In Europe, if you ask someone how far it is to a city, they'll give you the distance in kilometres or miles. In the US and Canada, they'll give you the distance in the time it takes to get there....
@@meghanschuler4739 "Hey when you getting to Phil's?" "I'll be there in 10." "Don't you lie to me, this is important." "Calm down will ya? You drive like my grandmother and that's a fact."
No, it wasn't mostly true. Federal statutes have been around since 1789, and they are revised every six years. They were only first published in 1926 though.
@Donk Fish exactly. It's not that u won't be arrested it's that no one lives there so u cant be convicted for murder without a jury of ur peers. So eventually they have to let u go.
@Donk Fish Tut-tut. The point is that the jury of peers has to be selected from "where the crime was committed", not from "where you live". Meghan Schuler gets the point.
@Donk Fish Another visitor to the park, you seem confused about the wrong thing. If two people visit the park from another state and one kills the other, the authorities won't have the trial back in the other state. That's not how it works, it happens in the state the crime took place in. It seems like you think only one person can visit this park at a time, that's not true either. There's thousands of visitors to Yellowstone a year, many of them injured by buffalo because they're stupid.
I am glad the one bloke, who lived in America for 12 years, liked it. Far too many videos on TH-cam downgrade America and its culture. It's nice to see and hear something positive about America once in a while.
@@officeblokedaz I like the geography. I live in Washington state in the northwest and some of the people are nice but the politics and politicians of the country as a whole are disgusting and I hate it. Lots of ignorance amongst the people as well. However, no place on Earth is perfect and I will never claim that. I've been to the UK and I enjoyed it even though I'm sure you would have plenty of criticisms about it. However unlike other countries Americans more than any other country really lash out at the mere criticism of it. Yet America's actions on the world stage are indeed worthy of criticism. Great video and the US is a big and varied place.
@@LG123ABC Kinda, sorta. They may be legally different entities for obvious reasons But geographically, it's effectively city. If one were to take a satellite view without borders, it would look like one city. One can drive through parts of it and cross over state borders multiple times. Either way, the original video is not correct in its claim.
Hi L.G. 😊 I grew up in KCK ❤. Been in South Carolina since 1975 and back when I was in KC the "KCK vs. KC, Mo." questions, arguments, statements, etc. Were an everyday thing then, too. I guess it will be FOREVER!!! LOL
@@DianaJG8 So true. I was an Army brat stationed at Fort Leavenworth in the early 90's, but made many a trip to KC. It's also where I developed my love for football and been a Chiefs fan ever since.
I heard him say that and thought the exact same way. I've been to KC tons of times, both in MO and KS. I think that guy might want to do a little more research.
I’m from Portland and it’s definitely very hipster, but since it’s known as being very progressive and liberal that makes the opposition louder. It’s a city where political ideologies are turned to 100 at all times lol
@@demondeacon5175 it’s so strange because Portland is known as being super progressive (and it is) but it’s also got a crazy amount of white supremacists and nazi groups because they want to take on all the liberals. so there’s hardly a time where there’s not clashes
I was there for 10 days, I enjoyed it. But man there are so many homeless, and I’ve never heard so many people talk about politics so openly wherever they happen to be. I’d definitely go back just for the food.
@@chenstormstout9456 I love Portland, but you have to be ready for how extreme the politics are. And the homeless problem is growing so fast because of how quickly Portland is growing in population but the housing prices are insane
I mean I’m a little mad that when they talked about New York, they only talked about the city. Bruh that shouldn’t even be considered New York State. Upstate has beautiful farmland and mountains and so much more.
i can say the same when they mention california, like not everyone lives in LA and not everyone here works in hollywood. Cali is way more than all of that and New York is much more than just time square and skyscrapers..
It's not only a big country, but almost every significant chunk of it has something there, unlike Russia, Canada, China, Brazil and Australia. Btw, some of the freight trains are looooooooooong.
New York appeared to run out of original names for towns. There's: Amsterdam NY Angola, NY Athens, NY Babylon, NY Belfast, NY Berlin, NY Cairo, NY Corinth, NY Cuba, NY Dunkirk, NY Eden, NY Frankfort, NY Geneva, NY Hamburg, NY Ithaca, NY Lima, NY Liverpool, NY ... you get the idea.
You guys really should react to "The American Civil War: Oversimplified." You already reacted to Oversimplified's video on the American Revolution; I think you guys would absolutely love it.
I live in Virginia and work in television. In 2007, the 400 year anniversary of Jamestown (the first permanent British settlement in America) I came to England to trace the roots and people who made Jamestown happen. It's fascinating how many town, county and city names in Virginia are taken from towns in England and of course, our native American languages.
@@OfficeBlokes Meanwhile, we are like porno to you. You recoil in disgust, but can't stop watching us, you know what I mean? Why? Thank goodness there is an ocean between us, not even having a war to get rid of you has worked. You don'g get a hint, do you?
I envy you. I live in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and we have some stop lights so close together, you can only fit a couple of cars between them. It's like the city planners just went insane with the stop lights.
Hi Guys, in the part of the U.S. called "New England" which was a nickname provided by the earliest settlers from England, you will find duplicates of almost every town or city in England. New England is made of of 6 states. Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine and Massachusetts. In those states, especially Massachusetts, you will definitely find duplicate names from England. A few examples are Boston, Plymouth, Haverill, Peabody, Framingham, Taunton, Lynn, Weymouth, Duxbury, Worcester, Leicester (and dozens more) etc. There are even more when you thrown in the other states. You can find towns and cities here which were named after the original cities and towns in England if you really wanted to look for them online.
The lake pontchartrain bridge is freaky. It just keeps going and going. You see NOLA off in the distance for forever and it just never gets any closer.
I’ve had some Europeans friends criticize Americans for not caring about the world outside of the US and noted our extremely low levels of multilingual people. My response to them was the US is larger than Europe and that I’ve visited 37 out of the 50 states and that took many years to do and by visit I mean I stayed in those States at least 24 hours. So I had traveled over the US more then they had Europe. I also pointed out that I could drive from Miami Florida to Anchorage Alaska and never have to speak any language but English. That’s the equivalent of driving from London to Beijing. So yes, Americans care very much about what happens in the rest of the world but let’s be reasonable. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to pay attention to what is happening in 50 sovereign States? So I do think that’s a rather unfair criticism.
