Ref. Sunday roasts. Alanna says " there was too much food ?!" 145K subscribers went "Nope".
@Phiyedough
6 ай бұрын
The thing is, you don't have to cook huge quantities. We had the same size meal on Sunday as on other days but it was a bit more fancy, with roast spuds, Yorkshire pudding (if beef) stuffing (if pork or chicken) or mint sauce (if lamb). There was also a dessert, which we only normally had on Sunday. A typical midweek evening meal would be pork chop, mashed potato, cabbage and gravy.
@ABrit-bt6ce
6 ай бұрын
Sunday roasts are supposed to be too much food, tbh seems to be the whole point of them. The left overs are main meals until they run out about mid week.
@mkrmkr3805
6 ай бұрын
I'm from Wales and my family had mint sauce with lamb, pork, chicken or beef roast. I'm still addicted now. 😅
@leeklass3907
6 ай бұрын
depends what number are from the UK most people I know don't have roast dinner on Sunday and I'm English by birth and I live in the UK as most of the people I know . A lot people in the UK use prepared meals from the supermarkets.
@ABrit-bt6ce
6 ай бұрын
@@leeklass3907 Before supermarkets were a thing you got together enough food to actually have a meal. Sunday was as good a day as any and so we get piles of garbage on a plate once a week. It's rather like christmas dinner although my local Chinese (all bless Alice) can cater for those needs.
@jonjohnson2844
6 ай бұрын
I wouldn't say I think in 24 hour time, more like it's 10 in the morning or 2 in the afternoon, but seeing 10:00 or 14:00 on my watch just translates automatically in my head without any thinking.
@katrinabryce
6 ай бұрын
And if I see 2:00 on my watch or phone, that means it is the middle of the night to me.
@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle
5 ай бұрын
This is exactly what I was thinking too.
@cathyrussell7157
4 ай бұрын
@jonjohnson2844 - I think most of us manage the 24 clock and the am/pm clock - equally.
@bazbarrington250
6 ай бұрын
“Who’s Peter and why is he blue?”, has to be the best line in this video. Brilliant!
@rogerjenkinson7979
6 ай бұрын
Blue peter is a great Milton Jones joke(his next door neighbour who has poor circulation!) He asks him"Have you tried a pacemaker? Reply: I can't even walk never mind run.
@scottlp2323
6 ай бұрын
Back in the days of TISWAS they had a character there called 'Green Nigel' as a mickey take. Blue Peter was always 'Green Nigel' to me and my mates from that day forward. :)
@GillianBergh
6 ай бұрын
Why did people do things 'For Pete's Sake!' I haven't heard this expression since the 1980s though. (I think 'Pete' is St Peter , and it was a milder way of saying, 'For God's sake!@)
@CJD666
6 ай бұрын
Will Alana get a 'Blue Peter Badge' For her video!
@maxclickenhof1049
6 ай бұрын
get down shep
@Herblay63
6 ай бұрын
Popping out reminds me of Micky Flanagan's sketch, just popped out, then I went out but now I'm out out.
@MrRjhyt
6 ай бұрын
I suspect the lack of public transport might be a factor in adopting the 24 hour clock. Timetables are usuallly posted in that format to avoid confusion.
@harrodsfan
6 ай бұрын
👍
@nicktankard1244
6 ай бұрын
Timetables work just as well with am/pm in my experience.
@kamelionify
6 ай бұрын
that or the fact there are 24 hours in a day
@LiqdPT
6 ай бұрын
@@kamelionifyanalog clocks only show 12 hours
@Trebor74
6 ай бұрын
Public transport is the whole reason for synchronized clocks. Prior to trains you had GMT and local time(which could be different from one village to the next). It made catching trains difficult.
@dabe1971
6 ай бұрын
Time is an odd one as I was definitely taught 12 hours AM/PM as a kid and at school but I’m completely comfortable with 24 hour times too. Perhaps it’s because I’m of the generation for whom digital watches were a new and wondrous thing. To quote the late, great Douglas Adams: “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
@mccpcorn2000
6 ай бұрын
Same. I learned 12 hour as a kid, but somewhere along the line I switched to 24. But even though all my electronic stuff is in 24, I still think in 12. So when my phone says 19:45, I say, 7.45pm 😅
@mehallica666
6 ай бұрын
@@mccpcorn2000I think we all do that. Nobody sees 19:00 and thinks nineteen hundred hours. It's just seven o'clock. (Excluding the military).
@THXUK
6 ай бұрын
He also wrote "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so" - so profound.
@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188
6 ай бұрын
"Mostly harmless"!
@Clara_Page
5 ай бұрын
Funny thing about this quote is that it's still incredibly relevant but in the context of smartwatches.
@NataliePine
6 ай бұрын
I definitely appreciate popping out! I have two supermarkets, countless smaller shops, six pubs, a library, and my kids' school, all within a five minute walk. I am *never* moving!
@Motherhubbard170
6 ай бұрын
STOOOHP I'm so jealous
@harrodsfan
6 ай бұрын
Same in my country, so glad.
