British Guy Reacts to British vs. American Words for Stuff Around the House

[@EG-cm5th]

When I hear the term “lounge” I usually think of a large “living room” area that’s been specifically set up for large gatherings in, say, a community building like church or a recreational facility. The difference is, a “living room” is smaller because it’s part of a house, and it’s often closely connected to the kitchen and dining room depending on the house size. (Idk how houses are designed in the UK, but in all the houses I’ve lived in, there was no door between the living room and the kitchen) I suppose you could say that while the living room performs the same function as what I think of when I hear the word “lounge,” it’s smaller and more personalized.

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

A Flannel is the US is s heavy plaid shirt that folks where in the Fall/Winter.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

Yeah, I’m like: “But wash cloths aren’t flannel?“

[@darrinlindsey]

100% on the Lav Luka collab. The chest of drawers are more commonly called a dresser here in the states.

[@theblackbear211]

I'll definitely second both of those comments. Though, with antique bedroom sets - the chest of drawers is a separate unit - the dresser, or dressing table is lower and includes a mirror. and often a padded stool.

[@noelpauley5381]

When I was little I thought it was “Chester drawers” 🤣

[@robertcalhoun3123]

Early remotes used a 'tunning fork' to make a tone the tv reacted to.. it was an audible click

[@Zarni-fv2fj]

We used to jingle a set of keys and the TV would change the channel. Made dad mad.😅

[@jeffburdick869]

8:53 remote is the most common name for that object, but clicker and buttons are also used...particularly by older generations. My grandparents always called it the clicker or the buttons.

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

Yeah, the term outlet is mostly used in the US. Especially in the construction industry. When building your walls, the discussion is always around where you wanna put your Outlets.

[@alfredprufrock6567]

Old people still call a remote a clicker. The reason is, back before remotes existed, there were knobs on the television that you used to change the channels. They made a clicking sound when you rotated the knob. So early remotes were known by older generations as clickers, as that was how they originally changed the stations (although they only had like 4 to choose from, lol). Some early remotes also only had three or four toggle buttons which also made a clicking noise, or even sometimes a rotating clicking knob, again reinforcing the name clicker.

[@ktspirit1]

Yeah, haha. I live in rural Alabama and it took a while to get cable and color TV here. The kids had to go change the channels with a knob on the old black and white TVs attached to rabbit ears or an outside antenna. We finally got some clicking remote to adjust the antenna for the four TV stations we had, otherwise, someone had to do all that by hand. Same with the internet. I remember dial-up. 😂

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

HOOVER is a Brand name. A specific company, called, you guessed it...Hoover, and their specialty is again, you guessed it, making Vacuum Cleaners. So when us Americans hear y'all call every vacuum cleaner a Hoover that tells us that "Gee, y'all must be really shy on product varieties." There's so many other brands, like Electrolux, Red Devil, Kirby, Bissel, Shark, etc.

[@JonBurrows3577]

Kirby’s are so good vacuums should really be known as that. My grandparents had one they still used that was 50 years old.

[@elkins4406]

Well, it's not as if we don't have plenty of our own brand-name-turned-generic terms over here, right? Kleenex, Xerox, Band-Aid... Yet I've never heard anyone accuse the US of being short on product variety!

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

remotes are called clickers by some old folks because back in the day remotes used to actually make a clicking sound when you pressed the buttons. hence clicker

[@Djnc17]

To us Americans, if you light a torch in your closet instead of a flashlight you're going to burn down your house. As for the "clicker" thing, there are even differences in words throughout the US for various things. For example in the South, what you in the UK call a "trolley" we often call a "buggy", but many people in other places will call it a "shopping cart". My favorite for the "toilet" is the "throne". Also, a "chest of drawers" is often simply called a "dresser". I watch Lav Luka as well and would be interested in a collab.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

Clicker is also kind of an old term, used by older people or for comic effect, with regional differences in how outdated it sounds. The origin is because the first ones in the sixties were mechanical clickers and it was the different ultrasound frequencies in the clicking noise produced by each button that told the TV what to do. Since you do still click on buttons even though they don’t click and may not even be buttons anymore it’s still easy enough to connect clicker to remote control if someone uses it that way.