Well said, bravo! Another point is that the US is represented by pretty much every culture from around the world, as people have emigrated from their countries to the US. I have visited “China Town” in Los Angeles and San Francisco and they are very close communities to their mainland families. So if we want to experience their culture, we don’t have to look very far. I live in Texas and have visited many of the states in this video and there is so much more to each state than this, that we can never fully learn everything.
@@emycakes8663 i dont think op was really trying to prove them wrong, just say that its unfair to call us selfish when we’re in a much different situation than people in, say, a european country.
@@emycakes8663 No. Not really. I’ve also traveled to other foreign nations like the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Canada, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, China, Japan, Philippines and Texas.
Knew someone from casper a few years ago. Considering there's only 60k people in Casper, I can't believe I saw a comment from someone else from that town lol
Growing up there before the mall was built, I can remember when the downtown JCPenney and Sears stores had escalators. The airport had them, too. I think the Lou Taubert store did.
My pride as a bloke who grew up in Nebraska, now living in Texas, watching British blokes cheer a Nebraska town of one’s mayor for granting herself liquor licenses. I love TH-cam.
As a resident of Pennsylvania,i'm sick and tired of them bringing up Centralia as the main thing for the state...forget about Gettysburg,Valley Forge,declaration of independence and basically the birth of America... no no no...must always bring up damn Centralia.
because its unique and interesting place. Being in Indiana I could say the same about the Speedway when theres a lot of other things in the state but it is what it is.
North Carolina where I live. I live at the base of the mountains it takes 5 and a half hours to get to the beach. Nc has mountains, hills, flat plains, and beaches. And is the 9th largest state in the us
@@AnimalAce Kudzu? It's supposedly native to Japan, I've heard. I remember seeing it all over as a kid, but don't notice it as much now (I'll be 50 in a month). I do know it's still fairly rampant in GA; my brother lives in north GA and there's quite a bit of the stuff around there.
The road without cars in Michigan is on Mackinac Island in Lake Huron. It is a major tourist attraction. The people who live there call the tourist fudgies. There are several shops on the island that make fudge. The Mackinac Bridge connects the upper and lower half of Michigan. The bridge is 5 miles long. Beautiful country.
I feel for you... I'm in FL and went across the 4 mile bridge and couldn't see land.. it's weird and you start thinking about what if your car fell from that high up, etc.
It's long -- many episodes -- but the Stephen Fry in America documentary is great, especially for non-Americans. All of them are here on TH-cam. Cheers!
Loved that Stephen Fry doc. My favorite part was the football game in Alabama. That brief part of one episode pretty much summed up his entire adventure.
International Falls Minnesota (the point on top) is one of the coldest places in the US. Because the Canadian Jet Stream dips at that point, into northern Minnesota. You can have winter temperatures around -30C with a 40 mph wind, bringing temperatures to -75C. The Lakes on all three sides basically are an ice box.
Minnesota, birthplace of the Mississippi River, where it starts its journey south to the Gulf of Mexico over 2500 miles away. People flock to Itasca State Park to say they "walked across the Mississippi River", because where it flows out of Lake Itasca its no deeper than your knees and maybe only 20ft wide.
Tip... Most Americans rail at the idea the US is too big. It just encourages the secessionists which are a statistically insignificant demographic. I'm from Effingham... Kansas. :)
It always makes me bristle to hear someone from another country suggest that America is too big to be one country. We are Americans, we grew up with our identity as one nation. I have lived in several states, some quite far from the others,.... was always America. Max Jones is from Kansas (I have never been to Kansas) and I am SURE Max Jones is just as American as I am. Driving from Miami to NY to spend Christmas with my grandparents (picking up my uncle in Philadelphia on the way) was just as normal as going to my cousin's wedding in San Antonio [that cousin's sister will be getting married this summer in North Carolina], or my sister's graduation ceremony in Washington D.C. Sure you can travel from Los Angeles to Kansas to New York and there will be differences in dialect, fashion, food, and political ideas. But not more than Brighton, Manchester, and Morpeth. Or, if they are even more different, that is great, it is a big country, room for all of them. ((If I had been born and raised in 1 country in Europe, I'm sure I would feel the opposite way. I understand that, it is how we are programmed from birth.)) The same way we are programmed from birth to think of ourself as one country. In elementary school, my Spanish teacher was Cuban, my History teacher was from Hong Kong, and my homeroom teacher was the grandchild of slaves (and most of my teachers graduated university in some other state), that just seems normal to us.
@@VideoNozoki Exactly. I've traveled all over the country working and when I pulled into town I could by instinct know where to find whatever I was looking for. I can remember thinking every town is so like every other town and I was wondering if that's good or bad. When you go to Europe... what's the first thing they say to you... "I could tell you were American." You know that if we weren't 50 states as big with economies as large as most countries... we wouldn't have gone to the moon or many other things future and past.
Hey hey hey. I’m from Oregon and it is beautiful The people who actually live in Portland are not from Oregon they have moved here. Go outside of Portland into the Suburbs and the Country side and you will meet some of the most friendly and outgoing people. Also it is 1 of the top ten beautiful states to visit.... 🤗
A lot of counties in the mid Atlantic still have Britain royalty names. Like King George County and Prince William County in VA or Prince George County in MD
"I think that is to big to be a country" Well actually each state acts almost like it's own country but we are tied together under the constitution and each state has its own laws and taxes people will even think of thier own state before the rest of the country most of the time for example I am a North Dakotan but originally was an Iowan I would say this to people from another state but If I were in another country becuase of how many states there are I would just say I'm an American also each state has thier own unique accent even if you can't hardly tell its there
@@hayliew611 From Fargo but currently reside in Charlotte. Winter is better here but underrated observation is that summer is much more timid as well. No more 60 degrees and raining, then next day 98 and hot-windy. Once you leave you realize just how bizarre the climate is there
Not technically wrong. 100% wrong. All national parks are federal land and the land is only managed by the state it's in and does not belong to it. Federal land has it's own statutes to ensure that people can't get away with crimes like murder. The crime then becomes a federal crime and the penalties are much more severe than any state crime. Narrator had no idea what he was talking about there.
