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  • - Hi, we're Joel and Lia.

  • - And today's video is all about misconceptions

  • about the UK, so the idea for this

  • came from Google! - Goo!

  • (laughs)

  • Google! - Google!

  • (laughs)

  • - Actually, it was my own idea.

  • I did have to go on Google to like Google it.

  • - Yeah.

  • - 'Cause I only came up with one.

  • - Yeah.

  • - I was in America and, or maybe it wasn't in America.

  • - I think you must've been driving in America.

  • I've heard, I've heard this story, no?

  • - I was driving, let's say I was driving.

  • - Okay.

  • - And I get a message from someone being like, oh,

  • I thought you used kilometers per hour.

  • I think I highlighted the dashboard--

  • - Okay. - With the speedometer.

  • And they were like-- - On Instagram stories?

  • - Yeah. - #FollowUsHere

  • - That's weird, follow us at these, these places.

  • - These addresses. - Addresses.

  • And they were like that's weird, like why are you using

  • miles per hour, is that an American car?

  • And I was like, are you joking?

  • Brits use miles per hour, like what are you on about?

  • - Yeah.

  • - And I realized it's 'cause Europe tends to be

  • kilometers per hour and so they obviously think

  • oh, you're part of Europe, you use that, but we don't,

  • we uses miles per hour.

  • - Yeah, it's like when an American asks you

  • like, how many kilometers away is that?

  • And I think they think they're trying to be

  • helpful to you-- - Yeah.

  • - And you're like, I really don't know kilometers.

  • - We don't do kilometers, all our signs--

  • - Especially not kilometers per hour.

  • - Are miles. - Yeah.

  • - Like it would say, London, 60 miles away.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Or it's like, going 60 miles per hour.

  • - Yeah.

  • - It's all miles, miles, miles, miles.

  • - I know what like driving at 10 miles per hour feels like.

  • - Yeah, whereas kilometers-- - 'Cause I'm a grandma.

  • - No idea.

  • - Kilometers per hour, I couldn't tell you.

  • - I noticed that recently I've been putting kilograms

  • on my Instagram because my-- - Oh yeah.

  • - Trainer is saying do it in kilograms,

  • but that's not normal, loads of people are like

  • oh, we Americans don't do kilograms,

  • it must be a Europe thing.

  • And I'm like, no, it's not even in the UK,

  • we tend to do stone or pounds.

  • - Oh, I quite like kg's.

  • - Do you? - Yeah.

  • - But what did you grow up learning, pounds?

  • - Stones. - Yeah, stones, then pounds.

  • So there's 14 pounds in a stone.

  • - Yeah.

  • - And that's what we use, whereas Americans I think

  • purely use pounds, they don't use stone.

  • - Oh, I have no idea how many pounds I am.

  • I think, 'cause when we were in that gym in America

  • it had one of those proper. - Oh, proper scales.

  • - And we went on YouTube where we were like how to use

  • a proper scale. (Joel laughs)

  • - All the viewers must just be like, you're so thick.

  • - Obviously you have to like move it

  • until the thing balances. - Yeah.

  • - But I just, I was like, but surely like

  • if your eyes are a bit off and that bit

  • is never gonna really look completely balanced.

  • - Yeah.

  • - And that's why, and you can lie to yourself as well,

  • you can be like, mm, I think that's my weight, because--

  • - Yeah.

  • - And then that just, I, I don't know.

  • - Yeah. - Anyway.

  • - It's confusing scale, like we don't know how to use that

  • as #millennials. - Millennials.

  • - We just like digital things.

  • - Yeah, I like to just stand on the scales

  • and be shown the number-- - Yeah.

  • - And I'm like that's what it is.

  • - Yeah. - But, yeah.

  • - But anyway, that was the first one,

  • we use miles per hour just like in America

  • and we use miles just like in America.

  • - Miles, yeah, so we're very similar.

  • - Very similar.

  • - So, the next misconception is about our monarchy,

  • the queen, and the royal family.

  • So the misconception is that the queen rules Britain,

  • but she doesn't-- - No.

  • - We have a Prime Minister who rules the country

  • and the queen is sort of here to look good.

  • - Yeah.

