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Sorry Evan, but the UK is made of 3 countries and one province. Northern Ireland, while having devolved rule, is only a province not a country. Also Welsh students have reduced Tuition fees, as they retain government grants unlike English students. If they study in Wales, their get effectly free university aswell.
And because the US-American problems are really damaging for parts of the population. So I understand why you wouldn't want to defend your system in these cases. Whereas things like paying for ketchup (in Germany you sometimes actually have to do that, sometimes however only of you want additional ketchup) isn't even necessarily a problem, and definitely not a severe one. So I wouldn't mind defending the European side.
Also the usa is almost as big Europe its actually rly small for a continent not a “huge ass” check the sizes the country’s are tiny like even a bunch of singular states are bigger than the uk and Ireland combined like Alaska or Texas so Europe’s not that big
@@darkfuhart9626 Yes, geographically, Europe isn't that big of a continent, however in terms of population density there are hundreds of millions more people in Europe than in the USA, and many more cultures that vary wildly between each other which I don't think can really be said for the USA.
I think that the 'Europeans are defensive of their countries thing' is more like the siblings' thing, I can make fun of my brother but someone else trying it and I will make that person regret doing that lol
2 months late but completely agree with you. I think there is also a sort of defensiveness around all the problems Europe believes America has. Like Europeans are fine with other Europeans commenting on their problems, because there's a common level. But America commenting on it is like, "all the problems you have and you have the audacity to call us out?"
Even if all of us in Europe hated each other but even then we would not allow other to mess with any of our fellow Europeans. I see our continent as a big family with some weird aunts and uncles, annoying siblings etc :D We can mess with each other but especially the US isnt allowed to ;) :P
Also I think that Europe has SO many distinctly different cultures that in most cases is almost impossible to make a statement that applies to everyone. It's like when an American says "I can do a really good Irish accent." First of all no such thing, there is a town 15k away from the one I live in and it is two completely different accents for both towns. Second of all no matter what you say unless you are from Ireland and have lived there most of your life, you can't do any of the Irish accents right. It may sound right to someone not from here but ask any Irish person and they will tell you no one who isn't Irish can do the accent right.
"europeans are more defensive" well I can't speak for the whole of Europe because it's a whole ass continent but in England and France, the general type of humor is pretty different to America, I've lived in all 3 of these places and British people like to joke about real issues and have a slightly overall darker tone, and french people are just flat out sassy, so because of that, if Americans do make fun of us for our accent or the fact we have to pay for toilets we will respond with america's problems with school shootings, inequality and healthcare, i think it's a cultural divide than being sensitive, you took those comments as defensive but i think the tone was meant to be poking fun at america.
I think that people in Europe make jokes about each other an are fine with it but when someone ,,foreign‘‘ make a joke or something we come together and defend us against ,,the outside‘‘ so a Europe thing I think
About the drugs in bathrooms: In Switzerland we used to have an open drug scene in the 80s and 90s. Since it was illegal, lots of people took their drugs in public bathrooms. To combat this problem, in public bathrooms in areas where lots of addicted people would go, they simply installed blue lights so you can’t see your veins and can’t shoot up. To combat the problem overall, they did not legalise any kind of drugs but if you are addicted, you can go to certain places and they will give you your dose for free. That is so people use sanitized equipment, are under supervision and monitored, don’t run the risk of using some deadly substance and are encouraged to stop using. Also, they don‘t spend all their money on drugs and are thus more likely to get back on their feet again. Additionally, in public bathrooms, you’ll find little holes in the wall where you can throw in your used needles so no one steps on it or anything.
In the UK we have the gaps at the bottoms of the stalls in a lot of places too, proved rather useful at the pub I worked at have found a couple of drunk customers collapsed on the floor and another time an elderly regular stumbled while getting up fracturing their hip on the way down.
You can have that belief and still have the compassion to tip someone. I hate how much tipping has an effect on servers' pay, but I'm not gonna leave them hanging because their situation has been institutionally flawed for decades.
@@wilgeman6784 neither would I. If I left that impression that is not what I intended, people who don't tip are dicks. But tipping as a custom is dumb because servers have different pays based on race, gender, sexually, and attractiveness. Until culture has changed please still tip!
Evan: **compares Scotland to vegans, in that you don't have to ask them if they're Scottish and they'll just tell you anyway** Me: Um, excu- **flashes back to SEVERAL comments I recently posted on other TH-cam videos in which I started them by saying "As a Scot . . ." before continuing** . . . . OH. Oh no.
Beeba K Smith I was about to reply to this video saying, “As a Scot, I agree with the vegan analogy”. And then realised, I was being that person. 😂🏴
There are European languages where calling the ground floor "1st floor" would not make any sense since the specific word for "floor" requires said floor to be above something... aka above some sort of "ground floor" (which uses an entirely different term)...
@@TH2714 Yeah, same in Hungarian. It just makes sense. But if I remember correctly, I think in Polish they use the same American logic, and they call the ground floor first floor. I could be wrong however. But I distinctly remember having an argument about this with someone from another European country.
in Hungarian as well we say "földszint" - literally ground level and above that we use nth "emelet" - floor/level somthing like that. So I always mess up if I'm talking about floors with a non-European 😂😂
Slovak citizen here and it's true in our language as well. "Prizemie" is ground floor whereas any other floor is "poschodie". The word "prizemie" is directly derived from the words "pri zemi" which means "at ground level" whereas "poschodie" is from "po schodoch" which in this context would mean "after you used the steps". So yeah, calling ground floor "poschodie" in Slovak would be a complete nonsense.
@@barkasz6066 in Poland we use the UK logic. Same as in Slovakia, we have "parter" (just a word meaning ground level) and then "1 piętro", "2 piętro" etc. "Piętro" comes from "piętrzyć" which means "to multiply, to dam up".
America count each floor as a unit like stacking a cake like it has three layers and europeans count how many floors the have been removed for kinda like sea level
It's just always felt weird to me to count tangible, physical things including a zeroth one. In most buildings in America I've seen that have underground floors, they're typically labeled as: Ground is 1, first below ground floor is called 1B (B meaning basement), below that is 2B, and so on. So you'd have 2B, 1B, 1, 2, 3... Imagine I put some apples in a line: green, green, green, red, red, red. Then I tell you to take the first red apple from the center of the line. You'd take the farthest left red apple. Making the analogy that the red ones represent above ground floors, and the green ones represent the basement floors, there is no "Zeroth" apple. That's not to say I don't get the system at all. It makes sense in its own way, and if I were to move to Europe, I could get used to it quickly, but it still seems odd.
I once went to France on coach for a Disneyland holiday... We went to Belgium on the way back and quickly stopped off at a chocolate factory and somewhere where you could buy box upon box of wine. I always thought this detour was a bit weird but slightly less so now, knowing that you just cross the border for groceries!
i think most european languages work like that, the word 1st floor in translation already means above the ground, so you can't use 1st floor for the ground floor, because there are two different words for ground floor and 1st floor/1st floor and 2nd floor for Americans. it's like calling all breeds of dogs dog including the wolf because they are both from the canis group, it's lack of distinction, making english one of the easiest languages to learn
Exactly! The thing to remember is that a basement is floor -1. Therefore the floor two floors above the basement is level 1 and the ground floor is Floor 0.
"I think paying for toilets shouldnt be put on the customers".... Thats an excellent arguement AGAINST TIPPING CULTURE IN THE U.S.A.! It should be the building/business owners responsibility! (I as a european, also agree that you shouldnt have to pay for toilets btw. Liquid shouldnt become more expensive once it exits your body...)
Kiki Kyami I think also the going to the toilet to pay the wages/ non paying toilet depends on if it’s just a toilet or a toilet without something else. E.g. going to a toilet in McDonalds is free because they already have the cleaners whereas a designated public toilet is it’s own business’
You say that as if tipping was unheard of in Europe. Granted, the waiters here need it less for basic survival but they still do depend on it quite a bit.
The German language solves the "floor problem" pretty efficiently. ground floor - Erdgeschoss first floor - erstes *Ober*geschoss (literally: first *upper*floor)
@@evan thanks for replying, wanted to congratulate you on your recent subscriber milestone! You are a creative, empathetic and productive mind and I just get a bout of optimism watching your videos, wondering if that could be me - ambitious, outspoken, out there - instead of down here writing comments (haha!) and procrastinating on my art and uniwork (well, now I got a bit of bonus time to prepare for the next semester :D). I actually found you through your video on German compound nouns (Because Germans like browsing the internet for Germany-related content - which is stupid by the way - what is it about this brooding over a culture from which I might like to distance myself and about which I feel conflicted?). But anyway, that video was incredibly entertaining and a great introduction to your wit. I love your puns - I'm a pretty punny gal myself (ok that one was terrible) and I admire your perspective on life. The reason why I've been sticking around is because you're not at all just "that guy who learns German" - you're actually multi-faceted and you don't limit yourself to just one type of content. Keep doing whatever the frick you like - it will be great! -thx for providing comedic distraction and stay healthy :)
You don't turn one until you've lived a year. You don't start at one step when you want to go for a walk. You don't hit the first floor til you've climbed a flight of stairs. I completely understand the US way of doing things, it's how we count storeys after all, but the UK way is not as illogical as many Americans seem to think.
I find it very confusing tbh Like i see a building has three levels from the outside, and then i go inside and somehow i'm on the 'second' floor when i'm on the third. It always trips me up
interesting fact: in some asian countries, when a baby is born, it's already considered to be one year old because of the 9 months it spent in its mother's belly :)
@@carla-gi6yz that's so interesting i had no idea So when people say their age, do they count from the moment they were born, or do they add one to that?
@Matty Bruno Lucas Zenere Salas I've lost my car more than once because I counted the floors going up not realising which numbering that car park has used or that it has a mezzanine 🤦
In germany it historically was "E" between -1 and 1 (for "Erdgeschoß" meaning ground floor), but it seems to become more and more of a trend to label the ground floor with a 0. (Also, I don't know a single car park where I have ever counted the levels while driving or walking. They usually have super big numbers displayed everywhere, some of them even use the flashy-colors-for-dummies system. And obviously the red number 1203 is going to be on the level that is reached by pressing the red button with a 12 on it in the elevator. Am I missing a significant point here or do you have shitty car parks?)