[@darrinlindsey]

The term "clicker" is only used by the senior citizen age people. The very first type of "remote control" only had 3 button on them. One to turn the tv on/off, and the channel up and down button. The buttons actually made a click sound when pushed.

[@arestitian7857]

HAHA the old (very old) remotes had mechanical switches and and made a click sound.

[@TheBeesleys99]

In that case I will let you off :D

[@arestitian7857]

@@TheBeesleys99 Thank you kindly. and btw, another word we use for chest of drawers is dresser.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

In fact they were entirely mechanical, they made the clicking noises because the sound was how they controlled the TV. 🤯 You can see why they got replaced by electronics as soon as it was practical.

[@jeffburdick869]

2:47 for us, its a torch if there is like an actual burning flame on top. Like a legit fire. If its just a light bulb, then its a flashlight.

[@billbrasky1288]

Never heard it called a sweeper

[@hermunkulus]

I'd be down to see a collab with Lav Luka. Your interests seem to be overlap and it would be a fun crossover.

[@jeffburdick869]

agreed. Also the Office Blokes and Kabir Considers.

[@corbinmattson2314]

@@jeffburdick869 love all of those guys

[@LP1681]

Definitely! And yes that's how I found you haha. Outside of Office Blokes React as well lol

[@johnspenst1826]

Never really heard the term flatware I always grew up calling them utensils

[@stonewall01]

That's me too. I have heard Silverware but only for formal occasions even though we used the same utensils as every other time. I guess the more formal gatherings the terms need to be more formal I guess, I don't know and never really thought about it. lol

[@KalEL224]

Flatware is the formal term for silverware.

[@JonBurrows3577]

@@KalEL224 I thought if was for the every day utensil, as opposed to the silverware used for special occasions.

[@xo2quilt]

We have torches, but the light they provide comes from flames because we light them on fire.

[@mauruhkatigaming4807]

I'm from Minnesota, my mom's from Chicago. She uses the term "clicker," though she also says "remote" sometimes. I think it might actually be generational, because I've never heard anyone young use the term.

[@rebeccafoust2963]

When we first got remotes they were corded and attached to the TV. When the buttons were pushed, there was a distinctive clicking sound. Thus the term "Clicker" quickly came into common usage even here in the southeast. When wireless remotes came on the scene, the term clicker gradually has been loosing it's place as the favored term to remote. Now, clicker is still found in select households.

[@JonBurrows3577]

In Texas here. Have heard “chest of drawers” but usually think of that as being taller than a “dresser”, which is what I hear more often. Wardrobe is used here if it is a piece of furniture used for storing clothes. Pantry is much more common but I have heard cupboard used, especially by older people. Plug is sometimes used to describe an outlet, but usually only when asking “where’s the plug at?”. You also here “where could I plug this in (at)?” Instead of asking where the outlet is. “Clickers” used to actually make a clicking sound, and I believe some very early on moved the actual dial on the TV which I’m sure made a clicking sound as well. The term is still used here but “remote” is much more common. He mentioned most names I use for toilet: commode, crapper, john, shitter, but sometimes pisser is used. Around here I hear “range” or “burners” used more often than stovetop. Tap is used for faucet in certain situations: tap water, turn the tap off, etc. You might here that a tap is leaking, but leaky faucet would be more common.

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

No, the only reference to a Torch in the US is any stick that is either wrapped in a bandage that's soaked in flammable but slow burning fluid and lit ablaze, OR a long conical stick with a open cup like thing atop that holds the flammable substance to which then lit ablaze (like the Olympic Torch.) If you were to ask an American to grab a Torch and there was obviously none of what I described above around, they'd be very puzzled as to what you meant. But we have Flashlights all over the place.

[@narutohinata9253]

A torch is a stick with fire on it

[@TheBeesleys99]

Hmmm you do make a good point with that

[@narutohinata9253]

@@TheBeesleys99 my guess is when the UK introduce flashlight they just keep the torch name

[@elkins4406]

@@narutohinata9253 I think for a while they called it an "electric torch," but eventually--as electricity became no longer a novelty, and no one was using flaming sticks anymore--they just dropped the first part.