I live in Versailles, Kentucky. Also there is a London, Kentucky. And in Lexington, Kentucky there is a neighborhood named......Coventry. Entrance is at the intersection of GEORGEtown Road and Spurr Road. There is also a Paris, Kentucky and even a Baghdad, Kentucky. I'm sure there's more but I'd rather not leave a wall of text.
There's a Warsaw, Kentucky. You can travel around the world in Kentucky. Or you can leave the state behind and travel one state over to Cairo, Illinois. Don't look for camels or pyramids, though.
From my cities list. Kansas, AL (226) Kansas, OK (802) Kansas, OH (179) Kansas, IL (787) Edit: West, TX (2,807) West, MS (185) North, SC (754) Edit: The top one is my entry, "3617"! Coventry, VT (97) Coventry, CT (12,407) Coventry, RI (34,819)
As an Arizonan, I'm disappointed that the only mention of my state is a tiny town of six people and the Four Corners (which I guess was one more thing than New Mexico, but still...). :P
Office Blokes React, he blew it on Kansas City when he said it's not in Kansas. It's divided between Kansas and Missouri, with the larger of the 2 in Missouri by more than 3 times.
and I had found a better accent video w/ a linguist actually explaining them around 22 minutes though. love the channel definitely subbing th-cam.com/video/H1KP4ztKK0A/w-d-xo.html
I'm calling hogwash on that longest red light. Where i live, theres a light at the end of a residential road leading to a main road...and after 10pm it gets skipped a lot in the rotation even if you're waiting. I've watched the opposing light and turn lane go through 3 rotations even when nobody is waiting to turn until mine went. I know I've been through 5 minutes a couple times. Sometimes I just go across when its all clear after waiting a good 3 minutes and the next rotation skips me again
If you guys haven't seen it already and have some time to kill at home, you should watch "Stephen Fry: In America." (It's on YT -- six one hour parts and a twenty minute bonus.) It's over a decade old now, but still great.
I moved from NJ to OR, the people here are so much nicer. My family are Giants season ticket holders since 1976, I've seen 1000's of fights, and been in a few.
interesting to note you moved from the only two states where you couldnt pump your own gas, though I know some places in Oregon have relaxed that restriction fairly recently
The light is at the intersection of Route 23 and Clinton Road It's actually two lights, but the combined wait time at the intersection is nearly five minutes. But you can turn right on red in NJ.
As an American I really enjoyed watching this video with you guys. From a historical perspective; what are your feelings about so many people from your islands leaving and coming here for better opportunity? Also is this sentiment still prevalent in the modern UK?
@@officeblokedaz Ya'll sometimes watch hip-hop videos like Eminem & Tech-9, although I dig those cats a lot, I also really like the Hip-Hop artist Aesop Rock. Expertz say he uses the most amount of unique words out of any English speaking emcee(rapper) in the world. I hope you guys can get around to checkin' out some of his stuff. - & also MF DOOM (It's mandatory to spell his name in all caps.)R.I.P. as of last year. Thanks, dude.
Hello, Guys! I learned about the game, "How many U.S. cities can you name?", when another British guy recorded his effort at playing it. Had he chosen, "Every State", his results would have been better, as that option automatically fills in redundant names like, "Kansas City", "Las Vegas", "Los Alamos", "Roswell", "Washington", "Springfield", et cetera, et al. May you guys outscore him! ☺👍🖖
My grandparents live on magnolia River, in magnolia springs, Alabama, and they do still deliver mail by boat. I lived there for about 5 years, most peaceful place on earth.
Yeah he's not kidding about the waitlist for Packer season tickets in Wisconsin, my grandfather put all three of his kids' names on the waitlist when they were born.
"I'll bet it's proper cold" in Minnesota... I used to live in Houston where it was proper HOT for most of my life. Now I live in Canada. I used to think that it was just useless trivia that -40 degrees was the same in both F and C. Now I live up here and I realize that this is a thing that happens.
I've been through Portland, Oregon in 2017 and I absolutely hated the city. Almost every street sidewalk was just tents of homeless people. The entire city center a shanty town. I expected clean air, cool modern people and trendy shops and I got my illusions ruined.
What I expected from Portland, I found in Seattle. Despite the claims it has a huge homeless issue, I saw none. City smells of coffee, modern art sculptures everywhere, steep hills like San Francisco, pleasant people and view of water. Even the cops were nice and bought me and my friends some pastries. I guess it can be an expensive to live in though.
Mark 14:29. She has been featured in a lot of travel shows, trivia, and news segments. ☺ Edit: Her clients are the various farmers, ranchers, and tourists, by the way.
I live in reading, Pennsylvania and the county is called berks. we have signs everywhere that makes reference to the British places "reading" and "Berkshire"
Fun fact: Wyoming is a myth, it just doesn’t exist, no one has ever met anyone from there, even here in Colorado, I’ve met people who claim to be from there, but I know they’re lying
I live right by Clinton road in New Jersey and can confirm the longest light I’ve ever seen by far. It’s also supposedly a haunted road with a lot of myths surrounding it
Cheers blokes. There are actually 5 cities/towns in the U.S. called Coventry. They are primarily in the northeast part of the country, commonly referred to as New England, so that stands to reason. Enjoy your videos.
Nah, dude. NYC is vibrant and has culture. Upstate is pretty stagnant and its best years are behind it. Believe me I know, I lived in Syracuse for five years.
I lived in Colorado for quite a number of years. Mount Elbert is considered the highest peak in Colorado. However, Mount Massive is a more difficult hike to the top due to the length of the trails, and the trails are longer because mount massive has more...mass.