@suttoncoldfield9318
6 ай бұрын
Similar here. One day, took stuff to the tip, bought some petrol, bought some paint, bought some food shopping, bought items for the car, all within two miles of my home.
@Americathebeautiful49
5 ай бұрын
@@suttoncoldfield9318Do you really need a car then and what is a tip? Joking, I know but I bet a good portion of the YT audience doesn’t know.
@georgewachsmuth9201
6 ай бұрын
North American here. Well….since the time I served in the military I have used a 24 hour clock. All of my vet friends do too. I am from Long Island, NY. Admittedly we are snobs concerning Pizza. First off, pizza from any of those chains is last resort pizza. It’s terrible. And…nobody dips crust. Also…on Long Island…Sunday is a big meal quite often…particularly with Italian families. We don’t use “Brilliant” but I have always loved that usage. Not a fan of PB and J…..but everyone loves them here! I do love peanut butter. A walk…..is walking anywhere, usually in the neighborhood or local park…lol. Yeah…totally agree with your “popping out” thing.
@TheOriginal_BigMac
6 ай бұрын
Some nice stories there. Long Island is lovely - haven't been there in 25 years though 😂. V jealous
@MichaelLamming
6 ай бұрын
We use both the 24-hour clock and the 12 interchangeably.
@kumoric
4 ай бұрын
yeah, but i’d say 24hr is more common
@tsrgoinc
6 ай бұрын
The time thing is the reason Americans miss so many flights in Europe as the 24 hour clock confuses the life out of them. I used to work as a booking agent and the amount of abuse I took because they can't tell time. Apparently the 7.2 billion that can use the 24hr clock are stupid for using the 24hr clock. The thing I love the most is the Secret Service that protect the President use Zulu time or at least did, no doubt Donnie changed that, which is actually Greenwich Mean Time or now know as the universal time coordinate!
@arghjayem
6 ай бұрын
Yeah, used to date a flight attendant who pretty much said the same thing about Americans and time keeping….but it gets worse! Thanks to their habit of writing the date as “month, day, year” rather than “day, month, year” like the majority of people in the western world do, a lot of Americans missed or showed up too early for their flights- and by too early I mean they booked a flight for what they thought was like the 11th October only they actually booked it for the 10th November! 😂
@Phiyedough
6 ай бұрын
They eat like toddlers and tell the time like toddlers!
@Motherhubbard170
6 ай бұрын
@@arghjayem I've never become :) (not GOTTEN) used to the weird dating and to make it worse its not even consistent, I always write the month in words having happily immigrated to Canada 27 years ago from South Africa, other than that I 100% love living in Canada and wouldn't change it
@donmurray3638
6 ай бұрын
Ironically, "gotten" is an English word that fell out of use here, but was preserved in Americanese 😄
@mehallica666
6 ай бұрын
Considering few of them can actually read an analogue clock either, they don't have many options.
@scottlp2323
6 ай бұрын
I was born in 1973 and, as a kid, I was taught the twelve hour clock way of telling the time. The 24 hour clock seemed to become the dominant version at the start of the 80s when VCRs, ovens, microwaves and heating systems etc. required the use of a digital 24 hour format. It's now the only format I use. I collect Casio G-Shock watches and just can't have that first space without a '1' or a '0' there. :)
@VampireJack10
6 ай бұрын
I was born in 1974 and WAS taught the 24 hour clock - alongside the 12.
@grassygnoll3345
3 ай бұрын
24hr clock has been used for timetable for Busses and Trains in the UK for decades so that may be a major reason we interchange so easily.
@ponnappaganapathy9941
6 ай бұрын
The 24 hour clock is so much better. I prefer using it on all my devices as much as possible
@sportspool82
6 ай бұрын
I tried the old blue Peter "here's one I made earlier" comment on a Teams call in my last job. Sadly, it was a call with Italians, French, Germans, Spanish and Portuguese 🤦🤦 Surprisingly, it didn't go well 🤣🤣
@AdventuresAndNaps
6 ай бұрын
omg noooo 😂💀
@mehallica666
6 ай бұрын
Their loss.
@christoguichard4311
6 ай бұрын
"The British way is the right way...and in fact... The ONLY way" Alanna 2022 😂
@Americathebeautiful49
5 ай бұрын
“Stay Calm and Carry On” Alana 2022
@pinkthistle5713
6 ай бұрын
No ! We say 11am or 3pm but we do understand 24hour clock, need to for timetables etc. I'm old though so still have problems converting and have to recheck 😂
@karenpetrie8640
5 ай бұрын
Peanut butter is great! I love your chat about popping out. We are very fortunate to have so many amenities(depending where in the UK you live) at hand. You are helping me to focus more on all the good stuff we have in the UK and appreciate my home more and miss Canada less. Thank you ❤
@nuschmoo
6 ай бұрын
The 24 hour clock caught on in the UK with the arrival of the video recorder and digital clocks in the early 80s. It seemed alien to us too. We always used the 12 hour clock before that.
