American Reacts to 50 Pics That Prove UK Is Like Nowhere Else!

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

I believe the Brits could drink the Americans under the table but then the Americans could eat the Brits under the table. Makes it a tie.

[@chrismac2234]

But they can't get the tie to fit round their neck. So we win

[@berylgilligan9287]

I doubt you meant what it sounded like 😂😂😂

[@deanmadnut2614]

@@chrismac2234 😂

[@chrismac2234]

@@berylgilligan9287 o lol I did. And I've got one further. If they wear a belt and a tie on the same day, they're mistaken for sausages

[@BlackxGarden]

Then the Irish turn up to the party and put us all to shame.

[@scifihack5275]

Ahh, but your forgetting two salient facts 1. British pints are bigger (youtube video available) and 2. US beer is less than half the strength. 🎉

[@deanmadnut2614]

Yeah I have noticed though, what's annoys me is that our beer here is getting slightly weaker

[@johndoyle6622]

True, but the measure used for comparison is 'standard drinks', not pints. What I don't understand is why we Brits think getting pissed is such heroic entertainment. I suppose we're meant to be good at laughing at ourselves!

[@KhaliqShah-ed3yj]

So basically WATER HAHA 😎😎😂. GOOD ONE FAM!!!

[@TerenceDixon-l6b]

1 US pint = 16 Fluid ounces, UK pint = 20 fl. oz. so 25% larger🍺🍺

[@TheJpf79]

@@TerenceDixon-l6b The joug or Scots pint is equal to 1696 mL which is about 59 ounces.

[@daverigby23]

I'm sorry, but you can't compare British beer with American

[@andysadler6432]

you cant compare beer to american beer as its water

[@JonEvans-st9kt]

I mean you can copare in the states you guys tend to class Stella as posher end of beer wheel here that stuff is straight out trash

[@olivertaylor9755]

American been is like having sex in a canoe. It’s fucking close to water.

[@BadDadDodge]

i am british and all that but i think you want to watch out for the germans when it comes to lager & beer lol. I think the french could probably drink a lot of wine as well. think us brits do it well however the europeans are more than likely on another level lmao

[@tdg6372]

​@JonEvans-st9kt Stella is certainly not considered posh, rather the opposite. It used to have the nickname "Wife Beater" here in England. Something posh here would be Peroni.

[@barlimanbutterbur9103]

I died when he called the Co-Op in Llanfair an official building 😂

[@Pugjamin]

Came here to say that 😂

[@klaxoncow]

Hey, officially the best prices in town!

[@what-uc]

Ironic that Co-op is an abbreviation

[@Long-Horse]

Haha yeah same.

[@grahamyates2490]

@@what-uc they wouldn't get a lot of patronage in the States ... too Communist.

[@noggintube]

The car crashed into the opticians is particularly funny to us as Specsavers had an advertising campaign where someone did something wrong and the tag line was "should have gone to specsavers". This became a bit of a comment to make about anyone who didn't see something.

[@DingbatRabbit]

funneh

[@stephwaite]

Made me 😂

[@Venusbabe66]

Specsavers ads are the best!! 😂 Their tagline is genius: " Should've gone to Specsavers!" Totally iconic now.

[@NCC-1701_no_bloody_a_b_c_or_d]

"Should've gone to specsavers" combined with "you can't park there, mate"

[@findingmybliss5713]

The specsavers best advert was the one with the cat 😺 👓

[@catherinewilkins2760]

A recent survey of world wide consumption of alcohol, put our women in top place, the men came third, with Denmark taking the lead. Nice to see us girls maintaining high standards, boys you're slipping, pull your finger out!

[@polarisukyc1204]

If women came first and men lame third, the who came first?

[@marieparker3822]

William is not in-bred. Charles and Diana were not related to each other any more than any other two British people. The Queen and Prince Philip were third cousins, which genetically is not comparable to being first cousins. The Queen's parents were totally unrelated. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (her mother) was a commoner.🙂

[@julianaylor4351]

William is bald because of Prince Phillip's genes, Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth the second's. There are bald men amongst the Windsors and his paternal grandfather's family and his mother's family, he just got unlucky. Whereas his young brother got red head genes from the Spensers and his great grand mother's family, the Bowes Lyons.