Welsh Quakers bought land from William Penn. The core towns on the Philadelphia, PA area Mainline are named: Overbrook, Merion, Narberth, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr. btw, there is also a Philadelphia in Mississippi. ;-)
what you guys discussed at 20:50 is so important in my opinion. culturally, philisophically etc etc we absolutely do have "multiple countries" in one country which is why it is so hard to pass federal legislaton. I honestly wish we could divide the country into multiple sovereigns..would be much less animosity
I am from Mattoon, Illinois Home of the Burger King mentioned in this video. It actually started out as an Ice Cream stand, Frigid Queen lol. When they started selling burgers they wanted a suitable name for that part of the business so they came up with the mate name Burger King.
Hey guys, could you do some more "sweaty palms" compilations and stuff like that and maybe some longer fail videos? Enjoying your content so much that the videos feel too short haha, keep it up :)
To answer your question: Coventry, Rhode Island Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut Coventry, Chenango County, New York Coventry, Orleans County, Vermont Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio
Michigan is not the only state to be made of 2 separated sections. Virginia is also separated. The portion on the Del Marva Peninsula is separated from the rest of the state.
It boils down to one statement I heard years ago: "In the UK one hundred miles is a long way. In the US 100 years is a long time."
I wonder how people will say this :I
In Europe, if you ask someone how far it is to a city, they'll give you the distance in kilometres or miles. In the US and Canada, they'll give you the distance in the time it takes to get there....
@@coasterguy so so true. Sometimes we'll give both but ur right's usually we say how long (give or take) it takes to get there at what speed.
@@meghanschuler4739 "Hey when you getting to Phil's?"
"I'll be there in 10."
"Don't you lie to me, this is important."
"Calm down will ya? You drive like my grandmother and that's a fact."
@@foxygamer1337 I said give or take lmao. Fair enough tho.
That part about murder in Yellowstone was mostly true but it was recently fixed for obvious problematic leagal reasons. Im from Montana btw.
No, it wasn't mostly true. Federal statutes have been around since 1789, and they are revised every six years. They were only first published in 1926 though.
@Donk Fish exactly. It's not that u won't be arrested it's that no one lives there so u cant be convicted for murder without a jury of ur peers. So eventually they have to let u go.
@Donk Fish Tut-tut. The point is that the jury of peers has to be selected from "where the crime was committed", not from "where you live". Meghan Schuler gets the point.
@Donk Fish Where the crime was committed, not where the murdered was from. I'm so confused how this is going over your head.
@Donk Fish Another visitor to the park, you seem confused about the wrong thing. If two people visit the park from another state and one kills the other, the authorities won't have the trial back in the other state. That's not how it works, it happens in the state the crime took place in. It seems like you think only one person can visit this park at a time, that's not true either. There's thousands of visitors to Yellowstone a year, many of them injured by buffalo because they're stupid.
I am glad the one bloke, who lived in America for 12 years, liked it. Far too many videos on TH-cam downgrade America and its culture. It's nice to see and hear something positive about America once in a while.
Great place to live 👍🏻
People just hate to hate. Without getting to actually know it.
Americans are far too sensitive about their country and yes regrettably I am American
Konformation07 everyone is protective of their homeland. America is a cool place to live, try it and see is what I say. 👍🏻
@@officeblokedaz I like the geography. I live in Washington state in the northwest and some of the people are nice but the politics and politicians of the country as a whole are disgusting and I hate it. Lots of ignorance amongst the people as well.
However, no place on Earth is perfect and I will never claim that. I've been to the UK and I enjoyed it even though I'm sure you would have plenty of criticisms about it.
However unlike other countries Americans more than any other country really lash out at the mere criticism of it. Yet America's actions on the world stage are indeed worthy of criticism.
Great video and the US is a big and varied place.
im early but kansas city is actually in both kansas and missouri
Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS are two separate cities. KCMO dwarfs KCKS.
@@LG123ABC Kinda, sorta. They may be legally different entities for obvious reasons But geographically, it's effectively city. If one were to take a satellite view without borders, it would look like one city. One can drive through parts of it and cross over state borders multiple times.
Either way, the original video is not correct in its claim.
Hi L.G. 😊 I grew up in KCK ❤. Been in South Carolina since 1975 and back when I was in KC the "KCK vs. KC, Mo." questions, arguments, statements, etc. Were an everyday thing then, too. I guess it will be FOREVER!!! LOL
@@DianaJG8 So true. I was an Army brat stationed at Fort Leavenworth in the early 90's, but made many a trip to KC.
It's also where I developed my love for football and been a Chiefs fan ever since.
Kansas City, Kansas is as much Kansas City, Missouri as Prairie Village, Kansas is Kansas City, Missouri. It's the same metropolitan area.
He is wrong about kansas city, There is 2 parts of the city that are in both states.
Agreed. KCMO and KCK. You have to have lived in in KC to pick that out though. Plus Leawood and Mission Hills also span the state line.
@@rich7447 Yep
That's what I thought
I heard him say that and thought the exact same way. I've been to KC tons of times, both in MO and KS. I think that guy might want to do a little more research.
@@rich7447 I live in IN and I know he said it wrong.
I’m from Portland and it’s definitely very hipster, but since it’s known as being very progressive and liberal that makes the opposition louder. It’s a city where political ideologies are turned to 100 at all times lol
god bless you man. i would get so fatigued by all the politics. I'm in Atlanta and we got a taste of it this year. so glad it's all over...for now :-/
@@demondeacon5175 it’s so strange because Portland is known as being super progressive (and it is) but it’s also got a crazy amount of white supremacists and nazi groups because they want to take on all the liberals. so there’s hardly a time where there’s not clashes
@@WTDProductions Yeah I heard that the Pacific Northwest has that problem.
I was there for 10 days, I enjoyed it. But man there are so many homeless, and I’ve never heard so many people talk about politics so openly wherever they happen to be. I’d definitely go back just for the food.
@@chenstormstout9456 I love Portland, but you have to be ready for how extreme the politics are. And the homeless problem is growing so fast because of how quickly Portland is growing in population but the housing prices are insane
I mean I’m a little mad that when they talked about New York, they only talked about the city. Bruh that shouldn’t even be considered New York State. Upstate has beautiful farmland and mountains and so much more.
