Americans React to Top 10 Things That Are Weirdly Popular in Britain

[@davidhyams2769]

"Cheeky" in the context of "Cheeky Nando's" means something like "i really shouldn't, but I will anyway" or possibly unplanned/spur-of-the-moment. But the phrase has become the common way if saying "Let's go to Nando's" and the "cheeky" part is almost never used for anything else except maybe "let's go to the pub for a cheeky pint" when it's an excuse to avoid doing something else you ought to be doing.

[@nicolad8822]

Well explained.

[@ruthletts9752]

Cheeky. Can be applied to a cheeky chocolate , a cheeky drink, etc etc. something that’s a great you shouldn’t be have, something you can do without but really fancy it so have it

[@eddisstreet]

The Cheeky Girls

[@tussk.]

touch my bum@@eddisstreet

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

Nando's is so expensive I have never gone in one. I don't get why it is supposed to be so popular.

[@scrappystocks]

It's hardly "weird" that the UK uses roundabouts. They are far more efficient than traffic lights at keeping traffic flowing and reduce accidents at intersections.

[@BedsitBob]

Except where they put traffic lights *ON* roundabouts.

[@Hirotoro4692]

​@@BedsitBobyeah those aren't too good but that's because they put roundabouts in bad places where the flow from different routes is uneven and realise they goofed up

[@DavidJohnson-rj8zu]

@@Hirotoro4692 We had one the worst Roundabouts in Europe every time you went round you diced with death I was lucky thankfully there was always a DD Bus going my way which I needed for a shield, who is going to argue with a Big Red Bus, but a lot of other folk not so lucky and then they put in Traffic Lights I said I can't see that working but I was wrong they have cut accidents down to a quarter, now days when I go around it someone else is driving.🧐

[@Strange_Club]

Ah, you must be a town planner! 😅

[@ekatep6362]

​@@BedsitBobI'm a big fan of light controlled roundabouts

[@helenwood8482]

The pancakes shown are American. Ours look nothing like that.

[@pastyman001]

The best are Breton Crepes

[@lynnejamieson2063]

Scottish pancakes look like the ones shown in the video.

[@catherinerobilliard7662]

It’s charity shops too, not charity stores.

[@BlueTexel]

'Pancake day' / Shrove Tuesday was I believe, the last day of shrovetide when Christians enjoyed the last of the stores of good food etc, before Ash Wednesday and giving up on endulgent things for the long period of Lent. I like my pancakes the British traditional way, straight from the skillet, not too thin, covered in fresh lemon juice and caster sugar before rolling and adding more lemon juice and sugar 😂.

[@kathchandler4919]

We have pancakes in Tyneside/Northumberland called drop scones been around for centuries, my nana made them, call drop scones only because the mix is, literally, dropped into a frying pan, it's exactly the same as your American pancakes

[@Julmaa87]

14:03 - In the UK we don't call a room a bathroom unless it has a bath in it, otherwise we just call it the toilet.

[@kaylaable]

I just call it the shitter and get on with my day lol

[@drjamespotter]

​@kaylaable Get you Mr Hoity Toity.

[@carolparry4077]

The loo

[@HA1LILPALAZZO]

thanks to Bottom live 2 it's called the Kidderminster in my house XD

[@MidnightBlaze0404]

That's not really true. :T If you go somewhere and say "Excuse me, where's the bathroom?" everyone will know what you mean, and it's commonly said.

[@thomassharmer7127]

The video mentioned drinking during works lunch break. But in most workplaces that I know if you came back to work in the afternoon drunk or even obviously worse for drink, you would be in big trouble. So drinking at work is generally a no-no, unless you work at 10 Downing Street during a pandemic lock down of course 😅.

[@amsodoneworkingnow1978]

And in Scotland drinking in public is actually illegal.

[@bobm4378]

@@amsodoneworkingnow1978 due to the misuse of alcohol it is illegal outside, but not in the grounds of a public house.. blame those who took it too far.. AFAIK it it is tolerated in England, until it becomes 'breach of the peace'..

[@smartypants7284]

Or a journalist

[@Whippy99]

Public drunkenness is a spectator sport in the UK.

[@chucky2316]

Or spice people 😂

[@Whippy99]

@@AirstripOne-nd4du ☹️

[@reactingtomyroots]

😂

[@adamcowood7553]

@@reactingtomyroots If the police even stopped you for walking/staggering drunk (probably not). They would ask where you are going. If you say/slur "I'm going home to bed", they would say something like "Stay safe" and leave you to it. If you said something about operating heavy machinery, they would probably ask more questions but still let you go.

[@garethfarman9540]

​@@adamcowood7553 I have been near stocious, bouncing off hedges and nearly falling over. A police car drove by and I heard them laughing at me. People were watching me bounce off their fences and hedges.

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

Eurovision isn't a SINGING competition, it's a SONG contest. All entries have to submit original songs.

[@GaryThomas-gx2jm]

And its shite

[@gtaylor331]

Actually, it's not a song contest, it's a popularity contest, we should pull out and stop giving these idiots money.

[@irene3196]

The pyrotechnics and costumes seem to play a bigger part in being awarded "points" than the songs - the Icelandic entries spring to mind!

[@pastyman001]

Eurovision is more like a bombastic, walloping visual gimmick competition

[@abergreg]

Its a joke, the music is garbage,

[@AgentLynch616]

Drinking in public isn’t dangerous. Drinking in public while carrying a gun is

[@siok4375]

Not if you need to defend yourself...

[@ClipCrew]

@@siok4375against what? Bears?

[@WreckItRolfe]

​@@ClipCrew Africans

[@Calgac]

@@WreckItRolfe😂😂😂😂😂 quality

[@eoinlucas5058]

*land of the free* can't cross the street , can't drink a beer in public and children need police in there schools.

[@SarahMcKee-wn2pd]

Just love how nice you both are to each other. A man treating a woman with respect. You guys cheer me up 😊

[@britonabrompton9912]

Here in Sweden, we also use a mixture of metric, and traditional measurements for some things. For example TV screens are quoted as ‘tum’ (literally, thumb, meaning an inch) for example ‘55 Tums’. Car tyres sizes have 4 elements for example ‘205/55 SR 17’ this means 205mm wide, 55% height to width ration, SR = Slow rated, 17 = outside diameter in inches.

[@LETHAL-NYMPH]

Lived my whole life in the U.K. have never set foot in Nandos. We have a lot of antique auctions in the U.K.

[@101steel4]

Tried it once. Terrible tbh😂

[@cyflym11]

No I've never been in Nandos in my 57 years. Never had McDonald's either.

[@LETHAL-NYMPH]

@@cyflym11 Neither have I or KFC lol 😆

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@101steel4 Not just terrible, terrible and expensive.

[@heliotropezzz333]

@@101steel4 I rather liked it. I haven't been for a few years though.

[@marcuscro8887]

In the UK it takes an awful lot to get arrested for being drunk. You essentially have to be fighting and extremely aggressive to be arrested for drunkenness.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@scottneil1187 The reason that the USA has such draconian laws about public drunkenness is the hold-over from the anti-saloon campaigns in 1910s & 20s. The small-town Protestant folks viewed any alcohol and immigrants as the basis for most problems affecting the USA. Therefore, they imposed Prohibition and severe laws against public drunkenness. When Prohibition was rescinded, the public drunkenness laws remained. The echo of that time was the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) that managed to change the USA national drinking age from 18 to 21 in the early 1980s.

