I find it funny how often the British make fun of Americans for calling football "soccer" when the British are the ones responsible for creating that word in the first place. In the late 1800s it was popular for students at Oxford and Cambridge to add "-er" to the end of words. When referring to a player of the Football Association, "associationer" doesn't work well when spoken so they took the "soc" from association and added "-er" resulting in "soccer." This word for the sport quickly gained popularity in the US as well as the UK, but to a lesser extent (I think I read somewhere that roughly half the population of the UK used the word "soccer" by the early 1900s whereas it was significantly higher in the US). Then in an attempt to differentiate British English from American English, a number of words had their spellings and/or meanings clarified around the 1920s, resulting in "football" becoming the recognized name of the sport for England. Now, I honestly don't care which word you use, but whenever a Brit decides to make fun of an American for the use of the word "soccer" instead of "football" I can only laugh :P
for why the 24-hour clock is military time, only the US military likes using the 24 hour clock. Everyone else just uses AM and PM in America, since we are obsessed with using latin in random spots in life. Like most of the state mottos are in Latin. Then you have alaska with the motto "north to the future" and town names in Inpuit languages like "Utgiagvik". BTW, that town's name is misspelled on maps because the government looked at the wrong sign and misspelled the name.
The whole “it’s football not soccer” is crazy when you realize that the UK coined the name soccer and that was the name in circulation when they brought it to the US and Australia.
It's a shorter version of "Association Football". Association "Football". Football existed for a long time, so calling a sport where you barely use your feet, football, is just wrong.
@@mikkitoro8933 "so calling a sport where you barely use your feet, football, is just wrong." I assume you're talking about American Football (If I'm wrong, I apologize). I want to point out that 49 of the top 50 highest-scoring NFL players in history are... Kickers.
@@mikkitoro8933 We had "Rugby Football" as well and it was more popular. They kept changing rules and eventually dropped the Rugby part as it became its own thing.
The reason the states use 'paper mache' walls is two fold: 1. because our buildings are built more for dealing with genuine disasters (earthquakes, tornadoes, etc) then for just stability and insulation. Pretty much anywhere you live you deal with many *many* deadly disasters at one of two scales: Small or F* everything in my way. The small earthquakes and tornadoes won't destroy lighter, more flexible constructions any more than they will heavier brick and earth homes, less so sometimes as earthquakes can easily destroy solider buildings. FEIMW disasters are less likely to destroy these homes if theyre just out of the way, due to the flexibility of the construction, and will destroy anything in their way regardless of what you make it from. 2. It's cheaper, despite housing prices skyrocketing to hell, and so when shit does get destroyed it's easier to replace and work with. Which is the main reason we do it because we needed to make lots of houses quickly back post ww1/2 when people rapidly started being able to afford homes.
Deal with disasters? Man.... american houses would look like as a WW2 battlefield after a smaller storm or a stronger wind blow. lol Also, you should ask for advice from the Japanese, they make really great houses that can withstand earthquakes and tsunamis and yet they still use bricks and concrete. "get destroyed it's easier to replace"??? Why not just make it strong enough with a different material to not get it destroyed that easily? X'D
@@tovarishchfeixiao Because you are underestimating the sheer force of the disasters that people in the US have to deal with on a yearly basis. It's just more efficient to rebuild, then it is to try and make an 'everything proof' building. Especially when at some point, and probably soon, that something is going to show up and destroy everything anyway regardless of how well you built it.
@@tovarishchfeixiaoour houses can withstand 100kph winds just fine. but we have much worse to deal with: - when they get flooded, it's way cheaper to replace drywall sheets and wood beams than it is to replace stone and brick. you can't let it sit, or mold will grow and destroy everything, and it can and will destroy stone over time by growing in the cracks. - 200kph winds from tornadoes and hurricanes will shatter windows, and since stone doesn't absorb the vibrations from the extreme wind well, the stone and especially the mortar holding it together can weaken and fail - in california, earthquakes are common, and stone's rigidity actually make it hold up worse. buildings highly prefer wood and steel there for this reason.
As a Canadian, driving 20 hours wouldn't even get you across the Province of Ontario. As a Torontonian, 2 hours of "driving" wouldn't get you across the 401 (highway in Toronto) during rush hour.
Can confirm some brits refer to the usa as the colonies. I have some british friends who do that. Im dutch myself and we do it too cuz we used to own new york. Also anytime you mention the dutch sudden comments will appear that say "gekoloniseerd" which means "colonized". That has become a big dutch meme but you'd have to know dutch yt from like 10 years ago to get it.
14:12 People have forgotten that not all fae are cute and helpful/harmless. Some have quirky rules that they won't tell you, that are only passed down through folk tales, and if you break those rules (or encounter them at all in some cases) they can do anything from harmless pranks to kidnapping, cursing, murdering, and stuff like that depending on which creature you're dealing with.
As another commenter put it, chalk sandwiched between paper. Drywall is about as close to paper as a slat and plaster wall is to solid wood. Yes, it can be damaged. No it's not going to break from just leaning against it. We also have drywall compound, which is used to merge sheets together and fix holes. It acts similar to plaster.
@@arthurmoore9488 To be fair, for the drywall it can break from leaning if the contractors don't correctly space the studs for the wall. That was not a fun discovery.
