Hi there everybody so today I'm here with my good friend Connie
Hi And today we're gonna be talking about Christmas!
*gasp* In the UK vs the US. Lets go
Okay, wait hold on hold on I got you, a christmas card
oh yes *giggles*
I didn't- wheres mine?
I didn't, I didn't get you a christmas card Its, appropriate for you
Ha pea christmas Cos its a bad pun!
Thanks Connie. Speaking of happy christmas, its merry christmas
What? Not Happy christmas
No we have happy christmas! and a happy new year
Its MERRY christmas, and a happy new year. haven't you heard the song?
*together* we wish you a merry christmas- not happy christmas
No I definitely always said happy christmas yeah but, we wish you a happy christmas- it
doesn't oh yeah that like hurts my soul
Thats what some americans freak out about when they come to Harry Potter. Cos they say
happy christmas in films and it- a, what? who does that?
I have only once, popped a christmas cracker. Can you explain what a christmas cracker is?
with some props? I have some! I have some
The first time I ever found out what a christmas cracker was, was runescape. Every christmas
they used to give out these lil, christmas crackers. And then your game character would
pop them.
Your game character would pop them, but I didn't know what that meant. Cracker for me
is a digestible treat. No, Christmas crackers. Wait! Hold on, no,
there's a way you do it. Alright.
So you have to cross your arms over... Like this and everyone sits on the table everyone
does it and if you win both of these I'll be so mad. Okay, ready? *laugh*
*laugh* I lost both of them! Okay so you lose the Christmas crackers...
Yes. If the other person gets both sides, But...
It's like a wishbone. Yes.
We have this in America, but with the wish bones.
We have wishbones. Oh, ok.
But I think we stole that from America. And because it's Christmas, you're supposed to
give one to the other person, the loser. So you can have the...
Ooh! There's something in it. "What's green, covered in tinsel, and goes 'ribbit, ribbit'?"
I don't know. "Mistletoad".
*gasp* *laugh* That one's really good. "Who hides in the bakery at Christmas?"
Rudoughlf... *laughing* No.
... The red-nosed bread deer? Chrismince? No, what does that have to do with hiding?
Father Christmince? It's a "Mince Spy".
Both: Oh...
What is a pantomime? Because that’s talked about all the time
over here Oh No he didn't!
And I know that there’s like miming but.. There’s like no miming in a pantomime. Okay
it’s like a play but it’s interactive. And you’ll have like the evil person will
be like walking behind try to get the good guy. And everyone will shout ‘He’s behind
you!’ So it’s the Dora the explorer..
*Laughs* Yes In the play
That’s so good That actually would be a really fun date idea
for me Once we’re done watching it you can come
back to mine and I can take off your pant-onmime? That didn't work
*Both laughing* That was one of the worst ones ever.
What actually happens on boxing day because in America we have that one our calendars
and when I was a kid I thought it was a boxing match. Literally I thought it was some big
Christmas boxing match You eat a ham. The Boxing day ham
And you guys have sales, I know that Yes we have boxing day sales
So like black Friday but not as good But it’s just not like no one wants to leave
because you’re all full and
So there- Do you guys like- Maybe you rebox gifts?
No oh
Do you guys have all those amazing like Christmas movies? I’ve heard you guys don’t watch
them Like Die Hard?
No! Or Home Alone. They’re like really poorly animated puppet Christmases like
Oh we don’t have those Like they’re every single day in America.
It’s called the Year Without Santa Claus, and it always freaks me out, and there’s
like the Snow Miser, who wanted the world to be like cold, and there was the Heat Miser
I find stop motion really creepy so I wouldn’t like that
And the guy, they taught you how to walk in it
What? Put one foot in front of the other, soon you’ll
be walking out the door That’s my favorite song
We have Die Hard, which shows like nonstop, it’s on repeat, It’s the only
Are you kidding me? It’s the only thing they show on Christmas
Not Home Alone? They show Home Alone,
That’s my go-to Now, I feel Like Enchanted has become one
of these Christmas films now as well Is let it go gonna be?
Let it Go is not the name of the film Frozen! Let it Go the film
Do you guys actually say Father Christmas versus Santa Claus?
Yeah. Father Christmas Cause I’ve never actually heard someone
say Father Christmas before in my life
Oh! Yeah no it’s Father Christmas… yeah no.