[@markhutton6824]

or actually kick off at the Police. I remember being at a house party leaving at 4am and having to walk 5 miles home. I had a nice thick coat, it was only November and there was a bench 1 mile from my house but I was so tired and it looked in my state so comfy. No idea how long it was but a local Police car stopped and the woke me up asking where I needed to go. After explaining the situation and that I was really tired, the offered the cells or a lift home if I could get inside. They dropped me off and my keys worked and I slept for most of Sunday. Those police officers are sound. I do remember them telling me to stop saying "thank you" for taking me home.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@markhutton6824 Don't EVER try that in the USA because you WILL end up in Jail for some time and most likely lose your job & your health insurance in the process.

[@sillysciben8092]

pretty sure the term on the actual law is "drunk and disorderly" but I don't drink so don't know

[@aidancolyer7924]

@@sillysciben8092 yeah that's the charge. One of our best laws to be honest. Being drunk and friendly all good. Being drunk and punching things not so good so off to the little room without laces and a belt for you. It gives the police some leeway. It's so normal I think the police are actually pretty good at dealing with it. From police interactions I have had while drunk or even just after a couple of drinks they've always seemed fairly relaxed and confident while being fair and honest.

[@pauldurkee4764]

I don't know if this is the case in the US, but tape measures over here have both the imperial and metric measurements.

[@trickygoose2]

That's true. Kitchen and bathroom scales tend to have both options. Hospitals in the UK weigh and record birth weights in metric, but tend to tell the parents the weight in imperial.

[@marydavis5234]

It is the same in the US , rulers in the US have both imperial and metric measurements and I even have a scale that measures you weight in pounds and stones.

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@marydavis5234 American and British Imperial are different.

[@SimonDaviesCyclist]

@@nealgrimes4382 only in the volumes, but that's enough to bake anyone's noodle! UK/US 1 ounce 1 (fluid) oz. 28.41 mL 1 (fluid) oz. 29.57 mL 1 pint 20 (fluid) oz. 568.26 mL 16 (fluid) oz. 473.18 mL 1 quart 40 (fluid) oz. 1.137 L 32 (fluid) oz. 946.36 mL 1 gallon 160 (fluid) oz. 4.546 L 128 (fluid) oz. 3.785 L Bonkers!

[@Lazmanarus]

@@nealgrimes4382 Only the liquid measure, a pound is 16 ounces in the US & in Britain & the ounces are the same weight, an inch is the same in the US & UK, whereas a US pint is 16fl.oz where a UK pint is 20 fl.oz, there's stll 8 pints to a gallon in both countries, so a US gallon is 4/5ths of a UK gallon.

[@BlooMKunKy]

I once was watching the footy with my mate and he asked "whats 6 foot in centimetres?" I got out the measuring tape "there we go 183 CM" we carried on watching the footy. A few minutes later he said "so whats 12 stone in kilograms?" I handed him the measuring tape and watched as he looked, and looked, and still looked until he saw the masive grin on my face. I laughed my bollocks off

[@JayneDragon]

Thats so funny

[@kim6414]

My son has autism and we turned his shed into a sensory room. With a leather recliner sofa and changing lights

[@x2karns]

random comment

[@TheOrlandoTrustfull]

My uncle turned his garden shed into a mini pub, with beer taps, optics, dart boards and a pool table, so him and his mates could have a good time while their wives chatted in the house.

[@DigitalTwisted]

I've got pretty much that setup. It's specifically marketed as a garden bar though but it's essentially a modified shed, it's only big enough to like stand behind the bar counter though not big enough for a pool table or anything, but we've got the optics in there for the spirits and a Perfect Draft machine for the beer, thinking of adding a BLADE machine as well for a wider choice of beers. Put it up just before last summer and it was great to be able to finish work and just sit in the garden in the sun and pull a fresh pint etc, we added a firepit later in the year as well really enjoyed having it so far.

[@catherinerobilliard7662]

In our house, I have the pub, complete with pump, optics, jukebox, slot machine, tv, dartboard, snacks, bell etc. I enjoy games night with the girls in the pub. My husband, who doesn’t drink, has a cup of tea and banter with the lads down the allotment.

[@TheOrlandoTrustfull]

@catherinerobilliard7662 That's amazing, Catherine. Please upload a video of you showing us around your pub. I would absolutely love that.

[@reactingtomyroots]

hahah love it! Sounds like the equivalent of "man caves" here in the US

[@DH.2016]

We used to have a bar in our living room/lounge in our first flat. Funny how the guys used to stand around it whilst the girls sat on the comfy chairs when they, too, had the choice to sit comfortably. Happy days. 😄

[@botticellirejectbotticelli2668]

I’m a British woman and I have three sheds. One for garden equipment, one for ‘precious things’ and one for relaxing. I’d like a fourth shed but my husband thinks I have enough. #shedsrule

[@DeepThought9999]

Can’t go up? I have had a nice attic built recently where I’m building a model railway (and where we store boxes of things that my wife would rather throw out).

[@eddisstreet]

And don't forget Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson

[@botticellirejectbotticelli2668]

@@eddisstreetI’d forgotten that skit, I might need a composing shed.

[@briangibson6527]

My daughter calls me Brian 4 sheds 🤣

[@leec6707]

Have you painted them different colours? I'm waiting for my new, smaller shed to be delivered and will get a second one, if needed. I can't tell you how often I discuss sheds (female in her 50s)!

[@arwelp]

It’s a bit of a misnomer to call the US system “Imperial measurements”, because you declared independence before Imperial measurements were standardised, which is why US pints and gallons are 20% smaller than British ones.

[@barneylaurance1865]

Yes, the proper name is "United States customary units".

[@MrBlaxjax]

In theory the USA is metric! Sure they use measures that are mainly inherited from the uk. But an inch in the USA is officially measured out in cm/mm. Other measures too. Much of American government and industry is basically metric. The national parks service, the military, vehicle manufacturing. But in day to day living the USA still uses the old units. (Except soda which is sold in litres) In the uk many people still think imperial but business has (mostly)grabbed the metric system by both hands. No wonder as it is easier to use.

[@thatonebritishidiot3037]

@@MrBlaxjax it's baffles my American friends that we use both imperial and metric, blows their minds even

[@countzero1136]

I tend to use metric for small measurements where accuracy is more important, but imperial measurements for larger things. For example I use millimetres for 3D design but imperial for large DIY projects

[@willywonka7812]

Imperialist measurements, is the more accurate term, but then, how to distinguish it from the British...

[@ian-t7t]

It sums up much of what is scary about Americans,when discussing the metric system "9mm Ammo"was the first thing that came to mind.

[@sillysciben8092]

I know I cringed too 😂

[@reubenstube6667]

I’ve thought this; they all use metric, they just don’t realise it! 😂

[@StevenHughes-hr5hp]

9mm Luger... so it was not an American who created that caliber.

[@rogerking7258]

Born in England in 1957, I grew up with imperial units, but was then taught metric at age 10 onwards. I'm forever grateful for this because I'm completely at ease with either system - which is handy because I worked in an engineering environment. There is no doubt that metric is more logical, but imperial often feels more "comfortable". I'm particularly fond of Unified thread standards which were actually largely an American initiative.

