hi we're those two bridges and today we are talking about things that americans really dislike
about british people or british culture now we know this is a sensitive topic for us because
we want to be liked by everyone and we think it's only fair because we talk about things that
confuse or annoy brits about america so we're like let's reflect it on us what annoys americans about
us brits i just did the hand acting whilst you were talking great and before we get started
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to the video so the first one is about unfriendly bricks and i think this is interesting because it
does say despite brits thinking that we're more polite than americans because you know the british
perception of like we're so polite with british yeah we're like good day madam good afternoon sir
at the same time we can come across very cold yeah like in the same way that we would say could
i have a coffee please and maybe an american would say i'll get her i'll get an artic i'll
get him i'll get a coffee i'll get an american like i will our language might be yeah which
is rude to us so the language might appear polite but underneath then they actually go
you guys are not actually that friendly underneath the surface the facade is all fake which is funny
because often brits go americans are so fake yeah but really who are the fake ones we are
maybe we are maybe yeah it's so weird i want to know if someone's done a scientific study on this
on like politeness because you're right like when an american goes i'll get a coffee and you're like
oh my god so rude like you need to say please could i have a or whatever but then at the same
time if a stranger like we walk into shops and they're like um can i help you a lot or whatever
and as brits we're just walking and going no and like like shuffle away yeah that seems really
rude whereas another american might be like hey no that's fine they're polite so it's like it's
all these different levels is so funny isn't it that we perceive the way they order a coffee or
ask for something as rude but they're just direct and also in other languages like spanish greek you
just say i want a coffee yeah and it's not rude if you go into a coffee shop like in spain and say
could i please get a cop they're just going to look at you like they're not going to understand
what you're saying yeah about what what i think it's also about not to defend ourselves because
when we do these videos people like oh you're always defending ourselves but it's like well
yeah because we're british so we're trying to give the other thing but i think when it comes
down to service americans are very direct more than yes because someone i know who's
american thank god thank god if you straight would you do that but they i know exactly
yeah yeah well they have standards of service like up here and went for a meal with them and they had
an issue with everything the way the waiter spoke to them the way the waiter wasn't fully attentive
when they spilled the drink and they didn't he was like i had to mop up my own drink and
i was just like we don't care in the uk if you spill a drink like they'll probably bring over
some paper towels and give them to you and we'll mop it up like whereas he was just like he thought
his terrible services disrespectful the way they didn't wait on you properly and i was like to be
honest we as brits we don't really care about that sort of thing service is just not really a thing
here no unless you go to like five-star silver service unless you're paying for that yeah not
the whole thing about getting good service at a normal place and by normal i mean anywhere on the
high street it's just never gonna it just doesn't happen here and i should say they weren't being
rude it's just they weren't going above and beyond and being like what would you what can i get you
let me do this for you what dessert is going to make this better yeah let me refund you this
let me do this what can i do like so they weren't being rude and obviously us brits don't like rude
service either but we also don't have that golden standard like you said unless it's five-star
yeah it just doesn't exist so i know this is going down the restaurant group but subscribe for
in the uk yeah a couple of days ago and decided to sit at the outside seats and obviously the main
restaurant is inside so if you sat outside you've chosen to sit there and they know you're sitting
there and they've acknowledged you you might not get great service in fact you probably get
horrendous service so much so i just went inside and i was like oh is anyone available we'd like to
order and then like the table was dirty as well so we're just dealing with it there's no cutlery out
there i asked for cutlery the guy brought out a lid cover and just like put it on the table
so then the cutlery's like touched the dirty table like the napkin it was just obviously my
levels of like clean were just going i could just like off the radar and then i just said to dad i
was like you just they just don't do service here do they and he's like it's just not a thing yeah
like just doesn't this is not a thing no and i when i don't think i'm defending it that much
in that i do think it's good to have good service yeah but i'm just saying it that's how it is brits
are just like don't really care about getting weighted on hand and foot it's like no one's
tipping just take my order maybe crack a smile that's it yeah yeah i can see if i was an american