@@chaosnoelle It gets really fun in the UK when you build a building on a hill especially something like a shopping centre where street level frontage = money (Need to get those passing window shoppers inside to help them ease the burden of their wallets after all) so when built on a slope they often have a lower ground and upper ground floor due to having street access on two levels.
10:04 I always thought of the USA being a melting pot of culture, meaning it all blends together with the occasional unique lump. Whereas Europe is a mosaic. Distinct blocks of seperate cultures
Yeah but you know there's still the definite distinction between the coast like even in american we have stereotypes for the different states/areas like the east coast or southern america
@@7stormycat206 there's definite distinctions between the north and south of England and they're much closer. Every country has its own micro cultures inside of it regardless of size
I absolutely agree with EVERY country having different cultures. For example here in Germany we have 16 different Bundesländer and all of them are very different to the point where people from different areas can't understand each other because of the heavy dialects. The US are one country, Europe is a continent full of very different countries, I don't even know why some people need to argue about that.
thats true, i took part in an erasmus+ project with my school, where i went to a lycée technique, tbh hearing the kids talk was just like hearing a dialect of german
@@anastasijaradic7250 From what I've gathered the main reason the refer to it as a seperate language is to differentiate themselves. Though there are some aspects of French they also use. Being on the linguistic border their language is pretty much a mixture of the two. Though as someone who speaks both languages it's certainly far closer to German.
@@Der.Preusse You're right, the Luxembourgish language is very similar to the german dialects spoken in the bordering regions, but it evolved to become it's own dialect and adopted a lot of french words too. Officially it's recognized as a language by the luxembourgish constitution, but it's debatable if it's really distinctive enough to be considered a different language.
Paying for public bathrooms is such a time hono(u)red tradition in the UK, that people used to say "I need to spend a penny" as a euphemism for needing the bathroom. (Although I'm sure it costs a lot more than a penny these days).
poo rainbow shit You have had a different experience from me then. I’ve never lived anywhere near London, and I’ve experienced paying for the toilet in many places. I’m even old enough to remember the public toilets where you put an old (12d to the shilling) penny into a mechanical lock if you wanted to use a cubicle (you didn’t pay to use the urinal).
@@michellegoede2258 is there a German speaking part? The whole country has German as one of its official languages, but I don't think it's divided linguistically like Belgium is
Perhaps, but its a different situation for poor folks who can’t afford to pay every time. And there are good bathrooms in the US that are free too-if you ever go to Texas I recommend you check out Buckee’s.
You start at Ground level, and you go up 1 flight of steps, you are on floor 1. You start at Ground level, and you go down one flight of steps, you are on floor -1. Simple as...
12:10 "Schengen is a German word" uuuuhhh it's a Luxembourgish town. the Schengen agreement was signed there thus creating the Schengen area. it's on the Luxembourgish side of the Saarland (a German state)-Luxembourg border (Mosel River). """german word""" the Luxembourgish would like to disagree
2:55 - "I just don't": try renting a small car in pretty much any European country, see how much extra an automatic costs... Then you'll get why. (That is, assuming tourism ever becomes a thing again, Corona permitting 😬).
‘There are too many states’ *sighs in Buckinghamshire* (If you didn’t get that one: there are WAY more counties than states, double in fact. There are 48 counties in England, 33 in Scotland, 13 in Wales and 6 in Northern Ireland.)
@@shelinaislam5897 You're like 3 times our land mass though, and you don't have to even acknowledge your counties, whereas if we're listening to the weather report and we don't know whether Shropshire is north or south we're screwed if we want to have a picnic or something. I currently live in the Netherlands and I already have to know the provinces for that same reason (but I always get Overijssel and Drenthe mixed up though)
about the ketchup thing: in switzerland you generally get 1 pack of ketchup with your fries for free. sometimes a second or third for larger packs. but you do have to pay if you want to have a dozen packs. because you know, to avoid people wasting them completely. also: the same thing speaks against having air conditioning everywhere. they are extremely power intensive. so they really shouldnt be used if there are other options (like opening the windows) that also happen to be healthier for various reasons
Same thing in Germany. You usually get some but not unlimited amounts. It's just assumed that what you get is enough and if you want more, you have to pay more. That said, there's more and more restaurants that actually just put a bottle of ketchup on the table, so it's getting more diverse (and probably confusing for tourists) lately.
About paying for bathrooms, I have a few thoughts of why: 1. Profit. 2. A "paywall" to reduse damage on property. 3. Money to pay the repairment and maintenance. 4. Regulate people using the restroom. 5. Making sure you at least get some money from the person that used the restroom. (incase of restroom being owned by the resturant/shop/etc owner nearby or something). 6. "Tourist trap"/ crowded/ popular area = easy profit from the crowd. (I'm talking with bathrooms that is not INSIDE the resturants/cafés/etc in mind (but can imply for that too) as they often is "you can use it, but at least buy 1 item" rule which I find pretty logic as the bathroom is for custumers)
So when people complain about everything in America being about money(I mean the stuff Evan talked about like tipping) it's despicable but when others do it it's fine?
Well it depends all about which country you are in. Some countries tipping is expected. Manual labor (helping with your bags etc.), resturants, etc. Some countries you are expected to tip for these things. In some countries they have an expected tipping range of x to y amount of money or else you are rude. While some countries tipping isn't that common or part of the culture. Some countries you are expected to haggle, while some don't. So it really depend on the country if e.g you have to pay for the restroom, have to tip the porters/bagboys/etc, have to tip for good service and everything. Some people live of tipping while some live of regualting and charging people that use the restrooms and some want more profit. And I'm talking about different countries in general, not just Europe.
@John Smith I think it depends on the country and culture. Is it "allowed" to dirty the street? Besides not all restrooms costs money. I guess you can either wait in using the restroom till you get home or use the shops' restrooms while you are at it. It ususlly doesn't cost much to use them, but I guess it is discriminatory against the poor who can't afford it. IDK I'm not really from a country where you pay for restrooms, so this is only what I assume and read. You can read more about it under "pay toilet" on wikipedia, if you want.
@John Smith I live in a country where I do not pay, but I have been in Germany and went trough this. Basically, the system works, public bathrooms where I live are most of the times avoided, since the cleaning isnt exactly done to the brim, and some people doent exactly care about who will use them next, so I can say I have found my fair share of "If I didnt need to pee I would never step on this place" kind of public toilets. Now, in Germany however, I first came face to face whit the "paywall" wen I went to a supermarket, the bathroom basically had a turnstile and we had to pay a lady/cleaner that was sitting on her booth so she would let us enter, and let me say that bathroom was clean af, and it was like 6pm, plus, I experienced something I never expected to happen, basically, I had some "problems" and took a bit more than normal to finish the business, and it seems that cleaning lady noticed that I had not left yet and out of worry asked me if everything was okay and if there was any emergency, it was pretty unexpected but weirdly welcome. (not sure if this happens everywhere though). So yea, I dunno about people peeing outside or SF and LA culture, but it seems to work on the city where I stayed and it seems that not only are the cleaners way more motivated to do their job, but people also respect public bathrooms more since they know they are paying to use them.
big eastern corporations buying up/developing the german "tank &rast" which is, technically illegal, and just a freaking scam honestly... have a read and scream at loopholes in the law I guess..
@@7stormycat206 That is your choice and how you were no doubt raised. It doesnt make us wrong for calling the floor on the ground the Ground Floor or the first floor built above the floor on the ground the 1st Floor. Horses for courses. Ours makes just as much sense as yours and if someone points out that it makes no sense, I am going to point out that it does
Here in Germany we also call it the ground floor. But the other floors are named first upper floor, second upper floor, it's just often shorted as first floor. But I think the system makes sense, especially because the floors below the ground floor are labelled -1... The ground floor is also sometimes marked with a 0 on malls etc.
Re: driving with manual cars - you do need to know how to do that in order to rent cars with a number of european companies!! so while you don't /need/ stick shift, it is goshdarn useful here!!
I just wouldn't want to be in a situation where somebody asks me to pick up their car or something and I can't. Like, I went to pick up my sister's car at one point at the garage for example.
When my Canadian cousin came over for my mum's funeral she rented a car and specifically hired an automatic so she didn't have to worry; instead she could just "point-and-shoot".
Used cars is a problem as well. There just isn't that many reliable used cars that have an automatic transmission. New cars are really expensive, i don't want to exclude myself from most of the used car market for a bit of convenience while learning.
If you want to to get really confused about the ground floor, come to Edinburgh where you can walk into a bar, have a few drinks, go up two floors and exit at ground level.
This may be an interesting thread about floor numbers; it's not the same everywhere in Europe. Norway, Russia and Estland seem to call its ground floor the 1st floor. Sweden mixes both 1 and 0, depending on the building age etc... Germany seems to use EG instead of a number, "Erdgeschoss", Czechia uses the letter P, Italy uses the letter T "[piano] terra". Here in Belgium, we use the number 0.
I feel like the ground floor thing does make a lot of sence. Ground floor, in my book, is floor zero, so when you build under ground those floors can then be labeled -1, -2... Also the thing someone said about certain languages which require a floor to be above something!
Schengen is located in Luxembourg and hence a Luxembourgish word. On the other hand Luxembourgish belongs to the west central German group of german languages and has only been removed from it canonically because of its status as an official language. So it's complicated I guess?^^ Another funfact: the Schengen municipality includes the tripoint where France, Germany, and Luxemburg meet. So a tristate area!! Full circle! Credits for everything to Wikipedia :D
*Offended Dutch incoming* By calling it German instead of Germanic you're insinuating it's a sub-language of standard German (Hochdeutsch), which it's not. Definitions vary, but Lëtzebuerg was a Dutch Grand Duchy and the language has Dutch influences. I'd say the language is as far removed from standard Dutch as standard German. On the Dutch wikipedia it's as far removed from standard German in the language tree as Afrikaans.
Basel is another tri state area. Fly into the airport and the runway is in Switzerland, the airport straddles the Swiss French border, but I flew there to visit Germany, 10 minutes up the road.