We do have free healthcare in the US... it's a government ran program called the VA (Veteran Affairs) and they are regularly in the news for wilfully killing veterans and being just so generally neglectful and terrible us veterans willing go outside the VA to pay for better healthcare. I say this to set the ground work for any American that would say this... you will get this kind of free healthcare
The thing about America is there is a massive rail infrastructure. Just not for passengers, only freight. Cities here are also incredibly decentralized. Cities are only places where the upper and middle class people work and the surrounding suburbs are where they live. An average American's perception of city is mostly negative, so there is no incentive to increase funding for public transportation. It is just better to fund a highway and have people who can afford a car to use that instead.
18:19 “America has such a massive infrastructure on cars“ it’s because our country is freaking massive and takes up about 1/3 to half of the damn continent. Add in the capitalism, and it makes more sense to just have your own vehicle. Or at least, it makes Sense to us anyway.
Free healthcare....60%+ taxes. American healthcare.....13%taxes. Also the quality of American Healthcare is much better. And America is the main country coming out with major advances in medicine. Your Healthcare is "free" because america is doing all the research.
11:33 there is a actual reason why we don’t allow any younger 15 to 20 up unlike Europe, everyone is have their own car they end up traveling very far away and the last thing you want to deal with a big ass truck just nailed the small car because it’s a driver is so intoxicated and irony in all this cars kill a lot more Americans on the daily basis than guns do remember kids if you were live long do not drink alcohol because we can publicly humiliate you in your drunken state and you get no girlfriend because your social life is ruined
The drinking age in the United States used to be under 21 but was changed in the 80's due to an increase in drunk driving fatalities. Yep.... our alcohol drinking age is tied to the reliance of cars within the US.
@@tovarishchfeixiao the reason was to discourage underage drinking. And the road laws in the US are pretty heavily enforced, it's just the various law enforcement agencies are spread thin enforcing them and actually responding to other emergencies
We don't learn the shape of Texas from schools, we learn it from T-shirts Texans wear. It's the only state other than California I could recognize by shape because they just display it everywhere, belt buckles, hats, painted on the side of their pickups, it's all over the place, even on merch sold in Europe.
@@MW_Asura Well, Russia has it's own reasons (which is much better reasons than whatever the hell did america have whenever they attack a country on the other side of the globe).
Actually, we typically spell words like "color" without the 'U' is because we use the Latin root for the word, whereas the Brits use the French root of the word.
@@spacecore6000 Or the americans just wanted to be "the special different kid" (because there are way too many unreasonable differences than just the ou -> o change).
Most of Europe doesn't call Chips/Fries either of those words, since most of Europe doesn't primarily speak english, so they'll be called Pommes, Frites, Пържени картофи, Patates kızartması, hranolky, Frieten or any number of other words
Denmark: > Invent modern rules for a sport that exists, but don't have standardized rules > Make ruleset the new standard that the world adopts > Proceed to become world champion 3 times in a row and olympic champions xD
My house has drywall but punching it would deal more damage to my hand than the wall. It is dependent on the build quality, not just the material itself.
I heard from the city planner that plays gamr on youtube says that it's because the house is still expensive with drywall/wood(considered not expensive?) Is it true? How old is the house then if its built with bricks as standards?
Most modern houses are primarily made of a wooden structure with the outside walls being plywood with a layer insulation and vinyl siding. Bricks are still used but it's a lot less common.
10:18 as a Swede living in northern Sweden, I can confirm that this is not true during summer and fall. Winter and spring however, yes, it is absolutely true
There are some real advantages to drywall: It's cheap, it is non-combustible, it reduces sound transmission and can be engineered to really stop noise, it installs quickly, and did I say it's cheap? But there are downsides; the finish isn't plaster, it's paper, and it has a fuzzy finish that is a dust collector. The normal half inch residential stuff is susceptible to damage. So, much like England, we had two sports we could call football, and decided one of them kept it and the other didn't, and we used a proper British replacement as well.
I’ve never been in a drywall building that was even half as good at noise dampening as my good german cinder block walls. Yeah, they’re more expensive to build, but that’s about it and that cost difference doesn’t really seem to affect anything for the buyer/renter with the current state of the real estate market
The US also has a lot of natural disasters so it might be beneficial to build houses using less expensive materials. There's always the risk of tornadoes and flooding where I live. The rebuild might be easier and less expensive using the US way of building houses and might be similar to Japan in that regard.
@@supC_ So, part of why we still view it as cheaper is because most states have to deal with a variety of disasters including but not limited to: Tornadoes, Wildfires, Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Floods, and sometimes unholy combinations of them. A LOT of stuff has to get rebuilt every year. And that's not even including things like arson spinning out of control because the arsonist started the fire during the middle of wildfire season under the perfect wind conditions for it to spread. My state is currently dealing with one of those. It's now our 4th largest fire on record, has destroyed 641 structures and damaged a further 52, and has burned almost 430,000 acres. And that's not even including other states. So construction companies like to use cheaper materials outside of the big cities because they expect something to destroy that structure within the next 20 years anyways.
My brother has friends in Europe who don’t visit their parents often because the trip is 45 minutes by car… its takes me that long to get to college with traffic.
It reminds me of this one time where I told a european friend that it gets too humid where I live in Texas. She was so confused because she thought Texas as all desert.
