MetrolifeAJ]

Only some places NHS covers for example if you have to get a crown and go to your GP and then it will be paid for but we do have to pay for checkup's and other services around £20 (Bristol) for a checkup.

[@TheMarrification]

My city is sometimes the only other British city they've heard of, because of the Pilgrim Fathers, Thanksgiving etc. This year in Plymouth we had events on for the 400th anniversary of them sailing, although the virus has delayed everything.

[@aperson9782]

I remember going on a school trip to a roller coaster place and me and my friend had to wait 2 hours!! Some people tried to push in and they got SECURITY to kick them out the line!!

[@SvenTviking]

What were you doing to provoke someone to try and start a fight? It’s been decades since I’ve been anywhere near a dust up.

[@katpalmer8713]

I told someone off for jumping the queue about 4 years ago. I'm not going to lie, the adrenaline still gets going when I think about it.

[@eddieedward1986]

I know exactly what you mean 🤣

[@WanderingRavens]

Well done! I'm proud of you :D

[@katpalmer8713]

@@WanderingRavens Thanks. My most impressive one was telling a group of teenagers off for kicking a deflated football onto a road (the main one through a town but not constant traffic). I made them go and pick it up and put it in the bin. I live life on the edge (and take several years to recover from each episode).

[@bmc9504]

Kat, I get you!. I still get PTSD from BMW/Audi/Mercedes drivers. No lie. Stay away from Birmingham. 😂😂😂

[@davew4998]

@@katpalmer8713 Telling teenagers off is a dangerous activity. Obviously I'm sure you used your judgement as to how rough looking they were but I wouldn't do it where I live. People have been stabbed for their troubles.

[@andrewsheppard1940]

As someone from the UK, I was dismayed to hear that Grace had been on the receiving end of racist comments! I hope you don't think that is in any way representive of the rest of us and personally I think you are adorable, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to be anything but positive to either of you. PS Loved your your RP and Cockney accents,they were great and had me in stitches!

[@scoops0406]

Completely agree, absolutely not on, I apologise on behalf of the UK. That's just unacceptable. 99.99% of us just aren't like that.

[@dragonade85]

Totally agree. (My wife is Japanese, so this is quite close to home.)

[@charlesworth5603]

scoops0406 99.99% of Brits are not racist - where did you pull that statistic from? It would be funny if it wasn’t true.

[@davidgreener8774]

Unfortunately racism is a global issue. Sorry you had it here but its not all of us. I am sure where ever you go you can find racism.

[@peterwilson6509]

We have our crap just like every country soz you folks encountered them racism is in every country sometimes open iff bad get cops involved next I would never jump line never good vid😄

[@Gambit771]

When I was in Finland on my way back to England, as I entered the airport I joined a big snake like winding queue. After about an hour we found out that none of the check in desk were open and the British had formed an orderly queue leading to nowhere. But not only had did the queue have Brits in there but there was Germans, Dutch, Finnish and others. Without saying a word the Brits had made the continentals queue as well. That's why the British are the world's best queuers.

[@Jemma1487]

😂

[@aperson9782]

😂

[@ia8018]

😂

[@sophiejoyner4728]

i went to an ed sheeran concert a while ago in leeds and we asked one of the people that work there which queue should we go in as there was about five like this l l l l l then one like this _ going right across the middle of the field. there was at least 500 people in it and more and more people were joining. we asked what that queue was for and the worker says that he has no idea and everyone just started a queue leading to no where. typical

[@phatboi6650]

This comment made me smile!

[@Smorans]

The NHS does cover all costs of dental work up to the age of 18, and after that it is subsidised, so it’s much less expensive, but you can get health insurance that covers private dentistry 🙂

[@WanderingRavens]

Thanks for clearing that up for us! :D

[@susandeans7214]

However braces are needs based. They won’t cover it for purely cosmetic reasons.

[@johnmccallum8512]

Yup the Dental practice down the road from me has just been taken over by BUPA a private health insurace company

[@BB95]

The NHS does not cover coat for people up to 18 it is 16 and most people do have to pay for dental treatment such as people who go to work and households who earn over a certain amount of money. However many people are also exempt and receive free treatment such as under 16’s and over 60’s, people that are on low income benefits and get financial help from the government, pregnant women, having a disability or if you are under 18 and still in full time education. Anybody who doesn’t fall in that category has to pay for dental treatment even in a private dentist (expect the really fancy posh ones) and the exact same procedure applies for prescriptions and medication too. You can get a free check up only if you see a dentist in a NHS hospital but you still need to pay for any treatment you get such as dentures the end bill would be considerably cheaper than a private dentist but the waiting list is so long you could be put on a waiting list for up with 10-12 months so most people just go private.

[@Smorans]

Beth Bradley the NHS subsides dentistry for anyone that uses an NHS dentist, which is why private dentistry can be quite expensive comparatively (unless like mine it’s covered by a health insurance) so although it is paid for by the patient in part, it’s still less expensive to use the NHS dentist as it’s subsidised by the NHS

[@dragonmac1234]

lol, I must be a British stereotype, I have a fairly posh accent, I'm not confrontational and I felt the urge to apologise to Grace for other people's racist comments :-)

[@WanderingRavens]

Aww, thanks for thinking of me, Mark :-)

[@sage6336]

I second that

[@amandaely9983]

I feel exactly the same

[@robertwilloughby8050]

I fourth that too.

[@MillsyLM]

The "you got a problem?" "What you looking at?" are part of the reason why some English people don't make eye contact or interact on public transport. You're likely to be greeted by either of those questions or other passive aggressive behaviour. Of course it's not everybody or everywhere but that's certainly been my experience (even in the North!!) Great video again guys 👍

[@WanderingRavens]

Good to know! Thanks for clearing that up for us, Lee. :) And thank you!!

