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What's The Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said To You? (Reaction)
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True story: whilst standing on top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 2 American women stopped and asked me “which way is the Eiffel Tower?” They’d been standing there for 20 minutes, looking out over Paris trying to see it… they were literally standing on it! 🤦🏻♂️
Nahhhh.. for real?
Should I 😂 or. 😢
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud unfortunately it’s very much a true story. They were really lovely women, but sadly didn’t do much to help American stereotypes 😂
Another true but not dumb story is that the French writer Guy De Maupassant's favourite restaurant was at the Eiffel Tower because that was the only place he could eat his meals without having to look at the tower!
@@B-A-L
That's ace 🫣
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Im an Australian who was on a working holiday in the US. Two colleagues couldn't understand how I'd never celebrated Thanksgiving or the 4th of July before. I had to remind them to think about what those holidays actually celebrate and then asked them why people born and raised on the other side of the world would observe those holidays. These are the same people who couldn't believe the seasons are reversed in the different hemispheres. I had to do a demonstration using a rockmelon as the sun and an orange with the equator drawn on in marker, to explain how its possible for it to be summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere at the same time. We learn that here in primary school.
An American had a go at me once for mentioning my friend was black. Telling me I couldn’t say that, I had to say African American… I’m in the UK and my black friend was born and bred in the UK! They totally couldn’t understand that not all black people are African American!
Would it be wrong to call an Egyptian person an African American if they lived in the US, after all Egypt is in Africa
I encountered an older American lady on an internal UK flight who asked what African-Americans are called in the UK and (after we sorted out my initial confusion) she said, “But you're not allowed to call people black, it’s rude.” She could not accept that Britons are fine with that word. She actually suggested we use the term “African-American British.” I kid you not.
She also simply would not accept that “Asian” in the UK has the default meaning of “ancestry from Indian subcontinent” rather than “Chinese-looking”. It’s just wrong, apparently.
I personally feel like African American sounds a little bit racist (at least to me) because it sounds like they aren't considered completely American.
Like from the top of my head I can't recall any other country that groups people like that if they have the same nationality.
I could understand the African (or any other country) American if the person had actually born in Africa (or other ways had some kind of African nationality and even then it would be better to be with the proper country and not the continent) and then had gotten American nationality (same could be with other countries like person from France that got American citizenship could be called French American or something).
@@9Misaki3 Italian American and Irish American I've heard a lot for people not even born in IT or IRE. But there also was a lot a racism towards them back in the days.
@@realreactions3898Yeah but they’re all Irish on St Patrick’s day 😂. America is a country of immigrants mostly from European countries.
My sister had an American boyfriend when she was much younger. He arranged to come over to see her once and he thought, without knowing where she lived, that he could walk to her house from the airport, because he'd heard the UK was small.
Technically he probably could but I wouldn't want to try with luggage and without some serious preparation! And plenty of time, so no.
I was at Neuschwanstein Castle in Southern Germany, a nineteenth century castle, built in a medieval style. Two Americans stood behind me as we went on a tour of the rooms. They stopped to admire the light fittings in one room. One of them said “Gee, I didn’t realise they had electricity in the Middle Ages!” …
😂😂😂
Strange how Americans think Socialised Medical practice bad, but don't think that the Police, Trash collection, Fire Services the list goes on isnt bad. Weird, very weird.
And education for under 18s!!!
@@geemo4284they are actively trying to get rid of that ...
It’s because Americans are too stupid to realize that it would lower the costs of their own medical care. All they see is them paying into a system, where someone else receives a benefit.
I honestly don’t understand the term African American, in the UK a black person is just British.
On a flight from London to Glasgow once, an educated-sounding older American lady asked me what the equivalent of African-American is in the UK. I said, “British. Or black, or black British, if race is the topic of conversation.” And she said, “But that’s rude, you’re not allowed to call people black.”
She would not accept that Britons are fine with the word black. Or you that you can’t call everyone black “Afro-Caribbean” because there are plenty of people with no Caribbean connection. So she suggested calling black Britons “African-American British”.
I still wonder if they call - for example - a person with ancestors from Egypt or Marokko an African American too. Those countries are clearly part of Africa, but the people do not necessarily have black skin.
If "African American" is just a synonym for "black" because "it's rude to call somebody black" then you might as well just call them black.
Same in NZ. Elon Musk is African American.
@@icebergrose8955 Oh, right, South Africa has a lot of non-black people too. I would love to see Elon response if someone on Twitter called him an African American xD
It’s because of the slavery trade.
True Story: Im a Brit and a Texan was shooting his mouth off about how Russia was full of maniacs and they would obviously be the first country to use Nukes in anger.
I said to him "You do realise it was America that has already used nukes! Twice infact on Japan! They dropped it on women, children and old men. So what does that say about your beloved Untited States."
He didn't say a great deal after that. 😁
I normally find that ignorance and arrogance is usually amplified in Americans anyway regardless of being drunk or not.🙄
You two seem to be an exception to the rule though.
It also amazes me how they keep saying that America won WOII and NOT ‘The ALLIANCE’…!
As if they SINGLE HANDED won, simply ignoring everything that was done by the other countries in the Alliance…!
Same with the Gulf Wars… it is proven that 25% (!) of the American casualties were caused by OWN FAILURES…(‘friendly fire’ and/or plain mistakes!)
My ex was in the first Gulf War with the RAF and told me that nobody wanted to have the Americans behind them (as ‘back up’) because the risk of getting sh*t by THEM was actually HIGHER than by the ENEMY….!!!!!!
They re always going on about ‘honor’ too, yet they are also known to COLLECT EARS (yes, human ears) and wear those on a necklace, one for each enemy they k*lled…. HONORABLE…??!!??
Englishman here. A friend of mine was on holiday in America in summer 2016, in the lead up to the presidential election. As you can imagine, there were posters and banners everywhere. He went in a convenience store and got chatting to the owner. Amongst other things, the owner said "It's not usually like this, but the election's coming soon, and tension is running very high in politics". All reasonable so far. But then, he started explaining what politics is! After about 30 seconds, my friend said "Yes.....yes I know what politics is." The American, sounding very confused, replied "Well, how do you know that?". My friend said "Well, we have politics too." To this, the American said "How can you have politics? I thought you didn't get to choose who was Queen!".
