if i'm ever going to down under i'll bring a similar shirt "Austria - no kangaroos only kuhlimus" which means no kangaroos only cows. Also a couple years ago a kangaroo escaped in austria. The jokes obviously wrote themselves
As a Mexican, born, raised and still living there, so actual Mexican. I was so confused when I visited the US. I met several people telling me they were Mexican, so naturally I start speaking Spanish and they just looked confused at me... well... turns out they weren't Mexican. They were Americans that claimed they were Mexican because their grandmother came from Mexico, lmao. They had never visited Mexico, they did not even speak Spanish. To make matters worse, one of them kept saying every second sentence that she was Mexican. She kept saying "Oh so I did this, because I am Mexican and we Mexicans are like that". And to make matters worse, no Mexican ever is like what she claimed Mexicans are like. It was all too surreal. I wanted to correct them, but at the same time they sounded so crazy to me I didn't know where to start. Sadly I corrected no one, I just let the train wreck continue while laughing internally. Many other Americans were like that, but they claimed to be from somewhere else, but something tells me they were just like those "Mexicans".
The US has this thing where people can't just be American, no, they have this or that american, irish american, mexican american, african american. I'm argentinian, my grandparents came from italy, but i don't say that i'm "Italian argentinian", i'm just argentinian, why add something that i'm not, my grandparents were from Italy, not me.
@@minecraftfox4384 am i from Italy? No, i'm from Argentina, i'm Argentinian period. Seriously, who gives them the right to say they are both mexican and american? They can't even speak spanish, they are as mexican as i am russian, which means none, zero.
As an italian, i can confirm this. I doubt there's any other country in the world with such many and big differences in dialect from one city to the other...
@@mrtomlovinAllow me to introduce you to England. We often say the same thing here except that the scales are measured from one street to the next. It’s simply a linguistic phenomenon very old countries all seem to share and is one of the reasons why our languages were standardised in the ways they were.
In fact, Italy has a lot of "dialects" that are actually languages on their own, and not mere variations of Italian. Italian is just basically the evolution of the Florentine dialect, that became the official/main language for the whole country, but this does not mean that e.g., Piedmontese or Sardinian are mere variations of the Florentine dialect, they developed historically on their own. And so many people speak Italian _and_ their dialect, sometimes even more than one dialect. For older generations, sometimes their dialect is their native language, and Italian is their second language that they learnt at school. (I'm Italian, for my parents Piedmontese is their native language)
0:23 yes, in the EU, it's meant as 1st country - the country you're in, 2nd country - an EU/EEA country, 3rd country - everything else. (we usually just don't say 1st and 2nd)
This black bloke I know went on holiday to the US, he was asked by two different people what it's like to be African American in Britain. Number one, he's just British. Number two, his grandparents came here from Jamaica. He would never call himself African, never mind 'American' !?!? He said at first he was shocked by their questions then it took everything he had not to laugh at them 😅
I lived in the US for a bit, and while there a lady in Atlanta told me and my mum that she'd never met "African-Americans from the UK before" 😂It seems like it may be a common lack of understanding there
The confusion on behalf of the Americans isn't unusual given their poor grasp on how the world's works beyond their insular American centric thinking. But even in the UK people of clearly African heritage are referred to colloquially as Afro/Caribbean being as their ancestors may have come either from Africa or from British Caribbean colonies. However practically all black Caribbean people originally came from Africa, albeit perhaps unwittingly as slaves in 16th/17th century. So your friend may think of themselves as British of Jamaican ancestry, but his true heritage is black African. Therefore his UK non discriminatory racial profile would be Afro/Carribbean.
@@tricky1581 If I would call my friend of Eritrean descent an African, he would fucking beat my ass. Aside from African Americans and Creamy white social justice warriors, no one calls them African. It completely disrespects the work they put in to integrate in the country they either now live in, or were born in. What you are saying, in some form of compassion, goes so far beyond the pale that it becomes racist again. The actual truth is, aside from Americans with no identity of their own and the terminally online, no one cares about their heritage.
@@ssilent8202I think it’s cause of immigrants who came to America and brought the food with them. I’m pretty sure pizza is still seen as an Italian dish.
Im canadian and when I'm travelling i make sure to point that out cuz i don't wanna be mistaken for american. I post about Thanksgiving, it just happened this past week. A bunch of dumb Americans comment telling me its not thanksgiving. Like correct its not thanksgiving for you! But it is for us
This reminds me of a line from Big Bang Theory, Raj was talking to Howard about food and he asked if he ate Indian food at home (in India) Raj said yes but at home we just call it food. How does that relate to your story? You explain to the IQ challenged American about your Thanksgiving and when they get it they exclaim "Canadian thanksgiving" to which you reply "We just call it Thanksgiving"
I like to think Canadians celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving earlier as a reminder to the Americans that Canada isn’t actually part of the United States and, second, to remind themselves to be thankful that they’re Canadian.
When visiting my aunt that moved from Brazil to upstate New York. I went to Manhattan and took the train back. I stepped out of the station, and, being a bit lost, asked a passerby the way to her home's street. He warned me that my destination was some 400 meters away. He seemed quite concerned about that. That country has some strange ideas of what constitutes walking distance.
....they have zero idea of anything but their own town sometimes? I was in New Hope Pennsylvania and had done the SAME trip to JFK the year before but thought I would double check. I asked the motel owner.He said.."I dunno?Maybe 4 hours or comething??" I KNEW it wasn't...I checked and it was 1 hour 30 minutes. When I saw him the next day I told him....He said...'Well How should I know??.I have NEVER BEEN TO NEW YORK!" I asked if he was new to the area and he said he was born in Pennsylvania? You ask directions and they say..."Oooh I have no idea..THAT is in the next county!!" like I am asking about something 1,000 kilometres away!
The pervading inability to understand the 24 hour clock is what mystifies me the most. Like...the day has 24 hours. An analog clock only has 12 marked out, yes, but it should still be quite easy to understand that past noon you just add a number every hour 'til you get to 24 at midnight and the day resets. “So instead of 60 minutes in an hour they have 30”...Psych grad students should study you in a lab somewhere, you’re fascinating, absolutely fascinating.
@@whiterthanU53 This isn't the case though, most Brittish Children will be taught the 12 hour clock and AM and PM first, as they use an analogue clock as a teaching tool. The 24 hour clock is taught much later if at all, as far as I am aware there's no madatory young childrens exam's (the only time you'd be teaching someone to tell time). That include questions using 24 hour time. It's also just considered something that's very easy to pick up without requiring formal education. In adult life both are used interchangably and anyone will assume even someone with no formal education, or learning difficulties will most likely be able to understand time both quoted and written in both forms. This is the same for most European Countries. And I've personally met many people from all sorts of countries further east and south than Europe. And telling time in both 12 and 24 hour formats is never a communication issue. This does in fact seem to be a uniquely American oddity, atleast it being so; so wide spread.
@@EddThe19th I’m not reading all that bro. I just know I was never taught the 24 hour clock. It was always the 12 hour system. I learned it by myself because I thought it was useful. Just like I assume anyone else would if they cared that much.
@@whiterthanU53dude if you’re too pea brained to read a paragraph here you go: They get taught 12 hour and are expected to pick up 24 hour on their own
@whiterthanU53 Wow clearly such a long amount of text... It's very hard to write this without sounding insulting. But it's worrying how slow you must read, to think that's more than a few seconds glancing worth of text. Dunno just feels more like a self report than anything else ❤️.
Nobody commenting on the fact that "5k marathon" doesn't make sense in the first place? A marathon is by definition 42 km, sometimes there are half-marathons that are - surprise - 21 km. There can be 5 km or 10 km runs, but they are not marathons...
@@aleisterlavey9716 I wouldn't be sure so about that. American engineers have also decided that it is a good idea that "kilo" can mean either 1000 or 1024.
@@to_lowwthe binary 1024 system actually has its own naming. For example, what windows wrongly declares as 1 kilobyte is actually 1Kibibyte, 1024 KiB is 1 Mebibyte (MiB) and so on
@@T.Truthtella-n3i yes. They just don't market it constantly, because they have nothing to prove. Btw, apple pie is also not 'Murican. There are records for recipes in the Netherlands, the UK, and Germany for different versions decades before the first records of 'Murican apple pie.
@@T.Truthtella-n3i as an European, yes we do. And you guys do as well, since you call them FRENCH fries (which was because you guys couldn’t even see the difference between a French and a Belgian person lmao)
Easiest way to learn Hungarian: Be born in Hungary to Hungarian parents, convert to Christianity and then pray to the lord that you can understand your mother tongue after going through the education system.
And this goes especially for someone whose family uses one of the stronger local dialects, like in/around Szeged, and then is faced with standard Hungarian in the education system 😆
I am British with Irish ancestry. Am I Irish? Fuck no. Do I specify my ancestry when tell people I'm British? Fuck no. Are these 'Irish Americans' Irish? Most of them, fuck no.
I am Welsh with Welsh ancestry does that make me.... oh... wait it does! So used to people from outside the UK simply assuming I am English with a funny accent!
@@ssilent8202 "I’m Irish, British, German" If one of your parents is from a specific country and your other parent is from another you are HALF from both. For exampel Irish-British, or American-German (If one parent is from the country you live in that one goes first). If one of your parents is 50/50 you could maybe say you are 1/4th from both countries, but usually people only mention the one that is more dominant from their parent in a cultural sense in such a situation. If only your grandparents are from somewhere else you are seldom considered to have any claim to that country unless you have VERY strong cultural and family ties to back it up. I live in Finland with a Finnish and a Dutch parent. Nationality wise Im Finnish, I was born here and have lived here my entire life so far. My heritage is Finnish-Dutch, both genetically and culturally (I speak Dutch and partake in its culture). My children would be 1/4th dutch from me genetically, but it would not be something worth mentioning unless their other parent would also be half-dutch AND they would partake in Dutch culture to a considerable degree.
Me too. I'm unsure how far back my Irish roots are but I'd never call myself 'Irish English'! My dad was from North Shields so I could call myself 'Irish Geordie' but I was born in Oxford and I'm a proud Brit and European. I don't understand the desperation to classify yourself as something you are not.
"Am I Irish? Fuck no" Yes, yes you are. That's how genetics works. But hey way to admit your irish ancestors were anglicized.. and they wonder why they lost their island. v0v
Yea the car industry is crazy in Europe, Most known cars: Small countries like Sweden invented Volvo, Scania, Saab and koenigsegg. Czech invented Skoda. Italy invented Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, fiat and lancia. France Bugatti, Citroen, Peugeot and Renault. England Aston Martin, Bentley, jaguar, McLaren, Land Rover, Germany Mercedes, Porsche, opel, Audi, BMW and Volkswagen.
For me, as an Aussie who has been there 3 times, it’s the arrogance and the complete ignorance mixed together that does my head in. Thinking that everyone wants a green card (no thank you) and that they just invented everything including the English language. My sister was an exchange student there in 1980, her fellow students were surprised that she spoke such good English 😂, and after she graduated and came back home, our Education Department wouldn’t recognise the graduation as the standard wasn’t high enough so she had to do her HSC here. Also, she said the history that was taught was only in relation to the US, unlike here where we learnt about world history. They are so rapt up in themselves and consider themselves superior to everyone yet not realising that most people laugh at them, not with them. I could go on and on.
100%. I lived there 14yrs ago, as an 18yr old. Australian, lived in Seattle for a year. I got laughed at because I didn’t know details about the Civil War(they said it’s World History), asked if we had colour TV in Australia yet, and many, MANY times, asked where I learnt to speak English. The amount of stupidity I came across was insane. You get dumb people everywhere you go but the day to day ignorance was crazy.
Wait, they only taught American history? What state did she go to? Here in Cali we do American history in elementary and then through Middle and High school we do World History. And I think those students hit their head really, really, hard.
@@TheCheese71 well, you can watch TH-cam videos for yourself where Americans are asked about other countries. Many of them think that Europe is a country, so it’s not only in the state she lived in. Perhaps you have just been fortunate. And it still doesn’t explain why the US graduation was not accepted here as the standard was not sufficient.
@@maouikify are you butt hurt? You can hang it on Raygun all you like, she cracked us up she was so bad. But Aussies don’t get all precious is you say anything about our country, and will often agree with you too. Cheers Donald 🤣
The whole Roman African-American thing, I actually got into an argument with a guy once who thought we were rude/racist in the UK for saying black people are black, and not like, "African-British". But my counter arguments were firstly we just consider them British like a white person, it kinda feels more racist to have a caveat there. I have known black Americans who hate being labelled African-American. But also least here in the UK, I'd say we get an equal mix of people with African or Jamaican heritage, it's kinda rude to ask or assume But yeah, to have "Roman African-Americans" is particularly crazy, I hope that was an AI botch job
Honestly I'm developing a pet peeve for Americans who think the American way is the most logical/should be the default because it's American, or speaking as if the American way is a worldwide thing, when typically only Americans do it the American way and the rest of the world do it another way Like recently on a TH-cam video I watched, a person commented like we're stupid/incorrect for writing words with "u" in it, and said we get taught that because our "ancestors are taught it" so it "gets ingrained" and "becomes a cycle". But considering American English is based on our English, and it isn't exactly like only the UK adds u's, it's kinda bold to act like the American way should be default cause it's American
Another thing I will never get haha Americans are supposedly really proud to be American and to identify as American, but also wanna identify as being from 5 other countries and get really mad if you say they are just American. Like, no, because your great, great, great, great grandparent was Irish, it doesn't mean you suffer historic Irish issues, and Ireland isn't "calling you home". I've moved home so much, yet the only one calling me home is the one I live in!
