10 "IS AMERICA REALLY LIKE THAT?" Questions an Irish Girl has from Watching TV and Films
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A couple of comments, the older schools are usually one building or started out that way because the populations was low and it was easier to heat. "Cooties" was some kind of weird old time game where I think you built a non-discript bug to win and people just started calling any unknown bug a Cootie. When I was in grade school and very young I asked my teacher what a cootie was he told me Cooties were the reason Napoleon put his hand in his coat. Another reason older schools (especially those built in the late fifties or early or middle sixties were one building was that they usually contained a bomb shelter because of our paranoia about nuclear war, we even had "dog-tags" that we were told would survive a nuclear explosion so they could identify our burnt, black, crispy body. In my grade school that had a bomb shelter there were huge cans of water being stored outside the shelter. It's no wonder I'm so F**ked up.
Why would you put butter on a sandwich? That's what mayo is for.
"So surely people don't actually use them." Yes, people really use window air conditioners- and don't call me Shirley.
I understood that reference.
Would you like a nightcap? No thank you I don’t wear them! The Goat Frank Drebin
Yes, and if you've ever installed one you bolt it to the window sill. Unless installed by a moron they aren't going anywhere. The biggest error is to not get the angle correct to allow the condensation to drip out thus killing the compressor. Don't ask me how I know.
Yep, they are usually used in buildings pre-dating "central air." If you don't know, AC works by separating hot air from cool air, blowing the cool air into the room, and the hot air out of the building. So, yes, they do need to be in the window or the hot air sticks in the room and it doesn't get any cooler.
@@RupertMDoc Predating central air? pffffft...
Allow me to introduce you to *MAINE!*
Most homes in Maine have no central air. Why? No reason to have air conditioning in a place where the temperature goes above 70 degrees for only 8 weeks out of the year. You just have window units for 2 months, take them out, and put in the window fans until the snow starts 3 weeks later.
The school pre-fab buildings! Yesss! We call them “portables” and they also stick around for a decade+
I’ve not seen them. Maybe because I went to a small school with a graduating class of 54 people. But I didn’t see it at the trade school I went to either
@@dylanbahret6511 my middle school had them but I went to school in Seattle wa, but when I went to high school my school only had 250 kids in the whole school.
In general you can assume that everything in a movie is exaggerated.
You're telling me that not all hotels have a haunted room where a family was murdered??
@@MyNameIsBucket no, if anything that underplays the hospitality industry's problem with contiguously booked rooms.
Not if it's on the internet. You're not allowed to say anything that's not true on the internet. Everyone knows that.
Exaggerated, but true.
@@dwaneanderson8039 Yes. A lot of these examples are firmly grounded in reality. Some of them are not as prevalent as the movies or TV might make them seem. For example, I have no reason to think that the giant house party never happens, but none of the house parties I've attended would qualify. Yellow school buses are definitely a real and prevalent thing.
American from California here:
1. loved the school bus. rode it for 8 years of school. NO seat belts. One intersection was uneven and if the bus hit it at full speed you'd get some air time out of your seat. super fun.
2. Yes, We have to do our own taxes, or hire a professional to do it for us.
3. Those mega house parties are high school and college phenomena. Though they're typically not as insane as Hollywood makes them.
4. Yes window AC's are real. but they are semi-permanent and are securely mounted.
5. I've never put butter in a sandwich in my life. I think Mayonnaise takes the place of butter here. If I have butter on bred it's just for like a slice of french bread.
6. my HS was a campus with one main building that had several wings and several outlier structures of classrooms.
7. Yes there are definitely cliques in high school though it's not as clearly defined as you see in Hollywood.
8. lol cooties are an imaginary pest (like fleas) kids come up with to express their dislike of the opposite gender before they hit puberty and completely reverse that position.
9. Wide range of houses. The houses on MF are definitely nicer than average. Especially Jay & Gloria's. Phil and Claire are upper middle. The exteriors are definitely nice.
10. I don't play poker or smoke. My buddies and I will go to the gun ranges as a group somewhat frequently.
Nah, cooties are not imaginary, they were originally body or hair lice or they were crabs.
@@arizwebfoot Yep just a name for hair lice and which was a fairly common thing in the US when a good chunk of Americans still lived on farms right up until post WW ll and the the farm kids would often pick them up from farm animals and them pass them onto their classmates. Hence you having cooties became associated with being dirty.
Yes bro I had an amazing bus driver who would hit a bump and have us go flying it the back. I made sure to ride the bus atleast 1 week each year I had school. Loved that bus driver.
Not literally but she was a bad a- driver super chill too
@@JohnFourtyTwo amen brother
“ Cooties “ are an actual thing, although the use of the word “ cooties “ is different. Cooties used to be the word that was used as a substitute for body lice ( scabies ) or head lice. The word fell out of favor for the description of the actual bugs, but it gained favor being used as an imaginary “bug” that you get from other people ( when you are a small child, it is usually the opposite sex ). So cooties are sort of philosophical ( like a well known cat )in that they exist and don’t exist at the same time.
Brent Lofgren - NOAA Federal DUDE! I totally played “ Cootie” when I was a kid! I forgot about it, until you mentioned it! Lmao!
Window air conditioners are used everywhere. There’s usually a bracket installed (or at least there should be) on the window that prevents the window from opening and helps hold the a/c in place.
Well, not everywhere... I'm a Florida boy born, raised, and living, and I've never seen a window A/C. We have central cooling everywhere. And when I was in college in upstate New York, we had little A/C units, but they were inside, not hanging out of the window. I've really never seen a window A/C except in the media.
I am a 53yo South Louisiana boy, But I have lived all over La,Tx, and Ar..I have seen window units in many (if not the majority) of the homes across all three states.. especialy in rural areas..
Houses on hotter locals usually have central air conditioners. In some urban areas in the south with lower income, you may see window units. Up north where the summers are not as hot, you may see more window units.
Yeah, they are common. Older houses that don't have good central heating and air and weren't built with duct woro.
In the north, in older peoples houses and apartments same thing.
I've installed probity 20 over the years for family and freinds. In addition to the window frame they come with a support bracket that goes outside the window braced against the wall.
Those movie and TV scenes like Fargo season three are great, but like in that show, they usually just don't fall they have to be pushed.
In real life they are more of a problem for homeowners when either the drain backs up and they leak causing water damage to the wall, or robbers use a first floor window AC unit for what they call a "push in" robbery. If you don't put some extra support inside when you mount them theives can push the unit into your house and crawl in the hole.
Places like Florida and the whole south, you're insane to not put in central AC when you're building a house.
A lot of the houses where I grew up (CA's central valley) had those huge swamp coolers hanging on the sides of houses or up on the roof because our humidity rarely reached lethal levels and it was adequate. We thought we were royalty when we got real ACs for our house, even had new electrical wiring put in to handle them.
The color yellow in American traffic law and urban design means "caution".
Hence, the logic of painting a bus full of children yellow.
Funny mental image: all of the children on a bus suddenly get painted yellow (with non-toxic paint of course!)