Do you not say Santa Clause? You shouldn’t.
Really?! You shouldn’t do that.
That that that alone freaks me out cause I never once heard someone say Father Christmas
It’s Father Christmas. Santa Clause is the one that everyone says.
Papa Christmas. Daddy Christmas. Daddy AF Christmas.
*giggles* Daddy Christmas
Daddy-o Christmas That’s not… I don’t feel appropriate
talking to Santa way. OH do you you guys in America leave food out
for Santa? Yes we leave little cookies ’n milk
We do call him… we do call him Santa. Ahh!
But we don’t call him Santa Clause. It’s always either Santa or Father Christmas.
Well yeah, it’s not like the Santa is subject. He’s the Santa clause.
mhmm. yeah. Most of my friends, they remember leaving
out like expensive food.. like… mince pies and things and brandy or some kind of expensive
alcohol. And… I’ve heard about this.
And you know it’s your dad who wants you do to it.
I just can’t believe that as a father your like, “Yeah you know he’s just flying
around the world. Give him some alcohol.” Yeah! That’s what he want.s
Everyone else is doing it. Yeah it’s … ahh Rudolph. He’ll just crash.
My dad made a very persuasive argument. He’s like that’s what Santa wants. He wants some
like expensive alcohol. Good job dad.
When dioes your family get ready for Christmas? Your supposed to start when the Coca-Cola
advert airs. That’s not like that… wait really?
I’m serious! Most people start getting festive and start getting their Christmas decorations
when the Coca-Cola advert first airs on tv. It’s not a thing.
(singing) holidays are coming, holidays are coming.
Not John Lewis. (singing) Tis the season it’s always the
real thing. I’ve never seen this ad
Oh my gosh! You’ve got literally everyone will agree with me. You see the Coca-Cola
Christmas advert with Santa on the side of the Lorry and he like takes a sip of coke.
(whispers) Coke And it’s like it’s officially Christmas.
Alright. I’ve never heard of that in my life, but that’s interesting.
This is. This is fact. British culture, they really like Coca-Cola
adverts here. It’s just a really great advert and it’s
got a little jingle. Have you guys got that whole competition over
adverts? Like oh did John Lewis win or did Adli win?
yeah. We don’t really have that in America.
John Lewis always wins. I like the.. um… was it the Aldi one that
made fun of the John Lewis one? yeah It was good.
I like that one a lot. That made me laugh quite a lot.
Aldi one that made fun of the John Lewis one? I liked that one a lot. That made me laugh
quite a lot. Do you put a star or an angel on top of your tree? An angel. Are you religious?
It's a religious thing, isn't it? No. Really? No. No. Christmas is like not a religious
thing here. We've put angels on our tree. We've also put stars on the tree. I liked
to go back and forth 'cause for me it's just about, does it fit the aesthetic -yes- of
my Christmas this year? The star, too glittery for this one. Actually I think this is about
the same. Is it true that you guys go to the pub on Christmas? Yeah. A lot of people- uh,
yeah, a Christmas walk. This is like a thing loads of families do. Like about an hour after--
do you just get drunk with your mates? With your family-- mmm with your family, about
an hour after Christmas dinner when you're like digested a bit, everyone just goes for
a walk. I never go cause I'm lazy. I was alone last Christmas so I walked all the way to
Westminster to take a picture of Big Ben and it turns out that the pubs were all open and
I was like why are the pubs open? Its Christmas Day. Why did that make me so sad? Your story
of being alone on Christmas.
That’s why I’m going to Bali this year so I’ll have fun.
Will you be alone? I’ll still be alone
You’ll still be alone I’ll be with my camera
I’m from a suburb of New Jersey and we just cover the streets in Christmas lights so houses
would compete with the amount of Christmas lights you could have on and different Santas
and different reindeers… It was amazing. See when I was a kid, Christmas lights were
like mmm kind of. Some people had Christmas lights. Now it’s like fully a competition.
Okay good I drive by houses and they’ll have these
glowing reindeers and they’re all pretty and like giant inflatable Santas
Why? They’re so expensive! They’re like 200 bucks.
and we had this house on our street who every year, would get a new inflatable one. Every
year, someone would pop it and we didn’t know who it was
It was you. It was me.
