Funny Times British People Were Caught Just Being British | Memes Time

[@nancykaminski8600]

The graph about the level of excitement in riding in the front seat on the top of a double decker bus is so correct. I did on my last visit to England-and it got even better because we went through the Swindon magic roundabout!! Score!!

[@leifvejby8023]

About the toaster testing bread. My parents once bought a toaster that didn't toast, an I took it to have it replaced. I was given another toaster, and I asked where I could plug it in, while pulling two slices of bread up from my pocket. Sales person got rather miffed - didn't help when I explained to him that I could test it at home or in his shop, and a test right now could save me a long drive to my parents and back. No, I'm not British.

[@mog-gyveroneill2500]

I think the mum was testing whether the whole slice would be toasted, because so many toasters in the UK do not allow for bigger slices, and an inch or so is just left doughy...soooooo annoying!!!

[@leifvejby8023]

@@mog-gyveroneill2500 Makes sense - I bougt one of those too, a burned stripe down the middle, and the ends raw. It went back and I repaired the old one. It is still fine 25 years after the fix.

[@rhannay39]

Oh yes you are.

[@leifvejby8023]

@@rhannay39 Not - Danish. England used to be Danish, didn't it?

[@Bonglecat]

The rave at Greggs was a real thing, ticketed event for the opening. We know how you party in Birmingham!!

[@enderfoxx8812]

The one about the love hearts and cherry bakewell soap - When I was on holiday last year down south in dorset the only hand soap in the shop was love hearts flavoured. We bought it, and have been using it in our bathrooms ever since.

[@georgealderson4424]

"Flavoured"? That gives a whole new meaning to the old phrase "Was your mouth out!"

[@alisonporter8508]

I have the Cherry Bakewell shower gel at the moment and it is lovely!

[@enderfoxx8812]

@@georgealderson4424 Lmao thats just how we say what the soap smells like where i'm from, and i've never really thought about how weird that would sound to somebody from anywhere else.

[@georgealderson4424]

@@enderfoxx8812 Haha.

[@denisemayosky1955]

@@georgealderson4424 Soap that smells like yummy baked goods? Would make me want to swear just to have my mouth washed out!

[@mog-gyveroneill2500]

I am on the side of the mum taking a slice of bread to test out toasters!! There is nowt worse than having an inch of doughy bread untoasted on a morning, and flipping it round to toast that bit just results it a load of burntiness.. I'm surprised that these weren't head lined: Wrong kind of snow. Wrong kind of leaves.

[@Ramtamtama]

it wasn't the wrong kind of leaves, they were just on the tracks

[@mog-gyveroneill2500]

Lol.. absolutely, they always have an excuse!

[@andreiiaz2097]

As a' bri'ish, I am curren'ly laughin'

[@coleywareham6377]

Same , it is rather humourous

[@happygamer3395]

Why don't British people pronounce the 'T'? Because they drank it all

[@leifvejby8023]

@@happygamer3395 Bri'ish!

[@happygamer3395]

@@leifvejby8023 Haha

[@andreiiaz2097]

@@coleywareham6377 It is quite pleasant to see that thereby shallst he another individual sharing my evaluation. Hah-hah

[@waningmooncancer9628]

Just my luck, if I ever moved there,all of a sudden everyone would become sane. Save some crazy for me whenever I visit!

[@SC-tl3px]

Don't worry, there will never be any shortage. 😆

[@denisemayosky1955]

That's true. If my husband and I ever move there, you will have a surplus!

[@Katy_Jones]

From the nation that brought you the immortal "Fog in Channel, Continent cut off".

[@ryuudrazyl4588]

Britainland folks: cheerio germs = goodbye germs Americanland folks: cheerio germs = breakfast cereal now with germs

[@cmtippens9209]

😂

[@ladygrinningsoul992]

This makes me soooooo proud 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️

[@reginal.898]

0:46 I live in Hamburg, Germany, which is as proverbially rainy as London is supposed to be, i.e. not as much as people think. The day we learned outdoor seating may be available this coming weekend, I imagined just that: People sitting outside just because they can, because a little rain won't stop anyone from Hamburg! 1:06 As someone who likes to sit at the front of any bus, I fully see myself in this! 2:32 Not in one *night*, I hope?

