- Hi, we're Joel and Lia.

- And welcome back to Vlogmas.

Today's video is things that British people do between

the days of Christmas and New Year.

- So we've got a BuzzFeed article here that

describes the things that we do between

Christmas and New Year.

Just off the top of our head though,

I love that time of year but I also hate it.

- I hate it so much.

- 'Cause you do lose track of what day it is

and you're just sort of like, "What day is it today?"

"When is it New Year?"

- It's literally this dead time.

It's like you're in a world and it isn't real life.

You don't know what you're doing with your life.

- Yeah.

- Especially if you're off

and you're not at work those days.

- Yeah.

- So we're gonna just go through the article.

Discuss, as always.

- So should we crack on with the first one?

- Yeah.

So the first thing we do is we work out how many days

it is until next Christmas.

- I feel like everyone does this.

Even if you're a scrooge. - Yeah.

- Even if you hate Christmas, you'll be going,

"Ugh it's 364 days until Christmas."

(laughs)

And I feel like everyone does that and if you're happy

about Christmas you're like,

"Yea! 364 days 'til Christmas."

- Yeah, people post memes with the numbers marked days left.

- Yeah, so number two is to try and decide what this

time of year is called.

So this literal period between the 26th

and the first of Jan.

- You're just like, - The gooch.

- "What do you call it?"

People call it the gooch or the perineum.

(laughs)

It's so funny.

- So jokes.

Wait what was this tweet someone put?

"Ah, the gooch between Christmas and New Year.

"Pointless really but without it things would

just get too messy."

(laughs)

That's fantastic.

- It's just true.

What do you call it?

It needs a name in itself.

- I know.

It should be called--

- No man's land.

- Yeah.

- The next one is sort of being slightly unsure

whether you're allowed to listen to Christmas music still.

'Cause it's still the festive season.

- I know.

- For Brits especially, I think only Brits do this.

It's still the twelve days of Christmas.

- Yeah.

I think it's, you shouldn't be allowed to listen to

anything that's like, "Christmas is coming."

- Yeah.

- Because Christmas has happened but you can still listen

to like, "Jingle bell.

- "Jingle bell.

- "Jingle bell. - "Jingle bell.

- "Jingle bell rock." - "Jingle bell rock."

Slutdrop.

- Slutdrop.

(laughs)

So you can still listen to some, I'd say.

- Yeah, okay.

- But I'd be like, "Skip over this.

"It's too much." - Oh, okay.

- And then after New Year, obviously--

- Nothing. - Nothing.

- No.

- Even in the run up to New Year, I'm like, "Switch off."

Like the day before.

- By the time it comes to New Year, you're just like,

"Right, I want to get back in the gym.

"I need to stop eating chocolate.

- "Stop eating chicken for breakfast."

- Yeah. Chicken for breakfast?

- I mean just turkey leftovers.

- Oh, turkey, yeah.

- Just meat left overs.

- Thinking about that well known tradition,

chicken for breakfast - Chicken for breakfast.

- I imagine fried chicken.

I was like, "Woa>" - Oh,yeah.

KFC breakfast, guys.

The next one is getting so excited by the T.V. Guide.

It's literally all the crap shows have been taken out.

So we're talking about Doctors, Homes Under the Hammer.

Really boring daytime television has been swapped out for

back to back Christmas movies.

- Chicken Run.

- Chicken Run.

(laughs)

- All these classic films. - Yeah.

- I love it getting the Radio Times T.V. Guide

and literally it will just be

film after film after film after film.

Made for T.V. series.

And it's just great T.V.

I love it.

- Meanwhile, just eating everything.

Just literally sitting here eating.

Here, right here. - Right here.

- Where we live. - Eating.

And also there's the constant wondering whether it's okay

to still be in your pajamas. - At 3:00 in the afternoon.

- 'Cause you're like, "Christmas is done.

"I'm not really doing anything though,

"'cause I've got this bit off work."

So it's like, "Should I lay in my pajamas?"

"Or should I actually get ready and seize the day?"

- What time is it when it's like,

"I really should not be in these now?"

I think it's when, have you ever had those days

that are absolutely disgusting,

but you're in your pajamas and it's now dark outside.

And it's now time to be getting into those pajamas.

It's disgusting.

- Oh, I hate it.

- And I need to take them off, shower, and then

put clean ones on. - Yeah.

