American Reacts The Catherine Tate Show - Aga Saga Woman

[@limpetcarre1139]

The joke is that posh families in England invariably have double-barreled surnames.

[@stewartmackay]

I don't find that funny at all. Yours sincerely, Findlay Smythe-Futterington III.

[@morganga]

Also, the son's first name is always inherited from the paternal line, and every family is the ideal size, one boy one girl.

[@lucysmith6530]

And the posh family thinks they are being so original to call their child Henry Taylor-Henry but literally every other posh family has done it.

[@dylanmurphy9389]

Double barrel names usually means your parents aren’t together, most posh people have 2 parents

[@221b-Maker-Street]

@@dylanmurphy9389 That's not what _double-barrelled_ means here. 'Posh' people would consider the parvenue psuedo-double-barrelling habits of divorced parents an absolute atrocity.

[@vaudevillian7]

My school had Houses and it wasn’t posh or private (this actually came up yesterday in conversation- “things in Harry Potter that Americans think are magic but are just British.”)

[@franklove9897]

Organic eggs must come from chickens that are fed only organic feed free of animal by-products, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or chemical additives. "Ordinary" eggs are most often produced by battery chickens cooped up in cages and they never see the outside world.

[@philipwhatcott1964]

"mum have you seen my jumper"?..."yes dear, it's on the cat"! Love that line in HP. What you are doing is taking the piss out of us. You are becoming quite British. Taking the piss is part and parcel of being British. We love it!

[@phreshkandy478]

pretty sure you cant speak for 60 odd million people

[@philipwhatcott1964]

@@phreshkandy478 no, true, you can't. There's a tiny few miserable gits without a sense of humour who will complain about everything they can. I am talking about the vast majority of British people though.

[@thatsthat2612]

@@phreshkandy478 pretty sure you don't have to be a miserable bastard but here we are.

[@phreshkandy478]

@@philipwhatcott1964 but how can one possibly know that they speak for the vast majority of people?

[@phreshkandy478]

@@thatsthat2612 whos a miserable bastard? you cant even recognize that its impossible for someone to claim to speak on behalf of millions of people, most of who theyve never met without being miserable and a bastard? the bar is certainly low to be those two things isnt it

[@museborn7703]

I have recently moved into Newcastle and it's the most down to earth and welcoming place I have ever been lucky to make a home in. No airs and graces. Just genuine welcomes from people who don't Judge.

[@stevenberry344]

As a Geordie I recommend this comment 👍

[@bodybalanceU2]

isnt that the joke though as it was portrayed in the skit

[@dmmoctober]

As a Geordie I can’t say the same for SundErLand

[@221b-Maker-Street]

I love Geordies. I'm a Westcountry/Home Counties workshop leader, but have never found people I've worked with in the NE to be anything other than an absolute delight, when I've run programmes for international clients with Newcastle/Gateshead call centre staff. They honestly feel like family.

[@thomasalexand]

Love Newcastle.

[@MrFalconhead]

I went to public school and we had houses, Arundel, Pevensey, Bramber and Lewes. All castles around the county.

[@trixysvinylmusicfordjs8799]

Organic eggs are eggs that are laid by chickens on a farm that are free to roam and treated well. look up factory farms and you will learn the difference!!!

[@Bazroshan]

8:14 Highgate Village is a well-to-do suburb of London. If you need to go off-road to get there, you started on a farm thirty miles out of town.

[@steelcrown7130]

The little girl said "there's no bull bar on the front. How are we going to go off-road or to ... Highgate Village!" I don't know London, but I assume Highgate is a nearby, but less posh place to shop, and therefore scary and foreign, requiring an off-road vehicle to feel safe in.

[@ftumschk]

Actually Highgate Village is very nice, so the joke is that she thinks her family is too posh even for that area :)

[@steelcrown7130]

@@ftumschk Excellent, thanks! Makes the joke even better.

