Things are standardised in the US. They're simply standardised to be different from every other country on Earth...as is zee rather than zed, modified imperial rather than metric, and regarding beer and wine as more dangerous to teenagers than assault rifles.
US customary units are not modified from Imperial system. They both originate from the old English Units which was a collection of non-standardized units. It is a bit like evolution, humans and chimps have common ancestor but humans did not evolve from chimps.
@@squidcaps4308As such, it has been against the law to sell things by the US gallon in Canada since 1st January 1826, even though the US gallon was only "invented" in 1832. The creation of Imperial resulted in English wine merchants standardising on 75 cl wine bottles to make unit conversion maths easier (nice round number of bottles in an English wine cask) and as a result everyone in the world (including Americans) that buys a half case (6 bottles) of wine are technically buying an Imperial gallon of wine. Ironically, that means you can buy wine in America by the old English wine gallon (AKA US gallon) if you buy "wine in a box", or you can buy it in Imperial gallons if you buy it in bottles.
The 'tech curve' thing is probably related to banking, which is also related to the 'Chip and PIN' question. Our bank cards have chips in them which mean we don't have to sign a receipt, and we use a PIN (personal identification number) to authorise it.
It is also in things we don't even think about: every traffic light here is smart, they have radars, have independent control logic that is networked. In USA they are by far mostly just dumb timed lights. Then there is everything to do with bureaucracy where in Europe things are automatized and databases are connected to make your life easier, whereas in USA... you have a lot more things you have to do to get things done, procure documents from one department, deliver those papers by hand to another department, fill out forms... Like taxes, none of us in Europe do our own taxes, the system does it for us. US is not a high tech society when compared to the Nordic or the Baltics. It is not low tech society either, specially consumer tech is at fairly high tech level but then everything else... kind of isn't.
@@squidcaps4308 Don't agree with the traffic lights. In the NW they are timed [even though they have sensors on the road] as going to work/shops at 06:00, the main road is at red [with lots of traffic] and the side roads are green [with no traffic] for ages.
@@ingabritta3547 You mean checks (in American). Yes, they still do. I'm in the UK I've haven't written a cheque in over 20 years but I still have a chequebook somewhere. I have accepted cheques from buyers on ebay, including a PayPal cheque, and the Premium Bonds will still pay in cheques. If only there were a bank near enough to me to pay them into.
The only country that pronounces the letter z as zee is america. To the rest of the English speaking world its zed. One of the advantages will be when american pop stars die,the headline could be jay z is dead and it’ll rhyme 😂
Wait, in the US you don't use chip and pin? I understand not having contactless payments, but what could be more simple than just entering your pin? I just checked Google and it says most places in the US make you sign a piece of paper... Which sounds like something from the 70s 😂
Hate to tell you, Google is wrong. My bank card has a chip in it and I don't even live in a high economic area. In fact, I haven't seen carbon paper credit card swipers since the 80s. Some places still ask you to sign the receipt for your purchase, but most places around where I live don't even do that, and you damn near have to fight the cashier to get a receipt at all.
Another thing: if the US considers itself so advanced then why do you still use cheques (checks to you)? They went out of use in the rest of the world more than 10 years ago!
I suspect that most of the "rest of the world" never had much exposure to checks, certainly not for individual use (rather than corporate). Likewise, the concept of credit card may be still unknown, or distinctly undesirable.
@@jmi5969 don't be silly! We all used cheques until the banks discontinued them in favour of cheque debit cards. Its just the US that has lagged behind
In Ireland we just "tap" to pay for things in shops that are under €50. We put the card in & enter our number for over that. No signing. Why do Americans (who love to shorten words or even names to initials) call a fridge a refrigerator? It's a much longer word than fridge. Why do you call milk cream? They are 2 different things.
@@jonntischnabel Yes indeed, what other part of a horse would someone ride on! Me: 'I went horseriding at the weekend' . You: 'Nice, did you go horsehead riding or horseleg riding?' Me: 'Neither, I went horseback riding - I know it's not as common, but it's a lot easier than the other sorts.' You: 'Yes, it is. Don't see many people doing it that way nowadays, though. I think it looks more elegant than horsehead or horseleg riding, and the horses seem to prefer it too. I wonder why?'
Because they're yanks. They can't think outside the box and are very literal. I'm so grateful for it - if they didn't specify they were "eyeglasses" I wouldn't know where to put them.... I was going to put them on my ass cheeks to see if it worked there... I'm joking of course. @@jonntischnabel
They also call that weird artificial white powder 'coffee creamer', but I'm sure it never even came within hearing distance of a moooooooooo ... it had a brief popularity here in England for a time. I don't think words relating to milk could be used for it by law, so its label used to read 'non-dairy whitener' IIRC. It made it sound like something you'd paint on the walls to brighten up your house!
Fridge and refrigerator are used interchangeably. We have a variety of milk (2%, whole, 1%, chocolate, strawberry) and that doesn't include the plant based milks. We also have creamers for coffee, whipping cream, heavy whipping cream, and there are probably more that I can't think of off the top of my head.
1:38 - Ryan, I'm gonna be brutally honest here, and I hope you don't take what I'm about to say the wrong way, but not a lot of people are interested in America 😅 Most of the world genuinely looks at America like they look at an animal in the zoo. These reaction channels work well exactly because of that. It's interesting to see the evolution of your (Americans) reactions the more you learn about the rest of the world. It's like watching someone who was lied to most of their life come to a (not so) sudden realization that the country they were told everyone wanted to go to isn't all what you're told it is to the rest of the planet 😂
Yeah. I'm not really interested in the UK either, although I used to be. It changed when I found out how they look down on Americans. I'm an older American and have seen and done a lot. I've come to realize it's okay to no longer have the desire to go to the UK or anywhere else outside of this country, really.
I have no desire to standardise our spelling. Americans can spell things how they like - it’s good to have differences. What I reeaaally object to, is when autocorrect changes my correct (for the UK)spelling for American spelling, and when I change it back, it tells me I’m wrong!!! I’m not bloody wrong and we also have several generations of British kids growing up thinking that American spelling is the correct spelling. Not ok
@@helgaioannidis9365 that must be a complete pain for you - as if English isn’t confusing and difficult to learn anyway (being pretty illogical). I can see your point, but which version would be the standard?
@@helgaioannidis9365 that must be a complete pain for you - as if English isn’t confusing and difficult to learn anyway (being pretty illogical). I can see your point, but which version would be the standard?
@@geemo4284 it is. It's difficult to remember which spelling and vocabulary is British English and which is American English. In fact you'll find lots of Europeans mixing them up. I really don't care which one, it would just make things easier if the world would pick one. Any 😂
@@helgaioannidis9365 , the main thing is that both nations will know exactly what you’re talking about, whichever way you spell it, so you don’t need to worry at all, but it must have been a pain at school!
I hear this reason from many Americans on TH-cam about the toilet doors, “so people know someone’s inside”. We simply lock the door and on the outside a slider connected to the lock moves to either red/engaged or green/vacant. No peeping needed. It doesn’t take a genius to develop.
They are American.... their solution to any problem is the ONLY solution and everyone else does it wrong apparently. I couldn't imagine anything more embarrassing than being in a public toilet in trap 2, when some middle aged man walks in and peers at me taking a dump through the gap...
You will still get the idiot rattling the door even though it is clearly occupied. I still prefer that to someone being able to see me at my most productive.
There is also a safety factor. If you have a medical issue and the door is locked, someone can slip under the door and both see to you and unlock the door. It is better than propelling over the top or breaking down the door.
In England, the original home of the English language, the last letter of the Alphabet is called Zed.. That’s also why the police TV series was called Zed cars.
Hahaha that just makes me chuckle thinking ZZ Top wouldn't have the same ring to it 😂 American band from 70's zed zed top 😂😂😂😂😂 I don't know why but I had to 😝
That is for sure one of the dumbest things in American English. The alphabet is literally made* to distinguish between different letters and they call two letters the same way. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ *among other purposes That being said, in Poland they sometimes say letters the wrong way which is actually worse. 😅😅
I understand that Americans know that Europe is not a country. However Americans act if it is a country by constantly comparing the US to Europe. Americans also speak about Europeans. This while nobody feels himself a European. It is like calling a Mexican an American because they live in the continent "North-America". I would never say that I am going to America if I would go to Mexico or Canada. Also, if Americans tell where they are from in an international group, then often they say something like "I am from Dallas, Texas". Just tell us the country, which is the US. If I would respond with "I am from Oirschot, Brabant" then they have absolutely no clue, which is logical.
Travel a bit in China or India, you will see Europeans regrouping together in same areas. There is well an european identity. That's how Europe was able to culturally born outside our true continent Eurasia : our europeanness compared to the rest of people. That's a huge greek success.
USA is politically like European Union in the sense of being a federation of "states" (a synonym for country) each with it's own political structure and each able to leave the federation. Though last time states tried to leave it caused a war. USA is in practicality is more of an economic block of states like Europe and the old USSR.
@@johnpublicprofile6261 First sentence I guess you mean EU not Europe!? USSR "an economic bloc"? Are you kidding? They were kept inside with barb wire and weapons pointing at them and Russia had the worlds largest intelligence service employing around 18 % of the population to keep the rest under their tyranny!
@@johnpublicprofile6261 *like the EU* That's an important distinction to make! I partly agree with you, but there's too many things missing from the current EU in comparison to the USA. The EU has no federal military (closest we have is battlegroups and FrontEx[Border patrol]), a lot of different languages (apart from English) spoken in the official institutions and no mandatory (in practice) adoption of a common currency for member states...
Americans claim to be the most technologically advanced, yet they still use "Swipe and sign" not "Chip & Pin" which has been used in the UK and many other European countries for many many years. Even contactless has been around since 2013/2014 from what I recall in the UK and chip and pin came WAYYYY before that. To my knowledge contactless payments in the USA is pretty much unheard of and doesn't really seem to exist. And NO - he isn't referring to chips JUST on credit cards. Every major bank card (whether credit or debit card) has had Chips for many many years, and even has Contactless which was the next technological advancement since around 2013/2014. America is WAYYYY behind Europe when it comes to banking. I got my first debit card aged 15, that was in 2010. Even that card had a chip in it and it was designed for youngsters and was the most basic bank account you could get. That's what he meant. Every American I have met somehow thinks the American banking system is better than it is in the UK, many other countries, including Kenya, have a far superior banking system to the ones used in the USA. Swipe and sign isn't any safer.... does any US cashier actually check your signature and compare it to the one on the card (if there's even a signature on the card)?
The US system works by being in debt to the bank, rather than spending the money you actually have in real time (digital money transactions in Europe are usually instant). Same with buying things with a high upfront cost, instead of saving up until you have enough money you see a lot of loan/debt systems in the US.
The British design believe it or not isn't even new... it's been around since the 1940's. Meanwhile American plug sockets today are still shocking babies and toddlers on a regular basis, and are more dangerous today than a British plug socket was 30 or even 40 years ago.
Every time i can see Ryan’s face from the beginning looking forward excitement till disappointed helpless face at the end, i felt bad for him, he is trying so hard😢 such a kind person, don’t be too hard on yourself, you can’t justify all of them. In fact, i enjoyed your videos, i find that i can understand more about Americans. Keep it up!
I have much, much more time for him than for his brother Tyler, who lives in his own monetised bubble, ignoring everyone who tries to talk to him, and repeating the same errors over and over.
'Chip and pin' might refer to using a debit/credit card with a chip which just has to be laid on to a reader for a moment and then using the pin to finish paying. That's how a lot of people in Europe do it, because it's fast and easy.
@@wncjan With a regular bankcard (not a credit card) ? You sure about that and if so, how wide spread is it across the USA? On a side note, can you still use cheques ? In the EU you won't see anyone taking out their cheques book and writing you a cheque, nor would you the last few decades.
@@PDVism I have used my debitcard/bankcard in places like Walmart and other large supermarkets. And no. I'm from Denmark and it haven't been common to use cheques since the 90's and in 2017 it was made so diificult that it was abandoned all together
It’s true that US banking has been behind the curve when it comes to technology (where the US is usually ahead). But the British and most other European countries has been way behind the Nordic’s and the Baltic states in this same field. Banking is so easy in Sweden because of digital ID’s has been broadly implemented for more than 20 years now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID
@@wncjan Whoa, abandoned in 2017. I'm 58. I haven't ever had a cheque book because it just wasn't a thing that one needed or was in any way more convinient or needed. Paying electronically however has been a thing for 2 decades in my country and the last few years more and more are even without the need of swiping the card.
3:15 In fact, your bread is so sweet that in countries like Germany, it would legally be categorized as cake. There are rules about ingredients and quality for food that also include what can be sold as what - for instance, if there is no _real_ chocolate (cocoa, cocoa butter, milk, sugar) but a cheap substitute (for instance palm fat, a bit cocoa, milk powder, sugar), it _may not be sold_ as chocolate. So the limits for sugar in bread would prohibit selling what you call _bread_ as such.