@corringhamdepot4434
6 ай бұрын
Grew up in the 1970s with a compulsory family Sunday dinner. Missing it was considered the ultimate sin. We alternated between having a beef joint and a leg of lamb every week. Remembering back to the 1960s, there was absolutely nothing open on a Sunday. Many shops were also closed on Saturday afternoon, and either Wednesday, or Thursday afternoon. So shops were only open for a total of 5 days a week. Sunday was a "rest day" when most people did nothing. There was always a 3:00pm movie on TV to watch after dinner. Watch, or listen to the 1958 Hancock Half Hour episode "Sunday Afternoon at Home". To get a feeling of how boring Sundays in the UK used to be,
@adrianwaygood7156
6 ай бұрын
24-h clock is FAR better when it comes to timetables!
@G4GUO
6 ай бұрын
Whenever I visit my relatives in Canada, the topic of whether I would consider living there always seems to come up. I always answer no, It is the lack of being able to 'pop out' that is the main dealbreaker.
@harrodsfan
6 ай бұрын
👍
@nicktankard1244
6 ай бұрын
I moved to Vancouver from Europe 2 years ago. And you can definitely ‘pop out’ here as well. And people do that for sure. Unless you move to the suburbs. You can do that in downtown Toronto and in Montreal as well. But yeah in the vast majority of Canada you can’t
@G4GUO
6 ай бұрын
@@nicktankard1244 I guess it depends on what you define as 'pop out'. I was in Chilliwack BC and there is a corner store within walking distance, but the main shops were a bit further. Where I live in the UK, my local shops are a 10-minute walk and all the supermarkets deliver, the local GP surgery is a 15-minute walk and the beach 1-minute, so there is no need for a car. There is also the issue of prescription + dispensing charges, the difficulty of getting a family doctor. I did like the recycle center in Chilliwack, where you get paid for your soda cans etc. I would have to pay a lot more tax if I lived in Canada as well. It is a nice country to visit, but it has changed a lot since I first visited it in 1977.
@nicktankard1244
6 ай бұрын
@@G4GUO sure Chilliwack is very suburban but that’s not Vancouver. Even Burnaby which borders Vancouver is not that walkable already. But Vancouver itself is pretty walkable and everything is within walking distance and you don’t need a car. At least if you’re close to downtown which is not a huge area but also not small. The healthcare crisis in Canada is brutal. I still don’t have a family doctor but all my prescriptions are cover by the insurance from work. I’ve heard that healthcare in the UK is also really bad these days.
@G4GUO
6 ай бұрын
@@nicktankard1244I am not too familiar with Vancouver as most of my trips have either been inland or to Tsawwassen for the ferry and then across to the Island. I seldom need to go to see the GP, but when I do, I can get a same day appointment. I guess I am just lucky. I also understand that there is an issue in Canada if you want private healthcare. As I understand it, you have to go out of Province to be privately treated. Here I have a private hospital down the road from me and I can self refer if I want to bypass the NHS.
@johnmassey55
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for another fun video Alanna !
@AdventuresAndNaps
6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for watching!
@djpj9174
6 ай бұрын
Sorry Alana but I was listening whilst looking at stuff my phone and you said.......'the things I don't understand about my British partner'......que transition....then you said 'look at the size of this guy!' ........... I verily spat my PG Tips out over my keyboard. it wasn't until I looked up I realised you were talking about the plant :D :D ...... Perfect editorial timing :D
@Loz20365
6 ай бұрын
> que transition what transition?
@robertkirk4387
6 ай бұрын
The Blue peter flag was flown from ships in harbour indicating that the ship was due to depart, however it was probably not the same flag as the Children's TV show.
@mookrage
6 ай бұрын
This channel always makes me smile. Thankyou
@steveberwick4417
6 ай бұрын
If you ever venture north of Birmingham (there be dragons) you will have to get used to the greeting 'Ay up' or,if the person is a friend, 'Ay up chuck' Considering we are a small island our cultural differences between ourselves,never mind other countries, are enormous!
@martinchantler7724
5 ай бұрын
Peanut butter and banana on toast !!😋Also been eating peanut butter and Marmite on toast for over 25 years and now you can buy a jar of ready mixed stuff
@MrPagan777
6 ай бұрын
The idea of a Sunday roast comes from not eating meat during the week, only on Sundays, because it was so expensive or rationed.
@harrodsfan
6 ай бұрын
Well said.
@hairyairey
6 ай бұрын
You would presumably have kept some for the next day, even without refrigeration?
@MaXwellFalstein
6 ай бұрын
12-hour format is taught to kids until 24-hour format is taught in primary school for science year six exams. Reading 24-hour clocks as 12-hour clocks gives you an extra two hours which is a bonus. My parents taught me 24-hour when I was a tot. Everything in my home is in the 24-hour format and this is something I have always been around with family and friends. I live on 24-hour format for all of the timezones I work in.
@shanemjn
6 ай бұрын
The best pizza dipping sauce is Domino's garlic and herb dip. Also, peanut butter, banana and Nutella sandwiches are so good!
@beverleyrankin3482
6 ай бұрын
I agree with you about dipping pizza crusts in Domino’s garlic and herb dip. Yum! However, I don’t like peanut butter or Nutella, but might put banana in sandwiches spread with just butter.