[@Outnumberedbykidsandcats]

Yeah I can pretty much work with either of them, with the exception of temperature where I can’t work out Fahrenheit.

[@craig3262]

In the UK u can get arrested for being "drunk and disorderly" which means being aggressive or abusive, if you're just clearly drunk and having a laugh with mates then that's mostly no problem... saying that there's actually a really old law that says you're not allowed to be drunk in a pub thats never enforced anymore

[@geoffpoole483]

It's illegal to serve someone who's drunk.

[@tonys1636]

Was once charged and convicted for being Drunk in a Public Place, I was crawling along on all fours and bumped into a long pair of blue clad legs. Fined £100 by a Magistrate, after looking up the 1859 act I was charged under the maximum fine was 10 shillings. I appealed the sentence and the Judge reduced the fine to £1, he stated that I should have been charged under a more modern law and the Magistrate had applied the modern one not the 1859 still on the statute one when passing sentence. He couldn't reduce it to 50p as £1 was the minimum and as I had pleaded guilty couldn't quash the conviction.

[@nealgrimes4382]

I don't think that's ever been enforced unless you are being a nuisance, i mean that's like saying you can go to.the swimming Baths but you aren't allowed to get wet.

[@efffvss]

@@nealgrimes4382 It is enforced occasionally, it's happened to me on both sides of the bar. But there's either something else going on (when I was refused service the barman thought I'd caused trouble the previous week, when I hadn't even been 'in' the pub that week) or you're very obviously drunk (when I've worked in pubs, I've refused service to people that were struggling to stand/get to the bar, that sort of thing). Essentially, as long as you can mostly walk straight, still speak while being understood and don't worry staff that you might vomit, you'll probably be fine.

[@katharinereynolds25]

​@@tonys1636good job you didn't get drunk in the pub then as that's also against thenlaw also that is actually a thousand pound fine

[@SirBradiator]

The restaurant is called Nandos, "Cheeky" is the adjective we use to describe going to Nandos, especially when it is unplanned ahead of time.

[@YourBeingParanoid]

basic food for basic types

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

Calling Nando’s a restaurant is a bit of a stretch.

[@callumBee]

@@Jabber-ig3iw Is more a crèche...

[@niallrussell7184]

Sus - another word youngsters think they invented.. just like Nandos food quality

[@YourBeingParanoid]

My son in law used to be a manger at a large Nando's and we could all eat there for free as often as we liked as a family or individuals. We only ever went once and it was a unanimous decision to never go back because "Dad cooks better food" - it's not like it hard though! @@niallrussell7184

[@wildwine6400]

If you come to the UK, you HAVE to go to a boot sale. They start early, round 6-7am and traditionally on Sundays. Theres some huge ones scattered across the country that can literally take like 3 hours plus to walk around. Walking about browsing a boot sale in the early morning with cup of hot soup off one of the vendors is the way to go 👍

[@hellsbells8689]

Boot = Trunk of the car. Not selling boots by the way. 🤣

[@lynzp7438]

Prefer my local large boot sale as starts at 9am for sellers and public buyers at 10am. Much better than others as doesn't start so early on a Sunday. It's very popular as has a indoor area if it's forecast for rain.

[@reactingtomyroots]

Sounds like heaven for Lindsay hahah

[@wildwine6400]

@@lynzp7438 one of my local boot sales used to be 6am open to buyers, but then new people took it over and changed it 9. Some of the really big ones start at like 4-5am for sellers to get in as it takes ages get all the cars set up

[@SciFiFemale]

@@lynzp7438 When I was a teen, so late 80s, there was a car boot that started midday, so much better.

[@jernaugurgeh8110]

You two always make me smile. I love the enthusiasm for our culture. You seem like genuinely lovely family. Thanks for the channel guys 🙂

[@reactingtomyroots]

Thanks for the kind words! We appreciate you hanging out with us

[@boffgirl]

Roundabouts have been show to reduce fatalities by 97% beccause you have to generally slow down to go around, compared to junctions where people are keep to try and beat and jump lights at speed, it also reduces time of idling as things are constantly moving from all sides, also reducing overall pollution

[@w0033944]

Having ammunition as an understandable reference for the use of metric units is very American lol.

[@trickygoose2]

As I understand, Americans do tend to use cubic centimetres/centimeters an litres for the size of vehicle engines. I know there is also cubic inches but I think that is little used nowadays.

[@ElizabethDebbie24]

The British pancake is a version of a French crepe.

[@w0033944]

Indeed.@@ElizabethDebbie24

[@reactingtomyroots]

Touche 😂

[@w0033944]

😄@@reactingtomyroots

[@katydaniels508]

Thrifting, flee markets, antique markets, car boot sales, charity shops, are a really big deal in the UK. The Repair Shop is one of the best shows on TV

[@reactingtomyroots]

Lindsay would love that, for sure!

[@davidbean6973]

And Bargain Hunt, Cash in the Attic, Money for Nothing… so many shows!

[@YummyBrummy]

In Britain it not illegal to be drunk. However like Lindsy said we only get arrested if your drunk and disorderly. Drunk driving... drunk and in charge of.. etc

[@geoffreynolds8835]

It is an offence to be drunk in public. Although the fine is less than . Drunk and disorderly .

[@nealgrimes4382]

I was charged with being Drunk.and incapable, though that was some time ago, not sure if it still stands.

[@michaeljeacock]

I was picked up for being drunk in a public place once, but I wasn't charged with anything. I was just put in a cell overnight to sleep it off and let go in the morning.

[@willowseljan6701]

If you're over 18, there aren't any blanket restrictions against drinking in public in the UK. But local councils can put measures in place to stop drinking in certain areas where they believe alcohol could contribute to anti-social behaviour.

[@blackratjan]

Roundabouts really do help keep traffic moving. The problem comes when town planners then decide to add traffic lights to the roundabout, thereby completely removing the point of them.

[@JohnResalb]

Garden sheds are used for all kinds of things, from housing a few chickens, to an overnight sleepover for the kids to invite their friends over (in warmer weather, of-course). But the most use of a garden shed is simply to house all your garden tools, deck chairs, etc.etc.

[@weejackrussell]

Man caves!

[@admusik99]

My shed has become the local pub

[@WindsweptCanadian]

Cheeky is a word used for implying a treat or indulging. I hear my friends from England use it .

[@petergreen7831]

Cheeky was a word to describe a child that was disrespectful to adults. Now its used more as snacky, light heartedly comment

[@vickywitton1008]

I don't, it's more of a South Eastern thing

[@smithjonathan]

Or something just a little bit "naughty". Like you might go for a cheeky pee behind a bush if you're caught short in the countryside. My dad used to day he was off for a "swift half", where I think today, that might be a "cheeky beer" 😀🍺

[@cookingfat1]

The word "thrift" is generally not used in the UK, we just say "second hand". Most countries in Europe compete in the Eurovision Song Contest, Australia also competes for some reason. Up to 44 countries can compete, and there are up to 28 countries in the grand final.

[@reactingtomyroots]

We tend to say thrift or second hand.

[@carriedudley8593]

And Israel!

[@ABetney]

Or charity shops, as most of the shops selling second hand goods in the UK are raising money for a specific charity.

[@christiner302]

​@@ABetneyYes, there are very few second hand shops that aren't charity shops.