In the UK, even Cadbury's Dairy Milk cannot be classified as "chocolate" as it only contains 20% cocoa. They're not allowed to put "chocolate" on the wrapper. Only their Wispa & Twirl can be called chocolate because of their cocoa content.
@@StopBanningMaStuff There is a reason for calling it zed. It's the letters name. Just like as how you english speakers call W as "double you" instead of "double we" and Y as "why" and not "epsilon". This is just how people named it, and since the british english is the original english, the british way should be the right way.
@@tovarishchfeixiao"W" was once written by the English as a "UU" - hence called "double U" - (it still is in cursive handwriting). The conversion to "VV" in print came later but the name remained unchanged.
Hi Ryan, Your biscuits are similar to scones and gravy is made by the baked on bits from the meat. My Mum would drain the excess oil and liquid from the pan and sprinkle flour over the pan then add stock to thicken the gravy. This was how gravy was made before packet gravy.
Here in Italy public toilets are free unless you are in an overcrowded touristic area like the station of Venice or whatever. Trust me, they had to add that small fee to use them cause the amount of tourists in those areas meant they were always out of order or something was broken and repairing those stuff all the times costs quite a lot. The fee ensures that only when necessary people use the restroom and they help avoiding infinite queues also so if someone really needs them they can go and the restroom is a way better kept place
You are way behind the tech curve in financial services and banking. Every time you have to interface with US banking you have to think back a generation or two in technical terms. And not just for credit cards, accounting systems, payment transactions etc....
And most of America still uses Cheques! I remember when I was a young lad in school, mid 2000's to say 2012/2013, the school would send letters out offering school trips to Paris, Los Angeles etc. They would offer a means of payment as "cheque" made payable to the school. Even back then, 15-20 years ago my parents regularly commented on this and said "Nobody uses cheques any more" "it's so old fashioned".
@@thefiestaguy8831 I don't know where non-Americans got this notion. I hardly ever use checks (cheques). I get paid by electronic direct deposit. I pay for most things with cash or with electronic funds transfer (debit). We also have services like Square and Pay Pal to take payments. All of my bills are on automatic payment. I don't mail anything in.
Drinking anything out of plastic disposable cups not only tastes awful, and downgrades the potentially nice drink , but is also really bad for the environment. Im pretty sure if you drank from a nice wine glass, or cut glass tumbler just ONCE , you'd never use those stupid red cups again! 😂 If i went to a party in the uk and the host handed me one of those, I'd probably throw it in their face and walk out. 😂
Maybe our parties are wilder than yours - red cups tend to be used by college kids who you certainly would never hand a "nice wine glass" to. Not if you wanted it back in one piece. Plus red cups are great for Beer Pong. Not to mention having to wash all those glasses after a party with 20 or 30 of your closest friends.
Wow. How nice of you. You actually can wash those cups, although most don't. If you had a party with 40 or 50 people, would you seriously want to wash all the dishes, and would you even have enough "nice wine glasses" to go around? Red Solo cups are iconic here. They also remind me of our beloved Toby Keith too. Don't like the cups, just don't come to any parties here. Like never.
Yeah we do wash those dishes. For sure. Why wouldn't you? Plus ai agree 100% with the original point. Plastic is disgusting. And how about drinking out of the bottle?
@@quintofeu6195 well you go right ahead then. I have some nice wine glasses, but just four. Shocked? Life is too short to spend time doing menial chores. Have you ever drank out of a Solo cup? It's not gross. There is no plastic taste. But I suppose your much more refined, sophisticated tastes that us lowly Americans just don't have and could never understand would disagree.
We invented the English Language that's why it's called English from England over a couple of thousand years of history before 1492 the Caribbean Islands not the mainland
If it was in the country now called England as the Anglo-Saxon people lived there and the language was used there not in the county now called Germany made up from several independent Germanic state's in the 1870s for the Second empire the first empire was the Holy Roman empire reminded the first Georgian King was the Elector of The State of Hanover marred to an English princess
I think it's funny, that in the video she thinks, that the h sound disappeared at one point "what happened to the h? Where did it go?" In reality it was the other way round. It was pronounced like that in Britain as well (I guess because of french) and then later the British started pronouncing the h and the Americans continued pronouncing it the"original". way.
@@irishillinger2476 Absolutely correct, and yes it is originally a French loan. Even words like "hospital" and "host" were originally pronounced without initial /h/ in English and this remained common at least throughout the 17th century in England.
We pronounce the H because we aren't French, and like many French words in the English language, it's been anglicised. Americans use the anglicised pronunciations for most French loan words.
One thing studying history would teach you is that England is older than the U.S. So, the English language also predates the U.S. English pronunciation is correct, American is an error if it differs from English.
American English was deliberately altered, to be different. It was about politics and differentiating the Republic. It should simply be regarded as another language - American - as that what it is designed the be. The issue comes, when Americans think they _own_ English - a language used around the world (the British Empire was once a quarter of the planet).
@@wessexdruid7598 Yeah, if Serbian and Croatian can be two different languages (tho similar enough to be considered 2 dialects of one languages) then american "english" should be it's own thing too at this point.
Regarding the tech curve "question" I think it's more in implementing technological solutions into everyday life. America has a lot of innovative companies that invent technologies, but implementing those innovations in a practical way is the next step. I think that's what the question is... I live in Denmark, which is the most digitalized country in Europe. Ordinary citizens here don't have a lot of paperwork to fill out in everyday life, a lot of services are available online, driver's license and travel card for public transit is on an app through the phone. Taxes are automatically done and you should (but don't have to) check to see if everything is in order (it almost always is for me).
Same in the UK, unless someone is self-employed or in a limited company (contractor), our taxes are done automatically. I've often heard US Americans say they have to complete their tax returns, and I'm sure that is for a normal permanent job. They are years behind what most of us think of as normal. Same with other services.
@@debbee0867 Yep, I've seen videos from other American content creators who have explained some of the pains of taxes as an American, because if they go work abroad they still have to fill out their taxes...
@debbee0867 American tac filing companies have lobbied(read bribed) American politicians to prevent automatic filing(because then they'd lose money). They're also the reason most people pay for filing too, they're technically supposed to offer free filing, but deliberately make it complicated to free file or don't show the price until the end forcing people to enter their details all over again or just pay the fee. California at one point trialed automatic filing, sending a bunch of people pre-completed paperwork and all they had to do was indicate if there were and problems and mail it back, but that got made illegal(yes, it's illegal for states to precalculate taxes and let people know what the government thinks they owe).
@@scragar that sounds horrible, I feel for you guys, also the Californian one sounds like it was semi-automatic filing. In the UK, we don't receive any paperwork to fill out, it is all encompassed in our pay slip, nothing more apart from a P60 which they send each year for your proof of tax paid. Our tax is worked out by tax codes, so depending on our salary (and any benefits received), an employee will fit into one of the tax bands. All tax deductions are made and shown on our pay slips. I've had occasions when I've overpaid tax, which they automatically send you the details and a cheque. It's been a while, but I like getting those 😆 It is mainly when you've just started a new job and they have put you on an emergency tax code until they have sorted out your actual code.
you only notice the tech curve when you go to America from elsewhere. For example, it's surprising how much you have to send things on paper, electronic signature is not really thing in the USA and how much you rely on checks. the technology feels 5-10 years old. For example, i can join the emergency care line via my phone and tell my problem on chat/call and wait my turn at home.
When my cousin moved there from England, he asked if he could set up a back transfer/standing order for his rent, and they had no idea what he was on about. He had to write a cheque out (or check 🙄) and drop it off to the landlord 😂😂
Why do Americans refer to European and Europeans because nobody identifies as such. We live in separate countries and have separate nationalities and cultures.
well residents of US don't seem to know what continents are. They call themselves Americans as if they are the only country on the continent. Canadians, Mexicans and all the rest of Latin America are Americans as well.
There are also other European "countries of countries". Some examples: - The Kingdom of Denmark comprises Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. - The Kingdom of the Netherlands comprises the countries of the Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten. - Depending on how you look at it, the Commonwealth might count because they all share the same monarch. - And if not, in addition to England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, the main constituent countries of the UK, there are also its Crown Dependencies Jersey, Guernsey and Man. They're countries in their own right, but the UK is legally responsible for defending and representing these countries. - Basque Country is part of Spain. Basically everyone _calls_ it a country but no one really treats it like one the way they do e.g. Greenland and Scotland. More accurately it's an _autonomous community,_ of which there are 17 in Spain, despite it being a unitary state. Depending on how strict you want to be with your definitions, it might just be the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Denmark that have constituent countries, or there could be even more than I listed. It all depends how much autonomy a territory needs to be considered a "country" in your opinion. (Though in that case the US is not exempt either, see Puerto Rico and Guam for instance)
"Chip and Pin" refers to the chip on a debit/credit card and the pin you enter when you buy stuff. The UK had chip and pin decades before the USA and it's completely ubiquitous over here now. I'm 27 and the only time I've ever swiped a card to purchase something was in the USA and it was quite recently. I was honestly shocked it actually worked.
Even Canada says zed not zee, you are alone.. Gravy = Stock cube + jucies from the meat you're roasting + water from the green vegetables you've been cooking + thicker (cornflour or Gravy granules) yummy. We've had chip n pin for 20+ years but everything is now contactless Every time anyone cooks anything in the US they add sugar, why? I've seen them add it to bread and even the batter for fish n chips? I recently watched some moron adding sugar and artificial flavours to his morning Bottled water!! I know we sometimes use fruit squash but that is at least made from fruit. Paid for public toilets are at least clean as the money pays wages. 🇬🇧
We usually add sugar to everything because our taste buds apparently are dead. I never even noticed… but to us it tastes good. I love quesadillas with sugar in it. Also for the water question at least to me water tastes gross so we add flavor to it…. Though I know so many people who hardly drink water at all so….
In most English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom, we call the letter Z "Zed" as this reflects its derivation from the Greek letter zeta (this dates to Latin, which borrowed Y and Z from Greek).
@@thierryf67 Probably, given that 30% of English vocabulary derives from French. 😊At any rate the French most certainly got it from Latin which got it from Greek.
Tyler did a Zed thing once, and was shocked to find out the vast majority of English speaking counties say Zed, and America is mostly in the minority to say Zee.
That is funny in Germany there is a cake dough „Biskuit-Teig“ it is fluffy backed without fat - used for fancy cakes or rolled with flavored creams. So in my imagination it sounded like cake with meat stock at first 😂.
@@meretofabydos3645 Biskuit and Zwieback mean the same thing in German -- baked twice -- but some 400 years ago the dough for biscuits was enhanced and finally evolved to the batter we know today -- also in other countries.
@@McGhinch Definitely this is not the case. It exsists a form of cookie „Löffelbiskuit“, also it’s often used for bakery or dessert ( most famous Tiramisu), sweet and baked once. Both have the same name origin, but are different things. The term biscuit is mostly associated in Germany with the biskuit dough.
@@meretofabydos3645 I wrote "both mean the same in German: cooked/baked twice." I'm sorry, but that is the linguistic fact. I also wrote that there was an evolution from dough to batter in the last 400 years and this also evolved that the base is no more baked twice. I do know what a Löffelbiskuit is. I bake them myself instead of buying. By the way: That what you name dough is a batter. But your comment has a positive influence on the algorithm.
Another major gripe I have is this: Why are most Americans so physically demonstrative when it comes to expressing affection - especially with those who are mere acquaintances? True story: When I was nine years old, two American women showed up at our house armed with geneological reports, claiming to be my mum's ''American family''. The first effing thing they did was hug my mum. She answered the door to these two complete strangers. One of the women asked if Mum was (insert mum's maiden name) , then fired off names of other relatives, before announcing ''we're (insert names) your American family''. Then hugged the life out of her. After showing all their records and reports and giving us the blow by blow account of some man who moved to America in the early 1800s, that none of us had ever heard of, they told us, misty eyed, how much they loved us. How we were family. And hugged us frequently. We were all uncomfortable as hell. They kept in touch, over the years, but we never quite got used to the hugs and ''I love you's''. And we never really looked on them as family. They were merely ''the Yanks''.
It's not gravy if it's not based on the non-fat part of the meat juice. You're entirely correct. Edit: you cook your meat, skim the most fat and make a sauce out of the rest... there you go, gravy.
Meat juices are delicious. I have just used some crusty bread to collect all the remaining juices from the bottom of the pan of a roasted beef joint. put a little horseradish on it. A blissful snack.
We did used to have to pay for toilets in the UK by putting a penny in a slot to open the cubical door, hence the term "Spending a Penny" to go to the toilet whether a public or private toilet. Our toilets have "Vacant" or "Engaged" on the front of the door catch as described in US Portaloo's to avoid having gaps in the doors, and in emergencies the doors can be opened with a special key held by an attendant. Much more civilised than in the US.
''Off to spend a penny'' was a polite euphemism we used when we needed the loo, growing up. The American toilet cubicles are insane; you can see right in. I spent my summer holidays in Massachusetts with relatives as a teenager and could not wait to come back home. I wouldn't live over there if you paid me to.
