- Do people refrigerate their eggs?
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I'm here because we need to get to the bottom
of the most commonly Googled questions about British people.
- I feel like I know
what is probably gonna be asked of me already.
- I reckon the questions are probably gonna be
about tea, the queen, and the weather.
- Our binge drinking.
We do tend to drink a lot.
- Why do we all have bad teeth?
I think we're gonna be seeing a lot of questions like that.
- Let's find out what people have Googled
about British people.
Let's go.
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- Why do Brits drink so much?
Because the weather is horrible.
How else do you expect us to stay warm
if we don't drink a lot?
- We wanna forget about our sad lives.
(laughing)
No, I'm kidding.
- We have a pub culture.
Very much like get down to the pub,
have a drink with your friends.
That's kind of something that I think most people
in Britain would do with their spare time.
- During the day, so many British people
are so stoic and uptight that maybe it's just like,
you know what?
We need the sweet release of a pint
just to kind of undo some of that tension.
Maybe that's what it is.
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Why did Brits love tea?
Yes, now this is one of the questions
that I was almost certain was gonna come up.
- We love to feel prim and proper.
And tea was like quite high up.
You have the high tea and the royals will do the tea.
Until it got down to us commoners.
Also, tea is great.
Who doesn't love tea?
I don't trust anybody that doesn't love tea.
- Everyone in Britain does love tea.
There are a few exceptions, and we don't like those people.
- I do not drink a lot of tea or coffee.
I'm not a hot drinks person.
- And we don't like those people.
- I mean, to be honest,
because we love drinking alcohol so much,
maybe it's just to kind of placate us until the day is over.
We always need to have a drink in hand no matter what it is.
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It that really one of the questions?
Why do Brits say bloody?
- It's a great adjective.
Bloody hell, bloody, bloody this, bloody that.
Bloody brilliant, that's what it is.
- I have no idea actually, but I'm gonna say
because we like to fight.
British people like to fight.
We never turn down a fight.
So maybe we just like blood a lot.
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- [Mui] Why do British people say X?
- Does everyone not do that?
Like putting a kiss at the end of the text.
It's just like cute, isn't it?
It's like, "Oh, hi."
- I thought everyone did that.
Are British people the only people that do that?
- Brits hate to be rude in a sense, but we're not polite.
We like to be fake polite.
So the X is like a kiss, you know, like, "Oh, kiss."
- Oh my goodness.
If I get an X sent to me, I'm doubling down.
I'm putting two Xs at the end of my next sentence.
That is what is being sent.
Three Xs is like, oohp, it's different territory.
(laughing)
- I don't send Xs to people I like,
so if you have an X from me,
just know that I actually don't like you.
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- Why don't British people pronounce the letter T?
I feel like this is predominantly a southeast thing.
- It's certain accents, like cockney accents or something.
It's definitely a wa'er bo'le and like Bri'ish.
I know it's called a glottal stop.
Glottal stop.
I just said it there, wow, oh my god.
It's called a glottal stop.
- I just can't stand it when Americans say Tuesday.
- Tuesday.
Who's saying Tuesday?
Does anybody say Tues-day?
Does anyone say Tuesday?
It's Tuesday.
Tuesday, Tue.
I think that's normal.
Also, we are English.
So I'm sorry,
however we're saying it is actually the correct way.
We literally invented the language.
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- Why don't Brits refrigerate their eggs?
I didn't know you were meant to do that.
- You don't have to refrigerate an egg.
So why would you?
Why don't you refrigerate your shoes?
You know what I mean?
- I do.
I put my eggs in the fridge,
and I think this is actually a bone of contention to me.
And I also would like to know the answer to this question.
- I actually don't agree with not refrigerating your eggs
because how's it supposed to last?
And it's food, so it shouldn't be outside.
However, it is in the shell.
You keep fruit outside.
- Eggs in the fridge?
That's weird.
Cold eggs.
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- Why do Brits called dinner tea?
I think tea is a northern thing.
I don't think the south calls them a tea.
- When I was younger, for example, up north,
breakfast would be breakfast.
Lunch would be called dinner.
And then dinner would be called tea.
- I call dinner dinner when dinner is dinner,
which is in the evening.
Whereas people up north call their dinner tea,
and their lunch is dinner, which I find super confusing.
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Why do British people say cheers?
- Yeah, that is weird.
We say cheers as a form of saying thank you.
I think this probably again goes back
to the whole drinking culture thing.
- Everything has to be linked to alcohol
because you cheers a drink
and then you're saying cheers for thank you.
It's just because you just have to always remind yourself
that the pub is on the way.
- It's just a slang word.
I have no idea where it came from, but it works.
And we love it.
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Why are Brits so sarcastic?
What do you mean?
We're not sarcastic.
- I think it's just,
I think it's like a good level of humor.
It's just that deadpan dryness just comes
with being in like a dark, miserable country.
- Because British people are so obsessed with being polite
when they're being real,
I think almost we find it funny to be rude.
I think this is the comedy, do you know what I mean?
- It all comes from a nice place.
I think the more sarcastic a Brit is to you,
that means they genuinely do like you.
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- Where do Brits go on holiday?
Spain.
- Spain.
Spain is like the second UK, innit?
- Spain, Benadore, Marbella, Ibiza.
'Biza.
- 'Biza.
"Oh my god, we're going Ibiza for the weekend."
- They love a bit of Marbella.
- You're either going to Barce, you're going Marbs,
you're going Malaga, Madrid, Benny, Ibiz, Tenerife.
Those are all British cities in my eyes.
You go there, you won't meet one Spanish person there
because it's just full of Brits.
- (laughing) Sorry.
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- Why do British people put milk in their tea?
Why wouldn't you put milk in your tea?
- You have to put the milk in last
because the milk goes into the teabag,
and then you're not diffusing the tea properly.
So you're not doing it properly.
And also you have to stir anticlockwise.
If you're stirring clockwise, it's not gonna taste good.
- It is the milk that really gives it that extra something.
- It just makes it nice.
It makes it just like, ooh.
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- Why do Brits have yellow teeth?
Well, well, well, well.
- Do you know what?
I knew this was gonna come up,
and I know this is targeted at me. (laughs)
- Do my teeth look yellow to you guys?
Do these teeth look yellow?
Do they look the yellow? No.
Let's end this debate.
- And also, if you do have yellow teeth,
there's nothing wrong with that.
- Many people I know have beautiful white teeth.
I strive to be one of those people,
but it doesn't work for me.
- Yeah. I think it's just like a silly stereotype
that should be squashed really.
I don't think it has any truth to it these days anyway.
- Yeah, I thought the questions were basically
exactly what I expected.
Tea, alcohol, nothing about the royal family though,
but which is good 'cause I don't really know too much.
- Some of the stuff we do, we just do it.
I don't know why we drink so much tea.
I don't know why we put milk in.
I don't know why we pronounced Tuesdays Tuesday.
And I love it.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
- I'm just fascinated by people wanting to know
about British people.
Who are you?
Let us know, because I want to know more
about why you want to know more about us.
- British people, if you have any answers
to these questions that I haven't thought of,
put them in the comments below.
And people from other places,
if there's any things about British people
you want to know, put them down there as well.
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