  • - No, she's here for kind of--

  • - Like ceremony, I love that you just aren't even

  • obviously like subtly like looking at her.

  • She's just here for ceremonial reasons,

  • like just to like all the pomp and the like Britishness.

  • - Yeah. - She's here for tourists.

  • Like that's literally what the royal family here for.

  • - And they do a cracking job. - They do a great job.

  • - And obviously they do their sort of royal duties,

  • no one really knows what they go and do,

  • but they do, they do really good stuff.

  • - They do.

  • They bring so much money into the country,

  • more money than they cost the taxpayer.

  • - Yeah.

  • - So anyone that complains about them being like,

  • oh, we're supporting people.

  • It's like no. - They're helping us.

  • - Like they're helping our country.

  • - Yeah. - Like most of--

  • - I'm such a big fan, I love them.

  • - Same.

  • But so many tourists, if you're not British

  • and you wanna come to the UK the chances are

  • you wanna come because you wanna see Buckingham Palace,

  • you wanna just like see all the like royally things,

  • all of the palaces. - Just, all of, yeah.

  • All of it, Windsor Castle. - Yeah.

  • - Go and see like St. Paul's Cathedral--

  • - Afternoon tea. - And all of that.

  • - Yeah. - Yeah.

  • But they do, they do actually, so the queen

  • can overrule something if she wants to.

  • - Yeah. - But they, they never do.

  • - Yeah, I think they have, a monarch hasn't done that

  • for like hundreds of years or something.

  • - Yeah.

  • - But technically they can be like, no, you can't pass

  • that law, but they can't actually like pass a law

  • themselves either. - No.

  • - Like the queen can go actually you know what,

  • I'm gonna make it illegal for you to have fun, like.

  • - No, she can't do that. - She can't do that at all.

  • - She can't do that, the Prime Minister can though.

  • - Yeah, the Prime Minister can, and Theresa May

  • probably would, let's be honest.

  • - Let's be honest. (laughs)

  • She probably would stop us having fun.

  • - Yeah, although she does run through fields of wheat,

  • so she is fun. - Yeah.

  • And she loves Abba. - Oh yeah.

  • - She loves it. - Awe, she's so sweet.

  • - She actually, she would have fun with us.

  • - Yeah, she would.

  • - She's just a clown. - She is, awe.

  • Good old Theresa.

  • - Good old Theresa. - Yeah.

  • - Will we get away with that in our contract

  • calling Theresa May a clown?

  • - Yeah. - Yeah, fine.

  • - Yeah, it's good behavior. (laughs)

  • Okay, the next misconception is that Britain is a country,

  • which I guess most people think that it is

  • and even I as a Brit will probably be like oh yeah,

  • Britain, like a country, but technically it's not,

  • it's a collection of countries,

  • 'cause Britain is made up of Scotland, Northern Ireland,

  • England, and Wales. - Wales.

  • - Which Wales always gets forgotten, doesn't it?

  • - It does.

  • - Americans don't tend to know what Wales is.

  • - Yeah, do you guys go want to go to Wales.

  • - Honestly.

  • - Like you do go oh, let's go to Cardiff,

  • like let's go and have some fun in Wales.

  • - You should go, a great castle there, Cardiff Castle.

  • - Oh, I'd love to go. - Gorgeous, yeah.

  • - I've not been. - It's huge.

  • - We ought to do that. - Yeah, we should.

  • - Go on a near trip to Cardiff.

  • - We love Wales, I get sad when people overlook Wales,

  • 'cause I'm like, it's such a, a really beautiful

  • and really cool country. - Don't leave Wales out.

  • - Please. - Yeah.

  • I don't know why, it just made me think of Brittany,

  • like stop picking on Brittany.

  • - Oh, leave Brittany alone. - Leave Brittany alone.

  • - Leave Brittany alone!

  • - Leave Wales alone!

  • - No, include Wales! - Include Wales!

  • - Please, okay.

  • Didn't Donald Trump say something where like he thought

  • the UK, unless it's probably bad territory,

  • 'cause Trump made a mistake and he called Eng,

  • he thought England was the United Kingdom.

  • - Oh yeah, I remember that.