Diane mentions that she doesn't know how to drive so she might not know that in America you have to learn quite a bit about how to drive when a bus is near you, stopped, or has the lights/stop signs out.
@@Tux.Penguin Lol! Also funny when you break it down by ages. The kindergartners would love it. The high-schoolers would hate you forever :-)
@@thomasjackson1738 Indeed, I had forgotten that. Where she lives, driving is optional...sorta jealous about that actually. But yes, interesting to note. School buses have their own dedicated section in driving manuals, and several traffic laws apply specifically to traffic situations involving a school bus.
Yellow was chosen for buses because it was found to be the most highly visible color, so for safety, all school buses are yellow. Also, most kids either walk or take the bus because if every parent dropped off their kids, the drop off line would be a nightmare. Also, for environmental reasons, 1 bus is better than 30 cars.
House parties: it's not a party until the cops show up
At some point someone says to the cop at the door "Officer Jones , I though you said you didn't want to come back here" Then it's officially a PARTY!
How do you know where a house party is over? When the cops come the second time.
Here in rural America, the cops can't get passed the gate 😂. Even if they do it's a half mile drive up to the house 🙂
In case someone in America ever asks you to go snipe hunting - - - don’t.
Same for jackalopes.
Hey! I've had fun on both ends of the "Let's go Snipe hunting" statements! lol
@Frederick Spurlin I have vivid memories of people traipsing about the woods, swamp, brambles, etc only to end up being treed, left to find their way back to civilization, etc. lol.
@Frederick Spurlin Don't forget the great choir of sending someone to go buy some "blinker fluid" for their car. lol
@@Forced2DoThis1 plastic bag for the emissions test, over the phone pt exam (had a dude run around the shop for roughly 15 minutes) lots of other really good ones.
"To me, cooties are like childhood STDs" I laughed SO HARD mostly because it's right on point. Except the S
about fell off my chair with this one!
Today, cooties are a made up sickness you get from the opposite sex. Originally, it was a slang term for lice.
Well...technically, it IS based on sex....but just not Sexual Intercourse. 😂😂😂
@@parteibonza Eyyy
"Your sandwiches aren't lubricated." Sounds a touch naughty.
Joe Goss nooooo
I'm with you Joe. It does sound naughty.
Only if you're doing something with your sandwiches that's probably unusual... I won't say weird because I don't kink shame, but... ya know... it's kind of weird.
Seen a Carl's Jr ad? Those sandwiches boast a copious amount of condiments.
@@nuclearpoweredbrain2211 their slogan used to be "if it doesn't get all over the place it doesn't belong in your face"
In California we called the prefab school buildings "portables." They exist even in elementary schools.
We called them "trailers" at our school since they did have wheels on. Even so, they didn't budge for decades.
You mean trailers? Yeah my 4th grade class was in one & the art class during elementary school.
We called them "portables" in CA and AZ when I was a kid in the 80s.
I don't think they exist in parts of the US that have winter.
Back in the dim, distant days, when dinosaurs roamed and I was in elementary school, we called them shacks. In Jr. High, we started calling them temporary buildings. I guess they figured that Jr. High kids could handle multisyllable words.
Yes the house party is a real thing. I have attended more then my fair share of them.
I went to one "retro" in graduate school where the guys built a little Mini dance floor in the middle of a larger room. It was painted black wood, raised off the floor by a few inches (so they probably used 2x4s), and then they used black duct tape to section off the glass panels and put different colored lights underneath the panels, so that the panels would alternately light up red, blue, white, and yellow, like the Partridge Family bus. That dance floor was slippery af, though, because those panels were like dancing on glass or wet marble. It seemed like a lot of trouble to go to for a house party. ....But that was the one the cops were supposed to break up...
Yeah I went to a couple like that in highschool. And my younger brother was fucking dumb enough to hold one in our home.
I had a buddy that his parents were teachers and went on vacation for 6 weeks !!! He had a house party for 5 weeks and 4 days . This was back when 40’s were a thing ( yes I’m a old head ) . We had to get rid of over 400 40 oz glass bottles in two nights , clean up and throw out two guys and one hot chick in two nights . The amount of weed and condoms that went through that front door would blow your mind . One the best things about a house party is the people that u don’t know but after a blunt and half a 40 ur we’re best friends for life !!!
@@dr.johndoe1603 my senior year of high school one of the greatest things possible happened for me and my friends. One of my friends turned 18 and his mother moved 400 miles away leaving him alone in the house to finish his senior year. She came back I think 3 times over 7 months. He also worked at a convince store that sold beer, and another friend had an older sister who gave no fucks and would buy us whatever liquor we wanted. Several of us were also in a metal band and were friends with a couple other larger, better known local bands. We were throwing raging parties on Wednesdays. It was amazing any of us graduated.
I would love to see Diane watch King Of The Hill.
"Dad, what are cooties?"
"That's the germs boys get from girls I tell you hwat."
"......... you mean chlamydia?"
damn, i thought that was crabs and not cooties :P
BWAHHH!!! 😟
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Warmer climate areas are in general open campus with mutiple buildings, including "portable buildings".
Cold climate is where you find more schools housed in one large building. Universities are generally open campuses.
School bussing is provided by our tax dollars to make school accessible to all. Yellow was chosen because its a high vis color(all of our caution signs are yellow)and a white roof to keep the inside cooler.
Everyone is responsible to turn in their own taxes, either done by yourself or a tax professional for a fee.
House parties are full of strangers, usually and is a way to meet new people and you are generally let in if you are deemed good enough by what ever drunk is watching the door or by the caliber of what you brought to share. Hard liquor is a better "in" than beer unless you have a larger supply of beer than you could ever consume.
Most areas have a size limit on how small a house can be, my area (rural) they must be at least 1400 square feet. The upper limit is determined by the property lot so you cant encroach too close to other peoples dwellings.
Yep, we do our own taxes or pay people to do them for us.
And HATE every second of it!
@@ShawnRavenfire If you're single and a wage slave it takes, maybe, 15 minutes.
@@marfaxa let me guess, the 1040EZ ? and get a `bit of a refund' ?
If you earn less than... I think $10,000 a year, you don't have to file.
@@sr71ablackbird I filed February 3rd, still haven't seen our refund and we were getting a great deal back since we have two kids. And I only worked Part Time.
Cliques are a major part of American high school, but they are exaggerated Somewhat in movies.
I think cliques used to be a bigger thing and writers write what they remember.
Unfortunately at my high school they were just like the movies. Jocks, National Honor Society, Band, Rich Girls, non-conformists/goths, although I don't recall cheerleaders being a thing.
@@dlh975 my school was small enough so that cliques were less of a thing, everyone knew who everyone else was
Teacher in America here. On the school & bus stuff: Yes, usually the schools built in the past 30-40 years (sometimes longer depending on location) are just one big building with all the classes inside. It is generally easier and safer to just build a huge building with everything in it than to have multiple buildings. The city I teach in has one high school (3 total in the city) with multiple buildings and it is on either side of a street, so there are some worries about safety for kids crossing.
We have three levels of schools: Elementary, Middle or Junior High, and High School. They are usually Kindergarten-4th or 5th grade, 5th or 6th-8th, and 9-12, respectively for grade levels in each.
