American Reacts to Mistakes Foreigners Make in the UK (Part 2)

[@ranmyaku4381]

Something to keep in mind about British houses versus North America. The bedrooms tend to be much smaller and used more for sleeping than an overall room that can be used sleeping, relaxing, privacy and recreation.

[@stephendisraeli1143]

"Soocer" is a class thing, as usual. Working -class loved Association football. Upper-class loved Rugby Union football, and abbreviated the names to "soccer" and "rugger". In the Sixties, working-class beat upper-class in the battle for cultural dominance, so the word "soccer" was no longer necessary. The round-ball game was the only kind of football they cared about, only one word needed.

[@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej]

You're right. Other nations underestimate just how much class considerations affect absolutely everything in Britain, even in modern times. All the reaction videos on regional accents in the UK, as opposed to Received Pronunciation, fail totally to take account of this. RP costs a lot of money!!!

[@mattbentley9270]

I did not know that

[@neuralwarp]

Well insulated houses. Yes. We insulate our houses by building other houses right up next door to them.

[@MrSkiller703]

yeah that why we all hate hot weather here as het don't leave the house.... so u can't cool down our house and u end up been fried inside lol

[@LuckyStarShi-Roku]

Here's one she missed in the UK we say flats not apartments

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Not unless it’s perhaps an ‘apartment’ in a very large house or something similar. There I do feel you can use it.

[@entirely-English]

Right - an apartment is an extension or separated part of a house, perhaps for the old relatives ( a living space set "apart")

[@qlyck8937]

We definitely have flats and apartments. I’d say generally apartments are considered a little more up market. I am sure I’ve heard the actual difference between a flat and apartment in the uk.

[@williambailey344]

5 or more bedrooms are very rare anywhere in the uk in comparison, because we are only a small country

[@EmilyCheetham]

Yep. I live in a 5 bed but one of the bedrooms is downstairs so the house is 4 to 5 bed depending what you want to use the downstairs room for. Not many houses where the 5th bedroom is upstairs too.

[@Adeodatus100]

If I see "5 bedrooms" in a house advert, I immediately think "student house".

[@grimreaper-qh2zn]

Her thoughts on Housing seems way of the mark. I would say 75% of housing in the UK (and I will exclude London and some major City centres which can be completely different) are 3 bedroom Semi Detached (two houses connected together), 3-4 bedroom Detached (separate houses), or Terraced (usually older houses) or Town Houses (the more modern Terraced properties) where 3 or more houses are connected together. In big City's Flats/Apartments are more common due to land prices. Of course many different styles are around from Thatched Cottages to Large Houses in their own Grounds. We don't have many "Gated Properties" with security but there are a few. Major difference with the US is that nearly all houses in the UK are brick built, use radiator based central heating, don't have A/C and have gardens not yards.

[@wonkeydonkey3521]

She’s way off on some things in her videos.

[@MrBulky992]

I suspect that any "town houses" this young lady has seen in London are, in the main, either subdivided into flats (apartments) or are occupied by businesses, institutions or embassies or, if still intact as a single house on multiple floors, are owned by multi-millionaires/billionaires, many from foreign parts e.g. the Middle East or Russia. A 5 bedroom house is exceptional in the UK. Most people live in houses with 1-3 bedrooms. She is giving a wholly misleading impression. Dwellings in the UK are among the smallest in Europe on average in terms of floor space.

[@grimreaper-qh2zn]

@@MrBulky992 Correct. I excluded the big Cities for exactly the reasons you give. I think most big Cities round the world are like London. I really don't see how your average working man could live anywhere in London other than Social Housing.

[@neilmcdonald9164]

We often call a small room being marketed as a bedroom a "box room"🎩

[@barrypegg3070]

UK houses are not all well insulated by default. I live in terraced house built in 1930's with 3 bedrooms and solid 9" brick walls with no cavity or any insulation.

[@MrBulky992]

Absolutely right. The fact that there is continuous campaigning by pressure groups for the government to spend money on insulating homes in order to reduce energy consumption thereby reducing the carbon footprint and minimising energy poverty is obvious evidence that Many UK homes are not well insulated. Many old homes were built when energy was more cheap and plentiful (e.g. in the form of coal) than it is now so insulation was less of a priority. In small houses, a coal-fired range in one room would heat the whole dwelling in winter. People wiuld wear more clothes indoors and go to bed with a hot water bottle in a bed thick with blankets, eiderdowns and a counterpane. Scandinavian homes have a reputation for being well insulated. Those in the UK do not.