  • - And he, he said something like in an interview

  • and then, or was it Piers Morgan, like corrected him

  • or something. - Yeah.

  • - And then he was like oh yeah, I knew that, I knew that.

  • - Yeah, and it's like oh my gosh.

  • - And it was really funny 'cause everyone in the UK

  • was tweeting about it, like of course Donald Trump--

  • - The President of the United States like--

  • - Made that mistake, yeah.

  • - But then to be fair, like it is confusing.

  • You can call us the United Kingdom,

  • you can call us the British Isles, or Great Britain,

  • or just Britain, or England Island, Scotland, Wales,

  • or like Northern Ire, like there's so many different names

  • that make up different sort of territories of the UK

  • that it's just really confusing.

  • - The British Isles.

  • - The British Isles includes like the Republic of Ireland

  • whereas Britain doesn't include the Republic of Ireland.

  • - No, it doesn't. - It includes Northern Ireland

  • So it's just confusing, like the different words,

  • like no wonder people get confused.

  • But still, the President probably should've got that correct

  • especially as he is descended from Scotland.

  • - Oh yeah!

  • - I think his mom is Scottish.

  • - Scottish mom. - Scottish.

  • - Scottish Trumpy mum. (laughs)

  • Okay, the next one is that guns are illegal in the UK.

  • Well, it's only during this video that I've actually now

  • found out that they're not completely illegal in the UK.

  • - Yeah.

  • - You can actually get a gun, but you can't

  • actually get heavy duty automated weapons.

  • - Yeah.

  • So you can get air rifles like without a license

  • and we have one at my house.

  • - Do you? - Yeah, mm-hmm.

  • - Get that on the quiet, didn't you?

  • - I think I've spent about four years at shooting rats.

  • - No way.

  • - Yeah. - No.

  • - So and it's quite a powerful gun.

  • - That was in London?

  • - No, house at home in Hampshire.

  • - Oh, I was gonna say. - Not in London.

  • - You've got a gun in London.

  • - Yeah, that's like a massive like air rifle thing.

  • - Oh my gosh.

  • - You can get them from shops without a license.

  • - British YouTuber admits to having gun

  • at home to shoot rats! (laughs)

  • You would get the shite. - Such a rebel.

  • - Oh my god, okay, do you have it in the garage.

  • - But you can, so I'm gonna have to read this,

  • 'cause I can't, but you can get semi-auto

  • or bolt action guns with a license,

  • so I don't know what that means, but that's like hunters,

  • farmers, anyone who needs those guns

  • can actually get them, but you have to have a license

  • and they have to be like locked away

  • when they're not being used.

  • So you can get guns in the UK, it's not like--

  • - They're not like completely illegal.

  • - They're completely illegal, it's just that there are

  • strong laws surrounding it that makes it really safe.

  • - Yeah, which is I think good practice, hopefully,

  • good example as well. - Yeah, hope so.

  • - A lot of countries, if they want to.

  • - Yeah. - Not gonna trigger anyone.

  • - No.

  • - But I can't believe that, that's so funny.

  • You're like we've got a gun at home.

  • - Yeah, we've got an air rifle.

  • I don't know where it is. - It must be in the garage.

  • - It used to be under our sofa in the conservatory.

  • - No way. - Yeah.

  • 'Cause that's where me and my dad would like

  • open the windows go searching, like just like camp there

  • and like shoot the rats as they go go by.

  • - That's so fun. - So much fun.

  • - Oh my gosh.

  • - We only shot them, by the way, I'll get people triggered

  • being like oh my gosh, he shot the rat.

  • Because I had chickens, and when you get chickens

  • you get rats 'cause the rats like eating chicken food,

  • so we were like infested with rats in our garden.

  • - Oh no.

  • - So we just had to put out rat poison,

  • we set out traps. - Was it fun?

  • - And then drown the rats in there, and we had to shoot them

  • - Right.

  • - And I just had to get rid of them 'cause they aren't

  • getting to my chickens, 'cause they can kill your chickens

  • as well, they can give them diseases or like plague them.

  • - Oh no.

  • - And so I was like I'm doing this for you Mazie.

  • - Yeah, oh my gosh.

