It's really sad because in a few places over here, tipping is simply a kind thing to do to thank the workers, but over there in the US that's basically the only pay you'll get as a worker.
Actually the law means that if the wages + tips don't take the wages over minimum wage the employer has to make up the difference to minimum wage. All you do by tipping in the us is mean the employer gets to keep more money.
TBH, I find service in the US to be overbearing and intrusive. It's bad enough when all servers worldwide are in a conspiracy to wait until you've got a mouthful of food before asking if your food is OK, but in the US, they interrupt you every fucking minute to top up glasses, like I couldn't do it myself as and when I want to. Just confirm that I got what I ordered and it's cooked right, then fuck off until the bottle or plate is empty.
@@hypsyzygy506 The quickest way to not get tipped by most Europeans - the borderline harassment they practice in the US. As the OP said, just let us eat our meal without constant interruptions. To us, good service is to allow us to enjoy our meal in peace, but be available if we need u, in which case we will look for u and signal.
We live in Australia. My son quit his hospitality job because they are forcing staff to do this, he said he felt like a telemarketer harassing people instead of serving them their food.
It is because we are a country of immigrants that part of the process of meeting new people is to discuss family heritage. It is weird to you maybe but it is quite natural in a melting pot culture.
@@kurtwicklund8901 that I do get, especially if your parents or grandparents were immigrants and you’re part of a large community. It’s when a 10th generation US citizen identifies as Irish-American because a great (many more greats) grandparent moved to the colonies in 1701 that amuses me It’s never English-American though, funny that…
@@kurtwicklund8901 Australia is full of immigrants too. 50% of us are either born or have one or both parents born overseas yet we still call ourselves Aussies, even me who wasn't born here.
Dude is right about microwaves here in the UK though. We don't have them - we have magic hotboxes instead, that we activate with a spell - "Foodicrus Heatoractus!" We buy them from Diagon Alley.
And in Poland we don't have refrigerators, but these metal boxes full of gnomes that cool the food with their magic powers and turn off the light when the door is closed. Unfortunately, these little shitts also piss in the milk and that causes it to spoil.
There's a huge difference between humid 30°C and dry 30°C. When there's a lot water in air you don't get cold by sweating. The water on your skin simply doesn't evaporate quickly
I think its when its out of nowhere too. I live in Japan now which has insane humidity but 30 degrees still felt cooler to me here than it does in the UK but I think its because its regularly 35-40 degrees here which just feels stupidly hot
@@DjDolHaus86 well the problem is that the moment it gets slightly cold, the air is humid and forms tiny droplets on your skin, which creates the same effect as sweating, even though it's cold
@@illogicalsavings8268 Ive never heard any brit say expatriot in full but Ive heard plenty say expat (whether they know what the full word means or not).
@RNS_Aurelius I don't think anyone who uses "expat" has prejudices but there's definitely a strong correlation. It's definitely a red flag. Especially if they refuse to learn the language used in their new "home"
Yes, American have some issues with their roots. I've met a guy who visited Poland and wast annoyed with everything. Some things were too modern for him - it's not that how he imagined the land of his great-grandfathers. He was shocked that there are no Polka bands in Poland (Polka is a Czech dance and while it it's a significant part of folklore repertoire it's just one of the dozens folk dances in Poland). And he was almost furious that people are not impressed by his roots (he knows maybe two words in Polish - the rest were russian but he was 100% they are Polish and we are wrong) - hey! Should we bow before him or what? He was like a walking comedy sketch.
Yeah identity and heritage is a really complicated thing but that guy is entitled as hell, I'm surprised no gopniks came to beat him up or someone got fed up with him and spit in his food while he wasn't looking(first generation child of a polish immigrant, I would honestly do that to him), considering geography isn't introduced in the American school curriculum until age 13 I'm not surprised. Głupia suka ssąca błoto lmao
This is nothing compared to what they do at home and consider to be the tradition of their ancestors. I was once at an "Oktoberfest" in Ohio... next to people in Dindl cut out to the belly button and plastic lederhosen, apart from the bad beer and the food that wasn't really German but was sold as "authentic"... it was like in Germany , (although only tourists wear that shit with a deep neckline and fake leather pants), but suddenly a guy appeared wearing a horned helmet and a bearskin and his wife Heidi in a shield maiden costume ... no idea what they wanted to express with that, so surreal. ... But the crowning moment was when the musicians and the traditional costume group presented the "traditional German dance" ... it was the duck dance that we danced as a carnival gag in the 80s ... we Germans are still shaking our heads at ourselves for this one "culturelle" derailment/nonsense and see it as a collective moment of mental derangement in the face of drunken party mood...🦆 By the way, I still don't know how they came up with the idea that it would be a German tradition to hide a pickled cucumber in the Christmas tree.🤣🤣
@@andreamuller9009 You got me here. Image of German culture in American awareness is the worst thing that happened to Germany since herr Schickelgruber applied for German citizenship.
I have dual citizenship with Ireland and an Irish passport. I still wouldn't claim to be Irish with anything close to the confidence of an American who's got 5% Irish on their 23andMe results.
yeah, my great grandad is scottish but i would never claim to be scottish. the fact her great great great grandad was irish and she calls herself irish is crazy
Well either way you're paying for the staffs wages by visiting the place. But that doesn't mean it's a good system, it's like they don't tell you the full price untill your done with their service. I'm happy I aren't American.
I live in a town where American cruise ships sometimes visit. When the ignorant American lardballs comes rolling into town, they always complain how things aren't like back in the US of A. So what's the point in travelling at all if you want every destination to be exactly like the place you came from?
ahh i seen you've met "one of those" brits. don't worry about her, she doesn't convey what the rest of us are like. also, as a brit, naturally I have been to your lovely country a fair few times. keep it up, spaniard.
3:23 my dad told me a good point once about them being "kinder" than European waitresses. they are a lot kinder and faster is because they rely on the tips, and you would more easily tip a person who is doing their job fast and having chit chat than a normal waitress who simply says "there you go" or something along those lines and walks in normal speeds. The waitresses know this, so they act kinder and put on a huge smile for tips. Some also use technicues like the ponytail technicue (that's at least one I've heard) and things like that. Its kind of the same thing as when people would tell things about their family, friends, pets and other thing about their life to make themselves feel more human to the attacker, and hopefully stop the attack or whatever they were planning to not happen. (Just the attack being not being tipped in this case)
I feel called out, I've already got my (genuine) backstory ready just in case I get a gun shoved in my face and the attacker needs a reason not to shoot me. I was planning on not mentioning my autism, but instead saying I work with kids that have autism. Which is true...they're in a group with me, we all work together, but it sounds much more like I'm the one they depend on, as a teacher, if I formulate it this way. I was also planning on mentioning my sisters pet dog, how my therapist was proud of me and felt I was doing better (true story) and how I was busy with a project for a friend, that she is waiting to receive (also true.) So I guess I won't be original then. Would knock-knock jokes work better? (Knock-knock? Who's there? It's me, Knock-ing you the fuck out dude *BAM BAM, GRAB THE GUN WHHRRAAAAAAAHHH!* )
When I lived in Dublin, everyone would mistaken me for American (I'm Canadian) and the one thing everyone would go on and on about is how much they hate it when Americans come over to Ireland and say "my great great great grandfather was Irish, so I'm Irish too."
A friend in Dublin said of the yanks claiming they were Irish because gggg father came from Ireland 'Foo king plastic paddy's from the McRoots clan based in foo king Boston!'
@@vermis8344 I'm not sure too many Americans would know that Irish is a separate language, with its very own spelling system, and very much not in the Germanic family. They are usually referring to 'Hiberno-English' when they talk about someone speaking 'Irish'. British people are just as confused - but in that they refer to Irish as Gaelic instead.
It confuses me how people can book plane tickets like that post about the football in Lisbon and not even know what country they’re flying into? If I fly home to Ireland from the Netherlands it states ‘Amsterdam, Netherlands to Dublin, Ireland’. Do American plane tickets not state the country?
The problem is, Americans have no concept of world maps and locations of countries. Many can't even locate the U.S when asked. For all they know, Portugal may border Iran.
No, they are concerned because the likely hood of terror attacks happening at big public events is increased given the current tensions in the Middle East and when that happens Europe experiences an upsurge in attacks - they know what country they are flying to - they are just asking if there had been any indication that threats had been made in that locale
@@mehallica666I once had an American claim that Ireland is located south of Britain 😂 and she was adamant enough in her belief that she argued with me for a good 5 minutes lmao
@@billster7424 i definitely would not. seems like the whole of America is just fake. the food, the media, politeness. sad way to live, I'd rather live in china or russia than america.
