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Lots of gun clubs, clay pigeon shooting, vermin control on farms etc. Loads of guns in the UK. We just try to keep them out of the hands of idiots.
Especially the Police.
@@uingaeoc3905 Sounds like something an idiot would say.
Not really loads, there are around 700,000 registered firearms. If we had the same amount of guns per capita as the US we'd had 68,000,000 guns instead.
@@uingaeoc3905statement from an actual idiot.
We are a happier place without guns being the norm
As a German this pledge of allegiance reminds me of the very dark days of my nation when all people had to do such things.
I always wonder why America took that idea after WWll, ok rockets , bombs and a brain washing kids idea, oh i am jocking about the bombs etc.
I have loads of German Titanim in me that keeps my hart going and bits of me together, thanks Germany and the NHS.
@@gabbymcclymont3563 Doesn't this go back a lot further, they want the nation to be indivisible because of the extremely violent revolutionary war and civil war and to give some unifying message to the children of immigrants from around the world. By making it a learn by rote sing song which starts at 5 years old it achieves things which you can't by trying to educate adults.
@@paulmidsussex3409indoctrination. That everything and everyone exclusive of them is inferior unless they are indoctrinated to their cause.
German here and I agree 100%.
@@paulmidsussex3409It seems to have replaced Education, unfortunately.
In the US you have the freedom to use guns, in Europe we have the freedom of not getting shot.
In the US you have the freedom to offend people, in Europe we have the freedom to not be offended. (Talking about sexual orientation, race, religion, etc).
In the USA you have the freedom to access Great health care, if you can afford it. In Europe we have the freedom to not have to pay for an ambulance...
Europe you have the freedom to not use an American app YT, in America we have the freedom to tell you that!🤣
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw That was confusing. Yeah, nobody forces us to use certain apps, but none are banned neither.
@@matshjalmarsson3008 Did I suggest they were banned?
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw No, I was just confused about your post. Trying to make an ounce of sense of it, you know.
I still don't know your point, but I guess we'll never know.
@@matshjalmarsson3008 I guess not, but not bc I didn't try
Forcing kids to pledge allegiance to the flag 'under God' I'm pretty sure would be illegal in Sweden, we have freedom of religion, which covers all religions not just Christianity, and freedom from religion, so no.
Plus nearly all of them don't have any American blood. Basically pledging allegiance to a country that isn't theirs.
But the USA has that as well, they just ostracise anyone who opts not to do it. You are free not to be a Christian, just don't run for office or expect your kids to be treated normally.
That's one of the beauties of this world of ours - not all countries are the same!
Same in most EU countries.
As a Swede I can confirm that this would be entirely illegal even in private schools.
Only heard his opening statement about freedom. Actually, most of us outside the US consider you less free than ourselves, for the reasons you and Karl stated.
The United States the “land of the free” only ranks 15th freest country in the world on the human freedom index.
UK is 14th so more freedom than the US.
The freest countries are mostly in Europe, but Canada and Australia are right up there.
Just sending your children to school knowing they're not going to be shot, is freedom enough for me.
So free that their zoning laws won't let them put shops and businesses near housing.
I don't know how representative what I see on TH-cam is but the USA appears highly regimented and controlled in many ways. If you cross the street in the wrong place you are breaking the law, if you park your car facing the wrong direction you are breaking the law, if you have overnight guests you are breaking your lease, if you don't cut your grass the right length your housing association can fine you, you have to queue for hours to register your car, your tax return is a billion pages long. I am worried that the UK may be regressing and going the same way.
I agree...I'm from the UK and I don't see the USA as free as the UK...but it's my own personal opinion
You summed it up nicely Connor, when you said that people in Europe care more for their fellow men than people in the USA. The word "social," as in social housing and social medicine does not mean communism.
nah, no where else to put the riff raff.
Americans do seem scared of anything called 'social'.
@@zaftraoh no, I'm riff-raff!!!
I know right? It’s so funny how Americans confuse socialism with communism 😂
@@soozb15 ufh, common.
I always think that America is run more like a company and the president is like the CEO. Whereas, European countries are run more like the president/prime ministers are the caretaker of the country (obviously there’s still problems, they’re still politicians after all) but that’s how I see that they’re different. 😊
Regarding "company" and commercial enterprise. Another lie Americans get taught (but not only Americans), is the real reason the Mayflower arrived with the Pilgrim Fathers.
While it’s popularly thought that the Pilgrims fled England in search of "religious freedom", the separatists’ quest had ended more than a decade before they boarded the Mayflower.