[@bobsimon-y3d]

i went to school in highgate and worked there. George Michael lived there among many other well known people. At lunch break i popped outside only to bump right into George,(at 1st i thought it was an impersonator , but it was him, he looked exactly the same as on TV, found out his house was 50m from my office) this was 20 years ago. Highgate has a road called Bishops Avenue , which at points was the most expensive property in the country the joke being while it's village like, i.e London grew around it , it's in Zone 3 London, no 4x4 required, though you do see a lot round there Cool story re George my FD , Financial Director went to celebrate his young daughters Birthday in the restaurant next door, George always said he does'nt like singing in public, he was in the same resturant at the time, did'nt know my boss , yet he sang happy Birthday to his daughter Highgate is super nice and it's the highest point in London, so you get a great view of London just checked people like Harry Styles, Kate Moss, Liam Gallagher, Jamie Oliver live there, you can see it's expensive

[@bobsimon-y3d]

@@ftumschk more that it's a village, but it's in zone 3 london, London grew around it , and it's all london around it,no need for a 4x4

[@JohnResalb]

They don't take the school bus because they're posh, and it would be unthinkable to ride in a bus.!! Tottenham is like the comparison with some back street hood area in Chicago. These kids speak with Chelsea accents (it's like going to another planet.!)

[@matthill3293]

I love it when Americans discover that School Houses and house cups etc wern't invented within Harry Potter

[@sheepsky]

My school had houses and it wasn't a private school. I think it just varies from school to school

[@keith6400]

Originally schools had a building in which students were taught and the teachers purchased large nearby local houses and recruited students whose families paid the teacher for the tuition and the students lived with the teacher in those houses. Therefore the tradition of subdividing schools pupils in the modern era follows this tradition naming each group as a "house".

[@michaelprobert4014]

Our comprehensive had it too

[@mark_8719]

Same as mine, mine was a bog standard comprehensive

[@johnaquillo3397]

The truly Posh in England - rich and privileged and went to very expensive private schools - have double-barrelled surnames! It might be a cliche now but many still do. It's very Upper Class.

[@AmiHoss66]

08:02 Highgate Village is a very upper class posh part of London where only the extremely very wealthy or privileged reside . It has its own forest nearby and you’d never know you were in London

[@ftumschk]

True. I had to laugh that she thinks their family is so posh they'd need bull-bars on their car to keep them "safe" from the natives of Highgate!

[@JJ-of1ir]

Yes, even in State schools we wore uniforms to school. No buses, we usually walked. At my school we were all put into four Houses - we had Dacres (Red), Beaumont (Blue), Salisbury (Yellow) and Gough (Green). We were given House Points for good work, good behaviour, for doing something kind, or being polite. We won points for our House on Sports Day or just during weekly sporting events. We wore our coloured House badge all the time on our uniforms and the same coloured sash when completing in sport. Each House had a Head Boy or Girl. At the end of the week the Headmistress would announce the number of house points collected for each House, in Assembly, so we could all see where we were on the chart and at the end of Term the House with the most points was awarded a large silver cup that then stood in the display case with the winning House's coloured ribbons hanging from it. Every morning, after Registration in our own classroom, the bell would ring and we lined up and walked to early morning Assembly. We sat, in primary school, in serried ranks, cross-kneed on the floor. A hymn, the Lord's Prayer, a thought for the day, announcements of upcoming school events and treats - like a day out somewhere tied into our curriculum. This was also the time the Headmistress would occasionally express her displeasure about some of our activities outside the school whilst wearing uniform. We were always to try to represent the school in the best possible way. Funnily enough we generally did. We also held House Meetings arranged when all Years met together, usually on a Tuesday, instead of Assembly. The older Year pupils sometimes ran it with help from a Teacher in our House. Friday had 'Clubs' afternoon All Years were 'mixed up' again - and not in Houses - so every classroom had pupils from every year to 'do Activities'. You were able to choose the first one - it was usually something fun - but you had to move on the another activity the following week so every one had a chance to try out everything. The older children were asked to help the younger ones with the activity and keep an eye on them generally. At the end of our very first Term we knew the name of everyone in the whole school. At the end of the second Term we knew them as well and we all worked together. It was the same system for my next school, from eleven years of age, but we sat on chairs in Assembly at this time - not on the floor. Sadly we didn't have Friday Clubs; too many exams in the following years and Goals to head for. Made some great life long friends though. Very Harry Potter. Take care - love from the UK.

[@SpartasEdge]

10:35 In the UK, you can get what's called organic produce. It's a name for eco or animal friendly stuff, for example the chickens that laid the eggs are free range, as opposed to battery farming. Organic food tends to cost more, hence it's association with richer people buying it.

[@rippinitupwithjamie1478]

Also private school kids tend to have these type of names it is like this lol Double barrel names etc Tarquin, Imogen , lol, Also couples who keep both names when married.