@travisdingolaite6184 That’s an… interesting take. I’m not saying this for the sake of the U.S but believe me man, if you lived in an actual authoritarian regime you wouldn’t be able to say how much you’d rather live elsewhere. You’re entitled to your opinion, but one of these days you might regret commenting that.
@@billster7424 i know how corrupt china is, and how much control it has over their citizens. i also know how bad russia is, so yeah you're probably right. i still dislike America though and never want to visit.
@travisdingolaite6184 which is fair enough and I respect your travel decisions. Just next time say “I wouldn’t like to live in America” rather than I would rather live in China and Russia. One gives off more sincere vibes that are unarguable and the other makes you appear childish.
@@LilacMorelli 1st of all our health care ain't as bad as Canada's who will offer you death then help. 2nd if you go out of big cities guns ain't that bad or go to Maine . But most gun crime is easily solvable by rising mental health care access and making it free and rising wages and lower housing prices. Because unlike your European been told most shooter or people who have committed homicides are people in need not psychopaths. And just stay out of the big cities and you won't have problems and most of the time small towns or places aren't crime ridden places and if you're worried about that look at the states or cities with the lowest crime rate and best healthcare.
@@cainsmyth53 yeah I get what you mean, I'm Canadian but my background is very diverse thanks to my immigrant mom and my dad with indigenous descent on his mom's side. I have to laugh every time one of those dumbasses pull that because they don't even know where Poland or Belarus are on the map and look at you like you grew a second head in front of them let alone know that Africa is a continent and not a country
@21stcentury-schizoid-dude it's honestly scary how many let's be honest americans. Don't know the world map and I'm not expecting you to know all the country's but cmon atleast Europe lol
Techincally true. Just with clocks that don't have a digital display you are automatically bound to a 12 hour display, still got a handfull of those sitting around at home. And to be honest I've gotten so used to that 12 hour display that a 24 hour one just weirds me out. And no I'm not some crazy American person. Wenn überhaupt bin ich eine verrückte deutsche Person.
@@timbo3286 Dann bist du aber sehr speziell, mein Freund, meine Armbanduhr ist auch analog und ich lese die trotzdem im 24-Stundenformat ab. Nachmittags denke ich sofort 16 Uhr und nicht 4 Uhr, wenn der Zeiger an eben dieser Stelle steht. Das könnte aber auch daran liegen, dass auf meiner Uhr eh keine Zahlen stehen.
@@timbo3286 To this day I question why 24 hour analog clocks/watches are not the average or at least common, I would immediately buy one if I saw it in a shop
My father was born and bred Irish going back generations. I don't consider myself Irish as I wasn't born there and never lived there - but I'm 50% of Irish descent. During a discussion about family heritage, an American once told me she was 'more Irish' than me because her gt grandparents (from each of her parents) were Irish 🤣
@@ColdCreekBtry living in buildings that are specifically designed to trap heat and keep everything warmer. And extremely high humidity. And roads that aren't built to deal with heat and literally melt because of it. And severe droughts on a small island nation with a very high and dense population. That's modern summers in Britain.
@@illogicalsavings8268 no, no, no that is wayyyy too complicated, you have to understand that they are american, and its very offensive to try to push these liberal ideologies onto them such as "common sense"
Look, at least we get a good laugh out of it when some poor American thinks that because their great great grandmother's second cousin's cat's brother was from Skibbereen, they've more Irish blood in them than any other person on this Earth.
Kind of like how you label Americans, as if we’re not made up of 50 states that span thousands of miles and contain hundreds of different subcultures. But we’re all just a bunch of cowboy hat wearing yokels to you.
@@danieljohnson2005 Comparing independent European countries to the states of the USA is comparing apples to oranges. Sure - the US states vary, just like e.g. the German states or French regions vary from each other. However the European countries have different languages, types of governments and parliaments, heads of state, laws, cultures, internal and foreign politics, militaries, religions, everything.
Some of these remind me of a friend of mine who went on holiday to India, when we called to see how they were enjoying it they said it was great but they were surprised about how many Indians there were 😂
I bet they'd love a cashless society because they can add all these extra charges as tips and the person paying won't even notice because they're not physically handing over the extra cash
When people say things like "My great-great-great grandfather......" they fail to realise that they actually have 16 great-great-great-grandfathers, and another 16 great-great-great grandmothers. Picking your heritage on the ethnicity of one of them is plainly ridiculous. This, of course, may not be the case if you're from Alabama or Norfolk, where you may have considerably fewer, DIFFERENT ancestors.
A Gym is definitely a Gymnasium, which is a type of highschool in Germany which exists since 1526. I went to one and it would be great if Americans would have a better education, damn.
I mean...gymnasium comes from the Greek meaning naked via another Ancient Greek term meaning exercise or school and entered English as a term for a place for exercise in the late 16th century. The whole history of the word, including as used by the Americans, is European.
the "gymnasium" thing is actually a pretty funny. like the guy above me already stated. it comes from the greek and was a place in which men would train their body and mind. meaning in an old gymnasium you would either wrestle naked with other men or study and discuss certain subjects with your fellow men. the english and the germans simply took the word and only focused on of these aspects while ignoring the other.
And that's just in Northern Europe. In southern Europe we need them because it just gets way too hot. Some people don't have them/don't use them because they can't afford it, otherwise, they definitely would. It gets so hot that regular fans don't do the job anymore. In fact, they can be worse because they send all the hot air your way... And I say that as someone who lives in the sunniest city in Europe which is also pretty humid because it's located at the coast!!
Sorry didnt mean all. Should of said a large percentage cant as of course theres still a lot who can, just a low percentage of their overall population
@@zeppelinshy eh. We’re used to people generalizing us the same way we’re used to people thinking we’re the same as canadians and vice versa. It’s annoying but what can ya do?
8:33 It's genuinely impressive that they've hunted the dead fella to the county. In my experiences, they usually say that they don't know or some bollocks like county Ulster. Mad props to the yank, dead serious.
my friend went on an american exchange, and told me that they aren’t taught geography and are still taught simple algebra by 17. i’m not surprised that a lot of them are so dense, it’s very sad honestly
That’s not even remotely true. In most public schools, geography is taught from 3rd grade onwards, and by 17 students should be expected to be studying calculus, or at least trigonometry.
It really depends on where in the US. We don’t have a uniform or regulated schooling system within states, never mind across the whole country. At my school, I learned basic geography and government structure in 5th grade (age 10-11), and algebra in 8th grade (age 13-14). I am 16 and have taken physics, algebra 2, pre-calc, and statistics. But I’m not surprised American’s are so bad at history/geography though, I had one year of world history and two years of US history (imo two years is too much for only 600 years worth of history).
@@siames3cat I learned Trig at 15, and I’ve always been slow at math. I threw out 17 as the maximum age when anyone in American public schools should still be learning trigonometry, to account for special needs and late learners.
My Ancestry involves England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and other Northwestern European Countries. Never have I said I am from any of those countries I am English born and raised.
It is pretty common for Europe. We live in a melting pot. My family tree (as far as it known down to the early 17 Century) shows people from Austria, Poland, France, Swiss and the rest Germans from the south and one Nepalese (as been told by my grandmother, could not detect this one in the archives). So yes. And who knows what happened before.
The question about whether they'd be safe in Portugal due to something going on in the Middle East reminded me of a similar comment I read where an American's parents were worried about their safety living in croatia because of the war in Ukraine and the wars in the Middle East.
@dogmuncher_69 says the Sidemen Compilation channel, I’m sure you would know what peak entertainment is. If you’re going to slander any culture be specific you brash little goblin. And second off why tf is your username freaking “Dog Muncher?!” What’s up with that
It’s not even that we can’t read it. A lot of us use it. But obviously the majority of the population has been accustomed to the 12 hour clock for so many generations. It’s the dumbest thing to argue about.
@@ColdCreekBBut everybody else in other countries can read both 12 and 24 hour? Its not a valid argument to say we learn one so we cant possibly learn the other
@@Ukraineaissance2014 It’s just dumb to argue about a format of time anyway. It’s all the same time in the end, so who cares? Tell me, what does it really matter?
Funny how you first clarify how the staff in America relies on tips and then you say: I dunno, American staff is just so much..better." Yeah their survival relies on it. You'll find that prisoners in North Korea are really hard working folk as well.
@@jonasg.bisgaard1086Wait, but a server in Europe still relies on the customer coming in. What’s the difference? I’ll tell you what the difference is: American servers make significantly more money than their European counterparts. I’m speaking from experience. I made over 70k as a server in the early 2000s. No one’s making that kind of money in Europe.
@@danieljohnson2005American just means someone who comes from America, the same way people that come from Ireland are Irish. Not everything is about ethnicity, as the entire debate is sparked from the fact that some “Irish” people have barely been there.