[@lottieew135]

I live in a terraced house, originally built in the 1890s as just a 2 up, 2 down where you would have had to fill up a metal tub with hot water for baths and then use an outhouse for the toilet. Thankfully, there's been the back bedroom split into a smaller bedroom and a bathroom. We can also see where the fires would have been. There's a chimney in the front room up into the attic and chimney out of the house, and there is also a corner chimney in the back room & upstairs through the back bedroom. All the walls are high, so the stairs are steep! My husband has only lived in a newer semi detached when he was growing up, so he had to steadily get used to our stairs. I've really only lived in a terrace, so I am used to the stairs. I also had husband buy me a hammer drill for my birthday just after we moved in. He was used to being able to use a standard dril, but he found it wasn't strong enough to get through our walls. I think our house was built with hard bricks called Accy Nori, as they look like the bricks used in my mum's house 😏 he didn't really believe me until the drilling fiasco. His family, especially his dad, were shocked that I asked for a hammer drill for my birthday, but they thanked me so much when they realised it's so much easier and safer 😜 I've had to get a stairlift installed now though for the stairs. He only uses it to bring our washing basket down to our washing machine, whereas I often use it to get up and downstairs 😞 Husband still manages to set the fire alarm of with steam, but he'd be cooking something on the hob without the back door open 🙄 I've had to get Careline installed (long disability story), and I've had to turn both the fire alarm AND the Careline alarm off, and then explain why it set off when the company call to make sure I'm alright 🫣 when that happens, I'll just tell them that hubby was cooking on the hob with the back door shut, and then the person and I laugh 😂

[@grabtharshammer]

How difficult can it be? If you play the game by kicking the ball with your foot, all the time, then that is Football. If you run around the field carrying a ball in your arms, then that is something else, Rugby, Volley Ball, American football, Australian football, Cricket, Table Tennis

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

Perhaps my favourite Tee Shirt (now long gone) was to celebrate the 1996 World Cup in Mexico. It had the word 'Football' written on it in the language and script of every participating nation. Brilliant.

[@Dave-wm2xg]

That sounds like s very cool t shirt wish i had one of those. The 1986 world cup in Mexico was a good one! " hand of god goal and all that" even thought i am English and felt very cheated.😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

It was an official (I believe Adidas) tie in shirt too. Purchased some time after the event, in a sale. At least Gary won he Golden Boot. And thanks for correcting the year to 86. @@Dave-wm2xg

[@philipmason9537]

Apart from the USA being huge as it’s such a relatively new country the streets and roads have been built on a grid system with space for larger housing whereas in Europe the roads are built on horse and cart tracks going back hundreds of years and that limited space can rarely be widened so the houses have to remain small.

[@Joanna-il2ur]

After the Great Fire of London in 1666, most of the old wooden houses were completely destroyed. The Lord Mayor considered slightly utopian plans to widen the streets and make them straight, clean and hygienic. Trouble was, nobody knew who owned a lot of the properties, so they couldn’t agree on anything. So what they did was to clear the rubble and ashes away and build in the same plot line so that the streets remained narrow and crooked. They did however forbid jettying where upper floors jutted outwards, which had promoted the spread of the fire. In the 19th century, Paris was rebuilt by Baron Haussmann for Napoleon III, and he made the grand boulevards nice and wide and very straight- so that the army could fire cannons down them at rioters.

[@philipmason9537]

@@Joanna-il2ur 👍

[@truxton1000]

Well not really, nearly all houses in UK are since 100 years ago built on estates so sizes can be as big as anyone want, very little to do with the size of old roads that's for sure.

[@philipmason9537]

@@Joanna-il2ur 👍

[@ianbrook7793]

A lot of US people don't seem to know Australia is as big as the US if you take off Alaska.

[@enemde3025]

Flats/apartments are " hard wired" for smoke/heat alarms, unlike the battery ones you can buy from a DIY shop.

[@carolineskipper6976]

The most common size of family house in the UK is 3 bedroom,but often the 3rd bedroom is very small. Like she said, some 4-5 bed houses include at least one tiny bedroom, but once you get to 5+ you are talking definitely large homes. Remember though- UK homes don't generally have walk in, or even built in closets, so although the number of bedrooms may seem large enough, the actual floorspace is probably a lot smaller than in the US for a comparable type of house. Having super insulated houses, which works well for most of the year, is one of the reasons that we don't cope well in a heatwave. We don't have AC, because it's hardly worth it for the 1-2 weeks a year we could do with it, so we suffer-particularly at night.

[@thegroovetube3247]

Not quite. Well insulated houses keep the cold out in winter and also the heat out in summer.

[@UTubeAngelique]

My previous house was a huge Tudor revival Victorian terraced house in Leeds… my old deeds said it was 5-bedroomed. However, we believe the ‘nursery’ bedroom was converted into a second bathroom at some point. It was at the most a 6-bedroom house but when we bought it and eventually sold it, it was 4-bed/2-bath. And, yes - it was a Tardis! Completely connected terraced house and very, very grand indeed. Gotta love the Victorians use of space! Each of our bedrooms were massive! Very beautiful house with stained glass leaded windows and skirting boards up to your armpits! Gardens front and back and walls as thick as they could ever be! Not all houses in Britain are tiny. Some absolutely huge houses in Leeds.

[@colourific]

We have gas central heating. If your heating is off completely during your holiday it takes hours to get the house heated up so we have the heating turn over so that it keeps the pipes from freezing

[@nafisahafeez5866]

You have to main electrical panel if something wrong woth the electricity if something wrong with the heater check the boiler and meter

[@jezlanejl]

Thats defo an Aussie move, trying to heat a flat with a hot shower, in the UK we would of just turned the oven on and opened the door.

[@randomxnp]

Most British houses are built in brick with double skin and insulation in the cavity between so insulation is very good. Loft insulation is required to be quite deep too.