My parents still use this saying today, born in the late 50's and early 60's. Where I am (South East London) it's more common to see a red colour if occupied and a green colour if vacant, rather than the words "Engaged" or "Vacant" on the slider.
The hint to pronouncing English words correctly comes from the name of the language, its the language of the English so use the correct pronunciation they use it’s their language you’re using
They don't get it. Even though English isn't their official language, and even though they've changed many letters, words and pronunciations. They still think it's their language 😂 Even the name "English" doesn't seem to compute.
I started typing but got bored during, so here is the AI answer: The two-party system in the United States has deep historical roots, shaped by various factors over time. Let’s explore some key reasons: Historical Origins: The Founding Fathers did not explicitly design a two-party system, but it emerged naturally. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson led the formation of the first political parties: the Federalists (Hamilton) and the Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson). Winner-Takes-All Elections: The first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system, used in most U.S. elections, favors larger parties. In each district, the candidate with the most votes wins the seat, leading to a binary competition. Duverger’s Law: Sociologist Maurice Duverger observed that FPTP tends to produce a two-party equilibrium. Smaller parties face a disincentive to compete because they often fail to win seats. Historical Dominance: The Democratic Party and the Republican Party have dominated U.S. politics for over a century. Their longevity and institutionalization reinforce the two-party system. Media and Public Perception: Media coverage tends to focus on the major parties, reinforcing their prominence. Voters often perceive third parties as ineffective or spoilers. Campaign Finance and Resources: Major parties have established fundraising networks and access to resources. Third parties struggle to match their financial clout. Social Identity and Ideology: U.S. politics aligns with broad ideological camps: liberal vs. conservative. Parties consolidate support around these identities. In summary, a combination of historical legacy, electoral rules, and societal factors has entrenched the two-party system in American politics.
The electoral college is necessary because it affords representation for sparsely populated states and areas. Urban and coastal areas do not have the same concerns as rural and inland areas, as a rule. The electoral college takes this into consideration.
And why do Americans have to queue for so long while voting. I know it has a larger population but there are more people to work at the ballot station. It might be that I've been lucky to go at quieter times of the day but I don't think I've ever spent more than 20 minutes from the time I arrive to the time I leave in England and Ireland.
"I don't know what gravy is. We make it out of a packet" O Lordylord, that makes me question yet again all the bad food choices that may come from the USA. Gravy is a sauce made from meat, bones, onions, maybe some other vegetables, etc. You roast it all, put some tomatopuree, salt, pepper, red wine and water on it, let it simmer for while (called reducing), then you pass it through a sieve and thicken it if necessary. That was the most basic version, of course. Yes, definitely more work than whipping it up from a package. But so much better!
The last time I paid by having an impression of my credit card taken the old way (i.e. mechanically using a multi-part form, with carbon paper), not electronically, was in the USA in 2008 or 2009. I can't remember the previous time, because transactions in the UK have been electronic for decades.
Here's a question I have for Americans: I keep hearing on TH-cam how Americans daren't take all their annual leave entitlement from work. Do they take their full salary?
@@Harrison944 britain has boring national food, not weird food? Like bangers and mash is not weird, it's boring as hell but it's also a very hearty food and that's why it's popular, most popular British food is popular becuase it's the food of the workers, besides brits eat food from all over the planet, why wouldn't they? Yes, as there were at least 4 different languages used to name stuff. Mapmen have a good vid on the different naming styles and why they're named that way, usually it's just a local landmark in whatever language the rulers at the time of the locations foundation spoke which is how most places on earth got their names. That is literally discrimination and stereotyping, everywhere has bad people and the British arent uniquely more inclined to be a bad person than anyone else. The brits are one of the most charitable people on the planet, they are the 5th highest donators to charity on the planet (according to the CAF). That is a child's argument, wdym they talk weird? Is having regional accents new to you? British architecture is actually quite good, the best is some of the best on the planet, the worst is still better than many other countries worst. Depends on your definition of "good" and with every definition most other countries will have a similar amount of "good" places, frankly I know of some very nice quaint villages and towns where you can enjoy nature and relax in the peacefulness while maintaining all the modern luxuries and of course there are the high end resorts and tourist cities as well.
1 the guy near the end said "jus" which is a fancy word for sauce, sort of. I think you heard something similar which is a body fluid No, "JUS". 2 Also, if you're singing, the movie you saw is Oliver! which is a musical based on Oliver Twist, not one of several other movies called Oliver Twist.
I love to watch your videos so much because these "questions" do not apply to you. You are the living proof that not all Americans are ignorant. Thank you, Ryan, for showing the world that at the end of the day, our stereotypes about Americans are just that: stereotypes.
Yeah, the musical Oliver! wasn’t the original Oliver Twist film, the first one was in 1909, Oliver! was in 1968…with many in between and since, with one of the most respected and loved adaptations being the 1948 David Lean version which starred Alec Guinness. It placed number 46 in the 1999 British Film Institute’s List of the Top 100 British Films and was also in the BFI’s list of 50 films you should see by the age of 14. The story itself of course was written by Charles Dickens and released as a monthly serial between April 1836 and November 1837 as The Adventures of Oliver Twist.
As a retired train driver (European), I can say that you are mostly using big trucks for transport (instead of railroad), hence you have to have wide roads (for big trucks). Which system is better is doubtful, since we cannot only use rail, we also have to use trucks for door to door transport. Only we use smaller trucks, but we have to reload from rail to trucks. So, we can have narrower roads, but we have to have very developed rail network. On the other hand, you have to have all the roads wide (since your big trucks can go to any door), but you don't have to have so developed rail network (you mostly transport cargo on long distances, like from LA to Chicago), and you don't have to transfer goods from trains to trucks for door to door transport, since cargo is already on trucks, :) .
If you care anything about the environment trains for the long hauls and then unload the trailer for the last short bit is the way to go. But that's one of the things I'd ask, why do muricans hate the environment so much that they even attack people using bikes.
@@helgaioannidis9365 ... outdated now, but the USA used to use Chip and Signature cards, this was largely phased out in 2016/2017 finally ... much later than the rest of the world
@@davidioanhedges I had to look that up, because I had never heard of it. I guess those chip and signature cards weren't a thing here in Europe, because I'm nearly 50 and can't recall anything like them. Or is my brain just erasing the past?
the english person schooling the Usa person on how to speak english...good one...lol after all, english is a foreign language that came to 'merica and so is spanish ..this comment is for all the you in 'merica. who think the english language is a usa thing and everyone should speak it cause y'all do. And ya' it is zed in Canada, too
American cell phone plans are a right con too. In the UK you can literally buy a sim only plan with UNLIMITED data, unlimited texts and unlimited calls for around £12-£15 a month. That's less than $20. And the whole idea of CDMA phones seems utterly stupid - the phone doesn't have a sim, the number and the plan is simply attached to the phone. So what if your phone breaks, and you go to use a spare phone.... but want to transfer your number to that phone so people can still reach you? Good luck with that! In the UK you'd just take the SIM card out of said broken phone, and put it in the spare phone, voila, problem solved! Your "Spare phone" now has the mobile number your "Broken phone" had.
I pay £59 a month for iPhone 15 pro max 512GB, 12GB data and ultd texts and calls, I don't use a lot of data so 12GB is plenty. Meanwhile in yankland they probably pay close to $50 a month just for the "airtime" (the sim plan) let alone the device cost.@@llamagirl2679
We should be celebrating our differences and understand that every country has different cultures and understandings. One is no better or worse than the other. It just is
I have absolutly talked with Americans that think Europe is a country. And refused to belive me then I tried to correct them. And some of them have also said that USA is not a country… with is even more weird… 😅 Its refreshing to hear that not everyone thinks that.
Well there are plenty of Americans that think they are a republic not a democracy when in fact they are a democratic republic. They also have an amazing number of flat earthers.
It's a country but when the States United into a country, it didn't get given a name. Just United States. Had to add what continent they were on. Otherwise the world is full of states, some united, some not. It's like if Canada had no name, it would be the United Provinces of North America. Wouldn't want people to be looking at South America for it. 😊
One gets used to used to sugar. I practically stopped using refined sugar decades ago and now things like fried onions and fruit is very sweet. I don't dislike sweet, but this is sweet with a depth of flavour to it, not just simply added sweetness masking that depth. Sweet is an infantile taste, people are supposed to grow out of it mostly.
My favorite biscuits and gravy moment was in some cooking show where one of the chefs had the same confusion and thought they meant brisket and grave and proceeded to cook that.
Actualy gravy in the UK and gravy in the US aren't the same thing. "Chip" are on nearly every debit/credit card since at least mid 90s in France/Europe. It's due to a funny effect call "good enought". You develloped debit/credit card first, with the signature thing. When the came to Europe later, the technology was moving to the "chip" card and was immediatly adopted as the card were still new enough to feel natural progression. In the USA people were used to signing, it has beed there longer and, for americans it was "good enough" to not bother with the "new" things. The change in security and flexibility made it "not good enough" so the USA joined the rest of the world on "chip" card 10/15 years later. TLDR because you were first/earlier, you changed it later than others.
10:34 he's talking about his earlier question regarding chip and Pin credit card payments. Where you stick your card in the reader and tap your pin in. Of course, things have moved on and we're more likely to be using contactless these days.
Whenever an American claims that "herbs" has a silent 'h' because its a "French" word and that's how the French pronounce it, I wonder if "humor" and "harbor" have a silent 'h'.
Solo is a soda brand, with a red logo and red cap. For some, who knows why, reason I just always imagined that the solo cup was made for solo soda, in my head it just made sense, until I remembered that Solo soda is a Norwegian brand, and just geographically would never be in contact with the American red solo cup. Yes, I now know the “So high quality, so low price” thing.
@@gonebytrain Lemon flavoured and lightly carbonated (or at least more lightly carbonated than most soft drinks). It is based on a lemon squash available as a non-alcoholic drink in our pubs and made from cordial and water.
Yeah, you really should know by now :) I must say you are one of the very few americans I would like to meet in person. Im a Slovakian, who lived in UK for 15 years, now I live in the Netherlands, so I like your videos and the fact you are not one of those (so common) arrogant people coming from the US who know it all and behave like absolute pr.... You should visit either the UK or the NL, or even better - both. Maybe youd like to move then afterall ? Keep doing what you doing, you are genuine
Gravy is brown and it’s made from the bits of meat stuck to the bottom of the roasting pan. Don’t waste all that delicious flavour! A little bit of stock is added and some flour to thicken it, and all that flavour is saved and poured over your roast meat. Look on TH-cam for how to make gravy in UK. It’s made the same way here in Australia. Gravy: th-cam.com/video/0X8qcMsxWSA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ahzio8qK3D9PIUzL
Cream gravy in the US isn't brown, although yes, we have brown gravy too. Cream gravy is white and is what is served with biscuits and gravy, chicken fried steak, a Texas staple, and chicken strips.
As Eddie Izzard once said, "you say 'erbs and we say herbs, because there's a fucking H in it". I'm sorry to break it to you but pronouncing herbs in that way can never be described as fancy. I would btw recommend watching some Eddie Izzard's stand up, particulary the two showsd recorded in America, he does a whole section of the show in LA in French - I'm assuming not one memeber of the audience understands a single word - and he still has them rolling about with laughter.
Le singe était censé être sur la branche en même temps que les deux autres animaux dans leurs rôles respectifs, afin de démarrer une conversation avec des passants à Paris et/ou le président du Burundi, mais le singe est parti dans un autobus qui ne peut pas ralentir, aux côtés de Sandra Bullock, dans le film qui aurait dû s'appeler «La Vitesse» !
Actually hotel is pronounced 'otel by educated English speakers. Dullards in the UK pronounce the letter aitch (h) as haitch. I'd hazard a guess that you're on of those.😊
Sorry but sane people in the UK most DEFINITELY not want John Oliver back. That blonde bint is in the minority. As for Madonna I don't think she's culturally significant anywhere...
The word is Latin and the 'h' isn't pronounced in either Latin, French, Spanish or Italian (the only one which also spells it with no 'h'). English's aspirated 'h' is the outlier here.
I guess, the gap in the toilet cubicle is so u can see, if someone collapsed inside because of drug abuse or other medical emergency. at least this is 1 of the reasons i heard some time ago
Why would you want to see if someone has a medical emergency anywhere in the US? You can't help without getting sued and you can't call an ambulance because they can't afford it.
Nope, that is post-hoc explanation. The way it works is that people see stupid design and then think "but there must be a reason for this" and invent a reason. The truth? SO YOU DO NOT SPEND TIME IN THE BATHROOM ON THE COMPANY TIME!! That is the real reason, to make it unpleasant for you so you don't waste any time. Post-hoc explanations are very common when the real reason is to make it worse for you, you don't even think that anyone would be such an asshole to design a system that makes it worse to use... so, "it must be for emergency, it is making me more safe".