We have something like this is Russia, but different. There's a word "негр", it sounds like " Negr", you can guess with what word it sounds familiar, and it's completely neutral, it isn't offensive at all, official way to name the race. And some foreigners insist that it's offensive and we should name them black, but ironically, it sounds waay more offensive to call someone "black" here. "Negr" is literally means "black" from another language, why would it be offensive to say it, by using this term we're referring to official name instead of pointing directly on skin colour. If you ask any black person in Russia, he will prefer "negr" instead of Western terms cause that's how it is in this language and culture
The hispanics have a lot of problems with them too. To begin with, they call themselves "American". In geography channels they get entitled when a spanish speaking country is called american. They call their "natives" native americans ( doesn't matter that you look as an average German dude) but if you come from another country you can't be native american (it's all political). They use "latino" and "hispanic" as a race thing. And their obsession with Africa. A black hispanic dude would say they are their country nationality (dominican for example) or say that they are hispano or "latino", but they want them to say that they are African american or afro something. If you don't follow their rules you hate yourself and have internalized racism.🤦🏽♀️
This is a common thing Americans don't understand. They think that calling "African Americans" - "Americans" denies them of their history or something. Words matter so much to them.
6:54 actually, Canadians DO celebrate thanksgiving. But it's on a different date, before Halloween rather than all the way in November. Although Canadians are quite similar to Americans in some ways, we are much more cultured, intelligent, and polite. Most of us anyhow.
I studied in Canada and I can tell you, they are much smarter, nicer and much more open-minded than in the US. I've been in the US and don't get me wrong, I met some amazing people; but the lack of general knowledge was astonishing. Still rather Canada and its lifestyle.
@@emperorpalpatine7557 It's an old "banter" joke an American might hear if he found himself in an Aussie or British pub. Please don't shoot me Mr Sidious ;)
Given the number of small craft breweries nowadays in the USA that actually make beer that's decent by British standards, I'd say even the Americans are starting to agree with your statement! 🍺👍
This is true. When the civic celebration "Memphis in May" was celebrating Russia (this was in the 90s) (different year, different theme), some genius wrote in the paper that Pushkin was an African American. Much laughter ensued.
"Europeans don't respect cars at all." If you had the choice, would you pick: - a Cadillac over a Mercedes or BMW? - a Lincoln over a Rolls Royce or Bentley? - a Corvette over a Ferrari or Lamborghini? - a SSC Tuatara over a Koenigsegg or Bugatti? Face it, American cars are not very good, they only have a LOT of roads.
Cadilac, Mercedes and BMW are more or less in the same ballpark price wise, but comparing a Corvette (~70k) to a Ferrari (starting at 245k) or Lamborghini (around the same as Ferrari) is rather silly. Same for Lincoln vs Rolls Royce and Bently.
@@Martin-di9pp True, on the price the U.S. cars are very competitive. But from a market niche perspective the Corvette competes with Ferrari and Porsche and not with Lotus or Alpine? If I had to pay for it I would take the Corvette because you get 90% of the Ferrari for 1/3 the price. Lincoln Town Car is the most luxurious car the U.S. has to offer, that's why I compared it to RR.
Was Rome really the origin of that though? Couldn't the idea of painting city walls with messages you want the public to see have come about in literally any location that had both cities and writing? Of which there should have been plenty prior to Rome. I.e. Babylon or Alexandria?
@@Alblaka As a former student of ancient languages and history, this is what I know. “Graffiti” comes from Italian, which originates from the Latin graphium (stylus for writing) and the Greek γράφω (to write). In ancient Rome, graffiti referred to inscriptions or drawings scratched or painted on walls, often carrying political, satirical, or personal messages. Similar practices existed in earlier civilizations like Babylon or Alexandria, but the term “graffiti” specifically ties to its Italian and Roman roots. Of course, today graffiti has evolved into a modern art form, but it’s still pretty similar to the original graffiti
"Is 15 minutes walking too much to ask of you?" Yes. A guy I worked with told me a story how he was to go on a shooting range with some american soldiers (in Germany) back in his Bundeswehr days. It was like a 500 meters walk from the base to the range, but when the german soldiers started walking, the americans asked them "Where are you going? truck's gonna be here soon" So yeah, US culture very much erases the concept of walking from the mind of americans
@@Hanz7432 i was in Ireland and it was pretty much America : Lite Edition with its grocery stores being like 2km away from the goddam CITY, my legs hurt, and i had to take massive amounts of food with me and walk it back, because walking 2km EVERYDAY just to buy a soda was inconvenient.
tbh I could see 2 'right' ways of writing dates: either DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD. Latter one being better for computer sorting, and upholding the rule of rightmost number (smaller unit) getting updated more frequently, but MM/DD/YYYY is definitely a wrong way of doing it
What’s really shitty is my workplace outsources to another workplace who have recently updated their software and it’s either stuck with the American date system or they can’t figure out how to change it to normal dates, so all our stock is confused with the expiration dates. We can’t use expired stock and we can‘t be sure if less used stock is in or out of date so it has to be tossed!
@Misntear Evereybody outside America knows this. Only Americans need this to be explained for everything. Like "German beer is good" here everybody knows that there also is bad German beer. We know we talk about the AVERAGE. Or "the Brits drink tea", nobody needs to explain us the there will be Brits that don´t like tea. "There are school shootings in the US", a typical American reaction: "No, in my school there was none." And "There also was a school shooting in Europe". Yes, we know: there is not a school shooting in EVERY US school. And we know that there are some in Europe. Some rare ones! For us: common knowledge. For Americans: For every new topic it something new.
This is how Americans probably think of other continents: Europe - uhhh idk Britain?/country Africa - country Australia - big insects Austria - what's the difference? Asia - idk China
as an american, Europe: britain Africa: elephants, outback, most poverty Australia: outback + “crikey mate!” Austria: 👨🏻_/ Asia: biiiiiig continent + china and china+
@@robertheinrich2994, fanta was created in Nazi Germany during the war by the Coca Cola agent that could not get hold of cola. As supplies were unreliable it contained a bit of whatever they could get hold of.
as an american, i agree, we are some of the scariest and strangest people on the planet, every time i go outside i think, "what the hell is wrong with us?" then i go home and cry.
@jennyanydots2389 What? What's there to doubt? The US has like 350 million people and the majority of internet users, like it or not, are American-excluding me since I'm from a different continent.
@@guts1859 The majority of people use social media a lot less than you think, you probably just think everyone is online all the time because you are online all the time. By the way on average (as of 2024, look it up homey) Americans spend LESS time on social media than Europeons... but yeah... American stereotypes. smh
@@Abner.me.obviously I do, just got a new pack of cameroons and a new lighter, and I got a discontinued version of the S&W SD9ve, I’m pretty happy all things considered, but this world is sinking in human shit :(
i find it so ironic that americans say they have more freedom than anyone else, despite having less freedom than here, australia, canada, most of western europe among other places
I would really love to know exactly what freedoms they believe that they have which we don't have in the UK, Australia, NZ, Western Europe etc. It would be interesting to ask an American to list them. The only 'freedom' I can think of is the freedom to go around carrying a gun which I wouldn't want to have anyway.
@@Ben-xe8ps really and truly id argue the freedom to carry guns gives you less freedom, because everyone else can too and that puts u in danger so it kinda works against them in my mind,
@@Ben-xe8psI guess free speech, but does it matter anyway if people are so sensitive? Plus those countries probably have that as well. So yeah, you have a point.
@@TheCheese71 also kind of unrelated but I will say something for unitedstatians that misunderstand free speech free speech is not the right to say anything without consequences, it is the right to say anything (meaning that you can still be ostracized)
@@Ben-xe8ps To be fair, the US must be the only country that has actual freedom of speech, whether we like that or not. Still I wouldn't like to live in that country though.
- DD/MM/YYYY is very simple to explain. The rule of going smallest to biggest 1Day, month has 30/31 days and year has 365 days or 12 months. Also I don't know for all countries but many say the date 26th of June. - 24 hour clock, day has 24h. It is still common and ok to just say two insted of 14.00 - Metric system is very simple, 10 of something is one of something bigger and so on: 10ml is 1cl, 10cl is 1dl amd 10dl is 1l
Whenever someone calls Europe a country, or an American complains that we write our dates wrong and try to act like how they do it is the “normal” way, I die a little inside
As an American I don't believe in your date system simply because I was raised differently, which is fine, HOWEVER, can we please just bully Canada for sometimes using Y/M/D and selling milk in plastic bags?
@@ehur-s8u it's just the correct order inverted, that's fine. way better than displaying a date out of order. milk in plastic bags used to be a thing here when I was a kid. put the bag in a mug befor cutting it open, it's no big deal. motion denied.
"Third countries" is a legal European Union term used to refer to any country that is not a member of EU or somehow similar in whatever context. Can be from a tax, duties, economic sanctions regimes, or other perspective.
It's not a legal term it's just two words that describe "countries not in scope of this context". Third countries underneath "UK and EU-passport holders" means other countries. In Dutch law "third countries" means "Not the Netherlands" in IMF documents "third countries" would mean non-IMF-members. It's just understandable language.
@@nickryan3417 It's not weird. First country: The coutry you are entering. 2nd: Countries in the same organisation, e.g. the EU or the Schengen area. 3rd: Everybody else. Just like "third party" refers to an entity outside of the two parties entering into a contract.
@@nickryan3417wanted to say the same, it is just a specific way derived from third party. Especially in the EU or the Schengen area it also makes some sense. You are in one country (first) that belongs to a group for which certain rules apply (second countries) like not requiring a passport to move around. Then all other countries are third in that relation. Also third party usually was used if you deal with let's say a vendor and something has to be brought in from somewhere else as well, between you and the vendor, that other party would then be a third party. But it seems at some point in some situations use of that word spilled over in using third party for just everyone else.
American English (and perhaps other English dialects) are hard to learn because of many inconsistencies. Words like “though,” “through,” and “thought” are spelled similarly, but pronounced differently. Irregular verbs also make it confusing, like “go” turns into “went,” instead of “goed.” Some may take idioms literally instead of figuratively. “Kick the bucket” means “to die.” Phrasal verbs also may cause confusion-where some verbs change meaning depending on the preposition used. Lastly, we have SVO (Subject-Object-Verb) word order, but there are some exceptions with OSV (Object-Subject-Verb) word order, for example, “The bananas Jane ate,” can be used to emphasize or for a rhetorical effect. OSV is not the default word order.
I am Spanish, and I can explain the doorknob in the middle of the house door. That knob does not turn, it's just to pull, you will open the door with the key, always (yes, if you forget your keys and close the door from outside, you're out of your home) and since most house doors (the one in the video certainly is) are metallic (although with wood paneling) you need to pool slighly to allow the bolts that hold it close to be freer while turning the key. Doing this (pulling and turning the key) would be awkward if the knob where on the right (where the keyhole is). Also, since they're havier than simple wooden doors, the knob in the center allows you to control the weight better. If it were on the right side of the door you may accelerate the door too easily, the knob being in the middle makes you feel the real weight and not slam it. edit: words
@@Clay-qq5vb Aw, thanks for the kind reply. Also, this design with the keyhole standing alone allows door to have an universal system for changing the keyhole. This comes in handy when you buy a new house or lose a key, you can go to the HW store and change the lock just with one screw, if I am not mistaken, compatibility is not as good with the keyhole hardware more popular in the UK and the USA. You can see the piece looking up "euro cylinder" or "euro profile" in Google images, it's common in all continental Europe, at least in the west part surely.
@@cambs0181 We're an island where do you think fish come from? Chips sure, potatoes aren't from here but fish? Really? Fish that are literally caught in the water next to some fish and chips shops and cooked? They're not from here?
As a brit from Bavaria: American 'football' is rugby for wimps Pool is tiddly winks with coloured balls.Snooker is chess with coloured balls. America has the best baseball players.(because nobody else plays it)
American 'football' isn't football at all. It is just played with one but only one person on a team of eleven (be it offence, defence or special teams) can legally kick a ball. How can that be called football compared to soccer or even rugby, both of which rely heavily on all and any members of the team putting their foot to the ball on a regular basis.
@@Napkin24 I have, and I doubt you have watched a rugby game by the sounds of it. Seeing two 200+ pound guys who can sprint the 100 metres in just under 10 seconds slam into each other at full tilt WITHOUT padding or helmet might illuminate why we consider American Football is Rugby for wimps.... And we do not call it Football, only Americans call American Football just Football. For the rest of the world Football is what you refer to as Soccer. The US is literally the only country in the world that calls it soccer.
@@emperorpalpatine7557 Rugby is played without padding, helmets or 150kg slobs who can't last 4 plays without getting a rest on the sidelines. All players are required to run for 80 minutes without breaks except for penalties and half time. Do not suggest the American game is tougher than that or you will be accused of being stupid.
TBF we have very poor countries like Moldova or Kosovo. And it's probably a misconception that comes from the American people often not realising what we generally don't have to spend money on. So even if we often earn nominally less money we're not necessarily poorer overall.
