Maybe we should explain the definition of the WORLD wde web to them. Or are they arrogant enough to assume that the US is the world, and nothing else matters?
@jlessien3826 My job took me into contact with many American tourists here in the UK. Most were - of course - friendly, polite and well informed. But there were a few so abysmally stupid or ignorant or both that they redefined the genre. Some seemed to think the UK was a branch of Disneyland and every citizen at their beck and call for the price of a plane ticket. I even met one couple who thought that, as American citizens, they were immune from the laws of foreign countries - they found out they were wrong the hard way.
@@jackwaycombeIf you ever watch the show Border Security (about border issues between Canada and the US) you see this entitled attitude all the time. One American couple thought they didn't have to declare their concealed carry firearms when coming into Canada because they were Americans travelling to Alaska. The husband argued with the Customs Agent about it and the Canadian Officers were like: This is an entirely different country. It doesn't matter if you're American. The couple was then hit with weapons smuggling charges. My mom used to work with people in Canada Customs many years ago and she said this American attitude is more common than most people think.
@@mish375 That happens all the time it seems. Had the truck before us stopped back in 2006 when we went up to Canada after landing in Chicago. The (slightly older guy) just didn't get the shotgun in his truck got him stopped and was all about "free country" and stuff. It was as spooky as it was amusing ;)
years ago I made friends with some Americans through online gaming, still speak to some of them now. Some of them had me on Facebook and I uploaded a picture of my dog enjoying a day out at the beach and one of them commented (keeping in mind he was in his 30s) "wow, I've only just found out the UK has beaches". We're an island surrounded by water. That was a puzzling interaction.
@@wendykelly8551 how funny, glad it wasn't just me! It would certainly take a lot less time than the states but a "few hours" it most definitely isn't 😂 😂
@wendykelly8551 Working with tourists many year ago, I received a letter from America (pre-email) asking if they would need to book a ferry from England to Scotland. Thing is, I wouldn't at the time, have claimed to know that much about the USA. But if I had ever decided to visit, my first move would surely have been to purchase a good guidebook.
@@jackwaycombe to let them off slightly when I had to go to the Cardiff office one of the younger people going with me asked "are we getting flights or a ferry". They were born and raised in the UK and I was very confused. They were just as confused when I responded "well we're going by train" to which they replied "oh does the tunnel go to Wales also?". It was only then I realised they thought Wales was a completely different Island within the UK. So I do try to let Americans off slightly, even our own sometimes don't understand. It's our team joke now, whenever someone says they're going "abroad" for a holiday we always comment "Oh you're going to Wales?" What was funnier was the fact they spoke 3 languages (clearly not Welsh) so everyone had an assumption they were geography smart (to be clear they are great, funny and smart in other ways). Before I realised what was happening I was almost convinced they were correct and I was wrong because I've never had someone confidently say something so against reality. After I told them I even went to google to make sure I was correct because of it lmao. Confidence is essential, but not when misplaced. Was a fun 3 days in Cardiff regardless, really lovely City and fun people.
Indeed. Working with tourists for some years, I found most Americans to be polite and considerate. But the occasional stupid one was world class stupid. I had one tourist asking about an island accessible only by tidal causeway. I handed him a tide table. "They're different every day!!" he exclaimed angrily. I told him I could only apologise on behalf of the UK.
I live in a tropical tourist destination, and the Americans that come through...not all Americans mind you, but the ones who do stupid, they really go hard
@@jackwaycombe I agree. I'm from Germany in Heidelberg which is frequented by many American tourists. They are very very polite but they barely know the rest of the world. The most ignorant thing I've heard was the believe that Germany was socialist with limited free speech. There are a lot American students in Heidelberg's universities getting nervous every time they spot an American looking tourist 😂
I have watched an American gentleman quoting from the American Constitution when stopped by British Police - amazing memory with a complete lack of understanding for where he was - he was arrested with extreme politeness. Doubtless the Duty Solicitor explained his rights and wrongs. Probably let off with a caution. The thing that does anger me greatly is the way some tourists treat our military Guards and I have heard Americans arguing with our police that they are just a tourist attraction like Disney, well they are not they are Regular Army.
I was visiting Florida from South Wales a few years ago. At Cape Canaveral the lady on the ticket desk asked where I was from and I said Wales. She went ‘oh yes, King David!’ I told her there was never a King David but our patron Saint is St. David and maybe she was confusing the two. She replied ‘ No, you’re wrong. I’ve read books, your ruler is King David!’ I honestly didn’t know what else to say because I apparently have no idea about my own country and she was not backing down! She even told me to go and learn my history, she just couldn’t handle being told she was wrong!
I used to have a girlfriend from Peru whose first language was Quechua, a native-american language. She only ever spoke English to me, because "it's bad enough hearing you butchering the Spanish language"!
I grew up in China and went to an (American) international school (95% of the staff and about 65% of the students were from the US). Every year the senior class would sell tshirts to raise money for their senior trip. One year, they sold one that said “I ride a panda to school”. I just thought it was funny and just a silly thing to say 😂 But then I went to the US for a month when I was 16. I wore the shirt around the ADULTS I was volunteering with, and they all asked me what it was like to ride a panda. They didn’t ask if it was true, they just wanted to know how soft they were, how slow they are, if everyone has one… I genuinely thought they were joking at first
That isn't even the dumbest thing I've heard Americans say about China. I've literally had Americans think China was dirt poor and everyone lived in terrible disease ridden run down conditions. Not kidding. It may not surprise you to learn they got this take from American media. Also had Americans who think Chinese people don't properly cook food.
My friend bumped in to an American in Glasgow many years ago. She bumped in to them on George Square. The American thanked her for us naming the square after their president "it's such a nice thing to do" 😅. My friend had to explain that not only has the UK had a couple of kings called George, but also the streets and squares were built and named long before George Bush 😂.
We have had six kings with the name George. The late Queen's father was the last of the Georges and ruled as George VI. Incidentally, was your friend American as she seems as dumb as the American she met in Glasgow?
@@winterlinde5395 Yes it is certainly wrong. The word couple is is used exclusively to denote two. Two people in a relationship would be referred to as "a couple". Time to change your English teacher I think.
On holiday inn Barcelona, I was watching a bunch of American tourists coming away from a docked cruise ship. One guy looked confused and asked his friends why all the locals were speaking Mexican.
@@gwenwalravens8030 Mexican Spanish would be not with the Castiliano, which is Spanish post-Hapsberg lisp. They had the Spanish in Mexico before the massively in-bred Hapsberg ruled Spain.
@@cgkennedy no clue of what are you talking about. Spanish and Castilian are two ways of naming the same language. Spanish arrived México at the same time hasburgs arrived to Spain.
Visiting a friend in New Mexico some years ago, I went to Walmart to buy Xmas stuff and presented my UK Credit Card at the checkout. The cashier looked puzzled by it and I told her I was from England. She had not seen one from UK before. Then she said..." You speak very good English, do they speak English in England" I politely said "yes, they do" and left. My American friend was mortified and so apologetic but I thought is was hilarious!
Are you kidding? 😂 That's terrible, the clue is in the name. You'd notice how far behind America is behind the rest of the world, they only started using Chip & pin recently
@@nicholasr39 it is so ture, work in card customers service and chip and pin is still just getting set up/started in usa . .. they don't even know what wireless debit payment machines are. interact
European here: On every trip to the USA, I feel like I enter a twilight zone from the moment I cross the US border until the moment I leave the USA. During my stays in the States, without missing a week, I am asked questions like: Do you have cars in your country?; Have you seen fireworks before?; How come you speak English, and you haven’t been in the States?; You used PC’s since the early nineties?! Did you get them as a donation from America?... It seems that it is hard for many Americans to comprehend that there are parallel technological advancements in other parts of the world that do not feel the necessity to copy America nor are necessarily falling behind.
How does it feel to be so proud of your country's history and have to deal with the reality that your country is a VASSAL STATE of the American Empire..................if not forever for hundreds of years. That's why you hate the American people so much and make up fiction stories about them that make them sound dumber than a rhesus monkey. You can't handle the fact that you are under our thumb indefinitely. Hope your great great great grandchildren enjoy that just as much as you do.
More like the reverse. At one time the US only recognised patents registered in the US, it was a big money earner until invention after invention had two inventors, the genuine one and the other Thomas Edison or similar crook. It took the Paris Convention to bring the US into line with the rest of the world.
and they do not know how far behind they are with everyday technological advancements that have been in other parts of the world for decades already LOL
I lived and worked in the US for a while. We had a new (US) employee in the office and he asked where I came from "Cambridge", I said. "Oh", he said, "Mass". I said no, the original one in England. Whereupon a long discussion about how many of the places in the US were, to his complete surprise, named after places in the rest of the world. Worse, this was in Atlanta which is halfway between Rome and Athens... Nice guy though! :-)
Same story, only I'm from Moscow and many Americans asked if I was from Idaho. One guy was very pleased that the capital of the largest country in the world was named after an Americal city. To this day I don't know it he was kidding or not 😂
I was teaching English in Japan and when a teacher from America found out I was from the UK she loudly asked "Do you teach proper American English? You should be teaching American English so the students understand both" I asked her if she teaches British English as well as American and she replied "No, because she is American"
Sounds like an American. These are the people that still think Canada isn't a democracy and is still ruled by the British. Had an American tell me they didn't understand why we don't have our independence. And my mom had a lovely experience during the summer months when it was in the 30s temperature wise when Americans came up here and were baffled we didn't have snow. My mom told them to "try the Arctic". 😅😅😅
As an American that has been in the UK for nearly eleven years - The dumbest questions or comments my fellow Americans have said or asked me. How can you stand waiting months just to see your GP? (I do not) The longest I've ever waited is 10 days for a non-emergency concern. This was on the tale-end of the plague. I've waited longer in the US to see my GP. How can you stand living under Socialist Rule? (Please go back to school or google what Socialism is.) ...And my favorite. (I'd rather live in Scottland than the UK) This one made me laugh so hard... I'm sure there are more, but those are at the top of my head. Thanks for the fun video!
Like one of the commenters said, I have to say that although stupid is worldwide, the U.S appears to do stupid to a higher level of competency than others. I'm impressed. However, because I'm English, I will put it down to having a far greater populous and consequently there is a far greater chance of coming across those who are comically stupid. 😆
@@daveweir2292 It was the UK thing. ;) I have been asked how far is Scottland from the UK. I blinked, grinned, and said (zero miles) They didn't get it. 🤷
I'm originally from Wales, now living in North Carolina, a work colleague asked where I was from, I told him Wales, he thought I drove home every day, another thought Wales was in Chicago!!!
