Millie knocked this one out of the park. We accept her as an American 🇺🇸
@brandyforsythe1882
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed! Millie is offically an honorary America! ❤🇺🇸❤
@trudiegentry-pears6810
2 жыл бұрын
Amen!
@FEARNoMore
2 жыл бұрын
Well, she is a Jersey girl... 😉
@viktorclark1674
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed although I have to give props to Beesley for somewhat getting Krampus right.
@monicamattox72
10 ай бұрын
Hiya Millie we love you welcome to North America ya'll are a sweet kind fascinating British couple via the UK come to Dallas we can check out Texas and see how Ya'll feel about it all Monica and Lee Ann cheers again via Dallas xx
@tea_time_t
2 жыл бұрын
Growing up in the 90s I never heard about Krampus, but he's become a popular horror figure over the last 20 years. Also, White Elephant exchanges are about giving awful, funny, or embarrassing gifts. The exchange rules can get a little detailed. In my family when it's your turn you can either pick an unwrapped gift or steal from someone. The person stolen from can then choose to get an unwrapped gift or steal, and so on. Each gift can only be stolen twice before it's considered out of the game, so the last person to steal it keeps it.
@newsguy5241
2 жыл бұрын
Grew up in the 60s. I never heard of him either.
@ShyAnn291
2 жыл бұрын
Not all white elephant gifts are awful, funny, and/or embarrassing. Lots of them are.
@krayzy932
2 жыл бұрын
I am doing a White Elephant exchange this year with my family. I was torn between going with a gag gift or a practical gift. I decided to go with a practical gift that pretty much anyone would enjoy.
@justanotherwhitegirla7093
2 жыл бұрын
I'm 42 years old and have never heard of Krampus, but I don't do horror/scary anything so that's probably why.
@anndeecosita3586
2 жыл бұрын
We call this Dirty Santa and whether the gifts are bad or good depends on what the host decides.
@donaldholderdoc2910
2 жыл бұрын
White Elephant is an exchange of gifts usually at work sites/offices.
@kendavis8046
2 жыл бұрын
Not to be pedantic, but a "sledge" in the US is actually a very big hammer. I have a ten-pound one that will break concrete quite effectively (assuming a much younger man than me is swinging it!)
@HamburgerHelperDeath
2 жыл бұрын
Peter Gabriel was British and he had a huge hit named Sledge Hammer.
@jim1771
2 жыл бұрын
A sled is a smaller version of a sleigh. Usually meant for a single person.
@emanymton713
2 жыл бұрын
For a white elephant gift example one time my Dad bought a box of chocolates. Removed the chocolates and placed a mirror inside. He painted a pig nose and ears on the mirror so that when you looked in the box it lined up with your face ( obviously) . He altered the box top of chocolates to have our family surname instead of the company name. White Elephant gifts are typically joke gifts ( or useless gifts if you aren’t creative… )
@ryanpicknell3620
2 жыл бұрын
Here in America we also use the word sled for snowmobile.
@jessicatrombley8185
2 жыл бұрын
If you watch the movie “Miracle on 34th street” with Natalie Wood as a 7 or 8 year old child you will become familiar with Kris’s Kringle who is supposed to be the real Santa Claus. It is a beautiful movie from 1943 I think. It is played religiously in the states during the Holiday season just like “It’s a wonderful life” with James Steward and Donna Reed among other classics.
@slinman100
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve never heard of Krampus!
@kevinwise1997
Жыл бұрын
Rock on Millie!🥳 you are definitely American at heart!🇺🇸
@tammybarksdale8172
2 жыл бұрын
When I heard Boxing Day I thought is was a day for boxing matches. 🤣
@d.wayneharbison8691
Жыл бұрын
For the best history of Kris Kringle watch the old Rankin Bass Santa Claus is Coming To Town. It's the perfect superhero origin story for Santa Claus.
@maryannashenfelder5513
2 жыл бұрын
I am an American, and never heard of white elephant 🐘, until my brothers wife said it!
@jessesleight9631
2 жыл бұрын
American here. I didn't exactly know what Krampus was before he explained it, especially in such detail. It is NOT a thing here in america.
@austinjohnson7772
2 жыл бұрын
Howdy from TEXAS
@gailross724
2 жыл бұрын
I'm American and I have never heard of Krampus.