The Pilgrims actually had no reason to leave the Dutch Republic in order to go to America to seek religious toleration-because they already had it, therefore, you have to look for other reasons as to why they might have risked the dangers of going across to the New World-and one of the big reasons was commercial.” In fact in order to finance the voyage, the Pilgrims were forced to take aboard the Mayflower fellow economic migrants who shared their quest for commercial success, but not their separatist beliefs. These “strangers,” as the Pilgrims called them, accounted for half of the Mayflower passengers. They were less religious refugees than economic migrants.
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
As an employer in the UK I don't pay my employees to take time off, that time is already their own time. I'm simply contracting them for a certain number of days in the year, and for simplicity we pay them their salary in 12 monthly payments.
If you come at this thinking you are paying people to take time off, then this is already the wrong attitude to be having. It's no different to a weekend, I'm not paying them to have days off at the weekend, this is simply time that was already theirs. Vacation time (holiday) is simply the annual equivalent of a weekend.
Since workers are legally entitled to paid holidays in the UK then you must be paying them for those days off.
@@elizabethmillen6585 No, he pays each employee £X per year divided into 12 installments. Each year every employee is entitled to 28 days leave, which is not deducted from their annual salary. How are you not getting this, it's hardly rocket science!
@@elizabethmillen6585 you need a lesson in reading bro?
@@Ffinity if someone leaves the job part way through the year and hasn't taken any leave they would have to be paid for the holiday days they hadn't taken, in addition to their normal month's salary. I agree it's not rocket science.
@@gregc9344 think about it. People get paid for their holidays. It's actually called holiday pay. It's the law.
Sorry Connor,I just checked and American Doctors For Truth did indeed run that ad on US tv in 2012.😂😂😂😂
Yes but they didn't actually throw grannies off a cliff...if they did who did the filming..?...🤔
If a german teacher would TRY something like the Pledge of Allegiance in a classroom, he would be looking for another job
Triggering memories of not one but two different dictatorships would be highly offense fr
The EU economy is not far behind the US economy even with their relaxed attitude towards work because firstly, the european countries tend to have more redistributive tax measures which raise up the very bottom of society allowing them to participate and contribute, and secondly, forcing somebody to work more time does not necessarily translate into more productivity, so americans are not really productive for the entire time they get forced to work.
When a country's GDP is quoted, more important is how is that shared out. If the majority goes to the top few, for whose benefit is the production for?
I wouldn't say EU is far behind US economy. America is currently in 31 trillion dollars debt the worst any country has ever had. They are currently roughly going 2 billion in debt every day for the last year or so
I thought USA was the richest country in the world,you can’t be if you have that much debt. Who they borrowing off, I wouldn’t have thought anyone would have that kind of money to lend or does the USA just tell us they are the richest because the propaganda they spew out of that country is crazy
@@daviddempsey2546 Yes, that's what I also said. I said they are not far behind. But in terms of the American government deficit, for any other country that might matter but for the USA it's not really a concern. As long as the USD remains the global reserve currency, they can continue to print new money to pay old debts and not suffer too much inflation as the global demand for dollars will remain very high.
ITS REAL AS I REMEMBER THEM SHOWING IT IN UK, 75 PERCENT OF COMMERCIALS IM USA ARE SELLING DRUGS, THAT TELLS YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMERICAN HEALTH
And it's IN big print 🖨. as well just in case your eyes 👀 don't work and you have to read with your EARS .
Well. it's a big business. During 2015-2018, 13.2% of Americans aged 18 and over reported taking antidepressant medication in the past 30 days
Perhaps there are commercials for keyboards too. If yours it broken and the CAPS-LOCK key is stuck I mean.
In the Uk we do not have militia, we have a highly organised army, who carry arms when necessary, and a highly regulated Police Force, some of whom carry guns when required, but regular serving police officers are un-armed basically carrying a baton and a tazer and also at times pepper spray, give me the UK system any day, I feel safe here outside my home but feel I would be totally unsafe in a country where any citizen can carry a gun ( because the constitution says they can !! ) utter madness !!! It seems that the powers that be in control in the USA actually don't give a damn about the citizens, contradict me if I'm wrong, but it seems everything in the states revolves around the mighty dollar, the getting of it, the keeping of it and the making sure that you have more of it than your neighbour !! bottom line is GREED, and the desire to get more, more and even more !!! Thank God for the ethics and compassion so evident in the United Kingdom, your oath of allegiance is an exercise in mind control because everybody knows that children are fertile ground when it comes to suggestive statements !!! Bizarre ?? I'd say so !!!😮😮😮
Germany Here. If a Teacher, or Prinzipal would make you hail the flag, it would be his last day in his Job.
