美國人做的5件事是英國人討厭的! (5 Things AMERICANS Do That BRITISH People HATE! )

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- Hi, we're Joel and Lia.
- And today's video is things Americans do
that drive Brits crazy.
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- Okay so this video is based on true stories,
our own experiences,
and also from an article that we found on the insider.com.
So we're just gonna just discuss, go through it,
add our own two cents.
Is that what-- (laughing)
what is that?
- Two cents. Three cents. - Add our three cents.
- Two cents. - Add our two cents.
- Two cents.
- So we're really smart.
So there you go. (clapping)
- Yeah, well done. - Well done us.
- Also, I don't know why we say cents in the U.K.,
'cause obviously we have pence.
- Yeah.
- Not cents.
- Add your two pence.
- Add your two, oh, maybe we do say that.
- Do we say that?
- I don't know.
- Add your two pence.
No, no one says-- - Two pence.
- Two pence.
(laughing)
Add your two pence.
- No.
Anyway. - No one has ever said that.
Anyway. Should we just get straight on with it.
- Let's just jump straight in.
So the first one that drives Brits crazy is that,
apparently Americans tend to buy drinks
when you're with a group of friends,
you buy drinks one by one instead of buying in rounds.
Which, I didn't really know that they did this.
- Yeah, so, according to Insider, it's not unusual for
American to just go to a bar and buy their own drink.
Whereas, if we were in a group of four
say-- - Yeah.
- Or even just us two-- - Yeah.
- It would be you'd get the first round of drinks
for both of us, and then I'd get the next round,
and so on, and the same with a big group.
Like, it could be even up to groups of like
nine or 10 where someone's getting the round
and then the next person's getting the
whole round of drinks, it's like.
- And it's costing them
so much money. - So much money.
- But the rule is that every who's in on that gets a round.
So if there's 10 people,
there's gonna be 10 rounds of drinks.
- Yeah.
- And, and so you know that you're gonna end up
getting your money back in a way.
- In a way. - In the form of a drink.
- Yeah.
If not more.
No, the same.
- The same.
- Yeah.
- I'm like, I'm like, how can you win?
How can you win?
- Maths.
(laughing)
- Um, I think that there's pros and cons to both.
Because sometimes I wish that we could do it
the American way.
- Yeah, oh me too.
- Where you just buy your own drink
and it's not expected of you to get the round.
- Oh definitely.
I do that all the time anyway.
Like, if I'm like, oh, I'm not being involved.
- You're not part of it.
- Because I don't want six rounds of drinks.
I just want
one drink. - One drink.
Yeah, exactly.
Or, I want a diet Coke--
- That's quite American of you.
- Which is cheaper than a pint of beer.
So then I'm like, well I'm not gonna pay for everyone's
round of beer when my diet Coke is like a lot cheaper.
- Yeah, I know, that's the thing, like, to,
but in the U.K., like, to get out of the round,
you have to literally be that one person who's like,
I'm not doing rounds.
And then everyone's like.
So for British people, like, someone scooting off
and like buying their own drink is considered like rude,
and that you're stingy, and like, you know, a bit cheap.
- Yeah.
- Um, so.
That's what is so annoying.
- I know.
- How we kind of wish that we were the other way.
- I know.
I think we're more American in that sense--
- Yeah.
- It wouldn't drive us crazy.
But it tends to drive Brits crazy apparently.
- Yeah.
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- Okay, the next one is to do with the royal family.
So, it's anyone who like criticizes the royal family.
It can just be a little touchy subject I think.
- Yeah.
- It varies, doesn't it?
'Cause we're like British and we really really
love the royal family.
Then you've got British people that are a bit like,
meh, not bothered.
- Yeah.
- And then you've got people that
don't like the royal family.
- Oh I know plenty of Brits that hate the royal family.
- Oh, they just hate it.
- But it's like that rule of like,
I can criticize Lia, but no one else can.
Like, you know, with someone your close to--
- Yeah.
- It's like, we Brits can criticize our royal family,
but Americans can't.
