It's not even called "military time" in most places. In the UK it's just a "24-hour clock". Only in America is counting above 12 a mysterious special skill reserved for the military.
Thisss!! I’ve been saying that for the longest time but literally anyone above the age of 5 can probably count to 24. Not to mention how much more exact it is - it just makes way more sense!!
I personally prefeer the 12 hour format (because it's what everything uses where i live) and i don't get the borderline hate, i don't understand why people seem to hate it soo much, beyond the fact that Americans defend it with everything.
@@MaerahnThat must really annoy the Welsh. Except if the Prince of Wales does it. And he should not name him Smaug. Please -- Pea-Souper at most. Fairer to say, Europe is stuck with Middle Ages buildings. "Americans think a hundred years is a long time; the English think a hundred miles is a long way." John Cleese: "Someday I'd like to travel..."
It's because Americans have a medieval siege mentality. Their 'stand your ground' laws are a direct result of how frightened they are. It's why people get killed for knocking on the front door or using a driveway during a 3 point turn. Thanks to US Ed. they know nothing beyond their own shores & are happy living in ignorance in a bubble. It's very sad.
Perfect comparison lul.. The US is like a mixture between 1933 & 1984. Yet they're the first ones to call themselves a sovereign free democracy, and call the rest of the world an authoritarian dictatorship, (of course it's just thinly-veiled projection)
Nah it will be fine but I would recomend you point your guns Eastwood rather than too the west we brits don't really want to go at it again not cus we would lose but because we don't want to lose our economy again
Fun fact: the hand over the heart for the Pledge of Allegiance was only standardized in the early 1940s. Before that, a much different salute was much more popular, but that had become awkward, because the same salute had been even more popular in Germany since about 1933.
The US is just embarrasing, they didn't even give US compensation for overthrowing our government and replacing it with a dictatorship that tortured pregnant woman... and killed over 30.000 random people for nothing... thanks CIA
An American woman came into the pub I worked at in London & left a bad review because I wouldn’t accept dollars and I didn’t know the conversion rate 😌
Lol. Cars in America are stupid expensive to the point that people have stopped buying and dealerships have overflowing lots because everyone is like , fuck this I can't afford that. Also having driven tryck in America, the infrastructure wasn't bad for the era it was built and designed in, but they failed to maintain and upgrade it, so the results is abysmal infrastructure for the modern era.
@@easternrebel1061 I hear you. I am Australian, but I know that America is terminally car-dependent. Building stroads, highways through cities (rather than around them) along with about 2 billion parking spaces (or so I hear) has been bankrupting American cities. All that car-centric infrastructure does not pay for itself and does not allow people to easily have alternatives to driving.
@fishofgold6553 well yes, that's but part of it, but the problem goes far deeper than that. Also being car dependent isn't the worse thing in the world if you live out in the middle of nowhere like me. A 15 minute drive is about a 2 hour walk , or 4 hour round trip out in the rural Midwest. American cities in general though are flat out dystopian.
If it is 1.1 cars per person, it likely breaks down to something like, the majority have somewhere between 0 and 1 cars for their whole family, and a smaller richer percentage have like 3 cars for each person. My family has more like 1.5 cars - we have two cars, but one is on loan payments, and the other drives, but I wouldn’t trust it any further than the local grocery store and back.
I once met a New Yorker who I initally thought had topped the ignorance charts when they said they were surprised that the UK had mobile phones, but they later topped this by revealing that they didn't understand why the Tube (London Underground) was so cramped: "Why didn't y'all just copy the New York subway and make it wider?"... maybe because it was started over four decades before (1863) the subway (1904)?😂
Well,i would say as a Dutchman,why dont you do something about that??You just go on with a underground that is build in 1863..Build a better underground!!!That would be in the Netherlands when such a dike exists from 1863,it doesnt)that every day we should stand in water up to our nose!Or worse!
I can't help but feel the same despite being British, because the amount of people I've seen making fun of America whilst being completely wrong is crazy
I'm English and was working in Texas. One evening I went to a restaurant and ordersd a beer with my meal. The waitress asked for ID. My reply freaked her out as I said I don't have any as I'm from a free country. The Americans accompanying me got my sense of humour and vouched for my 6ft, balding, bearded and,, at the time, 40 something self as being old enough to drink.
They are quite ridiculous regarding selling alcohol. "the guidelines say....". I was clearly older than 30, balding a bit and accompanied by two American adults. They forget their IDs so I showed my drivers license. Said they couldn't sell me beer, because they need to see my Passport.....We talked to them and somehow they found a gram of common sense but yeah, land of the free and you can but guns without permit at fairs. Make it make sense
Don't be embarrassed by the American stereotypes. They're not true In most cases and there are idiots everywhere Embrace your culture and history (maybe except for the whole massacre of natives) Love from Denmark.
Fun fact: When the American TV channel responsible for child beauty padgents tried to set up in the UK the studio was raided, everyone was arrested and all of the kids were placed in social care. Harsh but fair.
@@anthonylong9067 funny how people will march and protest on the street for lgbqt and "equal pay", yet nobody does anything serious towards child abuse or school shootings..
I'm an Australian who recently visited the USA. An American boy was shocked to find out my friends and I don't know our American Civil War history. Our Civil War history. The conversation was shut down real quick when he thought James Cook was our first "president."
I wonder if that same boy could name three Australian states, or even identify Australia on a map. He would probably faint if he were to discover that just one Australian state [west oz] could swallow something like twenty or more US states, including Texas, in land area. Is Texas big? Nah, it's smaller than at least four Ozzie states & one Territory.
@@KB10GL That may be,but what about the residents off that state?24?200?,maybe 2000??We have in the Netherlands the biggest province(state) with 3840662 residents on 3403 squire km.
Yeah, me neither! I used to walk 45 minutes to school when I was 10-14 years old, if my parent's couldn't take me there, and I was totally fine with it.
I used to walk 52 minutes to work. I wouldn't even classify the 16 mile walk from Watford to Hyde Park as a hike because it doesn't go through the countryside.
@PodpolkovnikGeorgeCostanza Yeah I love my mom but she is so paranoid. She even described Turkey as “a land of savages killing each other in the streets” 💀.
I loved the freedom statement just after the one when a child gets arrested for not conforming to standing for the pledge...that sounds very free to me lol
I was confused when I read that headline (given that arresting him for not standing for the pledge would not only be an illegal arrest but a violation of his constitutional rights), and as far as I can tell they arrested him for causing “disruptions,” because the teacher and the resource officer were both stupid. So it’s a somewhat misleading headline.
@@Simon-hb9rf It's interesting to hear some Americans cry "freedom" whenever they think the US is the best. There is an international scale of everything from most livable cities [Sydney & Melbourne Australia appear in the top five almost constantly] to national happiness [Scandinavian countries are normally at the top of the list] & freedom. The US struggles to stay in the top twenty with fifteenth & eighteenth showing in relatively recent surveys. New Zealand & Australia are always in the top ten. For Americans, freedom is just an illusion.
@@gentlemenduck858 I'm sure things are a bit different now (it was mandatory when my brother was in school in the US in the late 2000s), but the fact they still even do it is mad and a bit brainwashy.
@@shaun2463 I can see why you guys could perceive it like that lol. It's not mandatory now but there are still some old hags who will say some shit to you like "Respect your country" I just ignore em though.
I met some Americans visiting my home country of Ireland they asked me for directions to someplace. After giving them the answer required, they said to me that my english was very good. I replied thanks,so is yours and left them bewildered.
There's so many who claim they're Irish because their brother's pal's second cousin's dog's third cousin got into the drinks cabinet and drank baileys once.
@@shadoww7301I'm pretty sure he was trying to imply that call it that because we are obsessed with the military. Otherwise I'm not sure how it could possibly "speak volumes."
As an Aussie, I feel incredibly alienated, cause it feels like America vs Europe and Australias kinda just there, not a European country but still a western country
We are a hybrid of both we have spawl but also public transport. I am not fussed we are in the commonwealth to me it feels kinda nice to know we used to be part of an empire even though it doesnt really matter today, that connection to to Uk
Gotta love the American confidence. Most of them can’t even find the country they profess to love so much on a map yet are an expert on every other country in World.
@@nomysweetsummerchild3984 Wtf does that even mean. You could say all of our people are from other countries but clearly there's a difference between Americans and the rest of the world because we are our own country.
@@MrAnimasonHey... Psst... I think they were talking about Lady Liberty, who was famously gifted by the French... Also probably the fact America has a lot of cities named after locations outside of America... Names that are copied from 73 individual countries, to be exact, plus a bunch extra plucked from global myths and legends and long collapsed ruins.
Right? If the weather isn't too hot, sometimes I'll just roam around for an hour or more listening to music. I mean, there's more productive things I could be doing but the exercise is good for you
Americans can't fathom the idea of transport without a vehicle which is sad and weird but also not wholly their fault. America's below par infrastructure as a result of government negligence means to be anywhere at all a car is necessary, that's why literal kids over there have cars and drive. It's pretty backwards honestly
Glebglub, Mental Floss says no. "The origins of seven common units of measurement" tells us the statute mile was made 8 furlongs long to make things come out even. So, up from the 5000 foot Roman mile... and in Queen Elizabeth's reign at that. Kilometer-like, the sea mile was one minute of one degree of longitude: 2,025 yards plus a foot. As Patrick O'Brian put it in the mouth of Lucky Jack Aubrey, a "sea mile is rather longer and very much wetter" than a land mile. Oh, and sea calendars found it convenient navigationally to change dates at local noon, not midnight...
@@w.reidripley1968. The standardised foot in the imperial measurement system was Henry VIII’s foot length. The inch was a portion of one of his fingers. The names may have existed before then but there was no standard.
@@Kloetenhenne But then why are you so obsessed with America? I could make the same video of Kenyans and Chinese saying stupid things, but nobody would care. Why do you use an American platform? Why use an American computer, or phone?
The paid holidays thing makes me sad. I had an American company try to poach me, and one of their selling points was that I would get 12 days holiday a year. I also couldn't smoke on site but to make up for it they had a 30 minute bible reading every lunchtime. I politely said no to that offer.
Yeah, in the US there is no legal minimum - AND if you do spend your vacation days or sick days your coworkers and boss will sometimes try to guilt trip you for it. It's also understood that the next day you come back from taking sick-days off you're probably still sick (I once made the mistake of taking 3 days off in a row to make sure I was all rested up and man the paperwork I had to go through for taking that many days off in a row)
I had something similar. I'm Australian and we get 20 days paid leave per year, as well as 10 paid sick days per year (3 or more in a row usually requires a doctors certificate). We get paid a federally mandated and guaranteed minimum wage. We get paid time off on public holidays or paid overtime if working them. We also have access to paid leave for parents having a child and mandatory employer paid superannuation and total health care. It makes US companies look a bit ordinary.
I love how recently Americans have been obsessed with bashing the uk about colonialism (which happened before many of us were even born) yet at the same time they actively love telling other countries how they should act & speak because "their way is the best way"🙂
I've seen people from the USA say that the British "empire" (It was actually a kingdom) fell apart overnight. They also seem to think that the 13 colonies getting independence was the most important moment in British history. Do they know about India and Pakistan's independence?
That’s nothing most Americans of European descent don’t even their own history go talk Native American Indian scholars ( Brayboy, 2006 : Grande 2015) and they will tell you how good old colonialists ethnically cleansed them from 7 million in 1776 to 850K by 1900 and appropriated their land and got 500 tribes down to 142 by C20th Grande ( 2015 ) calls the so-called President of the US a white colonial govern general and Brayboy tells you how the good old Sepos ( Australian word for Yank) appropriate their culture even today to and parody it, to put images on their NFL helmets like ‘ The ‘ Braves’ and ‘ Washington Redskins’ . I piss myself laughing when the spout on about US the great when they treat the Indigenous like shit . And don’t even know what they did them because they are not taught anything about Indigenous history in US high schools or universities. its refreshing meeting Native American professors at conferences who give you a real eye open about White Americans 🤣
@@MrJerichoPumpkin Idk but what makes them think that they are able to be experts on every country? It's like North Koreans thinking that other countries are all worse but for North Korea's case, it's not their fault since they have no way to access real information.
And this is a "vibe" apparently, not actual freedom to do anything specific that is not allowed in other places because US is much more overregulated and any right to not be regulated is "commie laziness" or something similar
The primary thing Americans refer to when using the word freedom is; freedom from government interference, from a government they elected themselves... 😮
Don't waste your time, it's not that great. Go somewhere better, safer, more beautiful and where the average population have an IQ above retardation level.
try Hawaii (if you get the chance) it's completely different, I'd recommend Kawai, the least populated island, you don't see any of the crazy there, the natives are lovely, AND THE SCENERY!!! it's absolutely breathtaking
3:30 My walk home (at a decent speed, on the fastest route) is 30 minutes. It can quite often take 45 minutes. I'd say the terrain is what makes something a hike. For example if I walk for an hour over difficult terrain, that's a hike. If I walk an hour over flat terrain, that's a walk.
Agreed. I don’t drive so I walk everywhere. If we go in a car to go to a place where we go for a walk all day or something then it’s a hike. If I set off from my house then it’s just a walk.