[@MillsyLM]

@@WanderingRavens which of course further debunks the stereotype that all Brits are polite 😂😂

[@WanderingRavens]

@@MillsyLM True 😂 😂

[@finaustin6643]

Not in the north, never happens

[@MillsyLM]

My brother in law is from Yorkshire and he's always telling me about some of the less than friendly antics that go on. Just goes to show that stereotyping a whole area with one thing is fraught with pitfalls.

[@alanoh3069]

I do a bit of work at my local food bank. People was standing in the queue, for over 2 and a half hour. No one complained or tried to push in. Despite being hungry! Even had a few people say how happy they was to get away for their children for a few hours 😂

[@WanderingRavens]

"Even had a few people say how happy they was to get away for their children for a few hours" sounds like something my mom would have said when I was a child 😂

[@alanoh3069]

@@WanderingRavens aww I'm sure you went that bad 😉

[@Robob0027]

Alan, please brush up on your grammar, people is plural and therefore you should use "were" not "was" also I am sure you weren't that bad, went is the past participle of the verb "go". Ravens... In English the short form of mother is mum not mom. Mom is only use in North America and South Africa. All other English speaking countries, Oz, NZ, Zimbabwe, Zambia and many others say mum.

[@pipercharms7374]

I honestly never understood why people would say Brits love queing, we hate it, however its just done out of politeness and its seen as rude if you don't get in a line, also the customer servace people can also refuse people who pushed in sometimes and tell them to go to the back of the que. (spelling isn't my strong suit lol)

[@WanderingRavens]

I made that observation as well (that Brits hate queuing and love to moan about it while in queue) but had to cut it for time :(

[@pipercharms7374]

@@WanderingRavens Yep XD I've been a cashier and its not fun when theres not enough people at the tills and you can feel people complaing and the glares drilling into you, wishing you'd go faster. Mind you I've also been the opposite end as well but as I understand the other side of it, I usaully only get annoyed when I can see the cashier is either going delibritely slow or they aren't making an effort in calling more people over XD

[@thevonya3977]

I used to run a shop in retail and sometimes went as far as telling a customer to put their shopping down and get the feck out of my shop for queue jumping. It was Christmas, a very busy time so lots of massive queues and the git was irate that we told him to get to the back and wait like everyone else. He got as bit hairy, so naturally he was told his business was unwelcome and to remove himself (gotta love the anti-social behaviour zero tolerance signs).

[@stuan001]

Wandering Ravens I think we say that we are the best queues because we queued for so long during the war and after to get our rations. It has stayed as part of our known culture - “being the best for” as I personally feel growing up here people just generally get in a queue at odd moments. What I mean by that is not necessary in shops or ticket machines. If there is any opportunity a queue one would form rather than a crowd of everyone trying to get in 🤣 although of course there are exceptions. I did find a article online - not sure how reputable it is but it was about laws still enforceable that was bizzare in England. I thought this one was perfect “It’s illegal to jump the queue at a London Transport ticket machine” 😂 But you are right I wouldn’t say anything to someone that pushed in...goes back to our “over politeness” 😉 catch 22 😅😂

[@pipercharms7374]

K Brodini oops and thanks, I have dyslexia so I sometimes forget or find it a little harder than normal to spell certain words. Our language spelling can be confusing sometimes 😅 I knew the proper spelling wasn’t “que” but life of me couldn’t remember what it actually was 😅 On service I just didn’t check it and thought not correct but close enough! 😂

[@Womberto]

Somebody cut in front of me in a queue once, they're dead now.

[@paulqueripel3493]

I hope you said sorry while killing them.

[@Smorans]

Love that “American doing an American doing a British...” accent-ception 😂

[@WanderingRavens]

Glad you enjoyed it 😂😂

[@sage6336]

Yes look at Dick van Dyke

[@MrFlazz99]

@@sage6336 Dick van Dyke - "hulllllo Murrrrrree Pawpins....". Blame him alone for the misperception of British accents by all Americans.

[@Turbo1985]

Am I living in a parallel universe? I'm British born and bred and everytime someone has jumped a queue I've been in, they've always been called out by most if not all of the other people in the queue...

[@MonkeyButtMovies1]

It must just be certain areas because I always call out people who cut in front of me

[@helenwood8482]

Yes, maybe we don't do it when Americans are watching, but I've lived all over England and it's rare for a queue jumper not to be directly challenged. I have even seen people march them to the back of the queue.

[@markl240]

I always call people out when it happens, which is not very often. I rarely get frustrated with other peoples actions but pull that one and I will definately assert my place in the queue. On those rare occasions that I have not seen the queue and have accidently moved out of turn and am then called out, I am very apologetic. Pushing in is not socially acceptable behaviour.

[@brumav9779]

Depends on your area, in the North and some parts of the Midlands you’d probably get your jaw spun. In the South it could just be a simple tut or slap on the wrist.

[@Turbo1985]

Yes, it does seem to be dependent on area... here in the east a queue jumper will normally receive a collective 'Oi! There's f***in queue y'know!' Not seen anyone brave or stupid enough to defy the challenge yet...

[@kenarcher2006]

being British, i'm not as think as you drunk I am.

[@koalabear2752]

Panic!

[@WanderingRavens]

@@koalabear2752 That's what I thought too!!

[@WanderingRavens]

😂 😂

[@Otacatapetl]

You need to stop drinking. Your face is getting blurred.

[@kenarcher2006]

@@koalabear2752 sorry

[@GrahamS67]

I think the difference with American teeth is that those with dental plan have cosmetic dental work as a matter of course, whereas in the UK we have dental work done as maintenance rather than cosmetic reasons. We aren't bothered if our teeth aren't all perfectly in line with no gaps so long as they're healthy.

[@Stephenski]

If I met the person who was mean to Grace, I would punch them

[@WanderingRavens]

❤️️❤️️

[@helenwood8482]

Yes, nobody should ever disrespect our Grace.

