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We do ♥️ America really not necessarily everyone who happens to be visiting us at the mo🐴 Hail Mary full of grace the lord is with you blessed art thou a long women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Amen That takes us space I could be using for other stuff, but there it is And I'm an atheist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's ok. Gas = Gas(oline) just an abbreviation. Football = We kinda suck at European Football and back in our earlier years people here decided to re-label a bunch of crap into American stuff so we could be the best at things. Uber = People who are hired as private Taxi services that can go to small towns and don't have set routes. Ads = advertisers pay for spots on TV. The stations get so much money per ad, so they throw them around. Tax = We tend to have everything end with 99 cents. I guess psychologically 99.99$ looks better or feels cheaper then 107.98$ and while we Know there will be tax, if we don't see it until we hit the front of the line and are being rung up, then we're more likely to buy whatever it is. Cheerleaders = Sex sells. And nothing hypes a bunch of jocks, like scantily clad women hopping around cheering them on. Super Size = Americans tend to be gluttonous when it comes to junk food. I personally can drink a Route 44(44 ounce) drinks during a movie with a king size csndy bar. Irish/Scottish roots = Most of us here have heavy amounts of English genes in our pool. Brown hair is commonplace, but blue eyes and red hair together are far less common and people with these traits are easily noticed amomg the crowds, and less common heritages/traits are popular Because they aren't so common. (Plus the accent is amazing) Guns and explosives = Propaganda. The NRA and military complex donates Millions to the various heads of the government in a "you scratch my back I scratch yours" deal. Plus after the Great Depression, WWII made us a global superpower. That jump in wealth showed the government where the money is at, and thus our greedy ""Representatives"" try to have everything saturated in that stuff to desensitize the average citizen towards weapons. And sadly their strategy has worked... >_> Pledge of Allegiance and flags= Post WWII and During the Cold War the government was SO anti communist that they shoved religion, "traditional family values", and the sense of single minded solidarity to try and aggressively unite everyone into a single unit. Propaganda videos in schools that claimed "Anything not capitalistic is dangerous and evil", "gays are abnormal, mentally unhealthy, and will get aids", "women must be stay at home moms and have the perfect "nuclear family" otherwise the kids are in an unhealthy environment", and more. Basically it's a bunch of brainwashing that starts from early childhood on up, the flags everywhere (and it's illegal to throw in the trash or crumply them up) are used as a subconscious reminder for the propaganda we are brought up in.
We obsess about Irish and Scottish roots because we love you all. We DON'T obsess about English roots because we had to kick them out a few years back and we know how to hold a grudge.
Aside from the grudge. We remember how the English treated us and we see how they have treated our Celtic cousins over there. And for the most part the English have been tyrannical towards anyone who is not them for over 1000years. Although in the past 100 years they've been a wee bit nicer they still believe they can tell everyone how to live. Their empire may have fallen but they still think they control it. And another reason we embrace our celtic heritage is because out of the thousands of celtic tribes that spanned across Europe over the past 3500 or so years there is only 6 celtic peoples left. Including irish and Scottish.
Why is gasoline called gasoline? "It’s got nothing to do with gas. Gasoline (American English for petrol) gets its name from John Cassell (1817-65), a Mancunian publisher, coffee merchant and temperance campaigner who began importing and distributing crude oil into Britain and Ireland from Pennsylvania in the 1860s. He called his product “Cazeline”, after himself, and sold it for indoor lamps. It proved a great success, so much so that by 1865 he was taking Samuel Boyd, a Dublin shopkeeper, to court for selling counterfeit Cazeline. Boyd had changed the “c” to a “g” on all his stock records and then claimed he’d coined the word “gazeline” himself from gasogène, an early French device for making carbonated water. The judge was not impressed and Cassell won the case. But Boyd had the last laugh. Probably because of its similarity to the word “gas”, “gasoline” caught on and became the preferred name for the product. The last recorded use of the word Cazeline was in 1920."
Re: Scottish Heritage/Lineage: To us, Scotland is a beautiful country, with wonderful people, and there is a sense of belonging prior to our families arriving in America. So we like to do research on our history into the country and find out things our ancestors may or may not have been a part of. Keep in mind....it's very rare in America to see ANY buildings that are older than the 1900's. So when we see castles that have stood the test of time from the 12th centuries til now....it's utterly amazing!
Honestly, I think the term English,is about as similar and utter all encompassing as the term American. When someone says, I'm American, what does that even mean? Same with English. One could argue that American is English, and if that's the case, doesn't it make sense to look at an ancestry that deviates from that? I dunno...
Most of the world and liberals, see firearms as a device for killing. When target shooting of all kinds has been a sport since firearms were invented. I don't hunt much anymore. But I still enjoy a day at the gun range!
I'll admit I'm not down with the gun lingo, but whatever the weapons are that are allowing for mass murder in schools and concerts. Those are the ones I don't like.
@@WeeScottishLass the AR-15 is a semiautomatic (one pull of trigger=one shot fired) rifle that from the outside looks like it's automatic military cousin the M-4 or M-16 (pull trigger and hold and gun fires continuously or fires multiple shot bursts) it is what gets most of the publicity, but pistols are way more commonly used in crime and even in mass shootings. Because the various brands of AR-15 clones have been used in some of the more notorious incidents (Pulse nightclub Orlando, Vegas concert, Sandy Hook elementary) many have associated it with all these incidents. The Vegas shooter also used a then legal but now banned accessory that allowed a semiautomatic to mimic an automatic continuous firing feature. Among the general public it is assumed that banning this one model of gun would end mass shootings, but there are 2 arguments against this, several horrific attacks (Columbine, Virginia Tech, the Virginia shooting last week) used other kinds of guns, also the AR is the most popular rifle in the US, of the millions sold 99.99% are used legally for hunting, target shooting, home defense, etc, so would banning one or two kinds of guns based on appearance actually end the isolated but nightmarish times when they are used for terrorism? The US wrote into it's Constitution a right to have guns because when it was written the memory of British officials confiscating weapons, the fact that an armed colonial population helped in the successful rebellion against the British government, and a very real threat from Native American tribes fighting to preserve their own lands, culture, and lives. Even today many Americans in rural areas live in places where a call to police might take 30 minutes to hours for help to arrive, plus farmers and ranchers use guns to protect crops and livestock. So we have a complicated situation where most people that own guns are not a problem, most people agree that making sure the wrong people don't get guns is a priority but differ on how to do that, some people think almost all civilians should not have guns but are blocked by the 2nd amendment so try to nibble around the edges, and a few people that think no restrictions are needed and any proposed are a backdoor attempt to incrementally ban and confiscate all guns. The situation is further muddied by the fact that major media is in the big cities where guns are only the tools of violence and cannot conceive of wanting to carry a gun when you go fishing in case of alligators and poisonous snakes, or needing a gun to walk your dog or hike in the woods because bears, cougars, and coyotes might attack you or your pet. Writing laws on a national scale that apply in Boston, the Vermont mountains, the Everglades, Alaska, and the wide open West and Great Plains is damn near impossible because the situations are so different, but strict bans in big cities are tough because the people that don't let murder, drug, or robbery laws stop them are not going to let gun laws stop them either and can get guns purchased legally elsewhere and illegally brought in. Finally, while mass shootings get the attention somewhere around 80% of gun deaths have a gang or drug connection and happen in small pockets of big cities, many of which have the toughest gun laws. There is no easy answer that wouldn't take away the rights of millions to address the acts of a few dozen mass shooters.
WeeScottishLass if someone is set on harming/killing someone, they will use what ever is at disposal. Knifes, sword, axe, bat, bomb, car, airplane, fire, etc. People with deadly intent is the problem, evil exists in this world. Our right to bare arms, gives us a way to protect ourselves, our families, and others in the event evil person(s) and or a tyrannical government is trying to harm/kill us. So many times a good person with a gun has stopped bad people shooting others. But that is never publicly told in the masses. It doesn’t fit the narrative of demonizing guns. The goal is to disarm us, take away our ability to protect our selves and our ability to fight back. Look into history, look at the times people were disarmed, and the mass murders that occurred. To name one, Germany. We have not learned from the mistakes made in history. Instead today in the US, the government is trying to erase our history. Rewriting our history books, removing statues that would remind us of real history bad and good. If we don’t know and learn from our mistakes and our terrible past, it’s almost certainly going to replay. I would prefer to unit and move forward to a better brighter future as one.
@@WeeScottishLass How 'bout fertilizer and diesel fuel? Pressure cookers? Fire? All of those things have been used to kill and maim large numbers of people. Almost anything can be used to cause harm if a person sets their mind to it. For that matter, Mother Nature uses fire, water, wind and earth to do many of us in every year. Seriously, people are gonna have to get over this urge or inclination to blame inanimate objects for things. Its just ridiculous.
Okay, lots to unpack here. I’ll take them one at a time - apologies ahead of time for ALL THE WORDS :) Gas is actually short for gasoline, not the state of matter. Gasoline is just what we call petrol, and we shorten it because three syllables is… exhausting. ;) I agree about the dates. I write mine the European way, for what it’s worth. Uber. Okay, yes, this is a service that developed during the iPhone App Age, that allows regular people (with nice cars) to act like informal taxi drivers on their own schedule. I think in the UK taxis are held in much higher regard, but in the States they have been seen as a sort of necessary evil for decades. Lets say you needed to go to the airport from your home, you needed to look up their phone numbers in directories (usually physical books) and choose one at random and hope you got a good one that might arrive more or less on time and get you to your destination without over charging you or taking a longer route than normal, hope their cab is clean, hope they weren’t rude, and so on. Very little accountability. Everybody who took cabs regularly has horror stories. Along comes Uber, who had a mobile app, so no more looking up phone numbers, no more directories, they were less expensive than taxis and told you your total fee up front, could have a driver to your door in minutes, had an accountability system in the app so you could rate your driver (encouraging good service and friendliness), and so on. The app used the GPS in your own phone to know your location, so you could call a driver from any random location at any time of day, becoming popular with the late night bar crowd, who no longer had to drive themselves to or from the drinking establishments, making their night out safer and less police-y in the process. Taxi companies were very slow to catch on and instead of improving their service for the iAge, they mostly just complained and protested while they went out of business. TV commercials, yes too many. Generally if it’s available for free in America it’s paid for by advertising. So they push ads as much as possible in every medium. I think it’s mostly intolerable so I pay for ad-free experiences when possible. But that’s me. Prices not including taxes. As others have commented, the reasons include so many local variations in sales taxes (states, counties, cities each get to add their taxes) and the fact that they tend to change. National chains like to advertise pricing, so that’s the price they show in the shops regardless of location, and local taxes get added at checkout. Also, someone people can be exempt from some sales taxes, so… It’s a complicated mess and we’re just used to it by now. There’s just no easy way to constantly print and replace new price tags on all merchandise. Cheerleaders are great. They make people happy :) And there are male cheerleaders, actually, especially in college sports. I think that just on the professional level, no one pays money to see male cheerleaders so much. Supersizing meals. Okay, this is partly because we have developed this idea that more food is better so the food portions in American restaurants generally tend to be larger than other cultures, but I think it also has a lot of do with being able to charge more for the larger size, out of proportion to the added amount of food, so this increases the profit margins. A small Coke costs 20 cents to make and they charge $2 for it, a large Coke might cost 30 cents but they can charge $3 for it. Fries are similar; potatoes are cheap. So they pad their profits with high-margin, low-cost extras to make it seem like a good deal, when you’re really just paying more for increased health risks. Irish/Scottish/English roots. We have this idea that the English make good bad guys and the Irish and Scottish make good revolutionaries. And we love a good “small plucky upstart country picks a fight with the English to secure their freedom and independence” story. I think it’s that simple. Also whisky and Guinness are great ambassadors. Slainte. America definitely has a gun culture, I think mostly because of the role the gun has played in the history of the country and the right specifically outlined in the Constitution. Our car culture is the same kind of thing, minus the Constitution bit. I grew up in the South, and worked in California for 20 years so I’ve seen both ends of the spectrum. I can say that the vast majority of the gun owners I’ve known have been very responsible about it, and most people think of shooting like a sport; they shoot at ranges, for hunting, target shooting, collecting, and so on. I’ve shot guns, though I have never owned any. There’s something really impressive about the engineering of a firearm that’s like functional artwork in a way. There’s no defending people who use guns as terror weapons, but I do understand the general fascination with them as collectible works of engineering art, if that makes sense. I wouldn’t say we have a bomb culture, though. The atomic bombs dropped in World War II are a very specific case. Japan was being a very aggressive military empire all across the Pacific and China/Asian regions at the time, and drew the US into the war with the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was sudden and devastating. Before that the US was more or less trying to stay out of the war, but after that the entire industrialized American culture geared up with one goal in mind. Think of how Russia reacted to Germany toward the end of the war, well there was a lot of that kind of revenge sentiment in the Pacific theater. There is also an argument to be made that not dropping those bombs would have prolonged the war and led to more deaths (especially American ones), but I’m in no position to evaluate that (not a military historian). Aside from those two, the nuclear arms race was a reaction to Russia doing the same thing (doubtless they would say the same about us), and for a long time there both sides had the other to justify pouring trillions of dollars and rubles into tanks and planes and bombs. I will say that once all of that started to deflate in the 90s, we were generally very happy to leave behind all of that tension of the Cold War (except maybe arms manufacturers and old hardliners). Now one thing America DOES have is a culture of competition. I think this leads into the sports question and the visible patriotism; the flags everywhere. We go out of our way to form up into groups to compete with each other, with other nations, with other groups of nations, with other economies, with other militaries.. And so on. This results in a bit of a tendency to be.. overly American, if that makes sense.
I still don't fully buy your reasoning behind the no tax prices on shop shelves. On my trips to America we used to try and spend all the coins because it's pointless trying to exchange them when we returned. We'd go to the shops, pick 3 or 4 things knowing we had the coins to cover it and then the cashier would tell us a different amount and we'd need to put something back. I should point out I was maybe 10-13-ish. I assume kids get good at adding the tax on mentally growing up?
@@Chrome.Seraph if you went to shops in a different town, city, or county than where you started, that's why the total price was different. For example, the city that I live in is actually made up of the City of Lynchburg as well as parts of Bedford and Campbell Counties. So, depending on where I buy something in Lynchburg, VA the city/county taxes added on will be different. Campbell County typically has lower taxes, so I like to buy stuff there as much as possible.