Gold! Pure gold!
@jackcarter5101 the Yanks don't have ownership of all stupid questions. I was living in London in the 80s and I had a cuople of girls ask me how long it took for the mail to get from 'say.. for example..Melbourne to Perth'. I told them weeks because we were still reliant on stage coach and horses. then I saw an opthamologist and asked how my 'pterygium' was. he laughed and laughed and said ' you don't have one.. you only get them in hot dry climates'. I said.. 'where do you think i'm from? can't you tell by my accent?' (I grew up in an arid environment). Mind you we did see a few americans while there.
Sarah Palin thought the Queen ran the UK.
After the Queen died. I saw some Americans on a podcast, actually reporters/commentators, who should know better, rage about her. 1 was black (sorry, "African-American"), the other was of Pakistani descent, and they were practically frothing at the mouth hurling hate at the late Queen for slavery and for the separation of India/Paskistan respectively!
It was insane! Like, she had nothing to do with any of that! But apparently the black woman thought, that coz her great-great-great-great grandfather was George III, she was all to blame for slavery, so at the very least she shouldve sold the Crown Jewels (which the monarch does not own) to pay reparations for slavery. And the guy, grandson or greatgrandson of Pakistani immigrants, was all in on reparations, coz in his opinion it was all the Queens fault, how the English had ravaged India and then the horrible handling of the separation of India and Pakistan. He actually thought, that she had personally handled that last bit! She wasnt even Queen at the time, and it wasnt her father doing it either, it was the British government, but like most Americans, Im sad to say, its like, theyre stuck at the time of the revolution, they still think, thats how the UK works, and how monarchy works, and that the UK and the rest of Europe stopped evolving, when they became their own country.
The ignorance really runs deep, even in the so-called well educated. Plus, the pure venom and hatred being spewed at the Queen, as it wouldve been targeting any person, was disgusting beyond belief. I had to quit halfway through their tirade, coz they just got worse and worse, and I havent listened to that podcast since.
I'm an American... that's just pathetic. Probably a Trumper 😂
Had an American ask me where the Tour De France is held...had no answer to that. Too stunned.
To be fair, it does pass through parts of the neighbouring countries too. So Tour de France is mainly in France but also a bit in other countries.
But I'm sure that is not what the American meant.
I live in Berlin. One American lady said to me she was anxious about going to Denmark without her gun because Denmark was a communist country. I assured her the King and Queen of Denmark would protect her, while trying not to laugh.
The BEST thing about every reaction to this: always SO MANY more stories in the comments!
Which proves how stupid Americans really are😂
With these kinds of videos, I always pause and read the comments first 😂😂😂
My American mother in law text us 2 days ago to confess to one of these. She said she got annoyed because when they arrived in Spain, no one was speaking English! She said she felt like a true American for wondering something that dumb 😂
An educated American?
In 1981, a 20 year-old American exchange-student came to study at my hometown´s University. Let me explain where I´m from: I live in Salzburg (Austria, Middle-European Alps). Salzburg exists since the 400s A.D. In 696 A.D. it was established as a Bishop´s residence. The first University in my city was founded in 1622 (about 150 years before the United States came into being). Composer Mozart was born in my city ... every year we´re giving the most renowned classical festivities in the world, Sound Of Music stems from my city, and - believe it or not - also the energy-drink Red Bull (well, that was later, about 1986, but just for scope). When the student opened his suitcase, I saw that he brought 100 disposable shavers and 100 pencils. I asked him why he needs so many, for what? He literally said the following sentence: "... to have stuff to swap things with the natives!"
PLEASEEEE…. Tell me he was joking…..!!
He was, right???
😮
In Amsterdam,i was talking to an American (in english)when a local woman asked me a question,i answerd, and the American turned to me and asked what language we were speaking. I told him we were speaking dutch because in the Netherlands people speak dutch and he said she should speak english. When i asked why he said because we where in Amsterdam not the Netherlands
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I love that attitude that anybody, wherever they are, "should" speak English.
Well, actually, I don't.
I am from Canada... I was asked what we do with our igloos in the summer... shook my head and said " we have AC in it so it's all good"... fun times.
Im from Denmark. Even b4 the idiotic Fox segment comparing us with Venezuela (we're not even a socialist country and never have been!), Ive had more than 1 American ask, if we have polar bears walking in the streets....
@@dfuher968 Which is funny cause the US actually does have polar bears.. in Alaska!
As an Aussie with American relatives I have to be fair: there are 330 million of you and the educational standards there are wildly inconsistent. So while I've met many very intelligent Americans, the chance of meeting "less smart" ones is still high!
@@dutchroll This! We aren't all idiots, just most of us 😅
All of the Americans I meet are as sharp as nails. I wish that someday I would meet at least one of those being told in these stories. XD
As an American that's the best assessment of American intelligence i've ever read.
@@gaijinphgo to a Trump rally 😂
@@gaijinph Go live in the USA.
I was once asked by an american "where do you come from?" I replied "England I'm English". To which they replied "which language do you speak over there?"
A few years ago in Florida I was asked "do you speak English or French back home?" (England). From someone who had a responsible job. To many Americans the rest of the world is either Canada or Mexico.
you speak Englishanese, right? XD
A Texan to me:'You speak mighty fine English for a furriner, what language do you speak in England?'. Having explained to him, (after picking my jaw up from the floor), he clearly didn't believe me.
I was working in London once when two american tourists asked me for directions to Edinburgh. I said you know its about 400 miles away? To which they said "can we walk it"? So i said yeah and watched them set off "north" lol on foot
Well, u werent lying. They could walk it, just might take a while 🤣🤣
That's what my parents want me to think how far thay walked to get to school
I was at the same situation! In Moscow I was asked by two Americans, if they drive (not fly!!!) at morning to see The Baikal lake could they be back to Moscow the same day afternoon?