Evan: "Why would I ever want to drive a stick shift?" Uhm... well, just about everyone I know drives a manual. I am not allowed to drive a manual for medical reasons, as in I am physically unable to. This means I can never drive the car of my parents, or my siblings or any of my friends. I have a code 10.02 in my license, which is effectively the same as a code 78, except that it's medical in nature. And there's 2 more things you have to keep in mind. 1- rental companies tend to not have cheap rentals with automatics. You're going to pay extra for it and it might make your vacation rental car twice or thrice as expensive, as you'll have to rent a more up-market model. 2- mobility services tend to not have automatics as replacement cars. My mobility service explicitly excludes code 78 licenses from the free rental car, unless you pay the difference between the cheapest manual and automatic car. On a code 10.02 they aren't legally allowed to do so, because that would be discrimination based on disability, which is illegal. Still them finding you a manual car is going to take them a couple minutes at worst. Them finding you an automatic car, may just take several hours. Which is okay, if all you're trying to do is get home and deal with all this crap tomorrow morning. But it's far from great when you are trying to be anywhere on time.
I don't have the issue with not being able to drive a manual car but the point stays the same, you simply wont encounter a lotta automatic cars so you really, really should learn manual... I had 1 driving lesson (halfway into practical lessons - german system) where my instructor was like "ever tried automatic? this car's free today so let's have a go" and...that was the most boring lesson of all of them. Done it once, I get the appeal I guess, but useless if you don't have any cars to use it on :D
I wouldn't worry. Electric cars don't us gearboxes, so in 10 years manuals will be a thing of the past, except for driving classic cars and some niche vehicles.
I've seen a few of these videos now. This is the one that made me sub, because you went back, did your research, corrected mistakes, were open to new ideas and actually even changed your mind on something. I love it.
In some countries in Europe the numbering system of “floors” is really easy and totally logical. Those countries don’t use the term “floor”, but instead make a distinction between the “base” layer, and the layers that are stacked on top. So for example in Dutch the ground floor is called “begane grond”, which translates to “the ground you walk on”, and subsequent higher floors are called 1st, 2nd etc “etage” (which is the French word for stage). Ground floor in those countries is therefore always indicated with a 0 (zero) in elevators, or lifts, as we prefer to call them ;-)
Ho my god I immediatly left a comment stating this and starting reading comments after. What a mistake, a LOT of people including you had already pointed it out.
In Belgium we say gelijkvloers instead of begane grond. Gelijkvloers basically means: the same floor as when you're outside. Or something like that lol
“is it floor zErO?” ...well yes... yes it is... we have floor 0 then floor 1, 2, 3 etc. but we also sometimes have floor -1 which usually has the parking or the gym so 0 serves as a sort of in between :)) loving your recent videos they do make me chuckle
There's no year 0 and people seem fine with it. It goes from -1 to 1 and the only thing it does is get people upset over when the decade actually ends...
@@robertofontiglia4148 Well, that's because there is no Year -1 but there can be floors named -1, -2, etc. so a 0 makes perfect sense. Your analogy doesn't really work here
@@optidalfprime3904 Lol year -1 does exist, human recorded history started around year -3000 it comes from 3000y B.C which is before Christ and sadly Christianity was forced on a lot of aspects of our everyday lives.
I think that in Europe (not in every country, we just started to do that in my city in Italy for example) you have to pay for the bathroom so that the bathrooms could be cleaner. I guess if People have to pay they are less likely to make a mess(?). I noticed that in my city the bathrooms have become cleaner since you have to pay for that
@@dustojnikhummer Maybe but I've never seen anyone being stopped if they enter a bathroom without paying (at least those where it's people collecting the money). It's more of a "Here's a small bowl with coins, paying is voluntary so you can just not pay but there kind of is an expectation and if you don't pay EVERYONE will judge you." But yeah, if you don't have any cash on you it's usually ok. I do think the "If you pay for it you feel more responsible" theory is equally sound
I've also noticed that bathrooms with the pay to pee system are way cleaner. In Germany there is also usually pads and tampons made available in women's bathrooms, while in free restrooms you're lucky if you can still get soap out of the dispenser. (Berliner here)
Even here in Germany some people say I live on the second floor and some say I live on the third floor because they count the ground level as the first floor instead of seeing it as floor 0. Very confusing and I usually go ground=0 and then count up from that.
Another thing about the different taxes in different states is that here in the UK I've noticed several different places have very different prices. McDonald's, for example, you can get 20 nuggets and a large milkshake for about £6 in Southampton, Birmingham and some parts of London, but in Manchester and other parts of London it costs about £7-8. In petrol stations I've even noticed they cost the most I've ever seen for a McDonald's in the UK, and stuff like the nuggets are still fairly often advertised but I guess the main things they advertise like hamburgers are consistently the same price and the more expensive stuff they just increase or decrease the price accordingly
How I imagine ground floor Vs first floor: the ground floor is the one that didn't need to be put in, it's the original, the one above is the first floor that is built, and so on
@@7stormycat206 Exactly, Your way of thinking skips an entire floor when going from Floor 1 to -1 even though there is no entire unit meaning the floor from the ceiling actually missing.
this is how it is in many other languages too: dutch= verdieping, frenc = etage etc. it is the first heightening of the building above the ground floor.
The main reason there are pay-to-use toilets in places like London train stations (for example), is to prevent 'unsavoury' people from using them or homeless people handing around in them.
As someone who works in the construction industry, and a fellow math(s) lover, the ground floor (or floor 0) is a much more elegant solution as then the basement floors can go -1, -2, -3 etc and the upper floors can go 1, 2, 3 etc meaning that you're floor number always tells you how far away you are from the ground floor. I just find it much more mathematically consistent.
"Why do they call the the first floor they walk into on the ground called the ground floor?" Hmmmmmmmm"...on the *ground* called the *ground* floor?" Well I may have a theory about that. Also 0 exists don't be...ummmmmmm...hu. numberist?
2 things I don't understand nobody is talking about: 1 The metrical system, just, the metrical system. IT'S SO BLOODY ANNOYING TO WATCH AMERICAN VIDEO'S AND THEY SAY EVERYTHING IN INCHES AND CENTIMETERS!!!!!!!!!! Or onches and liters!!!!! 2 Paying for the toilet is really uncommon in Europe. At least in the Netherlands!!! Some gas station do it. But like 0,00000000001% of the toilets that I've been too in my life were paid toilets. That's a really uncommon thing!!! P.s. I was a bit trigged, so sorry for my bad English, didn't thought about really carrying about. Everyone here know that I'm not English. And BTW: 3 Why do Americans correct EVERYONE on the English, but when they go to France they can only say "Bonjour" with a super heavy Americain accent!!!!!
a lot of the toilets in train stations in the Netherlands charge though? but of course you can just wait to use the ones on the train :) I think most charging public toilets are located in transit stations, which actually make some sense. Totally agree with your other points too. What bothers me the most about the use of imperial system is in American recipes, which result in wildly inaccurate measurements...
Not sure where you live but I've seen plenty of toilets you need to pay for, and it's not that I live in an area tourists know exists. It's more that nobody ever uses them except for tourists.
@@meality I care for them.(Belgium) But I'm not going to listen to them. That I think is the difference. As an adult they don't have a say in who I hang out with, what my job is, who I marry, etc. And if they even thought they had a say in those things I would pick my freedom over them.
11:20 Welp the bathrooms for which you have to pay in many EU countries for are almost always state/city/ect. owned, usually businesses like McDonalds, Cinemas or restaurants have toilets which you can use for free.
@@rivenoak the only "restaurant" that restricts restrooms were I live (Austria woot woot) are a few McDonalds they deadass want you to use a code on the receipt
@@rivenoak Probably a cultural thing tbh. From what i have seen, Americans treat restaurant more like a place to eat and leave while most Europeans use it ONLY to have a nice family dinner or friendly dinner that usually lasts for about 3 hours. Entering a place like this just to visit the bathroom is something I couldn't even do character wise
my favorite spot for free bathrooms is the gas station! It's just so.. personal. Like, you get the key from the stressed out, 19 year old employee with a photo and a charm hanging off of, and you enter the small bathroom in the back where the employees have their own deodorant, their towel from home that their granny knitted... Gas station stops are great.
Love how you imitate the London accent every once in awhile and then it take a couple words to get back to the American. Its like you're caught in between, so interesting!
@@McFlingleson it's not called the quad-state area. It's the four corners. So, you live in the four-corners area. As a native Arizonan, I grew up in a four corners state.
Hawaiians and Alaskans also don't have a tristate area. But if you're in Arizona, we called the tristate area Arizona, Nevada, and southern California.
Ribotto Studios I mean Virginia and Maryland have this weird thing where they don’t include a third state, but instead Washington DC. I don’t know if there’s sometimes a third state in there, but I’ve never heard of one.
The funny thing is, that my ex-boyfriend (both german) always wanted his free ketchup when we were on vacation, for example in Italy. Because in Germany, at least at the McDonalds I know, you although get one pack of ketchup for free. I don't mind to pay for it....but I'm just one of this crazy person who likes dry fries.😂
Schengen is not german... it's a place in Luxembourg (where I'm from) and it's close to the European tri-country area of Germany, France, and Luxembourg where the Schengen Treaty was signed
This first floor ground floor thing is so strange. Americans - when you're standing at some stairs do you think you're on the first step before you've moved up a step?? No you're on the ground still
This was really nice to watch in between all of the stuff that is going on right now. Just some Evan reacting to comments and making some puns. 🙃 Also the new end card of the videos looks very calm and soothing.
It is actually the "Zero" floor. My building literally has - 1 for the basement, 0 for the ground floor and then it starts with 1 for the appartements in the elevator.
In Germany, there are free toilets and ones that cost a euro. The free ones often have iron toilets, no seat and most likely one layered toilet paper. Sure, both are clean, but I'd rather pay for the convenience.
(5:00) It's weird that you say that a European might not get the US tax system with different taxes per state. Like the member states of EU uses the same taxes ...
Evan, I praise you for addressing both . I've searched for these types of videos so many times and very hardly did I came across something besides "England vs usa". it requires boldness and you got it, even if you made some mistakes (the Schengen was a big ahaha) . Love the content.
oh man, you would love my uni buildig, where you enter on the groundfloor, you walk up a set of stairs and you are on the 'high groundfloor' (mezzanine), then you walk up another set of stairs and you are on the first floor.