The pig legs are actually airdried Spanish ham. The Spanish "jamón" is not just food, it's a culinary culture. It is so exquisite, it will make your palate dance polka.
Hey, polka is a Czech half-step dance move. How about it will make your palate dance flamenco (Spanish, though more correctly, Andalusian) or tarantella?
I'm Spanish and I must admit that I have never seen these many being displayed at a store. Usually you're going to see a fifth of that at most, and only during Christmas. We have tradicional bars where they hang the "jamones" on top of the bar. Now that I can see being a shocking experience for foreigners 😂
@georgezee5173, in some places in the US we have country ham. Not similar in taste to jamón, but you can go to a grocery store and see then just hanging ready to be bought.
About 2:10 there was a fun thing when people in the middle east burned the Swiss flag meaning to burn the Swedish flag, confusing Switzerland and Sweden in english
I am an American living in Australia it blows my mind the lack of curiosity about another country just assuming every o5er person on the planet is not as free or as special. When I took my children to visit their American cousins the difference in education was pronounced. My kids could name and locate 30 or more countries on the globe their cousins could barely locate the US.
BUT they do have a bible in every classroom in Oklahoma!! Yep...spent millions to put a bible in every classroom when their state is coming 49th out of 50 for education!! Shame none of the kids will ever read them! Truly stupid... Americans are the most insular people on Earth..they think the world revolves around them?? They have one of the LOWEST passport rates per capita of ANY developed country? I have been dozens of times...but never again...EVER. America is about to hit a hurdle BIG TIME...and it will be their own fault. They are about to get what they voted for. Insanity...
What's even worse is that the subreddit they posted on was r/DerryGirls which is a sub not for girls from County Derry but a sub for the show Derry Girls
That is because, in America, you can use whatever ingredient you want, until it is proven to be harmful. In Europe, you have to prove that every single ingredient is safe *before* they let you use it.
We have a board game which shows the name Londonderry and shows northern Ireland as part of the country Ireland. I do not know that much about the troubles, but it seems a rather odd choice.😂
A few of them are aware. Did you miss the story a while ago where some American politicians were threatening a military invasion of the Netherlands because the court in The Hague had issued an arrest warrant for some Israelis? 💀
As an American, I DID infact know the ICJ is in the Netherlands, the worst of us can't speak for all of us. I can't point to a racist german and call all germans N@@is, can I? Or point to an extremist french and call all French smoking frog leg eaters.
I'm fluent in Japanese and a native English speaker. I can give insight into how complicated each language system is. In my experience, Japanese is a lot more consistent with it's rules but that mostly applies to standard, modern Japanese. I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of Kansai place names that make no sense and you wouldn't know how to read them unless you knew beforehand or you have a good grasp on the area's history.
@@kenchristie9214 as a non-native speaker: no, really not that difficult. Also the words are perfectly understandable when you *read* them. It might be a problem if you try to *pronounce* them without knowing how but this is also not too difficult after a short while and, thus, something you usually learn early on.
I found japanese to be easy to understand but hard to read since I could not for the life of me remember all the hiragana and dont get me started on katakana
Tbf Canada is in North America so technically American the same goes for mexico Central America south America and every other in the the continents just not in the way most people think of when people say American
"Soccer is popular because it is a peasant sport" Ah yes, the most popular sport in the ENTIRE WORLD is popular only because it's a "peasant sport". There's literally like 5 BILLION fans, from low income to megarich. And let's not forget the FIFA World Cup, which is the most popular sport competition in the world, which is more popular than the Olympics.
Actually if you think about it, its so popular because its a peasant sport, and most people ever born have literally been peasants, or their industrial age equivalents in the working class! What sport do you think is going to spread furthest and be played by the most people? The one played by the peasants, who make up the majority of the population? Or the one played by the wealthy toffs? I mean look at the difference between football and cricket.... See what I mean? So its really not wrong. Condescending, but not wrong, and still does not reduce the butthurt most Americans feel when they realise football (not their version, the REAL version) is more popular than American Football and baseball combined... Both of which are sports barely played outside the USA....
America acts like the pretty cheerleader in Highschool, thinking that dating the captain of the football team, makes everyone else envy them, but is secretly hated and laughed at behind their back lol
Once a British person told me that a European minute is 100 seconds and an American minute was stupid for being 60 seconds, It really annoyed me that he made up something stupid just to say that Americans do it the stupid way, like every single European on the internet.
I was on a US air craft carrier when the Admiral addressed the troops. It was in Perth. He warned them all about misbehaving and then emphasised very strongly to not EVER try to out drink the Aussies. It can't be done. I've been to Europe and the Us and all American beer is shit. All European beer is fabulous.
To be fair to the USians, there are some good beers in the US, but generally only those that are made in what they call "micro-breweries". As long as they are independent some of these do brew nice beer. However, to stay profitable many also have to produce beer more acceptable to mainstream US tastes - therefore weak and has to be drunk very cold to hide the lack of taste.
@@lacdirk I'm Australian and have literally only ever seen or heard of references to Fosters from Americans. I concede that it might be possible to purchase in places with large international beer sections, along with the Budweiser, but it's not going to be the most popular American beer here by a long way
I watch your videos with my mate from Ireland, and when the so-called "Derry Girl" said she came from "Londonderry" he actually choked on his own spit for a few moments. I got pretty close, too. That's... certainly one way to show you're not in touch with your heritage.
@@sondekommando Don't say that to anyone South of the Border, or a lot of people North of it... In some places referring to Derry as Londonderry will get you stabbed, if you are lucky. And that is not a joke. Thats utterly serious. So yeah, not really in touch with the Irish heritage... At least not the Southern Irish heritage... The Northern Irish see it differently. Irony about them is most of the plantations were Scottish... and the Scottish originally CAME from Northern Ireland... Something the Irish do not like to admit....
A "Third Country Nation" is defined as a country which is not a member of the European Union (EU), or European Economic Area (EEA). Britain is therefore classified as a Third Country Nation.
The Australians are still thankful that they got the criminals. Criminals sometimes see the error of their ways, better themselves and set themselves free. Australia could have gotten the religous wingnuts. Wingnuts per definition can't be wrong so they stay wingnuts forever.
I thought it was in the early autumn, repeating and commemorating the party we had the day after we had persuaded the first bunch of pilgrims to sail away on the Mayflower. We did point them in the general direction of America, but weren't that bothered whether or not they made it.
I don't even understand why some people are saying -- k is ---miles..Like I thought k meant thousand?? Like 2k is 2000?? Do they mean kilometers?? Cause that's km!?
K is indeed just thousand. But since "K M" is clunky to say, and kilometer is long, people shortened it to just k for race distances. "K" alone is still closer to km than miles even if you read it as thousand though. But yeah, it's basically an abbreviation of an abbreviation, because people were lazy about a descriptor they needed to say a ton.
@@ricktheweeb5382 Japanese created Fortune cookies, [Quote] The latest history of the fortune cookie is that it originated in Japan. A wood block image from 1878 shows what seems to be a Japanese street vendor grilling, fortune cookies. They can still be found in certain districts of Kyoto Japan, but are larger and darker than the fortune cookie we are familiar with [Unqoute]. First documented evidence of Crisps (Potato-chips) in the United States is 1853. First evidence of Crisps in Britain is 1817, [Quote] The first recorded recipe was British, written in a cookbook called The Cook's Oracle, by William Kitchiner, published in 1817. Kitchiner describes them as 'Potatoes fried in slices or shavings. [Unqoute].
@@ricktheweeb5382 Fortune cookies was Japan, dating back to 1878, They can still be found in certain districts of Kyoto Japan. Earliest evidence of Crisps (Potato-chips) in the United States is 1824. The earliest evidence of Crisps in Britain (England) is 1817.
@zebedeemadness2672 I'll give you the fortune cookie since I haven't seen anything with Japan from it till you said something, however I am not getting anything saying that crisps/potato chips was first made in Britian.
By the way, yes, the Austrian Airport in Vienna doesn't have a desk for passengers that travelled the wrong way. BUT: The Australian post office had an own office for redirecting letters that were meant to go to AUT (many people use that instead of AT for Austria) but ended in AUStralia. Even official letters from the state sometimes do the world trip of going from Vienna to Sydney to Vienna to Innsbruck. When that happens, the letter gets a nice looking kangoroo post stamp attached in that Sydney post office and is then send to Austria. The reason why that is even possible, is, that the automatic letter machines in the past first sorted by country code and then by zip code. And even the zip codes wouldn't help, because Austria and Australia both use 4 number zip codes. Nowadays it's not a problem anymore, as letters with "AUS" are not immediately send into the bags for the airport, but a computer also checks for the zip code AND city name - and gladly no austrian town has the same zip code as a town written the same in Australia.
I once helped a post office worker in damn Chornobyl town to redirect the letter with "CH" on it, which turned out to mean "Switzerland". Some EU post office saw CH and decided that it sure MUST be Chornobyl... The letter had postcards from an italian museum's giftshop 😅
The thing about Vienna airport isn’t true but I have heard that the London embassies of Australia and Austria do regularly exchange mail that has been sent to the wrong place, as do those of Slovakian and Slovenian.
Four-way stops are a North American thing, with stop signs in all directions. It's an unnecessary obstruction of traffic flow, and has overly complicated rules in terms of right of way, which require you to remember who came in which order (which can be very ambiguous). It's hilarious that anyone would prefer this over roundabouts.
Fun fact: in the USA, we are not taught how to read analog clocks. I'm serious, I am in eighth grade (Year 9) and there are students older than me who cannot read a clock.
You're not taught how to read a 12 hour analog clock, nor a 24 hour digital clock? You don't even have a clock in the classroom? How are all the rizzlers going to read the time on their rolies when they leave school?
I would have expected kids to know that before they start school. I don't think we were taught it at school but my parents realised it was something I would need from a very young age. When I was four I used to turn the radio on when Listen With Mother was due to start.
As an American I can confirm that every day we wake up, learn incorrect geography, eat 12 cheeseburgers, and take a daily word out of our vocabulary. Then we go straight to twitter and harrass non Americans (and sometimes each other.) happy thanksgiving 🍁🦃 💄
As another American, I go to private school here and it amazes me how stupid public school kids are. I'm not trying to sound stuck up or anything, but it's mainly that kids don't pay attention in school and also most of the people here don't care about their health. Kinda sad, really.
I‘m Austrian and it happened several times that letters and parcels were accidentally sent to Australia instead of to my address in Austria. I did get those parcels and letters in the end. A big thank you to the Australian post offices🙏 for sending them to me!!!!
We ourselves call it piss because it doesn’t deserve to be drank, neither does any beer, no beer has a “good” taste and the after effects of alcohol are always bad, why the drink exists is beyond me
I might be able to explain the “traditional Italian thanksgiving dinner.” America is a country of immigrants, there is a large Italian community in the States. These Italian Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, and undoubtedly they probably make one of the best dinners of all the varied American communities.
@@Naptosisthe Germans take most of the Austrian painter jokes, because like one famous person once said:"The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian"
3:34 Ironically, Americans are taught Simplified English because the early makers of their local dictionaries thought their countrymen were not sharp enough to learn standard English. They thought Americans were worse at learning languages than the English. Let that sink in.
@@patrickporter6536 He had the option of just copying the already available dictionaries from England. They legit thought Americans weren't able to cope (from what I've looked into).
Not really. The actual reason was printing. More specifically it was the setting of type for printing. If you had set the type for an 18th Century printing machine you would know exactly what I am getting it... American English was simplified primarily to make typesetting for printing easier, faster and cheaper. Essentially they just carried on the process the English had actually started about 150 years beforehand with the initial invention of the printing press. At the time the English alphabet had a lot of Anglo-Saxon characters which were quite complex, for an example look up the Anglo-Saxon character thorn (just google it). They were all removed to simplify the alphabet, indeed some Language historians literally call it the Great Vowel Die Off... Its where many of the pronunciation traps come from. You might be familiar for example with Ye in place or building names, especially pubs or hotels. Ye Olde Ducks Leg for example. That Ye is not pronounced with a Y. That is the post simplification for that Anglo-Saxon character I referred to earlier, thorn. The Y is actually pronounced TH, so Ye is the.... In some ways simplifying English the way the Americans did made sense, in others it just made things worse! EDIT: Just to make it clear, I am not trying to claim the printing press was invented in England (it was not), just that the invention of it and the complexity of those characters led to a huge simplification of the English alphabet.
@@Naptosis That's not quite the case. I've written quite extensively on the subject....so I will cut a long story as short as possible. Webster was a staunch Republican and a whole-hearted supporter of the revolution. He envisaged, shall we say, lofty ambitions for his new nation...believing it would eventually surpass and rival the great civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome in importance. He also believed that education, specifically a classical education that, at that period of time, only people of the very wealthiest and richest nobility, royalty and clergy could afford or access, had been used as a gate-keeping mechanism to maintain power and authority. In many ways, he wasn't wrong in that regard...alongside religion itself, of course, but he believed that those mechanisms of power had long been a corrupting and negative force, that was, in his view, the downfall and to the detriment of European nations at the time. However, what he actually sought to do with his language changes were chiefly political by design and intent. We all intuitively know that living languages change over time, and the first and most frequent changes are typically in vocabulary (other linguistic aspects...grammar etc change much, much more slowly). Yet when those changes occur they do so as a result of words entering the common vernacular and being adopted over time and actually used by speakers of the language...there develops over time a consensus on the meanings, spellings and usage of those words and therefore they then steadily pass into everyday accepted use. Webster did NOT do that though...he did not take existing word usage or consult or survey any existing consensus whatsoever. The changes he made were entirely arbitrary and of his own design. So, in some way, it can be argued that what he wanted to do was in some way noble, in that he wanted to democratise language and make it easier to learn - that's a valid viewpoint and worth longer discussion - but it wasn't just making it easier to learn, to read or to write that was his goal...it was essentially, and chiefly, a political manoeuvre. He felt that it was politically important for his new nation to establish legitimacy for itself on the world stage as being separate and distinct from the motherland and he thought changing how the language was used was a way to do that.