[@ktspirit1]

Yep, that's what I would call a torch, haha.

[@AndrewL209]

Lav Luka, Beesley, and Lawrence all in one vid. the 3 british musketeers

[@TheBeesleys99]

Love that ahah

[@arestitian7857]

That would be awesome, I am subbed to al three and a few others like Gen Dit Commando and OriginalHuman. they are all really fun to watch.

[@kimmatura3564]

Yes! I’m here for a ménage a trois with all three creators! I follow all of you!

[@rhoetusochten4211]

@@arestitian7857 we should get Gen Dit to react to *this* video, so we get GD reacting to Beesley reacting to LitP reacting to Luka reacting to LitP. And see how meta we can get the Brit reaction thing

[@arestitian7857]

@@rhoetusochten4211 That would be hilarious!

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

A Chest of Drawers is a large wooden piece of furniture that has multiple drawers in them that hold clothing and other dress accessories.

[@sgswaney]

And it's called a dresser.

[@virginiarobbins7539]

The closet a vacuum is kept in its usually called THE BROOM CLOSET

[@judyvalencia3257]

When I think of a torch I think of those flaming torch's lit with fire to chase down Frankenstein.

[@abrad6901]

Torches only deal with fire, while flashlights have batteries. And so would love a collaboration.

[@joyhoward5325]

Remote, TV remote, clicker, & the Control. In America we joke saying " who holds the remote is the one who controls (rules, in charge of what people will watch). Get it? "Hand me the CONTROL". Lol .

[@virginiarobbins7539]

Mostly we use upright vacuum cleaners.. many ppl do still buy these hose type ones and many here do call any brand of those a hoover or sweeper

[@EG-cm5th]

Some Americans would also use the term “dish rag” or “washcloth” (though a washcloth might also refer to a cloth smaller than your typical dishcloth, like the sort you might use for washing your face or cleaning things in the bathroom)

[@EG-cm5th]

Also, in America, if I heard someone refer to a “flannel,” I would assume they were talking about a shirt made of flannel material

[@theblackbear211]

In the US, the technical term for a wall mounted electrical "outlet" is a "receptacle". As in, it "receives" an electrical plug. Mostly electricians and engineers use the term.

[@Tabfort]

We use chest of drawers in the US too...

[@stonewall01]

In the South we call them Chester drawers though. I am embarrassed to say that I just recently found out that it was Chest of Drawers and I am 34 years old. lol

[@ktspirit1]

@@stonewall01 Well, we shorten a lot of things, haha. We sometimes have to get it out quickly in the heat and humidity to conserve our breath and energy. I would recognize "chest'er drawers anywhere. 😂

[@ktspirit1]

The big free-standing closet is what I would call a chifforobe. No, it's not in the closet, it's in the chifforobe. 😂 Yep, we have all kinds of closets that need to be distinguished from on another.

[@Tabfort]

@@stonewall01 Yes! I live in the southern Appalachians and I’ve had the same experience. I’m 41 now and at some point probably later than 20, I realized it’s not Chester Drawers...😂

[@JonBurrows3577]

@@stonewall01 How old were you when you learned that “would of”, “should of”, and “must of” are all wrong and should be “should have” or “should’ve”, etc. ;)

[@neonoires]

We need a Beesley, Lav Luka, and Lawrence reaction. That will be hilarious.

[@katerussell6139]

That would be incredible!! I would love to see three of my favorite British guys in one video 🤗

[@theblackbear211]

definitely

[@lynntaylor9681]

Yes that would be awesome. I'd love to see it.

[@JEdwardBanasikJr]

One discussion I keep hearing about on various youtube comparisons is that y'all don't have regular sockets in the bathroom as in you can't plug in a hairdryer etc. Just a low power razor. We have GFCI socket regular plugs in the bathroom right by the sink that will auto cut off if it senses a potential shock like dropping the hair dryer in the bath tub.