@@evan watch all of them, it's your duty as someone who lives in the UK :P everyone who lives in the UK must see Doctor Who, did you not know of this tradition? XD
For example, in Italy it's quite hard to rent a car with automatic shift. So if you want to travel by a car, you have to know how to use manual one. For me that's a big advantage.
In Spain, in apartment blocks, if there are flats on the ground floor, it is counted as the first floor. If there aren't flats on the ground floor, then it is counted as ground floor. I think it has to do with your home address.
Ground floor vs. First floor. It dates back to medieval times where the ground floor of a building would be the actual ground surface of whatever happened to be there when the building was built. The walls would be stone to support the building above and it would be used for storage (like a modern basement or cellar) or to house livestock. You would then go upstairs where the floor would be wooden and have wooden walls. It was the first floor that people actually lived in.
" Do you call it the zeroth floor?" Actually, something I noticed during my exchange broad to France (I'm Canadian) was that the ground floor was almost always labelled " Floor 0" which was super confusing for me.
Yes it is called floor 0, I worked in one of the tallest buildings in my country and the floors go from 0 to 26, with 0 being the ground floor and 26 being the roof access. Actually, the floors go from -4 to 26 because there are 4 levels of parking lots and storage/maintenance areas beneath.
Thank you Evan for being a consistent source of happiness for me! I'm also from New Jersey and I studied abroad last semester in London! I can't help seeing all of the similarities I have with you..hahah. Things are crazy right now...my entire college is shut down. I hope you're doing well considering everything! :)
Real reason for not building in sales tax. Americans hate taxes. Therefore, elected officials want it to be as visible and obnoxious as possible, so they can reliably win elections on the platform of lowering taxes and nothing else. I feel this also plays a role in filing our own taxes. Its an annual reminder of how much taxes you are paying in the most frustrating and irritating way possible.
What I have hear about the bathroom stalls being the way they are in the US is that most companies don't want you in the bathroom so they make it uncomfortable. This can be for employees needing to get back to work or for customers getting out the buy and not use the facilities for long. I have also seen this because it sometimes cuts down on people doing nasty things in them.
I was told the stall gap was because if people got stuck it's easy to get out by sliding under the door .......I've had to in the past.... the floor was super gross
the bit starting at 10:04. I actually agree with the commenter about different states. I've lived in California my whole life, and when I watch your "British vs American" videos, a lot of times I have to mentally change it to "British vs New Jersey" because there are *so* many things that people (not just you, but probably most Americans) don't realize are specific to their little area of the country. I think there are a lot of things that *feel* like they must be country-wide, but are actually run by the states individually, like each state has its own DMV and slightly different driving laws and ages, and slightly different drinking laws (apparently in Texas you can order a drink if you're under 21 as long as your parent is there to say it's ok??? that is not at all how it works here lol), and different stores. I remember for a long time I thought "wawa" was like a regional nickname for Walmart, because i know there are places where walmart is a lot more important than where i live. Or how Carl's Jr is actually Hardees in other places??? Ok this got long sorry
Hello! I spent crazy long on the exposure/grading of this video and just wanted to know if you like the cozy colourgrade! :)
I'm really trying to hone my abilities at the technical behind the scenes parts so appreciate your feedback
Love it!
I think it looks great! I always love your shallow depth of field, I think your focus is perfect and I think the color grade makes it even better.
Sorry Evan, but the UK is made of 3 countries and one province. Northern Ireland, while having devolved rule, is only a province not a country.
Also Welsh students have reduced Tuition fees, as they retain government grants unlike English students. If they study in Wales, their get effectly free university aswell.
@@Inucroft I genuinely cannot believe I never knew that technicality
@@theodorepoulin3892 ah thanks!
“Europeans” are more defensive maybe because most of the comments don’t apply to every country because Europe is a whole ass continent
And because the US-American problems are really damaging for parts of the population. So I understand why you wouldn't want to defend your system in these cases. Whereas things like paying for ketchup (in Germany you sometimes actually have to do that, sometimes however only of you want additional ketchup) isn't even necessarily a problem, and definitely not a severe one. So I wouldn't mind defending the European side.
Also the usa is almost as big Europe its actually rly small for a continent not a “huge ass” check the sizes the country’s are tiny like even a bunch of singular states are bigger than the uk and Ireland combined like Alaska or Texas so Europe’s not that big
@@darkfuhart9626 Yes, geographically, Europe isn't that big of a continent, however in terms of population density there are hundreds of millions more people in Europe than in the USA, and many more cultures that vary wildly between each other which I don't think can really be said for the USA.
@@darkfuhart9626 europe has more population density compared to the us and has a vast amount of different cultures
DarkFuHart but they said whole ass not huge ass
"France is my favourite German speaking country" There's a history joke in there somewhere I know it
hehe
Some part of the Holy Roman Empire perhaps as parts of France were incorporated I think but I don’t know
@@maxmottram8612 or just when Germany took France after it surrendered - I don't think we need the Romans as the middle man
@@lukexavier9770 , Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman ;)
@@suokkos nor an Empire
I think that the 'Europeans are defensive of their countries thing' is more like the siblings' thing, I can make fun of my brother but someone else trying it and I will make that person regret doing that lol
2 months late but completely agree with you. I think there is also a sort of defensiveness around all the problems Europe believes America has. Like Europeans are fine with other Europeans commenting on their problems, because there's a common level. But America commenting on it is like, "all the problems you have and you have the audacity to call us out?"
Even if all of us in Europe hated each other but even then we would not allow other to mess with any of our fellow Europeans. I see our continent as a big family with some weird aunts and uncles, annoying siblings etc :D We can mess with each other but especially the US isnt allowed to ;) :P
Sweden making fun of Norway in a nutshell.
Also I think that Europe has SO many distinctly different cultures that in most cases is almost impossible to make a statement that applies to everyone. It's like when an American says "I can do a really good Irish accent." First of all no such thing, there is a town 15k away from the one I live in and it is two completely different accents for both towns. Second of all no matter what you say unless you are from Ireland and have lived there most of your life, you can't do any of the Irish accents right. It may sound right to someone not from here but ask any Irish person and they will tell you no one who isn't Irish can do the accent right.
@@Niki91-HR the USA is like a second cousin who wants to play with Europe but we prefer to play with them but on our terms
"europeans are more defensive" well I can't speak for the whole of Europe because it's a whole ass continent but in England and France, the general type of humor is pretty different to America, I've lived in all 3 of these places and British people like to joke about real issues and have a slightly overall darker tone, and french people are just flat out sassy, so because of that, if Americans do make fun of us for our accent or the fact we have to pay for toilets we will respond with america's problems with school shootings, inequality and healthcare, i think it's a cultural divide than being sensitive, you took those comments as defensive but i think the tone was meant to be poking fun at america.
I think that people in Europe make jokes about each other an are fine with it but when someone ,,foreign‘‘ make a joke or something we come together and defend us against ,,the outside‘‘ so a Europe thing I think
Same with Africa
read Is good ok then it’s probably a regionwide thing
It's not hard to poke fun of USA, parts of the culture is laughable by it self. USA is the laughingstock of the western world
@@aws1045 Eh maybe so, but lots of people still want to come here though 🤷
About the drugs in bathrooms: In Switzerland we used to have an open drug scene in the 80s and 90s. Since it was illegal, lots of people took their drugs in public bathrooms. To combat this problem, in public bathrooms in areas where lots of addicted people would go, they simply installed blue lights so you can’t see your veins and can’t shoot up. To combat the problem overall, they did not legalise any kind of drugs but if you are addicted, you can go to certain places and they will give you your dose for free. That is so people use sanitized equipment, are under supervision and monitored, don’t run the risk of using some deadly substance and are encouraged to stop using. Also, they don‘t spend all their money on drugs and are thus more likely to get back on their feet again. Additionally, in public bathrooms, you’ll find little holes in the wall where you can throw in your used needles so no one steps on it or anything.
Joker wow that incredible. Really puts other counties to shame.
Gosh hope nobody thinks those are glory holes
i was told about too lol
In the UK we have the gaps at the bottoms of the stalls in a lot of places too, proved rather useful at the pub I worked at have found a couple of drunk customers collapsed on the floor and another time an elderly regular stumbled while getting up fracturing their hip on the way down.
Why didn’t other countries try this? It makes so much sense dammit
Even: you can't make it the cunsumor's responsibility to pay the workers
America: remember to tip, your server depends on it
Stop making logical arguments damit!
Rest of the developed world: America, adopt a livable medium wage so people don't have to rely on tips.
I was literally about to comment this
You can have that belief and still have the compassion to tip someone. I hate how much tipping has an effect on servers' pay, but I'm not gonna leave them hanging because their situation has been institutionally flawed for decades.
@@wilgeman6784 neither would I. If I left that impression that is not what I intended, people who don't tip are dicks. But tipping as a custom is dumb because servers have different pays based on race, gender, sexually, and attractiveness. Until culture has changed please still tip!
It’s perry, the platypus is named perry
a g e n t P!!!!!!!!
I hear that he's a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action!
That was bothering me so much !!!!!!
Wow I want to watch Phineas and Ferb now
Doo-bee-doo-bee-doo-ahh
Evan: **compares Scotland to vegans, in that you don't have to ask them if they're Scottish and they'll just tell you anyway**
Me: Um, excu- **flashes back to SEVERAL comments I recently posted on other TH-cam videos in which I started them by saying "As a Scot . . ." before continuing** . . . . OH. Oh no.
Beeba K Smith I was about to reply to this video saying, “As a Scot, I agree with the vegan analogy”. And then realised, I was being that person. 😂🏴
We get ignored so often let us have one thing 😂
Same for the Dutch tbh, some people just want to feel just as important as their neighbours! And that is okay
We Irish do that too. I dunno why
As a English person, I'd say as a Brit, but then if it's a mainly UK audience I would say that. Maybe that's a reason?
There are European languages where calling the ground floor "1st floor" would not make any sense since the specific word for "floor" requires said floor to be above something... aka above some sort of "ground floor" (which uses an entirely different term)...