(2:43) Yeah a bit confusing. A marathon is 42195 m, but the person is talking about a 5000 m run (thinking it's in miles). Still silly for not considering that other units of measurements exist.
Australian hotel concierge here, in Melbourne. I've had American guests not understanding no restaurants do Thanksgiving dinner, wanting to day trips to Uluru, Great Barrier Reef and day trip of Tasmania. Best one was guest asking what the ATM doesn't dispense US dollars - his account is in US Dollars so thought he lost out in the currency exchange, explained the ATM will do the exchange rate, he received AU dollars but thought his account will be withdrawn the same in US dollars...
The same confidence took them to the moon. Don't ever tell americans they can't do something because the answer will be a confident "yes, we can" and the amazing thing is they'll often make it happen lol The unmatched "can do" attitude.
@@InfiniteWasp360 Ok, but what do you do with that knowledge? You know countless countries all over the world plus their respective capitals, and you do what with that? Play smart in a social group? That's the problem with us europeans, we fill our brains with useless general knowledge and leave little space to iniciative, entrepreneurship, craftiness and problem-solving thinking. We're too formal and stuffy, americans are not bound by those, they're creative and daring. That's why the USA is the richest and most advanced country in the world. Btw you're using an american digital plataform to bash and belittle americans. That's peak cognitive dissonance. Look around you and see how many american inventions you're surrounded with, from appliances to advanced medical devices, and lightbulbs too lol
i saw something on reddit with people all over the world saying their opinions on the USA & EVERYONE EXCEPT americans where saying stuff like ‘yeah they’re a diff breed’ 😭i’m from the UK but i’m glad it’s not just us brit’s that think that lmaoo
I think there’s quite a bit of us that had our heads hit really hard as a small child, but I hope people can see that we’re human like them and the loudest, rudest ones are the small majority.
As an Australian, when travelling in Austria I bought a very overpriced shirt that said “no kangaroos in Austria”. Worth.
So did I!
You are both legends!! I am so proud of you!
Your two countries should def make a duo on Eurovision. That would be epic.
I bought the fridge magnet. Austrians obviously have a good sense of humour
if i'm ever going to down under i'll bring a similar shirt "Austria - no kangaroos only kuhlimus" which means no kangaroos only cows. Also a couple years ago a kangaroo escaped in austria. The jokes obviously wrote themselves
“Bless their clogged little hearts” is the best thing I’ve ever heard
You can actually take that phrase out of context, and people would still know just who it is talking about.
"blessed their clogged little 'black' hearts", you mean ?
Haha the next line tho "American isnt a race"😂
Reads like an American wrote it honestly 😂
Who posted this ?
As a Mexican, born, raised and still living there, so actual Mexican. I was so confused when I visited the US. I met several people telling me they were Mexican, so naturally I start speaking Spanish and they just looked confused at me... well... turns out they weren't Mexican. They were Americans that claimed they were Mexican because their grandmother came from Mexico, lmao. They had never visited Mexico, they did not even speak Spanish.
To make matters worse, one of them kept saying every second sentence that she was Mexican. She kept saying "Oh so I did this, because I am Mexican and we Mexicans are like that". And to make matters worse, no Mexican ever is like what she claimed Mexicans are like. It was all too surreal. I wanted to correct them, but at the same time they sounded so crazy to me I didn't know where to start. Sadly I corrected no one, I just let the train wreck continue while laughing internally. Many other Americans were like that, but they claimed to be from somewhere else, but something tells me they were just like those "Mexicans".
Perhaps they’re desperate to claim some heritage from somewhere?
Seems to be a trait of US Americans.
The US has this thing where people can't just be American, no, they have this or that american, irish american, mexican american, african american.
I'm argentinian, my grandparents came from italy, but i don't say that i'm "Italian argentinian", i'm just argentinian, why add something that i'm not, my grandparents were from Italy, not me.
Mexican is an ethnicity, kiddo.
@@darklex5150are you ethnically Argentinian? No, you're Italian.
@@minecraftfox4384 am i from Italy? No, i'm from Argentina, i'm Argentinian period.
Seriously, who gives them the right to say they are both mexican and american? They can't even speak spanish, they are as mexican as i am russian, which means none, zero.
4:05 *laughs in italian and a very specific town dialect that probably the next town won't understand all that well*
Americans learning that any romance language can conjugate a simple verb at least 30 different ways
Right!! I live in italy too and if i go in the city closest to mine they have a different accent 😂😂
As an italian, i can confirm this.
I doubt there's any other country in the world with such many and big differences in dialect from one city to the other...
@@mrtomlovinAllow me to introduce you to England. We often say the same thing here except that the scales are measured from one street to the next. It’s simply a linguistic phenomenon very old countries all seem to share and is one of the reasons why our languages were standardised in the ways they were.
In fact, Italy has a lot of "dialects" that are actually languages on their own, and not mere variations of Italian. Italian is just basically the evolution of the Florentine dialect, that became the official/main language for the whole country, but this does not mean that e.g., Piedmontese or Sardinian are mere variations of the Florentine dialect, they developed historically on their own.
And so many people speak Italian _and_ their dialect, sometimes even more than one dialect. For older generations, sometimes their dialect is their native language, and Italian is their second language that they learnt at school.
(I'm Italian, for my parents Piedmontese is their native language)
My IQ has dropped about 50 points and I’m barely halfway through.
Crayons are starting to look pretty tasty
Congratulations on joining the Marines. 🫡
Try the yellow. It is banana flavored.
RESIST THE URGE
If you have eaten something in america, changes are atleast half of the ingredients in the food are also in crayons
join the marines
Americans make me feel like Einstein
I genuinely thought that said Epstine there had to go back and read it again lol
@@urbanshadow777SAME
@@urbanshadow777haha literally. I was like ‘okay you little freak…’ 😅
Americans make you feel German?
There are ignorant people everywhere, that should be obvious but there are people who genuinely believe stereotypes.
The most annoying thing about non-europeans is when they say “I went to europe” Like where? Were you in Ibiza or Grimsby?
Aren't Reykjavík and Istanbul just banlieus of Paris?
Why would you go to grimsby 💀
@@DTAM-Aviation290 to be glad with what you have back home
@@glebglub ☠️
What If they Want to go to multiple countries and just says Europe to keep the sentence short it's not that big of a deal
0:23 yes, in the EU, it's meant as 1st country - the country you're in, 2nd country - an EU/EEA country, 3rd country - everything else. (we usually just don't say 1st and 2nd)
And ofcourse it needs to say where USA belongs, if not they would go out the back door
USA also 3rd world country
4:33 "Europeans do not respect cars"
The autobahn would like a word.
*the entirety of Germany would like a word
Diese Kommentar Sektion ist jetzt Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
@@Sikaz5119 Google Translate? :)
In German you would use Kommentarsektion. Yeah, those famous German compound nouns strike again.
@@ytgray Ich weiß. Ich war zu faul es selbst zu tippen also habe ich die vorgeschlagenen Wörter über der Tastatur benutzt.
Carl Benz would like a word.
This black bloke I know went on holiday to the US, he was asked by two different people what it's like to be African American in Britain. Number one, he's just British. Number two, his grandparents came here from Jamaica. He would never call himself African, never mind 'American' !?!? He said at first he was shocked by their questions then it took everything he had not to laugh at them 😅
I lived in the US for a bit, and while there a lady in Atlanta told me and my mum that she'd never met "African-Americans from the UK before" 😂It seems like it may be a common lack of understanding there
British people can only be white, Afro-Caribbeans here are just Afro-Carribeans here.
The confusion on behalf of the Americans isn't unusual given their poor grasp on how the world's works beyond their insular American centric thinking.
But even in the UK people of clearly African heritage are referred to colloquially as Afro/Caribbean being as their ancestors may have come either from Africa or from British Caribbean colonies. However practically all black Caribbean people originally came from Africa, albeit perhaps unwittingly as slaves in 16th/17th century. So your friend may think of themselves as British of Jamaican ancestry, but his true heritage is black African. Therefore his UK non discriminatory racial profile would be Afro/Carribbean.
@@tricky1581 If I would call my friend of Eritrean descent an African, he would fucking beat my ass. Aside from African Americans and Creamy white social justice warriors, no one calls them African. It completely disrespects the work they put in to integrate in the country they either now live in, or were born in.
What you are saying, in some form of compassion, goes so far beyond the pale that it becomes racist again. The actual truth is, aside from Americans with no identity of their own and the terminally online, no one cares about their heritage.
technically his ancestors were american not as in the usa but as in the continents combined (jamaica is in america)
Ah yes, authentic American food like German hamburgers, Belgian fries and Italian pizza and stuff.
I wish we had all that in Europe too. /s
Why do people associate all them with america then?
@@ssilent8202 Because those foods make you fat, and you have the entire world beaten on that front.
@@ssilent8202I think it’s cause of immigrants who came to America and brought the food with them. I’m pretty sure pizza is still seen as an Italian dish.
@@ssilent8202 Which people are we talking about exactly?
@@arkaz5879 😎
Im canadian and when I'm travelling i make sure to point that out cuz i don't wanna be mistaken for american. I post about Thanksgiving, it just happened this past week. A bunch of dumb Americans comment telling me its not thanksgiving. Like correct its not thanksgiving for you! But it is for us
No one cares what lame jealous Canada thinks.
This reminds me of a line from Big Bang Theory, Raj was talking to Howard about food and he asked if he ate Indian food at home (in India) Raj said yes but at home we just call it food. How does that relate to your story? You explain to the IQ challenged American about your Thanksgiving and when they get it they exclaim "Canadian thanksgiving" to which you reply "We just call it Thanksgiving"
I like to think Canadians celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving earlier as a reminder to the Americans that Canada isn’t actually part of the United States and, second, to remind themselves to be thankful that they’re Canadian.
@@feliscorax Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving around the middle of October, NOT one week earlier than the U.S.
@@feliscoraxit’s about a month and a half earlier
When visiting my aunt that moved from Brazil to upstate New York. I went to Manhattan and took the train back. I stepped out of the station, and, being a bit lost, asked a passerby the way to her home's street.
He warned me that my destination was some 400 meters away. He seemed quite concerned about that.
That country has some strange ideas of what constitutes walking distance.
....they have zero idea of anything but their own town sometimes? I was in New Hope Pennsylvania and had done the SAME trip to JFK the year before but thought I would double check. I asked the motel owner.He said.."I dunno?Maybe 4 hours or comething??"
I KNEW it wasn't...I checked and it was 1 hour 30 minutes. When I saw him the next day I told him....He said...'Well How should I know??.I have NEVER BEEN TO NEW YORK!" I asked if he was new to the area and he said he was born in Pennsylvania? You ask directions and they say..."Oooh I have no idea..THAT is in the next county!!" like I am asking about something 1,000 kilometres away!
400 meters is literally just 4 blocks I am freaking crying
what a bunch of carbrains
@@santinosalamanca4378 today i've walked 7,8 km, these people would die in europe
An American knew what a metre was? Really?
@davidgardiner4720 not really. He said It was a quarter mile. I converted the value, as I refuse to mention the imperial system If I Cam help It.
The pervading inability to understand the 24 hour clock is what mystifies me the most. Like...the day has 24 hours. An analog clock only has 12 marked out, yes, but it should still be quite easy to understand that past noon you just add a number every hour 'til you get to 24 at midnight and the day resets. “So instead of 60 minutes in an hour they have 30”...Psych grad students should study you in a lab somewhere, you’re fascinating, absolutely fascinating.
@@whiterthanU53 This isn't the case though, most Brittish Children will be taught the 12 hour clock and AM and PM first, as they use an analogue clock as a teaching tool. The 24 hour clock is taught much later if at all, as far as I am aware there's no madatory young childrens exam's (the only time you'd be teaching someone to tell time). That include questions using 24 hour time. It's also just considered something that's very easy to pick up without requiring formal education. In adult life both are used interchangably and anyone will assume even someone with no formal education, or learning difficulties will most likely be able to understand time both quoted and written in both forms.
This is the same for most European Countries. And I've personally met many people from all sorts of countries further east and south than Europe. And telling time in both 12 and 24 hour formats is never a communication issue.
This does in fact seem to be a uniquely American oddity, atleast it being so; so wide spread.
@@EddThe19th I’m not reading all that bro. I just know I was never taught the 24 hour clock. It was always the 12 hour system. I learned it by myself because I thought it was useful. Just like I assume anyone else would if they cared that much.
