20 Weird things ONLY British people do!

Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy. Today I'm going to talk to you about 20 British peculiarities. Beautiful word that means peculiar aspects in someone's behavior or character. Basically, I'm going to tell you about some

weird

things

that British

people

tend to do. Large generalizations will be made here. I would love for you to let me know in the comments section where you are from and if you identify with any of these or if it is the exact opposite of where you are from before we begin. I would like to thank the sponsor of today's video.

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weird

things

that Brits tend to do well at, so the first is that we put rugs in our bathrooms, not everyone does this, but I currently live in a house that has a carpeted bathroom and I will let you know that yes we have had an overflow situation with that toilet and the carpeted bathroom were not pretty so this is a pretty old fashioned thing we don't usually do this anymore but if you go to a house that It hasn't been renovated or updated in a long time while you go to someone's house that is very traditional, so yes, you might find a rug in your bathroom.

We have it here, it was not my choice, but it is here. My grandparents also have carpeted bathrooms. Number two is very good. and this is something we shout in a very, very specific situation, which is when someone breaks a glass in a pub, the whole pub should shout. Sorry I had to re-record that, that was so strong now that I worked as a waitress for three. years i dropped some glasses we had to carry these drinks on little round trays that had to be balanced i couldn't do that so i have had many ways in my life now my mother's best friend forgot where she was once she made the rahay in portugal in In a restaurant in Portugal, a poor waiter dropped a bunch of glasses that broke everywhere and there was

only

my mother's best friend there screaming, okay, next is number three, which is excitement about the fireworks. on bonfire night, so on the 5th of November across the UK we have bonfires, we set off fireworks and we do this because it is the anniversary, on the 5th of November, of a failed attempt to blow up the houses of parliament in this event .

He burns the boys and these are dolls used to represent the man who was going to blow up the houses of parliament. They called it Guy Fawkes, so sometimes we also call it Guy Fawkes night now on tonight or in the afternoon surrounding tonight, depending on when. falls if it falls on a Monday then you can have it the Saturday before, for example,

people

who have no experience or business with explosives get really excited, they go to fireworks stores, they make them in their garden and it's really dangerous, my dad. I always really enjoyed setting off fireworks and setting them off in a neighbor's garden and my mother was always absolutely petrified, she was so afraid that he would get hurt and rightly so, and one day they played this terrible prank on my mother and everyone. other worried wives set off a bunch of fireworks and then came screaming covered in soot with black ash all over their faces as if they had had the explosion in their faces and the women went crazy and weren't very happy to hear it.

It was all a joke number four, we believe that a cup of tea will cure or at least help any bad situation and many of us really believe this when something bad happens our first response is okay, I'll put the kettle on if someone tells you so. some devastating news and you don't know what to say, can you just say it's horrible, would you like a cup of tea? Number five is the phrase oh, go on, then okay, put like this, oh, go on, then this is something we say when we are offered something that we know we shouldn't eat, for example, a very unhealthy meal or maybe a cigarette or an alcoholic drink, when someone offers you something bad or considered bad, go on, go on, so I wonder if you have something similar. phrase in your own language I would love to hear it because I think it is a key phrase in our vocabulary number six colin the caterpillar cake I need to say more yes I need to say more so that my viewers understand anyone British who sees this Do you understand Colin's cake the caterpillar, they'll probably feel excitement running through their veins, okay, a colin the caterpillar cake is a long chocolate roll, I think that's what you call it, it's a chocolate covered cake roll with a caterpillar's face on the extreme and if it was your birthday at school your mom would buy you a colin the caterpillar cake, it was very easy to cut it into many slices for all the children and if it was your birthday you had to eat your face.

I remember my first colin the caterpillar cake I remember being served the face of this cake and I remember it was disgusting but I ate it anyway because it was my birthday and because I had earned it and I spent the whole year watching everyone else eat their caterpillar faces They are usually sold in Marks and Spencers a shop here a food shop here a pretty fancy food shop here as far as I know and if you ever go to a British person's birthday party I really think you should bring one, it will excite them very probably number seven, something else that we find ridiculously exciting, much more exciting than it should be j2os, I don't know if you have them in other countries, but they are a non-alcoholic juice drink, not juice, a juice drink, it's Well, that means it's not 100 at the most.