@Kim-427
2 жыл бұрын
I think you guys are misunderstanding. We don’t call it Boxing Day but many of us still celebrate Christmas after Christmas Day. We do what you guys call Boxing Day it’s just called still celebrating the holidays. So don’t feel bad for us. Lol We really do enjoy our “Holiday Season”.And by the way not everyone goes back to work the day after ChristmasMy Mom took two weeks vacation during the holidays.
@socialdgirl011
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly, when I first heard of boxing day it made me think of people just beating the crap out of one another for no reason.
@Rsoxrule
2 жыл бұрын
Krampas??? Never heard of it.
@davidcosta2244
2 жыл бұрын
Anti Santa
@clydea.murphy2219
2 жыл бұрын
From what I have heard, it's a name of a movie!!
@wideawake5630
2 жыл бұрын
Tundra is not one of the American Christmas words . It's the frozen ground in the Arctic. He's exaggerating a little.
@TK-xc1fd
2 жыл бұрын
Lawrence's Spanish offends me to my very core, worst part is THOSE ARE TWO OF THE EASIEST WORDS IN SPANISH! 🤣🤣🤣
@derekprzesmicki9578
2 жыл бұрын
Tundra: a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen Or a type of Toyota
@wolver73
2 жыл бұрын
For the sports-minded, Mr B, the football field in Green Bay is affectionately called the frozen tundra.
@denystull355
2 жыл бұрын
Back in 1978 we had an usually very cold spell that lasted almost a month. I affectionately referred to my treks across the campus as "trudging across the tundra".
@Kovich13
2 жыл бұрын
The “frozen tundra” is an actual term, but also one that is used as sarcasm to describe a snowy or cold atmosphere
@JPMadden
2 жыл бұрын
It's exaggeration or hyperbole.
@thomasohanlon1060
2 жыл бұрын
So basically my house in the winter because heat is expensive and I'm cheap. If your cold put a sweater on.
@baraxor
2 жыл бұрын
"Tundra" is the flatland in the north of Canada and Alaska beyond the treeline; often where the ground is permanently frozen ("permafrost"); but Lawrence like many others is using the term in derision, comparing the bitter cold of the Great Lakes/northern Plains regions with the frozen landscape of the Arctic Circle...and as far as temperature is concerned, it's not that much of an exaggeration (without a protective mountain range in between, that cold air blows in directly from Hudson Bay and other subzero points north).
@VadulTharys
2 жыл бұрын
Unless you live in Alaska, we know EXACTLY what and where that is.
@pattysmet8285
2 жыл бұрын
Or used to explain a very cold city for football!!
@loriolsen5785
2 жыл бұрын
Being a "melting pot" of many cultures, our language and traditions have evolved differently from the UK's, but we still have many similarities. On both sides of the pond, we all love to have fun and celebrate the Christmas season. Merry Christmas to you both! And best wishes in the new year!
@Whoozerdaddy
2 жыл бұрын
Millie in her best Band Aid Voice: "Do they know it's Boxing Day? Lala..." *: )*
@Alex-dh2cx
2 жыл бұрын
Most of the differences are due to stagnation in some places in combination with changes. Sometimes we just don't follow the British change, like the H in herb. And in other cases, we use different suffixes than the UK, to differentiate the language origins of a word.
@monicamattox72
10 ай бұрын
true that..being from Houston originally and having family via Louisiana and many European and UK friends and family friends this was quite lovely thanks it's very kind and heart warming yes xx
@deweyoxburger295
2 жыл бұрын
‘Flexible Flyer’ sleds were popular in America for generations. A sledge is a large hammer. 😁
@trixiedoodles9297
2 жыл бұрын
I still have my Flexible Flyer hanging on the wall from when I was a kid last century.
@jerseydevs2000
2 жыл бұрын
So just as British people call the last letter of the alphabet "zed" while we Yanks call it "zee", the pronunciation of "z" changes between continental Spanish (Castellano) and Latin American Spanish. You guys and Laurence pronunced the Spanish word for happy "feliz" as "feh-leeth" like someone from Madrid might do. But the composer and singer of the song, Jose Feliciano is from Puerto Rico, and most Spanish speakers here in the States are from Latin America. So they would say "feh-leece/feh-lees" with a soft "s" instead of the lisped "th".
@midniteillusion3
2 жыл бұрын
I wish I could like this more than once.