[@Gobbygiblet]

Yeah agreed if I saw someone having a go at them, they'd be answering to me.

[@jonathanwebster7091]

Same. I'm British and I absolutely hate racism, as do they majority of us. Granted there's a bigoted minority of us that are, but you get that everywhere, sadly.

[@EASYTIGER10]

I love Grace's british accents! Can we have a video where Grace does it all in British and Eric does it all as an impression of an American trying to do a British accent (badly)? Please :)

[@WanderingRavens]

Oh dear, now that would be an entertaining video 😂

[@colinh8911]

Why do Americans say ‘fight’ for argument? A fight to us is literally that 👊🏻🤯

[@helenwood8482]

Maybe to you. To me, a fight is any conflict, verbal or physical.

[@ianmills9266]

A physical discussion my good man

[@artvid-1915]

Wait I thought they many an actual fight 😂😂

[@compatriot852]

Maybe because most arguments end up in fights.

[@chelsal]

Your British accent is getting better with every video Grace :)

[@WanderingRavens]

MUMMY and DADDY 😂 Thanks, Alan

[@eamonquinn5188]

I'm so sorry Grace was racially abused, it's unforgivable

[@alfieisherwood5568]

In the UK you get free dental care until you are 18 then everything starts to cost.

[@WanderingRavens]

Good to know!

[@tcroft2165]

Not quite. Pregnant = free Low income = free £22.70 for a checkup otherwise.

[@MonkeyButtMovies1]

@@tcroft2165 £15 in Wales

[@danielprudhoe647]

NHS covers any and all dental treatment for kids (up to the age of 18, or 19 if still in education), pensioners, the unemployed, those with a qualifying disability, and (anyone correct me on this one as I may be mistaken) pregnant women. Those who are not eligible for free dental care will however get subsidised dental care e.g. a checkup costs £22.70, which is obviously considerably less than the cost in the USA.

[@Smorans]

We don’t have the best queues, but we do have the most polite queues 😉

[@WanderingRavens]

I like this! Maybe that's what the distinction is.

[@thevonya3977]

We have it ingrained into us from visiting ANY theme park, whereby a 2 hour queue for a ride is pretty normal (and bare in mind that 'fast pass' is a relatively new thing).

[@juliaspearing6949]

@@WanderingRavens Certainly the most passive aggressive ones!

[@vespaeinebriatis]

It is perfectly acceptable to say "Ermmmm, excuse me, there is a queue" But we are generally stymied if they were to then say "Yeah I know"

[@Smorans]

vespaeinebriatis 😂 yep, that sums it up perfectly 👏🏻

[@andysutcliffe3915]

The teeth thing is that brits go for healthy teeth, but the american ideal is perfect, bright white, teeth, even if they are fake. To us the celebrity fake teeth look bad, we really prefer healthy teeth that might be slightly misaligned

[@panchopuskas1]

Jump the queue in my home town - Rotherham, and I reckon in most northern towns - and you'll get more than a dirty look....

[@antonycharnock2993]

Rotherham representing. "Nah then. There's a bloody queue tha' knows. Get to back!"

[@cheekybesom]

Or Scotland: I was waiting to be served at a bank when this guy walks past me and the other people in the queue, goes right up to the teller. Me: Oi! Do you think I'm standing here for the good of my health???? Him: Oh it's just a quick thing I need. Me: And what do you think I'm here for? He walks sheepishly to the back of the queue....

[@Sophie.S..]

Same in the Midlands. You will be politely (or not) told to get to the back of the queue. Definately no tutting!

[@l3v1ckUK]

You might get a Glasgow Kiss if you tried that in Scotland.

[@timelordtardis]

... and we're always told how friendly and polite people in the north of England are. 😁

[@l3v1ckUK]

'Yorkshire accent' over simplifies things. There's so many accents within Yorkshire. You can tell someone from the town of Barnsley a mile away. It's only just over 10 miles from other South Yorkshire towns/city such as Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster, but the accent is distinct. The same will be true of towns in other counties.

[@brumav9779]

Tbf they are American spare them some slack. Even some Brits who don’t live in the North can’t distinguish Lancashire and Yorkshire, never mind Sheffield and Leeds etc

[@ricmac954]

True. I grew up in a town/village halfway between Sheffield and Barnsley (8 miles to either), and there's a significant difference in accent. For a start, the former flattens vowels and the latter exaggerates them to beyond their full value. Sheffielders would say "rahnd" for "round", Barnsley-ites would say "raouwnnd. "

[@markrichardson3421]

Apparently people used to have all their teeth out for 'convenience' because dental work wasn't free and it was cheaper to have all your teeth removed in one go and wear false teeth than to pay for a lifetime of maintenance. So I've been told.

[@WanderingRavens]

Damn!! Glad to hear the article I read wasn't leading me astray, but that's brutal!

[@jonathanwebster7091]

Yeah, can confirm this one. My ex's mum had all her teeth out for this reason. Looking back now, it sounds completely bizarre, but it's true.

[@davidholgate123]

The nice British stereotypes are from when we were actually nice! The country has changed dramatically culturally over the last 40 or 50 years and not for the better in my opinion.

[@WanderingRavens]

Sad!

[@jledgister]

@@WanderingRavens there is pollite and there is pollite. if you live hear a long time you will learn when polite is not realy polite. sorry about the rest of the things that happened. they do happen especialy in big cities with yobs. but to be fair lived in FL and it happened there a lot more

[@trippydrew8492]

Have a read through the Wikipedia article for "Norfolk dialect". It's my home county and we have quite the accent and dialect! It is slowly being phased out though with the advent of the internet and being more connected to the country as a whole. I do try and keep it alive and kicking when I can though!

[@Sophie.S..]

Norfolk is my favourite accent. I read that's it's the hardest accent to copy correctly.