The famous flavor is orange and passion fruit, but the thing is that they came in glass bottles the same size as beer bottles, so when you're a kid and you're at an adult party, you can feel like an adult with a similar flavor. very exciting beer bottle. I remember going too far when I was younger and taking my parents' beer bottles that were always green stellar works of art and filling them with apple juice and taking them with me and completely confused when my parents were so mad at me and saying no. , Lucy, don't do that, don't do that, we also had another drink called slur that was non-alcoholic, like a sweet, fizzy grape juice, and I felt like an adult when I had a glass of Schler.

At Christmas, do you have a drink that you drank as a child that made you feel grown up? I bet there's the number eight, it's the pop phrase. Okay, it sounds a little random, but we use pop in a lot of phrasal verbs, um, and it's a very warm way of asking someone to go or come somewhere, do you want me to go? Do you want me to go? It involves a short period of time, why don't we go have a coffee? Why don't we do it quickly? go down the street to have a coffee. I remember one of my Spanish students in London was a couple from a British family and he was very confused by the word pop because you can appear pop up pop down pop over just treat it as you see and go number nine the British like to base economic status across the country in the price inflation of a frog-shaped chocolate bar called freddy yes you heard that correctly we based our economy on a frog-shaped chocolate bar called freddy when we were young freddos were known to be the bar of more affordable chocolate, they were a bit of a deal and usually cost 10p when I was young I think.

I remember being given a pound to spend and sweets at a party. I could have a big packet of sweets or ten freddos. The logical answer is to go for all the freddos, however, every time I see the price of a freddo increase, I become outraged and so does the rest of the nation. I'm going to look now for the current price of freddos 25p 25p so what's ok? I'm going to have to pause there. I got so angry about the price inflation of freddos that I broke my microphone and the next three videos have terrible audio.

Damn freddos, that means I could have bought 10 and now I can

only

buy four, that's outrageous. Well number 10, pigs in blankets, we are really excited about this particular food called pig in blankets, it's a little cocktail sausage wrapped in bacon and we normally only have them at Christmas, but there's no reason for this, we could eat them every Sunday , but if you go to a pub and your Sunday roast comes with a pig in a blanket or some pigs in a blanket. It's the best barbecue ever. We love them, but we only have them at Christmas.

Why is that number 11 one of our most popular TV shows? television program of people who watch television shows is called gogglebox. I imagine that this concept has reached other countries. Now they basically film families watching TV highlights and then compile their one-liners and then we watch them. It is a very good program. It is a metanumber. 12 dog poop on Facebook groups is fine in the UK and I imagine in many places in the world we have Facebook groups for our local community so I am in quite a few towns and cities around and there is a new phenomenon and they are people who are so frustrated that people don't pick up their dog's poop, especially if it's on someone's property or in their front yard, people are starting to take pictures of dog poop and post it on these community groups that I don't know. you, but I usually check my phone for the first time in the morning when I'm about to take my first bite of breakfast, usually porridge and having porridge approaching my mouth, opening my phone and seeing a huge dog poop just isn't ideal , so now people are rebelling against the dog poop posters and there is a lot of civil unrest online right now, those who want to shame the dog poop quitters and those who want to shame the poop posters of dog is very complex, um, I hate dog poop, it's absolutely Horrendous, but I also don't want to see it all over my Facebook timeline.

I've seen enough. We know it's problem number 13. Drinking in rounds. Okay, when we go out at night with a group of friends, we drink in rounds, which means. If there are five of us instead of everyone buying their individual drinks, one person will buy five drinks and then the next person will buy five drinks. I'm sure many of you are familiar with this concept. I'm sure it has a different name. you're from, but the most British thing to do is shout out who's in the round when you know exactly whose round it is and you're just trying to get them to buy their round because there are a lot of people who will be participating in the rounds, wait. until the end and I hope they don't have to buy that round, thus escaping with many free drinks and a very full wallet and it's very annoying now we can be considered quite passive-aggressive, so instead of saying it's your round, go and buys. your round just shouts whose round it is, it's a much easier way to avoid confrontation, however my fiancee said that in college there was a guy who was so bad at buying or paying for his fair share of drinks, but in reality they grabbed him and took him to an ATM a bank took out his card and forced him to take out the money some people are just what we would call tight here if someone is tight they don't like spending a lot of money number 14 is that we can't always be bothered to use it an umbrella rains so often that unless I completely hit it, I don't mind getting a little wet.