[@bevanderson6245]

Hate to break it to you, but at 8:03 the Bleasby name is likely left over from the Viking immigrants who arrived after the ones who sacked Lindisfarne. The Norse word "by" (then and now) means "town" and documentaries about British history have pointed out that any town in Britain that ends in "by" has Viking origins. Immigrants brought their location names and names with them. Thurgarten looks like an alternate spelling of Thor's Garden, but I don't know the official history of the name. As an amateur etymologist by way of genealogy research and the product of multiple English ancestors who arrived in America in 1620 and after, I inherited the peculiar British humor (and the dry wit of my Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish ancestors, among others), so I've been preoccupied with watching multiple British mysteries and comedies on KZbin during the pandemic, although I was watching British sitcoms and mysteries all of my adult life, as well as being a huge fan of British/Celtic history going back some 2-3000 years. I love the names in Britain! 🤗

[@Ramtamtama]

Thurgarton is actually "þhorgeirr's farmstead", with þhorgeirr being the name of the farmer who worked the area. þhorgeirr being an Old Norse name, and tún being Old English. Bleasby is a settlement (bý) on an area of bare ground (blesi), both Old Norse.

[@catw4729]

Why does that need to be broken to us? Any place name in Britain will show the roots of the settlers. Most in the north of England will show Viking origins, with some earlier Celtic or even Pictish, then a few Roman (eg anything with Chester or caster means there was a Roman camp), then later Norman. For example Lincoln comes from comes from the Celtic Llyn Dun, then became a Roman colony, Lindum Colonia, then eventually Lincoln. It’s just the evolution of British place names. I like that you love names in Britain. If you’ve not got it the Oxford dictionary of English place names is a good resource.

[@bevanderson6245]

@@Ramtamtama - Thank you for the more complete etymology!!! 🤗 I'm familiar with modern Norse languages (and do genealogy research in their databases that go back about 400 years in some cases, less in others, so I know a gård/gaard is a farm, and I have their keyboard layouts so I can use the proper spelling when words contain one of the three extra vowels), but I'm far from being an expert. I do love to listen to the languages, however, and if they don't talk as fast as I do in English, sometimes I catch a familiar word or phrase here and there. Some of the words can be confused with Anglo-Saxon languages. "Angle Land" contracted and became England with the passage of time. Once the Romans left England the Anglo-Saxons were first invited in to help kings of various Celtic tribes, and then they migrated to England for farm land and a place to live - all before the Norse came in their clinker-built Viking ships.

[@bevanderson6245]

@@catw4729 Thank you! 🤗 I'll have to look it up and add it to my private library. I have multiple English ancestors, some with occupation names, others with location names, so it should come in handy. Years ago in a baby name book I discovered my name allegedly came from Beow-for-Lea = "Dweller by the beaver meadow." There is more than one location in England (Anglo-Saxon = Angle Land) with the name Beverly or Beverley.

[@johnsuffill6520]

@@catw4729 Please explain Wetwang. Yes, that is the name of a village in Yorkshire :D

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@karenvincent5202]

I love the Brits! Can't wait to get back there!

[@DivineDefect]

Dear KZbin stranger, Hey I don't know who you are or what country you're from but love you too! Best wishes, 1 Brit

[@lilyharris7629]

Come on, were waiting!!!!

[@sheilatruax6172]

I inherited a bit of the British humour from my grandmother. The only person of the previous generation who thought Monty Python was as funny as I did!!

[@vbee3571]

Gotta love those Brits! 👍🏻

[@gj8683]

The hat-found-in-the-tree story reminds me somehow of Canada. They'd make an effort to get the hat back to its owner.

[@denisemayosky1955]

Yeah, I was gonna say why destroy the poor hat? It's not its fault it got lost!😥

[@Ramtamtama]

7:31 how didn't they pick up that her surname is Bromance?