Well, English is a blend of a Western Germanic language and influenced by Scandinavian countries, French, Celts etc... we've been invaded once or twice...... 😜 Actually French was the official language in England for 400 years! About a thousand years ago. Lots of our words are French in origin. 😘
@@stephenlee5929 my parents are Cockneys....my Mum always pronounced the H extra hard when trying to sound more refined! 🤣 It was a family joke with us. She'd say HAITCH instead of aitch. 😂 But regardless of dialect/location, the H is dropped nationwide because of French.
It’s spelt the same in both French and English. The H is silent in French, so it’s correct to pronounce it without the H when speaking French. However, if you’re speaking English and drop the H it just sounds weird and pretentious.
This one is easy: because the longer the campain, the more fundraising you can have and the less laws/policy you can vote (and, therefor, be attack) on. More money less work, less critic, what to not love about it? (If you're a politician)
Gravy: you take fat from baked meat, put it in frying pan and flour until all fat absorbed by flour, fry a little to cook flour, then add water ( water from vegetables is best to add flavour) and then pour it over your food: simple home made gravy!🤗
The big cars also has a dif problem than big roads, I work as an architect in Norway and in most of EU the standard parking spot is 2,5m wide but tesla cars are often 2,3m wide, this leaves about 10cm/4inches on each side of the car.. which brings a bunch of problems in parking structures, especially in apartment building where you have assigned parking spots because two telsas cant be parked next to each other. If we make the spots bigger we wont have enough space for the amount of parking spots required in the space put aside for the project.
Zee as you say it is incorrect. It comes from the Greek Zeta (e pronounced as in Bet), then into French as Zeda (e again as in Bet), and finally into English as Zed. Remember, over 90% of people going to the US in 18th and 19th century were illiterate. So when they did start to write many of the words were written down phonetically (as they sound).Then instead of correcting it in schools, the authorities chose to ignore it, and instead call it American English. How the hell can you have American English?, thats like saying Australian English, Canadian English, Indian English. It's English. A language over 1500 years old, so RESPECT it.
In Europe we have a secret way to know if a toilet is in use or not. We call it a "lock", if someone enters the toilet, they close the lock so if you want to check if it's free you try to open it and if it doesn't work it means it's in use. Sometimes there's even a sign that goes red whenever the door is locked and green when it's not. So no need to see the feet.
I don't know if our plugs and sockets are better but I do know they don't fall out on their own. It is weird you guys are one of the only ones that use 110v. Half of our stuff wouldn't even work.
Ryan , how are we supposed to take your country seriously when you elect someone like Trump as President and are threatening to do so again despite his term in office being an unmitigated disaster.
GRAVY.. is a savoury sauce traditionally served with roast meats and vegetables. Discover how to make a rich, flavourful gravy at home. A thickened sauce made from the juices that ooze from meat and/or vegetables as they cook. Most commonly served with roast meats and vegetables
tech curve I think is about shitty internet. also public transportation. in Lithuania trains and buses have free wifi. and payment. we don't even understand what the f is "writing a check". I don't remember the last time I payed with anything but my pixel phone. also taxes are mostly digital and automatic. I have to press one button on my social security web page to get a return on my taxes.
There was a weird cut in one of the questions. The guy first asked "why don't you use chip and pin?" And then after the cut he continued, "I thought you'd be more ahead of the tech curve". Definitely see why that bit was confusing. I believe he was talking about chip and pin bank cards, which is the standard way people pay for things in other parts of the world. If I understand correctly, the US still uses older payment technology, e.g. cash, cheques, or credit cards with handwritten signatures.
I guess it's better than everything being disgusting because people that don't have the coins go elsewhere. Free toilet doesn't mean they aren't cared for, just means they're convenient to use because if you have to go, you have to go and no one should be locked out of such a service.
The UK wall outlet sockets (and plugs) are perhaps the most crazy overengineered in the world... On the other hand US sockets (and plugs) are the straight opposite. Contacts can be reached by a butter knife while still connected... I prefer the German Schuko, over the other accepted foreign sockets from France, here in "smiley face socket" Denmark.
UK socket and plugs are not over engineered. They are made to specific circumstances, which is post-WWII scarcity. First, the chassis of the plug: it is large and simple because until the 80s manufacturers were not allowed to wire the plug. Customer needed to do that, so they had to be designed to be simple to assemble. Second, the fuses in the plugs are not there to add more safety, they are there to make ring mains circuits just about safe to use. UK used ring mains which means there is one thick cable snaking thru the whole building. It makes fuseboxes easy, you may only have one mains fuse that is rated at the maximum current you can take from the grid, for 32A. But this means there is 32A in your bathroom, living room... every room... and no fuses. 32A will gladly burn your house down and not see it as a fault. A clockradio getting 32A is not a good idea, thus there has to be a fuse.. and the cheapest way to do it was to put one in the plug. This is far from optimal, the entire world uses star pattern power distribution where each room has its own wiring, and most importantly: its own fuse. There is one fuse to rule them all, instead of one fuse per device.. that the user didn't switch out to a nail... The one fuse is the right type to do the job and we also don't have to cut the wire many times to install something in between: that is a failure point, or actually two failure points. The barrel fuse is HORRIBLE but, it was the only way to do it at the time. Switch in the sockets... are there ONLY to make pre-WWII electric equipment to work as they often did not have on/off switches at all. Along with ring mains.. you want something that cuts power: the current running in the walls can easily weld the plug in the socket. So.. it is not over-engineered, it just has a lot of functions that had to fit in one socket&plug... it is NOT the best in the world, it is far from the safest in the world.. It is ok, it is thousand times better than US plus which scares me to death. They are incredibly unsafe, so UK plug at least when it has those plastic bits on the pins, is far safer.. But it is not over engineered to give you MORE safety, it is engineered barely to be safe but also to be cheap AND have those features i mentioned for reasons that are not safety but cost cutting in post-WWII copper scarcity as Britain was rebuilt.. I've had to use all three and Schuko is far the best. I have on trouble reaching out to a back of a rack in pitch black with wet hands and use Schuko. I will absolutely refuse to do that with US plug, and hesitate with UK plug too. Not having recessed sockets is the main thing there.
@@squidcaps4308 I'll give you that you know the history of the socket/plug way better than I. It is still overengineered considering more modern installations. But perhaps it was not, back when it was introduced. And in that sense, perhaps the euro sockets were too casual, yet a tad safer than the US plugs, that are still in use today. Thanks for your input, I learnt a few things about why today. I'm still a fan of how Schuko does it though.
@@BenjaminVestergaard How is it not practical? For travel chargers they come with pins that fold inside, so they’re only marginally bigger than other styles of plug, but the pins are protected. The ones in your home/office/etc can be kept plugged in because you can also switch the plug socket off at the wall. 🙂
There are some of these videos that have Americans replying and it makes the whole video hilarious. I've seen Brits try biscuits and gravy when they come to the US and I have yet to see anyone who hasn't liked them a lot, if not loved them. It's one of those things you just need to try. TFS. Loved this.
@@juliaperry2812A lot of these videos (and comments) are just very simplified insults, making the people saying them look pretty bad. Similar to finding stupid people on streets, fairly sure they're either staged, or they do a lot of legwork to find a few idiods that will be good for clickbaits.
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There has been some debate in Germany about whether "American bread" is really bread or whether it is a cake because of the added sugar
It's more a cake than bread , real bread isn't proccesed to crap and then tons of sugar additives added to it !
It would be considered cake in most countries in Europe because of all the sugar in it
In Ireland, Subway's bread is legally classed as cake due to the sugar content.
@@hannahk1306 I heared the Subway thing before. Not sure if i heared it from Ireland or if Germany had the same thing
Real bread should not be baking bread like its from breaking bad
Things are standardised in the US. They're simply standardised to be different from every other country on Earth...as is zee rather than zed, modified imperial rather than metric, and regarding beer and wine as more dangerous to teenagers than assault rifles.
US customary units are not modified from Imperial system. They both originate from the old English Units which was a collection of non-standardized units. It is a bit like evolution, humans and chimps have common ancestor but humans did not evolve from chimps.
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@@squidcaps4308As such, it has been against the law to sell things by the US gallon in Canada since 1st January 1826, even though the US gallon was only "invented" in 1832.
The creation of Imperial resulted in English wine merchants standardising on 75 cl wine bottles to make unit conversion maths easier (nice round number of bottles in an English wine cask) and as a result everyone in the world (including Americans) that buys a half case (6 bottles) of wine are technically buying an Imperial gallon of wine.
Ironically, that means you can buy wine in America by the old English wine gallon (AKA US gallon) if you buy "wine in a box", or you can buy it in Imperial gallons if you buy it in bottles.
@@squidcaps4308 but your imperial fluid measures differ completely from the UK, your gallon is smaller but your fluid ounce is larger
Lol! 😂
The 'tech curve' thing is probably related to banking, which is also related to the 'Chip and PIN' question. Our bank cards have chips in them which mean we don't have to sign a receipt, and we use a PIN (personal identification number) to authorise it.
It is also in things we don't even think about: every traffic light here is smart, they have radars, have independent control logic that is networked. In USA they are by far mostly just dumb timed lights. Then there is everything to do with bureaucracy where in Europe things are automatized and databases are connected to make your life easier, whereas in USA... you have a lot more things you have to do to get things done, procure documents from one department, deliver those papers by hand to another department, fill out forms... Like taxes, none of us in Europe do our own taxes, the system does it for us.
US is not a high tech society when compared to the Nordic or the Baltics. It is not low tech society either, specially consumer tech is at fairly high tech level but then everything else... kind of isn't.
To be fair, contactless payments have mostly made the magstripe vs. chip question irrelevant
@@squidcaps4308 Don't agree with the traffic lights. In the NW they are timed [even though they have sensors on the road] as going to work/shops at 06:00, the main road is at red [with lots of traffic] and the side roads are green [with no traffic] for ages.
Is it true Americans still use cheques?
@@ingabritta3547 You mean checks (in American). Yes, they still do. I'm in the UK I've haven't written a cheque in over 20 years but I still have a chequebook somewhere.
I have accepted cheques from buyers on ebay, including a PayPal cheque, and the Premium Bonds will still pay in cheques. If only there were a bank near enough to me to pay them into.
The only country that pronounces the letter z as zee is america. To the rest of the English speaking world its zed. One of the advantages will be when american pop stars die,the headline could be jay z is dead and it’ll rhyme 😂
This is not even just limited to the English-speaking world...
this is BS, tipical British BS
Not only english but all germanic languages say zed/zett
@@denzelpanther240 Polish the same. It's zet in the alphabet.
Another advantage is over the phone sed sounds very different from Bee and Dee and Pea.
Wait, in the US you don't use chip and pin? I understand not having contactless payments, but what could be more simple than just entering your pin? I just checked Google and it says most places in the US make you sign a piece of paper... Which sounds like something from the 70s 😂
What a waste of trees.. Shame on America. It's supposed to be a first world country is it not?
Yes they still have that "slidey" thing with the paper that goes over your card😂
Hate to tell you, Google is wrong. My bank card has a chip in it and I don't even live in a high economic area. In fact, I haven't seen carbon paper credit card swipers since the 80s. Some places still ask you to sign the receipt for your purchase, but most places around where I live don't even do that, and you damn near have to fight the cashier to get a receipt at all.
Even better when you learn that checks (cheques) are still a thing over there.
I still us chip and pin because I have disabled my contact less - which in Australia is called pay-wave.
Another thing: if the US considers itself so advanced then why do you still use cheques (checks to you)? They went out of use in the rest of the world more than 10 years ago!
And transferring money from one person's bank account to another person's.
and still using carbon paper copies of credit card purchases. about 10 years behind, the rest of the English speaking world Z is pronounced ZED
I think checks went out here in the 80s or early 90s. May be even before for all I know. Never seen one before.
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I suspect that most of the "rest of the world" never had much exposure to checks, certainly not for individual use (rather than corporate). Likewise, the concept of credit card may be still unknown, or distinctly undesirable.
@@jmi5969 don't be silly! We all used cheques until the banks discontinued them in favour of cheque debit cards. Its just the US that has lagged behind
In Ireland we just "tap" to pay for things in shops that are under €50. We put the card in & enter our number for over that. No signing. Why do Americans (who love to shorten words or even names to initials) call a fridge a refrigerator? It's a much longer word than fridge. Why do you call milk cream? They are 2 different things.
And a straight is a "straightaway" , glasses are "eye glasses" and horse riding is "horseback riding" 😂
@@jonntischnabel Yes indeed, what other part of a horse would someone ride on!
Me: 'I went horseriding at the weekend' .
You: 'Nice, did you go horsehead riding or horseleg riding?'
Me: 'Neither, I went horseback riding - I know it's not as common, but it's a lot easier than the other sorts.'
You: 'Yes, it is. Don't see many people doing it that way nowadays, though. I think it looks more elegant than horsehead or horseleg riding, and the horses seem to prefer it too. I wonder why?'
Because they're yanks.
They can't think outside the box and are very literal.