like your mate visiting england i would just be like this is tragic can someone get me a frozen
yeah oh it's the clicks as well americans click all the time and i'm like oh my god the clown the
clip i can't no oh my my god okay what else do americans hate about brit they hate british tv
apparently british tv yeah i disagree with this i think they worship british tv yeah and i think
bridge tv is getting better and better i think 20 years ago yeah british tv who knew about it
who knew about it what was going on like just doctor who or something yeah i would imagine
that's been going for ages yeah it's been going for a long time brits like it but like what are
the global ones like downton abbey amazing british tv show that americans love yeah it's um what what
else we've got the crown oh that's netflix netflix american made isn't it but it's british but well
it's british made but it's on it's got american dollar behind it though so i'm just trying to
think of other british bbc dramas or itv i don't know there's been loads like i swear some of them
really like some of our police dramas and i like our like line of duty line of duty yeah there's
some amazing ones but maybe we think they're amazing and americans don't i don't know yeah
that's so true i i can imagine that british soaps like coronation street eastenders i would love i
would pay to watch a video of an american watching a full episode of eastenders i would just watch
them watch it because i'd be like surely you're not gonna answer is there an equivalent that
we can watch here and just be like what on earth are they talking about remember days of our lives
is it still going i don't know actually but i imagine so imagine reacting to an old episode
of days of our lives that would be amazing it would be amazing okay moving on moving on
oh nosh i love that the only thing that people can describe in an article as like
british food is fish and chips yeah when i guess what other cuisines is the uk known
for roast dinner roasting their bangers and mash shepherd's pie but remember when
we did meet an american at the conference in miami she was like all british food is trash
yeah it's so trash the only thing she could cope with was about the thing yeah which one
but that's why it baffles me because it's a well-known thing i think i've heard it all my
life from americans being like british food is rubbish but i'm like obviously i guess because
we're british and we're used to it we're not like i don't think it's bad like of course you can get
bad food but i would for example i don't go to america and go oh my gosh this food is
mind-blowing if anything i go it's a little bit greasy yeah but it does taste good but you'd think
if our food was that bad that when brits go to america we'd be like blown away blown away but
we're not it's good food but it's not like amazing amazing so true and it's also subjective isn't it
if you really like a greasy fry up then american breakfasts are perfect for you
but if you just really want it just you can never win no one's ever going to agree on food yeah so
i think this one is really difficult it is hard but maybe do let us know in the comments what
your opinions on british food are if you've been to the uk because i'm really intrigued to know
like what it is that makes our food bad is it bland is it the lack of choice is it the cost
is it like what is it that makes it bad i'm sure you'd love a pie and mush yeah pie mushy gravy
americans don't have gravy i think actually maybe they do it thanksgiving the gravy that we had
over there was so weird always like white gravy is disgusting it was it wasn't gravy
come and try some proper grapes try the brown gravy guys come and try this day
sponsored by this day but even in europe i remember my spanish exchange partner that came
to my house and they had never had a roast dinner before and he was so confused about what this jug
of brown meaty goodness was oh my god and like so even in spain they don't it's like no gravy gravy
okay the next one is the weather and this is obviously who who doesn't hate the weather
yeah everyone hates the weather one of the most googled questions for tourists visiting the uk is
what is the best month like weather-wise to visit england or and it's just there is no good month
like you might get lucky if you come in july but you might not it could rain yeah it could
rain on your birthday it could and that's the worst weather even if you i would say cut your
losses don't risk coming summer come in winter for christmas yeah but even then
you probably just you're cold and it's gray skies miserable and no snow like the only
thing that would make it magical and unbearable is going oh it's christmasy and there's snow
but there's not even any snow in london i think even the snow would underwhelm them because they
get way better snow that's true blizzard video and the snow was this big and in the video we're
like oh my gosh there's a blizzard and they were everyone was laughing at us being like that that's
not exactly but to us that was a blizzard so was that thing the most snow we've ever seen ever
i'm sorry i've never seen it land like that flashback to us walking like you've been gusted
away by the wind and like biting cold and they tell us it's not a blizzard no camera can show
the pain we went through that blizzard yeah gopro you can't even tell how bitingly cold it is i got
like bite cold burn on my face yeah you do you've got bike called nose hands my hands were like
literally cracked excellent like your hands were like 55 years older than what they are i thought i