[@Blondie42]

Until Laurence's video I hadn't heard of the original term for the TV remote. When I was little my family called it a channel changer. I made an immediate change after getting laughed at for calling it that in middle school. Not so much because I was embarrassed, but because remote seemed more logical. 9:08 I'm surprised that Tara didn't school Laurence on what the entire appliance is called. But I suppose that in Indiana/Illinois calling the whole thing a range isn't a thing. Or rag in terms of the wash cloth.

[@SUPRAMIKE18]

The clicker name came from old remotes that used an audible click at a certain frequency to make the TV do things.

[@NotKateHepburn]

It was called flatware to distinguish it from hollow-ware, bowls, cups, mugs, etc. There is also tableware which is things like butter crockery, salt and pepper shakers and anything you set on the table that isn't flatware or hollow-ware.

[@bob_._.]

He didn't say he thinks the Earth is flat, he said that from space it *doesn't* look flat - ie. it's a sphere.

[@virginiarobbins7539]

Clothes are kept in a dresser or chest of drawers.. but we usually say dresser. An armoire some fancier ppl may own as well.

[@billpickard7848]

Lav Luka Beesley colab I'm in 100%

[@teemarie5478]

Yassss I love both of their video’s ❤️

[@elkins4406]

I'd love to see Beesley showing him around Jersey! Thurston's seemed a little under the weather lately; a nice spring walk around a lovely bit of coastline would do him some good! Also, I confess, I just want to see Jersey. :)

[@TheBeesleys99]

Jersey is indeed stunning and if he made his way hear that could 100% happen!

[@JEdwardBanasikJr]

@@TheBeesleys99 Just do a zoom call together over KZbin perhaps talk about comparing where you both grew up. Funny stories etc.

[@marvindoolin1340]

I admit it's fun watching you react. I just can't figure out why. No offense, I hope. I skimmed through the comments so far, and a couple referred to the word torch. In the US we use the word commonly enough to mean a stick with some sort of tarred wrapping at the top to provide light. We see them in movies where people explore caves, but I've never seen one in actual use. More commonly these days it refers to a small pipe affair threaded to the top of a propane cylinder, commonly used to solder copper pipe. I frequently use one to start the fire in the wood stove in my shop. When I was much younger, in the 1940's and later, my dad used a blow torch. It was a little tank holding about a quart of white gasoline. It had a wooden handle and a pump on the base that increased the air pressure in the tank. It burned very hot and had to be pumped now and then to keep the pressure up. He used it to heat soldering irons before there were electric ones. There are probably other applications of the word, but these are what come to mind at the moment.

[@katerussell6139]

As an American I definitely use both silverware 🍴 and flatware to describe utensils. In my family we refer to nice utensils that are made of silver as silverware, the stuff you would use alongside your fine china. Flatware is the everyday utensil word we use for our daily non-fancy utensils. But that could just be my family ☺️. I have also often heard the term clicker for the remote control but don’t use it myself. I live in Colorado so we’re more west than mid-west here. But I’m guessing that term is fairly widely used throughout most of the states. Great video! Much ❤️!

[@joyhoward5325]

In America we may have 1, several or All of these rooms to relax, entertain and do things in. Living room, Den, Bonus room, Game room, & theatre room ( this one will have LARGE screen TV with surround sound and is usually used for watching movies & the Television though).

[@jaredmize960]

You and lav luka would be a legendary collab you guys got similar interest about America. Love the vids man

[@SRHS83]

I also call a TV remote a channel changer. We call a knife and fork silverware. I call a wash cloth a washrag. I call drawers just that, and the thing you slide them in and out of a dresser. Like you said, it's different in other regions of the US. I'm in Utah and though I moved around a lot in my life (Navy brat) I mostly lived on the West Coast and mountain west states (California, Arizona, Utah).

[@FH99]

I think a collaboration would be both interesting and entertaining at the same time. There is another word for stove/cooker that he didn't mention. The appliance is also called a "range." That is what it's referred to in stores.

[@joyhoward5325]

Toilet is also called a Privet, but usually by some humorous military families.