I'm Australian and I've never once in my life pledged allegiance to Australia, to the flag or anything, now of course I love my country but if i was asked to pledge allegiance I would find it a bit weird.
No, because 'deep down' you KNOW it's the UK you owe allegiance too... 🙃Only joking, lots of love from London, England heading your way (or am I...? Brrrrrrrrrr... rat-tatatatatata !) 😎😅 😂 🤣
I grew up behind the Iron Curtain in a "communist" country. And guess what? Neither did I...
I don't even know mine... "God Save the KIng"..only the next one and a half lines. (Anyway at school, we used to make up our own words)
@@mikefraser4513There are at least 7 verses to "God Save The King" but I doubt there are many Britons who know more than the first verse!
Only the military pledge allegiance in the UK
How do Americans put up with not having the right to time off. I wouldn’t blame them for marching on Capitol Hill for that. Instead they do it for the kind of dictator that wants to keep them tied to the grindstone.
The only time anyone tried to make me say any pledge of allegiance was when I was an exchange student in the US, I kept getting in trouble for refusing to say it.
Do you have to say it even if your from another country, I wouldn’t have said it either.
This Brit used to teach in an American school. There was NO WAY I was pledging allegiance to their flag. It’s quite disturbing to see 5 and 6 year olds being forced to parrot words they don’t understand or else risk punishment, or a telling off by an authority figure at the very least.
One Business man in Japan used to walk around the office at 5.00 pm. Any employees who were still working we told to go home. If for some reason they had to work slightly past the normal finish time, they were told to take that time of the next day. In the first 3 months of putting this into practice productivity went up 17%.
I can it from Denmark too.
We also seemes to much better organized. The jobs has many more hours , so we selvom has 2 jobs. The jobs are wider and more anvandes and by that we feel for its. It is Ours and we are important wheels.
The picture is familiy, dog and car. Its them we are figting for - not the company-boss. Thats the trick. By that fighter for the stockholders too. 🎈🎈🎈Freedom are very much free shools and education and no hopital bills. and almost lawyers about it
In Japanese corporate society, working “for the company” takes priority than working “for yourself” and is usually regarded as an unquestionably common sense behavior. For this reason, when a Japanese person joins a company, he or she is expected to be loyal to the company and to serve the company even at the expense of the individual and sacrifice of their personal life, which seems to be very reasonable under this GIVE & TAKE relationship. I saw a documentary where in larger companies, they had a room with punchbags hanging from the ceiling. When they're feeling frustrated,
they can take a visit downstairs and beat the shit out one of these bags. It's found out it makes them feel better then. Some years ago, I was in Tokyo and took a short cut through a quiet line (it was late evening). Behind the bushes I saw men sleeping on wooden mats who I assumed to be homeless, until I realized they were all wearing suits. I was told by a Japanese friend that was normal as it being in the centre of the city, it was extremely expensive to find somewhere to live and getting to work on time.
There is something called "nemuri" , one of the ways chosen by the Japanese workers to show their earnestness and dedication to their work. This means that they have worked carefully and diligently until they feel very tired. Sleeping at work is also a way to show that they are committed to completing their tasks.
Thanks. Japan has their problems too.
In the Netherlands gun ownership is highly regulated.
You can have a gun if you’re a member of the (military) police, army. You can also own a gun if you are a hunter, member of a shooting club. Regulations are very strict and controlled.
Most Americans use the word communism and socialism without knowing what the mean and what the differences are.
America could use a lot of socialism to improve the standards of living for people that aren’t (extremely or) very rich.
In most European countries it’s impossible to fire a worker without a very good reason. It’s highly regulated. Working in the USA looks like modern slavery to us in Europe. No affordable healthcare, no workers right.
Europeans work much more efficient than Americans because Europe’s economy isn’t that far behind the USA.
Yes, we have flexible workday hours and parttime workdays.
Yes, in the Netherlands, we have the possibility for people to end their lives humanely because they don’t want to live anymore. It’s highly regulated so that only people that really can’t be helped and are really suffering in and with life can end their lives. It’s called euthanasia.
Pledge of allegiance in the Netherlands 😂, forget it. Never. We are much to independent people to do that.