@@soccerchamp0511 That just makes matters even worse. The shops should be telling people the actual prices and not have them have to work out where in town they are and which tax laws apply.
I think the prominent displaying of our flag has more to do with pride in our own nation and founding principles than with a feeling of competition with other nations and cultures. We were the first nation in history to be founded on principles, not on geographic or ethnic identities. Though we haven't always lived up to those principles, our history has been one of making the attempt to do so, and to continually do better at living by those principles of liberty and freedom, and applying them evenly to everyone. I proudly fly my American flag, but I also take an interest in many other cultures throughout the world, and I think that the people of those cultures have a lot to be proud of themselves, and good reason to display their own flags. Lifting one thing up doesn't necessarily mean that another has to be put down.
Don't forget depending on the weapon, the least expensive one might be $4,500, with an average of $10,000, to $35,000 for prime offerings: Thompson sub gun, BARs.
I've seen the pictures taken after the bombs were dropped on Japan and you're right, they are heartbreaking. You have to remember how brutal the Japanese were to everyone who stood against them. Also remember, they attacked us first on home soil.
It may have saved American lives, but that implies that American blood is worth more than Japanese blood. Also, the American lives in question were soldiers, the Japanese were civilians. Soldiers enter a war with the knowledge they may die, and it is their duty to save civilians.
Because on December 7, 1941 Japan attacked America! So after almost 4 years at war and more then 400,000 Americans dead President Truman decided That something dramatic needed to be done to end that war. 8 days after America dropped the bomb Japan unconditionally surrendered and for all intents and purposes, that ended the war.
Japan refused to surrender in fact they became more brutal. Even after we bombed Truc lagoon they wouldn't back off because they would "lose face". That's why they were bombed and that is why they surrendered.
All of your points on bombs and Hiroshima are valid. However it’s very easy to have these opinions and judge some 70 years after the end of WWII. what the world went through in WWII is hard for us to fathom by today’s standards. Thanks.
The decision to drop the the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not taken lightly they (the USA) had determined that if combat continued then the loss of life on both sides would be in the millions also the US gave warning to Japan to surrender or the bombs would be dropped, this wasn’t a surprise. You also have to understand Japan committed genocide on countless countries China, Korea, Philippines to name a few.
@@lennyserauskas2224, the Scottish lass opened a can of worms with her biased history. I know Americans who got to Hiroshima. Not one word is written that Japan started the war on 7 December 1941. No word is written about the genocide in China, about the miss treatment of allied prisoners, about the suicide planes, or of evil the stealing of non-Japanese women and using them as sex slaves. But she has "solidarity" with Japan. Her history teachers should be horse whipped.
Easy Eight @easy eight you are exactly right about that, I was stationed in Japan and visited their museum and you would have thought that the US started the war they absolutely forgot to mention about the attack on Pearl Harbor or the Batan death march....
So we dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to stop WW II. We expected 1 Million US Casualties if we invaded plus 10 Million Japanese Casualties. More casualties than the rest of the war combined. My grandad waiting on Okinawa to invade was told to write a goodbye letter to his family as he was going to be in the first wave going in and would not be coming out alive. Pretty simple math.
Pretty simple yes, but children still died and in a horrific way. Even if we'd invaded that wouldnt have made the situation any better, people always seem to the one who suffer for the mistakes of power hungry idiots in charge.
@@WeeScottishLass Jesus said he knew who the god of this world is when he was referring to satan. He is right. Anyone with two eyes can see who rules around here, until the Lord comes back for us and does away with the devil. His kingdom come, that's my hope. I want a peaceful king and I'm willing to be a peaceful subject of His government. I look forward to the end of greedy governments.
Some say the atomic bombs were used on Japan for racialist reasons. What these people forget is that the original purpose was for use against Germany. It just happened that the Germans surrendered before the bomb was completed and tested. Had Germany been still fighting (say, for instance, that the Normandy Campaign had failed in 1944), it could well have been Dresden that got hit first, rather than Hiroshima.
@@WeeScottishLass, my father's parents left Germany in the early/mid 1930s. They left to escape the antics of everyone's least-favorite Austrian painter and paper-hanger. Here's the funny part though; their home town was a place named Königsberg. It got flattened during WW I, and after WW II was re-named Kaliningrad. No atomic bomb was ever dropped there, but a large number of men, women, and children suffered and died there just the same, ultimately losing their home even if they survived. Look the place up sometime, and read about its history. Then tell me if you think what happened in Japan was really any worse.
@@WeeScottishLass "but children died and in a horrific way" Horrific? Sure. As horrific as being thrown off cliffs? As horrific as burning themselves alive? As horrific as their parents strapping bombs to them and feigning surrender only to detonate them when the US forces tried to help them? Highly debatable.
Gas is short for Gasoline. Football is short for one foot ball. The date is written the way we write it in spite of King George of England. Or in other words, because we can. Guns, if we didnt have them, we would be British Citizens still. No offense, just how it is. 👍😀😎
To me the date thing just makes sense. Today is June 6, 2019. That translates to 6/6/2019,,,,ok that doesn't work well as an example. Yesterday was June 5, 2019. 6/5/19. Simple. Easy. Today is also the anniversary of D-Day. Let us not ever forget.
@@susanangell1991 I am with you on that. Thank you Veterans for all you did so we could keep speaking English. Like I wrote earlier to Scotish Lass, if it were not for guns, we would still be British Citizens here in America. And as we commemorate D-Day, or German Citizens. Thank God for Guns, we are free. 👍😎😀
Not only that, but many parts of the country need that shit. If you're in Sisterfist, Arkansas, it might be 25-60 minutes before the cops come to a disturbance. The police can't teleport, after all. Then there's hunting, which is prevalent in parts of America.
" I this video goes more than 10 minutes your going to have 2 of them" and then she flips me off !! God how I love you! ! The fact that there's a whole country of people just like you brings me great joy !!
Movie theatre drink sizes are HUGE. You need two hands to pick a "large" drink up and carry it. It's like trough size or something. Drink sizes are crazy big!
A century or two ago, England had two kinds of football: association football and rugby football. They came up with a nickname for association football based on its second syllable, so they called it soccer. Later, they stopped calling it soccer, but we Americans still use that name. Meanwhile, the English shortened rugby football to rugby while we Americans shortened it to football, and the game evolved into what we have now. I might have some of the details slightly off, that that is the general idea.
Thank you! As an American that has traveled many times to the UK, I have to remind my friends across the pond about this as they love taking the piss out of my regarding "soccer". Most don't even know that it was the British that coined the term soccer!
I always thought the reason we call it football is because a regulation football is one foot in length (three feet to a yard) The thickness of a ball run across the field laterally is called the neutral zone. A neutral zone infraction is when someone lines up within the imaginary zone.
Point of clarification: automatic weapons fire more than one round when you pull the trigger. To purchase one requires a tax stamp. Getting that stamp requires loads of legal paperwork. Since no new automatic weapons available to the private citizen are being produced, the ones available are hideously expensive. Semiautomatic weapons fire one round per trigger pull. Just like that hunting rifle. Semiautomatic weapons are available to the citizenry following a background check, and typically cost several hundred to several thousand dollars. Some look similar to military rifles, but they function just like any other semiautomatic hunting rifle. Edit: and we are attached to them because an armed citizenry kicked the British out of the US, and helped to scare the Japanese from invading the mainland US. Plus there's that whole untamed west thing in the 1800s, and the pesky fact of life that there's never a cop around when you need one so you sometimes have to protect yourself. The Scots weren't always against war. You've had plenty against the English and amongst your own clans. The Scots had a reputation as ferocious fighters on the battlefield. Why do you think think those castles were built? If modern firearms were available to William Wallace or Robert the Bruce, they'd have used them.
Scottish brigades were some of the most successful in both world wars, but also in Iraq and Afghanistan. Scots are fierce! I’d say them and the Gurkas are the most feared out of the UK military.
Don't forget it discouraged the Soviet Union as well. No matter what plan they had West Coast invasion, East Coast invasion, come up through Mexico or down Canada they predicted it would end the same way. Which is an armed populace would be out to take kill the Soviet Military. How can you shock and awe the US Army when you already dead because some hunter decided it was Ruskie season.
@Kris Moodley it can only be done to certain semiautomatic weapons, not all of them. It also takes parts that are restricted and controlled just like the actual machineguns, and making the unlicensed conversion is a federal offense. I really love it when those who are ignorant of firearms show their ignorance. Thanks for providing a case study.
“Why? Is it because you want to catch people off guard? “ Yes. That’s pretty much all of America. Catching people off guard since 1776. 😅 It catches me off guard almost everyday 😅🤦🏾♀️
Hey, we're just ungrateful colonists. I'm looking forward to celebrating Treason Day (better known in the USA as "Independence Day," 4, July (for the Europeans,) .) Hopefully this "social distancing" will be over and done with well before then!
You ended well! Fun episode. I’ll probably never meet you but still having people on You Tube like you has been a real lift to those of us who have been so isolated during the pandemic. Even more so, to those of us who are disabled and rarely get out except for doctor’s appointments. Thank you for being there for all of us, these random strangers. I genuinely believe that you are doing more good than you’ll ever know.
The reason guns are so big in America is due to our distrust in the government. Whenever a dictator takes over a country, one of the first things that do is take away guns. Then there's no way for the populous to fight back. In America, our country was built upon getting away from the tyrannical English government, using our guns. So, it just makes sense that we are weary of anyone wanting to take our guns.
populace.wary.although weary kind of works also.always find distrust in "government" interesting argument, since the foundation document starts with "we the people".so "government"in this context means "people not us"(whoever "us" turns out to be).
@@mikegilbertson7890 Every government started with the best of intentions always takes more and more power away from the people, and ours is no different. The reason we have the Bill of Rights is so that We the People will always have the ability to take that power back if we so choose.
@@soccerchamp0511 "We the People"...are any of "We the People" running this government taking more and more power away from "We the People", or is "the government" some different life form with it's own biology independent of the "People" ( some of whom you may admittedly disagree with, vehemently, on how they believe it should be run). As for every government starting with the best of intentions, there are too many examples that refute that statement to even begin listing them.
@@MeanJohnDean The second amendment is what keeps our government in line. If you don't trust the government, you should love the fact that we can stop them.
@@mikeconner3684 I think the vast majority of Americans could really care less but the tabloids want to sell their newest issues so they post the latest scandals,Hyping everything up.
@@sunflower9680 I'm sure there are those that are obsessed with the royals because I think they fantasize about what it would be like to actually be royalty.
Also sometimes each county and town has its own tax and convenience store tax will be more than grocery store tax on the same item and oftentimes pieces are painted on packages in a factory that may not be in the same state let alone county or town. And a restaurant has a different (higher) tax then stores and each of these taxes can theoretically change any time. So it is easier to leave it up to the locals (who vote on these things) to know the tax in their area and pogam the register at the store with the relevant tax.
To know why we call football "football" and football "soccer", then you have to know the history of "soccer" first. The sport association football is called football not because it's played with the feet, but because it's played on the feet. Hence why American football is still called football. Even the full name of rugby is called rugby football, which not many people know. The Brits were the first to come up with the term soccer and at one point it was just as popular as saying football in the region. When American football was created it was around the same time association football was introduced, so we just adopted the word soccer from the Brits as the main term for association football.
How could one go about attracting more of a Canadian audience?? Just out of curiosity, you make up a small percentage of my audience but enough to spark my interest in wanting to appeal to you!
@@WeeScottishLass Firstly, we have a fairly large Scottish population throughout the country but especially on the East coast. We even have a province called Nova Scotia where many Scottish immigrants came during the clearings and during the American revolution. It would be interesting to explore this but would require quite a bit of research. Besides that, you could look at the similarities between Canadians and Scots. We may be part of the commonwealth but we generally don't have an allegiance with England. Culturally, we are a humble bunch and have a strong stance about gun ownership. We didn't have a war of independence which plays a part in this, I am sure.
@@WeeScottishLass You popped up in my suggestions with this video. As a Canadian I find anything that compares the Yanks to others interesting. A big part of our identity is not being like "them"! Being a Multi-cultural society, celebration of the Scottish culture is a big thing. In Ontario and the Maritime provinces yearly festivals showcasing that heritage are quite common. British Columbia is home to the world famous Simon Frazer University pipe band. Our first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, the inventor Alexander Graham Bell, the original Simon Frazer and Alexander Mackenzie explorers and Sir Sandford Fleming inventor, are notable Scots born Canadians. Scots formed an important part of the Fur Trade and the opening of the West. As another suggested, explore the connections between our two countries. Btw that is me in the profile pic. Despite the red beard, can't find any Scots in our ancestry. Best wishes, Peace
And our current Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, former Governor of the State of Texas, was a "Yell Leader" at Texas A&M. (No idea why they chose that term, other than the fact that they were all male, and I would not have known that except for the fact I have two grown kids who graduated from that institution.)
@@jaykay3784, Nixon was a combat veteran in the Pacific. He was always at US Navy forward support bases that were bombed by Japanese aircraft. Nixon was a great lawyer who made the contracts that supplied the US Navy with fresh food for the fleet. Also, when the Navy moved from base to base it was Nixon who organized the poker games on the ship for the officers. In 1944 dollars the minimum to get in the game was over $1,000. Nixon's games in the fleet were legendary.
My Irish ancestry research stalled because they're O'Connors and it's quite a common name, the English branch stopped when I got to a John Smith ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That makes me wonder... What if you built a store right on the border between two states. Which state would get the tax revenue? Or would you have to pay both states?
@@PolymorphicPenguin This reminds me of a fictional story where the heroine had to break into a Fedual building, a post office, to save her friend and it was between two state lines like the town. 😂😂😂
I don't necessarily buy that as the reason though, because plenty of products sell for different amounts in different parts of the country (sometimes even just within the same city or at a different store). I suspect it's because they think if they advertise a slightly lower price people will buy it. It's the same reason a lot of prices cost $19.99 instead of $20.00.
I've worked in a store, and tax rates differ when you go from city to county as well as from state to state and city to city. The 19.99 lure thing is different from the tax thing. Prices for some things (like books, magazines, or toys) are sometimes printed right on the item. Taxes in each separate area change, sometimes every year. Especially before computers, every item or label in the whole store would have to be re-done each time, if tax was included, which would take time and money, and would be even more prone to error. Nowadays, it's just a label on the edge of the shelf, usually. The bar code value on the packaging is programmed into the system and easier to change from a main computer, so prices could be changed more easily now, but separate tax pricing is what we've grown used to and how the whole system is set up, from top to bottom, for every industry, for the whole country. Hard to change.