Guys... There are 4,500 km (~3000 miles)! Like between the NYC and Los Angeles! They didn't believe me, because "The US is BIGGEST country, only them have such long distances but not "small European states"😂
On the subject of getting confused between Switzerland and Sweden, they have the same problem with Austria and Australia, the tourist gift shops in Austria do a roaring trade in T-shirts reading "There are no Kangaroos in Austria", complete with the Australian traffic hazard symbol warning of wild Kangaroos.
I read about a gift shop in New Zealand selling toy kangaroos .
The owner said she was so fed up with telling Americans why she did not stock them that eventually she gave in and started to make some money from their stupidity.
@@Jill-mh2wn Yeah, I heard about that too, more power to the gift shop owner!
@@nicksykes4575 Well ,they say the customer is always right 🤣
@@Jill-mh2wn Well, we do have Wallabys, but they were introduced.
Same with Dutch people speaking Dutch in the Netherlands, which is NOT Deutsch or from Deutschland….!!
In Paris, getting of the plane, American wife to husband: "What language do they speak here?"
I live in Tokyo and once overheard an american tourist LOUDLY complained "why nobody's talking in English and why everything's written in a weird-looking alphabets instead of a normal ones". Sigh.
I'm from London. I was in Pensacola with friends, a Guy around 20 years old from Kentucky came with another crowd, when he found out I was English he asked "Are there any Farms in England" I just stood there with my mouth open.
You think that's crazy? I was asked (seriously ! ) 'Do you have trees in the UK'?
@@ramadaxl I can honestly believe that!
@@stevew585 I ( eventually ) asked him if he'd ever seen a 'Robin Hood' movie. he said yes. 'OK...where did he live?' 'Sherwood forest' .' Right'!...( blank look ) and a forest is made of what'?
'OOOOOHH '
@@ramadaxl lol, Thick as planks
An American friend's wife to my ex (who is from Scotland). HER: 'Where are you from'? My EX: 'Scotland'. HER 'Oh is that in Ireland?' I'm amazed my ex didn't headbutt her ;)
at least she didnt ask if it was in England lol 🙂
😂 Me too!!
I have a good one to tell. I lived on US AF bases when I saw young & when I was a young teenager, my mom (who was French) decided that while my dad was off on a mission before his retirement, we would live in France near our maternal family, go to school & learn French. 3 years later, we go back to US & we are in high school..having a twin brother, we would walk to school together & we’re in the same class. Our classmates thought it was so weird that we would walk together, sometimes eat together..talk in another language at certain times & they asked me why we did that…I told them that in France, before having an actual bf or gf, we first went out with each other..guess what? they believed me 😂 They also believed that we didn’t have knives & forks..this was the mid 70´s.. It really made us laugh..the bigger the lies, the more they believed it!
the american use of cutlery at table indicates they haven't used them for very long
German here. Ivisited California back in 84 and went to a summer camp as a 14 year old teen.
I got a truck load of different questions. Among them were such classics as: was Hitler still around, or do we have cars in Germany. That last one from from a self-confessed car enthusiast.
I had to inform him that it was a German who had invented the first internal combustion engine car. Oh, and that both types of the most used engines, the Otto engine and the Diesel engine were both invented by a German as well.
He was offended, turned to me, and said I was wrong. Everybody knows that Ford invented the car. I just shook my head.
Yeah, Ive had an American tell me, that pizza was invented in New York. He was very insulted, when I tried to tell him, that its documented in Italy back to at least Roman times.
Americans seem to have a fetish with everything including the wheel having been invented in the US. They will either reinvent history to make it so or just refuse to hear about actual origins.
@@dfuher968 Christ on a bike! Marco Polo even recorded that the Chinese had Pizza when he was there. What makes the Yanks think they invented everything?
Talking about is Hitler still around...
I was once asked by American (an older one, not a kid!) if I met Joseph Stalin perconally back in Russia?
I thought he just mistakes a name and maybe he meant Vladimir Putin?
No, he asked about Stalin actually😂
It’s the teachers being stupid worries me more than any of the other criticisms! That’s crazy!
The dumbest thing an American said to me, once in Rome wandering the old forum an American tourist complained about the surface we were walking on, I mentioned it was a 2000 year old original Roman road and she said but can’t they fix it up.
😂😂😂😂
Dumb group of Texan tourists asked me while in Venice why us Venetians don't drill the lagoon so we can find oil and get rich.....
Yip, that's EXACTLY how the rest of the world sees Americans and this just proves how right we are!
@@leo1314ok It's completely okay to criticize, or even make fun of people making silly remarks. I don't think it's okay to lump all US citizens into one. It's just not the case at all.
@@RNTV But Americans don't understand that Americans do that ALL the time. Lumping people into one. The amount of times Americans say inaccurate things about other nations, even on the news, is mindblowing to us.
As an American, I know that many Americans do this. Does it make lumping people altogether on either side right? No. Not all of us do this, some of us actually take the initiative to educate ourselves about the rest of the world.
The healthcare in the US vs. UK is something I read a lot about. I'm English and In 2019 I needed emergency surgery, antibiotics and 6 weeks of daily visits to a nurse to clean and dress the wound. Cost to me was £0.
In Feb 2020 the issue recurred with the same surgery, antibiotics and nurse care. Cost to me was £0.
In May 2020 I had pneumonia and spent 2 weeks in hospital. 3 meals a day, daily visits by a doctor, bloods, all meds and tests. Cost to me £0.
In September 2020 the same bacteria, Streptococcus pneumonia, caused mastoiditis. Another 2 weeks in hospital, part of my skull drilled away, 12 weeks of daily nurse visits to my home to deliver IV antibiotics. All the time I was on full pay with my employer. Cost to me £0.
It's not Socialist... It's humane. If I lived in the US I'd be dead. I find it strange why some Americans find it weird... My previous boss was from the US and she was baffled. Love your channel guys!
Unfortunately some Americans have not just drank the Koolaid as regards their interpretation of 'socialism' - they've taken a bath in the stuff. Both naturally occurring stupidity & wilful ignorance cannot be educated away - mores the pity.