[@sarahgreefable]

I love the old words like bishybarneybee! Reminds me of my grandad!

[@carlmarch9591]

​@@Sophie.S..I'm from Norfolk and everyone tries to copy the our accent but it always songs like the west country Bristol everytime

[@Sophie.S..]

@@carlmarch9591 Yes, when people try to copy it, it always sounds like a West Country Somerset accent - whereas it is nothing like it. I hope it never dies out, it's a unique accent.

[@carlmarch9591]

@@Sophie.S.. 💯

[@realrelish5611]

The Norfolk accent is a very distinctive accent. We also have our own dialect but not many people use it these days, it's mostly the older generation. However, there are a few words that are still widely used by most people from Norfolk but not other countys for example blaring means crying. Also most shop assistants do try to tell customers to wait at the back of the queue if they push in to stop everyone from getting annoyed with them.

[@lolagraham8013]

I’m from Norfolk!

[@Totemking]

The accent were I'm from in Devon, we sound like pirates apparently lol

[@alfieisherwood5568]

Woooo go Devon :)

[@WanderingRavens]

Cool! We haven't heard that one yet! Do you emphasize your Rs when you speak?

[@JensterEx]

But isn't that because you arrrrrrhhhh? (Sorry couldn't help myself. My grandmother is from Devon (lived on dartmoor) and when I was kid we'd always ask to go talk to the "pirate". He was the man who lived in the farm over the lane. He thought it was hilarious we thought he was a pirate.)

[@EASYTIGER10]

Arrrrrr Jimlad

[@markrichardson3421]

Why are pirates called pirates? Because they arrrrr!

[@arwelp]

NHS dental charges come in three bands, depending on what you have done in a particular course of treatment. The charges usually increase each April, but thanks to Coronavirus the 2020 increase has been put off until October. The 2019 charges are: Band 1 (checkups) - £22.70; Band 2 (fillings or extractions) - £62.10; Band 3 (Crowns or false teeth) - £269.30. The charge is the same regardless of how many of the same thing you have in the current course, so if you have a checkup then whether you have 1 filling or 4, you still only pay £62.10.

[@tonycasey3183]

Both my parents had ALL their teeth removed when they had to go for a single extraction because they couldn't afford to go back for repeated dental treatments - pre NHS. "Get them all out and get dentures" was a fairly common working class mantra pre war and pre NHS.

[@deekay242]

Great to hear you’ve discovered a bit about the Orcadian accent - so many people don’t know about it and often say we sound Welsh! 😂 You should check out the Shetland accent and the Aberdonian Doric accent... those are interesting! 😁

[@samuellawrencesbookclub8250]

I'm sorry to hear that you had such an unpleasant experience with my countryman.

[@WanderingRavens]

Every place has their odd fruits ;) As you can tell from our videos, those experiences didn't affect our love of the UK at all! :D

[@extrude22]

The NHS covers all non cosmetic dental treatment. It is free for people under 18. If you are over 18 there are 3 tiers of pricing. Basic check ups are around £20, treatments such as root canal work and extractions are tier 2 and around £60 and major treatments such as crowns, dentures and bridges are around £270. The cost is per consultation so if I had 2 teeth removed it would be the same price. As I mentioned, cosmetic procedures such as whitening or replacing your healthy teeth with nicer looking ones are not covered but all dental surgeries offer the option to go private.

[@hollyfindlay4904]

The Mackem accent from Sunderland is often lumped together as being the same as Geordie but is actually quite different even though you can only hear some of the differences if you're a local.

[@brumav9779]

The Mackem vs Geordie thing reminds me of ours in the West Midlands (Black Country vs Birmingham). Everyone outside thinks a yam yam is the same as a Brummie but our accents are completely different, and yam yams also have a dialect (Isn’t it/ennit = ay it) (how are you = ow’ am ya?)

[@jibjab351]

Queueing is the only fair way to get your turn. What you say to a queue jumper depends how big he his. If he is a little runt you tell him to get to the back, if it is Mike Tyson you say nothing.

[@MrJonno85]

Everyone is queuing in the UK at the moment. Even to get into Poundland.

[@larryquicksave5765]

Covid 19?

[@MrJonno85]

@@larryquicksave5765 Yep!

[@barryjohn2641]

I’m sorry that happened to you Grace. My niece is biracial, My brother in law emigrated to the U.K. from Ghana, and some of the horrifying stuff I’ve seen first hand as well as the stories I’ve heard from him breaks my heart about the potential situations my darling niece may find herself in when she gets a little older.

[@jamessnelling9464]

Dialects and accents - watch Al Murray take the p*ss out of regional British accents "comparing accents from around the UK"

[@oshawhat87]

My home city's accent, Mackem, isn't that well known because it's so similar to Geordie. I'm not sure you'll have seen them around, but local book stores sometimes have dictionaries for the accent of the area the shop is in, which can be interesting even if they're meant more as a gag gift. In terms of queuing, I only really see people push in at nightclubs (the bouncers usually spot them though) and people will often politely allow a person in front of them when getting on a bus, even if they should go to the back, because it's nice and not typically worth the fuss of starting an argument.

[@joeswanson7634]

When someone cuts in line mostly you dont tell them to move you just say excuse me the line starts over their pointing at the back of the line and then they normally move ...so we do say something but we do it politely

[@peterwesson7324]

Pre-Covid when I commuted to London it used to irritate me no end that whilst queuing on the underground was very organised at Canary Wharf there was much more of a Wild West approach at Heron Quay DLR. I struggle to explain why but on the DLR L.O.M.B.A.R.Ds would seem to think nothing of pushing in front of women with children and the elderly . The only other group to do that were tourists unfamiliar with the unwritten rules. My opening gambit used to be 'excuse me, are you a tourist' if they said yes I would explain how queuing works and if they said no I'd say 'oh, only you have jumped the queue'. That usually worked. As for the arrogant finance workers they were beyond help all they cared about was themselves and money. I am talking of men in their 20s to 40s predominantly all the designer suits, watches and yet no manners. As an aside In Malta a German tourist made the mistake of pushing in front of a Maltese woman on a bus, within seconds the Maltese woman had torn the German tourists blouse open. I don't suppose the tourist realised she had done anything wrong but she most certainly would have been more careful in future.