I don't know much about my family history as it's so diverse. I only have to go back to my grandparents who were Irish, Welsh, Italian and Dutch respectively. Imagine how many other counties I might be able to selectivity claim I'm from if I went back to "great great great"...
I don't know mine, apart from Dutch, Dutch, Dutch, Dutch, Dutch and far away some Romanian gypsies. I bet there is a secret German in there though. Does Russian count if the uncle married into the family?
Because sales tax is devolved at the state level, so they all individually set their own sales tax rate, and goods are distributed between all the states, so... Crazy I know, but I guess it is what it is.
@@naedanger123 It still would be viable to include the taxes in the shelf price. The only difference would be ticket price depending on what state you're in.
@@naedanger123 Still can't understand the problem. Here in Finland the price you see is the price you pay. All the extras must be included. The price is either on a sticker on each individual item, or on a shelf. In both ways the total price is set by the shop. The price is then read from the bar code by the cashier. Anyway everything is in the computer system, so all the taxes etc. can easily be added or changed - even shop by shop, if necessary.
@@timoterava7108 Man you’re asking the wrong person, seems mad to me too. I guess I get why it was like that before computers were so widespread, but nowadays all of that could easily be calculated out before even making the labels, even on a state-by-state basis.
Same, my mom has her entire family genealogy mapped out meanwhile I can't find anything for my father's side of my family past my grandma because the government destroyed a lot of documents on indigenous people including residential school records ughhhh
4:05 I also agree, but also only too a certain degree. Bad or mediocre service describes Northern and Central Europe pretty good. But nobody is more welcoming than Italians.
American here. That tipping system sounds like the way a mafia boss tips. I agree with waitstaff, taxi drivers, delivery drivers, housekeeping, valet service and people who help you get your stuff from point A to point B, but I have never tipped a front desk clerk, doorman, or everyone who performs a common courtesy. We do tip a lot, but that list was straight movie tipping, there!
I just don't understand tipping someone for DOING THEIR JOB. Like... yes, the taxi driver drove me, but I already paid him, why should I pay more than he asked for? If I am feeling generous and the ride was very pleasant, I might give a tip, but otherwise? No, that would just feel weird. And then there is this weird % thing... why should the tip be based on how much I paid for the service? It doesn't make sense. Of course, I would tip if I visited the U.S., but I am very glad I don't have to do that here.
@@GGysar Yeah, it's kind of like a makeshift desperate form of socialism as our country sinks further yet into belligerent, willful (as far as I can tell) ignorance. God bless the freakin' US.
@@GGysar "Of course, I would tip if I visited the U.S." Why? You're not benefiting anybody. And you "don't have to do that" here in the States either. What all the whining dullards who've imagined that tipping is mandatory never mention is that employers have to meet wages with their own dime if tips don't cover it. Nobody should tip for anything other than actual exceptional service.
actually, 24 hour or "military" time is becoming more popular in America, especially in the South where I was from. who knows maybe this is from its whole "what the military uses" reputation it has state side
i hope 24 hour clock completely kicks out 12 hour clock. 12 hour clock sucks in every way, its time to upgrade. 24 hour clock is superior in every way, especially when half the time boomers cant seem to be bothered to put whether or not ITS AM OR PM so I HAVE NO CLUE WHICH TO TAKE IT AS
@@alexkade1506your argument is completely garbage, lmao average 12 hour clock fan. grow up, live in modern times. we have a better form of time telling now. you're probably like 50 years old lol
I’m from Canada and I’ve worked front desk for two different hotels. And sometimes people like to give tips for the information you can give them. Like I was born and raised here so I know damn well what restaurant is the best depending on your cravings, I’ll also know the best tourist places to go and best small businesses to check out. Some people really value that. I didn’t expect tips but it was a nice surprise.
You are correct, but you're up against US lack of geographical knowledge. "Latitude " isn't a concept understood by most Yanks. Remember, they think Canadians live in igloos and ride polar bears to school!
@@knottyal2428 They also don't know that a predominantly tropical/desert country like Australia receives more snowfall than the entire country of Switzerland, and that kangaroos are hopping all over Sydney.
The one about people complaining about too many Spanish people on their holiday was actually people from England and reported in The Sun. I'm sure I've seen you show it on here before. Some people over here in the UK can be as bad as the Americans you showed, tbh.
@@johnadams9314 Ah ok, I didn't realise from the video. Thanks for explaining. I mostly didn't want the stupidity of those Brits to be placed onto Americans. We should accept the stupidity of our own and the laughter that cones from it if we want to be able to laugh at the stupidity of people from other countries.
@@johnadams9314I mean, Spanish people technically are hispanic. Hispanic means you originate/come from a spanish speaking country. On the Latino part... well, some people claim that if you're from a country that speaks a romance language, you can be considered Latino. However, that comment probably meant Latino as in latin american which spanish people are not.
@@johnadams9314 Oh, it was one of those comments about how Spanish is only a language and not a nationality that some people stupidly believe in. My mistake.
I live in the uk but I’m unable to live in the hot summers we are getting now. But the rain is lit. Literally half my town was underwater last week but I was enjoying it
trust me, you don't want to envy us. a lot of the time is it raining here and cloudy? yes. is it also boiling hot and bordering unbearable in the summer, with bleeding humid heat? also yes. i also love the cold, rain and cloudy days, and I hate the sun as well. but its just not worth it. i still haven't healed from 40c record breaker last year... I'm scarred for life from those couple days and I'm sure most of the people in the UK are as well
I hear ya about the rain. I live just above you on Vancouver Island and the average annually for Henderson Lake here is 7296 mm (23 ft) the record is 9307 mm. It's the wettest place in NA. I landscape year-round in it too.
America's a huge and diverse country with a ton of good things in it. It's just like everywhere else in having some bad aspects. Don't let it get you down.
Seriously don't apologise every country in the world is the same!.. its very easy to take a small section of a country and point and laugh at their silly answers and make fun out of a country! You could say the exact same things about the UK I bet hardly any people under 24 can name 5 American states or American lakes never mind American history but alot of us leftwing so called open minded generation like to point and laugh at America cos they don't realise their own country is in a far worse mess and the people and culture they have has become so diluted and corrupted by years of pacification.... its very COOL to shit on America just take a look at this comment section but people ought to take a long hard loom at their own countries and people's before acting so superior!!... and no I'm not American I was born in Greece but lives in the UK for 20 years after moving here at 15...
Well my lovely take the teasing with a pinch of salt, the main reason we Micky take is because we like you. We Brits are funny buggers, we tend to tease and laugh at those we like. Those we don’t like we are polite to, to the point of disdain it’s the equivalent of looking down our noses. If we’re taking the piss out of you basically you’re part of the gang. And sadly because some of you take yourselves so seriously they make the perfect target for British sarcasm. Believe me we have plenty of plonkers over here too😊
The problem with 24 hour clocks for Americans is that most of them can't count past 12 because that's the number of fingers and thumbs that most of them have.
I love the idea that your great great great grandpa has any bearing on who you are as a person bc mine was the archbishop of canterbury and im trans and gay so that man would HATE me 😭
@@Ukraineaissance2014 he was at the top of the church whilst being gay was a crime for religious reasons lmao how do you think he felt about gay people?
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American customer service only appears to be great because the staff are forced to put on that attitude all of the time. I’d much rather be served by someone who isn’t forced to look happy all day than an overly friendly soulless smile
@@md_studios9819I’ve experienced both, and I think you’re full of shit. Americans are just naturally friendlier and more caring than Europeans. Europeans take it as fake because they’re so horrible that they can’t imagine people who are actually nice.
(0:30) It's not most of the world, but a lot of the developed world and people on the internet use 24 hours in their daily life. But I do think 12 hours is way overused on the internet, and anytime something is in 24 hours in non-English, it's almost always translated to 12 hours as if 24 hours is invalid in English.
(2:10) There we go as an example. Defaulting to 12 hours, despite countries there using 24 hours. I'm not saying to mix between the two system. But just like metric is for science and stats, 24 hours should be that too. It reminds me of a map of Europe about dinner time, giving times like "6:00" without am/pm listed, and no, people would eat breakfast at that time. I get it's 12 hours pm, but almost every country in Europe uses 24 hours.
Here in Ireland we talk so much shit about those americans that are like "my great great great great granddaddy moved to america during the Irish potato famine so I'm basically Saint Patrick" I would consider an American to actually be Irish if at least one of their parents was born in Ireland
A dialect is an accent that exists in the same country as the one you talk about. Someone from Norwich has a different *dialect* than someone from Birmingham because they're in the same country, but someone from Norwich has a different *accent* than someone from New York because they're in different countries
That has nothing to do with the country. An accent is only some words where letters are pronounced differently. A dialect may use completely different words and sometimes even grammar. So a dialect might be on the edge to its own language.