I live in the alps and would consider a 1 hour walk to get somewhere, while crossing forest paths because it’s shorter that going around, a walk, even with the elevation differences, a hike is when I go for fun up a mountain to the top.
Yeah, I walk everywhere and whilst it's mostly flat we have steep hills and dirt paths that I go on everyday and the shortest route to drop the youngest off to school is about 40 minutes. I have learnt to wear hiking boots (they last longer) as my trainers kept wearing through too fast, what with all my excessive walking 😅 but it's just a walk from here to there, not a hike 😂
@@dfdf-rj8jr Well in Denmark we just watched yours on TV and saw there was absolutely nothing up there. Saved the money and spent it on free healthcare and 5 weeks paid vacation a year instead.
@@TwoSock You just watched "yours." What does that even mean? Adjusted for your precious healthcare and education costs, US median income is the highest in the world. A working-class American lives better than an upper-class Dane. Europoors gonna Europoor :)
I was in Italy September 2022 for the Formula 1 and I kid you not when I say there was a group of Americans behind me in the line (2 separate groups that just found each other and started talking because americans always find each other in different countries and stick together) and I overhear them saying "did you know they dont have dryers in Europe theres like none here so we have had to hang out our clothes to dry them" and they were all laughing genuinely in shock that Europe "doesnt have dryers". Please for the love of god just dont leave your nation its better for everyone 💀
Went to my homeland of Romania one year on vacation, and ran into some other Americans who legitimately thought that people didn't have toilets at all because one old babushka they asked to use the toilet have an outhouse which some older folk in remote villages still use as a personal preference, but I was baffled when they said that because one old grandma didn't have a modern toilet, that somehow we all must live like that. Better yet there are poor villages in America that I've been to that don't even have running water , and people need to dig wells, which they that couple also said that we were backwards over there for. Like they do realize not all Americans have tap water over decent toilets right?
I’ve been Googling “is the USA considered a third world nation” and have been astounded at the results, it would seem that in spite of having a massive GDP many do consider the USA to have third world conditions. I find this to be so sad, personally I have always found the yanks to be kind and generous if a tad opinionated and they tend to be more optimistic than us Brits.
@@Someone.southafrica I kinda now wanna see a movie where it swaps between how the US-guy percives it vs how the Irish who are just playing along with whatever the US-guy wants, sending him on a grant adventure throughout different pubs and political debats, narrated by David Edinburough (the wildlife narrator)
My family is from eastern europe and when we went to a restaurant once, a lady got upset because I was conversing with my parents in Romanian instead of english. We told her to calm down and explained that it's easier to communicate with my parents in the language they spoke for the majority of their lives and that it really shouldn't bother her since it's not hurting anyone. She got all pissed and angry so I told her , in slightly more polite terms, to go fuck herself. This was in a part of America where the majority of the people are descended from immigrants from eastern europe ir are immigrants from there. So hearing , Romanian, Czech, Russian, or Polish wasn't that unusual in the cities, but she threw a hissy fit over it. Mind you that there's literally a polish market , a Russian restaurant, and an import store run by a Czech family on the sane block as the restaurant we were at. Some people are just stupid and arrogant, and the combination of the two makes a nuisance to society.
@@easternrebel1061 I am sorry for that. Its so embarassing as a brit I am more than happy for people to use their own language. The irony is it's always people who barely have a grasp of English and you can guarantee they'll just speak louder instead of learning someone else's language. I wish I had the recall for learning languages. I speak basic Spanish but ok would try to learn them all ❤
@@Tf2_Secrets I love the american freedom of dying because im to broke to go to a hospital. And i love how so many shootings happen that no one even cares about it here anymore
@@dfdf-rj8jr Did you know that GERMAN engineers helped design rockets for NASA? Helping land men on the moon. Did you also know almost all of NATO are European members with massive militaries that's budget extends into the tens of billions of pounds? Did you know the UK had the largest colonial empire in the world? Did you know that the metric system and imperial system were both used to weigh stuff in space, calculate distance in space, make hypothesis and theories about space and the moon as well as land people on the moon?
@@COMPYCUBE Lmao which flag is on the moon? Which country has been the world superpower since 1945? Which country has the world's most powerful military? It's not our fault that German scientists chose to leave. If Germany was so great, why did they come running to America?
As a french I'm kinda mixed because America is our fault too and I don't really like that however it allowed us to win another war against brits so it's kinda worth it.
@@dragonkidkai5330 you are the most favourite of our mistakes in Oz. You all use the correct units of measurement, you like pies and can handle your lager 🍻😂❤
@@TheZINGularity I love these videos because of that exact reason. It is really satisfying to see those people who are SO full of themselves just be really stupid and tell everyone 🤣🤣
I will never understand why Europoors are so obsessed with America. But on that note, you should probably leave TH-cam and Google, which are American creations, so you can bash Americans on another platform.
the "American Dream" used to be 1: Pick a job or education for a job, 2:get job, 3;job pays for home, food, car, ect. Ford came up with the 8 hour workday for the idea that a SINGLE person could work ONE job and be PAID ENOUGH for QUALITY of life. (You know, the exact OPPOSITE of how it is today, where people working 3 jobs can't afford $2000 a month for a 300ft ONE ROOM apartment...) It's gotten so bad in America that unless you're already some well-off-rich-bitch, you aren't even considered employable. It's like just go ahead and say it! "nah, sorry, we don't hire poor people..."
@@Kat-mu8wqNorway is probably the top 3 best countries to live in. Expensive or not doesn't matter if at the end of the day you're still richer than 99% of people.
4:03 stuff like this makes me think of that scene in the Simpsons. Where Bart asks that one: "How are we related again?" And that kid responds with: "Our dogs are cousins."
This is the same hourly minimum wage as Poland has! if you convert the currency 27 PLN / 4,4 = 6,1 that would be the EUR rate, no idea about USD cause who cares (except in Poland we also have affordable housing, affordable medical care, affordable public transport and free university education).
The irony is that there's an island in Japan where the population is getting fatter and taller since they all started eating American junk food instead of healthy Japanes food!
I also LOVE the banter that we in Europe apparently have never heard of Air-conditioning but at the same time "America is the only country who cares about global warming". Like... what???😂
As a dude from the land of beer and cheese, I got a story for y’all. In 2018 a man broke into my home, murdered my roommate and stabbed me thirteen times necessitating surgery to repair my lung spleen and carotid artery. After the surgery my carotid threw a clot and I had a stroke. Now, I had insurance through Disability. This is quite fortunate, as the accrued hospital bill totaled roughly $130,000 USD. Had I not had insurance, or even if my insurance had had a clause stating they do not cover assaults or anything even vaguely like that, I would be legally responsible for that debt and through no fault of my own, be plunged into eternal poverty. To avoid this I could technically bring civil suit against my attacker, though this would require me to either argue my case myself, a situation I am somewhat more suited to than most, or hire a lawyer to argue my case out of pocket, something I could not have done. Imagine being the people who actively choose to make the system function like this.
I'm sorry but $130,000 is insanely low. Add a zero and you'll probably be close. I know someone who was hit by a car and fractured his pelvis (that's all). His 3 weeks in hospital cost well over $1million.
Are you saying that the US is the land of beer and cheese??? Inventors of spray cheese and mango beer? You get burgers and pick-up trucks. Beer is either Germany or Czechia and Cheese is Swiss or French.
As a farmer in the UK.. I am outside walking and lifting things and moving things and doing various other things.. Basically.. Im on my feet like 7-8 hours with only a 15 minute break for lunch. To be fair, my feet do hurt a but after the work day is done.. But nevermind 😂
@@cceerrs What I play in my free time as nothing to do with what I do for a living. Genshin is a great game with some nice people on it, only met 1 so far than was considered toxic.. A Russian, of course.
@@PagePorter I have plantar fascitiis due to walking on hard surfaces for long periods of time. So it is rather difficult for me to walk on flat ground for long periods, but the work needs done. I may end up crippled by the time I reach 40 but hey-ho
For some reason in America, when eggs are produced, they go through some processing which removes a protective membrane from the shell which then requires the eggs to be refrigerated...
to be fair, we put eggs in our fridges in sweden too. we don't _have_ to (eggs aren't typically refrigerated when you buy them from the store) but we do it for some reason.
@@silverdrag0n_ I do also if i have the space in the fridge. But i just imagine so much energy is wasted in transport and storage if they must be refrigerated, but I don’t know enough about it to say if that is the case.
Yeah, I learnt that when an American lady asked me where the eggs were (both in a German supermarket) and I was confused why she was looking for them in the fridge and she was confused at why they were _outside_ the fridge. I never thought of refrigerating eggs TBH, but she explained why that happens in USA.
Another fun fact: the "American Revolutionary tune" Yankee Doodle traces back to a musical comedy of the London stage, _The Disappointment,_ in 1763. Apparently it was the hit song in a comedy about those quaint Colonials. And it appealed to the Colonials' sense of humor too... though perhaps what really catapulted it to stardom was you could play it as a peppy march to effect on just one 18th-c. fife. So any company of soldiers could do it.
Ohhh but I know the meaning of the lyrics though - that's the best part! 'Yankee' was originally an insult against the colonials, 'doodle' was an idiot and 'dandy' was a himbo. So "Yankee doodle dandy" means " 'murican idiot himbo ". The song says he stuck a feather in his cap (which was considered tacky at the time) and called it macaroni - the phrase "macaroni" was a reference to Italy and Italian style was popular in the US at one point so it just meant "cool" - kind of like how people use "Gucci" today. So the song is basically: 'murican idiot. 'murican idiot himbo. Put a 'G' on his belt and called it Gucci! I'm from the US but I'm not so thin skinned I can't enjoy a little comedic roasting from centuries ago.
@@Someone.southafrica I read a commend and it was i think 50 Dollar, for just holding your Baby. Birth cost is arrount 10k. They bring you In court, when you don´t pay ,).
I cannot fathom how they can even consider that remotely long, I'm about as unfit as humanly possible outside of having some sort of disease, a 3 mile walk is absolutely nothing at all, 1 mile is so stupidly short that it's the kind of distance you go just walking back and forth around the house doing chores. For people who refuse to switch to Metric because Imperial is "so much more intuitive" I'm pretty certain they don't actually have a grasp on the distance a mile is at all.
@@treeaboo well the issue is america is massive compared to Europe, for example if we wanted to get groceries it would be a short drive but if we walked it would take a few hours due to how far everything apart is. so no one really walks except in really connected parts like new york. so most people say a mile is lone because why walk when you can drive, even if its a small distance. its just normalized to us, hope this helps lol
I am an American, I have read hundreds if not thousands of books in my lifetime by several American authors. I don't know what books you're reading but I have never seen a book that treats a mile as a journey. Infact most of us take about 3 mile runs in the morning to get a bit of exercise in.
For the first one, a lot if not most schools don't really care, like the pledge will be said over announcements and you could stand or not and no one will care either way. Florida is just very extreme about some things unfortunately.
@@Kat-mu8wq Maybe if any of you had the patience to read the actual lyrics, you would realize that the Pledge isn't some sworn blood oath to the US government. All we are saying is that we promise to not to act in Anti-American activity. I think that is a very reasonable thing for a government to ask its citizens. The thing that's stupid about this statement, is that "100 years behind" means nothing. 100 years behind in what? Technological innovation? The US spends almost 700 billion dollars a year on research and development, placing it at the number 1 spot. The top European country is Germany, spending only a sixth of that a year. The entire EU spends barely half as much as the US on research and development a year. And that's only counting federal government money. Of the top 20 companies investing in research and development, 12 are American, and 5 are European. The rest are Japanese, South Korean and Chinese. So it clearly isn't research and development, then it must be cultural. The problem with trying to measure what country is the most progressive, is that it's very difficult to measure. The US has one of, if not the most radical progressive party in the world. I challenge you to find any country, not just European, that has a far left as tolerating and persistent as the American one. But at the same time, its far right balances the scale well. So there's your 30 minute speech on that your statement is stupid. I'm guessing you thought process went a little something like: "gee, it's funny kids in the US say the pledge of allegiance every day. Gosh, they are the only ones who really do that now-a-days. In fact, the only people I can remember that did stuff like that were the 1940's Germans! They're so old over there, doing stuff all old-like and stuff. I should reply with this under a comment about the pledge
@@bodierobertson4212 It's not the details of the content of the pledge. It's religious everyday repeat that happened. You want to ask something of your citizens you write it into law, mention it a few times in their lives.
As an American, I agree it should be day/month/year. I've always been confused as to why it "should be the month first" that makes no sense, and all anybody can tell me is "thats just how its done here".
It's for filing mostly, having Nov 10th next to Nov 20th instead of 10th March next to 10th Nov. Computers espeically read it that way even if it's displayed different.
I worked in IT (mainframes) for 30+ years maintaining programs written in the USA. It was so irritating to have to rearrange every date before it could be compared or sorted. You know, it does not matter how a date is said or displayed, but when stored internally on a computer anything other than CCYYMMDD makes no sense. So why is it stored that way? Because it's the American Way. Duh.
@@RonnieSoakers They did it long before computers. Logic says ascending or descending order, not jump about all over the place. Your argument says year first would be ideal.