[@ingsve]

You should check out things in Harry Potter that Americans thought were magical but are really just Brittish.

[@frank4792]

I would love to see a full-length move based on this.

[@rocketrabble6737]

As far as I am aware, it is a traditional feature of virtually all state schools in Britain to have 'houses' as sub-units. My school had Tudor, Stuart, Mountbatten and Windsor; I was in Stuart for seven years and represented my house in sports and 'cultural' events.

[@theperson8539]

India has the same system in my experience, rare to find it elsewhere though. Also, I'm surprised Mountbatten slipped in there, but Nelson or Wellesley didn't.

[@lottie2525]

Great reaction, loved your posh English accent 'Mummy! Where's my jumper!' I am looking forward to a time when double-barrel surname kids get married and combine them into four-barrel surnames. It's got to happen sooner or later. "I say, is that Gerald Peterson-Chumley-Farquarson-Warner?" 🤣🤣🤣

[@Ohjeezno]

'I only just got my head around hummus' ... 😂 😂 😂 Cracked me up

[@J1mmyMack]

Organic refers to organic farming, which is farming without using synthetic chemicals.

[@patricialewis1464]

We have house badges in most schools - private or otherwise

[@clairebishop9835]

We had house badges at our school - not a posh school either!

[@seanmay6878]

We do have school buses but this is dependent on distance you live from the school.However, we do usually have good public service transport. A lot of children walk to school also a lot of parents do what they call the school run and drop off and pick up their children by car.

[@robertmarlow255]

The hens have to be fed organic feed for an egg to be organic.

[@dcoughla681]

Tottenham in North London is similar to the Bronx in New York. The geography is a bit off in this sketch as they would have to really go out of their way to reach Tottenham. Iceland is a supermarket selling mainly frozen & processed food. It used to have a very poor reputation. A hire car is a rental car. These children are too posh to go to school by bus! London children are ferried everywhere by car. British people cannot distinguish between rich and poor Americans based on their accent alone.

[@SNMG7664]

Houses are just a normal thing in UK schools, not in just rich people schools. Most of the Harry Potter's school system that seems alien and magical to Americans, like prefects, houses, and stuff like that - is just normal UK school stuff lol.

[@markmorris7123]

It's not just uk, most of Europe.. China, japan, Australia etc etc,, all have school uniforms and house badges.

[@mlee6050]

Mine never had a house system, did have where we know year groups

[@victordevonshire807]

I find it really weird that I can watch American TV and films and understand what's going on. WoW. !

[@LAGoodz]

Yes, exactly that - it is baffling the lack global awareness in the US. Based in London, on the phone to work colleague over in New York, he was adamant the US was the oldest civilisation in the world. I didn’t disagree as it wasn’t worth it.

[@bodybalanceU2]

@@LAGoodz did he think that when george washington one of the founding fathers became president there were dinosaurs walking around maybe on the grounds of the whitehouse

[@LAGoodz]

@@bodybalanceU2 😂 No, George Washington teamed up with Adam and Eve. The rest was all good 👍

[@85parrot]

The "Chelsea tractor" is the standard range rover 4x4 that all these families have, that never ever go off road despite having all the mod cons etc. In my experience the drivers will force you in your 2 wheel drive ford fiesta half way into a field before they offer to even get their wheels muddy. You missed the joke that all the kids run off to exactly the same silver range rovers parked at the sports day. Posh families in the UK tend to have double or even hilariously triple barrelled surnames. Presumably be aise both parents were so posh they didn't wasn't to lose either surname.

[@j9lorna]

Newcastle accent can be seen as very difficult to get, but I find it very warm and friendly after having worked up there for a bit.

[@jdee4956]

Names: it is only in recent centuries that women in the UK have taken their husband's surname upon marriage. In aristocratic families, the woman's name was just as illustrious as the man's, so to preserve the lineage double and even triple-barrellled (parts) names were retained. In general, upper class people are associated with double-barrelled surnames. Eggs: organic eggs are eggs produced by free range hens fed on organic, non-chemical feed. Your English accent is super!

[@lightplane]

Yes I was in the House of Lancaster when I went to secondary co.prehensive school in England. School uniforms and houses exist in state run schools as well as in public schools.

[@davebarlow6457]

Connor , you have definitely earned the right to take the pee out of us Brits , as you now know , that's what our comedy is all about and what makes it [ in my opinion ] the best comedy in the world. Keep up the great work.