@amydevol8224
2 жыл бұрын
AND "we" pronounce "Navidad" with an ending "d" - "nah-vee-dahd".
@gwillis01
2 жыл бұрын
99 percent of the time that an American says the word "sledge" it is immeditately followed by the word hammer
@PaintedCavern
2 жыл бұрын
And often to the tune of the Peter Gabriel song... 🎵 🎶 🎵
@helgar791
2 жыл бұрын
Our lack of Boxing day makes you sad. Your lack of a Thanksgiving and the 4th of July makes us sad.
@IAMHIM15
2 жыл бұрын
They wouldn't celebrate the day we became independent from them tho. Not cause for celebration for the Monarchy. 😁However the two day Thanksgiving holiday is like our boxing day.
@helgar791
2 жыл бұрын
@@IAMHIM15 As I've just said, their lack of both of those days, Thanksgiving or any independence day, makes us sad.
@IAMHIM15
2 жыл бұрын
@@helgar791 Well, actually you said "the 4th of July". Specifically, our battle with them. I don't feel sad for them for that lack of a holiday since they probably have many more holidays we don't have.... like Boxing day. lol
@helgar791
2 жыл бұрын
@@IAMHIM15 Yes. But on the whole the US have 12 national holiday's whereas Britain has 8.
@IAMHIM15
2 жыл бұрын
@@helgar791 Haha I see that you're the type of person that can't admit an honest mistake. Therefore, going to such lengths as to change the parameters of an argument or changing the subject all together. Holy Wiki Batman!! 😆It's all good, not mad at ya!... wish we had boxing day & all those bank holidays. 😉
@pprocacci
2 жыл бұрын
American here: Never have I heard the word Krampus.
@marydavis5234
Жыл бұрын
A year too late but, Krampus is from Central and Eastern Europe.
@craigfanguy1971
Жыл бұрын
And I've never heard of White Elephant unless it was something awkwardly out of place.
@ki11atj49
2 жыл бұрын
Funny thing is as an American I really didn't even know what Krampus was
@marydavis5234
Жыл бұрын
A year to late but, Krampus is actually from Central and Eastern Europe.
@monicamattox72
10 ай бұрын
"Krampus"? cramps @ Christmas?
@LancerX916
2 жыл бұрын
Kris Kringle in the US was Santa's name before he was given the powers to be Santa. That is pretty much the reason he is named that.
@catinthechat
2 жыл бұрын
I’m always surprised at how many people don’t know the history of Santa. lol
@Coonazz791
2 жыл бұрын
@@catinthechat well, there are a lot of histories of Santa though lol
@gwgux
2 жыл бұрын
@@Coonazz791 Agreed, one of more recent being the story of Klaus. There's a lot of stories and there will always be new stories which is why we'll always have a Santa/Father Christmas/etc. :)
@JGW845
2 жыл бұрын
Bit of a twist. "Feliz Navidad" was recorded and made famous by Jose Feliciano who is Puerto Rican and thus an American citizen. Puerto Rico is a commoweath of the US and its residents are US citizens. The primary language of the island is Spanish. Language not withstanding, "Feliz Navidad" is very much American in origin and tradition.
@anonygent
2 жыл бұрын
He also lived in California.
@JGW845
2 жыл бұрын
@@anonygent That may be but he is Puerto Rican by birth and identity.
@jiovanna4136
2 жыл бұрын
These two are such a wonderful couple. Millie is a sweetheart, I'm so happy she has joined her Bf Beesley, she has such great reactions and she is so insightful. Happy Holiday's from Tucson Arizona in America.
@emerald637
2 жыл бұрын
"Kris Kringle" back to the German "Kristkinl" meaning "Christ Child" and indicates the first documented use in English was 1830. Santa is Spanish for Saint. Sleigh - A vehicle like an open-air carriage, pulled by horses, using runners instead of wheels for use in winter on snow/ice. Sled - A small single-person conveyance to slide down hills, usually has runners, but may just have a flat bottom. Sledge - Any kind of flat conveyance to be dragged over the ground. Mele Kalikimaka - (Hawaiian Christmas Song) Hawaii is the 50th State in the Union.
@bond1j89
2 жыл бұрын
Sledge is also used to refer to a hammer that weighs between 10 pounds to 20 pounds.