@@petegarnett7731Absolutely, you go to the 2016 filing cabinet, the April drawer and then look for the dates. I'm just saying if you're looking stuff up regularly it could become natural to say month/day, no idea if that's how it started.
The funny thing about “freedom units” is it’s the British imperial system, they claim freedom but still use the measuring system of the people they claimed freedom to and say it’s the best system in the world
As far as im aware it was made by the british, before they eventually realised it wasnt that good and along came metric. Though to be fair my parents (british), and those before still use imperial in most ways. When cooking we use litres but beer is measured in pints, schools teach Metric but sign posts use miles/MPH, everyone measures in feet and inches rather than meters and fuel is measured in gallons. Its an absolute mess and is impossible to accurately convert on the fly. So all the kids are taught in Metric but end up having to use imperial because everything build by the previous generations is in Imperial. From about the age of 16 I would refuse to use Imperial in general conversation. I was quite a tall kid so constantly got asked how tall i was and always gave it in cm, when asked what that was in feet i would simply say i dont know, even though i did. Also dont get me started on weighing yourself with Stone
Right so, here's the thing. Its the system we used when we started out and... What exactly about the current situation makes it beneficial to our day to day lives to switch to metric? I know you're used to interacting with other cultures regularly, and most likely see yourself as part of a community of nations. We don't. Do you know why some of our stupider population thinks Europe is a mythical land? Because we. Do not. Interact. With. Other. Nations. In our daily lives. We just don't. We couldn't if we wanted too, except via the web. If you drove for three days straight, you'd be in another country, probably where they speak another language. We're still in the USA. There is no reason for the average citizen here to learn other languages, adopt international standard units, or even THINK about other countries 99.99% of the time. Its different here. We're a nation with a mostly homogeneous culture that spans half a god damn contenant. You're from a place that from our POV would mean if we went one county over we'd have to know another language to talk to people. The reasons that compel you to care about other nations, their people, their ways, and develop / use international standards simply do not exist here. All I have to remember is "use google to do a unit conversion before I tell my Brazilian friend how hot it is today", and that covers 100% of my needs for metric units. Also it's real dumb how you claim metric is better and amazing but only use a tiny slice of it. You've got units in that system for any scale but you have people's heights in 100s of cm instead of 10s of decimeters, and you say places are thousands of km away instead of megameters. Mabey you should start using the metric system instead of just a few of its units. It's not like you're even capable of comprehending "the Earth is 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms" I'll bet you don't even know what a number with that many zeros is called.
@@MeepChangeling America USED TO make everything for itself, but that's no longer true. Industrial goods including electronics, even if sold by American companies, are actually made abroad in factories where everything is metric and all the staff are familiar with metric units.
America does NOT use the Imperial System of units, which was first designated by an Act of the UK Parliament in 1824. They use a selection of the weights and measures PREVIOUSLY in use, which are sometimes called the Winchester system.
Wikipedia says: The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a social club in London. I guess you were in the right direction at the very least.
The other ironies are that the words to the American national anthem refer to a war America lost and was written 40 years before they abolished slavery!
@@carmenpop "One of the most frequent targets for terrorist attacks in Romania was the Government. The civilian population has also been targeted six times since 1994. According to several surveys, However, they do believe that this is one of the most difficult and important challenges for the European Union." stop lying
Growing up in the UK, I've always used both the Imperial and the metric system without really thinking much of it. I didn't realise it was an issue, elsewhere. Also, it's the same case with the 12-hour and 24-hour clock systems (I've never used the term 'military time', though).
military time is a type of 24 hour format, but it does not the colons like they put in and includes 0s before if not 2 digit hours, like 6:24 AM would be 0624 in military time, and if extended to include seconds (which is not usually done, either with military time or normal 12 or 24 hour formats, but sometimes is) it is done with periods between minutes and seconds instead of colons, so if it was say 1:54:23 in 12 hour format, it is 13:54:23 in 24 hour and 1354.23 in military time. They are being ignorant and calling a normal 24 hour format military time.
Probably the same Americans who think Europeans don't have mobile phones are also too lazy to use theirs to convert ounces to kgs, miles to KM or learn how that 24 hour clock works. Must be using it for something far more important.
Here in Ireland many constructions workers (my son-in-law is one) use both systems, one for smaller measurements and one for the larger measurements. Only takes other Europeans a few months to become fluent in the ''imperial metric'' way of measuring things.
3:48 to be fair, going for a walk in alot of places in america is a nightmare because the towns are designed to put industry first so i wouldn't be surprised if these people just didn't have the option to have a really long walk
And often American "freedom" is proclaimed in commentary when they don't even have the free choice (in most regions) to be without the car. "Freedom of speech"-> I'm happy to do without it if it has meanwhile mutated into an undefined marathon of insults. Instead of respecting someone with different opinions/views as a human being.
This is very true. That being said I usually do walk for hours at a time on the sidewalkless roads anyways (using the curb as a sidewalk) so in my head I just pictured a bunch of fat, lazy conservatives complaining about spending time outside (so ironic).
@@manub.3847 Freedom of speech doesn't cover "permission to be an asshole" as far as i know, but i'm not informed in the subject. I think it's just meant to allow people to speak their mind without getting murdered or silenced, but we've seen that it has spawned some problems. Still better than censorship though.
On holiday in Florida our little party grabbed the attention of local law enforcement because we chose to walk from our hotel to a nearby shopping mall in the middle of the day. A physical endeavour that must have been something of a first, to judge from the perplexed look of the policeman sitting in his big car.
This is so accurate. I used to walk 20 minutes to and from work every day and it’s painfully obvious that US cities are not designed with pedestrians in mind. I’d recommend watching the video “Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere)” by Not Just Bikes (I’m pretty sure that was the one but I didn’t rewatch the video to make sure)
Photo 1: Germany, circa 1930s, children saluting the Nazi flag; Photo 2: USA, circa 2020s, children standing for the pledge of allegiance; The difference? None. Same purpose, same intent.
Ah yes, USA is worse than Nazi Germany. Europoor logic, we should have left you to the Soviets so that they could do to London, Paris, Madrid what they did to Berlin.
Why does literally every single sporting event get preceded by the National Anthem? Everything from SuperBowl down to a Sunday morning local park under-11's kiddie baseball league game. And why only sport? Why don't taxi drivers sing the anthem before the first fare of their shift? Or retailers before they let their first customers in?
Because would it be ok if all brittish or German kids had to stand up for 3 minutes and sing god save the queen or das duetchland to a flag while their teacher just watches
I don't remember who said it exactly, but this is a real quote from some American Christian or other, concerning language - "Well, if English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me". Fantastic.
@@ronmastrio2798 meanwhile, jesus: "Listen to my posh, upper class accent, and know, that i have this role in this book, purely because my father was rich, and i have no real skills aside from the editors bankroll"
Legit saw a video earlier of this American woman being amazed how to use her fingers for multiplications from some kid show, if that isn't bleak I don't know what is.
Tbf I think some older Americans didn't receive a proper education since they had to work young, so it's not really on her so much as it is on the system
@quokkawaka4298 this was a millennial, and I don't see the issue to why not when the problems of American education are so clear that students are having to take the lead on improving things, parents should be pushing hardest not kids.
I am Canadian so there is such a mix of British English and American English. The same goes with metric versus imperial. I just kind of know both. The problem comes with dates. Some Canadians do it the British way (I prefer that!) and some the American way. It is so confusing. 😭
I think most English speaking countries use a mix of American and British English, with a few extra tweaks of course. And yeah, dates are kinda inconsistent.
@@QuokkaWakaI’m an Australian for measurements most of the time we use metric although we use feet and stuff sometimes for temp Celsius and for dates it’s the British way so I do think most English speaking countries have a little bit of American stuff but it’s basically all just the British way
Fun fact about "all european countries are conquered every 30 years" The last time britan was successfully conquered is about 1066 and invaded was in about 1782 Edit: someone has informed me that the invasion in 1782 was infact, unsuccessful so I do not know the last date of invasion Edit2: The "conquered" in 1066 was known as "The last invasion" despite not being an invasion exactly
@@Neelo5000 This is a very special interpretation of the American dream. The American dream is not just limited to entrepreneurship. But yes, in the EU about 16% of people are self-employed while in the US it's about 7%. This is less than in Russia (before the Ukraine war)
@@icetwo "The American Dream" is the idea of starting with nothing and eventually going on to become wealthy. It's called a dream for a reason. It's definitely no more a reality in Europe than anywhere else.
American English is obviously not older than British English, however American English uses words and spellings that British English once used but no longer does. Like couch and soccer. Couch was first used in the English language before sofa was! Football is older than soccer, but the word soccer originated in England as a slang term for association football as a way to differentiate it from rugby in the 1800s. The word soccer would of course fall out of use in the UK, in the mid-20th century due to American connotations, though some in the UK still call it soccer like Sky Sports's Soccer Saturday. The US isn't the only country that uses Fahrenheit, but it is the major one! Other places that use just Fahrenheit are the Cayman Islands (yes, you heard that right, a British Overseas Territory), Liberia (a country founded by former American slaves), Palau, Marshall Islands, and Micronesia (Palau, Marshall Islands, and Micronesia all have a Compact of Free Association with the US). Places that use Fahrenheit alongside Celsius are Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Bermuda, Belize, St Kitts & Nevis, Montserrat, British Virgin Islands, and Anguilla (these places alongside Cayman Islands do it for tourism reasons). Canada also does Fahrenheit alongside Celsius in an unofficial capacity.
It would probably shock most Americans that they are using "military time" incorrectly - it is not the 24 hour clock. Military time doesn't have a colon, doesn't have "o'clock", and uses words for time zones (mostly just Zulu these days, also known as UTC or GMT). 1800 (EDT) versus 18:00 = "eighteen hundred hours Quebec" versus "six o'clock" (or "six PM").
Fahrenheit is still based on water's freezing and boiling points. Herr Fahrenheit just put 180 degrees between these instead of the centigrade 100. He put the zero point at the lowest temperature 18th century technology could reliably reach. (Salt mixed with ice) And _that_ coincided with the invention of ice cream.
Well both are technically correct, but from a mathematics standpoint it's much easier to use Celsius than Fahrenheit, just like metric is much easier than imperial because you either divide or multiply by ten or multiples of ten.
@@Gantali9305 and kelvin is just celsius with a different starting point. To convert kelvin to celsius you just add or substract 273,15. To convert fahrenheit to celsius however it's that weird °C = °F x 1.8 + 32 formula.
The ‘American English is older than British English’ thing is a wonderful example of someone running with half a fact. American accents are, in some ways, closer to older British English accents. American English uses words derived from more archaic vocabulary in some cases (pants coming from pantaloons for example). But using that to claim that American English is older is like claiming that chimps are less evolved as a species than humans.
"American English is closer to what British English (at least outside of London) sounded in 1770 and earlier than British English is today" would be more correct. Until around the US civil war 100 years later words like 'plant', 'last', 'dance' etc were pronounced as they are still pronounced in British English. They are still pronounced that way in some parts of the US, although it's rare.
RP and standard american accent are possibly about as old but rp came about in the 1700s and standard american in the late 1800s early 1900s. Pretty silly to say someone from scotland now sounds less like a 1200s scotsman than a yank who can barely understand the scots. Also yorkshire, bristol, hereford and other cities accents dont seem to have changed at all in the last thousands of years. Whereas most americans ancestors never spoke english so they dont have a passed down english accent at all. They just say words however they are spelt. Like Edinburgh and yorkshire. Also RP english and english is influenced by the way europeans pronounce words the correct way. Like the spanish pronounce tomato tomate like the british. There are loads of british accents and all of them are older than the american accent which is an amalgamtion of all of the accents of the british isles and then standerdised making it less old and less like old english than british english is.
I've met an American who claimed that everybody in England spoke Latin up until after America was founded, and English sort of just kind of appeared out of the ether sometime after that. Like English is this very new language and there was just never any Old or Middle periods to it. He also claimed to have read everything there was to read in Latin. I would say the closest he had ever come to having Latin in his mouth was eating a plate of alphabetti spaghetti though.
Watching this as an American who uses metric, celsius, 24h time, is liberal, and reasonably educated. Feels like I would fit in better in literally any European country than Missouri, lol
Well yeah because now he knows that’s what it’s called..? (For Americans anyway, I don’t even know if us brits have a term for it other than 24h clock)
"How can we survive without AC" Well... It's called house thermal isolation. We don't need ac, while it's 40C outside, cause buildings are made to keep cooler temps (and warm in winter) inside. Magic ✨
The cuisines of New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana are honestly exceptional. I know fried food is associated with the southern states, but it's more than just fried food! Texas is all about the meats and barbecuing said meats. Louisiana cuisine is the result of West African, French, Spanish, and Native American influences combined together with an emphasis on seafood like gumbo and jambalaya! If you love spice and seafood, you'll love Louisiana cuisine. New Mexican cuisine is also spicy as it's very Mexican-influenced as well as Pueblo Native American influenced. New Mexico is famous for putting their grown chili peppers on everything whether it's on a burger, enchiladas, chile relleno (where the pepper is stuffed), or pozole. And regarding the so called "American dream": I kid you not, there's literally a giant mall in New Jersey with like an indoor ski slope, Ferris wheel, DreamWorks water park and Nickelodeon theme park that's called the American Dream Meadowlands....ah yes, that's exactly what the American dream is, the dream to drive to a big mall that took nearly TWO DECADES to complete next to a NFL stadium. Smh
@PodpolkovnikGeorgeCostanza No it fucking isn't. I've been to Europe and I've been to America. They really aren't that different, and America is just as dystopian as anywhere in Europe. "oH, b-bUt LiTtLe KiDs gEt sHoT iN sChOoL, aNd tHeY fOrCe KiDs tO pArTiCiPaTe iN a dAiLy oAtH sWeArInG tO tHe uS gOvErNmEnT!!!!" - you probably
just want to mention about 4 months ago there was some freindly war games between england and the usa. lets just say the us marines are no match for the SAS.