[@jameslewis2635]

In the UK it is generally a bad idea to leave for the winter with all the power turned off. As well insulated as we try to make our homes, the temperatures can reach below freezing during that period and that can mean burst pipes if you don't at least keep your heating set to a 'maintenance' level to stop this from happening. Also, because our heating systems are based on heat transfer through radiators and pipes filled with water, they take a long time to get up to temperature and it then can take a fair amount of time to warm a room. As such it is better to keep the heating on working via a thermostat so that the temperature is maintained.

[@colinmorrison5119]

I just got a new boiler fitted. I noted that even when off, it will still fire up at 5°C, for frost protection. I think the old one did too.

[@TheCornishCockney]

Never turn ALL the power off,especially the central heating controller and electronic boiler. Regarding fire alarms,everyone I know has one that you can reach with a broom handle,press the large central button and whoosh,job done. Can’t be all that high-tech if you have to scramble through walls for access.

[@Isleofskye]

After 40 years in Outer London(after 29 years in "Inner" London) I learned,the hard way, to use the Central Heating,on advance,of the colder weather,to avoid burst pipes.

[@tobiasmills9647]

For funzies, you could always have a video where you look at different property websites in the UK. Or perhaps have a list of things to look up, such as speed cameras.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

All most all household fire alarms are now sealed units now in Australia, but you can reset with a broom handle.

[@shellieeyre8758]

We live in a standard 1880 villa semi detached; it's over three floors and we have 5 bedrooms. They're all big enough to take double bed. We're in Nottingham.

[@TomE-sq2lq]

In a shared apartment block the fire alarm from one apartment sets whole building off and they are more advanced in shared apartment buildings. And was a good 2nd part

[@EmilyCheetham]

Most fire alarms in houses are just battery operated. However ones in apartment blocks where the whole building is alerted when there’s a fire 🔥 have a central box somewhere usually in a public area of the building.

[@VicketyVick]

We have cavity wall insulation in most houses I know of.. so like, double walls on the outside and they fill the gap with insulation. Add double glazed windows and doors, a radiator in each room and you're good

[@RileyELFuk]

The soccer thing is a load of bollocks too. Supposed revulsion of the word only started when Americans took a vague interest in it. In the '70s and well beyond, no one would flinch if you suggested having a game of soccer. I doubt that it's any different today (unless you say it with a foreign accent). A popular thing every year, would be the Sun newspaper issuing collectors books and 'soccer cards'. If anyone doubts it, just do a Google image search.

[@christinewilson1538]

You have got house insulation wrong; the insulation keeps heat in, plus when its very hot outside it keeps heat out.

[@Phiyedough]

I suppose if the place she was staying was recently renovated it probably does meet the latest standards for insulation but that is not typical of UK homes. Most do now have double glazing but a lot still have solid brick walls which lose a lot of heat. Older houses also tend to have high ceilings which also make them more difficult to keep warm. I live in Croatia and can relate to what she said about Australian houses. Here they are designed to stay cool in summer rather than warm in winter. She was wrong about house sizes. I don't have much experience of London but in the rest of the country a lot of terraced houses are 2 bedroomed. There is everything in between from a "2 up 2 down" to a film star type mansion.

[@improvesheffield4824]

I’m still waiting to hear her explanation as to why she couldn’t turn the heating on in the flat in the first place! She seemed to forget about that salient point!!!🤯

[@pedanticlady9126]

I'm just listening to your intro Tyler. Before we go any further.... just a little reminder ... No, a Motorway is not a Highway. A Motorway is more like a Freeway. They link major Cities and Towns and have a minimum of three lanes in each direction. The road signs, etc. are in blue. Three lanes in each direction may not seem like a big deal to you. However, in the UK, we've had roads for a long time. We still have roman roads, built at a time when most people walked, or possibly ran to get around. Gradually, some people could afford a horse or horses, then carts, eventually horse-drawn carriages and coaches. We were the first to develop a railway system in the nineteenth century, but that ran on rails. It's been less than 100 years since the majority of the UK population have access to public or private motor vehicles. Motorways have come into being during my lifetime. I remember when the first one (the M1) was opened. Our "A roads" are usually two lanes in each direction. "B roads" mostly, one lane in each direction. We still have some single lane roads in the UK. I don't mean single lane in each direction. Nor do I mean one-way roads. I literally mean one lane roads in both directions. So, if you come face to face with another vehicle, one of you either has to back up to a lay-by, or else you have a stand-off 😂 ..... I will now return to your video. Hopefully, nothing further will stimulate my pedantic responses 😉🤔😎😁

[@henryblunt8503]

Although most motorways have 3+ lanes there's no legal requirement for them to do so; several have long stretches with 2 lanes and the A66(M) has 2 lanes for its full length (a massive 2.2 miles😂). A motorway doesn't even need to be a dual carriageway - for example the A38(M). Nor, unlike a Freeway, does it have to be free to use (the M6Toll has a Toll). The important difference isn't the number of lanes but the legal restriction to motorised vehicles of certain types only - no pedestrians, cyclists, mopeds under 50cc etc.