Yes! Like in French, we call the ground floor "rez-de-chaussée" and the other floors "(number) étage". "Étage" cannot be used for the ground floor.
@@TH2714 Yeah, same in Hungarian. It just makes sense. But if I remember correctly, I think in Polish they use the same American logic, and they call the ground floor first floor. I could be wrong however. But I distinctly remember having an argument about this with someone from another European country.
in Hungarian as well we say "földszint" - literally ground level and above that we use nth "emelet" - floor/level somthing like that. So I always mess up if I'm talking about floors with a non-European 😂😂
Slovak citizen here and it's true in our language as well. "Prizemie" is ground floor whereas any other floor is "poschodie". The word "prizemie" is directly derived from the words "pri zemi" which means "at ground level" whereas "poschodie" is from "po schodoch" which in this context would mean "after you used the steps". So yeah, calling ground floor "poschodie" in Slovak would be a complete nonsense.
@@barkasz6066 in Poland we use the UK logic. Same as in Slovakia, we have "parter" (just a word meaning ground level) and then "1 piętro", "2 piętro" etc. "Piętro" comes from "piętrzyć" which means "to multiply, to dam up".
"I shouldn't have to pay to poop!" ... ok, now get that upset about healthcare.
and i font want to pay extra for food ( tips )
Programmers: Well actually ground floor makes perfect sense, we start counting from 0
Bless the 0
Actually no. Programmers start indexing from 0, but counting from 1. There’s a big difference.
@@mrpddnos well ground, 1 and 2 are pretty much floor indices so it doesn't really matter
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America count each floor as a unit like stacking a cake like it has three layers and europeans count how many floors the have been removed for kinda like sea level
Well, the first underground level is -1. Therefore ground level is 0 and the level above that is the 1st floor.
Can’t that be called floor zero then instead?
No it cannot. This is like Fahrenheit and Celsius all over again.
@@hildcit well it sometimes is
0 is the level you enter a building. The one above the ground at least (I've been in houses where you enter on 10th floor)
It's just always felt weird to me to count tangible, physical things including a zeroth one. In most buildings in America I've seen that have underground floors, they're typically labeled as: Ground is 1, first below ground floor is called 1B (B meaning basement), below that is 2B, and so on. So you'd have 2B, 1B, 1, 2, 3...
Imagine I put some apples in a line: green, green, green, red, red, red. Then I tell you to take the first red apple from the center of the line. You'd take the farthest left red apple. Making the analogy that the red ones represent above ground floors, and the green ones represent the basement floors, there is no "Zeroth" apple.
That's not to say I don't get the system at all. It makes sense in its own way, and if I were to move to Europe, I could get used to it quickly, but it still seems odd.
triSTATE area, y‘all weak af, I live in a triCOUNTRY area, I go to France for groceries😎
Ay Belgium!
Lucky bastard
I once went to France on coach for a Disneyland holiday... We went to Belgium on the way back and quickly stopped off at a chocolate factory and somewhere where you could buy box upon box of wine. I always thought this detour was a bit weird but slightly less so now, knowing that you just cross the border for groceries!
ayy same with me and Italy but you know.... not now 🙃
I know Europe’s tiny just a little bigger than the USA check the size
"Is it floor zero"
erm... yes
Because it's 0 floors up from the ground
i think most european languages work like that, the word 1st floor in translation already means above the ground, so you can't use 1st floor for the ground floor, because there are two different words for ground floor and 1st floor/1st floor and 2nd floor for Americans. it's like calling all breeds of dogs dog including the wolf because they are both from the canis group, it's lack of distinction, making english one of the easiest languages to learn
Yes...ground floor
Exactly! The thing to remember is that a basement is floor -1. Therefore the floor two floors above the basement is level 1 and the ground floor is Floor 0.
In Finland it varies, I think the ground floor is generally 1, but we don't call them 'floors' in out language so...
"I think paying for toilets shouldnt be put on the customers".... Thats an excellent arguement AGAINST TIPPING CULTURE IN THE U.S.A.! It should be the building/business owners responsibility!
(I as a european, also agree that you shouldnt have to pay for toilets btw. Liquid shouldnt become more expensive once it exits your body...)
Kiki Kyami I think also the going to the toilet to pay the wages/ non paying toilet depends on if it’s just a toilet or a toilet without something else. E.g. going to a toilet in McDonalds is free because they already have the cleaners whereas a designated public toilet is it’s own business’
Although I completely agree that going to the toilet is a basic human right and we shouldn’t have to pay I can kinda see the logic
Well peeing a need going to a restaurant is a want meaning you have the money and you want the food and service
7Stormy CatГ no I completely agree I just also understand that restaurants and cafes already have cleaners
You say that as if tipping was unheard of in Europe. Granted, the waiters here need it less for basic survival but they still do depend on it quite a bit.
The German language solves the "floor problem" pretty efficiently.
ground floor - Erdgeschoss
first floor - erstes *Ober*geschoss (literally: first *upper*floor)
God bless the German language
I totally forgot the word Obergeschoss exists, because where i'm from we say "Erdgeschoss" for ground floor and then "erster Stock" for first floor.
@@lilalaunebar1384 same. but it's still different enough to solve the "floor" problem :3
@@evan thanks for replying, wanted to congratulate you on your recent subscriber milestone! You are a creative, empathetic and productive mind and I just get a bout of optimism watching your videos, wondering if that could be me - ambitious, outspoken, out there - instead of down here writing comments (haha!) and procrastinating on my art and uniwork (well, now I got a bit of bonus time to prepare for the next semester :D).
I actually found you through your video on German compound nouns (Because Germans like browsing the internet for Germany-related content - which is stupid by the way - what is it about this brooding over a culture from which I might like to distance myself and about which I feel conflicted?). But anyway, that video was incredibly entertaining and a great introduction to your wit.
I love your puns - I'm a pretty punny gal myself (ok that one was terrible) and I admire your perspective on life. The reason why I've been sticking around is because you're not at all just "that guy who learns German" - you're actually multi-faceted and you don't limit yourself to just one type of content.
Keep doing whatever the frick you like - it will be great!
-thx for providing comedic distraction and stay healthy :)
Yeah I think with us it means first floor up but we just shorten it to first floor.
You don't turn one until you've lived a year. You don't start at one step when you want to go for a walk. You don't hit the first floor til you've climbed a flight of stairs.
I completely understand the US way of doing things, it's how we count storeys after all, but the UK way is not as illogical as many Americans seem to think.
Except if you're korean. In Korea you're born 1 year old😅🤣
I find it very confusing tbh
Like i see a building has three levels from the outside, and then i go inside and somehow i'm on the 'second' floor when i'm on the third.
It always trips me up
@@helenemaja0912 wait really??
interesting fact: in some asian countries, when a baby is born, it's already considered to be one year old because of the 9 months it spent in its mother's belly :)
@@carla-gi6yz that's so interesting i had no idea
So when people say their age, do they count from the moment they were born, or do they add one to that?
"Do you just not count it? Is it floor 0?". Yes, actually I have seen it labelled as floor 0! In a multi-storey car park, for example.
When car parks have numbered floors and also a mezzanine :(
True, you don't just go flor -1 to 1, there is the -1, the 0 floor and the 1st floor and so on. Makes total sense imo
@Matty Bruno Lucas Zenere Salas I've lost my car more than once because I counted the floors going up not realising which numbering that car park has used or that it has a mezzanine 🤦
In germany it historically was "E" between -1 and 1 (for "Erdgeschoß" meaning ground floor), but it seems to become more and more of a trend to label the ground floor with a 0.
(Also, I don't know a single car park where I have ever counted the levels while driving or walking. They usually have super big numbers displayed everywhere, some of them even use the flashy-colors-for-dummies system. And obviously the red number 1203 is going to be on the level that is reached by pressing the red button with a 12 on it in the elevator. Am I missing a significant point here or do you have shitty car parks?)
In some Elevators, I have found that "Groundfloor" can indeed be marked with a 0 or G
yep, in Germany it's an E (for 'Erdgeschoss')
zero indexing before it was cool
@@chaosnoelle It gets really fun in the UK when you build a building on a hill especially something like a shopping centre where street level frontage = money (Need to get those passing window shoppers inside to help them ease the burden of their wallets after all) so when built on a slope they often have a lower ground and upper ground floor due to having street access on two levels.
@@seraphina985 oh shit that sounds funny and confusing at the same time :D
In some Lifts* ;)
"Do you think free restrooms aren't cleaned?"
This man has no serious German highway experience and it shows.
Some of the bathrooms you have to pay for here in the UK look like they only get cleaned once a year or when we last won the world Cup lol
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I always thought of the USA being a melting pot of culture, meaning it all blends together with the occasional unique lump.
Whereas Europe is a mosaic. Distinct blocks of seperate cultures
that's so beautiful
Yeah but you know there's still the definite distinction between the coast like even in american we have stereotypes for the different states/areas like the east coast or southern america
@@7stormycat206 there's definite distinctions between the north and south of England and they're much closer. Every country has its own micro cultures inside of it regardless of size
I absolutely agree with EVERY country having different cultures. For example here in Germany we have 16 different Bundesländer and all of them are very different to the point where people from different areas can't understand each other because of the heavy dialects.
The US are one country, Europe is a continent full of very different countries, I don't even know why some people need to argue about that.
yay canada is like a mosaic and i think it's wonderful
Schengen is a luxembourgian village, where the Schengen treaty was signed on a river on the border between Germany, France and Luxembourg. ;)
Yapp I just wanted to say the same exact thing XD
Also, the Luxembourgish language is very similar to regional German dialects, so it wasn't totally wrong for him to refer to it as German.
thats true, i took part in an erasmus+ project with my school, where i went to a lycée technique, tbh hearing the kids talk was just like hearing a dialect of german
@@anastasijaradic7250 From what I've gathered the main reason the refer to it as a seperate language is to differentiate themselves. Though there are some aspects of French they also use. Being on the linguistic border their language is pretty much a mixture of the two. Though as someone who speaks both languages it's certainly far closer to German.
@@Der.Preusse You're right, the Luxembourgish language is very similar to the german dialects spoken in the bordering regions, but it evolved to become it's own dialect and adopted a lot of french words too. Officially it's recognized as a language by the luxembourgish constitution, but it's debatable if it's really distinctive enough to be considered a different language.