I remember when I was in Spain, the moment the first drop hit someone's hair, they would take out their umbrella, everyone had it, everyone knew it. The weather, I never knew how people kept track of whether it was going to rain that day or not, but it was rather a rare occasion there and it's very, very common here, so I used to come into my classrooms soaked, sometimes just you . you know normal number 15 we don't put refrigerators in the eggs wrong number 15 we don't always put our eggs in the refrigerator I don't know if this is strange for you I remember going abroad and seeing refrigerators in the eggs refrigerators in the eggs I remember going abroad and having seen eggs in refrigerators.

I remember some refrigerators came with egg holders. I thought it was very strange. No, I like a good egg at room temperature. Oh yeah, why does that sound like an innuendo? 16 This is evident to us. areobsessed with the weather even if it's so boring you know oh it's a little gray and windy today we'll tell you it's a little gray and windy right? It changes so much that it is quite entertaining, we have sometimes we don't have much to talk about in our lives, so the weather is really good to opt for bun or bun number 17.

Well, this is the riddle and, in fact, this riddle It also has a second part. baked good that I call a scone but other people call it a scone and there's a big fight, a big divide in the UK about whether it's a scone or a scone which I don't want to get involved in and I'm not going to say that the scone It's wrong, but I confess, it's over, damn it, the other part of this puzzle is the order in which the ingredients are put. We normally serve scones or scones with jam and clotted cream, they are absolutely to die for if you come to the UK, make sure you have an afternoon tea with scones or scones.

Now I always put the clotted cream first and then the jam, but some people will swear that you have to put the jam first afterwards. the clotted cream I'm not going to tell you which one is right, you'll just have to try it yourself, but I think logistically first the cream and then the 18th jam, we're terrible at ending conversations, honestly this is the most annoying thing ever. existed. he's a big culprit of this and he's my fiancé, normally when we want to end a conversation we'll say okay and I kind of need to go or I need to move on or I need to move on, but for some reason why some people really struggle with this um and when you have two people fighting to end conversations and they come together, it could go on for eternity, it's really very worrying, right?

Did you hear yes? Come and say hello, admit your problem. don't worry about space, you know your problem, you're almost ending the conversation, I was ending conversations, yes it's complicated, it's okay if you're talking to someone who can end the conversation, but it's when you're with someone else. That also makes it difficult to end conversations. Well, it's good to get out, isn't it? It's not a hard year for everyone, go ahead, okay, I'm almost done great, number 19, we really overuse the word sorry, um, this solidified even more in my mind. Last night we watched Bridget Jones and there was a scene where Mark Darcy or Colin Firth and Hugh Grant were fighting and throwing things on people's tables in a restaurant and they were still apologizing.

We just can't help it. I find myself apologizing. for apologizing too much number 20. The last weird thing the British do is consume a lot of pre-made sandwiches. It's a little random, but there's something very exciting about taking a short drive and stopping for lunch and Lunch will be a pre-made sandwich in a box that you can get at gas stations or grocery stores. I know Tesco does something called a meal deal where for a certain amount of money you get a sandwich, a snack and a drink. and people love it and try to make the most of that food offer.

They say you can tell a lot about a person by what they choose for their food offering, but you know I've traveled to a couple of countries and have never seen the wealth of pre-made sandwich options we have in the UK. It's crazy, every flavor, every filling, very creative and the prawns are my favorite prawn mayonnaise. I love it. The Christmas range is in full swing at the moment. Amazing turkey and stuffing sandwiches. The other day I saw a duck larage sandwich. I wouldn't say it's something I recommend. In fact, if you want to have a British experience when you come to the UK, go to a petrol station, buy a sandwich and you'll be done. feel like a brit on that note, that's the end of today's lesson.

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