[@pedanticlady9126]

@henryblunt8503 O Henry! Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to respond to your comment. I almost anticipated that some bright person would do so. In response to your first point. You virtually make the point yourself. The roads you refer to are not full Motorways. Only part(s) along it are. Hence, the (M) appears in brackets after the original "A" road designation. In response to your second point, notice I actually said "similar" to Freeways. I am fully conversant with the fact that in the US, Freeways are non toll roads. (the clue is in the name) Having driven them on several occasions. I am also conversant with the M6, which is a toll road. Ergo, I used the word "similar" rather than the "same". Attempting to get across the wider linkage between more significant regions, towns, and cities, rather than the local. Having said all that, they could never be ideal comparisons. The differences between the size of the US and UK makes it too problematic. 👍👋

[@henryblunt8503]

@@pedanticlady9126 No, there are no such things as a "full motorways" as opposed to "partial motorways" except in your head. What a motorway is is defined in law as a road to which motorway regulations apply. They apply to the A1M (both sections) by Act of Parliament. They don't apply to the non motorway sections of the A1 - cycle down those if you dare, you will commit no offence. The fact that these were at one time a single road called A1 is irrelevant. You'll be saying next that the A1 isn't an A road because it was once called The Great North Road. One meaning of "Freeway" in the US is a road that us free to use by the public. I think it's fairly important to a US visitor to know that if he wants to get past Birmingham quickly he has to pay for the privilege.

[@pedanticlady9126]

@henryblunt8503 No, no, I would never deny the right of the A1 to be the Great North Road. Definitely a road to savour. Indeed, it's one of my favourites. The A140 is a bit of a nightmare though 🤔 Neither, having seen Tyler's excitement with Birmingham, would I advise him to use the M6 Toll road to whizz past it. However, I might be somewhat surprised if he ever makes it here during my lifetime. 😉😎 Is there a particular Motorway you would personally recommend? I must say I've enjoyed our little exchange of views. 👋

[@Isleofskye]

Only the Travellers in our area can afford a Horse and Cart....

[@emmahowells8334]

Now uk fire alarms are a combo of electric & battery, so if you have an electrical power cut the alarm will still work by battery, but there are still some that are powered by battery only.

[@jerry2357]

I've stayed in hotels where there is a notice telling you to keep the bathroom door shut when showering, or you will set off the fire alarm. Most people who live in houses have little battery-operated smoke alarms, and it's easy to take out the battery if it goes off inadvertently. Many years ago, I lived in a shared house where the grill on the gas oven had a very badly adjusted gas jet. If you tried to make a piece of toast using the grill, it always burnt a small spot on the bread while the rest was still untoasted, and set off the smoke alarm.

[@elemar5]

Insulation works both ways. If it's hot outside insulation helps to keep cool and vice versa.

[@kittyjohnstone5915]

Using the term “Motorway” reminds the motorist of the rules of the road specific to Motorways … eg No Learner Drivers (except in Dual-control vehicles and supervised by an accredited driving instructor), No horse drawn vehicles, No Pedestrians… oh, and the speed limit is higher… the signage differs too! If you are coming to visit and intend hiring a vehicle have a look at the Highway Code - you can find the info online too.

[@theothebeagle3703]

With the fire alarms, it's that our houses make use of smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors and heat sensors, the shower steam would have set off the smoke detectors, then all of these in an apartment block are linked to a central control panel, to let everyone from the apartment block evacuate in case there is a fire. The intention is that someone then calls the fire department who come to the apartment block and check the panel as it can tell them which area of the building the suspected fire has been detected in, once they have determined there is no fire they will then turn the alarm off, the fire alarm panel isn't for tenant use

[@Bazk01]

Houses in the US tend to be what is called "Stick" Built. (Wood framed with siding on the outside and plasterboard inside.) They aren't supposed to last a lifetime and new properties are always being built, but they are definitely newer and larger. House's in the UK tend to be "brick" built or renovated. (Double or single skin brick over concrete block. Smaller and easier to heat.) In the UK you expect to buy an old house and hand it on to someone. Some homes are hundreds of years old and it's common to "do them up". In the US they tend to buy new built and it can be cheaper to pull an old house down and build another "Stick" built home that suits your needs better.

[@mauk2861]

They have their own version called aussie rules football as well... which seems to outsiders to have no rules! The house insulation is foam between the inside and outside walls, and dense fibres above the ceiling on the top floor.

[@karendowse8721]

My house is a 4 double bedroom end terrace in London. It was built that way, not extended

[@davidfoster8503]

As others comments confirm - the name Soccer started in the late 1860's. Effectively, a term that served to distinguish the game from Rugby. I grew up in the 1950's and 1960's and we referred to Soccer and Football equally, sometimes in the same sentence!. We owned soccer balls, read soccer and football stories in our comics and went to see soccer or football matches on a sunday morning. Keep up the excellent reactions.

[@AndrewHalliwell]

Yeah, what we really object to is Americans calling their game which doesn't involve foot and ball interactions very much at all, football. A better name would be American Rugby. (Or girly rugby as we'd call it)

[@thesolarscribe]

I was born in the north of England in a terraced house and we called the rear of the house "backyard"

[@ArcAudios77]

Interesting listen, thanks Tyler. Regards from Western Scotland.