Paying for public bathrooms is such a time hono(u)red tradition in the UK, that people used to say "I need to spend a penny" as a euphemism for needing the bathroom. (Although I'm sure it costs a lot more than a penny these days).
I think it's mainly just London! I think I've only had to pay to go to the toilet in the UK, maybe once or twice in my entire life
poo rainbow shit
You have had a different experience from me then. I’ve never lived anywhere near London, and I’ve experienced paying for the toilet in many places. I’m even old enough to remember the public toilets where you put an old (12d to the shilling) penny into a mechanical lock if you wanted to use a cubicle (you didn’t pay to use the urinal).
Train station bathrooms are now free in the UK (in London anyway), you don't have to pay in Waterloo, London Bridge etc
@@aliceboon5498 Waterloo's changed has it always used to be super expensive
@@jerry2357 Here I sit, broken hearted. Spent a penny, and only farted.
Funny how paying for bathrooms seems more in line with american corporate culture.
yeah, the talk about it being pushed onto the users really strongly reminds of the tipping stuff
@@Dragoninja26, tipping bathroom attendants used to be a thing! It's still a thing in some fancy restaurants.
"Schengen is a German word"
Wrong again mate 😂
It's a town in Luxembourg
Isn't it in the German speaking part?
@@michellegoede2258 is there a German speaking part? The whole country has German as one of its official languages, but I don't think it's divided linguistically like Belgium is
@@esquilax5563 well, not a official part, but as far as I know, (which might be not enough) that part speaks mostly German, I could be wrong though.
@@michellegoede2258 they speak luxembourgish
@@nemonihil8038 and French, and German
I mean I would pay 20p every time I went to the bathroom rather than being creeped on through the massive gap
Emilia Knowles also paying deters the drunk people
@@minikipp8549 and it keeps the poors out
Emma Kippax I do like my bathrooms not covered in spew
Perhaps, but its a different situation for poor folks who can’t afford to pay every time. And there are good bathrooms in the US that are free too-if you ever go to Texas I recommend you check out Buckee’s.
It’s really not that bad
I would explain the first floor vs ground floor like that:
Your ground floor is a 0 because if you go one floor below it is -1.
Thank you for this logic that I will use in every argument from now on (and I mean every argument)
Zosia Przasnyska so make the floor itself 0
@@mujiescomedy279 On a lot of lift buttons it is referred to as 0, it's just that saying 'the ground floor' is more apt and flows better in speech
Lauren Ball I meant the literal ground as p and gave the bottom floor as 1. :P nah, the logic makes sense
You start at Ground level, and you go up 1 flight of steps, you are on floor 1.
You start at Ground level, and you go down one flight of steps, you are on floor -1.
Simple as...
If you don’t like the term “ground floor” I probably shouldn’t mention lower ground....
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"Schengen is a German word" uuuuhhh
it's a Luxembourgish town. the Schengen agreement was signed there thus creating the Schengen area. it's on the Luxembourgish side of the Saarland (a German state)-Luxembourg border (Mosel River).
"""german word""" the Luxembourgish would like to disagree
2:55 - "I just don't": try renting a small car in pretty much any European country, see how much extra an automatic costs... Then you'll get why. (That is, assuming tourism ever becomes a thing again, Corona permitting 😬).
yes, the same for buying! An automatic car is much more expensive because it isn't the norm..
Europeans more defensive about their countries? What? How?!
Patriotism is much more prevalent in the US.
YES! (also german here so...never been one to flaunt it? why should I? why would anybody in general? who are the americans praising ever morning??)
We are all now self deprecating you're thinking about the baby boomers lol
@@lisa_vxng are you talking about how schools pledge. We are honoring all the fallen soldiers past or recently
@@7stormycat206 As long as you say the pledge of allegiance, you're still part of the problem.
You obviously forgot about Balkans and Eastern Europe
You should do a video comparing American “sodas” to British “fizzy drinks”. Love your videos xoxo
Only big difference is orange soda in the UK AIN'T ORANGE
@@evan mmm not sure drank American coke and it's not the same
@@evan Haha. Very true :);)
@@evan WHO LOVES ORANGE SODA?!?
@@mothturtle7897 I believe you are thinking of KEL
Hmmm the consumer having to pay for someone’s wages
WHERE HAVE I HEARD THAT BEFORE
yike
You do that every time you go to a store. You'd still pay for their wages anyway.(but not the public bathroom. They should be paid by taxes)
ye I'd still prefer to have the charge hidden somewhere else than literally pay to enter the toilet.
@@MrMurminator with that I agree.
@@saxx9088 ?
‘There are too many states’
*sighs in Buckinghamshire*
(If you didn’t get that one: there are WAY more counties than states, double in fact. There are 48 counties in England, 33 in Scotland, 13 in Wales and 6 in Northern Ireland.)
@@shelinaislam5897 You're like 3 times our land mass though, and you don't have to even acknowledge your counties, whereas if we're listening to the weather report and we don't know whether Shropshire is north or south we're screwed if we want to have a picnic or something. I currently live in the Netherlands and I already have to know the provinces for that same reason (but I always get Overijssel and Drenthe mixed up though)
about the ketchup thing: in switzerland you generally get 1 pack of ketchup with your fries for free. sometimes a second or third for larger packs. but you do have to pay if you want to have a dozen packs. because you know, to avoid people wasting them completely.
also: the same thing speaks against having air conditioning everywhere. they are extremely power intensive. so they really shouldnt be used if there are other options (like opening the windows) that also happen to be healthier for various reasons
Same thing in Germany. You usually get some but not unlimited amounts. It's just assumed that what you get is enough and if you want more, you have to pay more. That said, there's more and more restaurants that actually just put a bottle of ketchup on the table, so it's getting more diverse (and probably confusing for tourists) lately.
About paying for bathrooms, I have a few thoughts of why:
1. Profit.
2. A "paywall" to reduse damage on property.
3. Money to pay the repairment and maintenance.
4. Regulate people using the restroom.
5. Making sure you at least get some money from the person that used the restroom. (incase of restroom being owned by the resturant/shop/etc owner nearby or something).
6. "Tourist trap"/ crowded/ popular area = easy profit from the crowd.
(I'm talking with bathrooms that is not INSIDE the resturants/cafés/etc in mind (but can imply for that too) as they often is "you can use it, but at least buy 1 item" rule which I find pretty logic as the bathroom is for custumers)
So when people complain about everything in America being about money(I mean the stuff Evan talked about like tipping) it's despicable but when others do it it's fine?
Well it depends all about which country you are in. Some countries tipping is expected. Manual labor (helping with your bags etc.), resturants, etc. Some countries you are expected to tip for these things. In some countries they have an expected tipping range of x to y amount of money or else you are rude. While some countries tipping isn't that common or part of the culture. Some countries you are expected to haggle, while some don't. So it really depend on the country if e.g you have to pay for the restroom, have to tip the porters/bagboys/etc, have to tip for good service and everything. Some people live of tipping while some live of regualting and charging people that use the restrooms and some want more profit.
And I'm talking about different countries in general, not just Europe.
@John Smith I think it depends on the country and culture. Is it "allowed" to dirty the street? Besides not all restrooms costs money. I guess you can either wait in using the restroom till you get home or use the shops' restrooms while you are at it. It ususlly doesn't cost much to use them, but I guess it is discriminatory against the poor who can't afford it. IDK I'm not really from a country where you pay for restrooms, so this is only what I assume and read. You can read more about it under "pay toilet" on wikipedia, if you want.
@John Smith I live in a country where I do not pay, but I have been in Germany and went trough this.
Basically, the system works, public bathrooms where I live are most of the times avoided, since the cleaning isnt exactly done to the brim, and some people doent exactly care about who will use them next, so I can say I have found my fair share of "If I didnt need to pee I would never step on this place" kind of public toilets.
Now, in Germany however, I first came face to face whit the "paywall" wen I went to a supermarket, the bathroom basically had a turnstile and we had to pay a lady/cleaner that was sitting on her booth so she would let us enter, and let me say that bathroom was clean af, and it was like 6pm, plus, I experienced something I never expected to happen, basically, I had some "problems" and took a bit more than normal to finish the business, and it seems that cleaning lady noticed that I had not left yet and out of worry asked me if everything was okay and if there was any emergency, it was pretty unexpected but weirdly welcome. (not sure if this happens everywhere though).
So yea, I dunno about people peeing outside or SF and LA culture, but it seems to work on the city where I stayed and it seems that not only are the cleaners way more motivated to do their job, but people also respect public bathrooms more since they know they are paying to use them.
big eastern corporations buying up/developing the german "tank &rast" which is, technically illegal, and just a freaking scam honestly... have a read and scream at loopholes in the law I guess..
Yes its really strange how we call the floor that is on the ground the GROUND floor. Odd that. Cant think why we do it
Well for me personally the ground floor is the first floor so..
@@7stormycat206 That is your choice and how you were no doubt raised. It doesnt make us wrong for calling the floor on the ground the Ground Floor or the first floor built above the floor on the ground the 1st Floor. Horses for courses. Ours makes just as much sense as yours and if someone points out that it makes no sense, I am going to point out that it does
Here in Germany we also call it the ground floor. But the other floors are named first upper floor, second upper floor, it's just often shorted as first floor. But I think the system makes sense, especially because the floors below the ground floor are labelled -1...
The ground floor is also sometimes marked with a 0 on malls etc.
Does that mean a 2 storey house has 3 floors?
Brem ...No?
Dam, that corona reference in the first minute
*shuffles offstage*
Re: driving with manual cars - you do need to know how to do that in order to rent cars with a number of european companies!! so while you don't /need/ stick shift, it is goshdarn useful here!!
be blunt about it: you wont travel much without a manual gear license, rental companies are not known for catering much to snowflakes.
I just wouldn't want to be in a situation where somebody asks me to pick up their car or something and I can't.
Like, I went to pick up my sister's car at one point at the garage for example.
When my Canadian cousin came over for my mum's funeral she rented a car and specifically hired an automatic so she didn't have to worry; instead she could just "point-and-shoot".
Used cars is a problem as well.
There just isn't that many reliable used cars that have an automatic transmission.