7:50 fun fact: apparently in germany they study american propagand from ages 16-19 in school thats mainly about the 'american dream' Pretty interesting stuff if you ask me
I can't speak for most of Germany but where I went to school, we talked about the 'american dream' for half a year in english lessons and it was one of the topics of the end of the year exams. That was in... I think 8th or 9th year class, so for ages 14-16. It started with geography, learning a bit about each of the states. The american dream was more part of the history section after that and the main question was something like "How did the 'american dream' in ideology and usage change over time and does it still exist?" It was possible to have this topic again in classes 10-13 but I do not remember writing any more exams about that, thankfully. I thought of it as boring once you had talked about and defended your opinion on the topic. The part I was most shocked to learn about was the whole pledge to the flag thing every morning in schools because it mirrors quite exactly what school children had to do in Nazi times in Germany in front of a picture of Hitler.
I'm 13 in the UK, and we just finished reading Of Mice and Men (great book) we had multiple lessons on how the "American Dream" was just a fucking lie during the great depression
24 hour time is called military time in the US so you would think they'd love it.
They would if they could count past 12 😳
Americans hate everything they cant understand. Its brilliant to watch.
They cant count past 1. It's why they call it the singular "math".
I use military time
As an American I use the 24 hour system because it makes more sense than the 12 hour system.
It's really sad because in a few places over here, tipping is simply a kind thing to do to thank the workers, but over there in the US that's basically the only pay you'll get as a worker.
Actually the law means that if the wages + tips don't take the wages over minimum wage the employer has to make up the difference to minimum wage. All you do by tipping in the us is mean the employer gets to keep more money.
@@oli_onion Which is a stupid system and an excuse for restaurants to hog the money
@@sezuin_6577fr
Tipping is "simply a kind thing to do to thank the workers" everywhere in the U.S.
@@sezuin_6577 Tell it to the tippers supporting a trash system.
TBH, I find service in the US to be overbearing and intrusive. It's bad enough when all servers worldwide are in a conspiracy to wait until you've got a mouthful of food before asking if your food is OK, but in the US, they interrupt you every fucking minute to top up glasses, like I couldn't do it myself as and when I want to.
Just confirm that I got what I ordered and it's cooked right, then fuck off until the bottle or plate is empty.
They're just desperate to get enough tips to be able to pay their rent.
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@hypsyzygy506 They are way too intrusive.
@@hypsyzygy506 The quickest way to not get tipped by most Europeans - the borderline harassment they practice in the US. As the OP said, just let us eat our meal without constant interruptions. To us, good service is to allow us to enjoy our meal in peace, but be available if we need u, in which case we will look for u and signal.
We live in Australia. My son quit his hospitality job because they are forcing staff to do this, he said he felt like a telemarketer harassing people instead of serving them their food.
For a country where they’re so proud of being American, it’s weird they never want to solely identify with it
Bro, it’s been pushed on me so much that I’m drifting more towards my other nationality than my American one
@@md_studios9819Good. Give up your American citizenship, please. We won’t miss you.
It is because we are a country of immigrants that part of the process of meeting new people is to discuss family heritage.
It is weird to you maybe but it is quite natural in a melting pot culture.
@@kurtwicklund8901 that I do get, especially if your parents or grandparents were immigrants and you’re part of a large community. It’s when a 10th generation US citizen identifies as Irish-American because a great (many more greats) grandparent moved to the colonies in 1701 that amuses me
It’s never English-American though, funny that…
@@kurtwicklund8901 Australia is full of immigrants too. 50% of us are either born or have one or both parents born overseas yet we still call ourselves Aussies, even me who wasn't born here.
If I was American and I found out that 1% of me wasn't, I'd be fucking ecstatic too
That doesn’t make sense. If you’re born in America, you’re American. There is no % that isn’t. Lmao.
This made me go, hehehehehehehe like fucking peter griffin, well done sir.
I'd be fucking devestated if I found 1% of me was American
American isn't a race
no one said that@@KaliCoCali
Dude is right about microwaves here in the UK though. We don't have them - we have magic hotboxes instead, that we activate with a spell - "Foodicrus Heatoractus!" We buy them from Diagon Alley.
🤣 awesome.
You forgot about the magic jug that boils water if we say “Boilium” as the magic heat box only works for food and soup 😂😂
And in Poland we don't have refrigerators, but these metal boxes full of gnomes that cool the food with their magic powers and turn off the light when the door is closed. Unfortunately, these little shitts also piss in the milk and that causes it to spoil.
And instead of freezers we use magic coldrectangles
There's a huge difference between humid 30°C and dry 30°C. When there's a lot water in air you don't get cold by sweating. The water on your skin simply doesn't evaporate quickly
30°C water feels a lot warmer than 30°C air, as it requires more energy to heat. Therefore humid 30 is awful
It’s like that in Texas. It’s awful
I think its when its out of nowhere too. I live in Japan now which has insane humidity but 30 degrees still felt cooler to me here than it does in the UK but I think its because its regularly 35-40 degrees here which just feels stupidly hot
In the UK I've known Australians to melt in 30C and Norwegians to complain about the cold at -3C, the number values are seemingly meaningless here.
@@DjDolHaus86 well the problem is that the moment it gets slightly cold, the air is humid and forms tiny droplets on your skin, which creates the same effect as sweating, even though it's cold
The funniest thing about American immigrants is that they call themselves expats (expatriots) because immigrant is a no-no word
Brits do the same tbf. it's always a sign to me that someone may have prejudices against immigrants.
that's not true... I've never heard anyone use expats outside of the military and looking up the difference it's because expats are temporary workers
@@RNS_Aurelius Never heard a brit say expatriot in my life
@@illogicalsavings8268 Ive never heard any brit say expatriot in full but Ive heard plenty say expat (whether they know what the full word means or not).
@RNS_Aurelius
I don't think anyone who uses "expat" has prejudices but there's definitely a strong correlation. It's definitely a red flag. Especially if they refuse to learn the language used in their new "home"
Yes, American have some issues with their roots. I've met a guy who visited Poland and wast annoyed with everything. Some things were too modern for him - it's not that how he imagined the land of his great-grandfathers. He was shocked that there are no Polka bands in Poland (Polka is a Czech dance and while it it's a significant part of folklore repertoire it's just one of the dozens folk dances in Poland). And he was almost furious that people are not impressed by his roots (he knows maybe two words in Polish - the rest were russian but he was 100% they are Polish and we are wrong) - hey! Should we bow before him or what? He was like a walking comedy sketch.
Yeah identity and heritage is a really complicated thing but that guy is entitled as hell, I'm surprised no gopniks came to beat him up or someone got fed up with him and spit in his food while he wasn't looking(first generation child of a polish immigrant, I would honestly do that to him), considering geography isn't introduced in the American school curriculum until age 13 I'm not surprised. Głupia suka ssąca błoto lmao
Wow. Utter ignorance. Wonder if he went to Austria next to visit the Sydney opera House! 😉
This is nothing compared to what they do at home and consider to be the tradition of their ancestors.
I was once at an "Oktoberfest" in Ohio... next to people in Dindl cut out to the belly button and plastic lederhosen, apart from the bad beer and the food that wasn't really German but was sold as "authentic"... it was like in Germany , (although only tourists wear that shit with a deep neckline and fake leather pants), but suddenly a guy appeared wearing a horned helmet and a bearskin and his wife Heidi in a shield maiden costume ... no idea what they wanted to express with that, so surreal. ...
But the crowning moment was when the musicians and the traditional costume group presented the "traditional German dance" ... it was the duck dance that we danced as a carnival gag in the 80s ... we Germans are still shaking our heads at ourselves for this one "culturelle" derailment/nonsense and see it as a collective moment of mental derangement in the face of drunken party mood...🦆
By the way, I still don't know how they came up with the idea that it would be a German tradition to hide a pickled cucumber in the Christmas tree.🤣🤣
@@andreamuller9009 You got me here. Image of German culture in American awareness is the worst thing that happened to Germany since herr Schickelgruber applied for German citizenship.
@@andreamuller9009 Christmas tree is a German tradition so maybe they throw everything to one sack. Be greatful it's not a sauerkraut :D
I have dual citizenship with Ireland and an Irish passport. I still wouldn't claim to be Irish with anything close to the confidence of an American who's got 5% Irish on their 23andMe results.
ok
yeah, my great grandad is scottish but i would never claim to be scottish. the fact her great great great grandad was irish and she calls herself irish is crazy
my grandads irish (im 25%) and i dont call myself irish 😭😭
@@thesilliestofbillysif you are american i think Irish-American applies here
Not if 0.001 percent of your blood is American
Nah, i think you are irish
Not by blood, but if you start living in Ireland i guess you'd be irish
I find the tipping thing so weird, like why should I as a customer pay for your wages? Isn't that the responsibility of the boss??