[@Pappa_66]

The UK is still a "class" society. Nobody uses school busses, unless you live in the "wilderness". Kids go by them selves to school. I remember using cross country skies to get to the school, it is a good way to learn how to fight against Bears and Wolves!

[@jmschrch]

Lots of high populated villages use school busses stil. They’re not just for rural residents.

[@markmorris7123]

@@jmschrch true but it's not common

[@martindunstan8043]

I'll be honest I don't know anywhere that doesn't have school buses operating, very common I thought, I used to catch one never used a car to go to school, walked to my primary and bused to middle school which was 5 mls away then walked to high. ✌️

[@jmschrch]

@@markmorris7123 yeah it is

[@jmschrch]

@@martindunstan8043 correct, they’re very common

[@linky8899]

Girl says "Theres no Bull bar on the front, in case we have to off road or go to Highgate high street" Also, No! no school buses here, Public buses are used. Hope that helps

[@bandycoot1896]

Double-barrelled names are just taking the piss out of posh folk. I was in Trojan house in Grammar school (state school). The other houses were Spartan, Greek and Olympian

[@timberwolf5211]

In the UK, probably 99.9% of all primary 4-11 and secondary schools 11-18 wear a school uniform, whether they are state or private schools. So the kids wearing uniforms in doors was because it was a school day.

[@gdok6088]

Organic eggs are eggs from free range hens raised on pasture with no fertiliser used and also fed organic grain.

[@raphaelamor]

I went to a state comprehensive school and we had houses and house badges.... that's kind of normal

[@brogs60]

What you call a Fender ,we call a bumper.

[@easterdeer]

Went to a normal school. It was Catholic though and we had 3 houses: Aiden, Bede and Gregory - named after saints. It was just a convenient way to split the class up into groups for activities mostly. Unfortunately the Roman Catholic Church doesn't take too kindly to witches so we never learnt potions and spells 😆

[@museborn7703]

I really don't know why but my elder sibling was given one first and 2nd name. Whereas myself and my younger sibling were given three names each. Wonder if Catholicism kicked in and tookdriving seat after the first born was sorted first. I come from dual cultural , language and religious back ground. No privilege. Just world's colliding. Baptised Orthodox but left to the parent who was invested in us the most for religious instruction which was Catholic. Maybe after first born it was a free for all for the ones who came after?! Anyway. Now that I am married and have kept both my family name and taken on husband's name. I like to break the ice with many strangers by challenging them to remember my full 5 barrel name. Oh the questions it raises and the avenues of conversation I can pick. From religion, to multiculturalism, to gender and calendar date significances, to learning how to spell the hard and swift way in 2 languages. To names that even the Priest struggled to pronounce cause of their origin. I believe the Orthodox priest attempted at some point to argue on the name choices as they were not accessible or familiar to Church in terms of origins. I swear I have never had trouble with any of it , except on some legal documents where they have not calculated on giving me enough space. Hope you like foot notes .

[@mairiconnell6282]

I am Mairi Mcnab Box Brimacombe. Lol I did change my name back as it could't write this one on a cheque.

[@2opler]

I went to school with someone called Maurice Melville FitzMorris, his dad was called Melville Maurice Fitzmorris. He was posh, the rest of weren`t. We had house ties and badges when I went to school, and it was a state school.

[@deanbelcher8052]

My school had 4 houses... Brunel (mine), Brindley, Stevenson and Telford. (I grew up in a railway town).

[@darkcat7938]

Imagine someone who looks down on Yale because every single member of the family went to Harvard. Not by merit, but by money. Now force them to go into Queens. This is that.

[@mattporter1692]

Little girl says “there’s no bumper on the front! What if we have to go off road or to Highgate Village” lol

[@internet.doctor]

It was bull bar not bumper

[@DJOfRadioValinor]

We don't have school buses, we have buses. We have to find our own way.

[@rupert2591]

POSH which means wealthy, upper class etc etc...was originally thought to have come from the expensive cabins on luxury liners that always stayed in the shade on trips to and from India. Hence, Portside Out Starboard Home. Not a lot to back up this story but it's kind of cool and who doesn't love an acronym. Please keep up your wonderful reactions to British comedy, I love how literal you are.