@@whiterthanU53dude if you’re too pea brained to read a paragraph here you go:
They get taught 12 hour and are expected to pick up 24 hour on their own
@@whiterthanU53Point is, there's nothing to be taught. It's very self-explanatory.
@whiterthanU53 Wow clearly such a long amount of text... It's very hard to write this without sounding insulting. But it's worrying how slow you must read, to think that's more than a few seconds glancing worth of text. Dunno just feels more like a self report than anything else ❤️.
Nobody commenting on the fact that "5k marathon" doesn't make sense in the first place? A marathon is by definition 42 km, sometimes there are half-marathons that are - surprise - 21 km.
There can be 5 km or 10 km runs, but they are not marathons...
America, anything longer than 1 km is marathon
ah but it could be "5k marathon" like 5 thousand marathons or 210000km but that takes some determination and super powers
Decimarathon 4.2km
Centimarathon 420m
Millimarathon 42m
Decimal system 😎👍
@@aleisterlavey9716 I wouldn't be sure so about that.
American engineers have also decided that it is a good idea that "kilo" can mean either 1000 or 1024.
@@to_lowwthe binary 1024 system actually has its own naming.
For example, what windows wrongly declares as 1 kilobyte is actually 1Kibibyte, 1024 KiB is 1 Mebibyte (MiB) and so on
9:22 bro burgers were made in Germany and fries were made in Belgium 😂😂
Does anyone associate those foods with those particular countries? No.
@ yeah I know but they’re from those countries so womp womp
@@T.Truthtella-n3i yes. They just don't market it constantly, because they have nothing to prove.
Btw, apple pie is also not 'Murican. There are records for recipes in the Netherlands, the UK, and Germany for different versions decades before the first records of 'Murican apple pie.
And yeah, we have fast-food restaurants every step (at least in Moscow), it's just that we don't SOLELY eat there.
@@T.Truthtella-n3i as an European, yes we do. And you guys do as well, since you call them FRENCH fries (which was because you guys couldn’t even see the difference between a French and a Belgian person lmao)
Easiest way to learn Hungarian:
Be born in Hungary to Hungarian parents, convert to Christianity and then pray to the lord that you can understand your mother tongue after going through the education system.
That's a good one.
Follow the EXACT same tips for Finnish, same nightmare
And this goes especially for someone whose family uses one of the stronger local dialects, like in/around Szeged, and then is faced with standard Hungarian in the education system 😆
Bro wat. I'm about to study abroad there. Shiet.
@@HienNguyen-cs1mdyou are doomed 😢
What borders on stupidity? Canada and Mexico.
Ima remember that joke, its good
This week's Internet winner 😂
Good one :D
Superb! They won’t even get it, as they don’t do Geography.
😂
I am British with Irish ancestry. Am I Irish? Fuck no. Do I specify my ancestry when tell people I'm British? Fuck no. Are these 'Irish Americans' Irish? Most of them, fuck no.
I am Welsh with Welsh ancestry does that make me.... oh... wait it does!
So used to people from outside the UK simply assuming I am English with a funny accent!
I specify ancestry when relevant.
Also I’m Irish, British, German, and I was born in America.
@@ssilent8202
"I’m Irish, British, German"
If one of your parents is from a specific country and your other parent is from another you are HALF from both.
For exampel Irish-British, or American-German (If one parent is from the country you live in that one goes first).
If one of your parents is 50/50 you could maybe say you are 1/4th from both countries, but usually people only mention the one that is more dominant from their parent in a cultural sense in such a situation.
If only your grandparents are from somewhere else you are seldom considered to have any claim to that country unless you have VERY strong cultural and family ties to back it up.
I live in Finland with a Finnish and a Dutch parent.
Nationality wise Im Finnish, I was born here and have lived here my entire life so far.
My heritage is Finnish-Dutch, both genetically and culturally (I speak Dutch and partake in its culture).
My children would be 1/4th dutch from me genetically, but it would not be something worth mentioning unless their other parent would also be half-dutch AND they would partake in Dutch culture to a considerable degree.
Me too. I'm unsure how far back my Irish roots are but I'd never call myself 'Irish English'! My dad was from North Shields so I could call myself 'Irish Geordie' but I was born in Oxford and I'm a proud Brit and European. I don't understand the desperation to classify yourself as something you are not.
"Am I Irish? Fuck no"
Yes, yes you are. That's how genetics works. But hey way to admit your irish ancestors were anglicized.. and they wonder why they lost their island. v0v
4:26 "Europeans do not respect cars AT ALL" mfers when they find out that the top 5 fastest cars ever are all from Europe:
Yea the car industry is crazy in Europe,
Most known cars:
Small countries like Sweden invented Volvo, Scania, Saab and koenigsegg. Czech invented Skoda.
Italy invented Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, fiat and lancia.
France Bugatti, Citroen, Peugeot and Renault.
England Aston Martin, Bentley, jaguar, McLaren, Land Rover,
Germany Mercedes, Porsche, opel, Audi, BMW and Volkswagen.
For me, as an Aussie who has been there 3 times, it’s the arrogance and the complete ignorance mixed together that does my head in. Thinking that everyone wants a green card (no thank you) and that they just invented everything including the English language. My sister was an exchange student there in 1980, her fellow students were surprised that she spoke such good English 😂, and after she graduated and came back home, our Education Department wouldn’t recognise the graduation as the standard wasn’t high enough so she had to do her HSC here. Also, she said the history that was taught was only in relation to the US, unlike here where we learnt about world history. They are so rapt up in themselves and consider themselves superior to everyone yet not realising that most people laugh at them, not with them. I could go on and on.
100%. I lived there 14yrs ago, as an 18yr old. Australian, lived in Seattle for a year. I got laughed at because I didn’t know details about the Civil War(they said it’s World History), asked if we had colour TV in Australia yet, and many, MANY times, asked where I learnt to speak English. The amount of stupidity I came across was insane. You get dumb people everywhere you go but the day to day ignorance was crazy.
Wait, they only taught American history? What state did she go to? Here in Cali we do American history in elementary and then through Middle and High school we do World History. And I think those students hit their head really, really, hard.
Ok raygun
@@TheCheese71 well, you can watch TH-cam videos for yourself where Americans are asked about other countries. Many of them think that Europe is a country, so it’s not only in the state she lived in. Perhaps you have just been fortunate. And it still doesn’t explain why the US graduation was not accepted here as the standard was not sufficient.
@@maouikify are you butt hurt? You can hang it on Raygun all you like, she cracked us up she was so bad. But Aussies don’t get all precious is you say anything about our country, and will often agree with you too. Cheers Donald 🤣
The whole Roman African-American thing, I actually got into an argument with a guy once who thought we were rude/racist in the UK for saying black people are black, and not like, "African-British". But my counter arguments were firstly we just consider them British like a white person, it kinda feels more racist to have a caveat there. I have known black Americans who hate being labelled African-American. But also least here in the UK, I'd say we get an equal mix of people with African or Jamaican heritage, it's kinda rude to ask or assume
But yeah, to have "Roman African-Americans" is particularly crazy, I hope that was an AI botch job
Honestly I'm developing a pet peeve for Americans who think the American way is the most logical/should be the default because it's American, or speaking as if the American way is a worldwide thing, when typically only Americans do it the American way and the rest of the world do it another way
Like recently on a TH-cam video I watched, a person commented like we're stupid/incorrect for writing words with "u" in it, and said we get taught that because our "ancestors are taught it" so it "gets ingrained" and "becomes a cycle". But considering American English is based on our English, and it isn't exactly like only the UK adds u's, it's kinda bold to act like the American way should be default cause it's American
Another thing I will never get haha
Americans are supposedly really proud to be American and to identify as American, but also wanna identify as being from 5 other countries and get really mad if you say they are just American. Like, no, because your great, great, great, great grandparent was Irish, it doesn't mean you suffer historic Irish issues, and Ireland isn't "calling you home". I've moved home so much, yet the only one calling me home is the one I live in!
We have something like this is Russia, but different. There's a word "негр", it sounds like " Negr", you can guess with what word it sounds familiar, and it's completely neutral, it isn't offensive at all, official way to name the race. And some foreigners insist that it's offensive and we should name them black, but ironically, it sounds waay more offensive to call someone "black" here. "Negr" is literally means "black" from another language, why would it be offensive to say it, by using this term we're referring to official name instead of pointing directly on skin colour. If you ask any black person in Russia, he will prefer "negr" instead of Western terms cause that's how it is in this language and culture
The hispanics have a lot of problems with them too.
To begin with, they call themselves "American". In geography channels they get entitled when a spanish speaking country is called american.
They call their "natives" native americans ( doesn't matter that you look as an average German dude) but if you come from another country you can't be native american (it's all political).
They use "latino" and "hispanic" as a race thing.
And their obsession with Africa.
A black hispanic dude would say they are their country nationality (dominican for example) or say that they are hispano or "latino", but they want them to say that they are African american or afro something.
If you don't follow their rules you hate yourself and have internalized racism.🤦🏽♀️
This is a common thing Americans don't understand. They think that calling "African Americans" - "Americans" denies them of their history or something. Words matter so much to them.
Thank god America declared independence now we don't have to deal with them
I wish we never discovered them
@@Tottenham_GOAT mate you do realize that 90% of the white Americans are of European descent right ?
@@Tottenham_GOATyou didnt 😭, you colonized them
Real.
Unfortunately, we still have to deal with them, or they'll invade and steal our natural resources... I mean look for WMD's.
6:54 actually, Canadians DO celebrate thanksgiving. But it's on a different date, before Halloween rather than all the way in November. Although Canadians are quite similar to Americans in some ways, we are much more cultured, intelligent, and polite. Most of us anyhow.
I studied in Canada and I can tell you, they are much smarter, nicer and much more open-minded than in the US. I've been in the US and don't get me wrong, I met some amazing people; but the lack of general knowledge was astonishing. Still rather Canada and its lifestyle.
@guillegilcriado6879 I'm actually a Canadian, and I'm flattered you like us lol
American beer is like having sex in a canoe, it's f-cking close to water
What type did you even have
@@emperorpalpatine7557 It's an old "banter" joke an American might hear if he found himself in an Aussie or British pub. Please don't shoot me Mr Sidious ;)
I will use the power of the dark side
Given the number of small craft breweries nowadays in the USA that actually make beer that's decent by British standards, I'd say even the Americans are starting to agree with your statement! 🍺👍
@@ceejay0137 But the level of suffering was also very high. Most (higher quality) breweries did not survive prohibition.
Some Americans just seem to confuse 'African-American' as a synonym for black
Which still can be used in a racist manner.
It’s a social norm here just calling some one black sounds weird so it’s just a habit. I’m sure you would make the same mistake.
That’s how political correctness misleads you.
@@davis7428 i dont think you'd call a black person in a whole other country African-American cause they possibly MIGHT just MAYBE not be American 💀💀
This is true. When the civic celebration "Memphis in May" was celebrating Russia (this was in the 90s) (different year, different theme), some genius wrote in the paper that Pushkin was an African American. Much laughter ensued.
"Europeans don't respect cars at all." If you had the choice, would you pick:
- a Cadillac over a Mercedes or BMW?
- a Lincoln over a Rolls Royce or Bentley?
- a Corvette over a Ferrari or Lamborghini?
- a SSC Tuatara over a Koenigsegg or Bugatti?
Face it, American cars are not very good, they only have a LOT of roads.
A lot of poorly maintained roads I might add.
I have no respect for cars at all nor any interest in them. Happy to live in Europe without a fetish for lumps of metal.
Cadilac, Mercedes and BMW are more or less in the same ballpark price wise, but comparing a Corvette (~70k) to a Ferrari (starting at 245k) or Lamborghini (around the same as Ferrari) is rather silly. Same for Lincoln vs Rolls Royce and Bently.
@@Martin-di9pp True, on the price the U.S. cars are very competitive. But from a market niche perspective the Corvette competes with Ferrari and Porsche and not with Lotus or Alpine? If I had to pay for it I would take the Corvette because you get 90% of the Ferrari for 1/3 the price. Lincoln Town Car is the most luxurious car the U.S. has to offer, that's why I compared it to RR.
@@meltdown6165 Most people who buy a Ferrari or Lamborghini don't buy it for the performance but for the status.
5:33 this is so funny because graffiti has it's origins on the roman empire and not america lmao "graffiti" is on italian even
🙄
@T.Truthtella-n3i bro rolled his eyes virtually
Was Rome really the origin of that though? Couldn't the idea of painting city walls with messages you want the public to see have come about in literally any location that had both cities and writing? Of which there should have been plenty prior to Rome. I.e. Babylon or Alexandria?
@Alblaka well, everywhere i look into says it has it's origins on the Roman empire, not surprising tho, i Guess the romans did a Lot of things lol
@@Alblaka As a former student of ancient languages and history, this is what I know. “Graffiti” comes from Italian, which originates from the Latin graphium (stylus for writing) and the Greek γράφω (to write). In ancient Rome, graffiti referred to inscriptions or drawings scratched or painted on walls, often carrying political, satirical, or personal messages. Similar practices existed in earlier civilizations like Babylon or Alexandria, but the term “graffiti” specifically ties to its Italian and Roman roots. Of course, today graffiti has evolved into a modern art form, but it’s still pretty similar to the original graffiti
"Is 15 minutes walking too much to ask of you?" Yes. A guy I worked with told me a story how he was to go on a shooting range with some american soldiers (in Germany) back in his Bundeswehr days. It was like a 500 meters walk from the base to the range, but when the german soldiers started walking, the americans asked them "Where are you going? truck's gonna be here soon"
So yeah, US culture very much erases the concept of walking from the mind of americans
I mean for most places in America you have to drive or take public transportation
@@Hanz7432 i was in Ireland and it was pretty much America : Lite Edition with its grocery stores being like 2km away from the goddam CITY, my legs hurt, and i had to take massive amounts of food with me and walk it back, because walking 2km EVERYDAY just to buy a soda was inconvenient.