@@MW_AsuraNo it's so simple... 😅 1 mile = 5280 feet 1 foot = 12 inches So 1 mile = 5280×12=63360 inches (yards, half and quarter inches omitted) Imagine having to "convert" in metric 🤭 1 kilometer = 1000 meters 1000 meters = 10 000 decimeters 10 000 decimeters = 100 000 centimeters, I wouldn't even be able to do the metric one with a calculator, it's so stupid and hard
US Citizen here. We have moose, Italian and Swedish Meatballs and Tornadoes oh and guns...lots and lots of guns though not as many as Finland apparently. (Do fake blondes count?) 😁
Where I live, there's always the risk of tornadoes and flooding. The way we build houses might be beneficial to the geographical problems some US regions have.
Brittain and Germany have never seen a storm like america regularly has. We have way more tornados and earthquakes. We also just have stronger winds, and storms. Not to mention tropical storms can move across the whole country, and Europe hardly gets monsoons, let alone a hurricane. Their homes are bomb proof because they can't leave eachother alone.
The fat electrician sums it up pretty well. America fuels all medical research and development. The only reason Europeans have free healthcare, is because America is footing the bill for research. Also, middle class average federal tax is about 12-14%. Free healthcare takes European taxes up to 50-60% Every hospital in America has an MRI, and. CAT scan. The entire nation of Canada has 4 MRI machines. And if you complain about the wait, they send you info on assisted suicide.
The only thing I'm jealous of about the USA is the right to defend yourself and everything you own. Here in the Netherlands, a burglar basically has more rights to be in your house than you... Unless you can indisputably prove that you acted out of self-defense you'll be the one in trouble. Though there are other laws that make no sense to me. Blade regulations for instance (which are important for me as I make them). You're allowed to carry a pocket knife with you as long as it doesn't exceed a certain size (I think should also be out of sight). If it gets larger you're allowed to own it, but may only be transported if stored in a safe way that prevents easy pulling out (inside a locked box for instance) and remains out of sight. However, if it's double sided (double edge, sawback or anything else) it's illegal to even own no matter if you store it in a locked safe and no matter the size. Just why... my ~3.5 cm long woodcarving knife is just as dangerous as a double-edged longsword if you know the body's weak spots (not taking defensive capabilities into account).
That's mainly Eastern Europe(Baltics included).like i live in Lithuania and they had to make the alcohol laws closer to America's (buy beer at 20, hard liquor at 21) and still the 15 year olds find ways to get whiskey.
Always curious (genuinely) how depending on the issue people either go 'the government needs to protect it's citizens' vs 'we should have the freedom to make mistakes and the government shouldn't intervene'. And then you have the 'government vs parental freedom' thing. And people just take sides on these things depending on the issue seemingly at random. (depending on culture)
@IronPavlo I don't know man, all the germans and Dutch people I know here in the Netherlands drank acholohol from childhood and drink it way too much as adults, maybe not as bad as eastern Europe but definatley worse than British colonies
You can't buy energy drinks untill you're 18 in my country. Good. People, as a mass, are dumb so the government needs to babysit them and that's why it's so easy to manipulate the nations as a result.
"fries" a term created by americans for THINLY cut sticks of potato that are deep fried and called french to sell chips usually what americans call thick cut steak fries chips is the orginal term used not just by the british, but most of europe, the only parts of europe that use the term fries are tourist traps, oh and what americans call chips its pretty much exclusive to america and parts of canada, this again, any where outside of us that call crisps chips, are tourism traps made to get attention of travelers
Walls of most apartments and houses in the US are made of wood beams and drywall/sheet rock. Its a panel made of solid plaster and fiber that usually you could break with a punch.
3:36 The way I described it to some Europeans I know is that it's a lot, as in a designated area of land, for parking cars. 4:46 I tend to think of it as "military time" because most of my exposure to it is the military using it in shows and movies. 15:33 The water doesn't care how it gets hot, only that it gets hot. If I can use a microwave to get water to the same temperature faster in a microwave than using a kettle, I'm using the microwave. 16:!6 Fun Fact: American Football and Soccer are both evolutions of the same game played in British schoolyards. We call it football for the same reason you call soccer football. Because that is what the game was originally called. Also, the name "Soccer" came from the brits. It's a shortening of "Association Football".
Burma uses Freedom units. We had a heatwave hit us for 1 day this summer... in heretic measurements it was 45 degrees outside. I loved it, I spent all day outside
It's not just the chocolate. Even brands originally from the US, like Coca Cola for example, taste better when they're from a different country. It's because of things like better ingredient quality control and actually using real sugar instead high fructose corn syrup, which we use because we've been subsidizing corn farmers for a very, very long time.
13:15 in our defense a person taste buds are developed, depending on the food where they are raised, to love the food so. So where you live/raised is where you believe we're the best food is at. 20:06 This is real both in the government(sometimes) and in our society(a lot of times). 22:26 this is something my mom doesn't understand no matter how hard I try to tell her. 27:57 In Mexico I have some family that cells the USA, the colonies along with other things.
The truck sizes have to do with the volume of the truck, if it's larger it doesn't have as harsh of a smog regulation and can have a much larger engine.
The brits are just annoyed that they are reason we call it soccer. They originally called it soccer football and called rugby, rugby football. We didn't have rugby so we just called it soccer.
You know the Deutsche Bahn right?! Let me tell you: one f***ing milligram of snow on the train tracks and the whole system just brakes and crumbles apart in a mater of minutes and your just like: ok I guess I won’t go to school today (cause I won’t f***ing get there!)