@theblackbear211
2 жыл бұрын
Hmmm... I wonder if he has ever heard "Mele Kalikimaka" - which is "Merry Christmas" in Hawaiian.
@monicamattox72
10 ай бұрын
go HAWAII..."Mele Kalikimaka"...happy Hawaiian Christmas cool deal xoxoxox
@TYORK7734
2 жыл бұрын
Hey y'all, there is a US Christmas program called Santa Claus Is Coming To Town on KZitem, and I would guess it's available to watch in the UK, that is the American version of who Kris Kringle is, at least to us Gen Xer's. Nothing in the historical context, just a kids story that's cute to watch.
@anne-mariebedard4219
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, if you both can watch this Christmas program, you see exactly what those of us in our 50s and under have grown up with believing about Santa aka Kris Kringle
@braemtes23
2 жыл бұрын
It is no surprise that these German terms have made their way into American Christmas culture, of all Americans of European ancestry, the most common nationality is German.
@davidcosta2244
2 жыл бұрын
Next to the English, just saying.
@ashleydixon4613
2 жыл бұрын
Are you speaking in terms of continental Europe? England and Ireland certainly left the most descendants.
@voraciousblackstn
2 жыл бұрын
Not even next to English. Dutch and German are by far the largest cultural origins of the people in the north of the US at least. Christmas itself is Norse and Dutch/German in origin anyway.
@davidcosta2244
2 жыл бұрын
@@voraciousblackstn Except, the U. S. is an English speaking country from its founding, and immigrants to it adapted to those ideals.
@braemtes23
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidcosta2244 Sorry, not next to the English. Irish is the second most common nationality and the English hold third place. In fact, there are almost twice as many Germans as there are English in the USA..
@lindaeasley5606
2 жыл бұрын
Our Christmas traditions are heavily influenced by early German immigrants. With a dash of American ( hanging lights around houses , leaving a glass of milk and cookies ,or biscuits out for Santa Christmas Eve night) and there's the oft recited 1823 Christmas poem by Anerican Clement Clark Moore , called A Visit From St Nicholas or Twas The Night Before Christmas
@FEARNoMore
2 жыл бұрын
Too bad Krampus didn’t become as popular😁
@ShyAnn291
2 жыл бұрын
I would also leave carrots for the reindeer!
@briankgarland
2 жыл бұрын
Krampus is not really a part of the American culture. If it weren't for that movie, nobody except recently immigrated German households would know anything about it. Most still don't.
@mariahrose4638
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in upstate NY in the 70s and my southern Polish family truly believed in Krampus.
@bonagrad92
2 жыл бұрын
@@mariahrose4638 My maternal great grandparents came from Poland. I just asked my mom if she ever heard of Krampus from them growing up (my mom is 80). She didn't, so maybe it's a southern Polish thing? But then again, Poland has been divided up so many times I wouldn't be surprised.
@thecorbern4446
2 жыл бұрын
Never heard of Krampus.
@HoneyMike
2 жыл бұрын
We don't pronounce the z in Feliz like he's doing it. That might be how they say it in Spain but not here. Even in the song it doesn't sound like that
@sandygriffeth2655
2 жыл бұрын
We called it sled riding. Interesting that you call it sledging. Merry Christmas to you both from Oklahoma, USA
@FEARNoMore
2 жыл бұрын
@Jason Schwarz Right. If it’s called a sled, it would make sense that one would go sledding.
@briankgarland
2 жыл бұрын
This is why we don't do Boxing Day: "Boxing Day is held every December 26th in many countries associated with the British empire. It started as a day to give gifts to the household staff of Britain’s upper classes"
@voraciousblackstn
2 жыл бұрын
The only reason that Boxing Day is a thing at all in the US is because we all take our gifts that we didn't want back to the store for cash or credit. We return the BOX as it were. 2nd biggest retail day of the year.
@voraciousblackstn
2 жыл бұрын
The only reason that Boxing Day is a thing at all in the US is because we all take our gifts that we didn't want back to the store for cash or credit. We return the BOX as it were. 2nd biggest retail day of the year.
@FEARNoMore
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, as for a two day holiday. We kinda get that with Thanksgiving. The 4th Thursday of November is Thanksgiving & Fri after is a second day off for most people.
@randlebrowne2048
2 жыл бұрын
@@FEARNoMore Unless you happen to work in retail; then, it's all hands on deck to handle the Black Friday rush.