@TheBoothy666
6 ай бұрын
I also love the Domino's garlic and herb dip, although I just make my own now (in case anyone is interested: Fresh garlic crushed and chopped + Coriander (dried stuff from a herb jar) + Mayo, takes like 2 mins to make a batch).
@stevetheduck1425
6 ай бұрын
24 hour clock: 'military time' is actually known as 'Zulu'. As in 'we attack at 06:50 Zulu', as in when it's six-fifty in the morning on the Greenwich meridian. We also used two versions during WWII, so that all military operations were happening at two hours before Greenwich time,wherever in the world they were, usually North Africa. This still exists as 'daylight savings time' but is only one hour, altered in summer due to the days being longer. Go to work at dawn, kids in bed before dark. Something else: 'Zulu' had no midnight when I was 'in'. To avoid clocks showing 00:00 being thought to have stopped, time goes from 23:59 to 00:01 two minutes later, with midnight not mentioned. Such fun we had.
@wessexdruid7598
6 ай бұрын
Zulu is UTC (GMT). Alpha time is UTC+1 (i.e. BST in the UK), Bravo is UTC+2, etc, etc, depending on the local time zone where you are operating. A military 'Date Time Group' (DTG) is formatted as DDhhmmZMMMYY, where Z is the zone, not necessarily Zulu.
@hairyairey
6 ай бұрын
@@wessexdruid7598 Let's correct a minor error. During WWII the UK was on double savings time - Greenwich Mean Time and UTC are the same thing. Ideally we ditch messing with the clocks and the damage it does to health. Almost all of Europe voted to ditch it anyway. We currently keep track with the current situation in Europe - last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October. Of course, one specific newspaper is guaranteed to pop up with their objection to us being on "Berlin Time"!
@wessexdruid7598
6 ай бұрын
@irey The UK experimented (unsuccessfully) with British Standard Time (UTC+1 all year round) from 1968-1971. I remember it VERY well - you don't ever forget being run over, as a small child on a zebra crossing, while going to school at ~0815, still in pitch darkness. And - I already pointed out that GMT _is_ UTC. Where's the error?
@botticellirejectbotticelli2668
3 ай бұрын
Easy way to remember the 24 hour clock, just -2 from the second number. 16:00 -2 from the six becomes four, etc etc.
@atiskidd
6 ай бұрын
Moved to Scotland two years ago and just found your videos. Been binge watching for days now. No, I'm not weird. Just enjoy them. As far as your voice goes, I actually think you sound more American and lost a lot of your Canadian inflections from your earlier videos. You used to do harcdore aboots but not so much anymore. Keep the videos coming! The history tidbits have been fascinating and my wife is a naturalized Scottish citizen and she didn't know alot of them.
@Alan_Mac
6 ай бұрын
There is no such thing as a "naturalized Scottish citizen". She's British.
@terryomalley1974
6 ай бұрын
She couldn't have said "aboot", because we don't say "aboot". As a Canadian, Alaina still sounds pretty Canadian to my ears.
@atiskidd
6 ай бұрын
@@terryomalley1974 I know she isn't specifically saying "aboot". It's just an easier way on social media to convey she sounds Canadian. I guess I failed. Yes she still sometimes still has the accent, which is why I said her accent has diminished from 5 years ago. I wasn't criticizing her. Sheeesh.
@terryomalley1974
6 ай бұрын
@@atiskidd Relax. I wasn't dumping on you, just correcting what I thought was inaccurate.
@hairyairey
6 ай бұрын
Yes, I've been watching and supporting Alanna's channel for years (despite her substantially turning on me for asking a quite innocuous question. She answered the question she assumed I was asking and took offence! Then took offence at another statement. Honestly...). It's interesting how much her accent has changed, plus the lighting in her videos is so much better than the old ring light that she bounced straight off her face. Which meant you could see the ring in her eyes and her face looked flat. I think I also pestered her to include a flag of the Dominion of Canada. Which is good to see.
@davidboydarnott417
6 ай бұрын
Having a clock or watch set to 24hrs helps you know morning from afternoon. So if you wake at 4 o'clock you don't have to wonder if it's am or pm.
@arlmondgcalcutt6562
6 ай бұрын
Sunday lunch - it was cheaper to buy & cook a large joint - it used to be the mantra roast on Sunday, cold on Monday, mince on Tuesday- it gave us 3 meals
@loraleepooley3669
6 ай бұрын
Fun video! Your hair looks very pretty today. I also enjoy the fact of not meeting your partner. I like the mystery.
@davidpierce3217
6 ай бұрын
Interesting. I would have said "go for a walk" in the U.S. means more like what the British sense is than the Canadian, except for the pub at the end. If you're going to walk in the woods, that's a hike. It can be a little hike or a short hike, but if it's in the woods I'd say it's a hike
@harrodsfan
6 ай бұрын
Agree !
@barryhumphries4514
6 ай бұрын
My go to dipping condiment with Pizza might well be Salad Cream 😊
@diannegooding8733
6 ай бұрын
12/24hr clock. For conversion just subtract 12 from all hour numbers over 12!
@TG-mr6bc
2 ай бұрын
I am old- I never use the 24 hour clock. When I worked with mariners we used it now and then; but never now.