Also, there can be tax holidays on items, like "back to school" windows for example. I'd think if they replaced all shelf prices with electronic displays those displays could show the product, tax and total prices dynamically but that would be expensive for most stores.
A WeeScottishLass should understand that freedom is not free. That the price we pay for that sacred right is its defense against all who would deny us our liberty. Weapons are the tools of that defense, in all their menace and horror. Where would William Wallace have been without his sword?
Owning a firearm is a constitutionally protected right. The founding fathers of our country placed that right in the constitution so the citizens would have a way to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. They understood that an unarmed population was unable to stand up against a government that could overstep the will of its people. They learned this from the British when they attempted to disarm them to control the population through force of arms.
I get that, and I can understand it as a concept. But the fact they even need to exist for that reason explains a lot about the world we live in. Especially now that they're not being used for that purpose, but for killing children in schools.
School shootings are horribly tragic. With a free society comes consequences and responsibilities. For example free speech allows for the freedom of all speech even that which you might find offensive. Firearms ownership is a huge responsibility and with millions of them in my country and the size of our population the percentage of these events are small. So to take the freedom of protecting ones self away because one sick individual committing a crime is not right. As someone who lives in a “gun free society” does crime no longer occur? Does murder, robbery, and other violent crime no longer occur in the UK? The only people you hurt with gun laws are the law abiding citizens that follow that law and now cannot protect themselves.
Sure, but gasoline is a weird word for the benzine ("bensiin" as we say it correctly in Estonian). Gasoline (mistakenly brought to life by the people familiar with the word "gas") comes from gazeline which comes from cazeline which comes from John Cassell - has nothing to do with the actual chemical compounds and the logic of naming it.
Don’t like what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki either but at that time their really wasn’t a choice. The Japanese would have never stopped the war and the lives that were being lost of the American ,British, Scottish,French, Russian and all of the Allies was horrendous. So they all made a decision to stop the war otherwise we all could be The Empire of Japan today. Not what I want and I don’t think many people would.🙂
Jennifer Heath actually no, it’s been known for quite some time now that the Japanese were ready to surrender and this from the mouths of all the admirals, heads and even Eisenhower himself... it was VERY unnecessary www.thenation.com/article/why-the-us-really-bombed-hiroshima/...
The Emperor was ready to surrender before the second bomb. Unfortunately for Nagasaki, it was out of his hands by then as the military had assumed control.
I have never claimed my English lineage. Not my French Canadian nor German either. Only my Irish bit. The Irish immigrants who came here to America spoke so poetically of the homeland to their families and everyone else that we all want to go there one day....we all feel a connection.
Part of the tax being separate has to do with different localities having different tax rates. Say there an advertisement for a particular chain store and it says that a specific shirt is $24.99. If you go to a store inside a city you’ll pay state tax and city tax, whereas just a few miles away outside the city another store will just charge the state tax. Then some states don’t even charge sales tax on certain kinds of items. It helps us see how much the government is charging for taxes and if they get too high we can protest or elect someone who will lower them. It isn’t the same for gas prices. (Gas by the way is a shortening of gasoline which was originally a trade name in Britain). Around 60% of or gas prices are taxes of various sorts, so obviously they wouldn’t show us that.
Kris Moodley Totally didn’t mean to sound snarky lol but yes, I’m aware y’all’s are inclusive. I wish our tax was already figured into prices. But I also understand why it’s easier for your system to be set up that way. Just seems like it’d be just as easy to understand the flip side.
Amerians write the day after the month because A. that's how we speak (it's November twenty-fifth, two thousand twenty) and B. that's how we navigate calendars. You flip to the month, then you find the day. To avoid this confusion, I tend to write dates in the Nov 25 2020 format. Months are in letters, year is 4 digits, no ambiguity.
We call our mutant form of rugby "football" because we got into the habit of calling the game where you kick the icosohedron around "soccer" because that's what the rest of the world called it. Everyone else switched to football but we had already invented a sport and named it that.
Uber (and it's competitors) are ride sharing services. The original idea IIRC was to help people carpool together, but it ended up being a sort of end around of the taxi industry. See, here's the thing about American taxi cabs: In most cities, a taxi must carry a special license called a medallion. A given city only issues so many of these medallions, for you to get a job as a taxi driver, someone else has to quit/retire/die. This number has been kept artificially low, and those medallions sometimes sell for astronomical prices. Or, if you're like me and live in an unimportant town in the middle of nowhere, there is no taxi business at all. Uber did an end around by launching an app that connects just ordinary people with ordinary cars to people who need a ride. It's a useful service that's not without its problems: these are private vehicles held to private vehicle standards, they're not inspected and maintained to commercial fleet standards. Drivers do not have commercial driver licenses and aren't vetted for things like drugs or criminal history, etc.
Television ads...First of all, we have basically nothing like the BBC, we do not pay a tax to own or operate a television receiver, basically all television programming is paid for by advertising. It didn't help that the Republicans have been eroding consumer protection laws left and right for decades.
I think the main reason we don't include tax in the marked price of goods is because they didn't do it when the boomers were growing up. People will say that sales tax is a state/local thing and thus they aren't universal all over the place, but who cares? Each store has a price tag printer, so do the math when making the tags. However, on Amazon and other online merchants that ship across state lines, they have a point. When buying/selling across state lines, the rules for who pays how much sales tax to which state becomes...a thing. Amazon has to know the recipient address before charging sales tax.
You don't see Americans celebrating their English roots because of how our history played out. We started out as a bunch of English colonies, but those Americans of "original English" descent either died during the Revolutionary War or decided to distance themselves from their English roots. In the ~2.5 centuries since, there have been mass migrations of Italians, Poles, Germans, Dutch, Jews, Irish and Scots to the New World, but not the English. They never got back into the habit of moving here, so English-American blood has only gotten more diluted with the passage of time. Meanwhile, Migrants who came here post-revolution didn't see the same reasons to scrub away their culture and traditions, so they didn't.
5:44 I thought she said “roaring.” Im still not sure but having reviewed it I think she’s actually saying “rowing.” Either way I get a chuckle imagining Scottish people roaring at each other for sport
The Lord's Prayer is in the Bible, book of Matthew 6:9-13. The ending of the prayer that was left out is: "For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen" We really enjoy your fun videos!
@@appalachianbonnet The "For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory" ending is what we say in Anglican/Episcopal churches. It was added during Henry the Viii's time, by his Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, I believe...who wrote and complied the first two editions of the "Book of Common Prayer" (1548-1549). He was later burnt at the stake...but that's another story for another day. Anyway, in my experience no good Catholic says that ending.... That's why when we Anglo-Catholics attend a Catholic wedding, etc. and the Lord's Prayer is said...we always "give ourselves away" when we add on that ending! Haha. Oops! :O
Your question about ancestry is something I've thought about a lot. I am an American of mixed English and Scottish ancestry. I have a little bit more English than Scottish, yet your comments are spot-on, because the Scottish ancestry has always meant more to me. People migrate for many reasons, but I have an ancestor who left during the Highland Clearances. Her family's migration was not a choice freely made, at least not entirely. It was heartbreaking one, that left a hole in their hearts for Scotland, which has been passed down through the generations. In 2017 I was able to visit Scotland for the first time. It was something that my mother and grandfather had always wanted to do, but were never able to do. I felt that I was fulfilling a bucket list wish for three generations of my family, and it was overwhelming. I have pictures of many of my ancestors' grave markers, but the ones of the Scottish emigrants stand out. Here's one: "Far from the land where our forefathers sleep. Peter Harvie. Native of Scotland." It meant a lot to them, and so it means a lot to me.
I only know what I was taught in US history. As I understand it, at the end of WWII, the Japanese were ready to fight to the last man, woman, and child. The belief was that they would not surrender until their home island was overtaken. This would have resulted in the loss of an unacceptable number of allied troops, but was the way the war was going to go. When Truman became president upon the death of Roosevelt, he was made aware of the Manhattan project and the atomic bomb. Carpet bombing, taking out large portions of cities was common practice. Demonstrating the destructive force of the atomic bomb was determined to be the only way to force a surrender. The decision to use the bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was ultimately made to save lives.
Could be that whole imperial/colonial/representation/rights thing that we went to war over in the 18th Century. Also, the scars that British imperialism left on other countries (however to be fair the U.S. has left some scars as well).
About the pledge and the flag, We as Americans are from everywhere and we don't really have a common history or culture that binds us together the pledge is kinda like a reminder of sorts that we are united under this thing that we as a people have made. The States have flags to individually. As for the heritage thing, The English came here earlier and have been absorbed more thoroughly into the weft of our society. While the Irish and the Scottish waves came later and stood out they clung more tightly to who they were and where they came from and so we as a people tend to recognize that in ourselves. That and we made a point of cutting ourselves off from the English empire when we had the revolution so we still kinda snub them as a cultural thing i mean its not overt or mean ist just kinda here and there kinda like how we poke fun at the French. I hope this sheds some light on things
The pledge wasn't official till 1942 and blatantly violates the 1st amendment in any official use and the spirit in unofficial use. McCarthyism intended to shill mindlessly obedient federalism, which wasn't supported by the Constitution at all. Ironically, the writer of the original was a socialist and a Christian minister who didn't include "under God" and wouldn't have out of principle. It's all propaganda. Hell, check out the Knights of Columbus who hocked the damn thing and were also involved in the "In God we trust" being illegally put on the money in 1956. Yeah, the slaving murderer Christopher...is their patron saint.
@@Endoptic Gimme a break. Pledging allegiance to the Republic in no way violates the 1st Amendment. It's no different than the oath of office swearing to uphold the Constitution which, incidentally, every president, representative, senator, federal agent, governor, state legislator, county supervisor, city council member, police officer and dog catcher nation wide swears to. Putting In God We Trust doesn't violate the 1st Amendment since that isn't Congress establishing a law respecting an establishment of religion nor does it prohibit the free exercise thereof.
The English deserve the hate not just from us 6ut from Ireland,Scotland,Wales,Australia,Jamaica,6engalis,exc I'm surprised they didn't do the same thing that Germany did on the same scale they did in fact cause a mini holocaust as their own called the 6angali holocaust as 1943 so during ww2.
I don't see adverts while watching TH-cam on a Chromecast connected to my dumb TV. 👍👍 Guns are tools like hammers, chainsaws and knives. Alone they hurt no one. The person wielding them is the problem.
I LIKE being able to see the taxes. (sounds weird, I know). If you just get the price with everything included, you don't realize how much the government is adding on. Some states have NO sales tax, others have 5%, one almost 10%. As a business owner (or just a citizen), I want the customer to know how much I am charging, and how much the government is forcing me to add on to the price. If the % becomes too high, people will protest (as they have sometimes).
I'm in the one with ~10%. Can have the item label have the final price and still see the taxes on the receipt though. And the taxes don't really change so not sure why you'd need to keep checking the % unless you are in a different state every time you shop.
I don't know about you, but anyone capable of throwing me into the air like it's nothing is pretty dang athletic. Or at least, I'm not about to question their athleticism, lest I be hurled to my death.
Not to mention that the police serve the general public, not individuals, and thus have guns for the same reason civilians are allowed them: to defend themselves against violent criminals.
@@BobPapadopoulos Technically, it's the police who are allowed them by the people. People as individuals have rights and they loan them out to organizations, which is merely a large group of people who represent a larger group of individuals.
Im a couple months late on this one, but I have agree with you about the tax here in America. As an American, I have been asking this question for as long as I can remember. I know that the store owner needs to separate the tax and the actual price of the product, but why do we need to have it separate for us? We all know there is a tax, just put the price with the tax on the tag and be done with it! lol. Its like when we go grocery shopping and I have to add 8 cents to every dollar that is spent on all taxable items to know how much Im spending before I get to the check out. It would be easier to not have to do that. Sometimes Im just not in the mood to do the math. Sometimes I just want to grab whatever I need and not have to worry about how much I am really going to need, and go home.
Ok so I can explain a few things from my perspective. Disclaimer here is I was raised in the New York NewJersey area of our east coast and moved to the south In Texas. There is obvious cultural difference depending on the region of the country. Some good some bad. That said all Americans tend to have a utmost love for the country as a stand on its own , rebelled against the crown and became the nation that could. So that is why something comes as weird to other countries. Gas- Short for Gasoline, which is refined oil and when used in cars is a liquid turned vapor by the machine and compressed to explode in a controlled matter. If it remained liquid it would not ignite as easily. So we call it what it becomes(makes some sense ,but not really). Guns- Automatic weapons in the civilian society is very rare and very hard to aquire. Takes alot of checks and rechecks to get one and even then it is restricted to where the gun can be used (law abiding citizens, against criminal society). We were founded that the rights of the person should not be taken away by government in order to defend themselves from harm , be it government or criminal activity. Most of our mass tragedy events(are perpetrated by those who break that law and modify a legal weapon to perform not how it was intended). Sure it doesnt make it any better, but if you restrict something when is the line drawn. Fear of that line being removed and all weapons are banned drives the need to get those very weapons before they disappear. This allows us to keep them as the government has no right to seize property unless is blatant law breaking. Oh and as oong as mass destruction devices (bombs) are used as a military basis we can careless. Nuclear is something most Americans would say is nice to have as a deterrent, but usage is not good. The bombing of a country we are at war with is very closely monitored to ensure we hit a target and not the innocent as best as possible( was military myself). In your example , targeting Scotland. We would decide from our leaders what areas are a great importance to the opposing force and destroy it. Military bases, Power stations , government strongholds. Smart weapons would be used to render those places total loss. As long as collateral loss is under 10 person of the total population it is ok . Hospitals and children bearing centers are off limits period no exceptions. Food sizes- Yagot us on that one. We are a nation gorging on ourselves on larger size portions and wonder why working out is a problem. Well if ya didnt have 14 pounds of hamburger sloshing around in your gut Billy youd be fine. Dates- we right our dates Month , day , year. Its a bit odd to teh rest of the world just as much as we say we are residence of town, state (example Dallas,Tx) , where others like Canada which confuse us Vancouver, British Columbia or Toronto Ontario, Canada.Even England confuses the daylights to this day out of me. Twon, State, County, Country? What? NOt sure if it is the same as Scotland but considering you share land, I can assume it can be Edinburgh, state, Scotland. I dunno. The pledge is much like the prayers you had to do . This was an old thing and not practices as much anymore to be more tolerant of other religions. It comes from pride on our nation and love of our country. We do that with the pledge, national anthem and flag flying everywhere. For me it is my home and I defended her with everything I am up to my death. That flag has meaning to everyone . stars for the states, lines for the 13 original colonies that started this nations, sewn by a woman who didnt intend for it to be a national symbol, and honored at every pass. Destroying the flag is a crime here. She is never allowed to touch the ground, be hung lower then any other flag, shown upside down, kept in disarray, or flown on the wrong side of the flag displays( meaning if the flag is accompanied by a military branch on two seperate poles and American flag flies highest and to the right while all others are to the left and lower. We love our country despite some of the things other countries think about it. We see ourselves as a beacon for those who want to get out rom under bad government or hopeless living and tell the world , dream the impossible dream here and go for it. We arent perfect and we sure shouldnt be telling the rest of the world how to run their own countries , but at times we get to be the bully. Doesnt make it right . We enjoy meeting people from all over the world and learning what makes their country home. I am not Scottish that I know of, but the accent and the wonderful sites to see there is something I want to do. I have been to Japan and met some wonderful people, As an Italian heritage, Id love to see where my ancestors came from. The pride our nation has in itself is we all came from somewhere else in the past and joined together to form a country . Wel love the ability to do and say mostly what we want. Go anywhere and not be restricted. Simply put the pledge is a national pride being ingrained in the younger generations to carry with them through life. Even the branches of our military have it . God, Duty, Honor, Country. Sorry for the long post but I wanted to be thorough. Visit all of American and see for yourself. Go east to west and see the differences. You can go from New York or Boston and see , then to Green Bay , down to Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle and get an idea of how different yet great this country is just within itself. See ya soon, and stay awesome.