I'm so grateful for it - if they didn't specify they were "eyeglasses" I wouldn't know where to put them.... I was going to put them on my ass cheeks to see if it worked there...
I'm joking of course. @@jonntischnabel
They also call that weird artificial white powder 'coffee creamer', but I'm sure it never even came within hearing distance of a moooooooooo ... it had a brief popularity here in England for a time. I don't think words relating to milk could be used for it by law, so its label used to read 'non-dairy whitener' IIRC. It made it sound like something you'd paint on the walls to brighten up your house!
Fridge and refrigerator are used interchangeably. We have a variety of milk (2%, whole, 1%, chocolate, strawberry) and that doesn't include the plant based milks. We also have creamers for coffee, whipping cream, heavy whipping cream, and there are probably more that I can't think of off the top of my head.
1:38 - Ryan, I'm gonna be brutally honest here, and I hope you don't take what I'm about to say the wrong way, but not a lot of people are interested in America 😅
Most of the world genuinely looks at America like they look at an animal in the zoo. These reaction channels work well exactly because of that. It's interesting to see the evolution of your (Americans) reactions the more you learn about the rest of the world. It's like watching someone who was lied to most of their life come to a (not so) sudden realization that the country they were told everyone wanted to go to isn't all what you're told it is to the rest of the planet 😂
"Like they look at an Animal in the zoo".
America IS an animal in the zoo.
So backwards in many ways.
Yeah. I'm not really interested in the UK either, although I used to be. It changed when I found out how they look down on Americans. I'm an older American and have seen and done a lot. I've come to realize it's okay to no longer have the desire to go to the UK or anywhere else outside of this country, really.
@@cookielady7662I feel sad for you...narrowing down,on your own oppotunities...
@@cookielady7662Americans banging on about being the greatest country in the world is not looking down on other countries .
@@keithkearns93 deluded.
I have no desire to standardise our spelling. Americans can spell things how they like - it’s good to have differences. What I reeaaally object to, is when autocorrect changes my correct (for the UK)spelling for American spelling, and when I change it back, it tells me I’m wrong!!! I’m not bloody wrong and we also have several generations of British kids growing up thinking that American spelling is the correct spelling. Not ok
As a non native speaker, I'd have loved a standardised spelling, because we have to learn both ways at school when we learn English 😭
@@helgaioannidis9365 that must be a complete pain for you - as if English isn’t confusing and difficult to learn anyway (being pretty illogical). I can see your point, but which version would be the standard?
@@helgaioannidis9365 that must be a complete pain for you - as if English isn’t confusing and difficult to learn anyway (being pretty illogical). I can see your point, but which version would be the standard?
@@geemo4284 it is. It's difficult to remember which spelling and vocabulary is British English and which is American English. In fact you'll find lots of Europeans mixing them up.
I really don't care which one, it would just make things easier if the world would pick one. Any 😂
@@helgaioannidis9365 , the main thing is that both nations will know exactly what you’re talking about, whichever way you spell it, so you don’t need to worry at all, but it must have been a pain at school!
I hear this reason from many Americans on TH-cam about the toilet doors, “so people know someone’s inside”. We simply lock the door and on the outside a slider connected to the lock moves to either red/engaged or green/vacant. No peeping needed. It doesn’t take a genius to develop.
They are American.... their solution to any problem is the ONLY solution and everyone else does it wrong apparently.
I couldn't imagine anything more embarrassing than being in a public toilet in trap 2, when some middle aged man walks in and peers at me taking a dump through the gap...
But... they're behind on the tech curve 😂
You will still get the idiot rattling the door even though it is clearly occupied. I still prefer that to someone being able to see me at my most productive.
There is also a safety factor. If you have a medical issue and the door is locked, someone can slip under the door and both see to you and unlock the door. It is better than propelling over the top or breaking down the door.
@@Devnet94 European toilet you can open from the outside using a coin, so there’s no need to break it down or climb over.
In England, the original home of the English language, the last letter of the Alphabet is called Zed.. That’s also why the police TV series was called Zed cars.
Hahaha that just makes me chuckle thinking ZZ Top wouldn't have the same ring to it 😂 American band from 70's zed zed top 😂😂😂😂😂 I don't know why but I had to 😝
Narrow-minded attitude.
@@bencodykirk The name of the letter before Noah Webster created his own dictionary and destroyed the etymology pf English words in American English.
@@Jeni10 So. What.
That is for sure one of the dumbest things in American English. The alphabet is literally made* to distinguish between different letters and they call two letters the same way. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
*among other purposes
That being said, in Poland they sometimes say letters the wrong way which is actually worse. 😅😅
We say herb because there is an h in it. Dropping the h is not fancy. It's common.
Dropping the h makes it sound more French.
Yet we say (H)aitch for the letter, even though it begins with an A
Eddie Izzard had a joke about that in his special "Definite Article"
The original word in Latin (it means grass, like it does in French) also doesn't sound the 'h'. Which is why the French/Italian doesn't.
@@gaileth8761Except that the French don't pronounce the "s" on the end. And l'herbe means the grass (as in lawn or whatever) in French.
I understand that Americans know that Europe is not a country. However Americans act if it is a country by constantly comparing the US to Europe. Americans also speak about Europeans. This while nobody feels himself a European. It is like calling a Mexican an American because they live in the continent "North-America". I would never say that I am going to America if I would go to Mexico or Canada. Also, if Americans tell where they are from in an international group, then often they say something like "I am from Dallas, Texas". Just tell us the country, which is the US. If I would respond with "I am from Oirschot, Brabant" then they have absolutely no clue, which is logical.
Possibly the worst thing you could do in front of any european is to say that this european country is the same as that european country.
Travel a bit in China or India, you will see Europeans regrouping together in same areas. There is well an european identity. That's how Europe was able to culturally born outside our true continent Eurasia : our europeanness compared to the rest of people. That's a huge greek success.
USA is politically like European Union in the sense of being a federation of "states" (a synonym for country) each with it's own political structure and each able to leave the federation. Though last time states tried to leave it caused a war. USA is in practicality is more of an economic block of states like Europe and the old USSR.
@@johnpublicprofile6261 First sentence I guess you mean EU not Europe!? USSR "an economic bloc"? Are you kidding? They were kept inside with barb wire and weapons pointing at them and Russia had the worlds largest intelligence service employing around 18 % of the population to keep the rest under their tyranny!
@@johnpublicprofile6261 *like the EU* That's an important distinction to make!
I partly agree with you, but there's too many things missing from the current EU in comparison to the USA. The EU has no federal military (closest we have is battlegroups and FrontEx[Border patrol]), a lot of different languages (apart from English) spoken in the official institutions and no mandatory (in practice) adoption of a common currency for member states...
Americans claim to be the most technologically advanced, yet they still use "Swipe and sign" not "Chip & Pin" which has been used in the UK and many other European countries for many many years. Even contactless has been around since 2013/2014 from what I recall in the UK and chip and pin came WAYYYY before that. To my knowledge contactless payments in the USA is pretty much unheard of and doesn't really seem to exist.
And NO - he isn't referring to chips JUST on credit cards. Every major bank card (whether credit or debit card) has had Chips for many many years, and even has Contactless which was the next technological advancement since around 2013/2014. America is WAYYYY behind Europe when it comes to banking. I got my first debit card aged 15, that was in 2010. Even that card had a chip in it and it was designed for youngsters and was the most basic bank account you could get.
That's what he meant. Every American I have met somehow thinks the American banking system is better than it is in the UK, many other countries, including Kenya, have a far superior banking system to the ones used in the USA.
Swipe and sign isn't any safer.... does any US cashier actually check your signature and compare it to the one on the card (if there's even a signature on the card)?
The US system works by being in debt to the bank, rather than spending the money you actually have in real time (digital money transactions in Europe are usually instant). Same with buying things with a high upfront cost, instead of saving up until you have enough money you see a lot of loan/debt systems in the US.
There are videos on plugs you could check out to see how your electric plugs are so dangerous.
The British design believe it or not isn't even new... it's been around since the 1940's.
Meanwhile American plug sockets today are still shocking babies and toddlers on a regular basis, and are more dangerous today than a British plug socket was 30 or even 40 years ago.
Every time i can see Ryan’s face from the beginning looking forward excitement till disappointed helpless face at the end, i felt bad for him, he is trying so hard😢 such a kind person, don’t be too hard on yourself, you can’t justify all of them. In fact, i enjoyed your videos, i find that i can understand more about Americans. Keep it up!
I have much, much more time for him than for his brother Tyler, who lives in his own monetised bubble, ignoring everyone who tries to talk to him, and repeating the same errors over and over.
'Chip and pin' might refer to using a debit/credit card with a chip which just has to be laid on to a reader for a moment and then using the pin to finish paying. That's how a lot of people in Europe do it, because it's fast and easy.
Actually you can do the same many places in USA as well.
@@wncjan With a regular bankcard (not a credit card) ?
You sure about that and if so, how wide spread is it across the USA?
On a side note, can you still use cheques ? In the EU you won't see anyone taking out their cheques book and writing you a cheque, nor would you the last few decades.
@@PDVism I have used my debitcard/bankcard in places like Walmart and other large supermarkets. And no. I'm from Denmark and it haven't been common to use cheques since the 90's and in 2017 it was made so diificult that it was abandoned all together
It’s true that US banking has been behind the curve when it comes to technology (where the US is usually ahead). But the British and most other European countries has been way behind the Nordic’s and the Baltic states in this same field. Banking is so easy in Sweden because of digital ID’s has been broadly implemented for more than 20 years now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID
@@wncjan Whoa, abandoned in 2017.
I'm 58. I haven't ever had a cheque book because it just wasn't a thing that one needed or was in any way more convinient or needed.
Paying electronically however has been a thing for 2 decades in my country and the last few years more and more are even without the need of swiping the card.
3:15 In fact, your bread is so sweet that in countries like Germany, it would legally be categorized as cake. There are rules about ingredients and quality for food that also include what can be sold as what - for instance, if there is no _real_ chocolate (cocoa, cocoa butter, milk, sugar) but a cheap substitute (for instance palm fat, a bit cocoa, milk powder, sugar), it _may not be sold_ as chocolate. So the limits for sugar in bread would prohibit selling what you call _bread_ as such.
In the UK, even Cadbury's Dairy Milk cannot be classified as "chocolate" as it only contains 20% cocoa. They're not allowed to put "chocolate" on the wrapper. Only their Wispa & Twirl can be called chocolate because of their cocoa content.
@@Muswell This may have something to do with the American firm, Kraft, taking over Cadbury and buggering about with the ingredients.
7:47 Everywhere outside America (rest of the world) calls it Zed.
and its fucking stupid........its unnecessary to put ED at the end for literally no reason.
well I am Australia and how anyone says Z, I say woopie doo
@@StopBanningMaStuff There is a reason for calling it zed. It's the letters name. Just like as how you english speakers call W as "double you" instead of "double we" and Y as "why" and not "epsilon". This is just how people named it, and since the british english is the original english, the british way should be the right way.
@@tovarishchfeixiao"W" was once written by the English as a "UU" - hence called "double U" - (it still is in cursive handwriting). The conversion to "VV" in print came later but the name remained unchanged.
@@tonycook1624 In the past v and u was interchangable in every latin script. But the fact that you english people stayed with that name is just weird.
Hi Ryan, Your biscuits are similar to scones and gravy is made by the baked on bits from the meat. My Mum would drain the excess oil and liquid from the pan and sprinkle flour over the pan then add stock to thicken the gravy. This was how gravy was made before packet gravy.
That’s how gravy is still made in my house
@@susansmiles2242 Me too. No packet gravy can even come close to the taste.
Packet gravy is like packet cakes. Nooooooo!!!!
Here in Italy public toilets are free unless you are in an overcrowded touristic area like the station of Venice or whatever.
Trust me, they had to add that small fee to use them cause the amount of tourists in those areas meant they were always out of order or something was broken and repairing those stuff all the times costs quite a lot.
The fee ensures that only when necessary people use the restroom and they help avoiding infinite queues also so if someone really needs them they can go and the restroom is a way better kept place
You are way behind the tech curve in financial services and banking. Every time you have to interface with US banking you have to think back a generation or two in technical terms. And not just for credit cards, accounting systems, payment transactions etc....
And most of America still uses Cheques!
I remember when I was a young lad in school, mid 2000's to say 2012/2013, the school would send letters out offering school trips to Paris, Los Angeles etc. They would offer a means of payment as "cheque" made payable to the school.
Even back then, 15-20 years ago my parents regularly commented on this and said "Nobody uses cheques any more" "it's so old fashioned".
They are so far behind.
@@thefiestaguy8831 I don't know where non-Americans got this notion. I hardly ever use checks (cheques). I get paid by electronic direct deposit. I pay for most things with cash or with electronic funds transfer (debit). We also have services like Square and Pay Pal to take payments. All of my bills are on automatic payment. I don't mail anything in.
Um in Europe ,Germany , etc we also say zed or tsed not zee so it's not just the UK !