My daughter who lives in York went on a school trip to New York At JFK airport they caught a bus. The driver said. “You guys speak amazing English for a bunch of Europeans”
had a holiday in Vegas many years ago and caught the monorail whilst talking to my father in-law an American guy heard our accent and got all excited and asked if we were from Northern Ireland as well.. we said yes and he asked did we know his friend and proceed to grab a man a few feet away from him to present him to us... we all burst out laughing at the idea that a country of over 1.8million people and he thinks we all know each other by name....... but turned out the guy only lived a few miles from us 😂😂😂
Doesn't matter where you go. We had a similar experience in Anglesey( i know, not far) parked up and a bloke saw the number plate and asked where we were from, turns out about 5 mile from him.
I was chatting to a visiting Canadian and he said he wanted to check out his ancestry so he was going to Tullibody to look at their graves. Now I'm originally from the next village to Tullibody so I asked his name and I recognised it. I pulled up my family tree and his parents were on it. We were distant cousins.
It really is a small world. I was on holiday in Australia once, and was on one of the Steam Boats on the Murray river. Got the chance to meet the Captain of the boat. Turns out he used to work on the same Naval base that I used to here in England 😄
We moved to Australia and saw a family at a party that looked familiar. They had lived in the next street to us in England, but we'd never spoken to them until that day.
I know a lady that lives there in the US I'm from AU anyways, this was like 15/20 years ago we used to chat on Skype and her & her hubby at the time was talking & she said we need to come over to Australia some time and to keep this short... She asked what's the best way to travel here & we said by plane and she goes " What about by car & she looks at her Hubby & said we can just drive there can't we?" The look on her Hubby's face was priceless HA HA HA we all said to her where do you think Australia is? I can't remember where she said but somewhere down south of the US.
I helped an American tourist in Frankfurt to the right platform for the Airport. He said my English was really good. I said thanks but I am English. He didnt understand what I meant even when I said I come from England this is my first language...
In 2015 I (an Australian) was travelling down the east coast of the USA and I remember in New York I was asked by a waitress how long I'd been away from "Austria". I told her I had never been, I was from Australia. She replied, " Isn't Austria short for Australia? You know like an abbreviation."
In 2015, days after arriving in Maryland, a bunch of us were out one day and there was a very loud and opinionated guy (friendly though) who was chatting with a group near ours. At one point he starts saying how many black people never go to Africa and turns around and singles me out and says, "Like you, my brother, I can tell you've never been to Africa!" My response is the one thing that got him to keep quiet, "Dude, I'm from Zimbabwe. I just got here on Monday". Everybody in that place laughed and his volume was low afterwards.
To me an American who once said you have those quaint sports that no one really plays -like cricket. Dude there are 4x as many fanatical cricket fans in Asia than there are citizens in the US.
Comedy gold! From now on I will not be able to help thinking of our new king as Aquaman! Swimming around beneath the waves, talking to seaweed and addressing his whale subjects!
I've only been to the USA once, I spent 3 days in New York in 1989. I'm from Birmingham, I was asked if Birmingham was in London, I was asked if England was in France, I was asked if I was Australian because I called somebody mate and Crocodile Dundee says mate, I was told Birmingham was tiny compared to Manchester by a taxi driver who reckoned he'd been to both ( no it isn't but he knew more than me apparently ) and I was told to speak English, but I'll let that one pass as I do have a broad Brummie accent.
I lived in the US for nearly 5 yrs as a kid and the amount of times I was asked if I was from London was insane, even when I clarified that I was from the midlands and London is in the south (at that point I'd been to London only maybe 2 or 3 times), once got told that England was in London a couple times
@@TattooedAussieChick I'm afraid the best I can offer is a bit of advice, if you want to hear Brummie's watch the tv show Peaky Blinders. I no longer live in Brum, recently lost my Mom so I know how much a familiar accent can sooth.
When I was a kid (I'm an American from Kansas), I didn't really believe that anyone lived in Rhode Island, because it was too little on the map. The state name wouldn't even fit on it. Fortunately, that ignorance didn't last long.
What made me feel a bit annoyed at times when I was travelling through the USA that for the mere fact of being German I was considered an expert on Nationalsocialism and expected to be always willing to talk about this topic. Others thought it would be a terrible taboo for us. I often thought, gosh, you've got an obsession with this issue not me.
I'm genuinely surprised that they linked the two together. I did my Commercial Pilot's licence in South East Missouri, admittedly, not the most sophisticated part of the US. I had made some local friends, and we were sitting having a few brewskis and watching TV when suddenly Hitler at Nuremberg comes on ." What an asshole " l said . " Who is it? " they asked. I nearly fell out of my chair . This was in the 80s , and I assume they now all vote for Trump.
I was recently in the US and a woman noticed my English accent, she asked me where I was from and I said “I’m from England” to which she replied “I think you mean New England, honey…” 🤦🏻♂️
Durring the early 1990s I worked taking "more mature" people round The Peak District national park Derbyshire England Too many too mention here are a few .... it was so nice that places serverd coffee just because Americans where visiting ....we took bets on who from each tour would be the most surprised when we drove passed McDonalds ....being asked what we did for Thanksgiving and 4th of July but being surprised we celebrated Christmas .... why a house dating from 1570s was built over looking a freeway .... why did we use a bus with a door on the left side as that was very confusing .... but my favourite the first words said to me by one lady..... "I hope everyone in the hotel is like you and can speak English, they didn't last time I was in Europe"
I would love to go on them trips and pretend I was from USA, that would be funny, book me in, I speak fluent English, well almost, I'm from Rotherham but willing to learn.
Working with Scottish tourism a couple of decades ago, I was more than once congratulated by Americans on how well I spoke American. They assumed it was my second language - not sure what they imagined my first might be.
@@old.not.too.grumpy.The Americans think they invented English. It might come as a shock to those people when they realize the English people invented a language called "English". Shocker, right.😅
I was In America and Had been there three weeks was at a lunch and was asked by an American how long have I been In America I said three weeks and they said that I do speak very good English for being over here In America I come from Scotland.
😁I'm amazed they could understand you. 😂The Scottish accent sometimes doesn't travel well.😂 (btw) I'm from Nova Scotia, and my grandparent were from Scotland. 😊 Cheers!
@@dougwilson4537 Actually until the last couple of decades, residents of Inverness, the Capital City of the Highlands, were credited with speaking the best Queen's English, in the UK. Unfortunately, an influx of east coast Scots and retiring English folk have spoiled that reputation.
I lived in Michigan for a few years, and told one American I'm from Wales. They said you're Australian. I said no Wales the country. They said yes... In Australia. They would not have it that Wales was not in Australia.
There seems to be a common theme in these stories of people trying to explain why the person is wrong but they refuse to agree and even get cross. I think this is a uniquely US thing to assume you right and to be intellectually incurious as to the fact you might be wrong. Not all Americans obviously.
Even in Spain, they speak different variations of the language e.g. Castilian or Andalusian. In fact there are 11 recognised (distinct), 'Spanish Dialects' spoken across the world; while they can all communicate with one another, they speak different types of Spanish. One in the 'UK BOT'* is the Gibraltarian, Llanito. It's a combination of Andalusian Spanish and British English (but also influenced by Genoese, Hebrew, Maltese and Portuguese). EDIT: *Sorry, meant to say a BOT = a British Overseas Territory (and a holder of a UK Passport can just travel there as if it where part of Great Britain & Northern Ireland).
I’m Brazilian, but naturalized American and have lived in the U.S. most of my life. I have also traveled widely throughout Europe, south and Central America, and Asia (dreaming of going to Africa and Oceania one day), and I can tell you that Americans are not the only ignorant people about geography and other cultures. I found MANY Europeans that only knew about countries and cultures in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. A lot of Europeans know nothing about the rest of the world. Some people in Norway thought there were only forests in Brazil, a guy in Finland was surprised when he found out my sister had a college degree cause he thought people in Brazil did not attend college. There were people in places like Poland and the Austria that didn’t know Brazil, Argentina, Colombia… were in the American continent, because to them the only country in the American continent was AMERICA. Lol… now, they LOVE to make fun of Americans, but they should take a look at themselves and their own people before mocking others.
Well, according to them, they used it to happily murder civilians all for the greater good. Absolutely not because they were terrified that the russians were advancing so fast in Korea and may threaten their dictatorial wet dreams for post war hegemony. You know, after all, an american who bombs civilians in Vietnam, Irak, Germany or even France (allied country), only thinks of democracy, certainly nothing to do with oil, stealing ressources or being cowards. Because being born an american is being immune to being wrong, obviously. This is this kind of enlightened place that unilateraly claims to be the "leader of the free world". To our delight, certainly. We clamored so much for it, and have so much respect for our governments that still maintain some degree of diplomatic ties with them. Because, as i just said, they care so much about freedom and democracy, we always feel this warmth spread in our chest. Not because of fury, no. Because of genuine inspiration. Ultimately, what is necessary to be legitimate to have the atomic bomb and use it with impunity is not brains or wisdom. It is self-proclaim rightheousnes. They certainly don't lack of such high moral ground, especially when compared to all those other envious peasants out there. I always feel humbled by their revolutionary take on things.
My uncle used to work in US as dishwasher, and people was surprised we have houses in Czech Republic. He told them everyone live in house (or apartment), he used to live in brick house and had Škoda car, which are pretty common in our country (almost all houses are brick ones, and Škoda is made there). But were extremly expensive in US. They thought he is rich and so he don’t need that work, they fired him for it.
There's one of these where a teacher was surprised Canadians had cars 😂 come on 80% of Canadians are within a couple of hours of the border, they aren't even that far away.
I'm from Switzerland, and there's one american guy said that I could not claim myself as a European because according to him Switzerland and Europe are two different countries. Sigh.
"It doesn't make sense to speak Spanish if you're not Mexican." I am reminded of the classic Bud Bundy observation about what happens when "you pour a gallon of knowledge into a shotglass of a brain. Something's gonna spill."
As I'm from Finland I don't expect Americans to know anything about my country. Even the Swedes don't really, ACTUALLY know anything about Finland, and we have a land border to them, and used to be a part of Sweden for like 600 years. So I'm happy if someone from Europe knows something about us, and outside of Europe it's going to be a celebration on the streets 🎉
You know there is a conspiracy theory on the internet that Finland doesn't exist... That's how ignorant some people are. They think Finland is a country made up by the UN post WW2.
We know that JRR Tolkien based his High-Elven language on Finnish. The common elvish dialect was based on Welsh, two rather different languages.