- Yeah.
- Or like, not just Americans but anyone else can't.
- Yeah, it's definitely that.
- Yeah.
- I know exactly, I know exactly.
It's like someone insulting like a family member of yours
and you're like,
stop. - Excuse me?
- I'm sorry but-- - I know.
- When was it okay for you to say that?
- Also, especially when those people get it wrong like,
because it works out something like 63p per year per person
we pay to the royal family.
- I know.
- So when people comment like,
oh you're paying so much taxes for these people to live
in a gold palace.
You're like, yeah, I pay 63p per year
for a royal family.
I'm fine with that.
- I'm happy.
It brings so much to us and to the U.K.
- Yeah.
- So many like, good weddings on the telly.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
(sighing)
But I think it, it goes the other way around like,
with Donald Trump obviously lots of people in the U.K.
have their own opinions,
and I imagine Americans would be a bit like,
well, not all Americans, some would be like,
don't criticize my president, because--
- Yeah, it goes both ways doesn't it?
- And we, and so, we probably get on your nerves
by doing that with your politicians or celebrities.
- Yeah.
- But, hey, that's life isn't it?
- That's life.
It's always gonna be someone triggered somewhere.
- Yeah.
So the next thing that Brits get driven a bit crazy about
is the perception that Americans are a bit more bragging.
Well, this article says bragging.
I don't know why I'm saying it like it's my opinion.
This article has said, you're bragging.
- Yeah.
I think what it is is what we were told at drama school,
that we can all afford to be a bit more American.
That we were actually told that
by one of our acting teachers who was just like,
be a bit bolder.
Like, be a bit more proud of yourself.
Sell yourself a bit better.
We just don't.
Like-- - No.
- If anything, over Christmas,
we'll just downplay everything.
You know, seeing friends and family.
And how's it all going.
And just constantly just underplaying everything.
Because it's just not really in our DNA to be like,
I'm amazing.
La la la la.
It just makes them, it makes them cringe.
It makes British people, it makes you cringe a bit.
It's just so out of our comfort zone.
- I know. But it's not even just saying I'm amazing.
It's just stating the facts of what you've done.
- Yeah, not, yeah, exactly.
- Like just, if an American was just to be like,
hey, I run my own business, I'm a CEO of this.
And I've, I've turned over this many million this year.
A British person might be like, okay, bragging.
- Okay, didn't ask you how much you earned or something.
- No.
But like, they're essentially just stating the truth.
They're not like bragging.
- Exactly.
- But Brits perceive it as bragging.
- That's what's amazing though.
It's like, they just say it.
- Yeah.
- And to them it's normal.
- Yeah.
- But the problem is actually with British people
because we go, that was so, that was so braggy.
- Yeah, yeah. - Do you know what I mean?
We're like, the majority of British people
can't handle that.
- No, they can't.
So, I think you're right.
I think we can, all of these things I think
have positive spins.
It's just completely different cultures.
Britain and the U.S.A. are so similar,
but also so different in the way that we interact.
- Yeah, like, someone say,
"Oh, how's your YouTube channel getting on?"
You're like,
"Yeah, yeah, we're doing really well."
"Oh really, how many, how many subscribers have you got?"
"Um, what was it?" Well, we know how many we've got.
Saying it, I could say it in a second.
- I know exactly.
- I know exactly the number but you're like, um,
probably, nearly 200,000 I think.
- Yeah.
- What?
And then you wait for them to, do you know what I mean, like
you don't want any kind of, I don't know,
attention around it. - I know it's so weird.
- It's really weird.
- And I know American YouTubers are also like,
when someone asks what they do they're like,
"Hey, I'm a YouTuber, yeah."
Like, they just say it.
- Yeah.
- Whereas like, I can't say it.
When someone is like, what do you? I'm like, I um--
- Make videos for online and--
- Yeah, or even before I say it I come with a qualifying
thing of being like,
oh, it's really weird but like, I make YouTube videos,
and like, eh.