@peterwatson1637
4 ай бұрын
Nice to see alannah Morrisette cousin lives in England!
@timmurphy5541
6 ай бұрын
Peanut butter and Marmite!!!!!!!! Yum.
@alanesq1
3 ай бұрын
It was the arrival of the VCR that got us using 24hr time, before that we had no idea it even existed.
@clive_the_fat_cat
6 ай бұрын
Peanut butter and marmite on toast is the one!!!
@JFW5358
6 ай бұрын
I love your videos because of your amazing sense of fun. Thank you for the entertainment.
@SteveGouldinSpain
6 ай бұрын
Oh yes, I recall the military in Northern America have quaint expressions like "ZERO DARK THIRTY" which is so useful in the artic circle where its light for six months of the year!
@eadweard.
6 ай бұрын
Well "Zero Dark Thirty" is already using the 24 hour clock. There's no "zero" hour in the 12 hour system.
@hairyairey
6 ай бұрын
@@eadweard. Also, not a bad movie either...
@smavtmb2196
6 ай бұрын
This comment is 3 weeks late but oh well. Fellow Canadian here. Growing up in the 80's 1 of 6 kids in my family. So we couldn't afford much. I might have starved if I didnt have peanut butter and jam, jelly or banana sandwiches to take to school. I eat them alot. So good thing I love them. Now so many people are allergic to peanuts. It's strange.
@alevakcay4612
6 ай бұрын
As a Turkish currently living in Canada I feel weird to need to drive even for a simple shopping. But it’s the second largest country in the world. So absolutely makes sense though!
@shirleysimpson3987
3 ай бұрын
Yes to peanut butter, no to Jam/Jelly too.. I would have them separately. Toast Jam or Marmite. Sandwich or Crackers for peanut butter! 😊. Alana you are fabulous, love your channel. X
@ruk2023--
6 ай бұрын
I'm old enough to remember when AM / PM time was common in the UK. We learned to read 24 hour time at school in the 90's. We used a 24 hour wall clock - Amazon sells them for about 20 quid. Most people will tell you that you take 12 off any number over 12 to get the AM / PM time but I can still see the 24 hour clock in my head and learned by what position = what time. 30 years later its second nature but it definitely took a few years before I never had to think about it in any situation.
@AllenStanten
6 ай бұрын
Pizza dipping: My partner introduced me to yellow mustard as a pizza dipping option. I usually reserve it for reheating/leftover pizza, but it's a good compliment to bad pizza!
@paulguise698
6 ай бұрын
Hiya Alanna, I was clearing my friends loft out yesterday, I brought down a Betamax Toploader video cassette player,next time you speak to your Mam ask her if she had one, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, I liked your vlog about differences between North America and British Culture,this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
@alexfletcher5192
6 ай бұрын
Always remember roast lamb with potatoes and greens etc on a Sunday. Half a gallon of gravy. Yorkshire puds. My dad used to stimulate the childhood imagination by referring to the Lamb as 'Brontosaurus'.
@stephenperry5849
4 күн бұрын
I am born a bred British. There is nothing wrong with dipping your pizza crust. That's why Domino's give you dips, surely. As for Peanut butter and 'jam' that is very indulgent, using two toppings where only one is required. I like both and I'm with you on the smooth v's crunchy but NO, I will not put them together in a sandwich!
@nevillekinsley5610
4 ай бұрын
I don't know exactly when or why 24 hour became prevalent but we all were taught 12 hour am, and, pm, clock times in the 70s. I think digital watches and computers especially when they were connected to web and times in different countries became useful to know may have influenced the adoption of the 24 hour system. Before digital time pieces there was only 12 hour clocks and watches.
@chiaseedpudding3463
6 ай бұрын
Can I make a suggestion? Your old vlog-type videos were really cool when you'd visit random cool places - totally would encourage you to make more of those! The British countryside has so many nice and historical places.
@hairyairey
6 ай бұрын
They're great except it seems that Alanna goes to quite some effort to ensure that no other person appears in it. It's jarring after a while as that's not the way we see these places. Has there been a severe epidemic that's killed all the population apart from Alanna and her boyfriend? Also remember that people will also give you a sense of scale - Alanna could be showing us a model village for all we know... (And yes, that actually was the question I asked her recently that she immediately took offence at).
@weedle30
6 ай бұрын
I bought hubster a dinky little clock radio for Christmas, as his old one threw in the towel and just died a digital death…. He got busy reading the instructions and set about setting the time, the alarm time and tuning in the radio station and felt soooo pleased with himself… Cue the next morning- an enraged husband stomped around the house, moaning bitterly that “his alarm didn’t go off, he was going to be late for his appointment now! 🤬🤬🤬😳” - later on, in the evening, the alarm DID go off - at 8.00pm 😣 - because the clock is a 12 clock not 24 hour and he hadn’t spotted the 🔘on the display indicating PM time. More rage ensued when he was trying to set the alarm to an AM time, he was keeping his finger on the “alarm time set” button too long and it was whizzing past the time he wanted and so he had to keep on pressing the button, going through all the PM times, and getting ready for the AM settings. His frustration was evident as his foul language was pretty appalling Setting a 24 Hour clock is much easier and so less stressful!!!