I remember doing a pledge/promise when I was in the boy scouts... I think they still do that, all over the world. We are sworn in if we witness in a court. We even sing the national anthem at some big public events... but not at sporting events. No, doing a daily chant, saluting the flag and pledging allegiance to the supreme leader is one of the hallmarks of a cult or authoritarian regime (what we call a 'Red Flag').
Is perhaps the red flag a red flag? Because in the UK the Conservatives always sing the national anthem at their conference and the Labour Party always sing the Red Flag. Freedom for Tooting! Which reminds me Connor, if you want to see the British antidote to Yes Minister you should watch Citizen Smith.
LOL. Americans do not pledge allegiance to the supreme leader.
The freedom of the individual ends where the freedom of others begins!
Conner, the British government and Generals did not recognise American rebels as legal combatants during the revolution. Congress therefore, passed the 2nd amendment in an effort to improve the fates of captured armed American militiamen, so they were treated as prisoners of war not just as traitors. The problem is a result of politicians not removing the 2nd amendment after Independence.
Oh, come on. The second amendment was passed eight years after the end of the American revolt.
It's not by accident that European countries care more about its citizens and well-being, considering the impact of the first and second world war had on Europe, it got a lot of people from all backgrounds and political spectrums to change a lot of their views in how things need to change.
A lot of these changes ended up being exported to other countries, almost all modern countries and many developing ones, the US is the exception that is the odd one out when it comes to modern countries and not in a good way, a lot of people take a lot of things for granted in almost every modern country that Americans wished they had in the US and I think a big part of the problem is that the US is kinda isolated from the rest of the world, or at least most Americans are, and that isn't good for adopting change because it ends up leaving most of the citizens ignorant in what's going on around the world, whiles at the same time, allowing the system to brainwash it's citizens into thinking they are the best, after all, it's not by chance that patriotism and flag waving is far higher in the US then any other modern country, it's by design to keep the population under control, likely to enrich the elites and keep them in power, it's so effective that Americans even defend that idea.
Caring more for your fellow citizens is basically socialism, something that scares most Americans shitless. Just saying 😮
I would say it's actually humanism, but I don't care about the title and maybe this scares the US Americans even more.
No it doesn't apply to MOST Americans, only to some. I'm really sick of this European hyperbole. How many of the 333 million Americans do you know?
@@reindeer7752 LOL. How many do you know? 200 million? Either way, if we look at the lack of social/socialist/humanist systems across the states, and the responses we get to see on any of these systems proposed, maybe it's not strange that this is the perception.
I LOVE your personality. You’re so humble and open minded. And it’s clear you think before speaking.
Twenty days holiday is the minimum. The longer you work for a company the more you get. In the UK we get an extra nine Bank Holidays scattered through out the year making a short week. Some firms do have flexi hours.
Holiday entitlements vary between companies. The UK has fewer bank holidays than most European countries. Although France is a secular country some of its public holidays are religious-based and a bit obscure. For example, 1st November, All Saints' Day, is a public holiday.
Yes, as a UK Civil Servant I work flexi time (which is worth £5k plus to me) and get 30 days holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays. Really pleased they are paid!
I’m in the UK I work for HMPPS thus I work antisocial hours, I get what is known as red hours pay and an extra 11 days leave so for me that works out at just over seven weeks a year, I have to take two weeks together or they will allocate time to me the rest I can take how I like and if I can’t use it all I can carry some over, as I work a 37 hr week I can carry over 67 hours. 😊
We have that in the UK, I's called flexi-time. This allows fior you to work your 35 or 40 hours a week for example And choose the hours that suit you.we are also trialing 4 day weeks
I've worked Flexi Time for nearly 20 years and it's a life changer. Being able to leave home before or after rush hour takes away stress, and having days off for time accrued is wonderful. I'd rather have my Flexi job with the current pay (Civil Service - so not great!) than another 9-5 job for £5k more.
I am English and there is no such thing like that. We all live in our country, we abide by the laws and do our best to live together peacefully. If someone brakes the law and is caught, they will be punished according to the law. This seems to work very well.
"If someone brakes the law" Why would they be trying to slow down the law.
It is concerning that you state that "I am English" yet you don't know that brake & break are 2 different words with totally different meanings.
From the UK 🇬🇧. We in Europe look at it as society is only as strong as it’s weakest link. Therefore we strive to make our weakest link as strong and prosperous as possible. No society has total equality. So that’s the next best thing.
I'm Norwegian and I've never once in my life pledged allegiance to Norway or our flag. I have never heard about this other than in USA, but I can be wrong...