[@lulusbackintown1478]

My brother has a garden room/summer house which is half bar and half is sitting room. The bar is properly set up as a bar with optics, bottled beer etc. Fridge behind the bar for juices etc. Its called The Wasps Nest as he is a supporter of Wasps Rugby team. The sitting room side has comfy sofas and armchairs. Great because you can continue your outside party under cover when it rains.

[@rayraamsalu6092]

When I was in my late teens ( 2 or 3 in the morning) I and two friends were walking home, from a night club in a nearby town, when a police car pulled up next to us. After asking if we were ok and if we lived locally the officer asked if we required a lift home. We actually declined the offer as we were less than two miles from our village and one of my friends had no wish for a police car dropping him off outside his parents home. Probably would not happen these days but the seventies in the north east of England life was more laid back.

[@chrisellis3797]

"She shed" sounds like something Sean Connery would say in an old Bond film. Thatsh what she shed"

[@marydavis5234]

She shed aka is the female version of a man cave.

[@briangibson6527]

May be Linsay means a Beach Chalet.?

[@MrKingkz]

Just said this in his voice😂

[@marydavis5234]

@@briangibson6527 no , a she shed is a female version of a man cave

[@chrisellis3797]

@@marydavis5234 obviously, just as Lindsey explained it..... doesn't detract in anyway from me saying it sounds like Sean Connery👀

[@nigelmansfield3011]

Even in metric Australia (at least in WA) we use "pints" for beer, fuel is sold in litres but we use miles per gallon for cars.

[@DeepThought9999]

Dinosaurs? Nobody that I know here in NSW still uses mpg. It’s all litres/100km. Easier to calculate and once you get your head around it (which I agree can take some time) I think that it is easier to use, too. I have gone through the decimal currency conversion and the metric measurements conversion and I found that decimal currency was the easier conversion as it was done effectively overnight, coming into force on the 14th February 1966. Still remember the jingle, too.

[@laticsprem]

​@@DeepThought9999And the UK followed suit five years later,also with a catchy jingle.😂

[@ShaneWalta]

"Are auctions a thing?" Sotheby's is one of the most famous auction houses in the world. They were founded in London when the USA was still the 13 colonies ;)

[@peterjackson4763]

The TV programmes Bargain Hunt and Dickinson's Real Deal are probably most people's experience of auctions. I have been to two auctions. One when selling stuff after my parents died. My bald patch shone on Dickinson's Real Deal that time.

[@ShaneWalta]

@@peterjackson4763 yeah, but people in the US or people with 9-5 jobs likely wouldn't know about those programmes. Sotheby's is a worldwide auction house that handles hugely famous sales. Aside from that, if I was going to make a reference to an auction on TV, I'd have said Only Fools and Horses.

[@carriedudley8593]

Also Christies.

[@yonwife5879]

Really enjoyed this. The pancakes shown were the wrong pancakes. British pancakes for Shrove Tuesday would be more like a crepe, but called a pancake.

[@judybage4083]

Outdoor drinking is very popular indeed. Right now we have a four day weekend for Easter. I wish I could film my village antics for you. Especially if it doesn’t rain 😂😂

[@robertstw]

Americans don't realize their currency is the same as the metric system. When you tell them that they look puzzled 😅

[@chrisperyagh]

Decimal currency, but still pretty much the same thing as metric as it's mostly in divisions of 10s and 100s.

[@chrislawley6801]

And Imperial American is really original British empirical measures from British empire before we moved to metric except for miles mph as UsA uses kilometres as I understand

[@robertstw]

@@chrislawley6801 most Americans don't know what a kilometer is. 2 pints is a quart or sometimes called a liter here 32 oz. I think your getting confused with Canada with the kilometers.

[@chrisperyagh]

@@chrislawley6801 The USA do use miles per hour - how can they not use MPH when they measure their roads in miles just as we do? Canada uses kilometres as they went metric.

[@Brian3989]

@@chrisperyagh Somewhere near the Mexico border some roads have speed limits in kilometres per hour.

[@DaniëllaKL1970]

Good morning all. 😊 I don't like Eurovision anymore for decades. As Steve said it became more of a freak show. Here on yt there are video's of our Dutch contestant for this year🤢. It's around the beginning of May if I remember correctly.

[@Whippy99]

For many years, people my age (64) had to convert metric to imperial and pounds, shillings and pence to decimal for our parents. I use both imperial and metric and can convert either, quickly. The really weird thing is how Americans use cups and pounds to weigh things 😳

[@TanyaRando]

I’m the same lol I can convert quickly, and with money, thruppeny bit, shilling etc lol

[@Whippy99]

@@TanyaRando Do you remember half a crown? 2 shillings and sixpence. It was a small fortune to me as a child. My darling Aunt and Uncle used to give me half a crown every time they visited us. 🥰

[@hellsbells8689]

I'm a Brit too, just a fraction younger than yourself. I remember the change over of money. I may have just started school at the time. Anyway, what I wanted to say was I totally get the Cup system and here's why. When it started out, I believe it was because everyone had a cup, so Two cups of this and three cups of that gave you the right ratio for your recipe. It doesn't matter how big your own cup is, it will still work if you follow the recipe. Now if you were only cooking for your small family, then you may have enough by using your small cup. If you were feeding a farm full of labourers your little cup wouldn't work. so use a bucket. Same recipe + bucket = huge amount, a great method in my opinion. Later the Cup became an exact amount/weight and messed up that great method.

[@TanyaRando]

@@Whippy99 yes! And when my grandad would come home from working away we’d get a 10 Bob note 🤣🤣

[@Whippy99]

@@TanyaRando Ooh you lucky thing! 😍

[@ElliePopsBespoke]

11:05 they are usually called summer houses. My grandma has one to sit in in the garden. But I just have a regular 8ft x 6ft shed to keep our bikes, garden furniture in the winter and tool storage

[@LornaCook]

Pancake day is also known as Shrove Tuesday followed by Ash Wednesday, it was a means to use up all dairy and enter "Lent"

[@KSmeaton1]

My mum uses her garden shed as a craft room for her arts and crafts. Its pretty big! My house has a downstairs loo as well as upstairs. Also a walk-in shower. You definitely should watch Riverdance with the wife!

[@Brian-om2hh]

I've lived in Britain for 66 years, and I've never been to, or even seen a Nandos You have to have a garden shed Steve. Mine is 12 foot by 8 foot, with lighting and power. It's a must have.... I have a radio and a comfortable chair in there.... Both toilets in my house are downstairs, as I live in a bungalow. Here in Britain Steve, some local authorities (councils) apply their own laws/regulations regarding consumption of alcohol in public places. Some openly ban it, others are slightly more tolerant. The police can arrest and charge you for being intoxicated in a public place. Yes, we do have auctions and sales here in Britain Steve. These take place in most towns, cities, and even villages at local level.

[@Clemo1991]

Drinking in public is not aloud any where in the UK unless its a event but police don't really get involved unless your drunk and Causing a Disturbance

[@Sine-gl9ly]

​@@Clemo1991Drinking in public is not allowed? Of course it is! SOME places have a ban on 'the consumption of alcohol in X public area', but those are very specific bans, where there are, or have been, known problems/damage/whatever in a specific place, or group of places, eg streets surrounding a popular meeting place, or a conservation area that has suffered the visits of dfunken yobs, but no-one - and crtainly not the police! - is going to check the contents of your picnic basket on a normal day at a public beach or in a public park, if you're behaving in a normal sort of way.