[@paulhadfield7909]

@@julianaylor4351 harry is bald in the back ,

[@julianaylor4351]

@@paulhadfield7909 So the Windsor genes, etc, have struck. 😁

[@juliehillman8743]

@paulhadfield7909 The Montecito Moaners hair​ is always a different colour and 'looks less bald' in his airbrushed staged photos. He has the Friar Tuck hairstyle in reality. They couldn't get a hair plug colour match, so thats why his transplant failed 🤪

[@georgebarnes8163]

@@paulhadfield7909 the butlers boy

[@jessgibson4790]

American service personal are advised not to go drinking with British forces. Says it all I think. They actually get a card issued to them that gives them this instruction.

[@glennwilson6507]

I was English born and I served in the US Army. I had to drink hard liquor as American beer just filled me up with no effect.

[@ianjardine7324]

Had a friend who went drinking with some US navy when he was on leave shore patrol turned up arresting all the drunk swabies when he refused to leave his floaty chair in the pool with a cheeky "wrong army mate I'm allowed to be pissed as feck" they just left him too it.

[@RushfanUK]

Over the years I've had a number of beers with American visitors to the UK, what tends to screw them is the beer strength and the different pint size, a UK pint is 20 fluid ounces, the US pint is only 16 fluid ounces, catches up with them every time as 4 UK pints equals 5 US pints.

[@mairiconnell6282]

The tunnel is under the water. If on top it would be a bridge.

[@outside8312]

"This must be an official building" Tis a Co-op 😂

[@stephenlee5929]

I think, its officially a building😊😊

[@gillcawthorn7572]

For others ,the Co-Op is a supermarket chain . It was started by the Co-Operative Society ,so the customers who registered with them would be rather like shareholders and get a discount on the goods

[@Isleofskye]

@@gillcawthorn7572 The biggest crooks in the supermarket industry as their prices are ludicrous compared with all the major stores let alone the likes of Lidl and Aldo and I am talking about IDENTICAL products, sometimes,of the same brand of product and same size. This, is from the Store that, endlessly, informs us how ETHICAL they are. LOL

[@Long-Horse]

@@gillcawthorn7572 And they are a massive rip off, that pretend to help with fair trade and charity but just increase the price of anything and everything under that facade.

[@johnsonrob]

I have to say that this is your best video on the UK to date (from what I have seen); so very funny. Just to clarify; everyone in the UK was saying "Should've gone to SpecSavers" - literally a UK trope for an opticians advert (a marketing coup).

[@Isleofskye]

and,as you saw,it really was a Specsavers.

[@ianp1986]

I don’t think you got the £17 to £13 one. He’s just basically saying that in those 2 years, pretty much nothing has changed, no raises or promotions etc, not that he only spent £4 in 2 years 😂

[@TheCornishCockney]

Exactly my thoughts too. But as Americans go,he’s one of the more educated ones.

[@cmcculloch1]

spending only £4 in 2 years - that WOULD be aspirational!

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@cmcculloch1 He's basically living, what the US Americans call paycheck to paycheck (wageslip to wageslip) and used £4 of his massive £17 in savings over that time.

[@zepo82]

@@Thurgosh_OG I think it's probably a commentary on inflation vs wages. His money has gone down in value because he never got a pay rise in that time which would keep up with inflation. Maybe I'm looking too deeply and want a payrise :D

[@Shoomer1988]

The joke about the opticians was that 'Specsavers' had run of famous adverts that had the catchphrase "Should have gone to Specsavers."

[@julianaylor4351]

I say that to people who nearly walk into me in the street, because they're phone zombies or just not watching where they are going.

[@rjb29uk]

The tagline was so well known, that it became a football insult to the referees when the fans thought they'd made a bad decision. And, not sure if they still do, but at some point, Specsavers actually sponsored referees in one of the football leagues, so the refs had a sponsor patch for Specsavers on their sleeves!

[@martinlewis1015]

There was stoneage man in Britain, he did not like drinking water, found out mixing stuff into it made early beer. It was so popular crowds used to build, so they build a circle of large rocks, this became the first beer festival. Many many years later it was called Stonehenge

[@georgebarnes8163]

Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow

[@tacfoley4443]

You might need to point out that this is a joke, right?

[@spyrytaraxalass]

@@georgebarnes8163 Where the banshees live?

