- I'm from Hampshire, and their like, huh?
And then I go, that's where Downton Abbey was filmed.
And then they're like.
- [Both] Oh my gosh.
- Hi we're Joel and Lia.
- And this video is 25 questions that Americans
should really stop asking British people.
- Now this was an article that was in our secret
JoelandLia fan group.
- Face it, it's just Facebook.
- I was going to say fan page, but it's not a page.
- It's not a page. - it's a group.
Someone posted it on the group and said that they thought
of the legends group when they read this.
So I thought we'd make it into a video.
- Yeah, so we're just going to read them out, discuss.
- Yeah. - Cheers, having a cup of tea
to keep us awake tonight.
- Royal wedding?
- My royal wedding mug.
- Just dipped your hair in that, well done.
- It's fine, it'll get a wash tomorrow.
(laughing)
- Washed in Earl Gray.
- Oh lovely, someone should release an Earl Gray shampoo.
I'd buy it.
- Wow, maybe we should do that.
- Maybe (laughing).
- First question that we've mentioned this before,
is when Americans go, have you met the queen?
Do you know the queen?
- Yeah, I'm getting it less and less.
- Yeah.
- But people still do it.
Like when you're on holiday.
- Have you met Kate Middleton?
- Do you know what?
I have a loose connection to her mother.
- What?
- Okay, well it's not me, a friend works with,
what's her name, Mrs. Middleton, Mrs. Middleton.
- She's like the least important Middleton.
- She does like party entertainment planning.
- Mother Middleton.
- Mother Middleton. - Yeah.
So it's just a friend that works with Carol,
Carol, yeah.
- You're one away from Carol.
- I'm, well am I two away?
Cause she's one away.
Oh no, she's connected to, I'm one away.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Wow. - Yeah, she's oh sorry,
Carol's calling me.
- Yeah.
- [Both] All right.
- Second question, linked on from that.
Have you ever been to Buckingham Palace?
But for like tea?
- No, never.
- I think people tend to think that maybe
Buckingham Palace is open for you to go
and just sit with the queen and drink tea.
- Yeah.
- It's not.
- Just coming to check on how Harry's doing.
- Yeah.
- Just poppin' by.
- I mean, I've had a champagne tour of Buckingham Palace.
But there was no royalty involved.
It was so good.
- You had a champagne tour.
- Yeah, we had a tour of the palace.
- What was it like?
- And then we met in like the garden room
or something, then we've got given champagne
and we could walk around the garden outside.
- Lovely.
- It was very nice but.
- Big group?
- A fairly, maybe like 20 of us or something?
But again, that's just something you can pay for.
That one is quite an expensive one.
We did it ages ago.
I can't remember what, it must have been somebody's birthday
or something.
- Yeah. - But you can pay to do that.
But you don't get to meet anyone.
And you don't get a tour of the whole palace.
You just get a tour of the public bits.
But you don't get to the private quarters.
- I've done the public bits but we just got given a headset.
It was the cheap tour.
- Yeah.
- It actually wasn't that cheap.
And then you get the gift shop at the end
and you want everything in there.
- I know, so good.
- I know.
- But yeah, we've never had tea at Buckingham Palace.
- I'd love to.
I bet their tea would be perfect.
None of this tea bag business.
- I don't know.
- Obviously all loose leaf.
- Yeah.
- Basically like having tea at the Ritz.
- Yeah. - Amazing.
- Amazing
- The next question is do you all still hate
Camilla Parker Bowles?
The answer is no.
- No.
- It's such an older generation thing to be like,
oh Camilla.
- I have Camilla.
- The villain.
- Yeah, she's lovely.
I've met Camilla.
- Have you, oh at work?
- She's lovely.
Yeah, in my old job where I used to be a fire marshall
at event.
There was one event that was a music society.
It was a dress rehearsal, and Camilla Parker Bowles
came and watched and she's so lovely.
She's so great with kids.
She's so sweet.
And the way the media like can portray her
in the tabloids, especially after the whole Diana thing.