I spoke to an american once and i told him im from south africa and he got mad at me cus im not black and said im not really from SA cus only black people live there
@@easternrebel1061meanwhile my sick grandad had a heart transplant and didn't spend anything because here healtcare Is free, or mostly paid from the state
2:54 In New Mexico (square on the left) there's a big red and green chili culture there and alot of the food has Mexican influence (some of the best food in the U.S.). Texas in the middle has your classic American barbeque and really anything with meat. Louisiana on the right is big in seafood and Cajun food, it has some of the most unique food in the U.S. Overall these 3 states do have some of the best food in the country, but in the world I don't know.
Literally some the best in the US. Thigs is , in the southwest they actually eat real cooked food. In most other places , the food is garbage and only a few people still cook traditional food like the older generation used to eat. There's many people who don't even know how to make something as simple as mashed potatoes.
I live in the US and I actively refuse to do the Pledge of Allegiance becuase I see it as a MacCarthyist Gregorian chant, so an 11yr old being arrested over not doing it killed some niche part of me.
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It's not even called "military time" in most places. In the UK it's just a "24-hour clock". Only in America is counting above 12 a mysterious special skill reserved for the military.
a mysterious special skill LMAOO
The funniest part is that the military calls it Zulu time
Thisss!! I’ve been saying that for the longest time but literally anyone above the age of 5 can probably count to 24. Not to mention how much more exact it is - it just makes way more sense!!
I personally prefeer the 12 hour format (because it's what everything uses where i live) and i don't get the borderline hate, i don't understand why people seem to hate it soo much, beyond the fact that Americans defend it with everything.
@@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 No one really hates the 12 hour clock, we're just making fun of the US's aversion to the 24 hour clock.
The fact that so many Americans think that Europe is like, stuck in the medieval times scares me.
It's just projection on their part
Shhhh! Don't tell them we also have dragons, and our Royal Family occasionally ride them across London when the peasants aren't looking!
Shush All hail the Queen she still lives with our dragons and Gargoyles.
@@MaerahnThat must really annoy the Welsh.
Except if the Prince of Wales does it. And he should not name him Smaug. Please -- Pea-Souper at most.
Fairer to say, Europe is stuck with Middle Ages buildings. "Americans think a hundred years is a long time; the English think a hundred miles is a long way." John Cleese: "Someday I'd like to travel..."
It's because Americans have a medieval siege mentality. Their 'stand your ground' laws are a direct result of how frightened they are. It's why people get killed for knocking on the front door or using a driveway during a 3 point turn. Thanks to US Ed. they know nothing beyond their own shores & are happy living in ignorance in a bubble. It's very sad.
If germany started doing a pledge of allegiance the world would lose their marbles.
Perfect comparison lul.. The US is like a mixture between 1933 & 1984.
Yet they're the first ones to call themselves a sovereign free democracy, and call the rest of the world an authoritarian dictatorship, (of course it's just thinly-veiled projection)
As a german i agree.
Also Mr Maginot would start pouring concrete again
Nah it will be fine but I would recomend you point your guns Eastwood rather than too the west we brits don't really want to go at it again not cus we would lose but because we don't want to lose our economy again
@@blackcountryme like it worked the first time xD
Fun fact: the hand over the heart for the Pledge of Allegiance was only standardized in the early 1940s. Before that, a much different salute was much more popular, but that had become awkward, because the same salute had been even more popular in Germany since about 1933.
The US is just embarrasing, they didn't even give US compensation for overthrowing our government and replacing it with a dictatorship that tortured pregnant woman... and killed over 30.000 random people for nothing... thanks CIA
Yup, Germany borrowed the US Bellamy salute. Though there are photos on the internet of it still in use into the 1950s in the US.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou germany borrowed it? i'm pretty sure the romans did it before and hitler adopted that
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou no surprise there, I bet you can find whole towns in the US who dont know that the war even happened.
I always felt that Americans holding their hands over their hearts are just aching to extend it in front of them!
Imagine going to America speaking with a British accent and someone tells you to “Speak English!”
Tbf have you ever heard a west Cumbrian speak
@@infernobreath2998it’s beautiful
Most brits cant speak proper english not gonna lie, only they can understand themselves
@@skilletbakes420kind of. We’re definitely split into groups. I will never in my life be able to understand a strong scouse accent.
Americanese😂
An American woman came into the pub I worked at in London & left a bad review because I wouldn’t accept dollars and I didn’t know the conversion rate 😌
hahaha oh my
So delusional. I reckon they think their currency is so superior they can waltz into Europe with their currency and pay for anything with it xD
Did they know the exchange rate?
Although I'm not American by birth, as a current US citizen , I'd like to apologize on behalf of the Americans. Not all are like that.
@Angela-vu9ttfunny thing is that his character is supposed to be parody of a libertarian/anarchist..
9:25 That's such an American sentiment: "We're better because we have more cars than we're physically capable of driving."
Lol. Cars in America are stupid expensive to the point that people have stopped buying and dealerships have overflowing lots because everyone is like , fuck this I can't afford that. Also having driven tryck in America, the infrastructure wasn't bad for the era it was built and designed in, but they failed to maintain and upgrade it, so the results is abysmal infrastructure for the modern era.
@@easternrebel1061 I hear you. I am Australian, but I know that America is terminally car-dependent. Building stroads, highways through cities (rather than around them) along with about 2 billion parking spaces (or so I hear) has been bankrupting American cities. All that car-centric infrastructure does not pay for itself and does not allow people to easily have alternatives to driving.
@fishofgold6553 well yes, that's but part of it, but the problem goes far deeper than that. Also being car dependent isn't the worse thing in the world if you live out in the middle of nowhere like me. A 15 minute drive is about a 2 hour walk , or 4 hour round trip out in the rural Midwest. American cities in general though are flat out dystopian.
Unless you expect them to change gear as well.
If it is 1.1 cars per person, it likely breaks down to something like, the majority have somewhere between 0 and 1 cars for their whole family, and a smaller richer percentage have like 3 cars for each person.
My family has more like 1.5 cars - we have two cars, but one is on loan payments, and the other drives, but I wouldn’t trust it any further than the local grocery store and back.
I once met a New Yorker who I initally thought had topped the ignorance charts when they said they were surprised that the UK had mobile phones, but they later topped this by revealing that they didn't understand why the Tube (London Underground) was so cramped: "Why didn't y'all just copy the New York subway and make it wider?"... maybe because it was started over four decades before (1863) the subway (1904)?😂
Some of them are as thick as mince.
@@jaxcoss5790 That's a mite insulting to mince though.
Well,i would say as a Dutchman,why dont you do something about that??You just go on with a underground that is build in 1863..Build a better underground!!!That would be in the Netherlands when such a dike exists from 1863,it doesnt)that every day we should stand in water up to our nose!Or worse!
@@jaxcoss5790Some???
Some Americas?99.9% more like@@jaxcoss5790
As a user of the metric system, I don't understand how using bullets per square child is any clearer than degrees celsius.
*Cubic Bullets
*quarter eighths cubic bullets
@@quuaaarrrk8056 If it's a cubic bullet or square child... Something's wrong.
@@hvvgvgh6422 you're quick to defend but slow to action. Just like US politicians
@@sshh7510 You can't just disregard how fucked up that stereotype is though..
If Americans are so insistent that you say the date 'Month Day Year' then why do they call it 'The 4th of July' 🤔
lol happy July of the 4th!!🎉
@@PinkPanther4958 🤣🥳
Curious indeed.
The most perfect comment i've ever seen
Mic drop
As an American this pains me to watch
but also I can’t look away because of how unbelievably dumb and stubborn these people are 😭
I can't help but feel the same despite being British, because the amount of people I've seen making fun of America whilst being completely wrong is crazy
Most people that argue about countries almost always have zero proof and no real valid points and they are exclusively extremely dumb.
America: the Car Crash of the world
I think Italy is better than both of us
@@caledonianrailway1233one of the most corrupt countries in the western world. From their police, to their politics to their sport.
I'm English and was working in Texas. One evening I went to a restaurant and ordersd a beer with my meal. The waitress asked for ID. My reply freaked her out as I said I don't have any as I'm from a free country. The Americans accompanying me got my sense of humour and vouched for my 6ft, balding, bearded and,, at the time, 40 something self as being old enough to drink.
They are quite ridiculous regarding selling alcohol. "the guidelines say....". I was clearly older than 30, balding a bit and accompanied by two American adults. They forget their IDs so I showed my drivers license. Said they couldn't sell me beer, because they need to see my Passport.....We talked to them and somehow they found a gram of common sense but yeah, land of the free and you can but guns without permit at fairs. Make it make sense
@@ThommyOcho Hilarious!
As an American born to a European parent, I just pretend I'm European because I don't want to admit I'm associated with these people in any way.
You're like 50% there? That's a pass in America right? Good enough for me.
There's another video on the channel roasting you!
Hybrid
As you are probably born and raised in the US, it is very likely you are perceived pretty American by Europeans...
Don't be embarrassed by the American stereotypes. They're not true In most cases and there are idiots everywhere
Embrace your culture and history (maybe except for the whole massacre of natives)
Love from Denmark.
Fun fact: When the American TV channel responsible for child beauty padgents tried to set up in the UK the studio was raided, everyone was arrested and all of the kids were placed in social care. Harsh but fair.
Totally agree. Pageantry is putrid.
They just do it with horses here instead though
A lot of us hate those too here in the US.
If only the government did that with mosques.
@@ronmastrio2798 in the US? Because there’s hardly any mosques here. In the UK, they’re everywhere.
@@anthonylong9067 funny how people will march and protest on the street for lgbqt and "equal pay", yet nobody does anything serious towards child abuse or school shootings..
I'm an Australian who recently visited the USA. An American boy was shocked to find out my friends and I don't know our American Civil War history. Our Civil War history. The conversation was shut down real quick when he thought James Cook was our first "president."
Well, at least he heard about cook
James Cook? Nah he’s the dude that chased a chook all around Australia. Lost his pants in the middle of France and found ‘em in Tasmania. 🐓🏃🏼
I wonder if that same boy could name three Australian states, or even identify Australia on a map. He would probably faint if he were to discover that just one Australian state [west oz] could swallow something like twenty or more US states, including Texas, in land area.
Is Texas big? Nah, it's smaller than at least four Ozzie states & one Territory.
President lmao
@@KB10GL That may be,but what about the residents off that state?24?200?,maybe 2000??We have in the Netherlands the biggest province(state) with 3840662 residents on 3403 squire km.
I still can’t believe Americans think that 23 minutes is a hike, I walk 30 minutes to school
Heard about a new thing they're trying to market, a soft hike. Better known in the civilized world as going out for a walk.
So do I
I walked longer than that and 4 times a day. 😅 for 5 years
Yeah, me neither! I used to walk 45 minutes to school when I was 10-14 years old, if my parent's couldn't take me there, and I was totally fine with it.
I used to walk 52 minutes to work.
I wouldn't even classify the 16 mile walk from Watford to Hyde Park as a hike because it doesn't go through the countryside.
How other countries see totalitarian dystopia: America
How Americans see totalitarian dystopia: Anything that isnt America
Nah fr my mom acts like America is the only country with rights and if you set foot in another you will instantly get killed or trafficked
@@insertrelevantusername8760even though a shocking amount of trafficking happens within american borders, scary
Exactly! We are a fucking cult that's obsessed with protecting privilege, not freedom.
How Americans see Russia & China vs how America actually is lolol
@PodpolkovnikGeorgeCostanza Yeah I love my mom but she is so paranoid. She even described Turkey as “a land of savages killing each other in the streets” 💀.
I loved the freedom statement just after the one when a child gets arrested for not conforming to standing for the pledge...that sounds very free to me lol
that is the freedom to conform with the state lol
I was confused when I read that headline (given that arresting him for not standing for the pledge would not only be an illegal arrest but a violation of his constitutional rights), and as far as I can tell they arrested him for causing “disruptions,” because the teacher and the resource officer were both stupid. So it’s a somewhat misleading headline.
@@Simon-hb9rf It's interesting to hear some Americans cry "freedom" whenever they think the US is the best. There is an international scale of everything from most livable cities [Sydney & Melbourne Australia appear in the top five almost constantly]
to national happiness [Scandinavian countries are normally at the top of the list] & freedom. The US struggles to stay in the top twenty with fifteenth & eighteenth showing in relatively recent surveys. New Zealand & Australia are always in the top ten.