American chocolate is absolutely disgusting... Friend brought back US chocolate from his california trip and holy shit, we tried it and it all went to trash afterwards, no one could stomach the taste of vomit.
Lol. I am a swede and I feel sorry for americans when I read the news. Americans probably doesn't know that I exist in a country called sweden. JK. When it comes to nato I am ok with that, but I actually believe that we in the north, finland,sweden and Norway with the danes could actually create our own war umbrella, no need for nato.
0:32 I call both chips, HOWEVER, I use a slight difference in pronunciation. One is chips with a hard ch, the other one I basically say ships, as in big boats xD.
I also think that voting should be from 25 and onwards. While I know this will never happen, I still think it would do a lot better than what we have now.
5:53 I always word it as australians are british people that spec into survival and americans are british people that spec into combat.
Then what are Canadians?
@sorin_channel Well, canadians are stereotyped as being polite, so I would say british people that spec into diplomacy.
@@J-AngelShifter how about people spec into diplomancy combat?
@@nightstorm5914 Well Canadians have committed so many warcrimes and pretty much got away with all of them. 100 speech indeed.
@@Lowlighttbro got 20 in his Charisma
Not made of paper, but not typically made of super solid material.
Paper mache
Kinda depends where you are. In Florida some houses are built well but that could just be the state is hit by at least 3 hurricanes every year.
2 layers of thick paper and a layer of chalk between them.
Depends on if you hit a framing member really. I've made that mistake before.
True, at least they're not made of tofu
I find it funny how often the British make fun of Americans for calling football "soccer" when the British are the ones responsible for creating that word in the first place. In the late 1800s it was popular for students at Oxford and Cambridge to add "-er" to the end of words. When referring to a player of the Football Association, "associationer" doesn't work well when spoken so they took the "soc" from association and added "-er" resulting in "soccer." This word for the sport quickly gained popularity in the US as well as the UK, but to a lesser extent (I think I read somewhere that roughly half the population of the UK used the word "soccer" by the early 1900s whereas it was significantly higher in the US). Then in an attempt to differentiate British English from American English, a number of words had their spellings and/or meanings clarified around the 1920s, resulting in "football" becoming the recognized name of the sport for England.
Now, I honestly don't care which word you use, but whenever a Brit decides to make fun of an American for the use of the word "soccer" instead of "football" I can only laugh :P
Pretty much most of the US quirks that they get made fun of, was just the OG way Britain was doing things. "If ain't broke!"
for why the 24-hour clock is military time, only the US military likes using the 24 hour clock. Everyone else just uses AM and PM in America, since we are obsessed with using latin in random spots in life. Like most of the state mottos are in Latin. Then you have alaska with the motto "north to the future" and town names in Inpuit languages like "Utgiagvik". BTW, that town's name is misspelled on maps because the government looked at the wrong sign and misspelled the name.
Alaska was Russian for a bit, so a few town's names will be funny. You can always add "New" to some.
The whole “it’s football not soccer” is crazy when you realize that the UK coined the name soccer and that was the name in circulation when they brought it to the US and Australia.
It's a shorter version of "Association Football". Association "Football". Football existed for a long time, so calling a sport where you barely use your feet, football, is just wrong.
@@mikkitoro8933 "so calling a sport where you barely use your feet, football, is just wrong."
I assume you're talking about American Football (If I'm wrong, I apologize). I want to point out that 49 of the top 50 highest-scoring NFL players in history are... Kickers.
@@mikkitoro8933 We had "Rugby Football" as well and it was more popular. They kept changing rules and eventually dropped the Rugby part as it became its own thing.
Sweden is also the origin of the Nobel Prize and the three-point seatbelt...
The reason the states use 'paper mache' walls is two fold: 1. because our buildings are built more for dealing with genuine disasters (earthquakes, tornadoes, etc) then for just stability and insulation. Pretty much anywhere you live you deal with many *many* deadly disasters at one of two scales: Small or F* everything in my way. The small earthquakes and tornadoes won't destroy lighter, more flexible constructions any more than they will heavier brick and earth homes, less so sometimes as earthquakes can easily destroy solider buildings. FEIMW disasters are less likely to destroy these homes if theyre just out of the way, due to the flexibility of the construction, and will destroy anything in their way regardless of what you make it from.
2. It's cheaper, despite housing prices skyrocketing to hell, and so when shit does get destroyed it's easier to replace and work with. Which is the main reason we do it because we needed to make lots of houses quickly back post ww1/2 when people rapidly started being able to afford homes.
Deal with disasters? Man.... american houses would look like as a WW2 battlefield after a smaller storm or a stronger wind blow. lol Also, you should ask for advice from the Japanese, they make really great houses that can withstand earthquakes and tsunamis and yet they still use bricks and concrete.
"get destroyed it's easier to replace"??? Why not just make it strong enough with a different material to not get it destroyed that easily? X'D
@@tovarishchfeixiao Because you are underestimating the sheer force of the disasters that people in the US have to deal with on a yearly basis. It's just more efficient to rebuild, then it is to try and make an 'everything proof' building. Especially when at some point, and probably soon, that something is going to show up and destroy everything anyway regardless of how well you built it.
@@Juan-Deringthey don't know what a tornado is just leave them in Thier ignorance
@@tovarishchfeixiaoour houses can withstand 100kph winds just fine. but we have much worse to deal with:
- when they get flooded, it's way cheaper to replace drywall sheets and wood beams than it is to replace stone and brick. you can't let it sit, or mold will grow and destroy everything, and it can and will destroy stone over time by growing in the cracks.