It's like the wicked witch.
It's just not true.
She's so lovely.
- Yeah, they can paint a picture of anyone, can't they.
And make us believe what they want us to believe,
so they can sell more papers.
Make more money. - Yeah.
- No, she's obviously a total babe.
- She is.
- That's confirmation right there.
- She's great, confirmation from me.
- From Joel Wood.
- Himself.
Next question, is kind of linked on
from what we're saying about tea.
Is just the question, do you like tea?
So I think everyone assumes every Brit likes tea,
which is our own fault.
- Got one here who doesn't.
- I don't like tea.
I'll drink fruit tea,
but I won't drink classic Earl Gray tea,
English breakfast tea, Builders tea.
- I love it.
- The classic tea.
- I love it.
- I don't drink that.
- My tip is try your tea with a bit of oat milk,
so I've got Oatley in it at the moment.
I know for the loyals, the legends, everyone already
know that that's how I like my tea.
I love it.
It's so oatey.
- Do you know what's really funny?
- What, no sugar.
- We don't drink iced tea in this country,
but in America, it you ask for tea, I feel like
most time they assume iced tea.
- Or they ask me like hot or cold.
And I'm like obviously hot.
- Your like well hot, obviously.
- Yeah, otherwise I would have said iced.
- I once met someone who works for Lipton ice tea,
not a spon, and he said the UK is like one of the lowest
markets for iced tea.
They're really trying to break in to the UK market.
- Yeah.
- And apparently America and France, I think,
was the highest.
- For iced tea.
But Brits just don't like iced tea.
- We're just not bothered by it.
And you can't try and make us.
- Yeah no.
- Not bothered.
- Just spit it back in your face.
- Yeah, iced tea.
(laughing)
Next one is, are you still mad about the whole
War of Independence?
- Brits don't even know what the War of Independence is.
- I don't know what that is.
- I know what it is, only because of viewers
commenting is the whole thing when Britain used to run
America and there was that Independence war or something.
And now America obviously runs themselves.
We don't get taught about that.
- And do they have Independence day, which is on the,
what is it, fourth of July?
- I don't know.
- Could be one of those.
- One of those celebrations.
- Independence Day.
- We just don't.
- Don't get taught any of that.
- And loads of the American commentators always
talk about that being, oh I wonder.
And ask us can you do a video on that.
To tell us what you're taught in the UK.
We're not taught about that.
They don't really ever teach us in schools about that.
We learn about Europe and the World War I,
World War II.
We don't get taught about.
- It's not even in our curriculum.
- I didn't even know the British ruled America.
I had no idea.
- They don't bother telling us.
I think one thing I did learn about America
was the name of loads of presidents in order.
And I remember making up a little Eisenhower, Kennedy,
Johnson, Nixon, Ford, to try and remember it
for my exam, but that's it.
I can't remember anything about these guys.
- No the only thing I learned about America
was civil rights movement.
That's what I learned in history.
- Oh yeah, I think everyone gets taught that as well.
- That's the only real thing about America
we get taught.
- Yeah, that's it guys.
- The question is it nice to get away from all that rain?
Yeah, cause it's raining right now.
You can probably hear it.
- Probably hear it.
It's so rainy.
We love just listen, sitting in silence
listening to the rain.
- It's so cozy.
- It's really nice.
And if it was even heavier it'd be perfect wouldn't it.
- Great.
- I was on the phone earlier, and my dad was like,
this is just the perfect time of year to just get on
a flight somewhere.
I was like yeah.
- Get away from it all.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- The next question is why do you guys spell
everything wrong?
- Because we insert the U in words.
- Like color.
- Color.
- I always think our is the correct way.
- I think ours is the correct way.
Color without the U looks weird.
It looks like co-lor.
- Co-lor.
What co-lor.
- What co-lor.
- What other words do we do incorrectly?
- Nothing, everything correct.
(laughing)
I don't know, just inserting the U in things.
