Why Foreigners Think Brits Are Weird

Are British people weird?? Some foreigners seem to think so! Here's weird things British people do that they think are normal, from the perceptive of non-Brits!

I love learning about British culture and how weird we can all be. Have a weird UK quirk you want to share? Make sure to leave a comment!

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Hey! I'm Alanna - a thirty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.

I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a Youtube video every Tuesday plus an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.

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[sammic]

It's not us Brits who are weird, it's everyone else that is. 🤣

[CrazyInsanelikeafox]

We don't judge people based on where they are from..., we take the piss out of people based on where they are from and we love it.😊

[Clayton-S.]

I should hope everyone thinks we're weird...if not, we're clearly not doing it right!😂 Many thanks for another fun video Alanna😆👍

[ThatAngloSaxonBloke]

Strange thing Brits find about foreigners, especially Americans - They think the whole of the UK starts and finishes in London.

[MichaelJames-gv]

The British are great fantastic history culture and sence of humour, ive been here since the age of 13 from my native American Choctaw nation and i love it ❤

[MillsyLM]

I've spent almost 53 years perfecting my weirdness so i should bloody well hope that they find us weird! 😂😂

[TheYopogo]

One of my coworkers is German, and she says they have a saying:
If you're not weird, you're not normal.

[timothykeech]

Love the humour. This gave me a chuckle or two. One of the most endearing things about the British is their ability to laugh at themselves. I love that you can see how ridiculous we are.

[andywilliams]

We complain about our public transport in the UK, because while it's massively better than the USA and Canada, overall we know it could be and should be much better and we know that it's not as good as public transport in other European and Asian countries.

[buk]

we have significantly less snow in the UK on average than we use to, especially over the past 30 or so years. so consequently everyone is worse at dealing with it if they are younger, and councils have shifted priority's.

[billybunter]

When we say right in that way it's an exclamation of something final or a change in direction "Right, i'm off" or "Right are we going" adding the leg slapping exaggerates the meaning which is handy sometimes when you're stuck in a conversation you don't really want to be in and saying right and leg slapping put's an end to it unless you get someone who completely ignores it and carries on talking in that case other tactics have to be used 🤔.

[andywilliams]

The reason security and Police Officers exist inside some McDonalds at night is because of the UK's strong late-night clubbing alcohol culture. The police and security guards are there to prevent any drunk customers from becoming disorderly.

[grantparman]

As a US American, I can see how some people would say that Brits are weird, but US Americans are even weirder, and not always in good ways!

[Immortal-Headcase]

Over the accents, people don't realise, just England alone is made up of several ancient kingdoms and the citizens tended to never wander far from towns and villages. Things are changing now as more people get cosmopolitan and one of the most famous accents is starting to die out, the cockney accent, because white people are a minority in London these days, and the accent is dying because new cockneys from far and wide are changing it.

[clivemortimore]

I live in the middle of nowhere Lincolnshire and my village has 3 buses a week, so not all the UK has good public transport.

[TerryD]

Unlike Europe, there is no 'fill line' on UK alcoholic drinks glasses. There was an attempt in the early 2000s to create this as a legal requirement, but the breweries complained that if they offered full measures. Many glasses do have lines around the top about 10mm below the rim, but these are false efforts to convince customers that it is a 'fill line', I know of quite a few people I know who think that is the case and accept drinks only filled to that line - not all glasses have those. I live for part of the year in France and the local bars all have these official, legally required as well lines, as the CE quality mark and the landlords always fill to the line or even over. It is not illegal to fill above these lines, that is a fiction servers and landlords use in the UK.

[dprid]

I grew up in rural England (Shropshire) and snow was just something you dealt with. Nothing stopped - you just took it easy and you still got there. But now snow is less common, councils have sold all their snow equipment, and modern cars are terrible in snow without specialist tyres. And people panic at the sight of it. My wife comes from a place where getting seveal feet of snow overnight was common, and getting snowed in was not an acceptable excuse for not showing at work, so she laughs at how Englands grind to a halt with an inch of snow.

[carpediem]

What foreigners should learn is London isn’t England or Britain

[michaels]

I once got home from Bradford to Holmfirth at 2am, but it was so beautiful! on a main double-deck bus route road, the trees were full of snow and brushed the top of the car. It was like driving through a snow magic-tunnel in the woods.

[barrygower]

I remember being able to work out which part of London people came from by their accent. My Clapham Junction accent is different from Wimbledon, Plaistow, Tottenham etc.
But now that the number of Londoners has declined over the years, this is much more difficult.