- 200kph winds from tornadoes and hurricanes will shatter windows, and since stone doesn't absorb the vibrations from the extreme wind well, the stone and especially the mortar holding it together can weaken and fail
- in california, earthquakes are common, and stone's rigidity actually make it hold up worse. buildings highly prefer wood and steel there for this reason.
As a Canadian, driving 20 hours wouldn't even get you across the Province of Ontario. As a Torontonian, 2 hours of "driving" wouldn't get you across the 401 (highway in Toronto) during rush hour.
Can confirm some brits refer to the usa as the colonies. I have some british friends who do that. Im dutch myself and we do it too cuz we used to own new york. Also anytime you mention the dutch sudden comments will appear that say "gekoloniseerd" which means "colonized". That has become a big dutch meme but you'd have to know dutch yt from like 10 years ago to get it.
gekoloniseerd
"Nice bits of land."
-The Dutch, famed land appreciators.
The thing with a 3 hour drive in America is you're usually staying in the same state
Whereas 3 hours anywhere else except like Russia and Australia, you’re in another country entirely.
Yep. Takes at least four hours to go through just the thin section of my state.
@@Kaltsit- I live Brazil, and when I need to take a bus for the capital of my state it is a 7/8 hour trip, sucks to not have trains
@@rt10hammer63 true. Forgot about Brazil.
Haha, depending on traffic, you're still in the same City.
0:27 don't involve the rest of EU when it's only uk doing so, everyone else calls them fries and chips like in america 😅
They really are the US of Europe.
And pretty everyone else who learned British english in school at foreign language class.
Meanwhile, in Northern Norway: There are people only 3 hours away!?
14:12 People have forgotten that not all fae are cute and helpful/harmless. Some have quirky rules that they won't tell you, that are only passed down through folk tales, and if you break those rules (or encounter them at all in some cases) they can do anything from harmless pranks to kidnapping, cursing, murdering, and stuff like that depending on which creature you're dealing with.
10:25 sounds great
*Me (from the Philippines) drinking hot coffee in a 35-40 °C afternoon
Because coke now tastes weird since they stopped using glass bottles.
@@jamescawl6904 Why? The sand was being oppressed?
The newspaper thing is 100% true and it's also true of getting a grave stone made you pay by the letter
It's actually mostly because of the US standardization by Noah Webster a prominent dictionary author in the late 1800s.
I find it funny that the name “soccer” started in Britain as a nickname for association football (assoccer)
"Are your walls made of paper?"
Yes actually. A lot of US homes use drywall for interior walls, which is made of paper products and other stuff.
As another commenter put it, chalk sandwiched between paper. Drywall is about as close to paper as a slat and plaster wall is to solid wood. Yes, it can be damaged. No it's not going to break from just leaning against it.
We also have drywall compound, which is used to merge sheets together and fix holes. It acts similar to plaster.
@@arthurmoore9488 To be fair, for the drywall it can break from leaning if the contractors don't correctly space the studs for the wall. That was not a fun discovery.
TBF US houseing doesnt need to worrying about getting bombed
True, the only worry is having any type of lifeform even touching the walls inside the house
No wonder your house's dissappear completely from tornadoes lol
When someone brings up "no free" Healthcare in America, it's a great indicator that they don't know sh*t.
We do have free healthcare in the US... it's a government ran program called the VA (Veteran Affairs) and they are regularly in the news for wilfully killing veterans and being just so generally neglectful and terrible us veterans willing go outside the VA to pay for better healthcare. I say this to set the ground work for any American that would say this... you will get this kind of free healthcare
The thing about America is there is a massive rail infrastructure. Just not for passengers, only freight. Cities here are also incredibly decentralized. Cities are only places where the upper and middle class people work and the surrounding suburbs are where they live. An average American's perception of city is mostly negative, so there is no incentive to increase funding for public transportation. It is just better to fund a highway and have people who can afford a car to use that instead.
😂 Yes, that's right. We Americans are... (Chester Cheetah Voice) DANGerously CHEEZY...
Also, we have our own cheese capital: Wisconsin.
18:19 “America has such a massive infrastructure on cars“ it’s because our country is freaking massive and takes up about 1/3 to half of the damn continent. Add in the capitalism, and it makes more sense to just have your own vehicle. Or at least, it makes Sense to us anyway.
As a Russian,i can non ironically confirm that the scenery in non-central and non-expensive areas of cuties SUCK.Including Moscow
'free' healthcare
Affordable healthcare
Free healthcare....60%+ taxes.
American healthcare.....13%taxes.
Also the quality of American Healthcare is much better. And America is the main country coming out with major advances in medicine.
Your Healthcare is "free" because america is doing all the research.
I just found the grass one so simplistically hilarious that I can't put any other above it. lmfao
USA is less of a DLC but more of a NO Man Sky Reboot Update
11:33 there is a actual reason why we don’t allow any younger 15 to 20 up unlike Europe, everyone is have their own car they end up traveling very far away and the last thing you want to deal with a big ass truck just nailed the small car because it’s a driver is so intoxicated and irony in all this cars kill a lot more Americans on the daily basis than guns do
remember kids if you were live long do not drink alcohol because we can publicly humiliate you in your drunken state and you get no girlfriend because your social life is ruined
Guns kill alot fewer people than most things. Lawn mowers kill more people in the US than guns do.