[@hannahk1306]

The dental system is a little complicated in the UK. In England, you can go to the exact same dentist as either a private or NHS patient. If you are an NHS patient, they will subsidise the treatment - some people, like under 18s and those on low incomes, get it free. The different treatments are banded in price, with the lowest band being a general check up at about twenty pounds. If you are a private patient, you may have private dental insurance (sometimes through a workplace benefit). Some dentists actually offer private patients extra appointment slots, like weekends or evenings. As Scotland, Wales and NI actually have their own separate branches of the NHS, I believe they have slightly different but similar systems.

[@steveforster9764]

I'm Canadian British if the BBC told me that I lived in Canada I would get a second opinion.

[@SuburbanFox]

Accents: generally, the further north you go, the more you start to sound like Sean Bean, while the further south you go, the more you sound like Ray Winston. In the north we have Jordi, Yorkshire, Scouse (Liverpool), Manchester, and Stoke/Staffordshire, which all have subtle differences but generally follow the northern style of making their o's sound like "ore". The Midlands (the strange part of England that is neither north nor south) has Brummie (Birmingham) and Black Country/Worcestershire, which sounds like the cast of Peaky Blinders. South west starts to sound Cornish/West Country (Cornwall, Devon), and the south east starts to sound more Cockney. RP isn't from any region (sorry London :P ), but is generally used by actors, news readers, and middle class people who want to hide their regional accent, because regional accents = "common" - this is why you'll hear it a lot in London, but it's not the native London dialect. Students also often develop it when they live away from home, as do people who spend a lot of time talking to students, actors, or middle class people. That's just England; Wales has a different accent entirely, which also varies from north to south, and so does Scotland; while south Scotland (near Edinburgh) is still intelligible to our Anglo-Saxon ears, legends say that only a true Scottish person can understand a Glaswegian (Glasgow) accent! ;)

[@pallasathena55]

Good summary! One point though; I live in Glasgow and there is not one Glaswegian accent - it varies quite a bit across the region. Some of the Ayrshire accents are real trouble to visitors. All my old uni palf from England who lived here (and many stayed) crack the Glasgow accents and eventually have no trouble (can even do fairly good renditions of it!)

[@kara0kech1ck]

I'm British and a lot of your observations are spot on. I once did a really unbritish thing and got on the bus before other people who were there before me. Everyone was being so polite to others and it was just taking too long for the queue to decide who was first so I just went and got on. Everyone looked really shocked. Also you can have an NHS dentist in the UK which is subsidised and free for some people. It costs about £50-60 for a tooth out. Privately it would cost about £500. Not everyone has access to an NHS dentist.

[@WanderingRavens]

So glad you enjoyed the video! And that sounds very unbritish - well done 😂 And thank you for letting us know about the dentist situation :)

[@maxgrainger8962]

That scones standoff i wasn't expecting it, made me laugh hard haha i'm glad you understand the battle

[@jtbwilliams]

11:50 "Excuse Me, the lines here" 👉 I do it all the time without being quite as loud. And you say we aren't polite... 🤔

[@rupeoverlay3153]

Exactly, we do call people out on queuing. We just do it subtly and usually you don’t need to do much because the offender knows they done wrong as soon as it’s pointed out

[@isabellenevill5770]

@@rupeoverlay3153 too right, I have found that we are generally more reserved about it, sarcasm and passive aggressiveness definitely comes out

[@JohnSmith77777]

Back at you on the queue thing. This is why British queuing is the best (observed or told to me by someone visiting from abroad): Say there are 4 kiosks open. In most places around the world 4 queues form and there is a bit of queue envy if one column is moving faster than another. In the UK what happens is one queue forms a few feet back from the kiosks, then as a kiosk becomes available the next in line goes to it. Therefore it is totally fair. There are no competing queue columns to join just join the back of the single column. It like a river reaching a delta then splitting into multiple flows. This is also how every post office functions and at a UK post office you can get everything utilities/government stuff sorted. UK queues rock! Plus we get to moan and tut while waiting in line, two great British hobbies.

[@awhite3747]

The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain 😂🇬🇧

[@WanderingRavens]

Love that movie 😂 😂

[@awhite3747]

@@WanderingRavens Movie? Movie?! Film, old chap, film. 😁😘

[@wencireone]

The water in Majorca don't taste like what it oughta 😂

[@awhite3747]

@@wencireone 🤣🤣🤣🤣 good one!

[@Otacatapetl]

Search for that ad right here on KZbin.

[@alexf7377]

Just to add to the queue business (good to know that there are 'resources' to study) if somebody jumps in front of you there's this odd thing where it's left to others to address the jumper rather than the person who was cut in front of. I'll spare you my thesis on the subject, just look out for it next time you're in the UK. Look out also for the virtual queue - often seen at bus stops or pubs where a queue would look bizarre - when people keep a mental note of who was there before and after them, plus of course some gentlemanly 'after you' kind of thing.

[@douglambden5066]

Grace, I’m absolutely appalled you got abused in my country, I can only apologize for the idiots actions. I’ve spent 32 years going in and out of your country and other than getting in a fight with three guys in Philadelphia that wanted to mug me , I’ve had nothing but love from your citizens but can you tech them the difference between English and Australia accents please!!