Buses happen depending on the distance or the danger involved in kids walking to school. The danger can include getting hit by a car or just a bad neighborhood.
On other topics: yes, we either do our own taxes or have professional tax preparers that cost a fee (yay, capitalism!). I’ve never heard of a company doing your taxes for you. That would be incredible!
You were pretty much spot on with Kooties. It’s something little kids say when they act like they don’t like someone, particularly of the opposite sex.
Most houses are the detached single family homes you imagine, but there are also 2 & 3 family homes that look like a normal house, but are pretty much apartments stacked on top of each other. There are also houses called Row Houses where they are full size homes attached to each other side-by-side. Some houses are pretty small but on huge piece of land (a half acre of land but the house is 1,000 sq. feet) or a big house on a small piece of land (3,000 sq ft home on a 5,000 sq ft piece of land). In summary of this: houses are like people, all shapes and sizes.
We usually use mustard or mayo on sandwiches, not butter. I only use butter on the outside of bread if I’m cooking it for a grilled cheese or something.
Charles spittin facts
@Tyler Buckley That isn't a thing everywhere in the U.S.
@Tyler Buckley Apparently you didn't watch the video.
We have an endless array of Mustards, Mayonnaise Flavors or Miracle Whip that we put on our sandwiches as the dressing
Mayonnaise & ketcup (American) is really good on chicken sandwiches.
i have one of those window ac units and they aren’t “just held in by the window” there’s a couple screws strategically placed to keep it in place 😂😂
Sandwiches aren't dry when they have mayo, mustard and/or salad dressing on them.
Not a fan of polychromatic dumpster-drippins. Give me butter.
That was a weird question. Right, like they have Subway in Dublin obviously you can get things other than butter on a sandwich.
Only two of the three are acceptable.
Ewww mustard. 🤢 sorry, its not for me. Everyone else can still enjoy it though if they want... i will not be partaking. I'm totally like my dad there😅🤢😅🤢😅🤢😅🤢😅🤢
Butter on a sandwich...🤮
Apologies if someone else already said this. 😊 Most of the weight of a window unit A/C is in the very front, that faces the inside of your house. They're made to sit securely in a window, with much less of it's weight in the bit that "hangs outside", and then the top of the window is just slid down atop it, holding it in place.
That is so factually incorrect. You have the compressor, fan, and condenser all hanging outside the window.
@@smylebutta7250 Exactly. What holds these units in, is that most are braced to the windowframe.
@@ronalds.658
I've dropped them a few times while trying to get them into the window.
@@Valandar2 Exactly. They're supposed to be properly installed with a brace.
They kill ppl wtf just drop it on the baby
Almost all school districts provide bus services, yes we need to do our taxes but mostly pay other people to do it, yeah house party's are that terrible and it's 20 somethings, in older buildings it's the only option newer buildings have central air, we use Mayo and mustard on sandwiches, schools are usually one big building with smaller buildings added on as needed, we are clique as fuck in school, you nailed it on cooties, depending on how suburban you are they can be pretty big on average, cigars are an older male thing. Thanks for your content/personality it's the best keep it coming!
As an American, I approve of all this, except that school cliques used to be much more pronounced, but are less and less clique-y in recent years
Well, you answered just about every question that was asked!
Good job!
And I think the window air conditioning units are more common in the northern part of the US? Could be wrong about that. In the south it gets so hot that (and winter is extremely short and mild), generally speaking, most houses have built in AC...but again, that's also a broad generalization. Most suburbs definitely have AC built in. Older communities may have the window units. And yes, most high schools are all one big building but not all. And yes, we have temporary buildings at many schools that have become permanent fixtures. Really enjoyed this video!
mollymolly2512 maybe North Eastern and in Big Cities they aren’t a thing in the Upper Midwest. We have very cold Winters and then Hot summers (getting to 100 degrees)
@@billybang00 sounds like they have all been indoctrinated and no longer individuals? true?
The one big building thing for schools is largely regional. In the West, it's mostly the oldest urban schools that are one big school building. My own California high school, where I teach, has a dozen detached buildings and several portables like the one Diane showed. It's a pretty large campus in terms of area.
Yes I’m 56 and still have large house party ragers all the time, bbq”s every Sunday. Don’t have as many live bands as i used to. Love your channel!!
Throughout the 80s and 90s, yes highschool cliques were 100% and hierarchical.
They were in many places around the U.S. through the 2000's too. Maybe not certain areas or big cities.
Even before that as well. I was in school in the 1960's and cliques were definitely a thing. Usually it would be three girls with one the leader, another the "lieutenant" and the third "the gopher" and it was easy to see which was which by the way they acted. They behaved as a single unit and tended to treat everyone else as outsiders.
Circle circle dot dot, now I've got my cooties shot!!
🤣🤣🤣
Circle circle square square. Now I've got it everywhere.
Got mine in 3rd grade 😁
someone likes the big bang theory :)
Circle, circle, knife, knife. Now I'll have it all my life.
We drive our son to school, but a lot of the kids in the neighborhood either walk, ride their bikes or do take the bus.
Yes, we do have to file our own taxes. Many people have an accountant do them, but our employers don't do them. They submit our earnings to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), but that only gives us info that we use to file our taxes.
Show us a picture of your Chinese food tins! That sounds so much more fun than a cardboard box!
House parties are common in some areas / neighborhoods, but they're not ubiquitous in general.
Yes, regarding air conditioners, especially in older homes (usually those built before 1965 or so), "window units" are pretty common. It's rare for them to fall out of a window, though, because of how they fit in. You have to, you know, not open the window because then it probably will fall out.
Butter on sandwiches is something that some people do and others don't. Mayo is a common condiment (blech) instead of butter. Olive oil is often used in Italian or other European style sammiches.
There's no commonality between high schools in terms of the question asked. Some are big, single buildings, and many are comprised of a bunch of different structures built over different periods as the school has grown in population. There are loads of different architectural styles. Yes, prefabs are used, especially if the school is growing rapidly and they're working out how to expand on a more permanent basis.
Yes, there can be cliques and groups of people that just hang out with each other, but again, it really depends on the school.
Hahaha, "cooties" is like "germs". "Childhood STD" is a good way of thinking of it. It's just like "boy germs" or "girl germs".
No, the houses in Modern Family are homes that wealthy people would live in in California. Real estate prices in CA are very, very, very expensive, and the bigger they are and the more land they have, the more expensive they are, especially near LA, San Francisco, and San Diego. In the U.S., houses ARE much bigger, in general, than in Europe & the UK, but the pricing varies wildly depending on what part of the country you're in. Same goes for property taxes, which are all over the board, because each state has their own requirements about property taxes and what they go toward.
I can't answer the poker party question haha.
That covers it pretty well. I would add about taxes: If you earn less than a certain amount you can file a simple form, more or less just how much you earned, how much should you owe, how much you've already paid, and refund or amount due. Takes 3 minutes. I haven't been able to do that one for 40 years. But I do use tax software which makes the whole thing a lot less painful.