Doctors mistakes kill way more people than guns do.
The drinking age in the United States used to be under 21 but was changed in the 80's due to an increase in drunk driving fatalities. Yep.... our alcohol drinking age is tied to the reliance of cars within the US.
It was 21 for longer than that, but reagan forced states to start enforcing it or else they lose their highway money
What's the point of that "reason" if you still have drunk drivers? Seriously, you guys should just enforce the road laws more strictly instead.
@@tovarishchfeixiao the reason was to discourage underage drinking. And the road laws in the US are pretty heavily enforced, it's just the various law enforcement agencies are spread thin enforcing them and actually responding to other emergencies
@@tovarishchfeixiao to kentuckyace's point, the US has over 4 million miles (6.4 million KM) of navigable roads in the fifty states.
We don't learn the shape of Texas from schools, we learn it from T-shirts Texans wear. It's the only state other than California I could recognize by shape because they just display it everywhere, belt buckles, hats, painted on the side of their pickups, it's all over the place, even on merch sold in Europe.
That was your typical rural town in the US
Edit:the info structure of the US is designed for military equipment such as tanks and planes
EU: Americans are so violent.
Also Europeans: Started two world wars.
Sweden in the distance: GET YOUR IRON ORE HERE !
The US is literally based upon the slaughter of millions of Native Americans…….
Difference is today Americans are violent, not Europeans (aside from Russia). So you're just cherrypicking
@@MW_Asura 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 europeans aren't violent 😂😂😂😂😂
@@MW_Asura you are so ignorant, lol.
@@MW_Asura Well, Russia has it's own reasons (which is much better reasons than whatever the hell did america have whenever they attack a country on the other side of the globe).
In french a "parking lot" or a "car park" we just call it a "parking"
. . . . . . .I didn't think it could get worse.
34:36 Why was the fact that it's a smaller Africa inside Australia completely glossed over?
Seriously I spent a minute trying to figure it out and just moved on.
Actually, we typically spell words like "color" without the 'U' is because we use the Latin root for the word, whereas the Brits use the French root of the word.
Or it's because printing companies charged by the letter and removing the superfluous 'u's from words saved people money.
@@spacecore6000 Or the americans just wanted to be "the special different kid" (because there are way too many unreasonable differences than just the ou -> o change).
Most of Europe doesn't call Chips/Fries either of those words, since most of Europe doesn't primarily speak english, so they'll be called Pommes, Frites, Пържени картофи, Patates kızartması, hranolky, Frieten or any number of other words
Denmark: > Invent modern rules for a sport that exists, but don't have standardized rules > Make ruleset the new standard that the world adopts > Proceed to become world champion 3 times in a row and olympic champions xD
10:25 As a person from northern europe, I can say that the weather is NOT good for most of the year
i am from USA and my walls are brick but in most newer houses it is drywall, drywall is not very durable
ye i punched a wall in my house a few years ago and that shit broke like 3 of my fingers
My house has drywall but punching it would deal more damage to my hand than the wall. It is dependent on the build quality, not just the material itself.
I heard from the city planner that plays gamr on youtube says that it's because the house is still expensive with drywall/wood(considered not expensive?) Is it true? How old is the house then if its built with bricks as standards?
Most modern houses are primarily made of a wooden structure with the outside walls being plywood with a layer insulation and vinyl siding. Bricks are still used but it's a lot less common.
Drywall can last 100 years when done right. Whats nice is its not hard to fix, and you can cut holes easily to run wiring if needed.
10:18 as a Swede living in northern Sweden, I can confirm that this is not true during summer and fall.
Winter and spring however, yes, it is absolutely true
There are some real advantages to drywall: It's cheap, it is non-combustible, it reduces sound transmission and can be engineered to really stop noise, it installs quickly, and did I say it's cheap? But there are downsides; the finish isn't plaster, it's paper, and it has a fuzzy finish that is a dust collector. The normal half inch residential stuff is susceptible to damage.
So, much like England, we had two sports we could call football, and decided one of them kept it and the other didn't, and we used a proper British replacement as well.
I’ve never been in a drywall building that was even half as good at noise dampening as my good german cinder block walls. Yeah, they’re more expensive to build, but that’s about it and that cost difference doesn’t really seem to affect anything for the buyer/renter with the current state of the real estate market
The US also has a lot of natural disasters so it might be beneficial to build houses using less expensive materials. There's always the risk of tornadoes and flooding where I live. The rebuild might be easier and less expensive using the US way of building houses and might be similar to Japan in that regard.
@@supC_ So, part of why we still view it as cheaper is because most states have to deal with a variety of disasters including but not limited to: Tornadoes, Wildfires, Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Floods, and sometimes unholy combinations of them. A LOT of stuff has to get rebuilt every year. And that's not even including things like arson spinning out of control because the arsonist started the fire during the middle of wildfire season under the perfect wind conditions for it to spread. My state is currently dealing with one of those. It's now our 4th largest fire on record, has destroyed 641 structures and damaged a further 52, and has burned almost 430,000 acres. And that's not even including other states. So construction companies like to use cheaper materials outside of the big cities because they expect something to destroy that structure within the next 20 years anyways.