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The coworker with the snapped ID? Should have asked the cashier and/or manager for their ID. To prove that any ID can be broken like that. Since *they* claimed a real ID can't, only fake IDs can be snapped, there wouldn't have been any risk, right? But of course, people like that are not reachable with logic.
First device that could be fully identified as programmable computer, was developed in early 19th century by British engineer Charles Babbage and programmed by Ada Lovelace. It was mechanical machine, but it featured all concepts that we associate with computers. Generally speaking, computers weren't invented abruptly, the idea was familiar to mathematicians for centuries, and a lotof prototypes were made around the world during mainly 19th and 20th centuries.
Did it actually work? you could even say the abacus was a computer but I think modern electrical computing was Turin. All inventions are just a progression.
@@kujouk abacus is not a computer, as it can't execute program. Also, do you seriously think Turing machine actually worked? It's just a concept, it can't even be built. It includes INFINITE tape :)
@@kujouk Turing didn't invent the first electrical computing machine the GPO had machines that used lights and hole punched tape. Ernie flowers and others at Bletchley park did that before Turing continued the upgrade process.
@@dave_h_8742 Turing published the mathematical ides of the general purpose computer before WW2. That was a major breakthrough in theoretical mathematics. There were analogue computers at that time but they were not general purpose. There were also some electromechanical computers. Some Polish mathematicians built machines to break a version of the enigma code but they stopped working when the Germans made changes. Turing and others at Bletchley park built machines inspired by that but their version was more flexible so coped when the Germans made further changes. I believe both of those were electromechanical. Those machines were not flexible to handle the Lorenz code so the people came up with a design for a machine that could and it was passed to Tommy Flowers. He changed the design into something that would work and built the original Collosus which was and electronic digital programmable computer but it was not general purpose per Turing;s definition. Several machines were made and some were sent to the USA. The Americans built the first electronic digital programmable general purpose computer - ENIAC. Like Collosus it was programmed by moving cables around. The first electronic digital general purpose stored program computer, i.e. the first computer in the modern sense, to run a program from memory was the Manchester Mark I. The first to be fully working though was the EDSAC in Cambridge.
You're right, Narnia is the ancient name of Narni, which is located in Umbria, but I think she refers to the "Chronicles of Narnia", a series of fantasy novels written by C.S. Lewis.
Someone from USA told me I wasn't latina because I'm white. They also didn't believe Argentina is a mostly white country 😐 they actually didn't know Argentina was in south America tho 😅
As a little English girl my nana taught me to pick spiders up and put them outside. That advice was not great after we moved to Australia. The one and only time my dad smacked me was as I reached for a not so friendly redback. Although, it didn't stop me running through the bush barefoot, I just didn't deliberately reach for spiders again 😂
I visited Miami back in the 80’s and called into a store to buy some gifts. The woman behind the counter asked me where I was from and I told her I was from Wales. She then asked me if I knew the address of Eric Clapton’s accountant???? like I was suppose to know everyone in Wales.🤔🤔🤔
My sweetest "American moment" was when i was visiting the USA and a friend asked me why i did not drive and i said that i did not bring my drivers license, to that she asked me "But how do you get on airplanes then?" As only around 12 % of United Stater's have *PASSPORTS* i can understand how it can be confusing.
I remember going to a play on Shaftesbury Avenue in London in the early 1980’s. The only two people in the audience was a young American man and myself, however for some reason they sat us both together. He said he had a couple of hours spare the following day and wanted to know, where Stonehenge was and how to get there without a car. I suggested that was a tad ambitious as it is in Wiltshire and not easy to get to by public transport. As soon as the play started he fell asleep for the entire performance including the interval. Funny, I still wonder to this day if he ever got to Stonehenge.
that cashier could have gone to jail or at least been fined heavily for breaking the ID like that. I believe it's considered a government document and is technically still owned BY the government and what she did was highly illegal.
I was recently in Tokyo and while I was there I witnessed an American at the front desk of the hotel I was staying at and neither side could understand one another, so since I knew a decent bit of Japanese I offered to translate. Afterwards we got into the same lift along with a Japanese woman and the guy asks me questions about where I'm from and when I said I'm from Australia he asked if I had driven or flown to Tokyo...
Speaking of TSA, I was visiting America for vacay and I had a brand new passport. You know those things do expire. Something that completly confused the TSA agents. They asked if I had been to America before, and I said I had. TSA: BuT yOu hAvE nO StaMPs!!1 ME: it's a brand new passport. Stamps don't get transfered over to the new one. I ended up spending over an hour being interogated by Imigration officers about why I didn't have stamps in my passport if I had been here before.
I had that once too to which I replied 'Well if you mean do we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and not the invention of the Coca Cola Santa then yes we do.'
i can relate to the spanish thing...i once practisd latin with a friend of mine in a cafe - then this woman comes along and listens in "your spanish sounds weird" "ahm...yeah because its not spanish its latin." "Honey naming it something else doesnt make it less racist" "huh?" "White people speaking spanish is offensive" "....how?" "you are appropriating the mexican culture" "....you are aware that...SPANiSH....was spoken by...SPANIARDS....in places like....SPAIN....centuries before it ever got to the americas right?" "oh dont be silly spain is a language not a country"
In high school, a girl asked me where I’m from and I said I was born in Taiwan but raised in Hong Kong. She was like “oh Hong Kong? Cool, you guys speak Chinese right?” I replied “we speak Cantonese there yes”. She looked confused and said “I thought you guys spoke Chinese?” I was like uhhhh and said “Cantonese is a Chinese language, there’s over 300 languages in China”. She was like “wow I had no idea!”….yeah clearly
I'from Portugal, and the first time I went to the States, a guy in a bar asked me if in my country we have dinosaurs amung us. And I kindly answered - Yes, we have! Actually, I ride one to the office! On this trip to U.S. I was with an Austrian friend, and a taxi driver asked us where we came from. Austria and Portugal. He stopped the cab truns to us and, very angry, he said, " In English is Australia, not Austria." We couldn't believe in what we herded. Funny times in the States.
I'm British 🇬🇧 (English) I was on holiday in Greece a few years ago and got chatting to a couple while we were on a fishing trip - I said whereabouts in Australia are you from - because of their accent - they said South Africa lmao 😆😆😆😆😆 I felt a proper dumbo how did I mistake South African accent for Australian 🙄🤷
If it's any consolation, Americans aren't the only ones kept ignorant about the rest of the world. When I lived in China, I once had an older Chinese guy try for 15 minutes to convince me, a Swede, that Sweden isn't a country but a city - the capital of Germany, in fact. Though I will say it irks me a bit when, for instance, someone writes 'the country' online without specifying further, or say things like 'the internet is American, so please speak English'. Thank you so much for doing this reaction, it gives me some hope for the US, at least. :)
It is a crime to actually destroy a valid ID...I would have called the police and pressed charges on her. Cops could have looked at the info on the license and verified it was valid.
8:10 This reminded me of something that happened to me. I used to work at a bank, and one time this woman came to cash a check. Now, she wasn't a customer of the bank, she didn't have an account with us. So for us to cash her check we needed two forms of ID, a primary, which the most common ones were a DL or State ID. Secondary ID would be a credit card, a school ID, something of that nature. For some reason she didn't have a DL or State ID, and was begining to get angry because she knew where this was going. I asked her if she had a passport, which was also a primary ID. Boy, did she get angry at that. She yelled at me saying that she was an American, a US citizen so why would she need a passport? 🤦♂
Hi Team v entertaining nb The excerpt of a clip from this series I can't get over is An American woman out in a Uk street telling whoever just had brill breakfast @ G R eggs a brit walking by corrected her ( it's Greggs) But undeterred she went back to say how gr8 GR eggs were 😆
You are so right about Spanish! There is a place I go to in Gran Canaria where the language and accent is so different from Spain. I also have a friend there from Argentina, who specifically teaches us Canarian Spanish and says how different it is 😊
@@paulqueripel3493 just a thought, maybe the canarian guy he didn't want to speak in Spanish to the Andalusian guy due to political and /or ideological differences, I'm saying that because people are taught both languages at school, sometimes it happens in Catalonia too sometimes, not always, people don't want to speak Spanish.
I lived in Nashville for 4 years. Whilst in Lowes, the server asked where in Australia I was from, I said London (being ironic), she said 'London is in Australia?'
BitsBytesBobs: I am also from the UK and have had similar experiences when visiting the USA. The number of times I've been asked what part of Australia I'm from amazes me!
An American tourist visiting Windsor asked why the castle (almost 1,000 years old) had been built on the flightpath for Heathrow airport. Ours are genuine buildings built way back, not some recent copy like you find in a theme park.
Everything that wants to kill you in under 30 minutes lives in or around Australia you should probably visit New Zealand I hear that the fellowship has the whole "orc" thing pretty much under control.
@@mystik.mermayde.aotearoa Stop shopping at New World then ;) No seriously. Prices went way up as far as i've seen. The AirBNB i went to twice for ~NZD60 is not at NZD92 and they're not doing that to rip people off i recon. Is it really like ~50% in 4 years?
Thanks for being open to the option of variations of the same language! Spanish, Indonesian, Chinese and even English (UK, USA, New Zealand, Canada etc and of course Australia)! Also thanks for calling out racism. Americans can be too insular and god knows their limited knowledge of the wider world can be - to be blunt - scary. I blame the militarised schooling system... Subscribed! And OMG King Charles III is the Prince of Whales? (Actually that is William now...) Sigh!
You forgot Portuguese, that you have the European version and the Brazilian version - and also differences in the Portuguese from Angola, Mozambique, East Timor...
Canadian here. My sister in law works at the local McDonald's and she said American's come in and speak very slowly when placing their order. The cashier said, "okay...what..can I...get ..you." They were so shocked. They said, "I thought you all spoke French in Canada. She also said that they get very mad that they can't order the same thing in Canada as they have in America.
@@fabirkemarian6370 Canada is in North America. If you call us Canadians Americans, it means you're saying we're from the USA. And we do not want to be mistaken for them.
Hiii, you guys are so lovely to me. I'm an anthropologist, and I always love to see people interested in learning about other cultures, countries, people. And besides that, people who can take a little bit of jokes at their own expense. So cheers, much love and respect from Serbia, southeast Europe. Igor🙋🥰🥂🇷🇸❤️🇺🇸🙏
When I was in California I was talking to a girl who said “oh you’re from the UK? My friend Peter is in the UK. Do you know him?” ….. um there are 60 million people in the UK, can you narrow it down or something ? There must be at least a million people called Peter..