[@jlpack62]

Beesley reacting to Lost in the Pond, who's reacting to Lav Luka, as he's reacting to Lost in the Pond. Have we reached peak reaction yet? Now we need Lav Luka to react to Beesley reacting to Lost in the Pond reacting to Lav Luka reacting to Lost in the Pond.

[@TheBeesleys99]

😂😂😂

[@JonBurrows3577]

@@TheBeesleys99 JT Reacts needs to react to you reacting to LitP reacting to Lav reacting to LitP so he could apologize for how Americans butcher the English language and how much better British reactors are than American reactors. (jk JT)

[@livvyweimar7362]

And we can't forget Mr. H and friends. Gotta get him in there somehow 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@jlpack62]

@@livvyweimar7362 This is true. They are all of the "House of Laurence". I don't know about anyone else, but the algorithm clearly pushed me to all three channels because I'm I huge fan of Lost in the Pond.

[@livvyweimar7362]

@@jlpack62 That's exactly what happened to me, and I am very happy it happened. I'm a big fan of all 4.

[@c1h2r3i4s591]

Clicker is a very old term for the remote control. I still use that because my grandma used too and it keeps her memory around. I’m also going to start calling flashlights torches it sounds better.

[@ajdembroski7529]

The word telly exists in America, but it refers to a phone. It's not used very much since my childhood because it sort of still implies a landline.

[@maryjennings4913]

A Hoover vs. vacuum cleaner is the British version of some of the same brand names turned generic term, here in the U.S. Kleenex=facial tissue Xerox copy=photo copy Band-Aid=adhesive bandage(plaster in the U.K.) Jet ski=personal watercraft If there is a second "living room" in a house, here in the U.S.A. One is a more formal "living room." The other is a more casual, "family room," or "den."

[@ktspirit1]

In the south, all sodas are still often called Coke (usually in an informal or family setting where people know each other very well), too. Here is an example: "Would you get me a Coke". Someone answers "What kind?" First person says, "Make that a Dr. Pepper." Haha.

[@maryjennings4913]

@@ktspirit1 I've heard that about the southern U.S. Here in the Mid-Atlantic region, we call them sodas. If you are from western Pennsylvania, or the Midwest, they're called pop.

[@ktspirit1]

@@maryjennings4913 Yep, haha. All of your above it true! The first time I went to Michigan, as a child, another kid and I were playing in a creek (and that alone is the question of what to call the flowing water, ha). She pronounced it crick. I say creeeek, with emphasis on the "e". What I call a crick is what I'd get in my neck if I slept on it wrong all night. 😂

[@ktspirit1]

There is still a running debate on how to pronounce pecan, ha. 🤣

[@ajdembroski7529]

We all call the toilet, "The Throne," which is my favorite.

[@blankmike4613]

Clicker came from the 1966 to 1982 cable attached channel changer. Wireless remotes were not a big deal until the VHS glory days.

[@wolver73]

Isn’t a cupboard where one keeps one’s cups?

[@TheBeesleys99]

That may be where it originated but no its more general than that now aha :)

[@ktspirit1]

@@TheBeesleys99 Here in Alabama, we differentiate closets by what is stored in them or what room they are in, ha. Broom closet (if you only have one, ha) for cleaning supplies, light bulbs, etc. Just closet for clothes, shoes and such (if you only have one, again). The pantry in the kitchen or the other one where mostly extra canned goods are stored. Or we just say the hall closet, master or middle bedroom closet, or whatever room the closet is in. You know, so we can help someone more easily find what they are looking for, LOL. We have a lot of closets. LOL 😁

[@elkins4406]

@@ktspirit1 Yup. And the "linen closet," usually upstairs near the bedrooms, for bedding and towels. In the north, we also have the "coat closet," which is usually right next to the front door.

[@ktspirit1]

@@elkins4406 Yes, I have what would be a coat closet next to the "foyer" of the front door, but I keep other things in there, like the vacuum cleaners, etc. The linen closet is at the other end of the hall and then there is the downstairs closet in the "den". There are also the built-in bathroom cabinets and clothes hampers. Then I would have to say the master bath, the guest bath or the downstairs bath, LOL.