New cars are really expensive, i don't want to exclude myself from most of the used car market for a bit of convenience while learning.
If you want to to get really confused about the ground floor, come to Edinburgh where you can walk into a bar, have a few drinks, go up two floors and exit at ground level.
Me, literally screaming at my phone: P E R R Y
Ground floor is ground zero, it’s literally on the ground - floor 1 is elevated by 1 measure thus it is the first floor
The first floor is the floor you're in first
Except that it is first at absoluetly nothing.
@@Alucard-gt1zf So if you enter a building and go down the stairs to the floor below is that the second floor?
@@f_f_f_8142 if you really want to label it that way
Isn't zero like the absence of a unit?
This may be an interesting thread about floor numbers; it's not the same everywhere in Europe.
Norway, Russia and Estland seem to call its ground floor the 1st floor. Sweden mixes both 1 and 0, depending on the building age etc...
Germany seems to use EG instead of a number, "Erdgeschoss", Czechia uses the letter P, Italy uses the letter T "[piano] terra". Here in Belgium, we use the number 0.
Estland = Estonia ^^
@@flowerdolphin5648 Right. Of course, yes.
In Denmark it's literally the living room floor
In Czech it is P, přízemí, aka ground floor
In Czechia, the letter P stands for "přízemí" which means "ground floor". But that's just in old buildings and the rest of the country uses 0 🙂
I’m Scottish and vegan...
...whoops I already spoke about both
oh god no .
I feel like the ground floor thing does make a lot of sence. Ground floor, in my book, is floor zero, so when you build under ground those floors can then be labeled -1, -2...
Also the thing someone said about certain languages which require a floor to be above something!
Schengen is located in Luxembourg and hence a Luxembourgish word. On the other hand Luxembourgish belongs to the west central German group of german languages and has only been removed from it canonically because of its status as an official language. So it's complicated I guess?^^
Another funfact: the Schengen municipality includes the tripoint where France, Germany, and Luxemburg meet. So a tristate area!! Full circle!
Credits for everything to Wikipedia :D
The name is actually thought to have a celtic etymology meaning "reed water".
*Offended Dutch incoming* By calling it German instead of Germanic you're insinuating it's a sub-language of standard German (Hochdeutsch), which it's not. Definitions vary, but Lëtzebuerg was a Dutch Grand Duchy and the language has Dutch influences. I'd say the language is as far removed from standard Dutch as standard German. On the Dutch wikipedia it's as far removed from standard German in the language tree as Afrikaans.
Basel is another tri state area. Fly into the airport and the runway is in Switzerland, the airport straddles the Swiss French border, but I flew there to visit Germany, 10 minutes up the road.
Evan: "Why would I ever want to drive a stick shift?"
Uhm... well, just about everyone I know drives a manual. I am not allowed to drive a manual for medical reasons, as in I am physically unable to. This means I can never drive the car of my parents, or my siblings or any of my friends.
I have a code 10.02 in my license, which is effectively the same as a code 78, except that it's medical in nature.
And there's 2 more things you have to keep in mind.
1- rental companies tend to not have cheap rentals with automatics. You're going to pay extra for it and it might make your vacation rental car twice or thrice as expensive, as you'll have to rent a more up-market model.
2- mobility services tend to not have automatics as replacement cars. My mobility service explicitly excludes code 78 licenses from the free rental car, unless you pay the difference between the cheapest manual and automatic car. On a code 10.02 they aren't legally allowed to do so, because that would be discrimination based on disability, which is illegal. Still them finding you a manual car is going to take them a couple minutes at worst. Them finding you an automatic car, may just take several hours. Which is okay, if all you're trying to do is get home and deal with all this crap tomorrow morning. But it's far from great when you are trying to be anywhere on time.
I don't have the issue with not being able to drive a manual car but the point stays the same, you simply wont encounter a lotta automatic cars so you really, really should learn manual... I had 1 driving lesson (halfway into practical lessons - german system) where my instructor was like "ever tried automatic? this car's free today so let's have a go" and...that was the most boring lesson of all of them. Done it once, I get the appeal I guess, but useless if you don't have any cars to use it on :D
I wouldn't worry. Electric cars don't us gearboxes, so in 10 years manuals will be a thing of the past, except for driving classic cars and some niche vehicles.
K
I've seen a few of these videos now. This is the one that made me sub, because you went back, did your research, corrected mistakes, were open to new ideas and actually even changed your mind on something. I love it.
ive lived in england for the majority of my life and i have only ever come across 1 public toilet that you have to pay for
I like how you said we are a lot more defensive rather than saying that Europeans are more defensive meaning you consider yourself a European.
Well I'm american and I still joke saying american schools go pewpew
@@7stormycat206 I think you missed my point, I was pointing out how him saying we meant that he considers himself European.
damn last time i was this early i was allowed to leave my house
yike
Vanesa what country is that?
Vanesa where are you from?
Same. People in my area have been fined for getting too close to each other.
You know it's bad days when it's illegal to go for a walk.
In some countries in Europe the numbering system of “floors” is really easy and totally logical. Those countries don’t use the term “floor”, but instead make a distinction between the “base” layer, and the layers that are stacked on top. So for example in Dutch the ground floor is called “begane grond”, which translates to “the ground you walk on”, and subsequent higher floors are called 1st, 2nd etc “etage” (which is the French word for stage). Ground floor in those countries is therefore always indicated with a 0 (zero) in elevators, or lifts, as we prefer to call them ;-)
Ho my god I immediatly left a comment stating this and starting reading comments after. What a mistake, a LOT of people including you had already pointed it out.
In Belgium we say gelijkvloers instead of begane grond. Gelijkvloers basically means: the same floor as when you're outside. Or something like that lol
It’s the same in Germany the ground floor is called „Erdgeschoss“ (the floor directly on the earth“ , every floor above uses the term „Etage“ as well
12:59 yes it's literally floor 0! As in, you have 0 elevation from the ground, then you go up 1 floor-elevation, to the 1st floor!
"Haggis you guys just can't be satisfied"..
You, my friend, have just earned yourself a subscribe, I laughed way too hard at that. Thank you.
“is it floor zErO?” ...well yes... yes it is... we have floor 0 then floor 1, 2, 3 etc. but we also sometimes have floor -1 which usually has the parking or the gym so 0 serves as a sort of in between :)) loving your recent videos they do make me chuckle
There's no year 0 and people seem fine with it. It goes from -1 to 1 and the only thing it does is get people upset over when the decade actually ends...
@@robertofontiglia4148 WOW, I never realised that, that triggers me a lot
@@robertofontiglia4148 Well, that's because there is no Year -1 but there can be floors named -1, -2, etc. so a 0 makes perfect sense. Your analogy doesn't really work here
@@optidalfprime3904 Lol year -1 does exist, human recorded history started around year -3000 it comes from 3000y B.C which is before Christ and sadly Christianity was forced on a lot of aspects of our everyday lives.
@@Hanibun17 But it's not called year -1 so everything that you said is not only known by everyone but also pretty useless in this kind of context
I think that in Europe (not in every country, we just started to do that in my city in Italy for example) you have to pay for the bathroom so that the bathrooms could be cleaner. I guess if People have to pay they are less likely to make a mess(?). I noticed that in my city the bathrooms have become cleaner since you have to pay for that
I think it so that the homeless don't use them.
@@dustojnikhummer Maybe but I've never seen anyone being stopped if they enter a bathroom without paying (at least those where it's people collecting the money). It's more of a "Here's a small bowl with coins, paying is voluntary so you can just not pay but there kind of is an expectation and if you don't pay EVERYONE will judge you." But yeah, if you don't have any cash on you it's usually ok.
I do think the "If you pay for it you feel more responsible" theory is equally sound
Caterina Picco and then where I am in Europe they’re free
@@lithiumvids9448 they are mostly free in Italy for now, hope that they don't change this
I've also noticed that bathrooms with the pay to pee system are way cleaner. In Germany there is also usually pads and tampons made available in women's bathrooms, while in free restrooms you're lucky if you can still get soap out of the dispenser. (Berliner here)
In Europe we call the floor up the stairs the first floor because it’s the 1st floor up from/above the ground floor. So it all depends on perspective.
emily cheetham maybe not in all of Europe, for in Norway we do not do that. The second floor is the floor above the ground floor
In the UK the ground floor is the floor that is at ground level.
Hilde thank you. I like Evan was generalising. As most European countries do it the same way as uk.
Even here in Germany some people say I live on the second floor and some say I live on the third floor because they count the ground level as the first floor instead of seeing it as floor 0.
Very confusing and I usually go ground=0 and then count up from that.
Not all Europe: in Finland, the UK's ground floor is 'first floor' (ensimmäinen kerros) and the next floor is 'second floor' (toinen kerros), etc.
Another thing about the different taxes in different states is that here in the UK I've noticed several different places have very different prices. McDonald's, for example, you can get 20 nuggets and a large milkshake for about £6 in Southampton, Birmingham and some parts of London, but in Manchester and other parts of London it costs about £7-8. In petrol stations I've even noticed they cost the most I've ever seen for a McDonald's in the UK, and stuff like the nuggets are still fairly often advertised but I guess the main things they advertise like hamburgers are consistently the same price and the more expensive stuff they just increase or decrease the price accordingly
A lot of the time in Scotland the toilets aren’t free to keep the homeless out, which is actually kinda sad :(
How I imagine ground floor Vs first floor: the ground floor is the one that didn't need to be put in, it's the original, the one above is the first floor that is built, and so on
So you're thinking of the actual flooring when I'm thinking of floors as a unit meaning the floor to the ceiling
@@7stormycat206 Exactly, Your way of thinking skips an entire floor when going from Floor 1 to -1 even though there is no entire unit meaning the floor from the ceiling actually missing.
@@johnp139 must be a rocky place😂
this is how it is in many other languages too: dutch= verdieping, frenc = etage etc. it is the first heightening of the building above the ground floor.
The main reason there are pay-to-use toilets in places like London train stations (for example), is to prevent 'unsavoury' people from using them or homeless people handing around in them.