You can use buttons to change the language on websites but they use other means, too. Things like geolocation (basically a host of techniques that include GPS, IP lists with assigment to countries, communication with internet services and so on) or system settings. that makes actually really annoying to set up a new system when one is outside of the US but is fluent in english (since many services are natively in english it is better to use that instead of having to endure lackluster translations). When installing the operating system one chooses the language. Then one has to look where one can set the location so the right units and formats are used. Then one has to visit all the websites and find out what one has to do to use them in the language one wants because the sites can use any of many ways to set the language. And, if one is very lucky, one then has to set the used units on the websites, too.
Actually I haven’t had an American say anything really dumb to me. The closest is surprise at how old some of the stuff is in the UK. But when you don’t grow up with buildings that are centuries old all over the place it’s probably natural to go wow a lot when you visit somewhere they’re common, and when you do grow up with that it’s easy to forget about it and assume everyone knows that this style of church is Saxon or that palace was Henry VIII’s or this sea-fort was built for the Napoleonic Wars. Most Americans abroad are probably nice people and genuinely interested in finding out about the place they’re visiting. And of course they usually tip well.
I had that same happening to me, I’m from Lisbon and these friends from US came visiting, they just renovated a 150 old house they bought ( like SUPER old according to them) were amazed we had the down town Lisbon with buildings built over 260 years ago 😂 and that is not even our oldest!
Australia is a very nice place, and I wouldn't worry too much about the spiders here. We have some beauts, I will not deny, but it isn't like they are commonplace in the cities. It's like refusing to visit the USA because you are worried about getting bitten by a rattlesnake or eaten by a bear. Prince Charles as Aquaman? The mind boggles/ :)
When I first moved to the USA, I worked at a produce junction. I have blonde hair and light skin. An old man heard my accent and asked where I was from. I told him I was from Colombia, and he responded with, "Wow, a white Colombian." I was like WTF? Lol
😂😂😂.... wait until he finds out the Spanish and Portuguese explorers/colonizers of America were white just like the rest of Europe in the 1400s/1500s .😅
You mentioned Alan Turing being the father of modern computing. Its actually more complicated than that as it is when you investigate things deeper. Alan Turing was a great Mathematician and developed the idea of a modern computing operation but in terms of actually engineering a working computer it could be argued that the first "electronic" computer was developed at the same place, Bletchley park, for similar reasons, to crack a highly complex German coding system. The computer was called Colossus and it was electronic in operation. While other electromechanical computers already existed the point is that Colossus worked at such a speed that it could crack far more possible permutations in a fraction of the speed of an electromechanical system. This made it possible to break even the most complex German Lorentz coding system within a few hours. By D-Day, for example, we knew that the Germans had kept Tank divisions back because they believed our deception that we were going to invade France via Calais and they believed, (wrongly), that the Normandy invasion was just a feint attack. This is because Colossus had broken the Lorentz cipher within hours of the issuing of German high commands. Of course, all this was kept secret until the 1970's and so if you look into the history of computing, pre 1970's, they all state that first functioning purely electronic computer was ENIAC which although amazing for its time wasn't strictly the first. Sorry for this long post but I happen to know about this particular subject. If history tells us anything, it seems to show that history is more complex and fascinating that we know or imagine.
Built by Tommy Flowers, an English engineer with the British general post office. Always overlooked is the breaking of the Geheimfernschreiber by Swedish mathematician Arne Beurling, took him two weeks using a pen and paper. It's indeed a cloak and dagger story. Another often overlooked fact is that without the work of Polish mathematicians breaking early versions of the Enigma, it might have taken Bletchley park a lot longer to break the war time codes.
I mean it's always more complicated, but it's still kinda correct to call Alan Turing the grandfather of computers. But as always with huge technologies like that, it's not just 1 person that was involved. And after that computers as we know them today were developed in US universities mainly. But that doesn't stop him from being the grandfather.
British people (as a generalisation) will be more aware of the world and are more likely to have been to other countries, etc. But I've met British people who didn't know Northern Ireland was part of the UK. Hell, I met one person who didn't realise Scotland was part of the UK, and that's attached.
My uncle would work part-time as a guide on one of the tour buses that run around Stratford-on-Avon in England. He would do a commentary as they passed the various places of interest. One day he became aware that there was a French family on the bus who did not understand English, so he asked if there was anyone on the bus who could speak French to translate his commentary. One American came forward who said he could speak French and would be happy to translate. As my uncle gave his commentary the American repeated it in English, but with an Inspector Clouseau style French accent. At first, my uncle thought he was just having a laugh - but no, this American genuinely thought that French was just English with a "French" accent.
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I've been asked by more than one American in various internet forums - "Why are there so many foreigners on our internet?"
Maybe we should explain the definition of the WORLD wde web to them. Or are they arrogant enough to assume that the US is the world, and nothing else matters?
@jlessien3826
My job took me into contact with many American tourists here in the UK. Most were - of course - friendly, polite and well informed. But there were a few so abysmally stupid or ignorant or both that they redefined the genre. Some seemed to think the UK was a branch of Disneyland and every citizen at their beck and call for the price of a plane ticket.
I even met one couple who thought that, as American citizens, they were immune from the laws of foreign countries - they found out they were wrong the hard way.
Wow. Shocking arrogance AND ignorance right there.
@@jackwaycombeIf you ever watch the show Border Security (about border issues between Canada and the US) you see this entitled attitude all the time. One American couple thought they didn't have to declare their concealed carry firearms when coming into Canada because they were Americans travelling to Alaska. The husband argued with the Customs Agent about it and the Canadian Officers were like: This is an entirely different country. It doesn't matter if you're American.
The couple was then hit with weapons smuggling charges. My mom used to work with people in Canada Customs many years ago and she said this American attitude is more common than most people think.
@@mish375 That happens all the time it seems. Had the truck before us stopped back in 2006 when we went up to Canada after landing in Chicago. The (slightly older guy) just didn't get the shotgun in his truck got him stopped and was all about "free country" and stuff. It was as spooky as it was amusing ;)
“It doesn’t make sense to speak Spanish if you’re not Mexican.”
Spanish people: “…QUE?!”
Son lerdos?
years ago I made friends with some Americans through online gaming, still speak to some of them now. Some of them had me on Facebook and I uploaded a picture of my dog enjoying a day out at the beach and one of them commented (keeping in mind he was in his 30s) "wow, I've only just found out the UK has beaches".
We're an island surrounded by water. That was a puzzling interaction.
Oh I had American ask years ago.... they thought you could drive right round the outline of uk in a few hours 🤪
@@wendykelly8551 how funny, glad it wasn't just me!
It would certainly take a lot less time than the states but a "few hours" it most definitely isn't 😂 😂
@wendykelly8551
Working with tourists many year ago, I received a letter from America (pre-email) asking if they would need to book a ferry from England to Scotland.
Thing is, I wouldn't at the time, have claimed to know that much about the USA. But if I had ever decided to visit, my first move would surely have been to purchase a good guidebook.
@@jackwaycombe to let them off slightly when I had to go to the Cardiff office one of the younger people going with me asked "are we getting flights or a ferry". They were born and raised in the UK and I was very confused. They were just as confused when I responded "well we're going by train" to which they replied "oh does the tunnel go to Wales also?". It was only then I realised they thought Wales was a completely different Island within the UK. So I do try to let Americans off slightly, even our own sometimes don't understand. It's our team joke now, whenever someone says they're going "abroad" for a holiday we always comment "Oh you're going to Wales?"
What was funnier was the fact they spoke 3 languages (clearly not Welsh) so everyone had an assumption they were geography smart (to be clear they are great, funny and smart in other ways). Before I realised what was happening I was almost convinced they were correct and I was wrong because I've never had someone confidently say something so against reality. After I told them I even went to google to make sure I was correct because of it lmao. Confidence is essential, but not when misplaced. Was a fun 3 days in Cardiff regardless, really lovely City and fun people.
A group of islands mate
Yes, stupid people all over the world, but I agree with the young man, 'Americans do it well'
Indeed. Working with tourists for some years, I found most Americans to be polite and considerate. But the occasional stupid one was world class stupid.
I had one tourist asking about an island accessible only by tidal causeway. I handed him a tide table. "They're different every day!!" he exclaimed angrily. I told him I could only apologise on behalf of the UK.
I live in a tropical tourist destination, and the Americans that come through...not all Americans mind you, but the ones who do stupid, they really go hard
@@jackwaycombe I agree. I'm from Germany in Heidelberg which is frequented by many American tourists. They are very very polite but they barely know the rest of the world. The most ignorant thing I've heard was the believe that Germany was socialist with limited free speech. There are a lot American students in Heidelberg's universities getting nervous every time they spot an American looking tourist 😂
Murica #1! USA! USA! USA!
Don't you mean "Gooder?"
I have watched an American gentleman quoting from the American Constitution when stopped by British Police - amazing memory with a complete lack of understanding for where he was - he was arrested with extreme politeness. Doubtless the Duty Solicitor explained his rights and wrongs. Probably let off with a caution.
The thing that does anger me greatly is the way some tourists treat our military Guards and I have heard Americans arguing with our police that they are just a tourist attraction like Disney, well they are not they are Regular Army.
Your military guards are only there as a tourist attraction.
@@nedludd7622The guards in England are not just there for tourists, they serve a purpose.
As an Aussie, the big spiders aren't the dangerous ones, it's the little bastards you need to keep an eye out for.
And you must need all the flies to feed them big uns
Those White-tails in Melbourne (and elsewhere in Australia, I assume) are bloody evil. The fellow Aussie laughing at sponsor-chick was funny.
as a former Postman my real fear was the Magpies.... for good reason. Smart. Fast. Vicious!
Omg, I'm actually scared right now.
Yep, agreed. We used to find redback spiders on the drinking taps at my primary school. Magpies are still the true scariest creature here
I was visiting Florida from South Wales a few years ago. At Cape Canaveral the lady on the ticket desk asked where I was from and I said Wales. She went ‘oh yes, King David!’ I told her there was never a King David but our patron Saint is St. David and maybe she was confusing the two. She replied ‘ No, you’re wrong. I’ve read books, your ruler is King David!’ I honestly didn’t know what else to say because I apparently have no idea about my own country and she was not backing down! She even told me to go and learn my history, she just couldn’t handle being told she was wrong!
Wow yea she needs to go and learn some history.
Yeah, that's a very American thing (not all Americans mind you)
OH no, I think I know what happened. She thought the city in 'Once in Royal David's city' is about the Bethlehem in Wales...😆
I used to have a girlfriend from Peru whose first language was Quechua, a native-american language. She only ever spoke English to me, because "it's bad enough hearing you butchering the Spanish language"!
Edward VIII (the king that ran off with that American woman)'s original name was David; she probably saw "Edward & Mrs Simpson" on TV.