[@corvus1374]

We say stovetop, but each is an individual burner. You dry off your face or hands (but not your whole body) with a hand towel or a face towel. It's only a porcelain god if you're vomiting into it. Then you're praying to the porcelain god.

[@sherikuykendall2621]

We do have a torch. It is a high intensity flame created and controlled by butane gas.

[@MichaelBuckley284]

Coincidentally enough, I was watching a video on the history of flashlights/ torches recently. The earliest versions only had the capacity to give off a few short flashes before the battery would be depleted hence the name flashlight. By the time it made it to the uk they had better duration and could remain on in a constant state. I think this is a scenario where I think the British name is more fitting for the modern item.

[@alicem6611]

I would call a chest of drawers as a dresser. Great reaction! Love to see a collab with Lav Luka!

[@skylartimmer4798]

Only old people call a remote a clicker, my 70 year old dad calls it the “turner” and it always just pisses me off

[@theblackbear211]

Now, I'm a little older, but sometimes when (usually a guy in his teens or twenties) someone would rapidly consume any food in front of them, we'd say that he'd "Hoovered" his plate.

[@makreacts8045]

Great stuff. I loved to see our difference in opinion.

[@vodriscoll]

I have never heard anyone call a vacuum cleaner a "sweeper". Must be regional.

[@jackiesueann3476]

I'm from New England and we also refer to a living room as "the parlor".😁✌❤🇺🇸

[@Wiley_Coyote]

A torch is what angry villagers use to chase after Frankenstein's Monster.

[@frankisfunny2007]

A) "yes" to collabing with Thurston (Lav Luka), and/or Lawrence (Lost In The Pond) B) there's some Americans, myself included, call the toilet, the "porcelain throne"

[@waynecorder7675]

This was funny 😆 as a U.S. electrician we call sockets or outlets as Receptacles. To us a socket is the part of a light fixture you screw the light bulb into. It's funny how people refer objects with so many different names like the toilet omg that one always gets me laughing 😆 these are fun to watch thanks for the laughs 😊

[@valerielansford565]

A collaboration would be AWESOME!!! Love all 3 of you guys!!! Also my family uses either remote or The Buttons!

[@janetmoreno8909]

a sweeper is not electronic and therefore not the same as a vacuum cleaner.

[@cfromcass]

I subscribe to both you and Lav (Luscious) Luka. Many of your videos you comment on are similar but your unique reactions is why your fans tune in. Keep up your unique and fun personalities. You guys are loved for you as much as the videos. Sincerely.

[@sgswaney]

A torch is like a medieval thing to Americans. A stick with an oily rag on it for exploring caves. :)

[@spuds416]

In America torches are sticks with Fire! We also call a chest of Drawers a "Dresser"

[@aternias]

we refer to silverware as utensils most often in the Northeast US

[@warbacca1017]

11:15 i will always refer to it as a dish rag or towel (depending in size), because that is the main thing i use it for. Also, how is the "porcelain firing range" not used in the US?

[@jamus1340]

Beesley, Lav Luka and Laurence all on the same video. I'm a member of lost in the pond. Some of us talk about you guys on chats with Laurence. He knows about you Beesley I told him AND he loves that others are reacting to his work. Thanks for reacting to this video it made my day. You guys are so much fun to watch.

[@Fridge56Vet]

Yeah, seems like the subject has come up several times the last month or 2. 👍

[@virginiarobbins7539]

We DO in fact have Wardrobes but they are free standing of wood not built into the home.. some family's will pass these down from someone whom had made it themselves or if it were a pricey wedding gift from yrs back to a grandmother.. they are still made today as well though.. we have some cheaply plastic junk ones if you just need one temporarily

[@joyhoward5325]

This video was a blast, great fun!!!

[@Fridge56Vet]

What's more is that these word lists are by no means exhaustive. Always interesting & fun to explore.