A house that costs a million dollars in San Fransisco would cost less then $100,000 where I live. A house that would cost a million dollars here would be something like 6,000 sq ft (600 sq meters) and have dozens of acres of property. CA/NYC land prices are ridiculous.
But tin don't fold out like a plate. Don't you unfold the four corners open the top and eat/or serve form the plate ? Or are you one of those keep it in the square and just eat out the small top ?
K Unger No...if you eat it in the container, it would be from within the box. I’ve seen people unfold the box into a plate online, but never in real life. The good thing about the box in box form is that you can close it back up to put leftovers in the fridge.
My dog and his friends smoke cigars while playing cards
It's true. I've seen them
You can't trust those crazy Bulldogs,, they cheat.
Elvis deals.
When I lived in Minnesota my high school was 1 giant building. When I lived in Arizona we had an “out door campus” where it was multiple buildings. Depends on the climate.
As a person in University I can confirm that house parties are very much still a thing, I even have a group of friends that I only really hangout with at parties, parties are also a very cool way to hangout with people u may not know or normally talk to. If your looking for something for something more laidback and chill than kickbacks are for you, they often are with people u know and less crowded
Back in the 70s and 80s we would always walk into parties without knowing the host. More times than not we were welcomed in and pointed to the keg.
and for cooties, pretty accurate assessment - sometimes adults use it to mean germs too
Cooties means lice. The earliest recorded uses of the term in English are by British soldiers during the First World War to refer to lice that proliferated in battlefield trenches. American troops learned the term during WWI and WWII and bought it back to the USA, but it comes from the British!
Butter? On a sandwich? I don't know if that's insanity, or genius... but, we definitely don't do that here. At least not on the West Coast. Mayo. Mayo lubes the bread. Now, butter DOES belong on a Grilled Cheese sandwich!
About those air conditioners; They used to be MUCH more common, especially in apartments one rents rather than owns in older buildings. And, they're actually screwed to the window frame, they just hang the heat exchanger out the window to shed the heat. They don't fall out because they're installed with screws, and are less "temporary" than they look like.
i dont use screws. just sits there and has never fallen out.
Heck yeah butter on a sandwich, with Colby cheese and summer sausage. I haven't had that since I was a kid. And I do *not* think mayonnaise and cheese go together.
Never used or seen screws used on a window AC.
It’s brill but one must use Irish butter tastier than mayo
My dad grew up on a dairy farm so we grew up with buttered sandwiches
"The Breakfast Club" is pretty much accurate when it comes to American high schools.
What, from 35 years ago? My high school was nothing like the movies. There were no bullies or cliques or any of those cliches. The most we had was a lot of theater and music students. And everybody was too neutered and boring to have any identifying characteristics. I have no strong feelings whatsoever towards high school. College is where it's at.
I don’t know about public schools, but in my school (small catholic school) it’s nothing like the movies
My high school was also nothing like The Breakfast Club, and I went to high school in the 90s. Groups would hang out with each other, because yes, commonalities, but it's not like they were forbidden from talking to other groups. You'd see athletes, cheerleaders, orchestra/band, drama, and ranch kids all commingling, and kids from every group were taking advanced classes. It definitely was not representative of my high school experience.
My first high school was 3 buildings and some trailers as extra classrooms, then I moved to a high school that was all one building. So it varies. 🤷🏻♀️
You hate doing your own taxes?
You're more American than you think!!
I mean... is there anyone who *enjoys* doing taxes in any country? lmao
@@IceMetalPunk I don't exactly like it, but I've never gotten mad about it, and I do like receiving that refund.... so I guess I could say I don't mind
Pretty sure the whole joke was that they were having a blast doing their taxes.
@ukkr No _direct_ taxes to the feds, sure. But there were duties on imported goods, and that's a tax with a different name.
@ukkr no, the US had war over taxes without representation. we didn't like our taxes going across the ocean for things we would never see.
When I was a child, back when boys and girls thought each other were gross, there was a saying that goes, “Circle circle dot dot now I got my cootie shot!” Once you said that, you were safe from getting cooties from boys😉
Funny, we got cooties from girls!
I remember that
Casey Lane nice!
Yep! And there was a second verse, too... I think it was something like, "Circle circle, square square, now I have it everywhere". The shot, I assume, not the cooties. Of course, as a little boy, we needed our shot to avoid getting cooties from the girls :P
Cooties shots cause autism!
Those groups that hang out together in high school are referred to as cliques in America as well.
lol, we just have a different way of "lubricating" our sandwiches. Apparently for the Irish, butter is the go to condiment for a sandwich, here in America it can be any number of other things. The most common is mayo or mustard. Also Miracle Whip, which is similar to mayo, but definitely not mayo :) If you're eating a sandwich from a deli(catessan) they might put on oil, or what is called vinaigrette, which is sort of like salad dressing. It has a nice tang on those meat sandwiches. I personally have eaten plain bread and butter, without any type of meat or cheese, etc. But in general the only reason I might put butter on bread is because I specifically want bread and butter, or I'm going to toast the bread, for grilled cheese or just to toast the bread :)
Diane you are an amazing person and as an Irish American I really like seeing you ask questions about my home while giving me answers about yours.
I'm an accountant, I hate doing my taxes.
Middle school is the hormone stage. It's good to segregate that for a while.
The House Party is a real thing. In high school I went to some that had a couple hundred people (teenages mostly) and it was like in the movies. Now a days police are a lot more strict and probably would break up parties like that. The good old days... (I went to some that seemed like the entire neighborhood was invited and the party lasted to 5am in the morning).
I knew a guy in high school, circa 1981, who had a party when his parents were out of town. A bunch of kids showed up who weren't invited and stole like $1500 worth of stuff!
If you go to college in a college town or in a city that has a distinct university community it's not unusual to attend random house parties. Sometimes you'll just wander around at night looking for house parties. It's how you meet new people.
Where I live there are 2 colleges and one university. For some reason that don't seem to be enough for forming lively parties (a bit of sarcasm there) - they have to add in even wilder guest from the nearest bigger city (Indy). Plus the university has had a yearly "homecoming tradition" called "The Crawl." The main campus and dorms are on the other side of town from the stadium. So each year for the homecoming game the students will start out walking from their dorms to the stadium - hitting nearly every bar on the way for at least one drink - getting quite plastered as they go (hence the name "The Crawl"). You do not want to go downtown or along main street that day.
Uber driver here from Fayetteville, AR, home of the flagship campus for the U of A with an enrollment of 25k. There are some private homes in town that are notorious for house parties when the students return in the Fall. I had a very lucrative night when one house party was shut down by the cops for noise and traffic complaints, the students decided to get shuttled to another party house that wasn't on a main road.
I was homeschooled so a lot of the school questions are things I wonder too despite living here lol.
I was not homeschooled, in Central Coastal California and saw many school/ growing up tropes were not so.
Yep there called cliques and just about everyone is in some kind of cliques
I don’t think so, maybe it’s because I don’t go to a public school, but there aren’t any cliques. There are friend groups, but they aren’t categorized by anything specific
My friends and I usually sit around in a circle smoking cigars. However, we don't play poker, and we take the tobacco out of the cigars and fill them with goodness.