[@amathans]

There are speed cameras all over the Uk. Even on small roads though villages. Average speed cameras on highways take your number plate, then say half a mile or a mile down they will take your number plate again, and work out what average speed it took you to get from the first camera to the second. It takes a photo of the front of the car so they can prove who was driving. If someone has been caught speeding a few times before and they are only 3 points from having their driving licence taken from them, they may try to say their sister or husband was driving (if their sister or husband has a clean driving licence) but this is illegal. It’s illegal to have someone else take your speeding points/fine for you. So they take photos of the people in the cars who are driving so they can prosecute you if you lie and say someone else was driving your vehicle. On a motor way, there will be loads of cars so they may not be taking photos of her. There are also ANPR cameras too that don’t clock your speed. ANPR cameras look at your number plate and they know if you have tax, insurance, MOT on your vehicle. If you don’t, your car maybe pulled over if there are police in the area or you would get a letter to go to court and or a visit off the police. All police cars have ANPR readers too, so if they pass you or are behind you, a little alarm will go off and they will be able to see on their screen that you don’t have insurance or tax or an MOT certificate or all three so your vehicle shouldn’t be on the road at all. You can’t drive across the Uk or many places without passing speed cameras - anpr cameras. The Motorways are usually all covered by Cameras which some are being watched, if a bad accident occurs, emergency services will be out there faster and it will be recorded for who was at fault etc. an MOT stands for Ministry of Transport. Every year every car has to go to a garage and have the mechanics look over your car to check it’s road safe. It has to pass on many things, even indicators working and seatbelts working properly and emissions not being to high. Once your car passes this test, you have a certificate which lasts a year and has the date of expiry on it. If it fails you have 2 weeks to fix all the issues then you pay again for a retest. You can’t get car tax without an MOT certificate and it’s illegal to drive a car with no MOT. This is a good thing when buying a used car. If it has 11 months MOT left on it, you know the car has only just been through it’s MOT so should be ok and in safe good working order. People would think twice about buying a car with only 1 month left on the annual MOT. Just incase the seller knows the car won’t pass an MOT as there are a lot of issues with the car, no one wants to buy a car with a months MOT left on it, just to have to put it in for an MOT a month later and pay for everything that needs fixing as-well as paying for the MOT test that soon after buying the car.

[@MrPagan777]

The heat-trapping bias of UK houses, and our lack of air-con, is the reason why summers can be so horrible here. I came close to having a heat-stroke a couple of weeks ago. It was 32c (90f) outside and 35c (95f) inside, and with no ac it was brutal. Last year we hit 40c (104f), and it was 45c (113f) inside! I nearly died then too. Regarding American Football (which is played with HANDS, like rugby), what a complete misnomer! It's just rugby with pads and helmets!

[@Shoomer88]

American Hand Egg.

[@MrPagan777]

@@Shoomer88 LMAO

[@Joanna-il2ur]

We had the same in Suffolk. I just turned on a couple of fans.

[@bl_leafkid4322]

I bought a brand new house and moved in 1992. The smoke detectors that were wired into 120v would alarm with steam from the shower but it was on a breaker. The house also had a sprinkler system the fortunately never sprayed water everywhere cause there was no shut off for them.

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

A great deal of the housing stock in the UK is industrial worker accommodation built to quickly and cheaply build towns in the 19th Century. More often than not they are constructed of brick, walls two bricks thick with no cavity, no insulation, no damp proof course. After 100 years the windows get loose or stuck, doors and frames warp, but the chimneys still provide excellent ventilation extracting all warmth, sucking air up through the floorboards from the void under the house, served by ventilation bricks. So - damp, cool/cold, draughty and almost impossible to heat more than one room because having a coal fire in every room is not practical or affordable. Roofs often have almost no extension beyond the top of the walls, so the walls get soaking wet in the rain. And these are not the slums, these are the good affordable houses.

[@grimreaper-qh2zn]

Loved the comment "Keeps the heat in, that's cool" I think the reason the heating wouldn't come on for her is she had switched the power of to the programme clock for the central heating and hence it was not able to activate the heating. The usual thing over cautious people do is switch of all the Power and come back home to a Fridge/Freezer that has been of for days and all the food ruined. We have Fire Alarms, though officially the are called smoke detectors, hence the shower steam setting hers of) and CO2 detectors. Both can be disarmed by removing the batteries, which is why you are told to regularly check the operation (yearly). Most have a test/reset button as well.

[@joannedwyer4755]

Tyler you seem such a good laugh (fun guy) , yes soccer is an annoying word. Football is an absolute love, we just love our footy.

[@MajorMagna]

I grew up in a very cold, mostly uninsulated house, the issue there is I can deal with the cold, but summers can be awful for me because I didnt grow up with any real warm temperatures. A lot of more modern smoke alarms in the UK are wired to the mains with a battery backup, rather than just being battery powered.

[@tonys1636]

My smoke alarms are mains, fine until a power outage, a failure due to a storm or a planned maintenance one, all will go off for about 5 minutes unless cancelled, then will emit a single beep every 15 minutes or so until the power restored.