Hey Ann 🌹
@@danjumohmuhammed1945 first of all you forgot an a. Second of all stop creeping on girls bro
i can say the same when they mention california, like not everyone lives in LA and not everyone here works in hollywood. Cali is way more than all of that and New York is much more than just time square and skyscrapers..
@@evelyndelao9372 mhm
@@evelyndelao9372 Hey Evelyn
It's not only a big country, but almost every significant chunk of it has something there, unlike Russia, Canada, China, Brazil and Australia.
Btw, some of the freight trains are looooooooooong.
New York appeared to run out of original names for towns. There's:
Amsterdam NY
Angola, NY
Athens, NY
Babylon, NY
Belfast, NY
Berlin, NY
Cairo, NY
Corinth, NY
Cuba, NY
Dunkirk, NY
Eden, NY
Frankfort, NY
Geneva, NY
Hamburg, NY
Ithaca, NY
Lima, NY
Liverpool, NY
... you get the idea.
Well at least there's Hell's Kitchen..
If you research you'll find that Many states have names from other places. Not really a biggie.
You guys really should react to "The American Civil War: Oversimplified." You already reacted to Oversimplified's video on the American Revolution; I think you guys would absolutely love it.
Yes, that was a particularly good one IMO.
Always interesting to see non-American's reactions to it, since they usually have no idea about most of what went down.
There are some significant inaccuracies and misconceptions in that video.
They have
@@joshclouse7378 nah that was Lav Luka, bromethius.
There's Coventry, Rhode Island about 30 minutes from me lol
We have that in Cleveland too
There's a Coventry in connecticuit too
@@amishlaptop 216 represent!!!
My brother lives in Coventry, R.I.!!
Also in NY, Conn, Vermont and Ohio
I live in Virginia and work in television. In 2007, the 400 year anniversary of Jamestown (the first permanent British settlement in America) I came to England to trace the roots and people who made Jamestown happen. It's fascinating how many town, county and city names in Virginia are taken from towns in England and of course, our native American languages.
keep up the good work guys! much love from the US.
Thanks!
@@OfficeBlokes Meanwhile, we are like porno to you. You recoil in disgust, but can't stop watching us, you know what I mean? Why? Thank goodness there is an ocean between us, not even having a war to get rid of you has worked. You don'g get a hint, do you?
There are five towns named 'Coventry' in the U.S.: In the states of Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Ohio
Kentucky as well.
Not joking, there is a Coventry in Pennsylvania
Coventry.. like witches or somethin?
There’s witches in a lot of places in America to be fair
@@jennicole7312 i was mostly clowning
@@tuckerrichardson2606 I’m not kidding though 😂 there are actually witches or at least people who identify as witches
@@jennicole7312 oh I know lol I'm norse pagan so I've been exposed to wicca and the like lol
I live in Dewey county in Oklahoma which is over a 1200 square miles and doesn’t have one single stop light.
Ewwww Dewey, jk. I live in aslut
I envy you. I live in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and we have some stop lights so close together, you can only fit a couple of cars between them. It's like the city planners just went insane with the stop lights.
there are so many towns with British-related names here. I grew up next to the town of Sussex myself.
Hi Guys, in the part of the U.S. called "New England" which was a nickname provided by the earliest settlers from England, you will find duplicates of almost every town or city in England. New England is made of of 6 states. Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine and Massachusetts. In those states, especially Massachusetts, you will definitely find duplicate names from England. A few examples are Boston, Plymouth, Haverill, Peabody, Framingham, Taunton, Lynn, Weymouth, Duxbury, Worcester, Leicester (and dozens more) etc. There are even more when you thrown in the other states. You can find towns and cities here which were named after the original cities and towns in England if you really wanted to look for them online.
The lake pontchartrain bridge is freaky. It just keeps going and going. You see NOLA off in the distance for forever and it just never gets any closer.
I’ve had some Europeans friends criticize Americans for not caring about the world outside of the US and noted our extremely low levels of multilingual people.
My response to them was the US is larger than Europe and that I’ve visited 37 out of the 50 states and that took many years to do and by visit I mean I stayed in those States at least 24 hours. So I had traveled over the US more then they had Europe. I also pointed out that I could drive from Miami Florida to Anchorage Alaska and never have to speak any language but English. That’s the equivalent of driving from London to Beijing.
So yes, Americans care very much about what happens in the rest of the world but let’s be reasonable. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to pay attention to what is happening in 50 sovereign States?
So I do think that’s a rather unfair criticism.
from where I live in the US anywhere I can drive within a day almost two days still speaks English
Well said, bravo! Another point is that the US is represented by pretty much every culture from around the world, as people have emigrated from their countries to the US. I have visited “China Town” in Los Angeles and San Francisco and they are very close communities to their mainland families. So if we want to experience their culture, we don’t have to look very far. I live in Texas and have visited many of the states in this video and there is so much more to each state than this, that we can never fully learn everything.
Didnt you just prove their point....
@@emycakes8663 i dont think op was really trying to prove them wrong, just say that its unfair to call us selfish when we’re in a much different situation than people in, say, a european country.
@@emycakes8663 No. Not really. I’ve also traveled to other foreign nations like the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Canada, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, China, Japan, Philippines and Texas.
Wyomings escalators are in 2 banks in Casper, Wyoming. Thats where i live lol
Knew someone from casper a few years ago. Considering there's only 60k people in Casper, I can't believe I saw a comment from someone else from that town lol
@@joshjohnson2753 what are the odds eh lol
@@Nonchalluminati Absolutely crazy haha. Was a good friend, your comment made me think of her and I ended up sending a what's up text 😂
Growing up there before the mall was built, I can remember when the downtown JCPenney and Sears stores had escalators. The airport had them, too. I think the Lou Taubert store did.
Good ol Casper lol. I'm from Rock Springs myself
"She's the sheriff as well" LMAO! Good stuff guys. 14:35
21:00 the USA is a country made of 50 semi-independent countries.