@FEARNoMore
2 жыл бұрын
@@randlebrowne2048 Right. God have mercy on those souls. lol
@sharonmartin2671
2 жыл бұрын
I have lived in the US my whole life, I never heard of Krampus
@G-grandma_Army
2 жыл бұрын
My family does the saran wrap game every year. I bet I spend more money on it each year than all the other gifts, but we always have so much fun. Seeing these big guys trying to unravel a huge ball of gifts wrapped in saran wrap with oven mitts on is hysterical. (Wow what a sentence) 66 years old and native Texan, but I’ve Never heard if Krampus.
@monicamattox72
10 ай бұрын
yeah hmm me too "Krampus"? means "cramps @ Christmas time"? being from Houston and now in Dallas no never heard of "KRAMPUS"???/ a real head scratcher :)
@hamblinta
2 жыл бұрын
In the movie “Miracle on 34th Street” Kris Kringle in the name of the character who is the department store’s Santa. If you’ve never seen the movie you should try it out.
@radioflyer68911
2 жыл бұрын
Great One.
@amydevol8224
2 жыл бұрын
A more recent but fun Christmas movie is "The Santa Clause" with Tim Allen. When Allen's character gets arrested, he gives his name as many (all?) of the aliases of Santa Claus - Père Noel, Kris Kringle, etc.
@michaelmacdermott6340
2 жыл бұрын
Um, straight out of the UK Oxford dictionary: Tundra (noun) the large, flat, Arctic regions of northern Europe, Asia, and N. America where no trees grow and where the soil below the surface of the ground is always frozen.
@paulhighstrom2016
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve “heard” of Krampus. I think it is from the Dutch. But really I don’t know anyone who has Krampus as part of their Christmas tradition in US. Must be more recent. Sounds kind of awful 😀. I grew up with Santa leaving a stick or coal in stocking of naughty children.
@Pinkstinkie
2 жыл бұрын
Wait, wait. . . y'all don't know about the Heat Miser and Snow Miser? A TV Christmas special that has played for, like, 50 years here. It explains all the Christmas folklore focusing on how a guy named Kris Kringle became Santa Claus. This includes unforgettable characters like Burgermeister Meisterburger and the aforementioned Misers. OK, now I need a video of different country's Christmas holiday TV traditions.
@CaptainFrost32
2 жыл бұрын
07:00 White Elephant gift exchange is random. The order is jumbled randomly and the first gets to pick anything out. However, the people after may choose to take a previous gift chosen in exchange for the gift they drew instead. You may not necessarily walk out with the highest prized gift unless you were the last to choose. Secret Santa gift exchanges have a price limit, and everyone in the exchange picks out names from the hat [if you get your own name, you redraw after showing that your name was on the slip. Then your name gets shuffled back in.]
@intermenater
2 жыл бұрын
Just curious. I haven't found a video on this subject. I'm subscribed to Lost in the Pond and a number of British You Tubers. What's with pronouncing "thr" as "fr"? I'm going fru the channels looking. BTW, in the US and YT, Google etc., thru has become the accepted spelling of through. Silent letters are stupid. Prove me wrong.
@yarnangel52
2 жыл бұрын
ok, Why call the next day after Christmas, Boxing Day? What are you celebrating. And we go sledding. Not sledging.
@luchaDor
2 жыл бұрын
The thing is, is that we have a huge Thanksgiving holiday...that is longer than your boxing day, so it really all evens out in the end. Coupled with New Year's holiday, it really isn't like we're missing much for time off. (Those of us in the frozen tundra (states with harsh winters, also sometimes call Snowmobiles/Snow Machines, 'Sleds'.)
@janibest7401
2 жыл бұрын
It's "SLED". There is no "G". A "sleigh" is not just an American thing. It is drawn by horses, has runners instead of wheels. Santa drives one.
@christianoliver3572
2 жыл бұрын
Feliz Navidad y Prospero Ano Nuevo!!
@ronaldklaus2983
2 жыл бұрын
Do you know what Boxing Day is cuz I’ve never found a clear definition of what it’s for and we get a 4 day weekend a month sooner for thanksgiving which I prefer
@THEforeigner3
2 жыл бұрын
Christmas traditions are waaaaay different up north, down south, and from coast to coast here in the U.S.A.