I grew up in China and went to an (American) international school (95% of the staff and about 65% of the students were from the US). Every year the senior class would sell tshirts to raise money for their senior trip. One year, they sold one that said “I ride a panda to school”. I just thought it was funny and just a silly thing to say 😂
But then I went to the US for a month when I was 16. I wore the shirt around the ADULTS I was volunteering with, and they all asked me what it was like to ride a panda. They didn’t ask if it was true, they just wanted to know how soft they were, how slow they are, if everyone has one… I genuinely thought they were joking at first
I DID ride a Panda to school. It was a Fiat Panda though.
But dude, how is it really to ride a panda to school? I always wondered
That isn't even the dumbest thing I've heard Americans say about China.
I've literally had Americans think China was dirt poor and everyone lived in terrible disease ridden run down conditions. Not kidding. It may not surprise you to learn they got this take from American media.
Also had Americans who think Chinese people don't properly cook food.
My friend bumped in to an American in Glasgow many years ago. She bumped in to them on George Square. The American thanked her for us naming the square after their president "it's such a nice thing to do" 😅. My friend had to explain that not only has the UK had a couple of kings called George, but also the streets and squares were built and named long before George Bush 😂.
We have had six kings with the name George. The late Queen's father was the last of the Georges and ruled as George VI. Incidentally, was your friend American as she seems as dumb as the American she met in Glasgow?
@@Robob0027 I learned in English class (2nd language) that „a couple of“ can mean „some“. Is that wrong?
@@winterlinde5395 Yes it is certainly wrong. The word couple is is used exclusively to denote two. Two people in a relationship would be referred to as "a couple". Time to change your English teacher I think.
@@Robob0027 Too late. Haven’t seen an English teacher in 30 years 💁♀️. Thank you for teaching me!
@@Robob0027 "a couple" is two. "a couple of" is what WinterLinde said.
Schooling idiot native speakers is one of my "favorite" pastimes.
On holiday inn Barcelona, I was watching a bunch of American tourists coming away from a docked cruise ship. One guy looked confused and asked his friends why all the locals were speaking Mexican.
They may have been speaking Catalan or Castiliano, NOT Mexican.
@@cgkennedy That's the point. Mexican isn't a language.
@@gwenwalravens8030 Mexican Spanish would be not with the Castiliano, which is Spanish post-Hapsberg lisp. They had the Spanish in Mexico before the massively in-bred Hapsberg ruled Spain.
@@cgkennedy you mean the Habsburg?
@@cgkennedy no clue of what are you talking about. Spanish and Castilian are two ways of naming the same language. Spanish arrived México at the same time hasburgs arrived to Spain.
As an European, I'm starting a petition for the whole world to come together and build a wall around the us, PLEASE!
Сожрете друг друга😂
lmfao good luck
I'll chip in. From Spain.
I'll gladly donate
Visiting a friend in New Mexico some years ago, I went to Walmart to buy Xmas stuff and presented my UK Credit Card at the checkout. The cashier looked puzzled by it and I told her I was from England. She had not seen one from UK before. Then she said..." You speak very good English, do they speak English in England" I politely said "yes, they do" and left. My American friend was mortified and so apologetic but I thought is was hilarious!
Are you kidding? 😂 That's terrible, the clue is in the name. You'd notice how far behind America is behind the rest of the world, they only started using Chip & pin recently
But like do you have to go to Oxford if you're in England to learn English or do you get an American teacher to learn it?
I have heard Americans wonder why we stole their language. Yes dear, we stole it and made it more complicated.
@@nicholasr39 it is so ture, work in card customers service and chip and pin is still just getting set up/started in usa . .. they don't even know what wireless debit payment machines are. interact
European here:
On every trip to the USA, I feel like I enter a twilight zone from the moment I cross the US border until the moment I leave the USA. During my stays in the States, without missing a week, I am asked questions like: Do you have cars in your country?; Have you seen fireworks before?; How come you speak English, and you haven’t been in the States?; You used PC’s since the early nineties?! Did you get them as a donation from America?...
It seems that it is hard for many Americans to comprehend that there are parallel technological advancements in other parts of the world that do not feel the necessity to copy America nor are necessarily falling behind.
How does it feel to be so proud of your country's history and have to deal with the reality that your country is a VASSAL STATE of the American Empire..................if not forever for hundreds of years. That's why you hate the American people so much and make up fiction stories about them that make them sound dumber than a rhesus monkey. You can't handle the fact that you are under our thumb indefinitely. Hope your great great great grandchildren enjoy that just as much as you do.
More like the reverse. At one time the US only recognised patents registered in the US, it was a big money earner until invention after invention had two inventors, the genuine one and the other Thomas Edison or similar crook. It took the Paris Convention to bring the US into line with the rest of the world.
and they do not know how far behind they are with everyday technological advancements that have been in other parts of the world for decades already LOL
I'm a German and been living here since 1991. I have so many stories and am going to write it all down. Soon I'll be back in Germany.
"The British are so close to Europe."
It's almost as if...they're IN Europe.
Even the British themselves are in denial about that.
‘Denial, don’t think so ……. We know we are classed as part of the European continent, we definitely are not part of the E.U.
Not anymore… thanks.
@@keithrudd8003 you use to be until the idiots in your country voted for brexit - talk about biting your nose off to spite your face
@@ThibauddeLaMarnierre you're still a European country, only no longer a part of the European Union my dear chap. Am Belgium by the way.
I lived and worked in the US for a while. We had a new (US) employee in the office and he asked where I came from "Cambridge", I said. "Oh", he said, "Mass". I said no, the original one in England. Whereupon a long discussion about how many of the places in the US were, to his complete surprise, named after places in the rest of the world.
Worse, this was in Atlanta which is halfway between Rome and Athens...
Nice guy though! :-)
Compared to other peeps stories, he was alr.
I wonder whether he knew Georgia is also the name of a country.
Same story, only I'm from Moscow and many Americans asked if I was from Idaho. One guy was very pleased that the capital of the largest country in the world was named after an Americal city. To this day I don't know it he was kidding or not 😂
But you see if it's in America that must mean Americans made it first right?
Not the worst by far…he just assumed Cambridge MA. Now if he didn’t even know there was a city in the UK then yea…that’s bad!
I was teaching English in Japan and when a teacher from America found out I was from the UK she loudly asked "Do you teach proper American English? You should be teaching American English so the students understand both"
I asked her if she teaches British English as well as American and she replied "No, because she is American"
"a teacher from America".... 💀 They're fucked up
Sounds like an American. These are the people that still think Canada isn't a democracy and is still ruled by the British. Had an American tell me they didn't understand why we don't have our independence. And my mom had a lovely experience during the summer months when it was in the 30s temperature wise when Americans came up here and were baffled we didn't have snow. My mom told them to "try the Arctic". 😅😅😅
@@Angel-SachsenYou should ask such people, what would happen if you his Arse of an Australian to hard, that will surely get them totally confused.
Wow, whole new level of stupid.
I am so sorry you were treated like that :(
You have a lot of dangerous animals in America. Most of them carry automatic weapons.
As an American that has been in the UK for nearly eleven years - The dumbest questions or comments my fellow Americans have said or asked me.
How can you stand waiting months just to see your GP? (I do not) The longest I've ever waited is 10 days for a non-emergency concern. This was on the tale-end of the plague. I've waited longer in the US to see my GP.
How can you stand living under Socialist Rule? (Please go back to school or google what Socialism is.)
...And my favorite. (I'd rather live in Scottland than the UK) This one made me laugh so hard...
I'm sure there are more, but those are at the top of my head.
Thanks for the fun video!
Good god 😂
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 I know! :D It's too funny.
Like one of the commenters said, I have to say that although stupid is worldwide, the U.S appears to do stupid to a higher level of competency than others. I'm impressed. However, because I'm English, I will put it down to having a far greater populous and consequently there is a far greater chance of coming across those who are comically stupid. 😆
Living in Scotland is different to living in England, you have to admit.
But I get your point.
@@daveweir2292 It was the UK thing. ;) I have been asked how far is Scottland from the UK. I blinked, grinned, and said (zero miles)
They didn't get it. 🤷
I'm originally from Wales, now living in North Carolina, a work colleague asked where I was from, I told him Wales, he thought I drove home every day, another thought Wales was in Chicago!!!
😂😭
Cute😂
That's dumb, how can there be Wales in Chicago when its nowhere near the ocean😎
@@paulhanson5164 Now that's sarcasm at its finest. 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
My daughter who lives in York went on a school trip to New York
At JFK airport they caught a bus.
The driver said.
“You guys speak amazing English for a bunch of Europeans”
There are 44 countries in Europe.
English is the second language in nearly all of them.
had a holiday in Vegas many years ago and caught the monorail whilst talking to my father in-law an American guy heard our accent and got all excited and asked if we were from Northern Ireland as well.. we said yes and he asked did we know his friend and proceed to grab a man a few feet away from him to present him to us... we all burst out laughing at the idea that a country of over 1.8million people and he thinks we all know each other by name....... but turned out the guy only lived a few miles from us 😂😂😂
Doesn't matter where you go. We had a similar experience in Anglesey( i know, not far) parked up and a bloke saw the number plate and asked where we were from, turns out about 5 mile from him.
I was chatting to a visiting Canadian and he said he wanted to check out his ancestry so he was going to Tullibody to look at their graves. Now I'm originally from the next village to Tullibody so I asked his name and I recognised it. I pulled up my family tree and his parents were on it. We were distant cousins.
It really is a small world. I was on holiday in Australia once, and was on one of the Steam Boats on the Murray river. Got the chance to meet the Captain of the boat. Turns out he used to work on the same Naval base that I used to here in England 😄
We moved to Australia and saw a family at a party that looked familiar. They had lived in the next street to us in England, but we'd never spoken to them until that day.
Argued with 1 when I asked why she was celebrating a welshman on St. Patrick's day and playing Scottish bagpipes
I know a lady that lives there in the US I'm from AU anyways, this was like 15/20 years ago we used to chat on Skype and her & her hubby at the time was talking & she said we need to come over to Australia some time and to keep this short... She asked what's the best way to travel here & we said by plane and she goes " What about by car & she looks at her Hubby & said we can just drive there can't we?" The look on her Hubby's face was priceless HA HA HA we all said to her where do you think Australia is? I can't remember where she said but somewhere down south of the US.
Isn't there that San Diego to Canberra underwater tunnel?
Whew.... what a drive that is! 😂😂
Did they never look at a world atlas or globe?
Technically she wasn’t wrong!?