[@KK-23.07]

i'm english, and the entire time watching this im like, what, does this not happen in america?

[@denisemayosky1955]

Nah, we have our own brand of craziness - and not just in regards to politics.😆😬

[@KK-23.07]

@@denisemayosky1955 well duck

[@john4365]

We (brits) have a saying - "only in America".

[@lesliemccormick6527]

This Canadian was delighted by this....some of which was pretty familiar.😉

[@YasminJFoster]

1:17 As someone who lives in Brighton, England - Yes. We are so obsessed with our seagulls, we have their image representing our football team. One day we will overthrow our seagull overlords...

[@Buzbikebklyn1]

I LOVE IT! Please make another "British" things to say! It's a hoot! Funnier than how it was in WWII. Keep a stiff upper lip!

[@lilyharris7629]

No, we never say that bull's crap

[@stephensmith799]

Not to forget the 1960s headline in the Western Mail read mainly in Wales: ‘Welsh Type Dog in Space’ (an unfortunate Corgi… really a German breed but once popular in Wales for herding cattle by nipping at their heels without getting kicked

[@alicewilloughby4318]

1:L22 - "Bindicator". For some reason, I find that really cute! 3:23 - BAHAHAHAH!!!

[@prisoner6266]

4:39 If you think that was good, Hebden Bridge's reply was left by the Bible section of the library. "If this filth is to your liking may we suggest you move to the god bothering up tight holier than thou village of Cornholme."

[@denisemayosky1955]

Why does Hebden Bridge sound like a much more enjoyable place to live than Cornholme? And I say that even *as* a believer!

[@prisoner6266]

@@denisemayosky1955 Better sense of humour

[@JodiFCobb]

2:25 I , we have! Several watching with me.

[@CiaranDevine]

The best raves are in Greggs

[@davidsmith6661]

Mindful of the one which said it had rained every day since ..... We were in Panama a couple of years ago and the guide apolgised since it was raining hard. She said that we had come during the rainy season. I asked how long the rainy season lasted and she said "Eight months."

[@darrenc3140]

Loved this - made me proud to be British and am planning on making a "British Pizza" in the very near future :-)

[@koretmulder6316]

"No rain except once on Nov. 2nd, 2020." Welcome to California.

[@Allthingswitchy106]

I'm English, had to laugh at this. A meat and potato pie on a barm is known in the north west as a Wigan Kebab. Our trains get cancelled for leaves on the line and the wrong type of snow. No one has figured out what the right type of snow is (yet).

[@christopherdean1326]

3:56. I can do better than that! I was driving on the M25 once and passed the Flying Scotsman (or something very similar) on a trailer going in the opposite direction.

[@terranceparsons5185]

How did you pass it if it was going the other way? Yessss, another 5 pendantry points!

[@christopherdean1326]

@@terranceparsons5185 As it was heading in the other direction, I had little chance to do anything else but pass it. I didn't say I overtook it. I'll have some of those points back ;-)

[@terranceparsons5185]

@@christopherdean1326 😁

[@debbiehenri345]

What a wonderful thing to see. I too was on the M25 about 30 years ago now, and saw an old wooden sailing craft on the back of an immense lorry (I think it was a ketch). All traffic in my direction was squeezed over to one side to let this boat past. Lovely sight.

[@JodiFCobb]

Much Fun! Had to watch Again to Smile today!!!

[@michw3755]

My Britishness confirmed when I got excited for the full English trifle, then got annoyed that it was not topped with HP sauce

[@esperdoesstuff]

I feel insulted, we trains are much smarter then you think.

[@carabiner7999]

Imagine being a trainer, like me: I'm confused if I should be insulted. Send help.

[@denisemayosky1955]

Good to hear from you, Thomas!😁🚂

[@joannedixon-jackson7348]

The bit about Brits needing to drink 124 pints to help pubs recover from lockdown… if my dad hadn’t passed away in 2019, I’m pretty sure he would have accepted that challenge!