[@WanderingRavens]

❤️️❤️️

[@kath3832]

Also, you guys are fantastic! So respectful and hit the nail on the head with so many things!! The que tutting made me laugh so much!! Xx

[@watchtheskies]

Where on earth did you get the idea that nobody gets called out for queue jumping?

[@tomlynch8114]

Dental treatment is different to regular health treatment. You have to pay for most dental treatment, but if you’re registered as an NHS patient at your Dental surgery, it’s subsided, so you pay less than if you otherwise would. Some cities and towns have Dental Hospitals where Dental students train, and you can get free dental treatment there, but it’s mainly an option for emergencies.

[@DamnedDave]

Wisdom teeth extraction is free when done in hospital

[@WanderingRavens]

Wow! You lucky blokes!

[@thisisstuart7951]

how much wisdom in your teeth left

[@antonycharnock2993]

Oh Yes. Two hours of clamped torture while a student dentist butchers your mouth removing an impacted wisdom tooth and has to ask for the assistance of a more experienced dentist when they cant get the final root out...

[@DamnedDave]

@@antonycharnock2993 in Hospital specialist Surgeons do the operation not first year students with a hangovers ;-)

[@Nat-qj6cr]

@@DamnedDave Mine was done in hospital because mine were impacted at a 45 degree angle. I got anaesthetic and after that I got a jelly and an Orange juice and special mouthwash to use and pain killers if I needed them. No cost at all. Not sure about average weekly intake of alcohol but meal out with friends who drink it's normally about five pints.

[@danielkrcmar5395]

When going to see the Terracotta Warriors in Liverpool everyone queued up to see them inside of the exhibition. Multiple members of staff were telling everyone not to queue and just to bunch up but everyone ignored them and carried on in a perfect queue.... It was a 10 minute long queue.

[@marcanderson9606]

lol im a brit and when anyone takes my turn i say in OY YOU ITS MY TURN and gently push him or her away

[@kronos2611]

when it comes to dentists - the NHS does cover most dental costs but it also depends on whether or not you can actually find a good NHS dentist in your area. I personally use a private dental practice which is around £100 for a checkup with the most expensive thing I've done was a root canal and crown which was probably around £1,500. The reason I use a private (and indeed specialist dentist) is because I'm in the age group of people who had to visit the school butcher, sorry dentist, as a child. The trauma after that puts many people off ever visiting a dentist and as an adult I probably went 10+ years without visiting a dentist for this very reason.

[@robsargent724]

If someone cuts in front of me in a queue I'm going to say something about it

[@bostonjunk]

I'm from the UK and if you jump in a queue then you are quite likely to have someone say something. Usually it'll just be "There's a queue here!", though there was one time I was at a theme park, a girl tried to cut in line to be with her friends who were already in the queue for a ride and the guy behind had a massive go at them all.

[@RavenclawStudent123]

Is that near London? Referring to the UK as England 🙄

[@WanderingRavens]

Yup :(

[@hectorthorverton4920]

Teeth. It's true that in some cities (Glasgow, Manchester spring to mind) poorer people often had their teeth removed, as a present - sometimes a wedding present, and got themselves a set of false teeth. It was a cost-saving measure. Where there is a difference, is that we don't go in for orthodontics as much - hence the smile comment. We have wonkier teeth, because we usually leave them as they are. I think slightly crooked smiles can be very sexy.

[@MonkeyButtMovies1]

Exactly, my teeth aren't perfect but my dentist decided I didn't need braces, yet if I lived in America my dentist would probably have insisted on it. My theory, it's to make money.

[@pallasathena55]

@@MonkeyButtMovies1 the UK is increasingly becoming the same for dentistry. Imperfect is better!

[@Peterd1900]

Dental work is subsidised by the NHS, Although certain people are eligible for it for free. The charges depending on what country you are in Im in England so can only go with the charges i know Their are 3 Bands Band 1 - £22.70- overs an examination, diagnosis and advice. If necessary, it also includes X-rays, a scale and polish Band 2 - £62.10 - Covers Band 1 plus filings, root canals and extractions Band 3 - £269.30 - Crowns, Dentures and Bridges The cost is fixed regardless of how much work you need done. having 2 fillings and a tooth extraction would still only cost £62.

[@sparks9185]

As far as I know the NHS covers dental for anyone in full time education (not university). I think this is because you have no time for a job while you are at school. It was free for me until I was around 18 as I did A-levels, however when I was at school you could also leave at 16 (no longer the case) and so those that did had to pay for dental care from 16 years old. Essentially as soon as you leave school you have to pay. There are also 2 types of dentists available, private and NHS. I believe most people go private because they are a lot more common however there are NHS ones available which are heavily subsidised. The last time I went I had an X-ray done and it only came to about £20-£25 for everything. If you have to get an operation however, you will often have to go to a dental hospital which is free under the NHS.

[@felixfrederickarchery877]

The teeth pulling thing is for dentures, I think it was common as a wedding present for the family to pay for dentures. Nowadays, British teeth are healthier, but less aesthetically pleasing. Things like teeth whitening and veneers are considered a bit trashy and look wrong to us and middle aged people were unlikely to be offered braces or teeth straightening. On the drinking point, the UK has a pretty toxic binge drinking culture. Having a beer on your lunch break is one I've heard but I think that's long out dated but having a weeks worth of alcohol on a Friday and Saturday night, every week, is very common. I think the closest American thing I'm aware of is College Frat parties.

[@littleannie390]

I use an NHS dentist and there are three tiers of payment with the maximum fee being about £260. I recently had a crown fitted and paid the maximum fee. However, if I had wanted a more expensive crown I could have paid the extra privately in addition to the NHS fee. Many people in the UK now pay private insurance for dentistry as a lot of dentists no longer accept NHS patients.

[@old.not.too.grumpy.]