[@JackMellor498]

For future reference, we say ASDA like it’s a word, Asda. The S has a Z sound, like Az-duh Lidl is a European chain of low price supermarkets, same for Aldi, we have them here in the UK, but regardless of where you are in Europe, cashiers when beeping your items through are so quick they might as well break the sound barrier. 😂

[@kanedaku]

Found out on another KZbin video about a month ago that Lidl has been in the states since the 70s! I think its split in two though, so maybe there are parts of the US that neither cover.

[@AmethystDew]

Yes and you can't get your shopping into the bags in time, so that you end up with a mountain of shopping on a 12 inch square of counter and the girl is asking for payment and you have only got the second item in your bag. I get the sweats every time I put food through. Are they trained to do this??????????

[@francisedward8713]

The Channel Tunnel is under the water! It's the longest underwater tunnel in the world. When I first went through it as a little kid, I also expected to see fish and stuff.

[@PeterJPickles]

Stopped the vid to say this :)

[@paulliversage4479]

It goes through rock

[@PeterJPickles]

@@paulliversage4479 That rock is underwater.

[@Long-Horse]

it goes through rock

[@katerhodes9264]

Did you actually call her Megan Mirkin? That's amazing! Best thing I've heard all week.

[@charlicks8808]

Megan Mirkin! I died 😂

[@lindsayheyes925]

You know, I think he was being ironic and funny: Meghan Markle is rumoured to covet the Presidency of the USA; There was a President of the USA called "Merkin Muffley" in the film "Dr Strangelove". So calling her Meghan Merkin was either a hilarious mondegreen or a very smart joke. Despite all the character names in Dr Strangelove being hilariously contrived, my buttoned-up feminist Uni Drama Tutor failed to note the unsubtle meaning of either the name or the rhythmically wobbling cinematography of pitot tubes, bomber noses and cockpits in the opening sequence. When I mentioned all the phallic symbolism, it didn't compute - she only "got" Slim Pickens riding a nuclear bomb to his doom. The comic genius of Stanley Kubrick was sadly lost on her. Merkin - a wig for the female pudenda worn by stage actresses and whores. Literally "a fake c♡#t".

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

🤭

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Brits could probably drunk Americans under the table because Brits are brought up with real pints (that are bigger that US pints!) The "massive sheep" joke is because the land by the lake looked exactly like a map of south Wales. ASDA is pronounced "AZZ-der". And a 99 ice cream is delicious!

[@Venenata]

the tunnel is underwater ... you just cant see through it

[@TDWPown]

A “scrap” is a Scottish term for a fight. That guy thought he was offering to fight school kids but he was actually saying he’s left scrap metal if anyone wanted it 😂

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

Is it Scottish? We say it in the West Midlands as well.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 Same in London.

[@wotsitjimbob2271]

@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 We say it here in West Wales too. Just looked it up i think its of English origin maybe.

[@mattsmith5421]

Not a Scottish term at all

[@Escapee5931]

So can we all agree "scrap" is a British term, or is someone going to claim that their nation was using it first?

[@davidbirchall832]

You missed the point with the 'scrap outside school' tweet...he was letting folk know there was scrap metal dumped in case somebody wanted to take it and sell it at a scrapyard...

[@woogle23]

I was just speaking to Rob Coulter about this a few weeks ago.. He can't believe how viral that went. Parton is in Whitehaven, Cumbria btw.

[@Long-Horse]

@@woogle23 Whitehaven is a massive shithole lol.

[@74marcroy]

Thank you, I was thinking I might have had a brain fart

[@fabshop6359]

The car in the opticians window. The opticians is Specsavers, their TV adverts show people making mistakes, that are obvious, the slogan is “ should have gone to Specsavers”. Enjoy your comments! Cheers!

[@martinsear5470]

You should see if there is a compilation of the Flake TV ads from the 70's and 80's in the UK on KZbin. You will find yourself having some very odd thoughts in relation to chocolate just as we did as kids.😆

[@nikibee237]

"Only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate, tastes like chocolate never tasted before"😋

[@davidhyams2769]

The Cadbury's Caramel bunny could give Jessica Rabbit a run for her money.

[@paulmason6474]

How Bizarre I have just put this comment on another YT video. Strange coincidence😅

[@RobCrossgrove-p7d]

@@davidhyams2769 Did you know that the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny was voiced by Miriam Margolyes?

[@watchreadplayretro]

Mate, in the time it took you to calculate all that in the 2nd minute of this video... I had already downed 2 shots and was 5 gulps into ma pint! :P Anyway! Brilliant as always, cheers JJ

[@John_Lyle]

An American pint only holds four gulps.