[@LAGoodz]

No joke, in my last job at a major global bank, I looked after the IT requirements for our various CEO’s posh homes in places like London Mayfair and NYC Park Ave. Part of this role was expected that the whole family all had the best laptops, iPads and 100% support 24/7 for the brats homework. I really have met families like this in London and New York. 😂. Yes British High Schools often have house badges and ties.

[@markmorris7123]

What's wrong with you people.. We ALWAYS have house badges and uniforms.. As do many many other countries

[@marcon3539]

School bus??? 😂😂😂 .. I love how clueless the comments are. British class structure is absurd, but also a very real thing. It is definitely not like America, in the sense that classism in the USA is more an attitude than a constitutional part of national existence, like in the UK. This clearly takes it to ridiculous levels, but it’s dangerously close to reality… which makes it funnier. And house badges - which is exactly like what you see in the Harry Potter books - are the standard in many schools across the UK and throughout the Commonwealth, but they do come originally from british public schools (which are not really public, but actually super expensive private boarding schools 😂). British Aristocracy survived till today as a pretty solid lot, and never suffered a full revolution as in just about everywhere else, because they were VERY good at distracting the masses, and frankly, still are. You know which is the only country in the world that exists by the grace of a single person (a monarch), and that still has a constitutional hereditary upper legislative house, where only your bloodline allows you access, like in Ancient Rome? Well, that would be the UK. Not some Mddle Eastern place, not even, it’s actually only in the UK that a House of Lords still exists. And only in UK that the Monarch is the the pillar upon the entire constitutional system is built. They have the nuanced power of a nuclear bomb… they can’t really say much, but are capable of tearing at down at the same time. Really both a wonder and shocking

[@jasonyoung7705]

My school was just a basic comprehensive, and we had 4 houses (Carr, Dent, Ludford, and North)

[@mikelheron20]

Organic eggs are laid by hens that have been fed organically i.e food free from artificial chemicals.

[@kennybrown_ni]

Yep the grammar school i went to had houses. Green, Blue, Red and Yellow. Our school tyes and rugby kit was coloured diffrent depending on our house.

[@mattlm64]

"Green, Blue, Red and Yellow" Very imaginative, is that the best they could come up with?

[@petea1918]

No, we do have house names. I was in Riley house. Harold Riley is a UK artist

[@davidhanson1849]

The nanny from the north is from my part of the UK Newcastle upon Tyne and people in the south find it hard to understand us

[@charliebryce3783]

Posh is an acronym from the colonial days The most expensive exclusive cabins on ships travelling to and from India were on the shady side. So on the outward journey it was on the PORT side and on the return it was the STARBOARD side. Hence: 'port outer, starboard home' POSH

[@ftumschk]

It's a nice story, but an urban myth, I'm afraid. Ships can sail in any direction and at all hours, so the idea that the Sun would always be on the port side on the outward journey or the starboard side on the return journey doesn't add up. The origin of "posh" isn't known for sure, but it's possible that it's related to a 19th Century slang term for a dandy, or well-dressed person.

[@woooster17]

Re: the school house question.. Yep, I went to a middle school & grammar school in Midhurst, West Sussex, UK and there were 4 houses you were put into when you first started at the school, each house had an assigned colour too. I was in Cowdray house, which was yellow. There was also Montague house, which was blue.. but I forget the other 2? These skits remind me of my sister & how she is with her 2 kids.. 😂👍🏼

[@denzelpanther240]

no we dont have school busses. well certain "special" schools do. you can walk to the next bus stop and wait for a bus in the right direction. On weekday morning there will be a bus every 10-15 minutes (or maybe 20 if you are rural)

[@louisemiller3784]

We were all in a different house at my school I think it’s very common whether private or state

[@denzelpanther240]

"organic" not produced with the use of unnatural means. The chickens will be fed feed without any additives and only get the mandatory medical attention, also wayyy more room to move and that outdoors. usually costs about 200 to 250% of mass produced eggs, but if eaten just as an egg its a huge difference. Also will stay fresh at least a week without refrigeration

[@DJOfRadioValinor]

I went to an ordinary school and we had houses, and we had sports day tournaments competing under our house banner. My house was called 'TANNER', our colours were yellow and gold, can't remember the others. But I do know my old school now have changed the houses to mythological creatures.

[@siriosstar4789]

i live in Germany and visited scotland about five years ago . My wife and her adult children were with us . we went into a shop,to ask for directions to another shop . the guy started speaking g and we had no idea what he was saying . we didn't want to insult him so we nodded , thanked him and left . once outside we looked at each other like WTF was that ?🤣 He probably thought the same about us .