First time watching, I'm now a fan! When it comes to the things you mention . . . I understand, it is confusing. Except . . . our guns! The 2nd Amendment was written so we could insure our Gov't. wouldn't get 'too big for it's britches.' Love the show, upbeat AND funny!
I always thought the date thing was it was because it was the way we said it. We said June third, not third of June. The only exception I can think of is the Fourth of July.
Oh, god...we hate adverts too! I don’t even watch tv anymore, it’s so bad! Thank you for making me so happy and always making me laugh! At times, I almost wet myself and blow pop through my nose on your funniest bits! The flag is best explained by “the Star Spangled Banner”. To see the ragged, war-torn, beaten up flag after a huge fight, and see it stood strong, even after being ravaged, is why we pay homage to our flag.
The Philippines, South Korea, Malaysia, India, Singapore, and Turkey also have a pledge of Allegiance. The kids at my school love it; our principal wouldn't let us recite it for a week to see what would happen. He said, he got more angry kids coming into his office complaining than at any time in his career.
Think of American football as “battle ball” two teams armored up and battling over ground. We love our hunting and guns because it’s our heritage. It’s an inalienable right in our founding documents to keep and bear arms. Notice no one has ever invaded the US You’ve been to the east coast not the heart of America, To understand America and Americans you need to avoid the East and west coasts.
Hey, our calendar abbreviation system is a main stream "time" unit, it is approached by convenient appearance. The year's Months settle us to a seasonal time and we write them first as a focal ideal. And that is the American / Japanese 'long time' system for checking passage.
When England decided to put us in our place the marched to seize the armory in Concord and the revolutionary war began. When America was established they wrote in a clause specifically to ensure we would never be taken by invasion or oppressed by an out of control government. 350 million people with more than 500 million guns ensures our freedom from anyone who may try to take it.
Uber is so much cheaper, except in a place where a major event is happening. . .during the Electric Daisy Concert, an Uber from work to home would have been over $200, instead of the usual $10, because all the Uber drivers knew they would lose money just taking people from work to home, a trip out to the concert site was definitely more lucrative for them!
Guns were designed manufactured and distributed for one soul purpose and that was to kill. If a gun can not kill then a gun is useless as that's it's one and only job. So to say guns don't kill is pretty retarded if you ask me. Pencils were not designed manufactured and distributed for the soul purpose of misspelling words so your argument is invalid.
@@jordanochs1712 We need guns to keep the government from taking our rights away. You're safer in a town with responsible gun owners than not. Also, you're less likely to be shot by a responsible gun owner! Outlaw guns and only outlaws will have them!
@BADSPOCK That's because you haven't used it yet smart ass and if you have and it didn't kill anything then you might want to get your fucking money back 😂😂😂
@@gigiw.7650 i'm not bias in the situation whatsoever. im just simply stating a fact. Guns were invented to kill so to say they dont kill is pretty stupid if you ask me "hmm we need to invent something that will kill! lets call them guns" then people want to go "guns don't kill!! to those people i say "oh yeah then what were they invited for genius?"
with all the guns we have is the reason the United states will never be invaded you might get here but now what you going to do when you have over half the population that is armed not so easy now is it.think about that
My father was a sailor during WWII. Hiroshima was bombed on his 23rd birthday. He didn't mind because technically the war was over on his birthday. During the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Harbor he thanked the Lord above that he didn't have to go in while people were shooting at him. It was that well defended. The bombing of Hiroshima probably guaranteed my birth..
Karen St John years ago, I had gotten into a taxi in a new area for me. On my return trip the taxi ride was faster and cheaper and realized the first driver had took me for a ride. So I can see why Uber and Lyft became popular.
Here in America our constitution grants people the right to own guns, not to go on killing sprees but to protect ourselves not just from each other but also from a corrupt government should the need arise to form a militia and fight against said government. The overwhelming majority of Americans do NOT own automatic weapons but there are a few restrictions on who can legally own a gun. We haven't found the right balance between owning guns and regulations on guns but we are getting there. Don't forget we are a young country so have can't have everything figured out right off the bat.
The flags everywhere, at least for my family, it’s a pride thing and a support thing. We are proud to be Americans and we support those that risk their lives for us
American Football the original ball was round like 🏉 rugby shape and drop kicking was common. Then evolved to pointed shape now nobody drop kicks the ball.
The tax doesn't show as part of the price because the manufacturer suggests the sales price but the tax amount varies by the state and city where the stuff is being sold.
@UCuTe7goiRAksIEdp8MLlV7A We didn't kick the English out, we WERE the English. The American Revolution was a British civil war. Though we, British citizens living in the colonies, declared independence on July 4, 1776 (only about 25% were pro-independence, the rest either didn't care or were loyal to the King), we weren't really an independent country until 1783 when the war ended and the treaty signed in Paris. We didn't win the war by "kicking them out", the King just gave up because it was too expensive and we were much more resilient than any British military General thought.
GASoline, actually started in Britain, and then they changed and we didn't. You say Petrol, short for petroleum, which is what is pumped out the ground, and then converted to gasoline, and kerosene, and benzine, etc. AMERICAN football, as different from Canadian Football, or Australian Football. We call your game SOCCER, another British name that you guys dropped and we didn't.
Yeah that is another thing too, American football always confused me. As australian like you said ours is very different. It is odd that you guys stop the game every few seconds, with us the ball is in play and the game keeps going till a try, kick or foul.
@@TheMagnay I'm not familiar with Aussie Rules either. Basically a team has 4 chances to move the ball 10 yards. If you make it, you get another 4. If you don't make it in 3, you punt (kick the ball to the other team) and the other team goes on offense. The Defense tries to stop you. Crossing the Goal Line in possession of the ball, or receiving a Forward Pass in the End Zone (beyond the goal line), scores 6 points. You then can either kick the ball through the uprights for an Extra Point (7 ttl) or try to cross the goal line again for 2 points (8 ttl). If you don't make your 10 yards in 3 tries, and you are close enough to the goal line, you can kick the ball through the uprights from where you are for a Field Goal, 3 points.
@@HemlockRidge here rugby is actually more popular, auzzie rules i never liked so not sure about that one. Rugby is simple touching the ball to the ground in end game is a try worth 4 point then a conversation is kicked where you gotta get it between the posts and it's worth 2. 1 point for just kicking the ball between the post at any time which is a field goal. 6 tackles to score than a change over hapoends which is a kick to the other side, after each tackle is a simple touch to the foot and game resumes. It is a bit more punchy as it's just six tackles and after each one it takes seconds to resume, very little down time. I guess though it just depends what your used to.
Dana says- Don't understand about which thing? Maybe ask someone from an older generation or research the answers? That's usually where I start when looking for answers.
Regarding ads, we (U.K) used to have only 3 ads per hour programme, now of course we 4. As for pride in Scottish ancestry, we Scots ARE proud, I think it's because they tried to suppress us way back when, and we just wouldn't back down! I think more Scots know about their heritage than some other nationalities! I absolutely love your hair!
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but historically, wasn't the BBC government run, at least partly from taxes? In the USA, broadcast radio and television began as independant companies, with some government oversight, but they were commercial ventures. I'm old enough to remember back when rather than just having commercials interspersed during the show, individual shows were sponsored by companies, for instance, I remember when the "Beverly Hillbillies" was sponsored by Kellogs Cereals, and the stars would advertise for the product (Kellogs Corn Flakes) on the set of the show. And product placement was a big deal!
Irish and Scottish heritage Pride vs English heritage pride. I think your right, I think it comes from, partially, the pride of the initial groups and gets passed through the families. You need to choose things from there to hold on too. Also, Scottish and Irish have “immigrant” phases in American. Since England is the Mother Country, they chose to leave it. It’s more than that, but that is part of it.
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WeeScottishLass yessss
We do ♥️ America really not necessarily everyone who happens to be visiting us at the mo🐴
Hail Mary full of grace the lord is with you blessed art thou a long women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Amen
That takes us space I could be using for other stuff, but there it is
And I'm an atheist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's ok.
Gas = Gas(oline) just an abbreviation.
Football = We kinda suck at European Football and back in our earlier years people here decided to re-label a bunch of crap into American stuff so we could be the best at things.
Uber = People who are hired as private Taxi services that can go to small towns and don't have set routes.
Ads = advertisers pay for spots on TV. The stations get so much money per ad, so they throw them around.
Tax = We tend to have everything end with 99 cents. I guess psychologically 99.99$ looks better or feels cheaper then 107.98$ and while we Know there will be tax, if we don't see it until we hit the front of the line and are being rung up, then we're more likely to buy whatever it is.
Cheerleaders = Sex sells. And nothing hypes a bunch of jocks, like scantily clad women hopping around cheering them on.
Super Size = Americans tend to be gluttonous when it comes to junk food. I personally can drink a Route 44(44 ounce) drinks during a movie with a king size csndy bar.
Irish/Scottish roots = Most of us here have heavy amounts of English genes in our pool. Brown hair is commonplace, but blue eyes and red hair together are far less common and people with these traits are easily noticed amomg the crowds, and less common heritages/traits are popular Because they aren't so common. (Plus the accent is amazing)
Guns and explosives = Propaganda. The NRA and military complex donates Millions to the various heads of the government in a "you scratch my back I scratch yours" deal. Plus after the Great Depression, WWII made us a global superpower. That jump in wealth showed the government where the money is at, and thus our greedy ""Representatives"" try to have everything saturated in that stuff to desensitize the average citizen towards weapons. And sadly their strategy has worked... >_>
Pledge of Allegiance and flags= Post WWII and During the Cold War the government was SO anti communist that they shoved religion, "traditional family values", and the sense of single minded solidarity to try and aggressively unite everyone into a single unit. Propaganda videos in schools that claimed "Anything not capitalistic is dangerous and evil", "gays are abnormal, mentally unhealthy, and will get aids", "women must be stay at home moms and have the perfect "nuclear family" otherwise the kids are in an unhealthy environment", and more. Basically it's a bunch of brainwashing that starts from early childhood on up, the flags everywhere (and it's illegal to throw in the trash or crumply them up) are used as a subconscious reminder for the propaganda we are brought up in.
*hugs WeeScottishLass* you're just so pure and nice. We need more people like you here to spread the joy. Lol
And I hope my answers helped you.
- A boi from Texas
We obsess about Irish and Scottish roots because we love you all. We DON'T obsess about English roots because we had to kick them out a few years back and we know how to hold a grudge.
I always send the queen of england a invite to my 4th of july party, she never shows or even RSVP how rude!
@@raymonddowd3245 She isn't coming. Ever. We insulted her great-great-great-great-great-great great-grandfather. SHE can hold a grudge as well.
LOLOL
Aside from the grudge. We remember how the English treated us and we see how they have treated our Celtic cousins over there. And for the most part the English have been tyrannical towards anyone who is not them for over 1000years. Although in the past 100 years they've been a wee bit nicer they still believe they can tell everyone how to live. Their empire may have fallen but they still think they control it. And another reason we embrace our celtic heritage is because out of the thousands of celtic tribes that spanned across Europe over the past 3500 or so years there is only 6 celtic peoples left. Including irish and Scottish.
Caleb Broshar - Remember it was the British empire not the English empire, so both the Scots and English oppressed you.
Why is gasoline called gasoline?
"It’s got nothing to do with gas. Gasoline (American English for petrol) gets its name from John Cassell (1817-65), a Mancunian publisher, coffee merchant and temperance campaigner who began importing and distributing crude oil into Britain and Ireland from Pennsylvania in the 1860s. He called his product “Cazeline”, after himself, and sold it for indoor lamps.
It proved a great success, so much so that by 1865 he was taking Samuel Boyd, a Dublin shopkeeper, to court for selling counterfeit Cazeline. Boyd had changed the “c” to a “g” on all his stock records and then claimed he’d coined the word “gazeline” himself from gasogène, an early French device for making carbonated water. The judge was not impressed and Cassell won the case. But Boyd had the last laugh. Probably because of its similarity to the word “gas”, “gasoline” caught on and became the preferred name for the product. The last recorded use of the word Cazeline was in 1920."
All of us Americans have still yet to solve the mystery of "too many adverts". We hate them too lol.
Tv air time is paid for by commercials.
@@kenwoolner8606 Cable fees? It is expensive to watch "free" television with over half of programming being commercials!
Pssst. It's rampant Capitalism.
@@miskaffon just netflix then and Disney plus or other services then you'll have no commercials
Re: Scottish Heritage/Lineage: To us, Scotland is a beautiful country, with wonderful people, and there is a sense of belonging prior to our families arriving in America. So we like to do research on our history into the country and find out things our ancestors may or may not have been a part of. Keep in mind....it's very rare in America to see ANY buildings that are older than the 1900's. So when we see castles that have stood the test of time from the 12th centuries til now....it's utterly amazing!