Oh, with zed E, like realized we say with an S.
Whereas they do realized with a zed or Z.
- Yeah, to be fair, realized they've got it right.
Cause we literally say the words realized.
- Yeah but the reason it turns into a zed
is cause we've got the E on the end.
Realize. - Yeah, that's why.
- If we didn't have the E than yeah, that would be real-ice.
- Real-ice.
- I don't know.
I think no one's correct and no one's incorrect.
- Incorrect.
- It's just a cultural difference.
- We're just different.
Which is rich coming from us.
We're just different.
- We're just different.
I'm trying to think of some other words that trigger me.
That are American spelling.
- Can I just say a different pronunciation
that really triggers me?
I'm really sorry guys.
- Go on then.
- Is the word route, for root.
- Awful.
- I can't stand it.
- Yeah, when my brother plays his rap music in the car.
I just didn't know if it was to do with rap music but,
♪ We'll take the scenic route ♪
And I'm like wait, play that bit again.
Scenic route?
- Scenic route.
- I know it was talking about some, I didn't know he said
scenic root, like driving the scenic root.
- Yeah yeah, in America when were using sat nav,
and it's like re-routing.
And you're like that's not a word.
- Re-rooting.
- It's re-rooting.
- How many of you guys say root and how many of you guys
say route.
Does root sound weird to you guys?
- Root.
- Well they must do cause they're used to saying route.
- Also, try and forget what root means and just say root.
It's so weird.
- It is weird.
- It's weird.
- Also in Australia, root means something very very rude.
- So your trying to tell me we've been saying that
four or five times.
- Yes, I know.
If you're like, oh did he root you.
- Did you learn that from neighbors?
- No I learned it from Summer Heights High,
when she went to her mom to pick he up, she's like,
are you joking, I'm going to get like rooted by some guy,
in like a dark alleyway or something.
- That was amazing.
- So it's a very rude word.
But that's Aussies for you.
- That is actually a really hilarious term.
Can we start using that?
- Yeah, root.
(laughing)
Yes.
- That's so gross.
- Okay so this transaction of, where are you from?
The UK, okay, but where specifically?
Mentions a place like Cambridge.
- Um Cambridge.
- I only know London, is that nearby?
- It's about a hour and a half form London.
And then you just say how far away you are from London.
- Yeah, it's just that whole question.
Do you guys know, on the whole, anything other than London?
(laughing)
- Anywheres North?
- It's a serious question though.
Like do you know other city names other than London?
- I think of few of them do.
Like I would say I live in London, but I was born
in Warwickshire.
Warwickshire, yeah, Shakespeare's county.
You know like near Stratford upon Avon?
- Yeah but then they go oh yeah meaning they know
who Shakespeare is, but they don't.
- They know who Shakespeare is but they might not know
that he's from Warwickshire.
- So I do the same, I'm from Hampshire.
They're like hmm?
I go, that's were Downton Abbey was filmed,
and they're like.
- [Both] Oh my gosh.
Stop.
- Even though it's set in Yorkshire, I think,
but the Highclere Castle which is Downton Abbey
is filmed in Hampshire.
- But how far from London?
- Yeah.
And we don't care about that but Northerners,
particularly Northern English people would get
very annoyed because there's that stereotype
that everything revolves around London.
- And they're just like great another one.
- Another London, why can't it be a Northern city
like Manchester or Leeds, or like Newcastle.
- They're like I'm from Manchester,
and you like, and then someone's like,
how far from London, and they're literally like
four hours on the train, I don't go to London.
- Yeah.
- We've been here a long time.
- Now I just say London.
I say I'm a Londoner now, and my parents are like.
- We you are, you are a Londoner.
This is your city.
- This is my home.
- Joel knows like every street in London.
- I've literally walked down every inch of this country.
Country, city.
- If this job doesn't work out, like, cabbie.
- Walking tour, cabbie.
Any of those.
- Probably walking tours more your vibe.
- Street cleaner.
I could do it.
I know the streets.