In europe if a business can't afford to pay it's staff properly it doesn't exist
@@AlexLRThat's how it should be...
@@AlexLRexactly, i dont get how people guilt trip customers to pay the staff and try act like its a normal thing
If your employer can't or won't pay you a decent wage.
Then your employer should not be in business.
Well either way you're paying for the staffs wages by visiting the place. But that doesn't mean it's a good system, it's like they don't tell you the full price untill your done with their service. I'm happy I aren't American.
"The waiting staff in the US are so much more enthusiastic."
That's a funny way to pronounce 'desperate'.
It's a Bri'ish pronouciation. Accents y'know.
Spaniard here, there was a brit lady complaining that in her holidays in Benidorm (Valencia) there were too many spaniards. The world we live in huh?
And I assume she voted Leave in the Brexit poll. Apologies about her and her type from the other 48%
I live in a town where American cruise ships sometimes visit. When the ignorant American lardballs comes rolling into town, they always complain how things aren't like back in the US of A. So what's the point in travelling at all if you want every destination to be exactly like the place you came from?
ahh i seen you've met "one of those" brits. don't worry about her, she doesn't convey what the rest of us are like. also, as a brit, naturally I have been to your lovely country a fair few times. keep it up, spaniard.
@@travisdingolaite6184ahh almost like you should not judge a group of people by just one or two 🤓
@@glanty americans are different tho. its not the same.
3:23 my dad told me a good point once about them being "kinder" than European waitresses. they are a lot kinder and faster is because they rely on the tips, and you would more easily tip a person who is doing their job fast and having chit chat than a normal waitress who simply says "there you go" or something along those lines and walks in normal speeds. The waitresses know this, so they act kinder and put on a huge smile for tips. Some also use technicues like the ponytail technicue (that's at least one I've heard) and things like that. Its kind of the same thing as when people would tell things about their family, friends, pets and other thing about their life to make themselves feel more human to the attacker, and hopefully stop the attack or whatever they were planning to not happen. (Just the attack being not being tipped in this case)
I feel called out, I've already got my (genuine) backstory ready just in case I get a gun shoved in my face and the attacker needs a reason not to shoot me.
I was planning on not mentioning my autism, but instead saying I work with kids that have autism.
Which is true...they're in a group with me, we all work together, but it sounds much more like I'm the one they depend on, as a teacher, if I formulate it this way.
I was also planning on mentioning my sisters pet dog, how my therapist was proud of me and felt I was doing better (true story) and how I was busy with a project for a friend, that she is waiting to receive (also true.)
So I guess I won't be original then.
Would knock-knock jokes work better?
(Knock-knock? Who's there? It's me, Knock-ing you the fuck out dude *BAM BAM, GRAB THE GUN WHHRRAAAAAAAHHH!* )
@@Widdekuu91 This is the kinda stuff i be planning while not getting sleep (ALSO AUTISM TWINSIESSSSSS)
I always tip service staff in restaurants wherever I am but I am NOT tipping you for holding a door open for me or to shout for a taxi.
It's stupid cause u can do all of it yourself
I tip staff if their service is hood.
When I lived in Dublin, everyone would mistaken me for American (I'm Canadian) and the one thing everyone would go on and on about is how much they hate it when Americans come over to Ireland and say "my great great great grandfather was Irish, so I'm Irish too."
I just wanna live in Ireland cause they funny ass people
We usually label these people as plastic paddies. My usual response to their BS is to tell them to try and get an Irish passport.
@@Okiny-q8b we are funny ass people until you bring up the amazing quality of leo varadkar and simon harris 😐😐😐
A friend in Dublin said of the yanks claiming they were Irish because gggg father came from Ireland 'Foo king plastic paddy's from the McRoots clan based in foo king Boston!'
"Why cant Irish people spell things the way they're sound, its an Anglo-based language". This just made me cackle
Americans should go to Ireland, describe the language as 'anglo', then count how many teeth they go home with.
@@vermis8344 I'm not sure too many Americans would know that Irish is a separate language, with its very own spelling system, and very much not in the Germanic family. They are usually referring to 'Hiberno-English' when they talk about someone speaking 'Irish'.
British people are just as confused - but in that they refer to Irish as Gaelic instead.
"Why can't Americans pronounce words propaly" is the answer to that question.
Most of the English words don't sound as they're written, there are exceptions all around.
Every time someone mentions the knife crime I say “Would you rather be unarmed against a gunman or a knife man?” and it completely stumps them.
This one comes up when comparing gun crime in the UK and the USA, knife crime is much higher in the USA than in the UK.
I’d rather not be unarmed
@@frankmurray1549 per capita too so they can't even use the "We have more population" excuse
@@lordpugsie9091 You are of course right, I should have stated per capita.
can a guy stab a group of people from 50 feet away at a rate of 30 times a second?
It confuses me how people can book plane tickets like that post about the football in Lisbon and not even know what country they’re flying into? If I fly home to Ireland from the Netherlands it states ‘Amsterdam, Netherlands to Dublin, Ireland’.
Do American plane tickets not state the country?
The problem is, Americans have no concept of world maps and locations of countries. Many can't even locate the U.S when asked. For all they know, Portugal may border Iran.
Blame our education system and also the fact a lot Americans don't really care about other countries rather than their own.
No, they are concerned because the likely hood of terror attacks happening at big public events is increased given the current tensions in the Middle East and when that happens Europe experiences an upsurge in attacks - they know what country they are flying to - they are just asking if there had been any indication that threats had been made in that locale
@@HeatOnTheBeatOTCwhat?
@@mehallica666I once had an American claim that Ireland is located south of Britain 😂 and she was adamant enough in her belief that she argued with me for a good 5 minutes lmao
I love when people say that people in America are just so much nicer. Like no, they just act nice expecting to be paid for it
Man, I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather manufactured niceness rather than the full brunt of non-incentivized surliness
@@billster7424 i definitely would not. seems like the whole of America is just fake. the food, the media, politeness. sad way to live, I'd rather live in china or russia than america.
@travisdingolaite6184 That’s an… interesting take. I’m not saying this for the sake of the U.S but believe me man, if you lived in an actual authoritarian regime you wouldn’t be able to say how much you’d rather live elsewhere. You’re entitled to your opinion, but one of these days you might regret commenting that.
@@billster7424 i know how corrupt china is, and how much control it has over their citizens. i also know how bad russia is, so yeah you're probably right. i still dislike America though and never want to visit.
@travisdingolaite6184 which is fair enough and I respect your travel decisions. Just next time say “I wouldn’t like to live in America” rather than I would rather live in China and Russia. One gives off more sincere vibes that are unarguable and the other makes you appear childish.
I can't, for the life of me, fathom why someone would willingly live in the US knowing that there are way better opportunities elsewhere.
The usa ain't that bad
@@parkerwebb3470healthcare and guns beg to differ
@@LilacMorelliguns are fine. It’s the mentals that are the problem.
Theres to many issues in america@@parkerwebb3470
@@LilacMorelli 1st of all our health care ain't as bad as Canada's who will offer you death then help. 2nd if you go out of big cities guns ain't that bad or go to Maine . But most gun crime is easily solvable by rising mental health care access and making it free and rising wages and lower housing prices. Because unlike your European been told most shooter or people who have committed homicides are people in need not psychopaths. And just stay out of the big cities and you won't have problems and most of the time small towns or places aren't crime ridden places and if you're worried about that look at the states or cities with the lowest crime rate and best healthcare.
Nothing rags me more than the typical " I'm scottish" " I'm irish" "I'm Italian" "I'm German" naw mage your American
People often say it mostly sarcastically but it's good to be proud of herutage
@@thematthew761 but often when asked about this heritage they know nothing of the country the apparently come from
That can be annoying but it doesn't necessarily offend me if someone says where their family came from or such@@cainsmyth53
@@cainsmyth53 yeah I get what you mean, I'm Canadian but my background is very diverse thanks to my immigrant mom and my dad with indigenous descent on his mom's side. I have to laugh every time one of those dumbasses pull that because they don't even know where Poland or Belarus are on the map and look at you like you grew a second head in front of them let alone know that Africa is a continent and not a country
@21stcentury-schizoid-dude it's honestly scary how many let's be honest americans. Don't know the world map and I'm not expecting you to know all the country's but cmon atleast Europe lol
24 hour clock make's more sense since theres 24 hours in a day
Bro don’t spill the secrets Americans didn’t know that
um actually!!! It makes more sense to use am and pm
Techincally true. Just with clocks that don't have a digital display you are automatically bound to a 12 hour display, still got a handfull of those sitting around at home. And to be honest I've gotten so used to that 12 hour display that a 24 hour one just weirds me out. And no I'm not some crazy American person. Wenn überhaupt bin ich eine verrückte deutsche Person.