@@Rukdug That sounds reasonable to me. Thanks for the insight
another thing is drywall holds heat less. this is a major disadvantage in winter, but a major advantage in summer
3:01 ... as an American at 25 i was renting my own home and this was in 2018... HOW that happened isnt a pleasant memory though
My brother has friends in Europe who don’t visit their parents often because the trip is 45 minutes by car… its takes me that long to get to college with traffic.
It reminds me of this one time where I told a european friend that it gets too humid where I live in Texas. She was so confused because she thought Texas as all desert.
I lived in Brownsville and San Bonito for a year. 80% humidity except when it rains. Once it was 120f outside.
20:30 - it's a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. though, not METRO.
Herman coming to America:
Why are these streets so wide?! This is so unnecessary!
WHAT THE ****** IS A KILOMETER 🇺🇸
A measurement of distance. 1 Kilometer is around 0.62 miles.
What's a mile? It sounds like something a Neanderthal made up
@@MW_AsuraNo it's so simple... 😅
1 mile = 5280 feet
1 foot = 12 inches
So 1 mile = 5280×12=63360 inches
(yards, half and quarter inches omitted)
Imagine having to "convert" in metric 🤭
1 kilometer = 1000 meters
1000 meters = 10 000 decimeters
10 000 decimeters = 100 000 centimeters, I wouldn't even be able to do the metric one with a calculator, it's so stupid and hard
Kilo, Greek for 1000
Dix, French for 10
Cent, French for 100
Mille, French for 1000
I will have you know, Sweden is known for all kinds of things, not just IKEA! We have moose, meatballs... Uhm, blondes? Yeah, that's about it.
US Citizen here. We have moose, Italian and Swedish Meatballs and Tornadoes oh and guns...lots and lots of guns though not as many as Finland apparently. (Do fake blondes count?) 😁
And Sabaton. Don't forget about Sabaton!!!
@@Rukdug Right, that's true!
America: pounds
Almost everywhere else: kilograms
Brittain, new zealand, australia: Stones.
paws gets more adorable each video ❤
Cat cam~
What do you mean rarity? It happens almost every video and is one of the things I look forward to. XD
Correct Europe, the government doesn't get to decide if I live or die.
Where I live, there's always the risk of tornadoes and flooding. The way we build houses might be beneficial to the geographical problems some US regions have.
Brittain and Germany have never seen a storm like america regularly has.
We have way more tornados and earthquakes.
We also just have stronger winds, and storms. Not to mention tropical storms can move across the whole country, and Europe hardly gets monsoons, let alone a hurricane.
Their homes are bomb proof because they can't leave eachother alone.
Was going to try a small educational rant on the free healthcare. Decided it's not worth my time xD(but will explain my view if asked)
People just don’t understand nor do they even care to do any research. Also, there is no such thing as free healthcare.
I respect your restraint
The fat electrician sums it up pretty well.
America fuels all medical research and development. The only reason Europeans have free healthcare, is because America is footing the bill for research.
Also, middle class average federal tax is about 12-14%.
Free healthcare takes European taxes up to 50-60%
Every hospital in America has an MRI, and. CAT scan.
The entire nation of Canada has 4 MRI machines. And if you complain about the wait, they send you info on assisted suicide.
As a German this video was hilarious 😂😂😂
The only thing I'm jealous of about the USA is the right to defend yourself and everything you own. Here in the Netherlands, a burglar basically has more rights to be in your house than you... Unless you can indisputably prove that you acted out of self-defense you'll be the one in trouble. Though there are other laws that make no sense to me. Blade regulations for instance (which are important for me as I make them). You're allowed to carry a pocket knife with you as long as it doesn't exceed a certain size (I think should also be out of sight). If it gets larger you're allowed to own it, but may only be transported if stored in a safe way that prevents easy pulling out (inside a locked box for instance) and remains out of sight. However, if it's double sided (double edge, sawback or anything else) it's illegal to even own no matter if you store it in a locked safe and no matter the size. Just why... my ~3.5 cm long woodcarving knife is just as dangerous as a double-edged longsword if you know the body's weak spots (not taking defensive capabilities into account).
At 7:25 the way you said Rural made me question if I have been pronouncing it wrong
Yeah, that's how you spell the russian 'r'
Europeans having life long alcohol addiction as children (they think it's okay)
That's mainly Eastern Europe(Baltics included).like i live in Lithuania and they had to make the alcohol laws closer to America's (buy beer at 20, hard liquor at 21) and still the 15 year olds find ways to get whiskey.
Always curious (genuinely) how depending on the issue people either go 'the government needs to protect it's citizens' vs 'we should have the freedom to make mistakes and the government shouldn't intervene'.
And then you have the 'government vs parental freedom' thing.
And people just take sides on these things depending on the issue seemingly at random. (depending on culture)
@IronPavlo I don't know man, all the germans and Dutch people I know here in the Netherlands drank acholohol from childhood and drink it way too much as adults, maybe not as bad as eastern Europe but definatley worse than British colonies
You can't buy energy drinks untill you're 18 in my country. Good.
People, as a mass, are dumb so the government needs to babysit them and that's why it's so easy to manipulate the nations as a result.
Nobody's drinking when they're children mate
8:46 what she missed was that the pickup is so big it block the tramway as it's front is over the tramway's track.