Honestly, I think the term English,is about as similar and utter all encompassing as the term American. When someone says, I'm American, what does that even mean? Same with English. One could argue that American is English, and if that's the case, doesn't it make sense to look at an ancestry that deviates from that? I dunno...
As a gun owner, "automatic" weapons were banned in 1986, I'm guessing you mean semi-autos? & we're not obsessed with bombs.
We're not obsessed with a bomb, dude these are Scots, there's none of that.
But id you know a good bomb maker, I got a friend that.... Oops! never mind.
Most of the world and liberals, see firearms as a device for killing. When target shooting of all kinds has been a sport since firearms were invented. I don't hunt much anymore. But I still enjoy a day at the gun range!
Speak for yourself XD Be bored on a farm with chemicals like tannerite hanging around and you'll become an amateur chemist too XD
Automatic weapons aren’t banned you just need a class three stamp
Automatic guns are incredibly rare and incredibly expensive, what are common are semiautomatic guns that look like their military cousins.
Carl Rice not to mention the fact that you have to have a special license in order to own a fully automatic weapon
I'll admit I'm not down with the gun lingo, but whatever the weapons are that are allowing for mass murder in schools and concerts. Those are the ones I don't like.
@@WeeScottishLass the AR-15 is a semiautomatic (one pull of trigger=one shot fired) rifle that from the outside looks like it's automatic military cousin the M-4 or M-16 (pull trigger and hold and gun fires continuously or fires multiple shot bursts) it is what gets most of the publicity, but pistols are way more commonly used in crime and even in mass shootings. Because the various brands of AR-15 clones have been used in some of the more notorious incidents (Pulse nightclub Orlando, Vegas concert, Sandy Hook elementary) many have associated it with all these incidents. The Vegas shooter also used a then legal but now banned accessory that allowed a semiautomatic to mimic an automatic continuous firing feature. Among the general public it is assumed that banning this one model of gun would end mass shootings, but there are 2 arguments against this, several horrific attacks (Columbine, Virginia Tech, the Virginia shooting last week) used other kinds of guns, also the AR is the most popular rifle in the US, of the millions sold 99.99% are used legally for hunting, target shooting, home defense, etc, so would banning one or two kinds of guns based on appearance actually end the isolated but nightmarish times when they are used for terrorism? The US wrote into it's Constitution a right to have guns because when it was written the memory of British officials confiscating weapons, the fact that an armed colonial population helped in the successful rebellion against the British government, and a very real threat from Native American tribes fighting to preserve their own lands, culture, and lives. Even today many Americans in rural areas live in places where a call to police might take 30 minutes to hours for help to arrive, plus farmers and ranchers use guns to protect crops and livestock. So we have a complicated situation where most people that own guns are not a problem, most people agree that making sure the wrong people don't get guns is a priority but differ on how to do that, some people think almost all civilians should not have guns but are blocked by the 2nd amendment so try to nibble around the edges, and a few people that think no restrictions are needed and any proposed are a backdoor attempt to incrementally ban and confiscate all guns. The situation is further muddied by the fact that major media is in the big cities where guns are only the tools of violence and cannot conceive of wanting to carry a gun when you go fishing in case of alligators and poisonous snakes, or needing a gun to walk your dog or hike in the woods because bears, cougars, and coyotes might attack you or your pet. Writing laws on a national scale that apply in Boston, the Vermont mountains, the Everglades, Alaska, and the wide open West and Great Plains is damn near impossible because the situations are so different, but strict bans in big cities are tough because the people that don't let murder, drug, or robbery laws stop them are not going to let gun laws stop them either and can get guns purchased legally elsewhere and illegally brought in. Finally, while mass shootings get the attention somewhere around 80% of gun deaths have a gang or drug connection and happen in small pockets of big cities, many of which have the toughest gun laws. There is no easy answer that wouldn't take away the rights of millions to address the acts of a few dozen mass shooters.
WeeScottishLass if someone is set on harming/killing someone, they will use what ever is at disposal. Knifes, sword, axe, bat, bomb, car, airplane, fire, etc. People with deadly intent is the problem, evil exists in this world. Our right to bare arms, gives us a way to protect ourselves, our families, and others in the event evil person(s) and or a tyrannical government is trying to harm/kill us. So many times a good person with a gun has stopped bad people shooting others. But that is never publicly told in the masses. It doesn’t fit the narrative of demonizing guns. The goal is to disarm us, take away our ability to protect our selves and our ability to fight back. Look into history, look at the times people were disarmed, and the mass murders that occurred. To name one, Germany. We have not learned from the mistakes made in history. Instead today in the US, the government is trying to erase our history. Rewriting our history books, removing statues that would remind us of real history bad and good. If we don’t know and learn from our mistakes and our terrible past, it’s almost certainly going to replay. I would prefer to unit and move forward to a better brighter future as one.
@@WeeScottishLass How 'bout fertilizer and diesel fuel? Pressure cookers? Fire?
All of those things have been used to kill and maim large numbers of people.
Almost anything can be used to cause harm if a person sets their mind to it.
For that matter, Mother Nature uses fire, water, wind and earth to do many of us in every year.
Seriously, people are gonna have to get over this urge or inclination to blame inanimate objects for things. Its just ridiculous.
Gas is short for "gasoline". It makes sense. "Petrol" reminds me of petrolium jelly. Eww!
Both do have similar compositions. lol
@@markchristensen23 Petroleum jelly is better on the butt than gasoline.
Gasoline was a word that originated in England as a brand name.
aren't they both deifferent componds made from PETROLeum?
@@motomuto3313 so says you. Lol
Okay, lots to unpack here. I’ll take them one at a time - apologies ahead of time for ALL THE WORDS :)
Gas is actually short for gasoline, not the state of matter. Gasoline is just what we call petrol, and we shorten it because three syllables is… exhausting. ;)
I agree about the dates. I write mine the European way, for what it’s worth.
Uber. Okay, yes, this is a service that developed during the iPhone App Age, that allows regular people (with nice cars) to act like informal taxi drivers on their own schedule. I think in the UK taxis are held in much higher regard, but in the States they have been seen as a sort of necessary evil for decades. Lets say you needed to go to the airport from your home, you needed to look up their phone numbers in directories (usually physical books) and choose one at random and hope you got a good one that might arrive more or less on time and get you to your destination without over charging you or taking a longer route than normal, hope their cab is clean, hope they weren’t rude, and so on. Very little accountability. Everybody who took cabs regularly has horror stories.
Along comes Uber, who had a mobile app, so no more looking up phone numbers, no more directories, they were less expensive than taxis and told you your total fee up front, could have a driver to your door in minutes, had an accountability system in the app so you could rate your driver (encouraging good service and friendliness), and so on. The app used the GPS in your own phone to know your location, so you could call a driver from any random location at any time of day, becoming popular with the late night bar crowd, who no longer had to drive themselves to or from the drinking establishments, making their night out safer and less police-y in the process. Taxi companies were very slow to catch on and instead of improving their service for the iAge, they mostly just complained and protested while they went out of business.
TV commercials, yes too many. Generally if it’s available for free in America it’s paid for by advertising. So they push ads as much as possible in every medium. I think it’s mostly intolerable so I pay for ad-free experiences when possible. But that’s me.
Prices not including taxes. As others have commented, the reasons include so many local variations in sales taxes (states, counties, cities each get to add their taxes) and the fact that they tend to change. National chains like to advertise pricing, so that’s the price they show in the shops regardless of location, and local taxes get added at checkout. Also, someone people can be exempt from some sales taxes, so… It’s a complicated mess and we’re just used to it by now. There’s just no easy way to constantly print and replace new price tags on all merchandise.
Cheerleaders are great. They make people happy :) And there are male cheerleaders, actually, especially in college sports. I think that just on the professional level, no one pays money to see male cheerleaders so much.
Supersizing meals. Okay, this is partly because we have developed this idea that more food is better so the food portions in American restaurants generally tend to be larger than other cultures, but I think it also has a lot of do with being able to charge more for the larger size, out of proportion to the added amount of food, so this increases the profit margins. A small Coke costs 20 cents to make and they charge $2 for it, a large Coke might cost 30 cents but they can charge $3 for it. Fries are similar; potatoes are cheap. So they pad their profits with high-margin, low-cost extras to make it seem like a good deal, when you’re really just paying more for increased health risks.
Irish/Scottish/English roots. We have this idea that the English make good bad guys and the Irish and Scottish make good revolutionaries. And we love a good “small plucky upstart country picks a fight with the English to secure their freedom and independence” story. I think it’s that simple. Also whisky and Guinness are great ambassadors. Slainte.
America definitely has a gun culture, I think mostly because of the role the gun has played in the history of the country and the right specifically outlined in the Constitution. Our car culture is the same kind of thing, minus the Constitution bit. I grew up in the South, and worked in California for 20 years so I’ve seen both ends of the spectrum. I can say that the vast majority of the gun owners I’ve known have been very responsible about it, and most people think of shooting like a sport; they shoot at ranges, for hunting, target shooting, collecting, and so on. I’ve shot guns, though I have never owned any. There’s something really impressive about the engineering of a firearm that’s like functional artwork in a way. There’s no defending people who use guns as terror weapons, but I do understand the general fascination with them as collectible works of engineering art, if that makes sense.
I wouldn’t say we have a bomb culture, though. The atomic bombs dropped in World War II are a very specific case. Japan was being a very aggressive military empire all across the Pacific and China/Asian regions at the time, and drew the US into the war with the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was sudden and devastating. Before that the US was more or less trying to stay out of the war, but after that the entire industrialized American culture geared up with one goal in mind. Think of how Russia reacted to Germany toward the end of the war, well there was a lot of that kind of revenge sentiment in the Pacific theater. There is also an argument to be made that not dropping those bombs would have prolonged the war and led to more deaths (especially American ones), but I’m in no position to evaluate that (not a military historian).
Aside from those two, the nuclear arms race was a reaction to Russia doing the same thing (doubtless they would say the same about us), and for a long time there both sides had the other to justify pouring trillions of dollars and rubles into tanks and planes and bombs. I will say that once all of that started to deflate in the 90s, we were generally very happy to leave behind all of that tension of the Cold War (except maybe arms manufacturers and old hardliners).
Now one thing America DOES have is a culture of competition. I think this leads into the sports question and the visible patriotism; the flags everywhere. We go out of our way to form up into groups to compete with each other, with other nations, with other groups of nations, with other economies, with other militaries.. And so on. This results in a bit of a tendency to be.. overly American, if that makes sense.
Excellent Glen! Well said.
I still don't fully buy your reasoning behind the no tax prices on shop shelves. On my trips to America we used to try and spend all the coins because it's pointless trying to exchange them when we returned. We'd go to the shops, pick 3 or 4 things knowing we had the coins to cover it and then the cashier would tell us a different amount and we'd need to put something back. I should point out I was maybe 10-13-ish. I assume kids get good at adding the tax on mentally growing up?
@@Chrome.Seraph if you went to shops in a different town, city, or county than where you started, that's why the total price was different. For example, the city that I live in is actually made up of the City of Lynchburg as well as parts of Bedford and Campbell Counties. So, depending on where I buy something in Lynchburg, VA the city/county taxes added on will be different. Campbell County typically has lower taxes, so I like to buy stuff there as much as possible.
@@soccerchamp0511 That just makes matters even worse. The shops should be telling people the actual prices and not have them have to work out where in town they are and which tax laws apply.
I think the prominent displaying of our flag has more to do with pride in our own nation and founding principles than with a feeling of competition with other nations and cultures. We were the first nation in history to be founded on principles, not on geographic or ethnic identities. Though we haven't always lived up to those principles, our history has been one of making the attempt to do so, and to continually do better at living by those principles of liberty and freedom, and applying them evenly to everyone. I proudly fly my American flag, but I also take an interest in many other cultures throughout the world, and I think that the people of those cultures have a lot to be proud of themselves, and good reason to display their own flags. Lifting one thing up doesn't necessarily mean that another has to be put down.
We aren't allowed to have automatic weapons in America. U need to have a special permit for an automatic.
Don't forget depending on the weapon, the least expensive one might be $4,500, with an average of $10,000, to $35,000 for prime offerings: Thompson sub gun, BARs.
I've seen the pictures taken after the bombs were dropped on Japan and you're right, they are heartbreaking. You have to remember how brutal the Japanese were to everyone who stood against them. Also remember, they attacked us first on home soil.
But at that point in the war it wasn't necessary, and it didn't help the Chinese or Koreans or anyone else.
Still isn't an excuse to kill so many innocent people.
It may have saved American lives, but that implies that American blood is worth more than Japanese blood. Also, the American lives in question were soldiers, the Japanese were civilians. Soldiers enter a war with the knowledge they may die, and it is their duty to save civilians.
Because on December 7, 1941 Japan attacked America! So after almost 4 years at war and more then 400,000 Americans dead President Truman decided That something dramatic needed to be done to end that war. 8 days after America dropped the bomb Japan unconditionally surrendered and for all intents and purposes, that ended the war.
Japan refused to surrender in fact they became more brutal. Even after we bombed Truc lagoon they wouldn't back off because they would "lose face". That's why they were bombed and that is why they surrendered.
All of your points on bombs and Hiroshima are valid. However it’s very easy to have these opinions and judge some 70 years after the end of WWII. what the world went through in WWII is hard for us to fathom by today’s standards. Thanks.
Solidarity with "Japan"... right... an ally of Natzi Germany and responsible for killing millions of Chinese people.
The decision to drop the the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not taken lightly they (the USA) had determined that if combat continued then the loss of life on both sides would be in the millions also the US gave warning to Japan to surrender or the bombs would be dropped, this wasn’t a surprise. You also have to understand Japan committed genocide on countless countries China, Korea, Philippines to name a few.
@@lennyserauskas2224, the Scottish lass opened a can of worms with her biased history. I know Americans who got to Hiroshima. Not one word is written that Japan started the war on 7 December 1941. No word is written about the genocide in China, about the miss treatment of allied prisoners, about the suicide planes, or of evil the stealing of non-Japanese women and using them as sex slaves. But she has "solidarity" with Japan. Her history teachers should be horse whipped.
@@Easy-Eight Absolutely, as to her history teacher.
Easy Eight @easy eight you are exactly right about that, I was stationed in Japan and visited their museum and you would have thought that the US started the war they absolutely forgot to mention about the attack on Pearl Harbor or the Batan death march....