Alfred, blunts unite.
Can I get an invite?😏
Good story
Second Wednesday of every month is poker night. Between 5 to 10 guys get together to tell lies, fart and laugh about absurdities of life. We also play poker and smoke stuff too.
Yes the air conditioning hanging out of a window is not uncommon. It's designed to be in a window.
Actually cooties are lice. We had a game called "Cootie" as a child. Where we would assemble the cooties. Strange. As a child, we really didn't know what they were. A game where we assemble hand size lice with cute faces.
yes indeed I remember cootie how the hell the creator of that game came around and marketed towards children I'll never understand
Cooties, The earliest recorded uses of the term in English are by British soldiers during the First World War to refer to lice that proliferated in battlefield trenches. American troops learned the Term from British troops in WWI and WWII and brought it back to the USA. It wasn't originally an American term it was British!
The answer is yes
They're also such an 'imaginary contagion' among children, which also kinda can lead to adults using the word for real or feared STDs :)
@@OllamhDrab : It was such a disappointment to grow up and find out the some people really did have cooties.
We have a Mustard Museum outside of Madison, WI. It's wonderful. You can literally taste test like 500 Mustards.
6:35 This might be my favorite bit I have seen from you. I don't butter sandwiches if they aren't going on the grill. The idea of buttering all sandwiches is so foreign to me and you speak with such conviction it is fascinating.
"I think I killed the Meesta, Meesta lady!"
- Happy Gilmore when the AC falls out the window
I was thinking the Ricky Gervais movie when the a/c falls on Greg Kinnear
Ghost world or something similar
That's what I thought she meant lmaooooo
I think Seinfeld had a scene where the air conditioner fell out of the window.
School buses: Yes, almost every school in America is served by buses. Generally, kids who live close to the school, within a mile or so, have to walk. kids who live further away ride the bus. In Houston, where I live, most schools have become ridiculously cautious and require most kids not riding the bus to be picked up by a parent, either by car or on foot. It's ridiculous. I don't think that is the case in most school districts though.
Taxes: Yes, if you have sufficient income to be required to file a tax return, which is most people, you either have to do it yourself, or you can hire a professional to do it for you. Of course, these days, there is software available which makes it much easier.
House parties: Those wild parties you see in the movies do happen, but they are rare. Most parties are much more laid back. I remember one time some friends of mine got together and had a really wild party. I wasn't able to go for some reason. Everybody wanted to do it again the next week. I was free that time and really looking forward to it. What happened? Me an another guy played chess, and then one of the girls passed out and we had to rush her to the hospital. No, not drugs or anything, she was just sick.
Air conditioners: Yes, window unit air conditioners exist. They are more common in older and lower income neighborhoods. They are not just held in by the window pressing on top. They are secured and it is almost impossible for them to fall out. Even if one did, what are the odds that someone would be right under it? And if it was on the ground floor, who cares? Air purifiers do just that, filter out impurities, they don't cool the air.
Butter ; Some people do put butter on sandwiches, but mayonnaise and or mustard are much, much more common. I have used butter once or twice in my life, but only because I was out of mayonnaise. We butter bread to eat it just as bread and butter.
Schools: Yes, High schools, and middle schools, and elementary schools are usually one large building. You will occasionally encounter a different layout, but it is rare, the most notable exception being when the student body becomes larger than the school was designed for, and those temporary buildings are put in to house the overflow. And yes, they can wind up being used for many years.
Cliques: I always sat with and hung out with the same group of friends and rarely socialized with people outside that group. Some people are more social than others.
Cooties: Cooties is slang for lice. Most young children use the word without ever knowing what it really means.
Poker: Yes, men get together and play poker. Not as often as you see in movies and TV, but occasionally. It is usually a male activity, but sometime women will join in. Bridge is a more common mixed sex game.
Just to add on, Cooties was a word that American soldiers learned from British soldiers during WWII. The word fell out of use in Britain but didn't in the US.
@@melance Oh, now that's very interesting. I had no idea.
Great explanation; +1 to all of this.
@@kynn23 Thank you.
Where in Houston do you live I live in Jacinto City
I would say pretty much everything on TV / moives regarding Southern California is either exaggerated greatly, or limited to a very specific richy rich area, and then exaggerated even more; it's what Hollywood does.
True. There are plenty of medium and poor areas all across SoCal. Just like anywhere else. But certainly more than their share if rich/fancy places.
This has given me the excuse I needed to put butter on all my sandwiches.
Ha! Cute video. Residential neighborhoods are divided into different "districts" by cities and the school tries to cover as many of the kids going to their school district with the amount of buses the budget lets them.
No. After college most adult parties might have like 12 of the people knowing the house owner, and maybe 4 guests of the known individuals. Many times a significant other. Its polite to bring alcohol to contribute, and several small groups of conversations usually exist, maybe 1 in the kitchen and another in the backyard.
As a child back in the day: "Don't touch me, I don't want your cooties!"
As an adult in 2020: "Don't touch me, you're not practicing social distancing!"
Cooties, The earliest recorded uses of the term in English are by British soldiers during the First World War to refer to lice that proliferated in battlefield trenches. Cooties is not an American term! American troops learned the word cooties from the British during WWI and WWII and brought it back to the USA.
@@amberhiggins6327 So the British gave everyone cooties. Typical.
@@glenncordova4027
The Brits gave us chlamydia and herpes as well.
Couple of answers from my experience:
Every high school I've seen is multiple buildings. The one that I went to had several pre-fab buildings, but the town was growing so fast that they needed the extra space and they needed it quickly. They've since been replaced on campus by permanent buildings.
The houses-take a look at how many shows set in "California" are really set somewhere in LA, which is just a tiny part of a huge state. The closest thing I can equate it to would be like showing places in London and thinking that's what all of England is like. In this part of the state, there's a lot of rural areas where someone may have a fairly small house set on a couple of acres of land. My house, which is in the city, is 1340 square feet and was built in 1961. Newer houses tend to be larger.
Prefab is used for rapidly expanding communities where the buildings can manage all the students.. smaller schools often have elementary school, middle or Jr High School, and Sr High school. My school started as 3 different community schools and consolidated into 1 high school but 3 primary schools and on Jr high.. then just a decade ago consolidated into one building with a wing for each section (primary, middle, and high school)
It is so weird to think that people freak out at yellow school buses.
Europe has nothing like it because their countries are weak and puny.
It’s true to be fair Irish school buses are much different looking and less frequent
Loser Cruisers
@@lazaruschernik18 No American really freaks out about those. We have double-decker red buses here, too. They just tend to be private, open-top sightseeing coaches.
I know right!? When she said that I was just... Woah. Really? Okay.
I had tons of parties when i was in high school. Tons of kids coming over. Pretty crazy stuff. Like i was 17 or 18 and had a party at my parents house and we had a keg in the bathtube with ice and we were doing keg stands. But thats also how you meet new people make conections. personal, drug or business
What??!!!!! I’m in high school and I’ve never even heard of these parties IRL!
Back in the day we made a little extra cash charging at the door.