English is a Germanic language.
also zed in Canada
The US is the only country that says “zee”
Only the US uses zee the rest of the anglophone world uses zed ... Sorry Ryan, it's the US that's out of step.
Bless the Americans trying to be different
Drinking anything out of plastic disposable cups not only tastes awful, and downgrades the potentially nice drink , but is also really bad for the environment. Im pretty sure if you drank from a nice wine glass, or cut glass tumbler just ONCE , you'd never use those stupid red cups again! 😂 If i went to a party in the uk and the host handed me one of those, I'd probably throw it in their face and walk out. 😂
Ya'll wanna come to my slumberrr partyyyy? Said the yank.
Red plastic cups and cheap sparkly dresses everywhere.
Maybe our parties are wilder than yours - red cups tend to be used by college kids who you certainly would never hand a "nice wine glass" to. Not if you wanted it back in one piece. Plus red cups are great for Beer Pong. Not to mention having to wash all those glasses after a party with 20 or 30 of your closest friends.
Wow. How nice of you. You actually can wash those cups, although most don't. If you had a party with 40 or 50 people, would you seriously want to wash all the dishes, and would you even have enough "nice wine glasses" to go around? Red Solo cups are iconic here. They also remind me of our beloved Toby Keith too. Don't like the cups, just don't come to any parties here. Like never.
Yeah we do wash those dishes. For sure. Why wouldn't you? Plus ai agree 100% with the original point. Plastic is disgusting. And how about drinking out of the bottle?
@@quintofeu6195 well you go right ahead then. I have some nice wine glasses, but just four. Shocked? Life is too short to spend time doing menial chores. Have you ever drank out of a Solo cup? It's not gross. There is no plastic taste. But I suppose your much more refined, sophisticated tastes that us lowly Americans just don't have and could never understand would disagree.
We invented the English Language that's why it's called English from England over a couple of thousand years of history before 1492 the Caribbean Islands not the mainland
It was Germanic people’s that invented English. Not England
If it was in the country now called England as the Anglo-Saxon people lived there and the language was used there not in the county now called Germany made up from several independent Germanic state's in the 1870s for the Second empire the first empire was the Holy Roman empire reminded the first Georgian King was the Elector of The State of Hanover marred to an English princess
@@malsm8892Angles and Saxons were germanic tribes though.
the 'original' Oliver Twist is a book by Charles Dickens written around 1800....
And the (musical) film is called Oliver! (with an exclamation mark) anyway.
1838
@@whattiler5102.. first published when Dickens's started writing & drafting it ?
I don't quite follow your point @@razor1uk610
1800? Twelve years before Dickens was born.
The "h" in herbs is funny because a word in which we don't pronounce the h,: 'vehicle' , you guys really belt that h out! "Veeyhickle" 😂
I think it's funny, that in the video she thinks, that the h sound disappeared at one point "what happened to the h? Where did it go?"
In reality it was the other way round. It was pronounced like that in Britain as well (I guess because of french) and then later the British started pronouncing the h and the Americans continued pronouncing it the"original". way.
@@irishillinger2476 Absolutely correct, and yes it is originally a French loan. Even words like "hospital" and "host" were originally pronounced without initial /h/ in English and this remained common at least throughout the 17th century in England.
Herb with the h sound is a man's name. Herb without the h sound is the plant. It gives a context hint that is rarely needed.
We pronounce the H because we aren't French, and like many French words in the English language, it's been anglicised. Americans use the anglicised pronunciations for most French loan words.
French influence in the language?
One thing studying history would teach you is that England is older than the U.S. So, the English language also predates the U.S. English pronunciation is correct, American is an error if it differs from English.
Imagine an American telling you you don’t speak English properly when you’re born in England 😑
American English was deliberately altered, to be different. It was about politics and differentiating the Republic. It should simply be regarded as another language - American - as that what it is designed the be. The issue comes, when Americans think they _own_ English - a language used around the world (the British Empire was once a quarter of the planet).
@@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeartthey do. Often😂
@@wessexdruid7598 Yeah, if Serbian and Croatian can be two different languages (tho similar enough to be considered 2 dialects of one languages) then american "english" should be it's own thing too at this point.
@@tovarishchfeixiao The thing is, Americans wanted their own language - but insist on calling it English. Even Aussies have 'Strine'.
Regarding the tech curve "question" I think it's more in implementing technological solutions into everyday life. America has a lot of innovative companies that invent technologies, but implementing those innovations in a practical way is the next step. I think that's what the question is...
I live in Denmark, which is the most digitalized country in Europe. Ordinary citizens here don't have a lot of paperwork to fill out in everyday life, a lot of services are available online, driver's license and travel card for public transit is on an app through the phone. Taxes are automatically done and you should (but don't have to) check to see if everything is in order (it almost always is for me).
Same in the UK, unless someone is self-employed or in a limited company (contractor), our taxes are done automatically. I've often heard US Americans say they have to complete their tax returns, and I'm sure that is for a normal permanent job. They are years behind what most of us think of as normal. Same with other services.
@@debbee0867 Yep, I've seen videos from other American content creators who have explained some of the pains of taxes as an American, because if they go work abroad they still have to fill out their taxes...
@debbee0867
American tac filing companies have lobbied(read bribed) American politicians to prevent automatic filing(because then they'd lose money).
They're also the reason most people pay for filing too, they're technically supposed to offer free filing, but deliberately make it complicated to free file or don't show the price until the end forcing people to enter their details all over again or just pay the fee.
California at one point trialed automatic filing, sending a bunch of people pre-completed paperwork and all they had to do was indicate if there were and problems and mail it back, but that got made illegal(yes, it's illegal for states to precalculate taxes and let people know what the government thinks they owe).
@@scragar that sounds horrible, I feel for you guys, also the Californian one sounds like it was semi-automatic filing. In the UK, we don't receive any paperwork to fill out, it is all encompassed in our pay slip, nothing more apart from a P60 which they send each year for your proof of tax paid. Our tax is worked out by tax codes, so depending on our salary (and any benefits received), an employee will fit into one of the tax bands. All tax deductions are made and shown on our pay slips.
I've had occasions when I've overpaid tax, which they automatically send you the details and a cheque. It's been a while, but I like getting those 😆 It is mainly when you've just started a new job and they have put you on an emergency tax code until they have sorted out your actual code.
"I don´t know what it is, we make it from the packet" - must be one of the most american things I´ve ever heard from you :D
Your reaction to the scone comment made me chuckle! Why does the US value sororities and fraternities? They look hellish.
you only notice the tech curve when you go to America from elsewhere. For example, it's surprising how much you have to send things on paper, electronic signature is not really thing in the USA and how much you rely on checks. the technology feels 5-10 years old. For example, i can join the emergency care line via my phone and tell my problem on chat/call and wait my turn at home.
When my cousin moved there from England, he asked if he could set up a back transfer/standing order for his rent, and they had no idea what he was on about.
He had to write a cheque out (or check 🙄) and drop it off to the landlord 😂😂
Why do Americans refer to European and Europeans because nobody identifies as such. We live in separate countries and have separate nationalities and cultures.
well residents of US don't seem to know what continents are. They call themselves Americans as if they are the only country on the continent. Canadians, Mexicans and all the rest of Latin America are Americans as well.
Plus many don't even realise they're European themselves.
It's not just Europe. They do it to Africa,as well.
There are also other European "countries of countries". Some examples:
- The Kingdom of Denmark comprises Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
- The Kingdom of the Netherlands comprises the countries of the Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten.
- Depending on how you look at it, the Commonwealth might count because they all share the same monarch.
- And if not, in addition to England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, the main constituent countries of the UK, there are also its Crown Dependencies Jersey, Guernsey and Man. They're countries in their own right, but the UK is legally responsible for defending and representing these countries.
- Basque Country is part of Spain. Basically everyone _calls_ it a country but no one really treats it like one the way they do e.g. Greenland and Scotland. More accurately it's an _autonomous community,_ of which there are 17 in Spain, despite it being a unitary state.
Depending on how strict you want to be with your definitions, it might just be the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Denmark that have constituent countries, or there could be even more than I listed. It all depends how much autonomy a territory needs to be considered a "country" in your opinion. (Though in that case the US is not exempt either, see Puerto Rico and Guam for instance)
"Chip and Pin" refers to the chip on a debit/credit card and the pin you enter when you buy stuff. The UK had chip and pin decades before the USA and it's completely ubiquitous over here now. I'm 27 and the only time I've ever swiped a card to purchase something was in the USA and it was quite recently. I was honestly shocked it actually worked.
Even Canada says zed not zee, you are alone..
Gravy = Stock cube + jucies from the meat you're roasting + water from the green vegetables you've been cooking + thicker (cornflour or Gravy granules) yummy.
We've had chip n pin for 20+ years but everything is now contactless
Every time anyone cooks anything in the US they add sugar, why? I've seen them add it to bread and even the batter for fish n chips? I recently watched some moron adding sugar and artificial flavours to his morning Bottled water!! I know we sometimes use fruit squash but that is at least made from fruit.
Paid for public toilets are at least clean as the money pays wages. 🇬🇧
We usually add sugar to everything because our taste buds apparently are dead. I never even noticed… but to us it tastes good. I love quesadillas with sugar in it. Also for the water question at least to me water tastes gross so we add flavor to it…. Though I know so many people who hardly drink water at all so….
In most English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom, we call the letter Z "Zed" as this reflects its derivation from the Greek letter zeta (this dates to Latin, which borrowed Y and Z from Greek).
This is a proper comment: English speaking countries and not "rest of the world".
@@valije In french, too we call the letter Z "zède". or the english took it from us ? ;-)
@@thierryf67 Probably, given that 30% of English vocabulary derives from French. 😊At any rate the French most certainly got it from Latin which got it from Greek.
@@anta3612 The Germans pronounce it
tsed ,so like the zed in English speaking countries.
@@gregorygant4242 👍
Scones and jizz had me rolling. Ryans reaction made it even better.
By the looks of it, it seems a real description.
🤣🤣🤣
Scones and jizz is by far the best combination. Also it sounds like the name of a really shitty rock band.
Tyler did a Zed thing once, and was shocked to find out the vast majority of English speaking counties say Zed, and America is mostly in the minority to say Zee.
Americans think they invented the English language.
Hi Ryan, Why call something that is more like a scone a biscuit when biscuit means double baked, which makes it hard and crispy not soft and fluffy
It originally meant twice-baked for biscuits that needed to have a long storage life. Biscuits, as we know them generally, are not twice-baked.
That is funny in Germany there is a cake dough „Biskuit-Teig“ it is fluffy backed without fat - used for fancy cakes or rolled with flavored creams.
So in my imagination it sounded like cake with meat stock at first 😂.
@@meretofabydos3645 Biskuit and Zwieback mean the same thing in German -- baked twice -- but some 400 years ago the dough for biscuits was enhanced and finally evolved to the batter we know today -- also in other countries.
@@McGhinch Definitely this is not the case. It exsists a form of cookie „Löffelbiskuit“, also it’s often used for bakery or dessert ( most famous Tiramisu), sweet and baked once. Both have the same name origin, but are different things. The term biscuit is mostly associated in Germany with the biskuit dough.
@@meretofabydos3645 I wrote "both mean the same in German: cooked/baked twice." I'm sorry, but that is the linguistic fact. I also wrote that there was an evolution from dough to batter in the last 400 years and this also evolved that the base is no more baked twice. I do know what a Löffelbiskuit is. I bake them myself instead of buying.
By the way: That what you name dough is a batter.
But your comment has a positive influence on the algorithm.
Another major gripe I have is this: Why are most Americans so physically demonstrative when it comes to expressing affection - especially with those who are mere acquaintances?
True story: When I was nine years old, two American women showed up at our house armed with geneological reports, claiming to be my mum's ''American family''. The first effing thing they did was hug my mum. She answered the door to these two complete strangers. One of the women asked if Mum was (insert mum's maiden name) , then fired off names of other relatives, before announcing ''we're (insert names) your American family''. Then hugged the life out of her. After showing all their records and reports and giving us the blow by blow account of some man who moved to America in the early 1800s, that none of us had ever heard of, they told us, misty eyed, how much they loved us. How we were family. And hugged us frequently. We were all uncomfortable as hell.
They kept in touch, over the years, but we never quite got used to the hugs and ''I love you's''. And we never really looked on them as family. They were merely ''the Yanks''.
That would creep me the hell out. Some randoms turning up at your door claiming to be family and repeatedly hugging you.
@@thefiestaguy8831 As an American, this would make me uncomfortable. I am not a hugger in general but it is even worse if they are complete strangers.
I would think ALL gravy is made from the excess juice in meat. That's what gives it flavour. I don't understand what could be disgusting about that.
It's not gravy if it's not based on the non-fat part of the meat juice. You're entirely correct.
Edit: you cook your meat, skim the most fat and make a sauce out of the rest... there you go, gravy.
I once cooked stuffed lamb hearts for 5 people. The hearts were in a pack of 6, so I liquidised the spare one to make the gravy.