[@nealgrimes4382]

Nandos: overpriced mediocre food.

[@sarahealey1780]

Lindsey would love Hay-on-Wye. The entire town is a second-hand book shop. You should look it up.

[@cyflym11]

I've been there (heaven!) and it even says "Hay-on-Wye town of books" as you drive in.

[@geoffpoole483]

@@cyflym11 I visited Hay on Wye with my brother. We had to leave sooner than expected because my brother was spending too much money. It's easily done.

[@MaterialGurl16]

You can absolutely sell and swap individual football stickers. They come in packs, not a sheet. I spent so much time and effort completing my 90s Premier League albums. 😅

[@lj8302]

If you like looking at how we transform small spaces in the UK you might enjoy looking in to narrowboat homes. I would love to own one 😍

[@slw147]

Most houses have a shed in their gardens here - quite common here - The Author Roald Dahl wrote many of his books in his garden shed. Some may have a workshop in them whilst others use them for storage or some even have them as a summer house. In many cases the shed is where the bloke goes to escape the Mrs. for a bit of peace and quiet, especially if she nags at him.

[@cyflym11]

Mines for gardening tools, DIY tools, decorating equipment, bedding and feed for the chickens (they have a run built on the side of the shed), wild bird seed and all the usual sorts of stuff. However I do have a spare chest freezer and a tumble dryer in there as there is no space in the house.

[@chucky2316]

We like to talk about the weather even with complete strangers

[@matthewbishop9342]

What's the Weather like where you are ? It's not to bad here in Worcestershire. Overcast with sunny spells and mild.

[@chucky2316]

@@matthewbishop9342 lol sunny and warm in my part of devon

[@sueKay]

Especially with strangers! Was chucking it down all day here today!

[@chucky2316]

@sueKay sue I feel the pain we have had months of rain today was beutifull, where in Scotland are you

[@matthewbishop9342]

@chucky2316 it was nice here too for about an hour. It's raining now lol

[@camriley]

In Eurovision, Australia was first invited to participate as a one-off for the competition's 60th anniversary (2015) but has since been able to compete every year. Eurovision is extremely popular there. The contest involves a week of rounds in May where each competing country showcases their song for that year and the ones with the lowest number of votes are eliminated until the requisite number of finalists is reached. It's the Saturday final that most people watch(11 May this year). Votes for each song in the final come from a 'jury' in each participating country ( a country can't vote for itself) who award points and also telephone votes from the public ( again, you can't vote for your country). The competition has been around since the 1950s. It used to comprise countries from Western Europe but over the years many other countries from the Eurovision network zone have joined. More recently, countries from Eastern Europe have been included. Many competitors sing in English while others use their own language. It's a real mix of styles both musically and in presentation -there are moments of beauty and sometimes hilarity! The Saturday final show is many hours long. It's been a tradition for me since I was a child. Lindsay might enjoy either watching a history of the show or a compilation of past winners.

[@carriedudley8593]

Israel too.

[@camriley]

@@carriedudley8593 can't believe I forgot, especially as Israel has won more than once - have checked: has won 4 times!

[@darlingimscared]

There's a programme you might be able to download somewhere called shed of the year and it explores all the sheds of the year, their owners etc

[@E-ToxicGames]

A lot of the time if you’re drunk in America, they’ll just put you in a detox tank they won’t really arrest you no charges for being drunk in public

[@Korrihor]

My garden shed is a 14 foot by 14 foot log cabin. It is insulated, carpeted and has a log burner for central heating. I have cabled in 1 gig internet and electricity, and it currently holds my computer setup, a 52 inch tv and a small double bed and a bar. My bbq lives on its covered porch. The only thing it doesn't have is plumbing as that would require planning permission. I lived in it while refurbishing my house, now it's a combination office/party space. All my actual shed stuff, like lawnmowers and tools etc, are in the garage.

[@hellsbells8689]

You'll never know just how jealous of you, I am.

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

​@@hellsbells8689and me! 😥

[@yedead1]

my shed is 7x12 foot contains the lawn mower some tools and my game consoles, not as fancy as yours but still does the trick :p

[@michaeljeacock]

I don't know how hard it is to get that planning permission, but my cousin got his plumbed with a toilet and a sink.

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

@@michaeljeacock I want that too! Ain't it mad that Victorians adapted their homes and gave up a bedroom in order to fit a bathroom inside as plumbing technology increased, because they were fed up freezing their arse off and dragging water out a well..... .....150 years later we're putting sheds in our garden to stick a toilet in! 🤣

[@Aloh-od3ef]

Don’t underestimate the power of the great British garden shed! Some great ideas and inventions were created in a garden shed. The hover craft is just one example. Every man in the UK strides to obtain a garden shed. Mainly for some quite time away from the wife 😂

[@c-ns9mz]

Also the wind up Radio. A must for 3rd world coutries with no internet etc.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

About 50 countries have few or no laws against either drinking in public places or having open bottles of wine/beer/spirits in public. Of course, being drunk/disorderly in public IS illegal, though. This freedom to drink in public is allowed in such "freedom-loving 🙄😅" countries as China and Russia, but not in "The Land of the Free", it seems. 🤔🤦‍♂️

[@surfaceten510n]

USA would be better described as the land of illusion no one is free in America if freedom was a real thing in the USA they would be in a civil war constantly to create the illusion they converted America into a plantation now you are all slaves to the elites,

[@PedroConejo1939]

I once saw a woman arrested in a recreational area in a Texas subdivision for having a small, discreet wine with her picnic. A neighbour had grassed her up. She wasn't warned or advised, just put in handcuffs in front of everyone then taken away in a police car. Yeah, land of the free certainly felt free that day.

[@tonywalton1464]

​@@PedroConejo1939I went to Twickenham with a couple of mates to see the Army-v-Navy rugby match one day. Match wasn't up to much, so we went to the pub instead, via an off licence (bodega). Walking down the street drinking beer from bottles, we passed a policeman. He looked at us and said "Good afternoon". And that's all he said.

[@anitaherbert1037]

Eurovision is a great big Camp exercise in silliness which is why the British love it. Irony in overload. Our hosts usually give tongue in cheek commentaries whilst countries have been known to send deliberately bad entents because they don't won't to incur the cost of hosting it the next year. Voting exposes political enemies. Watching involves football style shouting at the screen, drinking games. One year the winner was a tall statuesque drag queen with luxuriant facial hair. If you want to start watching try the funniest Eurovision acts etc.

[@PedroConejo1939]

@@tonywalton1464I used to get the feeling in the States that some of the freedoms they had were things that should be restricted, and many of the restricted things should really have been freedoms. Not that the UK is perfect by any means. It just felt like there was an underlying tension in the US.

[@trinacumby2070]

Hi guys I really enjoy your videos :) I live in St. John’s Newfoundland Canada and love the fact that antiques are number one :) and Lindsey you should watch Antiques Road Show UK and there’s also Antiques Road Trip and Dickinson’s Real Deal :) I love them all and they’re knowledgeable l and hilarious lol :)

[@rustworker]

When my parents took me to France in the 70s. I noticed that jam was sold in 454g jars. It’s only later that realised that was a pound of jam. France had been metric for a very long time then. Old systems have a habit of hanging around.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

In my day visiting my gran meant a trip to the outside toilet, in a small unheated lean-too next to the coal room. So houses had to be redesigned for internal plumbing, which is why many have externally visible pipes and drains... The downstairs toilet was often literally under the stars - as an unused area or what would have been a larder before fridge freezer were popular.