@@timbo3286 Dann bist du aber sehr speziell, mein Freund, meine Armbanduhr ist auch analog und ich lese die trotzdem im 24-Stundenformat ab. Nachmittags denke ich sofort 16 Uhr und nicht 4 Uhr, wenn der Zeiger an eben dieser Stelle steht. Das könnte aber auch daran liegen, dass auf meiner Uhr eh keine Zahlen stehen.
@@timbo3286 To this day I question why 24 hour analog clocks/watches are not the average or at least common, I would immediately buy one if I saw it in a shop
I have a dad that's Irish, that makes me half Irish, you have a great great great grandad who's Irish. That makes you maybe 5 percent Irish.
Less than that, barely 3% and they want to claim they're Irish LOL
My father was born and bred Irish going back generations. I don't consider myself Irish as I wasn't born there and never lived there - but I'm 50% of Irish descent. During a discussion about family heritage, an American once told me she was 'more Irish' than me because her gt grandparents (from each of her parents) were Irish 🤣
8:07. "I am Irish."
"Your distant relative is Irish, you are not"
"That's what I just said."
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IMO we dont need ac in uk cos cost of maintenance would be higher than just using a £15 fan for a few days of the year
They only need AC and 'climate control' because their houses are made out of paper mashe without insulation
@@illogicalsavings8268you guys were crying last year about record heat that’s normal for us Americans. Lol.
@@ColdCreekBtry living in buildings that are specifically designed to trap heat and keep everything warmer. And extremely high humidity. And roads that aren't built to deal with heat and literally melt because of it. And severe droughts on a small island nation with a very high and dense population. That's modern summers in Britain.
@@ColdCreekB Like george said in the video, it's a different kind of heat. You can't say anything unless you experience it
@@illogicalsavings8268 no, no, no that is wayyyy too complicated, you have to understand that they are american, and its very offensive to try to push these liberal ideologies onto them such as "common sense"
Look, at least we get a good laugh out of it when some poor American thinks that because their great great grandmother's second cousin's cat's brother was from Skibbereen, they've more Irish blood in them than any other person on this Earth.
OMG! This is to much!🤣😢🤣😢🤣🤣🤣🤣
In Germany we say " his/ her grandpa had once a german shepard"🤣
0:52 as a Norwegian, you are not welcome 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
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Yeah I'm British and I agree you should not have to deal with them
We have alot of immigranta here too
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@@VATJON What are immigranta? I'm genuinely interested.
I love how they say Europe like Europe is just one country and not made up of many different diverse nations 😂
Fr 😂
Kind of like how you label Americans, as if we’re not made up of 50 states that span thousands of miles and contain hundreds of different subcultures. But we’re all just a bunch of cowboy hat wearing yokels to you.
@@danieljohnson2005
Comparing independent European countries to the states of the USA is comparing apples to oranges.
Sure - the US states vary, just like e.g. the German states or French regions vary from each other. However the European countries have different languages, types of governments and parliaments, heads of state, laws, cultures, internal and foreign politics, militaries, religions, everything.
@@danieljohnson2005 butthurt murican learn the world map please
@@danieljohnson2005 yet most of you think that Mexico it's just a dry desert
nah honestly dont blame them for saying they have a different ethnicity because of distant heritage, if i was american id be in denial about it too
George always manages to put a smile on my face
As an American I think people need to be educated on the rest of the world before they are even allowed on the internet
1:30 Who serves meals in their car?
Americans think we do: ua-cam.com/video/uwOCOm9Z0YE/v-deo.html
Some of these remind me of a friend of mine who went on holiday to India, when we called to see how they were enjoying it they said it was great but they were surprised about how many Indians there were 😂
How dense is your friend 😭
Just a billion
What's more stressful about American tipping culture to me is just always walking around with that much physical cash in your pocket
You can tip with a card.
I bet they'd love a cashless society because they can add all these extra charges as tips and the person paying won't even notice because they're not physically handing over the extra cash
@@grabble7605 yeah but they practically steal it from you
Its very bizzar to me as Sweden nowdays is boarderline cashless. Many places will even refuse cash 😅
@@grabble7605Or maybe they can be paid better...
When people say things like "My great-great-great grandfather......" they fail to realise that they actually have 16 great-great-great-grandfathers, and another 16 great-great-great grandmothers.
Picking your heritage on the ethnicity of one of them is plainly ridiculous.
This, of course, may not be the case if you're from Alabama or Norfolk, where you may have considerably fewer, DIFFERENT ancestors.
I was just about to comment on your comment saying unless from Alabama but you got there well ahead of me. Well done 👍
Whats with Alabama and Norfolk? Just curious
@@vemijoev suggesting there might be a bit of inbreeding in Alabama and Norfolk 🤣
A Gym is definitely a Gymnasium, which is a type of highschool in Germany which exists since 1526. I went to one and it would be great if Americans would have a better education, damn.
I mean...gymnasium comes from the Greek meaning naked via another Ancient Greek term meaning exercise or school and entered English as a term for a place for exercise in the late 16th century. The whole history of the word, including as used by the Americans, is European.
the "gymnasium" thing is actually a pretty funny. like the guy above me already stated.
it comes from the greek and was a place in which men would train their body and mind. meaning in an old gymnasium you would either wrestle naked with other men or study and discuss certain subjects with your fellow men.
the english and the germans simply took the word and only focused on of these aspects while ignoring the other.
We don't use AC's here, not because they're expensive, but because they're very unnecessary
Yeah. I mean brits have like a week of summer anyway. They dont have to suffer for that long
And that's just in Northern Europe. In southern Europe we need them because it just gets way too hot. Some people don't have them/don't use them because they can't afford it, otherwise, they definitely would. It gets so hot that regular fans don't do the job anymore. In fact, they can be worse because they send all the hot air your way... And I say that as someone who lives in the sunniest city in Europe which is also pretty humid because it's located at the coast!!
The fact Americans cant read 24 hour clocks genuinely scares me
I can. My dad’s ex military and still uses it because of that.
Sorry didnt mean all. Should of said a large percentage cant as of course theres still a lot who can, just a low percentage of their overall population
@@zeppelinshy eh. We’re used to people generalizing us the same way we’re used to people thinking we’re the same as canadians and vice versa. It’s annoying but what can ya do?
It's easy.
@@anthonylong9067 I can do a lot of thing
8:33 It's genuinely impressive that they've hunted the dead fella to the county. In my experiences, they usually say that they don't know or some bollocks like county Ulster. Mad props to the yank, dead serious.
I’m going to France this upcoming spring break and my moms worried about me going because of the war in Israel.
There was this American talk show lady that was afraid about her vacation to Italy because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Buy her a map.
Everytime I get over my prejudice over Americans, I watch one of these videos and end up relapsing
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Same
You're only human 😅
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 Whatever next 😱
Me but not a joke
Well plenty of us find the type of Americans in this video to be annoying. Don’t know if that helps lol
my friend went on an american exchange, and told me that they aren’t taught geography and are still taught simple algebra by 17. i’m not surprised that a lot of them are so dense, it’s very sad honestly
That’s not even remotely true. In most public schools, geography is taught from 3rd grade onwards, and by 17 students should be expected to be studying calculus, or at least trigonometry.
It really depends on where in the US. We don’t have a uniform or regulated schooling system within states, never mind across the whole country. At my school, I learned basic geography and government structure in 5th grade (age 10-11), and algebra in 8th grade (age 13-14). I am 16 and have taken physics, algebra 2, pre-calc, and statistics. But I’m not surprised American’s are so bad at history/geography though, I had one year of world history and two years of US history (imo two years is too much for only 600 years worth of history).
@@PBurns-ng3gw we start trig when 14 in Aus so idk if that’s supposed to be a good thing?
@@PBurns-ng3gw TRIG AT 17? i learnt it when i was 14 in the uk and my cousins (in hongkong) were taught it at 10???
@@siames3cat I learned Trig at 15, and I’ve always been slow at math. I threw out 17 as the maximum age when anyone in American public schools should still be learning trigonometry, to account for special needs and late learners.
My Ancestry involves England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and other Northwestern European Countries.
Never have I said I am from any of those countries I am English born and raised.
Me too only swap Sweden for Spain but if I was a stick of rock I would read English all the way through😊
Who asked
Tbf if you wanted to go so far back everyone is African because that's where early humans evolved and where everyone's heritage will trace back too.