[@MyIdeasHaveRunDry._.]

Cuthbert is having so much fun in that image! 7:48

[@ryuudrazyl4588]

3:44 And here we all thought the Top Hats went to space when they really are occupying East London.

[@douglasreeves9938]

At 6:08, I would order that pizza in a heartbeat.

[@TimmsMJ]

It's called sarcasm :)

[@ant-1382]

Don't destroy the hat, I'm sure some one will want it!! Lost my favorite hat, couple weeks later saw some guy walking around with it. I figured finders keepers, couldn't very well go over and say hey thats my hat.

[@gaia7240]

Awwww i want to visit England so baaaaad

[@triarb5790]

The Northumberland person would really love Australia.

[@hildaelson4203]

This makes me so homesick 😭

[@janesdiary4357]

As a non-British person, cheerio germs would be a health hazard when eating breakfast.

[@hildaelson4203]

Don’t go into our Wilkinson then hahaha

[@donnamorrell1895]

My b/f has been looking for a new car online, every so often he says "what do you reckon to this one?" I take one look and ask "do you really want that number plate" it normally takes him a second to work out that the number plate says something rude/funny/obscene, then he carries on looking, he still swears to this day that what the number plates say don't bother him, but we still don't have a new car yet.

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

24 carat platinum genius is this!

[@mandybranch7218]

Oh Rather 🤣🤣🤣

[@plerpplerp5599]

British is what you call yourself when you don't want people to think you are English.😎

[@dannypipewrench533]

You just HAVE to love English humor.

[@Jaccayumitty]

Thurgarten and Bleasby are the worst British place names you could find? Cocking, Fulking, and the Devil's Dyke are all within thirty miles of me. But my favourite is Fingringhoe.

[@terranceparsons5185]

If you want British, my favourite past time comes close. Like apple's £2.00 a pound.

[@meowmocha12]

Two pounds a pound.

[@christopherdean1326]

pastime* one word...

[@rsmith6366]

BIGGEST CHIP!

[@noahblackford8914]

I'm British, this is awesome

[@Masked_One_1316]

2:20 I have, multiple times!😅

[@NWednesdayQuansah]

My headcanon is that every British council meeting is just people yelling, "You have no authority here, Jackie Weaver!!!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀

[@lilyharris7629]

Wilko wipes!! Bliss

[@gallicadlair81]

I misread the title as “you are not on a train”.

[@darkiee69]

7:29 That last name though...🤔🙄

[@isabellaangeline2175]

3:38 Sounds just like living in Seattle.

[@top_eleventips1474]

As 10 yr old in p6 I was doing a letter and named myself nick-gur

[@itskikiluv]

1:00 what if your dyslexic-

[@maureenlancaster1694]

I want the mince pie job

[@jeddy936]

I identify as a train so those tracks are for me

[@janusloggins876]

I think I like British

[@Widdekuu91]

3:43 wasn't he on Graham norton, with a grey-double-hat?

[@rebeccajames7487]

7:48 I call BS… for a start he is called Colin!!

[@WOLFv61]

lol hat in a tree, bilton lanes about 5 minutes from where i live :-)

[@williammerkel1410]

"Thomas had never seen such bullshit before".

[@frantisekvrana3902]

4:46 Poster's mom forgot to remove the bag before putting the slice of bread in. That must have resulted in plastic being melted onto the bread.

[@debbiehenri345]

She wouldn't have switched on the toaster to test how it toasted the bread. She plastic-wrapped it because she's being considerate - to ensure bread crumbs don't drop inside the toaster while she tries the bread for 'size.'

[@frantisekvrana3902]

@@debbiehenri345 Oh, I thought that it was to test the baking, not the size. If it was for size, then OK.

[@slavbarbie]

I thought that was baking sheet... I mean baking paper.

[@stephenphillip5656]

🇬🇧 an' proud of it! 🤗🤗

[@terranceparsons5185]

Wrong sort of heat? Matter of time, matter of time!