- It's so gross.

- I don't do that because I hate it so much.

I remember I've done that when I was a teenager or a child.

But as an adult, I have to shower and get ready.

- That's good.

- Even on Christmas day we don't do any present opening

until we've showered and got ready.

- Oh, that's nice.

- 'Cause I think all of us are just the same.

We're just like, "No, I don't want to sit around

"in my grossness."

I just want to shower - I want to be clean.

- And be clean.

- That's nice.

I think everyone pretty much showers and gets ready

in mine as well.

But when I was a kid, I was like,

"I'm staying in the pajamas!"

- "It's Christmas!" - Yes.

So the next one, I think we've said it before

in another video,

is the pleasure of drinking alcohol before noon.

Just having a little box fizz in the morning,

or having a little champagne.

It's just, yeah.

We used to be allowed to do that after Christmas.

- In the perineum, that's okay to do.

(laughs)

It's okay to do all the when to New Year's Day

and then the day after New Year's Day,

the second of Jan, you've gotta stop.

- You have to stop immediately.

- You have to stop.

- You have to get your ass to the gym.

And you have to cleanse your body.

And then everyone's like, "January detox."

- Yes, so funny.

- "Detox for January."

- "What are your goals for January?"

"Or for this year?"

- I just want to detox. - Oh my gosh.

It's going to be 2019?

That's just occurred--

(claps)

- Welcome to the world, Joel.

- It's just occurred to me. - You're kidding?

- You know when it just hits you,

and you're like, "It's going to be 2019 which means

"the next year is going to be 2020."

- We met in 2011.

- Wow. - Wow.

- Eight years. - Years ago.

(laughs)

- Wow. - Wow.

- Wow. - Wow.

- 2019.

- We've not been away from each other that much.

- No.

- Wow. - Wow.

(laughs)

- That's all I've got to say about that.

- I found a hard drive the other day that said,

"Joel and Lia 2015 footage."

And I was like, - Oh wow.

- "Wow." - "Wow."

So the next one is deciding whether the turkey scraps

are still okay and safe to eat, or the leftovers.

- Yeah.

- You're like, "Has this gone off?

"Should this be in the bin?"

- Yeah.

- "Or can I actually eat this?"

- Yeah, I think if you think it's a no, it's a no.

- I think do the sniff test.

- Always the sniff test.

- And the nibble.

The sniff and nibble.

- Like, "Oh, a tiny bit won't kill me."

- Yeah.

- It should probably go I the bin.

(laughs)

My weakness is just the cheeses that you get over Christmas.

- Oh my gosh, cheese. - Literally.

I went into Tesco the other day.

Just a normal supermarket.

And they've got out already, just loads of Christmas cheese.

- Wow.

- You know when they start bringing out

"wednesdaydale" with cranberries.

- What's it called?

- "Wednessdydale."

What's it called?

- Wensleydale.

Not "wendsdydale".

- I called it Wednesday.

Like "Wednesday" dale. - "Wednesday."

Wednesday. - Wednesdaydale cheese.

I literally I'm like, "That one.

"With the red bits."

Smoked cheddars. - Smoked cheddar.

- Smoked cheddar, oh.

- I've hit the age now where I enjoy a little bit of

stilton or blue cheese.

- That's disgusting.

- Isn't it gross?

- You're officially old.

- I can't believe I've become that person.

- You're officially old.

- I'm like, "Oh, a little bit of stilton."

- What?

As if you like that. - Gross.

- I know.

Only a little bit.

I'm saying a tiny bit on a cracker.

- A tiny bit. - A tiny bit.

- What? just like, literally like a smidgen, like that?

- Yeah, yeah.

Whereas my parents, obviously, would just

cut chunks of it and eat it.

- 'Cause that's what happens when you're old.

You want moldy cheese in your life.

- Yeah, isn't it weird.

- That's so gross.

So you'll just eat a tiny bit and be like,

"Mmm that was quite nice"?

- Yeah.

But on a cracker. - On a cracker?

To take away some of the intensity.

- I should hope so.

Not just eat it.

(laughs)

- Face full of blue cheese. - Oh give me that blue cheese.

Oh yeah, this is good.

So we've spoken before about selection boxes.

So, say you've got like a --

I wouldn't call that a selection box though.

- No, that's a-- - That's a--

- Tub of chocolates. - Tub of chocolates.