My pride as a bloke who grew up in Nebraska, now living in Texas, watching British blokes cheer a Nebraska town of one’s mayor for granting herself liquor licenses. I love TH-cam.
As a resident of Pennsylvania,i'm sick and tired of them bringing up Centralia as the main thing for the state...forget about Gettysburg,Valley Forge,declaration of independence and basically the birth of America... no no no...must always bring up damn Centralia.
JAKE the KANGAL I mean it’s basically part of Kentucky. But I have to ask as a New Jersey resident, why can’t you guys drive?
because its unique and interesting place. Being in Indiana I could say the same about the Speedway when theres a lot of other things in the state but it is what it is.
Try being a resident of West Virginia.
@@rjmidwest6911 yeah I understand...i get what you mean...but it still annoys me.lol
@@darthmalgus232 So burning a couch then?
North Carolina where I live. I live at the base of the mountains it takes 5 and a half hours to get to the beach. Nc has mountains, hills, flat plains, and beaches. And is the 9th largest state in the us
South Carolina, at the base of those same mountains. Hey neighbor!
And really creepy trees. With that vine or what ever taking over.
@@AnimalAce Kudzu? It's supposedly native to Japan, I've heard. I remember seeing it all over as a kid, but don't notice it as much now (I'll be 50 in a month). I do know it's still fairly rampant in GA; my brother lives in north GA and there's quite a bit of the stuff around there.
@@KG-xt4oq Maybe im remembering south Carolina, I just remember it was creepy.
@@AnimalAce No, you're correct. I remember seeing it around a lot as a kid, just not as much now...was born in NC and live in NC now.
The road without cars in Michigan is on Mackinac Island in Lake Huron. It is a major tourist attraction. The people who live there call the tourist fudgies. There are several shops on the island that make fudge. The Mackinac Bridge connects the upper and lower half of Michigan. The bridge is 5 miles long. Beautiful country.
I've been across that bridge in Louisiana several times and it is absolutely true. It's kind of creepy crossing it and not being able to see any land.
I feel for you... I'm in FL and went across the 4 mile bridge and couldn't see land.. it's weird and you start thinking about what if your car fell from that high up, etc.
It's long -- many episodes -- but the Stephen Fry in America documentary is great, especially for non-Americans. All of them are here on TH-cam. Cheers!
Loved that Stephen Fry doc. My favorite part was the football game in Alabama. That brief part of one episode pretty much summed up his entire adventure.
International Falls Minnesota (the point on top) is one of the coldest places in the US. Because the Canadian Jet Stream dips at that point, into northern Minnesota. You can have winter temperatures around -30C with a 40 mph wind, bringing temperatures to -75C. The Lakes on all three sides basically are an ice box.
massachusetts here you cheeky office blokes
Minnesota, birthplace of the Mississippi River, where it starts its journey south to the Gulf of Mexico over 2500 miles away. People flock to Itasca State Park to say they "walked across the Mississippi River", because where it flows out of Lake Itasca its no deeper than your knees and maybe only 20ft wide.
Tip... Most Americans rail at the idea the US is too big. It just encourages the secessionists which are a statistically insignificant demographic. I'm from Effingham... Kansas. :)
It always makes me bristle to hear someone from another country suggest that America is too big to be one country. We are Americans, we grew up with our identity as one nation. I have lived in several states, some quite far from the others,.... was always America.
Max Jones is from Kansas (I have never been to Kansas) and I am SURE Max Jones is just as American as I am. Driving from Miami to NY to spend Christmas with my grandparents (picking up my uncle in Philadelphia on the way) was just as normal as going to my cousin's wedding in San Antonio [that cousin's sister will be getting married this summer in North Carolina], or my sister's graduation ceremony in Washington D.C.
Sure you can travel from Los Angeles to Kansas to New York and there will be differences in dialect, fashion, food, and political ideas. But not more than Brighton, Manchester, and Morpeth. Or, if they are even more different, that is great, it is a big country, room for all of them.
((If I had been born and raised in 1 country in Europe, I'm sure I would feel the opposite way. I understand that, it is how we are programmed from birth.)) The same way we are programmed from birth to think of ourself as one country. In elementary school, my Spanish teacher was Cuban, my History teacher was from Hong Kong, and my homeroom teacher was the grandchild of slaves (and most of my teachers graduated university in some other state), that just seems normal to us.
@@VideoNozoki We haven't had a shared identity as Americans since like 1965, lol.
@@VideoNozoki Exactly. I've traveled all over the country working and when I pulled into town I could by instinct know where to find whatever I was looking for. I can remember thinking every town is so like every other town and I was wondering if that's good or bad.
When you go to Europe... what's the first thing they say to you... "I could tell you were American."
You know that if we weren't 50 states as big with economies as large as most countries... we wouldn't have gone to the moon or many other things future and past.
"One in, one out" had me wheezing. Nicely done.
Hey hey hey. I’m from Oregon and it is beautiful The people who actually live in Portland are not from Oregon they have moved here. Go outside of Portland into the Suburbs and the Country side and you will meet some of the most friendly and outgoing people. Also it is 1 of the top ten beautiful states to visit.... 🤗
A lot of counties in the mid Atlantic still have Britain royalty names. Like King George County and Prince William County in VA or Prince George County in MD
There's a shopping center in my hometown in Indiana called the Village at Coventry.
You're from Fort Wayne too?
You're from Fort Wayne too, nice
Peachtree City, Georgia resident here. Cool to see our little golf cart city mentioned on this one. Good video.
Always liked this US video.
Wendover has other good videos, e.g., How Aircraft Carriers Work, US Overseas Military Base Strategy, etc.
20:00 thanks for sticking that in my head
Funny I've lived in Warwickshire - near Coventry - and been to Warwick castle!