- Someone's like go to that street, I'm on it, I'm there.
- I'm there.
- You'd be a great, I was going to say detective,
actually detective.
- Sherlock Holmes.
- But the one that can only walk.
- Yeah, just walking.
- With a dog.
- Joelock Holmes. - Joelock.
- Joelock Womes, Joel Woods.
Joelock Womes. - Joelock Womes.
- Joelock Womes.
- Hello I'm Joelock Womes.
- I'm Joelock Womes.
- I'm here to walk and solve crimes.
Figure out where people live.
- Yeah.
- Okay, next question is can you do
an America accent for me right now, right here?
Can you say this?
Just say a sentence like?
I love tomatoes.
Just say it in American.
Or say water.
- Say water.
Yeah we've said this one before.
Say water.
- Say it again.
- Americans love us to, we get so many comments
like guys you need to do a video where you try our accent.
And we will do it.
- Just do the whole video in American.
I'll get so much hate, I can't wait.
- We'll try.
We will do it.
But why do you guys want to hear us do an American accent?
- You know I was about to nearly do a carrots moment.
Where I just start saying stuff again.
- Carrots.
Um yeah we should just film a whole video in American.
- Yeah, I'll make sure, it'll be so hard.
- We should film a whole video in American,
slating British people.
- Yes.
- And it might go viral.
- And they'll think we're actually being mean
about British people.
And then we'll be like psyche, we're actually British.
- Psyche, gotcha.
- Gotcha.
Brits are so stupid.
- Someone like pushed me on to a tube.
- A tube, a chube.
- Chube.
- A tube.
- Yeah, I'll make so many mistakes,
we'll have to keep filming.
- Yeah, that'll be great.
- We should do that.
- Yeah, we'll do it.
- That's on the list.
- Fine, fine we'll do it.
- American couple slay Brits.
- Not slate, because maybe they don't have that.
- Oh yeah.
Shade, throw shade.
- Trash.
- Trash Brits.
- Throw shade, trash.
Okay you guys are the first to know about it.
- The fake American English prank.
- That's coming.
- And the last one that you guy ask,
according to this article is wait, are you Australian?
- I've never had that.
- Really?
I think I've had it once before,
but it's a well known thing I think in my head,
than Americans tend to get Australians and British
confused, which is kind of fine, because Australians
came from the UK anyway.
Well kind of everyone, the Americans came from the UK.
- They all did.
- Hang on, itchy nose.
- Itchy mitchy.
(laughing)
Itchy mitchy.
Why.
- Where did that come from?
- [Both] Itchy mitchy.
- It's so late guys.
- I know.
- Itchy mitchy.
Anyway, Australian, we love the Australian accent.
It's probably the accent we do the most.
- Our merchandise, our friend who makes our merch,
Josh, he's Australian, and we love taking
the piss out of him.
- Yeah, it's so good.
- Hi my name's Josh, and I love my sewing machine.
- I love embroidering clothes, hats, everything.
- Don't get triggered, sorry Josh.
He doesn't watch our videos so it's fine.
- He watches the live streams but that's it.
- That's it.
- But yeah, Australian accents are similar
to the London Cockney accents because that's where
a lot of the Australians came from.
So when Australia, you guys probably already know,
we sent all of our criminals from the UK to Australia,
that's how kind of Australian, apart from the native
Aborigine Australians, that's how Australians started.
- We're like send 'em that way.
- Send 'em that way.
So the accent is kind of similar, because I think
the majority of them were like.
- East London Cockney.
- Isn't that amazing how it works.
- I was going to do my dissertation on the similarities
between the Cockney accent and Australian accent.
They do sound quite similar, so I get why they get confused.
- That would have been a really cool thing.
- 'ello mate.
- Get in the car over there.
I don't know, be like,
hello mate, get in the car over there.
It's quite similar.
- Yeah, isn't it.
It's not that far apart.
- No there you are.
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- Yeah he can do what he likes.
Itchy mitchy.
(laughing)
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