For Americans, freedom is just an illusion.
@@Simon-hb9rf 🤣🤣
Americans talk about freedom and being "anti-commy", but don't realise that "pledging allegiance to the flag" is such a North Korea vibe
You don't have to do it, you can literally sit out lol
Genuinely it feels so dystopian, I'm sure if you grew up doing it then it'd feel normal, but for anyone else it's baffling
@@gentlemenduck858 I'm sure things are a bit different now (it was mandatory when my brother was in school in the US in the late 2000s), but the fact they still even do it is mad and a bit brainwashy.
@@shaun2463 I can see why you guys could perceive it like that lol. It's not mandatory now but there are still some old hags who will say some shit to you like "Respect your country" I just ignore em though.
@@shaun2463 It makes me uncomfortable so most of the time I choose to sit out.
I met some Americans visiting my home country of Ireland they asked me for directions to someplace.
After giving them the answer required, they said to me that my english was very good.
I replied thanks,so is yours and left them bewildered.
Great comment
Wtf
Lol, brilliant response.
If Americans think Europe is backward and medieval I'm scared to see what they think of Africa
They don't think about Africa.
At all.
@@spaghettiisyummy.3623 Can confirm. The only Americans who think about Africa are thinking about stuff like South African farm murders
@@spaghettiisyummy.3623 Can confirm. The only Americans who think about Africa are thinking about stuff like South African farm murders
I suspect they picture Africa exclusively in offensive stereotypes.
They probably dont even know where Africa is
8:34 Actual Irish guy here who speaks the language. That says “I hate that you think you’re the same as me. You aren’t and you never will be.” 😂
Thank you for your service. 😂
There's so many who claim they're Irish because their brother's pal's second cousin's dog's third cousin got into the drinks cabinet and drank baileys once.
a burn but probably wasted; no way the recipient understands irish
Well done buddy. Have a Snickers, no need to thank me
i’m irish too but i could ‘t read *all* of what they said but i understood that they hated the way they thought 💀💀💀
I think the fact yanks call it "military time" and not the *slightly* more logical "24-hour clock" probably speaks volumes.
To be fair, we call it military time because the 24 hour clock is seldom used outside of the military here.
@@Neelo5000 that's my point.
@@Neelo5000 thats literally the point of what he said
@@shadoww7301I'm pretty sure he was trying to imply that call it that because we are obsessed with the military. Otherwise I'm not sure how it could possibly "speak volumes."
@@Neelo5000 can you re read everything you just wrote and what they wrote and realise that you are saying the same thing
As an Aussie, I feel incredibly alienated, cause it feels like America vs Europe and Australias kinda just there, not a European country but still a western country
Don't worry mate, I'm a Kiwi so if you like..... ;)
We are a hybrid of both we have spawl but also public transport. I am not fussed we are in the commonwealth to me it feels kinda nice to know we used to be part of an empire even though it doesnt really matter today, that connection to to Uk
Its probably for the best
You guys get the spotlight once the Tasmanian tigers are back.
Well you are anglo country that is less backwards than America
Gotta love the American confidence. Most of them can’t even find the country they profess to love so much on a map yet are an expert on every other country in World.
Most of their landmarks are from other countries too
We're not accustomed to using world maps, because the rest of the world doesn't really matter anyway 😏
@@Neelo5000 hey we all have choices. Choosing dumb is a strange one but you do you 👍🏼
@@nomysweetsummerchild3984 Wtf does that even mean. You could say all of our people are from other countries but clearly there's a difference between Americans and the rest of the world because we are our own country.
@@MrAnimasonHey... Psst... I think they were talking about Lady Liberty, who was famously gifted by the French... Also probably the fact America has a lot of cities named after locations outside of America... Names that are copied from 73 individual countries, to be exact, plus a bunch extra plucked from global myths and legends and long collapsed ruins.
man i can't believe some people don't appreciate a nice long walk :(( it always makes me feel better
Right? If the weather isn't too hot, sometimes I'll just roam around for an hour or more listening to music. I mean, there's more productive things I could be doing but the exercise is good for you
Yeah! I couldn't live with only a 10min walk. I walk almost everywhere and I love it. It feels so much more free than in a car.
I don't like walking because I've got knee problems but I cycle instead which is nice.
Merica is land of the car parks
Americans can't fathom the idea of transport without a vehicle which is sad and weird but also not wholly their fault. America's below par infrastructure as a result of government negligence means to be anywhere at all a car is necessary, that's why literal kids over there have cars and drive. It's pretty backwards honestly
Americans: the American system is the best measurement system! go America!
the American system: literally King Henry Tudor VIII's body measurements
@PodpolkovnikGeorgeCostanza The drugs jus' win I suppose
Glebglub, Mental Floss says no. "The origins of seven common units of measurement" tells us the statute mile was made 8 furlongs long to make things come out even. So, up from the 5000 foot Roman mile... and in Queen Elizabeth's reign at that.
Kilometer-like, the sea mile was one minute of one degree of longitude: 2,025 yards plus a foot. As Patrick O'Brian put it in the mouth of Lucky Jack Aubrey, a "sea mile is rather longer and very much wetter" than a land mile. Oh, and sea calendars found it convenient navigationally to change dates at local noon, not midnight...
Australia lost a war against emus and Americans lost one against drugs. I think the defeat by emus would be less humiliating 😜
@@w.reidripley1968. The standardised foot in the imperial measurement system was Henry VIII’s foot length. The inch was a portion of one of his fingers. The names may have existed before then but there was no standard.
@PodpolkovnikGeorgeCostanza because plutocracy ofc if Pharma companies pay good then why ban their extremely addicting drugs?
Love how Americans talk about "choking down propaganda", but every morning they stand and pledge allegiance to a country that ate tide pods.
Or believing we are jealous of them.
Italy: The country of pasta
Japan: The country of anime
US: The country of main character syndrome
Germany: the country of cars
France: The country of wine
Switzerland: The country of cheese
Netherlands: the country of tulips 😂
Austria: the country of mountains (I guess)
US: still the country of main character syndrome 😂😂
Given that nobody is making a video saying "Italy scares me" or "Japan scares me," I think America is quite clearly the main character.
@@dfdf-rj8jr the main character of stupidity for sure.
@@Kloetenhenne But then why are you so obsessed with America? I could make the same video of Kenyans and Chinese saying stupid things, but nobody would care.
Why do you use an American platform? Why use an American computer, or phone?
The paid holidays thing makes me sad. I had an American company try to poach me, and one of their selling points was that I would get 12 days holiday a year. I also couldn't smoke on site but to make up for it they had a 30 minute bible reading every lunchtime. I politely said no to that offer.
Yeah, in the US there is no legal minimum - AND if you do spend your vacation days or sick days your coworkers and boss will sometimes try to guilt trip you for it. It's also understood that the next day you come back from taking sick-days off you're probably still sick (I once made the mistake of taking 3 days off in a row to make sure I was all rested up and man the paperwork I had to go through for taking that many days off in a row)
Oh wow, what an amazing offer! I have no idea why you would turn that down! This is me being sarcstic.
Was the Bible reading mandatory ?
I had something similar. I'm Australian and we get 20 days paid leave per year, as well as 10 paid sick days per year (3 or more in a row usually requires a doctors certificate). We get paid a federally mandated and guaranteed minimum wage. We get paid time off on public holidays or paid overtime if working them. We also have access to paid leave for parents having a child and mandatory employer paid superannuation and total health care. It makes US companies look a bit ordinary.
@@klavczarkalafan4191 Sick days as a concept are wild to begin with. Lets start there.
I love how recently Americans have been obsessed with bashing the uk about colonialism (which happened before many of us were even born) yet at the same time they actively love telling other countries how they should act & speak because "their way is the best way"🙂
I've seen people from the USA say that the British "empire" (It was actually a kingdom) fell apart overnight. They also seem to think that the 13 colonies getting independence was the most important moment in British history. Do they know about India and Pakistan's independence?
That’s nothing most Americans of European descent don’t even their own history go talk Native American Indian scholars ( Brayboy, 2006 : Grande 2015) and they will tell you how good old colonialists ethnically cleansed them from 7 million in 1776 to 850K by 1900 and appropriated their land and got 500 tribes down to 142 by C20th Grande ( 2015 ) calls the so-called President of the US a white colonial govern general and Brayboy tells you how the good old Sepos ( Australian word for Yank) appropriate their culture even today to and parody it, to put images on their NFL helmets like ‘ The ‘ Braves’ and ‘ Washington Redskins’ . I piss myself laughing when the spout on about US the great when they treat the Indigenous like shit . And don’t even know what they did them because they are not taught anything about Indigenous history in US high schools or universities. its refreshing meeting Native American professors at conferences who give you a real eye open about White Americans 🤣
@@yougoslavia they barely know anything about their own country, why would they know about the rest of the world?
@@MrJerichoPumpkin Idk but what makes them think that they are able to be experts on every country? It's like North Koreans thinking that other countries are all worse but for North Korea's case, it's not their fault since they have no way to access real information.
They are literally our fault and our colony originally. I am so sorry ROTW 😂😂😂
I love that Americans think that freedom is a concept exclusive to America.
And this is a "vibe" apparently, not actual freedom to do anything specific that is not allowed in other places because US is much more overregulated
and any right to not be regulated is "commie laziness" or something similar
The primary thing Americans refer to when using the word freedom is; freedom from government interference, from a government they elected themselves... 😮
America is one of those countries that I would like to visit, but I'm too scared to
Don't waste your time, it's not that great. Go somewhere better, safer, more beautiful and where the average population have an IQ above retardation level.
I will never visit solely because of their accent. Its like scratching a chalk board
I feel like something would happen in the hotel rooms, like hidden cameras, weird staff or break-ins..
Yeah I mean I'm not gonna pretend like my country is crime-free by any means, but America has a particularly seedy reputation
try Hawaii (if you get the chance) it's completely different, I'd recommend Kawai, the least populated island, you don't see any of the crazy there, the natives are lovely, AND THE SCENERY!!! it's absolutely breathtaking
3:30 My walk home (at a decent speed, on the fastest route) is 30 minutes. It can quite often take 45 minutes.
I'd say the terrain is what makes something a hike.
For example if I walk for an hour over difficult terrain, that's a hike. If I walk an hour over flat terrain, that's a walk.
Agreed. I don’t drive so I walk everywhere. If we go in a car to go to a place where we go for a walk all day or something then it’s a hike. If I set off from my house then it’s just a walk.
And that's why the USA is the heart disease centre of the world.
I live in Ireland in the county and its a 10 minute drive to town but a 2 hour walk do to the hills
I live in the alps and would consider a 1 hour walk to get somewhere, while crossing forest paths because it’s shorter that going around, a walk, even with the elevation differences, a hike is when I go for fun up a mountain to the top.
Yeah, I walk everywhere and whilst it's mostly flat we have steep hills and dirt paths that I go on everyday and the shortest route to drop the youngest off to school is about 40 minutes. I have learnt to wear hiking boots (they last longer) as my trainers kept wearing through too fast, what with all my excessive walking 😅 but it's just a walk from here to there, not a hike 😂
The Pub Landlord is spot on - there is no British Dream like there is an American Dream because 'WE ARE EFFING AWAKE'!!
George Carlin: “it’s called the American dream because you gotta be asleep to believe it”
And also, we're British, we don't have hopes and dreams. We traded those for sarcasm and bitterness. 😆
@@anthonylong9067pretty much I would say brits are the most logical and cynical when it comes to life
@@Adam-vn8kv being American and living there for a bit, i felt at home since i have that cynical dry and often stereotypical humor
@@dmgroberts5471 far more useful skills in life than delusion, be a cynical glorious bastard. MUCH MORE ENTERTAINING
You know, for a nation that doesn't use the metric system they sure do love the 9 millimeter.
I thought they went for the 0.45 inch. Which has to be the oddest measurement ever, a decimal fraction of a non-decimal unit.
They save the metric system for drugs and guns, like bringing out the Sunday china on special occasions.
It's a shame Europoors can't put a man on the moon though. Let me know when the metric system puts a German flag there.
@@dfdf-rj8jr Well in Denmark we just watched yours on TV and saw there was absolutely nothing up there. Saved the money and spent it on free healthcare and 5 weeks paid vacation a year instead.
@@TwoSock You just watched "yours." What does that even mean?
Adjusted for your precious healthcare and education costs, US median income is the highest in the world. A working-class American lives better than an upper-class Dane.
Europoors gonna Europoor :)
I was in Italy September 2022 for the Formula 1 and I kid you not when I say there was a group of Americans behind me in the line (2 separate groups that just found each other and started talking because americans always find each other in different countries and stick together) and I overhear them saying "did you know they dont have dryers in Europe theres like none here so we have had to hang out our clothes to dry them" and they were all laughing genuinely in shock that Europe "doesnt have dryers". Please for the love of god just dont leave your nation its better for everyone 💀
Speaking of Italy, I overheard an American watching Euro 2012 say "I didn't know they had African Americans in Italy", referring to Mario Balotelli
@shaun2463 holy shit, are Americans even fucking real at this point? It's like a fever dream that doesn't end
Went to my homeland of Romania one year on vacation, and ran into some other Americans who legitimately thought that people didn't have toilets at all because one old babushka they asked to use the toilet have an outhouse which some older folk in remote villages still use as a personal preference, but I was baffled when they said that because one old grandma didn't have a modern toilet, that somehow we all must live like that. Better yet there are poor villages in America that I've been to that don't even have running water , and people need to dig wells, which they that couple also said that we were backwards over there for. Like they do realize not all Americans have tap water over decent toilets right?