Live in the US now. :)
In Connecticut there’s a lot of English towns/cities. New London, Essex, Manchester, Coventry, East/South Windsor, Avon and plenty more
"I think that is to big to be a country"
Well actually each state acts almost like it's own country but we are tied together under the constitution and each state has its own laws and taxes people will even think of thier own state before the rest of the country most of the time for example I am a North Dakotan but originally was an Iowan I would say this to people from another state but If I were in another country becuase of how many states there are I would just say I'm an American also each state has thier own unique accent even if you can't hardly tell its there
I was about to type this, and am also from NoDak.
Every state has its own governor, who basically acts as the prime minister of that state
@@Eaglemna how's this winter treatin ya its been rough in stutsman even had a power line go out near my families ranch
Just wait till they see china
@@hayliew611 From Fargo but currently reside in Charlotte. Winter is better here but underrated observation is that summer is much more timid as well. No more 60 degrees and raining, then next day 98 and hot-windy. Once you leave you realize just how bizarre the climate is there
There is actually a bill working it's way through the Texas state legislature to allow us to hold a referendum on Texas secession.
The town I grew up in in New England is twinned with the town of the same name in the UK. We’ve got a slick little commemorative bench and everything
The Yellowstone thing is technically wrong. You'll get prosecuted.
i wish i read this yesterday.. hmm
Not technically wrong. 100% wrong. All national parks are federal land and the land is only managed by the state it's in and does not belong to it. Federal land has it's own statutes to ensure that people can't get away with crimes like murder. The crime then becomes a federal crime and the penalties are much more severe than any state crime. Narrator had no idea what he was talking about there.
@@time.worn-soul8243 but they still can have jury of their peers. If there are no peers, there technically is no trial
Technically you can't be prosecuted but the government will find a way.
@@OrbiTiZZeD lmao
I live in Versailles, Kentucky. Also there is a London, Kentucky. And in Lexington, Kentucky there is a neighborhood named......Coventry. Entrance is at the intersection of GEORGEtown Road and Spurr Road. There is also a Paris, Kentucky and even a Baghdad, Kentucky. I'm sure there's more but I'd rather not leave a wall of text.
There's a Warsaw, Kentucky. You can travel around the world in Kentucky.
Or you can leave the state behind and travel one state over to Cairo, Illinois. Don't look for camels or pyramids, though.
Hi from Louisiana 💜⚜️🖤
Have a good day!
From my cities list.
Kansas, AL (226)
Kansas, OK (802)
Kansas, OH (179)
Kansas, IL (787)
Edit:
West, TX (2,807)
West, MS (185)
North, SC (754)
Edit:
The top one is my entry, "3617"!
Coventry, VT (97)
Coventry, CT (12,407)
Coventry, RI (34,819)
As an Arizonan, I'm disappointed that the only mention of my state is a tiny town of six people and the Four Corners (which I guess was one more thing than New Mexico, but still...). :P
im from virginia and it is misleadingly huge :) i live in the western side of the state and it takes me 5 hours to drive to the beach
My family's best friends live in Ewing/Rose Hill area
A town called Talkeetna in Alaska had a cat as its mayor and he had a place to sleep in all buildings with his name Mayor Mittens lol
ALL MAIL MAYOR MITTENS!
How stinking cute!!!
in Idyllwild, California has a golden retriever named Max II as mayor
I'm sorry but .. it's really hard to take seriously a country that would allow an animal to be elected to public office :D :D :D
There is both a Coventry and Kent, Ohio near where I grew up. Love you blokes.
I love the reactions of america!
Office Blokes React, he blew it on Kansas City when he said it's not in Kansas. It's divided between Kansas and Missouri, with the larger of the 2 in Missouri by more than 3 times.
There is a Coventry in Connecticut lol
and I had found a better accent video w/ a linguist actually explaining them around 22 minutes though. love the channel definitely subbing
th-cam.com/video/H1KP4ztKK0A/w-d-xo.html
@@hakunamatata3970 : Great video find. I bet they would find this interesting.
I'm calling hogwash on that longest red light. Where i live, theres a light at the end of a residential road leading to a main road...and after 10pm it gets skipped a lot in the rotation even if you're waiting. I've watched the opposing light and turn lane go through 3 rotations even when nobody is waiting to turn until mine went. I know I've been through 5 minutes a couple times. Sometimes I just go across when its all clear after waiting a good 3 minutes and the next rotation skips me again
If you guys haven't seen it already and have some time to kill at home, you should watch "Stephen Fry: In America." (It's on YT -- six one hour parts and a twenty minute bonus.) It's over a decade old now, but still great.
Love Stephen Fry! I'll watch anything with him in it. Thanks for the info
@@greedylittleduck1256 :-)
You'll adore it.
That was more interesting than I thought it would be! You guys really do find great video topics!
I moved from NJ to OR, the people here are so much nicer. My family are Giants season ticket holders since 1976, I've seen 1000's of fights, and been in a few.
interesting to note you moved from the only two states where you couldnt pump your own gas, though I know some places in Oregon have relaxed that restriction fairly recently
@@Tarv1 True, which was great in bad weather in NJ, but I would prefer to do it myself if I could here.
The light is at the intersection of Route 23 and Clinton Road It's actually two lights, but the combined wait time at the intersection is nearly five minutes. But you can turn right on red in NJ.
As an American I really enjoyed watching this video with you guys. From a historical perspective; what are your feelings about so many people from your islands leaving and coming here for better opportunity? Also is this sentiment still prevalent in the modern UK?
I’m all for people moving for a better opportunity. I did it and urge my children to seek out the same, wherever that may be. 👍🏻
@@officeblokedaz
Ya'll sometimes watch hip-hop videos like Eminem & Tech-9, although I dig those cats a lot, I also really like the Hip-Hop artist
Aesop Rock.
Expertz say he uses the most amount of unique words out of any English speaking emcee(rapper) in the world.
I hope you guys can get around to checkin' out some of his stuff.
- & also MF DOOM (It's mandatory to spell his name in all caps.)R.I.P. as of last year.
Thanks, dude.
Lake Ponchartrain's bridge is insane. It feels like you're driving over the ocean and is kinda scary.
