If you want to learn some English
through comprehensible input and you
want to learn a little bit more about
British culture, then this is the video
for you. Hello everybody, my name is Sam
and welcome back to English Sponge.
Today we are going to be talking about
five different ways to piss off a Brit.
Yes, you heard it correctly. We are
going to be talking about five different
ways to make a British person angry. But
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started with the list.
So, the first thing that you can do to
piss people off here in Britain is to
stand on the left hand side of an
escalator.
It is an unspoken rule here in Britain
that when traveling on an escalator, you
must stand on the right hand side. This
is so people who are in a rush can use
the left hand side of the escalator to
walk up or to walk down them without
being blocked by others. Something I see
so much here in London are tourists who
have not worked out this rule yet.
Tourists who stand with their family
across the escalator. The people who get
blocked behind them can get really
annoyed. The people who are blocked from
walking down or up the escalator can get
really angry about this, [screaming]
especially in London, especially during
rush hour.
Here in London, people move quickly and
they do not play around when it comes to
transport. So, it's best to avoid
standing on the left hand side of the
elevator to ensure you don't piss off
any brits.
Nice. So, that was the first way to piss
off a Brit. Now, let's move into number
two. So, the second thing that you can
do to piss off a British person is not
getting your round at the pub. So, when
we go drinking here in Britain,
especially when we go drinking in pubs,
we buy drinks in what we call rounds.
This is when one person from the group
buys everybody's drink. That is his
round. After everyone has finished their
drinks and are ready to start the next
one, the second person goes up and buys
everybody's drinks. We call it a round
because they're buying a round for
everybody. Each person goes up in a row
to buy their drinks for the rest of the
group. This usually continues until
everybody in the group has bought a
round. It means sometimes you end up
getting very drunk, especially if you're
in a big group with lots of people. Now,
if you don't buy a round for everybody
else at the pub, or if you don't at
least offer to buy around for everybody
in the pub, it can be seen quite badly
by others.
» Brian, it's your round.
» Brian,
where are you going?
Ryan,
» it can be seen as very rude and quite
disrespectful.
It's almost as if you're not acting like
a proper member of the group. So, it's a
big no no, of course. So, that was the
second way to piss off a Brit. Let's
move into the third way to piss off a
Brit. So everybody, the third way to
piss off a Brit is to use your phone's
speaker in public. Yeah, what's up man?
It's me, dude. You're never going to
believe it, right? So yesterday I'm down
by the river ths and I'm just kicking
around a soccer ball minding my own
business when all of a sudden this
British guy comes up to me and he's just
trying to insert the letter U into words
where the U doesn't even Now this is
especially true on public transport like
the underground or like buses. A way to
really piss off a Brit is to use your
phone speaker at full volume. Here in
the UK, it is considered quite rude and
quite disrespectful to others if you use
your phone speaker out in public. It's
almost saying that your conversation,
your music, your video, whatever it is,
it's saying that you believe it's more
important than everybody else's peace
and quiet, which is of course a big no
no. It's especially annoying to a
British person like myself if you're
having a loud phone conversation on
speaker phone. Conversation like this,
not a big deal. But when you have it out
on speaker phone for everyone to hear,
it's really annoying. Now, here's the
thing. I thought this was a social rule
everywhere. I thought everywhere had
this same unspoken rule to not play
music or not play videos out loud in
public. But living in Argentina showed
me this was not the case. In certain
countries, it is deemed socially
acceptable, socially okay to play music
out your phone and public transport, to
watch videos loudly. Um, that was
something that really surprised me cuz
over here in the UK, it's seen really
badly. It's a shorefire way to piss off
a Brit.
So if you do this in Britain, be
prepared for some dirty looks. People
probably won't say anything to you, but
they will not be very happy. So that was
the third way to piss off a Brit. Let's
get into the penultimate way to piss off
a Brit. Number four. Now the fourth way
to piss off a Brit, and this is a big
one, is to cut in line. Cutting in line
is a big social no here in Britain. You
cannot do it.
Us Brits are stereotyped for loving
cues. And I have to be honest, I think
this stereotype is true. British people
are fantastic at queuing up. And pushing
in a queue is seen very badly.
If you push in a queue in Britain, if
you cut the line in Britain, it's very
very disrespectful.
People view it as the person who cutting
the line thinks they are better than
everybody else. They think that their
time is more valuable than everybody
else's. Um, so yeah, it's definitely
something to avoid. Now, this is one if
you cut in line, this will actually make
British people speak up. Some of these
other things, people would get pissed
off, but they'd be very quiet about it.
Cut in line in front of a Brit and
they're definitely definitely going to
say something to you. This is something
to avoid in Britain for sure if you
don't want confrontation.
Um, so yeah, that was the fourth way to
piss off a Brit. Let's get into the
fifth and final way to piss off a
British person. Okay guys, so the fifth
and final way to piss off a Brit, and
for me, the biggest way to piss off a
Brit is to call football soccer.
» I love soccer.
Yep, this is a really big one. Calling
our beloved national sport soccer and
not football is a guaranteed
shorefire
100%
certainty
way to piss off a British person. In
fact, I'm getting annoyed just thinking
about it. Football is a massive part of
the culture here in Britain and our
passion for it runs deep almost like a
religion for many people. So when people
come here and they call our beloved
national treasure the wrong name, it
cuts deep. It can it can really really
piss people off. That's for sure. Now
here's the thing. It's called football
for a very, very simple reason. You have
a ball and you kick that ball with your
feet. That weird stop start sport that
the Americans call football. Doesn't
make sense, right? I have never
understood why they would call it
football.
Firstly, it is not a ball. It is an egg.
Secondly,
90% of the game they have the ball in
their hands. So, please somebody explain
to me why that for them is football.
Nope. There is only one football and
it's played here with your feet. A
really easy way to annoy a new group of
British friends that you may have is to
make this mistake. So, when you're
speaking with British people, make sure
to call it football and not soccer.
Disgusting.
[laughter]
So, guys, that was my list of five
different ways to piss off a Brit. I
really, really hope you enjoyed this
video. Uh, I hope you learned some new
vocabulary along the way. And more
importantly, I hope you learned a little
bit more about the culture here on this
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