[@gitaryddcymraeg8816]

To add a bit of context to the Brits out drinking Americans. A pint in America is almost 100ml smaller than in the UK.

[@kumasenlac5504]

4:56 In many rural places the red telephone boxes now contain ad-hoc libraries on a leave a book, take a book basis. Some are used as glasshouses.

[@MrBulky992]

Also for medical emergency equipment, especially defibrillators.

[@NarnianRailway]

Warwick Davis is also very Narnian. In the BBC '89 adaptation of Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader he had the honor of playing Reepicheep and in '80 The Silver Chair played Glimfeather the Owl. Years later in '08 Warwick Davis made a return to Narnia in Prince Caspian as dwarf Nikabrik.

[@Dave.Thatcher1]

He's also played a Dwarf😆

[@John_Lyle]

An American pint is smaller than its real equivalent, being 473 ml compared to the British pint at 561ml. I can only manage two pints in a night, but before you write me off as a lightweight, I drink 100°proof rum (57%ABV)

[@spyrytaraxalass]

A fine effort!

[@keith6400]

12:31 He was trying to get someone to clear some scrap metal rubbish from outside the school.

[@IslandGirl-s3x]

Just the laugh I needed before going to bed. Just found this channel today and it’s great. Laughed so hard about Jamie Oliver, it was gold 😂

[@susanhill2110]

The car in opticians window 😂should have gone to specsavers 😂(that’s the slogan for specsavers)

[@gavingiant6900]

Just a heads-up, the ASDA is the Asda shop that is pronounced az-da. Walmart even owned the company for a little while, then two British brothers bought it. I think Walmart tried to implement an American style of layout and shopping experience to the shop that didn't really work over here, so they cut their losses and sold it.

[@markwolstenholme3354]

Yes, two British brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa.

[@gavingiant6900]

@@Isleofskye At half eight in the morning, you got that from what I put..?

[@gavingiant6900]

@@Isleofskye I put "two British brothers", then you put "2 Muslim brothers". Also British refers to a British citizen that was born in England, Scotland, Wales or was granted British citizenship by swearing an oath to the Queen/King and county. But after saying that, I will agree about the woke agenda across the west. But usually the adverts nowadays normally contain mainly people of African decent which only make-up about 4% of the population, ever since BLM mon ami Del Boy.😉

[@Isleofskye]

Fair enough,Gavin. :) @@gavingiant6900

[@Long-Horse]

@@gavingiant6900 Wtf did you just write fam? made me have a fkin aneurism.

[@Isleofskye]

The joke about the £17 and being skint and 2 years having £13 and being still the same as he said that "this is NOT an "inspirational" speech because when someone, usually, makes a "before and after" comparison it demonstrates how well they have progressed. He is saying that nothing has changed in those 2 years.😀

[@IamNasman]

8:15 on the video that you are reviewing, there’s a opticians called spec savers and there slogan on adverts is ‘should of gone to spec savers’

[@Paul_fella]

In the uk we put scrap metal outside. There is usually a local scrap man driving the streets looking for metal to be recycled

[@TheThird1977]

With the drinking, there's also the average strength of the alcohol in the UK vs the US, with the former being generally higher, so we Brits would be able to drink more of the US beer before feeling the effects, or the US wouldn't be able to cope with the UK drinks.

[@orangewarm1]

The Specsavers commercials are legendary.

[@ianjardine7324]

The massive welsh sheep joke is better when you realize the piece of land it's sitting on looks exactly like south wales on a map.

[@Long-Horse]

No, he got the joke fam, he has looked at a map before im sure....

[@Dave.Thatcher1]

@@Long-Horse .....What's a "FAM"?

[@Long-Horse]

@Dave.Thatcher1 Fam is English slang for family, but it's used the same as friend or mate.

[@davepb5798]

Sceptic, not Septic, I'll leave the obvious joke to others 😂

[@Isleofskye]

I once owned a Tank that did not trust anyone so which one is that?

[@shaunkenny7619]

On the car crash one of was crashed.into a shop called Specsavers there slogan is "should of gone to Specsavers" so it's common to say to someone who messes up especially if you have glasses on

[@julianaylor4351]

It's actually a Co-op supermarket. The Co-operative is a society that runs banks and supermarkets, amongst other help for people including funeral services. You can join as a member. Because of what they are, they have to put the name of the place on some of their buildings, so it's an official co-op building, not a civic or government one.

