10 Things Non-Brits Find Weird about the British | Reacting to Reddit | r/AskUK 🇬🇧

um if you're happy have a tea sad have a tea bored have a tea like you're right like we're not aiming for good we're just aiming for okay because we're british they pretend like australia doesn't have a culture but we do hi guys and welcome back to my channel if you're new around here i am yvette and i moved to the uk in may last year and i am documenting my experiences and my journey into british life and i thought it'd be fun today to do a video on things things non-brits find weird about britain now i'm getting a lot of these uh some of my experience but also from reddit i got it from ask reddit uk um fantastic resource for someone who's just moved to the uk and you're like how do i pay tax or something you know important um should i not be getting tax information from reddit maybe but either way it's a fantastic resource um and i thought it'd be really interesting to go through this list and discuss some of the things people find confusing and i can weigh in on my thoughts the first thing non-brits find weird about britain is how small it is so the size um so it's obviously quite a small island compared to i'm australian so quite big in verse like america which is probably the two or the three countries you know replying to this for um who are on reddit what's interesting about this in the comment is that people won't drive like an hour to see family they think an hour is a long time and if you have lived you know in australia or you or you or um america you know an hour is nothing i used to drive two and a half hours to three hours to work every day and back um so my perception of a long drive is is quite skewed i would literally drive three hours is a day trip to me whereas i think for brits that's like a week-long holiday um so yeah the size also um population for the size which i wanted to say so the population for the uk is i think 66 million um and i think there's about eight to nine million in london and despite the small country size the continent size what do you what is the united kingdom i know it's not a country but whatever the conglomerate um quite small there's still so much green space even in london like i know this 50 of london is parks and green space but even like once you get out if like you go down to kent or surrey or somewhere like i've been on hikes down there um recently over the lakes it's just like rolling hills and mountains or farms and countryside so it's so it seems so spacious yet i know how many people live here and it's it's amazing like when you look at other countries like japan and that which doesn't seem to have as much because the cities are so built up obviously a lot more people but so yeah the size number two is the variety of accents um i think this one's interesting i've said the same thing so i agree wholeheartedly is that there's so many accents over such a small geography um even in london so like the same city has like probably three maybe even four distinct accents you know there's like east london kind of an s60 kind of accent like hybrid you've got uh cockney you've got rp you've got like posh rp like the queen um and then like i don't know what you call the middle one but there's definitely a middle like like a normal accent but i don't use the word normal but you know what i mean um so yeah there's definitely and that's just london and then you drive like two hours to wheelchair and then they all sound like hagrid from harry potter or you drive you know a few hours north and then it's like northern accents and then that's a whole other like thing even just manchester to like leeds is a different accent or liverpool to manchester like that's like probably like what less than an hour's drive and it's a different accent that's crazy i don't know anywhere else that has that level of variety and i say that as like i think it's fun and positive and it gives you like a sense of i guess pride from where you're from because no matter where you're from there's a sense of identity there and that's really cool number three is tea i think we knew it was gonna come up on the list at some point but it is a staple of british culture i don't know how you can talk to brits without tea because tea as one of the commenters said is perfect for any solution um if you're happy have a tea sad have a tea bored have a tea um when someone comes in and tells you something horrible has happened you say i'll put the kettle on you know so um t is integral tea is like you know it's kind of it's a global thing like obviously like india china australia america they all have tea but i don't know if any of them have the power companies compensating for when there's commercial breaks in the uh on the tv because everyone's getting a cup of tea and that's so funny but i love it but like classic england or classic britain um number four is like greetings specifically one greeting in particular and it's one i've mentioned before and i struggle with but it is the you're right is not asking if you're okay it's like i don't know it's just saying hey like how are you but like sure you're right and then i think the responses all right you and then they'll go all right and then they go or maybe they don't even reply someone did say the answer was yeah you all right like all right all right yeah you're all right and then they'll say yeah it's such a like there's like a um a running joke it was a joke or stereotype i guess of the uk's be uk british people to be like quite you know pessimistic like comparative to like the us where they're like i'm the best at everything you know in the uk uh you at uk is more self-deprecating they don't like to brag that kind of like downplaying um and i think that's that's kind of seen in this in this uh greeting because you're hi how are you and then they're just like oh are you okay like you're all right like we're not aiming for good we're just aiming for okay because we're british number five hundreds of thousands now i'm gonna have to give my opinion on this one so hundreds of thousands are what americans call sprinkles um there was a massive debate on this in the uh reddit thread about like their little balls of sprinkles and then they're like long skinny sprinkles so uk would call the long skinny sprinkles sprinkles the little hard balls hundreds and thousands now i want you everyone watching this you have to do this because i promise you you'll thank me later they pretend like australia doesn't have a culture but we do our delicacy is fairy bread as in like fairy like a magical fairy um so what you do is you get some white bread at least like the unmost unhealthy bread you can find and then you get some butter or margarine cover it make it like you know a decent amount don't go like once again we're not trying to be healthy here give it like enough and then you get hundreds and thousands and you sprinkle it all over and that's fairy bread and i'll put a picture here for you for a guide i want you please to do this maybe i'll make a tutorial i need to start a twitch channel and we can all do this stuff together but what i used to do for my birthday i used to um ask my mom if i could have a sandwich a fairy