He sees you when you’re sleeping [the tune of santa claus is coming to town]
That’s a bit creepy. I love that song.
No like it's just that line. It’s slightly fifty shades of Christmas.
Fifty shades of daddy Santa. It’s Daddy Christmas.
You’ve never had eggnog. No!
Ahhh you’ve seen Friends like that’s such a big thing right?
...big thing right? Yeah!
I have seen the Simpsons, they have a lot of Eggnog!
Ah! Eggnog is such a yummy - it's alcoholic, eggy and it's creamy and it's delicious!
Is it...has it got eggs in it? I think e(gg)xtratct or something. You're
not like *bleurgh* yolk drippin' out your mouth!
Is it alcoholic? Yes.
Ah, okay You can have non-alcoholic Eggnog! As soon
as December rolls around... What colour is it?
It's like yellow. I was kid of imagining yellow!
It's this colour. Get out of my hair.' [spoken in weird accent
Do you have mince pies? No.
Okay. I hate mince pies!
I'm not doing this collab with you anymore! No, they don't taste good! I tried to love
them. Okay..
..I tried very hard! What is the mince?! What is that?!
It's not really mince. No it's...what is it?! It's like bad fruit!
it's like raisin and... uh, who likes raisins?! NO ONE!
People…! No!
...like raisins. Ew, they look like rabbit poop!
Christmas number one. We don't have that. Oh, we have this one song, which is so bad!
Do you have like Band-Aid "feed the world..."? That's a British thing!
...let them know it's... What's the other one? "I feel it in my fingers...I
feel it in my toes.
Feel it in my toes! One year it was a competition between Eminem
and Bob the Builder, who was gonna be Christmas number
1. I would’ve seen that rap battle!
Guess who won! Bob the Builder.
Damn right.
How was that a Christmas number 1? It’s not Christmas related.
It doesn’t have to be Christmas related, it’s just all
about which song is number 1 over Christmas. It’s the Christmas number
1.
What is the traditional Christmas dinner for you guys?
Turkey and stuffing, pigs in a Blanket…
The lil’ hotdogs with dough wrapped around them?
With- not dough, bacon. ;)
Hoho, pigs in a pig blanket!
They’re tiny little wienies.
Tiny wienies…
Tiny wienies with bacon
Devils on horseback
What? (laughs) Right… (laughs)
Okay, okay, they are like- Satanic rituals. This is Christmas.
This is British Satanic Christmas.
(laughs) Maybe this is just my evil family. Anyway…
Devils on horseback…
No, no, they are really good.
The rider of the apocalypse comes visit us on Christmas.
Happy Christmas! They’re like… prunes.
Ew. They’re like prunes wrapped in bacon. So they’re like pigs in a blanket, but not
as nice.
And that’s why they’re devils on horseback. I don’t know many people that have turkey
just because just for us turkey is exclusively for Thanksgiving.
Oh yeah you guys must get so full. Yeah, but for Christmas for the most time, I remember
I made it one year. I made the Christmas ham. I did honey-basted ham. I looked up a recipe.
We usually have the ham on boxing day. We’ll have like a boxing day ham. That’s like
a thing people do. There’s not like so much food that you have
to eat the leftovers? We’re just greedy. Oh right.
Wait so Thanksgiving is like the big one? And then Christmas is like the little one.
Thanksgiving? Your whole family from all parts of family come around.
Christmas your individual families.
We have Christmas pudding which is like a half-circle.
Don’t you guys like baste it in alcohol or something.
Yes, this is very important. You cover it in alcohol. And you set fire to it. And it
like flames up into blue flames. I’ve never had one of these for real.
and that's like the most exciting bit because the dessert actually tastes horrible.
oh nobody like Christmas pudding but
can you get drunk off of the Christmas pudding? you can't, but, but you have brandy butter.
oh my gosh you guys don't have brandy butter? no I don't
oh my gosh you guys don't have brandy butter, okay this is like a really important tradition,
you have, it's like sugary butter with brandy in it and everyone has to have a go of stirring
it and that like brings you good luck stirring butter
everyone stirs like an Amish Christmas thing
yeah everyone stirs the butter I did not know about this
oh and there's usually a prize in it! sometimes there's a prize in the christ-
a prize in the butter? no, in the Christmas pudding, there'll be
like little prizes wrapped in paper, like a 2p
why? because the Christmas pudding tastes horrible,
you need to like spice it up somehow so you have to make the food interesting?
yes by lighting it on fire and hiding presents
in it this is what I believe, this is what I believe
advent calendars *big gasp* the most important thing ever!