@@jockeyladjockeylad8492yeah Fox news compared Denmark to Venezuela. Two very different socialist countries
@@moondaughter1004 Correction. Denmark is not socialist. So its an even worse comparison. We Danes actually outrank Americans as "most capitalist country". Last I checked the OECD list, we were 5th, the US was 18th. We are not and never have been a socialist country. We're a socialdemocracy with a free market economy. And its not just "most capitalist", we outrank the US on. Its across the board. Best place to start a business, happiest, healthiest, more money to spend, living standards, u name it, we outrank the US. Always while being a capitalist country.
@@dfuher968 yeah I know. I'm Swedish. We're a social democracy too. It's just hilarious enough that I'm actually siding with you guys
You guys are lucky... that stupidity about free healthcare somehow being related to socialism is complete bullshit. I live in Florida and I am lucky enough to be a fairly healthy person. However, one time I got sick, ended up with a high fever and a certain kind of reaction to that fever (my ears and face got abnormaly red) so I was rushed into the emergency room. I got there and they immediately asked for my health insurance, which I didn't have and I expressed this to them. They did not thoroughly check me but they determined that I was dehydrated. Since I had no insurance, they did not want to give me IV fluid! You know what they gave me? One tablet of Tylenol, a Gatorade, and they sent me home with my face still red and my blood pressure up! Then came the bill... $500! For absolutely nothing! I truly think that if I were dying, they probably would have let me. You either have health insurance or a ridiculous amount of money for medical expenses... or you die here. Luckily what I had went away, but it did take me quite a while to heal and I think that I was left with some after effects. That is not the only negative experience that I have had with the healthcare system but this is just the rundown of how bad it is here.
Talking to an American couple at the pub. Their concept of what was old was a little strange. I was supposed to be impressed with them being sixth generation American. We sat in a pub dating back to the sixteenth century. The local church was started in 1215 the same year Magna Carta was signed. The village was recorded in the Domesday book in 1086. They asked if I had lived in the village long. I replied that the parish records only go back to 1500 but a member of my family was recorded on them in 1503.
I've met many Americans over the years and have had "What part of London is (insert place name over 100 miles from London) in", " what's it like living in a country where you can't defend yourself" but the best was that "American drink age law applies in the UK so stop selling my 18 year old son beer"
As an American, I apologize on behalf of Americans... those kinds of Americans are awful. Some of us actually do educate ourselves about the rest of the world.
A friend of mine told me that a lady he knew was working in the US. An American where she worked asked her where she was from and she responded "I'm from England". The American guy replied "Oh, what language do you speak in England?".
A woman once sincerely asked me if men have pelvises.
Ehh, no love, ma legs just hang there
The funniest one I heard was an American on a train and we stopped at a place called ingatestone (anyone who knows the place or is British would break that place name up into in gate stone right?) well this American showed me a new way and it was priceless at the top of his voice; he stood up and shouted to his friend “oh my god, what a strange name for a town Inga test one! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I could not bring myself to correct him how to say ingatestone but Jesus I hadn’t even thought to break a word up that way
I live in Scotland and the best one I've heard was an American woman complaining that Edinburgh castle was built to far away from the airport.
Pronounced Edinburrow😂
I don't know if it was a joke or not but apparently one American tourist at Windsor Castle was heard to say contemptuously "You'd think the Queen would have more sense than build her castle under the Heathrow flight path!"
The fact is that US education doesn't seem to include global geography, global economic systems, global political systems and global cultures..... whereas my own little/big continent/country of Australia, with about 28,000.000 people, all start learning about other countries, their culture, their history, their geography from primary school onwards..... the USA wants to be isolationist, as if their country is the only one in the world....... like the 'we are the only ones with freedom' crap.... nope, no the USA is not... in fact, more and more each day, every citizens freedoms are being taken away... except for the moronic free for all stance on guns.....
There's a book about it
It's called dumbing Americans down
It's not by coincidence
Unbelievably well said my Aussie friend 🇬🇧🇦🇺
When an American asked me where is this or that country? I always answer "it's next to Klingonia". Most of the time that nonsense answer is good enough for them 😀
I'll add to the remark about cars actually being sleds in Canada. After many years travelling to America from Britain, we were once addressed by two middle aged blonde women in a restaurant who complimented us on our standard of spoken English, as foreign tourists. They wanted to know where we had learned the language, and what language was normally spoken in Britain. To make this worse, they were geography teachers ....... I have so many more stories. Regards, and good luck
Simple and appropriate for today.... 'Happy Fourth of July!' to which I always reply 'But hang on, firstly I'm British and secondly don't you lot always put the month before the day? See you on the 11th of September and we'll commemorate that together then!' The look of puzzlement on their faces is a wonder to behold!
I'm not very big on celebrating this day. Most just use it as an excuse to by merchandise and light fireworks while getting drunk. If you want to celebrate the US gaining its independence I can think of much better ways of doing it. As for the 11th of September, I do celebrate since it's my birthday and all 😅.
Here are a few of these that I've been asked in the past.
1) My favourite: I was chatting with a girl from LA and she asked me if we have Internet in Germany. While chatting with me over the internet.
2) A lot of US americans have asked me if I do speak German (I'm German btw). And even worse - it's not like they asked me that question meeting me in the USA or something. No, it's mostly US american tourists HERE IN GERMANY!
3) People asking if Hitler is still alive. And no, people are not joking when they ask that. Even if he hadn't ended his life in 1945 - he was born in 1889. He would be 135 years old by now.
The All-American slogan could be - no brain - no pain - no damage
I've seen so many of these and what strikes me more than anything else is the tendency in US Americans to double down on their ignorance and tell people from a certain country that they know more about their country than they do
This is true. They absolutely, stubbornly refuse to be corrected. They ask for help, refuse to accept the explanation, and often end up calling me a liar.
So I’m in the pool in Las Vegas on holiday from Australia. A guy jumped in holding a drink with the mirror sunnies and a large cowboy hat. He said howdy and I said G’day. He asked me where I’m from so I said Australia. “Where’s that?” he asks. “A small town near Milwaukee” I reply. “Oh...” he says.