2km takes 30 minutes to walk. Pretty healthy thing to do every day.
@@paddor I'm too lazy for walking, i use my bicycle.
@@F.B.I Seriously? You cant handle 2km?? That's less than people do when they walk their dog...
tbh I could see 2 'right' ways of writing dates: either DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD. Latter one being better for computer sorting, and upholding the rule of rightmost number (smaller unit) getting updated more frequently, but MM/DD/YYYY is definitely a wrong way of doing it
When looking at a calendar what is the first thing you look at? Most people look at the month then the day the year is last. Therefore MM/DD/YYYY
All 3 are correct but very confusing when the day and month are both 1-12. Depends on which country
In the US, we write dates as: September 11, 2000 which is 9/11/2000.
What’s really shitty is my workplace outsources to another workplace who have recently updated their software and it’s either stuck with the American date system or they can’t figure out how to change it to normal dates, so all our stock is confused with the expiration dates. We can’t use expired stock and we can‘t be sure if less used stock is in or out of date so it has to be tossed!
there’s no “wrong” way. They’re all equally right
America absolutely reeks of main character syndrome 😂
Yes they do they seem to think they are the whole world lol
You can say the same for chronically online Europeans
@Misntear Evereybody outside America knows this. Only Americans need this to be explained for everything. Like "German beer is good" here everybody knows that there also is bad German beer. We know we talk about the AVERAGE. Or "the Brits drink tea", nobody needs to explain us the there will be Brits that don´t like tea.
"There are school shootings in the US", a typical American reaction: "No, in my school there was none." And "There also was a school shooting in Europe". Yes, we know: there is not a school shooting in EVERY US school. And we know that there are some in Europe. Some rare ones!
For us: common knowledge. For Americans: For every new topic it something new.
@Misntear I didn't say any amount of people tbh, just that America reeks of it lol
@@emperorpalpatine7557 we are not the same
This is how Americans probably think of other continents:
Europe - uhhh idk Britain?/country
Africa - country
Australia - big insects
Austria - what's the difference?
Asia - idk China
You’re wrong. Stop pretending like Americans are immune to knowing geography.
as an american,
Europe: britain
Africa: elephants, outback, most poverty
Australia: outback + “crikey mate!”
Austria: 👨🏻_/
Asia: biiiiiig continent + china and china+
@juiciestlemonadeofyoutube ah yes, my home country is China and Britain at the same time
the most accurate part is south america being forgotten
@@windowswastaken damn... I guess I'm an American
I remember when my grandad heard that the Americans had gone to the moon. He was gutted when he found out it was just 3 of them😂
IM DYING
@@Ciurk Well, you should have brought more supplies to the Moon.
Did he want them to send a bus load?
@@jamesjesus1828 The whole country, preferably!
@@EddieNoon oh I get the joke now 😂
6:24 because european fanta actually contains oranges.
Also it‘s a German Invention
@@MaticTheProto actually not. the original fanta was somewhat like latella.
later, they replaced it with an italian soft drink, but kept the name.
@@MaticTheProto It was the Nazis' answer to Coca-Cola.
Then Coca-Cola took over the brand.
@@robertheinrich2994, fanta was created in Nazi Germany during the war by the Coca Cola agent that could not get hold of cola. As supplies were unreliable it contained a bit of whatever they could get hold of.
@@MaticTheProtonuh
as an american, i agree, we are some of the scariest and strangest people on the planet, every time i go outside i think, "what the hell is wrong with us?" then i go home and cry.
I highly doubt you are an American. But thanks for trying. Here have some attention anyway little buddy....
@jennyanydots2389
What? What's there to doubt? The US has like 350 million people and the majority of internet users, like it or not, are American-excluding me since I'm from a different continent.
@@guts1859 The majority of people use social media a lot less than you think, you probably just think everyone is online all the time because you are online all the time. By the way on average (as of 2024, look it up homey) Americans spend LESS time on social media than Europeons... but yeah... American stereotypes. smh
Just smoke
@@Abner.me.obviously I do, just got a new pack of cameroons and a new lighter, and I got a discontinued version of the S&W SD9ve, I’m pretty happy all things considered, but this world is sinking in human shit :(
4 generations deep American Irish immigrants. I don't think that's immigration anxiety, that's American anxiety.
Dear americas,
What tf is wrong with you?
Sincerely, the rest of the planet.
Dear rest of the world,
Lots.
-Americans
Dear rest of the planet,
Lots and some stereotypes
Sincerely, Americans
Dear rest of the world,
depends on the person
Sincerely, Sloth
Dear rest of the world,
-Lead. It's in the water, it's in the paint, it's in our guns. It's everywhere. Lead is the problem.
@@ManiaMac1613 i like my brain drippy bruh
-Average American
i find it so ironic that americans say they have more freedom than anyone else, despite having less freedom than here, australia, canada, most of western europe among other places
I would really love to know exactly what freedoms they believe that they have which we don't have in the UK, Australia, NZ, Western Europe etc. It would be interesting to ask an American to list them. The only 'freedom' I can think of is the freedom to go around carrying a gun which I wouldn't want to have anyway.
@@Ben-xe8ps really and truly id argue the freedom to carry guns gives you less freedom, because everyone else can too and that puts u in danger so it kinda works against them in my mind,
@@Ben-xe8psI guess free speech, but does it matter anyway if people are so sensitive?
Plus those countries probably have that as well. So yeah, you have a point.
@@TheCheese71 also kind of unrelated but I will say something for unitedstatians that misunderstand free speech
free speech is not the right to say anything without consequences, it is the right to say anything (meaning that you can still be ostracized)
@@Ben-xe8ps To be fair, the US must be the only country that has actual freedom of speech, whether we like that or not. Still I wouldn't like to live in that country though.
Americans saying "doorbell sound isn't very pleasant" have the absolute GAUL when their schools' bell sounds like a fire alarm
wrong the fire alarm sounds like you're choking a goose into a subwoofer
Bro have you only watched movies. That shit got changed to something more pleasant in like the 90’s
You have never been to an American school
Gall.
@@Dashing1100 my school has been around since the 1920s so its still accurate lol
- DD/MM/YYYY is very simple to explain. The rule of going smallest to biggest 1Day, month has 30/31 days and year has 365 days or 12 months. Also I don't know for all countries but many say the date 26th of June.
- 24 hour clock, day has 24h. It is still common and ok to just say two insted of 14.00
- Metric system is very simple, 10 of something is one of something bigger and so on: 10ml is 1cl, 10cl is 1dl amd 10dl is 1l
Whenever someone calls Europe a country, or an American complains that we write our dates wrong and try to act like how they do it is the “normal” way, I die a little inside
Well at least we know how to spell aluminium
...no, wait
well, the way they do it is normal, for them. just like it's normal for certain people to eat crayons...
Who cares that's only a small minority
As an American I don't believe in your date system simply because I was raised differently, which is fine, HOWEVER, can we please just bully Canada for sometimes using Y/M/D and selling milk in plastic bags?
@@ehur-s8u it's just the correct order inverted, that's fine. way better than displaying a date out of order.
milk in plastic bags used to be a thing here when I was a kid. put the bag in a mug befor cutting it open, it's no big deal.
motion denied.
"Third countries" is a legal European Union term used to refer to any country that is not a member of EU or somehow similar in whatever context. Can be from a tax, duties, economic sanctions regimes, or other perspective.
Yeah, it's a weird but local way of describing things. It's common too, for example "third party" means "someone else"
It's not a legal term it's just two words that describe "countries not in scope of this context". Third countries underneath "UK and EU-passport holders" means other countries. In Dutch law "third countries" means "Not the Netherlands" in IMF documents "third countries" would mean non-IMF-members. It's just understandable language.
@@nickryan3417 It's not weird. First country: The coutry you are entering. 2nd: Countries in the same organisation, e.g. the EU or the Schengen area. 3rd: Everybody else.
Just like "third party" refers to an entity outside of the two parties entering into a contract.
@@HotelPapa100 Thanks! I always wondered about this terminology and this explains it well.
@@nickryan3417wanted to say the same, it is just a specific way derived from third party.
Especially in the EU or the Schengen area it also makes some sense. You are in one country (first) that belongs to a group for which certain rules apply (second countries) like not requiring a passport to move around. Then all other countries are third in that relation.
Also third party usually was used if you deal with let's say a vendor and something has to be brought in from somewhere else as well, between you and the vendor, that other party would then be a third party. But it seems at some point in some situations use of that word spilled over in using third party for just everyone else.
I once saw this funny ass short where this British kid said "at least our schools don't look like fortnite battle Royale."
How is that funny
@@Hanz7432dark jokes my beloved
@@giotoro3934 it’s just not even funny though
@@Hanz7432 yeah maybe
@@Hanz7432
Valid, dark humor is one of those things you either hate or love
"America english hard to learn"
Germans have like 16 words for the word "the"
4 for masculine
4 for feminine
4 for neuter
4 for plural
American English (and perhaps other English dialects) are hard to learn because of many inconsistencies. Words like “though,” “through,” and “thought” are spelled similarly, but pronounced differently. Irregular verbs also make it confusing, like “go” turns into “went,” instead of “goed.” Some may take idioms literally instead of figuratively. “Kick the bucket” means “to die.” Phrasal verbs also may cause confusion-where some verbs change meaning depending on the preposition used. Lastly, we have SVO (Subject-Object-Verb) word order, but there are some exceptions with OSV (Object-Subject-Verb) word order, for example, “The bananas Jane ate,” can be used to emphasize or for a rhetorical effect. OSV is not the default word order.
Ofc, try to learn any of the Slavic languages. @@hnlking
I am Spanish, and I can explain the doorknob in the middle of the house door. That knob does not turn, it's just to pull, you will open the door with the key, always (yes, if you forget your keys and close the door from outside, you're out of your home) and since most house doors (the one in the video certainly is) are metallic (although with wood paneling) you need to pool slighly to allow the bolts that hold it close to be freer while turning the key. Doing this (pulling and turning the key) would be awkward if the knob where on the right (where the keyhole is). Also, since they're havier than simple wooden doors, the knob in the center allows you to control the weight better. If it were on the right side of the door you may accelerate the door too easily, the knob being in the middle makes you feel the real weight and not slam it.
edit: words
Thank you for explaining. Ironically, in England the knob is normally the one inserting the key.
wait this is actually super interesting thanks for sharing
😂😂@@Naptosis
@@Clay-qq5vb Aw, thanks for the kind reply. Also, this design with the keyhole standing alone allows door to have an universal system for changing the keyhole. This comes in handy when you buy a new house or lose a key, you can go to the HW store and change the lock just with one screw, if I am not mistaken, compatibility is not as good with the keyhole hardware more popular in the UK and the USA. You can see the piece looking up "euro cylinder" or "euro profile" in Google images, it's common in all continental Europe, at least in the west part surely.
So it's more like an industrial freezer door with some weight to it.
"Europeans do not respect cars at all"
Ferrari
Aston Martin
Jaguar
Land rover
Mercedes
Lotus
Bugatti
Alfa romeo
Lamborghini
Volkswagen, fiat etc...
@@cheezburger4836 exactly
BMW, Peugeot, Renault, Citroën etc.
Volvo
Audi
5 seconds in your singing is beautiful george
BRENDON URIE??
@@ultraxxy GERARD WAY?????
@@ultraxxy im cryign why are both brendon urie and gerard way in a memeulous comment section
@@kdkhsjhskhi feel like I should warn you not to send any money to Nigerian princes
@@JunjiDorito i would send money to a nigerian princess if the nigerian princess was gerard way
9:00 that isnt the trauma of immigrants anymore thats just child abuse trauma now lmao
The weirdest thing about the Hadrian one is that he wasn't even African. He was born in an Italian settler colony in Spain.
So Italian American then 🙂
@@Henrik_Holst I'm laughing my guts up at that one.
@@Henrik_Holstlol
@@Henrik_Holst Or Spanish American perhaps? (Hispanic???)
@@EarlJohn61clearly latino
I find it hilarious when Americans talk about burgers and fries being their food as if they didn't come from Germany and Belgium respectively
I have to be fair on this one. Fish and chips never came from the UK either.
That's clearly the only food you have heard also it's ours because of our delicious taste of freedom
@@cambs0181 We're an island where do you think fish come from? Chips sure, potatoes aren't from here but fish? Really? Fish that are literally caught in the water next to some fish and chips shops and cooked? They're not from here?
@@emperorpalpatine7557 What?
@@TheJpf79 The idea of fish and chips (fish fried in batter and fried potato slices) came from Portugal originally.
As a brit from Bavaria:
American 'football' is rugby for wimps
Pool is tiddly winks with coloured balls.Snooker is chess with coloured balls.