It's brainwashing, typical of autocratic regimes: North Korea, Nazi Germany, maybe China? And the US😐
North Korea maybe lol
I'm from Romania. We had no pledge to recite but we did have to sing the National Anthem when the country was Communist.
When we did away with Communism we also did away with everything that reminded us of those decades, all the symbols, even school uniforms. We have a very different Anthem now and nobody sings it in our schools.
And I'm sorry to tell you but the death panel ads were real. I lived in the US between 2008 and 2011 and I saw loads of them on TV. The one with the grandma being thrown off a cliff too.
If you are in full time employment in the UK you are entitled to 5.6 weeks paid holiday per year
Yes and they can't sack you for asking to have time off!
Driving to the incredible Canada without having to cross any oceans. I am a jealous german. Freedom right beside you.
I was on university exchange to the US many yeara FI, and all my medical expenses were covered by the UK National Health. I had to be treated for something in the US, and I remember the doctor's face fall to the ground when I told her it was all paid for.
I have medicare in the USA and its all paid for.
the only freedom we dont have here in Europe that Americans have is being able to own guns, but i do have the freedom of never worrying about being shot, Europe on the whole has actually more freedom within its laws than America does
The Pledge gives me cult vibes. Very chilling 👀😬
Been enjoying Karl’s posts for a while. He doesn’t post as much as he did, but he’s always worth watching.
My dad is currently in hospital here in the UK, being treated under the NHS for free (aka social medicine). He is being treated for his third separate primary cancer since 2011, and has been undergoing treatment of one kind or another pretty much continuously since first being diagnosed including at least 7 or 8 surgeries, hospital stays, outpatient appointments, CT and MRI scans, blood tests, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other ongoing medication. He hasn’t paid a penny out of pocket for any of it. If death panels were even a thing, he would have been written off years ago. Thank god they’re not, and the NHS will continue to treat him for the rest of his life.
BTW at just 30 you are nowhere near being old, I’ve got one son 2yrs older and another 6 months younger than you!
Yes, my husband is 70 and undergoing treatnent for cancer after recurring almost 7 years after the last bout of it.
No waiting about or anything - can't fault his treatment.
Sigh, healthcare in the UK is only "FREE AT THE POINT OF DELIVERY", you pay for it through taxation, it's not free.
We do have a "death panel" in the UK.
Every year an organisation called the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) decides which drugs are available on the NHS.
We use "Quality of life adjusted years" as a metric. So if a drug will perfectly cure a 5 year old for the price of £5000, no problem it will be available on the NHS.
But if a drug costs £100,000 per year and will only slow the deterioration of an 80 year old with dementia, it won't be available on the NHS.
Effectively, NICE is deciding who will live and who will die, calling it a "death panel" is American rhetoric but it is still the case that you can pay into the NHS for your entire life and then be denied a drug because it would be too expensive, even if that means you die a year or two earlier.
If you didn't know about NICE, you should also lookup "The Liverpool Care Pathway". If a doctor decides you are dying you will be sedated, have food and water withdrawn and left to die slowly of dehydration.
Go and read it, yes it is real.
I understand a pledge of allegiance is also a thing in North Korea!! Nowhere else as far as I know!!
No we do not do the pledge we also don't have flags everywhere apart from special occasions such as coronations
Yes! there is a highly regulated system here in the UK, and "ownership" of a gun is permissible. However, I was a member of a small bore Rifle Club (.22). When I first joined in the late 70's I was able to keep my rifle and ammo at home in a secure cabinet, and the Police came to check it was up to standard etc.
After some shootings we had here in the UK in the 80's, they passed a law stopping us from holding them at home, and they had to be lodged at the Gun Club.....that's when I gave it up.....different rules for Farmers, and some others tho'.
Freedom started in Briton, the mother of all parliaments, the Magna Carta the first ever bill of wright's in the world,. It is in the doors to your supreme Court in America.
No never done that in the uk. I do remember my brownie promise from when I was about 10.
It always makes me think of the fervour you see in other countries regarding their religions and their flags pride is one thing but I find it a bit over the top. I can feel great pride in my country but it was never forced on me.
I promise that I will do my my best and do my duty To God. To Serve the Queen and help other people and to keep the Brownie Guide Law. Right hand Thumb enclosed with the other fingers upright. Hope I got it Okay but I am 62 years old. The Promise has been updated to match our cosmopolitan communities.
@@mairiconnell6282I'd forgotten all about that! I was an Imp. And I was an imp 😂
@@soozb15 Ditto or was I a Pixie. No I do believe I was an Imp and still am to this day.