[@jonknights8891]

When people talk of house sizes they are referring to the number of square feet it covers NOT the number of bedrooms. British houses are the smallest in Europe

[@stevepage5813]

A lot of North American houses are made out of wood and plaster board (dry wall.) This cheapish material allows larger buildings to be afforded. The space availlable is also much larger than in old Britain and Europe in general. Roads in Uk are what were built for small horse drawn carts and houses were built to last, out of expensive stone or bricks.

[@malsm8892]

In Australia there is a game called Australian Rules Football a game of its own on an Oval playing area

[@colinmorrison5119]

I recommend American Gridiron adopt the name Tossball. The game seems to feature a lot of tossing about, so makes sense...

[@seanmc1351]

im not a property expert, but british house, have become so well insulated and draught free, with cavaty wall and loft isulation, double glazed windows and now you can get triple glazed, with better front doors, we have wrapped them up so tight, now they are puttinf trickle vents on windows, to allow some flowing air, just what i have heard, those in the know will know better

[@iankinver1170]

the interstate is the US equivalent of the British motorway. not highways in general.

[@truxton1000]

5 bedrooms is huge, well in the Midlands where I live 5 bedooms is on the larger side but there are loads of houses with 5 bedrooms and even 6, but it's no way judged as "mansion houses" at all. Just normal house but a bit larger. But of course 3 bedrooms are what most houses have.

[@HelenNelson-q8d]

Our houses are all different sizes. The terraced houses started being built a long time ago e.g fishermen's cottages, houses built for mill workers etc, though they are still being built today. Seeing, renovating programmes from USA & wreckage after storms, the big American houses do not appear to be solid brick built houses.

[@debbielough7754]

One of the things to remember about older houses, particularly terraces and townhousesis that they've often been altered over the years. Our house has 4 bedrooms, but the smallest one is half size (it's still reasonable, not a box room) because half of the room was used to create the bathroom. It was built in 1901, without an indoor bathroom. That said, in the north east of England, where I grew up, six bedroom terraces aren't at all unusual. And aren't that fancy.

[@Loki1815]

I have 4 bedroom Detached House, 3 bedrooms are doubles, 1 is 3/4 of the size of the others, an Upstairs Bathroom, Shower, Toilet, bidet, downstairs there is a "Guest" toilet, Kitchen with double sink, 5 Ring Gas Hob, Double Oven and Grill, and a warming drawer. A Utility Room with a Washing Machine, Tumble Dryer, integrated ironing board, a Linen Press(? What do I know I'm a bloke) An 18' by 13' 6" Living Room, a Dining Room 13'6" x 13'6". A Conservatory of 18'x10' which adjoins to my Workshop, that adjoins to my double Garage! Gardens back and front, nothing massive, I was brought up in a block of flats, what do I know about Gardens! The house is on the "OK" side, for a working class bloke but not on the big side and certainly not massive! Got to go, someone's at the gate and can't seem to operate the entry system at the bottom of the meandering, Silver Birch lined driveway! Toodle-pip

[@laurajarvis3156]

American football is Rugby with armour on basically

[@ChattylaineCreates]

So as many have said here 5 bedrooms is not the normal here in the UK not quite sure why she kept referring to them as a normal house 🤔 they are more high end houses. You can't compare London houses to the rest of the country as its very expensive to live in and around London anyway, like most cities. Average house size is 3 bedrooms 1 bathroom. 1 or 2 bed houses tend to be starter homes and flats or apartments are slightly different too. New builds are apartment complexes, where flats can be really high rise blocks but not all of them. 4 or 5 bed houses can have an En suite bathrooms. We don't call them bathrooms all the time like Americans do, we call them toilets or going to the loo! We don't call them half bathrooms either we call them downstairs loos as they generally are a toilet and sink... These always add great value to our homes. We generally build our houses from brick construction but insolation can vary due to the age of the house itself. My 1930's mid terrace house has no cavity walls so no insolation other than double skinned walls. New properties will have a wall isolation put in when constructed or an insolation can be pumped into the wall cavity of older houses but newer than mine. As for Motorways they are more like the American Freeways otherwise we just call them Roads. Major roads generally are 'A' roads, minor roads are 'B' roads and then in the towns are streets etc. Depending on the names they are given. I watch HGTV quite a bit that show houses in the US and how they are made and doing Flips as you call them, we call it renovating or doer-uppers/fixer-uppers! A large number of your houses are of wooden construction. 😊

[@Peterraymond67]

Tyler. It may hot get as hot as your part of the USA here in the UK, in the winter your temperatures are usually much lower. It gets really hot quite rarely here in the UK. Air conditioning is a waste of money here, it’s cheaper to open the window, we don’t see many flies & bugs so mesh fly screens on the windows doesn’t exist. You can get a government grant towards cavity wall insulation as well as loft insulation when there grants to apply for. The UK is actively trying to get us to use green energy. They have announced a date when gas driven boilers, the usual heating in homes will be banned. Central heating by hot air is not the usual here. It’s all boilers, radiators for heating both rooms and water. Plans are to get us use green energy, probably space heaters.