[@stephenphillip5656]

A throwback to the immortal headline in the late 1970s when our trains ground to a halt because of "The wrong kind of snow". (Fine, dry powdery snow which clogged up the filters apparently.) In a recent spell of hot (for us!) weather, the trains ground to a halt because the air-conditioning units couldn't cope which left the poor, long-suffering passengers passing out with 45C+ heat in the carriages. Only in Britain!

[@markdickson3820]

Good gods, we’re so easy to make fun of. The one about the sex party but paper/council was more worried about parking so perfectly sums up life in UK. Cars are just vomited everywhere you look because we refuse to acknowledge that life has moved on so roads and parking is needed.

[@eileenbutterfly7856]

Hey, the deadline for the owner to get the hat back is the same as my parents' birthday. Yes, my mum and dad have the same birthday.

[@popazz1]

Now, I admit it's been a fair few years since I was last in Hebden Bridge, (visiting a lesbian couple who had moved there), but I doubt it was they who led to the place being named a cesspit!

[@jgw5491]

All those furrin places a few miles over are cesspits. 💩

[@michaelmullin3585]

Cookies?

[@grahamsmith9541]

Cookies are a subset of Biscuit. Biscuits are usually thin sweetened and unleavened (no yeast or baking powder). Cookies are softer and thicker more like very small thin cakes.

[@grahamsmith9541]

@Gi Gi They are legally small cakes. Following a court case with McVitie's where Customs and Excise tried to declare them biscuits. So that VAT would be charged on them. Cakes are classed as essential food so no VAT on them. They had one sitting in the courtroom to go stale. It went hard so the Judge declared them to be cakes. So no VAT could be charged on them. Biscuits that do have VAT applied go soft when stale.

[@grahamsmith9541]

@Gi Gi I think they are just horrible. I have never liked them.

[@grahamsmith9541]

@Gi Gi My wife thinks I'm weird. I have tried one now and again over the years but they are not for me.

[@denisemayosky1955]

@@grahamsmith9541 Oh well, different strokes and all that...

[@michellemcfarland80]

Guess ya gota b British… 🤔

[@paulellis6022]

Where can I get a breakfast trifle?

[@JodiFCobb]

Suggest that you move? Before

[@charlotterose8350]

Yes. British

[@stephenstone8968]

N nobody drinking in the rain outside pubs today as least not in Kingston on Thames. In fact for once on a Bank Holiday the sun have been shining.OK so talking about the weather is that British enough for you.

[@owenmurray1405]

That’s offensive to people who identify as trains

[@dannypipewrench533]

7:33 BUT WHY DESTROY THE HAT?

[@actuallypaulstanley]

Okay, I have to ask why the guy, third from the left in the Greggs queue at 5:38 is wearing only his underwear and an apron?!

[@douglasreeves9938]

At 1:39, Emma, my Mom's maiden name was Reeve! Any relation?

[@isabellaangeline2175]

5:47 I’ve had to use jam jars. When you’re young and broke you have to get creative. This wave of calling everything “hipster” that is a little bit different is getting so stupid.

[@john4365]

When I was a teenager in the 1980s our mum went on strike. Dad lived elsewhere, so it was Mum vs kids. We drank from jam jars and ate off saucepan lids. She did no laundry. She had a full-time job, and when she'd finished doing that she read the Guardian newspaper from front to back, and the entirety of The Lord of the Rings. I wouldn't call her a hipster, but we learned our lesson. Two years later we were Greenham girls supporting the miners (not in that way - some did, scabby sluts). Now I have a dishwasher. How British is that?

[@cmtippens9209]

Texas native here. There's been plenty of us since the 30s who've used jelly (as we call it) jars for glasses. Heck...Welch's Grape Jelly came out with several series of jars meant to be used as glasses for kids with a different popular cartoon character on each jar/glass. The idea being that kids would nag Mom to buy enough jelly to "collect'em all", of course.

[@rachelmartin3631]

What's with Brits and baked beans? You guys eat baked beans with everything.

[@JS-rv3et]

dont you know brtish towns are actually Martian language? its what happened after war of the worlds