I helped an American tourist in Frankfurt to the right platform for the Airport. He said my English was really good. I said thanks but I am English. He didnt understand what I meant even when I said I come from England this is my first language...
In 2015 I (an Australian) was travelling down the east coast of the USA and I remember in New York I was asked by a waitress how long I'd been away from "Austria". I told her I had never been, I was from Australia. She replied, " Isn't Austria short for Australia? You know like an abbreviation."
You should have shown her the first page of google pic search results for the two countries. Not many similarities.
You should say "kangaroos dumbass , not cows".😂😂😂😂
United Stations are continuously confusing Austria, Argentina and Australia. WOW.
No, just no!
In 2015, days after arriving in Maryland, a bunch of us were out one day and there was a very loud and opinionated guy (friendly though) who was chatting with a group near ours. At one point he starts saying how many black people never go to Africa and turns around and singles me out and says, "Like you, my brother, I can tell you've never been to Africa!" My response is the one thing that got him to keep quiet, "Dude, I'm from Zimbabwe. I just got here on Monday". Everybody in that place laughed and his volume was low afterwards.
Guys, stupid is totally universal. I live in Aus. and work in retail, so believe me, I hear stupid every day.
But the US brings it to a whole new level.
To me an American who once said you have those quaint sports that no one really plays -like cricket. Dude there are 4x as many fanatical cricket fans in Asia than there are citizens in the US.
Cricket is played in about 95 countries, some of them quite populous
This is what gets me about some these Americans... Not only they say the dumbest shit but they also say them with such confidence.
Comedy gold! From now on I will not be able to help thinking of our new king as Aquaman! Swimming around beneath the waves, talking to seaweed and addressing his whale subjects!
Lol haha that is quite an image!
Poseidon is his middle name😂
I've only been to the USA once, I spent 3 days in New York in 1989.
I'm from Birmingham, I was asked if Birmingham was in London, I was asked if England was in France, I was asked if I was Australian because I called somebody mate and Crocodile Dundee says mate, I was told Birmingham was tiny compared to Manchester by a taxi driver who reckoned he'd been to both ( no it isn't but he knew more than me apparently ) and I was told to speak English, but I'll let that one pass as I do have a broad Brummie accent.
The time i went to the USA (New York) everyone thought i was an Aussie too and i'm from London, another bloke said i sounded like a pirate!
I lived in the US for nearly 5 yrs as a kid and the amount of times I was asked if I was from London was insane, even when I clarified that I was from the midlands and London is in the south (at that point I'd been to London only maybe 2 or 3 times), once got told that England was in London a couple times
My grandparents lived in the US for a few years in the 1970s. They were asked if they came to the USA by bus, from Australia.
Wish I could hear your accent. My dad was a brummie and I miss hearing him speak 😢
@@TattooedAussieChick I'm afraid the best I can offer is a bit of advice, if you want to hear Brummie's watch the tv show Peaky Blinders.
I no longer live in Brum, recently lost my Mom so I know how much a familiar accent can sooth.
When I was a kid (I'm an American from Kansas), I didn't really believe that anyone lived in Rhode Island, because it was too little on the map. The state name wouldn't even fit on it. Fortunately, that ignorance didn't last long.
Well you were a kid.
It's the comments that come from adults that worry me
What made me feel a bit annoyed at times when I was travelling through the USA that for the mere fact of being German I was considered an expert on Nationalsocialism and expected to be always willing to talk about this topic. Others thought it would be a terrible taboo for us. I often thought, gosh, you've got an obsession with this issue not me.
Fun fact though, it was the US who financed Hitler's election campaign.
I'm genuinely surprised that they linked the two together. I did my Commercial Pilot's licence in South East Missouri, admittedly, not the most sophisticated part of the US.
I had made some local friends, and we were sitting having a few brewskis and watching TV when suddenly Hitler at Nuremberg comes on ." What an asshole " l said . " Who is it? " they asked.
I nearly fell out of my chair . This was in the 80s , and I assume they now all vote for Trump.
I was recently in the US and a woman noticed my English accent, she asked me where I was from and I said “I’m from England” to which she replied “I think you mean New England, honey…” 🤦🏻♂️
I wonder where old England is.
Good job you weren't from Jersey or she really would have been confused.
😂😂😂😂
They don't even seem to realize their country is just a split from England. You ARE Englishmen yourselves. The Americans are those ones with feathers.
Durring the early 1990s I worked taking "more mature" people round The Peak District national park Derbyshire England
Too many too mention here are a few
.... it was so nice that places serverd coffee just because Americans where visiting
....we took bets on who from each tour would be the most surprised when we drove passed McDonalds
....being asked what we did for Thanksgiving and 4th of July but being surprised we celebrated Christmas
.... why a house dating from 1570s was built over looking a freeway
.... why did we use a bus with a door on the left side as that was very confusing
.... but my favourite the first words said to me by one lady..... "I hope everyone in the hotel is like you and can speak English, they didn't last time I was in Europe"
I would love to go on them trips and pretend I was from USA, that would be funny, book me in, I speak fluent English, well almost, I'm from Rotherham but willing to learn.
Working with Scottish tourism a couple of decades ago, I was more than once congratulated by Americans on how well I spoke American. They assumed it was my second language - not sure what they imagined my first might be.
The CONTINENT Europe counts 51 countries, with each his own language. Maybe very difficult to grasp for a less civilized country like the US.
@@jlessien3826 however when you in country called England you'd expect people to be able to speak English 🤣
@@old.not.too.grumpy.The Americans think they invented English. It might come as a shock to those people when they realize the English people invented a language called "English". Shocker, right.😅
I was In America and Had been there three weeks was at a lunch and was asked by an American how long have I been In America I said three weeks and they said that I do speak very good English for being over here In America I come from Scotland.
I'm not sure I would have been able to resist face-palming... 🤦♀
😁I'm amazed they could understand you.
😂The Scottish accent sometimes doesn't travel well.😂
(btw) I'm from Nova Scotia, and my grandparent were from Scotland. 😊 Cheers!
It would have been a worse insult had you came from Wales...😹😹😹
@@dougwilson4537 Actually until the last couple of decades, residents of Inverness, the Capital City of the Highlands, were credited with speaking the best Queen's English, in the UK. Unfortunately, an influx of east coast Scots and retiring English folk have spoiled that reputation.
@@Thurgosh_OG That is strange, I have relatives ibn Scotland and lived there for 12 years yet have never herd that before.
I lived in Michigan for a few years, and told one American I'm from Wales. They said you're Australian. I said no Wales the country. They said yes... In Australia. They would not have it that Wales was not in Australia.
Wow!
They were probably thinking of New South Wales.
Probably. But they could have wondered why it is called "New" South Wales...
There seems to be a common theme in these stories of people trying to explain why the person is wrong but they refuse to agree and even get cross. I think this is a uniquely US thing to assume you right and to be intellectually incurious as to the fact you might be wrong. Not all Americans obviously.
Even in Spain, they speak different variations of the language e.g. Castilian or Andalusian. In fact there are 11 recognised (distinct), 'Spanish Dialects' spoken across the world; while they can all communicate with one another, they speak different types of Spanish. One in the 'UK BOT'* is the Gibraltarian, Llanito. It's a combination of Andalusian Spanish and British English (but also influenced by Genoese, Hebrew, Maltese and Portuguese).
EDIT: *Sorry, meant to say a BOT = a British Overseas Territory (and a holder of a UK Passport can just travel there as if it where part of Great Britain & Northern Ireland).
I’m Brazilian, but naturalized American and have lived in the U.S. most of my life. I have also traveled widely throughout Europe, south and Central America, and Asia (dreaming of going to Africa and Oceania one day), and I can tell you that Americans are not the only ignorant people about geography and other cultures. I found MANY Europeans that only knew about countries and cultures in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. A lot of Europeans know nothing about the rest of the world. Some people in Norway thought there were only forests in Brazil, a guy in Finland was surprised when he found out my sister had a college degree cause he thought people in Brazil did not attend college. There were people in places like Poland and the Austria that didn’t know Brazil, Argentina, Colombia… were in the American continent, because to them the only country in the American continent was AMERICA. Lol… now, they LOVE to make fun of Americans, but they should take a look at themselves and their own people before mocking others.
And a country with such intelligent people has atomic bombs. So sad.
Well, according to them, they used it to happily murder civilians all for the greater good. Absolutely not because they were terrified that the russians were advancing so fast in Korea and may threaten their dictatorial wet dreams for post war hegemony. You know, after all, an american who bombs civilians in Vietnam, Irak, Germany or even France (allied country), only thinks of democracy, certainly nothing to do with oil, stealing ressources or being cowards. Because being born an american is being immune to being wrong, obviously. This is this kind of enlightened place that unilateraly claims to be the "leader of the free world". To our delight, certainly. We clamored so much for it, and have so much respect for our governments that still maintain some degree of diplomatic ties with them. Because, as i just said, they care so much about freedom and democracy, we always feel this warmth spread in our chest. Not because of fury, no. Because of genuine inspiration. Ultimately, what is necessary to be legitimate to have the atomic bomb and use it with impunity is not brains or wisdom. It is self-proclaim rightheousnes. They certainly don't lack of such high moral ground, especially when compared to all those other envious peasants out there. I always feel humbled by their revolutionary take on things.
My uncle used to work in US as dishwasher, and people was surprised we have houses in Czech Republic. He told them everyone live in house (or apartment), he used to live in brick house and had Škoda car, which are pretty common in our country (almost all houses are brick ones, and Škoda is made there). But were extremly expensive in US. They thought he is rich and so he don’t need that work, they fired him for it.
There's one of these where a teacher was surprised Canadians had cars 😂
come on 80% of Canadians are within a couple of hours of the border, they aren't even that far away.
@@lizcollinson2692They still think we live in igloos. I can confirm we do in fact have houses and cars here in Canada.
@@lizcollinson2692that fact that it was a teacher explains a lot
I'm from Switzerland, and there's one american guy said that I could not claim myself as a European because according to him Switzerland and Europe are two different countries. Sigh.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"It doesn't make sense to speak Spanish if you're not Mexican." I am reminded of the classic Bud Bundy observation about what happens when "you pour a gallon of knowledge into a shotglass of a brain. Something's gonna spill."
As I'm from Finland I don't expect Americans to know anything about my country. Even the Swedes don't really, ACTUALLY know anything about Finland, and we have a land border to them, and used to be a part of Sweden for like 600 years.
So I'm happy if someone from Europe knows something about us, and outside of Europe it's going to be a celebration on the streets 🎉
I'm English, from England, geographically part of Europe - and I have but one word to say to you - NIGHTWISH!