@@shaun2463 As someone from the balkans, wait till he sees a Greek person.
I’ve been Googling “is the USA considered a third world nation” and have been astounded at the results, it would seem that in spite of having a massive GDP many do consider the USA to have third world conditions. I find this to be so sad, personally I have always found the yanks to be kind and generous if a tad opinionated and they tend to be more optimistic than us Brits.
American walks up to a random Irish person and hands them a snicker bar and goes: Take me to your leader!
And then the Irish person replies, "Sure boyo," and proceeds to ridicule the American for being stupid for thinking that would work
@@KevinStansfield Irish people are Welsh? It would explain a lot but it's a can of worms no-one wants to get into.
American: take me to you’re leader
Irishman: *leads them to a pub^
@@Someone.southafrica I kinda now wanna see a movie where it swaps between how the US-guy percives it vs how the Irish who are just playing along with whatever the US-guy wants, sending him on a grant adventure throughout different pubs and political debats, narrated by David Edinburough (the wildlife narrator)
@@zirilan3398 darn now I wanna see it
As an American i can confirm, yes this stuff actually happens.
My family is from eastern europe and when we went to a restaurant once, a lady got upset because I was conversing with my parents in Romanian instead of english. We told her to calm down and explained that it's easier to communicate with my parents in the language they spoke for the majority of their lives and that it really shouldn't bother her since it's not hurting anyone. She got all pissed and angry so I told her , in slightly more polite terms, to go fuck herself. This was in a part of America where the majority of the people are descended from immigrants from eastern europe ir are immigrants from there. So hearing , Romanian, Czech, Russian, or Polish wasn't that unusual in the cities, but she threw a hissy fit over it. Mind you that there's literally a polish market , a Russian restaurant, and an import store run by a
Czech family on the sane block as the restaurant we were at. Some people are just stupid and arrogant, and the combination of the two makes a nuisance to society.
@@easternrebel1061 I am sorry for that. Its so embarassing as a brit
I am more than happy for people to use their own language.
The irony is it's always people who barely have a grasp of English and you can guarantee they'll just speak louder instead of learning someone else's language. I wish I had the recall for learning languages.
I speak basic Spanish but ok would try to learn them all ❤
When Americans talk about they're freedom I just like to think that they can't cross the road without getting arrested in some areas lol.
@@Tf2_Secrets I love the american freedom of dying because im to broke to go to a hospital. And i love how so many shootings happen that no one even cares about it here anymore
@@Tf2_Secretswhich areas?
I love the way they talk about their freedoms, meanwhile an 11 year old can be arrested for not standing for the pledge of allegiance...
Yes. Freedom and the BEST healthcare system in the world.. sure.
It's a shame Europoors can't put a man on the moon though. Let me know when the metric system puts a German flag there.
@@dfdf-rj8jreuropoors? Man get over yourself and go study.
@@dfdf-rj8jr Did you know that GERMAN engineers helped design rockets for NASA? Helping land men on the moon. Did you also know almost all of NATO are European members with massive militaries that's budget extends into the tens of billions of pounds? Did you know the UK had the largest colonial empire in the world? Did you know that the metric system and imperial system were both used to weigh stuff in space, calculate distance in space, make hypothesis and theories about space and the moon as well as land people on the moon?
@@COMPYCUBE Lmao which flag is on the moon? Which country has been the world superpower since 1945? Which country has the world's most powerful military?
It's not our fault that German scientists chose to leave. If Germany was so great, why did they come running to America?
Disclaimer: as a British person America are kind of our fault and I just want to apologise for that
As an Australian, at least you learned from your mistakes.
As a french I'm kinda mixed because America is our fault too and I don't really like that however it allowed us to win another war against brits so it's kinda worth it.
America is the result of most European countries making a massive mistake
@@ixi4390 😂😂❤ touché
@@dragonkidkai5330 you are the most favourite of our mistakes in Oz. You all use the correct units of measurement, you like pies and can handle your lager 🍻😂❤
They’re literally almost unreal aren’t they. This is hysterical 😂😂😂😂
I dont know if i have had my hands in my face this many times in such a short while in ages
It is and it isn't - how the fuck can humans be such dumb asses in the world today.
@@TheZINGularity I love these videos because of that exact reason. It is really satisfying to see those people who are SO full of themselves just be really stupid and tell everyone 🤣🤣
I will never understand why Europoors are so obsessed with America.
But on that note, you should probably leave TH-cam and Google, which are American creations, so you can bash Americans on another platform.
Those *few* people don’t speak for an entire country.
the "American Dream" used to be 1: Pick a job or education for a job, 2:get job, 3;job pays for home, food, car, ect. Ford came up with the 8 hour workday for the idea that a SINGLE person could work ONE job and be PAID ENOUGH for QUALITY of life. (You know, the exact OPPOSITE of how it is today, where people working 3 jobs can't afford $2000 a month for a 300ft ONE ROOM apartment...) It's gotten so bad in America that unless you're already some well-off-rich-bitch, you aren't even considered employable. It's like just go ahead and say it! "nah, sorry, we don't hire poor people..."
My Norwegian friend said thr American dream is easier to achieve in Norway, and that country is expensive as hell to live in
@@Kat-mu8wqNorway is probably the top 3 best countries to live in. Expensive or not doesn't matter if at the end of the day you're still richer than 99% of people.
Sounds about right, except the 8 hour thing.
I live in nevada working 10 hour days, 6 days a week. I have 2 roommates to pay for a 1 bed 1 bath apartment.
@@Kat-mu8wq yeah but in Norway you have a proper public service system and earn properly
4:03 stuff like this makes me think of that scene in the Simpsons. Where Bart asks that one: "How are we related again?"
And that kid responds with: "Our dogs are cousins."
9:55 "getting paid like 1 dollar a day."
German minimum wage: ~12 euros per hour.
Usa minimum wage: ~6-7 euros per hour.
And here in serbia its dollar and a half a day and kosovo is basically revolting,but at least we got the culture.
@@l4p1descent i dont know if its enough to account for $1.50/h minimum wage
This is the same hourly minimum wage as Poland has! if you convert the currency 27 PLN / 4,4 = 6,1 that would be the EUR rate, no idea about USD cause who cares
(except in Poland we also have affordable housing, affordable medical care, affordable public transport and free university education).
Isn't there also even another minimum for servers because of the tips or something? I thought I read something like that.
Adjusted for purchasing power parity, US has the highest median disposable income in the world.
9:18 to fair, most of us Americans are 63 percent larger than most Japanese people.
most of everyone are 63% larger than most japs, lets throw the chinese in there as well
We astound Japanese tourists with the size of our restaurant portions -- and free refills of iced tea and coffee.
Width and height
@jessica; Are you bragging or complaining?
The irony is that there's an island in Japan where the population is getting fatter and taller since they all started eating American junk food instead of healthy Japanes food!
USA: Military time
Literally everywhere else: Time
I also LOVE the banter that we in Europe apparently have never heard of Air-conditioning but at the same time "America is the only country who cares about global warming".
Like... what???😂
They cool atmosphere with their air conditioners, you see!? >:D
As an American America confuses me too
As a Brit, the UK confuses me too
As an American, America just... sucks
@@tobyggen1058here I live isn't to bad, but I would hate to live in Florida or Texas. Virginia is a good mix of normal and idiots.
i too don't understand why we have pride .Month
@@syberknight94 Yeah, like LGBTQ+ people get mad that it's only a month but then get mad if we stop doing it.
americans mock us british people but they do this-
I know right, in my opinion alot of them are dumbasses and way more bullyable than us lol
Americans are tapped
Pass it on
Both are mockable
"Oy I've never been to a dentist monarchy's mighty fine innit bruv" vs "yeehaw cowboy freedom constitution greatest country in the world" /lh
We are just as confused about our antics as you are. Feeling’s mutual
As a dude from the land of beer and cheese, I got a story for y’all. In 2018 a man broke into my home, murdered my roommate and stabbed me thirteen times necessitating surgery to repair my lung spleen and carotid artery. After the surgery my carotid threw a clot and I had a stroke. Now, I had insurance through Disability. This is quite fortunate, as the accrued hospital bill totaled roughly $130,000 USD. Had I not had insurance, or even if my insurance had had a clause stating they do not cover assaults or anything even vaguely like that, I would be legally responsible for that debt and through no fault of my own, be plunged into eternal poverty. To avoid this I could technically bring civil suit against my attacker, though this would require me to either argue my case myself, a situation I am somewhat more suited to than most, or hire a lawyer to argue my case out of pocket, something I could not have done. Imagine being the people who actively choose to make the system function like this.
Those people are called "Americans".
Is that the american dream everyone's always going on about 😁
13 TIMES!???? Jesus Christ mate it’s a miracle you’re alive!
I'm sorry but $130,000 is insanely low. Add a zero and you'll probably be close. I know someone who was hit by a car and fractured his pelvis (that's all). His 3 weeks in hospital cost well over $1million.
Are you saying that the US is the land of beer and cheese??? Inventors of spray cheese and mango beer?
You get burgers and pick-up trucks. Beer is either Germany or Czechia and Cheese is Swiss or French.
American "we have free speech"
American watching Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais "we'd never be able to say that here!!"
Snowden and Assange would like to object bullshit about free speech
As a farmer in the UK.. I am outside walking and lifting things and moving things and doing various other things.. Basically.. Im on my feet like 7-8 hours with only a 15 minute break for lunch.
To be fair, my feet do hurt a but after the work day is done.. But nevermind 😂
Never seen a genshin player who's a farmer before what a random combo 😂
@@cceerrs What I play in my free time as nothing to do with what I do for a living. Genshin is a great game with some nice people on it, only met 1 so far than was considered toxic.. A Russian, of course.
@@PagePorter I have plantar fascitiis due to walking on hard surfaces for long periods of time. So it is rather difficult for me to walk on flat ground for long periods, but the work needs done. I may end up crippled by the time I reach 40 but hey-ho
@@Kat-mu8wq it's a joke calm down
According to that rando, you can't be a farmer, as non-Americans apparently can't grow their own food...
For some reason in America, when eggs are produced, they go through some processing which removes a protective membrane from the shell which then requires the eggs to be refrigerated...
to be fair, we put eggs in our fridges in sweden too. we don't _have_ to (eggs aren't typically refrigerated when you buy them from the store) but we do it for some reason.
@@silverdrag0n_ I do also if i have the space in the fridge. But i just imagine so much energy is wasted in transport and storage if they must be refrigerated, but I don’t know enough about it to say if that is the case.
@@FLAIR__ i don't know enough about it either, actually.
Yeah in England our eggs are sold non refrigerated but then we all put them in our fridges at home
Yeah, I learnt that when an American lady asked me where the eggs were (both in a German supermarket) and I was confused why she was looking for them in the fridge and she was confused at why they were _outside_ the fridge. I never thought of refrigerating eggs TBH, but she explained why that happens in USA.
Another fun fact: the "American Revolutionary tune" Yankee Doodle traces back to a musical comedy of the London stage, _The Disappointment,_ in 1763. Apparently it was the hit song in a comedy about those quaint Colonials.
And it appealed to the Colonials' sense of humor too... though perhaps what really catapulted it to stardom was you could play it as a peppy march to effect on just one 18th-c. fife. So any company of soldiers could do it.
I think that's actually the most Likes I've had on any one post.
First the Statue of liberty being French and now this 😂😂😂
@@nomysweetsummerchild3984 Import-export has always been lively in the free Republic, from the earliest beginnings.
Ohhh but I know the meaning of the lyrics though - that's the best part! 'Yankee' was originally an insult against the colonials, 'doodle' was an idiot and 'dandy' was a himbo. So "Yankee doodle dandy" means " 'murican idiot himbo ". The song says he stuck a feather in his cap (which was considered tacky at the time) and called it macaroni - the phrase "macaroni" was a reference to Italy and Italian style was popular in the US at one point so it just meant "cool" - kind of like how people use "Gucci" today. So the song is basically:
'murican idiot. 'murican idiot himbo. Put a 'G' on his belt and called it Gucci!
I'm from the US but I'm not so thin skinned I can't enjoy a little comedic roasting from centuries ago.
Melody of "Star spangled banner" is taken from English drinking song :)
2:00 I'll give you that one. Child beauty pageants are creepy. It should not be a thing!
I don't hate the concept itself but the clothes and makeup they put on the kids literally makes them look like porn actors. Like wtf
Many US states allow child marriage an ten states have no lower age limit, so you can see how this is abused.
"Jealous of our freedom" sir the hospital charged me a fee to hold my baby when she was born
Apparently, the "freedom to screw over others" is the most important...
I’m confused? what you do if you cannot afford you’re baby? Do they just shove it back in? Send it to an adoption centre?
