Advent Calender 03.12.2022
Added 2022-12-03 17:00:08 +0000 UTCOriginal Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02UWk1miKkY
Today we are learning something about the UK and it´s people :)
Have fun :)
Comments
Don't worry about your messages. I really like reading them. 😊
Nicologik
2022-12-05 13:56:37 +0000 UTCI'm glad you found it interesting. I just read back what I wrote and I thought it seemed long-winded and pedantic. But that's what I am so that's how it comes out.
Stephen Males
2022-12-05 11:55:47 +0000 UTCIt´s so funny to hear, that you describe the video as odd. :) Because to someone from another country, (I´m speaking for myself actually) :) it didn´t feel odd at all. If anything I found it yuper interesting, but at the same time, was also very interested for all the comments about this video. And wether things are really like that, or not. By the way the Marmite will not be in the second part, but I tried Vegimite once (I think it´s from Autralia, but tastes liek Marmite?) But I didn´t like it at all, I´m sorry. :) Thank you so much for the explanation about November 5th. I had no idea about the whole incident. Now I understand it much better. :) It is so interesting to read your comment and it gives me a new perspective about many things in the video. I do now understand why you think the video was a bit odd. :) But in addition with all the comments that do clarify all those topics, it´s exciting to find out so much stuff about another country, from the eyes of people who really live there. :)
Nicologik
2022-12-05 10:30:05 +0000 UTCThank you for telling me about your experiences in New Zealand. :) It´s so interesting to get insights from different countries. I really enjoy reading the comments for this one. :) Also, we had a chocolate cigarette, and a bubble gum cigarette in Germany, when I was a kid. :)
Nicologik
2022-12-05 10:18:41 +0000 UTCI can't generalize for people in New Zealand, but here are my experiences: 1 - Only small bathroom mats. 2 - 'Waheeeeey' - nope. I don't go to many bars - I would just feel embarrassed for the person. 3 - Guy Fawkes Night - Bonfires or burning the "Guy" are not done here. Private use of fireworks is decreasing and changing to public displays. Also, they are trying to move it from November (fire risk because getting into summer here) to the mid-winter solstice (as it gets dark earlier as well). 4 - I'm not a tea (or coffee) drinker and never really got socialized to believe it's a panacea. 5 - "Oh, go on then" - nope - although I recognise it from British TV. 6 - "Caterpillar cake" - nope. 7 - Non-alcoholic drinks in glass bottles - I recall having fizzy grape juice at Christmas. In terms of an adult product for kids - years and years ago they used to have a candy that looked like a cigarette. 8 - "to pop round" - I probably only know it from British TV. 9 - Freddos economics - nope. My friends and I have compared how much you could historically buy from a Fish-and-Chips shop. 10 - "Pigs in blankets" - not really.
Andrew Vignaux
2022-12-03 22:23:36 +0000 UTCInteresting reaction to an odd video. It was a very weird selection of "quirks" in my opinion. I guess that every British person would come up with a completely different list. I would definitely have included Marmite but maybe that's in part two. My dad still has carpet in the bathroom. I haven't lived anywhere that had it since I left home in 1981. I have never shouted "wa-heeey!" and I don't remember anyone else shouting that specific word either. But I do hear general cheering and applause if a glass is dropped and smashed in a pub. Not from me, I'm too much of an introvert. The original idea was to celebrate the fact that the gunpowder plot failed. It happened in 1605 and the plotters were Catholics trying to kill the protestant King James and replace him with a Catholic. At the time there was a lot of religious hatred on both sides and the plotters who were caught were killed in horrible ways. And the public were encouraged to burn effigies of Guy and the other conspirators. Nowadays half the people who celebrate Guy Fawkes night regard it more as a celebration of the attempt to blow up parliament rather than the fact that it failed. Not because of any religious allegiance. We just have a very low opinion of our politicians. There is a German comedian called Henning Wehn who lives in Britain and he despairs of our contemptuous attitude to our elected MPs. We do also have fireworks on New Year's Eve. In fact these days it seems to go on from Nov 5th to the New Year without a break. Many of us do love our tea but coffee shops like Starbucks and Costa are gradually changing this I think. I don't think "go on then" is as common as that lady is saying. People do sometimes say it when they are accepting an offer of something nice but unhealthy but it's certainly not universal. People also say "why not?" or just accept the offer. I know what the Colin the caterpillar cake is but I don't have children and I'm too old for it to have been a thing when I was a kid back in the 1960s. I have never even heard of 320s or any if the things she says about it. When I ws young we used to drink shandy from a can or bottle if we wanted to seem grown up. If you ordered shandy a pub it would be beer with some lemonade in it. If you bought it in a shop in a can or bottle it would be lemonade with a tiny bit of beer in it. So tiny that it didn't count as alcoholic. I'm sure I sometimes say I pooped out or in or to the shops, but I think it's a bit old fashioned now. Basing your view of economics and inflation on a Freddo. I think she is either making this up or basing it on her own small circle if friends. I have honestly never heard of it. Although I always based it on the price of chips (fries) or crisps (chips). I don't think that pigs in blankets were around until after I had stopped eating meat but they are very popular n ow. But like she says only eaten at Christmas by most people.
Stephen Males
2022-12-03 21:11:41 +0000 UTC