@suttoncoldfield9318
6 ай бұрын
My mum always said she learnt new words when, just newly married, was helping Dad to hang cheap wallpaper (all they could afford) and it kept ripping.
@weedle30
6 ай бұрын
@@suttoncoldfield9318 🤣🤣 yep! Been there too, but it was trying to put “the bloody coving” on the walls, whilst balancing precariously on a “not quite tall enough” step ladder, that set the seal for words not normally found in a common or garden English dictionary!! 😳😳😲😲🤣🤣
@crackpot148
5 ай бұрын
Most British people DO NOT think of and refer to time in terms of the 24 hour clock. Officialdom does use the 24 hour (also referred to as military time). Being ex military I do automatically think in military time but when communicating with others who are not military or ex-military, to avoid confusion, I always refer to the time of day using the 12 hour clock.
@andygilbert1877
6 ай бұрын
PB & J, love it! 😜 We briefly lived in Toronto & Stratford when I was young and that’s one thing I brought back, much to the disgust of almost everyone! 😂
@terryomalley1974
6 ай бұрын
That's funny! PB & J is considered disgusting, but people eat marmite? 😂m
@Zatnicatel
6 ай бұрын
I love peanut butter but not with jam! In fact, not with anything sweet at all. I will never understand how anyone can actually like salt and sugar at the same time. I always add salt to peanut butter these days as they have reduced the salt content until it's almost undetectable. Peanut butter sandwiches or on toast, both are fine but not with fruit or jam or chocolate! I did try Reese' stuff once but omg it was truly awful :)
@davidhamm7909
6 ай бұрын
I’m British and I’ve NEVER used the 24 hour clock where I can help it. I do say quarter to and quarter past though.
@oxfamshop
4 ай бұрын
There is a lot of food in a Sunday roast dinner but the meat that was cooked would be used in dinners on Monday , Tuesday and maybe Wednesday . Left over vegetables could be fried on a morning to eat with a cooked breakfast
@kimholland4822
4 ай бұрын
Bubble and squek yummmie
@chipsthedog1
6 ай бұрын
Obviously the New Forrest doesn't compare to Canadian woods but when I was there they had these cool little maps you could take that had "walk" routes on them of various lengths and all the longer walks had a pub at the halfway stage. There was something lovely about walking through the woods then as if by magic a pub appears in front of you. We did three of these walks in the week we were there and stopped at different pubs each time.
@mazdaram226
3 ай бұрын
Love how you fit “ nice “ into the opinions so not to offend the whole country… brilliant 😂😂
@glenn7014
5 ай бұрын
Hi Allana, thanks for the all the entertainment, keep going, its really great! I must just add much of what I have heard you say about life here, I said the same, but from the opposite when I lived in the US for several years. Typically it all came back to the size of the country. Cars are bigger, there is so much more space than we have. We, as a people are long established on this rock and so, towns, cities grew up around them as populations grew. Where you have demand in a smalll area, naturally I guess again back to size, we do not have so much land, so the greengrocer/supermarket or pub will often be just around the corner. I think, size does matter here, when you have come from a large country like Canada. BTW I have always loved the Canadian sense of humour - thinkng John Candy and have worked with some of you. Thank you again.
@timstradling7764
5 ай бұрын
Peanut butter and strawberry jam or marmalade - lovely, but you should try PB and Bovril for a savoury snack sandwich. No, really try it😊
@jcasillas78
6 ай бұрын
It's funny, the walking thing is the opposite for me. A "walk" with family in Yorkshire is a 12 mile plus trek across the moors, minor rock climbing, traversing streams and many muddy cow pastures later, a pub. I have to train before I visit!
@AdventuresAndNaps
6 ай бұрын
😂
@CUFC247
6 ай бұрын
Yes to Peanut Butter, smooth preferred but has 100% peanuts no added oil or salt.
@Mark1405Leeds
4 ай бұрын
Have you never woken up still pissed and wondered if it's day or night? 24 hour clock very useful! When greeting people you say Ehup love!
@gastrickbunsen1957
6 ай бұрын
My sister was married to someone in the USAF who introduced me to pb&j. He was completely confused when I added butter to the bread before the PB & Jam . As for popping out, why don't they build shops closer to the houses?
@Phiyedough
6 ай бұрын
In USA it is to do with zoning, they don't allow retail businesses to operate in residential zones. Another feature of the "land of the free"!
@pitiedvod
6 ай бұрын
@@PhiyedoughThat is something that always weirded me out in the US. There just really no corner shops and pubs and so on just down the street and you end up with whole neighborhoods with nothing but houses and no services until you drive a good 10-20 minutes away. And yes walks should end up at the pub. This is the way.
@harrodsfan
6 ай бұрын
@@pitiedvod Well said.
@jackwalker4874
6 ай бұрын
Zoning codes are supposedly there to stop factories being built in residential areas but are far more prescriptive than that. In many parts of the US R1 zoning was specified as a way of perpetuating racial segregation after doing so explicitly had been outlawed.