I never tried a cold sandwich with buttered bread until traveling abroad and it was awesome
I went to an old high school where everything was in one big building -- except the vocational classes (wood-shop, metal-shop, auto mechanics, welding, etc). These were all in a separate building located behind the main one.
That's about how my high school started out (built in 1956) Big building, shops behind, gym and pool to the side. The big expansion I saw (1978) was a large new classroom building, a new science building, and a new library. The classroom and science buildings are already gone and a couple of new buildings are in place.
Mine was like that, too. Naturally my class schedule required traveling from the shop classrooms at one corner of the main building to the opposite corner and up to the third floor in the five minutes between classes.
@@josephcote6120 Graduated in 1980 with a class of 60 students. All main classes in one L shaped building, separate gym, band/choir building, and shop/agri building for the goat ropers in their FFA jackets.
I'll answer your questions, as an American:
1. Some are driven but most take the bus because parents have jobs and such.
2. Yes, you have to do your own taxes.
3. I have never been to a house party but I'm an introvert and don't do parties in general.
4. Not really. We do love our AC though. When I've went abroad(to Australia/NZ and Romania), how little foreigners use it surprised me.
5. Not on sandwiches. It's used a lot for toast though. Using butter on sandwiches is weird.
6. Yes. Colleges aren't one building but yes, before college, schools are one building. One for elementary, middle, and high. Movies actually get that pretty mostly right.
7. True. But I was(and am) just the guy sitting in the corner by myself. As mentioned, I'm extremely introverted.
8. Cooties are fictitious things kids use as an excuse to stay away from the opposite sex. So yes, your explanation was more or less right.
9. Depends. Urban areas tend to have really high costs of living but it's a lot better in rural and suburban areas. Houses are generally bigger.
10. No. That's a stereotype that isn't true.
4. I have one in my bedroom, my wife has one in her room, my father has one in his room and we have central AC. We live in the South. It's THAT muggy. The heat isn't that bad but weeks and weeks of 100% humidity are killer.
6. My high school was actually split into three main buildings but they were only separated by small covered walkways about maybe three or four meters apart. And we had thirty trailers (prefabs) because of the explosion of growth this area of the state had. After I left, the middle school took over the elementary school building and the high school split the old middle school with them - and they built an entire new section to a building - so I think they got rid of the trailers for a bit. Probably back though. My class was something like 1200 students though so it was a big high school.
9. Houses are stupid expensive where I am ($300,000 for a 'starter' home is not a starter home) but they are what I would call fairly typical. So yeah, homes are larger here though movies make them out to be much larger and nicer for cheaper.
10. Depends on the group. Guy at work has a poker night every week but I'm not big on loosing money. Smoking is entirely up to the person hosting. Some people are down with it, others aren't.
5. Speak for your self, my family puts butter on all are sandwiches.
4. I live in the south we have like 5. They actually mount into the window frame and is weighted so that it is safe.
6. Most of the schools I went to had multiple buildings, plus portables. The university that I went to each college was a single building. (In the US University is a collection of colleges).
At the high school I went to we had multiple lunch times because the cafeteria couldn't hold the entire student body. So we did basically sit together the same groups and general locations everyday.
My High School had “The Rail”. It was the 1st 3 tables in the cafeteria next to the cafeteria entrance by the window, looking out to the courtyard. There’s a wooden safety rail running the length of the window. We had “free time” during the day. During “free time” and lunch only the jocks, cheerleaders and invited other “popular” kids sat at “the rail”. Generally Juniors and Seniors but an occasional sophomore. There are students who literally never sat at “the rail” for 4 years. The cafeteria could be empty and people would pass by the rail to sit at the next set of tables. We also had a “black table”, band section, and stoner table in the back by the door. They’d “escape” and have car chases with Mr. Buckley (truant officer)
8:46 Our lunch was broken up over the course of the day like classes, referred to as periods; 1st 2nd 3rd etc. Who we sat with was less social group and more who you knew that had the same lunch period. As far as the seating goes, humans are creatures of habit and people seemed to stick to the same seats if not given a reason to move, internal or external.
I am so delighted to have discovered you!
OK, answers for you:
1. Yellow School buses are a real thing, at least from grades 1 - 8. Parents can drop off kids, or they can walk if they are close enough to home. Most everyone else rides the bus.
2.Taxes: Most people do their own income taxes. People with lots of money and property will probably hire a CPA (Certified Public Accountant.) Most people go to H&R Block or some other tax preparation service.
3. Chinese take out boxes are an american invention. Years ago, Chinese take out might be eaten at a counter or a park. The boxes are designed that they can be unfolded with the food still inside to use as a plate.
3. House parties used to be a big thing when I was in High School. Usually someone's parents would go out of town, and the kids would take advantage of the fact they had the house all alone. (Think about it. A group of teenagers unsupervised? Sound like a recipe for a wild night.Some of these parties would get out of hand with people that the host/ess might not know )A "Friend of a Friend..." They have declined somewhat.
A/C units in windows: Many modern houses have central air conditioning, however, older houses do use window units, and they are quite safe if put in correctly. No more dangerous than a box fan.
Butter on sandwiches. It depends on the type of sandwich and individual tastes. Usually, if you are making something like a grilled cheese, you butter the outside of the bread so it will toast evenly.
High Schools. OLDER high schools are one building. (Not a lot of space in the middle of a city. Most modern high schools have several buildings such as a separate gymnasium and cafeteria. Yes, high schools do have cliques. (Jocks/cheerleaders, nerds, stoners, etc. Some of us (Like me) can move freely between these groups. As far as "Reserved Seating," It is not an official thing, but each clique sort of "claimed" a certain area. The reason we have "Middle Schools, (In my day they were called "Jr. High Schools") is simply age and appropriate curriculum. "Primary schools (a.k.a. "Grammar Schools") are to teach the basics from grades 1-6 (Kindergarten is now included) "Middle Schools" prepare you to transition from Grammar School into High School. High School prepares you to move on to college (What you call "University") Sometimes, grades 678 are included in either the primary school or the high school, depending on a number of factors.
"Cooties" are just a term, commonly used before boys and girls stat to get interested in each other. It's a made up excuse to avoid someone.
Houses. No, they are not all like that. Where you live depends on where you work and what you can afford.
Poker and cigars. Some people do, but in most places, you are not even allowed to smoke indoors because of the dangers of second hand smoke. The"Weekly Poker Game" has, for the most part, died out in the 1960's.
Every high school I've ever known has had school buses for kids too. And I've never heard of elementary school being called grammar school, though I suppose that's generally a good chunk of what you learned.
I refuse to accept the death of weekly poker night with the boys lol but for me and mine we just get drunk and play poker rather than cigars
@@johannyang3341 Lol. Get drunk and play smash brothers or watch a terrible movie and have fun bashing it the whole way. Any number of things to do, but with alcohol involved instead of cigars or cigarettes, depending on the group. xD
@@azurepulse1870 it's an older term. My mom who is 76 called it grammar school. I'm 56 and we said elementary school.
We either have to do our own taxes or pay someone to do it by April 15th every year. there is an old saying "nothing is certain except death and taxes".