"fries" a term created by americans for THINLY cut sticks of potato that are deep fried and called french to sell chips usually what americans call thick cut steak fries chips is the orginal term used not just by the british, but most of europe, the only parts of europe that use the term fries are tourist traps, oh and what americans call chips its pretty much exclusive to america and parts of canada, this again, any where outside of us that call crisps chips, are tourism traps made to get attention of travelers
oh btw, baseball is not american in the slightest, its tudor britsh
Me living in Sevilla, in the south of Spain: “wait, temperature can fall under 20 degrees?”
You can see which memes were made by americans when they say "ewropians" and then say something hilariously specific about UK
Walls of most apartments and houses in the US are made of wood beams and drywall/sheet rock. Its a panel made of solid plaster and fiber that usually you could break with a punch.
"Why can't we agree on one naming?"
You guys made them both.
3:36 The way I described it to some Europeans I know is that it's a lot, as in a designated area of land, for parking cars.
4:46 I tend to think of it as "military time" because most of my exposure to it is the military using it in shows and movies.
15:33 The water doesn't care how it gets hot, only that it gets hot. If I can use a microwave to get water to the same temperature faster in a microwave than using a kettle, I'm using the microwave.
16:!6 Fun Fact: American Football and Soccer are both evolutions of the same game played in British schoolyards. We call it football for the same reason you call soccer football. Because that is what the game was originally called. Also, the name "Soccer" came from the brits. It's a shortening of "Association Football".
YEAH NEW PAWS VIDEO. i love ur videos :D
Don't know about people from the city, but in western New York, by the lakes, it's not a snowstorm until about 1-2 feet after a statewide travel ban.
Burma uses Freedom units.
We had a heatwave hit us for 1 day this summer... in heretic measurements it was 45 degrees outside. I loved it, I spent all day outside
20:36 DID YOU JUST CALLED S.T.A.L.K.E.R. A METRO!!!! That's a Guardian of Freedom suit and you can see Freedom faction patch on it.
3:47 I am 14.46 Browning Hi-Power barrels tall. I'd say it's about average for an American man.
"Did a car park this car?"
It's not just the chocolate. Even brands originally from the US, like Coca Cola for example, taste better when they're from a different country. It's because of things like better ingredient quality control and actually using real sugar instead high fructose corn syrup, which we use because we've been subsidizing corn farmers for a very, very long time.
13:15 in our defense a person taste buds are developed, depending on the food where they are raised, to love the food so.
So where you live/raised is where you believe we're the best food is at.
20:06 This is real both in the government(sometimes) and in our society(a lot of times).
22:26 this is something my mom doesn't understand no matter how hard I try to tell her.
27:57 In Mexico I have some family that cells the USA, the colonies along with other things.
I appreciate the kitty cam
I don't put chetos on my chicken, never heard of this
The truck sizes have to do with the volume of the truck, if it's larger it doesn't have as harsh of a smog regulation and can have a much larger engine.
At least in the states that's how it is.
those new thumbnails are nice
"Look at these shmucks." lol ffs
15:30 I microwave the water I use to make my instant coffee.
Are you ok my guy? Do i need to buy you a kettle?
12:25 I thought Venom was growing out of his back. Lol.
As an American school student I can confirm all of these
Australians be catching some strays in this feud.
14:18 nah the original european stories are pretty dark lol
As an american i agree, we are cheesy stuffed brits
The wall meme is true, do NOT punch a wall in Europe. Your bones will not win.
The brits are just annoyed that they are reason we call it soccer. They originally called it soccer football and called rugby, rugby football. We didn't have rugby so we just called it soccer.
Let’s all just face it America, Canada and the Uk are just the same thing but with different flags
16:38 your missing Canada's view on that one
You know the Deutsche Bahn right?!
Let me tell you: one f***ing milligram of snow on the train tracks and the whole system just brakes and crumbles apart in a mater of minutes and your just like: ok I guess I won’t go to school today (cause I won’t f***ing get there!)
sweden dont drive on the left XD also..... The continent of Europe is bigger than the entire USA
4:48 funny how the country who is the most based around the military doesnt teach military time as standard HOW?!🤣😂
As someone who has both microwaved their tea and used a tea kettle, I can say there's no difference in taste. However, microwaving is quicker.
Love the healthcare thing🤣 Like the EU countries that have “free” health care would still have it if the USA pulled out of NATO.
We call both chips in australia
American chocolate is absolutely disgusting... Friend brought back US chocolate from his california trip and holy shit, we tried it and it all went to trash afterwards, no one could stomach the taste of vomit.
Cheetos on chicken? That sounds like the largest stoner meal ever wat
Lol. I am a swede and I feel sorry for americans when I read the news. Americans probably doesn't know that I exist in a country called sweden.
JK.
When it comes to nato I am ok with that, but I actually believe that we in the north, finland,sweden and Norway with the danes could actually create our own war umbrella, no need for nato.
0:32 I call both chips, HOWEVER, I use a slight difference in pronunciation. One is chips with a hard ch, the other one I basically say ships, as in big boats xD.
Technically drinking should start at 25 since the human brain is done growing at the age of 25
By that logic, people should be considered children until they're 25. Good luck with that one.
I also think that voting should be from 25 and onwards. While I know this will never happen, I still think it would do a lot better than what we have now.
This is funny. I love these memes.
As a british person i have never heard the words fairy floss
22:30 it's impossible to name a country that doesn't exist. (I'm like 90% certain that's supposed to be water.)
can't edit on mobile so here's a reply: Yes, it's the Bay of Biscay xD