I … don't think it's that important wait yes because I tweeted that I didn't have
one yet and everyone was like 'what's an advent calendar?'
People are like “What’s a chocolate calendar?” because we call them chocolate calendars here
because they’re usually chocolate. For us, it’s for advent. It’s a religious
thing so I’d always get them at church. This might surprise some of you. Here they
have chocolate in the advent calendars, but the advent calendars we had at church would
be given to you and they’d be empty. Just pictures?
You’d put a quarter in for every day then you’d donate it to the church.
Oh that’s a lot. So it’s like the opposite of a chocolate.
The opposite of chocolate is donating money. Opens it. I owe money
We always had to go to church as well on Christmas Day. Like right as it turned to Christmas
Day. Some people do that, but…
I fell asleep. It’s too late. Even if I was up playing video games, it’s 11:50.
By then, I’d want to go to sleep. Yeah you don’t want to that, you just want
to open your presents.
Hey! When do you open your presents? Some families, which our family did pick up
eventually, was you could open one present at random that you’d get to pick on Christmas
Eve. Otherwise, you’d have to wait until Christmas
morning when your family is awake.
Daddy Santa is not going to be happy. Daddy Santa is not happy.
Plus, wait a minute, you shouldn’t be able to open them on Christmas Eve.
Because Santa delivers them on Christmas
Yeah
Wha- Did- My family told me right
That as soon as the clock strikes midnight animals can talk to you
That's so sweet and also, also it's true
I stayed up very late one night when I was eight and I was-
I went up to my cat Chloe
and I was like (whispering) Hey... hey...Chloe (crying noises)
Wouldn't talk to me, she was dead.
She was dead?
No (laughing)
I wanna know about stockings
They were just a place to put little tiny gifts so like everyone got a stocking and
then you got the big gifts under the tree
You get- do you get like a tangerine in yours? A tangerine-
No but when I was in Lithuania everyone was eating tangerines and I was like why is this
a thing that's Christmasy here
A very Christmasy thing
Tangerines are not a thing in America we know of them (Not sure about this one here) I've
never heard of people eating tangerines
Well the thing is you don't actually know if it's a tangerine, a clementine or a satsuma,
but it's one of those
and it's always in your stocking
Make it so that it smells nice? Is that the reason?
Maybe but I mean there's a lot of traditions that we have for English Christmas that just
like-
No one really knows where they come from
We don't have like STOCKING stockings
You know how you guys like- you guys like buy those fake stockings and they're big
Yeah the big ones with my name on it
Ok, we don't do that at my house
You use an actual sock?
We have- we have an actual sock
Ew And the whole point was like trolling through
my dads sock drawer to find the biggest sock! Oh you'll find a different sock in there.
For daddy Santa to put the presents in. Does Santa wrap the presents in your stocking?
He does. Really? We don't get ours wrapped.
Sometimes, some are wrapped some are not. No, especially because like in my house its
already in a sock its like so shoved in there you cant see what the gift is anyway. But
its so much more fun like that because it makes the sock a weird shape and it's all
like what is this gonna be? You just ruined dad's nice sock.
Yes. Yeah there's no arguing you ruined your dads
nice sock. But no it works really well because obviously
I didn't know this at the time but, my mom would be like you should use that sock she'd
have already prepared the corresponding sock so she didn't need to put the presents in
she could just switch the socks over and it was very smart.
Oh I see that is pretty smart.
You're not wearing a christmas jumper. christmas jumpers are really big here. I got mine ho-ho-hoenn.
This is so cool." Daddy christmas
You know what I want? A spanking. Sorry. We were dreaming about this tonight
You’ve been a naughty ho ho ho SLEIGH
You can see inside my sack of goodies you ruined Christmas for me!
I do genuinely feel like I learned a lot from this conversation.
yes. The oranges thing. The clementine’s nectarine-
that freaks me out. It’s still weird? Anyway, if you did like this video, please give it
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already decided. Or if you’re from a different country that we haven’t talked about, that’d
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