@CherylVogler
6 ай бұрын
There are actually quite a few areas throughout the U.S. where there are shops, restaurants and other services very near residential areas which can be walked to. Newer subdivisions further away from city centers probably not as much. @@pitiedvod
@bensteel3944
4 ай бұрын
The one people get screwed with is 12.45 and 00.45... One is 12 midday and other other is midnight. So many missed flights because of this.
@dominicmoloney2621
6 ай бұрын
Thanks Alana, I enjoyed that... It made me think... Popping Out: The distances involved in living in North America and the barbaric zoning laws prevent "popping out". I can walk 5 minutes to a bus stop, 10 minutes to a train station and 15 minutes to a Post Office. I have 20+ cafe's, take-aways, restaurants, pubs and even a winery within a 20 minute walk (the thing that matters is the walk back tbh.). There's a supermarket and two mini-markets within 15 minutes walk and probably 20+ other retail outlets from pharmacies to lawyers, bathroom shops to estate agents, charity shops to hairdressers. I live in a (albeit big) village. Not even a town, Never mind a city. Can you even imagine what's within 10 minutes DRIVE? Pizza Crust Dipping: ... I called zoning laws barbaric so I have nowhere left to go for this gastronomic abomination.
@tommullinerart
4 ай бұрын
He'll yes to pb&j sandwiches! AND banana ones too. For extra luxury versions: pb&j toasties, pb&banana in hot toast or pancakes and squirty cream! 😂
@peterroerhorst3743
6 ай бұрын
Try peanutbutter, slice of cheese and Sambal (Indonesian pepperpaste).
@jeansteele6586
6 ай бұрын
I am an ex Pat from England, now Canadian…I don’t remember 24 hr clock usage, but my Canadian Hubby worked shifts here always done on the 24 hr clock …interesting I was first introduced to PBand J or banana when I lived in England, guess it depends what part of Canada or UK you live in, we live in a village so you can walk to a few places , but to go shopping we drive for an hour and 15 mins along a beautiful mountain road, where you may see bear, dear or possibly even cougar . Next year I will have been in Canada for 50 years 😊😊😊 🍁
@jeansteele6586
6 ай бұрын
Oh and my hubby is Canadian, as am I , now 😊😊
@MAdams853
4 ай бұрын
Agree with you on the basic peanut butter. Any time we have been to america we always bring home a huge tub of walmarts own brand Great Value Peanut Butter!!
@VampireJack10
6 ай бұрын
I'm a Brit and have been eating peanut butter and jam (sometimes with banana) sandwiches since the 1980s. It's not really rare here.
@darkno6493
6 ай бұрын
There’s many in the UK who change to 12 hours because it’s easier, I think some still have to sit there and work out the time using their fingers 😂 it always used to be something people would joke about, that if you had a 12 hour, it was because you couldn’t tell the time in 24 hours. Dipping crust in sauce is also standard in the UK if you’re someone who eats around it.
@Korrihor
6 ай бұрын
Peanut butter yes, but with cucumber or Marmite. Dipping pizza crusts yes, but in mango chutney. I may be weird
@mauricecasey866
6 ай бұрын
Hi Alanna, as Robin Williams once said "all those idiosyncrasies, that's the good stuff" A peanut butter and bacon sandwich is a revelation! 👍
@AdventuresAndNaps
6 ай бұрын
Bacon?? Hadn't tried that one yet!
@harrodsfan
6 ай бұрын
@@AdventuresAndNaps Have you tried the BLT sandwich in Britain ? (Bacon, lettuce & tomato)
@robertfreeman8340
6 ай бұрын
'Popping out to the shop for an important ingredient for dinner ' is a phrase used by partners (of both sexes) when a quick pint or two is taken in the local pub! - It's a very harmless British 6pm activity!
@suesadler3611
3 ай бұрын
I have been eating peanut butter and jam sandwiches for years I am 68 and British !!
@molpole
6 ай бұрын
I have just had an epiphany! I remember seeing American films and TV shows where a character would have to spend time "running errands". When I saw that as a kid, I wasn't sure what they meant, but I thought maybe it was just something that adults had to do and that I would too, eventually. But as an adult, it's still not been a thing for me. But now, I realise - those characters had to spend all morning "running errands" because they didn't have the option of just "popping out"! Mystery solved.
@nute2706
6 ай бұрын
Date format, the whole putting the month first followed by the day. My wife (American) does this which assuming you are born in the first 12 days of the month, leads to endless confusion when she puts it into her driving licence application, date of birth when buying airline tickets etc. Of course we do it the right way :) but your milage may vary...
@lifestoryguy
4 ай бұрын
If you think popping out to the Post Office for 20 minutes is fast, it's possible to walk to a supermarket and get a week's shopping in 30 minutes.
@Martyntd5
6 ай бұрын
Alanna, re the time, when you get familiar with it, you dont have to convert 1800 to 6pm, you just know. It's like multiplication tables. You dont need to figure out what 7x5 is, you just instantly know it's 35. Once you get to this point, 24hr is just easier, faster, better. The point, if you want to use grandma time, fine. But there is a reason why the military use 24 hr clocks. It's not just a cultural preference, it's objectively better.