Hes american...
Meat juices are delicious. I have just used some crusty bread to collect all the remaining juices from the bottom of the pan of a roasted beef joint. put a little horseradish on it. A blissful snack.
@@BenjaminVestergaard Then later spread the set dripping (the fat you skimmed off) on crusty bread. Naughty but yummy.
We did used to have to pay for toilets in the UK by putting a penny in a slot to open the cubical door, hence the term "Spending a Penny" to go to the toilet whether a public or private toilet. Our toilets have "Vacant" or "Engaged" on the front of the door catch as described in US Portaloo's to avoid having gaps in the doors, and in emergencies the doors can be opened with a special key held by an attendant. Much more civilised than in the US.
''Off to spend a penny'' was a polite euphemism we used when we needed the loo, growing up.
The American toilet cubicles are insane; you can see right in. I spent my summer holidays in Massachusetts with relatives as a teenager and could not wait to come back home. I wouldn't live over there if you paid me to.
My parents still use this saying today, born in the late 50's and early 60's.
Where I am (South East London) it's more common to see a red colour if occupied and a green colour if vacant, rather than the words "Engaged" or "Vacant" on the slider.
There are a few toilets in the UK that you have to pay for.
The hint to pronouncing English words correctly comes from the name of the language, its the language of the English so use the correct pronunciation they use it’s their language you’re using
They don't get it.
Even though English isn't their official language, and even though they've changed many letters, words and pronunciations.
They still think it's their language 😂
Even the name "English" doesn't seem to compute.
Ok 1 question I have for Americans is: why do you have only 2 viable choices in your elections? Also: why is the electoral college a thing?
Pretty simple really, stops all elections being decided by just California and New York
I started typing but got bored during, so here is the AI answer:
The two-party system in the United States has deep historical roots, shaped by various factors over time. Let’s explore some key reasons:
Historical Origins:
The Founding Fathers did not explicitly design a two-party system, but it emerged naturally.
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson led the formation of the first political parties: the Federalists (Hamilton) and the Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson).
Winner-Takes-All Elections:
The first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system, used in most U.S. elections, favors larger parties.
In each district, the candidate with the most votes wins the seat, leading to a binary competition.
Duverger’s Law:
Sociologist Maurice Duverger observed that FPTP tends to produce a two-party equilibrium.
Smaller parties face a disincentive to compete because they often fail to win seats.
Historical Dominance:
The Democratic Party and the Republican Party have dominated U.S. politics for over a century.
Their longevity and institutionalization reinforce the two-party system.
Media and Public Perception:
Media coverage tends to focus on the major parties, reinforcing their prominence.
Voters often perceive third parties as ineffective or spoilers.
Campaign Finance and Resources:
Major parties have established fundraising networks and access to resources.
Third parties struggle to match their financial clout.
Social Identity and Ideology:
U.S. politics aligns with broad ideological camps: liberal vs. conservative.
Parties consolidate support around these identities.
In summary, a combination of historical legacy, electoral rules, and societal factors has entrenched the two-party system in American politics.
The electoral college is necessary because it affords representation for sparsely populated states and areas. Urban and coastal areas do not have the same concerns as rural and inland areas, as a rule. The electoral college takes this into consideration.
Viable 🤣
And why do Americans have to queue for so long while voting. I know it has a larger population but there are more people to work at the ballot station. It might be that I've been lucky to go at quieter times of the day but I don't think I've ever spent more than 20 minutes from the time I arrive to the time I leave in England and Ireland.
Public Toilets are generally free in the UK, club/pub/restaurant toilets are free for customers ...
Except in the places they aren't free like train stations and beaches
@@georgehelyarpublic toilets in stations in London have been free for a while now don’t know about the rest of the country
@@georgehelyar Network rail made all toilets in stations free. From 1st April 2019.
@@georgehelyar How many beaches have pay toilets???
"I don't know what gravy is. We make it out of a packet" O Lordylord, that makes me question yet again all the bad food choices that may come from the USA. Gravy is a sauce made from meat, bones, onions, maybe some other vegetables, etc. You roast it all, put some tomatopuree, salt, pepper, red wine and water on it, let it simmer for while (called reducing), then you pass it through a sieve and thicken it if necessary. That was the most basic version, of course. Yes, definitely more work than whipping it up from a package. But so much better!
Well said Doris, my heart fell for him not having tasted some real, thick, delicious gravy on a nice roast!
The last time I paid by having an impression of my credit card taken the old way (i.e. mechanically using a multi-part form, with carbon paper), not electronically, was in the USA in 2008 or 2009. I can't remember the previous time, because transactions in the UK have been electronic for decades.
Here's a question I have for Americans: I keep hearing on TH-cam how Americans daren't take all their annual leave entitlement from work. Do they take their full salary?
"The United kingdom is confusing. " said a resident of the United States (of America)
Apparently the country made of 4 countries is confusing but the country made of 50 country sized states isn't?
@@hardcorelace7565Britain has weird food, weird names for stuff, bad people, they talk weird, bad architecture, very few good places
@@Harrison944 britain has boring national food, not weird food? Like bangers and mash is not weird, it's boring as hell but it's also a very hearty food and that's why it's popular, most popular British food is popular becuase it's the food of the workers, besides brits eat food from all over the planet, why wouldn't they?
Yes, as there were at least 4 different languages used to name stuff. Mapmen have a good vid on the different naming styles and why they're named that way, usually it's just a local landmark in whatever language the rulers at the time of the locations foundation spoke which is how most places on earth got their names.
That is literally discrimination and stereotyping, everywhere has bad people and the British arent uniquely more inclined to be a bad person than anyone else. The brits are one of the most charitable people on the planet, they are the 5th highest donators to charity on the planet (according to the CAF).
That is a child's argument, wdym they talk weird? Is having regional accents new to you?
British architecture is actually quite good, the best is some of the best on the planet, the worst is still better than many other countries worst.
Depends on your definition of "good" and with every definition most other countries will have a similar amount of "good" places, frankly I know of some very nice quaint villages and towns where you can enjoy nature and relax in the peacefulness while maintaining all the modern luxuries and of course there are the high end resorts and tourist cities as well.
1 the guy near the end said "jus" which is a fancy word for sauce, sort of. I think you heard something similar which is a body fluid No, "JUS".
2 Also, if you're singing, the movie you saw is Oliver! which is a musical based on Oliver Twist, not one of several other movies called Oliver Twist.
"Oliver Twist, the only British movie we watch". A movie ??! Seriously ?
Well it is also a movie. Do you except them to read also
@@martingriff101😂😂😂
I thought that at least he was referring to the 1948 David Lean classic until he started singing....
Well we know he's lying as they all seem to try and talk like the chimney sweep from Mary Poppins too.
They would've hardly heard the accent in a book
I love to watch your videos so much because these "questions" do not apply to you. You are the living proof that not all Americans are ignorant. Thank you, Ryan, for showing the world that at the end of the day, our stereotypes about Americans are just that: stereotypes.
True, Ryan!
Yeah, the musical Oliver! wasn’t the original Oliver Twist film, the first one was in 1909, Oliver! was in 1968…with many in between and since, with one of the most respected and loved adaptations being the 1948 David Lean version which starred Alec Guinness. It placed number 46 in the 1999 British Film Institute’s List of the Top 100 British Films and was also in the BFI’s list of 50 films you should see by the age of 14. The story itself of course was written by Charles Dickens and released as a monthly serial between April 1836 and November 1837 as The Adventures of Oliver Twist.
As a retired train driver (European), I can say that you are mostly using big trucks for transport (instead of railroad), hence you have to have wide roads (for big trucks). Which system is better is doubtful, since we cannot only use rail, we also have to use trucks for door to door transport. Only we use smaller trucks, but we have to reload from rail to trucks. So, we can have narrower roads, but we have to have very developed rail network. On the other hand, you have to have all the roads wide (since your big trucks can go to any door), but you don't have to have so developed rail network (you mostly transport cargo on long distances, like from LA to Chicago), and you don't have to transfer goods from trains to trucks for door to door transport, since cargo is already on trucks, :) .
If you care anything about the environment trains for the long hauls and then unload the trailer for the last short bit is the way to go.
But that's one of the things I'd ask, why do muricans hate the environment so much that they even attack people using bikes.
Chip and Pin was late to the USA, and even with the Chip it was still normal to use it as a chip and signature card for a very long time after this ..
What do you mean with signature?
@@helgaioannidis9365 ... outdated now, but the USA used to use Chip and Signature cards, this was largely phased out in 2016/2017 finally ... much later than the rest of the world
@@davidioanhedges I had to look that up, because I had never heard of it. I guess those chip and signature cards weren't a thing here in Europe, because I'm nearly 50 and can't recall anything like them. Or is my brain just erasing the past?
Do they call the chips "fries"? 😁
The white "gravy" you put on "bixcuits" looks like someone has thrown up on it.
the english person schooling the Usa person on how to speak english...good one...lol after all, english is a foreign language that came to 'merica and so is spanish ..this comment is for all the you in 'merica. who think the english language is a usa thing and everyone should speak it cause y'all do.
And ya' it is zed in Canada, too
I think he is talking about your slow, and expensive Internet speeds. That's what I have heard Americans say anyway.
American cell phone plans are a right con too.
In the UK you can literally buy a sim only plan with UNLIMITED data, unlimited texts and unlimited calls for around £12-£15 a month. That's less than $20.
And the whole idea of CDMA phones seems utterly stupid - the phone doesn't have a sim, the number and the plan is simply attached to the phone.
So what if your phone breaks, and you go to use a spare phone.... but want to transfer your number to that phone so people can still reach you? Good luck with that!
In the UK you'd just take the SIM card out of said broken phone, and put it in the spare phone, voila, problem solved! Your "Spare phone" now has the mobile number your "Broken phone" had.
I am paying £5 per month for sim only unlimited calls and texts and a lot of data
I pay £59 a month for iPhone 15 pro max 512GB, 12GB data and ultd texts and calls, I don't use a lot of data so 12GB is plenty.
Meanwhile in yankland they probably pay close to $50 a month just for the "airtime" (the sim plan) let alone the device cost.@@llamagirl2679
We should be celebrating our differences and understand that every country has different cultures and understandings. One is no better or worse than the other. It just is
Speaking of celebrating. America has a date system of Month-Day-Year so why do they have a 4th of July and not July 4th?
I have absolutly talked with Americans that think Europe is a country. And refused to belive me then I tried to correct them. And some of them have also said that USA is not a country… with is even more weird… 😅 Its refreshing to hear that not everyone thinks that.
Well there are plenty of Americans that think they are a republic not a democracy when in fact they are a democratic republic. They also have an amazing number of flat earthers.
It's a country but when the States United into a country, it didn't get given a name. Just United States. Had to add what continent they were on. Otherwise the world is full of states, some united, some not.
It's like if Canada had no name, it would be the United Provinces of North America. Wouldn't want people to be looking at South America for it. 😊
Toilets in Britain are free too, in most places.
One gets used to used to sugar. I practically stopped using refined sugar decades ago and now things like fried onions and fruit is very sweet. I don't dislike sweet, but this is sweet with a depth of flavour to it, not just simply added sweetness masking that depth. Sweet is an infantile taste, people are supposed to grow out of it mostly.
lol gravy is thickened meat juice. very accurate description.
My favorite biscuits and gravy moment was in some cooking show where one of the chefs had the same confusion and thought they meant brisket and grave and proceeded to cook that.
Actualy gravy in the UK and gravy in the US aren't the same thing.
"Chip" are on nearly every debit/credit card since at least mid 90s in France/Europe. It's due to a funny effect call "good enought".
You develloped debit/credit card first, with the signature thing. When the came to Europe later, the technology was moving to the "chip" card and was immediatly adopted as the card were still new enough to feel natural progression. In the USA people were used to signing, it has beed there longer and, for americans it was "good enough" to not bother with the "new" things. The change in security and flexibility made it "not good enough" so the USA joined the rest of the world on "chip" card 10/15 years later.
TLDR because you were first/earlier, you changed it later than others.
7:42 I shouldn't worry about standardising spelling. No one can spell anything right these days.
I no rite? There so thikk now days.
God that was difficult to write! Just to make sure you understood that was a joke, and that I can spell! 😘
@@tamielizabethallaway2413 That could of not been easy to write!
@@nilgor70 Up there with interchanging they're/their/there.🙂
@@Patte-chan ‘have’
@@diannedavies386 Thanks, Captain Obvious.
10:34 he's talking about his earlier question regarding chip and Pin credit card payments. Where you stick your card in the reader and tap your pin in. Of course, things have moved on and we're more likely to be using contactless these days.
Whenever an American claims that "herbs" has a silent 'h' because its a "French" word and that's how the French pronounce it, I wonder if "humor" and "harbor" have a silent 'h'.
Hours?
Fillet.. filay? Nee bliksem.
On our debet cards we have a pincode and a chip we use to pay at a store or get cash at an ATM. We seldom use credit cards to pay at a store.