In theory everyone can either get subsidised or free dental care on the NHS, however you have to be able to register with a NHS dentist. And in some areas there are very few spaces. I couldn't get in NHS dentist so had to go private. It cost just under £2,000 for checkup, a crown, root canal on 3 teeth and a clean and polish. I now have an NHS dentist and a typical vista cost between £45 and £70. On a side note my expensive root canal work went bad and had to have them extracted by a hospital dentist and all that work was free of charge

[@MillsyLM]

One major thing that needs to be noted about the "not talking on public transport" particularly on the underground is because most of the time you can't hear what anyone would say or be heard without shouting at the top of your voice due to the noise of said train rattling through the tunnels which surely defeats the object.

[@knowitall6677]

In England, there are 3 tiers for payment depending on level of treatment. Tier 1 is for a basic check up and clean and scrap. It costs around £22.00 Tier 2 is for a tooth extraction, minor tooth repair or tooth filling. It costs around £60.00 Tier 3 is for more major repair such as crowns, multiple teeth filling, bridges etc. It cost around £220

[@tsvetatodorova57]

As a person who has lived and worked in the US for over 4 years, and now has resided in the UK for over 10 years, I have to say the way you analyse both cultures is astonishingly precise. Especially considering the fact that you haven’t been in the UK all that long. The conclusion about British people being not that polite as internationally thought of, but rather superficially so, and often very much passive-aggressive couldn’t be more true. Your observation about silently standing in line that has been cut by someone is also very true. This probably has something to do with the already mentioned passive aggressiveness. Another thing that still amazes me here is the sheer number of people who park their cars in a way that they take two parking spaces. I find this incredibly rude and an obvious sign of total disregard for others. So much for widespread British impeccable manners and politeness. In that respect I have to also say, that during my over 4 years life in the US I personally have never seen anyone parking in the above mentioned way. Not even once.

[@John-Walker]

A quote for you guys on accents that I heard is every other street there is a different accent. Especially in some parts of the UK like Scotland and Northern Ireland where that is pretty true where every other street has a different accent

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

I've called people out twice for pushing in to the queue, once it was an American couple pushing in to a bus queue and the other time was a British woman in a shop, the second one was a full blown argument. I was glad to see a lady recently rebuke a woman who tried the same in a socially distanced queue outside "Sainsburys. " In general, I dont think queue jumping is tolerated.

[@pabmusic1]

I think you're absolutely right about queueing. I've experienced (many times) the "queueing in one line for two windows" phenomenon - and it works well. But the moment someone cheats it fails.

[@simonbisset4842]

I've heard of a thing called an isogloss - like a contour seperates areas of different height an isogloss separates areas of different dialect or accent, usually between adjacent Yorkshire towns.

[@ajoura_]

I think the queueing is cool here since we queue for literally anything. Anything available to get is available to queue

[@michw3755]

I absolutely hate it when foreigners tell me I LOVE to queue, I don't, who the hell loves to stand god knows how long in queue. What we do have however, is manners of first come first served. Also, this myth of our passive aggressive nature is also a joked up stereo type, I've confronted people twice about queue jumping but as a rule, people tend to stick to rule and it rarely happens, people just take a countries idiosyncrasies too literally sometimes just like all people are polite and overly apologetic, as you've discovered, we're not

[@SamuelDurkin]

We have two main type of Brit. Those who don't want to upset anyone, say sorry when its someone else's fault, and a group of angry thugs who hate anyone who isn't like them and are ready to start a fight for no good reason. This group are often extremely nationalist, and very vocal about it, drink a lot, and are sometimes referred to as Gammon's (because they resemble ham) .. Never say this to them!!!

[@alistairhudson8163]

In the UK at home we eat a variety of homemade food including curries, pizza, pasta, noodles etc. One of my favourite meals would be a slow cooked shoulder of lamb with new potatoes, lasting of vegetables and loads of gravy, plus mint sauce of course. My mother used to cook ox tail which had barley and stewing steak in. Delicious! The beauty of the UK is that you never have a problem finding restaurants or pubs with a variety of different types of cuisine. We enjoyed the choices of food in Washington DC, Orlando and San Francisco but out in the sticks it tends to be burgers only.

[@Alan_Mac]

On queuing...being tutted at is a depth of shaming which will live with that person for ever. Being told, 'go to the back of the line' is merely a challenge to try again the next day.

[@thadtuiol1717]

When I heard that someone had racially abused Grace a little part of my soul died.

[@ianbeddowes5362]

British food has improved considerably since my grandparents time.

[@sarahgreefable]

Boiled tripe anyone!? 😂

[@Ch3lsi3J0]

I’ve never had someone cut in front of me in a queue on purpose. I’ve had people ask if I was waiting so they knew where to stand or I’d say ‘ I’m sorry I am in/ a part of the queue’ and gesture behind me, in which case they’d apologise and move and we’d smile about it, even in pubs. In a busy a club though...that’s a different battle.

[@BB95]

Most people do have to pay for dental treatment such as people who go to work and households who earn over a certain amount of money. However many people are also exempt and receive free treatment such as under 16’s and over 60’s, people that are on low income benefits and get financial help from the government, pregnant women, having a disability or if you are under 18 and still in full time education. Anybody who doesn’t fall in that category has to pay for dental treatment even in a private dentist (expect the really fancy posh ones) and the exact same procedure applies for prescriptions and medication too. You can get a free check up only if you see a dentist in a NHS hospital but you still need to pay for any treatment you get such as dentures the end bill would be considerably cheaper than a private dentist but the waiting list is so long you could be put on a waiting list for up with 10-12 months so most people just go private. I used to work in a pharmacy and I handled dental prescriptions all the time.

