15 Weird BRITISH Culture Facts 😅🇬🇧 | UK Life, Habits & Stereotypes

Weird things British people do! After a decade of living in England and Scotland, here are some UK habits foreigners don't understand. I absolutely love British culture and all of these are just lighthearted observations! What are YOUR favourite weird British stereotypes and facts? I'd love to hear all about them!

00:00​​​​ Intro
00:17 You alright?
01:22 Bathrooms
02:52 Queuing
03:12 Tutting
04:08 English tea
04:52 Sandwiches
05:46 Social class
07:12 British meals
07:54 Pet names
08:48 British politeness
10:25 British humour
11:00 UK fashion
12:21 Trashy holidays
13:44 British TV
14:54 Xs in messages
15:53 I love British culture

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[girlvsglobe]

What's YOUR favourite British quirk? Let me know! 😁🇬🇧💂 Thanks so much for watching everyone, don't forget to follow me on Instagram @girlvsglobe ❤️

[kateperkins]

Love this ❤ i'm English but I recently moved back to the uk from Vietnam after 8 years abroad and observing British culture after being away is fascinating. People watching is my favorite thing to do!

[rayna]

I’m English and I HATE it when someone says ‘alright?’ I tend to reply out of panic ‘yes thanks, you?’ when they’re heading in the other direction and then they awkwardly say ‘yes thanks’ and that’s the end of the conversation💀

[Banunkie]

As a British person I feel like I need to give my side of this stuff:
"You alright?": Yeah, it's pretty much the British version of what's up, mainly just said by chavs

"Bathrooms": British people don't understand plumbing, there is no in between for boiling your hands off or freezing to death, including in the shower. Fun fact, we also have hard and soft water, if you have sensitive skin, stay out of the north cause that hard water will mess you up, yours truly, someone with sensitive skin renting a place with hard water. Tho we don't always have carpet in bathrooms, I've lived in 3 houses and not 1 has had carpeted bathrooms

"Queueing": We queue for everything, but some people don't understand them and will just queue wherever they like and it's annoying

"Tutting": British people don't get confrontational, we just put up with it and moan about it later. Tutting is pretty much "You're being an arse, stop being an arse please, I'm going to moan about this later"

"Tea": I don't like tea but it is pretty much the peak of Britain, Yorkshire tea is the best brand and it's pronounced "york-sure"

"Sandwiches": We love our cafes and cafes love their tiny sandwich platters. If you can think of it, we've probably made it into a sandwich. Steak, turkey, corned beef, eggs and bacon, fish fingers, etc

"Social class": I feel like this point could be called accents. You can pretty much pin point exactly where someone is from by their voice, I moved for uni and a lot of people pointed out how I was clearly from somewhere further south cause of my accent. I have Londoner friends, Newcastle friends, Yorkshire friends, Glasgow friends, Edinburgh friends and they all have very distinct accents

"Meals": So we have breakfast then dinner or lunch, both work tho people may get confused if you say dinner cause dinner and tea also work. If you call lunch "dinner" then you call dinner "tea" and only posh people call tea "supper" or you just tack on another meal at the end of the day and call it supper

"Pet names": Love, darling, honey, dear, sweetheart. Love it.

"Politeness": Pretty much everything you said, hit the nail on the head

"Humour": Politeness doesn't work in humour, your British friends will make fun of you and call you various thing. Also, British people love dark humour.

"Fashion": If it's a night out, people do not care. You're going to look your best even if you freeze to death. Also, around 16 to 20 degrees C is excellent weather for us.

"Holidays": This is what chavs mainly do

"British TV": I used to hate British TV but these days I love it. Some of the best ones are The Apprentice, 4 in A Bed, Come Dine With Me and if you want a peek into British "high school" life then look at the Educating series

"Xs in messages": Any adult will end messages with xx. Basically, it's just kisses. I've mentioned it to people who do it and sometimes they just say "I do it subconciously"

[leecal]

Great observations. The only things I was confused about that you said - were there being no outlets in bathrooms. We do have them. But purely for appliances such as shavers, toothbrush chargers etc. We don’t have carpets in bathrooms. Well if we do - it’s very old style. It’d be rare to see them.

[samuelrodriguez]

Australians love their coffee as much as British people love their tea. Personally I love both. Thank you for letting us understand & appreciate British culture better.

[unspoken]

Having manners is such a common thing here, like i went to my corner shop and i literally just bought a pack of sweets and managed to say thank you 8 times

[samimilly]

Taps are different in bathrooms due to history. Something about the water tanks/boilers storing bacteria which can make people sick if they drank it by mistake, so to stop this issue they separated the pipes from hot and cold and it's been this way since but it's no longer needed this way, I think due to it always being this way it's become the default

[pip.dxvis]

With the phrase 'you alright?' you usually respond with something like 'yeah you?' it's also pronounced more like 'youright' or depending on where your from 'youreet'

[curiousbirds]

In some British bathrooms, they don't use switch to turn on/off the light, but a rope to pull up and down 😄

[ajs]

I'm not from London, but I was in London a few days ago, and a young woman working in a tube station called me "darling". I'm male, she was female, and I was considerably older than her. So darling can be used by anyone, to anyone. It sounds friendly, (usually).

[lewis]

Main tea brands are:
- Tetley
- PG Tips
- Typhoo

Twinings and Yorkshire are for people getting ideas above their station.

[TravelingisFREEDOM]

This seems to be a very charming place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future when all this is over. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!

[ihorternopilskyi]

I'm going to London for a 6 months.
It'll be my first time.
So got learn about this country a little.
And probably your videos are the best for me. Because this is a pleasure to observe your beautiful face. And it's good that you don't have a British accent.
Thank you :)

[Chris_GY]

You have an electrician put a shaver socket in this is the only socket allowed in the bathroom due to the high electric current in Britain. The best way to solve the two tap problem is you just fill the sink with hot and cold water and mix it. New houses in Britain do have mixer taps though my house which was built seven years ago has a two mixer taps, a set of separate hot and cold taps and a single tap with hot and cold handles they run independently. It is normal to have a carpet in the bathroom, I have lino in my bathroom and downstairs toilet, if it doesn’t have a bath in it it’s not a bathroom. From working in a supermarket I remember Tetley been no.1, PG Tips, Twinnings small box teas then either Twinnings English breakfast tea or Yorkshire tea or Typhoo tea. We leave school in Britain not graduate that’s for college and university.

[demonduck]

Sorry is derived from sorrow and means sad, saying “I’m sorry about the weather” is like saying “it’s a shame the weather’s so bad”

[Cactuschld]

I was born and raised in the UK (and still live here) and I agree with every one of your points 🤣🤣

[adrianpetyt]

What you call the meals is a major class indicator! So is the name you use for the room of your house with the sofa/TV in it.

[MeredithAmyXu]

This is TOO GOOD!!! absolutely loved this.

[gyvenchi]

We do escalator queuing in San Francisco usually you will see it during rush hour. You know when someone is a tourist, or they don’t ride bart (metro service) on a regular basis.