So we dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to stop WW II. We expected 1 Million US Casualties if we invaded plus 10 Million Japanese Casualties. More casualties than the rest of the war combined. My grandad waiting on Okinawa to invade was told to write a goodbye letter to his family as he was going to be in the first wave going in and would not be coming out alive. Pretty simple math.
Pretty simple yes, but children still died and in a horrific way. Even if we'd invaded that wouldnt have made the situation any better, people always seem to the one who suffer for the mistakes of power hungry idiots in charge.
@@WeeScottishLass
Jesus said he knew who the god of this world is when he was referring to satan. He is right. Anyone with two eyes can see who rules around here, until the Lord comes back for us and does away with the devil. His kingdom come, that's my hope. I want a peaceful king and I'm willing to be a peaceful subject of His government. I look forward to the end of greedy governments.
Some say the atomic bombs were used on Japan for racialist reasons. What these people forget is that the original purpose was for use against Germany. It just happened that the Germans surrendered before the bomb was completed and tested. Had Germany been still fighting (say, for instance, that the Normandy Campaign had failed in 1944), it could well have been Dresden that got hit first, rather than Hiroshima.
@@WeeScottishLass, my father's parents left Germany in the early/mid 1930s. They left to escape the antics of everyone's least-favorite Austrian painter and paper-hanger.
Here's the funny part though; their home town was a place named Königsberg. It got flattened during WW I, and after WW II was re-named Kaliningrad. No atomic bomb was ever dropped there, but a large number of men, women, and children suffered and died there just the same, ultimately losing their home even if they survived.
Look the place up sometime, and read about its history. Then tell me if you think what happened in Japan was really any worse.
@@WeeScottishLass "but children died and in a horrific way"
Horrific? Sure. As horrific as being thrown off cliffs? As horrific as burning themselves alive? As horrific as their parents strapping bombs to them and feigning surrender only to detonate them when the US forces tried to help them? Highly debatable.
Gas is short for Gasoline.
Football is short for one foot ball.
The date is written the way we write it in spite of King George of England. Or in other words, because we can.
Guns, if we didnt have them, we would be British Citizens still.
No offense, just how it is. 👍😀😎
Jerry Santos Word 👉😎👉
To me the date thing just makes sense. Today is June 6, 2019. That translates to 6/6/2019,,,,ok that doesn't work well as an example. Yesterday was June 5, 2019. 6/5/19. Simple. Easy. Today is also the anniversary of D-Day. Let us not ever forget.
@@susanangell1991 I am with you on that. Thank you Veterans for all you did so we could keep speaking English. Like I wrote earlier to Scotish Lass, if it were not for guns, we would still be British Citizens here in America. And as we commemorate D-Day, or German Citizens. Thank God for Guns, we are free. 👍😎😀
@@susanangell1991 except the 4th of July is still the UK way not July 4th ;)
Not only that, but many parts of the country need that shit. If you're in Sisterfist, Arkansas, it might be 25-60 minutes before the cops come to a disturbance. The police can't teleport, after all. Then there's hunting, which is prevalent in parts of America.
" I this video goes more than 10 minutes your going to have 2 of them" and then she flips me off !! God how I love you! ! The fact that there's a whole country of people just like you brings me great joy !!
I only mention my Scottish and Irish ancestry because my mom grew up in Glasgow, and my dad grew up in Ireland. No way either one would claim English!
Me too, I have Scottish, Irish and English roots
Movie theater drinks aren't normal. They are huge even in America.
Ron S, I don’t know about others, but my family (4if us) shares the large popcorn and two share a drink. The sizes are crazy big.
Movie theatre drink sizes are HUGE. You need two hands to pick a "large" drink up and carry it. It's like trough size or something. Drink sizes are crazy big!
I think it's so you don't have to get up in the middle of the movie.
I once bought some cinema popcorn, then I didn't have any money☹
@@twoheadedboypt2 except for the bathroom break you have to take. :)
A century or two ago, England had two kinds of football: association football and rugby football. They came up with a nickname for association football based on its second syllable, so they called it soccer. Later, they stopped calling it soccer, but we Americans still use that name. Meanwhile, the English shortened rugby football to rugby while we Americans shortened it to football, and the game evolved into what we have now.
I might have some of the details slightly off, that that is the general idea.
Thank you! As an American that has traveled many times to the UK, I have to remind my friends across the pond about this as they love taking the piss out of my regarding "soccer". Most don't even know that it was the British that coined the term soccer!
I always thought the reason we call it football is because a regulation football is one foot in length (three feet to a yard) The thickness of a ball run across the field laterally is called the neutral zone. A neutral zone infraction is when someone lines up within the imaginary zone.
Point of clarification: automatic weapons fire more than one round when you pull the trigger. To purchase one requires a tax stamp. Getting that stamp requires loads of legal paperwork. Since no new automatic weapons available to the private citizen are being produced, the ones available are hideously expensive.
Semiautomatic weapons fire one round per trigger pull. Just like that hunting rifle. Semiautomatic weapons are available to the citizenry following a background check, and typically cost several hundred to several thousand dollars. Some look similar to military rifles, but they function just like any other semiautomatic hunting rifle.
Edit: and we are attached to them because an armed citizenry kicked the British out of the US, and helped to scare the Japanese from invading the mainland US. Plus there's that whole untamed west thing in the 1800s, and the pesky fact of life that there's never a cop around when you need one so you sometimes have to protect yourself.
The Scots weren't always against war. You've had plenty against the English and amongst your own clans. The Scots had a reputation as ferocious fighters on the battlefield. Why do you think think those castles were built?
If modern firearms were available to William Wallace or Robert the Bruce, they'd have used them.
Well said.
Scottish brigades were some of the most successful in both world wars, but also in Iraq and Afghanistan. Scots are fierce! I’d say them and the Gurkas are the most feared out of the UK military.
Don't forget it discouraged the Soviet Union as well. No matter what plan they had West Coast invasion, East Coast invasion, come up through Mexico or down Canada they predicted it would end the same way. Which is an armed populace would be out to take kill the Soviet Military. How can you shock and awe the US Army when you already dead because some hunter decided it was Ruskie season.
@@BreetaiZentradi well said. The armed American citizenry is the largest standing armed body in the world.
@Kris Moodley it can only be done to certain semiautomatic weapons, not all of them. It also takes parts that are restricted and controlled just like the actual machineguns, and making the unlicensed conversion is a federal offense.
I really love it when those who are ignorant of firearms show their ignorance. Thanks for providing a case study.
“Why? Is it because you want to catch people off guard? “
Yes. That’s pretty much all of America. Catching people off guard since 1776. 😅
It catches me off guard almost everyday 😅🤦🏾♀️
Hey, we're just ungrateful colonists. I'm looking forward to celebrating Treason Day (better known in the USA as "Independence Day," 4, July (for the Europeans,) .) Hopefully this "social distancing" will be over and done with well before then!
@@mhlevy from one dirty separatist to another XD
You ended well! Fun episode. I’ll probably never meet you but still having people on You Tube like you has been a real lift to those of us who have been so isolated during the pandemic. Even more so, to those of us who are disabled and rarely get out except for doctor’s appointments. Thank you for being there for all of us, these random strangers. I genuinely believe that you are doing more good than you’ll ever know.
The reason guns are so big in America is due to our distrust in the government. Whenever a dictator takes over a country, one of the first things that do is take away guns. Then there's no way for the populous to fight back.
In America, our country was built upon getting away from the tyrannical English government, using our guns. So, it just makes sense that we are weary of anyone wanting to take our guns.
populace.wary.although weary kind of works also.always find distrust in "government" interesting argument, since the foundation document starts with "we the people".so "government"in this context means "people not us"(whoever "us" turns out to be).
@@mikegilbertson7890 Every government started with the best of intentions always takes more and more power away from the people, and ours is no different. The reason we have the Bill of Rights is so that We the People will always have the ability to take that power back if we so choose.
@@soccerchamp0511 "We the People"...are any of "We the People" running this government taking more and more power away from "We the People", or is "the government" some different life form with it's own biology independent of the "People" ( some of whom you may admittedly disagree with, vehemently, on how they believe it should be run). As for every government starting with the best of intentions, there are too many examples that refute that statement to even begin listing them.
I don't distrust our government and have no love of guns.
@@MeanJohnDean The second amendment is what keeps our government in line. If you don't trust the government, you should love the fact that we can stop them.
We probably aren't as obsessed with our English roots because we revolted against them.
What you said, which confuses me with the obsession of thy email royal family. Who cares if they got married, had kids, whatever.
@@mikeconner3684 I think the vast majority of Americans could really care less but the tabloids want to sell their newest issues so they post the latest scandals,Hyping everything up.
Richard III - in my experience US-Americans are more obsessed with the British royal family than the English are 😲 I literally don’t get it.
@@sunflower9680 I've never met a fellow American who cared even slightly, about the royal family. it's just our media hyping it up.
@@sunflower9680 I'm sure there are those that are obsessed with the royals because I think they fantasize about what it would be like to actually be royalty.
Each state has a different state tax that's why the taxes not included in the price
And you can't forget local taxes
Yeah, each county has a different tax
And sometimes each city has different taxes too.
But tax is included in gas/fuel prices! 😄😄
Also sometimes each county and town has its own tax and convenience store tax will be more than grocery store tax on the same item and oftentimes pieces are painted on packages in a factory that may not be in the same state let alone county or town. And a restaurant has a different (higher) tax then stores and each of these taxes can theoretically change any time. So it is easier to leave it up to the locals (who vote on these things) to know the tax in their area and pogam the register at the store with the relevant tax.
To know why we call football "football" and football "soccer", then you have to know the history of "soccer" first. The sport association football is called football not because it's played with the feet, but because it's played on the feet. Hence why American football is still called football. Even the full name of rugby is called rugby football, which not many people know. The Brits were the first to come up with the term soccer and at one point it was just as popular as saying football in the region. When American football was created it was around the same time association football was introduced, so we just adopted the word soccer from the Brits as the main term for association football.
Also know as "American gridiron" 🏈
We like the Scots and Irish because we fought the British tyranny just like Y'all!
I'm Canadian and we don't show price after tax either. It forces us to use our brains when we shop.
How could one go about attracting more of a Canadian audience?? Just out of curiosity, you make up a small percentage of my audience but enough to spark my interest in wanting to appeal to you!
I found you by watching the video you did with Diane Jennings.
@@WeeScottishLass Firstly, we have a fairly large Scottish population throughout the country but especially on the East coast. We even have a province called Nova Scotia where many Scottish immigrants came during the clearings and during the American revolution. It would be interesting to explore this but would require quite a bit of research. Besides that, you could look at the similarities between Canadians and Scots. We may be part of the commonwealth but we generally don't have an allegiance with England. Culturally, we are a humble bunch and have a strong stance about gun ownership. We didn't have a war of independence which plays a part in this, I am sure.
@@WeeScottishLass You popped up in my suggestions with this video. As a Canadian I find anything that compares the Yanks to others interesting. A big part of our identity is not being like "them"! Being a Multi-cultural society, celebration of the Scottish culture is a big thing. In Ontario and the Maritime provinces yearly festivals showcasing that heritage are quite common. British Columbia is home to the world famous Simon Frazer University pipe band. Our first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, the inventor Alexander Graham Bell, the original Simon Frazer and Alexander Mackenzie explorers and Sir Sandford Fleming inventor, are notable Scots born Canadians. Scots formed an important part of the Fur Trade and the opening of the West. As another suggested, explore the connections between our two countries. Btw that is me in the profile pic. Despite the red beard, can't find any Scots in our ancestry. Best wishes, Peace
@@WeeScottishLass Talk about curling, poutine and jelly donuts. That'll bring em in! :-)
FUn fact - President George W Bush was a cheerleader in college.
No WAY?!?!?!?!
Totally True.
And our current Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, former Governor of the State of Texas, was a "Yell Leader" at Texas A&M. (No idea why they chose that term, other than the fact that they were all male, and I would not have known that except for the fact I have two grown kids who graduated from that institution.)
So was Nixon.
@@jaykay3784, Nixon was a combat veteran in the Pacific. He was always at US Navy forward support bases that were bombed by Japanese aircraft. Nixon was a great lawyer who made the contracts that supplied the US Navy with fresh food for the fleet. Also, when the Navy moved from base to base it was Nixon who organized the poker games on the ship for the officers. In 1944 dollars the minimum to get in the game was over $1,000. Nixon's games in the fleet were legendary.
I can't speak for anyone else but I am interested in all of my ancestry not just the Irish and Scottish. Great video.
My Irish ancestry research stalled because they're O'Connors and it's quite a common name, the English branch stopped when I got to a John Smith ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Each "State" has different percentage in sales tax rate & some States have no "sales tax!"
That makes me wonder... What if you built a store right on the border between two states. Which state would get the tax revenue? Or would you have to pay both states?
@@PolymorphicPenguin It depends. You may even get double taxed.
@@PolymorphicPenguin they probably wouldn't zone for that to be allowed
Each city can have a different tax rate.
@@PolymorphicPenguin This reminds me of a fictional story where the heroine had to break into a Fedual building, a post office, to save her friend and it was between two state lines like the town. 😂😂😂
The sales taxes you pay are different in every city. That’s why they don’t put the tax in the price.
I don't necessarily buy that as the reason though, because plenty of products sell for different amounts in different parts of the country (sometimes even just within the same city or at a different store). I suspect it's because they think if they advertise a slightly lower price people will buy it. It's the same reason a lot of prices cost $19.99 instead of $20.00.
I've worked in a store, and tax rates differ when you go from city to county as well as from state to state and city to city. The 19.99 lure thing is different from the tax thing. Prices for some things (like books, magazines, or toys) are sometimes printed right on the item. Taxes in each separate area change, sometimes every year. Especially before computers, every item or label in the whole store would have to be re-done each time, if tax was included, which would take time and money, and would be even more prone to error. Nowadays, it's just a label on the edge of the shelf, usually. The bar code value on the packaging is programmed into the system and easier to change from a main computer, so prices could be changed more easily now, but separate tax pricing is what we've grown used to and how the whole system is set up, from top to bottom, for every industry, for the whole country. Hard to change.
Also, there can be tax holidays on items, like "back to school" windows for example. I'd think if they replaced all shelf prices with electronic displays those displays could show the product, tax and total prices dynamically but that would be expensive for most stores.
@@zackakai5173 He is right. The sales taxes are different in each city.
@@jnchis5772 I understand that, what I'm saying is I don't think that's the reason they don't include the tax in the price.