I've had Americans arguing with me, adamant the words are pronounced Toona, Tooseday and toob 😂😂
I have to remind them the language is English not American.
I have an English friend, who went to Miami for holiday a few years ago. He was asked in the airport going through customs, how come he spoke such good English. He said "well, Im English". No, no, no, English is what is spoken in America. Which language do u speak in ur country? Him again "Im English. From England. We speak English".
He couldnt convince her. She thought, only Americans speak English. Apparently had no clue, where the English language come from, or why its called English.
@@dfuher968 They also think Spanish is from Mexico 😁
Great reaction, I have a few but on my first visit to the US many years ago I was asked if we had telephones in Scotland, I was then told I was lying when I said it was invented by a Scotsman 😂, was also asked if we had fresh fruit and vegetables 🤦♀️
Well to be fair the average Scot doesn't know what fresh fruit and veg is - unless it's deep fried.😁
@@speleokeir Aye, you’re right, nothing goes better with my haggis, neeps and tatties than some deep fried lettuce leaves washed down of course with a can of Irn Bru, sláinte ❤️
@@speleokeir 🤣🤣🤣🤣 My thought exactly
My Scottish friend was asked, in all seriousness, whether or not they had television in Scotland. He pointed out that the inventor of television, John Logie Baird, was Scottish and his interlocutor told him to his face he was lying.
My English cousin lived in Florida and was asked frequently what language they speak in England 😂😂
he should have said that the English don't speak because they are telepaths. They would have believed him! 😂
You should give those Americans credit for realising
a) that other countries exist and
b) that they have languages other than English
An English friend of mine went on holiday to Miami and got asked the same question! While going through customs! Coz the lady was amazed at how well he spoke English...
1. American girl asked if I was envious of the moon, since Im not American. I wish I asked all the questions that ran thru my head, but before I could, the hobby astronomer in me took the wheel and explained how the moon works, we all see the same one, even in Finland.
2. A tourist guy (with lovely Southern drawl, from Tennessee or Kentucky) I met in a bar here thought our free healthcare is straight up communism, people use ambulances as taxis, people go to hospitals for fun, which makes our doctors stupid somehow. I didn’t have the heart to correct him, he was so happy being the perfect little consumer, I didn’t dare break his illusion.
3. I keep being asked why my English is so good and how we deal with the polar bears. We learn languages in school, cartoons weren’t dubbed when I was a kid, I learned a lot from translating my favorite music and there are no polar bears to deal with, despite being very northern nation.
Your healthcare isn’t free. It isn’t free in the UK where I’m from. If there are intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe with medicine, healthcare isn’t free there either. Nothing is free.
On visiting a gun shop in Texas I was asked if we celebrated thanksgiving here in England . When i told the idiot no, he then asked me if we celebrated Christmas at the same time as they did. On another occasion , at my local market , talking to the stallholder who sold hand made jewelry , an American guy asked what kind of stone was in a necklace . It was Amber . On being told it was formed from tree sap millions of years ago , he was outraged . " That,s impossible , the world is only two thousand years old , it was created when Jesus was born. " I had to bite my lips and walk away.
In the midwest, around Thanksgiving and 4th of July, any number of people would ask me how England celebrates these holidays. Also Germans, Turks, Ghanaians, Russians and Indians that I knew got asked as much as I did.
Oh, I can top that. Sadly not 1 of my own experiences, of which I have a lot, but a friend of mine from England got asked by an American, if the UK would respect his 2nd Amendment rights, coz he was going there and would be bringing his gun.....
I was on holiday in Denver they took us to Six Flags as we had a toddler, as I was asking my son if he was OK on the ride the attendant said "OMG your accent is so cute where are you from ?" ..."Wales" I replied, "where is that" so I said "it is the country attached to England on the left" to which she replied "What Ireland ?"🤦♀
I have travelled around the world and the only people that really revel in their ignorance is Amercans. It really stands out. I actually had to defend that Sweden is a country in Europe once (and that you can't drive to it from California)
On the driving part: with enough money and motivation, you could drive up to the north of Canada, onto Arctic ice cap, to Russia. Follow the coast until you get to Finland and drive to Sweden. I won't be easy, but it can be done. Top Gear drove two Toyota Land Cruisers to the magnetic North Pole once. The first to do so.
Im from Denmark and have travelled widely. I have to concur. Americans are by far the most ignorant, I have met. Also the least curious and most likely to complain, that things arent like theyre used to "back home".
And yeah, I once was asked, where Im from, and on replying Denmark, got the follow-up "oh yeah, thats the capital of Stockholm, right?". And that was from an American, who had even heard of Denmark and/or Stockholm.
U really cant make it up!
Me and my husband on top of the highest point of Snowdonia Wales and an American couple with a map asked us ' Where are we'? My husband said Ben Nevis. They said 'Thank you', smiled and walked off. We don't know what became of them, but it keeps us warm 27 years later.
I heard that an American on Twitter wanted the Queen of England to be impeached over some comments she may or may not have said about Meghan Markle, they must think that US law is dominant over individual sovereign countries own laws😂
Have you not heard of Julian Assange?
@@gregsmith4102 That guy arrested for extradition to Sweden for sexual assault? Who skipped his bail until the statute of limitations ran out on the offences? That Julian Assange?
@@wessexdruid7598 The sexual assault charges were transparently fake, it was ridiculous.
Travelling through the US I was told multiple times that I wasn't Australian, I was British because I didn't sound like Steve Irwin. My attempts to explain that the US isn't the only country with regional accents unsurprising didn't make any pennies drop.
I was also asked who does all the menial jobs in Australia like lawn mowing because we "don't have Mexicans".
Sounds like you ran into a really special bunch. As someone who did landscaping for several years I find that comment particularly idiotic 😂
I had it in reverse, they thought I was Australian when I'm English.
Tell them that it's too dangerous to work outdoors in Australia with our venomous animals and our dangerous sun, so we have mobs of highly trained Kangaroos to fill those roles.... I bet you they would believe it.