[@baylessnow]

Bull bars. Check out the big black tubes on the front of the General Lee, the 'Dukes of Hazard' car. "In perpetua vincere", it's latin for "to conquer in everlasting". I think. Organic eggs? It depends on how the chickens are kept and fed.

[@postiekeefveness4415]

No, we don't have school buses as we have very reliable public transport. Most schools are within walking distance. Glad that you can understand most accents. I understand all American accents although I struggle a bit with Navajo. I don't pretend to understand all the vowel mutilating sounds emanating from Newcastle.☹

[@mlee6050]

Depends on the school, I had taxi to school and others had school bus, some walked and so

[@dianef4227]

Sod off, we don’t mutilate our vowel’s it’s you lot with your Barth and parth!

[@postiekeefveness4415]

@@dianef4227 😆😅😆😅😆😅

[@mattlm64]

There were school buses when I was a child so I guess it depends. I went on a bus from one side the town to the other side which was weird as it wasn't far. I guess that was to reduce traffic as the school was on the end of a road.

[@kennybrown_ni]

A school bus isnt always a guaranteed mode of transport. It depends on the area and school.

[@gdok6088]

Yes there are school buses here in the UK, but I can imagine that really posh people (wealthy, upper class) whose kids attend some of the top public schools (= USA private schools) like Eton or Winchester College would not have their kids transported to school in anything less than a Range Rover or equivalent.

[@daddywoodentop2820]

Hire car is a rental

[@philipbillington2314]

Catherine Tate Uncle Derek you will be amazed that it is her a rib buster and next to Nan her best creation possibly

[@philippugh2133]

Yes, My School had houses, 12, each named after the schools founders

[@ww1worldwar1thewesternfron98]

The reasons for double-barrelling were originally financial. If two wealthy families joined in marriage both names would be perpetuated as a condition of the marriage.

[@ptruscott150trussy4]

No bull bar on the front of the car

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

School buses aren't a thing here, most kids walk, get taken by parents or use public transport. Some outlying villages may have a bus servicing rural areas but that's usually if there's no public buses available.

[@demonic_myst4503]

What u on about yes that are

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

@@demonic_myst4503 that's what I said in my reply, they are nowhere near as common as in the US.

[@demonic_myst4503]

@@DomingoDeSantaClara no you said their arnt school busses which their are Even in urban areas ive lived and gone school in both urban and rural areas and both had school busses most time

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

@@demonic_myst4503 well if you want to be picky,then no we don't have any school buses at all. The US has whole fleets of buses that are only built for carrying school children. We have buses built for public or hire, that are used by school kids.

[@demonic_myst4503]

@@DomingoDeSantaClara lol what busses arnt even common in america let alone school busses Its more common here than america

[@cdwyer737]

An organic egg is laid by an organically fed and raised chicken. Also, in the UK our farmers are usually posh because they own a lot of land and the comment about no ‘hold bar’ in the car in case they have to drive off-road was a reference to posh parents driving huge vehicles to do the school run. And school buses are rare unless in remote areas, we have much better public bus services because Americans think buses and reasonably priced medication is like socialism tyranny so y’all need school buses unless you can afford a car each and your parents work such long hours they wouldn’t have time to drive you to school. Also an American employer would just laugh if you asked to leave early to pick your kids up, a British one would be like “yeah that’s cool” 😊

[@stephanietichborne7970]

Organic eggs. Any food which has very high standards of animal welfare, such as animals having freedom to graze and roam in fields, not kept in sheds (except overnight and winter shelter) and raised on high quality feed without hormones and antibiotics, is described as Organic in the UK. So cheap economy eggs and meat are considered nasty.

[@kennyboy66]

Yes, we have houses. My old school was based on famous people such as explorers and inventors.

[@same2659]

An organic egg is from a chicken allowed to roam free. (So they say) As opposed to an egg from a battery hen.

[@NeilusNihilus]

Which could be as little as 2 minutes a day... My mum has a small farm and the difference between our eggs and supermarket so called "free range' is night and day. Always get from locals with hens or farms if possible.