The middle of April (usually the 15th) EVERY SINGLE YEAR since 1955...
EXCEPT the year 2020!!!!
Because of the nasty ‘rona
Also yes house parties in the US are crazy. I threw them often and once I had to yell that I saw cops outside just so everyone would leave. They stay till 5-6am if you don’t ask them to leave and half of them don’t have a ride home.
The reaction of Chewie to you asking what are cooties in the outtakes, was priceless. . .Many people do there taxes online, electronic filing (it is easier). . .the only time we butter our bread is when we are making butter and sugar sandwiches (we don't need to lubricate our sandwiches to make them go down easier 😉 ). . .usually older schools are one large building. . .the new ones have spread out campuses as well as those prefab building like you have. . .the size of our houses usually depends on where you live, my house is 1250 sq ft. . .while several blocks over they are 2,000 or more. . .and most middle class people in California have a hard time owning a house because they are so expensive.👍👍
Butter on sandwiches: You do basically plain bacon and sausage sandwiches there which would more lend themselves to butter. We don’t do those types of sandwiches here and not in the same way. We do deli meats/cold cuts with toppings like lettuce and tomato and “lubricate” with mayo and/or mustard, or whatever sauce goes with the sandwich if it’s a fancier one.
A little thing about Chinese take out boxes: they're designed to be folded out into plates.
*mind blown&
That's a myth. They're designed to be manufactured by folding up a single sheet of die-cut cardboard. You can unfold one in a pinch if it doesn't have a wire handle and if you didn't order soup. But just try it on a full carton and see what happens.
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Thank you. I was pretty surprised that some people actually believed that.
It is not gender exclusive - some women play poker and smoke cigars with men. The really, really exceptional ones.
On “Friends” they have an episode where they explain that their apartment was rent controlled, which they inherited from a relative. Being a boomer, my high school had a graduating class of 750 and was actually built just in time to accommodate the last wave of boomers. In America, butter is for anything but sandwiches!
I can stomach a lot of foreign ideas about food but sandwiches without butter is waaaaaaay out there!
@@pouncepounce7417 Sandwiches with butter Is just really weird.
really grossed out by the idea of freaking butter on my sanwich
@@pouncepounce7417 We usually put mayonnaise or mustard on sandwiches
When I was in grad school, I rented a room in an apartment on Morningside Park that had been lived in by a retired professor who first moved in during the 1920s. That apartment was rent controlled. It was enormous with a huge formal dining room, maids rooms and several big fireplaces. She was paying less that $200.00 a month for rent.
OK, I officially adore Editor Diane.
I used to live in several several party houses and most of the time it was an open invite but usually friends of friends. The house gets trashed and sometimes things break but, that's a party
Makes me think of John Belushi in "Animal House "
High school: yes, we have pre-fabs (we call them portables) because the schools I went to had way more kids than classrooms. And yes, most people stay at their own table in high school. I don't know about this anymore, because I graduated in 1996.
When I was in my mid-twenties, I lived in a 4 bedroom house with my best friends. We had large parties. Sometimes even paying rent on the money we made from charging $5 to drink all night from the keg(s). Yes red solo cups. We did sit around and play poker, rarely did we smoke cigars though. Every school I attended until university was one big building. In some very rural areas, they have one school building where kindergarten is on one side of the building, and high school seniors are on the other. Those kids had really long rides in the yellow busses. I have been looking forward to your new video all day. Thanks. and btw you and ED look great today.
Chip Parmley she says... nothing. But Thank you! Red solo cup Lalala last I tip you up
Chip Parmley I went to one of the schools you mentioned. I was in the same building from Kindergarten all the way up to graduation. The Elementary/Primary school was separated from the Jr. High by a hallway, and the High School was on the other side of that in a different section of the building. Further more, in Jr. High - High school we imported two other elementary schools from the surrounding area in. And yup our bus rides were horrifically long.
@@trudat1498 A friend's wife grew up in Iowa and that was her experience
@@DianeJennings cheers
Butter on a sandwich? Not nessasary, but a must on pop tarts.
I've never tried that before, but now I must!
@@Fentoozler926 Plain fruit pop tarts, not the nasty crap with icing. Pop them in the toaster, then put a bit of butter on...it's amazing.
Yes, we have air conditioning units in windows all over the country.
Keep in mind that in many states in the USA temperatures in summer regularly go over 110F, so AC is important for living.
As for butter on sandwiches, people here use mayonnaise, mustard, or ketchup.
These were like house parties in high school when someone's parents were gone for the weekend.
Also, during lock-down, one of my co-workers complained about installing his window air conditioner...so, yeah, still a real thing.
Regarding High School check out the movie Heathers. It's like that, only worse.
Edward Iglesias 😮
@@DianeJennings I'd say it was more like Breakfast Club or Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but Heathers isn't far off from a lot of people's high school experience (minus the homicide).
American Pie. Kinda like that too. Reminded me of my friends.
"Cooties" was the WW I US slang term for lice, of which there were a lot in the trenches. I suspect that school children picked up the term without knowing much more than that they were undesirable.
Cliques in high schools I think are more characteristic of large high schools.
I went to a JR-Sr High School in the 60s. 7th-12th grades, 7th to 8th grades were junior high, 9th to 10th senior high. The Middle school concept was coming in at the end of my high school years. They tend to cover 6th to 8th grades. with the Sr High School covering 9th-12th
These correspond to Freshman (9th grade) Sophomore (10th grade) Junior (11th grade (and Senior (qwth grade)classes. THe pattern copies the 4 year groups of college.
Cooties is not an American term! The earliest recorded uses of the term in English are by British soldiers during the First World War to refer to lice that proliferated in battlefield trenches. It is a British term. American Troops learned the term during WWI and WWII and brought back to the USA.
High school cliques depend on several factors. Some kids are more clique ish, some less. If the school is small there aren't enough students for a clique. My school was big enough that they didn't really exist either, because there were too many people for everyone to know each other.
This helps explain the military order of the cootie That started after WWl and is now part of the VFW (Veterans of a foreign War)
The house parties are definitely next level. We host a New Years party yearly with lots of new people meeting each other. The hosts will know most of the people but others invite other friends.
The classic large yellow US school bus weighs in at 21,500 pounds and is designed like an armored personnel carrier. Generally speaking, schools cannot use buses that weigh less than 10,000 pounds.
I really love this video.Happy Monday.
Greg Mcmahon 🥳
Lol I've been to hundreds of massive house parties with strangers and have had them at my house. It's primarily a college thing, but not only at frat houses.
i have an air conditioner that goes in my window and during the winter
Yes window air conditioners are used and safe. My mawmaw kept one in the bedroom I slept in during summer stays. We've owned/used on several occasions, especially if you live in a house with no central air. Most ppl put a piece of wood under the conditioner and down to ground to help support it.
In vast rural areas of ranches, and farms; some kids ride a school bus on Monday. They live in dorms all week, and ride the bus home on Friday. Weekends at home on the ranch.
School buses are available for EVERYONE. There's even lots of EC school buses (special needs/handicap) with wheel chair lifts. Anyone can use the bus to get to school, but a lot of parents still druve their kids.