[@hellsbells8689]

Same. They had to force my Nan out of the house she was in in the mid 1980s that still had an outside loo and no bath. Tin bath in the kitchen and a pot under the beds at night. The warnings of "Don't go to the kitchen, Uncle Martin is having a bath." It was the youngest child's duty to "do the slops". Which was my Aunt Sue at the time. Rather disgusting as there were two male lodgers that could have done their own "slops". When we stayed at Nan's, our mum used to bring toilet paper as she knew there would be newspaper hanging in the loo at Nan's.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@hellsbells8689 Do you remember the family baths once a week, when it was dad, mum then kids by age in the same water?

[@hellsbells8689]

@@daveofyorkshire301I was fortunate enough to not have to do that but my dad told me, his mum, my Nan would put the three youngest kids (Dad's siblings) in the tin bath at the same time. A brick under one end raising it for the youngest, making the water shallow up that end. He never said if it was clean water but I'm betting it wasn't. It took too long to reboil and refill the tin bath.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@Rhiannon-wv9dk That hard transparent non-absorbant stuff that didn't fold or come close to functional? Yes I remember it. You could actually scratch yourself on any edge you tried to fold.

[@yumyummoany]

Oh yes, I’ve used outside lavs of many kinds as my rellies lived in different places! The very worst was on a Lincolnshire farm up to 1964. A plank with a hole and a bucket. That was grim, dark and smelly at night, light and smelly in the daytime!

[@DarkSister.]

My shed is painted duck egg blue, it has an armchair, table, TV, radiator and a lamp, and it's my little outside chilling area 😊

[@briangibson6527]

Blimey! same colour as mine👍

[@NickyDBanshee]

The term cheeky applies to a sneaky treat, when u shouldn't really. You can apply it to multiple things

[@bevkeyte6624]

We also have summer houses as well as sheds.

[@samsadie_79]

Yes! Nando’s is a South African restaurant brand. I’m South African, but have been living in the UK for 19 years now. Nando’s was started by the best friend of one of my close friends at university’s dad, and where I lived my first year at university was around the corner from the first ever Nando’s location in Rosettenville (suburb of Johannesburg). South African Nando’s adverts - they are usually funny, witty, or poke fun at current events.

[@kbarnes8953]

In the UK and Australia ,on a roundabout you give way to the right

[@kwlkid85]

Same in Japan

[@vaudevillian7]

And anywhere else you drive on the left

[@DeepThought9999]

NO. UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN ROAD RULES YOU ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE WAY TO VEHICLES ALREADY IN THE ROUNDABOUT. This applies in Western Australia too (I just checked your Government’s “Safe Driving” booklet on line). The advice there is to select a gap in the traffic in order to enter the roundabout. Absolutely no mention of giving way to the right! Essentially the same in my state (NSW) too, of course. It is an Australian Road Rule after all. The “give way to traffic already in the roundabout” rule is a broader requirement than the simpler and often believed “give way to the right” misinterpretation. Under the ARR, not only do you have to give way to vehicles already in the roundabout that are coming from your right but you have to also look out for and avoid vehicles that have gone (or are in the process of going) past you and are now in the roundabout in front of you (i.e. no longer on your right). You must give way to them, too. Get it? Furthermore, the ARR do not give you carte blanche to try to enforce this mistaken “give way to the right” rule and come hurtling into a roundabout trying to get in before somebody else who is trying to come in at the next entrance (effectively on your left initially and then in front of you) to the roundabout - they might just get into the roundabout before you, in which case you MUST GIVE WAY TO THEM. I hope that I have made it clear and that you and anyone else with that mistaken belief wherever the road rule is the same as in Western Australia and New South Wales (I have only checked the ARR, NSW, VIC, SA, QLD and now WA rules as a good professional driver should if likely to be driving in those jurisadictions) reconsider your opinion, for the safety of everyone.

[@kevinstreet5709]

Which is the right ​@@DeepThought9999

[@DeepThought9999]

@@kevinstreet5709 Yes, but there’s much more to it than that. Here in Oz, we have to do more than just give way to traffic on our right when entering a roundabout. There is a significant difference between “give way to the right” and “give way to traffic already in the roundabout”. So to say that a driver entering a roundabout has to give way to their right is incomplete, misleading and could lead to potentially dangerous beliefs by others, with unfortunate consequences. Hence my comments above, which were only intended correct and to expand on the earlier post and thereby to clarify matters, particularly for those with incomplete knowledge of the Australian Road Rules when driving in Australia. Consider another scenario: a standard-size Medium Rigid Bus 12.5 metres long approaches a small, suburban roundabout. There are no other vehicles already in the roundabout that the bus has to give way to, so the bus enters the roundabout at a cautious (i.e. low) speed. A car is approaching the roundabout from the bus’ right at about 40 km/h but is still some 40 metres away from the roundabout as the bus enters. As the bus travels at its safe speed through the roundabout (unrestrained passengers, remember) it is still within the roundabout but the car enters the roundabout at close to its original speed. The rear of the bus is not yet fully into the roundabout but the front is more than halfway through and the bus is still moving forward carefully at about 20 km/h. Which vehicle do you think was required to give way? Do you think that it’s the bus that’s required to give way to the car because the car is approaching from the bus’s right even though the bus clearly gets to the roundabout first and enters first, having taken the gap in traffic in the roundabout? Or does the car have to give way because the bus is already (but only partially) within the roundabout even though the car has had to slow further to avoid a collision? Is the car driver entitled to blast his horn because he has had to slow for the bus that has approached and entered the roundabout from the car’s left?

[@jerry2357]

Strictly speaking, USA uses the "American Customary" system of units. For instance, Imperial pints are 20 fluid ounces, so an Imperial gallon is 160 fluid ounces, or about 4.5 litres, compared with about 3.8 litres for a US gallon.

[@lisabayliss3524]

When my children were young, I had a carpeted shed as a play and art den for them. It was covered in glitter and paint, had bean bags , play dough, crafting items and dressing up clothes etc. they loved it ❤

[@fredMplanenut]

Here in the U.K., I have only recently realized that my car tyres are made with mixed forms of measurement on them, i.e. 205 (mm) x 55 ratio x R (radial ply) x 16" which represents inches and we all seem to understand that; well clearly I didn't as I've only now understood it.

[@thisandthatwithjoss]

Auctions are definitely a thing here, my parents used to go to them all the time. Sometimes they'd be 'mystery' auctions where you bid on huge boxes full of mystery items

[@SirZanZa]

Remember South Africa was a British Settler colony, the company was founded by British South Africans so naturally it was exported to the mainland

[@peterjackson4763]

It was founded a Dutch settler colony that the British took over as a Naval base, so not quite so natural.

[@kevinjohnson147]

And the Arab's 100 years before the Dutch .

[@SirZanZa]

@@peterjackson4763 depends what part, the Boers weren't in all of south Africa, a large part was unclaimed.

[@peterjackson4763]

@@SirZanZa I am not an expert on it, but as I understand it it was the Boers who moved out to other area and then were conquered by the British. So the sequence was largely the same.