I have a very serious question: why the hell can't you make a normal sandwich and spread butter on the bread?
How so you hear the diference between the letters c and z?
"I guess it's the only movie we watch!" is a really good comeback!
Solo is a soda brand, with a red logo and red cap. For some, who knows why, reason I just always imagined that the solo cup was made for solo soda, in my head it just made sense, until I remembered that Solo soda is a Norwegian brand, and just geographically would never be in contact with the American red solo cup.
Yes, I now know the “So high quality, so low price” thing.
We have Solo (drink) in Australia and it definitely is NOT Norwegian.
@@vtbn53 What kind of drink is an Australian Solo?
The Norwegian Solo is an orange tasting soda
@@gonebytrain Lemon flavoured and lightly carbonated (or at least more lightly carbonated than most soft drinks). It is based on a lemon squash available as a non-alcoholic drink in our pubs and made from cordial and water.
@@vtbn53 sounds pretty good!
@@gonebytrain Yeah it's pretty popular.
Yeah, you really should know by now :) I must say you are one of the very few americans I would like to meet in person. Im a Slovakian, who lived in UK for 15 years, now I live in the Netherlands, so I like your videos and the fact you are not one of those (so common) arrogant people coming from the US who know it all and behave like absolute pr.... You should visit either the UK or the NL, or even better - both. Maybe youd like to move then afterall ? Keep doing what you doing, you are genuine
That casual "no" at 6:47 just killed me 😂
Gravy is brown and it’s made from the bits of meat stuck to the bottom of the roasting pan. Don’t waste all that delicious flavour! A little bit of stock is added and some flour to thicken it, and all that flavour is saved and poured over your roast meat. Look on TH-cam for how to make gravy in UK. It’s made the same way here in Australia.
Gravy: th-cam.com/video/0X8qcMsxWSA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ahzio8qK3D9PIUzL
Cream gravy in the US isn't brown, although yes, we have brown gravy too. Cream gravy is white and is what is served with biscuits and gravy, chicken fried steak, a Texas staple, and chicken strips.
As Eddie Izzard once said, "you say 'erbs and we say herbs, because there's a fucking H in it".
I'm sorry to break it to you but pronouncing herbs in that way can never be described as fancy.
I would btw recommend watching some Eddie Izzard's stand up, particulary the two showsd recorded in America, he does a whole section of the show in LA in French - I'm assuming not one memeber of the audience understands a single word - and he still has them rolling about with laughter.
Le singe était censé être sur la branche en même temps que les deux autres animaux dans leurs rôles respectifs, afin de démarrer une conversation avec des passants à Paris et/ou le président du Burundi, mais le singe est parti dans un autobus qui ne peut pas ralentir, aux côtés de Sandra Bullock, dans le film qui aurait dû s'appeler «La Vitesse» !
Actually hotel is pronounced 'otel by educated English speakers. Dullards in the UK pronounce the letter aitch (h) as haitch. I'd hazard a guess that you're on of those.😊
Sorry but sane people in the UK most DEFINITELY not want John Oliver back. That blonde bint is in the minority. As for Madonna I don't think she's culturally significant anywhere...
The word is Latin and the 'h' isn't pronounced in either Latin, French, Spanish or Italian (the only one which also spells it with no 'h'). English's aspirated 'h' is the outlier here.
Americans have never got the hang of silent letters and pronounce them all, then to make up for it, they perversely ignore the h in herbs.
Not sure how old the video is, but Madonna was playing Lady of the Manor over here in the UK when she was married to Guy Ritchie.
I guess, the gap in the toilet cubicle is so u can see, if someone collapsed inside because of drug abuse or other medical emergency. at least this is 1 of the reasons i heard some time ago
Why would you want to see if someone has a medical emergency anywhere in the US? You can't help without getting sued and you can't call an ambulance because they can't afford it.
@@eichzoernchen well, maybe Ryan can answer this one. Im from germany
Nope, that is post-hoc explanation. The way it works is that people see stupid design and then think "but there must be a reason for this" and invent a reason. The truth?
SO YOU DO NOT SPEND TIME IN THE BATHROOM ON THE COMPANY TIME!!
That is the real reason, to make it unpleasant for you so you don't waste any time. Post-hoc explanations are very common when the real reason is to make it worse for you, you don't even think that anyone would be such an asshole to design a system that makes it worse to use... so, "it must be for emergency, it is making me more safe".
The package is one thing, but to say that biscuits and gravy is a meal! 🤯
Not American, but I think the dropped "H" in herbs is the way it is done in French? H at the beginning of words is silent in French.
Well, English is a blend of a Western Germanic language and influenced by Scandinavian countries, French, Celts etc... we've been invaded once or twice...... 😜 Actually French was the official language in England for 400 years! About a thousand years ago. Lots of our words are French in origin. 😘
There was a time, in England when many leading 'H's were dropped.
Or maybe it was just East London. 🤔
@@stephenlee5929 my parents are Cockneys....my Mum always pronounced the H extra hard when trying to sound more refined! 🤣 It was a family joke with us. She'd say HAITCH instead of aitch. 😂
But regardless of dialect/location, the H is dropped nationwide because of French.
try to look at italian grammar as H is never pronounced there aswell.
It’s spelt the same in both French and English. The H is silent in French, so it’s correct to pronounce it without the H when speaking French. However, if you’re speaking English and drop the H it just sounds weird and pretentious.
Your videos are better and better! Your progress is hot! Wish you to be happy with your work.
I have a question: why do your political campaigns go on for YEARS
This one is easy: because the longer the campain, the more fundraising you can have and the less laws/policy you can vote (and, therefor, be attack) on.
More money less work, less critic, what to not love about it? (If you're a politician)
And cost billions
Gravy: you take fat from baked meat, put it in frying pan and flour until all fat absorbed by flour, fry a little to cook flour, then add water ( water from vegetables is best to add flavour) and then pour it over your food: simple home made gravy!🤗
words are pronounced differently in different regions in the uk the same as usa
The big cars also has a dif problem than big roads, I work as an architect in Norway and in most of EU the standard parking spot is 2,5m wide but tesla cars are often 2,3m wide, this leaves about 10cm/4inches on each side of the car.. which brings a bunch of problems in parking structures, especially in apartment building where you have assigned parking spots because two telsas cant be parked next to each other. If we make the spots bigger we wont have enough space for the amount of parking spots required in the space put aside for the project.
Zee as you say it is incorrect. It comes from the Greek Zeta (e pronounced as in Bet), then into French as Zeda (e again as in Bet), and finally into English as Zed. Remember, over 90% of people going to the US in 18th and 19th century were illiterate. So when they did start to write many of the words were written down phonetically (as they sound).Then instead of correcting it in schools, the authorities chose to ignore it, and instead call it American English. How the hell can you have American English?, thats like saying Australian English, Canadian English, Indian English. It's English. A language over 1500 years old, so RESPECT it.
In Europe we have a secret way to know if a toilet is in use or not. We call it a "lock", if someone enters the toilet, they close the lock so if you want to check if it's free you try to open it and if it doesn't work it means it's in use. Sometimes there's even a sign that goes red whenever the door is locked and green when it's not. So no need to see the feet.
Proper gravy is NOT made out of a packet. Philistine!
I don't know if our plugs and sockets are better but I do know they don't fall out on their own. It is weird you guys are one of the only ones that use 110v. Half of our stuff wouldn't even work.
Ryan , how are we supposed to take your country seriously when you elect someone like Trump as President and are threatening to do so again despite his term in office being an unmitigated disaster.
GRAVY.. is a savoury sauce traditionally served with roast meats and vegetables. Discover how to make a rich, flavourful gravy at home. A thickened sauce made from the juices that ooze from meat and/or vegetables as they cook. Most commonly served with roast meats and vegetables
tech curve I think is about shitty internet. also public transportation. in Lithuania trains and buses have free wifi. and payment. we don't even understand what the f is "writing a check". I don't remember the last time I payed with anything but my pixel phone. also taxes are mostly digital and automatic. I have to press one button on my social security web page to get a return on my taxes.
There was a weird cut in one of the questions. The guy first asked "why don't you use chip and pin?" And then after the cut he continued, "I thought you'd be more ahead of the tech curve".
Definitely see why that bit was confusing. I believe he was talking about chip and pin bank cards, which is the standard way people pay for things in other parts of the world. If I understand correctly, the US still uses older payment technology, e.g. cash, cheques, or credit cards with handwritten signatures.
Toilets are for free in the USA cause they are disgusting?
They're basically a peep show.
Need somewhere to drink alcohol and smoke meth
I think, maybe, they are disgusting because they are free. Rather than being free because they are disgusting.
I guess it's better than everything being disgusting because people that don't have the coins go elsewhere. Free toilet doesn't mean they aren't cared for, just means they're convenient to use because if you have to go, you have to go and no one should be locked out of such a service.
Madona used to live here in Portugal. I actually used to walk by one of her houses in Lisboa quite often. I don't know if she's still around here now.
She also lived in Germany for a while, when Lourdes was still a little girl.
The UK wall outlet sockets (and plugs) are perhaps the most crazy overengineered in the world...
On the other hand US sockets (and plugs) are the straight opposite. Contacts can be reached by a butter knife while still connected...
I prefer the German Schuko, over the other accepted foreign sockets from France, here in "smiley face socket" Denmark.
UK socket and plugs are not over engineered. They are made to specific circumstances, which is post-WWII scarcity.
First, the chassis of the plug: it is large and simple because until the 80s manufacturers were not allowed to wire the plug. Customer needed to do that, so they had to be designed to be simple to assemble.
Second, the fuses in the plugs are not there to add more safety, they are there to make ring mains circuits just about safe to use. UK used ring mains which means there is one thick cable snaking thru the whole building. It makes fuseboxes easy, you may only have one mains fuse that is rated at the maximum current you can take from the grid, for 32A. But this means there is 32A in your bathroom, living room... every room... and no fuses. 32A will gladly burn your house down and not see it as a fault. A clockradio getting 32A is not a good idea, thus there has to be a fuse.. and the cheapest way to do it was to put one in the plug. This is far from optimal, the entire world uses star pattern power distribution where each room has its own wiring, and most importantly: its own fuse. There is one fuse to rule them all, instead of one fuse per device.. that the user didn't switch out to a nail... The one fuse is the right type to do the job and we also don't have to cut the wire many times to install something in between: that is a failure point, or actually two failure points. The barrel fuse is HORRIBLE but, it was the only way to do it at the time.
Switch in the sockets... are there ONLY to make pre-WWII electric equipment to work as they often did not have on/off switches at all. Along with ring mains.. you want something that cuts power: the current running in the walls can easily weld the plug in the socket.
So.. it is not over-engineered, it just has a lot of functions that had to fit in one socket&plug... it is NOT the best in the world, it is far from the safest in the world.. It is ok, it is thousand times better than US plus which scares me to death. They are incredibly unsafe, so UK plug at least when it has those plastic bits on the pins, is far safer.. But it is not over engineered to give you MORE safety, it is engineered barely to be safe but also to be cheap AND have those features i mentioned for reasons that are not safety but cost cutting in post-WWII copper scarcity as Britain was rebuilt..
I've had to use all three and Schuko is far the best. I have on trouble reaching out to a back of a rack in pitch black with wet hands and use Schuko. I will absolutely refuse to do that with US plug, and hesitate with UK plug too. Not having recessed sockets is the main thing there.
Over engineered maybe, but also the safest.
@@squidcaps4308 I'll give you that you know the history of the socket/plug way better than I.
It is still overengineered considering more modern installations. But perhaps it was not, back when it was introduced.
And in that sense, perhaps the euro sockets were too casual, yet a tad safer than the US plugs, that are still in use today.
Thanks for your input, I learnt a few things about why today.
I'm still a fan of how Schuko does it though.
@@ffotograffydd certainly the safest, that is agreed.
Just not very practical when every plug needs to be the size of a toddlers fist.
@@BenjaminVestergaard How is it not practical?
For travel chargers they come with pins that fold inside, so they’re only marginally bigger than other styles of plug, but the pins are protected.
The ones in your home/office/etc can be kept plugged in because you can also switch the plug socket off at the wall. 🙂
There are some of these videos that have Americans replying and it makes the whole video hilarious.
I've seen Brits try biscuits and gravy when they come to the US and I have yet to see anyone who hasn't liked them a lot, if not loved them. It's one of those things you just need to try. TFS. Loved this.
Don't try to explain the EU to the Brits. They don't know what that is. 😉
as a brit I do know and can explain about the EU and how it works, I remember the common market before trhe EU, not everyone is thick
@@juliaperry2812 Calm down, that was not a serious comment. Just mocking a bit. :)
Even I got that jok
We know it all too well. That's why we voted to leave it.
@@juliaperry2812A lot of these videos (and comments) are just very simplified insults, making the people saying them look pretty bad. Similar to finding stupid people on streets, fairly sure they're either staged, or they do a lot of legwork to find a few idiods that will be good for clickbaits.