[@Aengus42]

Llanfair P.G. (as the locals write on envelopes & forms) means "St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave." It was a publicity stunt in 1869 to give the town the longest station name. Thought up by a local tailor.

[@RichardSmith-ew3xz]

When I was at University in Scotland we were studying alcohol and its effect on socelty. The annual figure for Scots dying of alcohol related liver disease was approx 46000. In the USA the figure was 44000. (This was approx 2007) These numbers were were not statistically adjusted to the fact the US has 60 times more people than Scotland (5m) and the US (300m). Those figures tell you all you need to know about Scotlands relationship with alcohol.

[@stewrmo]

Your beer has less alcohol and we get more in a pint in the UK. 🍺

[@BonkersAboutAlice]

As someone who works in Sunderland I can confirm blue lights are stolen.

[@RobCrossgrove-p7d]

I don't know why that Co-Op had the name of the town on it. They normally just have the street name on there.

[@perry714.]

As soon as I seen that car crashed I started crying with laughter. There is an advert over here for specsavers which is an opticians. They have an loads of different adverts where people fuck up and the slogan is “should’ve gone to specsavers” so that’s what that meme was about, it was saying all us brits are thinking that slogan lol

[@retro-robbo]

The Scrap outside the school I think you misunderstood. The original poster was being a good samaritan say there is scrap metal outside the school on grass if anyone wants it (not a fight type of scrap), as we still have a thing called scrap metal merchants etc. That come round collecting it. Then someone who also misunderstood that told him to get a f'#]ing grip, so his repsonse back telling him he was a muppet and keyboard warrior was well warranted. Easy to misunderstand but Rob the poster obviously wasnt drinking, just being a good kind soul trying to help out.

[@brianroberts5048]

We lived in Llanfair PG for 30 years and I used to shop in that Coop 🙂

[@julianaylor4351]

There's a Co-op near a local Post Office I use, where I live in London.

[@Long-Horse]

Cool

[@davebee9651]

Tbf, the channel is mostly a browny grey soup, if the channel tunnel was a window you'd see mostly blackness or vaguley mud coloured water.

[@irreverend_]

Rob was just saying there was scrap metal in a field. Presumably someone fly tipped it. I certainly didn't assume he meant a fight given how he phrased it. He might be the one who left it there mind you, in which case he's naughty

[@delithnutkins6017]

The car crashed into the window of Spec Savers options. It’s a standing joke in UK he should’ve gone to Spec Savers

[@GeorgeBestsBurgundyBoots]

He meant there was scrap metal outside the school if anyone wanted to pick it up to… scrap for money, not that he wanted to fight 😂

[@Wakkawakkaa]

The scrap one means scrap metal lol not a fight. That's where the confusion is hahaha 😅

[@missharry5727]

I used to go on holiday to Anglesey, the Welsh island which includes Llanfair PG, and l learnt how to pronounce it. Then a few years ago I went to Iceland and learnt how to pronounce Eyafjallajokull (sorry, can't do the umlaut on the U) and discovered that there are similarities in the way LL is pronounced in both languages, though they are no more closely related than any other Scandinavian and Celtic language pair.

[@grahamstubbs4962]

74 drinks a week. Looking a bit more like a challenge now. Bring it on, baby. 🙂

[@philipcochran1972]

ASDA, pronounced Azda, is a British supermarket / grocery store. Originally the letters meant ASociated DAiries.

[@colinstock325]

It is owned by Walmart though.

[@iantellam9970]

@@colinstock325 Not since 2021.

[@marflitts]

@@colinstock325 Not anymore

[@davidhyams2769]

Not any more

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@colinstock325 Walmart sold 70% of ASDA back to British owners, so they still own 39%. The reason the gave up was that they couldn't get the British workers to accept low US working conditions and terms.

[@laurenC91.]

Bare in mind, if we are talking pints of beer the US measurement is approx. 20% less than a UK pint of beer (if you Google this a pint measurement for anything else is higher quantity in US but beer specifically in UK has more in)

[@Code123579]

I think you misunderstood the scrap outside the school one. The original poster really was just trying to advertise that there was some scrap metal near the school so that someone would come and collect it, he wasn’t trying to organise a fight XD

[@mmmJamSandwich]

16:22 should've gone to specsavers 🤪

[@sveinbjrnv7291]

American beers can come in small cans whereas UK beer standard is what Americans call "tallboys"

[@elemar5]

You didn't get the Tesco one and you never got the scrap metal one.