[@carriedudley8593]

​@@peterjackson4763and the Dutch taking over is?

[@carltaylor6452]

I was scared of my dad's garden shed when I was a kid. It was full of plant pots and a lawn mower, etc, and the biggest spiders I had ever seen. One of my recuring nightmares is still getting web caught in my face. A book cottage shed would have to be spider-proofed. As for those 'luxury' sheds, I imagine they would need planning permission.

[@rayeasom]

You don’t need to worry about trying to a Nando’s. Go get yourself a chicken breast, pay 4 times as much as you’d usually pay and add some spices sauce to it. There you go, you got a Nando’s, really overpriced chicken.

[@E-ToxicGames]

Those type of sheds that aren’t just restoring things are for rich people

[@zoeskinner2408]

We turned our shed into the kids playroom. They can make as much noise as they like on their floor keyboard, indoor bouncy castle, ball pool etc. it keeps them occupied while your doing the house work or making dinner. The kids shed is in sight of the kitchen window so it's easy to keep an eye on them whilst they play. Great invention 😂

[@gillgill6095]

I think there are a couple of Imperial measurements we use in the UK which are not so common in the US. A Yard which is 3 Foot and a Stone which is 14 Pounds. We measure a person's weight in Stones and Pounds.

[@davidwebb4451]

The US system of measures are known as customary units and although they are mostly the same as the UK's imperial units there are some differences notably in volume measurements. Not only are the number of ounces in pints, quarts, and gallons all larger in the imperial system, the size of one fluid ounce is also different.

[@vaudevillian7]

They definitely use yards, American football is build around yards

[@Hirotoro4692]

I'm English and I weigh myself in kg. It's time we started going fully metric

[@DeepThought9999]

Conversion is not hard. Yards become close enough to metres so just use metres. Stones and pounds are a total dog’s breakfast so just find out your own weight (mass is the correct SI term) in Kg and use that as a reference point whenever comparing a person’s weight (mass).

[@cyflym11]

Unless you go for a medical check, then they give you your weight in kgs, at which point you give them a baffled look.

[@DiminutiveBob]

Scientists use metric. There was a huge issue in the first Mars Rover project, where it was decided to use non-metric. And then there were differences in measurements in the US and UK, and it caused the project to fail. Metric is logical. 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram (kg). 1000 litres of water therefore weighs a metric ton (1000kg). 1 cubic metre of water is 1000l which is a metric ton. Everything is in factors of 10, rather than 12 of this is one of that (inches per foot) and 3 of those is one of the next (3ft in a yard). Everything is logical in metric. No rote learning which could lead to mistakes.

[@peterjackson4763]

Imperial has its own logic - the units and numbers are those useful for everyday or work purposes, e.g. 12 is better than 10 if you are often going to be dividing by small numbers. The metric system is better when you are using a larger range of values or converting from one type of unit to another, which is more common in science than everyday life.

[@Hirotoro4692]

​​@@peterjackson4763this is just false, metric is also easier for everyday life. You're trying to somehow justify inconsistent. Imperial was basically invented by people who had no idea what they were doing. Even Imperial units are officially defined by metric ones! 12 is better than 10 if you're American and keep doing everything in fractions instead of decimals like everyone else 😂

[@peterjackson4763]

@@Hirotoro4692 You are mistaken.

[@nealgrimes4382]

I miss the illogical Imperial, it had character and it was ours. Also it worked just fine.

[@AnnMcKinlay-zp2ef]

@@nealgrimes4382 Indeed! No one thinks it is weird to have 60 secs in a minute or 24 hours a day or 7 days a week or 365 days a year etc.

[@trevorveail]

Many men have their model railway in their garden shed.

[@chucky2316]

My grandfather had a huge set up we spent hours in that shed building and watching the trains going round, he even had street lights and buildings that lit up . I learnt how to solder by the age of 5 😂

[@theknightofdoom260]

I once got so pissed the police came over laughed at me and gave me a lift home.

[@ElliePopsBespoke]

Yes we have auctions, but usually antiques. We don’t have ‘thrift’ stores either - we have charity shops!

[@HanChap2]

Apart from on British military bases. They often have Thrift shops called thrift shops. A lot of military wives go there to get ball gowns for the summer balls held in the Mess's (so we don't all wear the same dress year after year) or an evening dress for the Christmas Draw. But yeah, outside of Military Bases/stations, You're absolutely right.

[@AcanthaDante]

Mythbusters tested roundabouts versus crossroads and found roundabouts and found that 20% more cars get through a roundabout in the same time compared to a crossroad. My husband also noted he read a paper that said that when a crossroad was turned into a roundabout minor accidents went up but serious injuries and fatalities stopped happening altogether. They're scarier than they look most of the time, you just look for a gap, drive onto it, and you use the indicator to warn people when you're planning to exit. They're also handy when you're driving at night and the person behind you doesn't understand what dipped headlights are because you could drive around it so you end up behind them or they've disappeared into another exit. "It's like Mardi Gras," they're the same day. People used to use the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, to use up ingredients that would go to waste while fasting, at least, that's what I was told going to Catholic school.

[@heftyhadrosaur8740]

I've found the problem with round abouts. Having to use indicators. No one even knows their cars have them.

[@AcanthaDante]

@@heftyhadrosaur8740 If one lane is distinctly higher volume than the others the other lanes can come to a stand still, so the busiest ones have traffic lights as well. You can even have roundabouts with part time traffic lights.

[@arthurennimore-empties6709]

At a roundabout, the rule is to give way to traffic on your right. This does sometimes cause a problem if four cars arrive at a roundabout at the same time. This leads to a "Mexican standoff" where everyone is waiting for traffic on their right. Someone usually takes a chance and moves first.

[@geedub2019]

​@@arthurennimore-empties6709 the giveaway to the right only applies to vehicles already on the roundabout. In your example no one has right of way until someone enters the roundabout

[@AcanthaDante]

@@arthurennimore-empties6709 I opted for the words 'look for a gap' because if you went to Europe or one of the few roundabouts in the US you would have to give way to traffic on the left.

[@Pauld616]

To be fair, the US currency is effectively metric you have 100 cents to the dollar. before we went metric we had 240d to the pound.

[@alfresco8442]

It probably doesn't help Americans that they seem to insist on using feet instead of yards. Because for a Brit, metres/meters and yards are pretty much interchangeable. Tell me the next highway exit is in 500 ft however and I have to do some mental arithmetic.

[@Loulizabeth]

Yet I think the majority of people talk about people's height in feet and inches.

[@alfresco8442]

@@Loulizabeth Yes, but it's a matter of scale. Using feet along a highway is like measuring your house dimensions just using inches.

[@Loulizabeth]

@@alfresco8442 Completely agree with that. But it depends on what they're measuring. Huge distances they use miles. Some distances they use yards some they use feet. Just think of the American Football Pitch. They have the lines on it in yards. But again height measurements of prey much anything is often given in ft. Mountains, buildings. Hey in horseracing, as far as I know, they still use furlongs. It really does seem the measurements are made differently depending on what is being measured where it is situated.

[@DeepThought9999]

@@LoulizabethAnd this is precisely the scenario in which the metric system rules supreme. With metric measurements, all of these various measurement units are simplified into portions or multiples of a metre so it is easy to compare the distance away of the next intersection with the length of a horse race, and so on. It’s the consistency that matters!