I remember the brownie promise too!! I was a Sprite, I also have my Brownie book from the 80s.
I was a fairy, a clumsy one lol in the 60’s
Sorry Conner the death panel advert was real I checked.
social democratic economics mixed with general western liberalism seems to create a more humanitarian outcome, ironically most Scandinavian nations have deregulated capitalism more free than even the US, it's just taxed more. A strong social system actually requires fairly laissez-faire capitalism to generate the revenue and protect the public
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
One word: Creepy! 😟
Dude i love your reactions 😂 and no, at least in germany we don't have any kind of pledge of allegiance
I live in a semi-rural area in the UK, and a large number of young people in my area go to a local shooting club; in fact, one of my favourite department stores (which has country people as a target audience) has an entire shooting department, where you can buy absolutely everything you could imagine related to shooting - APART from actual weapons or ammunition. You also find that many larger houses in the country over here have purpose-built secure gun rooms. I suppose in the UK, shooting is often thought of as being 'for the upper classes', and it is fairly well regulated. In the light of a terrible incident a few years ago, there is hope that the rules will be tightened up even further with some new legislation.
As for the pledge of allegiance, we don't have anything like that over here, but in the past (my Father's generation or before) you would have to recite the Lord's prayer in assemblies. Actually, my primary (elementary) school wasn't a church school, but it had some religious themes running through the teaching, but never in an overt way; we did nativity plays (like Christmas pageants), and the Christingle service (which was basically a giant fire hazard), and Harvest Festival. Plus we did things like Joseph and T-A-T-D-Coat, and 'The Jonah Man Jazz'. But that's probably the closest we came to being made to participate in something that might be ideologically at odds with your own personal upbringing or beliefs - and even then, I am sure you could ask not to participate.
Some might call it indoctrination, but I don't think it really was - there was no biblical teaching outside of fun plays and musicals, no 'ten commandments' outside of being taught the basics of being a good citizen. It was all good fun; if you came from a church-going family, then that was great for you, and if not, you got to dress up, put a tea towel on your head and sing some nice songs - you didn't have to believe in it. In fact, one of our UK comedians released a charity single of 'assembly bangers' which was a remix of all the Christian songs we used to sing in school assembly as kids, and people go crazy for it. I think it's because it was all very laid-back and fun; I know certain US politicians want to put religion back into schools, but I am guessing it wouldn't be done with very much of a sense of humour!
Now with the availability and existence of social media, they cant lie forever. Now a lot of americans really know the truth and what happens in other countries. Keep on spreading the good news MCjibbins
Brit here. Never beeen required to say any such in the UK
Yet another great video awesome 👌
Just a couple of things , I think after the War , which led to everyone having to make sacrifices and live in fear Including the civilian population there was a demand for basic services available to all . That led to ' democratic socialism ' if that's what you want to call it , but it's nowhere near communism . The other point regarding freedom , Are you free to refuse to pledge allegiance if you feel it's inappropriate ?
Love Karl and his family, they go to loads of country shows and all 9 of them were in Scotland this summer, great vlogs.
Sorry, that’s a totally different channel to International Karl. It’s called The Family 94.8fm
Sorry, 9B4M The Family not what I said before (senior moment!!!)
The American stand point is I have a gun because the other guy has one. Mostly in Europe the bad guy does not have a gun.
Ahh the good old cliff day. Every year on february 30th 😂
Europe / rest of the world vs US:
Can be summed up with the Rick Steve's Cornwall video reaction. Your statement / question concerning what would happen if you paid the fishing boat lookout $20 to give you a heads up when boat comes in.
Then Rick stated: all the villagers rush down to bring in the fish. Because the the whole village pitches in or the whole village starves.
The look of realisation on your face / in your eyes with that.
You're not a psycho. Your merely American. And with all that entails. Good and bad.
Freedom is always the freedom of the other person
As a Brit, I’ve never got the obsession with the flag. It’s just so cult-like.
Everything he said is true 👍
Oh, your birthday’s 2 days (and 35 years) after mine, Connor. Happy birthday for next week!
In the UK you swear allegiance to the monarch, their heirs, and successors, but you ONLY do that if you’re joining the military, the police, or being sworn in as a Member of Parliament. Most people never swear anything.
Youth organisations such as the scouts pledge allegiance to not just the monarch but also god, which is why I jumped ship.
re: guns, I suggest you watch this (on YT), Connor, about gun culture in Switzerland: "Switzerland: So Many Guns, No Mass Shootings | The Daily Show Throwback" - The Daily Show
I think the balance of 'live to work' or 'work to live' changes as you get older. And not always in the right order.