[@colinmorrison5119]

A typical modern British home will have a brick outer wall, block inner wall, a 100-150mm insulation foam filled cavity, another house attached to one wall, thick loft insulation (300mm is now the norm iirc), PVC double glazing and sealed PVC doors. Upgrading your insulation is the single best investment to make in a home here, as we typically need heating on 5-6 months a year. Unlike many European countries, the government has not seriously tried to stop energy companies price gouging since the Ukraine invasion. This year had a few weeks of warm or hot weather, but the summer temps have been very modest, in the 20-25°C range (possibly more in the south east). It's now dipped below 20°C in mid-September and is not likely to get there again until March or April.

[@Isleofskye]

Tomorrow, we slice up this year's £20 Asda Paddling Pool,which, officially ends Summer. I,already have my £18 Tesco replacement for next Summer when I will enter my 8th decade:)

[@simondobbs4480]

Soccer is derived from Association Football, to distinguish it from Rugby Football.

[@MajorMagna]

Indeed, oldschool Cambridge/Oxford University students use the word Soccer.

[@steverpcb]

The usual mistake that americans make is to drive at 55 in the middle lane of the motorway :(

[@helenwood8482]

Australian houses are designed to keep cool in summer.

[@andyt8216]

It’s not hot all the time in Australia - it depends where and when. That’s why she said she used to get cold in winter, in this very video.

[@nether2227]

Context from the word SOCCER - The word soccer comes from the term association football. We had normal just football then it was given the term association football which was rarely used and was just simplified to football how it was more commonly clalled anyway. But a few people called it Soccer. Fun fact AFC Richmond and Wrexham AFC stands for Association Football Club, but clubs today usually just use FC like Liverpool. The term football that americans use, comes from other forms of the main game. Other games inspired by the original were made. Galic football and Australian football. The english made a game called Rugby Football, it was a mix between football and rugby, pretty obvious. So if you want the correct terms the term Football for the game where you use your foot and a ball has been known by the world as football for many years before Rugby Football (American Football) or Rugby was thought of. Also the game Rugby Football never used padding and involved a little more kicking during runs, im pretty sure there some of the only differences between the two.

[@jonntischnabel]

The cost of housing in London (and the surrounding counties) is vastly more expensive than up north. My friend just bought a 3 bed semi in Kent, for £650k. I live 25 miles away from Manchester in the peak District, and my 3 bed DETACHED BUNGALOW is worth £360k. For the money he spent, up here, you can buy a very large place, with large grounds.

[@101steel4]

"Soccer" is an abbreviation of "association football "

[@truxton1000]

A big difference from USA is that we have not really high property tax. A normal council tax for a UK house is around £100 each month. I know USA have property taxes which can be thousands a year, so much for thew "low tax" in USA. USA tax is not low any more.

[@ganjiblobflankis6581]

I had a smoke alarm run out of battery at 2AM and it had a delightful backup battery that powered a brief full-volume squark every 15 minutes just as I drifted off to sleep again. I could find no replacement and this thing was a torture device so I brutally destroyed it with a tin of beans.

[@aarontaylor4967]

I have a 5 bedroom house. It's not unusual for a family with 3 kids. Though I live in a small village it's really not feasible in London unless you're massively wealthy.

[@hanifleylabi8071]

Australian homes are on average 3x the size of UK ones and our homes are notoriously poorly insulated. Some new build blocks of flats are better but the reason our home are warmer in winter is because we have central heating and they usually don't.

[@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej]

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[@Zanockthael]

So far as I can tell, her comments about housing is based exclusively on Londons Victorian Townhouses. They are, indeed, humungous. Four stories high, two rooms wide and three rooms deep. Most of them nowdays have been split into blocks of 8/10 flats (apartments, for the US amoung us) because they are just that big. Unless you have £8 million to spend though, you aren't buying one for yourself. Also, they exist almost exclusively in London. Houses in the rest of the country are much, much smaller.

[@shaunnicholson-ul9xt]

Black puddin is good for putting iron in yer blood it's a northern dish love or not it's great ❤🇬🇧

[@martinshepherd626]

Not just Northern my friend, we have it in the West and South West aswell

[@jameslewis2635]

American football to British people just looks like rugby with armour. Most of the time players are carrying the ball (which is egg shaped) so how can you qualify it as football?

[@grabtharshammer]

I wonder where in Australia she comes from. My wife and I spent 3 weeks in Australia and saw Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Territories. We actually looked at buying a house and were considering emigrating at the time. Every house we looked at, that we could afford, was two to three times as big as the tiny house we lived in, in the UK. But worth a similar amount. In one, outside Brisbane, the clothes closet in the main bedroom was bigger than the second bedroom in our UK house and most of the ones we saw had Pools. We did actually stay with a couple of her friends, who were quite poor, had a much smaller house, but still bigger than ours in the UK ... and they had a horse. One thing will admit though. If she is used to living in Victorian houses in the UK, then she would notice the rooms seem much taller as in Victorian times in the UK Houses were built with VERY tall ceilings (try decorating one). This may give the impression of the houses being roomier

[@simonround2439]

She said she lived in Sydney.

[@stuartfitch7093]

The average UK house size is not much bigger than the average size of a US apartment. The direct difference between houses is the average US house is 3x the size of a UK average house by floor area. There's lots of reasons for this. Not only are houses in the UK very expensive to buy but also is the land to build on because there's only limited space to build here in the UK so houses have to be crammed onto a smaller plot of land. Hence most houses in the UK are either terraced houses or semi detached houses where you share at least one adjoining wall with a neighbour.