@rj-zz8im
2 жыл бұрын
Never in my life have I heard "Krampus" in any part of the country that I have lived...I'll have to pay attention and see if I do now after hearing it...
@frankisfunny2007
2 жыл бұрын
Funny how Lawrence said "Pennsylvania German". They speak an older dialect of German, in an American accent. Yet, it's 50-50 of German & Swiss ancestry in the Pennsylvania Dutch (the Amish community in Pennsylvania) "English" is a label made by the Pennsylvania Amish to describe a certain person. -- "English" prefers to anybody outside of the Amish community, regardless of geographic location. -- By the locals in the 1860s standpoints anyway, whereas anybody from Switzerland, Germany, or from the Netherlands, anyplace near that area in Europe was considered to be "Dutch". That was made by locals near Lancaster, PA (Locals call Lancaster, "LANK-cast-ter. Like "link". Everywhere else in America, it's the same as the England pronunciation) I could go on, and on about useless facts about the Amish, but I won't any further than here.
@secolerice
2 жыл бұрын
Isn’t Dutch a mishearing of Deutsch. So Lawrence was for once saying it right. Not to say there weren’t Dutch Amish. I have been doing a lot of reading about New Netherland and there were more Dutch here than I thought. And Dutch influence.
@fayewike7363
2 жыл бұрын
Whenever I've heard Boxing Day in some old British movie I thought it must have something to do with the Boxer Rebellion where thousands of Christians were killed by.. the Boxers. Edit: Love your channel !!
@theblackbear211
2 жыл бұрын
Scientifically speaking the "Tundra" is the land areas near the polar Icecap, where trees no longer grow - because the ground remains frozen so much of the year. Colloquially, the "Frozen Tundra" is often used to describe areas that have long, (very) cold winters. In sports, the playing surface of the Home Field of the Green Bay Packers - Lambeau Field, is referred to as "The Frozen Tundra". It is an outdoor stadium, which can get bitterly cold, especially late in the season, or during the play offs.
@radioflyer68911
2 жыл бұрын
You should react to Abbot And Costello's "Who's On First."
@Nimiety327
2 жыл бұрын
It's okay to be sad that we don't have boxing day. Because we're sad that you don't have Thanksgiving.
@oldmanjimh3165
2 жыл бұрын
I've never heard of Krampus so maybe it is only used in certain areas???
@Kenneth_James
2 жыл бұрын
Feliz Navidad Próspero año y felicidad I wanna wish you a merry Christmas From the bottom of my heart
@jstrahan2
2 жыл бұрын
I am a 64 year old American, born and raised. I have never, until now, heard of Krampus.
@c.e.simmons569
2 жыл бұрын
Me, too!
@amydevol8224
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a couple of years older than you and hadn't heard of Krampus until a few years ago. Krampus's legend was incorporated into an episode of a TV show I was enjoying - Grimm.
@smite505
2 жыл бұрын
it is interesting that he chose the spaniard pronunciation of 'Feliz Navidad'. Lol no american would say it that way, except maybe me because thats the spanish I speak. Their way is much closer to the latin american way where the z has an s sound instead of a th sound.
@brandyforsythe1882
2 жыл бұрын
Hey y'all!!! Hope your trip is off to a great start, thanks for posting for us while your traveling. Love from Texas ❤. Millie just for you we will celebrate Boxing Day in our house since I am off!
@millie0804
2 жыл бұрын
You have no idea how happy this makes me!!!! Have the best time ever ❤️
@monicamattox72
10 ай бұрын
Hiya via Dallas come to TEXAS always welcomed thanks again Ya'll xxoxoxox :) cheers again xx
@theblackbear211
2 жыл бұрын
The whole gift swap thing has many variations - we never did it in my family growing up, but my wife's family does a version - but while the gifts are inexpensive, they are not intended to be "gag" gifts.
@corvus1374
2 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure Lawrence is right. I've never heard the use of the word sledge in the US. How could he forget Festivus?
@marydavis5234
2 жыл бұрын
HE messed up, sledge is used in the US put for a sledge Hammer .
@anndeecosita3586
2 жыл бұрын
Sledgehammer. It’s even a famous song by Huey Lewis and the news.