I've never lived in a bussed school district. The cities I've lived in you had to live more than two miles away from the school you went to in order to ride the bus. The rest had to get a ride with a parent or friend or walk. Sometimes the parents take turns driving the neighborhood kids to school. A car pool. When my daughter was in school, I was the only parent with a car during the day, so I drove the kids everyday.
@@karlamackey4675 I have lived in several states and there was always a distance limit on being able to ride the bus like you said. Another thing also if you have caused enough trouble or did something bad enough they would tell you real quick that riding the bus was a privilege not a rite.
wrong. i had to walk about a mile to school.
@@elodiaharris214 Very true!
Also the house parties you talked about tend to be much more of a high school thing. Not college.
I didn't go to high school, but those huge house parties were a constant occurrence in college. Maybe it's regional? I'm in California.
Hard disagree, I lived in a party house in Brookings, 6-8 weekends a year we had dozens of people in that house. Hobo days we did a head count and lost it at over 200.
I miss that town. But my liver doesn't.
There were hardly any parties in my highschool but hella parties in college.
within a certain distance to school, you walk to school, after that distance the bus will pick you up,
Yes I grew up in the country and we had about a 1/2 an hour ride between our school and our house
Unless you live on a high-speed non-pedestrian road, in which case, it doesn't matter how far you live from the school (generally elementary school), the district will not let you walk. The school bus will pick you up, even if you live literally across the street from the school which is situated at a 2-way stop-sign (one road doesn't stop and the other road does stop) intersection between two high-speed roads, even if at that point in the road traffic is generally slow and you could easily cross with caution. Yes, I have seen this, yes I get annoyed when the bus stops at Literally. Every. Driveway. Within. A. Half. Mile. Or. Further. to drop kids off along this road. There is plenty of shoulder grass that they could walk along, but nooooo they have to be dropped at their own driveway.
Maybe. It all depends on the finances of the school district and the environment you're in and the ages of the kids. My first year of jr high we had buses, the last two years we didn't.
@@Nimeariel
Oh my God, you must hate driving behind that! I have a very short drive to work, but if I don't time it right some days, I get stuck behind the school buses, and yes, it has occurred to me that some of these stops are only 2 blocks apart. When I was a kid our stops were about 1/4 to 1/2 mile apart, but I was fortunate in that my stop was in our driveway! So we could wait in our garag in the winter, when it was cold, while we were waiting for the bus to come up the hill.
Ugh I lived about a mile from high school so we were the first picked up it would then make a loop through town so we had the longest bus ride despite living the closest. Thankfully there was only about one semester where my siblings or I didn't have a car. We weren't about to walk a mile in sub zero weather on a county road with no sidewalk or shoulder.
AC units are incredibly common in the midwest. I grew up with them in my houses. Central air kind of a rarity in my small town
Those little boxes are handy as hell you unfold them and they turn into plates and if you dont eat it all you refold them and put the leftovers in the fridge for later
As an American: I never took the school bus, I was always driven by my mom. But I think it was probably about 50/50 of students who took the bus and those who didn't.
Yes, we all have to either file our own taxes, or hire an accountant to do it, which is costly. It's annoying. Luckily for me, my mother is super good at filing taxes in a way that we always get a refund (even accountants have failed at that), so the whole family just lets her take care of it :D
Regarding parties... I was always a nerd, so I never went to any parties before college. Once at university, though, I went to quite a few frat parties (I never had any intention of joining any frats... I just wanted the party...) and yeah. They are just like in the movies. 50-100+ people, most of whom don't know each other, all getting wasted and yelling. Not the most fun thing in the world, but hey, it was socialization. Sort of. Meh. I think it's overrated; I much prefer to just stay in with a few close friends and hang out. But then, I'm almost 30, so I'm an old man.
I haven't ever seen any A/C units in windows like in TV/movies, but I think they do exist in older buildings in big cities. I would have to assume they're not just held in place by the window, but are bolted down to the sill to stop them from falling, and the "killed by a falling air conditioner" thing is just an exaggerated movie trope.
The only sandwich I put butter on is grilled cheese. Basically all other sandwiches get mayo for "lubrication". But maybe that's just me... I think it's most Americans, though.
With the school stuff, I can't be representative since I went to a private high school. It had like 6 or 7 buildings, but they weren't as spread out as a university campus is. Still had to rush to make it to each class on time. We do middle school as a transitional period to get students used to having multiple classrooms, mostly. In elementary/primary school, all lessons are in one room, while in high school, each subject is taught in a different room. So middle school is a place where you get used to having to keep track of your classrooms and teachers, etc., but where they're more lenient and willing to help if you have trouble with the changes. And yeah, my elementary school and middle school had "prefabs", though we called them portables. My high school didn't... but again, it was a private school, so I don't know if public high schools had them or not.
As for the cliques... it exists, but it was different in my school (again, because private school). We definitely had the Bitch Clique, the group of female friends who were just total assholes to everyone else. (To be honest, we had that in middle school, too. Those girls even spent several minutes just mocking our substitute PE teacher's appearance -- to his face. Seriously bitches. Anyway...) In my high school, most of the "cliques" were based around how you were able to attend. You had the people who got academic scholarships (me), people who were rich, people whose parents worked there (they got free or discounted tuition), and the jocks with athletic scholarships. There were also the theater kids, but they overlapped with the other groups. But it wasn't like in the movies where everyone from each clique only hung out with each other and avoided everyone else (except the Bitch Clique); they were just more likely to be seen together.
"Fictitious childhood STDs" is a perfect description of cooties. They're basically a thing children say to push each other away, like, "Ew, you've got cooties, get away from me!" Often associated with the opposite sex, but not exclusively. And then because kids talk about it so much, it's just something that remains part of our lexicon into adulthood, like "You can take my hand, you know, I don't have cooties".
How big our houses are is a very complicated question. It depends what state you're in, what part of that state, how much money you have (which is highly unequal between people). For instance, the average home in Florida is about 1,400 square feet, while the average home in California is 2,400 square feet. In Arizona, it's about 1,800 square feet. And that's obviously just the averages; if you're poor, you might be stuck with only much smaller options. (In the US, we pretend we're not classist by being racist, but we're also still very classist anyway.)
I love poker, but I just play for fun. Or I would, except no one I know actually likes the game. The only time I've ever known anyone to play poker while smoking cigars was one time in a frat at uni. It still strikes me as a very juvenile/frat-boy thing to do. I mean, ffs, they smell terrible even if they weren't harmful. I don't know how common it is to actually do that "poker night with cigars" thing that's a stereotypical "husband activity" in the media.
H & R Block has a strong lobby.
Yes, many people have window air conditioners, more affluent have central heat and air, less affluent have window fans or just open windows. I grew up with window air conditioner in the South, AFAIK, no one was killed by one.
Window ACs are also much more common with older homes where newer homes will have central air.
Everything you mention is true in my experience.
ACs are usually screwed into the window. Also the weight is mostly balanced. Sometimes there are outside supports, particularly in higher levels. Sometimes they are sort of boxed in.