[@nolaj114]

make sure you write those down in your notebook.

[@Isleofskye]

@@nolaj114 I have made a Diary note that JULA never got the "£17/"£13 "inspirational" one....

[@Yello918]

16:15 Should have gone to Specsavers.

[@wivenhoeessex]

The UK advert for the opticians depicts people doing stupid things because they cannot see with the voice over saying should have gone to Specsavers (the shop name). As for scrap - scrap outside Parton school if any one wants it. interpretation 1: a fight outside Parton school on the grass if anyone wants to join in. interpretation 2: Scarp (metal) outside Parton school on the grass, it's free if you want to take it. People took the bait!!!

[@alisonrodger3360]

We just say Asda for ASDA. Opticians : their ad is "should've gone to Specsavers '

[@zoeblay8771]

Happy Birthday JJ (if you were telling the truth in one of your vids lol). Another great one today, I'd like to put in my recommendation again for carrot in a box and carrot in a box the rematch xx

[@mattsmith5421]

Yes to carrot in a box

[@Dave-kw7jq]

Aldi and Lidl have the dreaded middle aisle usually where the bored husbands on a food shop tend to gravitate to and yep they sell completely random stuff hence the quip about sporks and a haunted bin... I went to aldi for a food shop and came home with a compressor ,hoses, and some air tools🤣🤣

[@janolaful]

The guy wasn't asking for a fight he was telling people there was srap mettle on the grass which they sell lol

[@lindsayheyes925]

I split my sides laughing... there were so many Brit cultural references that you didn't see - too many to list. "Should've gone to Specsavers."

[@watchreadplayretro]

12:36 Any Old Iron ! (scrap metal is metal that nobody wants, left to either be collected by scrap metal merchants or by anyone that wants it for free)

[@okimjustwatching]

I call that door holing smile my ‘holiday’ smile as I only really use it on resorts.

[@timglennon6814]

Some Brits can drink 9 pints of beer on a Friday night, plus some shots in between.

[@nickhendley9303]

Just found your commentaries and subscribed. Have you done a video on UK firework displays? In particular November the 5th. The day is called Guy Fawkes day but in certain parts of the country it goes way beyond that. Lewes in Sussex for instance burns the Pope every year who had been complicit in the plot against the English Parliament.

[@charlesloukas1946]

November 5 was a false flag op.

[@zoeblay8771]

Yes he has done a vid about Guy Fawkes

[@lisasimpson4574]

“Should have gone to specsavers” !!! 😂😂😂

[@MatthewXLY]

When you look stuff up and actually dive into a story i would have just shrugged at as being obvious, and i find myself learning something about my own culture? 😅 We are taking meta to new extremes!

[@andrewharper1609]

The opticians is called Specsavers. Their main advertising slogan is should've gone to Specsavers. Hence the ironic implication.

[@tacfoley4443]

You mean 'opthamologists', right? ;)

[@davidware9549]

They use that chemical in your chocolate technically for no reason cause our British chocolate can last a years so American chocolate companies need to stop producing so much cause no way does it take a year to ship chocolate around the USA

[@rayaqueen9657]

The scrap is funny because it doesn't mean what you thought. Well it can do but secondary. The main meaning is scrap metal which has a value for resale, so the second message is funny because our minds wouldn't go there and when they do the idea of a guy waiting for a scrap is funny.

[@redceltnet]

WRT drinking alcohol, why did you do the maths by population of each country? It's the adults that it is counting.

[@michaelmcdonald5631]

Enjoying your take on these optics of Uk life, very smart Black Watch Tartan Shirt you are wearing. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Katmarie100]

This has probably been commented on before but the optician joke was that the advert slogan for that particular Optician was Should've gone to Specsavers! Their adverts were people making mistakes like old people sitting on roller coaters to eat their sandwiched because they were shortsighted!

[@seansamurai1981]

That comment about inbreeding made me spit my tea out.

[@RabidJohn]

The drinking thing made me laugh. I've been all over western Europe and none of them drink like the Brits can, not even the start-wine-drinking-as-children French. Head across the former Iron Curtain into eastern Europe, though, and it's a different story. The Poles and Russians are absolute beasts in my experience. If the Cold War had been decided by a drinking contest, we'd all be communists by now.