America has the best baseball players.(because nobody else plays it)
I doubt you have ever watched a football game. Idk what “tiddy winks” and “snooker” are. And countries like Japan and Cuba enjoy baseball.
American 'football' isn't football at all. It is just played with one but only one person on a team of eleven (be it offence, defence or special teams) can legally kick a ball. How can that be called football compared to soccer or even rugby, both of which rely heavily on all and any members of the team putting their foot to the ball on a regular basis.
@@Napkin24 I have, and I doubt you have watched a rugby game by the sounds of it.
Seeing two 200+ pound guys who can sprint the 100 metres in just under 10 seconds slam into each other at full tilt WITHOUT padding or helmet might illuminate why we consider American Football is Rugby for wimps....
And we do not call it Football, only Americans call American Football just Football. For the rest of the world Football is what you refer to as Soccer. The US is literally the only country in the world that calls it soccer.
Dude do you wanna know how many get injured I'm our sport if we don't have padding and the rules in place people would be dead out there
@@emperorpalpatine7557 Rugby is played without padding, helmets or 150kg slobs who can't last 4 plays without getting a rest on the sidelines. All players are required to run for 80 minutes without breaks except for penalties and half time. Do not suggest the American game is tougher than that or you will be accused of being stupid.
As a member of the Canadian community, I would like to say that we are nothing like the yanks below us
It will always make me giggle that Americans think Europeans are all poor
That's because you are and you don't get our freedom
@@emperorpalpatine7557 not sure what American freedom™ has to do with the perception that Europe is poor
TBF we have very poor countries like Moldova or Kosovo.
And it's probably a misconception that comes from the American people often not realising what we generally don't have to spend money on. So even if we often earn nominally less money we're not necessarily poorer overall.
@@emperorpalpatine7557You...do get that our cost of living are different than yours ? Or at least I hope you do
It's a joke and being ironic bub
The pig legs are actually airdried Spanish ham. The Spanish "jamón" is not just food, it's a culinary culture. It is so exquisite, it will make your palate dance polka.
Hey, polka is a Czech half-step dance move. How about it will make your palate dance flamenco (Spanish, though more correctly, Andalusian) or tarantella?
Pata Negra is the food of the gods
@@majorlaff8682 Flamenco is a near-carbon copy of Indian Kathak, so...Sevillana would be 😂
I'm Spanish and I must admit that I have never seen these many being displayed at a store. Usually you're going to see a fifth of that at most, and only during Christmas. We have tradicional bars where they hang the "jamones" on top of the bar. Now that I can see being a shocking experience for foreigners 😂
@georgezee5173, in some places in the US we have country ham. Not similar in taste to jamón, but you can go to a grocery store and see then just hanging ready to be bought.
About 2:10 there was a fun thing when people in the middle east burned the Swiss flag meaning to burn the Swedish flag, confusing Switzerland and Sweden in english
I’ll be honest, I still have trouble with the two. I have to double check every time I talk about one. I don’t know why the information doesn’t stick.
That's because you never heard of Swaziland.
@@to_loww Which change it's name to eSwatini some time ago,,,,
@@MrDannyDetail Which means the same thing anyway. It's like Turkey/Türkiye.
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Tbh that sounds like Naziland
9:07 that guy 100% ordered the most outlandish thing possible and tries to make it look normal... like wtf even is that?
I am an American living in Australia it blows my mind the lack of curiosity about another country just assuming every o5er person on the planet is not as free or as special.
When I took my children to visit their American cousins the difference in education was pronounced.
My kids could name and locate 30 or more countries on the globe their cousins could barely locate the US.
BUT they do have a bible in every classroom in Oklahoma!! Yep...spent millions to put a bible in every classroom when their state is coming 49th out of 50 for education!! Shame none of the kids will ever read them! Truly stupid... Americans are the most insular people on Earth..they think the world revolves around them?? They have one of the LOWEST passport rates per capita of ANY developed country? I have been dozens of times...but never again...EVER. America is about to hit a hurdle BIG TIME...and it will be their own fault. They are about to get what they voted for. Insanity...
Simp.
7:23 if you say "Londonderry" you are certainly not a Derry girl 😂
Irish/northern irish watches jack and George??!
@@Im_The_Irish_Guyyeah, why wouldn't we?
@@44_woohoo_44 Exactly!
Was looking for this comment 😂😂
What's even worse is that the subreddit they posted on was r/DerryGirls which is a sub not for girls from County Derry but a sub for the show Derry Girls
Fanta is a bright orange in the US as the colouring used in the US is banned in countries that are concerned about carcinogenic poisons.
That is because, in America, you can use whatever ingredient you want, until it is proven to be harmful. In Europe, you have to prove that every single ingredient is safe *before* they let you use it.
Yes, SO MANY people die from food coloring every year. 🙄
the coloring using in the EU is banned in the US.
2:38 5km marathon in itself is funny wording to me, a marathon is 42km 🤣
“Londonderry” that in and of itself discredits any Irish heritage this person claims to have
We have a board game which shows the name Londonderry and shows northern Ireland as part of the country Ireland. I do not know that much about the troubles, but it seems a rather odd choice.😂
Well, in her defense, heritage isn't the same as knowledge.
1:25 wait till they find out the international court of justice is in The Hague
A few of them are aware. Did you miss the story a while ago where some American politicians were threatening a military invasion of the Netherlands because the court in The Hague had issued an arrest warrant for some Israelis? 💀
As an American, I DID infact know the ICJ is in the Netherlands, the worst of us can't speak for all of us. I can't point to a racist german and call all germans N@@is, can I? Or point to an extremist french and call all French smoking frog leg eaters.
The US is not a state party to the Rome Statute. So not part of the world court of course.
Rowling isn't even American which makes it even funnier.
@@gokbay3057 This. Though seeing how much she is involved in US politics, it's easy to forget that.
I'm fluent in Japanese and a native English speaker. I can give insight into how complicated each language system is. In my experience, Japanese is a lot more consistent with it's rules but that mostly applies to standard, modern Japanese. I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of Kansai place names that make no sense and you wouldn't know how to read them unless you knew beforehand or you have a good grasp on the area's history.
English has to be the most difficult language to read, especially with the words dough, bough, cough, and enough are all pronounced differently.
@@kenchristie9214Also the word through.
@@kenchristie9214 as a non-native speaker: no, really not that difficult. Also the words are perfectly understandable when you *read* them. It might be a problem if you try to *pronounce* them without knowing how but this is also not too difficult after a short while and, thus, something you usually learn early on.
@@kenchristie9214
I think Chinese or Japanese are harder to read.
I found japanese to be easy to understand but hard to read since I could not for the life of me remember all the hiragana and dont get me started on katakana
7:08 canada has thanksgiving too but it’s earlier in the year
Tbf Canada is in North America so technically American the same goes for mexico Central America south America and every other in the the continents just not in the way most people think of when people say American
@@DavidJimenez-tt5ok Canada isn’t America,They are French Decent that founded that land the same way the Irish and British Founded America.
@@Jza-GZa40k Canada is located in the north American continent therefore it is American not French, you can google it
Canada celebrates Thanksgiving, but ours is a feast for thanking all the people who helped bring in the farmers harvest.
It's also like 5 weeks before the US has Thanksgiving, so it's barely the same
I thought you were going to say that it's a feast for thanking you're on the right side of the border 😭
in england its a harvest festival,as kids we all had to bring food,veg tinned stuff to be distributed to the elderly
I assumed it was Canadians giving thanks that they were born north of the border! 😂
And maintained the southern border! 😬
"Soccer is popular because it is a peasant sport"
Ah yes, the most popular sport in the ENTIRE WORLD is popular only because it's a "peasant sport". There's literally like 5 BILLION fans, from low income to megarich. And let's not forget the FIFA World Cup, which is the most popular sport competition in the world, which is more popular than the Olympics.
Actually if you think about it, its so popular because its a peasant sport, and most people ever born have literally been peasants, or their industrial age equivalents in the working class!
What sport do you think is going to spread furthest and be played by the most people? The one played by the peasants, who make up the majority of the population? Or the one played by the wealthy toffs?
I mean look at the difference between football and cricket.... See what I mean?
So its really not wrong. Condescending, but not wrong, and still does not reduce the butthurt most Americans feel when they realise football (not their version, the REAL version) is more popular than American Football and baseball combined... Both of which are sports barely played outside the USA....
to be fair, back in the 1800s when soccer rules were defined, it was very much a pastime for the poor
@@enorma29so what‘s wrong about that? Everybody wants to play polo…?
@@enorma29 Old Etonians FC won the FA cup in the 1800s
to play futbol you only need 4 rocks and a ball (or paper and tape)
I'm American and I have literally heard things this stupid in person while passing by people in a store or at a restaurant 😂
Every place has idiots bub just how the world is
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"every people criticize please stop criticizing"
Felicidades eres del 5% de los Yankees que no son .. ... yankess lo siento
I had to bring an atlas to work once to prove that Chad is a country in Africa and that Africa isn't a country.
@@emperorpalpatine7557 If stupid was a plane the US would be the airport, i have countless friends from there and they are not very enlightened...
America acts like the pretty cheerleader in Highschool, thinking that dating the captain of the football team, makes everyone else envy them, but is secretly hated and laughed at behind their back lol
And the thing is she also tried to get with, or being nosy with everyone's business. Thinks she's the heroine/protagonist most of the time too.
Memeulous saying "pig legs" has the same energy as Benedict Cumberbatch saying "penguins"
pengwings
penglins
penwings
Pengwings
Not understanding the 24-hour system is grounds for classing someone as subhuman
I habitually subtract 7 or 8 hours when I see a 24-hour time, because whenever I see 24-hour time it's always UTC.
I love it when Americans call it 'military time', as if you need military training to be able to add twelve?!
As a Scottish person, I agree
@@sStormy as another Scottish person I strongly agree
@@dxxna8364 as a Pakistani that lives in England who’s best freind is Scottish on behalf of the Pakistani, English and Scottish
As an irish person, i definitely agree
Please stay in Sweden! You are obviously not a very smart person!
As another Scottish person, I agree.
the "one hour in America is 60 minutes while in Europe it's 30" absolutely devastated my mind.
Once a British person told me that a European minute is 100 seconds and an American minute was stupid for being 60 seconds, It really annoyed me that he made up something stupid just to say that Americans do it the stupid way, like every single European on the internet.
I was on a US air craft carrier when the Admiral addressed the troops. It was in Perth. He warned them all about misbehaving and then emphasised very strongly to not EVER try to out drink the Aussies. It can't be done. I've been to Europe and the Us and all American beer is shit. All European beer is fabulous.
The best thing about Fosters is the "Australian for Beer" advertisement series.
It might be the only good thing about it too.
But it is truly legend.
To be fair to the USians, there are some good beers in the US, but generally only those that are made in what they call "micro-breweries". As long as they are independent some of these do brew nice beer. However, to stay profitable many also have to produce beer more acceptable to mainstream US tastes - therefore weak and has to be drunk very cold to hide the lack of taste.
Not much of a boast, is it?
@@lacdirk I'm Australian and have literally only ever seen or heard of references to Fosters from Americans.
I concede that it might be possible to purchase in places with large international beer sections, along with the Budweiser, but it's not going to be the most popular American beer here by a long way
Scotland here, we wish to accept that challenge!
I watch your videos with my mate from Ireland, and when the so-called "Derry Girl" said she came from "Londonderry" he actually choked on his own spit for a few moments. I got pretty close, too.
That's... certainly one way to show you're not in touch with your heritage.
That is the name for the city.
@@sondekommando Don't say that to anyone South of the Border, or a lot of people North of it...
In some places referring to Derry as Londonderry will get you stabbed, if you are lucky. And that is not a joke. Thats utterly serious.
So yeah, not really in touch with the Irish heritage... At least not the Southern Irish heritage... The Northern Irish see it differently. Irony about them is most of the plantations were Scottish... and the Scottish originally CAME from Northern Ireland...
Something the Irish do not like to admit....
A "Third Country Nation" is defined as a country which is not a member of the European Union (EU), or European Economic Area (EEA). Britain is therefore classified as a Third Country Nation.
G7?
These videos remind me of the old adage, don't argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it think
@@theomacer3094 you can make them think if you fill them full of holeth
I agree, which is why im not going to argue with you.
ironically it was american writer ( Mark Twain) that is credited with that quote.
@@convinceme6676 ironically, mark Twain used paper invented in china for his works
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the UK, on the fourth of July. We finally got rid of all the prudes and religious nutjobs.
Hahaha. That is actually quite funny. If I understand you correctly.
The Australians are still thankful that they got the criminals. Criminals sometimes see the error of their ways, better themselves and set themselves free. Australia could have gotten the religous wingnuts. Wingnuts per definition can't be wrong so they stay wingnuts forever.
I thought it was in the early autumn, repeating and commemorating the party we had the day after we had persuaded the first bunch of pilgrims to sail away on the Mayflower. We did point them in the general direction of America, but weren't that bothered whether or not they made it.
Every day is thanksgiving day 😂
Did we? Guess radical Islamists don't count...
I don't even understand why some people are saying -- k is ---miles..Like I thought k meant thousand?? Like 2k is 2000??
Do they mean kilometers?? Cause that's km!?
It took me a second to realise what they were talking about too, but the context was pretty simple
@rodrigoandorinha9259 hm
K is indeed just thousand.