It is pretty common for Europe. We live in a melting pot. My family tree (as far as it known down to the early 17 Century) shows people from Austria, Poland, France, Swiss and the rest Germans from the south and one Nepalese (as been told by my grandmother, could not detect this one in the archives). So yes. And who knows what happened before.
God, as a European, the concept of tipping is so fucked. I've already paid for my drink, food, whatever, why the fuck would I pay AGAIN?
The question about whether they'd be safe in Portugal due to something going on in the Middle East reminded me of a similar comment I read where an American's parents were worried about their safety living in croatia because of the war in Ukraine and the wars in the Middle East.
That’s like saying someone’s concerned about their safety living in Anchorage because of Mexican cartels
Americans are so entertaining
There not
@@aaronlee2k03they’re*
@@ColdCreekBhis point still stands, apart from a rare few comedy channelss, no American has ever said anything funny in history which is concerning 😂
@@dogmuncher_69 there’s no way you even know that. What an extreme reach. Lol.
@dogmuncher_69 says the Sidemen Compilation channel, I’m sure you would know what peak entertainment is.
If you’re going to slander any culture be specific you brash little goblin.
And second off why tf is your username freaking “Dog Muncher?!” What’s up with that
Random American: I'm Irish cause my great great great grandfather twice removed was-🤡
Then you show them a map and ask them to point at Armagh and they get confused and ask "What's an Armagh?"
@@brendanm6921 😂😂😂
and always, every single time 'from galway' because they heard a few awful romanticising songs about the place and dublin would be too obvious.
@@brendanm6921 nah you could just ask them the general location of ireland and they look at you like they just saw a ghost
@@Ukraineaissance2014 as someone that was born in galway, I heavily dislike Americans who claim to be Irish, but regardless its rather funny
I will never not find it laughable that americans can't read a 24-hour clock as if the day doesn't consist of 24 hours
It’s not even that we can’t read it. A lot of us use it. But obviously the majority of the population has been accustomed to the 12 hour clock for so many generations. It’s the dumbest thing to argue about.
@@ColdCreekBBut everybody else in other countries can read both 12 and 24 hour? Its not a valid argument to say we learn one so we cant possibly learn the other
@@Ukraineaissance2014 It’s just dumb to argue about a format of time anyway. It’s all the same time in the end, so who cares? Tell me, what does it really matter?
Funny how you first clarify how the staff in America relies on tips and then you say: I dunno, American staff is just so much..better."
Yeah their survival relies on it. You'll find that prisoners in North Korea are really hard working folk as well.
But the American tipping cuture is still bad. People should not reliey on the tips from others to make a living.
@@jonasg.bisgaard1086Wait, but a server in Europe still relies on the customer coming in. What’s the difference? I’ll tell you what the difference is: American servers make significantly more money than their European counterparts. I’m speaking from experience. I made over 70k as a server in the early 2000s. No one’s making that kind of money in Europe.
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If that were true, why are they so butthurt over losing a few tips from Europeans?
@@danieljohnson2005 Waiting staff in high end restaurants, maybe. But the typical server in a dinner in the middle of the Ozarks? I think not.
Are you gonna tip?
No I need to fund my invasion of Poland.
Found my excuse 😂
2:45 tbf being American is way better than being French
This is true
Don't say the f word man, its bad
I can agree
my dad was born in ireland and i still don't say im irish
won't say i'm aussie either but thats more of a shame thing
Europe: We pay all our workers for their job!
American: That's Hitler!
What do you call a smart person in the USA?
A tourist.
What do u call a stupid joke?
You
@@TheFirstKit8826Found the American, got your feelings hurt?
@ found the European
The US does have world class doctors. It just costs an arm and a leg to have access to them
Exactly. An American who is 70% English, 20% Swedish, 8% French and 2% Irish is Irish.
No. Hes American. Hes not a irish citizen.
@@jonasg.bisgaard1086That’s the joke
@@jonasg.bisgaard1086American isn’t an ethnicity, genius.
@@aliciax5854It’s a dumb joke, just like the person telling it.
@@danieljohnson2005American just means someone who comes from America, the same way people that come from Ireland are Irish. Not everything is about ethnicity, as the entire debate is sparked from the fact that some “Irish” people have barely been there.
I worry about my fellow Americans a lot as well 😭🤚
Especially the Hawaiians man have you seen those guys? 🥶🥶🥶
Americans are just a different breed honestly
I don't know much about my family history as it's so diverse. I only have to go back to my grandparents who were Irish, Welsh, Italian and Dutch respectively. Imagine how many other counties I might be able to selectivity claim I'm from if I went back to "great great great"...
I don't know mine, apart from Dutch, Dutch, Dutch, Dutch, Dutch and far away some Romanian gypsies.
I bet there is a secret German in there though.
Does Russian count if the uncle married into the family?
Fr lmao
i never understand why the price of things in america is before tax? like if im gonna buy something for like £20 i need to know its actually £20
Because sales tax is devolved at the state level, so they all individually set their own sales tax rate, and goods are distributed between all the states, so... Crazy I know, but I guess it is what it is.
@@naedanger123 It still would be viable to include the taxes in the shelf price. The only difference would be ticket price depending on what state you're in.
@@PhantomFilmAustralia See that would require effort on the companies’ parts, and they aren’t all about that ;)
@@naedanger123
Still can't understand the problem. Here in Finland the price you see is the price you pay. All the extras must be included.
The price is either on a sticker on each individual item, or on a shelf. In both ways the total price is set by the shop.
The price is then read from the bar code by the cashier.
Anyway everything is in the computer system, so all the taxes etc. can easily be added or changed - even shop by shop, if necessary.
@@timoterava7108 Man you’re asking the wrong person, seems mad to me too. I guess I get why it was like that before computers were so widespread, but nowadays all of that could easily be calculated out before even making the labels, even on a state-by-state basis.
I do think it's cool when they pull out the family tree to show they're Irish generations back. I can't get past my great-grandma on ancestry lol
Same, my mom has her entire family genealogy mapped out meanwhile I can't find anything for my father's side of my family past my grandma because the government destroyed a lot of documents on indigenous people including residential school records ughhhh
You worry me, George.
That wake up time bit
Replace "we do more" with "we eat more" 😂
24 hour clocks:
Just -12
Congratulations you can now read ‘military time’
4:05
I also agree, but also only too a certain degree.
Bad or mediocre service describes Northern and Central Europe pretty good.
But nobody is more welcoming than Italians.
Italy is defo my favourite country (not counting the UK, I'm from there so I'm biased)
American here. That tipping system sounds like the way a mafia boss tips. I agree with waitstaff, taxi drivers, delivery drivers, housekeeping, valet service and people who help you get your stuff from point A to point B, but I have never tipped a front desk clerk, doorman, or everyone who performs a common courtesy. We do tip a lot, but that list was straight movie tipping, there!
I just don't understand tipping someone for DOING THEIR JOB. Like... yes, the taxi driver drove me, but I already paid him, why should I pay more than he asked for? If I am feeling generous and the ride was very pleasant, I might give a tip, but otherwise? No, that would just feel weird.
And then there is this weird % thing... why should the tip be based on how much I paid for the service? It doesn't make sense.
Of course, I would tip if I visited the U.S., but I am very glad I don't have to do that here.
@@GGysar Yeah, it's kind of like a makeshift desperate form of socialism as our country sinks further yet into belligerent, willful (as far as I can tell) ignorance. God bless the freakin' US.
@@GGysar "Of course, I would tip if I visited the U.S."
Why? You're not benefiting anybody. And you "don't have to do that" here in the States either. What all the whining dullards who've imagined that tipping is mandatory never mention is that employers have to meet wages with their own dime if tips don't cover it. Nobody should tip for anything other than actual exceptional service.
@@davidvanvlerah7825 It's nothing to do with socialism.
that’s sad
4:20 if I had to use one of them to deflect an asteroid, I'd use Aiden Ross because of his density.
1:43 I’m Australian and in some situations, you can drive 20 hours without leaving the state
Three hours without leaving your property...
@@charlietwotimes i have a mate who lives on a cattle station near Coober Pedy and it takes him about that length to cross it
actually, 24 hour or "military" time is becoming more popular in America, especially in the South where I was from. who knows maybe this is from its whole "what the military uses" reputation it has state side
i hope 24 hour clock completely kicks out 12 hour clock. 12 hour clock sucks in every way, its time to upgrade. 24 hour clock is superior in every way, especially when half the time boomers cant seem to be bothered to put whether or not ITS AM OR PM so I HAVE NO CLUE WHICH TO TAKE IT AS
@@travisdingolaite6184can you explain how it is superior also slot of the time you wouldn't do The same things at 6am as you would at 6pm
@@alexkade1506your argument is completely garbage, lmao average 12 hour clock fan. grow up, live in modern times. we have a better form of time telling now. you're probably like 50 years old lol
I’m from Canada and I’ve worked front desk for two different hotels. And sometimes people like to give tips for the information you can give them. Like I was born and raised here so I know damn well what restaurant is the best depending on your cravings, I’ll also know the best tourist places to go and best small businesses to check out. Some people really value that. I didn’t expect tips but it was a nice surprise.