was gonna die yeah it was all that was a blizzard ah we blamed everything on the blizzard yeah
okay oh really oh apparently you guys hate the royals i would argue that the americans that we
come across are obsessed with the royals yeah i think most americans love the royal family
and love the idea of it but they wouldn't want it for themselves they don't want it in their country
yeah but they're happy that we've got it yeah they're happy for us you're all really pleased
for us yeah but you know it's not for you i also just like it like we've spent lots of time on this
channel defending why we don't mind supporting the royal family because it costs us like 65 pence per
year which is like one dollar a year from each person but i also just think i like the history
of it yeah i love the tradition of it and like this royal family has been around for centuries
yeah and it's still going and i just think that's incredible yeah to the tradition not necessarily
what they offer in terms of what they offer to the world or what their work is but just
the idea of them and the fact that they're still going yeah a little bit like this youtube channel
yeah we're still going you can say what you want about us but we're still going we're still gay
yeah i think i too agree with you that the royals you know a star for effort yeah a star for
longevity yeah you're fantastic guys keep going it's a dollar well spent on my from my pocket i'm
happy to give it to you you think she's on do you think joel if we weren't youtubers we'd try and
get a job in the raw household doing something yeah just intrigue it's just so fascinating i
read something about one of her ladies in waiting the other day and she's been working for the queen
since she was like 20 like the same age as the queen and now she's her favorite lady in waiting
she's also in her eight late 80s or early 90s and it's like the friendship amazing so cute so
so sweet i want to be a lady i just any job i would just love to be there and just see
what it's like and work there maybe just do work experience there yeah that would be fun i'd love
to do work experience at the palace who wouldn't maybe they could let us in and vlog and like
imagine if they were like your family really want to get down with the kids so they're going to let
you vloggers into the palace to vlog a day in the life of their own family yeah it'd be
amazing i want to know everything i want to know how the queen likes her egg coach scrambled fried
how runny sunny side up or sunny side down also if we got rid of the royal family how do we know good
quality sales people because in the uk you could go to a butcher you could go to a bed shop you can
go anywhere and they have a royal warrant they're like we supply the royal family with our meat with
our beds or with our linen and you're like well if it's good enough for the queen it's good enough
for me that is so true they may love like putting it all over yeah there's like a butcher nearby
he's called frank parker butcher and he sell he does sausages for the royal family or something
and i'm like they come all the way to you for that for a certain sausage and it's true like
it's got the things got a letter or he ships it or he ships it yeah it gets curious waiting in line
who does the food shopping for that yeah like i just wanna know everything we just love the
royal family so live laugh love live life love the royal family and on that note we won't labor
the last one because similar to the royal family some americans don't get it they don't like it
socialized health care we love it they absolutely hate it well not all of them they some of them
wish that they had it yeah but most of them were like don't get it doesn't make sense i was at
the hostel two days ago with dad and he needs a hearing aid and it for the one that he needs
it's four years waiting list i've got a video on my phone i got a video on my phone like just me
reacting like when she's like so the current wait list is four years and then like my dad's name is
on the list and like if he doesn't go that way he'd probably just have to pay like five grand
or something for the specific hearing aid that he needs so he's got an option he can either pay
5 000 pounds or he can wait four years and in the meantime he'll have like a rubbish hearing
aid that will probably take four months to create because yeah so they've had they've done the mold
sorry tangent guys they've done the mold and now they've got to turn that into a hearing aid and
that's going to take four months and then gotta go for the appointment get it fitted
but in the meantime four years later you might have the one he actually wants that's crazy that
is the downside of the nhs it's just slow i've never heard of anything in four years four years
for this hearing aid yeah is it because it like it clips on okay yeah so they put like a little screw
there oh yeah and it doesn't have to go inside the ear so it flips on and then at night just
unclip it there's like a little screw yeah small operation get the screw in and just
clip it on and just unzip it that's good yeah so we'll see but it's nice to have the option
nice socialize healthcare if you want it don't have to pay anything for it just included in
your taxes or you can pay to go private and get it done a lot quicker yeah people will be blown
away by the four years that genuinely have a video they're saying four years yeah anyway over and out
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