An American was visiting Windsor in England and asked "Why did they build the castle so near to the airport?"
I live in Cardiff (Wales) and someone I know who does tours of the castle heard a couple say, "Isn't this great, they've built a castle right next to the shops!"
For some reason folks from outside North America, assume that "American" means anyone from North America. We Canadians are always correcting them on that - no we are not American. It is frustrating. We had American work colleagues come to visit us once. We are about an hour and a half from the US border. They were from Washington State. They stopped in Idaho just before crossing the border and purchased winter parkas. It was July. They were PhD scientists.
It's definitely a thing. We use them term for thumbnails and titles only because that's what the TH-cam algorithm seems to pick up on.
In Australia we often ask North Americans "Are you Canadian?" Result: Neither Canadians nor Americans are offended but if we ask a Canadian whether he/she is American then we can be in trouble.
Friend of mine standing in a queue with his kids in Disneyland. Man next to him said “ I love your accent , where are you from?”. He answered Scotland. The man replied “ That’s one hell of a drive!” 🤪🤪🤪
What, you never heard of an amfibien car that drives at the bottom of the ocean 😆 You just have to make sure you go pee before you leave because there's no toilet stops along the way.
1. Working about 1980 in a shop that got a lot of American tourists (usually older people).
- “I have blue blood. I’m descended from Bonnie Prince Charlie / Flora MacDonald.” We got variations of this over and over. Rob Roy McGregor, *the* William Wallace etc - they all have thousands of descendants in the USA, apparently.
- “I’m Scottish/Irish /English, I’m entitled to a passport.” (Knows of a great-great-grandfather who emigrated to the US.)
- “My name is very rare / unique, have you heard of the X clan?” (Surname that filled a swatch of half the phone books in Blighty.)
2. At college in the 1990s, US students:
- “I don’t have an accent”.
- “My name is MacX, so I heard I’m entitled to some clan land, where do I go to claim that?”
3. In the midwest, early 90s, on hearing that someone is from the UK.
- “Your English is very good/How long have you been learning English?”
- “How do they celebrate Thanksgiving / 4th of July in your country?” (A lot of people asked this around those dates.)
Visiting the US from South Africa, I've been asked "Do you have to holler at the elephants to get off your driveway when you come home?" True story
Im a Finn and we have that same problem with polar bears, Ive been told. Not asked, told. Apparently they roam the streets here and steal from peoples trash.. (No polar bears in Finland, zero.)
Don't tell them this, but the entire country of Australia literally made up a subspecies called "a drop bear" (big scary Koalas ) just to mess with Americans and they still believe it 😂
Well, do you?
That was many years ago, when the Concord airplane was still going. I was working in Hampton Court Palace, which was one of the residence of Henry the VIII, so sixteen century, the Concord plane would pass over it around 11.00am and was very loud for just few second at the point of making windons glasses shaking. So one morning I was kitting an american lady with the guide tour machine when the Concorde loudly passed over, and she look at me and asked me: " didn't they know when they build this place that it was going to be on the route of the Concord?" I though she was joking, I look at her ready and she was serious, she was not joking. I imagined Cardinal Wolsey, when he build the place thinking...."mmm in 500 years the Concord will pass over here and make a racket, shall I build the place or not?...who cares let's build it" 😆😆😂😂
As a student I spent one summer in the US as a councillor for Camp America, which a lot of students do as a chance to see the US.
I had a conversation with one of the other councillors who was American that went like this:
Him: You're from England right?
Me; Yes.
Him: Me and my friend were thinking of going there one day, so I was wondering how long it took to drive?
Me: (A bit non-plussed but giving him the benfeit of the doubt). Umm, I'm from England, you know in Great Britain/the UK,? Not New England.
Him: Yeah I know that. So how long does it take to drive? Because me and my friend thought it might be fun road trip.
Me: Well Britain is part of Europe, 3000 miles away, on the other side of the Atlantic.
Him: Yeah I know that. I'm not dumb, I've been to college. So a long drive then?
Me: * speaking slowly* Well no. You can't drive because the Atlantic is an ocean. You know a big wet sploshy thing full of very deep water? And the only way to cross it is to fly, or if you're rich, sail on a big ship like an ocean line
Him: Oh. I thought there might be a bridge or something...
😬
Not that Americans have a monopoly on ignorance, there are some pretty cring makingly uneducatd people here in Britain too, who don't know stuff I consider common knowledge.
For instance many of my work colleagues don't know where major cities such as Manchester, Liverpool or Newcastle are except 'Somewhere up North' because they're Townies who rarely leave their own city. Many haven't even been to London.
I've asked haven't they ever looked at a map? Or even looked at the map of Britain shown on the weather forecast every night which has some of the main cities on it. But evidently not.
And once at uni I was chatting to my housemates when I referred to someone as being 'condescending'.
Both girls looked at me puzzled and asked what condescending meant. I was a bit shocked as it's a pretty common word and being at uni I'd assumed they were intelligent well educated enough to know it. Being a kind and helpful person I answered as follows:
Me: The same as patronising. You know what patronising means?
Them: No.
Me: Remind me again what you're studying for your degree?
Them: English lit.
Me: Right. And you don't know what condescending or patronising means?
Them: No.
Me: Okay. Well it's when somebody talks down to you - as if you were a complete idiot - Much like I'm doing to you both right now!😁🤣🤣🤣
I'm German. Thank you for teaching me 2 new words. 😊 But the second one I jussed guessed right. From latin patron. In German I would maybe say "Herablassend", "belehrend" or even "überheblich".
Europe is NOT a country,its a Continent.
It is not just Americans who can give people a laugh. When on a bus tour of Italy, my husband and I paired off with an American couple and sat down at an outdoor table in Florence. Gerry our American friend wanted some iced tea. Not one of us could speak Italian but we all had heard Italian people speaking English with an Italian accent during our lives and were used to the “a” added to the end of a lot of English words, so when he asked for iced tea we said “make that 4”, and the waiter asked us “colda?” we all said 👍 yes … so we ended up sitting in the sun drinking hot tea with the temperature around 40 C because in Italy “colda” translates as “hot”. Lesson learned.