[@lesjones471]

I have a container shed which holds a bike,Scooter,motocycle, garden equipment,tools.

[@claireferneyhough8819]

O it’s quite fun to sit and watch all the drunk people stumbling around or so drunk they start arguments 😂

[@lisabayliss3524]

I recommend for Lindsey ‘Bargain Hunt’ and ‘Antiques Road Trip’ , they’re on the BBC 👍🏻😊 You get to see second hand stuff bought at a variety of places and sold at auction and you see different parts of the country with other random info & history thrown in. I think she’ll enjoy these shows ❤

[@KSmeaton1]

Antiques Roadshow too.

[@kevanwillis4571]

I would also recommend The Repair Shop.

[@AnnMcKinlay-zp2ef]

All UK schools teach both Imperial and Metric systems! When were changing from Imperial to Metric, a famous UK company called Tate and Lyle( sugar, syrup etc) put out an advertising campaign, with a character called Mr Cube, to help people learn the connections. “Two and a quarter pounds of jam weighs about a kilogram”. “A metre measures three foot three, it’s longer than a yard you see”. “ A litre of water ‘s a pint and three quarters!” (Read them like 2 line poems😂)

[@janicewright7690]

Where as an American pint is 4ounce less than the UK

[@quantisedspace7047]

'all' UK schools teach both Imperial and Metric systems'. I first went to Primary School in 1969. Throughout the 13y of schooling, Imperial measurements were mentioned precisely three times.

[@leec6707]

As a child of the 70s, imperial was never taught or mentioned. My daughter (now 21) never learnt imperial. That would be bizarre!

[@AnnMcKinlay-zp2ef]

@@quantisedspace7047 I am slightly surprised by that statement because the metric system only became part of the curriculum in 1975. It had become an actual proposition in about 1966 but, typically for here in the UK, it took some time to become mandatory. Small changes occurred at different times and, as I’m sure you know, some measurements, eg weights, were simply not implemented by many sectors of society and many people continued to use pounds and ounces. When the National Curriculum was introduced, in 1988, it became mandatory to introduce all pupils to both methods and to learn methods of converting from one to the other. There was quite a long period of time when Maths, generally, was subjected to some very strange curriculum changes (Modern Maths) and there was a very rigid approach to applying metric methods.

[@AnnMcKinlay-zp2ef]

@@leec6707 A person aged 21 would have been required , under the National Curriculum, introduced in 1988, to learn Imperial Measurements and simple conversions.

[@Aloh-od3ef]

One thing I’ve never seen in America… A Wendy house. It’s a small garden shed, designed to look like a house. It’s mainly brought from young children. To play in during the spring and summer. 😊

[@cyflym11]

My Wendy house when I was little (60s and 70s) was like a tent frame with plastic poles and joints that slotted together and then a cover went over the top that was painted to look like a little house. We could play in the garden in the summer but it could also be used indoors in bad weather. I had one for my daughter when she was small but you don't see them so much now. They are more likely to be the more solid plastic moulded ones. It's a shame really, part of the fun was the sense of achievement from knowing how it all went together!

[@reactingtomyroots]

Oh yeah! We definitely have those here, but they're generally just called club house or playhouses here. :)

[@Aloh-od3ef]

⁠​⁠@@reactingtomyrootsare they made out of wood or plastic? We also have something called a playhouse. It’s around 4 foot tall and made from plastic. Our Wendy houses are around 6 foot tall and made from wood.

[@PaulCoaley]

I’m 59 years old and was taught the metric system at primary school because bedtime I graduated the UK would be a metric country. I’ve spent a lifetime using both 😂

[@Jimbob72934]

I love antique shows. It is all about British history and that is why people buy it

[@vladd6787]

The chances of filling your football sticker album is fairly remote. It was calculated that to fill the album for the last world cup would cost over £800

[@audiocoffee]

it was a popular thing in the late 70's to collect football stickers. so much so that I joined in. and not just one sticker album, but I think at one point, I had three on the go at the same time - and my mothers frustration of asking 'which stickers do you want from the shop??' the wrong answer was 'all three' 🤣

[@laurenC91.]

Fun Fact: we generally use feet and inches for height and stone and pounds for weight, however in the hospitals we use Centimetres and Kgs 😅😊

[@trudilm3864]

Adults do, the kids use metres.

[@wildwine6400]

No idea what they are talking about with the "downstairs toilet". Out of all the houses I've lived in, 1 had a downstairs bathroom (with toilet, sink and bath) , the rest have been upstairs with the same set up. All the houses however, also had an outdoor toilet in a small brick building. 1 also included a sink as it was a much bigger building. I think outdoor toilets are probably pretty common on houses that are atleast 100 years old , which again are really common to find houses so old still in use since they are made of brick. I suspect this was from times when the houses of common folk didn't have indoor plumbing like now, and toilets were outdoor and youd have a big tin bath youd lug around

[@grahvis]

I know someone that lives in a tiny cottage, they have an indoor bathroom, an outside toilet and even a privy, though that is only used to store firewood.

[@peterjackson4763]

My grandmother never had an inside toilet in her life, but the house my parent lived in for nearly 50 years had five, three upstairs and two downstairs.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

As someone from across the pond, I was puzzled that the video would claim "downstairs toilets" are a British thing, when they are everywhere in the USA Midwest. The "downstairs toilet" is actually VERY common in the industrial towns & cities of the Midwest (basically everything east of the Appalachia Mtns, north of the Ohio River and west of the Mississippi River). These toilets were built in homes starting 1920 for folks who worked in factories. In fact, many also had a toilet in the basement & a stairway directly to the lower level so that the worker could come home, clean up, and then interact with the family. In Michigan I grew up in house like that built in 1924, moved to similar houses in Detroit, and several suburbs and my current house (built 1952) likewise has a full bath upstairs and toilets on the first floor & the basement. So this item is actually extremely common in working-class bungalows.

[@E-ToxicGames]

They can also drink drink in public. It’s not illegal to bring open containers outside.

[@carriedudley8593]

Whatever you do, don't try to navigate the biggest roundabout in Swindon!

[@waynewright5599]

there was a mythbusters episode that proved that the roundabout was safer and quicker than the usa system.

[@marydavis5234]

There are 5’000 traffic circles aka roundabouts in the US.

[@EvilSoupDragon]

British pancakes are Crepes, and on pancake day are traditionally served with sugar and lemon juice.

[@carriedudley8593]

Crepes is the French word, pancakes is the British word. The British also use the same mixture to make Yorkshire puddings.

[@fibrown444]

I work as a therapeutic horticulturist and garden designer - one garden I am creating will have a shed that's a glorified tool and store box, and another is for veterans that's going to be big enough they can sit in if it's raining but still enjoy the garden plus allow room for tools to seed sowing.

[@reactingtomyroots]

Sounds like a cool job!

[@fibrown444]

@@reactingtomyroots it's great fun. I'll happily show you round Edinburgh when you finally visit the UK.

[@chrisgrayson3821]

im sat in my shed watching this right now.

[@tonyeden2944]

The USA does not use the international paper size system. This uses a very simple system doubling the size with each number. For example the USA Legal size is nearly the same as A4. A3 is half of A4 and A5 is double A4.