Tax rates vary from state to state, and sometimes between cities. That's why they don't show cost after.
That makes sense!!!
A WeeScottishLass should understand that freedom is not free. That the price we pay for that sacred right is its defense against all who would deny us our liberty. Weapons are the tools of that defense, in all their menace and horror. Where would William Wallace have been without his sword?
Owning a firearm is a constitutionally protected right. The founding fathers of our country placed that right in the constitution so the citizens would have a way to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. They understood that an unarmed population was unable to stand up against a government that could overstep the will of its people. They learned this from the British when they attempted to disarm them to control the population through force of arms.
was coming here to say this
And is why we are not subjects of the crown, never will be! Our freedom wasn't free, it was hard won by blood.
I get that, and I can understand it as a concept. But the fact they even need to exist for that reason explains a lot about the world we live in.
Especially now that they're not being used for that purpose, but for killing children in schools.
@@WeeScottishLass thats abit u fair after all you dont blame the whole migrant population when one commits an acid attack do you?
School shootings are horribly tragic. With a free society comes consequences and responsibilities. For example free speech allows for the freedom of all speech even that which you might find offensive. Firearms ownership is a huge responsibility and with millions of them in my country and the size of our population the percentage of these events are small. So to take the freedom of protecting ones self away because one sick individual committing a crime is not right. As someone who lives in a “gun free society” does crime no longer occur? Does murder, robbery, and other violent crime no longer occur in the UK? The only people you hurt with gun laws are the law abiding citizens that follow that law and now cannot protect themselves.
Most of us hate the commercials too. Its so annoying lol. And I personally agree about the price tags too as well as the sports thing.
I love my Scottish roots. My ancestor stabbed a guy in church, became a king, and whooped Longshanks!
Gasoline. Gas is just the shortened version and just easier to say.
Sure, but gasoline is a weird word for the benzine ("bensiin" as we say it correctly in Estonian). Gasoline (mistakenly brought to life by the people familiar with the word "gas") comes from gazeline which comes from cazeline which comes from John Cassell - has nothing to do with the actual chemical compounds and the logic of naming it.
@@musaire Benzine's literally less than 1% of gasoline by law. Might want to look into petroleum (fractional) distillation sometime...
@@Endoptic I think you are talking about benzene, not benzine.
Don’t like what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki either but at that time their really wasn’t a choice. The Japanese would have never stopped the war and the lives that were being lost of the American ,British, Scottish,French, Russian and all of the Allies was horrendous. So they all made a decision to stop the war otherwise we all could be The Empire of Japan today. Not what I want and I don’t think many people would.🙂
Jennifer Heath actually no, it’s been known for quite some time now that the Japanese were ready to surrender and this from the mouths of all the admirals, heads and even Eisenhower himself... it was VERY unnecessary
www.thenation.com/article/why-the-us-really-bombed-hiroshima/...
Jenn Kerr I don’t believe in revisionist history. The bombs were the decisive factor period in my opinion and the opinion of millions of others.
The Emperor was ready to surrender before the second bomb.
Unfortunately for Nagasaki, it was out of his hands by then as the military had assumed control.
I have never claimed my English lineage. Not my French Canadian nor German either. Only my Irish bit. The Irish immigrants who came here to America spoke so poetically of the homeland to their families and everyone else that we all want to go there one day....we all feel a connection.
Part of the tax being separate has to do with different localities having different tax rates. Say there an advertisement for a particular chain store and it says that a specific shirt is $24.99. If you go to a store inside a city you’ll pay state tax and city tax, whereas just a few miles away outside the city another store will just charge the state tax. Then some states don’t even charge sales tax on certain kinds of items. It helps us see how much the government is charging for taxes and if they get too high we can protest or elect someone who will lower them.
It isn’t the same for gas prices. (Gas by the way is a shortening of gasoline which was originally a trade name in Britain). Around 60% of or gas prices are taxes of various sorts, so obviously they wouldn’t show us that.
Thanks, I have learned something new.
The advertising on T.V. is maddening! I don't even watch it anymore!
LOL, Season 3 of Brexit. I hear it has been renewed. More drama than S11 of Doctor Who!
Not everywhere has the same tax percentage.
EXACTLY!!! I was scrolling through looking for this answer! Is it really that hard to understand??? Sales tax varies from region to region.
Kris Moodley Totally didn’t mean to sound snarky lol but yes, I’m aware y’all’s are inclusive. I wish our tax was already figured into prices. But I also understand why it’s easier for your system to be set up that way. Just seems like it’d be just as easy to understand the flip side.
Kris Moodley I actually just married a Scottish man, and I’m getting ready to move to Dumfries.
Some places don't have sales tax on some things.
Amerians write the day after the month because A. that's how we speak (it's November twenty-fifth, two thousand twenty) and B. that's how we navigate calendars. You flip to the month, then you find the day. To avoid this confusion, I tend to write dates in the Nov 25 2020 format. Months are in letters, year is 4 digits, no ambiguity.
We call our mutant form of rugby "football" because we got into the habit of calling the game where you kick the icosohedron around "soccer" because that's what the rest of the world called it. Everyone else switched to football but we had already invented a sport and named it that.
Uber (and it's competitors) are ride sharing services. The original idea IIRC was to help people carpool together, but it ended up being a sort of end around of the taxi industry.
See, here's the thing about American taxi cabs: In most cities, a taxi must carry a special license called a medallion. A given city only issues so many of these medallions, for you to get a job as a taxi driver, someone else has to quit/retire/die. This number has been kept artificially low, and those medallions sometimes sell for astronomical prices. Or, if you're like me and live in an unimportant town in the middle of nowhere, there is no taxi business at all. Uber did an end around by launching an app that connects just ordinary people with ordinary cars to people who need a ride. It's a useful service that's not without its problems: these are private vehicles held to private vehicle standards, they're not inspected and maintained to commercial fleet standards. Drivers do not have commercial driver licenses and aren't vetted for things like drugs or criminal history, etc.
Television ads...First of all, we have basically nothing like the BBC, we do not pay a tax to own or operate a television receiver, basically all television programming is paid for by advertising. It didn't help that the Republicans have been eroding consumer protection laws left and right for decades.
I think the main reason we don't include tax in the marked price of goods is because they didn't do it when the boomers were growing up. People will say that sales tax is a state/local thing and thus they aren't universal all over the place, but who cares? Each store has a price tag printer, so do the math when making the tags.
However, on Amazon and other online merchants that ship across state lines, they have a point. When buying/selling across state lines, the rules for who pays how much sales tax to which state becomes...a thing. Amazon has to know the recipient address before charging sales tax.
You don't see Americans celebrating their English roots because of how our history played out. We started out as a bunch of English colonies, but those Americans of "original English" descent either died during the Revolutionary War or decided to distance themselves from their English roots. In the ~2.5 centuries since, there have been mass migrations of Italians, Poles, Germans, Dutch, Jews, Irish and Scots to the New World, but not the English. They never got back into the habit of moving here, so English-American blood has only gotten more diluted with the passage of time.
Meanwhile, Migrants who came here post-revolution didn't see the same reasons to scrub away their culture and traditions, so they didn't.
5:44 I thought she said “roaring.” Im still not sure but having reviewed it I think she’s actually saying “rowing.” Either way I get a chuckle imagining Scottish people roaring at each other for sport
I thought I was the only one that never understood the uber hype! Thank god
Uber is just cheaper Stranger taxi because for the most part only big cities have taxis.
my hometown in Colorado has a taxi service and has a population of 5000
My hometown in north Carolina has pop of 27000 ish and alas no taxi
Also the wait is shorter or at least it seems shorter.
That school prayer you recited is called the "Lord's Prayer", it was the prayer Jesus taught his disciples.
Yep, and featured in Oomph's (weird band name, I know) song, "God is a Pop Star".
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The Lord's Prayer is in the Bible, book of Matthew 6:9-13.
The ending of the prayer that was left out is:
"For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen"
We really enjoy your fun videos!
@@appalachianbonnet The "For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory" ending is what we say in Anglican/Episcopal churches. It was added during Henry the Viii's time, by his Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, I believe...who wrote and complied the first two editions of the "Book of Common Prayer" (1548-1549). He was later burnt at the stake...but that's another story for another day. Anyway, in my experience no good Catholic says that ending.... That's why when we Anglo-Catholics attend a Catholic wedding, etc. and the Lord's Prayer is said...we always "give ourselves away" when we add on that ending! Haha. Oops! :O
Your question about ancestry is something I've thought about a lot. I am an American of mixed English and Scottish ancestry. I have a little bit more English than Scottish, yet your comments are spot-on, because the Scottish ancestry has always meant more to me. People migrate for many reasons, but I have an ancestor who left during the Highland Clearances. Her family's migration was not a choice freely made, at least not entirely. It was heartbreaking one, that left a hole in their hearts for Scotland, which has been passed down through the generations. In 2017 I was able to visit Scotland for the first time. It was something that my mother and grandfather had always wanted to do, but were never able to do. I felt that I was fulfilling a bucket list wish for three generations of my family, and it was overwhelming. I have pictures of many of my ancestors' grave markers, but the ones of the Scottish emigrants stand out. Here's one: "Far from the land where our forefathers sleep. Peter Harvie. Native of Scotland." It meant a lot to them, and so it means a lot to me.
I've lived in the USA my whole life and confused by most of the same things. Love your site and your accent
I live in Las Vegas. Love your shirt!
Go Knights!
I love all my roots, even the ones that are going grey.
I only know what I was taught in US history. As I understand it, at the end of WWII, the Japanese were ready to fight to the last man, woman, and child. The belief was that they would not surrender until their home island was overtaken. This would have resulted in the loss of an unacceptable number of allied troops, but was the way the war was going to go. When Truman became president upon the death of Roosevelt, he was made aware of the Manhattan project and the atomic bomb. Carpet bombing, taking out large portions of cities was common practice. Demonstrating the destructive force of the atomic bomb was determined to be the only way to force a surrender. The decision to use the bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was ultimately made to save lives.
Our pledge to our nation is what it is to be an American. We don't take our citizenship likely. We are a proud and powerful nation.
Could be that whole imperial/colonial/representation/rights thing that we went to war over in the 18th Century. Also, the scars that British imperialism left on other countries (however to be fair the U.S. has left some scars as well).
About the pledge and the flag,
We as Americans are from everywhere and we don't really have a common history or culture that binds us together the pledge is kinda like a reminder of sorts that we are united under this thing that we as a people have made. The States have flags to individually.
As for the heritage thing, The English came here earlier and have been absorbed more thoroughly into the weft of our society. While the Irish and the Scottish waves came later and stood out they clung more tightly to who they were and where they came from and so we as a people tend to recognize that in ourselves. That and we made a point of cutting ourselves off from the English empire when we had the revolution so we still kinda snub them as a cultural thing i mean its not overt or mean ist just kinda here and there kinda like how we poke fun at the French.
I hope this sheds some light on things
The pledge wasn't official till 1942 and blatantly violates the 1st amendment in any official use and the spirit in unofficial use. McCarthyism intended to shill mindlessly obedient federalism, which wasn't supported by the Constitution at all. Ironically, the writer of the original was a socialist and a Christian minister who didn't include "under God" and wouldn't have out of principle. It's all propaganda. Hell, check out the Knights of Columbus who hocked the damn thing and were also involved in the "In God we trust" being illegally put on the money in 1956. Yeah, the slaving murderer Christopher...is their patron saint.
@@Endoptic Gimme a break. Pledging allegiance to the Republic in no way violates the 1st Amendment. It's no different than the oath of office swearing to uphold the Constitution which, incidentally, every president, representative, senator, federal agent, governor, state legislator, county supervisor, city council member, police officer and dog catcher nation wide swears to. Putting In God We Trust doesn't violate the 1st Amendment since that isn't Congress establishing a law respecting an establishment of religion nor does it prohibit the free exercise thereof.
The English deserve the hate not just from us 6ut from Ireland,Scotland,Wales,Australia,Jamaica,6engalis,exc I'm surprised they didn't do the same thing that Germany did on the same scale they did in fact cause a mini holocaust as their own called the 6angali holocaust as 1943 so during ww2.
The point of Cheerleaders is to help boost their teams morale during a sports game.
The point of cheerleaders is to ingrain blatant sexism.
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Learn did even you logic
@@tractorsold1 did you miss the short bus?
I don't see adverts while watching TH-cam on a Chromecast connected to my dumb TV. 👍👍
Guns are tools like hammers, chainsaws and knives. Alone they hurt no one. The person wielding them is the problem.
I LIKE being able to see the taxes. (sounds weird, I know).
If you just get the price with everything included, you don't realize how much the government is adding on.
Some states have NO sales tax, others have 5%, one almost 10%.
As a business owner (or just a citizen), I want the customer to know how much I am charging, and how much the government is forcing me to add on to the price. If the % becomes too high, people will protest (as they have sometimes).
I'm in the one with ~10%. Can have the item label have the final price and still see the taxes on the receipt though. And the taxes don't really change so not sure why you'd need to keep checking the % unless you are in a different state every time you shop.
Cheerleaders are a way to rile the crowd up and generate school spirit and excitement plus its a way for people who aren't athletes to be involved.
I don't know about you, but anyone capable of throwing me into the air like it's nothing is pretty dang athletic. Or at least, I'm not about to question their athleticism, lest I be hurled to my death.
Cheerleaders are some of the most insane athletes I've ever seen.
Gotta pipe in a just say this...When some one is breaking in to your house and you have seconds to live, the police are just minutes away. Thus, guns.
Not to mention that the police serve the general public, not individuals, and thus have guns for the same reason civilians are allowed them: to defend themselves against violent criminals.
@@BobPapadopoulos Technically, it's the police who are allowed them by the people. People as individuals have rights and they loan them out to organizations, which is merely a large group of people who represent a larger group of individuals.
Brilliant video! I love you Mosco!!!!!
with the lack of tax on product prices, it's to do with their being 50 states with 50 different tax rates.
Also, cities have different sales tax rates in some places so it would be really hard to calculate all that. Millions and millions of different rates.
Im a couple months late on this one, but I have agree with you about the tax here in America. As an American, I have been asking this question for as long as I can remember. I know that the store owner needs to separate the tax and the actual price of the product, but why do we need to have it separate for us? We all know there is a tax, just put the price with the tax on the tag and be done with it! lol. Its like when we go grocery shopping and I have to add 8 cents to every dollar that is spent on all taxable items to know how much Im spending before I get to the check out. It would be easier to not have to do that. Sometimes Im just not in the mood to do the math. Sometimes I just want to grab whatever I need and not have to worry about how much I am really going to need, and go home.