@marydavis5234
2 жыл бұрын
@@anndeecosita3586 Sledgehammer is by Peter Gabriel not Huey Lewis and the News
@Tempest440
2 жыл бұрын
I just love your videos! I enjoy your reactions & learning the differences in our cultures. I think most of us Americans are familiar with Kris Kringle because of this Christmas movie (Santa Claus Is Coming To Town -1970) that we watched. It was quite popular back in my childhood at least & was televised at Christmas time each year: kzitem.info/news/bejne/yZeBq4eYkX1ja5w&ab_channel=SlaughterPlayer
@JPMadden
2 жыл бұрын
1) America is a nation of immigrants and their descendants. One side of my family is Italian-American (I'm third generation born in the U.S.). Some of our Christmas traditions and cuisine are specific to southern Italy, where my great-grandparents were born in the late 1800s. 2) I've never heard an American say they celebrate Boxing Day, and I suspect many have never even heard of it. I first learned of it years ago from the American TV program "MASH." It's a (mostly) comedy about army surgeons during the Korean War. In one episode they're taking care of a bunch of British soldiers who were wounded in combat. During a lull in the fighting, their comrades visit them in the hospital to celebrate Boxing Day. The Americans learn of it, and the officers and enlisted men switch jobs for a day (of course the non-doctors do not perform surgery!). 3) A "white elephant gift exchange" was unknown to me here in New England until just this year. I had heard of a "Yankee swap" from my elderly mother, but my understanding of it was that the gifts were merely inexpensive, not intentionally bad. 4) I had heard of the word "Krampus," but had no idea what it meant (there's very little German culture in New England).
@kevinerose
2 жыл бұрын
Lost in the Pond is giving away all of our American secrets. lol We don't mind so much about Boxing Day. We already get an extra day after Thanksgiving anyway. That's our Boxing Day I guess. Hey if you like Christmas songs, try "Mary's Boy Child" by Boney M.
@hockemeyer1
2 жыл бұрын
I have NEVER heard of Krampus. I was born in the U.S., grew up in 8 states and have NEVER in my 73 years heard the name krampus.
@c.e.simmons569
2 жыл бұрын
Along with me! I was born in Fla. 70 years ago, and lived in various places in 4 other states and I have NEVER heard this word, references to the character, or the movie! Elaine from Texas
@TexanUSMC8089
2 жыл бұрын
We don't have sleds in South Texas. We're only a couple of hours from the Gulf of Mexico. I don't know anything about the gift thing he's talking about. In the USA, there are regions that are very different from each other. We don't eat the same things on holidays. Someone in Minnesota will probably do a lot of different things different than someone where I live. I guess it's like the difference between Scotland and France. Santa Claus isn't an American word either. I think it comes from Denmark. People in the UK are a lot closer to them than we are. Why don't you have Santa? LOL There are even people in the USA that forget that there were Spanish colonies here nearly 100 years before the British colonies. Texas and Arizona existed long before New York or Pennsylvania, even though Texas wasn't part of the USA until 1845. Texas was a Spanish colony. I've never heard of Krampus.
@tamaracastonguay2091
2 жыл бұрын
You guys are a lot of fun! I’ve been in New England most of my 51 years, and I never heard of Krampus until recently, thank goodness! It would’ve given me nightmares!!!!
@bixxix3896
2 жыл бұрын
Majority of (European) Americans have German heritage.. you see this especially in the north, when most think it comes from the UK. The typical American cliches can be thanked for by German immigrants.
@newgrl
2 жыл бұрын
Definition of Tundra - a major zone of treeless level or rolling ground found in cold regions, mostly north of the Arctic Circle (Arctic tundra) or above the timberline on high mountains (alpine tundra). It's a term used in geology... that you probably should have heard in school at some point? Here, he just meant out into the snow, but it's a real thing.
@DoggieFosters
2 жыл бұрын
Tundra is a specific type of landscape that is treeless where the subsoil is permanently frozen. Used idiomatically to mean cold, snowy places in general. Kris Kringle is well knoen. On the other hand, Krampus is not at all well known in general American culture. White Elephant gift exchanges aren't confined to Christmas. They are popular for office parties. There is always a fairly low spending/value limit on the gifts brought by everyone for the pile.
@Koutouhara
2 жыл бұрын
In North Carolina we call White Elephant 'Greed' - due to the fact that others can steal your gift and potentially leave you with something subjectively worse. And it's best to have quite a lot of people 15+ cause it makes it more like.. probable that you'll have more than one item you'll enjoy.