[@malcomflibbleghast8140]

i know geordies who drink 3 pints an hour on a 5 hr night out...depends on distance between bars tbh

[@PHDarren]

ASDA (pronounced azda) is basically the UK version of Walmart. I think they even own it, but they don't sell guns.

[@michaelscott7166]

They used to own it. They sold it a few years ago though.

[@irreverend_]

That drinking thing, it's worth noting they're probably talking about binge drinking on a single night, and yeah, the UK probably has the US beat there. Many people only drink at the weekend, heavily, so that 9 a day average, a lot of that would be a week of that in the space of 1 or 2 evenings. I drink far too much, I average about 90-100 units a week. A unit (in the UK at least) is 10ml of pure ethanol. So you just divide the volume of a drink by 100 and multiply it by the ABV then by 0.1 and you have how many units there are. Ireland has units larger for some reason, we've gone full decimal with ours.

[@andrewcoates6641]

Reference to the Welsh place name, I used to work with a Welshman who was born very close to the village and I once asked him how to pronounce the word and he told me that all of the local people would never say it in full. Instead everybody would say “LlanfairPG “, just to save time. He could say it in full, but as he put it “he couldn’t be bothered to say it out loud every time he wanted to buy a bus or train ticket home “.

[@Long-Horse]

No shit Sherlock....

[@TerenceDixon-l6b]

Bricklaying must be painful, my hens make enough noise laying eggs!

[@Isleofskye]

I have "liked" your comment as this is EXACTLY the type of humour we need in these dark times.

[@emmahowells8334]

The long place here in Wales is just the directions to the town, that's all it is and was done to attract tourism to the town and it become famous, so i'd say it worked lol. Btw i'm Welsh and i can't say it, but that doesn't bother me lol, i still think it's cool.

[@andyh6849]

not quite directions to the town. it's a traditional way of naming towns and villages in welsh.. where you name it after the place you find it... i.e ' the meadow next to hallow tree where the birds chirp' etc .. but i know what you meant.... most villages and towns are named similarly btw

[@emmahowells8334]

@@andyh6849 That's how it was publicised as when the name was chosen as the direction to the town in order to attract tourism.

[@andyh6849]

@@emmahowells8334 it isnt directions to the village... it's a description of some of the landmarks around the village.. not directions from somewhere to somewhere else... and as i said, its literally how other village and town names work too...

[@jinxvrs]

@@andyh6849 You're correct that it's a descriptive name, however, it was also a marketing stunt. The village was originally Llanfair-y- Pwllgwyngyll. The rest of the name was added, in the late 19th century, as a means of attracting visitors/tourists.

[@andyh6849]

@@jinxvrs i wasn't disagreeing with the fact it was a marketing strategy... it is similar to many other places around at the time which tried similar stunts while fighting for tourists.. Source: am local

[@ToothlessJustin]

16:52 Did anyone else see the name of the Author for the post? ‘Ghast Lee’ 😂😂😂

[@Enhancedlies]

british beer is NOTHING like american beer, so different they are different drinks entirely

[@Sol3UK]

Not to mention the different size of the pints

[@stephenlee5929]

To be fair, Watney's used to sell some weak tasteless stuff.

[@GeorgeTGWTBN]

9 sporks and haunted bin 😂😂😂

[@jamie151-d9j]

JJ: this has to be an official building shows a supermarket.

[@philkeene1895]

Tell the Brits that its a drinking competition and we will seriously up our game..!

[@kthowgate]

“This must be an official building” and its just the co-op 😂

[@jonlight670]

The post office in the Welsh town with the long name, will stamp your passport (or used to) to say you’ve been there! Also the CoOp is not an official building its a supermarket so no official need to have the name on the building!

[@bonariablackie4047]

Co-Op is a supermarket that exists all over the UK. Very expensive for not very much choice.

[@malcombe7001]

'C---' is also used as a term of endearment here in the UK. Yeah i know, we are different.

[@DamienSteiner-om4of]

With all due respect most of your alcohol is safe for babies to drink. I've gone on a session with a few American tourists & had to pay for a taxi to get the poor dears horizontal on a bed as opposed to a pavement. The best USA drinking buddy was from New Jersey.