[@pythoscheetah2553]

American Midwesterner here (born in Ohio and raised in Michigan, so fairly close regionally to where Lawrence is). Over here, the word “torch” is pretty much exclusively reserved for the kind that’s made out of wood and lit on fire. I understand it because I lived in England for a bit, but other Americans might look at you funny if you asked for one and wonder if you’ve been playing too much Dungeons & Dragons. Like Hoover in Britain, America has its own share of brand names that have become generic, i.e. Kleenex (facial tissues, like what you’d blow your nose in) and Band-Aid (adhesive bandages/plasters) I’ve never used “plug socket”, though “electrical socket” seems to be common enough, or maybe “power outlet”. Plug is used for what you put INTO a socket (as in “pull the plug” or “plug it in”), but “power cord” is just as frequently to refer to the thing as a whole. Speaking of power cords, I’ve only ever heard “lead” used in terms of electricity when talking about actual wiring and circuits.

[@elkins4406]

I wonder if 'drawers' is a Midwesternism. Where I come from, we'd use "chest of drawers" or "dresser," pretty much as interchangeable synonyms, but I've never heard someone call it just "drawers." The drawers are the individual things you pull out; I've never heard it applied to the entire item. Anyone from someplace other than the Midwest where you called it that? ETA: Just for comparison's sake, I'm from the northeast. I now live in the Pacific Northwest, and I've never heard anyone here use it either.

[@natashadavis2959]

If you say "Chest of Drawers" fast it turns into "Chester Drawers" which is a term I grew up with. Now I just say Dresser.

[@butcharmstrong9645]

I have been a fan of Lawrence's channel for years. I have never heard of Lav Luka, never use the word flatware always silverware, a cupboard is where you store your canned goods and other food stuffs, and a broom closet is where the broom goes.... and NO ONE calls the remote a "clicker"

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

Lav Luka was actually reacting to this Lawrence video when he saw himself in the video and it surprised him.

[@joyhoward5325]

Our small towels are dish towels, bar towels, & hand towels in America where I'm from.

[@rebeccahanson6941]

In America we call a chest of drawers a dresser. Yes definitely want to see collab with you and Lav Luca!! You guys need to visit the states together, that would be fun.

[@willrobinson4976]

Great reaction Beesley.

[@brandonaston2261]

We have torches in the US. They are any wooden stick with fire on one end.

[@saragoldsmith2913]

We call sockets, plug ins where I live.

[@johnnydavis2392]

i know as far as the chest is concerned, we always call it a dresser. a chest to us is just like a fancy crate

[@jethroc7077]

We call the top of the stove "the range"

[@kimkearney5419]

I call it a dresser. But the flatware one I don't say. I call it either silverware or utensils. Most of the time I call it silverware. Even though it's not truly silver.

[@virginiarobbins7539]

On a ship the toilet is called THE HEAD

[@duanscott2490]

One disagreement I have with Lawrence is about the term "chest of drawers". Living on the west coast of the US, I've always called this a chest of drawers. I only heard bureau used on TV and usually referring to a large desk with shelves on top.

[@BlackSmokeDMax]

I just watched this earlier today and was wondering if we were gonna get a meta British watches British watching British watching British react.

[@TheBeesleys99]

I hope it was all you wished for ahah!

[@BlackSmokeDMax]

@@TheBeesleys99 excellent, as usual!

[@camf7522]

Power point = Plug socket in Australia

[@mayravixx25]

Might have to start referring to my toilet as "the firing range" from now on, although I do use "shitter" pretty often despite being American. 😂

[@theresamnsota3925]

If I hear "socket", I think of socket wrenches.

[@theire483]

Flatware because the table is flat where the ware goes on the flat...could be, but the knife IS flat.

[@garyi.1360]

I believe Lawrence was taking a jab at anyone who might think that the world could be flat.

[@seanrutter3470]

I knew him before I knew you lol didn't even find you before millie joined in. Love all of it

[@toddperman8265]

I'm from Alabama, we cook on the stove eye I have a dresser and a chest of drawers in my bedroom and I call cutlery Silverware or Utensils, never heard of flatware.

[@dannyabe6452]

In America a torch is a flaming stick.