@judileeming1589 the word is caldo, meaning hot. Tè freddo is cold tea!.
I'm Canadian my girls are irish dancers. The 2023 world itish dance Championships were in Montreal. In one stage room there was a disturbance. It was a drunk guy that had walked in just being drunk and disruptive.
The org decided to move us all to another room...1000 people. As we were moving there were some ppl from the UK commenting about worrying if there might be a gun..I had to turn and say we're in Canada not America. That's not a concern and they were like...oh...right. the Americans there had already clocked th4 exits and were out of the room though.
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OK. I have to comment on this one! Whilst in the US a good few years ago I was watching a football (soccer) game involving France and I can't remember the opponents. At one point the American commentator tried to differentiate one of the French players by calling him African American. I thought it was one of the funniest things I'd ever heard and my American friends were initially perplexed.
I had to explain. He's French, not American!
"You have failed to convince me that a female shark could evoke evolve a crocodile."
Easily the dumbest thing anyone's ever said to me.
As an Englishman, I was once asked by an Amercian why I didn't celebrate Independance day, as he thought we did.
They all think we do!
at this point you probably should
I've also had people think we celebrate it in Australia.
The stupid thing is if you ask a Yank who they got independence from most of them don't know
Good lawd..
Not what they said but what some believed. In Scotland we like to mess with tourists, particularly from the states about how we head to the hills for haggis hunting season
I should also mention the complete confusion about the seasons being reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, or thinking that Australia is the only place with opposite seasons to the Northern Hemisphere.
Currency exchange and time zones are just met with "..........".
I'm from Scotland, and for some reason, americans never believe me!
I've been accused of lying about where I'm from an unbelievable amount of times online because apparently 'scottish people live in mud huts and don't have electricity or Internet access'! (Obviously, they've watched braveheart or something and think we still live the way we did hundreds of years ago!)
The number of americans who've insisted on calling me english even though I've repeatedly told them I'm not english and that calling scottish people english is never a good idea. Their attitude is "they're basically the same thing so who cares?!"
Scottish people care, and doing this sort of thing in certain parts of scotland could be very dangerous!
US guy : "Where are you from? "
Me : Venice.
US guy: You don't look like a typical Spanish guy.....
Me: 😳
Next time an American tells u, that Scottish and English is basically the same, ask them, how they would like being called Mexicans or Canadians.
In the nineties, the Belgian band K's Choice went to tour the US and the singer had a conversation with the record company's associate about how different the States were from Belgium. The singer made a joke how everyone still rode in carts in Belgium, but quickly realised the associate took them seriously.
I’m from Australia, and when I was in Boston I kept being asked if I was Canadian “because I had an accent”…..
Im from Denmark, English isnt even my first language. I was asked the same question by a couple of Americans, I met on holiday in Greece. Coz I "had an accent". 🤦♀🤦♀
@@dfuher968 Oh my god! 🤣🤣
I'm from Australia and one of my ALL TIME favourite pastimes is playing on American ignorance/stupidity.
One thing I've been telling American tourists (and American people in general), for decades, is this:
Did you know they close the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the morning and the evening to let the kangaroo's in and out of the city?
I've been telling this since the late '90's, and I'm not the only one. A few years back, I was drinking at a pub on the south shore and I spotted a man walking towards Observatory Hill Park. He was carrying a camp chair and had binoculars and a camera slung around his neck.
I couldn't believe my eyes. I turned to my mates and said, incredulously, "How much do you wanna bet he's here for the kangaroos?"
I told them I'd be back shortly and approached the man, asking if he was, indeed, here to see the kangaroos. He confirmed he was.
I had to come up with something on the fly, so I told him, "Oh man, you're a couple of years too late. They stopped closing the bridge because the flow-on effect of stopping traffic meant it never cleared, and people were complaining about the delays in their commute. What they do now is transport the roos across in sheep trucks. The sheep help keep the roos calm & they don't need to stop traffic. If you look really close at the sheep you can sometimes spot the ears of the roos above their heads."
Priceless. Cheers from Germany.
that reminds me of when i was a kid in Karratha.. and all the brits would come out for work and whenever they arrived most of the locals would tell them - corroboree on main street every Friday night and you get to ride a kangaroo. Yep they believed it.
😂😂😂😂
@thevocalcrone G'day mate there's a story that the kids in the second world war would have a spiked mountain devil sitting on their shoulder as most kids did..even in my time...the yank sailors would delight at the Orangey yellow spikes. The kids would have match boxes with cotton wool and bouble gee seeds you may call them three cornered jacks they would sell them to the yanks as mountain devil eggs and tell them it takes months to hatch
I sometimes play dumb for fun and it is great fun when someone looks at me dumbfounded
So people get the impression you are a dummy? Hmm.
young man asked my daughter "What language do you speak in England?"
"Canada doesn't have cars sweety!" Meanwhile we have the busiest highway in all of North America. It handles more traffic than the Santa Monica Freeway. (Hwy 401).
As a Brit I’ve always wondered why Disney, Universal etc put their massive parks in Florida because that puts me of going to them straight away. Even we know that all of the horrible crazy shit happens there and that’s not even taking the deadly heat and wildlife in to account.
And the fact that they have some of the most lax gun laws, and some of the worst gang violence. Hmm, I wonder if the 2 things are connected...?
My English cousin married a yank and lived on florida for over a decade.
Even though they lived in a gated community, the kids never played outside because of the violence. Plus they're absolutely terrified of kidnapping apparently.
Overall he hated it, divorced her and came home😂
But Tom Petty came from Florida!? So it can't possibly be that bad.
As an Aussie, the fear of "deadly heat and wildlife" made me lol hard 😂
Tax breaks
"You don't know what it is like living in North America in the winter!" I'm Canadian. Living in central Canada. Where -40 temps are not abnormal. He also went on to inform me that -40F is "way colder" than -40C. Sadly, I'm related to this person.
I am Australian, and the most common questions I frequently get from Americans is why we don't celebrate Thanksgiving and/or the 4th of July. I am shocked every time I hear these questions. Also, I have met a lot of very intelligent Americans, but unfortunately the stupid outweighs them for entertainment. 🤣🤣
You picked some brilliant stories. Thank you.