When you are young, you should make the most of life while you can. And then, over 50, you suddenly realise that all that time wasted working to make an income while you are young and fit enough to enjoy the benefits have mostly been wasted, and you're not really able to do so much with the money you have carefully saved 'for a rainy day'.
If there's anything I'd do differently in life, I'd be more willing to take out a loan and go do the stupid stuff I wanted to do in my younger years. But this is not how a sensible, financially sound mind works. Apart from those crazy, irresponsible and reckless individuals I knew back in the day (and who I now realise had probably got it more right than I had.)
I feel punished for being careful and financially aware.
But on the other hand, this is better than being punished for being over-reckless when younger, and not being able to ever throw off the debt.
It's probably an insolvable problem, but I can't help but think there must be a better way for society to address this.
I'm 63 and have been partially retired for 4 years, and finally becoming fully retired at the end of this year (64). I feel I can enjoy my life more now than when I was younger as my life is way more stable than when I was younger. Me and my friends are in good health and have total freedom to do what we want, when we want. I'm glad I didn't go overboard when I was younger, so I have savings as a back-up if needed.
the pledge of allegiance is a US/German thing... Germany started it, USA followed, but after the war, Germany stopped, and USA didnt...
The saying is 'dog eat dog world' not 'doggy dog' 😂
A typical eggcorn 😊
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Anybody know the deal here?
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I'm old born in 1993 .Ha Ha Ha. I was born in 1961.Thats old mate .
Even in the film tombstone they were moaning cause they said "nobody is saying you can't own a gun,we're just saying you can't carry a gun in town" haha
I live in the UK and manage 17 people. As a manager one of my Key Performance Indicators (KPI) is that every employee takes their full 30 days leave every year, if anyone doesn't I take a hit on my performance
I left school in theUK in the early 70's and in those days we had morning assembly when the whole school would gather together to sing a hymn and listen to a reading from the Bible, followed by some general school news from the headmaster. I don't know if that still takes place as it was a sort of Christian prayer meeting and the schools are now much more religiously diverse. I suppose you could say it was a form of indoctrination, but we didn't pledge an allegiance as such.
comprehensive schools came in, in the 70s and I had two years left when the change came and religion was taking out of assembly in my school. Catholic schools still have religion in their assembly as my great nephew goes to a catholic school.
Cops and guns: In Norway, the police keep their weapons in a locked box in their car. If they need them, they will have to break the seal and take them out (takes all of two seconds). If a seal is broken, there's a bit of paperwork associated with it, and the police will have to demonstrate a reasonable reason to go for the guns in their paperwork. Occasionally, the security levels are increased, and the police carry guns, though any raise in security levels are reviewed regularly with the hope of lowering them again.
How easy do you fall for Republican publicity against Community Health care. How could you even believe this is even remotely true.
In India, they have an assembly of the whole school every morning, all the grades in order. Usually you get some school news, some physical exercise, school uniform check and some school specific stuff, ours had someone read out some world news headlines... And then, we sang the national anthem. Every morning. It was not a pledge, but a definitive reminder of how good this country is.
I never saw it as indoctrination, there is generally more patriotism and propaganda than in Austria (😳😑), but as huge country with diverse cultures and languages that weren't in unity and suppressed before 1947, that they are pretty cool and strong together.
The best description I have ever heard of the US was from an American woman who said "The United States is a third world country dressed in Gucci." I've never heard a truer word spoken. (And no, it is categorically NOT the greatest country in the world, not even close.)
Even "you can't own a gun" is wrong. The UK has the strictest gun controls in Europe but you can still own a gun, a rifle, a shotgun. You just have to prove a need for it and that it is safely stored.
In the UK we (as kids) would assemble in the school hall and the headmaster would talk about good accomplishments of the school then finish with the lord's prayer...
The pledge of allegiance is really strange and very authoritarian.
Here in Brazil, children used to stand every monday to listen to anthem back when we were in a military dictatorship
There was something similar to your pledge in former Yugoslavia. I'm going to leave it at that.
Happy Birthday for next week.
We in the UK have had freedom longer than you have had a country. 200+ sovereign nations 170 odd have freedom.
No pledge in UK! I can’t believe kids have to do that in the US. Definitely reminds me of Germany back in the day!
Up to a few decades ago they played God Save the Queen after the last showing at the cinema and way before that it was played before the TV shut down for the night. but thats it.