But since "K M" is clunky to say, and kilometer is long, people shortened it to just k for race distances.
"K" alone is still closer to km than miles even if you read it as thousand though.
But yeah, it's basically an abbreviation of an abbreviation, because people were lazy about a descriptor they needed to say a ton.
@DyslecticAttack I see. It's confusing for sure lol
It's extremely common to write 5k when referring to a fun run distance.
9:15 The very US-American foods like German Burgers 🍔, and Belgium French fries 🍟, brought to you by Europe 😄.
We created the potato chips and fortune cookies
@@ricktheweeb5382 Japanese created Fortune cookies, [Quote] The latest history of the fortune cookie is that it originated in Japan. A wood block image from 1878 shows what seems to be a Japanese street vendor grilling, fortune cookies. They can still be found in certain districts of Kyoto Japan, but are larger and darker than the fortune cookie we are familiar with [Unqoute]. First documented evidence of Crisps (Potato-chips) in the United States is 1853. First evidence of Crisps in Britain is 1817, [Quote] The first recorded recipe was British, written in a cookbook called The Cook's Oracle, by William Kitchiner, published in 1817. Kitchiner describes them as 'Potatoes fried in slices or shavings. [Unqoute].
@@ricktheweeb5382 Fortune cookies was Japan, dating back to 1878, They can still be found in certain districts of Kyoto Japan. Earliest evidence of Crisps (Potato-chips) in the United States is 1824. The earliest evidence of Crisps in Britain (England) is 1817.
@zebedeemadness2672 I'll give you the fortune cookie since I haven't seen anything with Japan from it till you said something, however I am not getting anything saying that crisps/potato chips was first made in Britian.
@@ricktheweeb5382 Just search William Kitchiner, crisps. 1817 (Britain), beats 1824 (United States).
5:56 ??? wtf was that random arm in the bottom left corner do you have someone hiding under ur desk mr memeulous
You've uncovered a conspiracy
there is a weird things behind the video at 6:04
By the way, yes, the Austrian Airport in Vienna doesn't have a desk for passengers that travelled the wrong way. BUT: The Australian post office had an own office for redirecting letters that were meant to go to AUT (many people use that instead of AT for Austria) but ended in AUStralia. Even official letters from the state sometimes do the world trip of going from Vienna to Sydney to Vienna to Innsbruck. When that happens, the letter gets a nice looking kangoroo post stamp attached in that Sydney post office and is then send to Austria. The reason why that is even possible, is, that the automatic letter machines in the past first sorted by country code and then by zip code. And even the zip codes wouldn't help, because Austria and Australia both use 4 number zip codes. Nowadays it's not a problem anymore, as letters with "AUS" are not immediately send into the bags for the airport, but a computer also checks for the zip code AND city name - and gladly no austrian town has the same zip code as a town written the same in Australia.
I once helped a post office worker in damn Chornobyl town to redirect the letter with "CH" on it, which turned out to mean "Switzerland".
Some EU post office saw CH and decided that it sure MUST be Chornobyl... The letter had postcards from an italian museum's giftshop 😅
My husband said to a yank once, when he confused Austria and Australia...
"Do I look like I know how to fu**ing yodel??!" Only an Aussie!!
The thing about Vienna airport isn’t true but I have heard that the London embassies of Australia and Austria do regularly exchange mail that has been sent to the wrong place, as do those of Slovakian and Slovenian.
6:11 That's "No 4-way stop". Did this American never see any traffic-light-controlled junctions on his visit to Spain??
Four-way stops are a North American thing, with stop signs in all directions.
It's an unnecessary obstruction of traffic flow, and has overly complicated rules in terms of right of way, which require you to remember who came in which order (which can be very ambiguous).
It's hilarious that anyone would prefer this over roundabouts.
@@to_loww we have them in my country too, but they're very darn rare
Plot twist: Australian airports have desks for people who thought they were going to Austria
I want that to be a thing now lol
@@MrKingkz It is a thing - Fact.
No freaking way! Seriously?
@@MerryXmasMfkrs Of course not
@@Kyrelel For a moment I thought this wasn't a joke.
Fun fact: in the USA, we are not taught how to read analog clocks. I'm serious, I am in eighth grade (Year 9) and there are students older than me who cannot read a clock.
You're not taught how to read a 12 hour analog clock, nor a 24 hour digital clock? You don't even have a clock in the classroom? How are all the rizzlers going to read the time on their rolies when they leave school?
Idk where you are from but it should already know
I would have expected kids to know that before they start school. I don't think we were taught it at school but my parents realised it was something I would need from a very young age. When I was four I used to turn the radio on when Listen With Mother was due to start.
I learned that in 1st grade.
@@Napkin24so did i
As an American I can confirm that every day we wake up, learn incorrect geography, eat 12 cheeseburgers, and take a daily word out of our vocabulary. Then we go straight to twitter and harrass non Americans (and sometimes each other.) happy thanksgiving 🍁🦃 💄
As another American, I go to private school here and it amazes me how stupid public school kids are. I'm not trying to sound stuck up or anything, but it's mainly that kids don't pay attention in school and also most of the people here don't care about their health. Kinda sad, really.
@CassieeeJordan why did you feel the need to mention this lol stop hating :)
@JT-dm3tp Because I can and I don't care what you think? 🥰
1:50 My Aunt has a T-shirt that says 'no kangaroos in Austria' to make a joke about the whole peoplle confusin Austria with Australia🤣
Our teacher in Germany once hung a sticker with that on a paper roll dispenser in our classroom
Every single souvenir shop in Austria sells them 😂 it's a bit overused but still funny 🤣
@@katalinelo8011well recently CNN said that Australia was building a wall at the Slovenian border
@@GianniDNCNN classics
I‘m Austrian and it happened several times that letters and parcels were accidentally sent to Australia instead of to my address in Austria. I did get those parcels and letters in the end. A big thank you to the Australian post offices🙏 for sending them to me!!!!
There is a reason why most of the world calls US "Beer" Piss
Cat pee
We ourselves call it piss because it doesn’t deserve to be drank, neither does any beer, no beer has a “good” taste and the after effects of alcohol are always bad, why the drink exists is beyond me
Number one in the world tho.
Well, the US also calls it the same thing (what the first reply said, specifically).
I might be able to explain the “traditional Italian thanksgiving dinner.”
America is a country of immigrants, there is a large Italian community in the States. These Italian Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, and undoubtedly they probably make one of the best dinners of all the varied American communities.
Austrian here. You cannot even imagine how often that Austria/Australia mix-up happens to me and my fellow citizens when we are abroad.
Which are more wearing; kangaroo jokes, or Austrian painter jokes? 😅
@@Naptosis not the latter, fortunately!
Do people also muddle Tanzania with Tazmania?
@@Naptosisthe Germans take most of the Austrian painter jokes, because like one famous person once said:"The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian"
We met some east Germans in Ireland and they thought, that my Austrian friend was from East Germany, too.
Because Vienna and Jenna sound so similar :D
3:34 Ironically, Americans are taught Simplified English because the early makers of their local dictionaries thought their countrymen were not sharp enough to learn standard English.
They thought Americans were worse at learning languages than the English. Let that sink in.
Or Mr. Webster couldn't spell.
@@patrickporter6536 He had the option of just copying the already available dictionaries from England. They legit thought Americans weren't able to cope (from what I've looked into).
Not really.
The actual reason was printing. More specifically it was the setting of type for printing. If you had set the type for an 18th Century printing machine you would know exactly what I am getting it...
American English was simplified primarily to make typesetting for printing easier, faster and cheaper.
Essentially they just carried on the process the English had actually started about 150 years beforehand with the initial invention of the printing press. At the time the English alphabet had a lot of Anglo-Saxon characters which were quite complex, for an example look up the Anglo-Saxon character thorn (just google it). They were all removed to simplify the alphabet, indeed some Language historians literally call it the Great Vowel Die Off...
Its where many of the pronunciation traps come from. You might be familiar for example with Ye in place or building names, especially pubs or hotels. Ye Olde Ducks Leg for example. That Ye is not pronounced with a Y. That is the post simplification for that Anglo-Saxon character I referred to earlier, thorn. The Y is actually pronounced TH, so Ye is the....
In some ways simplifying English the way the Americans did made sense, in others it just made things worse!
EDIT: Just to make it clear, I am not trying to claim the printing press was invented in England (it was not), just that the invention of it and the complexity of those characters led to a huge simplification of the English alphabet.
@@Naptosis That's not quite the case. I've written quite extensively on the subject....so I will cut a long story as short as possible. Webster was a staunch Republican and a whole-hearted supporter of the revolution. He envisaged, shall we say, lofty ambitions for his new nation...believing it would eventually surpass and rival the great civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome in importance. He also believed that education, specifically a classical education that, at that period of time, only people of the very wealthiest and richest nobility, royalty and clergy could afford or access, had been used as a gate-keeping mechanism to maintain power and authority. In many ways, he wasn't wrong in that regard...alongside religion itself, of course, but he believed that those mechanisms of power had long been a corrupting and negative force, that was, in his view, the downfall and to the detriment of European nations at the time.
However, what he actually sought to do with his language changes were chiefly political by design and intent. We all intuitively know that living languages change over time, and the first and most frequent changes are typically in vocabulary (other linguistic aspects...grammar etc change much, much more slowly). Yet when those changes occur they do so as a result of words entering the common vernacular and being adopted over time and actually used by speakers of the language...there develops over time a consensus on the meanings, spellings and usage of those words and therefore they then steadily pass into everyday accepted use. Webster did NOT do that though...he did not take existing word usage or consult or survey any existing consensus whatsoever. The changes he made were entirely arbitrary and of his own design.
So, in some way, it can be argued that what he wanted to do was in some way noble, in that he wanted to democratise language and make it easier to learn - that's a valid viewpoint and worth longer discussion - but it wasn't just making it easier to learn, to read or to write that was his goal...it was essentially, and chiefly, a political manoeuvre. He felt that it was politically important for his new nation to establish legitimacy for itself on the world stage as being separate and distinct from the motherland and he thought changing how the language was used was a way to do that.
And yet America rules the world….
Insufferable American here, Arizona is my favorite country
It might seem crazy what I’m about to say..
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Africa is mine....
Lmao!
(2:43) Yeah a bit confusing. A marathon is 42195 m, but the person is talking about a 5000 m run (thinking it's in miles). Still silly for not considering that other units of measurements exist.
7:23 not the londonderry 😭
Saying I'm part irish and saying londonderry in the same sentence is so wrong to me
I read it as laundry
@grannywithagun170 and they posted it in the derry girls subreddit too 😂
Isn't it called Derry/Londonderry according to Google maps
@@AbstractS04I’m English I believe that it should just be called Derry to be honest
"Americans petrify me" good to know i make you rock hard.
And ancient.
@@majorlaff8682 🤣
... You are the proff omg god save us from them
5k marathon or 5km 😂 Oviously not for the freedom people with freedom units. 😂
A marathon is 42 kilometres, this is just a five kilometre run.
On your soul that was funny af 😈 😂 😂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The 'freedom' units that come from the British Empire lol
You mean the Imperial system that the British STILL use and created?
I'd rather do 5km that 5000 marathons :S
Australian hotel concierge here, in Melbourne. I've had American guests not understanding no restaurants do Thanksgiving dinner, wanting to day trips to Uluru, Great Barrier Reef and day trip of Tasmania. Best one was guest asking what the ATM doesn't dispense US dollars - his account is in US Dollars so thought he lost out in the currency exchange, explained the ATM will do the exchange rate, he received AU dollars but thought his account will be withdrawn the same in US dollars...
What makes it more funny is that they're always so confident with what they're saying xD
Cause we know we can get away with it 🇺🇸
The same confidence took them to the moon. Don't ever tell americans they can't do something because the answer will be a confident "yes, we can" and the amazing thing is they'll often make it happen lol
The unmatched "can do" attitude.
@@MerryXmasMfkrs other than name 10 countries outside America
@@InfiniteWasp360 Ok, but what do you do with that knowledge? You know countless countries all over the world plus their respective capitals, and you do what with that? Play smart in a social group?
That's the problem with us europeans, we fill our brains with useless general knowledge and leave little space to iniciative, entrepreneurship, craftiness and problem-solving thinking.
We're too formal and stuffy, americans are not bound by those, they're creative and daring. That's why the USA is the richest and most advanced country in the world.
Btw you're using an american digital plataform to bash and belittle americans. That's peak cognitive dissonance.
Look around you and see how many american inventions you're surrounded with, from appliances to advanced medical devices, and lightbulbs too lol
@@MerryXmasMfkrsyou’re acting like you can’t learn both general knowledge and specific knowledge
i saw something on reddit with people all over the world saying their opinions on the USA & EVERYONE EXCEPT americans where saying stuff like ‘yeah they’re a diff breed’ 😭i’m from the UK but i’m glad it’s not just us brit’s that think that lmaoo
We just better 🇺🇸
@@ssilent8202Think harder 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@GianniDN there’s nothing to think about it’s just obvious 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸😎😎🦅✝️🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🙏🏻💀😎🗿🗿🦅🇺🇸😎🦅🇺🇸
I think there’s quite a bit of us that had our heads hit really hard as a small child, but I hope people can see that we’re human like them and the loudest, rudest ones are the small majority.
Nah, you Brits aren't the only ones who think this way, at all!!