Like, I can't just go, I make YouTube videos.
I'm a YouTuber.
Like, I can't just say it.
I have to go, oh, it's like, I um--
- Yeah.
(laughing)
People are like, so what is it you do?
And I'm like, so, it's kind of like online stuff.
Okay, so the next one that Brits get really triggered by is
that some Americans don't know the difference
between England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.
And to be fair, I bet there's some British people
out there that don't actually know the difference anyway.
- Yeah, I was just thinking like, it took me until
about last year to know the difference between the three.
'Cause we're not even taught that in schools
I don't think here.
- No, we just, I think we might be.
- Are we?
I just don't listen.
(laughing)
- So, yeah.
England is like that much of the United Kingdom.
I'm like that much.
It's maybe like a quart--
- Actually you know what I still can't remember I think.
- What would England be?
Maybe like?
- England--
- Would be.
- England is a country.
- Yeah, but--
- As well as Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
- I was just thinking percentage wise,
we're probably like two quarters, half, two quarters.
We're probably like half of the United Kingdom.
- Yeah, we probably make up about half it.
- Half.
- Tech--
In terms of land mass, but not in terms of like, importance.
- Oh no.
'Cause Scotland's loads.
- Yeah, Scotland--
No, but as in, we're just the United Kingdom is like--
- Yeah I know.
- The me--
- But see, it's confusing isn't it?
- It's so confusing.
So if you say the U.K. that means something different
to if you say England.
- Yeah.
- Because the U.K. includes other countries.
Because Wales is a country.
Scotland is a country.
Northern Ireland is a country.
And the Republic of Ireland is a country.
- Yeah, so that's where I actually got it wrong
in a video once when I was talking about Ireland--
- That's where the mistakes are, isn't it?
'Cause it's so confusing 'cause Ireland as a island
as an island, as in a separate--
- Separate from this place. - A separate entity.
Is like one landmass.
So you tend to think, oh that's Ireland.
But it's Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
And they're two separate countries which is--
- Yeah.
- Baffling to me.
- I know.
It's, guys, Brits get so triggered by it.
Like when um--
- Posh Brits.
- Donald Trump got it wrong in a,
in an interview or something.
- What did he say?
Did he call the U.K. England?
- I think he did.
Or he, something happened
and everyone went crazy on Twitter.
But it is actually kind of an innocent mistake to make.
- Yeah.
- But a president should probably know, shouldn't they?
- That's true.
A pres--
- President should probably know.
- Yeah, it's not an innocent mistake for him
because he's a president.
- He's a president.
I was just thinking, oh it's an innocent mistake
for like a 12 year old to make.
(laughing)
- Yeah.
No, or like an ever day American
that isn't involved in politics.
But I think people who are involved in politics--
- They should probably know their sort of territories.
- Probably should know, yeah.
(laughing)
- So the next one is that Americans are really direct.
And British people are so sort of like beat around the bush
with whatever they need to say.
So like, for instance, if you said to someone
"I'll consider it."
That might mean, I'm never gonna think about that ever,
like, forget, forget that idea.
It's the crapest idea you've ever come up with.
See you never.
Whereas like, I think in America we'd be like,
"I don't like that idea.
"Give me another one."
- Yeah.
- And it's just so like this directness that I think Brits
find hard to deal with 'cause it's so much the truth.
It's just hard to like, hear it sometimes.
- But I grew up with a different perception of this I think.
I always grew up thinking Brits were direct and
Americans were indirect.
- Oh really?
- Because of, I think the Simon Cowell effect.
Where Simon Cowell first took talent shows to America,
we'd been doing them here in the U.K.
And he took American Idol and then the American X Factor.
- Loads of formats, yeah.
- Everyone hated Simon Cowell in America 'cause
he was so direct and he just said what he was thinking.
And all the other judges were like,
yeah, I mean, you're kinda good, but like, blah blah blah.
And he, Simon Cowell was like,
"You're rubbish.
"You're the worst person I've ever seen."
- Oh, that's interesting.