@@Someone.southafrica I read a commend and it was i think 50 Dollar, for just holding your Baby. Birth cost is arrount 10k. They bring you In court, when you don´t pay ,).
I love how the Irish commenter translated his message to Gaelic/Irish. Well done, lad! 👌
It’s not called gaelic
@@cormac6894 Maith an buchaill
Lol gay lick. Nation of poofs.
It’s called gay-lic
Gaelic is the language of the Celts.
Here in Ireland our first language is called Ghaeilge (pronounced Gwale-ga).
3:26 Always really jarring when you're reading a book by an American author and they talk about walking A WHOLE MILE like it's some great adventure. 🤣
I cannot fathom how they can even consider that remotely long, I'm about as unfit as humanly possible outside of having some sort of disease, a 3 mile walk is absolutely nothing at all, 1 mile is so stupidly short that it's the kind of distance you go just walking back and forth around the house doing chores.
For people who refuse to switch to Metric because Imperial is "so much more intuitive" I'm pretty certain they don't actually have a grasp on the distance a mile is at all.
@@treeaboo well the issue is america is massive compared to Europe, for example if we wanted to get groceries it would be a short drive but if we walked it would take a few hours due to how far everything apart is. so no one really walks except in really connected parts like new york. so most people say a mile is lone because why walk when you can drive, even if its a small distance. its just normalized to us, hope this helps lol
I used to walk 3 miles to work every day. That did start to feel long but for a one off walk it's not a big deal.
I am an American, I have read hundreds if not thousands of books in my lifetime by several American authors. I don't know what books you're reading but I have never seen a book that treats a mile as a journey. Infact most of us take about 3 mile runs in the morning to get a bit of exercise in.
@@deutschegeschichte4972 They're Europoors, all they know is that Americans are bad. They don't know why exactly, they just know that it's bad.
“The American Dream?” Is it to make it through school without being shot?
LMAO
It is nowadays.
I personally don’t think I have that thick of a British accent, but it’s ridiculous how many people tell me to “Speak American properly”
If they say that they mean it as a joke, I am an American and I have never heard a single person ever say that and legit mean it lol.
@@deutschegeschichte4972 cause you already speak murican
Whats a British Accent?
Tell them you're not speaking American, you're speaking fluent English and congratulate them on understanding you.
Geordie, lol
For the first one, a lot if not most schools don't really care, like the pledge will be said over announcements and you could stand or not and no one will care either way. Florida is just very extreme about some things unfortunately.
And this is why usa is about 100 years behind Europe. The pledge and religion are keeping it captive in the old days.
yeah i stopped begin forced to do it back in the early 2000's. Florida is just wild
@@Kat-mu8wq Maybe if any of you had the patience to read the actual lyrics, you would realize that the Pledge isn't some sworn blood oath to the US government. All we are saying is that we promise to not to act in Anti-American activity. I think that is a very reasonable thing for a government to ask its citizens.
The thing that's stupid about this statement, is that "100 years behind" means nothing. 100 years behind in what? Technological innovation? The US spends almost 700 billion dollars a year on research and development, placing it at the number 1 spot. The top European country is Germany, spending only a sixth of that a year. The entire EU spends barely half as much as the US on research and development a year. And that's only counting federal government money. Of the top 20 companies investing in research and development, 12 are American, and 5 are European. The rest are Japanese, South Korean and Chinese. So it clearly isn't research and development, then it must be cultural.
The problem with trying to measure what country is the most progressive, is that it's very difficult to measure. The US has one of, if not the most radical progressive party in the world. I challenge you to find any country, not just European, that has a far left as tolerating and persistent as the American one. But at the same time, its far right balances the scale well.
So there's your 30 minute speech on that your statement is stupid. I'm guessing you thought process went a little something like: "gee, it's funny kids in the US say the pledge of allegiance every day. Gosh, they are the only ones who really do that now-a-days. In fact, the only people I can remember that did stuff like that were the 1940's Germans! They're so old over there, doing stuff all old-like and stuff. I should reply with this under a comment about the pledge
@@bodierobertson4212 It's not the details of the content of the pledge. It's religious everyday repeat that happened.
You want to ask something of your citizens you write it into law, mention it a few times in their lives.
As an American, I agree it should be day/month/year. I've always been confused as to why it "should be the month first" that makes no sense, and all anybody can tell me is "thats just how its done here".
It's for filing mostly, having Nov 10th next to Nov 20th instead of 10th March next to 10th Nov. Computers espeically read it that way even if it's displayed different.
It sucks, we are taught a specific way so it’s hard to change. I want to use the metric system so bad, but I’m so used to the American way.
I worked in IT (mainframes) for 30+ years maintaining programs written in the USA. It was so irritating to have to rearrange every date before it could be compared or sorted. You know, it does not matter how a date is said or displayed, but when stored internally on a computer anything other than CCYYMMDD makes no sense. So why is it stored that way? Because it's the American Way. Duh.
@@RonnieSoakers They did it long before computers. Logic says ascending or descending order, not jump about all over the place. Your argument says year first would be ideal.
@@petegarnett7731Absolutely, you go to the 2016 filing cabinet, the April drawer and then look for the dates. I'm just saying if you're looking stuff up regularly it could become natural to say month/day, no idea if that's how it started.
The funny thing about “freedom units” is it’s the British imperial system, they claim freedom but still use the measuring system of the people they claimed freedom to and say it’s the best system in the world
As far as im aware it was made by the british, before they eventually realised it wasnt that good and along came metric. Though to be fair my parents (british), and those before still use imperial in most ways. When cooking we use litres but beer is measured in pints, schools teach Metric but sign posts use miles/MPH, everyone measures in feet and inches rather than meters and fuel is measured in gallons. Its an absolute mess and is impossible to accurately convert on the fly. So all the kids are taught in Metric but end up having to use imperial because everything build by the previous generations is in Imperial. From about the age of 16 I would refuse to use Imperial in general conversation. I was quite a tall kid so constantly got asked how tall i was and always gave it in cm, when asked what that was in feet i would simply say i dont know, even though i did.
Also dont get me started on weighing yourself with Stone
The irony is that the Metric system was created by the French without whom America would not have won their freedom!
Right so, here's the thing. Its the system we used when we started out and... What exactly about the current situation makes it beneficial to our day to day lives to switch to metric? I know you're used to interacting with other cultures regularly, and most likely see yourself as part of a community of nations. We don't.
Do you know why some of our stupider population thinks Europe is a mythical land? Because we. Do not. Interact. With. Other. Nations. In our daily lives. We just don't. We couldn't if we wanted too, except via the web. If you drove for three days straight, you'd be in another country, probably where they speak another language. We're still in the USA.
There is no reason for the average citizen here to learn other languages, adopt international standard units, or even THINK about other countries 99.99% of the time. Its different here. We're a nation with a mostly homogeneous culture that spans half a god damn contenant. You're from a place that from our POV would mean if we went one county over we'd have to know another language to talk to people. The reasons that compel you to care about other nations, their people, their ways, and develop / use international standards simply do not exist here.
All I have to remember is "use google to do a unit conversion before I tell my Brazilian friend how hot it is today", and that covers 100% of my needs for metric units.
Also it's real dumb how you claim metric is better and amazing but only use a tiny slice of it. You've got units in that system for any scale but you have people's heights in 100s of cm instead of 10s of decimeters, and you say places are thousands of km away instead of megameters. Mabey you should start using the metric system instead of just a few of its units. It's not like you're even capable of comprehending "the Earth is 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms" I'll bet you don't even know what a number with that many zeros is called.
@@MeepChangeling America USED TO make everything for itself, but that's no longer true. Industrial goods including electronics, even if sold by American companies, are actually made abroad in factories where everything is metric and all the staff are familiar with metric units.
America does NOT use the Imperial System of units, which was first designated by an Act of the UK Parliament in 1824. They use a selection of the weights and measures PREVIOUSLY in use, which are sometimes called the Winchester system.
Just a quick note…the American anthems tune…was originally an English drinking song
really?
Wikipedia says:
The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a social club in London.
I guess you were in the right direction at the very least.
The other ironies are that the words to the American national anthem refer to a war America lost and was written 40 years before they abolished slavery!
@@Joe-ez3gtAmerica lost the American revolution?
@@jamesjesus1828 He is referring to the War of 1812.
As an Irish person I can confirm we do have Snickers bars in Ireland
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Intrestingly, lots of Americans see "Born in the USA" an a patriotic song, but the song is actually anti-war, more specifically the Vietnam War
So is fortunate son don't see it like that anymore
7:34 less violence? from what i know crime rate in poland is 10x lower than in the US
not a single terrorist attack either
@@jules.8681 neither in Romania
@@carmenpop "One of the most frequent targets for terrorist attacks in Romania was the Government. The civilian population has also been targeted six times since 1994. According to several surveys, However, they do believe that this is one of the most difficult and important challenges for the European Union." stop lying
@@glovemiester I live in Romania, but maybe you know more than me 🤔
@@carmenpop so sorry to hear that🙏
Growing up in the UK, I've always used both the Imperial and the metric system without really thinking much of it. I didn't realise it was an issue, elsewhere.
Also, it's the same case with the 12-hour and 24-hour clock systems (I've never used the term 'military time', though).
military time is a type of 24 hour format, but it does not the colons like they put in and includes 0s before if not 2 digit hours, like 6:24 AM would be 0624 in military time, and if extended to include seconds (which is not usually done, either with military time or normal 12 or 24 hour formats, but sometimes is) it is done with periods between minutes and seconds instead of colons, so if it was say 1:54:23 in 12 hour format, it is 13:54:23 in 24 hour and 1354.23 in military time. They are being ignorant and calling a normal 24 hour format military time.
@@gamesandglory1648 Thanks for the clarification.
Because UK is America's dad.
Probably the same Americans who think Europeans don't have mobile phones are also too lazy to use theirs to convert ounces to kgs, miles to KM or learn how that 24 hour clock works. Must be using it for something far more important.
Here in Ireland many constructions workers (my son-in-law is one) use both systems, one for smaller measurements and one for the larger measurements. Only takes other Europeans a few months to become fluent in the ''imperial metric'' way of measuring things.
George always knows how to make our day !
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@PodpolkovnikGeorgeCostanzauh sorry that’s not going to happen
3:48 to be fair, going for a walk in alot of places in america is a nightmare because the towns are designed to put industry first so i wouldn't be surprised if these people just didn't have the option to have a really long walk
And often American "freedom" is proclaimed in commentary when they don't even have the free choice (in most regions) to be without the car.
"Freedom of speech"-> I'm happy to do without it if it has meanwhile mutated into an undefined marathon of insults.
Instead of respecting someone with different opinions/views as a human being.
This is very true. That being said I usually do walk for hours at a time on the sidewalkless roads anyways (using the curb as a sidewalk) so in my head I just pictured a bunch of fat, lazy conservatives complaining about spending time outside (so ironic).
@@manub.3847 Freedom of speech doesn't cover "permission to be an asshole" as far as i know, but i'm not informed in the subject.
I think it's just meant to allow people to speak their mind without getting murdered or silenced, but we've seen that it has spawned some problems. Still better than censorship though.
On holiday in Florida our little party grabbed the attention of local law enforcement because we chose to walk from our hotel to a nearby shopping mall in the middle of the day. A physical endeavour that must have been something of a first, to judge from the perplexed look of the policeman sitting in his big car.
This is so accurate. I used to walk 20 minutes to and from work every day and it’s painfully obvious that US cities are not designed with pedestrians in mind. I’d recommend watching the video “Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere)” by Not Just Bikes (I’m pretty sure that was the one but I didn’t rewatch the video to make sure)
Photo 1: Germany, circa 1930s, children saluting the Nazi flag;
Photo 2: USA, circa 2020s, children standing for the pledge of allegiance;
The difference? None. Same purpose, same intent.
Brainwashing
Ah yes, USA is worse than Nazi Germany. Europoor logic, we should have left you to the Soviets so that they could do to London, Paris, Madrid what they did to Berlin.
Why does literally every single sporting event get preceded by the National Anthem? Everything from SuperBowl down to a Sunday morning local park under-11's kiddie baseball league game. And why only sport? Why don't taxi drivers sing the anthem before the first fare of their shift? Or retailers before they let their first customers in?
@@mercifulzeus01 Why does it make you upset, Europoor?
Because would it be ok if all brittish or German kids had to stand up for 3 minutes and sing god save the queen or das duetchland to a flag while their teacher just watches
I don't remember who said it exactly, but this is a real quote from some American Christian or other, concerning language -
"Well, if English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me". Fantastic.
Well he did speak English didn't he, why the Bible is in English..
😂😂😂😂
Oh Brown-Skinned-Jewish-Jesus, I don't even know where to start. If I heard someone say that my brain would just quit.
We all know God is British so it makes sense.
@@ronmastrio2798 meanwhile, jesus: "Listen to my posh, upper class accent, and know, that i have this role in this book, purely because my father was rich, and i have no real skills aside from the editors bankroll"
Legit saw a video earlier of this American woman being amazed how to use her fingers for multiplications from some kid show, if that isn't bleak I don't know what is.