And we all used to sneak out before the lights came up in order to avoid having to sit through the national anthem😊
I really enjoy half awake Connor
Hi Connor, 29:40 pledging allegiance by children who have no choice, no I don't think that happens anywhere else.
North Korea comes to mind
Pledge of alliance: In Hungary, we dont do anything like this. We have 3-4 celebration in a year, connected to state, like national holidays, when we remember for revolutions, or similars, and then the kids do some show about the events, sing the hymn, but thats all. The schools, as a state institute, have a flag on their front, but nothing else. Most of the classrooms have a picture of the coat of arms in their, but never mentioned it - its just an accessories of the schoolrooms.
That Pledge of Allegiance... it didn't exist not even in the times of communism in my country... so not even in a totalitarian regime... That is creepy af...
McDonald's in Europe have to meet the employer's legislation requirements of minimum pay, minimum leave, sick pay and all the rest.
I haven't head them complaining that they can't make a decent profit under these conditions.
Wake up Americans and end workplace slavery.
some unmentioned problems with social housing being sprinkled, you do get areas like the one i live in, where most of it is social housing and very few private owned, its crime ridden, vandalized, drugs ridden ect in the same area with people who actually want to succeed in life but they are being held back.
The US having flags all over the place is because of short term memory, they always forget where they are.
Good on ya man for not only liking the vid you reacted to, but also commenting and subscribing, very rare for reactors :)
Your statement at 9:20 was spot on!
It seems to those 'outside' the US, that most Americans care little for one anothers well being.
If you cared about each other, you would have a Universal Healthcare system in place, you would have a much better work/life balance, you would have universal protections in place to ensure a decent standard of living for your most vulnerable, you would have several PAID weeks of annual vacation time and sick leave as a basic workers 'right' .. and a range of other benefits that most other developed countries around to world currently enjoy.
It saddens me to think that the US could have all these things but instead, most of the countries 'wealth' is siphoned off to a small percentage of already filthy rich people.
Entrepreneurs may well start many of the US's wealth generation companies, but its the 'workers' that make it all happen and they receive very little benefit for their efforts.
They are made to feel 'lucky' that they have a job that exploits them.
Other countries, like here in Australia, have problems as well, we are certainly not perfect, but we still live in a society that cares about its fellow citizens.
I have always thought the pledge of alliegence smacked abit too much of indoctrination.
Rather cult-y
@@soozb15 "Cult-bulls**t" is exactly how Doug Stanhope describes it.
Your death panel description is a pretty good description of the US insurance system - REAL death panels.
15:45 the perverse thing is ( seen from afar) it's is not just the Employers! It's the actual workers, (many of) the employees themselves who shout COMMUNISM when someone talks about giving them more rights. That is just stupid. Some people are so well trained (or brainwashed) to throw this stupid buzzword at everything, THEY would benefit from.
I always imagine, what happens at the CEO floor of McDonald's or something, when they see that. They probably can't believe their luck.
Nothign that happens or happened in the world (except from small local experiments) has anything to do with "Communism". Not Europe, DEFINITELY not China, not US health care....
The issue here is the US is permanently locked into this false idea that to assist and help its citizens is tantamount to socialism. What is a nation other than its people? It doesn't help when the American political system is controlled by the influence of corporate lobby groups that have the economic power to make the decisions on policy. To even think about running for the president, be it Democrat or Republican you have to be at least a millionaire and have the backing of millions of dollars of "sponsorship". That's not to say here in the UK our political systems are perfect because they're not but ultimately it's still a political system that is better and fairer than the US system.
I think one of the difference is that US citizens are taught that you are the creator of your own destiny...as a result if you see a homeless person or sb not having enough money to pay for their healthcare bill - you are taught you can just blame the person for putting themselves in that situation...which leads to more individualism
In EU we are taught more that we all are responsible for how our society looks, that the guy on the street could be my dad one day... so as you said, that leads to more of a pack mentality.
I think your employers really miss the slaves.
Over here, on the civilised side of the pond, we have conditions of service.
The only instance I can think of that was very similar, was when I was in Junior School, ages 8-11, when we had assembly and the music to go to your class was "The Liberty Bell March" which is an American military march composed (1893) by John Philip Sousa and was used as the theme tune for the Monty Pythons Flying Circus Series.
In Britain, pledging allegiance to the state is not mandatory, as is the case in America.
You can own a gun in Europe, at least in Spain. It's not that hard, you just need to get a license. The difference looks just like in America guns are a mass commodity, whereas in Europe guns are for sports, hunting, etc. As a result, there is more control. Also, we don't have a gun culture anymore.