east anglia too, it's "Urban" "roadman", as if we are all London. I'm from Essex, so t's generally go unheard of, water becomes wora and other simplifications, such as "Harwich" becoming "arridge". Also the "shut up" came from essex as it was said like this, "shh[hard end of H] up"
Where I live at least (The North-West, Northern Greater Manchester area), yes. Nearly every old van is white and most vans on the road are old, usually pre 2014 Ford Transits, often 2005 or earlier. Oftentimes, the people driving them are white males too, and the exhausts are often blowing and rather loud! --- Post updated --- About right, yes. Though where I live (Northern Greater Manchester, near the Yorkshire - Lancashire border) it'd be more like this: "Hello, how are you doing today?" "Areet pal, how're yee?" "Sir, I do not care though." "C'mon mate, does it look like I care?" "May you pick up some bread?" "Oi, pop down 'shops and get a loaf o' bread would yee?" Glossary: Areet - Alright Yee - You
Mostly things like Boot = 1. shoe 2. space for cargo in rear of car. As opposed to trunk and other similar definitions
I don't know if americans even know this, but in the UK all people with a TV must pay a TV license. Otherwise big scary detector vans will come after you. here equipped with sinister piano music Despite this, there have been 0 convictions from detector vans, and the only way people are convicted are by BBC knocking at your door. Except they don't have any legal power to search your home. So there are quite a few license dodgers. And as for the TV Vans, well the BBC can't tell us how they work, there are no patents and it was made up of a group of engineers in isolation. In otherwords, no one person knows how the TV license van works. There was a BBC one appearence of a TV License Van, but that's rigged by the BBC too, (one show is BBC), in a documentary form. At the moment the TV license evasion rate is about 27% according to TVLicensing, and i suspect it's going to go higher.
So how do you feel about the CO2 shortage over there in the UK? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44628993
Genuinely wouldn't have known lol I'm under 18 and so can't drink outside my own home and don't kill pigs