- And they all hated his direct nature and assumed
Brits were like that.
So, this is what I'm really confused about.
- No, Simon Cowell said what Brits think.
But Brits don't say what they're thinking.
That's my point.
So, you might be thinking, Lia, get your words out.
But you know, you don't, you might say it to me
'cause we're friends.
- Yeah.
- But like, imagine in a meeting someone was giving
you this just crap, and you would never ever do a
Simon Cowell on them 'cause you're so British.
- Maybe that's why Brits loved Simon Cowell
because he said what he--
- We loved it 'cause he said what we were thinking.
- Yeah.
- And we were like, that's hilarious.
- But then why did Americans get so triggered
by Simon Cowell initially?
Now I tend to think Americans really like him.
But, at first it was really jarring.
And there was loads of articles in the U.K. like
America hates Simon Cowell
America can't deal with him and his honest opinions.
- Don't know why first--
'Cause why would any American warm to someone
that's not giving anything.
- Yeah.
- Like, what Simon Cowell probably needed to do
would be like cry on telly, get really like
watch someone perform that blows him away.
Maybe get emotional.
Maybe stand up or like have less words to say
and then they'd be like, Simon, Simon liked it.
Simon guys, guys.
(laughing)
I don't know.
They're like basically I think what Americans look for
is truth and realness
and there's not that much of that when you're
just being like Gordon Ramsey like,
"Get the beep out of my beeping kitchen."
- Well yeah, that's the other thing like, Gordon Ramsey,
he's like hated because he's so direct and so honest.
- Yeah.
- I don't know.
- He's not like, awkward Brit. - No.
- Like he's not, there's nothing sweet about Gordon Ramsey.
There's something sweet and endearing about Simon Cowell.
They're just British beeps.
(laughing)
- Like us.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- Not like us.
- No, we're so much more awkward, like,
someone could be telling you loads about your job.
You're like king of, you know loads of stuff about YouTube.
You know stuff about analytics and sort of stuff like that.
Someone could be giving you chat that you already know
but you'd just go,
"Mm, oh really?"
- Oh really, yeah, that's really interesting.
- Yeah, oh, but you already know all of that.
- That's, yeah--
- You'd never ever shut someone out.
- I hate when someone, when I say something to someone
and they go,
"Yeah, I know." I'm like, I would never do that.
Even if I know, I'd just go, "That's really interesting."
And in my head I'd be like, I already know that.
But I would never say it.
- Yeah, you never go, like, I know that.
Tell me something I don't know.
- No.
Yeah.
- Because you're nice.
- But I wish I could 'cause it would save a lot of time.
- The other day at the gym
I pressed minus one to go down the lift,
and something went wrong with the lift, right?
And I got in the lift and it started going up
to like the third floor.
And I got out and I was like, oh, so annoying.
And I was in there with another guy.
And this woman who works in the building was like,
you have to press the floor that you want to go to
before you get in to the lift.
And then the screen tells you which lift you have to go in.
And I'm like seething.
I'm literally like, I know how to use these lifts.
I was literally like,
"Oh really, oh okay."
- Why do we do that?
- I know.
And I got back in the lift and I pretended I had no idea
how to use this lift.
And the other guy was a bit more bold.
He was like,
"Yeah, I know, like, I've used these lifts quite a few times
"but I'm just not quite sure what went wrong."
Something went wrong for us then didn't it,
like, me and him.
And I was thinking like, oh yeah.
And then we literally get down to zero
and she shows us how to do it.
- Oh my gosh.
- I've been using this gym for like five months.
- Oh.
- Oh, it drove me up the wall.
- Brits. - Brits.
- What are we like?
(panting)
- I'm just thinking about that woman and the fact
that she had to demo it and like she spoke to me like
I was so stupid.
(laughing)
I can't, of course I didn't go like, I know, shut up.
I just went, mm, really?
I didn't know that.
- Really, mm, thanks.
We should be more American.
Like yeah I know.
- Yeah I know.
I use this lift every day for the gym.
(laughing)
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