I see your point but it stops people like the homeless people being able to pee and the they pee in the streets and that's not a good look
Ah the famous British hospitality
@@jay6099 I didn't say I agreed with it :P
@@ukmaxi ok
@@ukmaxi just saying
As someone who works in the construction industry, and a fellow math(s) lover, the ground floor (or floor 0) is a much more elegant solution as then the basement floors can go -1, -2, -3 etc and the upper floors can go 1, 2, 3 etc meaning that you're floor number always tells you how far away you are from the ground floor. I just find it much more mathematically consistent.
"Why do they call the the first floor they walk into on the ground called the ground floor?"
Hmmmmmmmm"...on the *ground* called the *ground* floor?" Well I may have a theory about that.
Also 0 exists don't be...ummmmmmm...hu. numberist?
2 things I don't understand nobody is talking about:
1 The metrical system, just, the metrical system. IT'S SO BLOODY ANNOYING TO WATCH AMERICAN VIDEO'S AND THEY SAY EVERYTHING IN INCHES AND CENTIMETERS!!!!!!!!!! Or onches and liters!!!!!
2 Paying for the toilet is really uncommon in Europe. At least in the Netherlands!!! Some gas station do it. But like 0,00000000001% of the toilets that I've been too in my life were paid toilets. That's a really uncommon thing!!!
P.s. I was a bit trigged, so sorry for my bad English, didn't thought about really carrying about. Everyone here know that I'm not English. And BTW:
3 Why do Americans correct EVERYONE on the English, but when they go to France they can only say "Bonjour" with a super heavy Americain accent!!!!!
a lot of the toilets in train stations in the Netherlands charge though? but of course you can just wait to use the ones on the train :) I think most charging public toilets are located in transit stations, which actually make some sense. Totally agree with your other points too. What bothers me the most about the use of imperial system is in American recipes, which result in wildly inaccurate measurements...
Not sure where you live but I've seen plenty of toilets you need to pay for, and it's not that I live in an area tourists know exists. It's more that nobody ever uses them except for tourists.
"If I had left a comment on a reddit thread, that would have been #1"
Would it? Or would it have been #2, with the first being the ground?
HA
When he said the Asian thing about caring about family... i think that is the ONE statement that can be generalised to Asia
Kind of also applies to large parts of South-Europe(Spain(Portugal?), Italy, Greece) though maybe to a less extreme extend.
I think it coulb be applied to most of the human population ^^ Most people care about their mother, father, siblings...
@@meality I care for them.(Belgium)
But I'm not going to listen to them.
That I think is the difference.
As an adult they don't have a say in who I hang out with, what my job is, who I marry, etc.
And if they even thought they had a say in those things I would pick my freedom over them.
11:20 Welp the bathrooms for which you have to pay in many EU countries for are almost always state/city/ect. owned, usually businesses like McDonalds, Cinemas or restaurants have toilets which you can use for free.
nope restaurants usually restrict their restroomes to customers, BECAUSE they are "free" on first look. just included in their calculation.
@@rivenoak the only "restaurant" that restricts restrooms were I live (Austria woot woot) are a few McDonalds they deadass want you to use a code on the receipt
@@rivenoak Probably a cultural thing tbh. From what i have seen, Americans treat restaurant more like a place to eat and leave while most Europeans use it ONLY to have a nice family dinner or friendly dinner that usually lasts for about 3 hours. Entering a place like this just to visit the bathroom is something I couldn't even do character wise
my favorite spot for free bathrooms is the gas station! It's just so.. personal. Like, you get the key from the stressed out, 19 year old employee with a photo and a charm hanging off of, and you enter the small bathroom in the back where the employees have their own deodorant, their towel from home that their granny knitted... Gas station stops are great.
evan: the tube is over a mile away!
me, a countryside brit: the nearest train station is an hours walk away, and it only goes to the nearest town
Love how you imitate the London accent every once in awhile and then it take a couple words to get back to the American. Its like you're caught in between, so interesting!
"congratulations you just got yourself a tristate area."
Unless you're Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.....
Quad-state area, then?
@@McFlingleson it's not called the quad-state area. It's the four corners. So, you live in the four-corners area. As a native Arizonan, I grew up in a four corners state.
Hawaiians and Alaskans also don't have a tristate area. But if you're in Arizona, we called the tristate area Arizona, Nevada, and southern California.
@@shaninnmarie I didn't think it was called the quad-state area. I was just making a stupid joke.
Ribotto Studios I mean Virginia and Maryland have this weird thing where they don’t include a third state, but instead Washington DC. I don’t know if there’s sometimes a third state in there, but I’ve never heard of one.
12:02 "Schengen" is a little town/village in Luxemburg!
*slams fist on table* DAMN IT I WANT MY FREE KETCHUP
In my head that sounded like Sting in "money for nothing" and now it''s stuck in my head. 🤪
The funny thing is, that my ex-boyfriend (both german) always wanted his free ketchup when we were on vacation, for example in Italy.
Because in Germany, at least at the McDonalds I know, you although get one pack of ketchup for free. I don't mind to pay for it....but I'm just one of this crazy person who likes dry fries.😂
Schengen is not german... it's a place in Luxembourg (where I'm from) and it's close to the European tri-country area of Germany, France, and Luxembourg where the Schengen Treaty was signed
This first floor ground floor thing is so strange. Americans - when you're standing at some stairs do you think you're on the first step before you've moved up a step?? No you're on the ground still
This was really nice to watch in between all of the stuff that is going on right now. Just some Evan reacting to comments and making some puns. 🙃
Also the new end card of the videos looks very calm and soothing.
It is actually the "Zero" floor. My building literally has - 1 for the basement, 0 for the ground floor and then it starts with 1 for the appartements in the elevator.
Evan, you have the personality of literally every quirky sitcom dad in the history of TV all rolled into one and quite frankly, I'm HERE for it.
Evan! You're a mathematician, everything starts at 0.
dUDe. You're never too old for Phineas and Ferb. My uncle recommended it to me when he was 50.
I really like your accent, the way you talk and the effort you put in every video!
Thanks!
In Germany, there are free toilets and ones that cost a euro. The free ones often have iron toilets, no seat and most likely one layered toilet paper.
Sure, both are clean, but I'd rather pay for the convenience.
"pay for the convenience"
(5:00) It's weird that you say that a European might not get the US tax system with different taxes per state. Like the member states of EU uses the same taxes ...
Evan, I praise you for addressing both . I've searched for these types of videos so many times and very hardly did I came across something besides "England vs usa". it requires boldness and you got it, even if you made some mistakes (the Schengen was a big ahaha) . Love the content.
8:13 like when you said that you had to pay for puplic toilets in Europe, you dont have to pay in every European country.
And it can be different in different cities in one country too. Some toilets are open, some you have to pay for. We have both in the town I live in.
oh man, you would love my uni buildig, where you enter on the groundfloor, you walk up a set of stairs and you are on the 'high groundfloor' (mezzanine), then you walk up another set of stairs and you are on the first floor.
"Alonz-y!" Have you seen Doctor Who?
I've seen a couple eps
Evan Edinger you must watch more, let it consume you.
@@evan watch all of them, it's your duty as someone who lives in the UK :P everyone who lives in the UK must see Doctor Who, did you not know of this tradition? XD
*Allons-y
Left hand: ketchup
Right hand: health care
We know the right choice here 😂🤣
For example, in Italy it's quite hard to rent a car with automatic shift. So if you want to travel by a car, you have to know how to use manual one. For me that's a big advantage.
In Spain, in apartment blocks, if there are flats on the ground floor, it is counted as the first floor. If there aren't flats on the ground floor, then it is counted as ground floor. I think it has to do with your home address.
Ground floor vs. First floor.
It dates back to medieval times where the ground floor of a building would be the actual ground surface of whatever happened to be there when the building was built. The walls would be stone to support the building above and it would be used for storage (like a modern basement or cellar) or to house livestock.
You would then go upstairs where the floor would be wooden and have wooden walls. It was the first floor that people actually lived in.
" Do you call it the zeroth floor?" Actually, something I noticed during my exchange broad to France (I'm Canadian) was that the ground floor was almost always labelled " Floor 0" which was super confusing for me.
Yes it is called floor 0, I worked in one of the tallest buildings in my country and the floors go from 0 to 26, with 0 being the ground floor and 26 being the roof access. Actually, the floors go from -4 to 26 because there are 4 levels of parking lots and storage/maintenance areas beneath.
Thank you Evan for being a consistent source of happiness for me! I'm also from New Jersey and I studied abroad last semester in London! I can't help seeing all of the similarities I have with you..hahah. Things are crazy right now...my entire college is shut down. I hope you're doing well considering everything! :)
Real reason for not building in sales tax. Americans hate taxes. Therefore, elected officials want it to be as visible and obnoxious as possible, so they can reliably win elections on the platform of lowering taxes and nothing else.
I feel this also plays a role in filing our own taxes. Its an annual reminder of how much taxes you are paying in the most frustrating and irritating way possible.
What I have hear about the bathroom stalls being the way they are in the US is that most companies don't want you in the bathroom so they make it uncomfortable. This can be for employees needing to get back to work or for customers getting out the buy and not use the facilities for long. I have also seen this because it sometimes cuts down on people doing nasty things in them.
HEY DUDE btw the corona virus joke at the start had me very smiley 😊 BYE DUDE
Just tryin to lighten the mood :)
Hope you’re all staying safe 😊
I found the last pack of Chicken Kievs so I'm feelin great haha
I was told the stall gap was because if people got stuck it's easy to get out by sliding under the door
.......I've had to in the past.... the floor was super gross
the bit starting at 10:04. I actually agree with the commenter about different states. I've lived in California my whole life, and when I watch your "British vs American" videos, a lot of times I have to mentally change it to "British vs New Jersey" because there are *so* many things that people (not just you, but probably most Americans) don't realize are specific to their little area of the country. I think there are a lot of things that *feel* like they must be country-wide, but are actually run by the states individually, like each state has its own DMV and slightly different driving laws and ages, and slightly different drinking laws (apparently in Texas you can order a drink if you're under 21 as long as your parent is there to say it's ok??? that is not at all how it works here lol), and different stores. I remember for a long time I thought "wawa" was like a regional nickname for Walmart, because i know there are places where walmart is a lot more important than where i live. Or how Carl's Jr is actually Hardees in other places??? Ok this got long sorry