So I went to high school for a while as an exchange student in rural Virginia. The first day, I got an explanation from the very nice lady at the school library what a computer was and how to use it. She also congratulated me on coming to the US to "experience our marvelous technology". I'm from Germany. I also got asked at a party if we people in Germany got phones. PHONES. Got another one: My wife lived and worked in Florida for a while and got asked if we got cars in Germany. She answered politely that of course we did and what car she was driving. The dumb f* proceeded to reply very proudly that she drove a BMW. I wonder where she thought those came from.
An American couple asked a person working at an Infopoint if the Castle which they are loockin at was built for turists like them.
I would have sade "yes it got built 500 years ago for turists like you"
That happened here in Germany
Theres this Simpsons bit about them visiting the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, and Bart refusing to believe, that its there, coz the story was written by Danish Author H.C. Andersen, and he keeps insisting, it was invented by Disney.
It actually happens regularly irl!
I was driving two Americans. The conversation:
'Dude, are we in France or Germany?'
'We're in Germany, dumb ass!'
We were actually in Luxembourg. I didn't bother correcting them.😅
I was asked by an American who worked for one of our US offices if we celebrated Christmas. And she was from Chicago which is not that far from Canada.
I used to answer lots of calls from Americans who were calling the UK. The number of times they'd ask me if I knew the Queen was unbelievable. They also asked if it was foggy where I was - London🤣I'm fond of Americans.
This is about Hockey between Edmonton oilers and Florida Panthers. We were sitting next to a bunch of people from Florida and one person asked me where are we from, my response was were from Edmonton. he said where is that? I'm like shit we play against your team dummy. nice looking guy with good job. omg!!!How come he doesn't know? i was shocked. we are from the Philippines living in canada. Province of Alberta, Town of EDMONTON...God Bless!! Mike and Jess. we love watching you. Keep it up.
Sorry, I remembered another one (there were so many during my two weeks' travelling solo in the US).
I was repeatedly asked if we have Christmas in Australia. After the first couple of times I replied that no, we have Satanmas being in the Southern Hemisphere and all.
My husband lived in the States back in the 70s, his then mother in law said " Do you have electricity in England?".
Here in Edinburgh lots of Americans come over for festivals, for sightseeing of the historic castles ect, so I have a few stories. During summer I was standing at a crossing and when the lights turn green to cross here there is a beeping sound, 2 American women in their probably late teens, early twenties came up to me and asked why there was beeping, I responded that it was for the blind (so they know when to cross). One girl responded with an outraged "THEY LET BLIND PEOPLE DRIVE HERE", maybe they were drunk since our drinking laws are lower but wtf. Arguably worse was when over hearing an American group talking about what they were going to do and see in the city and one stated, not as a joke, that it was so strange that they built a castle in the middle of a city... as if the castle didn't come first 😰
I had an American tourist group come up to me and ask where the language border was between the French and the Dutch speakers. Those were the more educated Americans because they were aware that some of us speak Flemish Dutch and others in the south speak French. Most Americans can't find Belgium on a map. Our taalgrens litterally translated in English means language border but it also means barrier or crossing. They expected to see a kind of border crossing with armed guards and fences in the hart of Europe because they picked up the somewhat true rumour there were political tensions between the 2 regions and that we were at the brink of a civil war or something. I told them it wasn't like that at all that you can cross the barrier without even knowing it. they reacted so surprised it was hilarious. They also asked me "are you an etnical Flemish"? I told them I'm just a native Belgian so are my parents and 4 grandparents. It is not about etnical groups you are not in the Balkans it is about language and to a certain level difference in culture more Germanic vs more Latino/Roman but a blend of the two in both cases.
Sometimes those, who do know a little, are almost more frightening than those, who know absolutely nothing. I was once asked by an American, where Im from, and I answered Denmark, not expecting much. Apparently he had heard the name b4, coz he said, "oh yeah, thats the capital of Stockholm, right?", and he looked so proud of himself.
Everything to do with health in GB is paid out of tax. Doctors, Hospitals, Ambulances, Operations etc.
No, not everything. You can go private for many - though not all - healthcare services and lots of people do. Also, much medical R&D is privately funded whether in the UK or abroad, so the knowledge gained isn’t all paid out of tax either.
I do appreciate the general point you’re making though that healthcare in the UK isn’t ‘free’. As someone from the UK, it continues to surprise and disappoint me how many people here think it is.
@@drzander3378 The correct term is "free at the point of use". Which many ppl tend to forget.
Funniest one I ever heard was while standing in line at a Waffle place here in Belgium, there was this American tourist infront of me that straight up asked "I'd like a Belgian Waffle" The guy behind the counter ever so politely replied : "Sir, you are in Belgium... every waffle you see here is by definition 'a Belgian Waffle' so you'll have to be more specific" He said it with such resignation I'm sure it wasn't the first time he had to point that out. I and other locals couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Sometimes I come to this channel not just for the content but to hear Jess laugh it's so infectious and brightens my day. I'm not American but on an island off Northern Europe in the Atlantic, that's a little quiz there!
Fun facts to you guys and most Americans, US citizens, Luxemburg is a small country in Europe but it has the second highest per capita GDP of any country of the world .
It's around 140,000 USD ,so it's small but very wealthy!
I was in the States and talking to a woman who told me that she was in London the previous year. I live in London so i asked "what part, where did you stay?". And she said "i don't know, downtown London". I said nothing. I decided not to explain that there is no such place.
Someone reminding me to vote in 2016 when i’m clearly french canadian. I mean, can’t you read my accent? 😂😂
"read your accent".?
I got asked what we wore in Wales - I just said “the same as you, but more wet weather gear” and then “Is Wales in London”
An American couple asked me why there were no fireworks for the 4th July. The answer - we were in Morocco. The women stubbornly refused to accept that the entire world did not celebrate 4th July.
Lol.... Funniest was the missionary who had been sent to England who appeared to think we needed saving.