@keithmiller1446
2 жыл бұрын
Americans don't miss Boxing day the same way poor people don't miss having a million dollars. You don't miss what you've never had.
@jeffburdick869
2 жыл бұрын
1:30 you don't use tundra? Tundra is basically just like frozen barren land. Chicago is not actually tundra, but it sure does feel that way sometimes December-March.
@tjohn4398
2 жыл бұрын
The original image of Santa Clause, at least in America, was created by Coca Cola to give people someone to identify with during the Holiday season. It was an advertising thing to sell more Coke also. This was between the 20's and 40's
@MichaelScheele
2 жыл бұрын
Krampus is only featured by families from some European countries. It is not uniformly a part of Christmas traditions in the US. My father's family is from a part of Germany that did not tell children of Krampus. The family never mentioned Krampus. I only found out about Krampus in the last decade or so from television shows.
@stephaniec5064
Жыл бұрын
A lot of white elephant gift exchanges allow for repeat items to come back every year as well. In my family, we had a rubber ducky child's bath toy set that was brought back every year for about five years before it was finally used when someone had a baby.
@CollarCityGuy
2 жыл бұрын
Never heard of Krampus before, and rather glad because I think he would have visited my house frequently
@yugioht42
2 жыл бұрын
Krampus is the anti Santa. If you are naughty you get kidnapped by Krampus and eaten. It’s an old story from Germany that we just throw in to get kids to behave.
@gwillis01
2 жыл бұрын
In America, December 26 is used for sprinting to the mall to spend the gift cards you got yesterday. December 26 is also the day you angrily stomp off to the mall to return the physical gifts that you received that you hate and exchange it for cash using the purchase receipt the giver gave to you.
@ThatShyGuyMatt
2 жыл бұрын
Tundra: A vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen. Confusing I know. Many words are used to describe various enviroments. Alaska is technically tundra.
@mh_golfer
2 жыл бұрын
Never really heard of Krampus as a kid. People always said if you were naughty you would get coal in your stocking.
@rorycoats8014
2 жыл бұрын
also theres Toboggan which is a type of Sled which has a curved up front, but also is what some call a Ski Mask
@Sandman60077
2 жыл бұрын
Krampus doesn't really belong in this video. I'd never even heard of it until that movie came out. Like he said in the video it's a German thing, so maybe in the MidWest where there are more people with German heritage it's more common.
@dar5108
2 жыл бұрын
This midwest girl never heard of krampus either. But then I had no idea what the hell the white elephant was about. Guess I'll just go sledding with Jose Feliciano. Happy Holidays everybody.
@paulamoya7956
2 жыл бұрын
Us not celebrating Boxing Day is the same as you not celebrating Thanksgiving. ⭐️🎄⭐️🎄.
@bracejuice7955
2 жыл бұрын
My family did a Yankee Swap every year, but with us the rule was if someone wanted to swap gifts you had no choice but to do it. Mostly the gifts were just joke gag gifts, like a spare pump for a water heater, but occasionally some evil uncle would throw a squirt gun or plastic sword into the mix, and hen it was all out war between the young cousins!
@spike3082
2 жыл бұрын
Or the ever entertaining whoopee cushion way too many laughs with those things
@ThatShyGuyMatt
2 жыл бұрын
Never heard of Krampus. Only heard it in terms of some movie called Krampus.
@Dragonstalon1001
2 жыл бұрын
Think of Kris Kringle as Santa Clauses alter Ego, like Clarke Kent is Superman's alter Ego.
@YamiSphinx
2 жыл бұрын
White elephant is fun and he didn't mention it but when your number comes up you can pick a present from the pile, which is random no names, OR you can steal a present from someone who picked before you and once it's been stolen twice it can't be stolen again. My family also does a lot of gag gifts for it but the best gift I ever got from the game was a dart board I stole off my cousin.
@tobyobeyonecanobey1979
2 жыл бұрын
We never heard of boxing day because in most cases people are off work till new years day anyways
@jeffwebster402
2 жыл бұрын
I am 55 years old. Not until seeing this video have I every heard "Krampus."
@donna9121
2 жыл бұрын
I'm American and have never heard of Krampus. I don't like the idea.
@david-1775
2 жыл бұрын
Feliz is pronounced like fleece in fleece jacket but with a long A after the f. So it is f A leece.
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