[@VicketyVick]

4 and 5 bedrooms can mean very very small rooms. That only count as a bedroom cos you can fit a single bed in it and nothing else. We call these box rooms. Any house can be 5 bed if you partition the bigger rooms off to 6ft Square 🤷‍♀️ I don't know what posh places she goes with big houses in the uk.. must be well off.

[@Kywildcatgirl82]

There are speed cameras in the us

[@jamesfahy2935]

Might I say that the lady is a tad boring?

[@peterrobinson3168]

"Soccer" is a slang contraction of Association Football. This is to distinguish it from Rugby Football, which is "Rugger".Rugby Football is more akin to American Football but without the armour. 🤣 These terms had their roots in 'posh' English boarding schools where the default sport was Rugby Football (Rugby IS a posh English school where the game originated). Soccer was a tad infra dig and played by the peasants. 😁

[@angelahawman4263]

Houses need to have Energy Performance Certificates every 10 years in the UK. So buyers & renters know how insulated there property is.

[@EmilyCheetham]

Actually not all British houses are well insulated. Iv been in plenty of British houses that are cold. It depends of the type of house you are in.

[@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej]

It also depends on whether the owner can afford to insulate their property well. My house has no double glazing or cavity wall insulation. It is an old house, and it is very cold and draughty in winter. Conversely, it is like a brick oven in a heatwave. It costs a great deal for double glazing (the best part of £20,000 for a house like mine), and there are no government grants for that......only for loft and cavity wall insulation.

[@EmilyCheetham]

@@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej well there are occasionally grants for double glazing. A friend of mines mum got a grant several years ago. But they are very rare. Yes owners cannot always afford to insulate always and they are re not always entitled to grants. But as you said yours was an old house so still think what I said “depends on the house” counts.

[@uppyraptor49]

My house tyler is triple glazed filled with argon like norway with reflective glass

[@rogerwitte]

The full name of the sport is "Association Football" - 'Soccer is an abbreviation of "Association"

[@Layla-kd4ui]

I can't recognise her discription of British housing, and coziness, from this. We have a lot of substandard housing stock, our neighbouring housing was built in the 1600s and are tiny, our house is 1874, built without foundations and massively damp and drafty.

[@shaunnicholson-ul9xt]

All right 😅bonney lad I live in a house garden that's all round the house

[@seijika46]

She must be absurdly wealthy to consider such homes in London (broom clost bedrooms or not) to be plentiful in the UK, let alone in London which is infamous for the expense and scarcity of good housing.

[@auldfouter8661]

It's not like we don't use the word highway in the UK for a public road. Learner drivers have to learn the Highway Code after all.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

I have heard so many Amerricans say Teams instead of Themes the rather big river in London. Also i know Scottish place names can be difficult but why do people not learn how to say Edinburgh if your f-ing staying there, some vlogs are rediculous they say Loch (wrong) and then say lake, honnistly that realy winds me up. The 5 bed house thing was London houses a Scottish villa will have 4-5 or more good sized bedroom and one small one for when they had servents.

[@mattbentley9270]

only about 20% of homes in the UK are completely detached with zero shared walls, whereas, almost 85% of homes in the US are detached.

[@Isleofskye]

Please insult me,my wife, my children, and even my pet dogs: Fido and Rover but, please, NEVER, call The Beautiful Game:: " Soc.." I can't bring myself to even write it down...

[@happydog3422]

The average UK home is two or three bedrooms and semi detached.

[@ben-tendo]

“Foot” ball… the ball on your foot. It should be American Handball 😂 Oh and Pre-Heating is literally a few minutes of the system heating up before heating the home or water. Did not need all that fiasco. 😅

[@stuartfitch7093]

Most UK houses are not heated by an electrical system. They are heated by a combi gas boiler that burns natural gas. This then heats water to either supply water to your taps for things like washing dirty dishes or for taking a bath, the boiler also supplies hot water to your radiator system to heat the house. A UK radiator system uses a loop of water. This loop starts and ends at the boiler. The water is heated at the boiler then pumped out via pipes to a loop of individual radiators located around the house. At the end of the loop of radiators the water returns to the boiler to be reheated again before it's recirculated around the loop again. This process means when you have your central heating on in the UK you've a constant circulation of hot water moving around the system through each radiator in turn.

[@EmilyCheetham]

Or 1. my house has an oil heating system 2. my aunt has a storage heater system to heat her house. But my old house housed gas and I know people who have electric heaters. It all depends where you live to the type of heating you have. I also know of some people who have underfloor heating and some people who have wood burning fires to heat their home. So uk is very varied.

[@michaelmccann-5958]

Two houses attached is called a semi detached house

[@jettser17UK]

You would join with the rest of the World who refer it as Football, Footie and FC! ⚽👍

[@elunedlaine8661]

My parents bought a house in North London in 1959 for £3,000. It sold for £1,250,000.00 in April of this year. That's $1,550,375.00

[@Joanna-il2ur]

In 1983, before I git married I bought a house in the Manchester suburb of Chorlton for £17,000. By 2008 it was going for £200,000. I hate to think what it would now.