You know there is a conspiracy theory on the internet that Finland doesn't exist... That's how ignorant some people are. They think Finland is a country made up by the UN post WW2.
As a Swede I can confirm we know very little of Finland. We probably (definently) know more about America 😂 Its sad but true.
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We know that JRR Tolkien based his High-Elven language on Finnish. The common elvish dialect was based on Welsh, two rather different languages.
The coworker with the snapped ID? Should have asked the cashier and/or manager for their ID. To prove that any ID can be broken like that. Since *they* claimed a real ID can't, only fake IDs can be snapped, there wouldn't have been any risk, right?
But of course, people like that are not reachable with logic.
First device that could be fully identified as programmable computer, was developed in early 19th century by British engineer Charles Babbage and programmed by Ada Lovelace. It was mechanical machine, but it featured all concepts that we associate with computers. Generally speaking, computers weren't invented abruptly, the idea was familiar to mathematicians for centuries, and a lotof prototypes were made around the world during mainly 19th and 20th centuries.
Did it actually work? you could even say the abacus was a computer but I think modern electrical computing was Turin. All inventions are just a progression.
@@kujouk abacus is not a computer, as it can't execute program. Also, do you seriously think Turing machine actually worked? It's just a concept, it can't even be built. It includes INFINITE tape :)
@@kujouk Turing didn't invent the first electrical computing machine the GPO had machines that used lights and hole punched tape. Ernie flowers and others at Bletchley park did that before Turing continued the upgrade process.
@@kujouk PS. The science museum in London has a modern copy of the Babbage machine and it works perfectly.
@@dave_h_8742 Turing published the mathematical ides of the general purpose computer before WW2. That was a major breakthrough in theoretical mathematics.
There were analogue computers at that time but they were not general purpose. There were also some electromechanical computers.
Some Polish mathematicians built machines to break a version of the enigma code but they stopped working when the Germans made changes.
Turing and others at Bletchley park built machines inspired by that but their version was more flexible so coped when the Germans made further changes. I believe both of those were electromechanical.
Those machines were not flexible to handle the Lorenz code so the people came up with a design for a machine that could and it was passed to Tommy Flowers. He changed the design into something that would work and built the original Collosus which was and electronic digital programmable computer but it was not general purpose per Turing;s definition. Several machines were made and some were sent to the USA.
The Americans built the first electronic digital programmable general purpose computer - ENIAC. Like Collosus it was programmed by moving cables around.
The first electronic digital general purpose stored program computer, i.e. the first computer in the modern sense, to run a program from memory was the Manchester Mark I. The first to be fully working though was the EDSAC in Cambridge.
I get so upset when I tell people I’m from Narnia…. 😂😂😂
Them doors must be getting knackered these days 😉
why do you get upset - the thought of being from narnia causes you great depression 🤔
Yeah…and why abbreviate your country’s name? Call it by its proper name, Banania!
Narnia is a town in Italy.
You're right, Narnia is the ancient name of Narni, which is located in Umbria, but I think she refers to the "Chronicles of Narnia", a series of fantasy novels written by C.S. Lewis.
Someone from USA told me I wasn't latina because I'm white. They also didn't believe Argentina is a mostly white country 😐 they actually didn't know Argentina was in south America tho 😅
Welcome to my world. They also didn't know the first map of America was in 1507 and was placed in present day Argentina😅
Why am I not surprised ?
I'm from Europe and I was traveling in the USA. A US-American woman asked me if we have shops and cinemas in Europe. I was shocked by her ignorance.
It’s not the big spiders you have to worry about. The small ones are more deadly.
As a little English girl my nana taught me to pick spiders up and put them outside. That advice was not great after we moved to Australia. The one and only time my dad smacked me was as I reached for a not so friendly redback. Although, it didn't stop me running through the bush barefoot, I just didn't deliberately reach for spiders again 😂
I visited Miami back in the 80’s and called into a store to buy some gifts. The woman behind the counter asked me where I was from and I told her I was from Wales. She then asked me if I knew the address of Eric Clapton’s accountant???? like I was suppose to know everyone in Wales.🤔🤔🤔
Are you saying you don't? Wales is so small compared to Yorkshire, and I know everyone 🤣
@Vesa Seppälä Didn't he have brothers as well?
The one with the Irish girl being told she's not Irish because she's black that series is a good one
I knew that guy was a Dane as soon as he opened his mouth, and I think I can even tell what region in Denmark he's from based on his accent alone.
Everything is bigger in the USA. INCLUDING ignorance.
ESPECIALLY ignorance!
My sweetest "American moment" was when i was visiting the USA and a friend asked me why i did not drive and i said that i did not bring my drivers license, to that she asked me "But how do you get on airplanes then?" As only around 12 % of United Stater's have *PASSPORTS* i can understand how it can be confusing.
Wit would get the better of me in this scenario -
"You speak English out there too?!"
"Only on the weekends"
I remember going to a play on Shaftesbury Avenue in London in the early 1980’s. The only two people in the audience was a young American man and myself, however for some reason they sat us both together. He said he had a couple of hours spare the following day and wanted to know, where Stonehenge was and how to get there without a car. I suggested that was a tad ambitious as it is in Wiltshire and not easy to get to by public transport. As soon as the play started he fell asleep for the entire performance including the interval. Funny, I still wonder to this day if he ever got to Stonehenge.
that cashier could have gone to jail or at least been fined heavily for breaking the ID like that. I believe it's considered a government document and is technically still owned BY the government and what she did was highly illegal.
I was recently in Tokyo and while I was there I witnessed an American at the front desk of the hotel I was staying at and neither side could understand one another, so since I knew a decent bit of Japanese I offered to translate. Afterwards we got into the same lift along with a Japanese woman and the guy asks me questions about where I'm from and when I said I'm from Australia he asked if I had driven or flown to Tokyo...
Australians got that Jesus upgrade to their cars so that they can drive on water.😂😂😂 Seriously though, that's hilarious.
@@mish375 Jesus upgrade ,,, Im crying,, thats the funniest thing ive heard all week :D .
Speaking of TSA, I was visiting America for vacay and I had a brand new passport. You know those things do expire. Something that completly confused the TSA agents. They asked if I had been to America before, and I said I had. TSA: BuT yOu hAvE nO StaMPs!!1 ME: it's a brand new passport. Stamps don't get transfered over to the new one.
I ended up spending over an hour being interogated by Imigration officers about why I didn't have stamps in my passport if I had been here before.
So stupid is even in immigration employees?
I had someone from Baltimore who asked, "do you celebrate Christmas in England"?!
I had that once too to which I replied 'Well if you mean do we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and not the invention of the Coca Cola Santa then yes we do.'
No, we killed Santa a long time ago, but we still worship the elves.
You should have said " No, we do Saturnalia instead; wr dance round trees naked, sacrifice Virgins, and have a gigantic orgy."
Yes, we do, but we do it in style, with real plates, a fork and knife 😂
i can relate to the spanish thing...i once practisd latin with a friend of mine in a cafe - then this woman comes along and listens in
"your spanish sounds weird"
"ahm...yeah because its not spanish its latin."
"Honey naming it something else doesnt make it less racist"
"huh?"
"White people speaking spanish is offensive"
"....how?"
"you are appropriating the mexican culture"
"....you are aware that...SPANiSH....was spoken by...SPANIARDS....in places like....SPAIN....centuries before it ever got to the americas right?"
"oh dont be silly spain is a language not a country"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 you should've google Spain in front of her...
Confuse her even more by pointing out that Spanish people are white.
In high school, a girl asked me where I’m from and I said I was born in Taiwan but raised in Hong Kong. She was like “oh Hong Kong? Cool, you guys speak Chinese right?” I replied “we speak Cantonese there yes”. She looked confused and said “I thought you guys spoke Chinese?” I was like uhhhh and said “Cantonese is a Chinese language, there’s over 300 languages in China”. She was like “wow I had no idea!”….yeah clearly
oh shit, that's actually news to me! nice to know 😊
I'from Portugal, and the first time I went to the States, a guy in a bar asked me if in my country we have dinosaurs amung us. And I kindly answered - Yes, we have! Actually, I ride one to the office! On this trip to U.S. I was with an Austrian friend, and a taxi driver asked us where we came from. Austria and Portugal. He stopped the cab truns to us and, very angry, he said, " In English is Australia, not Austria." We couldn't believe in what we herded. Funny times in the States.
I'm British 🇬🇧 (English) I was on holiday in Greece a few years ago and got chatting to a couple while we were on a fishing trip - I said whereabouts in Australia are you from - because of their accent - they said South Africa lmao 😆😆😆😆😆 I felt a proper dumbo how did I mistake South African accent for Australian 🙄🤷
They have very similar vowel pronunciations so that’s a common mistake.
I would ask where they're from rather than assuming
Most people do, very common mistake!
I love the South African accent ,, its cool !.
I like MY S. African accent.
If it's any consolation, Americans aren't the only ones kept ignorant about the rest of the world. When I lived in China, I once had an older Chinese guy try for 15 minutes to convince me, a Swede, that Sweden isn't a country but a city - the capital of Germany, in fact.
Though I will say it irks me a bit when, for instance, someone writes 'the country' online without specifying further, or say things like 'the internet is American, so please speak English'.
Thank you so much for doing this reaction, it gives me some hope for the US, at least. :)
I was told that I have a nice accent, 'so I replied, I like your accent too! That woman went of the wall by saying she wouldn't have an accent.
😂😂
Love the chemistry between you guys , you absolutely bounce off each other 👍
It is a crime to actually destroy a valid ID...I would have called the police and pressed charges on her. Cops could have looked at the info on the license and verified it was valid.
Yea he probably should have.
This is why we love the intelligent Americans like you.
Ethan, you had me spitting my tea all over the computer with that Aquaman line!
Always an idiot who spits his tea...
8:10 This reminded me of something that happened to me. I used to work at a bank, and one time this woman came to cash a check. Now, she wasn't a customer of the bank, she didn't have an account with us. So for us to cash her check we needed two forms of ID, a primary, which the most common ones were a DL or State ID. Secondary ID would be a credit card, a school ID, something of that nature. For some reason she didn't have a DL or State ID, and was begining to get angry because she knew where this was going. I asked her if she had a passport, which was also a primary ID. Boy, did she get angry at that. She yelled at me saying that she was an American, a US citizen so why would she need a passport? 🤦♂
Hi Team v entertaining nb The excerpt of a clip from this series I can't get over is An American woman out in a Uk street telling whoever just had brill breakfast @ G R eggs a brit walking by corrected her ( it's Greggs) But undeterred she went back to say how gr8 GR eggs were 😆
What the actual F 😂
Angela yes we speak English in the UK, but don't blame us by saying that we started it 😁
You are so right about Spanish! There is a place I go to in Gran Canaria where the language and accent is so different from Spain. I also have a friend there from Argentina, who specifically teaches us Canarian Spanish and says how different it is 😊
I was in a bar in Xativa, the barman (Valencian) and a customer (Andalusian) were talking in English, it was easier for them.
