whenever i put my hands like this it's like
shooting with a wide angle lens still living in this weird airbnb thing and not having a place
of my own but hey hello everybody and welcome back to an american tom scott said entirely
because of the red shirt in this video well not anymore my name is evan edinger and you
know what there's a lot of british things in the world i said that we're british and today we're
gonna be talking about some ridiculously british things found an ask uk thread on the old reddit
and i thought this was quite funny what is the absolutely most ridiculous british thing ever
that no other country could or would do also today's video is sponsored by the wig magazine
because they know there's multiple sides to every story you'll hear more about that later on in the
video but what is the most ridiculous thing ever well o.p of the reddit thread has one thing to say
they say for me it was the jaffa cake uh being a biscuit or a cake and that being a legal case
against hmrc uh where mcvities i can't pronounce that right one by baking an actual massive jaffa
cake to prove it was a cake so very ridiculously british if you guys aren't aware yes there is
an incredibly british thing to have happened essentially the company mikvettis make loads of
biscuits right or in the us cookies you go to the cookie aisle there'll be loads of different types
you got digestives you got hobnobs and you also have jaffa cakes now the thing that you need to
know about jaffa cakes is that for all intents and purposes they are kind of a biscuit they're very
unless you want to call it a tiny cake but the difference between biscuits and cakes in the uk
at least in terms of taxes in hmrc her majesty's royalties and customs is that cookies get the full
tax treatment but cakes they're actually known as a staple food somehow everyone needs a cake and so
they're zero rated there's no tax on that and so there's a big legal battle where the company was
like they're actually cakes we don't want to pay that tax they're not biscuits and they won
that that was big news it's a big news jaffa cakes it's in the name actually cakes just really tiny
either way uh next up what we got here is uh biscuits being passed around the office and
everyone pretending they didn't notice until it gets to them and then they're like oh thanks yeah
absolutely you like it's like the same thing not just with biscuits
but with a birthday card so like you see someone passing around the birthday
card because it's someone's birthday office you have to be like yeah i'm just working no i'm oh
oh yes birthday card yes i'll sign very very ridiculously british i feel like i was the
exact opposite though when it came to like cakes and things as soon as i figured out there was a
there's a cake i'm gonna be the first one to get a slice outside of the birthday boy okay
i'm a big fatty the most watched program in the country two years in a row uh was the final of a
baking competition i can't think of any countries where the equivalent of a televised village fete
would be more watched than big sports features or big political broadcasts i did not know that
the great british bake off or as they say in america the great british baking show
was really the most watched program in the uk i believe it but that is an incredibly uh british
thing i feel like there's no way any other program could surpass the super bowl more recently right
i'm fairly certain it's always the super bowl every year also the fact that for three years
now our christmas number one has been a sausage roll related song i'm very very happy with this
i love lad baby and even more that he does all of this for charity oh i'm not aware of this sausage
roll related christmas songs you guys over here are very obsessed with the christmas number one
what song is number one in the charts for the christmas week why i guess it's tradition it's
just tradition alex mclavine and john smayton i don't know who they are uh for those who are
too young to remember there was a terror attack on glasgow airport in 2007. mclevene and smayton
witnessed what was going on and kicked one of the terrorists very hard in the balls michael
veen in fact kicked so hard he damaged the tendon in his foot both were subsequently recommended and
commended for bravery smeaton even got the queen's gallantry medal can't think of anything more
british or precisely scottish than kicking some of the nuts and getting a medal from the queen for it
honestly never heard of that but uh absolutely amazing i feel like for some reason i could see
that happening maybe in denmark i don't know they've eaten their own prime minister or
something haven't they but wow ridiculous so he kicked a terrorist in the nuts so hard hurt his
foot and the queen went good show you get yourself a medal lovely and then oh hold on oh i guess the
doorbell did you ring my doorbell this is a room in a random flat i don't even have
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thanks for the ad read what isn't up next for the most british thing ever ridiculously has to
be ridiculously british we've got what about watership down you know that kids film where
the rabbits were being ripped apart for kids 63 rabbits die on screen in 91 minutes what lucky i
missed that we had some scary films growing up as a kid but 63 rabbits die on screen see also
animals of farthing wood i'm still traumatized by that i'm in my mid-30s i haven't seen this but the
only thing i can think of comparable that we had that you also must have had is like the secret of
nim is that what it was it's one about the lab rats really messed up film all the films from
that director really really like is it for a kid like oh geez it's really dark body mcboat face
was that really a uk thing why did i not know this bloody mcboat face what you get when you let the
internet decide ah yes when any pulls a goal as they say yeah never ever let the internet decide
any name of anything or mostly anything that's what's going to happen i do a poll right now
about it but you know youtube stop let me do those of you that missed out on that important part of
internet history the british government decided to let the internet choose the name for their
over 200 million pound polar research vessel their boat well body mcboatface was chosen and that's
that's the one very very dignified sadly though they did rename the ship to the rrs sir david
attenborough a nice name but bodie mcboatface definitely blows that one out of the water
that was a good pun all right it's about time i made some of those complain about houses
being built on the green belt while living in a house that was once built on greenbelt land
to be honest the place that i'm hoping to buy soon which is you know brand new properties
being built i've already seen people like in the group of other residents in that
area protesting about more houses being built nearby when i'm like the one that that you're in
literally just so you're like now that i've got this nobody else can have a place nearby i get the
reasoning but also i do find it funny the lack of self-awareness a bit oh there we go it's literally
the next one complaining about new builds when once your house was a new build literally
within like two years i like i said it's really interesting just built and yet people were like