@pc50547
5 ай бұрын
I am a Canadian and I use 24 hr time because I have colleagues across time zone
@nilsdesperandum
5 ай бұрын
We don't only use the 24 hr clock in the UK. Like many things we are bilingual. So we are quite comfortable switching between metric and imperial measurements. We measure our Pizzas in inches... Also i guarantee you that the Canadian military will use the 24 hr clock as that is Co-ordinated Universal Time, a.k.a. "Zulu time"
@rebeccacorbin1590
3 ай бұрын
I'm an American with a British heritage that dates back to the 1600s. Although I grew up sort of 1st generation in the Chicago area, my parents and American ancestors pioneered from SW Virginia through S. Central Kentucky. Interestingly, that said we always had Sunday roast. Going as far back as anyone can remember. It must be in the English DNA.
@markchapman1757
2 ай бұрын
1984 is the year after I left school. Also the first time I heard Queen " I want to break free" song.
@bobblebardsley
6 ай бұрын
2:15 I once did the reverse of this, I was scheduled to start work at 16:00 (4pm) but I somehow converted the 4pm into 14:00 and showed up two hours early, they let me start but it turned my 8-hour shift into a 10-hour shift 😵💫 I will say though, I think a lot of Americans think British people use "military time" but we're not here saying "I'll see you at oh-six-hundred" or "The pub closes at twentythree-hundred hours". It's just automatic, I see 23:00 and think/say 11pm, I see 07:00 and think/say 7am. I don't _consciously_ subtract 12 hours to get the 'right' time, it's just automatic. The only time I'd really consider saying "seventeen-fiftysix" or whatever out loud is with a train/plane departure time, there are probably other exceptions, but in most cases I'd just call that 5:56pm or just 'five to six'.
@JakeJakeP
6 ай бұрын
I’m not reading all of that
@bobblebardsley
6 ай бұрын
@@JakeJakeP OK? Sorry I have never met you before in my life and didn't fit into your 20-word attention span 👍
@shaunfarrell3834
6 ай бұрын
@@bobblebardsley obviously related to a goldfish!
@bobblebardsley
6 ай бұрын
@@shaunfarrell3834 I mean it was a long comment but if you don't have time to read it, how do you have time to complain about it?? 🤪😂
@flickpad
5 ай бұрын
When I was a kid, all clocks were analogue and 12 hour notation ruled. This remained the case for a while after digital clocks became common. For me there was a light bulb moment in my twenties when my company required me to use 24 hour notation and I found I preferred it. As for the rest of the country, and knowing my countrymen as I do, it seems likely that 24 hour became widespread because it's the default setting on lots of devices, and I suspect people couldn't be arsed to change it.
@davidkrause4871
6 ай бұрын
here's a dipping idea. in colorado, we serve honey with the pizza. when you eat the pizza and only have the crusts left, you can dip them in the honey. like getting dinner and dessert.
@lawrencegt2229
6 ай бұрын
Some surprises in here: - No suggestion of Peanut butter & Marmite - taste sensation on hot buttered toast! The British crisp (ready salted) or hot chip sandwich. - Reversed uses of cutlery: Brits will use knife & fork for hot food (pizza, burgers) whereas North Americans use their hands; conversely Brits will eat cake with their hands (unless having it with hot custard), whereas North Americans tend to use special tiny forks.
@nicktankard1244
6 ай бұрын
We didn’t have peanut butter in my home country. I’ve only known about it from American movies. So when I first went to the US in my mid 20s, I tried it and instantly loved it. I don’t eat PB&J sandwiches very often, but I love them.
@davidboydarnott417
6 ай бұрын
I think you want to be bamboozled and walk around with your eyes open drinking in the delights of Earth and be free to think random thoughts when presented with a new discovery! Your brain just needs processing time but you have an excellent flare for describing what you are thinking 👍Thanks for sharing! And best of luck on your Journey of Learning!👍
@TrevM0nkey
6 ай бұрын
the only thing to dip pizza in... is curry sauce. Proper curry sauce like madras or masala, not chip shop curry sauce.
@oldman1734
4 ай бұрын
With 24 hour clock only the second half of the day is awkward. But all you do is just knock 2 off the second number. 14.00 hours is 2 o’clock.
@NJTaylor434
3 ай бұрын
I'm an English male and I take peanut butter and jam sandwiches to work regularly. My colleagues laugh at me and I'm like mate they are actually great. work lunches that require nothing but two jars are the way forward.
@mattnunn5934
6 ай бұрын
Got sent this video by my Canadian girlfriend. Listening to you talk about the differences, I can totally understand. I'm in the UK and she is in Manitoba. Yeah, there are differences, but it does make for an interesting conversation.
@bryansmith1920
6 ай бұрын
Alanna in my 70yrs as a Brit, I've coped with the fact that a pint x 2 is a quart, but also that a meter is 3ft, 3"'s, But I've also been a Brit squaddie, So I know Zero hour is not midnight at my family home, Also klicks are something a Brit Squaddie tabs for exercise, But as my eldest Great-Grandchild once asked me, Grandpop how do you know, So much ???, It's kind of difficult living without learning, things that are Important, to us
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