[@CubeCyclone]

We had houses in many ordinary schools some wore badges. It promotes healthy competition... I guess

[@rippinitupwithjamie1478]

Organic eggs is where the chickens have not been bred and live in battery farms and confined etc. Free range and not fed on anything that isnt natural

[@ayygeordiee]

I'm from Newcastle so that 2nd skit is funny to me

[@bblair2627]

This is every family in Barnes and Chiswick

[@archiebald4717]

Many schools have Houses. Not a Howarts thing at all.

[@anthonyjames4648]

In the UK, pronouncing Yoghurt the way she was saying it is deemed Posh! Non posh people pronounce it like it rhymes with Log 🙄 Ho Ho Ho

[@watchthesky.]

We have roo bars in Oz,if you hit a kangaroo they can write your car of.

[@robbeaman3542]

Yes. In my school (state school) . We had houses. I was in red house. We had red, blue, green and yellow. We got house points for doing well. I.e sports days. fundraisers. Fares.. The house with most points at end of term got a small gift and would get achievement awards and pictures put around the school. But they wouldn't deduct the points like in harry potter .

[@allanheslop4493]

i/mas common as muck in my school we wore uniforms and had houses . lived in a cardboard box but had houses at school

[@robertmarlow255]

There's so much that you need to learn about the class system that still runs through our education system.

[@trixysvinylmusicfordjs8799]

yes we had house badges at private school!

[@enemde3025]

No. We don't have school buses like in America. We let our kids WALK to school....by themselves !! It's actually safe here !! BULL BARS. The chrome bars on the front of an SUV.(aka CHELSEA TRACTOR ) They are wearing their uniforms because they are on their way to school in the morning. Organic, free range , as opposed to a factory farmed egg. Hate the way they are saying YO GURT (as in go). !! We say YOG URT ! (as in dog). Most "posh" people have "double barrelled" names from when they combine BOTH their maiden and married names together. Most British schools, STATE and PRIVATE/PUBLIC, have HOUSES !

[@garyford3533]

Posh means middle class or uper,, class.

[@annirvin6555]

When I went to America, they thought that I was from Wales

[@dantemedici8179]

Posh does not mean class… money and class are not the same … you are born into your class

[@nightowl5395]

Well yes, that's right - that money and class are not the same - but I would I say that the term posh usually IS meant to denote class (upper middle-class and above) as opposed to just having money...

[@johnmcdonald7339]

What’s funny is that Tottenham is a pretty decent area, they are so posh that even Tottenham is like Hells Kitchen to them

[@sophiegeorge2816]

One of my friends in America loves the British accent

[@christinecoombs3536]

Yes, house badges are a thing.

[@SNMG7664]

Generally speaking school buses don't exist in the UK, yes. If you want to get a bus to school you just get the normal bus bus. they go everywhere. If there's a school there'll be a public bus service that stops there.

[@lilyliz3071]

School busses do exist but not designated like in the US , it’s just service busses which the education authority hire , we have twelve busses coming into our local academy from eight nearby smaller towns

[@bostonblackie9503]

How do they know which car is theirs? I was in Carnegie House in school.

[@JBW27]

Going off of the comments, school buses perhaps don't exist in parts of the country. In Essex, however, we certainly do have school buses. My secondary school had them and, over a decade later, still does. The bullbar reference is talking about the metal (ordinarily steel) cylindrical beams you find on the front of off-road vehicles. They're for protecting the engine, should the front of the vehicle suddenly meet a boulder, for example. The irony being that many people, here in the UK at least, buy off-road vehicles but will never take them off-road. The agency nanny from "Newcastle, possibly as far as Sunderland", who you described as "seeming like a normal British person" (to paraphrase) IS pretty much a normal British person (although, of course with a northern accent). I don't know how best to describe it in American terms that you would easily understand, but it's playing on the stereotypes that a) posh, upper class people can't communicate with ordinary folk properly, and b) that northerns are poorly educated, rough, difficult to understand etc. Perhaps imagine a working class person from the middle of nowhere in Texas being sent as a nanny to an extremely well off family in Cambridge, MA and that'll give you a rough idea of an American translation of the joke. EDIT: Yes, we have house badges, even in ordinary schools. Sometimes based on colours, sometimes not. We had colours until I was asked to help with creating a new system. We ended up with a house system named after historic people from the surrounding area. It is a bit hogwarts-esque from the outside, but tbh it doesn't really matter which house you're in. It's just a way to get the students to behave, so that their house gets more points.

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

Organic eggs are produced by having free Rangel chickens raised on non fertile grassland