no more actually the housing situation's been solved for me let's end it speaking of still
don't have the place but as of recording this valuation happening maybe i can get
the mortgage ah well speaking of the most ridiculously british things the french people
seem to find it hilarious that opening up pubs after lockdown was considered a major priority
that is very british and also frustrating only because it was like yeah sure funny culturally
but it really wasn't and shouldn't have been the priority okay i feel like most people can agree
especially considering that there were so many things that were still closed down like pubs were
wide open and football stadiums they're totally good but the arts plays movie theaters no no giant
football stadiums cinemas ridiculous the second part of the story hmrc then change the tax law so
they can be taxed whether they're a cake or a biscuit more the story the tax man always
wins thank you so much for following up with that information because i literally thought they'd won
that battle after all the legal fees mick matisse was like heck yeah the nation marcy was like we'll
just rewrite the law that's fine definitely uh very british there cheese rolling as much as i'd
like to say this is the most ridiculously british thing i feel like if you replace cheese with
something else the u.s would definitely be all over it for those of you where cheese rolling my
girlfriend literally just introduced me to this concept yesterday so i'm thankful because now
i can talk about this people will literally nearly break their spines tumbling down an incredibly
steep hill to be the first one to get the cheese that's rolling down congratulations britain
cheese isn't worth dying for in the uk maybe go somewhere else no offense good bree but
not worth your spine breaking into parts and becoming debris you guys say dappers don't you
ruins my pun oh i've got another one we went to the food and drink festival in bolton this weekend
warburtons had rocked up in a van and we're giving everyone a free hot crumpet you could have
butter or jam or marmite now that's a company whose marketing apartment knows its audience
no nonsense just have a crumpet on us i don't think i've ever seen a better received pr stunt
one time i tweeted that i'd never had crumpets and warburtons literally sent me like multiple
packs of crumpets i don't know how i could eat them all there was literally i want to
say like about like 80 of them it's a lot of crumpets i i literally filled up my
entire freezer and it was really delicious thank you warburtons good pr a good good
british ridiculousness yarn bombing british grannies knit hats for post boxes and it's
the most british thing i've ever seen it's awesome oh that sounds so adorable also yes ridiculously
british i've never heard of this let me look up some photos it's a type of graffiti or street
art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn yes congratulations britain
ridiculously british wow some of these yarn bombs displays are wild look at that oh that looks so
pretty oh my gosh someone yarn bombed themselves you learned something about this country every
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what are some other ridiculously british things cheering whenever someone drops a glass in a pub
i just can't help it if you hear some glass shattering it's a celebration for everybody
does that make the server feel less awkward if they've done it
i feel like i'd get embarrassed if i did that but also be like ah everyone's cheering for my failure
does any other country have the likes of lord buckethead running in elections
no that is ridiculously british congratulations brits being able to queue up in an orderly fashion
for taxis after all the pubs close is incredibly fascinating from a drunk american perspective
who queues up for taxis these days maybe me i don't know if you guys have noticed this in the uk
but all the ride handling apps are really bad uber it'll just constantly be hanging
up you won't find anyone i've tried the bolt i've tried nothing the black cabbie's now like ha ha
you'll have to come back to us i'd rather walk i got the night bus for two hours the other day
i just really don't like the experience it's too overpriced those black cabs but hey at
least they could pick you up these days and at least maybe a night bus will take me to peckham
someone walking into you or hitting you with their trolley or similar and yet you're the one
to apologize every time someone runs into me i'm like oh i'm sorry that i'm in your way
please let me escape an embarrassment but then as soon as the interaction
ends i always kind of mutter like even what was your fault i don't know if that's more british or
american so allow an inbred pedophile rapist to just walk free because of his lineage and title
awkward considering the news today the metropolitan police went we'll just drop that
uk monarchy brings in tourism genuine question off topic slightly supposedly the reason we
have the monarchy still in the uk is because it brings in tourism does it is are people
visiting to see the royal i don't think so this is a personal opinion you can visit
the palaces and rich people things that they have had but who's visiting for the monarchy
uh that i just don't know if that's a really good argument in this year of our lord it's just a bit
made up like the monarchy morris dancers i don't know what that means but i'm going to assume it's
when you go into a morrisons when they're having a sale and they they do a little dance when a fight
kicks in on the tube and everyone pretends that they haven't noticed someone getting their head
kicked in wow it's rude to pay attention to others on the two pantomimes for christmas absolutely
ridiculously british i remember going to my first pantomime and being so utterly confused i was like
why are there adults here this is like a live-action dora the explorer where is he he's
over behind you but everyone loves it everyone everyone loves it two taps one cold one warm
both wrong beans on toast correct no one outside the uk would ever attempt to eat that filth
unless you put cheese on it i used to live with a french lass who is utterly baffled by self-raising
flour the rest of the world just adds baking soda to their flour apparently we're lazy for this
i got really confused because i've never heard of that before either so i've accidentally bought
self-raising flour and been upset because i'm one of those people that follows a recipe and if
they say add baking soda to flour i'm going to do that i want to have it exact i'm not going to get
self-raising flour no i guess that is pretty british except i would assume america has 30
different variations of self-raising flour correct me if i'm wrong americans probably have blue flour
i've seen this blue syrup from cap and crunch recently and i'm gonna be very honest
most ridiculously american thing i've ever seen and i want to and the most ridiculously
british thing you probably could do is subscribe to a british american
on youtube it's my channel or watch another one of my fun reddit videos
they're pretty good thanks so much for stopping on by during my tumultuous time of my life
i hope you have a really nice rest of your week and i'll talk to you probably next week goodbye