bread sandwich for my birthday at school and she would do that so she'd make one piece of fairy bread and then make two make it into a sandwich and then cut it and then i'd take it for lunch at school on my birthday and that was like my treat um so yeah delicacy 10 out of 10 you have to try it it's such an australian thing um i go to parties now as like in my late twenties and people still have hair bread at parties and everyone gets so excited i'm i'm gonna have to throw a party here for like my brut friends and put fairy bread out because they won't know what to do with themselves number six is strange towns now i'm making a whole video on this i'm not gonna spoil it but brits are a bit cheeky and they like to name places with a bit of a funny name so there's a place in chichester probably saying that chichester chichester um called titty hill and then there's also barton on the beans like absolutely crazy names for places um which i think is very funny and i in australia there's a lot of places like that are aboriginal names so kuji or uluru or wollongong um dolla they're all like old aboriginal words so i'm used to like odd names but like barton on the beans is next level also how rude they are into it i love a good joke number seven is is britain by many names and so what they're referring to in this is that there is the united kingdom that includes ireland there is great britain that doesn't include the united kingdom but includes the the land mass and then there's obviously england then wales and scotland um and northern ireland as their own countries and i've mentioned this before i'm not sure what the name like i know what a country is but i don't know what the united kingdom is it's like a group of countries it's a sovereign union or something i don't know um but it's a bit confusing not gonna lie um i obviously know the differences but if you're someone who doesn't you know know geography that well i think a lot of brits who don't know the difference and honestly if you if you get it wrong someone will be like excuse me you said britain and ireland isn't in britain or um you said britain and you meant england or you meant scotland and you said great united kingdom like everyone will call you out on it and it's just i think people come from a place of ignorance um not hate not malice everyone's just trying their best guys everyone's just trying their best it's confusing it's confusing even if you live here or don't even get them started on like what a british accent sounds like because obviously there's so many accents but then what's presented in in i guess the media of what a british accent is is another thing number eight washing machines and how they're in the kitchen so i've discussed this i don't love the washing machine in the kitchen i understand why it is and i'm kind of got positives and negatives i like the idea i hate the idea of like a utilities room or a laundry it's a waste of space no one likes spending time in there i have better things i could use the space for better activities but i do think there is something a bit grim about like the the moisture i guess from clothing or washing clothing like the heat and the moisture like that like that humidity i guess that comes from when you do the washing and then having that knee like uh like food in the kitchen or foodie smells that does like make me a bit grossed out i know that's like probably very ignorant but i can't help what makes me not love it i think it's just humidity and food makes me grossed out but the clothes are linking to that um like i said before my flat here which you can see if you have looked at the um flat tour i did um my washing machine is in the bathroom which i think makes more sense because it's obviously a much more humid environment to start with so and there's no food stuffs there so i think also if you're taking like smelly clothes new food i just think it's i understand why guys i understand i'm being very nitpicky but it's odd when you're not used to it and obviously i'm not alone because reddit obviously agreed number nine controversial one piers morgan a lot of people were confused how he was still on tv um i don't necessarily i used to be i used to disagree with him a lot more on more things but he's been quite rational during this whole co-vid thing and i'm finding myself agreeing with him and i'm like well this is a plot list so this is coming um but yeah he is a very controversial figure and says some very ignorant things sometimes um and yeah people were confused why he was still on the tv i'm not confused because i look at some of the politicians and i'm like well really him like it would be weird if he was the one to get pulled up on some things you know there are more important people saying some worse things than he is but i understand but also i'm used to australia and oh my god the people we have on tv there number 10 probably my favorite thing about british culture that confuses other cultures is the banter i've said it before and i'll say it again british culture british people are the funniest people in the world to me their banter is hilarious um the reddit thread people were confused about how much they like insult each other and like roast each other and there's that big sentiment within the uk i guess the more you like someone the more you'll insult them and i don't know i just i think that's similar to australia as well obviously that infamously our favorite compliment is the c word um but yeah i do it's just so funny i was like like ever it's just so funny to roast people and you know it's all in like in jokes um and yeah i think it's i think potentially it might be more authentic than potentially just being nice to everyone which is also great um stereotype breaker because i think you know outside the uk people view british people as like you know very hoity toity posh um very reserved don't want to say like very uh you know mild mild manners and then you get here and then it's just like roasts and bands and insults and it's amazing so um i can see why that would be quite shocking to someone who was coming in expecting everyone to be like tip of the morning to ya and then it's like everyone's just like saying how ugly your hat is or something and it's like the same thing as like if they say oh your hat's good if your friend is like nice hat it means it's an ugly hat you know so even the compliments insults i love it i need to make this video about british humor because it's too much for me but yeah that's it for this one this i thought would just be a cute fun one to do about you know the biggest um baffling things about british culture to number it's if you have heard of any others let me know in the comments below if you are not british and there's something about british culture that baffles you please let me know um and give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it it really helps me out no pressure but like if you wouldn't mind and if you really enjoyed this video remember to hit subscribe so i can see you next time thank you so much for watching bye [Music]

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Length: 15min 21sec (921 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 23 2020