  • - Put a cap in your ass. (laughs)

  • And Oscar would join in and he'd chase--

  • - No!

  • - So obviously not when the gun was around

  • 'cause we didn't wanna shoot Oscar,

  • but if Oscar saw a rat he'd like run after it

  • and once this rat climbed up the tree

  • and like ran across a branch and then the branch

  • was obviously really week, so it like dangled,

  • and the rat was like no, and Oscar was beneath it,

  • and it dropped, and Oscar like ran to get it,

  • but the rat was super fast and like ran under the shed.

  • But Oscar's great at catching rats.

  • - For context, that's Joel's dog.

  • - Oh yeah, sorry, not my little brother.

  • - Yeah, I imagine. (laughs)

  • My little brother Oscar was like, went underneath the tree.

  • (laughs)

  • - But yeah. - Wow.

  • That's, rats, can they go that fast?

  • - Oh yeah, rats are super fast.

  • - Even though they're fat and disgusting?

  • - Yeah.

  • And we have baby rats as well.

  • - So you've seen it all then. - I've seen it all.

  • - But do you, did you get a little flashlight, flashlight.

  • - Oh, we did it during the day.

  • - Oh, great.

  • - They're brave little blighters.

  • - Oh, are they?

  • - Yeah, they're out during the day.

  • - That brave little blusher. - Yeah.

  • - I'm just imagining you and your dog like

  • trying to get them. - So good.

  • And then we'd just have fun and like put some tin cans

  • and then just have a shoot at them.

  • - Oh really?

  • - I haven't done that for ages though.

  • - Oh wow, wow, you ought to sort of do that again

  • and film it. (laughs)

  • - But I think that will be quite surprising

  • to lots of Americans 'cause I think that the stereotype

  • is that in the UK everything's like all guns are illegal.

  • - Yeah, surprising to me. - Yeah.

  • - Yeah, I mean it's surprising, it's probably

  • surprising to them as well. - Yeah.

  • I guess it's not for me 'cause I've worked on a farm

  • so I've always been around guns and I know

  • that you can have them, but it's just very strict laws

  • around it. - Yeah.

  • - But yeah.

  • - Remember when we were in that supermarket in Walmart

  • and I thought that the food was ice cream.

  • - Oh yeah, that was bait. - Bait.

  • - Live bait.

  • It was like worms or locusts or something

  • and Lia was like ooh, ice cream, by the hunting,

  • that's unusual.

  • Oh what was that, ice cream and guns.

  • - I, I know, I did. (laughs)

  • - So good.

  • - I know, I did, and we were reading the comments,

  • and everyone was like when she thought that that was

  • ice cream, of course I just saw it and thought oh ice cream.

  • - I mean, I didn't think it, I was just like mm yeah.

  • - Yeah. - But yeah, you're crazy.

  • - It was fun, it helped with the comment section.

  • - Yes, it did. - That went very well.

  • - That was, it went really well.

  • - It went really well. (laughs)

  • - But let us know down in the comments if there are

  • any other things you think about the UK,

  • like what do you think about us,

  • we'll let you know if it's a misconception

  • or whether it's true.

  • - I'm trying to think of if I, if I know of any

  • that are like, oh that we all live,

  • that we all know the queen, obviously that's so not true.

  • - Oh yeah, it's not true.

  • - We'd love to meet the queen.

  • - That would be great, Lizzie, we'd love to meet Lizzie.

  • - But that's like a stereotype.

  • - Oh yeah, Lizzie. - Lizzie.

  • - Anyway, thanks for watching guys,

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  • And we'll see you next time.

  • - Yeah, see you soon, bye. - Bye.

  • We all wake up and drink like five cups of tea.

  • - [Joel] I mean, you probably do.

  • - [Lia] Yeah, I've been drinking a lot of tea lately.

  • - [Joel] That's not a miscon, that's a conception.

  • - [Lia] That is a conception.

  • - [Joel] It's not a misconception, that's a conception.

  • - [Lia] That we've all got bad teeth.

  • - [Joel] Yeah, that's a really bad misconception

  • 'cause clearly look at us, our teeth are sparkling.

  • - [Lia] Well I could do with a clean, a deep clean.

- Hi, we're Joel and Lia.

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