[@jeremysmith54565]

Because the NHS does cover dental work, though can't have implants they're only done privately unless there's a serious psychological reason for mental health as to why you'd need them (there's exceptions to everything really) but a tooth extraction costs about £50 on the NHS essentially paying think its 25% of the cost of the treatment is what that pays for the rest is paid to the dental practice by the NHS. Since all dentists are always private but some least offer NHS care, but in a very limited sense can't have more than so many people registered on the NHS within a practice so often they'll say they arent allowing for anymore registrations until someone decides to change their dentists

[@ShiningBlueCircle]

There is no queuing in pubs - it’s every man for himself and devil take the hindmost. Totally different experience for me in America - sit at the bar (no standing) barkeep almost instantly asks “waddle ya have” - I’m guessing tipping comes into this level of service. PS. You once asked about pub etiquette - in England if you want to sweeten the barkeep you add “... and one for yourself” do this every day for about ten years and there is a chance you will get served. I have also experienced in coffee / sandwich bars in England what I call the queue of one - stand there waving cash while 5 or 6 servistas busy themselves with odd tasks.

[@harlek1149]

My brother developed a pretty strong West Country accent through living there for years and tended to avoid speaking on games with US players because of how outraged they were at him "trying to sound like a pirate."

[@Iskandar64]

Also you are right about queuing, we have the reputation for queuing, but actually in London we all barge in. It’s not a stereotype I recognise.

[@lillianaketchup5702]

I'm English and I agree with your points on the queue lol, by the way people go on about our queues I assumed that in other countries people either completely had no consideration and many people jump them or that instead you did some kind of clump and u had to slowly make ur way to the front of the clump lol🤣

[@scouser123abc]

Only recently stumbled across this chancel and I absolutely love it! I love how interested you guys are in British culture, you actually teach me (a Brit) a thing or two!

[@WanderingRavens]

Welcome to our little corner of the internet, Mike! So glad you're enjoying our videos :D

[@johnberwyn23]

I'm English and I've called people out for queue jumping on many occasions and will continue to do so...... unless they're pretty, good looking people get away with anything. I've also been accused of queue jumping recently as I briefly stepped out of my place and rejoined after security asked me to leave my trolley behind due to lockdown rules, another customer two places back, passively aggressively told me a story about how he was told to join the line from further back, I explained the situation as did the security guard which then put him in a huff, and when I said he should have minded his own business (hypocritical I know but he was all red faced and angry) he went absolutely mental, this lead to 20 minutes uncomfortable queuing for the person between us but made several others around chuckle.

[@onlyme1028]

Having all your teeth removed used to be given as a twenty- fussy birthday present, because dental care was so expensive and people were poor. My gran had all hers taken out, I believe when she was pregnant. I would say sometimes Brits politely let the queue jumper know there's a line, often on behalf of another person, rather than the person who's been directly pushed in front of saying. At Tesco the other day, a man politely let the lady know she'd pushed in front of me in the COVID-queue, because she hadn't noticed, but you're right, I would have said nothing!

[@jongreen5297]

Point of order on queuing, although it is not advised that fellow queuers intercede, the service provider has authority, and a solemn duty to call out the queue jumper, either with a polite "I believe this lady/gentleman was here first" before moving to serve the wronged party or just ignoring/looking past the jumper to the next person in line and just serving them, and everyone else after them who didn't queue jump, usually the jumper gets the hint and moves back to there proper position. In other words its not that enforcement doesn't happen when people breach the rules but the the enforcement is the responsibility of the person in command of the queue, which, when you think about, makes more sense as they are the ones with the power to withhold the goods or service for which the queue has formed. Therefore, I contest that we are, as was previously understood, the better queuers.Q.E.D

[@cjreeve79]

My experience is that us Brits do tell someone if they are queue jumping but usually tell them quietly in such a way as to imply that you understand they may not have realised there was a queue. Problems are resolved without kneecapping someone. Re the dentist, dental hygiene is not free and for most people who don't comply for free dental treatment, if the, if the dentist provides NHS treatment you pay for one of three bands of service, which is subsidised. Band 1 covers a checkup and costs about £23, band 2 covers most basic treatments and costs about £62 and more complex dental work is chapped at about £270. The NHS still only pays for white fillings for front teeth and false teeth on the NHS look very cheap and fake.

[@mattwestman118]

NHS covers dentists up to 18. After that check ups and cleans are £23 a visit. Any necessary emergency surgeries are covered under the NHS. Minor surgeries are usually at the persons cost. Xrays are covered under the £23

[@alistairhudson8163]

Teeth: The NHS dentists charge a set fee for each type of work. A routine check up and clean costs about £30. Private dentists charge what they want, I suppose. I was born in 1959 and people of my generation never had braces fitted to correct wonky teeth unless they were very misaligned. However my children’s generation did generally get a brace unless the misalignment was very minor. In USA all teenage children seem to wear braces so they grow up with straight teeth. When I was a bus driver in Nottingham a lot of my colleagues had the British smile because they either couldn’t afford to visit the dentist or didn’t want to. It was quite common in the UK for young people to have all their teeth removed so that they used dentures which looked perfect. In Elizabethan times people used to paint one or two teeth black to look like they were missing teeth due to decay from eating sugar. Why? Because if you could afford sugar you must have been very wealthy. Apparently Queen Elizabeth I had really bad teeth.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

In the small Cumbrian town where I grew up and lived till quite recently you can even tell which part of the town someone was from by their accent

[@Beeg33bee]

When I was in France someone jumped the queue infront of me, a Chinese lady loudly shouted at him and then turned to me and shouted "Why didn't you say anything?!". So your point of not calling queue jumpers out is very true

[@donnyskinglongliveme]

I have a pal who's quite posh middle class & when we went to the pub, she gave me wrong cause I didn't que at the bar. The bar isn't a que! The bar is 'wedge yourself in & get the barmaid's attention' She was mortified that I didn't que.

[@laurenblachford1501]

i think i have to agree with eric we aren’t the best at queuing , as a british teen, i know the terror of a lunch queue (i can’t even explain the horror) 🙊