@@paulqueripel3493¿En serio ? Seriously?😮😂😮
@@sarahpena9501 that's what they told us when we asked why they were speaking in English.
@@paulqueripel3493 just a thought, maybe the canarian guy he didn't want to speak in Spanish to the Andalusian guy due to political and /or ideological differences, I'm saying that because people are taught both languages at school, sometimes it happens in Catalonia too sometimes, not always, people don't want to speak Spanish.
I lived in Nashville for 4 years. Whilst in Lowes, the server asked where in Australia I was from, I said London (being ironic), she said 'London is in Australia?'
There is Paris in Texas, London in Ontario and East London in Jamaica.
@@johnkean6852 Yeah, I know. However, I do not sound Australian! I sound very British.
@@johnkean6852 Also one of the larger cities in South Africa is called East London. Much bigger that East London in Jamaica.
BitsBytesBobs: I am also from the UK and have had similar experiences when visiting the USA. The number of times I've been asked what part of Australia I'm from amazes me!
Yes, lots of people thought I was from Oz when I worked in the USA. Not Manchester.
An American tourist visiting Windsor asked why the castle (almost 1,000 years old) had been built on the flightpath for Heathrow airport. Ours are genuine buildings built way back, not some recent copy like you find in a theme park.
The US is the land of the free.Cracks me up every time.
Everything that wants to kill you in under 30 minutes lives in or around Australia you should probably visit New Zealand I hear that the fellowship has the whole "orc" thing pretty much under control.
Lol
dont think so never heard of the mongrel mob - they are pretty orcish to me and are not under control by any fellowship
The Dwarves are a lot angrier than the Orcs though and watch out for walking talking trees! Actually do Ents talk or bark?
Yes definitely come to New Zealand instead of Oz! The only thing that will kill you over here is the price of living 🤣🤣🤣
@@mystik.mermayde.aotearoa Stop shopping at New World then ;) No seriously. Prices went way up as far as i've seen. The AirBNB i went to twice for ~NZD60 is not at NZD92 and they're not doing that to rip people off i recon. Is it really like ~50% in 4 years?
my first visit to America in the 70's , aged 10, I was asked do you have television... I politely explained (whilst laughing) we invented it!
Thanks for being open to the option of variations of the same language! Spanish, Indonesian, Chinese and even English (UK, USA, New Zealand, Canada etc and of course Australia)! Also thanks for calling out racism. Americans can be too insular and god knows their limited knowledge of the wider world can be - to be blunt - scary. I blame the militarised schooling system... Subscribed! And OMG King Charles III is the Prince of Whales? (Actually that is William now...) Sigh!
You forgot Portuguese, that you have the European version and the Brazilian version - and also differences in the Portuguese from Angola, Mozambique, East Timor...
The Prince of Whales?
The clip you picked is awesome and seemingly (sadly for you) true
I think our Geography and History education covers a wider spread of knowledge.
Canadian here. My sister in law works at the local McDonald's and she said American's come in and speak very slowly when placing their order. The cashier said, "okay...what..can I...get ..you." They were so shocked. They said, "I thought you all spoke French in Canada. She also said that they get very mad that they can't order the same thing in Canada as they have in America.
Last time I went to Canada and looked on a map, Canada was still in America. Was it moved to another continent while I was asleep?😅
@@fabirkemarian6370 don't you know the difference between Canada and the USA? Look it up.
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Canada is in North America. If you call us Canadians Americans, it means you're saying we're from the USA. And we do not want to be mistaken for them.
@@mish375 Would anybody?
@@peterpain6625 No, no they would not.
Hiii, you guys are so lovely to me. I'm an anthropologist, and I always love to see people interested in learning about other cultures, countries, people. And besides that, people who can take a little bit of jokes at their own expense. So cheers, much love and respect from Serbia, southeast Europe. Igor🙋🥰🥂🇷🇸❤️🇺🇸🙏
“Wait, so he’s like Aquaman?” 🤣🤣😂😂😂
Dumbest thing an American ever said to me “you’re speaking American” when we were both in England 😂
Should have told him “I’m not speaking American, you’re speaking English”.
@@arnolddavies6734 nah I can’t correct them on it, I’d rather them make a fool of themselves… having an American around makes me feel more clever. 😂
3:24 and 6:55 I love the Australian's and the Kenyan's responses 😂
When I was in California I was talking to a girl who said “oh you’re from the UK? My friend Peter is in the UK. Do you know him?” ….. um there are 60 million people in the UK, can you narrow it down or something ? There must be at least a million people called Peter..
The current UK population is over 67 million, so even less likely to know this mysterious Peter!
As a Canadian, we get that all the time, when travelling.😊
At least we only have to know 38 million people, not 60 million.😁
Hi :)
@@peterjackson4763 it’s you! My 15 years of wondering are over! Hahahaha
@@peterjackson4763 🤣🤣
I like this a lot" english are close to europe" thats right, 40 km away. Even though they have a tunnel, still drive on the wring side of the road😂😂😂
Regarding the Alabama couple it should have been pointed out that there is a difference between Wales and whales!
I'm still trying to figure out WHY they FIRST thought she was from Jamaica - duh!? 😂 🇬🇧
You can use buttons to change the language on websites but they use other means, too. Things like geolocation (basically a host of techniques that include GPS, IP lists with assigment to countries, communication with internet services and so on) or system settings. that makes actually really annoying to set up a new system when one is outside of the US but is fluent in english (since many services are natively in english it is better to use that instead of having to endure lackluster translations). When installing the operating system one chooses the language. Then one has to look where one can set the location so the right units and formats are used. Then one has to visit all the websites and find out what one has to do to use them in the language one wants because the sites can use any of many ways to set the language. And, if one is very lucky, one then has to set the used units on the websites, too.
Actually I haven’t had an American say anything really dumb to me. The closest is surprise at how old some of the stuff is in the UK. But when you don’t grow up with buildings that are centuries old all over the place it’s probably natural to go wow a lot when you visit somewhere they’re common, and when you do grow up with that it’s easy to forget about it and assume everyone knows that this style of church is Saxon or that palace was Henry VIII’s or this sea-fort was built for the Napoleonic Wars. Most Americans abroad are probably nice people and genuinely interested in finding out about the place they’re visiting. And of course they usually tip well.
I had that same happening to me, I’m from Lisbon and these friends from US came visiting, they just renovated a 150 old house they bought ( like SUPER old according to them) were amazed we had the down town Lisbon with buildings built over 260 years ago 😂 and that is not even our oldest!
Australia is a very nice place, and I wouldn't worry too much about the spiders here. We have some beauts, I will not deny, but it isn't like they are commonplace in the cities. It's like refusing to visit the USA because you are worried about getting bitten by a rattlesnake or eaten by a bear.
Prince Charles as Aquaman? The mind boggles/ :)
When I first moved to the USA, I worked at a produce junction. I have blonde hair and light skin. An old man heard my accent and asked where I was from. I told him I was from Colombia, and he responded with, "Wow, a white Colombian." I was like WTF? Lol
😂😂😂.... wait until he finds out the Spanish and Portuguese explorers/colonizers of America were white just like the rest of Europe in the 1400s/1500s .😅
The lad questioned as to where he learned how to speak English must have impressed the Border Force Agent in how well he speaks English.
"So he's Aquaman or something?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hilarious 😂!! Thanks for your great reaction 🤗Greetings from Finland 😄
You mentioned Alan Turing being the father of modern computing. Its actually more complicated than that as it is when you investigate things deeper. Alan Turing was a great Mathematician and developed the idea of a modern computing operation but in terms of actually engineering a working computer it could be argued that the first "electronic" computer was developed at the same place, Bletchley park, for similar reasons, to crack a highly complex German coding system. The computer was called Colossus and it was electronic in operation. While other electromechanical computers already existed the point is that Colossus worked at such a speed that it could crack far more possible permutations in a fraction of the speed of an electromechanical system. This made it possible to break even the most complex German Lorentz coding system within a few hours. By D-Day, for example, we knew that the Germans had kept Tank divisions back because they believed our deception that we were going to invade France via Calais and they believed, (wrongly), that the Normandy invasion was just a feint attack. This is because Colossus had broken the Lorentz cipher within hours of the issuing of German high commands. Of course, all this was kept secret until the 1970's and so if you look into the history of computing, pre 1970's, they all state that first functioning purely electronic computer was ENIAC which although amazing for its time wasn't strictly the first. Sorry for this long post but I happen to know about this particular subject. If history tells us anything, it seems to show that history is more complex and fascinating that we know or imagine.
Built by Tommy Flowers, an English engineer with the British general post office. Always overlooked is the breaking of the Geheimfernschreiber by Swedish mathematician Arne Beurling, took him two weeks using a pen and paper. It's indeed a cloak and dagger story. Another often overlooked fact is that without the work of Polish mathematicians breaking early versions of the Enigma, it might have taken Bletchley park a lot longer to break the war time codes.
@@andersjohansson4734 Dilly Knox broke the enigma for one day by hand with a bit of info from the Poles about the machine.. It took him a year though.
I mean it's always more complicated, but it's still kinda correct to call Alan Turing the grandfather of computers. But as always with huge technologies like that, it's not just 1 person that was involved. And after that computers as we know them today were developed in US universities mainly. But that doesn't stop him from being the grandfather.
British people (as a generalisation) will be more aware of the world and are more likely to have been to other countries, etc. But I've met British people who didn't know Northern Ireland was part of the UK. Hell, I met one person who didn't realise Scotland was part of the UK, and that's attached.
All of the west is dumbing down. Too many far left educators. Sorry for bringing politics into this but it's the truth.
My uncle would work part-time as a guide on one of the tour buses that run around Stratford-on-Avon in England. He would do a commentary as they passed the various places of interest. One day he became aware that there was a French family on the bus who did not understand English, so he asked if there was anyone on the bus who could speak French to translate his commentary. One American came forward who said he could speak French and would be happy to translate. As my uncle gave his commentary the American repeated it in English, but with an Inspector Clouseau style French accent. At first, my uncle thought he was just having a laugh - but no, this American genuinely thought that French was just English with a "French" accent.
I would have phoned the police if they snapped my drivers licence
Paris isn’t “almost as well known” haha it is just as well known as London, New York etc. It’s one of the most famous cities in the world 😂