I'm American and half the people I know wake up at 5 am. The other half wake up at 3 pm 🤣
AC is useful if you live much further south than Britain, say in Boston or Chicago. But the UK is at the same latitude as Newfoundland & Labrador.
You are correct, but you're up against US lack of geographical knowledge. "Latitude " isn't a concept understood by most Yanks.
Remember, they think Canadians live in igloos and ride polar bears to school!
@@knottyal2428 They also don't know that a predominantly tropical/desert country like Australia receives more snowfall than the entire country of Switzerland, and that kangaroos are hopping all over Sydney.
The one about people complaining about too many Spanish people on their holiday was actually people from England and reported in The Sun. I'm sure I've seen you show it on here before. Some people over here in the UK can be as bad as the Americans you showed, tbh.
While that was a dumb British statement, that wasn't the American bit, it was the secondary bit about saying they are Hispanic or Latino, not Spanish.
@@johnadams9314 Ah ok, I didn't realise from the video. Thanks for explaining. I mostly didn't want the stupidity of those Brits to be placed onto Americans. We should accept the stupidity of our own and the laughter that cones from it if we want to be able to laugh at the stupidity of people from other countries.
@@johnadams9314I mean, Spanish people technically are hispanic. Hispanic means you originate/come from a spanish speaking country.
On the Latino part... well, some people claim that if you're from a country that speaks a romance language, you can be considered Latino.
However, that comment probably meant Latino as in latin american which spanish people are not.
@@motelblues_ the comment specifically said Spanish people from Spain were not Spanish, that was the primary dumb part.
@@johnadams9314 Oh, it was one of those comments about how Spanish is only a language and not a nationality that some people stupidly believe in.
My mistake.
england is top notch no questions asked
4:20 screw these options I’m picking Stephen fry
Humidity not heat 😂❤
As someone who lives in the pacific nw of the US and loooooooooooves the rain and overcast days and hates the sun, i envy the UK weather.
I live in the uk but I’m unable to live in the hot summers we are getting now. But the rain is lit. Literally half my town was underwater last week but I was enjoying it
trust me, you don't want to envy us. a lot of the time is it raining here and cloudy? yes. is it also boiling hot and bordering unbearable in the summer, with bleeding humid heat? also yes. i also love the cold, rain and cloudy days, and I hate the sun as well. but its just not worth it. i still haven't healed from 40c record breaker last year... I'm scarred for life from those couple days and I'm sure most of the people in the UK are as well
@@travisdingolaite6184 I live in Washington and the cold and rainy days are nice but by god are the summers also unbearably hot.
I hear ya about the rain. I live just above you on Vancouver Island and the average annually for Henderson Lake here is 7296 mm (23 ft) the record is 9307 mm. It's the wettest place in NA. I landscape year-round in it too.
OMG that shark comment, are they serious. The earth is only 2023 😂😂😂😂
The staff are fast and smile because they need you to give them enough money to survive on.
Oh a gym? Is that that thing in Pokémon? 😂
IT ISN’T???? :0
as an american… i am sorry that some of us are like this
America's a huge and diverse country with a ton of good things in it. It's just like everywhere else in having some bad aspects. Don't let it get you down.
Seriously don't apologise every country in the world is the same!.. its very easy to take a small section of a country and point and laugh at their silly answers and make fun out of a country! You could say the exact same things about the UK I bet hardly any people under 24 can name 5 American states or American lakes never mind American history but alot of us leftwing so called open minded generation like to point and laugh at America cos they don't realise their own country is in a far worse mess and the people and culture they have has become so diluted and corrupted by years of pacification.... its very COOL to shit on America just take a look at this comment section but people ought to take a long hard loom at their own countries and people's before acting so superior!!... and no I'm not American I was born in Greece but lives in the UK for 20 years after moving here at 15...
Well my lovely take the teasing with a pinch of salt, the main reason we Micky take is because we like you. We Brits are funny buggers, we tend to tease and laugh at those we like. Those we don’t like we are polite to, to the point of disdain it’s the equivalent of looking down our noses. If we’re taking the piss out of you basically you’re part of the gang. And sadly because some of you take yourselves so seriously they make the perfect target for British sarcasm. Believe me we have plenty of plonkers over here too😊
The problem with 24 hour clocks for Americans is that most of them can't count past 12 because that's the number of fingers and thumbs that most of them have.
12?
12?
I love the idea that your great great great grandpa has any bearing on who you are as a person bc mine was the archbishop of canterbury and im trans and gay so that man would HATE me 😭
Have you seen what the old archbishop of Canterbury actually said about these things? Did you just want to say you're trans and gay?
@@Ukraineaissance2014but they were talking about their great great great grandad, not the last archbishop
@@mcbigboy4611 thats why i said the old archbishop
@@Ukraineaissance2014 he was at the top of the church whilst being gay was a crime for religious reasons lmao how do you think he felt about gay people?
I don’t think people that far back could even grasp the concept of transgenderism, so I don’t even know if they’d be mad at it.
can we just appreciate how he fills us to the brim with his magical spell of divine sticky white creamy stuff
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George should turn off his comments
wait until you see FIFTEEN likes
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Whipping cream.
go finish it im nr 35
Whenever I see the words 'As a...' you just know its gonna be good
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Cark Bai
I know what a gym is, but my body doesn't
lmao same
Fr lol
there are no $200 air conditioning 😂😂
American customer service only appears to be great because the staff are forced to put on that attitude all of the time. I’d much rather be served by someone who isn’t forced to look happy all day than an overly friendly soulless smile
I’ve experienced both sides and can say that American customer service seems more forced and unnatural
@@md_studios9819I’ve experienced both, and I think you’re full of shit. Americans are just naturally friendlier and more caring than Europeans. Europeans take it as fake because they’re so horrible that they can’t imagine people who are actually nice.
That Paris to Luxembourg joke is literally Ciudad de Mexico
(0:30) It's not most of the world, but a lot of the developed world and people on the internet use 24 hours in their daily life. But I do think 12 hours is way overused on the internet, and anytime something is in 24 hours in non-English, it's almost always translated to 12 hours as if 24 hours is invalid in English.
(2:10) There we go as an example. Defaulting to 12 hours, despite countries there using 24 hours. I'm not saying to mix between the two system. But just like metric is for science and stats, 24 hours should be that too.
It reminds me of a map of Europe about dinner time, giving times like "6:00" without am/pm listed, and no, people would eat breakfast at that time. I get it's 12 hours pm, but almost every country in Europe uses 24 hours.
8:41 On Reddit where Italy is supposed to be talked about, they were asking the same thing
They in fact worry us all
Here in Ireland we talk so much shit about those americans that are like "my great great great great granddaddy moved to america during the Irish potato famine so I'm basically Saint Patrick"
I would consider an American to actually be Irish if at least one of their parents was born in Ireland
A dialect is an accent that exists in the same country as the one you talk about. Someone from Norwich has a different *dialect* than someone from Birmingham because they're in the same country, but someone from Norwich has a different *accent* than someone from New York because they're in different countries
That has nothing to do with the country. An accent is only some words where letters are pronounced differently. A dialect may use completely different words and sometimes even grammar. So a dialect might be on the edge to its own language.
7:50 fun fact: apparently in germany they study american propagand from ages 16-19 in school thats mainly about the 'american dream'
Pretty interesting stuff if you ask me
I can't speak for most of Germany but where I went to school, we talked about the 'american dream' for half a year in english lessons and it was one of the topics of the end of the year exams. That was in... I think 8th or 9th year class, so for ages 14-16. It started with geography, learning a bit about each of the states. The american dream was more part of the history section after that and the main question was something like "How did the 'american dream' in ideology and usage change over time and does it still exist?" It was possible to have this topic again in classes 10-13 but I do not remember writing any more exams about that, thankfully. I thought of it as boring once you had talked about and defended your opinion on the topic.
The part I was most shocked to learn about was the whole pledge to the flag thing every morning in schools because it mirrors quite exactly what school children had to do in Nazi times in Germany in front of a picture of Hitler.
I'm 13 in the UK, and we just finished reading Of Mice and Men (great book) we had multiple lessons on how the "American Dream" was just a fucking lie during the great depression
Americans worry me too George
Fear the Hawaiians 🥶🥶🥶
4:44 this part made me drop my Flammkuchen
Can we all just agree that the USA should just leave under a dome and never be able to let anyone or anything get out of it
agreed