WTAF 😂
Link? I have to see this
Tbf I think some older Americans didn't receive a proper education since they had to work young, so it's not really on her so much as it is on the system
@quokkawaka4298 this was a millennial, and I don't see the issue to why not when the problems of American education are so clear that students are having to take the lead on improving things, parents should be pushing hardest not kids.
I am Canadian so there is such a mix of British English and American English. The same goes with metric versus imperial. I just kind of know both. The problem comes with dates. Some Canadians do it the British way (I prefer that!) and some the American way. It is so confusing. 😭
I think most English speaking countries use a mix of American and British English, with a few extra tweaks of course. And yeah, dates are kinda inconsistent.
@@QuokkaWakaI’m an Australian for measurements most of the time we use metric although we use feet and stuff sometimes for temp Celsius and for dates it’s the British way so I do think most English speaking countries have a little bit of American stuff but it’s basically all just the British way
@@oot2380
I meant moreso things like couch/sofa, candy/sweets, etc. but yeah where I'm from we use Celsius and the metric system.
Don't worry we use both systems in UK
Hi fellow Canadian!
"23 minutes is a hike" killed me. Like bruh, I hike for 8-10 hours total every weekend. 🤣
Fun fact about "all european countries are conquered every 30 years"
The last time britan was successfully conquered is about 1066 and invaded was in about 1782
Edit: someone has informed me that the invasion in 1782 was infact, unsuccessful so I do not know the last date of invasion
Edit2: The "conquered" in 1066 was known as "The last invasion" despite not being an invasion exactly
wouldn't exactly call it an invasion
If by 1782 you mean the siege of Gibraltar, this wasn't a successful invasion so I don't really think it counts
@@tylermoran8635 i call an invasion anything smaller than replacing/controlling the ruler of the country
Yes!
@@bruhngl thank you for the knowledge
in America the american dream is just a dream. In Europe it is called reality.
Everyone in Europe is a successful entrepreneur?
@@Neelo5000 This is a very special interpretation of the American dream. The American dream is not just limited to entrepreneurship. But yes, in the EU about 16% of people are self-employed while in the US it's about 7%. This is less than in Russia (before the Ukraine war)
@@icetwo "The American Dream" is the idea of starting with nothing and eventually going on to become wealthy. It's called a dream for a reason. It's definitely no more a reality in Europe than anywhere else.
In America it is reality to. Just don't be lazy.
@@icetwofunny fact, if you compare Russia vs usa Russia has better stats 😅
American English is obviously not older than British English, however American English uses words and spellings that British English once used but no longer does. Like couch and soccer. Couch was first used in the English language before sofa was! Football is older than soccer, but the word soccer originated in England as a slang term for association football as a way to differentiate it from rugby in the 1800s. The word soccer would of course fall out of use in the UK, in the mid-20th century due to American connotations, though some in the UK still call it soccer like Sky Sports's Soccer Saturday.
The US isn't the only country that uses Fahrenheit, but it is the major one! Other places that use just Fahrenheit are the Cayman Islands (yes, you heard that right, a British Overseas Territory), Liberia (a country founded by former American slaves), Palau, Marshall Islands, and Micronesia (Palau, Marshall Islands, and Micronesia all have a Compact of Free Association with the US). Places that use Fahrenheit alongside Celsius are Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Bermuda, Belize, St Kitts & Nevis, Montserrat, British Virgin Islands, and Anguilla (these places alongside Cayman Islands do it for tourism reasons). Canada also does Fahrenheit alongside Celsius in an unofficial capacity.
Dude, over here it's called the 24 hour clock. It's only military time to Americans!
Over here it’s just called the clock lmao
It would probably shock most Americans that they are using "military time" incorrectly - it is not the 24 hour clock.
Military time doesn't have a colon, doesn't have "o'clock", and uses words for time zones (mostly just Zulu these days, also known as UTC or GMT).
1800 (EDT) versus 18:00 = "eighteen hundred hours Quebec" versus "six o'clock" (or "six PM").
It’s a force of his habit because his brain power is on his point rather than being grammatically correct
The freezing point of water is 0°C (32°F) and the boiling point is 100°C (212°F). Which one do you think makes more sense logically speaking?
kelvin.
Fahrenheit is still based on water's freezing and boiling points. Herr Fahrenheit just put 180 degrees between these instead of the centigrade 100.
He put the zero point at the lowest temperature 18th century technology could reliably reach. (Salt mixed with ice)
And _that_ coincided with the invention of ice cream.
Well both are technically correct, but from a mathematics standpoint it's much easier to use Celsius than Fahrenheit, just like metric is much easier than imperial because you either divide or multiply by ten or multiples of ten.
@@Gantali9305 and kelvin is just celsius with a different starting point. To convert kelvin to celsius you just add or substract 273,15. To convert fahrenheit to celsius however it's that weird °C = °F x 1.8 + 32 formula.
@@ixi4390 i am aware. I prefer kelvin anyways as a lot of equations only work with kelvin.
The ‘American English is older than British English’ thing is a wonderful example of someone running with half a fact.
American accents are, in some ways, closer to older British English accents. American English uses words derived from more archaic vocabulary in some cases (pants coming from pantaloons for example). But using that to claim that American English is older is like claiming that chimps are less evolved as a species than humans.
"American English is closer to what British English (at least outside of London) sounded in 1770 and earlier than British English is today" would be more correct. Until around the US civil war 100 years later words like 'plant', 'last', 'dance' etc were pronounced as they are still pronounced in British English. They are still pronounced that way in some parts of the US, although it's rare.
@@francisdec1615 fair point. This is what happens when a semanticist talks about phonology :)
RP and standard american accent are possibly about as old but rp came about in the 1700s and standard american in the late 1800s early 1900s. Pretty silly to say someone from scotland now sounds less like a 1200s scotsman than a yank who can barely understand the scots. Also yorkshire, bristol, hereford and other cities accents dont seem to have changed at all in the last thousands of years. Whereas most americans ancestors never spoke english so they dont have a passed down english accent at all. They just say words however they are spelt. Like Edinburgh and yorkshire. Also RP english and english is influenced by the way europeans pronounce words the correct way. Like the spanish pronounce tomato tomate like the british. There are loads of british accents and all of them are older than the american accent which is an amalgamtion of all of the accents of the british isles and then standerdised making it less old and less like old english than british english is.
I'd say they are both exactly the same age, which would be when "united" English split into AE and BE.
I've met an American who claimed that everybody in England spoke Latin up until after America was founded, and English sort of just kind of appeared out of the ether sometime after that. Like English is this very new language and there was just never any Old or Middle periods to it.
He also claimed to have read everything there was to read in Latin. I would say the closest he had ever come to having Latin in his mouth was eating a plate of alphabetti spaghetti though.
Watching this as an American who uses metric, celsius, 24h time, is liberal, and reasonably educated. Feels like I would fit in better in literally any European country than Missouri, lol
American's think they popped into existence in a vacuum or something. They think Jesus was born in Florida and was a protestant, lol.
@@edwardvincentlaybournwalle4991 Me and my 55 wives liked your comment. Good day brother
Living in America is like when Plankton took over the Bikini Bottom and made everyone wear buckets on their heads... except it's all normalized.
i wouldnt say its quite that dystopian yet, but give us a few years and we'll get there
@@doctorbee6673I mean pledging allegiance to America is already normalised so they're already there in some regards
@@epicfail7874 that thing is so culty ngl
@epicfail7874 eh, for me at least the pledge got removed from school when I was in elementary in the early 2000s. Totally culty tho I agree
Literally 1984
1:40 in an earlier vid, he said he didn't understand when people call it "military time". But now he fully embraces it. That's character development
Well yeah because now he knows that’s what it’s called..?
(For Americans anyway, I don’t even know if us brits have a term for it other than 24h clock)
@@Mona-.- actually its called digital time
@@JohnDoe-sk6sw bro… you call it digital time because digital clocks have a 24h format whereas analogue clocks are stuck to 12h format
@@Mona-.- digital clocks can have a 12h format too, though?
@@silverdrag0n_ can you point out where I said otherwise?
"How can we survive without AC"
Well... It's called house thermal isolation. We don't need ac, while it's 40C outside, cause buildings are made to keep cooler temps (and warm in winter) inside. Magic ✨
No
Ah yes, the american dream, AKA Europe, or more specifically, Scandinavia.
Adjusted for purchasing power parity, US has the highest median disposable income in the world.
Aye, true
6:36 ah yes. Loaded with cancer, diabetes and other diesease causing chemicals, my favorite seasonings. 🤣
5:45 lmao I love how they say this when the last invasion of England was literally 1,000 years ago.
Actually it was 1688. Seriously. 20-odd thousand Dutch soldiers plus a guy called Willem.
2:21 Funny enough ryanair has never had any fatalities 😂
Really?!
The real fatality is flying in a Ryanair flight
"europe's countries get invaded every 30 years"
Meanwhile Portugal only being invaded once in its 980 year history...
The cuisines of New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana are honestly exceptional. I know fried food is associated with the southern states, but it's more than just fried food! Texas is all about the meats and barbecuing said meats. Louisiana cuisine is the result of West African, French, Spanish, and Native American influences combined together with an emphasis on seafood like gumbo and jambalaya! If you love spice and seafood, you'll love Louisiana cuisine. New Mexican cuisine is also spicy as it's very Mexican-influenced as well as Pueblo Native American influenced. New Mexico is famous for putting their grown chili peppers on everything whether it's on a burger, enchiladas, chile relleno (where the pepper is stuffed), or pozole.
And regarding the so called "American dream": I kid you not, there's literally a giant mall in New Jersey with like an indoor ski slope, Ferris wheel, DreamWorks water park and Nickelodeon theme park that's called the American Dream Meadowlands....ah yes, that's exactly what the American dream is, the dream to drive to a big mall that took nearly TWO DECADES to complete next to a NFL stadium. Smh
I thought the American dream was mass homelessness and record-breaking incarceration lol
Sadly , for the overwhelming majority of young , working class Americans , the American dream is mostly dead.
Those are all other countries foods which arent american. Its like saying british food is good because of curry.
@@freneticness6927The way they are combined is uniquely American though
I think hungarian foods could probably compete.
the americans in this video literally make america look like a dystopia its crazy 😭
It actually is! We're already in a mixture of Orwell's 1984 and something like a 1930s Germany
@@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172 1984 😭 lmaoo
@PodpolkovnikGeorgeCostanza No it fucking isn't. I've been to Europe and I've been to America. They really aren't that different, and America is just as dystopian as anywhere in Europe. "oH, b-bUt LiTtLe KiDs gEt sHoT iN sChOoL, aNd tHeY fOrCe KiDs tO pArTiCiPaTe iN a dAiLy oAtH sWeArInG tO tHe uS gOvErNmEnT!!!!"
- you probably
It is though.
just want to mention about 4 months ago there was some freindly war games between england and the usa. lets just say the us marines are no match for the SAS.
They definitely came second
And the US marines are not match to finnish conscripts. Way to go US. Semper fidelis... But you can't get even that one right.
I spoke to an american once and i told him im from south africa and he got mad at me cus im not black and said im not really from SA cus only black people live there
Pieter-Dirk Uys encountered that, he used to blame his paleness on the food served by Pan-Am (very old joke).
Oh wait till he meets an egyptian.
Did he know South Africa is a country, or did he just think you meant the south of Africa?
@@dmgroberts5471 no clue but either way he was not very happy
If he's from the US and conservative like that, he probably likes Elon Musk. If only he knew.
200k for a heart transplant might be lowballing it actually, Mr Memeulous
And don't forget the $1200 dollars to pay for the ambulance to get you there.
It absolutely is. On the low end you're looking at at least half a million for the operation alone.
ah america....i don't think i can say a better jab at it than either that...or the famous "soooo hows that independence going for you now bub?"
@@easternrebel1061meanwhile my sick grandad had a heart transplant and didn't spend anything because here healtcare Is free, or mostly paid from the state
2:54 In New Mexico (square on the left) there's a big red and green chili culture there and alot of the food has Mexican influence (some of the best food in the U.S.). Texas in the middle has your classic American barbeque and really anything with meat. Louisiana on the right is big in seafood and Cajun food, it has some of the most unique food in the U.S. Overall these 3 states do have some of the best food in the country, but in the world I don't know.
Yep if I ever get to the USA one day I'm definitely checking out all 3 of these for the food. Especially Louisiana!
Literally some the best in the US. Thigs is , in the southwest they actually eat real cooked food. In most other places , the food is garbage and only a few people still cook traditional food like the older generation used to eat. There's many people who don't even know how to make something as simple as mashed potatoes.
It's all relative. If you prefer Italian or French cuisine, then maybe not.
New Mexico. That's pretty accurate geography. Congratulations.
I live in the US and I actively refuse to do the Pledge of Allegiance becuase I see it as a MacCarthyist Gregorian chant, so an 11yr old being arrested over not doing it killed some niche part of me.
“The war for independence they see that as a win, we see that as a luck fucking escape”. Al Murray
We dodged a fucking bullet ...
Without a doubt.
Then you came back for another go in 1812.
@@anthonylong9067 na just had to tick off the box’s and yous have been working for us ever since
@@anthonylong9067And were destroying you before we decided it just wasn't worth it.