Ok so I can explain a few things from my perspective. Disclaimer here is I was raised in the New York NewJersey area of our east coast and moved to the south In Texas. There is obvious cultural difference depending on the region of the country. Some good some bad. That said all Americans tend to have a utmost love for the country as a stand on its own , rebelled against the crown and became the nation that could. So that is why something comes as weird to other countries.
Gas- Short for Gasoline, which is refined oil and when used in cars is a liquid turned vapor by the machine and compressed to explode in a controlled matter. If it remained liquid it would not ignite as easily. So we call it what it becomes(makes some sense ,but not really).
Guns- Automatic weapons in the civilian society is very rare and very hard to aquire. Takes alot of checks and rechecks to get one and even then it is restricted to where the gun can be used (law abiding citizens, against criminal society). We were founded that the rights of the person should not be taken away by government in order to defend themselves from harm , be it government or criminal activity. Most of our mass tragedy events(are perpetrated by those who break that law and modify a legal weapon to perform not how it was intended). Sure it doesnt make it any better, but if you restrict something when is the line drawn. Fear of that line being removed and all weapons are banned drives the need to get those very weapons before they disappear. This allows us to keep them as the government has no right to seize property unless is blatant law breaking. Oh and as oong as mass destruction devices (bombs) are used as a military basis we can careless. Nuclear is something most Americans would say is nice to have as a deterrent, but usage is not good. The bombing of a country we are at war with is very closely monitored to ensure we hit a target and not the innocent as best as possible( was military myself). In your example , targeting Scotland. We would decide from our leaders what areas are a great importance to the opposing force and destroy it. Military bases, Power stations , government strongholds. Smart weapons would be used to render those places total loss. As long as collateral loss is under 10 person of the total population it is ok . Hospitals and children bearing centers are off limits period no exceptions.
Food sizes- Yagot us on that one. We are a nation gorging on ourselves on larger size portions and wonder why working out is a problem. Well if ya didnt have 14 pounds of hamburger sloshing around in your gut Billy youd be fine.
Dates- we right our dates Month , day , year. Its a bit odd to teh rest of the world just as much as we say we are residence of town, state (example Dallas,Tx) , where others like Canada which confuse us Vancouver, British Columbia or Toronto Ontario, Canada.Even England confuses the daylights to this day out of me. Twon, State, County, Country? What? NOt sure if it is the same as Scotland but considering you share land, I can assume it can be Edinburgh, state, Scotland. I dunno.
The pledge is much like the prayers you had to do . This was an old thing and not practices as much anymore to be more tolerant of other religions. It comes from pride on our nation and love of our country. We do that with the pledge, national anthem and flag flying everywhere. For me it is my home and I defended her with everything I am up to my death. That flag has meaning to everyone . stars for the states, lines for the 13 original colonies that started this nations, sewn by a woman who didnt intend for it to be a national symbol, and honored at every pass. Destroying the flag is a crime here. She is never allowed to touch the ground, be hung lower then any other flag, shown upside down, kept in disarray, or flown on the wrong side of the flag displays( meaning if the flag is accompanied by a military branch on two seperate poles and American flag flies highest and to the right while all others are to the left and lower. We love our country despite some of the things other countries think about it. We see ourselves as a beacon for those who want to get out rom under bad government or hopeless living and tell the world , dream the impossible dream here and go for it. We arent perfect and we sure shouldnt be telling the rest of the world how to run their own countries , but at times we get to be the bully. Doesnt make it right . We enjoy meeting people from all over the world and learning what makes their country home. I am not Scottish that I know of, but the accent and the wonderful sites to see there is something I want to do. I have been to Japan and met some wonderful people, As an Italian heritage, Id love to see where my ancestors came from. The pride our nation has in itself is we all came from somewhere else in the past and joined together to form a country . Wel love the ability to do and say mostly what we want. Go anywhere and not be restricted. Simply put the pledge is a national pride being ingrained in the younger generations to carry with them through life. Even the branches of our military have it . God, Duty, Honor, Country.
Sorry for the long post but I wanted to be thorough. Visit all of American and see for yourself. Go east to west and see the differences. You can go from New York or Boston and see , then to Green Bay , down to Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle and get an idea of how different yet great this country is just within itself.
See ya soon, and stay awesome.
First time watching, I'm now a fan! When it comes to the things you mention . . . I understand, it is confusing. Except . . . our guns! The 2nd Amendment was written so we could insure our Gov't. wouldn't get 'too big for it's britches.' Love the show, upbeat AND funny!
I always thought the date thing was it was because it was the way we said it. We said June third, not third of June. The only exception I can think of is the Fourth of July.
exactly do they say it the other way in scotland? the 25th of september, etc?
We aren't calling gas a gas. Gas is short for gasoline
So what's short for gas?
@@shlibbermacshlibber4106 A fart.
Oh, god...we hate adverts too! I don’t even watch tv anymore, it’s so bad! Thank you for making me so happy and always making me laugh! At times, I almost wet myself and blow pop through my nose on your funniest bits!
The flag is best explained by “the Star Spangled Banner”. To see the ragged, war-torn, beaten up flag after a huge fight, and see it stood strong, even after being ravaged, is why we pay homage to our flag.
The Philippines, South Korea, Malaysia, India, Singapore, and Turkey also have a pledge of Allegiance. The kids at my school love it; our principal wouldn't let us recite it for a week to see what would happen. He said, he got more angry kids coming into his office complaining than at any time in his career.
Think of American football as “battle ball” two teams armored up and battling over ground.
We love our hunting and guns because it’s our heritage. It’s an inalienable right in our founding documents to keep and bear arms. Notice no one has ever invaded the US
You’ve been to the east coast not the heart of America, To understand America and Americans you need to avoid the East and west coasts.
"Why so many ads on tv?" That's an easy answer. Basic TV is free. It's supported through ads. Much like You Tube. Ad revenue = money.
There weren't nearly as many ads here in the past.
TV is free here too and we have hardly any ads
It's called the capitalism. And it's the only economic system that works.
Where in Scotland are you from ?
Where in Scotland isnt she from?
Hey, our calendar abbreviation system is a main stream "time" unit, it is approached by convenient appearance. The year's Months settle us to a seasonal time and we write them first as a focal ideal. And that is the American / Japanese 'long time' system for checking passage.
You're shirt made my heart Happy! I am Las Vegas born and raised. To see the love so far away is amazing!
When England decided to put us in our place the marched to seize the armory in Concord and the revolutionary war began. When America was established they wrote in a clause specifically to ensure we would never be taken by invasion or oppressed by an out of control government. 350 million people with more than 500 million guns ensures our freedom from anyone who may try to take it.
UBER IS SOOO MUCH CHEEPER. also Gas is from word "GASoline. United States flag like on your shirt?
It's not really about why it's shortened that make sence, why do you call it gasoline. In a lot of the world it's petroleum.
Uber is so much cheaper, except in a place where a major event is happening. . .during the Electric Daisy Concert, an Uber from work to home would have been over $200, instead of the usual $10, because all the Uber drivers knew they would lose money just taking people from work to home, a trip out to the concert site was definitely more lucrative for them!
@@TheMagnay No, in a lot of the world it's "petrol". The two are not interchangeable, as petrol is one of many petroleum derivatives.
@@BobPapadopoulos yes and no petrol is what's left after you take out other components, i guess it's how you look at it.
Saying guns kill people is like saying pencils misspell words.
Guns were designed manufactured and distributed for one soul purpose and that was to kill. If a gun can not kill then a gun is useless as that's it's one and only job. So to say guns don't kill is pretty retarded if you ask me. Pencils were not designed manufactured and distributed for the soul purpose of misspelling words so your argument is invalid.
@@jordanochs1712
We need guns to keep the government from taking our rights away. You're safer in a town with responsible gun owners than not. Also, you're less likely to be shot by a responsible gun owner! Outlaw guns and only outlaws will have them!
@BADSPOCK That's because you haven't used it yet smart ass and if you have and it didn't kill anything then you might want to get your fucking money back 😂😂😂
@@gigiw.7650 i'm not bias in the situation whatsoever. im just simply stating a fact. Guns were invented to kill so to say they dont kill is pretty stupid if you ask me "hmm we need to invent something that will kill! lets call them guns" then people want to go "guns don't kill!! to those people i say "oh yeah then what were they invited for genius?"
with all the guns we have is the reason the United states will never be invaded you might get here but now what you going to do when you have over half the population that is armed not so easy now is it.think about that
1 ad break every 10 minutes is why we can afford to put out such high quality entertainment
My father was a sailor during WWII. Hiroshima was bombed on his 23rd birthday. He didn't mind because technically the war was over on his birthday. During the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Harbor he thanked the Lord above that he didn't have to go in while people were shooting at him. It was that well defended. The bombing of Hiroshima probably guaranteed my birth..
If you need school spirit just brake into a round of we will rock you or we are the champions
I love this video. LMAO 😂 I'm American and I still question everything we do here.
hear hear
Uber and Lyft are cheaper, and generally faster...
And quite safe due to how the app is set up.
Karen St John years ago, I had gotten into a taxi in a new area for me. On my return trip the taxi ride was faster and cheaper and realized the first driver had took me for a ride. So I can see why Uber and Lyft became popular.
We're into our Irish and Scottish roots because they have the funnest accents.
Thanks..i think🙂
@@leewightman8251 yes, that was a compliment!
If you don't write the date the way we do then 420 wouldn't be a holiday.
Here in America our constitution grants people the right to own guns, not to go on killing sprees but to protect ourselves not just from each other but also from a corrupt government should the need arise to form a militia and fight against said government.
The overwhelming majority of Americans do NOT own automatic weapons but there are a few restrictions on who can legally own a gun. We haven't found the right balance between owning guns and regulations on guns but we are getting there. Don't forget we are a young country so have can't have everything figured out right off the bat.
The flags everywhere, at least for my family, it’s a pride thing and a support thing. We are proud to be Americans and we support those that risk their lives for us
Blairsville Georgia
Scottish Games every summer.
Also Dunedin, Florida
Don't forget Stone Mountain in Georgia.
American Football the original ball was round like 🏉 rugby shape and drop kicking was common. Then evolved to pointed shape now nobody drop kicks the ball.
The tax doesn't show as part of the price because the manufacturer suggests the sales price but the tax amount varies by the state and city where the stuff is being sold.
Winning wars. Actually kicking the English out. Hence why the Queen’s not on our money.
I jest. x
@UCuTe7goiRAksIEdp8MLlV7A We didn't kick the English out, we WERE the English. The American Revolution was a British civil war. Though we, British citizens living in the colonies, declared independence on July 4, 1776 (only about 25% were pro-independence, the rest either didn't care or were loyal to the King), we weren't really an independent country until 1783 when the war ended and the treaty signed in Paris. We didn't win the war by "kicking them out", the King just gave up because it was too expensive and we were much more resilient than any British military General thought.
Ok... the “look down there and subscribe” & standing on your tip toes pointing..... super cute Mosco!! 💕💕💕
Agreed! 😊
GASoline, actually started in Britain, and then they changed and we didn't. You say Petrol, short for petroleum, which is what is pumped out the ground, and then converted to gasoline, and kerosene, and benzine, etc. AMERICAN football, as different from Canadian Football, or Australian Football. We call your game SOCCER, another British name that you guys dropped and we didn't.
Yeah that is another thing too, American football always confused me. As australian like you said ours is very different. It is odd that you guys stop the game every few seconds, with us the ball is in play and the game keeps going till a try, kick or foul.
@@TheMagnay I'm not familiar with Aussie Rules either. Basically a team has 4 chances to move the ball 10 yards. If you make it, you get another 4. If you don't make it in 3, you punt (kick the ball to the other team) and the other team goes on offense. The Defense tries to stop you. Crossing the Goal Line in possession of the ball, or receiving a Forward Pass in the End Zone (beyond the goal line), scores 6 points. You then can either kick the ball through the uprights for an Extra Point (7 ttl) or try to cross the goal line again for 2 points (8 ttl). If you don't make your 10 yards in 3 tries, and you are close enough to the goal line, you can kick the ball through the uprights from where you are for a Field Goal, 3 points.
@@HemlockRidge here rugby is actually more popular, auzzie rules i never liked so not sure about that one. Rugby is simple touching the ball to the ground in end game is a try worth 4 point then a conversation is kicked where you gotta get it between the posts and it's worth 2. 1 point for just kicking the ball between the post at any time which is a field goal. 6 tackles to score than a change over hapoends which is a kick to the other side, after each tackle is a simple touch to the foot and game resumes. It is a bit more punchy as it's just six tackles and after each one it takes seconds to resume, very little down time. I guess though it just depends what your used to.
Gas is a shorter version of Gasoline.
If you name computer files with dates, you will soon realise that the Japenese style makes sense.
😂 season 3 of Brexit.
$5.00 will get you a venti Starbucks.
I am at a loss with Uber as well.
amy reynolds cheaper because one company has a monopoly on taxis so Uber is cheaper
Well f*+k I was born in the US and don’t understand the same thing.
Dana says- Don't understand about which thing? Maybe ask someone from an older generation or research the answers? That's usually where I start when looking for answers.
We used to have a super size option. Like bigger than an American large 😱
Regarding ads, we (U.K) used to have only 3 ads per hour programme, now of course we 4.
As for pride in Scottish ancestry, we Scots ARE proud, I think it's because they tried to suppress us way back when, and we just wouldn't back down! I think more Scots know about their heritage than some other nationalities!
I absolutely love your hair!
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but historically, wasn't the BBC government run, at least partly from taxes? In the USA, broadcast radio and television began as independant companies, with some government oversight, but they were commercial ventures. I'm old enough to remember back when rather than just having commercials interspersed during the show, individual shows were sponsored by companies, for instance, I remember when the "Beverly Hillbillies" was sponsored by Kellogs Cereals, and the stars would advertise for the product (Kellogs Corn Flakes) on the set of the show. And product placement was a big deal!
Irish and Scottish heritage Pride vs English heritage pride. I think your right, I think it comes from, partially, the pride of the initial groups and gets passed through the families. You need to choose things from there to hold on too. Also, Scottish and Irish have “immigrant” phases in American. Since England is the Mother Country, they chose to leave it. It’s more than that, but that is part of it.