Hello, Guys! I learned about the game, "How many U.S. cities can you name?", when another British guy recorded his effort at playing it. Had he chosen, "Every State", his results would have been better, as that option automatically fills in redundant names like, "Kansas City", "Las Vegas", "Los Alamos", "Roswell", "Washington", "Springfield", et cetera, et al. May you guys outscore him! ☺👍🖖
Lav luka?
My grandparents live on magnolia River, in magnolia springs, Alabama, and they do still deliver mail by boat. I lived there for about 5 years, most peaceful place on earth.
That figures, Portland would be a place where a single shrub is called a "park" just to prove some hipster nonsensical point
Yeah he's not kidding about the waitlist for Packer season tickets in Wisconsin, my grandfather put all three of his kids' names on the waitlist when they were born.
There's two cities named Kansas City - one in Missouri and the other in Kansas.
Yup! 😊 Divided by a river...WHY has this been so hard for people to grasp for DECADES?? LOL
"I'll bet it's proper cold" in Minnesota... I used to live in Houston where it was proper HOT for most of my life. Now I live in Canada. I used to think that it was just useless trivia that -40 degrees was the same in both F and C. Now I live up here and I realize that this is a thing that happens.
proud massachusetts native here! nice video
Same here originally from Boston and now in NH
Portland has some of the nicest people of any city I’ve ever been to
I've been through Portland, Oregon in 2017 and I absolutely hated the city. Almost every street sidewalk was just tents of homeless people. The entire city center a shanty town. I expected clean air, cool modern people and trendy shops and I got my illusions ruined.
What I expected from Portland, I found in Seattle. Despite the claims it has a huge homeless issue, I saw none. City smells of coffee, modern art sculptures everywhere, steep hills like San Francisco, pleasant people and view of water. Even the cops were nice and bought me and my friends some pastries. I guess it can be an expensive to live in though.
Mark 14:29. She has been featured in a lot of travel shows, trivia, and news segments. ☺
Edit: Her clients are the various farmers, ranchers, and tourists, by the way.
New york is named after your very own lovely city of York to which i have been
I live in reading, Pennsylvania and the county is called berks. we have signs everywhere that makes reference to the British places "reading" and "Berkshire"
Fun fact: Wyoming is a myth, it just doesn’t exist, no one has ever met anyone from there, even here in Colorado, I’ve met people who claim to be from there, but I know they’re lying
I have an uncle from Wyoming, your so mean!
@@macrecchia Are you stupid, being sarcastic, or a kid?
I live in Wisconsin! I can see the Packer Stadium from my window right now!
Florida Man wants to see how this goes....😂
I live right by Clinton road in New Jersey and can confirm the longest light I’ve ever seen by far. It’s also supposedly a haunted road with a lot of myths surrounding it
"That's too big of a country"
"It's working"
Well...it's sort of working.... :P
Cheers blokes. There are actually 5 cities/towns in the U.S. called Coventry. They are primarily in the northeast part of the country, commonly referred to as New England, so that stands to reason. Enjoy your videos.
Saw the thing about "Coventry". Thought I'd add that there is a city named "Greenville" in EVERY state. 😊
The 2 sets of escalators in Wyoming are in 2 separate banks. A third set was in the airport, but removed.
Why!? I know it has a small population but seriously, only two sets of escalators?!
@@gemoftheocean don’t really need them. Not many tall buildings.
NEW YORK CITY IS THE WORST PART OF THE STATE... WE UPSTATE NEW YORKERS GET *NO* RESPECT.
Nah, dude. NYC is vibrant and has culture. Upstate is pretty stagnant and its best years are behind it. Believe me I know, I lived in Syracuse for five years.
Shhhh, why ruin the secret. Let's keep the 180 parks to ourselves.
Idc if it's a secret cuz I'm leaving for Eastern Tennessee in a few years anyways
OIC, "in a few years". Gotta wait on the parole board.
Bruh, I haven't graduated high school yet
I lived in Colorado for quite a number of years. Mount Elbert is considered the highest peak in Colorado. However, Mount Massive is a more difficult hike to the top due to the length of the trails, and the trails are longer because mount massive has more...mass.
I grew up near the northern angle in Minnesota, yeah it is cold -30 degrees farinheight is normal for winter
My hometown is named for native Americans, it's Weehawken, NJ
Welsh Quakers bought land from William Penn. The core towns on the Philadelphia, PA area Mainline are named: Overbrook, Merion, Narberth, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr. btw, there is also a Philadelphia in Mississippi. ;-)
He said, “One in, one out.” 🤣😂💀
Arkansas here just to checking in 👌🐗
what you guys discussed at 20:50 is so important in my opinion. culturally, philisophically etc etc we absolutely do have "multiple countries" in one country which is why it is so hard to pass federal legislaton. I honestly wish we could divide the country into multiple sovereigns..would be much less animosity
I am from Mattoon, Illinois Home of the Burger King mentioned in this video. It actually started out as an Ice Cream stand, Frigid Queen lol. When they started selling burgers they wanted a suitable name for that part of the business so they came up with the mate name Burger King.
Hello here from Michigan!
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Your banter about the lady who's the only resident in her city was hilarious hahahaha
Somebody mentioned a Coventry in Connecticut, the state I live in, but I also know of a Coventry Vermont, but hey, we are in "New England"!
Hey guys, could you do some more "sweaty palms" compilations and stuff like that and maybe some longer fail videos? Enjoying your content so much that the videos feel too short haha, keep it up :)
To answer your question:
Coventry, Rhode Island
Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut
Coventry, Chenango County, New York
Coventry, Orleans County, Vermont
Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio
😂😂 are they all as irrelevant as their Uk namesake?
@@officeblokedaz ahahah yes indeed!
As an Oregonian who grew up in rural Oregon, please don't let Portland's shitty attitude give us all a bad name.
I live in Freeborn County Minnesota. Just in this county we have a Manchester, London, Moscow, Geneva, and Hollandale.
Jury of your peers in Yellowstone: bears, wolves, bison...LOL
Michigan is not the only state to be made of 2 separated sections. Virginia is also separated. The portion on the Del Marva Peninsula is separated from the rest of the state.